November 4, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (11/04) - Why is California's insurance industry a mess? Laura Ingle from News Nation comes on the show to talk about the NYC mayoral election. Helicopter parents are showing up to college with their kids and are not leaving.
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Two thirty, we're gonna Laura Anglan from a news nation.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We're gonna talk with her about the New York City
mayors raise zorn mom Dommy against former Governor Andrew Cuomo
and that odd Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. And mom Dommy
is a full out, unapologetic, unrepented communist or what's the
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new term called the Democratic Socialist of America Party DSA.
We have quite a few of those here in Los Angeles.
It is the new age of communism, new age of
hard socialism's and young people are going for it. And
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I was thinking a lot about this today. I was
talking last hour about how people complain about Trump and
people complain about billionaires. They're angry with the billionaires. They
should have their money taken away, you know, with excessive taxation.
And I was thinking, I said before, it's the losers
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in life. And there's a lot of young people. This
is a very soft generation. This is not the World
War two generation. Boy, this is the exact opposite. They
are soft, they are afraid of competition, they're not self motivated.
They are whiny, and life is more difficult than they
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were promised when mommy and daddy were handing out trophies
to them when they were six years old just for
showing up at soccer practice, and they had no idea
how tough.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The world is.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And really, I'm kind of disgusted by the whole crowd.
I'm really disgusted about all the complaints I read.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, this is unfair. Capitalism is bad.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
First of all, it's clear that they do not teach
civics or history at all at school. They have spent
the last twenty years teaching climate change and alternate genders.
I know this firsthand. And instead of alternate genders and
climate change, they should have been teaching like the history
of successful economies and the history of failed economies, and
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the history of failed economies starts with socialism and communism.
And that's what these young people want because they can't
compete and they're soft. And it's the coddling which reminds me.
Before the end of the hour, I got to read
you this story. I think this is in the Wall
Street Journal. Helicopter parents have hit the colleges.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh help. They're showing up with their kids and they're
not leaving.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But I can't. I don't understand how the college kids
would allow that. My kids would never I mean, I
didn't do that, but they would never. Never let me
do that.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
There's one really funny story about what one college student
did when her mother followed her and got an apartment
across the street. But I want to we'll do that
later later in the hour. All right, I was telling
you at the end of the last hour. You may
wonder why the insurance market is so screwed up. It's
because we have an insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, who, as
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you know, the kg O up in San Francisco, did
a ten minute report on this. He has spent much
of the last six years flying around the world, spending
tax money on elaborate vacation trips. And it has to
do with the insurance.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Going on a safari in Africa.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, going to a gay pride parade in New
York for a week.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
What was the name at DJ he was he was visiting. Uh,
it was something with.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
A cat kiddie, I eric, probably not, Yeah, but it's
spending our money. Spending there weren't Some of them were conferences,
like for a day or two, and then he'd spend
a week, spent tens of thousands of dollars, brought a
whole security honorage with him. And you know, it's the
only time I heard about Ricardo Lara. And again we
call him cal fart Lara because he he wrote legislation
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when he was in the legislature that would have mandated
every cow where this bulky device on their back and
it would have a hose attached to their anus, and
when the cow farted, they would capture the methane out
of the cow's anus and keep it from entering the atmosphere.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I'm not making this up. That's how he got cal
Fart Lara.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And then, astonishingly, instead of being taken and locked up
in a mena the institution.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
He was given the role of insurance commissioner.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
All right, this guy's got the IQ of a vegetable
and not a ripe vegetable either, And so he's had
this job for six years and the insurance industry is
completely god to hell. Thousands of people in the public
are getting screwed. You might have gotten screwed. And then
New York Times finally did a story on this. California
promised insurance relief but delivered loopholes.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, there was a massive rewrite.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Of insurance regulations last year, of course, was not covered.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And who oversaw the rewrite cal fart Lara and Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Now you rubbed those two brains together, and I don't
think you're topping more than one twenty five in IQ.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And what they did backfired.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It was supposed to guarantee that insurers were going to
write a high percentage of policies in a fire strict area,
and instead the opposite happened. There were so many loopholes
written into it that the insurers were able to drop
thousands and thousands of policies. And that's why all the
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people in the Palisades who got their policies canceled right
before the new year, had nothing, had nothing covering them,
or had to go to the Fair Plan, which covers
a fraction of their housework. This is why it happened.
It was Newsom and Lara, all right, So I explain this,
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I can't. I am going to boil this down to
this simplistic, as simplistic as possible, so it sounds good
on the radio and so that you understand it. But
this thing was how many pages? This thing was twelve
pages long. But I'll tell you in a nutshell what
they did, and then you should go to the New
York Times and read it yourself. And then after two
thirty we're gonna have Lori Angelot.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
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Speaker 2 (07:00):
Okay, So let's get to it. Ricardo Lara and Gavin
Newsom had a plan started in twenty twenty three, two
years ago, and by twenty twenty four they wanted to
restructure all the rules and regulations for the insurance industry.
It backfired. It was supposed to require the insurance industry
to buy a very high percentage to supply insurance to
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a very high percentage of homes in fire prone areas.
Complicated formula, not worth getting into. But they blew it.
Cal Fart Lara and Gavin Newsom blew it, and their plan,
which was supposed to increase coverage for more people, especially
in fire prone areas, backfired, and instead the insurance companies
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cut tens of thousands of policies, and cal Fart Lara
is now admitting that they failed, that it backfired, and
now he's whining that he got bullied. He and Newsom
got bullied by the insurance companies. You could look this
up in the New York Times. California promised insurance relief
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but delivered loopholes. The central promise was that insurers would
have to write policies in fire prone areas at a
high rate. But the designated areas where the insurers must
write the policies turned out not to overlap with the
high risk fire areas. It was supposed to overlap with
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the map of the high risk fire areas. It didn't,
and so insurers were allowed to load up on coverage
in safe areas and qualify to charge higher rates. So
the deal was that if you're going to charge higher rates.
