July 22, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/22) - Stephen Cloobeck comes on the show to talk about his campaign for Governor of California. California has the highest unemployment in the country. 18,000 fast food workers have lost their jobs because of CA's new minimum wage increase for fast food workers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We've been telling you
about squatters on on land that's been just left by homeowners.
You know, they can't rebuild. The squatters have entered. It
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may not be in the Palisades. It may be an
Alta Dina. The original report came over an Instagram post
from a construction a guy who owns a construction company
or runs one. And it may be Alta Dina, which
is just as bad. I know Altadena doesn't get as
much play as the Palisades, but if it's in Altadena,
it's going to be in the Palisades. I was there
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this morning. All the lots are wide open for the
taking if the bad guys want to take it, and
the police, the police, and the mayor and the county
supervisors have to do something about this immediately. All right,
Let's get on to Stephen Kluebeck. Stephen Klubeck is running
as a Democrat for governor, and we talked to him
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a few months ago. Very successful guy sold his timeshare
company for almost two billion dollars to the Hilton Company.
Correct over over two billion dollars. You know they short
changed you in the news story, and he's come to La. Well,
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you you've you've originally came back home. You came back home.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm paying the price to come back home for the
greatest country in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
After operating a worldwide hotel company.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
He was the founder, CEO and chairman of Diamond Resorts International,
ninety two leisure resorts in Hilton Grand Vacations.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You purchased it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You got in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You got old news. You better get some some folks.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
This is according to May twenty five in Capital.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Weekly, Bad Source, Bad Source, four hundred and thirty two resorts,
thirty five five countries. I kind of agree, yeah, I
agree with the company of that.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay, Now we've been talking a lot about the fire damage.
There's no rebuilding going on. I know you've been through
there recently. I was there this morning. No visible rebuilding.
People don't know what to do in the Palisades. We
have still massive homeless situation. We've still got all kinds
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of crime. That Ensino couple that was killed where I
grew up. Yeah, there doesn't seem to be anybody in charge,
anybody that the public can talk to anybody saying, Okay,
this is wrong. We got to fix this. We are
taking the following measures. We're going to follow through. Here's
the metrics that you can judge us on. Here's who
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in charge when it comes to the rebuild. Here's who's
in charge when it comes to cleaning up the homeless
for good. We've got seventy thousand and I know these
are all California, Southern LA problems, Southern California problems, and
you're running to be governor of the whole state. But this,
this is overwhelming everybody here, and it's never ending.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
We've got local and state issues that are so prolific,
and it comes down to this, John. We've got no
accountability enough. We've got no enforcement of our laws. Okay,
we have no execution on getting things done.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Enough enough.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
We've even allowed these nonprofits to get involved, whether it
was Evan Spiegel or Rick Crusoe with La Steadfast to
make the Palisades the Palisades, or Magic Johnson with the state.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You see anything being done.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
No, I'm just not. I mean, just look I know
Rick really well, yeah, me too, and I went to
high school. Yeah, and he tries to do a lot
of good work, absolutely, but you get stymied by Karen
Basston City Hall. Everybody does. Everybody tries to work from
the outside, she stymies you. There's nothing you can do.
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So I don't know what to do here. People are
asking me. Something's got to change. Something's got to change.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
We got to wake up and get new leadership all
over the place. You got to get new leadership all
over the place. We need business acumen running this great city,
in this great state.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I remember going all the way back being a kid
growing up that I grew up near New York. When
every things would get kind of out of control, the
business leaders would step in and write the ship because ultimately,
you know, they paid the bills, they made the donations
to the campaigns, and they wanted to protect their companies
and their investments and their employees. I don't see that
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force here. I think they were strong in the nineties
here in Los Angeles into the two thousands, but last
ten years there's no business leaders or corporations coming forth.
Moving is what they're doing now, that's the new way
they're handling it. They're just getting.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Getting down because as customers of this state, which we
all are the leaders aren't talking its best customers? And yeah,
business leadership ran the state, ran our communities, the cities
and counties. Explain to me why the business leaders aren't
standing up and banging the doors down on city hall
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right now? Explain that to me? And why don't they
just cut off their donations? I mean, why aren't they
getting aggressive? And I know Rick, Rick's a friend, but
why isn't Rick with la Steadfast going absolutely eight and
handling it. I mean, he's authoritative, He's built a great
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business as I have, and you know, enough pandering. There's
no room for pandering. Rick's not compromised. I'm not compromise.
Go after these folks. This is our money, our community,
and enough is enough. Seven months with how many permits
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have been pulled handful a travesty, a travesty. These are
heart truths, okay, and we can't take it anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, we're at that point. We're at that point. These
careerists that we've elected, they're all compromised. No one is
rolling up their sleeves and getting the job done for us,
the customers of Southern California and California.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
The problem exists. I mean Mayor. Lurry's trying up north. Now.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
At least we elected a great da in Los Angeles
and fixed that yeah debacle, someone with independence, somebody that
actually wants to serve. We got to stop electing those
that are looking for a title and a paycheck, that
have never signed the front of a check, that know
what it's like to come out of their pockets for payroll. Okay, enough,
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I'm with you. We are all Californians together. So how
could you break through? If you're governor?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You have a legislature that is seventy percent progressive. They
could override anything that you vita. They could pass anything
they want. How do you deal with this? Well, the
good news is it's like the city council. The good
news is, you know, my mentors in this business were
Bill Clinton and Harry Reid, my adopted father. Harry was
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an assassin, but he learned to teach coach counsel. And
the job of a good governor is to teach coach
counsel and teach unintended consequences and teach everyone it's not
their money.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Coach counsel. It's a business term, it's not a political term.
I'm not a politician. I'm a business guy. We've got
to teach, coach, counsel, our team that they work for
the people of our great state, our country of California.
