1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on every day 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: from one until four o'clock and every day as soon 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: as the show is over shortly after four, we post 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: the podcast John Cobelt's Show on demand, same as the 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: radio show, and you can get that on the iHeart 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 1: app as well. We are awaiting the arrival of Joel Pollock. 8 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: He is the opinion editor for the New California Post. 9 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: This is a sister publication of the New York Post, 10 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: which is going to launch on January twenty sixth. And 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: if you're familiar with the New York Post and its 12 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: style and how it goes after New York and Washington 13 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: politicians and issues, this is going to be entertaining because 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: the media, most of the media here in California, especially 15 00:00:53,000 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, is lazy, progressive, woke and just covers 16 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: either covers things stupidly and superficially, or covers the subject 17 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: matter is stupid and superficial, but there isn't much to it. 18 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: There is virtually no coverage of Sacramento, which is is 19 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: virtually no coverage of you know, La City Hall, and 20 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: the mayor. In fact, I got a great example of it. 21 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about later. I looked at two 22 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: of the local stations on their websites today because everybody's 23 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: going to run the first anniversary remembrance coverage of the fire, 24 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: and I'm looking at both of these two stories, and 25 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,919 Speaker 1: they have nothing about all the scandals that have piled 26 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 1: up that's been reported on by the LA Times, primarily 27 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: nothing from beginning to end on how bad every level 28 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: of government behaved for the fire. And it's like, what, wow, 29 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: this is, this is this is bad. These aren't even 30 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: news operations. I don't even know what to call him anymore. 31 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: We'll get to that, but Joe Pollock is approaching the studio. 32 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: We're gonna have him on in a second now. This 33 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: this morning, somebody sent me one of those internet memes 34 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: and I don't normally spend a lot of time on them, 35 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: but this one is kind of funny. It was a 36 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: meme on high speed rail compared to other major US 37 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: construction projects, and they got a photo of the Hoover 38 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: Dam and underneath it says five years, one billion dollars, 39 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: and that's adjusted for inflation. Panama Canal ten years, fifteen billion, 40 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: the Transcontinental Railroad. Think about that. The railroad going from 41 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 1: the east to the West coast took him about six 42 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: years to build for a billion dollars in adjusted money. 43 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: And then the Lincoln Tunnel connecting New Jersey and New 44 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: York City underneath the Hudson River seven years, two point 45 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: three billion, comparing it to the California High Speed Rail 46 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: now in our eighteenth year and projected one hundred and 47 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: thirty billion plus. Sky's the limit on that, right. They 48 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: don't even talk about what the total projection is longer 49 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 1: than anything. It's taken longer than anything we've built in America, 50 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: and it's cost more than anything we've ever built in America, 51 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: and nothing's been built. Which leads me to a phone 52 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: call I had yesterday. And I'm going to be vague 53 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: about this because I don't know a lot firsthand, so 54 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: put this under the category of unproven rumor. But according 55 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: to my political insider, during the you notice this happened 56 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: during Christmas break, Gavin Newsom and Rob Bonto withdrew the 57 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: lawsuit against the Trump adminished ration because Trump had cut 58 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: off billions of dollars in high speed rail money. That 59 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: the federal government. 60 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 2: I was supposed to. 61 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: Kick in, and they have sued Trump forty fifty times, 62 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: and this was highly unusual. I don't know if they've 63 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: done this for any of the other lawsuits. They withdrew it. 64 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,359 Speaker 1: They just dropped it quietly. It's like, why would he 65 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: do that. Usually, even when you know you're going to lose, 66 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: you rite out the appeals and you get cheap headlines 67 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: from continuing to vow defiance to Trump. They dropped this 68 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: thing well. According to my source, unverifiable unpproval, look for 69 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: possibly Newsom to finally pull out of high speed rail 70 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: entirely because it is such an albatross around his neck 71 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 1: to run for president. It's so easy to take cheap 72 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: shots at Newsom over this railroad thing. It's never going 73 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: to be built anyway. And the people that he's been well, 74 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: the people have benefited from this, the unions and the 75 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: various lobbyists, you know, a lawyer's construction, architectural engineering, that 76 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: whole crowd. They've been pretty well fed for the last 77 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 1: eighteen years. And they understand that finally the jig is 78 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: up on this thing. All right, You can't push this 79 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: scam much longer. And he's got to run for president 80 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: and he doesn't want this when it's going to come 81 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 1: up in every interview, is going to come up in 82 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: every debate, and he's just going to say, hey, look 83 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: I'm the one who pulled the plug on this thing. Okay, 84 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: I pulled the plug. The other governors, the other administrations, 85 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: they let it go and go and go. So just 86 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 1: watch for that, watch for possibly, and it's going to 87 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: time it to some key moment in the upcoming election cycle. 88 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 3: And that our gas prices are going to drastically go 89 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 3: down to before he really gets into campaign mode, the 90 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 3: homeless situation's gonna ease. 91 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a lot of stuff to take care of. 92 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: This is easy. I think he can stop this fairly easy. 93 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: The others, I don't know. You can't take a hole 94 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: for like ten or twenty years and then fix everything 95 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: in a matter of months just because you're running for president. 