1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 2: We're on every day one until four o'clock and after 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 2: four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iart 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 2: app iHeart app. A lot of what we did in 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: the first hour was Gavin Newsom embarrassing himself tremendously. We'll 7 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 2: go through some of that later in the hour again, 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 2: but if you want to get the full treatment, one 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 2: o'clock hour on the podcast is what you should listen 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: to later. 11 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: On in the day. 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: Right now, Santa Monica in the Venice area has one 13 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 2: of the highest density levels of vagrants, mental patients, and 14 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 2: drug addicts. And there's one young man and his name 15 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 2: is Dick Lucas and he's had it. And some months 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 2: ago we announced that he's running for the California Assembly 17 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 2: the fifty first district. And the other day he unleashed 18 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 2: released rather a video which got a lot of attention, 19 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 2: and he went on his morning jog and he found 20 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 2: eighty three homeless people. Eighty three of them on the 21 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 2: morning jog look to be in the Santa Monica, Venice area. 22 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 2: And we're going to talk to Dick Lucas, now running 23 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 2: as an independent fifty first district in that Santa Monica region. 24 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: Dick, how are you John? 25 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me on. It's a pleasure. 26 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 3: I grew up listening to your show with my dad. 27 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 3: In fact, I just called him to confirm that it 28 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 3: was you that we would listen to. You know, KFI 29 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 3: more stimulating talk radio has been in my brain for years. 30 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 3: We also would listen to Handle on the Loss. So 31 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 3: this is a pleasure. Thank you for having me on. 32 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 3: It's great to. 33 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: Talk to you. 34 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 2: It's great to talk to you from my end as well, 35 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,559 Speaker 2: because I've been following your campaign for a few months 36 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 2: now and you're saying all the things that you know, 37 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 2: I'd want to say if I was running for office. 38 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,639 Speaker 2: You're seeing all the same things that everybody else is seeing. 39 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 2: And talk about what motivated you to get into the race, 40 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 2: and uh and and and how you're conducting your campaign. 41 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 2: I mean that video was something else, but start with 42 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 2: the original motivation. 43 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 3: Well, the motivation for getting in the race is two reasons. 44 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 3: I used to write voter guides I would post on 45 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 3: my blog. I had a podcast, no and listen to 46 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 3: my friends with voter guides, but not not many people would. 47 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 3: And what I realized writing these voter guys that will 48 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 3: go through every piece of the bout in California, the 49 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 3: thing is like, you know, fifty pages long. I would 50 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 3: research everything, spend about eighty hours on it, and when 51 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 3: what my my hypothesis was, Okay, there's good people running, 52 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 3: they're just not winning. So if I can use my 53 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 3: limited audience and try to help the people the good 54 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 3: the good people running win, then maybe we can we 55 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 3: can help California. Maybe we can we can help the 56 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 3: way this place discovered. What I found was a lot 57 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 3: of these races are you know, they're uncontested. There's not 58 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 3: even debates. There there's a there's a there's not people, 59 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 3: there's not there's no offense. So I I said, okay, well, 60 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 3: the voter guys aren't going to do it, so I 61 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 3: need to hop into the ring. And the second thing 62 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 3: I would say that radicalize me is the fires happened. 63 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 3: And I know you've talked about this on your show. 64 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 3: You're talking earlier about the insurance companies, how they're swimdling people. 65 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 3: The fires happened, especially in the Palisades and you couldn't 66 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 3: even have a conversation with people around what the government 67 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 3: could have done better. You couldn't even It was immediately like, oh, 68 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 3: let's not politicize it. And I thought to mess, let's 69 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,959 Speaker 3: not politicize it. This was a government failure. And I 70 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 3: just said, Okay, I have to run. I'm done talking 71 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 3: in the group chats and done talking to my friends, 72 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 3: and I just need to I just need to run 73 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 3: a channel my energy that way. 74 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: Let's not politicize it. 75 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 2: After all, we know about so many levels of extreme 76 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 2: government failure. You couldn't have a government fail worse than this. 77 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 2: And there's people who don't want to talk about it 78 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 2: in that in those terms. Wow, hundred percent, a hundred percent. 79 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 2: And listen, I think there's a bigger thing at playing. 