July 9, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (07/09) - CA State Senator Tony Strickland comes on the show to discuss how Democrats in Sacramento are trying to block any attempt to reverse the incredibly high gas taxes in the state of California and Gov. Newsom's trip to South Carolina. A TikToker and Kamala Harris agreed to not air her interview during the campaign because it would have made her look bad. More on Gov. Newsom devoting $101 million dollars to low income housing in burn areas like Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio
app every day after four o'clock. Whatever you missed, you
can pick up that iHeart app and find the podcast
John Cobelt's show on demand. We've had a lot we
covered in the first hour, a lot on Karen Bass,
I think I think we've cracked what's going on here.
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They're intentionally not giving permits to the people in the
balance aides in Oltadena because they want low income housing built,
and with a new law coming out of Sacramento, people
are going to give up and sell to developers.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We'll bring in low income housing.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Because they don't think that wealthy people, the wealthy people
of Palisites, or even the middle class people in Altadena
are entitled to live in those neighborhoods anymore. I'll explain
that coming up after three point thirty. Also two o'clock hour,
we went through Gavin Newsom his Phony Boloney press conference
about the fire on Monday with Katie Grimes, and then
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all the clips from his kickoff for his presidential campaign
in South Carolina. Meantime, let's go to Tony Strickland. He's
fighting on another front, which is the absurd gas prices
in California, which about four eighty in my neighborhood, five
dollars at many stations. Well, like I said, in South Carolina,
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it's two dollars and eighty cents. Tony Strickland is trying
to get gas prices lowered because there's more increases coming.
The Republicans in the Assembly in the state Senate have
bills to lower the gas prices, to lower the taxes
on it, and the Democratic legislature says no, and Newsom
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says no. Let's get Tony Strickland on to see what
he's trying to do. Tony, how are you?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I'm fantastic. How are you doing? John?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Do you think I wonder what goes through news empty
head when he drives around South Carolina and he sees
gas selling for two to eighty.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, I'm sure he's gonna go around campaign for president
and say, hey, look at the gas prices in California.
Do you want that to come to your state. You
know that's gonna be easy. We can blow him up.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
We just played about five clips of his speech and.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
He's talking about Burt buckburning and how interracial marriage used
to be illegal in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That just campaign today, he's still out of step. I mean,
by the way, Oklahoma's gas prices are two dollars and
seventy six a gallon today, We're over a dollar fifty
more per gallon than any other state you know in
Newsome and the legislature have the power to stop these
increases tomorrow if they have the political will to do so.
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And I always say gas prices high, gas prices fall
on disproportion. The hard working California families live in paycheck
to paycheck. The very people they pretend to say that
they that they fight for up here are the very
people that they hurt by their policies.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
This must be crushing to people on a tight budget, because.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Oh, it's devastating. It's devastating. I mean, and we haven't
even scots to surface, John, and you know this, but
Valero and Phillips sixty six have said that they're going
to shut down their refineries. That's twenty percent of our
state oil production. USC projected this could go up to
eight dollars a gallon. And this is not me saying it.
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USC study says they could because it's almost a perfect
storm with all the excise taxes that go on, with
the lack of refinery in California only and all these
environmental rules USC projects now I mean USC projection.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I had the professor on a couple of days ago,
Michael mcche.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yes, exactly. And so it is amazing because right now
we have a huge affordability crisis. The Democrats in the
legislature and the governor did the soupla the affordability crisis
at the start of the year, and look what they're
doing during They continue to increase the gas prices and
again it hurts the very people they say and they
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pretend that they represent.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Let's talk about what's coming in the near future, low
carbon fuel standard. California Air Resources Board is ordering this
be implemented, so they're going to have to have a
new way to refine the gas could add sixty five
cents a gallon. Your side has tried to rescind the
whole regulation, stop the price increase, and they will not
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address this, the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
No. We put it up and we put it up frequently,
multiple times, to give them the opportunity to get rid
of this regulation. It's sentate Build number two by Jones.
We have pushed this multiple times. We've given them ample
opportunity to lower the gas prices on this sixty I
actually had a bill sentate Bill ninety four that under
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the high speed rail where everybody up here knows it
won't be built as proposed to the people California, and
take those funds that we do every single year over
a billion dollars to lower gas prices for all hard
working in California families and lower the prices at the pump.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
That's what's calling is some of this tax money is
going to fund the high speed rail fiasco.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Correct, And that's what we call I call up here
the cap and trade slush funds, because on top of
them tripling the spending and state budget, that's not enough
for them because they have an addiction to spending. They've
tripled the state budget the last ten years. But that's
not enough. They have this cap and trade slush fund
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where they take the monies from the gas increase and
they put in this cap and trade fund, and that's
what's funding the high speed rail billion dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
What's the price that gets at least a majority of
the public to finally say enough.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That there's some kind of revolt. What's the number here?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I think the revolt is coming, John, I really do.
I believe it's almost like we're in nineteen early nineteen
seventy eight when California had this kind of a problem
with the property taxes and people were being taxed out
of their homes, and then Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann
came together with a Proposition thirteen in nineteen seventy eight.
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I kind of see a lot of similarities between what's
going on now and what went on back then, because
you had a Governor Jerry Brown at the time that
was out of step with the people in California and
didn't understand that they were taxing people out of their
homes through the high property tax and that revolt team.
I do believe there's gas tax revolt and a revolt
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in general about the affordability crisis in California.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All the money they're getting in. Is this all about corruption?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Is this all about all these nonprofits or these scam
green company that the Democrats might be connected to, where
their friends, their family donors are connected to. This has
got to be a financial racket.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
When you look at the budget there's so many nonprofits.
They get their funding leftist nonprofit they get their funding
from us, the taxpayers. You saw a little bit of
that happening on the federal government when they did the
doge on the USAID. There's a lot of these nonprofits
get funded by us, the people in California, the government.
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And what we need to do is lower the size
of the scope of government and have limited government. And
that would totally destroy the Democratic Party in California because
they rely on government spending to help them get re elected.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean, I mean, the nonprofit nonsense is so out
of control. Well, in LA you're probably aware. Turns out
we spent thirty four million dollars on CHARLA, which is
a leading organization for illegal alien rights, and they're funding
the riot that we just had.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Absolutely and there's so many of these nonprofits that are
around and we need Look, we need a lot of
new leadership all the way around, from top to bottom.
