May 4, 2026 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (05/04) - Gov. Newsom did nothing but lie to Bill Maher. California's 9-1-1 system is in danger of going dark.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. It's the John Cobelt Show.
Welcome back after a week off in a state that
is far far more pleasant than what we have here.
I was in Florida for a while and wow, that's
that is that is clean and there are zero vagrants
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where I went and did Satasota, and just you can
walk the streets at night, You can walk the streets
at midnight, go out to eat late and have a
drink and go for ice cream. And there are no
crazy people, no mental patience, no drug addicts, just normal
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regular people. And that that state is in far far
better condition than we here in California. If I said
it before, if I got the Rhondatis Way or the
Newsome Way, DeSantis wins a thousand and a thousand times.
And if you don't like that, come with me. I
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should We should do a listener tour, a listener tour
of skeptics, a listener tour of Gavin Newsom lovers, and
take him to Florida and see that it is dramatically different.
It is impossible for any rational person to say that
it isn't far more pleasant there than it is here
right now. It's the way we used to be and
we can't be again. But you got it. You got
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to toss all these bastards out. Well, Newsom is leaving
voluntarily because you know, not really voluntarily. He's turned out.
But he is still campaigning, and he, you know, wrote
that stupid book, and he's still doing appearances promoting the book.
(01:48):
What's it called, young Man in a hurry? Well, by
the way, we're live on YouTube right now. I forgot
to mention we're live on YouTube right now, so you
can watch me waving my arms in the air. That's
what you're into. You don't. New Some bought most of
his copies. He bought sixty seven thousand copies, and they're
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giving it to donors. If you donate like five bucks
to the Newsom campaign or whatever whatever people donate to
new Some for I guess would be presidential campaign, you'll
get a free book. And that's what most of the
books are. And they do that in order to get
on the bestseller lists, but they're not actually selling books
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on Amazon or and bookstores. It's part of a giveaway
package if you donate money. So that's a scam. It's
a racket, like everything. So he goes on Bill Maher,
I guess on Friday, and I watched the show online
over the weekend, and Mar, primarily a comedian and an entertainer,
talks a lot of politics, has strongviewpoints. You're familiar with him.
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And Mar's thing is he's a liberal Democrat, but an
old school type, and the progressives have made him look
like a conservative. And it's true, Bill Maher hasn't changed
his point of view very much other than that the
president progressives are so insane now that a normal old
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fashioned Democrat looks like some radical right wing nut. He
has Newsome on, who he clearly likes and has supported
in the past. U And it was not a real
confrontational interview. Again, I don't expect it on a show
like that, but he got in a few good ones.
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And what I want to focus on is four lies
that Newsome told. And he does his lying so easily,
so smoothly. He talks very fast, he crams a lot
of memorized details into what he says, so you can't
quite catch the lie, especially if he lies about something
(04:00):
that you'd have no way of knowing. Yeah, something that
would maybe take ten minutes or an hour to find online.
So we're gonna start with cut number one with Mara
telling Newsome to give up on high speed rail.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
The other side, what they're gonna say, though, is but
have you seen the staffs from California? Good?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well for the largest economy, let's go.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Now they're gonna say good about gas prices are, they're
gonna say good about how high the rents are?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
People?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So many people. I mean there's a whole litany. I
mean the train, Gavin.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That you got, you got to get rid of the train,
the train we got.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I say, this is a friend, you got to let
that train go.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Let the train go.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's up to two hundred and thirty one billion.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It's not it's not we're doing. We're doing one hundred
nineteen million dollars segment. We got it back on track.
It goes back three administrations and inherited a mess. We
put it back on track. All the environmental work is
behind us. We're actually laying the track.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
All the legal.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Litigation, all the land issues are all behind us. We're
actually making this project work.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
There's somebody lives packed into that that that's head spinning.
That's incredible. Let me focus on the big one. When
when Bill Maher said this is going to cost two
hundred and thirty one billion, Newsom said, no, it's not. Well.
This came out last week. The latest cost cost revisions
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for the project were revealed during a Senate Transportation Committee meeting.
This is a democratic run committee meeting. Two hundred and
thirty one billion dollars. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office listed
numerous problems here, and the two hundred and thirty one
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billion is real. It was said that in a meeting
it was public news. Nobody disputed it because you can't
dispute it. It's true. And Newsom goes on with Maron
goes no it's not. Yeah, it is. He's like, he's
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fourteen years old. No it's not, mom, and then he
starts spouting all these absurd statistics. Oh there was another
lie buried in there. There's no track being laid down
none at all. In fact, I'm gonna play this clip
again because you've got to listen to his his his
small responses, because I mean, you can go on for
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for like ten minutes and list all the things going
wrong here in California. But Mar just mentions a couple
and listen to Newsom's responses.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I mean the train, Gavin, that you got, you got
to get rid of the train.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The train.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I say this as a friend, you gotta let this go.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm sorry that was my fault. Go go back to
the beginning. Start from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
The other side. What they're gonna say, though, is, yeah,
but have you seen the stats from California?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Good? What s well for the last economy? Let's go, well,
are they.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Gonna say good about gas prices? Are they gonna say
good about how high.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Stop stopped there? Mayer says about the gas prices and
knew some goes, huh, what kind of response is that?
