March 6, 2026 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (03/06) - Mark Thompson fills in for John. Matt McClain comes on the show to talk about the high gas prices in California. One of the actresses from Hamnet gave her husband an ultimatum over their cats. More on the registered sex offender that is running for city council in Fresno, CA. One more Hollywood controversy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can if I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
It is the John Cobelt Show. Mark Thompson sitting in
and gas prices are insane already in California, as you know,
getting more insane with everything going on in the Middle East.
From gas buddy, Matt McClain joins us to help sort
this out a bit.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hi, Matt, how's it going so?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Matt? Uh? You know it already stinks in California to
be paying more than anywhere else in the entire nation.
What is happening with gas prices and what are the
realities concerning where they're going to be going given what's
happening in the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Man, I wish I had better news for you right
now four ninety nine a gallon. That's the statewide average
for California. Los Angeles County is sitting at four eighty nine.
That is up seventeen point six since just since yesterday,
thirty seven point six cents since last week, fifty nine
cents a gallon since last month. On this particular time,
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I highly expect that California is a statewide average will
top five dollars a gallon before midnight tonight. We have
seen prices increasing across the country in a very staggering pattern.
In fact, nationwide gas prices on average are up eleven
cents a gallon just in the past twenty four hours
and forty two cents for the past week. And that
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straight of hormuz. That's the main issue, the main culprit,
and it is becoming a very sincere problem, and the
longer it stays closed, unfortunately, the worst it's going to get.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, just because you mentioned it, I'll focus on that
for a second. Then I want to double back to
what we're paying in California versus the rest of the country.
But the straight up hormones, the problem can be really
so tough to short out because even if tankers aren't
attacked and that is being threatened without question, the insurance
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rates I guess for these tankers to go through now
they're up five hundred percent, I mean literally, just they
can't afford to go through the straightformers. And then there's
even the notion that there can be mining of the strait.
There can be all kinds of attacks now that are threatened,
and just the threat essentially creates the logjam.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That is the unfortunate aspect, And you're exactly right, and
I can actually add to that a little bit. We're receiving,
obviously word from some of those Middle Eastern countries a
part of OPEC and OPEC plus that their storage tanks
are basically full. They're ramping down production because they've gotten
no place to store the oil simply because there are
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no tankers that can pull up to port and begin
loading the oil. So this doesn't have a quick ending.
Even if the conflict ended tonight and things we waved
a magic wand and things went back to some sort
of sense of normalcy, we could not unwind the straight
of hoorn moves issues overnight. It will take days, and
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quite a few of them, just to begin seeing things
roll out. And that's just a role play. I don't
expect that to happen. You probably don't either. It's going
to be a while, and the longer it stays closed,
I'm getting genuinely very concerned.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So where does that leave us in California? And in fact,
just you talked about the increase in prices here in California.
You talked about the increase in prices elsewhere, are we
seeing greater increases here than elsewhere. I saw something yesterday
that suggested that actually the rest of the country, you see,
I mean again, these are all modest amounts, but the
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rest of the country was actually paying a bit more.
They'd seen a slight increase beyond what we've seen in California.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Correct, And I wouldn't necessarily feel lucky, obviously, and you're
not alluding to that, but at five bucks a gallon,
I wouldn't call that a good deal no matter what
it is. But the reality, yes, California has gone up
just a little little bit less than maybe the rest
of the country. So take for example, today was up
eleven cents nationwide, but in California it went up a
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seventeen point seven Since nation wide over the past week
on average, forty two point four cents, back to California
we go, and just within the past week thirty seven
point seven cents. So it's a very moot point, and
you're catching up quickly. I do expect that you will
overall catch up quickly. In fact, just as you and
I have been talking, we've added another fraction of a
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penny to the price point, and you're only seven tenths
away from being five bucks a gallon on average. And
that's literally live as we're talking.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Matt McLain from a gas buddy watching it, I guess
in real time even as we're talking. All right, So
now let's talk about some of the things that could
happen to take the prices down. You can, I guess.
