December 23, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (12/23) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the storm. A judge ruled that schools can't talk secretly with students about changing their pronouns.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Caf I Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Lou Penrose and for John Cobelt, good to have you
along with us.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
A high risk for flash flooding has been issued for
southern California for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. A very
strong extreme atmospheric river four to seven inches of rain
in just eighteen hours. So this is incredible. You could
drive straight from the Oregon border to San Diego, that's
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eight hundred and fifty miles and you'd be under a
floodwatch the entire time, according to the National Weather Service.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So yeah, California is gonna get a lot of rain.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Michael Monks is in the KFI newsroom any updates on
that forecast.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The updates are that local officials are basically telling you
Christmas is canceled. I mean that's what it sounds like.
It's it's drockting your car. Don't drive around if you
can avoid it, because the timing of this storm is
that unfortunate. I mean, nobody wants this type of storm
to blow through any time because it is so disruptive
and potentially dangerous. But this is Christmas week you know,
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you expect people will be on the roads, either leaving
town or just visiting and getting together with friends and
family for this holiday. And what we have heard at
this most recent news conference just after twelve o'clock at
the City building, city officials and the National Weather Service
are saying, if you don't have to drive, stay off
the roads.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That's how dangerous they think this storm is going to be.
Lou do you recall that ever being a warning in
the past.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I mean I've heard obviously forecasts and you know, for
everyone to know what's about to come.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And samdbag availabilities.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh, you know your local fire station, you can get
sandbags like I've heard that I have not heard in
southern California for rain to literally stay off the roads.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
No, it's interesting because it feels like twenty twenty five
has been bookended by weather events. Obviously, in January we
had these destructive wildfires that destroyed the Palisades and Alta Dina.
And this was also noted by La County Sheriff Robert
Luna today that now it looks like we're ending the
year with potential floods. And I will say, just as
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a journalist who's covered those things that this preparation does
bring back memories from the warnings that were coming out
back in January about what we were up against. And
I don't know if you know this is going to
come to fruition. Obviously, this is still a forecast. Nothing
has happened yet. We've had a little bit of drizzle
here in Burbank. It's cloudy, it's gloomy, it has weird vibes,
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but we haven't experienced it yet. So what we're hearing
from officials is just to be ready. But the thing is,
we've been talking about a rainstorm, lou The rain is
only part of the problem. National Weather Service meteorologists Ariol
Cohen spoke at the city's news conference today, and here
is part of what he said.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Widespread, significant flooding will likely occur in urban and poor
drainage areas, especially in and around the higher terrain. There
will almost certainly be numerous rock slides and mudslides, along
with areas of severe flooding in urban locations and along freeways,
which is why being out on the roads will be
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exceptionally dangerous. Additionally, flooding of smaller creeks and streams tributaries
will be likely, and mainstream river flooding will.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Also be possible. And I want to specify that.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
The flooding, rockslide and mudslide dangers will grow at a
gradual pace after the onset of the heavier rain tonight
into tomorrow morning. Because this is a long duration event,
it will take less and less rainfall to produce more
and more impacts from flooding, rock slides, and mudslides as
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the week progresses.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
What he says after that loo is just because we
get past any torrential rainfall, don't think you're out of
the world, Woods, because now because of that rainfall, the
ground has been destabilized and all that will take is
just a little bit of light rain to trigger potential
mud slides and rock slides. And by the way, it's
not just the burn scars that are to be affected
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by this forecast. Obviously, the evacuation warnings are centered around
those recent burn scars, but it's the entirety of southern
California at this point where they're saying be advised. Rocks
could be tumbling down onto freeways. You could have streets
flooding in downtown Los Angeles. This is a widespread kind
of a scary forecast.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It is definitely a scary forecast.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And as I have been listening to this just you know,
just in the background, listening to these forecasts on the newscast,
and I always assume they're talking about the burn scar
That would make sense where there were just fires, it
would make sense. But you're right, they're saying everywhere you're
gonna get covered in our mud slide, Like if you're out,
you will certainly. You use the word certainty, like you
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will certainly get you know, your car will get hit
by a boulder. I mean, it's kind of an ominous warning.
And I'm wondering what's different. I get it that there's
a lot of rain coming and it's coming for a
long duration, but there has been lesser rain events that
have caused some slides. I know that the rail corridor
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between San Diego and Los Angeles in North San Diego
County was closed a number of times last year for
a couple of days, so you know that area might
have problems. But the way he made it sound is
if you're not safe anywhere in southern California, there's like,
don't go stand on a cliff exactly don't go stand
on a cliff overlooking a harbor, but you know, play
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on a jetty.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But he made it sound like up in the foothills
you're in trouble. That's right.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I mean we've had rain events. We've had some rain
this year, and each time that any significant rainfall is
in the forecast, there is extra attention to the burn scars.
And we know that because the ground is destabilized as
susceptible to mud slides. It is rare to have these
types of events where local officials and meteorologists from the
National Weather Service are saying nowhere is safe and don't leave.
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I mean they didn't come out and say don't celebrate Christmas,
don't go places, but let's say it was heavily suggested,
because that is when the brunt of this thing is
coming down as tomorrow Christmas Eve, and it's going through Friday. Also,
as it relates to burn scars, a lot of attention
on the Palisades burn scar, the Eaton burned scar, and
the Sunset burnscar that burn in the Hollywood Hills in January,
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because those are very recent. But there are there significant
attention right now by officials to fires in the recent
past that include Agua, Dulce Lydia, Franklin Bridge Canyon, owen Hurst,
and Kenneth in Orange County, the Airport fire. I mean,
these are fires that obviously affected people, but we haven't
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talked about in a while. I mean it's been Palisades
and Eaten fires that we've been talking about all year.