80 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 2: Why my video, why it's off such a cord was? 81 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 2: We live in a world now where we have basically 82 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 2: zero marginal costs distribution. So I can have a cell phone, 83 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 2: I have a smartphone, I can record a video and 84 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 2: that video can be viewed millions of times. It's not 85 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 2: like forty years ago, thirty years ago, where you need 86 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 2: to go through these gatekeepers, a newspaper, a cable news show. 87 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 3: Hell, even a rate has to excuse me, even a 88 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 3: radio show. You need to everyone can distribute. Now, everyone 89 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 3: could be radically transparent about what they see on the 90 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 3: street and they can publish it and no one can 91 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 3: get between them and publishing the truth. So I think 92 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 3: if our politicians don't get radically more authentic, and actually, 93 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 3: they got to stop with the press releases, They got 94 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:42,679 Speaker 3: to stop with the photo ops, they got to stop 95 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 3: with the stuff that doesn't matter. 96 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 4: Move the needle. 97 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 3: I mean you should a lot of these local legislators 98 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 3: don't get much attention. You look at their instagrams and 99 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 3: it's a joke. They're not talking about anything. They go 100 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 3: to a park and they take a photo in front 101 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 3: of it and nothing happens. You need to be showing issues. 102 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 3: You can be sharing those issues with people, and you 103 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 3: be bringing awareness them and actually talk about things that matter. 104 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 2: All right, Describe this video that you put out. We 105 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 2: played some of the audio a couple of days ago, 106 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 2: and it's you taking your morning job. Tell us where 107 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 2: you were jogging, what neighborhoods, and what you saw. 108 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, So I started the run Santa Monica and I 109 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 3: went down Arizona and made a left on Ocean, which 110 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 3: is and as I say this in the video, so 111 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 3: the most expensive real estate in the country. And I 112 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:29,840 Speaker 3: make a left on Colorado, go up towards the. 113 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: E line, which. 114 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 3: Is where a lot of the homeless people at the 115 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 3: end of the night, it's the end of the line, 116 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 3: and they will they will, they'll get off there and 117 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 3: then they'll end up sleeping, sleeping in Santa Monica. Then 118 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 3: I went over to Venice because I was going to 119 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 3: my friend's house. This whole thing wasn't even a stage thing. 120 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 3: I had thought about doing this before, but I was 121 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 3: just run into my friend's house to say hi, and 122 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 3: I said, you know what, let me just record this 123 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 3: because it's early enough in the morning, that's when the 124 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 3: issue is the most alarming. And I just yet, like 125 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 3: you said, eighty three, in fact, iually undercounted. And I 126 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 3: will say that Santa Monica does a does a pre 127 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 3: it does a better job than the city of Los 128 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 3: Angeles does. And a lot of this on Santa Monica, 129 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 3: unfortunately is is on LA because Santa Monica doesn't, you know, 130 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 3: it's not its own country or its own state, right 131 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 3: like they are connected to Los Angeles. The failures of 132 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 3: Los Angeles just bleed directly into Santa Monica. So you 133 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 3: won't see encampments in Santa Monica or anything like that 134 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 3: like you will in the city of Los Angeles, but 135 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 3: you will absolutely see the effects of the failed policies. 136 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 3: I think Santa Monica can, of course do a better 137 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 3: job as well. But it's it's if the number one 138 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 3: you know you talk to people around, it's like the 139 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 3: number one issue they talk about in our politicians, the people, 140 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 3: you know, the incumbent in my district hardly ever talks 141 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 3: about It's on of course, it's on all these politicians' 142 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 3: websites and like, oh, homelessness, we need to solve it. 143 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 3: But then they don't talk about it. They don't they 144 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 3: don't have any solutions. It's just you know, the latest 145 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 3: numbers in the State of State news and it improved 146 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 3: nine percent. You torunch numbers on that one point six 147 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 3: million dollars per homeless person off the street or. 148 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: Some ungodly amount of money. 149 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 3: So until institutions bring radical transparency and radical accountability and 150 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 3: radical effectedness, people are going to keep keep paying down 151 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 3: the doors and publishing videos like mine. 152 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: Where do you think the money's going because clearly it's 153 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: not yourself because you go ahead. 154 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 3: Well, here's what because I really like running into independent. 