Six sixty five? Again? Huh? I you know, what do
you ought to say is I'm rescinding these taxes because
the rest of the country is paying two to three
dollars less. Now, I was in Florida, it was three
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seventy five when I got there. When I got to
California last night, it was six sixty five, three seventy
five to six sixty five. And when Mar points out
the gas prices, huh, play some more rents?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Are people so many people this whole right.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So Mars says rents, rents are the highest rents. Uh yeah, yeah,
the highest rents. Uh yeah, highest gas prices. Yeah, highest rents.
And then when mar drops the big anvil on him
two hundred and thirty one billion dollars for the high
speed rail, may I point out the original price that
people voted on was thirty three billion, thirty three billion
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to get you all the way from Sacramento to San Diego.
We're now at two hundred and thirty one billion. And
the only thing that he was talking about was one
hundred and nineteen miles segment in the Central Valley. And
who doesn't want to take a high speed a high
speed ride to the Central Valley.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
All aboard for that one. So there were several whoppers
embedded in the big whopper. When we come back, Newsom
makes a claim about one thousand page COVID report that
doesn't exist.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
We continued going through the torrent of lies from Agavin
Newsom when he was on Bill Maher over the weekend
on HBO. And here's another one, and Mar It's set
up the question by asking Newsome about California being too
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far left on certain matters, and Newsom ends up talking
about COVID and makes a claim and listen carefully because
he claims that this report is out about COVID. Run
the cunning thing.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You're going to say California was too far left on
because I feel like if you don't, I think a
lot of the country is not going to listen. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Look, I mean I think there's a lot of things
that you know, I've said this in the past, things
I could have done better more I look back at COVID.
We just put out a detail over a thousand pages
what we did right and wrong during COVID as it
relates to the issues of outdoor and beaches being shut down,
schools being shut down for too long. But we also
made the point we had a lower death rate than
any other large state, that our economy recovered faster than
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any other large state, and we had one of the
fastest vaccine rollouts in the country. So there's good and bad.
On the issue of housing and homelessness, what we could
have done more aggressively sooner.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But if you could stop there, you could stop there
he said, we put we've put out a thousand page report.
Did he not say it that way? I don't know
if you could back it up to that point. Eric.
He made it sound like it's present, it happened, it
happened recently, or it is happening like today. We've put out.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
We just put out COVID. We just put out a
detail over a thousand pages what we did right and
wrong during COVID.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We just put out one thousand pages. No, he hasn't.
There's been no report released. He made that up. Well,
there is a report allegedly, and last July July twenty first,
I got an Ashley Zavala story from Channel three and Sacramento.
(10:53):
Last July twenty first, Newsome announced that the report is
coming out soon, matter of weeks. Never released. Well, he
says things that are easily refutable, but not in the moment.
If maher knew that and card he would have said, well, no,
(11:16):
it hasn't been released. I went looking for it. Uh.
The Channel three report. Newsom's office told kcra that the
report is going to be a thousand pages long, has
been underway for years. Yeah, five years. Uh. Independent experts
helped out on it.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
He had gone on a podcast the week before. Sean
Ryan said the report was in the works, and that's
why hasn't the report been released yet. If it's if
it's done by independent experts, well, first of all, I
don't believe reports unless they're done by far outside experts.
(12:04):
You've got to be living on the other side of
the world. You got to have that much independence. We
saw Karen bass Wright. What did she do with the investigations,
the after action reports. She looked at him and said,
uh oh, this can't stand, and she had them rewritten
to soften the reports, to make it look like she
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and the fire chief and the fire department officials were
not at fault repeatedly over and over in major ways.
So what they did is they watered down the language,
turned the whole thing into useless, oatmeal, thousand page report. Yeah,
where did anybody follow up? By the way, did anybody
in the media over the weekend? Because I believe that
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show runs on Friday nights. It's now Monday. Did anybody
say what report? Where is it? Did anybody correct newsons? Why?
I've seen stuff on X Okay, this is a two
fur this is a double lie. Newsome bragging about California
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having this great economy and then lying about the population.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Play this, you talk about California or the envy of
the world. Since I've been governor, no other developed nations
outperform our economy. No other state has outperformed the economy
of state of feel that stop.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Stop. We have the highest unemployment rate in the nation.
We are over a point higher than the nation as
a whole at one point. May not sound like much,
but no, that's many, many, many thousands of jobs. Worst
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unemployment rate in the country. If I hear him carry
on about the fourth largest economy, that is primarily because
we have most of the successful, mega successful tech companies here,
like Microsoft, for example, and Google and Apple, and the
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people who work for those companies are investing. Those companies
are doing extraordinarily well, like no humans have ever succeeded
before in terms of making money. But the rest of
the state is not doing well. They got to pay
six sixty five for gas, and we have the highest
unemployment rate. We've also had the highest inflation rate in
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the in the the economy as a whole is not
doing well. It's doing well only if you're in the
tech industry, which is great for them. I'm not one
of these I said before. Guys are making millions and
billions of dollars. They earned it. We're buying their products.
Almost everybody seems to have an Apple phone, right, and
if you don't have that, you have a Google's Android phone.