We have to be on offense. We've got to unify
with the federal government. We used to be the bully
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pulpit of the United States growing up here. We've got
five great exports of this state, not in any order,
Tourism and travel, agriculture, entertainment, innovation, manufacturing, and education.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
As it was, we were.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
The best in class, best in class, and there's no
reason four point one trillion dollar GDP we should be
much higher than that. But we've got to operate with
performance and results. California needs a Department of performance and results.
We have forty five thousand new state workers over the
last ten years, and what are the results a deficit?
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This state should be in a position where we should
lower taxes.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Just say that. Well, that's the way it was when
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And there's no reason that we can't be heart center,
heart center, because that's who California is.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
We we got to take a break, we come back,
we'll talk further. I want to talk more about the
tax thing and the and the businesses, the business climate.
We're fiftieth. We got the highest unemployment rate. The place
is a mess. We'll talk more with Steve Stephen Klubeck.
He's running as a Democrat for governor.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
We are talking to Stephen Kluebec. He is running for
governors as a Democrat. Not your usual democrat, I'll say
that old school the way it was and not not
the modern version of democrats. And you mean socialists, socialists
varying into communism. Now, all right, let me hit you
with four quick lines. We are the business community. Well,
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the survey was done. We are fiftieth. California is the
fiftieth friendly state for business. All right. All the other
states are more friendly business climate. We are number one
in unemployment. You Hall says, we are number one in
people moving out, and we are last in people moving in.
That those four statistics facts are pretty damning.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
We're giving it all away. We have been for the
last decade. We've been giving it away.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
What is driving this high unemployment, highest taxes, worst business climate,
most people leaving, fewest people coming in. How does this
happen right in front of our eyes.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Oh, we did it.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We elected these career risks that have never signed the
front of a check. So what are you going to
do differently? Well, the good news is I fix broken.
I'm actually an expert is fixing broken. I fixed a
company that was broken twenty years. What's most broken? What's
most broken in this state? Accountability? Where's the edd COVID
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fraud money they want you to forget? That's thirty billion
dollars approximately? Where's the twenty billion dollars in the homelessness
at the state level? Where's the two billion dollars down
in Los Angeles? Why don't we put a bounty on
it of ten percent? Might you have everyone call into
your show right now? If anyone knows where's the fifty
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billion dollars As governor of this state, I'm going to
give away ten percent of it. That's five billion dollars.
Call in flood John's show right now. I want to
know where the money is. We all want to know
where the money is because it's our money.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
They do audits, they can't find any paperwork.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Who does audits? These guys? There's no paperwork. There should
be invoices where the invoices.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
There was an audit done off high speed rail. You
could throw that into the mix, and I remember we want.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
To talk about that one.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
How come we didn't build the high speed rail on
top of Interstate five?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
We own it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Why do we sub it out to the best who
can build it? The Chinese of the French? We suck
at that. Why wouldn't we hire the best and brightest.
Sounds like common sense to you, right.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It does. I just can't believe we whiffed on all
of these issues that we're listing here, all of them.
It's all bad news, not even by accident because the
weather's too good. So what how do you make how
do you make Sacramento work again? Because I don't think
anybody bothers up there.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
We're gonna have to let somebody that can roll up
their sleeves and teach, teach, somebody who has patients, somebody
who's served federally, somebody who serves at state level locally.
You think they're going to listen good news. I've done
it well, I've fixed the most broken. I'm doing it
for the right reasons. I don't need the title. I
don't need the paycheck. That's certainly right. I do need
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a job.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So what's your battle plan to get the Democratic nomination?
I think the primary is in March, correct, the primary
is June second, It's June. Now, June now, Okay, they
moved it to March last time, but I'll go with you.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's June. Trust me.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Okay, it's the clock is ticking. It's eleven months. You
come into this race very well known in your circles,
not really well known to the general republic. So what's
what's your path here? Well? Whatever, Boss kind of helped
out a little bit, Yeah it did, But what's the
general path?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Well, our social media and marketing are podcast on iHeartRadio
is doing a great job. We're talking about heart Truth,
bringing a lot of folks from California on the show,
talking about a lot of great thing Stephen J. Clubeck
podcast on iHeartRadio. And you know, I've done all the
due diligence. It's met with over three hundred people in
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the state. And when the head of Chevron, the CEO
and the head of the farm workers tell me the
same thing, isn't that interesting? Going to start paying attention
to our best customers? And I want to know from
everyone in California. It's another thing. They could flood your
station with. What law imped you from doing good business
in California?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Flood John's show? Tell them so, I'm giving away ten
percent of fifty billion dollars. That's five billion dollars. Folks,
light up the phones and tell me what and John
impeed you from doing good business California. We're going to
make sure California is back open for business and it's supportable, liveable,
and workable.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
What differentiates you from all the big names that might
be running. Suppose you're running against Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Miss IQ, miss no iq, no EQ. Are you kidding me?
Last time I talked to her was May twenty four
to twenty nineteen. She hung up on me.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
What'd you tell her? She wasn't ready for prime time?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
And she's still not anyone who blows over two billion
dollars in one hundred days.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You think they're going to get more money?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You see the polls out she runs, she's already got
sixty percent.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Can you tell me which poll's been right over the
last four cycles?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
John, come on that.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I agree. I'm not a big believer in polls. I
think the money won't the money won't be there, Okay.
And if she wants to pull a Nixon and fail
miserably again, she'll debate another great businessman like myself, and
we'll have the debate of all time.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know what that debate is going to be? Pay
per view TV? Pay per view TV.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What about the some of the other names, Katie Porter,
the tinger, swimming.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Oh, come on, Katie Worth, the whiteboard?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah her?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Okay, great, she's never signed the front of a check.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Herehere goes.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
The guy doesn't understand balance sheet and income statement. His
negatives are high. He doesn't know the difference between trademark
and constitutional law.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Samorybis Sarah, nice guy week So you can take them
all on.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Let's go right now. I'll have a debate tonight. I'm ready,
are they? I'm ready to take the keys tomorrow. Gavin
Newsom's expirations my birthday.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You know, Gavin, Well, tell me what you think of him.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Great hair, handsome, good smile, got great gavinisms, period, full stop.