But we need a strong controller. A state controller can
audit everything in the state budget. And so you know,
I'm encouraging our listeners. You know, if you want the
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same thing that happen both with the same people. But
we got to get rid of these guys. I mean,
we got to get rid of these people who are
in office today because they're so out of step with
everyday citizens. I just hope that the people wake up
and they understand that the people who stay they're for
you are really not for you.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Is Newsome now officially checked out now that he's campaigning
in South Carolina?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Honestly, John I would have said he has been checked
out for months. Like I serve with five different governors.
I've never seen a governor that is less involved in
what goes on in Sacramento. We don't have a governor.
We have a guy who says he's governor, but every
morning he wakes up and he looks in the mirror
and thinks he's the president of the United States. He really,
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really really wants to be president, but he's not. And
we don't have a governor today. We have someone that's
just in that office that wants to run for president.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
How's he going to run if the gas is eight
dollars a gallon?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
He's ilusional, But you know, I would say, though, you know,
don't forget how he left San Francisco and shambles as
mayor to be Lieutenant governor of California and then governor. Right,
Usually you have to do a good job to move
up in the polical ladder. Only in politics can you
do a terrible job and try to blame someone else.
And that's what he's trying to do now. He's had
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what three or four years of total management of a
state budget, and he's trying to blame President Trump and
the administration and the homeless situation has been going on
for a decade now, and he's trying to blame people
in local government instead of looking at the mirror and
say he lacked the leadership. He spent twenty seven billion
dollars on home with this and the problem got worse,
not better.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, no one knows where the money went. All right,
thank you very much, Tony Strickling. And let us know
you keep trying to trying to crack this.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We'll keep fighting, John, We'll keep fighting.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Tony Strickling.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
He's the state senator at Huntington Beach, Republican, and he
keeps introducing bills to lower the gas prices. Uh, we're
we're paying you know, dollar fifty two bucks more than
anybody else in the country. And I mean I mean,
Newsom's in the state where they're selling gas for to
eighty right now to eighty?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Why why do we have to put up at this?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
And the Electric Car Man date has been has been
canceled by Trump, so we don't that they're because the
idea was if they raised the price high enough, it'll
force us into electric cars. Well nobody's going to go.
Now nobody wants them, and now nobody has.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
To get one.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
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Speaker 3 (11:01):
I don't often play TikToker clips, but this is something special.
There is a guy, I mean, I can't imagine how
many hundreds of thousands of Internet podcasts there are, video podcasts,
audio podcasts, TikTok little clips. There's a guy named Kareem
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Rama and he has a TikTok series called Subway Takes,
And I guess these are shorts.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Right, Yeah, it's actually quite fascinating.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And well known people come on and they give a
hot take on some odd little issue, some little pet
peeve they have.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And so.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Rama was going to have Kamala Harris come on, and
but her hot take was about bacon and it was
really weird. And maybe she was stone that day. And
you know, somebody suggested today what her thing that might
be is maybe she must be taking a lot of gummies.
And that's why that's why you like because if she
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was smoking pot, we would have seen pictures of it,
somebody would have would have spilled the story already. But
she's probably slipping a lot of gummies. So by the
time she gets on stage, I'm sure she's nervous. You
know a lot of people have stage fright, They're very
nervous speaking publicly. She's in a position she has no
business being in. So I can see her nodding up
all the time before she goes on TV or goes
and gives a speech, and she overloads on the gummies
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and then she makes no sense. Well, uh, they this
was so weird that both Harris and Rama decided we
shouldn't air this, Let's do something else. He tells that
story in this particular clip.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
From the DMCA, and they said, Hey, Kamala Harris and
Tom Walls are really interested in behind her show, So
that sounds cool. I'll at least get to tell my
daughter that I met the potential president of the United States,
and so I said yes, based on the fact that
it would be a good story, and also they both
had good takes.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
What happened with Comlin her take was.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Really confusing and weird and not good, and so mutually
agreed that we shouldn't publish it. I see, and I
got lucky because I didn't want to be blamed for
her losing.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Her take was that bad.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
It was really really bad, and it was it was like,
didn't make any sense. I can tell you I was
bacon bacon as a spice bacon as a spice bacon.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
As a spice bacon as I think that was her opinion.
You think you had, like a research group. You're trying
to figure something about.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
The research group, because originally the take that I was
pitched was great and it was that she does not
like to take her shoes off on airplanes, okay, And
I was like, one hundred percent disagree. You better be
taking the shoes off. And at the last minute, I
think research group said this makes you look rich. It's
not okay, and you need to appeal to the American people.
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So she went with a bacon and I tried to
pause the interview and say, trust me, we shouldn't do
a bacon thing, and I was overrided by this guy
who was maybe her deputy campaign manager or something. He said,
we're doing bacon. I said, all right, we'll do bacon.
And then an hour later I got a call that
said we can't do bacon. I said, I know he
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can't do bacon. But then I tried to cut it
into something else. It just wasn't working, and I was like,
you know what, I overrode the bacon themselves. First they
rode the bacon, then they overrode the bacon. Then I
tried to override their override by saying I didn't just
do all this work for no reason. I'm going to
make it work. And then I did make it work.
And then they were like this makes her look and
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I said, who's false is that? And then I was like,
if I post this, a lot of people are going
to be mad at me. If I don't post it,
I still have a cool president, or I still have
a cool photograph with.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Kama Harr and a good story.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
So I took the I took the photo and the
story and I'm really lucky that I did that.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I'm in a world they don't understand. She wanted to
talk about how bacon is a spice. He wanted her
to talk about taking your shoes off on an airplane.
That was the agreement. Yeah, she changed her mind and
said bacon is a spice. Now I read in the
post that Rama is Muslim, doesn't eat pork, and so
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he wasn't really into discussing bacon. He may have never
eaten bacon. Harris apparently told him think about it. It's
a pure flavor, and she explained how bits of cooked
bacon could be used to enhance a meal like a seasoning.
Rama asked if he could use beef for turkey instead,
told her I don't eat bacon. He then asked if
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we could do the other segment taking shoes off on
another airplane.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Then she wanted to.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Do a topic about how much she loves anchovies on pizza.