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So we're buying all the phones. Almost all of us
are buying an Amazon. They deserve all that money because
we're their customers. But the idea that we have the
best economy is a complete and utter lie. Play the
final lie the rest of this clip.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
They may not feel that in every way, shape or form,
but we dominate in every key industry. We dominate manufacturing, agriculture,
hunting jobs, forestry jobs, more scientists, more Nobel laureates, more researchers,
more the higher system I catch the finest in the world.
More venture capital. You talk about the future, you're talking
about California.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wait wait wait, wait stop stop. Venture capital is not
something that the average person deals with. Nobel laureates. Well,
how do I pay a bill with a Nobel laureate?
What is that about? I hear him in other interviews
going on about quantum mechanics or quantum physics or whatever.
It's like, Well, that's not most people's jobs. I'm sure
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we're number one in AI development. Well, the AI development
is going to take away ordinary people's jobs. The hell
is he talking about? I didn't even get to the
rest of the clip. All right, I'll play, We'll come back.
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All right, in a minute, I'm going to tell you
about another Newsome failure, and that is our nine to
one one system is in danger of going dark across
the state. Really, but I want to finish up. There
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was one last clip, and in fact, we're gonna play
the cut right from the beginning again. And this is
this is Nusman with Bill Maher. We've been playing you
all his lies, uh, and this is We're going to
play this cut again about the California economy. And he
doesn't mention that we have the highest unemployment rate, and
then he starts talking about our population.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You talk about California or the envy of the world.
Since I've been governor, no other developed nation is outperform
our economy. No other state has outperformed the economy of state.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
O feel that they may not feel.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
That in every way, shape or form. But we dominat
in every key industry. We dominate manufacturing, agriculture, hunting jobs,
forestry jobs, more scientists, more Nobel laureates, more researchers, more
the higher system I education the finest in the world,
more venture capital. You talk about the future, you're talking
about California and AI and quantum on fusion, on space.
(17:54):
California is dominant. We also have seen the last three
years population growth. We've got to update our talking points.
We've seen a nine percent decline in unsheltered homelessness. Got
to update our talking points. We've seen a sixty percent
increase in permits for housing. We've got to update talking points.
I'm very proud of the state of Calfornia.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
And the Seals clap in the audience. Well, no, the
population is not going up this year. That was a lie,
and he I'm sure he knew it was a lie.
But hey, as Bill Maher going to check in real time,
here's the truth. Fifty four sixty four me do this again.
(18:36):
Fifty four thousand residents net loss in California. Fifty four
thousand net loss in California, and we had three years
of increase, but now it's dropping. City of Los Angeles
had lost nearly one percent of its population. Not enough,
I say, not until I can get home on the
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West Side from here in twenty minutes and not tell
Denror how quickly you want to get home to West Valley.
Nineteen minutes is a good nineteen minutes, that's what it
was COVID time. Yeah, yeah, well that would be you'd
have to have an apocalypse to get to that. All right,
So twenty I'd be okay with twenty issues because now
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it's about double, isn't it. Yes, yeah, No, they not
do enough people have left.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
The thing is.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
There's somebody in his administration or tried to defend the
California population loss. And guess who they blamed. I know
this is going to shock you. They blamed Trump. Yes,
the state's Department of Finance issued a press release after
it was announced that we'd lost a net of fifty
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four thousand, and they blamed a full year of restrictive
federal policy changes on migration, international migration. They're actually complaining
about the illegal aliens that weren't allowed into the country
and allowed into the state because that depresses population growth,
because that's what we've been living on for many, many years,
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is a legal alien population group. And also they restricted
legal entry as well, which they should do because they
let in a lot of troublemakers. We don't need all
those people coming in and destroying and disrupting our college campuses.
Those people ought to be left out. So the talking point,
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we have to update our talking points. We have to
update our talking points. That's so obnoxious the way you
phrased that. And he says that smugly, arrogantly, and he's wrong.
The updated is talking point. We had admitted. He would
have admitted we were down fifty four thousand, unbelievable. Probably
about a half a dozen lies I found just watching,
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you know, fifteen minutes of it on Bill Maher now onto.
Oh and by the way, I just I made a
couple of notes. He was talking about Nobel Laureates, AI, Quantum, fusion,
venture capital, none of that. None of that the average
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person can relate to. The average person does not work
in venture capital or Quantum or AI or fusion or
whatever else he was talking about. I mean, he's all
right now with all with all the U and I
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think I think I'm gonna have to take a break again. Huh. Yeah,
it's that time. We're having just too good a time,
too much information. We're backing it all right. When we
come back, I'll get to the nine to one one
dispatch service here in California. According to christiph for Rufo
and Hailey Strack, they route a piece for Cityjournal dot org.
(22:05):
And it looks like the system has a chance of
going dark entirely. You may make a nine to one
one call in the near future and it goes nowhere. Nothing,
nobody's gonna come. You're going to die, all right. And
Gavin Newsom's California calling to nine one one, maybe the
last call you have ever made. I'll explain when we
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come back, because you know, if I start now, I
won't stop.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
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Speaker 1 (22:36):
Six for coming up after five o'clock. Roger Bailey, one
of the attorneys representing the Palisades homeowners with the big
lawsuit against the city, the state, everybody over the fire,
and he's going to talk with us about State Farm
getting smacked by the state of California. The state is
(22:59):
accusing the m of hundreds of violations, hundreds of examples
of illegal conduct in the way they treated customers, delaying payouts,
not making the payouts, or not giving them enough money
that they that they should. Just all the stuff you've
(23:20):
heard about is all true. State Farm one of the
worst offenders, because like a good neighbors, State Farm is there.