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You've got to at least provide insurance to people living
in fire prone regions. They didn't too many loopholes, So
insurance companies are going to raise rates, and they're going
to offload billions of dollars in costs and liabilities on ratepayers,
and they are taking on almost no new customers in
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the high fire risk areas. That's why you can't get insurance,
and you might end up in the fair plan, which
pays you a fraction of what your house is worth.
The regulations were billed as an attempt to get homeowners
off the fair Plan Instead, the number of people on
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the Fair Plan has doubled since the insurance deal was announced,
from three hundred and twenty thousand to six hundred and
twenty five thousand. Some insurers began dumping people even before
the regulations were finalized.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The it was announced but not finalized.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
California's three largest insurance groups dumped fifty thousand existing policies,
five times the number that the companies had had canceled
in the twenty months before the deal. Some massive cancelations
by the tens of thousands, more than twenty percent of
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the non renewals were in zip codes within or adjacent
to areas that would burn in the January fires. The
vast majority was aided around Pacific Palisades, where fire destroyed
sixty eight hundred structures. So you people in the Palisades
who had your insurance canceled, and some didn't even know
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this was happening. You had your insurance canceled right before
the fires hit. That was Ricardo Lara and Gavin Newsom's
new plan backfiring on them. This is not a wild charge.
Lara is admitting it. Here's Lara quoted. He led the
drafting of the new rules. He said the state was
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in crisis mode when it negotiated the new regulations, and
when confronted with the Times findings about how many people
had their insurance canceled, Ricardo Lara conceded that the rules
might not deliver the.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Hope for outcomes insurers.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
He said, get this quote had bullied the state as
it drafted the new rules. Early twenty twenty three, Newsom
began meeting with industry lobbyists because state farm and farmers
had started cutting policies in May and in June twenty twenty three,
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they're the largest insurers in the state. They comprised one
third of the market, and the insurance said that they
needed big regulatory changes because of the high costs, and
Laris said, well, after they did the negotiations, the insurance
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company absolutely steamrolled them. Laris said he was angry. I
was livid. I did feel like we were being bullied.
Like he's twelve years old in middle school and the
football players are ganging up. Ontom, you have an insurance
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industry bullying you, and so you came in. He advertised
that this was gonna lower insurance rates and there was
going to be more coverage guaranteed. He missed on everything,
and then he said, I was bullied.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I was bullied. Newsom was frustrated too.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Insurers canceled policies in large numbers, and this wave cave
came after the insurance industry in the state had struck
their deal.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So Newsom and Larry negotiated a deal.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Which allowed the insurers to cut a record number of policies,
including thousands of policies in the areas that burned last January.
Whatever Lara said privately, he was angry, livid, felt bullied,
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but he didn't say it in public because he thought
it would be counterproductive to bate the companies he was
trying to woo back, so he didn't tell the public
that Newsom and Lara's plan had backfired.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
He didn't tell the public.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
But that's why their policies were canceled, and people either
didn't know their policies were canceled, or they were thrown
into the fair plan and they got no insurance money
orally a fraction of what they should have. And ten
months later, when there are still few homes were built anywhere,
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much of the problem is people don't have the money
because the insurance payout was so cheap or there was
no insurance.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
And I.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
This is a massive failure, real world failure on the
part of Lara and Newsom. And this is what makes
me crazy, because we're going to spend all week debating
Prop fifty. Newsom is going to be preening tonight that
he beat Donald Trump, puffet himself up for a presidential run.
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And look what he did when he had the responsibility
of fixing a real world problem of excessive insurance premiums
and companies canceling policies by the tens of thousands. He
negotiates a deal that failed, backfired, and now his insurance
commissioner is claiming he was bullied. This is so disgusting,
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and this.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Is not covered to the media. The New York Times thing.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
This story's been going on for a year, year and
a half.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
First first coverage. I saw last time I heard about Ricardo.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Leira, and the only time I heard about him was
when KGOTV up in San Francisco caught him cavorting around
the world on his African safari and going to gay
pride parades and going away for weeks at a time
and charging us for all the expensive hotel rooms and
expensive meals and expensive security that he dragged around.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I want my money back, don't you. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I mean, this is one of the biggest problems in
the state, and these guys had the responsibility to fix it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
My insurance was canceled. I can't even tell you all
the issues we're having with insurance right now.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh ours.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It costs skyrocket, ridiculous, absolutely skyrocket, and.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Every company finds every reason not to cover you, and
then you have to find someplace. It's just it's unaffordable,
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Well, they got they got a system rigged in their favor.
In favor and Newsom and Roulara said, oh, I realized
that we didn't fix it. They thought I was just
gonna have the opposite effect because they're stupid or maybe
the corrupt. Somebody needs to do a readout how much
insurance money and how much insurance contributions.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
From the industry that Newsoman and Lara got.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
For their campaigns, and maybe they were just paid off
to say, oh, I didn't know this was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Honestly, this is the governor. We have more coming up.
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can listen to what you missed. So New York City
they have a mayoral election between zoron Mom, Donnie the
Communist running as a Democrat, Andrew Cuobo, the former governor,
and the odd ball Curtis Sliwah, who's the Republican candidate.
And we have Laura Engel from news Nation and she's
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traveling from a polling place to Mom donnie headquarters tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Hi, Laura, Hey John.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yes, we are on the move. We're in Brooklyn right now.
