July 14, 2026 • 28 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (07/14) - More on the cyclosporiasis outbreak. Gov. Gavin Newsom has some diaper issues. Communists are trying to drive the rich out of LA and New York. Gen Z is less cognitively capable than their parents.
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there's more and more of these cyclo sis sporiasis cases.
(00:51):
You've been reading this thing happening siass sporiases. That is
correct now that I look closer cyclo sporiasis. They are
now saying that there's just in Michigan there's three thousand
cases and thirty four states have reported tens to hundreds
(01:11):
of cases this summer, with the center being in Michigan.
In California there's been forty one cases. They don't think
it's linked. I guess this is possible anywhere. Its primarily
seems to be from lettuce.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, I'm not having salad for a while, and it
doesn't take much to spooky.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Okay, I don't want explosive diarrhea, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You get the illness by consuming food or water contaminated
with the feces of an infected person that had the parasite.
I guess somebody on the farm had little worms wiggling
around there.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That's a lot of lettuce that's being tainted.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And as we discussed yesterday, explosive watery diarrhea.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Not to mention the vomiting and.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Right, and you know if you don't replenish the fluids
that you could kill you. So the update is this
is from Fox LA. They're looking at lettuce and salad
greens and they're focusing on Taco Bell locations in Michigan
(02:28):
Federal and state health and investigations into whether Taco Bell
restaurants may have contributed to the outbreak.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Wait, you mean to tell me Taco Bell contributed to
a diarrhea outbreak.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I'm shocked. I am too, It's pretty stunning. Taco Bell
has been notifying customers that at some of the locations
in the Detroit area they could not serve lettuce, cilantra onions,
Pico di Gallo.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't eat that stuff. I don't know, Pico degaio. Yes,
that that's that.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It's it's almost like a salsa, but it's it's chunky.
Imagine just chunky bits of tomato, and I.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Don't eat delicious. Well, yeah, it's delicious. Well I'm not
going to have that.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
They're not serving in Detroit right now. Guacamole. Wait what
Taco Bell is not serving guacamole. They're calling it a
national recall. Taco Bell Corporation said, here's the quote. You
could probably sing along with this. The health and safety
of our guests is our top priority. And UH, Taco
(03:46):
Bell is voluntarily and temporarily removing limited ingredients as a
precautionary measure. It's selected restaurants. They have not announced a
recall involving Taco Bell, and there's no public notice yet.
But Taco Bell is on its own to say, well,
we'll take the lettuce back for a while, see what
(04:07):
happens certain results. According to the Michigan Department of Health,
point two lettuce or salad greens is a potential source
and UH, in the past, fresh produce has been linked
to Cyclospora outbreaks. Cyclospora is the bacteria bag salad, cilantro, basil, raspberry,
(04:31):
snow peas, green onions, watery, explosive diarrhea.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I have some raspberries in the fridge. I haven't opened
them yet.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You have the whole watery diarrhea menu. Uh yeah, And
it's it's it's it's farm workers probably usually yeah, pooping
in the fields, or maybe some workers at the plant
not washing their hands. And now there's there's people running
(05:03):
in a panic to restrooms all over the country, especially
in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I thought about that.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
What if that happened to us and we're on the air.
You look over, you know Debora Mark has the new where.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Deborah Mark doesn't have the news. Those are the days
I miss Ken by the way, Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, I have nobody here.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
What am I gonna do?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We used to cover for each other all the time. Fever,
you know, after a commercial break, you just heard one
of us and not the other. I remember, where where's
the other guy?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
The other guy had some some bad letters.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
All right, Well, when we come back, we've got diaper issues.
A Gavin Newsom does has nothing to do with this
watery diarrhea outbreak. Do you remember his diaper contract that
he announced with great fanfare and press conferences. Uh, they
had decided they were going to spend millions of dollars
(06:00):
of your tax money to hand out diapers to new moms,
but it was tied up with a nonprofit who the
new nonprofit was run by one of Jennifer Newsom's best friends,
so it was kind of a scandal. Well, California hasn't
released the contract yet, and at the same time, the
(06:23):
legislature is looking at a law which would keep public
records secret even longer. So something stinks really bad here.