After speaking to an advisor, it.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Sounds like she was really hungry when she was talking
to what.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Makes you hungry?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
You got me there?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah, So it went from shoes on the plane to
bacon as a spice, to anchovies and pizza and they
end up not airing any of this. But he's got
a cool picture of her. He sounds as nuts as
she is. You make money doing this on TikTok. I mean,
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does he have the kind of following where he's making money.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, his stuff gets hundreds of thousands, if not millions,
of us.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
I don't know why am I working? We need to
go on TikTok. John, Well, just.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Let's talk about bacon and shoes.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Well, you go on about you can go on and
on about shoes. You can go on and on about hamburgers. Yeah,
I don't like bacon.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And you're not even Muslim, no exactly.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Oh, your favorite story of the day is coming up
in my news, by the way.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
The vegan Oh yeah, no, vegetarians are are are militant
and violent and vegans all of you, all of these
weird groups.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
I'm so violent.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I just don't But you know what I used to.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
You know, at first you saw Kamala do her thing,
It's like, oh, maybe it's a bad day, maybe she's
I think that's her.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I think that's her.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And I think part of the reason is she's sucking
on the gummies all day. And I don't know how
many of those you have to take for how many
days before your brain gets permanently fried.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I was going to say, with gummies, sometimes you eat
them and it doesn't have the desired effect, so you
eat more.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Right now, you overload on it. Can you become tolerant
of the gummies after a while.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Well, John, you had a gummy and it totally spaced
you out.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yes, because somebody was pushing them on me, My little
drug pusher over there, just because you. Then I understood
why you can't sleep.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Well.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
No, I take them to help me sleep maybe once
every few weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Money gummy had the opposite effect on me. The room
was spinning swirls.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
That happens to me too.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Oh, I was seeing chocolate and vanillas.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Because you're a gummy virgin. Your body wasn't used to it.
You took them.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You took my virginity.
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Speaker 3 (18:53):
We had a lot of good stuff today about Bass
and her lack of interest in rebuilding the Palisades, no
permits coming out of her office, which I'm going to
talk a little bit about in a minute. And also
extensive coverage of Gavin Newsom's first campaign appearance running for
president in South Carolina. He was introduced that way by
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the local congressman. He didn't deny it. And his big
two big issues and you can hear all the clips
in the two o'clock hour podcast was book burning and
interracial marriage in the nineteen sixties. Those are the dew
pressing issues. There was no discussion of, let's see having
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the highest income tax in the country, the highest gas
tax in the country, the highest sales tax in the country,
the highest homeless population in the country, the highest welfare
case load in the country, the.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Most money blown on.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Unemployment insurance during COVID, the most money blown on homelessness,
the money blown on high speed. Well, that didn't come
up in the discussion in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I'm not even done. I can go on for like
twelve more issues. None of that's discussed.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Instead, he talks about book burning and interracial marriage in
the nineteen sixties, and they were laughing and applauding him.
Hook up one morning you know, I'm thinking maybe I'm
imagining things.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Maybe that gummy you gave me.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
It would have been long gone.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It might have taken root in my brain.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And now I'm experiencing an alterary universe that's not really happening. Ah,
and somehow you're both in it.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Now I think you got it, Newsom.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
This is what I woke up to this morning. Newsom
to devote one hundred and one million dollars to rebuilding
in the Palisades. It's except it's it's low income housing
for residents. And I was touching on this yesterday, talked
with Rick Caruso on the air about it. And now
I saw this and I go, I'm right, figured it
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out today early.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But I'm right.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
There's seven thousand homes that have burned down in the Palisades.
There's about one hundred permits that have been approved, and
out to Dina there's seven thousand plus homes. One hundred
permits been approved. There's also another one thousand or two
thousand homes that burned in the Malibu and adjacent areas.
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It's hardly any permits. Now after six months, they would
have figured it out. They didn't, Okay, So I've given
up that nobody in the media is going to ask
these questions, nobody in politics is gonna oppress these issues publicly.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So we've got to use our own brains here.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You have thousands of city workers, thousands of them, and
they're permitting one hundred homes in the palisade. Why would
this be? Are they that incompetent, that lazy, that stupid,
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or do none of them care? Does Karen Bass not care?
And she has said, hey, don't worry about it, don't
bother Because here's the second piece of the puzzle. There's
two pieces to this three. First piece is Bass doesn't care,
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so she's not bothering anybody to process the permits. Or
she's told them slow walk all this and you're saying why, well,
piece number two, Scott Wiener has ability. He's pushing hard.
It's Senate Bill seventy nine. You gotta look this up.
There'd be a lot of suburban neighborhoods. Local zoning will
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be uh will be gone overruled the state. Scott Leaner
wants to get rid of local zoning laws so that
if you or your neighbor sells your lot to a developer,
the developer can build an apartment building for low income
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or homeless people right in the middle of your beautiful
little residential neighborhood. You don't believe me, Go look it up.
Send it Bill seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Go read it.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
It's on californiaglobe dot com. He tried this couple of
years ago and I got beat back. He's trying again.
That's Puzzle Peace number two. Puzzle Peace number three. The
Gavenuwsom story one hundred and one million dollars to rebuild,
to build affordable housing in Pasadena, I'm sorry in Altadena
and in the Palisades, affordable housing in the Palisades, they're
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worth no affordable housing. There's no need for it there.
They were told by everyone, we're going to read build
the Palisades exactly the way it was. But that's not
on the religious agenda of these fanatics like Weeder and
Newsom in bass. They want to force affordable housing into
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affluent neighborhoods. So the people with the multi billion dollar
homes in the Palisades, you're being told to suck on it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You don't get to rebuild the Palisades the way it
used to be.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Newsom is already mainlining money to developers who have probably
bribed him and bribed the legislature to start building affordable
housing for the poor. The whole town is going to
be that because bass is busy frustrating everyone. You can't
build permits, you can't get permits to rebuild, so and
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you can't get your insurance money.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
So if you can't get your.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Insurance money and you can't get rebuilding permits, eventually you're
going to say, oh, the hell with it, ethic.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
And then where are they supposed to go?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
They're going to disperse. There's no more palisades. Palisades will
be taken over by developers who are going to get
these sweet deals like Newsom throwing a hundred million dollars around,
and here you go apartment buildings everywhere, filled with poor
people and homeless people, because why shouldn't they have a
beautiful view in the palisades like the wealthy people have
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enjoyed all these years. You're wealthy, you're white, you're screwed.