I'll let you start, and then I know what I've read,
but you really know this base better than anyone. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
The very best thing that could happen would be to
open up the straight up or moves. Unfortunately, lead there's
just simply not a lot else there. Now, I do
want to preface this and balance out the comments by
simply saying, because we've been asked this an awful lot.
Will America experience shortages and other aspects when it comes
to fuel, that's really not in the cards overall for
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our country. We get such a small amount of oil
from the Middle East, somewhere between seven to ten percent,
maybe on a good week twelve or thirteen percent. But
the reality the vast majority of our oil supplies come
from domestic produced oil or our friends in Canada or Mexico.
We really are not going to run into a supply issue.
But because the crude oil pricing is are on a
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global scale and traded in UF dollars, that's where we
start running into a bit of a different situation all
the way around. And it's why because we're having such
an upset over in the Middle Eastern area that it's
creating a huge intake as far as the price points go,
and everyone across the globe is going to be paying
royalty for this. And I hate to say it, but
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five dollars a gallon is going to look very cheap
to some other places like Asia, which gets the vast
majority of their oil from the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Wow. Wow, I mean there is the ripple effect, as
you say, man in this country, could you see something
along the lines of what you saw Biden do, which
was release all of these strategic reserve.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's really not going to help. We don't have a
supply issue. What we have is a price issue, and
more oil out on the market isn't going to help that.
We're we are completely satisfied with our oil production needs domestically.
We're having no issues. If if God forbid, an oil
pipeline burst, maybe the strategic petroleum reserve might be able
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to step in, or we had some sort of other
issue that would create a hiccup in our oil supply
that would make a great reason to tap the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve. But there's really no way to just hop
on in there and try to decrease the price by
adding more oil to the system. We have plenty of product,
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plenty of ability to refine it, and the price of
oil is why things are going up, not because of
a supply issue.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So this sort of gets to the essence of how
oil and the drill baby drill thing works. The oil
goes out onto the world market and then it is
sold at whatever the oil is sold for per.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Barrel correct, And there's a couple of different exchanges, one
West Texas Intermediate that's handled in the New York Exchange,
and then we have the brink crude handled in the
European Exchange. And usually there is a slight difference between
the two exchanges when it comes to crude oil. But
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now we're starting to see a slight demand on the
West Texas Intermediate because well countries need oil, and so
when you can't get it from the Middle East, there
are other avenues. One of them being the West Texas
intermediate oil and so now we're seeing a higher demand
on that regard. It's not anything that's stressing out the
situation for our own domestic supply, but it is driving
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the price point up, and it's really almost in parody
now with the Brink crued out of the European exchange.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Matt McLain from Gas Buddy, My last question is, as
you game it out, and I know you do, how
high could the price actually go in California.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
There are times where it's really wise to try to
game it out and create projections. I have had well
over one hundred and fifty television and radio interviews this week.
Patrick Dahan has as well, independently from those accounts that
I've given you what I have been saying consistently across
the board, conflicts are very volatile, and you don't know
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how it ends until it ends. We don't know what
the missiles are, where the missiles are going to land
today until they land, and so it's really not wise
as an analyst to try to get out in there
and start projecting way off into the distance because the
amount of scenarios that it could roll or at that
particular point, it would basically be like putting a blindfold
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on and trying to throw a dart at the dartboard
and hopefully hitting the bulls eye, and it's probably not
going to happen. I'm not even good without a blindfold,
So we don't really want to go back direction. The
reality that we want to look at, though, is kind
of an integral analysis. I should say, the immediate past
in the conflict. So when we say that on average
gas prices across the nation are about to hit three
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point fifty to three seventy a gallon, we feel concrete
about that right now in the ongoing conflict because we
are basing that prediction upon the immediate past, the past
twenty four forty eight seventy two hours, and we feel
very confident about that. But tomorrow we don't know where
the missiles are going to go to create any additional
havoc at this point, Well.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Matt, I would say you're a help, and then you're
really not much of a help, is what I would say.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Matt. Now, I did radio for twenty seven years, so
I mean, here we are.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
We'll be in touch. That is the one certainty. Matt
McClain from guess, buddy, thanks for joining us today on KOFI.
