May 26, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (05/26) - Memorial Day Best Of The John Kobylt Show. State Senator Tony Strickland joins John to expose how Governor Newsom’s reckless policies have pushed California into financial collapse—complete with rising gas taxes, bloated spending, and a mass exodus of residents. Attorney Joshua Moody guest-cohosts after winning the auction at Pastathon last Fall and he discusses a lot of issues in California with John.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one until four after four o'clock.
John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. Let's
get Tony Strickland on State Senator from Huntington Beach. Newsom
released a new version of the budget, and Strickland has
a lot to say about that. Tony, welcome, How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
What is this new budget about that he's got? Because
I'm looking at a headline where Newsom says there's another
twelve billion dollars missing, but all the money he's given
to illegal alien healthcare is about twelve billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So I think there's a connection there.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You tell me, yeah, No, California doesn't have a revenue problem.
It has a wasteful spending problem. The governor just again,
you said it before I came on. He wants to
blame everybody. Only in politics, can you do a bad
job and try to blame everybody else. He blamed the
homeless situation on local cities andies. Now he's trying to
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blame the budget on the federal government. He just needs
to look in the mirror and look at the watfil spending.
He put another billion dollars into the high speed rail.
This is a project that everybody knows is never going
to be built as proposed. He's wasting billions of dollars
on healthcare for our legals and his new proposed boat budget.
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He now is spending over five billion to do that.
And you know he has this slush fund of fifty
million dollars to the Attorney General Bonta to quote unquote
trump proof to do furtherous lawsuits that he knows are
going to lose in federal court. But the one thing
he didn't John fund is Proposition thirty six. This is
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an initiative that passed seventy percent of the vote in
all fifty eight counties across the state of California voted
to sill with this initiative. Public safety should be the
number one thing that we should fund. The most central
role of government is public safety. And he has yet
to fund an initiative. I can't think of many initiatives
the past. All fifty eight counties, even though those liberal
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counties San Francisco and Marin voted an affirmative of top
thirty six.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Right, and as makes theft a crime again, makes drug
addiction a crime again in a public.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Correct use, and gives people the.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Choice of either going to jail or going to get
treatment for their drug problems. But you need money to
provide the treatment.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Right exactly, And so he's not funding that. And then
let's talk about a homeless again.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I have a unique.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Perspective, as you know, John, I served in the legislature
in twenty twelve. That budget ten years ago, a little
over ten years ago, was ninety eight billion. Now it's
over three hundred billion dollars. In fact, we've increased the
government spending triple in the last ten years, and population
has gone away from California. We don't have triple the
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better services. In fact, things are worse than ever before.
Crime is on the rise, homelessness is everywhere, and we
have a crumbling infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Dollars is the money just getting stolen? Because I'm starting
to think, like you know, between the.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Non topics, go ahead, go ahead, No, I'm sorry, sir,
go ahead no.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
The nonprofit homeless industry, I think are a bunch of thieves.
I think all the people connected high speed rail are
a bunch of thieves. You know, the billions were stolen
for during COVID, for the unemployment funds and now this
homeless thing. I mean, Michael Schellenberger said he thinks up
to thirty seven billion that Newsom has spent since twenty nineteen.
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It's just got to be politically connected parasites and thieves
that have taken the money and not produced anything of
any good for anyone.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well, I couldn't agree with you more. And my dad
always taught me, if you dig a hole for yourself,
the best way you got that hole, stop digging. Stop.
We've seen billions of dollars and at the same time,
John he keeps increasing every single year for the last
four years, he's increased the gas tax and the projection
now is next year the gas prices could be eight
dollars a gallon. You know, this is a governor when
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Prop thirty six is not funded, when he continues to
you know, hurt people at the pomp, the people who
least can afford it, who are living paycheck to paycheck.
This fall is just be portioningly on those hardworking California families.
This legislature and this governor are so out of touch
with everyday citizens across the state.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So we got two listeners, send us photographic proof they're
paying two dollars and thirty six cents a gallon for
gas in Oklahoma two thirty six and here it's an
average of five bucks headed to eight eight fifty and beyond.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Is there anything any of.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Us can do to stop this, because this is really psycho.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Stop sending these people who are there who are voting
for this stuff. And I do believe people are starting
to wake up here in the state of California, the
mismanagement of the fires in southern California. I do think
people are starting to wake up. With a billion dollars
are wasteful spending, John, this is the first time in
California history since the gold Rush, more people are leaving
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California than are coming in since the gold Rush. People
are leaving the oasis and the beautiful weather. We have
go to the middle of the desert in Arizona, to
go to the humidity in Florida, go to the cold
weather in Idaho, all because the policies of Gavin Dusom
and the super Majority. I do believe people are waking up.
When Top thirty six gets seventy percent of the vote
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and fifty eight counties zone the affirmative. I think people
are waking up to the mismanagement, and I'm hopeful that
we turn the state around and make it golden again.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Did you hear his his rant today at a press conference.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I did? Is pathetic. I mean, again, here's a guy
that isn't Governor John. I've started with four other governors
and this is the most detached governor I've ever seen.
He doesn't weigh in on any of these issues. He really,
really really wants to be president of the United States,
but he's not, and he's worried about running for president
instead of being governor and doing the job that people
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elected them to do.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I We're going to play play the whole clip in
the next segment because I want to go through the
whole thing lined by line.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I mean, he's he's losing it, He's losing touch.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He's almost like the Marie Antoinette. Let him eat cake.
He just doesn't He just doesn't understand what average hard
working families across the state are living through. You gotta
again just look at the gas crisis.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
How does a how does like a working class family
deal with eight nine dollars a gallon gas.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
That's not possible.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You can't do it. How do you how do you?
How do you vote for these folks who who are
increasing the gas to this price where they just can't
afford it, and they they're living paycheck to paycheck. He said,
keep putting these people in office.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
He says in this clip that we're going to play.
How do these people keep getting re elected? They're all
his party. We have one party rule.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Party. And these mandate, these mandates to eliminate gas power
cars is ridiculous, These ev mandates that they're pushing down.
Uh not everybody can afford a fifty thousand dollars car.
One and two. The worst thing you could do in California, John,
is everybody plug at an electric car. At the same time,
we don't have enough energy to do that. We have
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really blackouts like we had in the early two thousands.