Dass and Newsom hate you, Scott Water hates you.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
But isn't Newsome wealthy and white?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
He is, and he mysteriously has a nine million dollar
home on a two hundred thousand dollars salary. Katie Grimes
wrote another piece about that in the California Globe. It's
really complicated, but there's some kinds of shenanigans going on
with LLC's shell companies that own his home or passed
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his home from one entity to the other. Something's going
on with the way he bought his home. I'd love
to explain it on the air, but it's intentionally complicated.
I don't know how to do it that would make
any sense that you'd bother to listen. But we'll figure
this out. Let me just tell you this. If you're
in the Palisades, you're in Malibu, you're in Alt to Dean,
and out to Dean is much more middle class. Doesn't matter.
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They don't care about the middle class either, Otherwise the
gas wouldn't be five dollars a gallon. What they want
is get money from developers. The insurance system is all corrupt,
so you're not getting insurance money anytime soon. You're not
getting permits. Give up sell to the developers. They're going
to build affordable housing for the poor and homeless people,
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and that satisfies their religious belief that we should not
have people living comfortably in this society. It's your basic socialism, communism,
religious belief, and that is Bass, Wiener and Newsman. That's
what you've voted for. And now here comes a once
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in a lifetime, once in a century opportunity for Bass,
Newsom and Wiener to implement their dream. They're not going
to let the Palisades and Alta Dina get away from them.
They're going to put up these ugly Soviet style housing blocks,
apartment towers and screw you if you use to have
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a beautiful home in the Palisades. You're not going to
get a permit. Go see them. Will take you ten years,
You'll have a heart attack. You're not going to get
money from the insurance company anytime soon. You're not going
to get a permit. You're not going to get a
judge to help you out. You're not going to get anything.
You're going to sell to a developer new some Bass
and Wiener win. You lose, but you voted for them.
(27:48):
That's what's happening. No other explanation for why the permits
are so slow. As badly as I think of them,
I don't think they're that stupid. I don't think they're
that lazy. I don't think they're that incompetent. I think
this is done on purpose. What else can it be.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
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Speaker 3 (28:13):
Of course after four o'clock on the iHeart app, you
can get the podcast John Cobelt Show on demand. We've
been Tomorrow, we're going to have doctor j. Batachira on
the National Institute of Health Director, same job that Anthony
(28:33):
Fauci used to have. And doctor Batatria was very much
critical of the COVID policies during the early years of
the outbreak, and he was suppressed online on Twitter and
Facebook and criticized, heavily censored, and now he's running the
(28:57):
NIH turned out a lot of the things he said
turned out turn out to be correct. So we'll have
doctor J. Batachira coming on tomorrow, very strong. Right, Well,
you've got a credit Ray Lopez.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Ray does all the work.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Ray does a lot of heavy lifts when it comes to.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I am just the talking monkey, okay, but what a
monkey you are?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
You are? You are ours.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I want to see one of my tricks.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I love your theory about the Uh, slowness of the
permitting proces.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Doesn't it make sense?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Well, it's a diabolical sort of thing, but yeah, I
suppose it does.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm thinking, you know, if you have a deep enough
political philosophical religion that you're invested in. You know, they've
been talking endlessly about income inequality and the evils of
the wealthy, and why should they have the palisades to themselves,
why not give it over to everybody else?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
And how you could force it by government.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
You had the great statistic this might have been six
weeks ago that I heard on your show. You asked
how many affordable housing units are there in all the
Pacific Palisades?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Do you remember you?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yeah, Do you remember the answer?
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
No, two?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Two?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I knew it was pretty long.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yeah, And your point was, hey, you know it's because
that's an expensive neighborhood to living. What am I supposed
to do?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You know I didn't have this as a kid, right.
I lived in lower middle class. I've told you this.
And dad was a factory worker, and occasionally on a
Sunday after church, he would take us to go see
where the rich people lived.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Oh, let's go see where big shots live. That's what
he'd say.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Wow, So we we'd go up to we went to
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, where Richard Nixon lived. I
used to see Richard Nixon's house like twice a year.
That's great, back back when he was president. Wow, we'd
go past his house because my dad, well, we'll see
where big shots live.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
He just liked to look at all these pass but
he admired it. He wasn't angry or resentful.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Well, it worked on you didn't work now you said,
I'm going to live on those places someday.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I like Nixon's house here, I want to get one
of those. I'll make an offer.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
But I mean that was the attitude, especially if that
immigrant population in that era, It's.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Like, oh that's cool.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I thought, maybe I can't get that, but you know,
maybe my kids can get that. Yeah, And now it's
everything is resentment.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
I mean the problem for us now is that we've
just swelled from a population standpoint too. There's no place
to put everybody, and they're looking for affordable places to
put so many people. There are a lot of societal
things that are washing together to sort of enable what
you're talking about. Yea what you think.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yeah, well we're not. We're not adjusting to a changing world, right.
You know, we're living in an age where one guy
in a garage can build Amazon and make hundreds of
billions of dollars and everybody gets upset with him. It's like, so,
how much stuff did you buy an Amazon this year?
You know, look at the all twenty seven orders, look
like okay, well yeah, what's the problem.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
What's he supposed to do? Not take your mind. You're
sending him your money, so he's taking it.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
He's buying a yacht and marrying Lauren Sanchez and what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (32:07):
So Merry Christmas, clean out your garage and get to work.
All right, So we've got a big show John follow
up on that big burglary. Alex Stone's going to join us,
so they maybe see the Joe Burrow burglary. He's playing
a professional football game. Meantime he's getting his stuff stolen
and Jack, So Alex will be here to talk about
that and Ken Donald Trump really take over in New
(32:29):
York City and Washington d C. Will cover that among
other things today.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Then La'll be next.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yeah, well La maybe first. Anyway, it's a big show
job come on, beet.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
M ighting here.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Feel good only begun. We've got Michael Krazer with the news.
