October 13, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (10/13)
Lou Penrose fills in for John
-ALEX STONE, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT, LOS ANGELES
-LOU SAYS TOO MUCH RISK FOR THE FUN
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
App Lou Penrose in for John Covelt this week on
The John Covelt Show. Dramatic video of this helicopter coming
down in Huntington Beach. There's a lot of air shows
in Huntington Beach and there's just a lot of planes
and a lot of things in the sky to look at,
so people's eyes are on the sky a lot, especially
on the weekend. But this, this was something else, and
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that the pilot reportedly was trying to stay away from
people and crashed in such a way that minimized the
impact to anybody on the ground is absolutely amazing. Alex Stone,
ABC News cor respondent, Alex thanks so much for coming
on with us. What's the condition? What do we know
about the condition of the people inside the alecant, Well,
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we don't know a lot. We know that they were hospitalized.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
There were two on board and then three on the ground,
including a child, and we think it's a child who
kind of the most amazing thing out of this is
how the helicopter wedged in between the bridge that goes
over pch Over to the big Hyatt that's right there
and the palm trees that kind of put it in
between the bridge and the palm trees, and it just
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kind of went boom and sat there instead of breaking
apart or catching fire or then hitting the ground, and
because of the rotor blades and spinning around or doing
anything like that, it just kind of went into that
spot and stopped right there. Well, there was a child
who was under the chopper who and there's.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now video going around of it.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Where as the chopper came down, he was kind of
in a fetal position and any of has injuries as well.
We believe that he was one of the injured, but
was in a fetal position underneath the chopper. But the chopper,
because of how it got stuck, didn't come all the
way down onto the stairs coming off of the bridge,
and it was I don't know, maybe four feet from
hitting the stairs, and it stopped right there because of
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how wedged in and that child was underneath it with
the engine noise that sound like a jet engine going
and still the red navigational light blinking on the chopper,
I mean it was still minus having no rotor blades,
it was very much still running and bystanders went in
there and got the kid and slid them out from
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underneath the chopper and got him out of there. And
I mean that boy was we believe a boy was
so close to death in that moment of this thing
coming down, And I mean just the noise must have
been incredible for the child going on. I mean, I'm
sure you've seen the video a little bit, but of
it coming down sound like this from all the bystanders
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who were right there. But a lot that we wait
to find out.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
The NTSB and the FAA, they are investigating, but they
have given zero information because of the government shutdown. All
we get is auto replies via email saying because of
the shutdown that they're not going to be providing much
info on anything. But we know the pilot who owns
it I had been known in the area. Some have
complained that he had been a little bit of a
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hot dog in the area as well, flying by buildings
previously and was known. But in this case, seems like
he was just trying to land where they were parking
all the helicopters. He getting ready for Sunday's event, and
something went wrong either It almost looks like he got
some kind of an updraft or created the updraft from
the helicopter itself or with the rotor, because it did
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look like that rear tail rotor flew off. Whether that
was from the forces of when they began spinning, or
if that's what created this situation, we don't yet know.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The part that struck me in watching the video, it's
just how quickly it came down, Like it didn't float down.
I mean, it just it spun down. It spiraled down,
and it just was I mean, it came down so fast.
And how I don't know how you could even see
it was spinning around. So how could he have known
to maneuver tore an area where maybe a couple of
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palm trees can almost create a basket to be a
wedge and not hit the ground. They are crediting the
pilot with making that decision.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, I mean, some of his friends and fellow pilots
are saying that, and maybe in the end we'll find
out that he did. I'm no accident investigator and no pilot,
but it would seem to me, based on looking at it,
that that's just where the chopper went in that moment.
It seems a little bit different than some of the
other ones, Like think about in northern California last Monday,
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the Reach medical chopper that went down. That video clearly
showed that it looked like the pilot was struggling with it,
but was going to put it down on the freeway
and not on top of homes on the other side
of the freeway. Because that one did kind of float
down and then in the last moment it hit real
hard and toppled onto its side. But it seemed like
they had some control of the chopper leading up to
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the crash in Sacramento, this one in Huntington Beach. I mean,
it didn't look like they had any control of that
chopper in that moment.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I was spinning.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
They were not auto rotating, you know, the way to
rescue a chopper, at least in a way that it
would have been effective and then be able to put
it down where they wanted to. When you see that
thing spin around and then the pieces of it flying
off and everything. Maybe we'll find out he did have
some control over but it sure didn't look like it.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You mentioned that we're not getting a lot of information
because of the government shutdown, but is that I mean,
the National Transportation Safety Administration is still that's essential. I mean,
maybe the PIO is probably not working, but the investigators
are still working.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I assume right, they are still working. You know, it's
a little bit different. It's typically the lead investigator they're
not standing on this what they call a go team.
A go team would typically be a huge team of people.
They go to airline accidents and major incidents. This would
be where normally we as the media would get to
talk to the lead investigator, probably headquartered here out of
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the lead investigator covers the southern California area and doesn't
have to travel in. Normally they will come to the
microphones and say, all right, here's what we've got. You know,
here's what we're investigating. All of that, and because of
the shutdown, none of that is being coordinated right now.
And there's the media office is not putting out here's
what we know. Here here the basics. The FAA the
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same thing. Typically they do put out basics on things.
All of that is for the most part, there are
little things here and there coming out on some incidents,
but most of that is on hold during the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
ABC News corresponding, Alex Stone, thanks so much, appreciate you
coming on to talk with us about it and give
us what information we have. Loup Penrose Info John coblt
All this week.
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Speaker 1 (06:42):
Loup Penrose Info. John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show.
Just traumatic, dramatic, spit it out broadcaster traumatic footage of
this helicopter spinning down. It finally landed in the wedge
between the bridge and the pod trees near the stairs
at the High Hotel in Huntington Beach. And if you're
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familiar with the area, you know exactly that that bridge
that's right there. The helicopter was there for a cars
and copter's event and it was attempting to land at
the beach parking lot. It was doing some stunts and
some showy moves, but it was unclear what caused the
chopper to go down. It appeared that a piece of
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the rotor flew off before it hit the ground and
that might have caused the spin. A child on the ground,
as you heard Alex Stone, child was just hanging out
on the sidewalk and wound up under the helicopter and
the chopper fell and got wedged in between the bridge
and the tree, like four feet away from the child.