These other fires are also of great concern to local
officials because they're still destabilized and the amount of rain
that's in the forecast could cause some serious problems in
those areas well.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I mean, look, whether people are fun people.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
They're you know that you know from the newsroom dealing
with weather people. They're an interesting bunch, but they are
not hysterical people, and they are true scientists and they
love this stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So I guess the wisest.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Thing to do is to believe them and just be
weary that they say it's going to be worse than
just regular rain and uh and take heat.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, I think it's fair, And just to reiterate that
they are being very serious and stone face. This isn't
a fun forecast that they're talking about. Hey, we're getting
a little bit of snow in the mountains. Isn't that cute? Hey,
some rains coming down, that's great news for a fire season.
This is serious. Also, we should know we haven't touched
on this. There's widespread wind gusts expected between thirty five
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and fifty five miles per hour across every single part
of southern California. So you've got the wind, you've got
the water, you've got the mud, you've got the rocks,
you've got the potential flooding. This is gonna be one
heck of a Christmas week.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, So the tree branches will fall and then go
and clog up the storm drain and it's the perfect
store of a mess out there.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, I was I was told.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's been reported that e bikes will be one of
the top gifts that Sanna is going to bring down
that chimney, And there's gonna be a lot of people
that are gonna want to try out.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Their new e bike.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And doesn't look like they're gonna be able to get
outside anytime.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
After Christmas kind of thing. Yeah, just sitting in the
garage yearning. Oh boy, Michael Monks, thanks so much. Good
to talk with you.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Likewise, all right, when we come back a huge win
for California parents. There's been a lawsuit against the California
Department of Education over the whole pronoun thing and whether
or not teachers should be allowed or barred from telling
parents that the child wants to be referred to by
a different pronoun and a judge made a decision. We'll
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tell you all about it coming up next to Lou
Penrose in for John Cobelt on I AM six forty
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio Act.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
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six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on the John coblt Show.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
A federal judge has ruled.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
That California's parental exclusion policy is unconstitutional and stop schools
from secretly having conversations with children about their pronouns. So
this is one of the most incredible fights we are
having in modern day society.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It really is the.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
People that run our public schools in California have a
maturity problem.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
They absolutely have a maturity.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Problem in that they believe a conversation with a child
supersedes a conversation with that child's adult parent. And I
part of me cannot believe that we have to take
this issue to court.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Part of me cannot.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Believe that every one of these school board members haven't
been recalled and ostracized for being immature idiots unfit to
oversee children.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
But we have to go to court.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And the ruling by a federal judge said the parental
exclusion is unconstitutional fifty two page judgment. Under the fourteenth Amendment,
parents have a substantive due process right to know, to
know of, and explore whether their own child's gender incongruences
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is a medical or psychological condition. Imagine that a judge
had a rule that parents have a right to know
what's going on with their own kids. So here's what happened,
in case you miss the story. The California Department of
Education and the entire teacher class or the educator class
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in the state is all woke with trans. They love
trans everything trans. Now, trans is the new black.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
That's what they love.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
The trans kids, they love the trans discussions, and they
fight hard to protect all the trans rites. And school
districts have decided that if a child says, hey, teacher,
I don't want to be called lou anymore. I want
to be called Louise, and I want to be identified
as such. So instead of saying he says she with
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respect to me. And the school districts have said, if
that happens in your classroom, teacher, you're not allowed to
share that with the parent and you're not allowed to
you can't rat out the child. So you can't change
like you could do that in the classroom, but if
you have to send an email to the parent, you
have to use the original name and the original pronoun.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You have to hide what you know from the child's parent.
So two teachers.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Followed a lawsuit in Escondido Union School District down in
San Diego, the California Board of Education and Rincon.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Middle School Middle School. This is going on in middle school,
Lovely just peaches.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So the teacher said, look, I'm not comfortable hiding this
information from parents, and you telling me that I cannot
talk to the parents about what I know about their
child is a violation of my First Amendment right.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
And that was the basis of the suit.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
And so essentially the school's policy said that if a
student has a pronoun change at school, if they want
to go by a different name or pronoun at school,
then you cannot tell parents about it.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
How about that that the school district, these three school
districts had a policy, well, these two and then the
California Board of Education supported them that you cannot tell
the parent. You cannot You will suffer consequences if you
out the kid that he wants to be called a her. Unbelievable, right,
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I mean, it's unthink if you take a step back,
it's unthinkable in mature society that we're wrestling with this.
But the judge saw fit to give parents their rights back.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
And so there was even emails sent to staff that
included the list of students who were socially transitioning at
school but had had restrictions on who you could talk
to at home.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Right, So there was actually a list of the good
parents and the bad parents. The school district sent out
emails to the teachers and said, if you have to
get in touch with a parent and it involves the
child and in any way, shape or for any of
the communication will tip the hand that the child is
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being referred to as a different gender, or the child
insisted on a different.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Pronoun then you got to go to the good parent.