Thompson in for Conway next. KFI AM six forty. Hey,
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio
app every day after four o'clock. Whatever you missed, you
can pick up that iHeart app and find the podcast
John Cobelt's show on demand. We've had a lot we
covered in the first hour, a lot on Karen Bass,
I think I think we've cracked what's going on here.
(00:22):
They're intentionally not giving permits to the people in the
balance aides in Oltadena because they want low income housing built,
and with a new law coming out of Sacramento, people
are going to give up and sell to developers.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We'll bring in low income housing.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Because they don't think that wealthy people, the wealthy people
of Palisites, or even the middle class people in Altadena
are entitled to live in those neighborhoods anymore. I'll explain
that coming up after three point thirty. Also two o'clock hour,
we went through Gavin Newsom his Phony Boloney press conference
about the fire on Monday with Katie Grimes, and then
(01:03):
all the clips from his kickoff for his presidential campaign
in South Carolina. Meantime, let's go to Tony Strickland. He's
fighting on another front, which is the absurd gas prices
in California, which about four eighty in my neighborhood, five
dollars at many stations. Well, like I said, in South Carolina,
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it's two dollars and eighty cents. Tony Strickland is trying
to get gas prices lowered because there's more increases coming.
The Republicans in the Assembly in the state Senate have
bills to lower the gas prices, to lower the taxes
on it, and the Democratic legislature says no, and Newsom
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says no. Let's get Tony Strickland on to see what
he's trying to do. Tony, how are you?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I'm fantastic. How are you doing? John?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Do you think I wonder what goes through news empty
head when he drives around South Carolina and he sees
gas selling for two to eighty.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, I'm sure he's gonna go around campaign for president
and say, hey, look at the gas prices in California.
Do you want that to come to your state. You
know that's gonna be easy. We can blow him up.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
We just played about five clips of his speech and.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
He's talking about Burt buckburning and how interracial marriage used
to be illegal in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That just campaign today, he's still out of step. I mean,
by the way, Oklahoma's gas prices are two dollars and
seventy six a gallon today, We're over a dollar fifty
more per gallon than any other state you know in
Newsome and the legislature have the power to stop these
increases tomorrow if they have the political will to do so.
(02:47):
And I always say gas prices high, gas prices fall
on disproportion. The hard working California families live in paycheck
to paycheck. The very people they pretend to say that
they that they fight for up here are the very
people that they hurt by their policies.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
This must be crushing to people on a tight budget, because.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Oh, it's devastating. It's devastating. I mean, and we haven't
even scots to surface, John, and you know this, but
Valero and Phillips sixty six have said that they're going
to shut down their refineries. That's twenty percent of our
state oil production. USC projected this could go up to
eight dollars a gallon. And this is not me saying it.
(03:29):
USC study says they could because it's almost a perfect
storm with all the excise taxes that go on, with
the lack of refinery in California only and all these
environmental rules USC projects now I mean USC projection.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I had the professor on a couple of days ago,
Michael mcche.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yes, exactly. And so it is amazing because right now
we have a huge affordability crisis. The Democrats in the
legislature and the governor did the soupla the affordability crisis
at the start of the year, and look what they're
doing during They continue to increase the gas prices and
again it hurts the very people they say and they
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pretend that they represent.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Let's talk about what's coming in the near future, low
carbon fuel standard. California Air Resources Board is ordering this
be implemented, so they're going to have to have a
new way to refine the gas could add sixty five
cents a gallon. Your side has tried to rescind the
whole regulation, stop the price increase, and they will not
(04:36):
address this, the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
No. We put it up and we put it up frequently,
multiple times, to give them the opportunity to get rid
of this regulation. It's sentate Build number two by Jones.
We have pushed this multiple times. We've given them ample
opportunity to lower the gas prices on this sixty I
actually had a bill sentate Bill ninety four that under
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the high speed rail where everybody up here knows it
won't be built as proposed to the people California, and
take those funds that we do every single year over
a billion dollars to lower gas prices for all hard
working in California families and lower the prices at the pump.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
That's what's calling is some of this tax money is
going to fund the high speed rail fiasco.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Correct, And that's what we call I call up here
the cap and trade slush funds, because on top of
them tripling the spending and state budget, that's not enough
for them because they have an addiction to spending. They've
tripled the state budget the last ten years. But that's
not enough. They have this cap and trade slush fund
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where they take the monies from the gas increase and
they put in this cap and trade fund, and that's
what's funding the high speed rail billion dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
What's the price that gets at least a majority of
the public to finally say enough.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That there's some kind of revolt. What's the number here?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I think the revolt is coming, John, I really do.
I believe it's almost like we're in nineteen early nineteen
seventy eight when California had this kind of a problem
with the property taxes and people were being taxed out
of their homes, and then Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann
came together with a Proposition thirteen in nineteen seventy eight.
(06:27):
I kind of see a lot of similarities between what's
going on now and what went on back then, because
you had a Governor Jerry Brown at the time that
was out of step with the people in California and
didn't understand that they were taxing people out of their
homes through the high property tax and that revolt team.
I do believe there's gas tax revolt and a revolt
(06:48):
in general about the affordability crisis in California.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All the money they're getting in. Is this all about corruption?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Is this all about all these nonprofits or these scam
green company that the Democrats might be connected to, where
their friends, their family donors are connected to. This has
got to be a financial racket.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
When you look at the budget there's so many nonprofits.
They get their funding leftist nonprofit they get their funding
from us, the taxpayers. You saw a little bit of
that happening on the federal government when they did the
doge on the USAID. There's a lot of these nonprofits
get funded by us, the people in California, the government.
(07:31):
And what we need to do is lower the size
of the scope of government and have limited government. And
that would totally destroy the Democratic Party in California because
they rely on government spending to help them get re elected.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean, I mean, the nonprofit nonsense is so out
of control. Well, in LA you're probably aware. Turns out
we spent thirty four million dollars on CHARLA, which is
a leading organization for illegal alien rights, and they're funding
the riot that we just had.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Absolutely and there's so many of these nonprofits that are
around and we need Look, we need a lot of
new leadership all the way around, from top to bottom.