Nice guy, nice guy, we're friends.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
His performance.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I don't think he's lasting business too long.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
All right, we'll talk again some time. Can't wait all right,
Steve Gluebeck, all right, he's running for governor is a
Democrat here in California.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
We just had Stephen Kluebeck on as his Democrat businessman
who's running for governor as a Democrat, John Fleischman, who
has his own website. It's called so does It Matter.
I think that's what it is, right, Sodesitmatter dot com.
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And he's been involved in Republican politics for a long time,
and this week he helpfully published all the numbers that
you don't here discussed in regular newscasts. And I don't
know why that is, but but all the television stations
in the LA Times never discuss the unemployment problems here
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in California, which are really bad. Do you know our
state unemployment rate really is tied for first worst unemployment
rate in the country. We're tied with Nevada at five
point four percent. That's the state average. It's worse than
five point four percent in a lot of places. In
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Los Angeles it's five point seven percent. No, make it
five point eight just went up five point eight percent.
That is worse unemployment by far than anywhere else in
the country. I think the average unemployment rate in the
country is about four point one. Here, it's five eight.
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In an empire five point nine. You know, the Central
Valley where they're wasting all that money on high speed
rail and they claim, well, we got to do it
because it's providing jobs. I don't know. Central Valley is
eight point seven percent unemployment, highest unemployment, with the worst
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gas prices in the country and the highest taxes. And
John Fleischman writes at private industry hemorrhaging jobs. Here's what
happened in June. Manufacturing down sixty four hundred positions minus
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sixty four hundred. The Tech Information Center lost sixty one hundred.
Professional science and technical services dropped thirty two hundred workers.
The only significant gain came from government employment and healthcare,
which added eleven thousand positions government employment. So all the
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major private sector job categories lost government employment and healthcare,
and of course healthcare runs largely not tax money. When
you added all private industry lost seventeen thousand jobs. We
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are thirty fifth among all states in job growth. You
exclude farming. And they that there's a chart here and everything,
almost everything is minus. I mean, we're losing in industries
all over the place. I don't understand. You know, we
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have lost hundreds of thousands of people. Actually it's in
seven figures.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Newsom goes on these podcasts and outright lies and the
one thing a lot of podcasts hosts I am. I mean,
I don't spend a lot of time listening too. I mean,
my time is taken up trying to put this stupid
thing together every day, so I can't listen to what
everybody else does. And I really don't care what anybody
else does. But you know, we do get snippets from
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podcasts that do some appeer on. And what I've realized
is like all these all these knuckleheads who goes to
podcast they don't do any research, so they don't own anything,
and they don't challenge him. I mean, for all the
podcast clips we've played and all the stories I've read
about these interviews he's doing, and I don't care if
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it's a right wing guy or a left wing guy
or a no wing guy. None of them say, hey,
we got the highest unemployment in the state, Davin, we
got more people moving out than anybody else in the nation.
Just look at Look at U haul move outs, We're
number one. Look at U haul move ins, We're last
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in fact one. Thing I'm gonna get to in the
next segment. It's so bad. We're gonna lose a record
number of congressional seats in five years. We're gonna lose
maybe five congress seats, which is going to mean five
fewer electoral votes, which means five fewer electoral votes for
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the Democratic candidate. And we're not the only state in
that pickle. In New York is that way too, Illinois,
all the left wing progressive governments are shedding, are shedding
a residence like crazy, because you know, New York's electing
a communist. Chicago has a hard lunatic as mayor there.
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We've got our cashtro girl and news them and people
are fleeing. Tax base has taken a big hit. They're
driving out Americans and fighting to the death to keep
illegal aliens that we the ones remaining in the state,
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have to finance. This is what's crazy. When you spell
it all out, you don't how many middle class to
wealthy people have moved out of the state of California.
I know this because I can't believe the number of
people we have listening to the podcast from out of
state and they write to us. They're ex Californians. They
listen because it justifies their move. They feel better. It's like,
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oh my god, the place is going to hell. We
did the right thing, honey, seriously. So they took all
their tax money. So Newsom has this huge deficit because
so much of the spending goes for illegal aliens thirty
five billion a year. Now we're going to lose congressional seats.
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And strangely, it's his own parties that's gonna get screwed
because there it's the Democratic stats that are losing the
electoral votes, and it states like Florida and Texas that
are going to be gaining the electoral votes. This is
a suicide mission. People are running screaming from the socialism
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and the extreme taxes and the overrun of illegal aliens.
Newsom and Bassard defending it to the death, and it's
gonna screw the National Party over because nobody has to
live here, nobody has to put up with this, and
they're not. And then he goes and outright lies on
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the podcasts, and the blockheads on the podcast don't know
any better because they don't read. It would be really
cool to have a podcast. Okay, Oh well we've got
a big get this week. We got the governor, Gavin Newsom. Okay,
and he knows what he's dealing with. He knows he's
dealing with ignorant, uninformed hosts. So he's just gonna splurt,
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splurt out all this nonsense. Is splurter word.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I don't think it is. Actually, I don't know where
I got that thumb. I don't know all the time.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I don't know what I was gonna say. But splurt works,
doesn't it blurt blurt?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
So there we go. There you go, I like splurt. Okay,
then you know what. It's fine, you do you.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's all right. We'll talk more about this coming up. Oh,
coming up after three o'clock, we're gonna talk to Jeremy potterwork.
He's in the Palisades and we're going to talk about
the Karen Bass resign now signs that are spreading. Jeremy
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lost his home in the fire. He's got a blog
on Pacific Palisades dot com and he has been questioning
everything the mayor has done from day one. So Jeremy
Padderwer coming up in three o'clock.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Eight seven seven Moys eighty six use the talkback feature
on the iHeart app. We were talking about how high
the unemployment is under Gaven Newsom. We are tied for
number one in the country at five point four percent lost.