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So that's one lucky duck. The NTSB and FAA are
investigating to find out what's going on, but we don't
have any information because of the government shut down. So
that's some but misleading. The investigations continue. So little of
the government is non essential work. Most of the government
is working. I work for the federal government for fifteen years.
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I was a deputy chief of staff for three members
of Congress here in California, and I've been through government
shutdowns and for the most part, it's the Smithsonian and
the people that empty the trash at Yosemite National Park,
and like that's it. I mean, essential operations go on.
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It's inconvenient if you have an upcoming federal trial, I'll
give you that. The President is maneuvering money to see
if the troops can get paid. Largest active duty place
in America is San Diego, California, and those people need
to get their pay. And there is some coordination going
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on with respect to maneuvering jobs and job descriptions and
federal workforce and seeing if some of that money can
be freed up and the president's doing that. What makes
this shutdown interesting, at least for me, I've been through
a lot of them. It's the first federal shutdown where
Republicans are actually winning. Usually it's a Democrat president and
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Republicans are in Congress and they're the ones trying to
limit government or lower taxes or something like that, and
Republicans want up losing and they just effectively give up.
This time, we're winning because a lot can happen at
the executive branch. The president is the executive officer of
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the executive branch of government. All the agencies report to
the president, right, every cabinet post reports to the president,
and all the cabinet members oversee agencies, and that is
the federal workforce. Whether it's the Department of Defense, who
report to the Secretary of Defense who reports to the president,
or the Secretary Housing and Urban Development. Right, all the
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people that work there are arms of the executive branch
of government, and the cabinet members primarily are there to
make sure that the president's vision is carried out through
the agencies. So if part of the president's vision is
a smaller, less intrusive federal government, then he has the
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authority to do that. And that is what Republicans were
supposed to be about. We were supposed to be the
party of limited government. All right, Well, here's a perfect
opportunity to limit government permanently by reducing the size and
scope of the agencies and the bureaucrats. So I think
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the advantage is in and I think every day that
goes by strengthens Trump's position, and at some point Democrats
are going to have to cave. Now it's going to
be interesting, Well, they throw the illegal aliens under the bus?
Right now, the position is they want to give health
care to illegal aliens. Will they throw the illegal aliens
under the bus in exchange for not having any more
federal workers get furloughed or fired. That's gonna be an
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interesting little fight. They're gonna have to make a decision.
It is true that Democrats love illegal aliens, but they
also love federal workers. And by the authority of the
Office of Management and Budget, according to the O and
B director, the president can use this opportunity because the
original like there's no pay. He can use this opportunity
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to limit the federal government. He did it on Friday,
like hundreds of federal workers were pink slipped. Reduction in
force is what it's called. And sure you can say, well,
that's terrible. These are hardworking people their careers and you
know they didn't do anything wrong. Yeah, but the United
States government is not a jobs program, Like, don't feel
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bad if we don't need four hundred staffers at the
Department of Transferation, Like, it's okay, there are other jobs
in America. Like, the federal government is not a jobs program.
It's a necessary evil and it's gotten way too big.
And you can tell because we're in government shutdown day
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thirteen and your life is fine. So every day that
your life continues to be fine and the federal government
is shut down, advantages Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I'm fifty nine years old, and before September eleven, two
thousand and one, you would have a really, really hard
time telling the difference between a Democrat and a Republican. Now,
the Democrat Party is unrecognizable from ten to fifteen years ago,
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completely unrecognizable.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I agree with that. I think that's true. The first
part of that is also true. Before September in the
late nineties, Republican Party and the Democrat Party were like
two pieces in a pod. I mean they were so
close there was no distinguishing difference, and it is better
now that the Republican Party has distinguished itself. I don't
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know if it's good for the Democrat Party to be
where it's at, and it's probably not good for the
Republican Party either, because you need some kind of pushback.
There ought to be an opposite political force pushing back.
I think that would be healthy. So it really would
be good for the Republican Party right now if the
Democrat Party stood for something other than illegal aliens and
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Palestinian terrorist sympathizers, which is pretty much all it stands for.
That and progressive housing laws that force you out of
your car and into some eight story apartment building next
to the subway. But you're right, it's been a tremendous change,
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and we will see. I'm really looking forward to the
way this governor racing California shapes up. I like that
new names of jumping in you heard one today. I
still am with my prediction that Senator Alex Padia, who
does not like Washington d C. He's upset that he
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got shoved when he attacked the Homeland Security Secretary of
Christy Nome in Westwood at the Federal Building. That didn't
work out for him. He's always crying about it, and
that's like the most distinguished thing he did was cry
about getting shoved. And I don't think he likes being
in the Senate. It's no fun being a Democrat and
not having power. Democrats from California used to being in charge,
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so when you're in the minority, it's not any fun.
So my prediction is this Padilla will run for governor.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
He will.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Win if he runs, and he will then vacate his
Senate seat. And in Californi two things can happen. You
can either schedule a special election or the governor has
the authority to appoint somebody to that seat. And my
prediction is Padilla will appoint Gavin Newsom. It's the old
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switcher route. And then Newsom will because Padia just got reelected,
so Newsom will pledge to only serve the remainder of
padia seat, which is four years. It's a goodly amount
of time. Like that's how he'll get away with not
looking like he's politically ambitious. He will just fulfill Alex
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Padia's term the United States Senate and pledge not to
run for reelection. That is the way he'll, you know,
get around the fact that he's the he's a white man,
and Democrats hate white men in positions of authority in
the Senate. So that's what he'll do, and that'll put
give him four years away from California and in Washington.