155 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 3: I really like to be clear about these issues and 156 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 3: not just you know, browbeat and like say, oh, it's 157 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 3: all fraud. It's going to the Cayman Islands. Now, there 158 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 3: are instances. I know, there's those people in Beverly Hills. 159 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 3: I think they got fifty million dollars from the state 160 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 3: to build housing. They were buying luxury goods. Now, I 161 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 3: think there's definitely some of that. In fact, I mean 162 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 3: that that was proven that that's true. I mean they 163 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 3: have to they have their do in court. But I 164 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 3: think most of it is, to tell you the truth, John, 165 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 3: I think most of it is just complete waste. I 166 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 3: don't think there's people buying Porsches or loves goods with 167 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 3: this money. Well, and I'd be happy to see the 168 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 3: evidence that there is. There's some of that, but I 169 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 3: think a lot of it is it's just unaccountability. I mean, 170 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 3: we spent from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three, California 171 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 3: State spent twenty four billion dollars on homelessness, and then 172 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 3: they did an audit and they don't know where the 173 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 3: money went. They don't know what was effective, what worked. 174 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 3: If you're going to spend that amount of money, you 175 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 3: need to know what works, you can repeat it. What's 176 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 3: crazy is for a billion dollars. You know the Manhattan 177 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 3: Project with thirty billion dollars in today's dollars, right, that's 178 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 3: basically the same amount of money. For a billion dollars, 179 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 3: you're telling me we can't build a stately dart facility 180 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 3: that could that that could be funded for several years, 181 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 3: that could get these people help. And that's the other thing. 182 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,079 Speaker 3: These people need help. I'm not here just pointing. I'm 183 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 3: here pointing out the issue because I care. Because the 184 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 3: people that claim the care, the people that use terms 185 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 3: like houseless, are the people that are letting this issue 186 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 3: continue and and don't aren't bring accountability to where this 187 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 3: money is going. It's it's very simple job. It's dollars 188 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 3: in is the person housed, is the person off the street? 189 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 3: Is a person off drugs? Are they getting they getting 190 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 3: the help they need? It's it's it's a it's a 191 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 3: very simple calculation. And like I said, one point six 192 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 3: million per is just not going to get us there. 193 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 3: It's gonna cost hundreds of billions dollars actually solved it. 194 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 2: Well. When I when I say the money's stolen, some 195 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 2: of it probably is taken into the Cayman Islands. But 196 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 2: the other way it's stolen is that someone sets up 197 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 2: a nonprofit and hires all their friends and relatives and 198 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 2: they give each other uh six figure salaries and sit 199 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 2: around and enjoy life. And if they actually solved homelessness, 200 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 2: they'd lose that gravy train. 201 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 3: I completely agree. And sentences are all messed up. And 202 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 3: I do think a lot of for some reason in America, 203 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 3: and this isn't just at the we've we've outsourced state 204 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 3: capacity to nonprofits. I'm if if, if, if my government 205 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 3: is taxing me, I want those tax dollars to be 206 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 3: spent by the institution that is collecting those taxes from me, 207 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 3: because that's maximum accountability. When you give this these money 208 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 3: to And some of the nonprofits, some are better than others. 209 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 3: I don't want to group them all into one thing, 210 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 3: but I think it should be all done in house. 211 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 3: And if it's not done in house with any of 212 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 3: the nonprofits that even get a sense. There needs to 213 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 3: be radical transparency. I mean, we have the technology today. 214 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 3: Why can't I see a dashboard every day of where 215 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 3: every cent of taspayer dollar goes live instantly on a website, 216 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 3: so anyone can download the data, anyone can audit it. 217 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 3: We're just government needs to, like I said, be radically 218 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 3: more effective and radically more transparent because we have the 219 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 3: means to do it. 220 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 221 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 2: I look how quickly we can track our credit card 222 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 2: expenses right within minutes. You can look on a website 223 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 2: and it's already being processed, and you could look at 224 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 2: every single expense you've had for the last twenty years 225 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:50,839 Speaker 2: and it's all right there. 226 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:52,719 Speaker 1: Can you hang on the line. I want to talk 227 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: some more with you. 228 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:54,679 Speaker 3: Perfect right. 