An angelis even higher at five point eight percent. Yes,
we are living in one of the most unemployed states
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in the nation. And if you're in La County, you're
living in one of the most unemployed counties in the nation,
with the highest tax rates and the most homeless. And
Gavin Newsom had a signature policy that the legislature put
through last year. You remember the minimum wage for for
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fast food restaurant workers, twenty dollars an hour, a living wage,
they said, well, as a great term of bs living wage,
twenty dollars an hour. Actually it has turned into no
wage for eighteen thousand workers after a few months, just
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a few months after they passed an hour mandatory for
fast food workers, eighteen thousand of those people lost their jobs.
Eighteen thousand got fired because the restaurants couldn't afford to
pay it. Now, if you go to some restaurants, you're
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you're you're playing with a kiosk. You have a big
board in front of you. I ran into this today.
Went to a place that to buy donuts, had hardly
any employees.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
You bought donuts today?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Well, my wife wanted some donuts and I went in
and one of these guys looks at me and rudely
goes all of you with you in a few minutes
because he was busy making those stupid, complicated coffee orders
that people insist on having. When I blow, and I
will blow one day, it's going to be standing in
a line with a bunch of fussy idiots with an
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incomprehensible coffee order. That's right. So I want to wear
the donuts. And I just looked at the guy, and
then the second guy came over. He goes, I started
working the stupid kiosk thing. It's not that hard. She
didn't like his attitude, and in the middle of he goes, well,
i'll take your order, okay. So I gave him the order,
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got home wrong donuts? Do oh?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I hate did you call?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
No? I'm going to go back tomorrow, but I don't
have a receipt, so and I don't have the time
to do this. I'm not going to argue with a
stupid donut guy.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
This is what you need to do, John. You call
him up and say, you know, I came in to
get my wife some donuts and you guys put the
wrong donuts in the bag.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
So this is my name. I'm coming back tomorrow. I
would like some freebies.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Can I hire you out? You can make a lot
of those calls for me?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Because that that irritates me so much. I can't tell
you how many times that happens to him.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I have no patience to do that. I really don't.
That's when I'll bowl. I'll blow worse talking to like
a customer service rep than you've ever heard me on
the show. I absolutely cannot stand that whole stupid world
of vegetables. They're human vegetables.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Anyway, mister Cobelt, I understand that you're very upset and
that you think that we're vegetables.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
How can we do day better?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Anyway, it caused eighteen thousand people to lose their jobs.
For all the people who vote for the progressive Democrats,
Oh well, they're going to get me a raise. I'm
going to get a living wage twenty dollars an hour. Woo.
You were told by people much smarter than these legislators
are much more honest.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
No, the restaurants, those companies they're going to they're going
to fire you. Oh no, No they won't. They could
afford it. No they can't, or they won't. They don't
have to afford it. In fact, I think Elan Musk
opened up a diner, didn't he, The Tesla Diner, Yes, yep,
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in West Hollywood. And it's it's it's robots that are
serving people. It's also a drive through and and it's
a charging station and you can charge your car. And
they're gonna be showing these movies, these thirty minute movies.
It takes thirty minutes to charge the car. So you're
gonna sit in your car, watch the movie and the
robot comes and gives you your your cheeseburger. But anyway
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they can do, they can do robots and kiosks in
every restaurant. You're all gonna be unemployed. You're all gonna
be out of work. But you know what, I don't
think the union's ever cared really because if if they
did care. They're really really stupid people. The guys who
run unions are really really stupid. They have zero understanding
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of the economics. Newsome is no understanding theconomics. S eighteen
thousand people out of work, eighteen thousand people highest unemployment
rate in the country. Do you hear any of this? Disgusted?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Three economists from UC California, U see, San Diego, Texas,
A and M. This is one of the largest one
time minimum wage increases in United States history, and they
expected employment in the fast food industry to immediately fall
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up to four percent. So all the people shaking the
fry basket, flipping the burgers, whatever work they do, work
in the counter. As soon as they got that twenty
dollars an hour wage, gone, gone, gone, eighteen thousand people fired.
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Now the communist in New York Zoron Mamdani, he wants
to pay people thirty dollars an hour. Is a minimum
wage thirty? Well, what do you think is going to
happen if we lost eighteen thousand here in a few months,
just in the fast food industry. If he has a
citywide thirty dollars an hour minimum wage for all the industries,
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hundreds of thousands of people or more. They don't understand
simple economics, supply and demand. Business owners do not want
to go out of business, and they'll do everything they
can to prevent it. And over time, a robot is
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going to be far cheaper, a kiosk is going to
be far cheaper. There might be a one time expense upfront,
but as years go by, it's a win for the
business owner. Why are why are union people so stupid?
Why are politicians so stupid? Why are they just so deceitful?
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Maybe they know they don't care. I guess I don't know.
Do the unions get a hit from increasing the dues
for all the people who are now making twenty dollars
an hour instead of fifteen dollars an hour? Does that
increase the dues so that gives them more cash to steal?
I don't know what their motivation is, all right, Jerry
and Powder were coming up, Jeremy writes a blog on
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Pacific Palisades Dot Connie lost his home in the fire,
and he has been on Karen Bass's case. There are
signs all over the place Karen Bass resigned now. In fact,
I saw a big one this morning big banner sign
and somebody's empty lot where their home used to be.
And we posted on all our social media sites. So
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if you want to see the big Karen Bass resigned
now sign, you can see it. I hope the signs
get bigger and more plentiful, and I hope that's the greeting.
I hope everybody in the city greets Karen Bass with
the greeting, Hi, Karen resign now. Just practice that at home.
Hi Karen resign now. Machine. That matched the whole city.
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That's the way they greeted her, resign now, chanting every
time she's out in public, resign now, resign now, resign now.
Let's do it. Let's overthrow the government. Here Debra mark
Lot in the KFI twenty four hour 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, and
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of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We've been telling you
about squatters on on land that's been just left by homeowners.