We'll tell you about it with Roger Bailey right after
five o'clock. Okay, well, we're live on YouTube if you
want to watch me live on YouTube, just trying things
out here. There's also a live check going on, so
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the listeners are discussing things amongst themselves. We'll incorporate them eventually. Eventually. Yeah,
I like your little comment that you're trying to get
me used to all this baby steps. Yeah, definitely. Yeah,
it's gonna it's gonna take while. All right, here's the
nine one one system. Nine one one might be your
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last call ever, because Gavin Newsom's statewide system is in
danger of going dark. Christopher Rufo and Hailey Strack did
a story at Cityjournal dot org. Now in twenty nineteen,
they announced that they'd have a brand new, state of
the art emergency call system. It would be three years,
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cost one hundred and thirty two million. It is now
seven and a half years later, and they spent four
hundred and fifty million, and guess what, it doesn't work
at all. They've scrapped the whole thing. They're starting from scratch.
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In fact, the total price tag at this point is
over a half billion dollars five hundred and two milli million.
They still have an old analog nine to one one system.
They tried to introduce a moderate a modern digital system,
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and it was going to use location and text and
video so people could be identified more quickly. They other
states have this, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, but in twenty nineteen,
after years of planning. Instead of a modern digital system
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that is statewide, they adopted a regional system. They named
four contractors, four separate contractors to design, build and operate
the new technologies. And it didn't work. Nothing connected right.
They opened up a couple of local centers in twenty
twenty two, it says according to City Journal, results were
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disastrous Intelommee County. They were the first county to launch
at full capacity, Unable to process calls, unable to identify locations,
unable even to see the caller's phone numbers. So you're
lying on the ground going help me, help me. What's
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your number? Six bro, tell me your number. You're supposed
to see the number on the screen. It doesn't work.
Dying people can't give you their phone number. A whistle
blower said the citizens in that county were losing faith
in the nine one one system. An NBC affiliate did
(26:43):
an investigation. The network suffered a blackout for twelve hours
straight one night. Here's a guy who tried to call
diabode one five times to report his garagers on fire.
My garage is on fire, I said, my garage, this
is on fire, Like a Roger's on fire five times,
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couldn't get through. Here's another guy. A phone call came
in active heart attack. Dispatchers could not connect the line. Sorry, sir,
just lay down. In Desert Hot Springs, dispatchers had more
than one hundred trouble tickets, dropped calls, abandoned calls, failed callbacks,
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bad audio. One dispatcher told about a woman who asked
for an ambulance for her boyfriend but was told that
the call transfer system was not working. Here's another one
from Desert Hot Springs. Call from a woman requesting an
ambulance for her stepfather. He fell and he was unresponsive,
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and they found internal emails, and it turned out the
system kept logging out the dispatchers. It took a while
for the system to reboot. The woman contacted a dispatcher,
They sent an ambulance. They found a grim scene, a
thousand roaches climbing on the walls, children living in mold
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infested rooms, and a man found on the floor of
his bedroom, lying on his back. He'd already died. He
was the stepfather in the family. There we go five
hundred and two million dollars. This is entirely on under
Gavin Newsom's watch, we have a nine to one to
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one system from the nineteen seventies, so now California Office
of Emergency Emergency Management Services is starting from scratch. The
legislative analyst, who's nonpartisan, had said, this nineteen seventy system
is quote in very poor condition and is subject to failure.
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Highest taxes in the nation, highest taxes five hundred million
dollars total bust. They had an army of unionized officials
to oversee the work unionized officials. They approved enormous contracts
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to four vendors. The four companies at Toast Public Safety, MGA,
syenter Gem Technologies, century Link which is now known as
Luman Technologies. And by the way, we've all been paying
a fee on our monthly phone bill for this upgrade
that never happened, Like like the high speed rail that
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doesn't exist. We had a nine to one to one
upgrade upgrade that doesn't exist, and were charged every month
for it. I did not you didn't know that. No,
I did not check checked the bill. You know that
collection of the bizarre fees on the bottom of everybody.
So I'm going to check that. Yes, well, you're getting
nothing for it. These companies have gotten wealthy. I bet
you they donate money in the newsomance campaign. All right,
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we come back. Roger Bailey, cal Fart Lara is the
insurance Commissioner is going after State Farm. It's hard to
root for either side here both the Lara there he's
an idiot and State Farms a bunch of bastards. But
we'll tell you about this massive state investigation that has
found that State Farm has committed hundreds of violations and
(30:34):
not paying its customers. Debra Mark live in the CAFI
twenty four hour Newsroom. You've been listening to the John
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Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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Welcome back after a week off in a state that
is far far more pleasant than what we have here.