229 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 2: Dick Lucas. Dick Lucas he's running in the fifty first 230 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 2: district as an independent for the Calm forty Assembly. He 231 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 2: was the guy who went on a morning run and 232 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 2: counted at least eighty three homeless people along his run 233 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 2: in Venice, along Santa Monica and Venice. 234 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: More coming up. 235 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 2: I mean, everything he's saying makes sense and it's the. 236 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: Way it should be. 237 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 2: And like he said, hardly anybody in government is interested 238 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 2: in it. They're just taking in the money, spending it 239 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 2: wasting it, stealing it, whatever it is, and there's absolutely 240 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 2: no improvement and this has got to stop. We'll talk 241 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 2: more with Dick Lucas next. 242 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 243 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 4: six forty. 244 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 1: And we continue with Dick Lucas. 245 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 2: Dick Lucas is running for the State Assembly in the 246 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 2: fifty first district, which is the Santa Monica area, and 247 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 2: he started his campaign a few months ago and got 248 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 2: a lot of attention. This week, he has a twenty 249 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 2: five minute run from Santa Monica to Venice. So he 250 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 2: turned on his camera phone and counted eighty three homeless people, 251 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 2: eighty three vagrants on his morning run. Put it online, 252 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 2: and you know, it kind of cracks me up because 253 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 2: I got a Santa Monica frequently and I see you know, 254 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 2: these people all the time, you know, by the dozens, 255 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 2: and it's funny how the outside world really doesn't have 256 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 2: a clue as to what's going on. 257 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: They're all shocked and amazed. 258 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, yeah, well, and this is my point earlier, like, 259 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 3: you know, the production value of this was it took 260 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,719 Speaker 3: me a little time to edit it, but that's the 261 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 3: amazing power of this technology is you can show what's 262 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 3: happening on the ground, you can publish it and have. 263 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: Infinite viewership. 264 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 3: Basically it costs me nothing and you can bring attention 265 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 3: to these issues. 266 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: Who are you running against currently? 267 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 3: They're the incumbent as Rick as a burr. And it 268 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 3: got interesting because he was. And it's so funny how 269 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,679 Speaker 3: all this stuff works, John, because Rick's a burr. There 270 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 3: was rumors he was going to run for attorney general 271 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 3: because Rob Bonta was going to run for governor. Who 272 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw his quote, but he 273 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 3: said something. Politico quoted him. Rob Bota said, I'm too 274 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 3: busy suing. 275 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: Trump right now. 276 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 3: I would have he said something like, I would have 277 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 3: won the governorship, but I need to sit this one out. 278 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 3: I'll let someone else do it. So, of course, the 279 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 3: whole the problem with the machine, it's the one party 280 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 3: state in California. 281 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 1: You have to wait your turn to run. 282 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 3: It's not about who's the best, it's about you put 283 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 3: your time in with the party and then they anoint you. 284 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 3: So Rick maybe wants to be attorney general. You know, 285 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 3: he obviously does, but he he was going to run, 286 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 3: but then didn't because the spot didn't fill up. God forbid, 287 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 3: you actually have to run against an incumbent. And what 288 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 3: happened was in my own district, people were about to 289 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 3: flood into the race because Rick was not going to 290 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 3: run for reelection. So it's so funny. No one will 291 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 3: run against an incumbent, and that's part of the problem. 292 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 3: It's very difficult to beat an incumbent, of course, but 293 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:06,079 Speaker 3: we need people flooding the zone. There's five hundred thousand 294 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 3: elected officials in the United States of America. The biggest 295 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 3: issue my thesis is I'm trying to encourage other people 296 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 3: to run by setting an example. 297 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 1: We need the best among us. 298 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 3: We need the best leaders in our country, the best 299 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 3: business leaders, the best culture create the best people to 300 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 3: run towards public service because right now we don't. And 301 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 3: I know you've got a lot of boomers listening to you. 302 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 3: Everyone talks about, oh, we need more young people. I 303 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 3: actually don't think we need more young people. I just 304 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 3: think we need better people. So if you're in your twilt, 305 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 3: if you're sixty and you're not really working, I encourage 306 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 3: everyone to run. Young people have some of the worst ideas, 307 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 3: So I don't think it's an age thing. We just 308 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 3: need more people running, We need more energy in this 309 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 3: because no one wants to do it. You heard you know, 310 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 3: you said your point earlier about the internet. If anyone 311 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 3: becomes a public figure, you just get dragged through the mud. 312 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 3: I will say, at these local levels, these local races, 313 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 3: no one even caress and. 314 00:14:59,560 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: That's the proble. 