We just don't have enough power supply, We don't have
enough infrastructure. And they're they're you know, these people who
are doing this in the legislature, they're driving cars into
the legislature, but they're trying to outlock cars for everybody else.
It's almost like what we had in terms of the shutdown. Uh,
(07:42):
you know with Gavin Newsom went the French laundry and
had dinner, but he didn't want anybody else that have
to go to dinner. His kids got to go in
person school, but he didn't want anybody else to do so.
So these these members, these legislators are all driving cars,
but they want to outlock cars for everybody else.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Tony Strickland, thank you for coming on, California State Senator
out of Huntington Beach. We will talk again soon.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
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Speaker 3 (08:11):
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Speaker 3 (08:18):
Join the millions of people in fifty five countries around
the world, all fifty states. We have people listening. I
don't want to make you nervous. I thought I would like, really,
we have Josh Moody here. He's the Pastathon winner from
last fall. He and his wife Mariy. Josh is an attorney,
Maury is a prosecutor, and Josh was the winner, and
(08:39):
this is the prize. You get to co host the show.
It'll be with us for the rest of the program.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Amazing, Thank you, Thank you for having me. Can't believe
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Our moistline for Friday. You want to complain eight seven
seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven Moist eighty six,
or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. All right, Josh,
so who are you now? First of all, you don't
a lot of money, like at least five six thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You don't even remember. I don't want to bracket, no,
I know, but it's you know, it's for it's for
the chill. It's yeah, it's for charity.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
And I was telling you before I never win anything, right,
I'm one of those guys. I just and I put
it in and the.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Next morning, you see, this is different. This is not
like a lottery. This is you got to anty up
the cash.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, you out did every last year the winner was
an attorney as well.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So something about that. There's some personality type.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Your audience key demo seems to be, you know this
middle aged guys who want to complain about everything.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
That's right, that well, homeless people, drugs, it's those two.
So in fact, we met you said in Apple Valley
years ago where you have your office.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
My office is there now. Back then it didn't exist.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
You were and Ken were doing a recall on somebody,
and I was telling you I couldn't remember his name.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, I remember, I remember the event and the kind
of guy.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
It was very hot middles I think it was July,
middle of summer whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's the only time I was in Apple Valley and
it seemed like it was about one hundred and seventeen.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Degrees in a hot parking lot.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And whoever was on our staff then who's no longer here.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
They oriented the tent so that the setting sun was
blasting into our face the entire afternoon.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And it's one of those parking lots that's just nothing
but asphalt, like Dot one, I mean like one hundred
and fifty two degrees coming up right. So my office
is there now, but it was. The building wasn't there
back then, But you did. You did show up. I
did show up, and you're trying to put or not
you but your staff is trying to put bumper stickers
on people's cars and I'm I have I dried mustangs?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh not, but you get into the little shop one
of our staff members.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, I was like, no bumper stickers. I just don't
mess with my car.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Wait, they were just putting the stickers on without asking.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
No, I think you had to get, but you had
to park. So it was you know, it was like
one way in one wall.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We had a lot of questionable people working here back then.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Yeah, in Apple Valley, we're not used to that kind
of yeah business coming.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
So what Obviously, if you're listening to this show and
KFI and you bid the money to come on, there
must be a lot of stuff that gets you crazy.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Yeah, well it's I was talking to Raise, like, well,
what do you want to talk about? I was like, well,
whatever John talks about, because I usually just listen and
I yell at the radio.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Listening.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
So that's the way we could do the next two
hours if you want. Yeah, you could react to whatever,
because we're going to basically rig of the show here
and just you get to chime in as much as
you want.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Yeah, that's great. Just in my car, I get to
say whatever I want. And on radio there's like seven
words you can't say.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Well, I know, well, Freddy just used three of them,
Freddy Escobar, so we have four last Well, no, I
mean generally, what gets you shouting the loudest traffic taxes?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yeah, I have a list of complaints and traffic's on
there about ten times.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
This is really we're kind of talking.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
This is our first time on this side of the
city since COVID, really since COVID really starts.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's twenty twenty, and traffic is just worse than one.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
It's nearly impossible to go from west to east absolutely
or east to west because I haven't seen a Dodger
game this year, primarily because it can take two to
three hours from the time I leave the house until
I get in the seat yep, and it's like forty minutes.
What you approach the parking lot, right, it's about forty
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minutes to get in and then park and.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
You think you think you've made it because you're getting
off the freeway, and then it's just another it's another
thirty minutes, and you're like what And then on top
of a bottlehead night, then yeah, did you grow up here? Yeah,
for the most part, I grew up in southern California,
out in Glendora.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So what how old are you? Roughly I'm forty seven.
Forty seven, Oh you look forty six. I think you're
doing well. What's changed since you were a kid here?
You know, sometimes it's hard to explain to people. I
remember California just ten years ago being drastically different than
it is now. Now, what have you seen over forty
six years? I only go back like thirty three, but
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you go back forty six?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
What what? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Well, I go, yeah, I've that's started listening to you.
And I was in junior high so yeah, fright didn't
say no.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's but my dad The math is the math with
my dad in the car.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
But I asked this question of people all the time,
especially you know the blue No matter who people, if
you lived here twenty years ago, just ask yourself, this
was the homeless problem as bad back then it is now.
And there's not one person who says, oh it was
it's always been this bad.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
No, it's it's so homeless.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
The homeless problem has just blown up the last ten
to fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, I'd say the first twenty years we did our
show out here, I don't think it ever came up
as a topic ever.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Never, it was never.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
It became a problem with leadership who told us there
was a problem, and now now there's an actual problem.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Well now there's an industry, right yeahh yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
And and at traffic too, I mean, you could get
from the Inland Empire to downtown and forty five minutes
to an hour, and it's just it's it's exponentially. Everything
is just moving so much faster and maybe devolving so much,
definitely devolving.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yes, no, there's there's not a lot of forward movement.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
No, we're you know, we're you know, you've talked about
plenty of that's high speed trained and nowhere, and that
was supposed to aleviate all the problems, and nothing's happened, right,
I mean, and so.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
What's changed?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
A lot is one A lot less empty lots, a
lot less dirt. I mean, look around. You know, there
used to be somewhat farms. Used to go out to Chino,
there'd be farms. It's all apartments and industrial buildings now
and there's just so many more people and without the
infrastructure to keep up with it. And if you do
just kind of think that, you know, in the year
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two thousand, yeah, you could walk the streets and you
wouldn't be accosted by homeless people, or you will.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
And I remember I talk about it all the time.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We used to go downtown all the time to go
to the theater down there, you know, the Mark Taper,
the Dorothy.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Chandler or I don't even know what they call that theater.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Now they change, you know, the want to go all
the time back then, and now she won't cross the
four or five.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yeah, we have those same problems too. It's when you
when you set your your I don't know your life
or your or your extracurricular activities, and you say, well,
I don't want to put up with the traffic or
I don't want to put up with the people, so
I'm going to avoid doing something fun.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah you got a problem.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, you go two hours in traffic and your reward
is you had eight homeless people surrounding your car when
you finally get a parking space, if you can get
a parking space, right, yeah, and it's it's completely unlivable.