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And that's the way I see it. We'll see if
I'm right. Louke Penrose Info John Cobelt on the John
coblt Show.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
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Speaker 1 (16:09):
Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt this week. Good to have
you along with us. I heard there at the bottom
of the hour news this could be the longest government
shut down ever. TikTok, TikTok. Today is a federal holiday,
even though we are having a national argument over Columbus
versus the Native Americans. But it's both. It's a it's
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a the Columbus. They didn't go away. No one's allowed
to talk about it anymore. But Washington is closed anyway,
So this really isn't a day of federal government shutdown.
But I think this is working out well. I think
it's demonstrating to the average American that we really don't
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need a lot of what the federal government is doing,
and we're paying taxes for a lot of things that
don't affect us. And if we continue to, for lack
of a better word, fire a bunch of federal employees
and things are still fine, it will be proof that
a lot of what's going on back there has no
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effect on us. And that's why these shutdowns are kind
of healthy. I'm not a big fan of the federal
government shutdown because in the past, Republicans always lose. So
I don't like it because Republicans normally, historically do not
have the political will to hold they lift, to use
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a Nascar term, and so it's always just bad press
for Republicans. So you better off signing off on some
Democrat cr and getting back to work, then shutting down
the government and then having five days go by, and
then eventually they'll find some federal worker in Baltimore with
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four kids and she doesn't have a paycheck, and now
she's got to go to the soup kitchen, and that
goes on sixty minutes, and then everybody starts to cry
and feel bad, and you lose the public support of
the people, and that's usually what happens to Republicans. Remember
in the past, the federal government was shut down in
the nineties between President Clinton, a Democrat, and House Speaker
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Knut Gingridge, a Republican, over welfare to work. That was
the fight. Republicans wanted in the budget welfare to work
or you had to work if you were receiving welfare.
President Clinton did not, and ultimately they shut down the
government and Clinton got his way, and in the Obama administration,
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the shutdown then was about deficit spending. Back in the day,
Republicans used to care about the national debt, talked about
it all the time, used to care about a balanced budget,
used to care about deficits. And that's where the whole
Tea Party movement came from. That's where the Freedom Caucus
came from. These were deficit hawk Republicans who would shut
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down the government for as long as it takes to
not overspend. And then COVID came and I don't know
where those people went, but they're gone. I mean there's
a few of them, but they're not They're not the
big deal. So now President Trump, I mean, he's got
Democrats right where he wants them. He said, Look, all
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I'm asking him to do is sign off on a
continuing resolution. That's what the CR stands for. That basically
funds the government at September thirtieth levels. So nothing changes.
There was nothing wrong on September thirtieth. You were fine,
you had health insurance, you were alive, everybody was working,
everybody was fine. So there's nothing new in this proposal.
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It just continues the government at the level that was
on September thirtieth, and then you can bring up all
your concerns about illegal alien health care and Obamacare and
we can talk about it, but the government has to
be open.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Hey, lou enjoy the show, despite the fact that some
of the stuff you're spewing is pretty much nonsense. Yeah,
so for the most part, Yeah, as far as the
funding for illegals for healthcare, that is not one hundred
percent correct.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That money for the ACA goes into the state levels.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
At the state level, they can use those funds to
do some of that stuff with it.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's right, than I am one hundred percent correct. I
appreciate the call. Nine billion dollars. Nine billion dollars, that's
how much healthcare for illegals is costing you and me
in California nine billion dollars. Don't tell me that illegals
are not getting healthcare. They're getting healthcare with zeros in California.
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So also, you want to talk about disingenuous, this idea
that Democrats all of a sudden respect the rule of
law and there's nothing at the federal level that allows
a person in the country illegally to apply for federal benefits.
You gotta be kidding me. You want me to believe
Elizabeth Warren when she says that illegal shouldn't get health
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care and aren't able to get No kidding. I know
it's illegal, but the money goes from the federal government
to the state, and the state manages medical and sets
criteria for eligibility and says, I don't care what your
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status is. Then illegals are getting healthcare. It's still my money.
It's still it's it's tax dollars. But nice try.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
The last government shutdown was under Trump, so he's got
practice at it.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I think he learned. Uh. I think that this is
going to be a huge win. I think Democrats are
going to have to cave. I think they're going to
have to sign off on the CR. They can go
on TV and say, look, we wanted to we want
to fight this a Miraitarian president, but we're not going
to do so at the you know, at the detriment
of the hard working men and women who work at
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the Department of whatever. So we begrudgingly are signing off
on the CR and right, I mean, they'll make some
kind of a statement like that, but it will be
a win. And Democrats hate handing Trump a win, but
I think it's inevitable. Hey, uh, have you seen there
is this viral video. I think this is so clever.
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I love when people come up with good ideas and
they're just so genuine. There are a bunch of jokesters
going around to all you can eat buffets like in
Vegas and chain buffet restaurants and some of these Chinese
lunchtime buffets that are all you can eat, and they
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they're all in on the joke. But what they do
is stay for four hours, five hours and make the
manager come to them and say, I'm sorry, sir, you
have to leave, and you've been eating for five for
four hours straight, and they they're filming it like the
person eating knows that these the jokester, and the joke
is on the manager. But they literally and then of
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course they feint outrage. What do you mean I paid
for all you can eat? It says all you can eat?
And these videos are absolutely hilarious and they're everywhere. Hey,
I paid for.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
All you can eat.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I'm still eating, sir, You've been here four hours in
your service. It's ridiculous, but we appreciate your business, but
we need the table. We need the table, right. The
manager doesn't know that it's a joke, and they're just
doing it everywhere. Man, the manager's asked you to leave.
We're gonna need you to head out. What for eating
what I paid for? We were warned about piling up plates.
It's time to go take it to you like, but
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we can't stay inside right this way unbelievable, and they
do it so well. They literally have lots and lots
of plates and like there's half eaten food on every plate,
and it's every genre. There's a great big bull of spaghetti,
then there's some chicken, then there's a hamburger, then the
three bowls of soup, and the spoons are in the
balls and it's all over the table and it's just hilarious.