It's not just the diapers. So we're going to tell
you about this scandal involving Newsom, his grifter wife, and
their friends and your tax money and a load of
(06:43):
expensive diapers. These diapers are significantly more expensive than the
normal ones you'd buy at a big box store.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Now you remember two months ago Gavin Newsom and his
insufferable grifter wife, Jennifer Newsom, announced that they were going
to be handing out free diapers.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
This was.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
About a twenty million dollar contract six million dollars this year,
and then it was going to be extended for another
twelve plus million dollars next year, so almost nineteen million
dollars and all mothers were going to get a big
(07:38):
loaded diapers, forty million diapers in total. The diapers were
going to go for about thirty five to forty cents
each of your spending your tax money. Now, according to
Republican state Senator Tony Strickland, you can go to Target
and find the diapers for sixteen cents.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So why if the average family can.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Go to Target and get sixteen cent diapers, is Gavin
Newsom and Jennifer Newsom spending forty cents a diaper with
your tax money? Well, here's the answer. The non profit
that they're aligned with for this project is called Baby
Too Baby, the Number two Baby, the Number two Baby.
(08:25):
They have two co CEOs. One of them is Nora Weinstein.
And guess what she sits on the board of Jennifer
Newsom's nonprofit, the California Partners Project.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
So she is a girlfriend of Jennifer Newsom and she
just got a contract worth nearly twenty million dollars. Now,
there's another co CEO for Baby to Baby Kelly Soiler,
Kelly's sawyer Patrick Off, a prolific political donor.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Oh I wonder who she donates to.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Democratic legislators are now complaining about this deal because it
looks so bad. State Senator Caroline Menjavar, who's a Democrat
from here in the valley San Fernando Valley, I will say,
the optics of this vendor is not good at all.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
What do you mean the optics? The optics? Why'd you
say it? This looks like a scam.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
This looks like a scam that Jennifer Newsom's friends are
getting a nineteen million dollar contract to buy diapers using
tax money at thirty five cents a diaper instead of
sixteen cents diaper.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And nobody was asking for diapers.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Because we have a tremendous amount of money that we
spend on on welfare, on food stamps, on all kinds
of social services. And if you're having babies and you
don't have much money, there is there are plenty of
programs that you can have access to to pay for
(10:14):
the diapers. There's also this unique option in American society.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You can go get a job.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And maybe you should work a while before you start
having babies. Well, let's say you have the baby, you're
not making enough money. There's plenty of programs to get
money to buy things at the grocery store and things
at Target. There was no cry out, there was no
outcry to have a separate government program below twenty million
(10:48):
dollars of tax money to enrich the friends and political
donors of Gavin and Jennifer. But that's what happened. On
top of that, it's been two months, and Julie Watts
at CBS News in Sacramento says, after two months, Californians
still have been not allowed to see the contract or
(11:10):
the competitive bid records. They suspect there were no competitive bids,
that Gavin and Jennifer just gave the contract to Jennifer's
friend just because they can, and then they're hiding the records. Now,
by law, they're supposed to show the records within ten days,
(11:34):
or at least they have ten days to let the
public know when they're going to provide the records. Well,
Gavin and Jennifer spent twenty four days trying to decide
whether or not it would allow Californians to see the
records and then said it would take another forty two days,
that six more weeks to provide a copy of the contract.
(11:57):
So that would be nine weeks to show the contract
and if there were any competitive bids, which nobody thinks
there was.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
On top of that, I said, well that's not bad enough.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
California lawmakers are now trying to pass a bill that
would allow agencies and the new SIMS to further delay responses.
There's something called the Public Records Act that requires eventually
agencies and officials to show to show the paperwork, and
(12:33):
now they want to delay it, and they want to
charge you a lot of money. Some some idiot named
Beyonca Pacheco, an assembly member. She wants to allow agencies
to sue if they think a request is malicious. Now,
what's the definition of the malicious request? If I think
(12:56):
the new SIMS are up to some gripter action here
and I want to see the diaper records, is that
considered malicious and now I can get sued? That's what
sounds like. Of course they would say that's malicious. You're
just you're just looking for a crime. I go, yeah,
I'm looking for a crime, and they also want to
(13:16):
charge up to sixty excuse me, sixty six dollars an
hour to provide public records, even the ACL you got
mad at that, the ACL you joined with, the Howard
Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the League of Women Voters and
all these other agency, all these other organizations to say no, no, no,
(13:37):
you can't charge just sixty six dollars an hour and
threaten to sue just because we want to see public
records about your diaper scam that your friends are enriching
themselves on. They tried to push that, but a lot
of a lot of the language got stripped in a committee.