Can you imagine this? Well, why not the father.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well, child says, father might not want to know about it. Well,
but it's the father. Yeah, but we know better. We're
the school, so only reach out to the mother or
vice versa. Maybe the mother has a hard time with it,
who knows. But this is how involved in your family
these school districts want to be. And it's supported by
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the Board of Education. It's incredible to me, absolutely incredible
to me. Gender identification or gender confusion or any of
those things has nothing to do with education, has nothing
to do with the school. If a child wants to
be called a different name or identified as a different gender,
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if they want to socially transition, then they need to
have a note from the their parent, And then the
parent and the child go down to the front desk
and say, I want to change my kid's name in
the register, right, just like if they would change their
last name. A lot of times this happens. Families break
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up and mother assumes the maiden name, fathers no longer
in the picture, or vice versa, and there's a legal
change to the last name, or just they want that
last name or a hyphenated last name.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Like that's all fine.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Parents have rights to do that the parent and the
child go and direct the school what to do, not
the other way around, and certainly not the child.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
These are children.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
They are expected to be immature, you know why they're immature.
But for the adult teacher or the adult administrator or
the adult educators to go along with the whims of
a child is ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
And so they had kind of a list of you know,
here's you can talk to dad and he knows, or
like the mom knows, but don't tell the other parents
sort of things.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Can you imagine school districts sending out emails to teachers
to coach them on how to lie to a family.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
It's like the worst conceivable thing.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You want to have a strong adult front to a
child about anybody lying to you, or anybody lying in
your family, or anybody directing people to lie.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Very very dangerous when a child cannot trust an adult
to be truthful.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
There are bad people who lie to children for very
devious and terrible goals. So you don't want to engage that.
You don't want to normalize lying. You don't want to
normalize misleading. You don't want to normalize not saying anything
because somebody might get upset that that's not good for children,
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and that's exactly what these teachers were directed to do,
and they sued and they won. So maybe, just maybe
sanity is being restored, but I suspect the.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Education class in the state will push back. We'll see
where it goes.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Loup Penrose Info John Cobelt on KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 3 (17:32):
Loup Penrose in for John Cobelt, Good to be with you.
A federal judge has ruled in favor of parents, saying
that California's parental exclusion policy is unconstitutional and as blocked
schools from secretly keeping children's desires to socially transition a
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secret from the parent. Socially transition means the child wants
to be referred to as a different gender and wants
the pronouns to be consistent with the new gender. One
of the schools, one of the two teachers sued one
on behalf of three at two schools.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
One was a middle school, Rincon middle school.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
So this stuff is going on in middle schools, and
it looks like parents got a little bit of their
rights back.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Hey, Louis, the first thing is Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Second thing, if the teacher is not allowed to tell
the parents and the child wants to be called by
a different name, then if I was that teacher, it
wasn't for calling that child by a different name. Just
called them by their last name. Only that's it, because
that would really never change it until they're get married
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
All right, God bless, God bless. That's not going to work.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You can't just start calling kids in your classroom by
their last name like you work at a taxi stand.
And it isn't that the teacher didn't want to share
with the parent. Was that the teacher was not allowed
to the school district's policies were This is a very
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important distinction, right because if the parent said, hey, uh,
my child is uh we're having my child's My child
would wishes that you refer to him as her and
call her call her this new name and use the
appropriate pronouns, and my husband and I are fine.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
With it, and uh so that's what we'd like.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Like if that happened, then the teacher would be compelled
to follow instruction, right, I mean, I assume. I don't
think a teacher would have a problem. I don't think
any of these teachers had problems. I think the problem
is when the teacher is being asked to keep it
a secret, to violate a trust, to either not reach
out to a specific parent that's on a list provided
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to them by the school board.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Now, I don't call the father.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I saw he's got to make America great against heer
on his car the last time he came to pick
up the kid.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Call the mother.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Like that's the kind of stuff that was going on.
Teachers were actively making assumptions about the progressive soul of
these parents and knowingly keeping parents in the dark. The
order was not to you cannot you shun't tell the parents,
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but should a situation arise in which you had to,
you had to communicate.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
With the parent. Then you had to keep like be
not mentioned and.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
You know, find out, well, what was the kid's original name,
and make sure you use the right pronouns. So, yeah,
they were putting teachers in a spot where they were
knowingly misleading parents, and that was the lawsuit. Teachers said,
we don't like to be placed in this spot. So
and I don't know that the teachers did or didn't
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agree with the whole social transitioning.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I would hope they didn't agree.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Kind of immature stuff like if a child wants to pretend,
A child can pretend, but adults ought not be pretending.
And as I said, think about because the child would know, right, Hey,
I am socially transitioning. I'm using a different gender, I'm
using a different pronoun. The teacher's in on it. So
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now the child knows that the teacher is lying to
the parent or misleading or omitting.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
To cover for the child. Right.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
So that's a very inappropriate relationship where the child and
the teacher know that they're keeping a secret from the parent.
Think about the terrible implications that could come from that
level of secrecy between any adult that's spending eight hours
a day with your child and your child.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I mean, I think you know where I'm going here.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It's not good.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Ab it, heat is distrust.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I don't know how you raise your kids, but my
wife and I we don't abide line. And I hate
it when my family puts me in a position to lie.
Sometimes it happens, especially around this time of year. We
I mean, like little white lies and I, you know, oh,
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don't tell this family member that that family member, uh,
you know came over and stayed like just little.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I don't want my kids hearing that, and I don't
want the adults in their lives asking them.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
To keep keep a secret. I don't think it's healthy.
And I live my life out loud.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
As you can tell from today's job Lou. Come on,
and Gavin Newson wants to be president. He thinks he
should be more trans kids. This transisue. They had to
get sue to stop it, and he really thinks he's
going to be president. He's just an empty headed moron,
is what he is.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Well, I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I think this is a bigger Achilles heel for Democrats
in California than they think. If you wanted to defend
adults rights to transition their gender as a Democrat, I
think you could get away with it. I think you
ought to be able to do that as a Republican.