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So I like good comedy and I like when the
Internet is used in a way that amuses me. Lou
Penrose in for John Coblt.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
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Speaker 1 (24:22):
I'm Lou Penrose in for John Coblt this week. Good
to have you along with us. Yeah, these videos are
just hilarious. They're more and more coming in each and
every day. The all you can eat buffet is a thing,
but the restaurants can put a time limit on it
and people are just having a ball, like joking the manager.
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Here's another one, al right, sir, I'm with the city police.
The owner asked that you'd be told to leave. You've
been at this table for over four hours. Buffet man says,
all you can eat. I understand, but he has the
right to refuse service. He wants you to wrap it up.
So funny, so funny. So if you've not seen it,
just keeps rolling. It will show up on your feet eventually.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Yeah, Lou, your idea of the old switcheroo is so
frigging right on. It's like you're you were in the
future and saw this happening. I totally believe that that
could happen, and then gruesome would.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Be in the Senate, like you say, out of.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
The limelight of California, but still getting this space around.
Oh how disgusting.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, I see it. I mean I see it clearly.
It's really his only lane. So what what you have
to keep in mind about California? Most most Americans will
never visit California. Most Americans only know the California they
see on TV. And whether it's a TV show or
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a movie or even a live event like a Dodger game,
the shot that you that America sees is gorgeous. So
people think California is, you know, everything's going well, sunshine,
sun kiss girls, clean streets, because that's what they see
on TV. And that's good. Like I'm okay with that.
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I like that. We have a really great reputation. But
if Newsom's running for office as an elected official in California,
Somebody's gonna come out here from the National News Corps
and take footage of the streets of downtown LA and
the streets of San Francisco where he was mayor, and
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that's not gonna be well. So if he is in
the Senate. Again, this is my prediction, and it's just
completely my prediction. It's not a I haven't heard anything,
but it seems to me that Democrats do not have
a candidate for governor. Katie Porter fell apart. Tony Atkins
I thought had the best shot. She's out. Kamala Harris
doesn't want the job, and TikTok, TikTok. That election is
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what three hundred eighty six days away. You need a
lot of money. California very expensive state to campaign in.
I don't see Betty Yee emerging as the front front
runner anytime soon. So Senator Alex Padilla is already a
statewide name. He's a United States Senator. He can run
as a senator because he's You can't be on the
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ballot for two positions in California at the same time,
but a senator is every six years, and he just
won and this is in two years, so Padilla could
come home. He doesn't like being in the minority anyway.
There's no chance that Democrats are going to take the
majority in the Senate anytime soon. The math just isn't
even there. So he'll just be in the minority. And
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that's no fun. Democrats hate being in the minority. They're
not used to it from California. So my suspicion is
he will come home, he'll walk into the governor's race,
and then when he wins, he'll vacate his Senate seat
after he gets sworn in as governor. And in California,
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there's two ways you can go. You can call a
special election forty five days after the vacated seat, or
California law allows the governor to appoint somebody for the
remainder of the seat, which will be four years. He
will appoint Gavenusom, and now Gaven Newsom for four years
will not be in San Francisco, will not be in
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Los Angeles, will not be in Sacramento. He will be
in Washington, and that four years will it will be
a cleansing process for him and his California reputation. Reputation.
He'll represent California, but people won't know that he was
in charge in California. They think they'll think he's the
guy in the Senate. And that's just the level of
cleansing that Newsom needs to separate himself from his failures
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of leadership here in California. And even if things are
still if the homeless problem is still bad in California,
he could say, well, look when I left four years ago,
things were good. I don't know what you people did
with it. Like, no, that's it's perfect. It's the perfect
solution for and I think he'll take I think he'll
go that route. So this governor's race is wide open
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still at this point, and I think are there are
opportunities here. I've said it before, it's the singer, not
the song that makes the music move along. You need
a lead singer. And Republicans right now have some decent candidates,
have a lot of good thoughts and a lot of
good policy, and I think there is momentum on the
side for a different direction. I think the average California
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just by virtue of the voter registration numbers that I'm
seeing and that people are choosing to be no party preference,
signals to me that there's an appetite for a new voice.
And like, we're sick of problems in California. That's all
we have is just constant problems, and we're always talking
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about addressing problems. We want some victories, we want some wins,
we want to solve some things. There's nothing wrong with
California that cannot be remedied by what's right with California.
We have a beautiful state, and we're industrious people. And
those of us that moved here chose to be here.
People that are born and raised in California, they just
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got lucky. They were born into the most beautiful place
in the world. But many of us, including myself, purposefully
moved specifically to southern California because of the reputation that
it had, the opportunity that it represented, and how beautiful
it is. And that's where we need to go. We
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need to go back to a time or forward to
a time when everything about California just sounds fantastic and
it can be like there wasn't a natural disaster or
an event. All the things that are going wrong with
California are man made and they can be reversed. It
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takes leadership and will, and I think right now there
is an absolute appetite among voters to step outside their
political party comfort zone and go with a new thinker.
And we just haven't found that candidate yet, but it's
still early. And that the Democrats had no contingency plan
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following Newsom is stunning to me. One of the things
Democrats do well politically speaking, is set up like successors. Right,
every Democrat that's an elected office has some staffer that's
on the local school board or on the library district.
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And as that one politician moves on from the Assembly
to the state Senate, there is a plan in mind
of who is going to run for that seat. And
Democrats map this out all the way from down to
the school board level to governor. They plan, and Republicans don't.
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They just let things happen so that there is no
heir apparent to Governor. Newsom's gubernatorial successes is really stunning.
Lieutenant Governor that with the unpronounceable last name. She was
in the ring for a while and then she dropped down.
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Tony Atkins. She was everything. She was the Speaker of
the Assembly, she was the Senate pro tem. She had
all the boxes checked for the Democrats, right. She was
first lesbians woman and she's a moderate, not a progressive.
So what happened her? She just decided to not run.
So it's all wide open. We'll see where this all
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ends up, but I guarantee you it will be interesting.