(14:00):
But they're still keeping the part where the agencies can
take weeks and weeks and months to even answer which
is wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
See here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
There should be a lot of paperwork if this was
a competitive bid, because you ought to have an executed contract.
There ought to be a procurement packet, like on how
they got the diapers, the scope of the work, like
how many diapers? Where do they go? The competitive bid sheets,
And Gavin and Jennifer aren't releasing any of that. Of course,
(14:33):
maybe people should, maybe a taxpayer should call up baby
to baby and ask Nora Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer, Patrickkough
all those people, and say, did you if you offered
the lowest bid, how come your diapers are thirty five
cents and Target diapers are sixteen cents? And why does
(14:54):
anybody need free diapers from you people? Anyway, when we
come back, you know, it's all the rage to try
to chase rich people out of states like California and
New York. Well, in New York, there's something called the
Citizen Budget Commission, and they have actually figured out how
(15:17):
much tax revenue was lost in New York by chasing
out rich people. It's a pretty stunning amount. And this
is what's going on in California as well, but you'll
see the New York numbers.
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You know, the the progressives, the communists, the socialists, however
(16:03):
they describe themselves, they're really stupid. They're full of this
ugly hatred of successful people, and they think they can
actually control successful people so and keep them in California
and take their money, and that the successful people will
(16:26):
not do anything about it, which is incredibly stupid. And
it's being proven every day that.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
That's a false belief.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
This time, though, I'm going to give you New York
as an example, because the New York Post published the
results of a study by the Citizen Budget Commission. Now,
the communist Mom Donnie, who by the way, is not
that bright a guy, he's nothing more than a smile
and a beard, and he's running around screaming about taxing
(16:59):
the rich. Just so you know, in New York, and
it's very similar to California, the top one percent pay
forty five percent of all the state income taxes. So
when you have a relatively small group paying a very
large share of the income tax revenue, you ought to
(17:19):
be nice to them and say thank you, maybe take
him to dinner, send him some flowers. And instead, Mom Donnie,
the ahole and the idiot governor they have there Kathy Hochel.
They they and other governors and mayors, from Andrew Cuomo
(17:42):
to who is.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
That buffoon loser? Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
What was his name?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
The mayor in New York. He was there for eight years.
He was this big, burly, stupid guy. The Blasio do Blasio.
I interviewed him once the block of wood. Nothing going
on there, you mayre for eight years. He was the
equivalent of Eric Arcetti. Anyway, the Citizen Budget Commission has
(18:11):
discovered that New York's politics and tax system has chased
out so many millionaires that eleven billion dollars a year
in tax revenue has disappeared and gone to other states.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
That's how stupid they are.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
They want to tax the rich, force them to pay
their fair share and other nonsense. They just leave and
then they pay nothing to your state. They go to Florida,
which has a zero percent income tax, zero percent whether
you make ten dollars or ten billion dollars a year.
(18:51):
And now with the Internet, they can easily go and
run their companies. They can move their entire companies to
these states and they're welcome. By the way, you know,
Florida has a huge budget surplus even without an income tax.
(19:12):
And they're looking at phasing out the property tax there
for your primary home. New York has lost more population
to every state than it has gained from those states,
with Florida and Texas getting the most former New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Florida, Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Their economies are expanding so rapidly, their populations are increasing,
their tax bases are increasing, and they don't have income taxes.
New York, meantime, has this massive income tax on the
wealthy that pays almost half of all the income tax
in New York, and they've lost all these millionaires. They're
(20:03):
losing eleven billion a year. There was a mass exodus
when New York shut down at everything during COVID, and
the population bounced back a little, but it was mostly
international immigrants.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Same thing as here. That's the replacement. So you lose.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Everyone from the middle class and upper middle class who
wanted their kids to go to school, to the wealthy
and the super wealthy. They don't want to give away,
you know, twelve fourteen percent of their income every year.
They're hemorrhaging workers all over the state. And they used
(20:48):
to have the large second largest share of the nation's
millionaires at twelve point seven percent it's now dropped to
eight point seven percent. Of course, the idiot mom Donnie
is running around saying that the fears that the rich
are going to leave are overblown, except they've already left.