I was in Florida for a while and wow, that's
that is that is clean and there are zero vagrants
(00:25):
where I went and did Satasota, and just you can
walk the streets at night, You can walk the streets
at midnight, go out to eat late and have a
drink and go for ice cream. And there are no
crazy people, no mental patience, no drug addicts, just normal
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regular people. And that that state is in far far
better condition than we here in California. If I said
it before, if I got the Rhondatis Way or the
Newsome Way, DeSantis wins a thousand and a thousand times.
And if you don't like that, come with me. I
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should We should do a listener tour, a listener tour
of skeptics, a listener tour of Gavin Newsom lovers, and
take him to Florida and see that it is dramatically different.
It is impossible for any rational person to say that
it isn't far more pleasant there than it is here
right now. It's the way we used to be and
we can't be again. But you got it. You got
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to toss all these bastards out. Well, Newsom is leaving
voluntarily because you know, not really voluntarily. He's turned out.
But he is still campaigning, and he, you know, wrote
that stupid book, and he's still doing appearances promoting the book.
(01:48):
What's it called, young Man in a hurry? Well, by
the way, we're live on YouTube right now. I forgot
to mention we're live on YouTube right now, so you
can watch me waving my arms in the air. That's
what you're into. You don't. New Some bought most of
his copies. He bought sixty seven thousand copies, and they're
(02:08):
giving it to donors. If you donate like five bucks
to the Newsom campaign or whatever whatever people donate to
new Some for I guess would be presidential campaign, you'll
get a free book. And that's what most of the
books are. And they do that in order to get
on the bestseller lists, but they're not actually selling books
(02:32):
on Amazon or and bookstores. It's part of a giveaway
package if you donate money. So that's a scam. It's
a racket, like everything. So he goes on Bill Maher,
I guess on Friday, and I watched the show online
over the weekend, and Mar, primarily a comedian and an entertainer,
talks a lot of politics, has strongviewpoints. You're familiar with him.
(02:56):
And Mar's thing is he's a liberal Democrat, but an
old school type, and the progressives have made him look
like a conservative. And it's true, Bill Maher hasn't changed
his point of view very much other than that the
president progressives are so insane now that a normal old
(03:17):
fashioned Democrat looks like some radical right wing nut. He
has Newsome on, who he clearly likes and has supported
in the past. U And it was not a real
confrontational interview. Again, I don't expect it on a show
like that, but he got in a few good ones.
(03:38):
And what I want to focus on is four lies
that Newsome told. And he does his lying so easily,
so smoothly. He talks very fast, he crams a lot
of memorized details into what he says, so you can't
quite catch the lie, especially if he lies about something
(04:00):
that you'd have no way of knowing. Yeah, something that
would maybe take ten minutes or an hour to find online.
So we're gonna start with cut number one with Mara
telling Newsome to give up on high speed rail.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
The other side, what they're gonna say, though, is but
have you seen the staffs from California? Good?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well for the largest economy, let's go.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Now they're gonna say good about gas prices are, they're
gonna say good about how high the rents are?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
People?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So many people. I mean there's a whole litany. I
mean the train, Gavin.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That you got, you got to get rid of the train,
the train we got.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I say, this is a friend, you got to let
that train go.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Let the train go.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's up to two hundred and thirty one billion.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It's not it's not we're doing. We're doing one hundred
nineteen million dollars segment. We got it back on track.
It goes back three administrations and inherited a mess. We
put it back on track. All the environmental work is
behind us. We're actually laying the track.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
All the legal.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Litigation, all the land issues are all behind us. We're
actually making this project work.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
There's somebody lives packed into that that that's head spinning.
That's incredible. Let me focus on the big one. When
when Bill Maher said this is going to cost two
hundred and thirty one billion, Newsom said, no, it's not. Well.
This came out last week. The latest cost cost revisions
(05:25):
for the project were revealed during a Senate Transportation Committee meeting.
This is a democratic run committee meeting. Two hundred and
thirty one billion dollars. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office listed
numerous problems here, and the two hundred and thirty one
(05:50):
billion is real. It was said that in a meeting
it was public news. Nobody disputed it because you can't
dispute it. It's true. And Newsom goes on with Maron
goes no it's not. Yeah, it is. He's like, he's
(06:13):
fourteen years old. No it's not, mom, and then he
starts spouting all these absurd statistics. Oh there was another
lie buried in there. There's no track being laid down
none at all. In fact, I'm gonna play this clip
again because you've got to listen to his his his
small responses, because I mean, you can go on for
(06:35):
for like ten minutes and list all the things going
wrong here in California. But Mar just mentions a couple
and listen to Newsom's responses.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I mean the train, Gavin, that you got, you got
to get rid of the train.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The train.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I say this as a friend, you gotta let this go.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm sorry that was my fault. Go go back to
the beginning. Start from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
The other side. What they're gonna say, though, is, yeah,
but have you seen the stats from California?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Good? What s well for the last economy? Let's go, well,
are they.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Gonna say good about gas prices? Are they gonna say
good about how high.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Stop stopped there? Mayer says about the gas prices and
knew some goes, huh, what kind of response is that?
Six sixty five? Again? Huh? I you know, what do
you ought to say is I'm rescinding these taxes because
the rest of the country is paying two to three
dollars less. Now, I was in Florida, it was three
(07:30):
seventy five when I got there. When I got to
California last night, it was six sixty five, three seventy
five to six sixty five. And when Mar points out
the gas prices, huh, play some more rents?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Are people so many people this whole right.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So Mars says rents, rents are the highest rents. Uh yeah, yeah,
the highest rents. Uh yeah, highest gas prices. Yeah, highest rents.