96 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: Well look who's here. It's Joel Pollock. Welcome Joel Pollock, 97 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: opinion editor for the California Post. And you're probably wondering, 98 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 1: what the hell is the California Post. Well, it's the 99 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 1: new sister publication to the New York Post. It's coming 100 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: out January twenty sixth. I'm really excited about this because 101 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: it is a really a tough market to look for real, 102 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: truthful news that matter to people and that we could 103 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: use on the show. Joel welcome. Good to be here. 104 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: Explain to everybody who if they're not excited about the 105 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: California Post, they will become excited. It's gonna come to 106 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: twenty and I assume it's going to have the same 107 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: look as. 108 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 2: The New York Post, very similar. 109 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 4: It's going to be a California paper, not a New 110 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 4: York paper. In California. It is the California Post, and 111 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 4: it is going to hold up a mirror to the 112 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 4: state and it's going to take interest in what's going 113 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 4: on here, and that means culture, politics, sports, everything, with 114 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 4: a view to creating a sense of community among California 115 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 4: readers as well as and this is where I come 116 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 4: in politically, maybe some political diversity in the mix, because 117 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 4: most of the other publications that are out there have 118 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 4: a left of center view, to put it mildly, and 119 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 4: the California Post is coming in with a different point 120 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 4: of view, one that tells readers you don't have to 121 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 4: accept things the way they are and the way I 122 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 4: look at it on the opinion page. I'm not pro 123 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 4: Republican or pro Democrat. My motto is we deserve better. 124 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 4: We deserve much better than what we're getting. And that's 125 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 4: a shared sentiment among California as no matter who you 126 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 4: vote for. 127 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: Yes, I think most people want better and they're just baffled. 128 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: They feel powerless, they don't know nobody's interested in them, 129 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: and nobody in the media. It covers many of the 130 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: stories that are most important here. I mean there's virtually 131 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: no coverage what's going on in Sacramento, and very limited 132 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: coverage or what goes on in La with the mayor 133 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: and the city council, and just the overwhelming problems like 134 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: the homelessness and the crime. There's just no coverage, not 135 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: even biased slanted coverage. It just doesn't exist. 136 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 4: You know what's crazy to me is we always hit 137 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 4: January first in California and there are the inevitable articles 138 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 4: laws that go into affect January first. How many hundreds 139 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 4: of laws are there going to be in California new laws? 140 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,959 Speaker 4: And you always look back at that and say, well, 141 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 4: I don't remember them passing hundreds of laws where are 142 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 4: these hundreds of laws coming from Well, there are hundreds 143 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 4: of laws every year that are passed in Sacramento, and 144 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 4: the governor signs most of them. Veto's another of several hundred, 145 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:12,959 Speaker 4: and we don't know. 146 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 2: Much about them. 147 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 4: If you try to work out, in terms of legislative 148 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 4: working days, how many of these bills could they actually read, 149 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 4: how many could they actually debate, how many would we 150 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 4: know about, how many would they have public input into. 151 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 4: It's just impossible to pass that number of bills in 152 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 4: the short working year of a California state legislator. So 153 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 4: Sacramento is a machine. It just moves these things through. 154 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 4: And there is this revelation on January first about everything 155 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 4: new that you're subjected to. I mean, how much coverage 156 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 4: was there, for example, of the new one point five 157 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 4: percent fee on anything with an embedded battery, I mean 158 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 4: my phone, your iPad there, did we have a conversation 159 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 4: about one point five percent more expensive? I thought we 160 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 4: were all about affordability now, but on January first, we 161 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 4: all now have to pay one point five percent extra 162 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 4: on anything with an embedded battery up to fifteen dollars. 163 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 4: So that's something that's going to hit ordinary Californian is hard. 164 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 2: That's a aggressive tax. And did we have a debate 165 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 2: about it. 166 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 4: No, because we're debating all these other things like transgender 167 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 4: parental notification, which is important, but that's just what we 168 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 4: know about. There are all these other bills that just 169 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 4: go right through. And you're right, there needs to be 170 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 4: more news coverage, more debate, and that happens when you 171 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 4: know there's an alternate perspective, if there's a clear second 172 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 4: side to the story, and we're not necessarily going to 173 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 4: get that from a political opposition, because Republicans have a 174 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 4: tiny minority now in the state legislature. 175 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 2: And unfortunately, it's a negative feedback loop. 176 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 4: Because the more of these one one party state policies 177 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 4: that get passed, the more the opposing party leaves the state. 178 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 4: I mean, Republicans have lost their voter base in California 179 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 4: in many places, the small business owners, the homeowners who 180 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 4: traditionally vote Republican, they've just decided to vote their feet. 181 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 4: And you can't blame people for doing that because it's 182 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 4: more effective in changing the circumstances of your own life. 183 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 4: And once again, I just saw the study came out 184 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 4: today California leads in one way, U haul rentals from 185 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 4: California out. Yes, and Newsom's trying to talk about state's 186 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 4: population rising again and so forth. Yes, you can pick 187 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 4: and choose statistics that make it look like he's doing 188 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 4: a good job. But people are voting with their feet. 189 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 4: And do you wait until the next election. Elections are important, 190 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 4: But do you wait until the next election to see 191 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 4: a change in new life or do you consider it 192 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 4: life change? In my case, living in the Pacific Palisades 193 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 4: which burnt down a year