(21:10):
He says, there's more millionaires now than before the tax increases,
which is true, but millionaires increased far greater in most
of the other states. It quadrupled in Florida because there's
(21:31):
just a lot more millionaires because there's a lot more
people getting wealthy from the stock market. So many people
invested money in the tech in the tech stocks over
the last ten to fifteen years. I mean, go look
at what the what the stock market averages were in
(21:52):
twenty ten after the big crash, and.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Look at him now.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And if you take in every dollar that you you've
wasted on nonsense, every dollar that you wasted on only
fans or your gambling app and all the other garbage
that you spend money on, and you put that into
the stock market into tech stocks, you'd have a lot
of money. Well, this is what the wealthy people do.
They take their money and they put it into investments,
(22:19):
and then they get a lot more money. And then
you have the smile and the beard saying well, no, no,
that's mine, although it's not yours. You didn't earn the
original principle, You didn't make the investments. You had nothing
to do with the tech companies that have grown so
dramatically increasing the value of their stock. You had nothing
(22:43):
to do with it. You're just now at the back
end saying give me, get the bleep out. And they
all still and says, oh, they're not going to leave.
Yes they are. They have tremendously it's not hard to
look up. It's happening in California as well. Their hatred,
(23:06):
their emotional hatred of people who are successful, is so overwhelming.
They claim they want the rich people's money to redistribute it,
give it to the poor, to make it more fair,
except they're losing all this tax money, so there's less
money available for those programs for the poor. It they
(23:34):
end up making things worse for the people they want
to and you know they're not giving them money, or
their programs aren't effective. Much of it's stolen, much of
it here in California in La obviously stolen. That's why
they're doing this. They want a greater pipeline of wealthy
people's tax money. So they can steal it all right, more,
(23:58):
We've got to more coming up when we come back.
The Generation Z, according to neuroscientists, is the first generation
that is less cognitively capable than their parents. And why
do you think that is? I'll tell you about it.
(24:19):
It's a fascinating study.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
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Cobelt Show on demand, same as the radio show. Whatever
you missed. Final thing I want to get into is
(24:51):
Fortune magazine has done a story. You have researchers now
looking whether after twenty five years of students trying to
learn on laptop computers and iPads, whether it helped them
get smarter, do better on tests, become better workers as
(25:17):
they go into the workforce, which used to be the
purpose of school. And they found out that actually this
generation is less cognitively capable than their parents. This is
according to a neuroscientist named Jared Cooney Horvath, who in
(25:38):
testimony before this Assented Committee, says gen Z is less
cognitively capable than previous generations despite all the access to technology.
They're the first generation in modern history to score lower
on standardized tests that measure literacy and numeracy. It's been
(26:00):
declining for over ten years. Not only are the test
scores going down, but also it's connected to the scores
go down in proportion to the time spent on computers.
In skull, the more screen time, the less well they did,
(26:20):
the less cognitively sharp they are. And this is not
even including scrolling through all the garbage on social media.
This is because you learn much better when you have
paper at a pen or a pencil than when you're
taking information and typing it into an iPad, just the
(26:42):
way the brain works. Students having unfettered access to technology,
Whoeveth says, led to their skills a trophying rather than
bolstering their capabilities, and the introduction of the iPhone didn't help.
And he says it's not about rejecting technology, it's just
(27:02):
it's that's not how human learning works.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
They looked at Maine. Maine was an early adopter, as
they say.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
The governor back then, Angus Kane, had a statewide laptop
program in Maine. Seventeen thousand laptops became sixty six thousand
by twenty sixteen, so they've been at this for almost
a quarter of a century in Maine. And ten years
ago they figured out that schools had not improved in
(27:32):
fifteen years. As soon as they brought in the laptops
and the iPads, scores either flattened out or went down.
The governor, Paul Lapage at the time in twenty seventeen,
said the program was a massive failure.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
They spent tons of tax money on Apple and.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Students' brains like almost literally a trophy.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
They retain.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Far less information, far less learning when it came to
the stuff you can measure in math and reading.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
All right, we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Conway is next, and we've got Michael Krazer live in
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slash at John Cobelt's show. All right, another day, And
there's more and more of these cyclo sis sporiasis cases.