You know, they can't rebuild. The squatters have entered. It
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may not be in the Palisades. It may be an
Alta Dina. The original report came over an Instagram post
from a construction a guy who owns a construction company
or runs one. And it may be Alta Dina, which
is just as bad. I know Altadena doesn't get as
much play as the Palisades, but if it's in Altadena,
it's going to be in the Palisades. I was there
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this morning. All the lots are wide open for the
taking if the bad guys want to take it, and
the police, the police, and the mayor and the county
supervisors have to do something about this immediately. All right,
Let's get on to Stephen Kluebeck. Stephen Klubeck is running
as a Democrat for governor, and we talked to him
(01:06):
a few months ago. Very successful guy sold his timeshare
company for almost two billion dollars to the Hilton Company.
Correct over over two billion dollars. You know they short
changed you in the news story, and he's come to La. Well,
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you you've you've originally came back home. You came back home.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm paying the price to come back home for the
greatest country in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
After operating a worldwide hotel company.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
He was the founder, CEO and chairman of Diamond Resorts International,
ninety two leisure resorts in Hilton Grand Vacations.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You purchased it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You got in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You got old news. You better get some some folks.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
This is according to May twenty five in Capital.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Weekly, Bad Source, Bad Source, four hundred and thirty two resorts,
thirty five five countries. I kind of agree, yeah, I
agree with the company of that.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay, Now we've been talking a lot about the fire damage.
There's no rebuilding going on. I know you've been through
there recently. I was there this morning. No visible rebuilding.
People don't know what to do in the Palisades. We
have still massive homeless situation. We've still got all kinds
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of crime. That Ensino couple that was killed where I
grew up. Yeah, there doesn't seem to be anybody in charge,
anybody that the public can talk to anybody saying, Okay,
this is wrong. We got to fix this. We are
taking the following measures. We're going to follow through. Here's
the metrics that you can judge us on. Here's who
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in charge when it comes to the rebuild. Here's who's
in charge when it comes to cleaning up the homeless
for good. We've got seventy thousand and I know these
are all California, Southern LA problems, Southern California problems, and
you're running to be governor of the whole state. But this,
this is overwhelming everybody here, and it's never ending.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
We've got local and state issues that are so prolific,
and it comes down to this, John. We've got no
accountability enough. We've got no enforcement of our laws. Okay,
we have no execution on getting things done.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Enough enough.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
We've even allowed these nonprofits to get involved, whether it
was Evan Spiegel or Rick Crusoe with La Steadfast to
make the Palisades the Palisades, or Magic Johnson with the state.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You see anything being done.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
No, I'm just not. I mean, just look I know
Rick really well, yeah, me too, and I went to
high school. Yeah, and he tries to do a lot
of good work, absolutely, but you get stymied by Karen
Basston City Hall. Everybody does. Everybody tries to work from
the outside, she stymies you. There's nothing you can do.
(04:10):
So I don't know what to do here. People are
asking me. Something's got to change. Something's got to change.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
We got to wake up and get new leadership all
over the place. You got to get new leadership all
over the place. We need business acumen running this great city,
in this great state.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I remember going all the way back being a kid
growing up that I grew up near New York. When
every things would get kind of out of control, the
business leaders would step in and write the ship because ultimately,
you know, they paid the bills, they made the donations
to the campaigns, and they wanted to protect their companies
and their investments and their employees. I don't see that
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force here. I think they were strong in the nineties
here in Los Angeles into the two thousands, but last
ten years there's no business leaders or corporations coming forth.
Moving is what they're doing now, that's the new way
they're handling it. They're just getting.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Getting down because as customers of this state, which we
all are the leaders aren't talking its best customers? And yeah,
business leadership ran the state, ran our communities, the cities
and counties. Explain to me why the business leaders aren't
standing up and banging the doors down on city hall
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right now? Explain that to me? And why don't they
just cut off their donations? I mean, why aren't they
getting aggressive? And I know Rick, Rick's a friend, but
why isn't Rick with la Steadfast going absolutely eight and
handling it. I mean, he's authoritative, He's built a great
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business as I have, and you know, enough pandering. There's
no room for pandering. Rick's not compromised. I'm not compromise.
Go after these folks. This is our money, our community,
and enough is enough. Seven months with how many permits
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have been pulled handful a travesty, a travesty. These are
heart truths, okay, and we can't take it anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, we're at that point. We're at that point. These
careerists that we've elected, they're all compromised. No one is
rolling up their sleeves and getting the job done for us,
the customers of Southern California and California.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
The problem exists. I mean Mayor. Lurry's trying up north. Now.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
At least we elected a great da in Los Angeles
and fixed that yeah debacle, someone with independence, somebody that
actually wants to serve. We got to stop electing those
that are looking for a title and a paycheck, that
have never signed the front of a check, that know
what it's like to come out of their pockets for payroll. Okay, enough,
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I'm with you. We are all Californians together. So how
could you break through? If you're governor?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You have a legislature that is seventy percent progressive. They
could override anything that you vita. They could pass anything
they want. How do you deal with this? Well, the
good news is it's like the city council. The good
news is, you know, my mentors in this business were
Bill Clinton and Harry Reid, my adopted father. Harry was
(07:41):
an assassin, but he learned to teach coach counsel. And
the job of a good governor is to teach coach
counsel and teach unintended consequences and teach everyone it's not
their money.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Coach counsel. It's a business term, it's not a political term.
I'm not a politician. I'm a business guy. We've got
to teach, coach, counsel, our team that they work for
the people of our great state, our country of California.
We have to be on offense. We've got to unify
with the federal government. We used to be the bully
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pulpit of the United States growing up here. We've got
five great exports of this state, not in any order,
Tourism and travel, agriculture, entertainment, innovation, manufacturing, and education.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
As it was, we were.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
The best in class, best in class, and there's no
reason four point one trillion dollar GDP we should be
much higher than that. But we've got to operate with
performance and results. California needs a Department of performance and results.