315 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 3: You would be lucky if you got a hit piece 316 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 3: about you, because that would at least show that people cared. 317 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 3: No one even knows what a state assembly person is, 318 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 3: which is what I'm running for. Knows what a state 319 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 3: senator is. No one knows who's in their city council. 320 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 3: So it's really a civics course. I'm running for office, yes, 321 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 3: but I'm also teaching civics. 322 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 2: The people in local office affect your daily quality of life. 323 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 2: Trump doesn't. Politicians in Washington, d c. Do not affect 324 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 2: your daily quality of life. Everybody's obsessed with the Washington crowd. 325 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 2: It's here in Santa Monica and in La Your local 326 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 2: city councilman, the mayor, the assemblyman, the state senator. These 327 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 2: people will determine just how how much you enjoy you're 328 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 2: getting up in the morning and taking a run, taking 329 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 2: a job, whether you're going to run freely or you're 330 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 2: going to run through a minefield of eighty three vagrants. 331 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 3: I totally agree. I think DC takes up way too 332 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 3: much of her auction. Doesn't matter who's who's in the 333 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 3: White House, and I get it. 334 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: I get why. 335 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 3: It's it's sexy, it's the president, it's it's d C. 336 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 3: It's it's there's foreign policy involved, there's there's biggora more interesting, 337 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 3: sexier discussions at that level. But as you said, the 338 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 3: reality is when you go out your door. The biggest 339 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 3: effect of what you see when you go out your door, 340 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 3: when you open up or when you go to a 341 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 3: local business or when you try to open a business, 342 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 3: it's it's your it's it's building in safety, it's it's local. Uh, 343 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 3: your local leaders in city council, it's your it's your 344 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 3: state leaders that are gonna have the biggest impact. Like 345 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 3: income tax and is a huge thing. Not all the 346 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 3: states have it. We're taxed highly in California, Capital gain sech, 347 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 3: et cetera. So there's a huge It blows my mind 348 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 3: that more people, again, people my own friends that know 349 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 3: one'm running for office, they're like, what you're running for 350 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 3: you're running for states that they don't even remember because 351 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 3: no one knows what this is. And like I'm constantly 352 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 3: explaining state Assembly, it's like a mini house of representatives 353 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 3: for your state. And there's a Senate and there's there's 354 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 3: eighty state assembly members and there's forty states. 355 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: Learn that third brain, Really, I mean, I agree, and. 356 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 3: I will say this, I will say this. I don't 357 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 3: you know, I don't want to talk down to people. 358 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 3: I don't fault people for not knowing these things. I 359 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 3: only know these things because you know, I'm running and 360 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 3: obviously was interested in it before. But I understand people 361 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 3: raising their family, They're trying to put food on the table, 362 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 3: they're they're living their lives. But my whole point is, 363 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 3: while you're living your life, you know, you might not 364 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 3: care about politics, but politics cares about you, and it 365 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 3: will come for you, and it will make your life 366 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 3: worse if you let it, if you don't get off 367 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 3: the couch and actually get involved. 368 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 2: One more quick question, because I do the news and 369 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:39,959 Speaker 2: less than a minute, yep, don't people connect the local 370 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 2: politicians with this horrific homeless situation? 371 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: And aren't they sick of the homeless situation. 372 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:50,199 Speaker 3: By now, I think they do connect it with vocal leaders. 373 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 3: I do think they are you know you, if you 374 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 3: just talk to people, they are sick of it. And 375 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 3: I think it's one of the issues that I'm really 376 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,719 Speaker 3: I'm really focused on because it's such a no brainer. 