(00:51):
You've been reading this thing happening siass sporiases. That is
correct now that I look closer cyclo sporiasis. They are
now saying that there's just in Michigan there's three thousand
cases and thirty four states have reported tens to hundreds
(01:11):
of cases this summer, with the center being in Michigan.
In California there's been forty one cases. They don't think
it's linked. I guess this is possible anywhere. Its primarily
seems to be from lettuce.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, I'm not having salad for a while, and it
doesn't take much to spooky.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Okay, I don't want explosive diarrhea, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You get the illness by consuming food or water contaminated
with the feces of an infected person that had the parasite.
I guess somebody on the farm had little worms wiggling
around there.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That's a lot of lettuce that's being tainted.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And as we discussed yesterday, explosive watery diarrhea.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Not to mention the vomiting and.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Right, and you know if you don't replenish the fluids
that you could kill you. So the update is this
is from Fox LA. They're looking at lettuce and salad
greens and they're focusing on Taco Bell locations in Michigan
(02:28):
Federal and state health and investigations into whether Taco Bell
restaurants may have contributed to the outbreak.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Wait, you mean to tell me Taco Bell contributed to
a diarrhea outbreak.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I'm shocked. I am too, It's pretty stunning. Taco Bell
has been notifying customers that at some of the locations
in the Detroit area they could not serve lettuce, cilantra onions,
Pico di Gallo.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't eat that stuff. I don't know, Pico degaio. Yes,
that that's that.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It's it's almost like a salsa, but it's it's chunky.
Imagine just chunky bits of tomato, and I.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Don't eat delicious. Well, yeah, it's delicious. Well I'm not
going to have that.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
They're not serving in Detroit right now. Guacamole. Wait what
Taco Bell is not serving guacamole. They're calling it a
national recall. Taco Bell Corporation said, here's the quote. You
could probably sing along with this. The health and safety
of our guests is our top priority. And UH, Taco
(03:46):
Bell is voluntarily and temporarily removing limited ingredients as a
precautionary measure. It's selected restaurants. They have not announced a
recall involving Taco Bell, and there's no public notice yet.
But Taco Bell is on its own to say, well,
we'll take the lettuce back for a while, see what
(04:07):
happens certain results. According to the Michigan Department of Health,
point two lettuce or salad greens is a potential source
and UH, in the past, fresh produce has been linked
to Cyclospora outbreaks. Cyclospora is the bacteria bag salad, cilantro, basil, raspberry,
(04:31):
snow peas, green onions, watery, explosive diarrhea.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I have some raspberries in the fridge. I haven't opened
them yet.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You have the whole watery diarrhea menu. Uh yeah, And
it's it's it's it's farm workers probably usually yeah, pooping
in the fields, or maybe some workers at the plant
not washing their hands. And now there's there's people running
(05:03):
in a panic to restrooms all over the country, especially
in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I thought about that.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
What if that happened to us and we're on the air.
You look over, you know Debora Mark has the new where.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Deborah Mark doesn't have the news. Those are the days
I miss Ken by the way, Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, I have nobody here.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
What am I gonna do?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We used to cover for each other all the time. Fever,
you know, after a commercial break, you just heard one
of us and not the other. I remember, where where's
the other guy?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
The other guy had some some bad letters.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
All right, Well, when we come back, we've got diaper issues.
A Gavin Newsom does has nothing to do with this
watery diarrhea outbreak. Do you remember his diaper contract that
he announced with great fanfare and press conferences. Uh, they
had decided they were going to spend millions of dollars
(06:00):
of your tax money to hand out diapers to new moms,
but it was tied up with a nonprofit who the
new nonprofit was run by one of Jennifer Newsom's best friends,
so it was kind of a scandal. Well, California hasn't
released the contract yet, and at the same time, the
(06:23):
legislature is looking at a law which would keep public
records secret even longer. So something stinks really bad here.