Why do you think because I've got people out where
you live vote differently right right.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Where all people who came here grew up here.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yeah, and said I've had enough of this and you
move out to the suburbs.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Why do you think they vote the way they vote,
considering almost everybody I know is on with the result
something something disconnected along the line where people aren't connecting
their votes to the outcomes here.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Well, in my opinion, yeah, I'm not an expert by
any means and any political discussion, but it is there
are people who their politics is their religion. And you've
talked about I think you talked about yesterday or the
day before about the religion of certain people being a
lack of faith in other institutions, right, and following either
(16:30):
a climate agenda or a political agenda, and they ignore
everything else, and they'll make excuses for everything that people
normal rational. I consider myself somewhat rational. I consider you
somewhat rational. Somewhat that we just get out numbered by
the irrational people who have Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Mean I'm not I'm not a religious person, but I
do know that there's a basic desire in people to
believe in if not, if not a religious philosophy, it
seems a political philosop Like humans get attracted to that
and they invest emotionally very deeply. And instead of church,
now they invest in political parties or candidates or these
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weird progressive movements which are very religious like in their
intensity and their dogma right exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
And if you say anything slightly contradictory, I mean people
will You can lose friends over it, and people who
normally see what somewhat rast So you start talking about
some type of political issue like that and they'll catch trump.
You can't even talk about I mean, it's you have
to kind of like give out.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Can we talk about we talk?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Oh, okay, okay, that's good, okay, because some people are triggered
by those things.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
No.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I told the story once on the air, but there's Uh,
I'm on the West Side, which is almost entirely like uh,
you know, progressive democratic, and my kids went to a
private school, so it's even more so there. And we're
at some cocktail party, I think as a fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
They wanted money to build something.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
And I'm standing just minding my own business, and you know,
they all parents. They know who I am, so they
know what kind of nonsense we discussed on the radio.
And one guy who I barely knew, he comes up
to me and he starts looking around to the left
and to the right and up and down he goes,
and he's whispering, can I tell you something? And I'm thinking,
is this guy coming out of the closet for me?
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I mean, that's the way he was acting like he's
got this, this terribly embarrassing secret he wants to share.
And it was about the time of the first Trump election,
and I go, oh, go ahead, and he goes, I
think I'm going to vote for Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I think I like the guy.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
But he's so nervous, he's like shaking, he's drinking. I said, well,
it's okay, you can confess to me. I didn't tell anybody.
He goes, I just wanted to tell somebody. And that's
that is the way people are so spooked and afraid to,
you know, express himself.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Absolutely, I've had I've had several friends, even just beyond Trump.
I have one particular friend who called me and asked me,
can I ask your opinion about the vaccine because it
was dogma. You line up and you get it. And
I my personal opinion is, I don't care. Do what
you want to do, whatever makes you happy, if you're happy,
(19:19):
if you have. My biggest thing, especially as an attorney,
we as the people. Your job, the government's job, is
to give us all the information and give us actual
facts and the real information, not your lies, not your
talking points.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Give us all the facts and let us make the
discuss what it does, tell us what the risks are.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Exactly right, and don't lie about it, and let and
let the individual make their.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No forced mandate or you lose your job.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Correct. And that's where and that's kind of where we
were at that point in time. And it was because
you know, we got really sick with this vaccine and
I don't know if I want to do it again,
but it's it is. It's very much like can I
talk that hush under the Can I talk to you
away from everybody else?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
We're really timid. Yeah, all right, hang on, See this
is easy, is it?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You're very good at what you do. It's like you've
been doing a long time. There's nothing else I can't.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Josh Moody is with us and he won the contest
to help co host the show pastathon winner from last fall,
and we'll continue with him coming up.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
We continue here with Joshua Moody pastathon winner, and he
donated the well, he bid the high bid to win
the prize, and the prize is sitting here better than
anything on eBay. So thank you again, thank you for
having me and his wife who's a prosecutor. And I
(20:44):
want to pronounce your name right, So Joshua helped me
pronounce your name right.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Mari Mariy instead of Marry. It's Mariy, Mariy. It's Danish.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And Mari.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You're a prosecutor in San Bernardino County. Yeah, just talking
to the microphone, it's.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And what kind of crimes you prosecute?
Speaker 6 (21:06):
All types?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
All types, I mean really vicious guys. Yeah, some people.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Okay, so I want to know you're getting bad guys
off the streets. Now we are all right, you win, right, yes, okay,
we didn't not losing prosecutors.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
We want somebody wins all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
So okay, he's definitely the one who wins. You're cleaning
up San Bernardino County. That's excellent. All right, here's let's
let's talk about this. You know, well, you talked about
the taxes, right, Oh, yeah, we've heard of taxes in California. Okay,
so twelve years ago, is it twelve years ago? Actually
(21:42):
fourteen years ago. Jerry Brown's last budget, or his first
budget fourteen years ago, was ninety eight billion dollars in
the state. Newsome last year three hundred and thirty billion.