We have spent the day at Brooklyn Borough Hall where
we were monitoring the voting that has been The polls
there opened at six am for that location, so it
was a very busy day and we've been talking. One
of the big storylines of the night, other than the
top highlights you just mentioned of the three that are running,
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is the voter turnout. I mean, the voter turnout has
been huge. In fact, there have been more people that
have showed up to vote before twelve noon than in
each of the last four mayoral elections, so the numbers
are huge. We're now approaching over two million. I was
just as I mentioned at Brooklyn Borough Hall, they said,
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on average on election night, because there's so much early voting,
they see about six to eight hundred. After about three
o'clock they were over one thousand, and they're staying open
until nine pm Eastern. So there's a lot of passion,
a lot of fire. This is a hotly contested mayoral's race.
You mentioned the three, and we're heading over to Zoran.
Mom Donnie's headquarters in Brooklyn for his campaign headquarters tonight
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to find out how this all plays out. He has
been what many people have called the projected winner, but
Cuomo's coming in with some more numbers. And you saw
that President Trump made a rare move endorsing him, saying
he would rather have a bat what he called a
bad Democrat than a socialist running New York City.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Is there any sense all this energy from these voters
showing up like they have it in years. Who are
they showing up for? Is it everybody? Is it Mom Donnie?
Is it a rebellion against Mom Dommi? And these are
Cuomo voters? Is there any way to get a sense
of that.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Well, I went out and I spoke to a couple
of them as I was doing my reporting in the
last two hours. I can send you guys this sound.
I'll post it on my ex But let's just take
for an example, this one young man I spoke to told me,
and I'm just going to read his quote. He said,
I'm a registered Democrat. I'm going to vote for Mom Dommi.
I said, tell me why. He said, I think everything
going on right now in the world and the country,
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you need radical change to fight radical bad things.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That are going on.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Then I spoke to a woman who told me she
voted for Cuomo, and she said, and I know, yes,
there's the whole sexual abuse thing, but I can look
past that. And when I asked her what she thought
about President Trump backing Cuomo, she said, I could care
less what Trump has to say. I really have no
respect for his opinion, and I don't think Clomo does either.
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I don't care. I voted Clomo. So that's just a
little sample of what I got on the streets here
in Brooklyn. But most everybody I pulled over so to
speak on the sidewalk to talk to, almost all of
them told me that they were voting for Mom Dami
because they wanted to see changed. They wanted to see
something different, something different.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
At Gracey mentioned, well, communism is different. I'll give him that.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah. Right. They didn't express any trepidation about his plans
either being potentially very damaging or that he just simply
can't pull him off because he doesn't have the power to.
There are many other factions of government that actually control taxation,
for example, or free buses.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Right, And you know what we talked, We've been talking
about that because there's been so many critics to say,
it all sounds great, but who's really going to pay
for it? How's this really going to work? And one
of the voters that I spoke to, who was voting
for the first time in a mayoral election, said, I
know that it's going to be a tall ask. He said,
but I think that the governor of New York, Kathy Hochel,
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is going to help out mom Domi with the tax
breaks and get him the financial help that he needs
to pull this off. But that lady I told you
about who said that she was voting for Cuomo just
she kind of scoffed at it. She said, New York
has always been an expensive city. You either make it
here or you don't, and you know, too bad. So
sad rent freezes. Sure, that sounds great, but how realistic
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is that going to be free buses? She said? Good luck?
And as far as you know, the public grocery store
is also good luck. That's kind of the settiment you get.
On the other side. Other people are just hopeful. But well,
when you're looking at a city that is you know,
there's a lot of people who rent here, right and
if things don't work out with Mom DOMMI. If he wins,
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they can always leave. What about the people who bought here,
who live here. That's the other side of the point
you've got to look at when it comes to these promises.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, there's a.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Lot of financial people on Wall Street threatening to move out.
Not only there moved to another home like in New
Jersey or upstate New York. But they want to get
their company out of there and maybe go down to
Miami or Dallas where there's a huge financial industry down
both those cities.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah, not only that, and in that social that true
social post from Trump earlier today when he was talking
about back in Cuomo, he said, and if Mom Donnie wins,
you know, forget not forget sedtal funding. But he said
that he would be limiting sedtle funding coming into a
city that he loves, obviously that has been his home.
He said, I'll just do the bare minimum of what
I'm legally required to do, but I'm not going to
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be sending subtle funds to a city that's run by
what he is called a socialist.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
All right, Laura, thank you. Enjoy the excited distry.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It happens, all right, Laura, angel News Nation going to
mom donnie headquarters.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
God, people are so stupid.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What you can't offer free bus rides, It's impossible. You
can't text billy and there's there leave a lot of
them did already. I'm shocked. But like, do you know,
like Texas, Dallas they have more financial employees than New
York City does. Now Miami has a tremendous amount of
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financial companies down there, along with tech companies. You know,
fifty years from now, when a lot of us might
be dead and gone, the big metropolitan areas, the powerful
economic engines are going to be places like Dallas, Miami.
It might be over for New York City. Look, it
looks like it's over for Los Angeles as an entertainment center.
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There's like a huge shift going on right in front
of our eyes. And there's too many people in denial
now know, I know New York City's expensive. I read
that some people have their rents are fifty percent of
their income. Again, this is the cries of people who
can't cut it. These are the cries of the losers,
and they want mommy daddy government to somehow fix things.
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Mom Donnie can't raise taxes by himself. He needs the
governor and the legislature. They said they're not going to
do this because they'll get kicked.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Out and the rich people are gonna move.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
You absolutely do not need to be in Manhattan or
Los Angeles for that matter, to run your business anymore.