It's not just the diapers. So we're going to tell
you about this scandal involving Newsom, his grifter wife, and
their friends and your tax money and a load of
(06:43):
expensive diapers. These diapers are significantly more expensive than the
normal ones you'd buy at a big box store.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Now you remember two months ago Gavin Newsom and his
insufferable grifter wife, Jennifer Newsom, announced that they were going
to be handing out free diapers.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
This was.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
About a twenty million dollar contract six million dollars this year,
and then it was going to be extended for another
twelve plus million dollars next year, so almost nineteen million
dollars and all mothers were going to get a big
(07:38):
loaded diapers, forty million diapers in total. The diapers were
going to go for about thirty five to forty cents
each of your spending your tax money. Now, according to
Republican state Senator Tony Strickland, you can go to Target
and find the diapers for sixteen cents.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So why if the average family can.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Go to Target and get sixteen cent diapers, is Gavin
Newsom and Jennifer Newsom spending forty cents a diaper with
your tax money? Well, here's the answer. The non profit
that they're aligned with for this project is called Baby
Too Baby, the Number two Baby, the Number two Baby.
(08:25):
They have two co CEOs. One of them is Nora Weinstein.
And guess what she sits on the board of Jennifer
Newsom's nonprofit, the California Partners Project.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
So she is a girlfriend of Jennifer Newsom and she
just got a contract worth nearly twenty million dollars. Now,
there's another co CEO for Baby to Baby Kelly Soiler,
Kelly's sawyer Patrick Off, a prolific political donor.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Oh I wonder who she donates to.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Democratic legislators are now complaining about this deal because it
looks so bad. State Senator Caroline Menjavar, who's a Democrat
from here in the valley San Fernando Valley, I will say,
the optics of this vendor is not good at all.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
What do you mean the optics? The optics? Why'd you
say it? This looks like a scam.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
This looks like a scam that Jennifer Newsom's friends are
getting a nineteen million dollar contract to buy diapers using
tax money at thirty five cents a diaper instead of
sixteen cents diaper.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And nobody was asking for diapers.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Because we have a tremendous amount of money that we
spend on on welfare, on food stamps, on all kinds
of social services. And if you're having babies and you
don't have much money, there is there are plenty of
programs that you can have access to to pay for
(10:14):
the diapers. There's also this unique option in American society.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You can go get a job.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And maybe you should work a while before you start
having babies. Well, let's say you have the baby, you're
not making enough money. There's plenty of programs to get
money to buy things at the grocery store and things
at Target. There was no cry out, there was no
outcry to have a separate government program below twenty million
(10:48):
dollars of tax money to enrich the friends and political
donors of Gavin and Jennifer. But that's what happened. On
top of that, it's been two months, and Julie Watts
at CBS News in Sacramento says, after two months, Californians
still have been not allowed to see the contract or
(11:10):
the competitive bid records. They suspect there were no competitive bids,
that Gavin and Jennifer just gave the contract to Jennifer's
friend just because they can, and then they're hiding the records. Now,
by law, they're supposed to show the records within ten days,
(11:34):
or at least they have ten days to let the
public know when they're going to provide the records. Well,
Gavin and Jennifer spent twenty four days trying to decide
whether or not it would allow Californians to see the
records and then said it would take another forty two days,
that six more weeks to provide a copy of the contract.
(11:57):
So that would be nine weeks to show the contract
and if there were any competitive bids, which nobody thinks
there was.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
On top of that, I said, well that's not bad enough.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
California lawmakers are now trying to pass a bill that
would allow agencies and the new SIMS to further delay responses.
There's something called the Public Records Act that requires eventually
agencies and officials to show to show the paperwork, and
(12:33):
now they want to delay it, and they want to
charge you a lot of money. Some some idiot named
Beyonca Pacheco, an assembly member. She wants to allow agencies
to sue if they think a request is malicious. Now,
what's the definition of the malicious request? If I think
(12:56):
the new SIMS are up to some gripter action here
and I want to see the diaper records, is that
considered malicious and now I can get sued? That's what
sounds like. Of course they would say that's malicious. You're
just you're just looking for a crime. I go, yeah,
I'm looking for a crime, and they also want to
(13:16):
charge up to sixty excuse me, sixty six dollars an
hour to provide public records, even the ACL you got
mad at that, the ACL you joined with, the Howard
Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the League of Women Voters and
all these other agency, all these other organizations to say no, no, no,
(13:37):
you can't charge just sixty six dollars an hour and
threaten to sue just because we want to see public
records about your diaper scam that your friends are enriching
themselves on. They tried to push that, but a lot
of a lot of the language got stripped in a committee.
(14:00):
But they're still keeping the part where the agencies can
take weeks and weeks and months to even answer which
is wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
See here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
There should be a lot of paperwork if this was
a competitive bid, because you ought to have an executed contract.