And then when mar drops the big anvil on him
two hundred and thirty one billion dollars for the high
speed rail, may I point out the original price that
people voted on was thirty three billion, thirty three billion
(08:08):
to get you all the way from Sacramento to San Diego.
We're now at two hundred and thirty one billion. And
the only thing that he was talking about was one
hundred and nineteen miles segment in the Central Valley. And
who doesn't want to take a high speed a high
speed ride to the Central Valley.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
All aboard for that one. So there were several whoppers
embedded in the big whopper. When we come back, Newsom
makes a claim about one thousand page COVID report that
doesn't exist.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
We continued going through the torrent of lies from Agavin
Newsom when he was on Bill Maher over the weekend
on HBO. And here's another one, and Mar It's set
up the question by asking Newsome about California being too
(09:11):
far left on certain matters, and Newsom ends up talking
about COVID and makes a claim and listen carefully because
he claims that this report is out about COVID. Run
the cunning thing.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You're going to say California was too far left on
because I feel like if you don't, I think a
lot of the country is not going to listen. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Look, I mean I think there's a lot of things
that you know, I've said this in the past, things
I could have done better more I look back at COVID.
We just put out a detail over a thousand pages
what we did right and wrong during COVID as it
relates to the issues of outdoor and beaches being shut down,
schools being shut down for too long. But we also
made the point we had a lower death rate than
any other large state, that our economy recovered faster than
(09:55):
any other large state, and we had one of the
fastest vaccine rollouts in the country. So there's good and bad.
On the issue of housing and homelessness, what we could
have done more aggressively sooner.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But if you could stop there, you could stop there
he said, we put we've put out a thousand page report.
Did he not say it that way? I don't know
if you could back it up to that point. Eric.
He made it sound like it's present, it happened, it
happened recently, or it is happening like today. We've put out.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
We just put out COVID. We just put out a
detail over a thousand pages what we did right and
wrong during COVID.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We just put out one thousand pages. No, he hasn't.
There's been no report released. He made that up. Well,
there is a report allegedly, and last July July twenty first,
I got an Ashley Zavala story from Channel three and Sacramento.
(10:53):
Last July twenty first, Newsome announced that the report is
coming out soon, matter of weeks. Never released. Well, he
says things that are easily refutable, but not in the moment.
If maher knew that and card he would have said, well, no,
(11:16):
it hasn't been released. I went looking for it. Uh.
The Channel three report. Newsom's office told kcra that the
report is going to be a thousand pages long, has
been underway for years. Yeah, five years. Uh. Independent experts
helped out on it.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
He had gone on a podcast the week before. Sean
Ryan said the report was in the works, and that's
why hasn't the report been released yet. If it's if
it's done by independent experts, well, first of all, I
don't believe reports unless they're done by far outside experts.
(12:04):
You've got to be living on the other side of
the world. You got to have that much independence. We
saw Karen bass Wright. What did she do with the investigations,
the after action reports. She looked at him and said,
uh oh, this can't stand, and she had them rewritten
to soften the reports, to make it look like she
(12:25):
and the fire chief and the fire department officials were
not at fault repeatedly over and over in major ways.
So what they did is they watered down the language,
turned the whole thing into useless, oatmeal, thousand page report. Yeah,
where did anybody follow up? By the way, did anybody
in the media over the weekend? Because I believe that
(12:47):
show runs on Friday nights. It's now Monday. Did anybody
say what report? Where is it? Did anybody correct newsons? Why?
I've seen stuff on X Okay, this is a two
fur this is a double lie. Newsome bragging about California
(13:08):
having this great economy and then lying about the population.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Play this, you talk about California or the envy of
the world. Since I've been governor, no other developed nations
outperform our economy. No other state has outperformed the economy
of state of feel that stop.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Stop. We have the highest unemployment rate in the nation.
We are over a point higher than the nation as
a whole at one point. May not sound like much,
but no, that's many, many, many thousands of jobs. Worst
(13:47):
unemployment rate in the country. If I hear him carry
on about the fourth largest economy, that is primarily because
we have most of the successful, mega successful tech companies here,
like Microsoft, for example, and Google and Apple, and the
(14:10):
people who work for those companies are investing. Those companies
are doing extraordinarily well, like no humans have ever succeeded
before in terms of making money. But the rest of
the state is not doing well. They got to pay
six sixty five for gas, and we have the highest
unemployment rate. We've also had the highest inflation rate in
(14:33):
the in the the economy as a whole is not
doing well. It's doing well only if you're in the
tech industry, which is great for them. I'm not one
of these I said before. Guys are making millions and
billions of dollars. They earned it. We're buying their products.
Almost everybody seems to have an Apple phone, right, and
if you don't have that, you have a Google's Android phone.
(14:53):
So we're buying all the phones. Almost all of us
are buying an Amazon. They deserve all that money because
we're their customers. But the idea that we have the
best economy is a complete and utter lie. Play the
final lie the rest of this clip.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
They may not feel that in every way, shape or form,
but we dominate in every key industry. We dominate manufacturing, agriculture,
hunting jobs, forestry jobs, more scientists, more Nobel laureates, more researchers,
more the higher system I catch the finest in the world.