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App Lou Penrose in for John Covelt this week on
The John Covelt Show. Dramatic video of this helicopter coming
down in Huntington Beach. There's a lot of air shows
in Huntington Beach and there's just a lot of planes
and a lot of things in the sky to look at,
so people's eyes are on the sky a lot, especially
on the weekend. But this, this was something else, and
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that the pilot reportedly was trying to stay away from
people and crashed in such a way that minimized the
impact to anybody on the ground is absolutely amazing. Alex Stone,
ABC News cor respondent, Alex thanks so much for coming
on with us. What's the condition? What do we know
about the condition of the people inside the alecant, Well,
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we don't know a lot. We know that they were hospitalized.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
There were two on board and then three on the ground,
including a child, and we think it's a child who
kind of the most amazing thing out of this is
how the helicopter wedged in between the bridge that goes
over pch Over to the big Hyatt that's right there
and the palm trees that kind of put it in
between the bridge and the palm trees, and it just
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kind of went boom and sat there instead of breaking
apart or catching fire or then hitting the ground, and
because of the rotor blades and spinning around or doing
anything like that, it just kind of went into that
spot and stopped right there. Well, there was a child
who was under the chopper who and there's.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now video going around of it.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Where as the chopper came down, he was kind of
in a fetal position and any of has injuries as well.
We believe that he was one of the injured, but
was in a fetal position underneath the chopper. But the chopper,
because of how it got stuck, didn't come all the
way down onto the stairs coming off of the bridge,
and it was I don't know, maybe four feet from
hitting the stairs, and it stopped right there because of
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how wedged in and that child was underneath it with
the engine noise that sound like a jet engine going
and still the red navigational light blinking on the chopper,
I mean it was still minus having no rotor blades,
it was very much still running and bystanders went in
there and got the kid and slid them out from
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underneath the chopper and got him out of there. And
I mean that boy was we believe a boy was
so close to death in that moment of this thing
coming down, And I mean just the noise must have
been incredible for the child going on. I mean, I'm
sure you've seen the video a little bit, but of
it coming down sound like this from all the bystanders
(02:43):
who were right there. But a lot that we wait
to find out.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
The NTSB and the FAA, they are investigating, but they
have given zero information because of the government shutdown. All
we get is auto replies via email saying because of
the shutdown that they're not going to be providing much
info on anything. But we know the pilot who owns
it I had been known in the area. Some have
complained that he had been a little bit of a
(03:08):
hot dog in the area as well, flying by buildings
previously and was known. But in this case, seems like
he was just trying to land where they were parking
all the helicopters. He getting ready for Sunday's event, and
something went wrong either It almost looks like he got
some kind of an updraft or created the updraft from
the helicopter itself or with the rotor, because it did
(03:29):
look like that rear tail rotor flew off. Whether that
was from the forces of when they began spinning, or
if that's what created this situation, we don't yet know.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The part that struck me in watching the video, it's
just how quickly it came down, Like it didn't float down.
I mean, it just it spun down. It spiraled down,
and it just was I mean, it came down so fast.
And how I don't know how you could even see
it was spinning around. So how could he have known
to maneuver tore an area where maybe a couple of
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palm trees can almost create a basket to be a
wedge and not hit the ground. They are crediting the
pilot with making that decision.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, I mean, some of his friends and fellow pilots
are saying that, and maybe in the end we'll find
out that he did. I'm no accident investigator and no pilot,
but it would seem to me, based on looking at it,
that that's just where the chopper went in that moment.
It seems a little bit different than some of the
other ones, Like think about in northern California last Monday,
(04:31):
the Reach medical chopper that went down. That video clearly
showed that it looked like the pilot was struggling with it,
but was going to put it down on the freeway
and not on top of homes on the other side
of the freeway. Because that one did kind of float
down and then in the last moment it hit real
hard and toppled onto its side. But it seemed like
they had some control of the chopper leading up to
(04:52):
the crash in Sacramento, this one in Huntington Beach. I mean,
it didn't look like they had any control of that
chopper in that moment.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I was spinning.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
They were not auto rotating, you know, the way to
rescue a chopper, at least in a way that it
would have been effective and then be able to put
it down where they wanted to. When you see that
thing spin around and then the pieces of it flying
off and everything. Maybe we'll find out he did have
some control over but it sure didn't look like it.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You mentioned that we're not getting a lot of information
because of the government shutdown, but is that I mean,
the National Transportation Safety Administration is still that's essential. I mean,
maybe the PIO is probably not working, but the investigators
are still working.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I assume right, they are still working. You know, it's
a little bit different. It's typically the lead investigator they're
not standing on this what they call a go team.
A go team would typically be a huge team of people.
They go to airline accidents and major incidents. This would
be where normally we as the media would get to
talk to the lead investigator, probably headquartered here out of
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the lead investigator covers the southern California area and doesn't
have to travel in. Normally they will come to the
microphones and say, all right, here's what we've got. You know,
here's what we're investigating. All of that, and because of
the shutdown, none of that is being coordinated right now.
And there's the media office is not putting out here's
what we know. Here here the basics. The FAA the
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same thing. Typically they do put out basics on things.
All of that is for the most part, there are
little things here and there coming out on some incidents,
but most of that is on hold during the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
ABC News corresponding, Alex Stone, thanks so much, appreciate you
coming on to talk with us about it and give
us what information we have. Loup Penrose Info John coblt
All this week.
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Loup Penrose Info. John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show.
Just traumatic, dramatic, spit it out broadcaster traumatic footage of
this helicopter spinning down. It finally landed in the wedge
between the bridge and the pod trees near the stairs
at the High Hotel in Huntington Beach. And if you're
(07:03):
familiar with the area, you know exactly that that bridge
that's right there. The helicopter was there for a cars
and copter's event and it was attempting to land at
the beach parking lot. It was doing some stunts and
some showy moves, but it was unclear what caused the
chopper to go down. It appeared that a piece of
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the rotor flew off before it hit the ground and
that might have caused the spin. A child on the ground,
as you heard Alex Stone, child was just hanging out
on the sidewalk and wound up under the helicopter and
the chopper fell and got wedged in between the bridge
and the tree, like four feet away from the child.