There ought to be a procurement packet, like on how
they got the diapers, the scope of the work, like
how many diapers? Where do they go? The competitive bid sheets,
And Gavin and Jennifer aren't releasing any of that. Of course,
(14:33):
maybe people should, maybe a taxpayer should call up baby
to baby and ask Nora Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer, Patrickkough
all those people, and say, did you if you offered
the lowest bid, how come your diapers are thirty five
cents and Target diapers are sixteen cents? And why does
(14:54):
anybody need free diapers from you people? Anyway, when we
come back, you know, it's all the rage to try
to chase rich people out of states like California and
New York. Well, in New York, there's something called the
Citizen Budget Commission, and they have actually figured out how
(15:17):
much tax revenue was lost in New York by chasing
out rich people. It's a pretty stunning amount. And this
is what's going on in California as well, but you'll
see the New York numbers.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app John
Cobelts Show. We're on till six o'clock. After six. You
miss stuff, you go to the website John Cobelt's Show. Well,
you go to the iHeartRadio app John cobelt Show on demand.
That's right, and we're live on YouTube now as well.
You know, the the progressives, the communists, the socialists, however
(16:03):
they describe themselves, they're really stupid. They're full of this
ugly hatred of successful people, and they think they can
actually control successful people so and keep them in California
and take their money, and that the successful people will
(16:26):
not do anything about it, which is incredibly stupid. And
it's being proven every day that.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
That's a false belief.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
This time, though, I'm going to give you New York
as an example, because the New York Post published the
results of a study by the Citizen Budget Commission. Now,
the communist Mom Donnie, who by the way, is not
that bright a guy, he's nothing more than a smile
and a beard, and he's running around screaming about taxing
(16:59):
the rich. Just so you know, in New York, and
it's very similar to California, the top one percent pay
forty five percent of all the state income taxes. So
when you have a relatively small group paying a very
large share of the income tax revenue, you ought to
(17:19):
be nice to them and say thank you, maybe take
him to dinner, send him some flowers. And instead, Mom Donnie,
the ahole and the idiot governor they have there Kathy Hochel.
They they and other governors and mayors, from Andrew Cuomo
(17:42):
to who is.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
That buffoon loser? Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
What was his name?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
The mayor in New York. He was there for eight years.
He was this big, burly, stupid guy. The Blasio do Blasio.
I interviewed him once the block of wood. Nothing going
on there, you mayre for eight years. He was the
equivalent of Eric Arcetti. Anyway, the Citizen Budget Commission has
(18:11):
discovered that New York's politics and tax system has chased
out so many millionaires that eleven billion dollars a year
in tax revenue has disappeared and gone to other states.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
That's how stupid they are.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
They want to tax the rich, force them to pay
their fair share and other nonsense. They just leave and
then they pay nothing to your state. They go to Florida,
which has a zero percent income tax, zero percent whether
you make ten dollars or ten billion dollars a year.
(18:51):
And now with the Internet, they can easily go and
run their companies. They can move their entire companies to
these states and they're welcome. By the way, you know,
Florida has a huge budget surplus even without an income tax.
(19:12):
And they're looking at phasing out the property tax there
for your primary home. New York has lost more population
to every state than it has gained from those states,
with Florida and Texas getting the most former New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Florida, Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Their economies are expanding so rapidly, their populations are increasing,
their tax bases are increasing, and they don't have income taxes.
New York, meantime, has this massive income tax on the
wealthy that pays almost half of all the income tax
in New York, and they've lost all these millionaires. They're
(20:03):
losing eleven billion a year. There was a mass exodus
when New York shut down at everything during COVID, and
the population bounced back a little, but it was mostly
international immigrants.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Same thing as here. That's the replacement. So you lose.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Everyone from the middle class and upper middle class who
wanted their kids to go to school, to the wealthy
and the super wealthy. They don't want to give away,
you know, twelve fourteen percent of their income every year.
They're hemorrhaging workers all over the state. And they used
(20:48):
to have the large second largest share of the nation's
millionaires at twelve point seven percent it's now dropped to
eight point seven percent. Of course, the idiot mom Donnie
is running around saying that the fears that the rich
are going to leave are overblown, except they've already left.