We have forty five thousand new state workers over the
last ten years, and what are the results a deficit?
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This state should be in a position where we should
lower taxes.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Just say that. Well, that's the way it was when
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And there's no reason that we can't be heart center,
heart center, because that's who California is.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
We we got to take a break, we come back,
we'll talk further. I want to talk more about the
tax thing and the and the businesses, the business climate.
We're fiftieth. We got the highest unemployment rate. The place
is a mess. We'll talk more with Steve Stephen Klubeck.
He's running as a Democrat for governor.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
We are talking to Stephen Kluebec. He is running for
governors as a Democrat. Not your usual democrat, I'll say
that old school the way it was and not not
the modern version of democrats. And you mean socialists, socialists
varying into communism. Now, all right, let me hit you
with four quick lines. We are the business community. Well,
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the survey was done. We are fiftieth. California is the
fiftieth friendly state for business. All right. All the other
states are more friendly business climate. We are number one
in unemployment. You Hall says, we are number one in
people moving out, and we are last in people moving in.
That those four statistics facts are pretty damning.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
We're giving it all away. We have been for the
last decade. We've been giving it away.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
What is driving this high unemployment, highest taxes, worst business climate,
most people leaving, fewest people coming in. How does this
happen right in front of our eyes.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Oh, we did it.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We elected these career risks that have never signed the
front of a check. So what are you going to
do differently? Well, the good news is I fix broken.
I'm actually an expert is fixing broken. I fixed a
company that was broken twenty years. What's most broken? What's
most broken in this state? Accountability? Where's the edd COVID
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fraud money they want you to forget? That's thirty billion
dollars approximately? Where's the twenty billion dollars in the homelessness
at the state level? Where's the two billion dollars down
in Los Angeles? Why don't we put a bounty on
it of ten percent? Might you have everyone call into
your show right now? If anyone knows where's the fifty
(11:41):
billion dollars As governor of this state, I'm going to
give away ten percent of it. That's five billion dollars.
Call in flood John's show right now. I want to
know where the money is. We all want to know
where the money is because it's our money.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
They do audits, they can't find any paperwork.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Who does audits? These guys? There's no paperwork. There should
be invoices where the invoices.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
There was an audit done off high speed rail. You
could throw that into the mix, and I remember we want.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
To talk about that one.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
How come we didn't build the high speed rail on
top of Interstate five?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
We own it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Why do we sub it out to the best who
can build it? The Chinese of the French? We suck
at that. Why wouldn't we hire the best and brightest.
Sounds like common sense to you, right.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It does. I just can't believe we whiffed on all
of these issues that we're listing here, all of them.
It's all bad news, not even by accident because the
weather's too good. So what how do you make how
do you make Sacramento work again? Because I don't think
anybody bothers up there.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
We're gonna have to let somebody that can roll up
their sleeves and teach, teach, somebody who has patients, somebody
who's served federally, somebody who serves at state level locally.
You think they're going to listen good news. I've done
it well, I've fixed the most broken. I'm doing it
for the right reasons. I don't need the title. I
don't need the paycheck. That's certainly right. I do need
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a job.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So what's your battle plan to get the Democratic nomination?
I think the primary is in March, correct, the primary
is June second, It's June. Now, June now, Okay, they
moved it to March last time, but I'll go with you.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's June. Trust me.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Okay, it's the clock is ticking. It's eleven months. You
come into this race very well known in your circles,
not really well known to the general republic. So what's
what's your path here? Well? Whatever, Boss kind of helped
out a little bit, Yeah it did, But what's the
general path?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Well, our social media and marketing are podcast on iHeartRadio
is doing a great job. We're talking about heart Truth,
bringing a lot of folks from California on the show,
talking about a lot of great thing Stephen J. Clubeck
podcast on iHeartRadio. And you know, I've done all the
due diligence. It's met with over three hundred people in
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the state. And when the head of Chevron, the CEO
and the head of the farm workers tell me the
same thing, isn't that interesting? Going to start paying attention
to our best customers? And I want to know from
everyone in California. It's another thing. They could flood your
station with. What law imped you from doing good business
in California?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Flood John's show? Tell them so, I'm giving away ten
percent of fifty billion dollars. That's five billion dollars. Folks,
light up the phones and tell me what and John
impeed you from doing good business California. We're going to
make sure California is back open for business and it's supportable, liveable,
and workable.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
What differentiates you from all the big names that might
be running. Suppose you're running against Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Miss IQ, miss no iq, no EQ. Are you kidding me?
Last time I talked to her was May twenty four
to twenty nineteen. She hung up on me.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
What'd you tell her? She wasn't ready for prime time?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
And she's still not anyone who blows over two billion
dollars in one hundred days.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You think they're going to get more money?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You see the polls out she runs, she's already got
sixty percent.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Can you tell me which poll's been right over the
last four cycles?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
John, come on that.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I agree. I'm not a big believer in polls. I
think the money won't the money won't be there, Okay.
And if she wants to pull a Nixon and fail
miserably again, she'll debate another great businessman like myself, and
we'll have the debate of all time.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know what that debate is going to be? Pay
per view TV? Pay per view TV.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What about the some of the other names, Katie Porter,
the tinger, swimming.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Oh, come on, Katie Worth, the whiteboard?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah her?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Okay, great, she's never signed the front of a check.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Herehere goes.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
The guy doesn't understand balance sheet and income statement. His
negatives are high. He doesn't know the difference between trademark
and constitutional law.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Samorybis Sarah, nice guy week So you can take them
all on.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Let's go right now. I'll have a debate tonight. I'm ready,
are they? I'm ready to take the keys tomorrow. Gavin
Newsom's expirations my birthday.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
You know, Gavin, Well, tell me what you think of him.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Great hair, handsome, good smile, got great gavinisms, period, full stop.