Not with the internet. Those days are over. They've been
over for many years now. And it's shocking that Mom,
Donnie thinks he can control all that he can't. And
you know, he's not only a danger if he gets
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any of this accomplished, I think there's a greater possibility
he's going to be a huge disappoyment. These people don't
know they've been conned, all his voters because they're young,
they're ignorant, they were not educated properly in how economics works.
They don't see that the slightest idea how economics works.
Socialism is a failure. Communism is a failure period. Capitalism
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works the best, not perfect, argue all day about its flaws,
works the best.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
By far.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Communism is a complete failure. Capitalism has brought more people
out of poverty by the billions than anything else, and
that's simply not taught. Because they're teaching about climate change
and alternate genders.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
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Speaker 2 (25:20):
John Cobelt's show coming up after three o'clock, We're going
to talk with Royal Oaks. The Supreme Court is going
to be deciding whether Trump had the legal power to
impose many of the tariffs that he instituted earlier this year.
It has resulted in a lot of money coming into
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the treasury by the hundreds of billions, and it's also
reoriented the economies of a lot of companies, some of
whom are moving their manufacturing on shore here to the
US as a response. We'll talk about it with Royal Oaks.
Coming up on how legal is helicopter parents term that's
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I'd never heard of when I.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Was a kid, But you heard of it when you're kids.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh yeah, but by then the helicopters are in the
air by then, Oh yeah. And these are the overbearing, obsessed,
hyper involved parents who will not let their kids become
independent and grow up. It's seeing it up close is
actually terrifying. A watch breaks my heart. Really, did you
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get to run around as a kid?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, I went skateboarding, bike riding, yeah, whatever
in this plate in the street.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
A gone out of the house eight to ten hours
a day, no parental involvement, wondered where we wanted to, wonder,
played whatever we were Well, but I didn't.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Let my kids.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I mean my kids were not that free, not because
I was a helicopter parent, but because it just wasn't
It wasn't safe.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, it was, it wasn't. You just wasn't. Now statistically
it was.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Well, I didn't want to take chances.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
It's because you watch too much TV news.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, and then I report on radio news.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, Well, the TV news directors figured out if they
do the extremely rare story of a child in peril
and then repeat it over and over again, they get
the highest ratings.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Weren't you afraid your kids are going to be kidnapped? No, never,
not for a second.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Your wife, yes, and we constantly had discussions about that
because I showed her the statistics. It was extremely rare.
It was just way that show America's most wanted. Yes,
that was extremely damaging. There was one kid who got kidnapped, Yes,
and it turned an entire generation of parents, I would say,
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mothers primarily uh inside out. I mean they no moms
couldn't think straight after that show went on the air.
I don't know if any dads were like that, but.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You know that that's why you women want to live.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, I want to take any chances. Well that's different
than well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
This is what it's evolved into.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
College administrators now have a term called the trailing parents.
These are mothers and fathers. I would say mostly mothers
who follow their kids to campus literally not just texting
right back and forth about how is your day, what
are your grades? But they rent an apartment. They have
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examples of people at Atlanta, Austin, Boston. They rent an
apartment for four years, or they buy a condo. They
found some parents in Washington and here in LA so
that their kids could have a place to sleep and
so that they can drop by their kids.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Place to see what's going on.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Some parents, even if their kids study abroad for a semester,
they move too, places like Florence, Barcelona. Oh my god,
I would have my mother to if she had done that. Oh,
I would have faked a crime.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
The people.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
But I know I know of parents that go visit
their kids when they do the study abroad programs.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, you get three.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Days, maybe a week, and then go tour and go home,
Get out, get out. One that said a mother of
a Mississippi student stayed in the family's apartment, which was
next door to campus, to provide support during sorority rush,
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helping her daughter fix her hair or nurse a hangover.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
A Colorado couple their daughter had a rough freshman year.
They bought an apartment in Portland and moved there to
live with their daughter while she attended college. One mom
rented a condo in Washington, d c. Deliver with their
daughter and walked her to class every day.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I believe that.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
One administrator said they had to tell the mom she
was not permitted to sit next to her kid in class.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh come on, not making this up. People really do this.
Yeah yeah, wow mother.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
No, I was not like that, and my kids would
never stand for anything like that. My kids are very,
very independent.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
That's what I wanted. That has been the running debate
in my ass. They have to be independent, Yes, they
have to make mistakes, they have to screw up, Yes
they should.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
They should get to screw up at least half as
many times as I did.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Look, my daughter gets mad when I asked her to
text me home when she drives home at night, she
gets annoyed.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
But that's all I that's all I ask.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's it. This mother, who wasn't allowed to sit next
to her kid would sit outside the classroom and then
they'd walk back to the apartment together. There was one
One student went to France and the mother followed and
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kept calling the office in France to arrange a visit.
The daughter refused, and the mother gave up and flew
home to the United States. She was actually sitting in
France and her daughter would not take calls, and mom
had to go back alone. One kid transferred colleges to
get away from his parents. They bought a home next
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to his campus. He saw that transferred out. All right,
that's crazy, Yeah, it is really crazy. Good Lord, deborahm
you wonder why these losers are crying in one and.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
It's too hard to make a living, it's too competitive.
Capitalism is bad. I'm a communist to take care of
me and then just say this.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I know we're running very late, but as a mom,
it is hard to let go. You spend you know,
eighteen years nurturing your kids, doing the best you can.