ago tomorrow, many people had 194 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 4: no choice. Now they're not living in La Now they're 195 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 4: not living in California. And that was a fire that 196 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 4: could have been contained. It could have been prevented from 197 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 4: becoming the disaster it was. It was actually the New 198 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 4: York Times and out of state paper that pointed out 199 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,719 Speaker 4: this week that we know. 200 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 2: About the eat and fire. 201 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 4: We know about the Palisades fire, but there were about 202 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 4: half a dozen smaller fires that broke out on the 203 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 4: same day that didn't spread like that conditions, but they 204 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 4: didn't spread. Why didn't they spread while they were contained 205 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 4: in one way or another? So why weren't there fire 206 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 4: engines outside the Lachman fire burned scar at the top 207 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 4: of the Palisades. When the state and the city knew 208 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 4: that there was the possibility of a reignition up there. 209 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 4: Why why was there no water in the reservoir? Why 210 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 4: were there mobile water tankers? Let's say you had to 211 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 4: drain the reservoir. I mean I was able to get 212 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 4: into the burn zone because I'm a member of the media. 213 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 2: Police, fire and media were allowed in for three weeks. 214 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 4: No residents were allowed back in until Donald Trump came 215 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:34,839 Speaker 4: to town and said to Karen Bass in front of 216 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 4: the nation, why don't you just let these people back 217 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 4: to their lots. 218 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 2: But I was able to get in there. 219 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 4: And Rick Caruso defended his village Mall in Pacific Palisades, 220 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 4: partly because he had about a dozen water tankers surrounding 221 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 4: the place. He had his own water supply. Now, President 222 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 4: Trump has his ideas about how to get more water 223 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 4: into the system, and Gavin Usom has his ideas. But 224 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 4: the oldest and easiest idea is just put water in 225 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 4: trucks and make the trucks available, you know. And it's 226 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 4: little things like that that we're not thinking about. And 227 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 4: the misgovernance happens because there's no alternate voice. 228 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 1: Let me stop you right there. We'll continue with Joel Pollock, 229 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: the opinion editor of the soon to be California Post, 230 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: debuting January twenty sixth. 231 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 232 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 5: six forty. 233 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: The Moist Line to complain about things is going to 234 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: be unveiled Friday, three, twenty and three fifty. You call 235 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: eight seven seven Moist eighty six and we'll record your 236 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 1: ranting and raving eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or 237 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: you can use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. 238 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 1: We continue with Joel Pollock, the opinion editor of the 239 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: California Post, and that is going to be launching on 240 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 1: January twenty sixth. This is a sister publication to the 241 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 1: New York Post. It's going to look similar, but the 242 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: content's entirely different. This is not a California edition of 243 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: the New York Post. It's its own thing, and it's 244 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: going to be California news, politics, sports, culture, all of it. 245 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: And this should really shake things up. I mean, I 246 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: grew up in Northern Jersey. When I was a kid, 247 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,839 Speaker 1: my dad worked in a factory and he used to 248 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,719 Speaker 1: bring home the tabloid newspapers, the New York Dailien. It 249 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: is in the New York Post. So I grew up 250 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: to me that was a newspaper. New York Times was 251 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: like a lot of words. It was very densely britt 252 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: and it was very dull. But this kind of coverage 253 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: cuts to the heart and tells you exactly the thing 254 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: you want to know, often not focusing on what they 255 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: say publicly, but what really is going on behind closed doors. 256 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 4: Well, it's a really fun publication. I mean, the New 257 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 4: York Post is the kind of newspaper that people buy 258 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 4: in New York, even if they don't agree necessarily with 259 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 4: the opinions on the editorial page. I've got relatives in 260 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 4: New York who are left of center, and they buy 261 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 4: the New York Post because they love the covers. The 262 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 4: covers are funny, they're engaging, and they love the sport 263 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 4: orts coverage, which is the best of any of the papers. 264 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 4: And also they like the level on which the Post 265 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 4: talks to them. The New York Post and soon the 266 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 4: California Post they speak to readers where they are and 267 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 4: it's a conversation between the readers and the journalists. 268 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 2: Whereas The New York Times, the Washington Post. 269 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 4: They tell you what to think, they tell you what 270 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 4: not to think, they tell you who not to listen to. 271 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 4: And I think it's just a more real conversation. It 272 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 4: is still very hard driven journalism. The people I'm working 273 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 4: with are incredible. I mean, they've pulled together an amazing 274 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 4: team of California journalists, some people from out of state, 275 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 4: but most people with a lot of experience here in California. 276 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 4: And these are the best pros and just outstanding people, 277 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 4: the kind of people who get up early and stay 278 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 4: at work late and just want to get the story 279 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 4: to you. 280 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 2: And I think you're right. It really hits you in 281 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 2: the heart. 282 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 4: It's not just a newspaper that speaks to your mind, 283 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 4: although it does that, and that's my job on the 284 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 4: opinion page, but really it really goes for the heart 285 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 4: of the audience. 