But we need a strong controller. A state controller can
audit everything in the state budget. And so you know,
I'm encouraging our listeners. You know, if you want the
(08:27):
same thing that happen both with the same people. But
we got to get rid of these guys. I mean,
we got to get rid of these people who are
in office today because they're so out of step with
everyday citizens. I just hope that the people wake up
and they understand that the people who stay they're for
you are really not for you.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Is Newsome now officially checked out now that he's campaigning
in South Carolina?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Honestly, John I would have said he has been checked
out for months. Like I serve with five different governors.
I've never seen a governor that is less involved in
what goes on in Sacramento. We don't have a governor.
We have a guy who says he's governor, but every
morning he wakes up and he looks in the mirror
and thinks he's the president of the United States. He really,
(09:10):
really really wants to be president, but he's not. And
we don't have a governor today. We have someone that's
just in that office that wants to run for president.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
How's he going to run if the gas is eight
dollars a gallon?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
He's ilusional, But you know, I would say, though, you know,
don't forget how he left San Francisco and shambles as
mayor to be Lieutenant governor of California and then governor. Right,
Usually you have to do a good job to move
up in the polical ladder. Only in politics can you
do a terrible job and try to blame someone else.
And that's what he's trying to do now. He's had
(09:45):
what three or four years of total management of a
state budget, and he's trying to blame President Trump and
the administration and the homeless situation has been going on
for a decade now, and he's trying to blame people
in local government instead of looking at the mirror and
say he lacked the leadership. He spent twenty seven billion
dollars on home with this and the problem got worse,
not better.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, no one knows where the money went. All right,
thank you very much, Tony Strickling. And let us know
you keep trying to trying to crack this.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We'll keep fighting, John, We'll keep fighting.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Tony Strickling.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
He's the state senator at Huntington Beach, Republican, and he
keeps introducing bills to lower the gas prices. Uh, we're
we're paying you know, dollar fifty two bucks more than
anybody else in the country. And I mean I mean,
Newsom's in the state where they're selling gas for to
eighty right now to eighty?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Why why do we have to put up at this?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
And the Electric Car Man date has been has been
canceled by Trump, so we don't that they're because the
idea was if they raised the price high enough, it'll
force us into electric cars. Well nobody's going to go.
Now nobody wants them, and now nobody has.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
To get one.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
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Speaker 3 (11:01):
I don't often play TikToker clips, but this is something special.
There is a guy, I mean, I can't imagine how
many hundreds of thousands of Internet podcasts there are, video podcasts,
audio podcasts, TikTok little clips. There's a guy named Kareem
(11:24):
Rama and he has a TikTok series called Subway Takes,
And I guess these are shorts.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Right, Yeah, it's actually quite fascinating.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And well known people come on and they give a
hot take on some odd little issue, some little pet
peeve they have.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And so.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Rama was going to have Kamala Harris come on, and
but her hot take was about bacon and it was
really weird. And maybe she was stone that day. And
you know, somebody suggested today what her thing that might
be is maybe she must be taking a lot of gummies.
And that's why that's why you like because if she
(12:08):
was smoking pot, we would have seen pictures of it,
somebody would have would have spilled the story already. But
she's probably slipping a lot of gummies. So by the
time she gets on stage, I'm sure she's nervous. You
know a lot of people have stage fright, They're very
nervous speaking publicly. She's in a position she has no
business being in. So I can see her nodding up
all the time before she goes on TV or goes
and gives a speech, and she overloads on the gummies
(12:31):
and then she makes no sense. Well, uh, they this
was so weird that both Harris and Rama decided we
shouldn't air this, Let's do something else. He tells that
story in this particular clip.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
From the DMCA, and they said, Hey, Kamala Harris and
Tom Walls are really interested in behind her show, So
that sounds cool. I'll at least get to tell my
daughter that I met the potential president of the United States,
and so I said yes, based on the fact that
it would be a good story, and also they both
had good takes.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
What happened with Comlin her take was.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Really confusing and weird and not good, and so mutually
agreed that we shouldn't publish it. I see, and I
got lucky because I didn't want to be blamed for
her losing.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Her take was that bad.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
It was really really bad, and it was it was like,
didn't make any sense. I can tell you I was
bacon bacon as a spice bacon as a spice bacon.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
As a spice bacon as I think that was her opinion.
You think you had, like a research group. You're trying
to figure something about.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
The research group, because originally the take that I was
pitched was great and it was that she does not
like to take her shoes off on airplanes, okay, And
I was like, one hundred percent disagree. You better be
taking the shoes off. And at the last minute, I
think research group said this makes you look rich. It's
not okay, and you need to appeal to the American people.
(14:04):
So she went with a bacon and I tried to
pause the interview and say, trust me, we shouldn't do
a bacon thing, and I was overrided by this guy
who was maybe her deputy campaign manager or something. He said,
we're doing bacon. I said, all right, we'll do bacon.
And then an hour later I got a call that
said we can't do bacon. I said, I know he
(14:26):
can't do bacon. But then I tried to cut it
into something else. It just wasn't working, and I was like,
you know what, I overrode the bacon themselves. First they
rode the bacon, then they overrode the bacon. Then I
tried to override their override by saying I didn't just
do all this work for no reason. I'm going to
make it work. And then I did make it work.
And then they were like this makes her look and
(14:47):
I said, who's false is that? And then I was like,
if I post this, a lot of people are going
to be mad at me. If I don't post it,
I still have a cool president, or I still have
a cool photograph with.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Kama Harr and a good story.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
So I took the I took the photo and the
story and I'm really lucky that I did that.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I'm in a world they don't understand. She wanted to
talk about how bacon is a spice. He wanted her
to talk about taking your shoes off on an airplane.
That was the agreement. Yeah, she changed her mind and
said bacon is a spice. Now I read in the
post that Rama is Muslim, doesn't eat pork, and so
(15:34):
he wasn't really into discussing bacon. He may have never
eaten bacon. Harris apparently told him think about it. It's
a pure flavor, and she explained how bits of cooked
bacon could be used to enhance a meal like a seasoning.
Rama asked if he could use beef for turkey instead,
told her I don't eat bacon. He then asked if
(15:56):
we could do the other segment taking shoes off on
another airplane.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Then she wanted to.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Do a topic about how much she loves anchovies on pizza.