377 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 3: People see it. It's not nearly as complicated as some 378 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 3: of these other issues that we're facing. It's not cats 379 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 3: policy stuff. It's literally like, do I go outside my door, 380 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 3: do I see someone going through my trass or screaming 381 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,919 Speaker 3: at my kid as I'm walking a rouck And I 382 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 3: got my wife in the next room. She's listening to this live. 383 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 3: I love you, pup. 384 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 5: We just had a. 385 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 3: Daughter and I want to raise the California girl. I 386 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 3: want to raise her in Santa Monica and I want 387 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 3: to raise her in a community that hopefully I can 388 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 3: help make better and we can all make better. And also, 389 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 3: if you're in Santa Monica westall with Douverly Hills, that's 390 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 3: my district. Would appreciate you get my name out there 391 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:34,159 Speaker 3: and really appreciate you having me on. 392 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: John. 393 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 3: I would love you that. 394 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 2: Oh please, I want you to come back. Dick Lucas 395 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 2: running for California Assembly fifty first District. Yeah, let's talk again. 396 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your time. 397 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. 398 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: Jump. 399 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 400 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 4: six forty run every. 401 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 1: Day from one until four o'clock. 402 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 2: You want to follow us on social media, it's at 403 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt for YouTube. If you 404 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 2: want to subscribe, you go to YouTube dot com slash 405 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 2: at John Cobelt's Show Slightly different YouTube dot com slash 406 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 2: at John Cobelt Show everything else at John Cobelt Radio. 407 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 2: We want to return now to Gavin Newsom embarrassing himself 408 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 2: in spectacular fact fashion in Davos, Switzerland, where if you're 409 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 2: not keeping track of this, there's a World Economic Forum 410 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 2: and these wind bags and blowhards get together every year 411 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 2: political leaders, national political leaders, people who actually run nations, 412 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 2: presidents and prime ministers, and they get together with all 413 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 2: kinds of business and financial people and they just talk 414 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 2: a lot. Generally, this year Trump showed up and everything 415 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 2: obviously got turned upside down because he wants to either 416 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 2: buy greenland, invade greenland, negotiate for absolute control, any number 417 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 2: of possibilities. 418 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: And you've probably heard. 419 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 2: That well, for some reason, Gavin Newsom, who is not president, 420 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 2: prime minister, emperor of any sovereign nation, went on his 421 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,959 Speaker 2: own the way. He went to that stupid climate summit 422 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 2: that accomplished nothing in Brazil. 423 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 1: A couple of months ago. 424 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 2: So he went to this Davos Economic forum and was 425 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 2: trying to undermine Trump every step of the way. Now 426 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 2: Trump is the president elected, he got most votes, most 427 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 2: electoral votes, most popular votes. He's the guy, doesn't matter 428 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 2: if you don't like him. He gets to call the shots. 429 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 2: And if he wants to use the United States economic leverage, 430 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 2: trade leverage, military leverage in his negotiation with other countries, 431 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 2: he gets to do that. 432 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,640 Speaker 1: And Newsom goes there. 433 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 2: Like this ankle biting too, and he starts grabs, you know, 434 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 2: grabs reporters, cameras, microphones, and starts berating the European leaders. 435 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: He wants them to oppose Trump. 436 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 2: Doesn't say specifically on what, what issues, what details, what 437 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:21,959 Speaker 2: they're supposed to, how they're supposed to be opposing it. 438 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 2: He just goes off on them in the most insulting ways, 439 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 2: with all sorts of bizarre sexual references. Let's start with 440 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 2: cut number one. This is his first attack on the 441 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 2: European leaders. 442 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 6: It's time to get serious and stop being complicit. It's 443 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 6: time to stand tall, at firm, have a backbone. Just 444 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 6: I can't take this complicity people rolling over. I should 445 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,439 Speaker 6: have brought up a bunch of knee pads for all 446 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 6: the world leaders. I mean handing out crowns and handing 447 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 6: I mean, this is pathetic, Nobel prizes they're being given away. 448 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 6: I mean it's just pathetic. And I hope people understand 449 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 6: how pathetic they look on the world stage. I mean, 450 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,919 Speaker 6: at least from an American perspective, it's embarrassing diplomacy with 451 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 6: Donald Trump. 452 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 5: He's a t rex. 453 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 6: You mate with him or he devours you. The Europeans 454 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 6: couldn't be if they continue to put down this path. 455 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 6: In the process, they need to stand tall, stan firms, 456 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 6: stand united, wake up, where the hell has everybody? Then 457 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 6: stop with this diplomacy of sort of niceties and somehow 458 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 6: we're all going to figure it out. Some saying one 459 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 6: thing privately and another publicly. Have some spine them. 460 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 2: Hey, let out a stream of obscenities there at the end. Now, 461 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 2: what specifically is he's talking Is he talking about grow 462 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 2: a spine against what he doesn't say. Maybe he doesn't know, 463 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 2: but it just sounded really cool to start cursing. What's what, disneepads? 