It's hard, did it.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
That's the purpose part of dad's because dads need to
be there and say, go, don't listen to your mom,
Go have a good time. Deborah Marcus Live, You Can't Fight,
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Two thirty, we're gonna Laura Anglan from a news nation.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We're gonna talk with her about the New York City
mayors raise zorn mom Dommy against former Governor Andrew Cuomo
and that odd Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. And mom Dommy
is a full out, unapologetic, unrepented communist or what's the
(00:59):
new term called the Democratic Socialist of America Party DSA.
We have quite a few of those here in Los Angeles.
It is the new age of communism, new age of
hard socialism's and young people are going for it. And
(01:19):
I was thinking a lot about this today. I was
talking last hour about how people complain about Trump and
people complain about billionaires. They're angry with the billionaires. They
should have their money taken away, you know, with excessive taxation.
And I was thinking, I said before, it's the losers
(01:40):
in life. And there's a lot of young people. This
is a very soft generation. This is not the World
War two generation. Boy, this is the exact opposite. They
are soft, they are afraid of competition, they're not self motivated.
They are whiny, and life is more difficult than they
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were promised when mommy and daddy were handing out trophies
to them when they were six years old just for
showing up at soccer practice, and they had no idea
how tough.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The world is.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And really, I'm kind of disgusted by the whole crowd.
I'm really disgusted about all the complaints I read.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, this is unfair. Capitalism is bad.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
First of all, it's clear that they do not teach
civics or history at all at school. They have spent
the last twenty years teaching climate change and alternate genders.
I know this firsthand. And instead of alternate genders and
climate change, they should have been teaching like the history
of successful economies and the history of failed economies, and
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the history of failed economies starts with socialism and communism.
And that's what these young people want because they can't
compete and they're soft. And it's the coddling which reminds me.
Before the end of the hour, I got to read
you this story. I think this is in the Wall
Street Journal. Helicopter parents have hit the colleges.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh help. They're showing up with their kids and they're
not leaving.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But I can't. I don't understand how the college kids
would allow that. My kids would never I mean, I
didn't do that, but they would never. Never let me
do that.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
There's one really funny story about what one college student
did when her mother followed her and got an apartment
across the street. But I want to we'll do that
later later in the hour. All right, I was telling
you at the end of the last hour. You may
wonder why the insurance market is so screwed up. It's
because we have an insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, who, as
(03:44):
you know, the kg O up in San Francisco, did
a ten minute report on this. He has spent much
of the last six years flying around the world, spending
tax money on elaborate vacation trips. And it has to
do with the insurance.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Going on a safari in Africa.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, going to a gay pride parade in New
York for a week.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
What was the name at DJ he was he was visiting. Uh,
it was something with.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
A cat kiddie, I eric, probably not, Yeah, but it's
spending our money. Spending there weren't Some of them were conferences,
like for a day or two, and then he'd spend
a week, spent tens of thousands of dollars, brought a
whole security honorage with him. And you know, it's the
only time I heard about Ricardo Lara. And again we
call him cal fart Lara because he he wrote legislation
(04:35):
when he was in the legislature that would have mandated
every cow where this bulky device on their back and
it would have a hose attached to their anus, and
when the cow farted, they would capture the methane out
of the cow's anus and keep it from entering the atmosphere.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I'm not making this up. That's how he got cal
Fart Lara.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And then, astonishingly, instead of being taken and locked up
in a mena the institution.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
He was given the role of insurance commissioner.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
All right, this guy's got the IQ of a vegetable
and not a ripe vegetable either, And so he's had
this job for six years and the insurance industry is
completely god to hell. Thousands of people in the public
are getting screwed. You might have gotten screwed. And then
New York Times finally did a story on this. California
promised insurance relief but delivered loopholes.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, there was a massive rewrite.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Of insurance regulations last year, of course, was not covered.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And who oversaw the rewrite cal fart Lara and Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Now you rubbed those two brains together, and I don't
think you're topping more than one twenty five in IQ.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And what they did backfired.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It was supposed to guarantee that insurers were going to
write a high percentage of policies in a fire strict area,
and instead the opposite happened. There were so many loopholes
written into it that the insurers were able to drop
thousands and thousands of policies. And that's why all the
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people in the Palisades who got their policies canceled right
before the new year, had nothing, had nothing covering them,
or had to go to the Fair Plan, which covers
a fraction of their housework. This is why it happened.
It was Newsom and Lara, all right, So I explain this,
(06:34):
I can't. I am going to boil this down to
this simplistic, as simplistic as possible, so it sounds good
on the radio and so that you understand it. But
this thing was how many pages? This thing was twelve
pages long. But I'll tell you in a nutshell what
they did, and then you should go to the New
York Times and read it yourself. And then after two
thirty we're gonna have Lori Angelot.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Okay, So let's get to it. Ricardo Lara and Gavin
Newsom had a plan started in twenty twenty three, two
years ago, and by twenty twenty four they wanted to
restructure all the rules and regulations for the insurance industry.
It backfired. It was supposed to require the insurance industry
to buy a very high percentage to supply insurance to
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a very high percentage of homes in fire prone areas.
Complicated formula, not worth getting into. But they blew it.
Cal Fart Lara and Gavin Newsom blew it, and their plan,
which was supposed to increase coverage for more people, especially
in fire prone areas, backfired, and instead the insurance companies
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cut tens of thousands of policies, and cal Fart Lara
is now admitting that they failed, that it backfired, and
now he's whining that he got bullied. He and Newsom
got bullied by the insurance companies. You could look this
up in the New York Times. California promised insurance relief
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but delivered loopholes. The central promise was that insurers would
have to write policies in fire prone areas at a
high rate. But the designated areas where the insurers must
write the policies turned out not to overlap with the
high risk fire areas. It was supposed to overlap with
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the map of the high risk fire areas. It didn't,
and so insurers were allowed to load up on coverage
in safe areas and qualify to charge higher rates. So
the deal was that if you're going to charge higher rates.