After speaking to an advisor, it.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Sounds like she was really hungry when she was talking
to what.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Makes you hungry?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
You got me there?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah, So it went from shoes on the plane to
bacon as a spice, to anchovies and pizza and they
end up not airing any of this. But he's got
a cool picture of her. He sounds as nuts as
she is. You make money doing this on TikTok. I mean,
(16:38):
does he have the kind of following where he's making money.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah, his stuff gets hundreds of thousands, if not millions,
of us.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
I don't know why am I working? We need to
go on TikTok. John, Well, just.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Let's talk about bacon and shoes.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Well, you go on about you can go on and
on about shoes. You can go on and on about hamburgers. Yeah,
I don't like bacon.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And you're not even Muslim, no exactly.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Oh, your favorite story of the day is coming up
in my news, by the way.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
The vegan Oh yeah, no, vegetarians are are are militant
and violent and vegans all of you, all of these
weird groups.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
I'm so violent.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I just don't But you know what I used to.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
You know, at first you saw Kamala do her thing,
It's like, oh, maybe it's a bad day, maybe she's
I think that's her.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I think that's her.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
And I think part of the reason is she's sucking
on the gummies all day. And I don't know how
many of those you have to take for how many
days before your brain gets permanently fried.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I was going to say, with gummies, sometimes you eat
them and it doesn't have the desired effect, so you
eat more.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Right now, you overload on it. Can you become tolerant
of the gummies after a while.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Well, John, you had a gummy and it totally spaced
you out.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yes, because somebody was pushing them on me, My little
drug pusher over there, just because you. Then I understood
why you can't sleep.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Well.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
No, I take them to help me sleep maybe once
every few weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Money gummy had the opposite effect on me. The room
was spinning swirls.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
That happens to me too.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Oh, I was seeing chocolate and vanillas.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Because you're a gummy virgin. Your body wasn't used to it.
You took them.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You took my virginity.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
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Speaker 3 (18:53):
We had a lot of good stuff today about Bass
and her lack of interest in rebuilding the Palisades, no
permits coming out of her office, which I'm going to
talk a little bit about in a minute. And also
extensive coverage of Gavin Newsom's first campaign appearance running for
president in South Carolina. He was introduced that way by
(19:14):
the local congressman. He didn't deny it. And his big
two big issues and you can hear all the clips
in the two o'clock hour podcast was book burning and
interracial marriage in the nineteen sixties. Those are the dew
pressing issues. There was no discussion of, let's see having
(19:34):
the highest income tax in the country, the highest gas
tax in the country, the highest sales tax in the country,
the highest homeless population in the country, the highest welfare
case load in the country, the.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Most money blown on.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Unemployment insurance during COVID, the most money blown on homelessness,
the money blown on high speed. Well, that didn't come
up in the discussion in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I'm not even done. I can go on for like
twelve more issues. None of that's discussed.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Instead, he talks about book burning and interracial marriage in
the nineteen sixties, and they were laughing and applauding him.
Hook up one morning you know, I'm thinking maybe I'm
imagining things.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Maybe that gummy you gave me.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
It would have been long gone.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It might have taken root in my brain.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And now I'm experiencing an alterary universe that's not really happening. Ah,
and somehow you're both in it.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Now I think you got it, Newsom.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
This is what I woke up to this morning. Newsom
to devote one hundred and one million dollars to rebuilding
in the Palisades. It's except it's it's low income housing
for residents. And I was touching on this yesterday, talked
with Rick Caruso on the air about it. And now
I saw this and I go, I'm right, figured it
(21:00):
out today early.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But I'm right.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
There's seven thousand homes that have burned down in the Palisades.
There's about one hundred permits that have been approved, and
out to Dina there's seven thousand plus homes. One hundred
permits been approved. There's also another one thousand or two
thousand homes that burned in the Malibu and adjacent areas.
(21:27):
It's hardly any permits. Now after six months, they would
have figured it out. They didn't, Okay, So I've given
up that nobody in the media is going to ask
these questions, nobody in politics is gonna oppress these issues publicly.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So we've got to use our own brains here.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You have thousands of city workers, thousands of them, and
they're permitting one hundred homes in the palisade. Why would
this be? Are they that incompetent, that lazy, that stupid,
(22:10):
or do none of them care? Does Karen Bass not care?
And she has said, hey, don't worry about it, don't
bother Because here's the second piece of the puzzle. There's
two pieces to this three. First piece is Bass doesn't care,
(22:34):
so she's not bothering anybody to process the permits. Or
she's told them slow walk all this and you're saying why, well,
piece number two, Scott Wiener has ability. He's pushing hard.
It's Senate Bill seventy nine. You gotta look this up.
There'd be a lot of suburban neighborhoods. Local zoning will
(22:58):
be uh will be gone overruled the state. Scott Leaner
wants to get rid of local zoning laws so that
if you or your neighbor sells your lot to a developer,
the developer can build an apartment building for low income
(23:19):
or homeless people right in the middle of your beautiful
little residential neighborhood. You don't believe me, Go look it up.
Send it Bill seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Go read it.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
It's on californiaglobe dot com. He tried this couple of
years ago and I got beat back. He's trying again.
That's Puzzle Peace number two. Puzzle Peace number three. The
Gavenuwsom story one hundred and one million dollars to rebuild,
to build affordable housing in Pasadena, I'm sorry in Altadena
and in the Palisades, affordable housing in the Palisades, they're
(23:53):
worth no affordable housing. There's no need for it there.
They were told by everyone, we're going to read build
the Palisades exactly the way it was. But that's not
on the religious agenda of these fanatics like Weeder and
Newsom in bass. They want to force affordable housing into
(24:14):
affluent neighborhoods. So the people with the multi billion dollar
homes in the Palisades, you're being told to suck on it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You don't get to rebuild the Palisades the way it
used to be.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Newsom is already mainlining money to developers who have probably
bribed him and bribed the legislature to start building affordable
housing for the poor. The whole town is going to
be that because bass is busy frustrating everyone. You can't
build permits, you can't get permits to rebuild, so and
(24:51):
you can't get your insurance money.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
So if you can't get your.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Insurance money and you can't get rebuilding permits, eventually you're
going to say, oh, the hell with it, ethic.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
And then where are they supposed to go?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
They're going to disperse. There's no more palisades. Palisades will
be taken over by developers who are going to get
these sweet deals like Newsom throwing a hundred million dollars around,
and here you go apartment buildings everywhere, filled with poor
people and homeless people, because why shouldn't they have a
beautiful view in the palisades like the wealthy people have
(25:24):
enjoyed all these years. You're wealthy, you're white, you're screwed.