And we're getting a lot for our money. Yeah, so
they've more than tripled the span. The taxes are the
highest in the country when it comes to sales taxes,
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income taxes, gas taxes, and even though property taxes are
not among the highest in the country, the revenue is
because of you know, the expensive property.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I love that speaking point too well. Prop there's teen
stops as from getting more, Yeah, beach front property in
southern California. Complaining you're not getting enough taxes.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Come on right where your budget is triple what it
was fourteen years ago. Prop thirteen isn't stopping anything. Well,
he they were twenty seven billion dollars in debt, they
cut eleven, they took seven from the rainy Day fund,
and now they found that they're twelve billion dollars extra
(22:47):
in debt that they hadn't counted on. Do you know
what the number twelve billion?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And you know what that.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Matches, probably the exact amount that they were spending on
something they shouldn't be spending on money.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You win again, you are a winner.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yes, illegal alien healthcare is twelve billion dollars and the
budget deficit is twelve billion that they're telling us that
they're admitting to it at the moment.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So, Ed, there's no other state that pays for illegal
alien health care, and we pay for it from cradle
to grave, and which attracts more illegal aliens. Now that's
probably something you've seen over the years to increase in
the immigration. Oh yeah, And so here's these radical ideas.
He wants to hold down the deficit. He's going to
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freeze new enrollment. Everybody who's in the state still gets
free medical care.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
So let's get this straight.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
The new administrations pretty much stop people from coming in
here illegally.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, right, exactly, So this is a good time to
freeze because they're not going to be here anymore. And
then if you're over eighteen, you have to pay one
hundred dollars monthly premium. For one hundred dollars you get
full government healthcare coverage.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I don't think our premium is one hundred dollars a month. No,
I mean, isn't that infuriate as yours? I don't think
yours is.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
No, No, No, we got a pretty good deal because
we got we got a union.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
But it's still that it's not accurate.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
No, So you and I and your wife we have
to pay much higher monthly premiums and we have to
pay the highest taxes in the country in order to
provide free health care for legal aliens.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Right and again, ten years ago or fourteen years ago,
even before Obamacare, is your insurance getting that much better?
Our insurance? The premiums were not that high fourteen years ago. No,
that we're paying No, I know they mine doubled in
the last few years. Right, So where's all this success?
Where's all this and where's all this money go?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Why?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
How did the budget triple? Or is it triple or
more than triple?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, it's ninety eight billion to three hundred and thirty billion.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Yes, And what do we get? What do we get
for it? Like, do we have faster traffic lanes? Do
we have better premiums?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Do we have Well? Didn't you get a ride on
the high speed rail?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
No, no? Did make it to Apple Valley? Didn't make
it Toaple Valley, made a San Fernando Valley got it
goes so fast nobody can see it. Yeah, well they
got the what's that trolley?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Not trolley, but the yellow line or something. It takes
you about two hours to get from what's yeah, what's
that line? The electric railroad?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
The I don't know you got you got some secret
railroad out in Apple Valley.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I know because it's in Pasadena. It's in Pasadena, I
don't know, and it's.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Supposed to it takes you to downtown lay a light rail.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
That's the light rail, right, Okay, you know, I don't
know anybody takes the light rail there. I don't get
on mass transit.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I see homeless, you know, every day, A stop.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
At a bagel shop in Wilshire Boulevard and I see
who's sitting in the buses. It's like, I'm not getting
on that right all right. Deborah Mark is live in
the Can't Fight twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am six.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We continue now, and the Big Hour is coming up
in just a few minutes. All warmed up and ready
to go. We got Josh Moody on. He's an attorney
who was the pastathon winner. He had the high bid
five six thousand dollars, he did, and he wis a
shot to help the.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Co host here all warmed up? All right, here's one
quick story before we go. There were you paying attention?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
No, I am?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I know you're all drugged up.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
And I am I have a cough drop in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Not the same drugs that cassievent terran.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah, oh god. Now I'm not interested in freak off
or baby oil.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
A thousand bottles of baby oil.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
That's I can't. I don't know that. Usually I can
put up with almost anything. That trial just grosses me out.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I can't. I can't even read about it. All right.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yesterday though, we had the story about the birds exploding
up in the Bay.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Area, and we wanted to see video of that.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I did.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
They were stayed with the birds would land on the
power line. You hear about the story, and I did
not know birds would land on the power.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Line and then explode. You'd hear a pop. Where's this that?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
This is in Richmond, northeast of San Francisco. Okay, all right?
And so they thought maybe the uh, the power lines
weren't coated properly, weren't protected properly, right, there was too
much of an electric charge, and birds were just overheating
and exploding. In fact, they found thirteen birds in neighborhood yards,
(27:34):
or you know, the remains of thirteen birds, a morning dove,
a European starling.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
So these these are pretty birds, right.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
You're a bird leverage.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Well it did upset me because it would be it
says here, a loud pop.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
In fact, one resident their doorbell camera, the ring camera
got footage of the bird falling after the pop, and
so they land and they just quit explode. It's really violent,
according to one resident. So the Department of Fish and
Wildlife investigated, so did PG And there's PGN again on
(28:11):
the case. Yeah, they kill a lot of people. They're
good at it. They kill them by the hundreds of
PG and A and they kill birds. Well, it turns
out an amazing twist of the story, the birds were
not electrocuted. Some creep in the neighborhood is firing either
a pellet gun or a BB gun or a slingshot.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You so serious, yes.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
And nobody caught that on ring camera.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
No, you can't see you know, what's hitting the bird
or where it's coming from. And now the department is
getting photos of birds at all over that location. And
there's some somebody's somebody's creepy teenage.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Son, and well, well you know what I'm going to say.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
No, what.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
I'm going to say that when we find this person.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yes, oh oh, this is Deborah's Yes, yes.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Then we need to do the same to that person.
That person needs to explode.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Fire enough shots at them until they you know.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I'm sick and tired of people abusing animals. I'm serious.
Something needs to be done.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
The birds are leaving San Francisco because there's nothing worth
pooping on there.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Oh well yeah, Deborah's punishment recommendations are usually extreme, but
I agree with you here.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I go for her.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah all right, yeah, you could be the new attorney general.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
I poe.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, all right, we come back. It's uh Josh Boody
and he's the attorney who's won the prize Katerina's Club,
the auction he had the high bid for the pastathon
we did last fall, and uh, we'll see what he wants.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
To talk about when we return. Uh, and where did
Deborrah go.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Yeah, I was coughing.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Oh thought somebody took a baby shot.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Somebody thinks my voice sounds very sexy and wants to
know what's you know, what's happening?
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I have a cold, I think, yeah, or allergy.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
It does make it sound more more seductive.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
I think, yeah, I know, but it's hard to talk,
and since I talk for a living, it kind of stucks.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
It's like i'ming a different person in that, but people
seem to like it, so I don't know what that's
one person? Yeah, all right, well there's always one odd ball.