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You've got to at least provide insurance to people living
in fire prone regions. They didn't too many loopholes, So
insurance companies are going to raise rates, and they're going
to offload billions of dollars in costs and liabilities on ratepayers,
and they are taking on almost no new customers in
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the high fire risk areas. That's why you can't get insurance,
and you might end up in the fair plan, which
pays you a fraction of what your house is worth.
The regulations were billed as an attempt to get homeowners
off the fair Plan Instead, the number of people on
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the Fair Plan has doubled since the insurance deal was announced,
from three hundred and twenty thousand to six hundred and
twenty five thousand. Some insurers began dumping people even before
the regulations were finalized.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The it was announced but not finalized.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
California's three largest insurance groups dumped fifty thousand existing policies,
five times the number that the companies had had canceled
in the twenty months before the deal. Some massive cancelations
by the tens of thousands, more than twenty percent of
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the non renewals were in zip codes within or adjacent
to areas that would burn in the January fires. The
vast majority was aided around Pacific Palisades, where fire destroyed
sixty eight hundred structures. So you people in the Palisades
who had your insurance canceled, and some didn't even know
(10:48):
this was happening. You had your insurance canceled right before
the fires hit. That was Ricardo Lara and Gavin Newsom's
new plan backfiring on them. This is not a wild charge.
Lara is admitting it. Here's Lara quoted. He led the
drafting of the new rules. He said the state was
(11:10):
in crisis mode when it negotiated the new regulations, and
when confronted with the Times findings about how many people
had their insurance canceled, Ricardo Lara conceded that the rules
might not deliver the.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Hope for outcomes insurers.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
He said, get this quote had bullied the state as
it drafted the new rules. Early twenty twenty three, Newsom
began meeting with industry lobbyists because state farm and farmers
had started cutting policies in May and in June twenty twenty three,
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they're the largest insurers in the state. They comprised one
third of the market, and the insurance said that they
needed big regulatory changes because of the high costs, and
Laris said, well, after they did the negotiations, the insurance
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company absolutely steamrolled them. Laris said he was angry. I
was livid. I did feel like we were being bullied.
Like he's twelve years old in middle school and the
football players are ganging up. Ontom, you have an insurance
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industry bullying you, and so you came in. He advertised
that this was gonna lower insurance rates and there was
going to be more coverage guaranteed. He missed on everything,
and then he said, I was bullied.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I was bullied. Newsom was frustrated too.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Insurers canceled policies in large numbers, and this wave cave
came after the insurance industry in the state had struck
their deal.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So Newsom and Larry negotiated a deal.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Which allowed the insurers to cut a record number of policies,
including thousands of policies in the areas that burned last January.
Whatever Lara said privately, he was angry, livid, felt bullied,
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but he didn't say it in public because he thought
it would be counterproductive to bate the companies he was
trying to woo back, so he didn't tell the public
that Newsom and Lara's plan had backfired.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
He didn't tell the public.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
But that's why their policies were canceled, and people either
didn't know their policies were canceled, or they were thrown
into the fair plan and they got no insurance money
orally a fraction of what they should have. And ten
months later, when there are still few homes were built anywhere,
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much of the problem is people don't have the money
because the insurance payout was so cheap or there was
no insurance.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
And I.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
This is a massive failure, real world failure on the
part of Lara and Newsom. And this is what makes
me crazy, because we're going to spend all week debating
Prop fifty. Newsom is going to be preening tonight that
he beat Donald Trump, puffet himself up for a presidential run.
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And look what he did when he had the responsibility
of fixing a real world problem of excessive insurance premiums
and companies canceling policies by the tens of thousands. He
negotiates a deal that failed, backfired, and now his insurance
commissioner is claiming he was bullied. This is so disgusting,
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and this.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Is not covered to the media. The New York Times thing.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
This story's been going on for a year, year and
a half.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
First first coverage. I saw last time I heard about Ricardo.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Leira, and the only time I heard about him was
when KGOTV up in San Francisco caught him cavorting around
the world on his African safari and going to gay
pride parades and going away for weeks at a time
and charging us for all the expensive hotel rooms and
expensive meals and expensive security that he dragged around.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I want my money back, don't you. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I mean, this is one of the biggest problems in
the state, and these guys had the responsibility to fix it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
My insurance was canceled. I can't even tell you all
the issues we're having with insurance right now.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh ours.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It costs skyrocket, ridiculous, absolutely skyrocket, and.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Every company finds every reason not to cover you, and
then you have to find someplace. It's just it's unaffordable,
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Well, they got they got a system rigged in their favor.
In favor and Newsom and Roulara said, oh, I realized
that we didn't fix it. They thought I was just
gonna have the opposite effect because they're stupid or maybe
the corrupt. Somebody needs to do a readout how much
insurance money and how much insurance contributions.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
From the industry that Newsoman and Lara got.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
For their campaigns, and maybe they were just paid off
to say, oh, I didn't know this was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Honestly, this is the governor. We have more coming up.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock and
then after four o'clock.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
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It's the podcast save as the radio show, and you
can listen to what you missed. So New York City
they have a mayoral election between zoron Mom, Donnie the
Communist running as a Democrat, Andrew Cuobo, the former governor,
and the odd ball Curtis Sliwah, who's the Republican candidate.
And we have Laura Engel from news Nation and she's
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traveling from a polling place to Mom donnie headquarters tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Hi, Laura, Hey John.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yes, we are on the move. We're in Brooklyn right now.