286 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: Now you and New York Post has plenty of exposs 287 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: plenty of exclusives, and you could tell they do the digging, 288 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: they do the old fashioned reporting. I'll give you an example, 289 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: like this morning, all the television stations are doing retrospectives 290 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: of the fire right because it's the one year anniversary, 291 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: so I'm looking at one from channel four NBCLA, and 292 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: I'm looking at one from CBS, which is channel two 293 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: and nine out here, and they go through like the 294 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: history of the fire. They comte they could almost completely 295 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: ignore all the controversies that you mentioned in your first 296 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: minute here with the empty reservoir. Why was that fire 297 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: engines not deployed to the original fire site, Blackman Fire, 298 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: and on and on and on, you know the whole list. 299 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: There's about twenty five things that got screwed up and 300 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: went wrong, and there's none of this in either article. 301 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 4: Right and the left wanted to talk about climate change. 302 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 4: That's still what they want to talk about. They say 303 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 4: this happened because we've had too many warm summers, and 304 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 4: never mind that we had two very wet winters. That's 305 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 4: also climate change, because there was more plant growth, more 306 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 4: fuel growth. They don't talk about the simple fact that 307 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 4: you have to clear brush near where people live and 308 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 4: that doesn't destroy the environment. That is part of preserving 309 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 4: the environment. You lose more of the environment if it 310 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 4: all goes up in flames. Yeah, and there just isn't 311 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 4: a conversation about the ordinary things that we need our 312 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 4: government to do because they're so busy with the extraordinary 313 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 4: utopian dreams and visions of. 314 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 2: A perfect world. 315 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 4: You know, why is there this obsession with climate change 316 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 4: among California policymakers. California, as big an economy as we have, 317 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 4: is a very very tiny fraction of the planet's emissions. 318 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 4: We could turn off all the lights in California and 319 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,719 Speaker 4: it wouldn't make a difference to the overall problem if 320 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 4: you believe climate change is happening, and it would just 321 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,959 Speaker 4: have zero effect, and whatever we saved in terms of 322 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 4: emissions would be quickly overrun by the Chinese and the 323 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 4: Indians who are just producing as many emissions as they 324 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 4: can possibly burn. So why aren't we talking about efficiency, 325 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 4: which everybody understands because things that are efficient are cheaper. 326 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 4: Why aren't we talking about the simple problems of not 327 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,679 Speaker 4: having police to guide and evacuation, or not having firefighters 328 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 4: in the right place, or not having water in the reservoir. 329 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 4: You know, there are articles out there in some of 330 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,360 Speaker 4: these mainstream media publications that try to debunk the idea 331 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 4: that the reservoir was a factor. 332 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: And I keep reading that one hundred and seventeen million gallons. 333 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's a kernel of truth to it, which 334 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 4: is that at some point, no matter how much water 335 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 4: supply you have, if everybody's turning on the fire hydrants 336 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 4: at the same time and you have houses burning down 337 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 4: on the pipes leaking into the street, you're creating so 338 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,199 Speaker 4: much demand on the system that there's a pressure problem. 339 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 4: So you can't get that water through the hydrant at 340 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 4: sufficient pressure to run the hose. 341 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 2: So there's a point there. 342 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 4: But then the obvious answer is, okay, but there are 343 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 4: other ways to use the reservoir. Why don't you have 344 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 4: helicopters dipping into the reservoir to get buckets of water? 345 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 4: How about those mobile water tankers like Rick Caruso had 346 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 4: driving up to a reservoir, filling up, driving back into 347 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 4: the fire zone. I mean, you need a ready supply 348 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 4: of water. And so, yes, there are some design flaws 349 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 4: in how all of these systems were built in the 350 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 4: twentieth century, mid twentieth century. They didn't anticipate the kind 351 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,719 Speaker 4: of wildfires that we have seen over the last few years. 352 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 4: But you know, Gavin Newsom has been governor for two 353 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 4: terms now. He has presided over some of the worst 354 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 4: wildfires that we've seen. Why haven't we seen any movement 355 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 4: on that. He talks a good game on desalination and 356 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 4: building new reservoirs, but we haven't seen anything built or done. 357 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 4: I mean, that's the difference between a Gavin Newsom and 358 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 4: Donald Trump. You don't to like Donald Trump, but he 359 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 4: gets things done. He gets project built, and whatever you 360 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 4: have to do to get that ballroom in the White 361 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 4: House done, you know, he gets it done. And everyone's 362 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 4: complaining and this and that. You know, if you had 363 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 4: Trump running California, he would have filled that reservoir, the 364 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 4: site's reservoir. He would have made sure there was a 365 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:14,199 Speaker 4: mobile army of water tankers to move into position for 366 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 4: any fire. It's not just enough to have the water 367 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 4: in the fire engines, because that's limited. You need much 368 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 4: more than that, which is why the private firefighters have 369 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 4: access to these mobile tankers. So we're talking about small things, 370 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 4: limited things that a common sense person would think about 371 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 4: if you were protecting your own home. 372 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 2: Do I have another supply of water somewhere? 373 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 4: And somehow common sense just is absent completely in California 374 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 4: state government and governments everywhere really, but especially here, where 375 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 4: we tend to think about utopian visions of whatever it is. 376 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 4: We want to achieve Medicare for all. Was Gavin Newsom's 377 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 4: a big thing, you know. He launched that two years 378 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 4: ago and then had to cut it off last year 379 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 4: because the system was going bankrupt. So we need people 380 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 4: who are down to earth common sense, and that is 381 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 4: the voice of the California Post. We are speaking in 382 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 4: those terms and we're trying to find those solutions as well. 383 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 1: Can you say another segment? 