(07:49):
So that's one lucky duck. The NTSB and FAA are
investigating to find out what's going on, but we don't
have any information because of the government shut down. So
that's some but misleading. The investigations continue. So little of
the government is non essential work. Most of the government
is working. I work for the federal government for fifteen years.
(08:11):
I was a deputy chief of staff for three members
of Congress here in California, and I've been through government
shutdowns and for the most part, it's the Smithsonian and
the people that empty the trash at Yosemite National Park,
and like that's it. I mean, essential operations go on.
(08:33):
It's inconvenient if you have an upcoming federal trial, I'll
give you that. The President is maneuvering money to see
if the troops can get paid. Largest active duty place
in America is San Diego, California, and those people need
to get their pay. And there is some coordination going
(08:54):
on with respect to maneuvering jobs and job descriptions and
federal workforce and seeing if some of that money can
be freed up and the president's doing that. What makes
this shutdown interesting, at least for me, I've been through
a lot of them. It's the first federal shutdown where
Republicans are actually winning. Usually it's a Democrat president and
(09:16):
Republicans are in Congress and they're the ones trying to
limit government or lower taxes or something like that, and
Republicans want up losing and they just effectively give up.
This time, we're winning because a lot can happen at
the executive branch. The president is the executive officer of
(09:39):
the executive branch of government. All the agencies report to
the president, right, every cabinet post reports to the president,
and all the cabinet members oversee agencies, and that is
the federal workforce. Whether it's the Department of Defense, who
report to the Secretary of Defense who reports to the president,
or the Secretary Housing and Urban Development. Right, all the
(10:02):
people that work there are arms of the executive branch
of government, and the cabinet members primarily are there to
make sure that the president's vision is carried out through
the agencies. So if part of the president's vision is
a smaller, less intrusive federal government, then he has the
(10:23):
authority to do that. And that is what Republicans were
supposed to be about. We were supposed to be the
party of limited government. All right, Well, here's a perfect
opportunity to limit government permanently by reducing the size and
scope of the agencies and the bureaucrats. So I think
(10:44):
the advantage is in and I think every day that
goes by strengthens Trump's position, and at some point Democrats
are going to have to cave. Now it's going to
be interesting, Well, they throw the illegal aliens under the bus?
Right now, the position is they want to give health
care to illegal aliens. Will they throw the illegal aliens
under the bus in exchange for not having any more
federal workers get furloughed or fired. That's gonna be an
(11:08):
interesting little fight. They're gonna have to make a decision.
It is true that Democrats love illegal aliens, but they
also love federal workers. And by the authority of the
Office of Management and Budget, according to the O and
B director, the president can use this opportunity because the
original like there's no pay. He can use this opportunity
(11:32):
to limit the federal government. He did it on Friday,
like hundreds of federal workers were pink slipped. Reduction in
force is what it's called. And sure you can say, well,
that's terrible. These are hardworking people their careers and you
know they didn't do anything wrong. Yeah, but the United
States government is not a jobs program, Like, don't feel
(11:54):
bad if we don't need four hundred staffers at the
Department of Transferation, Like, it's okay, there are other jobs
in America. Like, the federal government is not a jobs program.
It's a necessary evil and it's gotten way too big.
And you can tell because we're in government shutdown day
(12:15):
thirteen and your life is fine. So every day that
your life continues to be fine and the federal government
is shut down, advantages Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I'm fifty nine years old, and before September eleven, two
thousand and one, you would have a really, really hard
time telling the difference between a Democrat and a Republican. Now,
the Democrat Party is unrecognizable from ten to fifteen years ago,
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completely unrecognizable.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I agree with that. I think that's true. The first
part of that is also true. Before September in the
late nineties, Republican Party and the Democrat Party were like
two pieces in a pod. I mean they were so
close there was no distinguishing difference, and it is better
now that the Republican Party has distinguished itself. I don't
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know if it's good for the Democrat Party to be
where it's at, and it's probably not good for the
Republican Party either, because you need some kind of pushback.
There ought to be an opposite political force pushing back.
I think that would be healthy. So it really would
be good for the Republican Party right now if the
Democrat Party stood for something other than illegal aliens and
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Palestinian terrorist sympathizers, which is pretty much all it stands for.
That and progressive housing laws that force you out of
your car and into some eight story apartment building next
to the subway. But you're right, it's been a tremendous change,
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and we will see. I'm really looking forward to the
way this governor racing California shapes up. I like that
new names of jumping in you heard one today. I
still am with my prediction that Senator Alex Padia, who
does not like Washington d C. He's upset that he
(14:17):
got shoved when he attacked the Homeland Security Secretary of
Christy Nome in Westwood at the Federal Building. That didn't
work out for him. He's always crying about it, and
that's like the most distinguished thing he did was cry
about getting shoved. And I don't think he likes being
in the Senate. It's no fun being a Democrat and
not having power. Democrats from California used to being in charge,
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so when you're in the minority, it's not any fun.
So my prediction is this Padilla will run for governor.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
He will.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Win if he runs, and he will then vacate his
Senate seat. And in Californi two things can happen. You
can either schedule a special election or the governor has
the authority to appoint somebody to that seat. And my
prediction is Padilla will appoint Gavin Newsom. It's the old
(15:16):
switcher route. And then Newsom will because Padia just got reelected,
so Newsom will pledge to only serve the remainder of
padia seat, which is four years. It's a goodly amount
of time. Like that's how he'll get away with not
looking like he's politically ambitious. He will just fulfill Alex
(15:36):
Padia's term the United States Senate and pledge not to
run for reelection. That is the way he'll, you know,
get around the fact that he's the he's a white man,
and Democrats hate white men in positions of authority in
the Senate. So that's what he'll do, and that'll put
give him four years away from California and in Washington.