I am a Republican and I don't care what you do.
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Like that's your life. If you feel better having nails
and painting your nails and growing your hair out and
want to wear a dress and you are more comfortable
for whatever reason, go for it. Man, live any life
you want. This is your one shot on planet Earth.
Be as comfortable as you can be. I'll even do
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you the courtesy of calling you whatever name you want.
But those are adults, and I think that's where Newsome
and so many Democrats in California made the mistake. Children
are a different story, all together, completely different story. That's
why when you go and see the drag queen shows
in downtown Palm Springs at Lulu's, there's an age, right.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
They don't let children in to go.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
See the drag queen show at nine o'clock and eleven
o'clock in downtown Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You know why. This is adult entertainment. Drag queen is adult.
It's burlesque. It's adult entertainment, not for children. But it's
still fun. It's a hoot.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I've been to drag shows and they're hilarious, but it's
adult entertainment and nobody. I don't think any fair person
would have any problem with adults deciding to transition larger,
stay out of the woman's locker room.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I think everybody's cool.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
When you get into children, it gets creepy and quite ikey,
and Democrats and their friends in the education system in
the state are in ikey Land, And I yeah, I
think if Newsom defends that he is toast on.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
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Speaker 3 (24:56):
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Show coming up. Following the news at three ABC News,
legal analysts Royal Oaks will join us to get yet
another Epstein dump data dump update. More files were released,
more photos, more pages with redacted names, and the irony
(25:31):
is that the more information that comes out, the less
any of this has to do with President Trump, and
the more we see photos of former President Bill Clinton
luxuriating like.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
In hot tubs and stuff. So there's no there there
never was, and Trump is right.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
The whole Epstein thing was a Democrat attempt to distract
from the good economic news that his policies are assuring.
In Hey, following Christmas, you're gonna return stuff and most
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(26:09):
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we'll tell you how it applies, because it's not for
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every purchase, and get your thoughts on it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
That's all coming up following the news.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
At three, my brother is a middle school English teacher,
and I asked him what he does, and he says, Hey,
that's it.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Hey you come over here, Hey you sit down. That's
how he gets around it. That's an interesting tactic. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
That we want teachers referring to their own pupils as strangers.
Look I like teachers, they're in a spot and they
don't want to be in this political spot. Most of
them are not political activists. Most of them want to
actually take a child from September and see how far
they've come by May and June. At least that's been
(27:32):
my experience. Teachers are a special breed. They don't get
paid nearly enough. They know they're not going to get
paid nearly enough. Many of them have very expensive degrees
because you have to have a master's and you have
to have a teaching credential, and that costs money, and
the starting salary of a teacher is way too low.
But they go into the profession for their love of
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watching child's minds grow. And the teachers that I've had
experience with, and I've had boys, and they all went
to public school kindergarten through sixth through eighth grade, and
they're just wonderful people. Never had a bad experience with
the teacher. I mean, that was before all this woke
stuff happened, but it wasn't that long ago. And I
(28:15):
just I noticed that about teachers. They really just their
favorite part is watching children grasp concepts and learn. So
they don't want to get involved in all this. And
I don't want to put teachers in the middle of
all this either, even if they agree with the whole
notion of a middle school child socially transitioning, they don't
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need to be caught in I can't tell the parent.
I don't want to tell the parent. I'm not allowed
to tell the parent. I'll get fired if I tell
the parent. They don't want to be in that spot.
They also don't want to be the cell phone police either,
which is another reason why I'm not hot on the
cell phone ban, because it makes the teachers the cell
phone cops, and teachers don't have time to be cell
phone cops. Right at the end of the day, who
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police is whether or not the cell phone is in
the back pocket or in the backpack, or in the
locker or locked in the car in the parking lot. Right,
each school district is going to have their own rules.
My oldest high school, it has to be out of
the classroom. It can be on the campus in the backpack,
in the locker, but not in the classroom.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And in middle school it's not allowed on the campus.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
So it's like all different rules, and then ultimately it's
the teacher who's the one that has to be the police.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And I don't want them doing that. That's not their job.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Well, you can blame all of this on Governor Transnusim.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
He's gonna have to account for a lot of these discussions.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
So you know about what it's like to be a
trans kid or a gay boy who when they come
out to their conservative Catholic or Christian parents, when they
throw them out of the house, disown them, or treat
them differently, that that's an okay thing, and that you
know best stupid.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, ma'am, you are a very immature woman and you
probably need to stay out of this discussion. Leave it
to the grown ups to discuss this one. That's the
immaturity that I think has gripped so many of the
boards of education throughout the public school districts across the state.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
That level of immaturity.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Nobody is saying that a child should be kicked out
of their house. Nobody supports that it has nothing to
do with being Christian or Catholic.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Atheists kick their.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Children out of the house too, So that what you're
talking about is child abuse.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And what you're suggesting is that we need to.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Protect children from child abuse by lying to the parents,
which is not the way to go. Child psychologists and
child social workers would not support keeping parents in the
dark because you presume that they're wearing a crucifix or
have a cross around their neck, that they're socially conservative,
and therefore we'll throw the child out of the house
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for coming out as being gay. It's absurd, lazy thinking,
and we children rely on us to be mature, not immature.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
So stay out of this one. You're in over your head,
but I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Lou Penrose on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
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You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Lou Penrose and for John Cobelt, good to have you
along with us.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
A high risk for flash flooding has been issued for
southern California for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. A very
strong extreme atmospheric river four to seven inches of rain
in just eighteen hours. So this is incredible. You could
drive straight from the Oregon border to San Diego, that's
(00:30):
eight hundred and fifty miles and you'd be under a
floodwatch the entire time, according to the National Weather Service.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So yeah, California is gonna get a lot of rain.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Michael Monks is in the KFI newsroom any updates on
that forecast.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The updates are that local officials are basically telling you
Christmas is canceled. I mean that's what it sounds like.