384 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 2: Yes, sir? 385 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 1: All right? Joel Pollock, opinion editor for the New California Post. 386 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: Coming January twenty sixth. Are you can have print copies too? Yes, well, 387 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: turns Mike back on. 388 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:15,680 Speaker 2: Yeah we will. 389 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: Oh really, all right? It could be something to look 390 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: forward to. 391 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 5: Guy. 392 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: I just love buying newspapers and opening them up. But 393 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: obviously it'll be on your mobile devices as well. 394 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobbel's on demand from KFI AM 395 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 5: six forty. 396 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: We're on every day one until four, and if you 397 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: miss anything after four o'clock John Cobel Show on demand. 398 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: That's the podcast same as the radio show, and you 399 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 1: can to listen to whatever you missed out On Tomorrow, 400 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: we're going to do a special show. They're having a 401 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: big demonstration in Pacific Palisades people angry with the lack 402 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: of lack of fire response, the lack of preparation, the 403 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: impossible bureaucracy that has kept many from rebuilding quickly. And 404 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: the name of this demonstration is called They Let Us Burn. 405 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: They Let Us Burn, And it's going to be a 406 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: ten thirty tomorrow morning at Palisades Village corner of Antioch 407 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 1: and Swarthmore, And we're going to go and we're going 408 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: to be talking to people, recording it and then playing 409 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 1: it back during our regular show tomorrow between one and four. 410 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: If you're interested, you can go to They Letusburn dot com. 411 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: You can RSVP let them know you're coming. There's no 412 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: tickets or anything that you have to buy. They just 413 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: want to get an idea to size the crowd. And 414 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot of speakers, a lot 415 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 1: of residents and business owners, some local politicians, and people 416 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 1: are going to talk about how they feel about the 417 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: massive failure on every level of government that's lasted now 418 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: for a year. We have with us Joel Pollock. He 419 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: is the opinion editor of The California Post, which is 420 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: launching January twenty sixth online and also there'll be paper copies. 421 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 1: It looks like the New York Post, except it's all 422 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: about California, California news, politics, culture, sports, And it's very 423 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: exciting because this should really shake up the sleepy, moribund 424 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 1: media environment here. Why do you think people put up 425 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: with what they put up with here in California? I 426 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 1: mean every day I go through the gas prices, right, 427 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 1: and the average gas price now is about two to 428 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: eighty across the country, and we're at four fifty. And 429 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: you know, I mean I normally. I mean in France, 430 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: when they had a gas tax increase a few years ago, 431 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 1: they started setting fire to Paris, right, the Yellow vest riots. 432 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: And that's what I've known all my life. When the 433 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: gas prices get that far out of whack, people get 434 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: really angry and crazy, and people, politicians lose their jobs. 435 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: Why are we taken four point fifty compared to two 436 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: maty when it's going for alleged climate change programs which 437 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:11,919 Speaker 1: have had no effect. 438 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 4: I think because life here is simply so nice. 439 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: We put up with. 440 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,719 Speaker 4: Many things that other people wouldn't put up with in 441 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 4: other states. And a friend of mine asked me, why 442 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 4: are you, as a conservative still in California when so 443 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 4: many conservatives have left, and I said, well, they can't 444 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 4: ruin the mountains and they can't ruin the ocean. And 445 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,479 Speaker 4: then a year ago they ruined the mountains and they 446 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:41,239 Speaker 4: ruined the ocean. But I think people will put up 447 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 4: with it until they've had enough. And there are certain 448 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 4: issues on which Californians have stood up. For example, on 449 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 4: the issue of racial preferences. Twice now, Democrats have tried 450 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 4: to enshrine racial preferences in law, and twice California voters 451 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 4: have said no. And these are the same voters who 452 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 4: chose Joe Biden two to one over Donald Trump. In 453 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:09,199 Speaker 4: the same election they voted against Proposition sixteen, which was 454 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 4: the Democrat's effort to reverse Prop two oh nine, which 455 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 4: was the proposition that banned racial preferences in state government 456 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 4: education and so forth. So I think there's a level 457 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 4: of common sense, a kind of bedrock here that does 458 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 4: eventually offer some resistance to the craziness. The problem is 459 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,679 Speaker 4: is it too late by the time you get to 460 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 4: that bedrock to undo the damage. And that's I think 461 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 4: where we come in, because you have to have a 462 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 4: forum where you can raise these issues and you're not 463 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 4: called an extremist, and you're not called a racist or 464 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 4: a sexist or whatever, and people listen to you. And 465 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 4: I think we're watching disaster after disaster unfold around our state, 466 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 4: and it really is only a matter of time before 467 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 4: it happens to you. I think that we were quite isolated, 468 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 4: happily in Pacific Palisades, thinking that the problems of the 469 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,439 Speaker 4: rest of La haven't really caught up to us yet. 470 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 4: We're on a nice little hill it's a little hard 471 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 4: for criminals to climb or whatever. 472 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 2: Whatever. 473 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 4: We thought we were in splendid isolation. And then the 474 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 4: fire came rushing down the mountain and that was the 475 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 4: end of that. And suddenly all of the incompetence and 476 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 4: all of the bureaucracy that other Angelinos had to deal 477 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 4: with was staring us in the face. And that's why 478 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 4: there's only been one house that burned down that's being 479 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 4: rebuilt start to finish in a year. That's why we 480 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 4: still have the reservoir now being emptied, and that's why 481 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 4: we don't have the city council doing anything about the 482 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 4: permitting fees. I mean, you've got to pay thirty forty 483 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 4: thousand dollars just to file your permits to rebuild when 484 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 4: you lost your house. And part of the reason you 485 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 4: lost your house was because the fire department frankly didn't 486 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:44,919 Speaker 4: have enough engines in place. 