Nice guy, nice guy, we're friends.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
His performance.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I don't think he's lasting business too long.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
All right, we'll talk again some time. Can't wait all right,
Steve Gluebeck, all right, he's running for governor is a
Democrat here in California.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
We just had Stephen Kluebeck on as his Democrat businessman
who's running for governor as a Democrat, John Fleischman, who
has his own website. It's called so does It Matter.
I think that's what it is, right, Sodesitmatter dot com.
(17:33):
And he's been involved in Republican politics for a long time,
and this week he helpfully published all the numbers that
you don't here discussed in regular newscasts. And I don't
know why that is, but but all the television stations
in the LA Times never discuss the unemployment problems here
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in California, which are really bad. Do you know our
state unemployment rate really is tied for first worst unemployment
rate in the country. We're tied with Nevada at five
point four percent. That's the state average. It's worse than
five point four percent in a lot of places. In
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Los Angeles it's five point seven percent. No, make it
five point eight just went up five point eight percent.
That is worse unemployment by far than anywhere else in
the country. I think the average unemployment rate in the
country is about four point one. Here, it's five eight.
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In an empire five point nine. You know, the Central
Valley where they're wasting all that money on high speed
rail and they claim, well, we got to do it
because it's providing jobs. I don't know. Central Valley is
eight point seven percent unemployment, highest unemployment, with the worst
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gas prices in the country and the highest taxes. And
John Fleischman writes at private industry hemorrhaging jobs. Here's what
happened in June. Manufacturing down sixty four hundred positions minus
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sixty four hundred. The Tech Information Center lost sixty one hundred.
Professional science and technical services dropped thirty two hundred workers.
The only significant gain came from government employment and healthcare,
which added eleven thousand positions government employment. So all the
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major private sector job categories lost government employment and healthcare,
and of course healthcare runs largely not tax money. When
you added all private industry lost seventeen thousand jobs. We
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are thirty fifth among all states in job growth. You
exclude farming. And they that there's a chart here and everything,
almost everything is minus. I mean, we're losing in industries
all over the place. I don't understand. You know, we
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have lost hundreds of thousands of people. Actually it's in
seven figures.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Newsom goes on these podcasts and outright lies and the
one thing a lot of podcasts hosts I am. I mean,
I don't spend a lot of time listening too. I mean,
my time is taken up trying to put this stupid
thing together every day, so I can't listen to what
everybody else does. And I really don't care what anybody
else does. But you know, we do get snippets from
(20:58):
podcasts that do some appeer on. And what I've realized
is like all these all these knuckleheads who goes to
podcast they don't do any research, so they don't own anything,
and they don't challenge him. I mean, for all the
podcast clips we've played and all the stories I've read
about these interviews he's doing, and I don't care if
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it's a right wing guy or a left wing guy
or a no wing guy. None of them say, hey,
we got the highest unemployment in the state, Davin, we
got more people moving out than anybody else in the nation.
Just look at Look at U haul move outs, We're
number one. Look at U haul move ins, We're last
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in fact one. Thing I'm gonna get to in the
next segment. It's so bad. We're gonna lose a record
number of congressional seats in five years. We're gonna lose
maybe five congress seats, which is going to mean five
fewer electoral votes, which means five fewer electoral votes for
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the Democratic candidate. And we're not the only state in
that pickle. In New York is that way too, Illinois,
all the left wing progressive governments are shedding, are shedding
a residence like crazy, because you know, New York's electing
a communist. Chicago has a hard lunatic as mayor there.
(22:30):
We've got our cashtro girl and news them and people
are fleeing. Tax base has taken a big hit. They're
driving out Americans and fighting to the death to keep
illegal aliens that we the ones remaining in the state,
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have to finance. This is what's crazy. When you spell
it all out, you don't how many middle class to
wealthy people have moved out of the state of California.
I know this because I can't believe the number of
people we have listening to the podcast from out of
state and they write to us. They're ex Californians. They
listen because it justifies their move. They feel better. It's like,
(23:14):
oh my god, the place is going to hell. We
did the right thing, honey, seriously. So they took all
their tax money. So Newsom has this huge deficit because
so much of the spending goes for illegal aliens thirty
five billion a year. Now we're going to lose congressional seats.
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And strangely, it's his own parties that's gonna get screwed
because there it's the Democratic stats that are losing the
electoral votes, and it states like Florida and Texas that
are going to be gaining the electoral votes. This is
a suicide mission. People are running screaming from the socialism
(23:58):
and the extreme taxes and the overrun of illegal aliens.
Newsom and Bassard defending it to the death, and it's
gonna screw the National Party over because nobody has to
live here, nobody has to put up with this, and
they're not. And then he goes and outright lies on
(24:19):
the podcasts, and the blockheads on the podcast don't know
any better because they don't read. It would be really
cool to have a podcast. Okay, Oh well we've got
a big get this week. We got the governor, Gavin Newsom. Okay,
and he knows what he's dealing with. He knows he's
dealing with ignorant, uninformed hosts. So he's just gonna splurt,
(24:43):
splurt out all this nonsense. Is splurter word.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
I don't think it is. Actually, I don't know where
I got that thumb. I don't know all the time.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I don't know what I was gonna say. But splurt works,
doesn't it blurt blurt?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
So there we go. There you go, I like splurt. Okay,
then you know what. It's fine, you do you.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's all right. We'll talk more about this coming up. Oh,
coming up after three o'clock, we're gonna talk to Jeremy potterwork.
He's in the Palisades and we're going to talk about
the Karen Bass resign now signs that are spreading. Jeremy
(25:26):
lost his home in the fire. He's got a blog
on Pacific Palisades dot com and he has been questioning
everything the mayor has done from day one. So Jeremy
Padderwer coming up in three o'clock.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Eight seven seven Moys eighty six use the talkback feature
on the iHeart app. We were talking about how high
the unemployment is under Gaven Newsom. We are tied for
number one in the country at five point four percent lost.