It's it's drockting your car. Don't drive around if you
can avoid it, because the timing of this storm is
that unfortunate. I mean, nobody wants this type of storm
to blow through any time because it is so disruptive
and potentially dangerous. But this is Christmas week you know,
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you expect people will be on the roads, either leaving
town or just visiting and getting together with friends and
family for this holiday. And what we have heard at
this most recent news conference just after twelve o'clock at
the City building, city officials and the National Weather Service
are saying, if you don't have to drive, stay off
the roads.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That's how dangerous they think this storm is going to be.
Lou do you recall that ever being a warning in
the past.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I mean I've heard obviously forecasts and you know, for
everyone to know what's about to come.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And samdbag availabilities.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh, you know your local fire station, you can get
sandbags like I've heard that I have not heard in
southern California for rain to literally stay off the roads.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
No, it's interesting because it feels like twenty twenty five
has been bookended by weather events. Obviously, in January we
had these destructive wildfires that destroyed the Palisades and Alta Dina.
And this was also noted by La County Sheriff Robert
Luna today that now it looks like we're ending the
year with potential floods. And I will say, just as
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a journalist who's covered those things that this preparation does
bring back memories from the warnings that were coming out
back in January about what we were up against. And
I don't know if you know this is going to
come to fruition. Obviously, this is still a forecast. Nothing
has happened yet. We've had a little bit of drizzle
here in Burbank. It's cloudy, it's gloomy, it has weird vibes,
(02:36):
but we haven't experienced it yet. So what we're hearing
from officials is just to be ready. But the thing is,
we've been talking about a rainstorm, lou The rain is
only part of the problem. National Weather Service meteorologists Ariol
Cohen spoke at the city's news conference today, and here
is part of what he said.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Widespread, significant flooding will likely occur in urban and poor
drainage areas, especially in and around the higher terrain. There
will almost certainly be numerous rock slides and mudslides, along
with areas of severe flooding in urban locations and along freeways,
which is why being out on the roads will be
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exceptionally dangerous. Additionally, flooding of smaller creeks and streams tributaries
will be likely, and mainstream river flooding will.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Also be possible. And I want to specify that.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
The flooding, rockslide and mudslide dangers will grow at a
gradual pace after the onset of the heavier rain tonight
into tomorrow morning. Because this is a long duration event,
it will take less and less rainfall to produce more
and more impacts from flooding, rock slides, and mudslides as
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the week progresses.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
What he says after that loo is just because we
get past any torrential rainfall, don't think you're out of
the world, Woods, because now because of that rainfall, the
ground has been destabilized and all that will take is
just a little bit of light rain to trigger potential
mud slides and rock slides. And by the way, it's
not just the burn scars that are to be affected
(04:15):
by this forecast. Obviously, the evacuation warnings are centered around
those recent burn scars, but it's the entirety of southern
California at this point where they're saying be advised. Rocks
could be tumbling down onto freeways. You could have streets
flooding in downtown Los Angeles. This is a widespread kind
of a scary forecast.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It is definitely a scary forecast.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And as I have been listening to this just you know,
just in the background, listening to these forecasts on the newscast,
and I always assume they're talking about the burn scar
That would make sense where there were just fires, it
would make sense. But you're right, they're saying everywhere you're
gonna get covered in our mud slide, Like if you're out,
you will certainly. You use the word certainty, like you
(05:00):
will certainly get you know, your car will get hit
by a boulder. I mean, it's kind of an ominous warning.
And I'm wondering what's different. I get it that there's
a lot of rain coming and it's coming for a
long duration, but there has been lesser rain events that
have caused some slides. I know that the rail corridor
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between San Diego and Los Angeles in North San Diego
County was closed a number of times last year for
a couple of days, so you know that area might
have problems. But the way he made it sound is
if you're not safe anywhere in southern California, there's like,
don't go stand on a cliff exactly don't go stand
on a cliff overlooking a harbor, but you know, play
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on a jetty.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But he made it sound like up in the foothills
you're in trouble. That's right.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I mean we've had rain events. We've had some rain
this year, and each time that any significant rainfall is
in the forecast, there is extra attention to the burn scars.
And we know that because the ground is destabilized as
susceptible to mud slides. It is rare to have these
types of events where local officials and meteorologists from the
National Weather Service are saying nowhere is safe and don't leave.
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I mean they didn't come out and say don't celebrate Christmas,
don't go places, but let's say it was heavily suggested,
because that is when the brunt of this thing is
coming down as tomorrow Christmas Eve, and it's going through Friday. Also,
as it relates to burn scars, a lot of attention
on the Palisades burn scar, the Eaton burned scar, and
the Sunset burnscar that burn in the Hollywood Hills in January,
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because those are very recent. But there are there significant
attention right now by officials to fires in the recent
past that include Agua, Dulce Lydia, Franklin Bridge Canyon, owen Hurst,
and Kenneth in Orange County, the Airport fire. I mean,
these are fires that obviously affected people, but we haven't
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talked about in a while. I mean it's been Palisades
and Eaten fires that we've been talking about all year.