487 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 2: So why should we pay again for the city's failure? 488 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 4: And it's starting to be impossible to ignore it. 489 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 1: Now. 490 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 4: We've got this election coming up, and it's not really 491 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 4: an election yet. It's not really a contest at least 492 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 4: at the mayor level. We've got Karen Bass right now 493 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 4: looking like she's going to be reelected unless someone jumps 494 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,439 Speaker 4: into the race who can really challenge her. On the 495 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 4: gubernatorial level, the governor's race, there are all these Democrats 496 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 4: in the race, and they're spreading that out so thin 497 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 4: that it's possible you could have two Republicans in the 498 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:13,919 Speaker 4: general election. I think that's the only way you're going 499 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 4: to get some change. So right now there is a 500 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 4: slim possibility something happens. But eventually people do have to 501 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 4: wake up and say, we want to be California. 502 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 2: We don't want to be Texas, but we. 503 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 4: Want California to work, and we've got to do some 504 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 4: Texas things to make California work. In fact, Texas today 505 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 4: looks like California in the seventies. In many ways, we 506 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 4: want to take what was good in that past and 507 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 4: apply it to the present. 508 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: It talks about how people tend to enjoy how nice 509 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 1: California is. It's primarily the weather, and so they put 510 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: up with a lot of nonsense. But what I've seen, 511 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: especially in the past ten years, is the nonsense, the homelessness. 512 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:00,080 Speaker 1: For example, I mean, you get seventy thousand bodies in 513 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:05,439 Speaker 1: La County, many of them drug zombies, mental patience, and 514 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: that has destroyed the nice stuff. It's made it impossible 515 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: just to walk to the grocery store because you've got 516 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: to dodge a crazy guy. My wife and I were 517 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: chased by a guy who's holding a metal pipe. Just 518 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 1: drive it stop. We're stopped at a light, I say, said, 519 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: d boulevard, look at the rear of your mirror, and 520 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: here comes this guy. And it's like, well, how long 521 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 1: can you put up with this? And so the nice 522 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,200 Speaker 1: stuff has been overwhelmed, and I got to believe there's 523 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: going to be some rebellion to get this against this 524 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: at some point. But I don't, like you said, I 525 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: don't see the political figure or who's captured that lightning. 526 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 4: It hasn't happened yet, and we'll have to see what 527 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 4: the choices are this year as we go to the polls, 528 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 4: or as we. 529 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 2: Go to the mailboxes and try to vote by mail. 530 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 4: But I do think that part of that also comes 531 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 4: from not being able to imagine an alternative. When you 532 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 4: have a media that largely falls in line behind the 533 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 4: one party state that we have here, it is very 534 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 4: difficult to think that there could be an alternative. But 535 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 4: once you have alternative voices, and you have that in radio, 536 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 4: you have that on some podcasts, but we also need 537 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 4: it in newsprint, and you need an alternative voice, an 538 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 4: alternative forum, so that people can start to remember and 539 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 4: remind each other that things don't have to be that way. 540 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 4: We don't have to accept that kind of hardship, which 541 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 4: I've had as well. I've been chased by homeless people. 542 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 4: I had a homeless guy knock on my window earlier 543 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 4: or last year now with my kids in the car. 544 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 4: It's crazy and it's not something anybody should have to 545 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 4: put up with. 546 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 2: It's not normal. 547 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 1: Well, you've been in the print internet media for a 548 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: long time. What is it about the news directors, the assignment, editors, 549 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,959 Speaker 1: the producers in television that they don't want they do 550 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: not cover these stories anymore. Are they so ideologically blinded? 551 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: Because I go to dinner or go to a New 552 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: Year's party and everybody is talking about all the trouble 553 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: they say in the streets and about whether they should 554 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: finally bail out and move and I mean everybody. And 555 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: you turn on the TV and it's all happy talk 556 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: and fluff and nonsense. And I'm thinking, isn't there one 557 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: news producer, one news director who says, you know, we 558 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: got a market here that we should serve, and it 559 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: would be the right thing to do. Since you have 560 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: a license to broadcasting, you have a news department is 561 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: to do the public service of telling people what's wrong 562 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: and why and how to make it better. Why don't 563 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: they want to do that. 564 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 4: It's because you get all kinds of abuse if you're 565 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 4: the one journalist who breaks ranks or the one public 566 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 4: official who breaks ranks. You know, there was a sheriff 567 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 4: of La County, Alex Villanueva, and he was a Democrat. 568 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 2: I think he's since become a Republican. 569 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 4: He was the one guy who went out there and 570 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 4: maybe he was a good sheriff. Maybe he was a 571 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 4: bad sheriff in general. I can't judge his overall performance, 572 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 4: but when we had homeless people living in tents on 573 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 4: the beach in Venice, he went out there and said 574 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 4: we're getting all these tents off the beach by July fourth, 575 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 4: and he took all kinds of flak in the media, 576 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 4: and the Board of Supervisors of La County basically made 577 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 4: it impossible for him to win reelection, and they got 578 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 4: the voters to pass a resolution or a referendum that 579 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 4: allowed the board to overrule the voters if. 580 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 2: They reelected this guy. 581 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 4: I mean, if you go against the status quo, you're 582 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 4: going to get hit with everything the status quot has 583 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 4: to hit you with, unless you have people standing up 584 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 4: for you and defending you. And you know, I worked 585 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 4: for Breitbart News for fifteen years based here in LA 586 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 4: and Andrew Breitbart was a guy who would get out 587 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 4: there and take the slings and arrows for other people. 