(15:56):
And that's the way I see it. We'll see if
I'm right. Louke Penrose Info John Cobelt on the John
coblt Show.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
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Speaker 1 (16:09):
Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt this week. Good to have
you along with us. I heard there at the bottom
of the hour news this could be the longest government
shut down ever. TikTok, TikTok. Today is a federal holiday,
even though we are having a national argument over Columbus
versus the Native Americans. But it's both. It's a it's
(16:30):
a the Columbus. They didn't go away. No one's allowed
to talk about it anymore. But Washington is closed anyway,
So this really isn't a day of federal government shutdown.
But I think this is working out well. I think
it's demonstrating to the average American that we really don't
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need a lot of what the federal government is doing,
and we're paying taxes for a lot of things that
don't affect us. And if we continue to, for lack
of a better word, fire a bunch of federal employees
and things are still fine, it will be proof that
a lot of what's going on back there has no
(17:13):
effect on us. And that's why these shutdowns are kind
of healthy. I'm not a big fan of the federal
government shutdown because in the past, Republicans always lose. So
I don't like it because Republicans normally, historically do not
have the political will to hold they lift, to use
(17:34):
a Nascar term, and so it's always just bad press
for Republicans. So you better off signing off on some
Democrat cr and getting back to work, then shutting down
the government and then having five days go by, and
then eventually they'll find some federal worker in Baltimore with
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four kids and she doesn't have a paycheck, and now
she's got to go to the soup kitchen, and that
goes on sixty minutes, and then everybody starts to cry
and feel bad, and you lose the public support of
the people, and that's usually what happens to Republicans. Remember
in the past, the federal government was shut down in
the nineties between President Clinton, a Democrat, and House Speaker
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Knut Gingridge, a Republican, over welfare to work. That was
the fight. Republicans wanted in the budget welfare to work
or you had to work if you were receiving welfare.
President Clinton did not, and ultimately they shut down the
government and Clinton got his way, and in the Obama administration,
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the shutdown then was about deficit spending. Back in the day,
Republicans used to care about the national debt, talked about
it all the time, used to care about a balanced budget,
used to care about deficits. And that's where the whole
Tea Party movement came from. That's where the Freedom Caucus
came from. These were deficit hawk Republicans who would shut
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down the government for as long as it takes to
not overspend. And then COVID came and I don't know
where those people went, but they're gone. I mean there's
a few of them, but they're not They're not the
big deal. So now President Trump, I mean, he's got
Democrats right where he wants them. He said, Look, all
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I'm asking him to do is sign off on a
continuing resolution. That's what the CR stands for. That basically
funds the government at September thirtieth levels. So nothing changes.
There was nothing wrong on September thirtieth. You were fine,
you had health insurance, you were alive, everybody was working,
everybody was fine. So there's nothing new in this proposal.
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It just continues the government at the level that was
on September thirtieth, and then you can bring up all
your concerns about illegal alien health care and Obamacare and
we can talk about it, but the government has to
be open.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Hey, lou enjoy the show, despite the fact that some
of the stuff you're spewing is pretty much nonsense. Yeah,
so for the most part, Yeah, as far as the
funding for illegals for healthcare, that is not one hundred
percent correct.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That money for the ACA goes into the state levels.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
At the state level, they can use those funds to
do some of that stuff with it.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's right, than I am one hundred percent correct. I
appreciate the call. Nine billion dollars. Nine billion dollars, that's
how much healthcare for illegals is costing you and me
in California nine billion dollars. Don't tell me that illegals
are not getting healthcare. They're getting healthcare with zeros in California.
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So also, you want to talk about disingenuous, this idea
that Democrats all of a sudden respect the rule of
law and there's nothing at the federal level that allows
a person in the country illegally to apply for federal benefits.
You gotta be kidding me. You want me to believe
Elizabeth Warren when she says that illegal shouldn't get health
(21:08):
care and aren't able to get No kidding. I know
it's illegal, but the money goes from the federal government
to the state, and the state manages medical and sets
criteria for eligibility and says, I don't care what your
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status is. Then illegals are getting healthcare. It's still my money.
It's still it's it's tax dollars. But nice try.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
The last government shutdown was under Trump, so he's got
practice at it.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I think he learned. Uh. I think that this is
going to be a huge win. I think Democrats are
going to have to cave. I think they're going to
have to sign off on the CR. They can go
on TV and say, look, we wanted to we want
to fight this a Miraitarian president, but we're not going
to do so at the you know, at the detriment
of the hard working men and women who work at
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the Department of whatever. So we begrudgingly are signing off
on the CR and right, I mean, they'll make some
kind of a statement like that, but it will be
a win. And Democrats hate handing Trump a win, but
I think it's inevitable. Hey, uh, have you seen there
is this viral video. I think this is so clever.
(22:30):
I love when people come up with good ideas and
they're just so genuine. There are a bunch of jokesters
going around to all you can eat buffets like in
Vegas and chain buffet restaurants and some of these Chinese
lunchtime buffets that are all you can eat, and they
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they're all in on the joke. But what they do
is stay for four hours, five hours and make the
manager come to them and say, I'm sorry, sir, you
have to leave, and you've been eating for five for
four hours straight, and they they're filming it like the
person eating knows that these the jokester, and the joke
is on the manager. But they literally and then of
(23:14):
course they feint outrage. What do you mean I paid
for all you can eat? It says all you can eat?
And these videos are absolutely hilarious and they're everywhere. Hey,
I paid for.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
All you can eat.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I'm still eating, sir, You've been here four hours in
your service. It's ridiculous, but we appreciate your business, but
we need the table. We need the table, right. The
manager doesn't know that it's a joke, and they're just
doing it everywhere. Man, the manager's asked you to leave.
We're gonna need you to head out. What for eating
what I paid for? We were warned about piling up plates.
It's time to go take it to you like, but
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we can't stay inside right this way unbelievable, and they
do it so well. They literally have lots and lots
of plates and like there's half eaten food on every plate,
and it's every genre. There's a great big bull of spaghetti,
then there's some chicken, then there's a hamburger, then the
three bowls of soup, and the spoons are in the
balls and it's all over the table and it's just hilarious.