These other fires are also of great concern to local
officials because they're still destabilized and the amount of rain
that's in the forecast could cause some serious problems in
those areas well.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I mean, look, whether people are fun people.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
They're you know that you know from the newsroom dealing
with weather people. They're an interesting bunch, but they are
not hysterical people, and they are true scientists and they
love this stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So I guess the wisest.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Thing to do is to believe them and just be
weary that they say it's going to be worse than
just regular rain and uh and take heat.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, I think it's fair, And just to reiterate that
they are being very serious and stone face. This isn't
a fun forecast that they're talking about. Hey, we're getting
a little bit of snow in the mountains. Isn't that cute? Hey,
some rains coming down, that's great news for a fire season.
This is serious. Also, we should know we haven't touched
on this. There's widespread wind gusts expected between thirty five
(07:53):
and fifty five miles per hour across every single part
of southern California. So you've got the wind, you've got
the water, you've got the mud, you've got the rocks,
you've got the potential flooding. This is gonna be one
heck of a Christmas week.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, So the tree branches will fall and then go
and clog up the storm drain and it's the perfect
store of a mess out there.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, I was I was told.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's been reported that e bikes will be one of
the top gifts that Sanna is going to bring down
that chimney, And there's gonna be a lot of people
that are gonna want to try out.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Their new e bike.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And doesn't look like they're gonna be able to get
outside anytime.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
After Christmas kind of thing. Yeah, just sitting in the
garage yearning. Oh boy, Michael Monks, thanks so much. Good
to talk with you.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Likewise, all right, when we come back a huge win
for California parents. There's been a lawsuit against the California
Department of Education over the whole pronoun thing and whether
or not teachers should be allowed or barred from telling
parents that the child wants to be referred to by
a different pronoun and a judge made a decision. We'll
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tell you all about it coming up next to Lou
Penrose in for John Cobelt on I AM six forty
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio Act.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on the John coblt Show.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
A federal judge has ruled.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
That California's parental exclusion policy is unconstitutional and stop schools
from secretly having conversations with children about their pronouns. So
this is one of the most incredible fights we are
having in modern day society.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It really is the.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
People that run our public schools in California have a
maturity problem.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
They absolutely have a maturity.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Problem in that they believe a conversation with a child
supersedes a conversation with that child's adult parent. And I
part of me cannot believe that we have to take
this issue to court.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Part of me cannot.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Believe that every one of these school board members haven't
been recalled and ostracized for being immature idiots unfit to
oversee children.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
But we have to go to court.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And the ruling by a federal judge said the parental
exclusion is unconstitutional fifty two page judgment. Under the fourteenth Amendment,
parents have a substantive due process right to know, to
know of, and explore whether their own child's gender incongruences
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is a medical or psychological condition. Imagine that a judge
had a rule that parents have a right to know
what's going on with their own kids. So here's what happened,
in case you miss the story. The California Department of
Education and the entire teacher class or the educator class
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in the state is all woke with trans. They love
trans everything trans. Now, trans is the new black.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
That's what they love.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
The trans kids, they love the trans discussions, and they
fight hard to protect all the trans rites. And school
districts have decided that if a child says, hey, teacher,
I don't want to be called lou anymore. I want
to be called Louise, and I want to be identified
as such. So instead of saying he says she with
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respect to me. And the school districts have said, if
that happens in your classroom, teacher, you're not allowed to
share that with the parent and you're not allowed to
you can't rat out the child. So you can't change
like you could do that in the classroom, but if
you have to send an email to the parent, you
have to use the original name and the original pronoun.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You have to hide what you know from the child's parent.
So two teachers.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Followed a lawsuit in Escondido Union School District down in
San Diego, the California Board of Education and Rincon.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Middle School Middle School. This is going on in middle school,
Lovely just peaches.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So the teacher said, look, I'm not comfortable hiding this
information from parents, and you telling me that I cannot
talk to the parents about what I know about their
child is a violation of my First Amendment right.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
And that was the basis of the suit.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
And so essentially the school's policy said that if a
student has a pronoun change at school, if they want
to go by a different name or pronoun at school,
then you cannot tell parents about it.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
How about that that the school district, these three school
districts had a policy, well, these two and then the
California Board of Education supported them that you cannot tell
the parent. You cannot You will suffer consequences if you
out the kid that he wants to be called a her. Unbelievable, right,
(13:06):
I mean, it's unthink if you take a step back,
it's unthinkable in mature society that we're wrestling with this.
But the judge saw fit to give parents their rights back.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
And so there was even emails sent to staff that
included the list of students who were socially transitioning at
school but had had restrictions on who you could talk
to at home.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Right, So there was actually a list of the good
parents and the bad parents. The school district sent out
emails to the teachers and said, if you have to
get in touch with a parent and it involves the
child and in any way, shape or for any of
the communication will tip the hand that the child is
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being referred to as a different gender, or the child
insisted on a different.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Pronoun then you got to go to the good parent.
Can you imagine this? Well, why not the father.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well, child says, father might not want to know about it. Well,
but it's the father. Yeah, but we know better. We're
the school, so only reach out to the mother or
vice versa. Maybe the mother has a hard time with it,
who knows. But this is how involved in your family
these school districts want to be. And it's supported by
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the Board of Education. It's incredible to me, absolutely incredible
to me. Gender identification or gender confusion or any of
those things has nothing to do with education, has nothing
to do with the school. If a child wants to
be called a different name or identified as a different gender,
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if they want to socially transition, then they need to
have a note from the their parent, And then the
parent and the child go down to the front desk
and say, I want to change my kid's name in
the register, right, just like if they would change their
last name. A lot of times this happens. Families break
(15:14):
up and mother assumes the maiden name, fathers no longer
in the picture, or vice versa, and there's a legal
change to the last name, or just they want that
last name or a hyphenated last name.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Like that's all fine.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Parents have rights to do that the parent and the
child go and direct the school what to do, not
the other way around, and certainly not the child.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
These are children.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
They are expected to be immature, you know why they're immature.