588 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 4: And the California Post is going to be a publication 589 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 4: that defends people who just want the ordinary things in 590 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 4: life that they're entitled to have as citizens, as taxpayers, 591 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 4: as law abiding people. And that's what is needed. Once 592 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 4: you have an alternative voice, then you start to see 593 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 4: different decisions being made in the newsroom. Well, we could 594 00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 4: ignore that story, but then the post people are going 595 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 4: to get it. Let's go cover that. You know, you 596 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 4: mentioned Tim Waltz in the break. Everybody ignored the Somali 597 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 4: fraud story. I was writing about it in twenty twenty 598 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 4: four when he was on the presidential ticket with Kamala Harris, 599 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 4: and I was writing about how there was this feeding 600 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 4: our Future scandal where billions of dollars were lost, and 601 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 4: I was picking it up from a conservative blog in Minnesota, 602 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 4: power Line. The power Line blog, they had written about it, 603 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 4: but it was frozen out of media. So now it's 604 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 4: this big revelation to everybody, but it's been out there 605 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 4: and everybody ignored it. There was a young guy, this 606 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 4: fellow I think, Nick Nick Shirley. Nick Shirley went door 607 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 4: to door and instead of covering what he was finding, 608 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,560 Speaker 4: they went after him the mainstream. 609 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 1: I noticed that they were piled on him all week 610 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: until Walts finally resigned. 611 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,720 Speaker 4: Right, so he gets Waltz to resign, but CNN went 612 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 4: to check his facts, not to check whether there was 613 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 4: fraud in the system. 614 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 2: So that's what happens. That's why they're so little dissent. 615 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: Is what me up. Yeah, they were going to see 616 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 1: whether what we early covered in his video actually existed, 617 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,239 Speaker 1: and those childcare facilities were empty. It's like, wait, wait 618 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 1: a second, why don't you look at how this because 619 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 1: already you have sixty convictions, you have ninety indictments. This 620 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 1: story has been building for months, years really and seeing 621 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: it next to no reporting on. 622 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 2: It, no reporting and that's on purpose. 623 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone says, oh, yeah, we missed that. You didn't 624 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 1: miss it. You purposely avoided reporting on it. 625 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, And there have to be alternatives in the media 626 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 4: if citizens are going to make informed choices and nobody 627 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 4: has a monopoly on truth. But when one party in 628 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 4: one worldview has a monopoly on power, then mistakes start 629 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 4: to get made, Then things get overlooked, and then you 630 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 4: have Pacific palisades burning down. 631 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: You got time to talk about gavenews And when we 632 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,239 Speaker 1: come back, sure got one more segment. Oh by the way, 633 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: after two o'clock, we're going to talk with Jeremy and 634 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: me Paddawork and Jeremy is one along with Spencer Pratt, 635 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: is organizing the big protest about the Palisades fire, and 636 00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 1: like I mentioned, we're going to go and cover it 637 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: tomorrow morning and record a lot of interviews and play 638 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 1: them on the show tomorrow afternoon. They let Us Burn 639 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: is the name of it. It's ten thirty tomorrow morning. 640 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 1: Is already more than one thousand people who've URSVP that 641 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,799 Speaker 1: they're going to attend, and you should be part of it. 642 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:14,840 Speaker 1: We're going to be part of it, and we're going 643 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 1: to talk more. Joel Pollock, January twenty sixth. It's going 644 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: to be a big day. California Post is going to 645 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:25,440 Speaker 1: launch and this is gonna be quite an earthquake on 646 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: the media landscape here, something that we have needed for 647 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 1: a long long time. 648 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 649 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 5: six forty. 650 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,280 Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show coming up after two o'clock. Jeremy Patterwak 651 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,640 Speaker 1: he's one of the organizers of the big protest in 652 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades tomorrow at ten thirty in the morning. They 653 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 1: let Us Burn is the name of the demonstration, and 654 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 1: over a thousand people have signed up to come. We'll 655 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: talk about it a few more minutes here with Joel Pollack, 656 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: thank you, by the way for giving us so much time. 657 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 1: They're very generous of you. He's the opinion editor for 658 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 1: California Post, which is debuting January twenty sixth. It's going 659 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,680 Speaker 1: to have all the fire of the New York Post, 660 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 1: but it's entirely about California news, politics, sports, culture and 661 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 1: all of it. Gavin Newsom, we've seen what happened with 662 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 1: Tim Waltz. Eventually enough pressure and he's dropping out of 663 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,400 Speaker 1: the race for the third term. And a lot of 664 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: people wanted to resign because of all the nine billion 665 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: dollars in Somali community fraud. I know, it's clear that 666 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,880 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom has overseen at least ten times as much fraud. 