(24:07):
So I like good comedy and I like when the
Internet is used in a way that amuses me. Lou
Penrose in for John Coblt.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
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Speaker 1 (24:22):
I'm Lou Penrose in for John Coblt this week. Good
to have you along with us. Yeah, these videos are
just hilarious. They're more and more coming in each and
every day. The all you can eat buffet is a thing,
but the restaurants can put a time limit on it
and people are just having a ball, like joking the manager.
(24:43):
Here's another one, al right, sir, I'm with the city police.
The owner asked that you'd be told to leave. You've
been at this table for over four hours. Buffet man says,
all you can eat. I understand, but he has the
right to refuse service. He wants you to wrap it up.
So funny, so funny. So if you've not seen it,
just keeps rolling. It will show up on your feet eventually.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Yeah, Lou, your idea of the old switcheroo is so
frigging right on. It's like you're you were in the
future and saw this happening. I totally believe that that
could happen, and then gruesome would.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Be in the Senate, like you say, out of.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
The limelight of California, but still getting this space around.
Oh how disgusting.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, I see it. I mean I see it clearly.
It's really his only lane. So what what you have
to keep in mind about California? Most most Americans will
never visit California. Most Americans only know the California they
see on TV. And whether it's a TV show or
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a movie or even a live event like a Dodger game,
the shot that you that America sees is gorgeous. So
people think California is, you know, everything's going well, sunshine,
sun kiss girls, clean streets, because that's what they see
on TV. And that's good. Like I'm okay with that.
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I like that. We have a really great reputation. But
if Newsom's running for office as an elected official in California,
Somebody's gonna come out here from the National News Corps
and take footage of the streets of downtown LA and
the streets of San Francisco where he was mayor, and
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that's not gonna be well. So if he is in
the Senate. Again, this is my prediction, and it's just
completely my prediction. It's not a I haven't heard anything,
but it seems to me that Democrats do not have
a candidate for governor. Katie Porter fell apart. Tony Atkins
I thought had the best shot. She's out. Kamala Harris
doesn't want the job, and TikTok, TikTok. That election is
(26:59):
what three hundred eighty six days away. You need a
lot of money. California very expensive state to campaign in.
I don't see Betty Yee emerging as the front front
runner anytime soon. So Senator Alex Padilla is already a
statewide name. He's a United States Senator. He can run
as a senator because he's You can't be on the
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ballot for two positions in California at the same time,
but a senator is every six years, and he just
won and this is in two years, so Padilla could
come home. He doesn't like being in the minority anyway.
There's no chance that Democrats are going to take the
majority in the Senate anytime soon. The math just isn't
even there. So he'll just be in the minority. And
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that's no fun. Democrats hate being in the minority. They're
not used to it from California. So my suspicion is
he will come home, he'll walk into the governor's race,
and then when he wins, he'll vacate his Senate seat
after he gets sworn in as governor. And in California,
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there's two ways you can go. You can call a
special election forty five days after the vacated seat, or
California law allows the governor to appoint somebody for the
remainder of the seat, which will be four years. He
will appoint Gavenusom, and now Gaven Newsom for four years
will not be in San Francisco, will not be in
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Los Angeles, will not be in Sacramento. He will be
in Washington, and that four years will it will be
a cleansing process for him and his California reputation. Reputation.
He'll represent California, but people won't know that he was
in charge in California. They think they'll think he's the
guy in the Senate. And that's just the level of
cleansing that Newsom needs to separate himself from his failures
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of leadership here in California. And even if things are
still if the homeless problem is still bad in California,
he could say, well, look when I left four years ago,
things were good. I don't know what you people did
with it. Like, no, that's it's perfect. It's the perfect
solution for and I think he'll take I think he'll
go that route. So this governor's race is wide open
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still at this point, and I think are there are
opportunities here. I've said it before, it's the singer, not
the song that makes the music move along. You need
a lead singer. And Republicans right now have some decent candidates,
have a lot of good thoughts and a lot of
good policy, and I think there is momentum on the
side for a different direction. I think the average California
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just by virtue of the voter registration numbers that I'm
seeing and that people are choosing to be no party preference,
signals to me that there's an appetite for a new voice.
And like, we're sick of problems in California. That's all
we have is just constant problems, and we're always talking
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about addressing problems. We want some victories, we want some wins,
we want to solve some things. There's nothing wrong with
California that cannot be remedied by what's right with California.
We have a beautiful state, and we're industrious people. And
those of us that moved here chose to be here.
People that are born and raised in California, they just
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got lucky. They were born into the most beautiful place
in the world. But many of us, including myself, purposefully
moved specifically to southern California because of the reputation that
it had, the opportunity that it represented, and how beautiful
it is. And that's where we need to go. We
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need to go back to a time or forward to
a time when everything about California just sounds fantastic and
it can be like there wasn't a natural disaster or
an event. All the things that are going wrong with
California are man made and they can be reversed. It
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takes leadership and will, and I think right now there
is an absolute appetite among voters to step outside their
political party comfort zone and go with a new thinker.
And we just haven't found that candidate yet, but it's
still early. And that the Democrats had no contingency plan
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following Newsom is stunning to me. One of the things
Democrats do well politically speaking, is set up like successors. Right,
every Democrat that's an elected office has some staffer that's
on the local school board or on the library district.
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And as that one politician moves on from the Assembly
to the state Senate, there is a plan in mind
of who is going to run for that seat. And
Democrats map this out all the way from down to
the school board level to governor. They plan, and Republicans don't.
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They just let things happen so that there is no
heir apparent to Governor. Newsom's gubernatorial successes is really stunning.
Lieutenant Governor that with the unpronounceable last name. She was
in the ring for a while and then she dropped down.
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Tony Atkins. She was everything. She was the Speaker of
the Assembly, she was the Senate pro tem. She had
all the boxes checked for the Democrats, right. She was
first lesbians woman and she's a moderate, not a progressive.
So what happened her? She just decided to not run.
So it's all wide open. We'll see where this all
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ends up, but I guarantee you it will be interesting.
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