Dass and Newsom hate you, Scott Water hates you.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
But isn't Newsome wealthy and white?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
He is, and he mysteriously has a nine million dollar
home on a two hundred thousand dollars salary. Katie Grimes
wrote another piece about that in the California Globe. It's
really complicated, but there's some kinds of shenanigans going on
with LLC's shell companies that own his home or passed
(26:01):
his home from one entity to the other. Something's going
on with the way he bought his home. I'd love
to explain it on the air, but it's intentionally complicated.
I don't know how to do it that would make
any sense that you'd bother to listen. But we'll figure
this out. Let me just tell you this. If you're
in the Palisades, you're in Malibu, you're in Alt to Dean,
and out to Dean is much more middle class. Doesn't matter.
(26:23):
They don't care about the middle class either, Otherwise the
gas wouldn't be five dollars a gallon. What they want
is get money from developers. The insurance system is all corrupt,
so you're not getting insurance money anytime soon. You're not
getting permits. Give up sell to the developers. They're going
to build affordable housing for the poor and homeless people,
(26:46):
and that satisfies their religious belief that we should not
have people living comfortably in this society. It's your basic socialism, communism,
religious belief, and that is Bass, Wiener and Newsman. That's
what you've voted for. And now here comes a once
(27:06):
in a lifetime, once in a century opportunity for Bass,
Newsom and Wiener to implement their dream. They're not going
to let the Palisades and Alta Dina get away from them.
They're going to put up these ugly Soviet style housing blocks,
apartment towers and screw you if you use to have
(27:26):
a beautiful home in the Palisades. You're not going to
get a permit. Go see them. Will take you ten years,
You'll have a heart attack. You're not going to get
money from the insurance company anytime soon. You're not going
to get a permit. You're not going to get a
judge to help you out. You're not going to get anything.
You're going to sell to a developer new some Bass
and Wiener win. You lose, but you voted for them.
(27:48):
That's what's happening. No other explanation for why the permits
are so slow. As badly as I think of them,
I don't think they're that stupid. I don't think they're
that lazy. I don't think they're that incompetent. I think
this is done on purpose. What else can it be.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Of course after four o'clock on the iHeart app, you
can get the podcast John Cobelt Show on demand. We've
been Tomorrow, we're going to have doctor j. Batachira on
the National Institute of Health Director, same job that Anthony
(28:33):
Fauci used to have. And doctor Batatria was very much
critical of the COVID policies during the early years of
the outbreak, and he was suppressed online on Twitter and
Facebook and criticized, heavily censored, and now he's running the
(28:57):
NIH turned out a lot of the things he said
turned out turn out to be correct. So we'll have
doctor J. Batachira coming on tomorrow, very strong. Right, Well,
you've got a credit Ray Lopez.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Ray does all the work.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Ray does a lot of heavy lifts when it comes to.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I am just the talking monkey, okay, but what a
monkey you are?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
You are? You are ours.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I want to see one of my tricks.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I love your theory about the Uh, slowness of the
permitting proces.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Doesn't it make sense?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Well, it's a diabolical sort of thing, but yeah, I
suppose it does.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm thinking, you know, if you have a deep enough
political philosophical religion that you're invested in. You know, they've
been talking endlessly about income inequality and the evils of
the wealthy, and why should they have the palisades to themselves,
why not give it over to everybody else?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
And how you could force it by government.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
You had the great statistic this might have been six
weeks ago that I heard on your show. You asked
how many affordable housing units are there in all the
Pacific Palisades?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Do you remember you?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yeah, Do you remember the answer?
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
No, two?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Two?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I knew it was pretty long.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yeah, And your point was, hey, you know it's because
that's an expensive neighborhood to living. What am I supposed
to do?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You know I didn't have this as a kid, right.
I lived in lower middle class. I've told you this.
And dad was a factory worker, and occasionally on a
Sunday after church, he would take us to go see
where the rich people lived.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Oh, let's go see where big shots live. That's what
he'd say.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Wow, So we we'd go up to we went to
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, where Richard Nixon lived. I
used to see Richard Nixon's house like twice a year.
That's great, back back when he was president. Wow, we'd
go past his house because my dad, well, we'll see
where big shots live.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
He just liked to look at all these pass but
he admired it. He wasn't angry or resentful.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Well, it worked on you didn't work now you said,
I'm going to live on those places someday.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I like Nixon's house here, I want to get one
of those. I'll make an offer.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
But I mean that was the attitude, especially if that
immigrant population in that era, It's.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Like, oh that's cool.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I thought, maybe I can't get that, but you know,
maybe my kids can get that. Yeah, And now it's
everything is resentment.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
I mean the problem for us now is that we've
just swelled from a population standpoint too. There's no place
to put everybody, and they're looking for affordable places to
put so many people. There are a lot of societal
things that are washing together to sort of enable what
you're talking about. Yea what you think.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yeah, well we're not. We're not adjusting to a changing world, right.
You know, we're living in an age where one guy
in a garage can build Amazon and make hundreds of
billions of dollars and everybody gets upset with him. It's like, so,
how much stuff did you buy an Amazon this year?
You know, look at the all twenty seven orders, look
like okay, well yeah, what's the problem.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
What's he supposed to do? Not take your mind. You're
sending him your money, so he's taking it.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
He's buying a yacht and marrying Lauren Sanchez and what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (32:07):
So Merry Christmas, clean out your garage and get to work.
All right, So we've got a big show John follow
up on that big burglary. Alex Stone's going to join us,
so they maybe see the Joe Burrow burglary. He's playing
a professional football game. Meantime he's getting his stuff stolen
and Jack, So Alex will be here to talk about
that and Ken Donald Trump really take over in New
(32:29):
York City and Washington d C. Will cover that among
other things today.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Then La'll be next.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yeah, well La maybe first. Anyway, it's a big show
job come on, beet.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
M ighting here.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Feel good only begun. We've got Michael Krazer with the news.
Thompson in for Conway next. KFI AM six forty. Hey,
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