We have spent the day at Brooklyn Borough Hall where
we were monitoring the voting that has been The polls
there opened at six am for that location, so it
was a very busy day and we've been talking. One
of the big storylines of the night, other than the
top highlights you just mentioned of the three that are running,
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is the voter turnout. I mean, the voter turnout has
been huge. In fact, there have been more people that
have showed up to vote before twelve noon than in
each of the last four mayoral elections, so the numbers
are huge. We're now approaching over two million. I was
just as I mentioned at Brooklyn Borough Hall, they said,
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on average on election night, because there's so much early voting,
they see about six to eight hundred. After about three
o'clock they were over one thousand, and they're staying open
until nine pm Eastern. So there's a lot of passion,
a lot of fire. This is a hotly contested mayoral's race.
You mentioned the three, and we're heading over to Zoran.
Mom Donnie's headquarters in Brooklyn for his campaign headquarters tonight
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to find out how this all plays out. He has
been what many people have called the projected winner, but
Cuomo's coming in with some more numbers. And you saw
that President Trump made a rare move endorsing him, saying
he would rather have a bat what he called a
bad Democrat than a socialist running New York City.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Is there any sense all this energy from these voters
showing up like they have it in years. Who are
they showing up for? Is it everybody? Is it Mom Donnie?
Is it a rebellion against Mom Dommi? And these are
Cuomo voters? Is there any way to get a sense
of that.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Well, I went out and I spoke to a couple
of them as I was doing my reporting in the
last two hours. I can send you guys this sound.
I'll post it on my ex But let's just take
for an example, this one young man I spoke to told me,
and I'm just going to read his quote. He said,
I'm a registered Democrat. I'm going to vote for Mom Dommi.
I said, tell me why. He said, I think everything
going on right now in the world and the country,
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you need radical change to fight radical bad things.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That are going on.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Then I spoke to a woman who told me she
voted for Cuomo, and she said, and I know, yes,
there's the whole sexual abuse thing, but I can look
past that. And when I asked her what she thought
about President Trump backing Cuomo, she said, I could care
less what Trump has to say. I really have no
respect for his opinion, and I don't think Clomo does either.
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I don't care. I voted Clomo. So that's just a
little sample of what I got on the streets here
in Brooklyn. But most everybody I pulled over so to
speak on the sidewalk to talk to, almost all of
them told me that they were voting for Mom Dami
because they wanted to see changed. They wanted to see
something different, something different.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
At Gracey mentioned, well, communism is different. I'll give him that.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah. Right. They didn't express any trepidation about his plans
either being potentially very damaging or that he just simply
can't pull him off because he doesn't have the power to.
There are many other factions of government that actually control taxation,
for example, or free buses.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Right, And you know what we talked, We've been talking
about that because there's been so many critics to say,
it all sounds great, but who's really going to pay
for it? How's this really going to work? And one
of the voters that I spoke to, who was voting
for the first time in a mayoral election, said, I
know that it's going to be a tall ask. He said,
but I think that the governor of New York, Kathy Hochel,
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is going to help out mom Domi with the tax
breaks and get him the financial help that he needs
to pull this off. But that lady I told you
about who said that she was voting for Cuomo just
she kind of scoffed at it. She said, New York
has always been an expensive city. You either make it
here or you don't, and you know, too bad. So
sad rent freezes. Sure, that sounds great, but how realistic
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is that going to be free buses? She said? Good luck?
And as far as you know, the public grocery store
is also good luck. That's kind of the settiment you get.
On the other side. Other people are just hopeful. But well,
when you're looking at a city that is you know,
there's a lot of people who rent here, right and
if things don't work out with Mom DOMMI. If he wins,
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they can always leave. What about the people who bought here,
who live here. That's the other side of the point
you've got to look at when it comes to these promises.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, there's a.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Lot of financial people on Wall Street threatening to move out.
Not only there moved to another home like in New
Jersey or upstate New York. But they want to get
their company out of there and maybe go down to
Miami or Dallas where there's a huge financial industry down
both those cities.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah, not only that, and in that social that true
social post from Trump earlier today when he was talking
about back in Cuomo, he said, and if Mom Donnie wins,
you know, forget not forget sedtal funding. But he said
that he would be limiting sedtle funding coming into a
city that he loves, obviously that has been his home.
He said, I'll just do the bare minimum of what
I'm legally required to do, but I'm not going to
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be sending subtle funds to a city that's run by
what he is called a socialist.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
All right, Laura, thank you. Enjoy the excited distry.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It happens, all right, Laura, angel News Nation going to
mom donnie headquarters.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
God, people are so stupid.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What you can't offer free bus rides, It's impossible. You
can't text billy and there's there leave a lot of
them did already. I'm shocked. But like, do you know,
like Texas, Dallas they have more financial employees than New
York City does. Now Miami has a tremendous amount of
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financial companies down there, along with tech companies. You know,
fifty years from now, when a lot of us might
be dead and gone, the big metropolitan areas, the powerful
economic engines are going to be places like Dallas, Miami.
It might be over for New York City. Look, it
looks like it's over for Los Angeles as an entertainment center.
(23:38):
There's like a huge shift going on right in front
of our eyes. And there's too many people in denial
now know, I know New York City's expensive. I read
that some people have their rents are fifty percent of
their income. Again, this is the cries of people who
can't cut it. These are the cries of the losers,
and they want mommy daddy government to somehow fix things.
(24:00):
Mom Donnie can't raise taxes by himself. He needs the
governor and the legislature. They said they're not going to
do this because they'll get kicked.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Out and the rich people are gonna move.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
You absolutely do not need to be in Manhattan or
Los Angeles for that matter, to run your business anymore.