464 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,120 Speaker 2: What's with this mating reference with Trump? 465 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 1: Kevin what? They're quite aroused. 466 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 2: He doesn't get to he's telling the Europeans how to 467 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 2: react to American President's policies and proposals. They can do 468 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 2: this on their own. They've had no trouble mouthing off 469 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 2: to Trump, pushing back on Trump. What's it his business? 470 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 1: And what if. 471 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 2: Trump and the administration knows things that Newsom has, The 472 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 2: failed governor of a failed state doesn't know. Because everybody 473 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 2: can make all the jokes they want about Greenland, and 474 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 2: certainly Trump goes in over the top bombastic, but there 475 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 2: is a real Russian and Chinese threat in the Arctic Circle. 476 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: It as always, we're going to have. 477 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 2: To protect not only ourselves but all the European countries 478 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 2: if the Russians and the Chinese try to use Greenland 479 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 2: as a launching point for missiles against the free world. 480 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 2: There's stuff he doesn't know. Maybe it's not his business, 481 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 2: and it's embarrassing to Americans. 482 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:13,360 Speaker 1: Says who says who? And again you. 483 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 2: Notice the lack of specifics. Is he talking about Greenland 484 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 2: or is he talking about something else? Last I saw 485 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:26,679 Speaker 2: Trump got everybody at NATO to dramatically increase the amount 486 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 2: of money they put into their own military so that 487 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 2: NATO becomes much stronger. 488 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: It's just a ken. He's way out of place. He 489 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: represents nothing. He represents what. 490 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 2: Hundreds of thousands of homeless people and criminals, millions of 491 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 2: illegal aliens. 492 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: He had. He had one job here. 493 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 2: And that when it comes to foreign policy, don't make 494 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:00,679 Speaker 2: the state of illegal alien magnet. 495 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: Instead. What does he do? 496 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 2: Hands out free healthcare, cradled the grave, blew our budget 497 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 2: sky high, spending thirteen billion dollars a year on illegal 498 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 2: alien healthcare. It's most of our budget deficit. He blew 499 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 2: a lot of federal money on it too, and the 500 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 2: Feds want the money back. In addition to all the 501 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 2: money blown on ice speed rail, and all the money 502 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,159 Speaker 2: blown on the unemployment during COVID. 503 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 1: And also all the billions of dollars. 504 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 2: On homeless And he's telling world leaders how to negotiate 505 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 2: the most important military issue, how you deal with the 506 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 2: Russians and the Chinese they get aggressive? 507 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: The hell does he know? He's just a punk. 508 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 2: Then Trump lays out this morning speech where he says, 509 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 2: all right, I'm not going to invade and all this 510 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 2: is negotiating leverage. But everybody falls for the same routine. 511 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 2: Every time Trump gets belligerent, he gets angry, he says 512 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,679 Speaker 2: all kinds of crazy stuff, and in the end they 513 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 2: cut a deal needs to be cut. And the thing is, 514 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 2: the NATO countries have admitted. One of the NATO leaders said, yeah, 515 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 2: Russian and China are a big threat. Greenland is an 516 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 2: important piece strategically for them and US, and we got 517 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 2: to do something. They just don't like the way Trump 518 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 2: goes about it, but the fact is we got to 519 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 2: do something. They got to do something. Gavin, he's offered nothing. 520 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 2: So Trump gives his speech. Newsome then comes out it 521 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 2: gives his review play cut number four four. 522 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 6: It was remarkably boring, It was remarkably insignificant. He was 523 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 6: never going to vay Greenland. It was never real so 524 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 6: that was always a phase. And so he says, well, 525 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 6: we should negotiate. Well, everybody here has been William. 526 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 2: Negotiate for a year. 527 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 6: So I had fire and fury signified absolutely nothing, even 528 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 6: by Trump's standards. I was rather curious, and there was 529 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 6: borish parts of it, but those were not even that consequence, 530 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 6: so including name checking people he likes, people he didn't like. 531 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 6: So you know, I just I was no, honestly, it 532 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 6: was just I was a little disappointed. It was a 533 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 6: little non plus. 534 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:17,160 Speaker 2: Well, coming up, the Trump administration, gall call goes full blast, 535 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 2: knocking Newsom around like a pinata and got him disinvited 536 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 2: from an event where he was supposed to give a 537 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 2: speech on stage. Tell you all about it, Newsom, Uh 538 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 2: has got nothing to do. He's got nobody to speak to. 539 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 2: Trump's crowd iced team out. We'll tell you all about it next. 540 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM 541 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 4: six forty. 