667 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: It may be an infinite amount of fraud. Nobody's coming 668 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:48,839 Speaker 1: for him. Everything rolls off him. We've got I mean, 669 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,640 Speaker 1: we've got the unemployment money that was over thirty billion dollars, 670 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 1: we got high speed rail at seventeen billion, we've got 671 00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,280 Speaker 1: homeless money. By his own admission, twenty four billion dollars 672 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 1: evaporated and he doesn't know exactly where it went or 673 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 1: whether it did any good, and it didn't. When are 674 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:11,520 Speaker 1: they going to come for well, turn it out there 675 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 1: is mic On. 676 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 4: They don't come for him because he has established himself 677 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,960 Speaker 4: as the symbol of the party. And there was an 678 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,920 Speaker 4: attempt back in twenty twenty one to recall him after 679 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,759 Speaker 4: he went to the French Laundry restaurant and defied his 680 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:35,279 Speaker 4: own coronavirus policies, had a masks off dinner with lobbyists 681 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,960 Speaker 4: while he was telling other people to stay away from 682 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 4: restaurants shutting down restaurants. And you know, it's not just 683 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 4: the restaurants that shut down, its the employees who lose 684 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,319 Speaker 4: their jobs. I remember the night before that band went 685 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,280 Speaker 4: into effect, my wife and I went out for drinks 686 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,040 Speaker 4: in Pacific Palisades and we looked around at the employees 687 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,600 Speaker 4: of this restaurant and thought, you know, these are people 688 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,000 Speaker 4: are all going to be thrown out of work by 689 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 4: this coronavirus shutdown. Newsom went to the French Laundry either 690 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:05,480 Speaker 4: after and what happened was Newsom took the field of 691 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:09,200 Speaker 4: Republican challengers that were vying to replace him, and he 692 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,360 Speaker 4: picked up on Larry Elder and he said, that guy 693 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,720 Speaker 4: is the West Coast Trump, that guy is the African 694 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:21,360 Speaker 4: American Trump. Newsom didn't use that language precisely, but the 695 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:22,120 Speaker 4: La Times did. 696 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:22,920 Speaker 2: They basically went. 697 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,759 Speaker 1: Home the white the black face of white supremacist right right. 698 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:27,359 Speaker 2: And so. 699 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,759 Speaker 4: What that was was a signal to Democratic voters that 700 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,840 Speaker 4: you may not like the job I'm doing, but you 701 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,120 Speaker 4: have to come home and defend the party from Trump. 702 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:41,480 Speaker 4: And so Newsom is able to avoid any accountability for 703 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,000 Speaker 4: how he's governing or not governing the state because he 704 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,640 Speaker 4: says I represent the Democratic Party. He doesn't say it 705 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,319 Speaker 4: that way, yeah, but he says it by picking these 706 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,920 Speaker 4: fights with Trump and once in a while saying no 707 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,480 Speaker 4: to his left wing base. So this billionaire attacks that 708 00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,760 Speaker 4: they want to do. He is known to be skeptical 709 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,200 Speaker 4: of it but persuadable, so he's playing both sides of that. 710 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,200 Speaker 4: He knows his party wants it, but he also knows 711 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,960 Speaker 4: that responsible people think it's a terrible idea. So he 712 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,760 Speaker 4: indicates to them that he's sort of pragmatic, but doesn't 713 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,880 Speaker 4: really make a tough choice and defend it against his 714 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,200 Speaker 4: political base. Desalination I mentioned earlier, a great decision, a 715 00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,840 Speaker 4: great policy to provide more water to the state. Newsom 716 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,520 Speaker 4: is theoretically in favor of it, how many plants have 717 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,799 Speaker 4: been built in the eight years that he's been governor. Right, 718 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,920 Speaker 4: He's not going to do anything, So he tells people 719 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,399 Speaker 4: I'm a Democrat, which is also the trick Biden pulled. 720 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,799 Speaker 4: By the way, Joe Biden didn't have to be the 721 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,719 Speaker 4: best Democrat in the field in twenty twenty. He just 722 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,160 Speaker 4: had to be to the right of Bernie Sanders, who 723 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,640 Speaker 4: was winning at the point Biden took the nomination away. 724 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,560 Speaker 2: And that's what Newsom does. He basically says. 725 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:51,240 Speaker 4: To California voters, you want to be governed by a Democrat. 726 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,839 Speaker 4: You cannot let these Republicans run anything. And maybe that's 727 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,760 Speaker 4: a little easier to do in the case of Trump, 728 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:04,200 Speaker 4: because Democrats have been led to believe that Trump is 729 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,799 Speaker 4: this demon and they believe the worst possible things about 730 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,040 Speaker 4: him and so forth. And that's the trick Newsom has pulled, 731 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,720 Speaker 4: and it's it's not going to work in a national contest. 732 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,200 Speaker 4: I think he's going to run into some serious opposition 733 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:21,919 Speaker 4: from other Democrats. But it is working here in again, 734 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,279 Speaker 4: this one party system where people convince themselves there is 735 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,320 Speaker 4: no alternative, and that's deadly for a democracy. 736 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,960 Speaker 1: They don't hold them responsible for anything. 737 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,120 Speaker 4: Right, They didn't hold Obama responsible. You know, the late 738 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,280 Speaker 4: Rush Limbaugh had this great idea, the Russia Limbaugh theorem, 739 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,240 Speaker 4: which is that Obama is not responsible for governing anything. 740 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:43,480 Speaker 4: Remember when things went wrong, the IRS scandal, the AP scandal, 741 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,839 Speaker 4: where they went after journalists, and Obama would come out 742 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,400 Speaker 4: and say, I'm outraged that this happened. 743 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,279 Speaker 2: I'm outraged, I'm outraged to learn of it. This is 744 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:51,359 Speaker 2: the first I heard about it. 745 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 4: And then he would stop talking about it, and nobody 746 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 4: held them accountable for it. He wasn't expected to do 747 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,600 Speaker 4: anything about it. And that's that is also a media problem. 748 00:39:59,600 --> 00:39:59,839 Speaker 2: Okay. 749 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 4: Media have a double standard where they promote democrats and 750 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,520 Speaker 4: they protect democrats from the results of their failure, where 751 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,080 Speaker 4: a Republican who did the same thing would be tossed 752 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:10,720 Speaker 4: out of office. 753 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:15,200 Speaker 1: Joel Pollock, Peanut Editor, California Post, coming January twenty sixth. 754 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,480 Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on today and we'll talk a 755 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:22,200 Speaker 1: lot in the future. We got Jeremy Pataware. He's one 756 00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:26,080 Speaker 1: of the organizers of the Palisades Fire anniversary demonstration they 757 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,440 Speaker 1: let us burn. He's coming up right after Debormark and 758 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,879 Speaker 1: the News Live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, 759 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You 760 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,319 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 761 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,120 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 762 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,440 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app