Deboraharc Is live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
(30:37):
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Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one until four after four o'clock.
John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. Let's
get Tony Strickland on State Senator from Huntington Beach. Newsom
released a new version of the budget, and Strickland has
a lot to say about that. Tony, welcome, How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
What is this new budget about that he's got? Because
I'm looking at a headline where Newsom says there's another
twelve billion dollars missing, but all the money he's given
to illegal alien healthcare is about twelve billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So I think there's a connection there.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You tell me, yeah, No, California doesn't have a revenue problem.
It has a wasteful spending problem. The governor just again,
you said it before I came on. He wants to
blame everybody. Only in politics, can you do a bad
job and try to blame everybody else. He blamed the
homeless situation on local cities andies. Now he's trying to
(01:01):
blame the budget on the federal government. He just needs
to look in the mirror and look at the watfil spending.
He put another billion dollars into the high speed rail.
This is a project that everybody knows is never going
to be built as proposed. He's wasting billions of dollars
on healthcare for our legals and his new proposed boat budget.
(01:23):
He now is spending over five billion to do that.
And you know he has this slush fund of fifty
million dollars to the Attorney General Bonta to quote unquote
trump proof to do furtherous lawsuits that he knows are
going to lose in federal court. But the one thing
he didn't John fund is Proposition thirty six. This is
(01:43):
an initiative that passed seventy percent of the vote in
all fifty eight counties across the state of California voted
to sill with this initiative. Public safety should be the
number one thing that we should fund. The most central
role of government is public safety. And he has yet
to fund an initiative. I can't think of many initiatives
the past. All fifty eight counties, even though those liberal
(02:04):
counties San Francisco and Marin voted an affirmative of top
thirty six.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Right, and as makes theft a crime again, makes drug
addiction a crime again in a public.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Correct use, and gives people the.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Choice of either going to jail or going to get
treatment for their drug problems. But you need money to
provide the treatment.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Right exactly, And so he's not funding that. And then
let's talk about a homeless again.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I have a unique.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Perspective, as you know, John, I served in the legislature
in twenty twelve. That budget ten years ago, a little
over ten years ago, was ninety eight billion. Now it's
over three hundred billion dollars. In fact, we've increased the
government spending triple in the last ten years, and population
has gone away from California. We don't have triple the
(02:52):
better services. In fact, things are worse than ever before.
Crime is on the rise, homelessness is everywhere, and we
have a crumbling infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Dollars is the money just getting stolen? Because I'm starting
to think, like you know, between the.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Non topics, go ahead, go ahead, No, I'm sorry, sir,
go ahead no.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
The nonprofit homeless industry, I think are a bunch of thieves.
I think all the people connected high speed rail are
a bunch of thieves. You know, the billions were stolen
for during COVID, for the unemployment funds and now this
homeless thing. I mean, Michael Schellenberger said he thinks up
to thirty seven billion that Newsom has spent since twenty nineteen.
(03:34):
It's just got to be politically connected parasites and thieves
that have taken the money and not produced anything of
any good for anyone.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well, I couldn't agree with you more. And my dad
always taught me, if you dig a hole for yourself,
the best way you got that hole, stop digging. Stop.
We've seen billions of dollars and at the same time,
John he keeps increasing every single year for the last
four years, he's increased the gas tax and the projection
now is next year the gas prices could be eight
dollars a gallon. You know, this is a governor when
(04:07):
Prop thirty six is not funded, when he continues to
you know, hurt people at the pomp, the people who
least can afford it, who are living paycheck to paycheck.
This fall is just be portioningly on those hardworking California families.
This legislature and this governor are so out of touch
with everyday citizens across the state.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So we got two listeners, send us photographic proof they're
paying two dollars and thirty six cents a gallon for
gas in Oklahoma two thirty six and here it's an
average of five bucks headed to eight eight fifty and beyond.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Is there anything any of.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Us can do to stop this, because this is really psycho.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Stop sending these people who are there who are voting
for this stuff. And I do believe people are starting
to wake up here in the state of California, the
mismanagement of the fires in southern California. I do think
people are starting to wake up. With a billion dollars
are wasteful spending, John, this is the first time in
California history since the gold Rush, more people are leaving
(05:06):
California than are coming in since the gold Rush. People
are leaving the oasis and the beautiful weather. We have
go to the middle of the desert in Arizona, to
go to the humidity in Florida, go to the cold
weather in Idaho, all because the policies of Gavin Dusom
and the super Majority. I do believe people are waking up.
When Top thirty six gets seventy percent of the vote
(05:28):
and fifty eight counties zone the affirmative. I think people
are waking up to the mismanagement, and I'm hopeful that
we turn the state around and make it golden again.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Did you hear his his rant today at a press conference.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I did? Is pathetic. I mean, again, here's a guy
that isn't Governor John. I've started with four other governors
and this is the most detached governor I've ever seen.
He doesn't weigh in on any of these issues. He really,
really really wants to be president of the United States,
but he's not, and he's worried about running for president
instead of being governor and doing the job that people
(06:02):
elected them to do.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I We're going to play play the whole clip in
the next segment because I want to go through the
whole thing lined by line.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I mean, he's he's losing it, He's losing touch.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He's almost like the Marie Antoinette. Let him eat cake.
He just doesn't He just doesn't understand what average hard
working families across the state are living through. You gotta
again just look at the gas crisis.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
How does a how does like a working class family
deal with eight nine dollars a gallon gas.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
That's not possible.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You can't do it. How do you how do you?
How do you vote for these folks who who are
increasing the gas to this price where they just can't
afford it, and they they're living paycheck to paycheck. He said,
keep putting these people in office.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
He says in this clip that we're going to play.
How do these people keep getting re elected? They're all
his party. We have one party rule.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Party. And these mandate, these mandates to eliminate gas power
cars is ridiculous, These ev mandates that they're pushing down.
Uh not everybody can afford a fifty thousand dollars car.
One and two. The worst thing you could do in California, John,
is everybody plug at an electric car. At the same time,
we don't have enough energy to do that. We have
(07:21):
really blackouts like we had in the early two thousands.
We just don't have enough power supply, We don't have
enough infrastructure. And they're they're you know, these people who
are doing this in the legislature, they're driving cars into
the legislature, but they're trying to outlock cars for everybody else.