More venture capital. You talk about the future, you're talking
about California.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wait wait wait, wait stop stop. Venture capital is not
something that the average person deals with. Nobel laureates. Well,
how do I pay a bill with a Nobel laureate?
What is that about? I hear him in other interviews
going on about quantum mechanics or quantum physics or whatever.
It's like, Well, that's not most people's jobs. I'm sure
(15:52):
we're number one in AI development. Well, the AI development
is going to take away ordinary people's jobs. The hell
is he talking about? I didn't even get to the
rest of the clip. All right, I'll play, We'll come back.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
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(16:34):
the John Cobelt Show. And you'll see me and I'll
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I can see what you're doing and how you're dressed.
All right, in a minute, I'm going to tell you
about another Newsome failure, and that is our nine to
one one system is in danger of going dark across
the state. Really, but I want to finish up. There
(16:57):
was one last clip, and in fact, we're gonna play
the cut right from the beginning again. And this is
this is Nusman with Bill Maher. We've been playing you
all his lies, uh, and this is We're going to
play this cut again about the California economy. And he
doesn't mention that we have the highest unemployment rate, and
then he starts talking about our population.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You talk about California or the envy of the world.
Since I've been governor, no other developed nation is outperform
our economy. No other state has outperformed the economy of state.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
O feel that they may not feel.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
That in every way, shape or form. But we dominat
in every key industry. We dominate manufacturing, agriculture, hunting jobs,
forestry jobs, more scientists, more Nobel laureates, more researchers, more
the higher system I education the finest in the world,
more venture capital. You talk about the future, you're talking
about California and AI and quantum on fusion, on space.
(17:54):
California is dominant. We also have seen the last three
years population growth. We've got to update our talking points.
We've seen a nine percent decline in unsheltered homelessness. Got
to update our talking points. We've seen a sixty percent
increase in permits for housing. We've got to update talking points.
I'm very proud of the state of Calfornia.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
And the Seals clap in the audience. Well, no, the
population is not going up this year. That was a lie,
and he I'm sure he knew it was a lie.
But hey, as Bill Maher going to check in real time,
here's the truth. Fifty four sixty four me do this again.
(18:36):
Fifty four thousand residents net loss in California. Fifty four
thousand net loss in California, and we had three years
of increase, but now it's dropping. City of Los Angeles
had lost nearly one percent of its population. Not enough,
I say, not until I can get home on the
(18:59):
West Side from here in twenty minutes and not tell
Denror how quickly you want to get home to West Valley.
Nineteen minutes is a good nineteen minutes, that's what it
was COVID time. Yeah, yeah, well that would be you'd
have to have an apocalypse to get to that. All right,
So twenty I'd be okay with twenty issues because now
(19:20):
it's about double, isn't it. Yes, yeah, No, they not
do enough people have left.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
The thing is.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
There's somebody in his administration or tried to defend the
California population loss. And guess who they blamed. I know
this is going to shock you. They blamed Trump. Yes,
the state's Department of Finance issued a press release after
it was announced that we'd lost a net of fifty
(19:50):
four thousand, and they blamed a full year of restrictive
federal policy changes on migration, international migration. They're actually complaining
about the illegal aliens that weren't allowed into the country
and allowed into the state because that depresses population growth,
because that's what we've been living on for many, many years,
(20:12):
is a legal alien population group. And also they restricted
legal entry as well, which they should do because they
let in a lot of troublemakers. We don't need all
those people coming in and destroying and disrupting our college campuses.
Those people ought to be left out. So the talking point,
(20:35):
we have to update our talking points. We have to
update our talking points. That's so obnoxious the way you
phrased that. And he says that smugly, arrogantly, and he's wrong.
The updated is talking point. We had admitted. He would
have admitted we were down fifty four thousand, unbelievable. Probably
about a half a dozen lies I found just watching,
(20:57):
you know, fifteen minutes of it on Bill Maher now onto.
Oh and by the way, I just I made a
couple of notes. He was talking about Nobel Laureates, AI, Quantum, fusion,
venture capital, none of that. None of that the average
(21:21):
person can relate to. The average person does not work
in venture capital or Quantum or AI or fusion or
whatever else he was talking about. I mean, he's all
right now with all with all the U and I
(21:42):
think I think I'm gonna have to take a break again. Huh. Yeah,
it's that time. We're having just too good a time,
too much information. We're backing it all right. When we
come back, I'll get to the nine to one one
dispatch service here in California. According to christiph for Rufo
and Hailey Strack, they route a piece for Cityjournal dot org.
(22:05):
And it looks like the system has a chance of
going dark entirely. You may make a nine to one
one call in the near future and it goes nowhere. Nothing,
nobody's gonna come. You're going to die, all right. And
Gavin Newsom's California calling to nine one one, maybe the
last call you have ever made. I'll explain when we
(22:27):
come back, because you know, if I start now, I
won't stop.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Six for coming up after five o'clock. Roger Bailey, one
of the attorneys representing the Palisades homeowners with the big
lawsuit against the city, the state, everybody over the fire,
and he's going to talk with us about State Farm
getting smacked by the state of California. The state is
(22:59):
accusing the m of hundreds of violations, hundreds of examples
of illegal conduct in the way they treated customers, delaying payouts,
not making the payouts, or not giving them enough money
that they that they should. Just all the stuff you've
(23:20):
heard about is all true. State Farm one of the
worst offenders, because like a good neighbors, State Farm is there.