Not with the internet. Those days are over. They've been
over for many years now. And it's shocking that Mom,
Donnie thinks he can control all that he can't. And
you know, he's not only a danger if he gets
(24:31):
any of this accomplished, I think there's a greater possibility
he's going to be a huge disappoyment. These people don't
know they've been conned, all his voters because they're young,
they're ignorant, they were not educated properly in how economics works.
They don't see that the slightest idea how economics works.
Socialism is a failure. Communism is a failure period. Capitalism
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works the best, not perfect, argue all day about its flaws,
works the best.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
By far.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Communism is a complete failure. Capitalism has brought more people
out of poverty by the billions than anything else, and
that's simply not taught. Because they're teaching about climate change
and alternate genders.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
John Cobelt's show coming up after three o'clock, We're going
to talk with Royal Oaks. The Supreme Court is going
to be deciding whether Trump had the legal power to
impose many of the tariffs that he instituted earlier this year.
It has resulted in a lot of money coming into
(25:40):
the treasury by the hundreds of billions, and it's also
reoriented the economies of a lot of companies, some of
whom are moving their manufacturing on shore here to the
US as a response. We'll talk about it with Royal Oaks.
Coming up on how legal is helicopter parents term that's
(26:04):
I'd never heard of when I.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Was a kid, But you heard of it when you're kids.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh yeah, but by then the helicopters are in the
air by then, Oh yeah. And these are the overbearing, obsessed,
hyper involved parents who will not let their kids become
independent and grow up. It's seeing it up close is
actually terrifying. A watch breaks my heart. Really, did you
(26:32):
get to run around as a kid?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, I went skateboarding, bike riding, yeah, whatever
in this plate in the street.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
A gone out of the house eight to ten hours
a day, no parental involvement, wondered where we wanted to, wonder,
played whatever we were Well, but I didn't.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Let my kids.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I mean my kids were not that free, not because
I was a helicopter parent, but because it just wasn't
It wasn't safe.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, it was, it wasn't. You just wasn't. Now statistically
it was.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Well, I didn't want to take chances.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
It's because you watch too much TV news.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, and then I report on radio news.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, Well, the TV news directors figured out if they
do the extremely rare story of a child in peril
and then repeat it over and over again, they get
the highest ratings.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Weren't you afraid your kids are going to be kidnapped? No, never,
not for a second.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Your wife, yes, and we constantly had discussions about that
because I showed her the statistics. It was extremely rare.
It was just way that show America's most wanted. Yes,
that was extremely damaging. There was one kid who got kidnapped, Yes,
and it turned an entire generation of parents, I would say,
(27:41):
mothers primarily uh inside out. I mean they no moms
couldn't think straight after that show went on the air.
I don't know if any dads were like that, but.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You know that that's why you women want to live.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, I want to take any chances. Well that's different
than well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
This is what it's evolved into.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
College administrators now have a term called the trailing parents.
These are mothers and fathers. I would say mostly mothers
who follow their kids to campus literally not just texting
right back and forth about how is your day, what
are your grades? But they rent an apartment. They have
(28:27):
examples of people at Atlanta, Austin, Boston. They rent an
apartment for four years, or they buy a condo. They
found some parents in Washington and here in LA so
that their kids could have a place to sleep and
so that they can drop by their kids.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Place to see what's going on.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Some parents, even if their kids study abroad for a semester,
they move too, places like Florence, Barcelona. Oh my god,
I would have my mother to if she had done that. Oh,
I would have faked a crime.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
The people.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
But I know I know of parents that go visit
their kids when they do the study abroad programs.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, you get three.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Days, maybe a week, and then go tour and go home,
Get out, get out. One that said a mother of
a Mississippi student stayed in the family's apartment, which was
next door to campus, to provide support during sorority rush,
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helping her daughter fix her hair or nurse a hangover.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
A Colorado couple their daughter had a rough freshman year.
They bought an apartment in Portland and moved there to
live with their daughter while she attended college. One mom
rented a condo in Washington, d c. Deliver with their
daughter and walked her to class every day.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I believe that.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
One administrator said they had to tell the mom she
was not permitted to sit next to her kid in class.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh come on, not making this up. People really do this.
Yeah yeah, wow mother.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
No, I was not like that, and my kids would
never stand for anything like that. My kids are very,
very independent.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
That's what I wanted. That has been the running debate
in my ass. They have to be independent, Yes, they
have to make mistakes, they have to screw up, Yes
they should.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
They should get to screw up at least half as
many times as I did.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Look, my daughter gets mad when I asked her to
text me home when she drives home at night, she
gets annoyed.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
But that's all I that's all I ask.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's it. This mother, who wasn't allowed to sit next
to her kid would sit outside the classroom and then
they'd walk back to the apartment together. There was one
One student went to France and the mother followed and
(31:09):
kept calling the office in France to arrange a visit.
The daughter refused, and the mother gave up and flew
home to the United States. She was actually sitting in
France and her daughter would not take calls, and mom
had to go back alone. One kid transferred colleges to
get away from his parents. They bought a home next
(31:29):
to his campus. He saw that transferred out. All right,
that's crazy, Yeah, it is really crazy. Good Lord, deborahm
you wonder why these losers are crying in one and.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
It's too hard to make a living, it's too competitive.
Capitalism is bad. I'm a communist to take care of
me and then just say this.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I know we're running very late, but as a mom,
it is hard to let go. You spend you know,
eighteen years nurturing your kids, doing the best you can.
It's hard, did it.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
That's the purpose part of dad's because dads need to
be there and say, go, don't listen to your mom,
Go have a good time. Deborah Marcus Live, You Can't Fight,
twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The
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