It's almost like what we had in terms of the shutdown. Uh,
(07:42):
you know with Gavin Newsom went the French laundry and
had dinner, but he didn't want anybody else that have
to go to dinner. His kids got to go in
person school, but he didn't want anybody else to do so.
So these these members, these legislators are all driving cars,
but they want to outlock cars for everybody else.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Tony Strickland, thank you for coming on, California State Senator
out of Huntington Beach. We will talk again soon.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 3 (08:11):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
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Speaker 2 (08:16):
You can listen to what you missed.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Join the millions of people in fifty five countries around
the world, all fifty states. We have people listening. I
don't want to make you nervous. I thought I would like, really,
we have Josh Moody here. He's the Pastathon winner from
last fall. He and his wife Mariy. Josh is an attorney,
Maury is a prosecutor, and Josh was the winner, and
(08:39):
this is the prize. You get to co host the show.
It'll be with us for the rest of the program.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Amazing, Thank you, Thank you for having me. Can't believe
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Our moistline for Friday. You want to complain eight seven
seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven Moist eighty six,
or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. All right, Josh,
so who are you now? First of all, you don't
a lot of money, like at least five six thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You don't even remember. I don't want to bracket, no,
I know, but it's you know, it's for it's for
the chill. It's yeah, it's for charity.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
And I was telling you before I never win anything, right,
I'm one of those guys. I just and I put
it in and the.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Next morning, you see, this is different. This is not
like a lottery. This is you got to anty up
the cash.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, you out did every last year the winner was
an attorney as well.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So something about that. There's some personality type.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Your audience key demo seems to be, you know this
middle aged guys who want to complain about everything.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
That's right, that well, homeless people, drugs, it's those two.
So in fact, we met you said in Apple Valley
years ago where you have your office.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
My office is there now. Back then it didn't exist.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
You were and Ken were doing a recall on somebody,
and I was telling you I couldn't remember his name.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, I remember, I remember the event and the kind
of guy.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
It was very hot middles I think it was July,
middle of summer whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's the only time I was in Apple Valley and
it seemed like it was about one hundred and seventeen.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Degrees in a hot parking lot.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And whoever was on our staff then who's no longer here.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
They oriented the tent so that the setting sun was
blasting into our face the entire afternoon.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And it's one of those parking lots that's just nothing
but asphalt, like Dot one, I mean like one hundred
and fifty two degrees coming up right. So my office
is there now, but it was. The building wasn't there
back then, But you did. You did show up. I
did show up, and you're trying to put or not
you but your staff is trying to put bumper stickers
on people's cars and I'm I have I dried mustangs?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh not, but you get into the little shop one
of our staff members.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, I was like, no bumper stickers. I just don't
mess with my car.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Wait, they were just putting the stickers on without asking.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
No, I think you had to get, but you had
to park. So it was you know, it was like
one way in one wall.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We had a lot of questionable people working here back then.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Yeah, in Apple Valley, we're not used to that kind
of yeah business coming.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
So what Obviously, if you're listening to this show and
KFI and you bid the money to come on, there
must be a lot of stuff that gets you crazy.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Yeah, well it's I was talking to Raise, like, well,
what do you want to talk about? I was like, well,
whatever John talks about, because I usually just listen and
I yell at the radio.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Listening.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
So that's the way we could do the next two
hours if you want. Yeah, you could react to whatever,
because we're going to basically rig of the show here
and just you get to chime in as much as
you want.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Yeah, that's great. Just in my car, I get to
say whatever I want. And on radio there's like seven
words you can't say.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Well, I know, well, Freddy just used three of them,
Freddy Escobar, so we have four last Well, no, I
mean generally, what gets you shouting the loudest traffic taxes?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Yeah, I have a list of complaints and traffic's on
there about ten times.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
This is really we're kind of talking.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
This is our first time on this side of the
city since COVID, really since COVID really starts.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's twenty twenty, and traffic is just worse than one.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
It's nearly impossible to go from west to east absolutely
or east to west because I haven't seen a Dodger
game this year, primarily because it can take two to
three hours from the time I leave the house until
I get in the seat yep, and it's like forty minutes.
What you approach the parking lot, right, it's about forty
(12:25):
minutes to get in and then park and.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
You think you think you've made it because you're getting
off the freeway, and then it's just another it's another
thirty minutes, and you're like what And then on top
of a bottlehead night, then yeah, did you grow up here? Yeah,
for the most part, I grew up in southern California,
out in Glendora.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So what how old are you? Roughly I'm forty seven.
Forty seven, Oh you look forty six. I think you're
doing well. What's changed since you were a kid here?
You know, sometimes it's hard to explain to people. I
remember California just ten years ago being drastically different than
it is now. Now, what have you seen over forty
six years? I only go back like thirty three, but
(13:04):
you go back forty six?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
What what? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Well, I go, yeah, I've that's started listening to you.
And I was in junior high so yeah, fright didn't
say no.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's but my dad The math is the math with
my dad in the car.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
But I asked this question of people all the time,
especially you know the blue No matter who people, if
you lived here twenty years ago, just ask yourself, this
was the homeless problem as bad back then it is now.
And there's not one person who says, oh it was
it's always been this bad.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
No, it's it's so homeless.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
The homeless problem has just blown up the last ten
to fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, I'd say the first twenty years we did our
show out here, I don't think it ever came up
as a topic ever.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Never, it was never.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
It became a problem with leadership who told us there
was a problem, and now now there's an actual problem.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Well now there's an industry, right yeahh yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
And and at traffic too, I mean, you could get
from the Inland Empire to downtown and forty five minutes
to an hour, and it's just it's it's exponentially. Everything
is just moving so much faster and maybe devolving so much,
definitely devolving.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yes, no, there's there's not a lot of forward movement.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
No, we're you know, we're you know, you've talked about
plenty of that's high speed trained and nowhere, and that
was supposed to aleviate all the problems, and nothing's happened, right,
I mean, and so.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
What's changed?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
A lot is one A lot less empty lots, a
lot less dirt. I mean, look around. You know, there
used to be somewhat farms. Used to go out to Chino,
there'd be farms. It's all apartments and industrial buildings now
and there's just so many more people and without the
infrastructure to keep up with it. And if you do
just kind of think that, you know, in the year
(14:50):
two thousand, yeah, you could walk the streets and you
wouldn't be accosted by homeless people, or you will.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
And I remember I talk about it all the time.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We used to go downtown all the time to go
to the theater down there, you know, the Mark Taper,
the Dorothy.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Chandler or I don't even know what they call that theater.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Now they change, you know, the want to go all
the time back then, and now she won't cross the
four or five.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yeah, we have those same problems too. It's when you
when you set your your I don't know your life
or your or your extracurricular activities, and you say, well,
I don't want to put up with the traffic or
I don't want to put up with the people, so
I'm going to avoid doing something fun.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah you got a problem.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, you go two hours in traffic and your reward
is you had eight homeless people surrounding your car when
you finally get a parking space, if you can get
a parking space, right, yeah, and it's it's completely unlivable.