542 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,479 Speaker 2: All right, Uh, we were talking about Trump and Newsome 543 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,360 Speaker 2: big soap opera today because they both went to Davos 544 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 2: at this World Economic Forum with all kinds of state 545 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 2: leaders and blowhards and and and Trump of course, Uh 546 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 2: started publicly negotiating what he wants to do with Greenland. 547 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 2: He said, now he's not going to invade it, and 548 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 2: maybe he doesn't have to buy it, but they're working 549 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 2: out a deal. Supposedly, all right, but bizarrely, Newsome is 550 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 2: insulting European leaders for not standing up to Trump. See 551 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 2: Trump is the president of the United States, and I 552 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 2: think he's shown that if a US president wants to 553 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 2: use leverage, he's got a lot of leverage. Trade deals, 554 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 2: military situations, just the general economic might of the United 555 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 2: States and all that we're responsible for. The rest of 556 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 2: the The rest of the world lives off our success 557 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 2: as a nation. It is why, by far, wildly the 558 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 2: most successful nation compared to anything that has ever existed. 559 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 2: I don't care what you think about this country, but 560 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 2: nobody comes close our economic power, our trade power, our 561 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 2: military power. You got to deal with us and Trump 562 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 2: and to largest And he's right, thinks that nobody's ever 563 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 2: that the American presidents have not used the leverage we 564 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 2: have and let us look weak and other countries have 565 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 2: taken advantage of us. 566 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: It's true. 567 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 2: So Newsom starts ripping on the European leaders to stand 568 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 2: up to Trump and grow a spine and a backbone. 569 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 2: And after Trump's speech, Newsom said it was boring and insignificant. 570 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 2: So Trump had Newsom blocked from hosting a fireside chat 571 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 2: in Davos. It was sponsored by Fortune magazine. I don't 572 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 2: know what he was going to talk about economics, I guess, 573 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 2: and they said, no, you can't host it, you can't go. 574 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 2: It was at a place called USA House. But we'll 575 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 2: let you attend a VIP nightcap reception. In other words, 576 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 2: we'll let you have a drink. We'll even buy you 577 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 2: a drink, and you can speak off the record to 578 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 2: people if you can find anyone to listen. And here's 579 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 2: how Scott Bessen't, the Treasury Secretary treated Newsom. 580 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 5: I think it's very, very ironic that Governor Newsom, who 581 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 5: strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle beach Ken, may 582 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 5: be the only Californian who knows less about economics than 583 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 5: Kamala Harris. He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, 584 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 5: Alex Soros, and the Davos is a perfect place for 585 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 5: a man who, when everyone else is on lockdown, when 586 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 5: he was having people arrested for going to church, he 587 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 5: was having thousand dollars a night meals at the French laundry. 588 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 5: And I'm sure the California people won't forget that. And 589 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 5: I can tell my message to Governor Newsom is that 590 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 5: Trump administration is coming to California. We are going to 591 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 5: crack down on waste, fraud and abuse. And I was 592 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 5: told he was asked to give a speech on his 593 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 5: signature policies. But he's not speaking because what of his 594 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 5: economic policies brought outward migration from California, a gigantic budget deficit, 595 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 5: the largest homeless population in America, and the poor folks 596 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 5: in the Palisades who had their homes burned down. He 597 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:27,719 Speaker 5: is here hobnobbing with the global elite while his California 598 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 5: citizens are still homeless. Shame on him. He is too smug, 599 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 5: too self absorbed, and too economically illiterate to know anything. 600 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 5: Thank you very much. Let me know if you need 601 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 5: any further clarification. 602 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: Guy was right on every point. We'll be back at tomorrow. 603 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 2: Conway's up next to Michael Krozer is the news live 604 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 2: in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been 605 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 2: listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always 606 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 2: hear the show live on KFI Am six forty from 607 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 2: one to four every Monday through Friday, and of course 608 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 2: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.