But for the adult teacher or the adult administrator or
the adult educators to go along with the whims of
a child is ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
And so they had kind of a list of you know,
here's you can talk to dad and he knows, or
like the mom knows, but don't tell the other parents
sort of things.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Can you imagine school districts sending out emails to teachers
to coach them on how to lie to a family.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
It's like the worst conceivable thing.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You want to have a strong adult front to a
child about anybody lying to you, or anybody lying in
your family, or anybody directing people to lie.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Very very dangerous when a child cannot trust an adult
to be truthful.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
There are bad people who lie to children for very
devious and terrible goals. So you don't want to engage that.
You don't want to normalize lying. You don't want to
normalize misleading. You don't want to normalize not saying anything
because somebody might get upset that that's not good for children,
(17:01):
and that's exactly what these teachers were directed to do,
and they sued and they won. So maybe, just maybe
sanity is being restored, but I suspect the.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Education class in the state will push back. We'll see
where it goes.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Loup Penrose Info John Cobelt on KFI AM six forty
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Loup Penrose in for John Cobelt, Good to be with you.
A federal judge has ruled in favor of parents, saying
that California's parental exclusion policy is unconstitutional and as blocked
schools from secretly keeping children's desires to socially transition a
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secret from the parent. Socially transition means the child wants
to be referred to as a different gender and wants
the pronouns to be consistent with the new gender. One
of the schools, one of the two teachers sued one
on behalf of three at two schools.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
One was a middle school, Rincon middle school.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
So this stuff is going on in middle schools, and
it looks like parents got a little bit of their
rights back.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Hey, Louis, the first thing is Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Second thing, if the teacher is not allowed to tell
the parents and the child wants to be called by
a different name, then if I was that teacher, it
wasn't for calling that child by a different name. Just
called them by their last name. Only that's it, because
that would really never change it until they're get married
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
All right, God bless, God bless. That's not going to work.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You can't just start calling kids in your classroom by
their last name like you work at a taxi stand.
And it isn't that the teacher didn't want to share
with the parent. Was that the teacher was not allowed
to the school district's policies were This is a very
(19:06):
important distinction, right because if the parent said, hey, uh,
my child is uh we're having my child's My child
would wishes that you refer to him as her and
call her call her this new name and use the
appropriate pronouns, and my husband and I are fine.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
With it, and uh so that's what we'd like.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Like if that happened, then the teacher would be compelled
to follow instruction, right, I mean, I assume. I don't
think a teacher would have a problem. I don't think
any of these teachers had problems. I think the problem
is when the teacher is being asked to keep it
a secret, to violate a trust, to either not reach
out to a specific parent that's on a list provided
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to them by the school board.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Now, I don't call the father.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I saw he's got to make America great against heer
on his car the last time he came to pick
up the kid.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Call the mother.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Like that's the kind of stuff that was going on.
Teachers were actively making assumptions about the progressive soul of
these parents and knowingly keeping parents in the dark. The
order was not to you cannot you shun't tell the parents,
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but should a situation arise in which you had to,
you had to communicate.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
With the parent. Then you had to keep like be
not mentioned and.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
You know, find out, well, what was the kid's original name,
and make sure you use the right pronouns. So, yeah,
they were putting teachers in a spot where they were
knowingly misleading parents, and that was the lawsuit. Teachers said,
we don't like to be placed in this spot. So
and I don't know that the teachers did or didn't
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agree with the whole social transitioning.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I would hope they didn't agree.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Kind of immature stuff like if a child wants to pretend,
A child can pretend, but adults ought not be pretending.
And as I said, think about because the child would know, right, Hey,
I am socially transitioning. I'm using a different gender, I'm
using a different pronoun. The teacher's in on it. So
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now the child knows that the teacher is lying to
the parent or misleading or omitting.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
To cover for the child. Right.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
So that's a very inappropriate relationship where the child and
the teacher know that they're keeping a secret from the parent.
Think about the terrible implications that could come from that
level of secrecy between any adult that's spending eight hours
a day with your child and your child.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I mean, I think you know where I'm going here.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It's not good.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Ab it, heat is distrust.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I don't know how you raise your kids, but my
wife and I we don't abide line. And I hate
it when my family puts me in a position to lie.
Sometimes it happens, especially around this time of year. We
I mean, like little white lies and I, you know, oh,
(22:22):
don't tell this family member that that family member, uh,
you know came over and stayed like just little.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I don't want my kids hearing that, and I don't
want the adults in their lives asking them.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
To keep keep a secret. I don't think it's healthy.
And I live my life out loud.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
As you can tell from today's job Lou. Come on,
and Gavin Newson wants to be president. He thinks he
should be more trans kids. This transisue. They had to
get sue to stop it, and he really thinks he's
going to be president. He's just an empty headed moron,
is what he is.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Well, I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I think this is a bigger Achilles heel for Democrats
in California than they think. If you wanted to defend
adults rights to transition their gender as a Democrat, I
think you could get away with it. I think you
ought to be able to do that as a Republican.
I am a Republican and I don't care what you do.
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Like that's your life. If you feel better having nails
and painting your nails and growing your hair out and
want to wear a dress and you are more comfortable
for whatever reason, go for it. Man, live any life
you want. This is your one shot on planet Earth.