(21:10):
He says, there's more millionaires now than before the tax increases,
which is true, but millionaires increased far greater in most
of the other states. It quadrupled in Florida because there's
(21:31):
just a lot more millionaires because there's a lot more
people getting wealthy from the stock market. So many people
invested money in the tech in the tech stocks over
the last ten to fifteen years. I mean, go look
at what the what the stock market averages were in
(21:52):
twenty ten after the big crash, and.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Look at him now.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And if you take in every dollar that you you've
wasted on nonsense, every dollar that you wasted on only
fans or your gambling app and all the other garbage
that you spend money on, and you put that into
the stock market into tech stocks, you'd have a lot
of money. Well, this is what the wealthy people do.
They take their money and they put it into investments,
(22:19):
and then they get a lot more money. And then
you have the smile and the beard saying well, no, no,
that's mine, although it's not yours. You didn't earn the
original principle, You didn't make the investments. You had nothing
to do with the tech companies that have grown so
dramatically increasing the value of their stock. You had nothing
(22:43):
to do with it. You're just now at the back
end saying give me, get the bleep out. And they
all still and says, oh, they're not going to leave.
Yes they are. They have tremendously it's not hard to
look up. It's happening in California as well. Their hatred,
(23:06):
their emotional hatred of people who are successful, is so overwhelming.
They claim they want the rich people's money to redistribute it,
give it to the poor, to make it more fair,
except they're losing all this tax money, so there's less
money available for those programs for the poor. It they
(23:34):
end up making things worse for the people they want
to and you know they're not giving them money, or
their programs aren't effective. Much of it's stolen, much of
it here in California in La obviously stolen. That's why
they're doing this. They want a greater pipeline of wealthy
people's tax money. So they can steal it all right, more,
(23:58):
We've got to more coming up when we come back.
The Generation Z, according to neuroscientists, is the first generation
that is less cognitively capable than their parents. And why
do you think that is? I'll tell you about it.
(24:19):
It's a fascinating study.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
If I Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app John Coblts Show, and we're on for a few
more minutes, and then at six o'clock Conway's going to
be here. Also, we'll release our podcast after six John
Cobelt Show on demand, same as the radio show. Whatever
you missed. Final thing I want to get into is
(24:51):
Fortune magazine has done a story. You have researchers now
looking whether after twenty five years of students trying to
learn on laptop computers and iPads, whether it helped them
get smarter, do better on tests, become better workers as
(25:17):
they go into the workforce, which used to be the
purpose of school. And they found out that actually this
generation is less cognitively capable than their parents. This is
according to a neuroscientist named Jared Cooney Horvath, who in
(25:38):
testimony before this Assented Committee, says gen Z is less
cognitively capable than previous generations despite all the access to technology.
They're the first generation in modern history to score lower
on standardized tests that measure literacy and numeracy. It's been
(26:00):
declining for over ten years. Not only are the test
scores going down, but also it's connected to the scores
go down in proportion to the time spent on computers.
In skull, the more screen time, the less well they did,
(26:20):
the less cognitively sharp they are. And this is not
even including scrolling through all the garbage on social media.
This is because you learn much better when you have
paper at a pen or a pencil than when you're
taking information and typing it into an iPad, just the
(26:42):
way the brain works. Students having unfettered access to technology,
Whoeveth says, led to their skills a trophying rather than
bolstering their capabilities, and the introduction of the iPhone didn't help.
And he says it's not about rejecting technology, it's just
(27:02):
it's that's not how human learning works.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
They looked at Maine. Maine was an early adopter, as
they say.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
The governor back then, Angus Kane, had a statewide laptop
program in Maine. Seventeen thousand laptops became sixty six thousand
by twenty sixteen, so they've been at this for almost
a quarter of a century in Maine. And ten years
ago they figured out that schools had not improved in
(27:32):
fifteen years. As soon as they brought in the laptops
and the iPads, scores either flattened out or went down.
The governor, Paul Lapage at the time in twenty seventeen,
said the program was a massive failure.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
They spent tons of tax money on Apple and.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Students' brains like almost literally a trophy.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
They retain.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Far less information, far less learning when it came to
the stuff you can measure in math and reading.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
All right, we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Conway is next, and we've got Michael Krazer live in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. You've been listening to
the John Cobelt Show podcast. You can always hear the
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(28:34):
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