Why do you think because I've got people out where
you live vote differently right right.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Where all people who came here grew up here.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yeah, and said I've had enough of this and you
move out to the suburbs.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Why do you think they vote the way they vote,
considering almost everybody I know is on with the result
something something disconnected along the line where people aren't connecting
their votes to the outcomes here.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Well, in my opinion, yeah, I'm not an expert by
any means and any political discussion, but it is there
are people who their politics is their religion. And you've
talked about I think you talked about yesterday or the
day before about the religion of certain people being a
lack of faith in other institutions, right, and following either
(16:30):
a climate agenda or a political agenda, and they ignore
everything else, and they'll make excuses for everything that people
normal rational. I consider myself somewhat rational. I consider you
somewhat rational. Somewhat that we just get out numbered by
the irrational people who have Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Mean I'm not I'm not a religious person, but I
do know that there's a basic desire in people to
believe in if not, if not a religious philosophy, it
seems a political philosop Like humans get attracted to that
and they invest emotionally very deeply. And instead of church,
now they invest in political parties or candidates or these
(17:10):
weird progressive movements which are very religious like in their
intensity and their dogma right exactly.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
And if you say anything slightly contradictory, I mean people
will You can lose friends over it, and people who
normally see what somewhat rast So you start talking about
some type of political issue like that and they'll catch trump.
You can't even talk about I mean, it's you have
to kind of like give out.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Can we talk about we talk?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Oh, okay, okay, that's good, okay, because some people are triggered
by those things.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
No.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I told the story once on the air, but there's Uh,
I'm on the West Side, which is almost entirely like uh,
you know, progressive democratic, and my kids went to a
private school, so it's even more so there. And we're
at some cocktail party, I think as a fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
They wanted money to build something.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
And I'm standing just minding my own business, and you know,
they all parents. They know who I am, so they
know what kind of nonsense we discussed on the radio.
And one guy who I barely knew, he comes up
to me and he starts looking around to the left
and to the right and up and down he goes,
and he's whispering, can I tell you something? And I'm thinking,
is this guy coming out of the closet for me?
(18:25):
I mean, that's the way he was acting like he's
got this, this terribly embarrassing secret he wants to share.
And it was about the time of the first Trump election,
and I go, oh, go ahead, and he goes, I
think I'm going to vote for Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I think I like the guy.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
But he's so nervous, he's like shaking, he's drinking. I said, well,
it's okay, you can confess to me. I didn't tell anybody.
He goes, I just wanted to tell somebody. And that's
that is the way people are so spooked and afraid to,
you know, express himself.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Absolutely, I've had I've had several friends, even just beyond Trump.
I have one particular friend who called me and asked me,
can I ask your opinion about the vaccine because it
was dogma. You line up and you get it. And
I my personal opinion is, I don't care. Do what
you want to do, whatever makes you happy, if you're happy,
(19:19):
if you have. My biggest thing, especially as an attorney,
we as the people. Your job, the government's job, is
to give us all the information and give us actual
facts and the real information, not your lies, not your
talking points.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Give us all the facts and let us make the
discuss what it does, tell us what the risks are.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Exactly right, and don't lie about it, and let and
let the individual make their.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No forced mandate or you lose your job.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Correct. And that's where and that's kind of where we
were at that point in time. And it was because
you know, we got really sick with this vaccine and
I don't know if I want to do it again,
but it's it is. It's very much like can I
talk that hush under the Can I talk to you
away from everybody else?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
We're really timid. Yeah, all right, hang on, See this
is easy, is it?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You're very good at what you do. It's like you've
been doing a long time. There's nothing else I can't.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Josh Moody is with us and he won the contest
to help co host the show pastathon winner from last fall,
and we'll continue with him coming up.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
We continue here with Joshua Moody pastathon winner, and he
donated the well, he bid the high bid to win
the prize, and the prize is sitting here better than
anything on eBay. So thank you again, thank you for
having me and his wife who's a prosecutor. And I
(20:44):
want to pronounce your name right, So Joshua helped me
pronounce your name right.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Mari Mariy instead of Marry. It's Mariy, Mariy. It's Danish.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And Mari.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You're a prosecutor in San Bernardino County. Yeah, just talking
to the microphone, it's.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And what kind of crimes you prosecute?
Speaker 6 (21:06):
All types?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
All types, I mean really vicious guys. Yeah, some people.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Okay, so I want to know you're getting bad guys
off the streets. Now we are all right, you win, right, yes, okay,
we didn't not losing prosecutors.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
We want somebody wins all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
So okay, he's definitely the one who wins. You're cleaning
up San Bernardino County. That's excellent. All right, here's let's
let's talk about this. You know, well, you talked about
the taxes, right, Oh, yeah, we've heard of taxes in California. Okay,
so twelve years ago, is it twelve years ago? Actually
(21:42):
fourteen years ago. Jerry Brown's last budget, or his first
budget fourteen years ago, was ninety eight billion dollars in
the state. Newsome last year three hundred and thirty billion.
And we're getting a lot for our money. Yeah, so
they've more than tripled the span. The taxes are the
highest in the country when it comes to sales taxes,
(22:05):
income taxes, gas taxes, and even though property taxes are
not among the highest in the country, the revenue is
because of you know, the expensive property.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I love that speaking point too well. Prop there's teen
stops as from getting more, Yeah, beach front property in
southern California. Complaining you're not getting enough taxes.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Come on right where your budget is triple what it
was fourteen years ago. Prop thirteen isn't stopping anything. Well,
he they were twenty seven billion dollars in debt, they
cut eleven, they took seven from the rainy Day fund,
and now they found that they're twelve billion dollars extra
(22:47):
in debt that they hadn't counted on. Do you know
what the number twelve billion?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And you know what that.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Matches, probably the exact amount that they were spending on
something they shouldn't be spending on money.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You win again, you are a winner.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yes, illegal alien healthcare is twelve billion dollars and the
budget deficit is twelve billion that they're telling us that
they're admitting to it at the moment.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So, Ed, there's no other state that pays for illegal
alien health care, and we pay for it from cradle
to grave, and which attracts more illegal aliens. Now that's
probably something you've seen over the years to increase in
the immigration. Oh yeah, And so here's these radical ideas.