Be as comfortable as you can be. I'll even do
(23:44):
you the courtesy of calling you whatever name you want.
But those are adults, and I think that's where Newsome
and so many Democrats in California made the mistake. Children
are a different story, all together, completely different story. That's
why when you go and see the drag queen shows
in downtown Palm Springs at Lulu's, there's an age, right.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
They don't let children in to go.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
See the drag queen show at nine o'clock and eleven
o'clock in downtown Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You know why. This is adult entertainment. Drag queen is adult.
It's burlesque. It's adult entertainment, not for children. But it's
still fun. It's a hoot.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I've been to drag shows and they're hilarious, but it's
adult entertainment and nobody. I don't think any fair person
would have any problem with adults deciding to transition larger,
stay out of the woman's locker room.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I think everybody's cool.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
When you get into children, it gets creepy and quite ikey,
and Democrats and their friends in the education system in
the state are in ikey Land, And I yeah, I
think if Newsom defends that he is toast on.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
A national stage. Lou Penrose.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
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Show coming up. Following the news at three ABC News,
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another Epstein dump data dump update. More files were released,
more photos, more pages with redacted names, and the irony
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is that the more information that comes out, the less
any of this has to do with President Trump, and
the more we see photos of former President Bill Clinton
luxuriating like.
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In hot tubs and stuff. So there's no there there
never was, and Trump is right.
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The whole Epstein thing was a Democrat attempt to distract
from the good economic news that his policies are assuring.
In Hey, following Christmas, you're gonna return stuff and most
of your favorite stores are imposing a return fee. Many
popular American retailers are going to be charging a restock fee.
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They used to call it a restocking fee. Let's see
here Ambercrombie and Fitch seven dollars, American Eagle Outfitter five dollars,
Best Buy forty five dollars on all returns unopen like
if you get it.
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Don't want it, don't try it on.
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Tags are still on it at HMM three ninety nine
to restock it, Jay Crew seven point fifty, J C.
Penny and eight dollar feet. Where is there a J? C. Penny,
Marshall's eleven ninety nine and Macy's nine ninety nine. So
we'll tell you how it applies, because it's not for
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every purchase, and get your thoughts on it.
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That's all coming up following the news.
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At three, my brother is a middle school English teacher,
and I asked him what he does, and he says, Hey,
that's it.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Hey you come over here, Hey you sit down. That's
how he gets around it. That's an interesting tactic. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
That we want teachers referring to their own pupils as strangers.
Look I like teachers, they're in a spot and they
don't want to be in this political spot. Most of
them are not political activists. Most of them want to
actually take a child from September and see how far
they've come by May and June. At least that's been
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my experience. Teachers are a special breed. They don't get
paid nearly enough. They know they're not going to get
paid nearly enough. Many of them have very expensive degrees
because you have to have a master's and you have
to have a teaching credential, and that costs money, and
the starting salary of a teacher is way too low.
But they go into the profession for their love of
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watching child's minds grow. And the teachers that I've had
experience with, and I've had boys, and they all went
to public school kindergarten through sixth through eighth grade, and
they're just wonderful people. Never had a bad experience with
the teacher. I mean, that was before all this woke
stuff happened, but it wasn't that long ago. And I
(28:15):
just I noticed that about teachers. They really just their
favorite part is watching children grasp concepts and learn. So
they don't want to get involved in all this. And
I don't want to put teachers in the middle of
all this either, even if they agree with the whole
notion of a middle school child socially transitioning, they don't
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need to be caught in I can't tell the parent.
I don't want to tell the parent. I'm not allowed
to tell the parent. I'll get fired if I tell
the parent. They don't want to be in that spot.
They also don't want to be the cell phone police either,
which is another reason why I'm not hot on the
cell phone ban, because it makes the teachers the cell
phone cops, and teachers don't have time to be cell
phone cops. Right at the end of the day, who
(29:00):
police is whether or not the cell phone is in
the back pocket or in the backpack, or in the
locker or locked in the car in the parking lot. Right,
each school district is going to have their own rules.
My oldest high school, it has to be out of
the classroom. It can be on the campus in the backpack,
in the locker, but not in the classroom.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And in middle school it's not allowed on the campus.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
So it's like all different rules, and then ultimately it's
the teacher who's the one that has to be the police.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And I don't want them doing that. That's not their job.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Well, you can blame all of this on Governor Transnusim.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
He's gonna have to account for a lot of these discussions.
Speaker 10 (29:38):
So you know about what it's like to be a
trans kid or a gay boy who when they come
out to their conservative Catholic or Christian parents, when they
throw them out of the house, disown them, or treat
them differently, that that's an okay thing, and that you
know best stupid.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, ma'am, you are a very immature woman and you
probably need to stay out of this discussion. Leave it
to the grown ups to discuss this one. That's the
immaturity that I think has gripped so many of the
boards of education throughout the public school districts across the state.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
That level of immaturity.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Nobody is saying that a child should be kicked out
of their house. Nobody supports that it has nothing to
do with being Christian or Catholic.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Atheists kick their.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Children out of the house too, So that what you're
talking about is child abuse.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And what you're suggesting is that we need to.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Protect children from child abuse by lying to the parents,
which is not the way to go. Child psychologists and
child social workers would not support keeping parents in the
dark because you presume that they're wearing a crucifix or
have a cross around their neck, that they're socially conservative,
and therefore we'll throw the child out of the house
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for coming out as being gay. It's absurd, lazy thinking,
and we children rely on us to be mature, not immature.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
So stay out of this one. You're in over your head,
but I appreciate the call.
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