An angelis even higher at five point eight percent. Yes,
we are living in one of the most unemployed states
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in the nation. And if you're in La County, you're
living in one of the most unemployed counties in the nation,
with the highest tax rates and the most homeless. And
Gavin Newsom had a signature policy that the legislature put
through last year. You remember the minimum wage for for
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fast food restaurant workers, twenty dollars an hour, a living wage,
they said, well, as a great term of bs living wage,
twenty dollars an hour. Actually it has turned into no
wage for eighteen thousand workers after a few months, just
(26:58):
a few months after they passed an hour mandatory for
fast food workers, eighteen thousand of those people lost their jobs.
Eighteen thousand got fired because the restaurants couldn't afford to
pay it. Now, if you go to some restaurants, you're
(27:20):
you're you're playing with a kiosk. You have a big
board in front of you. I ran into this today.
Went to a place that to buy donuts, had hardly
any employees.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
You bought donuts today?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Well, my wife wanted some donuts and I went in
and one of these guys looks at me and rudely
goes all of you with you in a few minutes
because he was busy making those stupid, complicated coffee orders
that people insist on having. When I blow, and I
will blow one day, it's going to be standing in
a line with a bunch of fussy idiots with an
(27:56):
incomprehensible coffee order. That's right. So I want to wear
the donuts. And I just looked at the guy, and
then the second guy came over. He goes, I started
working the stupid kiosk thing. It's not that hard. She
didn't like his attitude, and in the middle of he goes, well,
i'll take your order, okay. So I gave him the order,
(28:17):
got home wrong donuts? Do oh?
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I hate did you call?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
No? I'm going to go back tomorrow, but I don't
have a receipt, so and I don't have the time
to do this. I'm not going to argue with a
stupid donut guy.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
This is what you need to do, John. You call
him up and say, you know, I came in to
get my wife some donuts and you guys put the
wrong donuts in the bag.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
So this is my name. I'm coming back tomorrow. I
would like some freebies.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Can I hire you out? You can make a lot
of those calls for me?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Because that that irritates me so much. I can't tell
you how many times that happens to him.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I have no patience to do that. I really don't.
That's when I'll bowl. I'll blow worse talking to like
a customer service rep than you've ever heard me on
the show. I absolutely cannot stand that whole stupid world
of vegetables. They're human vegetables.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Anyway, mister Cobelt, I understand that you're very upset and
that you think that we're vegetables.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
How can we do day better?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Anyway, it caused eighteen thousand people to lose their jobs.
For all the people who vote for the progressive Democrats,
Oh well, they're going to get me a raise. I'm
going to get a living wage twenty dollars an hour. Woo.
You were told by people much smarter than these legislators
are much more honest.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
No, the restaurants, those companies they're going to they're going
to fire you. Oh no, No they won't. They could
afford it. No they can't, or they won't. They don't
have to afford it. In fact, I think Elan Musk
opened up a diner, didn't he, The Tesla Diner, Yes, yep,
(30:07):
in West Hollywood. And it's it's it's robots that are
serving people. It's also a drive through and and it's
a charging station and you can charge your car. And
they're gonna be showing these movies, these thirty minute movies.
It takes thirty minutes to charge the car. So you're
gonna sit in your car, watch the movie and the
robot comes and gives you your your cheeseburger. But anyway
(30:32):
they can do, they can do robots and kiosks in
every restaurant. You're all gonna be unemployed. You're all gonna
be out of work. But you know what, I don't
think the union's ever cared really because if if they
did care. They're really really stupid people. The guys who
run unions are really really stupid. They have zero understanding
(30:57):
of the economics. Newsome is no understanding theconomics. S eighteen
thousand people out of work, eighteen thousand people highest unemployment
rate in the country. Do you hear any of this? Disgusted?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Three economists from UC California, U see, San Diego, Texas,
A and M. This is one of the largest one
time minimum wage increases in United States history, and they
expected employment in the fast food industry to immediately fall
(31:32):
up to four percent. So all the people shaking the
fry basket, flipping the burgers, whatever work they do, work
in the counter. As soon as they got that twenty
dollars an hour wage, gone, gone, gone, eighteen thousand people fired.
(31:53):
Now the communist in New York Zoron Mamdani, he wants
to pay people thirty dollars an hour. Is a minimum
wage thirty? Well, what do you think is going to
happen if we lost eighteen thousand here in a few months,
just in the fast food industry. If he has a
citywide thirty dollars an hour minimum wage for all the industries,
(32:16):
hundreds of thousands of people or more. They don't understand
simple economics, supply and demand. Business owners do not want
to go out of business, and they'll do everything they
can to prevent it. And over time, a robot is
(32:38):
going to be far cheaper, a kiosk is going to
be far cheaper. There might be a one time expense upfront,
but as years go by, it's a win for the
business owner. Why are why are union people so stupid?
Why are politicians so stupid? Why are they just so deceitful?
(32:59):
Maybe they know they don't care. I guess I don't know.
Do the unions get a hit from increasing the dues
for all the people who are now making twenty dollars
an hour instead of fifteen dollars an hour? Does that
increase the dues so that gives them more cash to steal?
I don't know what their motivation is, all right, Jerry
and Powder were coming up, Jeremy writes a blog on
(33:22):
Pacific Palisades Dot Connie lost his home in the fire,
and he has been on Karen Bass's case. There are
signs all over the place Karen Bass resigned now. In fact,
I saw a big one this morning big banner sign
and somebody's empty lot where their home used to be.
And we posted on all our social media sites. So
(33:43):
if you want to see the big Karen Bass resigned
now sign, you can see it. I hope the signs
get bigger and more plentiful, and I hope that's the greeting.
I hope everybody in the city greets Karen Bass with
the greeting, Hi, Karen resign now. Just practice that at home.
Hi Karen resign now. Machine. That matched the whole city.
(34:04):
That's the way they greeted her, resign now, chanting every
time she's out in public, resign now, resign now, resign now.
Let's do it. Let's overthrow the government. Here Debra mark
Lot in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom, Hey, you've
been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can
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from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and
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