He wants to hold down the deficit. He's going to
(23:33):
freeze new enrollment. Everybody who's in the state still gets
free medical care.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
So let's get this straight.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
The new administrations pretty much stop people from coming in
here illegally.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, right, exactly, So this is a good time to
freeze because they're not going to be here anymore. And
then if you're over eighteen, you have to pay one
hundred dollars monthly premium. For one hundred dollars you get
full government healthcare coverage.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I don't think our premium is one hundred dollars a month. No,
I mean, isn't that infuriate as yours? I don't think
yours is.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
No, No, No, we got a pretty good deal because
we got we got a union.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
But it's still that it's not accurate.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
No, So you and I and your wife we have
to pay much higher monthly premiums and we have to
pay the highest taxes in the country in order to
provide free health care for legal aliens.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Right and again, ten years ago or fourteen years ago,
even before Obamacare, is your insurance getting that much better?
Our insurance? The premiums were not that high fourteen years ago. No,
that we're paying No, I know they mine doubled in
the last few years. Right, So where's all this success?
Where's all this and where's all this money go?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Why?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
How did the budget triple? Or is it triple or
more than triple?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, it's ninety eight billion to three hundred and thirty billion.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Yes, And what do we get? What do we get
for it? Like, do we have faster traffic lanes? Do
we have better premiums?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Do we have Well? Didn't you get a ride on
the high speed rail?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
No, no? Did make it to Apple Valley? Didn't make
it Toaple Valley, made a San Fernando Valley got it
goes so fast nobody can see it. Yeah, well they
got the what's that trolley?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Not trolley, but the yellow line or something. It takes
you about two hours to get from what's yeah, what's
that line? The electric railroad?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
The I don't know you got you got some secret
railroad out in Apple Valley.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I know because it's in Pasadena. It's in Pasadena, I
don't know, and it's.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Supposed to it takes you to downtown lay a light rail.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
That's the light rail, right, Okay, you know, I don't
know anybody takes the light rail there. I don't get
on mass transit.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I see homeless, you know, every day, A stop.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
At a bagel shop in Wilshire Boulevard and I see
who's sitting in the buses. It's like, I'm not getting
on that right all right. Deborah Mark is live in
the Can't Fight twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am six.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We continue now, and the Big Hour is coming up
in just a few minutes. All warmed up and ready
to go. We got Josh Moody on. He's an attorney
who was the pastathon winner. He had the high bid
five six thousand dollars, he did, and he wis a
shot to help the.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Co host here all warmed up? All right, here's one
quick story before we go. There were you paying attention?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
No, I am?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I know you're all drugged up.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
And I am I have a cough drop in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Not the same drugs that cassievent terran.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah, oh god. Now I'm not interested in freak off
or baby oil.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
A thousand bottles of baby oil.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
That's I can't. I don't know that. Usually I can
put up with almost anything. That trial just grosses me out.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I can't. I can't even read about it. All right.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yesterday though, we had the story about the birds exploding
up in the Bay.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Area, and we wanted to see video of that.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I did.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
They were stayed with the birds would land on the
power line. You hear about the story, and I did
not know birds would land on the power.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Line and then explode. You'd hear a pop. Where's this that?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
This is in Richmond, northeast of San Francisco. Okay, all right?
And so they thought maybe the uh, the power lines
weren't coated properly, weren't protected properly, right, there was too
much of an electric charge, and birds were just overheating
and exploding. In fact, they found thirteen birds in neighborhood yards,
(27:34):
or you know, the remains of thirteen birds, a morning dove,
a European starling.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
So these these are pretty birds, right.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
You're a bird leverage.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Well it did upset me because it would be it
says here, a loud pop.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
In fact, one resident their doorbell camera, the ring camera
got footage of the bird falling after the pop, and
so they land and they just quit explode. It's really violent,
according to one resident. So the Department of Fish and
Wildlife investigated, so did PG And there's PGN again on
(28:11):
the case. Yeah, they kill a lot of people. They're
good at it. They kill them by the hundreds of
PG and A and they kill birds. Well, it turns
out an amazing twist of the story, the birds were
not electrocuted. Some creep in the neighborhood is firing either
a pellet gun or a BB gun or a slingshot.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You so serious, yes.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
And nobody caught that on ring camera.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
No, you can't see you know, what's hitting the bird
or where it's coming from. And now the department is
getting photos of birds at all over that location. And
there's some somebody's somebody's creepy teenage.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Son, and well, well you know what I'm going to say.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
No, what.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
I'm going to say that when we find this person.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yes, oh oh, this is Deborah's Yes, yes.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Then we need to do the same to that person.
That person needs to explode.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Fire enough shots at them until they you know.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I'm sick and tired of people abusing animals. I'm serious.
Something needs to be done.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
The birds are leaving San Francisco because there's nothing worth
pooping on there.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Oh well yeah, Deborah's punishment recommendations are usually extreme, but
I agree with you here.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I go for her.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah all right, yeah, you could be the new attorney general.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
I poe.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, all right, we come back. It's uh Josh Boody
and he's the attorney who's won the prize Katerina's Club,
the auction he had the high bid for the pastathon
we did last fall, and uh, we'll see what he wants.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
To talk about when we return. Uh, and where did
Deborrah go.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Yeah, I was coughing.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Oh thought somebody took a baby shot.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Somebody thinks my voice sounds very sexy and wants to
know what's you know, what's happening?
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I have a cold, I think, yeah, or allergy.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
It does make it sound more more seductive.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
I think, yeah, I know, but it's hard to talk,
and since I talk for a living, it kind of stucks.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
It's like i'ming a different person in that, but people
seem to like it, so I don't know what that's
one person? Yeah, all right, well there's always one odd ball.
Deboraharc Is live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
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