We'll tell you about it with Roger Bailey right after
five o'clock. Okay, well, we're live on YouTube if you
want to watch me live on YouTube, just trying things
out here. There's also a live check going on, so
(23:43):
the listeners are discussing things amongst themselves. We'll incorporate them eventually. Eventually. Yeah,
I like your little comment that you're trying to get
me used to all this baby steps. Yeah, definitely. Yeah,
it's gonna it's gonna take while. All right, here's the
nine one one system. Nine one one might be your
(24:05):
last call ever, because Gavin Newsom's statewide system is in
danger of going dark. Christopher Rufo and Hailey Strack did
a story at Cityjournal dot org. Now in twenty nineteen,
they announced that they'd have a brand new, state of
the art emergency call system. It would be three years,
(24:28):
cost one hundred and thirty two million. It is now
seven and a half years later, and they spent four
hundred and fifty million, and guess what, it doesn't work
at all. They've scrapped the whole thing. They're starting from scratch.
(24:51):
In fact, the total price tag at this point is
over a half billion dollars five hundred and two milli million.
They still have an old analog nine to one one system.
They tried to introduce a moderate a modern digital system,
(25:11):
and it was going to use location and text and
video so people could be identified more quickly. They other
states have this, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, but in twenty nineteen,
after years of planning. Instead of a modern digital system
(25:32):
that is statewide, they adopted a regional system. They named
four contractors, four separate contractors to design, build and operate
the new technologies. And it didn't work. Nothing connected right.
They opened up a couple of local centers in twenty
twenty two, it says according to City Journal, results were
(25:56):
disastrous Intelommee County. They were the first county to launch
at full capacity, Unable to process calls, unable to identify locations,
unable even to see the caller's phone numbers. So you're
lying on the ground going help me, help me. What's
(26:20):
your number? Six bro, tell me your number. You're supposed
to see the number on the screen. It doesn't work.
Dying people can't give you their phone number. A whistle
blower said the citizens in that county were losing faith
in the nine one one system. An NBC affiliate did
(26:43):
an investigation. The network suffered a blackout for twelve hours
straight one night. Here's a guy who tried to call
diabode one five times to report his garagers on fire.
My garage is on fire, I said, my garage, this
is on fire, Like a Roger's on fire five times,
(27:04):
couldn't get through. Here's another guy. A phone call came
in active heart attack. Dispatchers could not connect the line. Sorry, sir,
just lay down. In Desert Hot Springs, dispatchers had more
than one hundred trouble tickets, dropped calls, abandoned calls, failed callbacks,
(27:27):
bad audio. One dispatcher told about a woman who asked
for an ambulance for her boyfriend but was told that
the call transfer system was not working. Here's another one
from Desert Hot Springs. Call from a woman requesting an
ambulance for her stepfather. He fell and he was unresponsive,
(27:52):
and they found internal emails, and it turned out the
system kept logging out the dispatchers. It took a while
for the system to reboot. The woman contacted a dispatcher,
They sent an ambulance. They found a grim scene, a
thousand roaches climbing on the walls, children living in mold
(28:13):
infested rooms, and a man found on the floor of
his bedroom, lying on his back. He'd already died. He
was the stepfather in the family. There we go five
hundred and two million dollars. This is entirely on under
Gavin Newsom's watch, we have a nine to one to
(28:37):
one system from the nineteen seventies, so now California Office
of Emergency Emergency Management Services is starting from scratch. The
legislative analyst, who's nonpartisan, had said, this nineteen seventy system
is quote in very poor condition and is subject to failure.
(29:00):
Highest taxes in the nation, highest taxes five hundred million
dollars total bust. They had an army of unionized officials
to oversee the work unionized officials. They approved enormous contracts
(29:21):
to four vendors. The four companies at Toast Public Safety, MGA,
syenter Gem Technologies, century Link which is now known as
Luman Technologies. And by the way, we've all been paying
a fee on our monthly phone bill for this upgrade
that never happened, Like like the high speed rail that
(29:44):
doesn't exist. We had a nine to one to one
upgrade upgrade that doesn't exist, and were charged every month
for it. I did not you didn't know that. No,
I did not check checked the bill. You know that
collection of the bizarre fees on the bottom of everybody.
So I'm going to check that. Yes, well, you're getting
nothing for it. These companies have gotten wealthy. I bet
you they donate money in the newsomance campaign. All right,
(30:08):
we come back. Roger Bailey, cal Fart Lara is the
insurance Commissioner is going after State Farm. It's hard to
root for either side here both the Lara there he's
an idiot and State Farms a bunch of bastards. But
we'll tell you about this massive state investigation that has
found that State Farm has committed hundreds of violations and
(30:34):
not paying its customers. Debra Mark live in the CAFI
twenty four hour Newsroom. You've been listening to the John
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