Appreciate you, my friend. Have a good weekend. Ad one.
All right, when we come back, it's a bizarre story.
The registered sex offender who's been making your headlines nationally
announcing a run for Fresno City Council. The paperwork just
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got filed. We'll tell you that story next. Mark Thompson
for John Coblt. We are KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
We are KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. It is the John coblt Show. Mark Thompson
sitting in. Have you seen this controversy that's racking Hollywood. Yeah,
they're two parallel controversies. My friends. We are getting to
awards season so that when a controversy crops up, it
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can have the ripple effect of affecting voting or the
many awards that are presented during the holiday season. During
the award season, I should say the star of the
Oscar nominated film Hamnet, a film that I can state
with confidence as you listen to me now you have
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not seen.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I say that I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
No, because I don't know anybody who's seen it.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I haven't seen any movie.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Have any I haven't either. No, no, no. And I'm
making fun because I think it's one of those films
that I just feel like it's not super mainstream, but
it's Look, it's Oscar nominated. It must be great. I'm
sure everybody has it on their list of things to do.
Maybe not. Anyway, the star is Jesse Buckley, and again
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this is an Oscar nominated film and Jesse Buckley. You
know how they do these interviews. It's all part of
really the what would you call it is that ablicity
tour that they're on yet. Okay, so publicity tour around
both promoting the film and trying to get it out
there a bit, and also to curry favor with many
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who might be again during this award season, voting for
one award or another, not the least of which is
sort of those who are in the Academy and are
voting on for the Oscar. So anyway, she apparently doesn't
like cats, or had a bad interaction with her husband's cats,
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and she joked this is in a podcast that she
forced her husband to get rid of his two cats.
She claimed that one cat staged a coup by poohing
on her pillow, prompting her to say, quote, it's me
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or the cats.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
And what did the husband say?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Well, I guess they're married, so.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Oh no, the cats. The cats are gone.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, she's saying she despite this controversy, and you can
imagine the cat community bit back with some fervor that
she is still a lover of cats. She said this
to deal with the backlash, I need to clarify something
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for all cat lovers, she said. I am a lover
of cats. I woke up this morning to the world
thinking I really don't love cats, and it really weighed
on me all day. I felt sick. I want to
just tell cat people there's been misconceptions because of an
interview that I did that asked me if I was
a dog or a cat person. By the way, to
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be fair to her, I hate that question. Why do
you have to be a dog or a cat person?
It's absurd. It really is just absolute. It's like one
more way that we divide ourselves. Why do I have
to be dog or cat?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Because I think there are not a lot of people
that have dogs and cats.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Cobel does.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
He has a dog in the cat you have, you're
a cat. I don't want to say you're a cat person.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
No, we have cats, but we had a dog with
the cats. But now the dog dies, so now it's
just you.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I have never had a cat because I'm allergic, but
I like that it has nothing to do with not
like cats.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, and then you get Eric, who that that hate
is based on what Eric, Well, when I was a kid, See,
I knew there was an incident would go ahead. What
was it?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I was my parents would take me to a daycare
so they could go to work and stuff. When I
was young and couldn't go to school whatever. I was
probably like three years old. This daycare had a lot
of cats, and me, being the curious three year old,
decided to pull one of the tails of the cat.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, well then I know what I was doing. Okay, No,
I'm not blaming you, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Just saying, you don't pull the cat's tail.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You can't blame the cat for the reaction. Turn the
cat turns around and swipes me. Of course, what would
you what?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
He was traumatized Okay, alright, traumatized. I read a poem
in third grade I hate cats. Oh my god. Wow,
well that's just uh look, no, I thought this actress
was in trouble.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I think Eric could be in trouble. Team dog all
the way. All right, Well again, I don't think you
should have to choose between one and the other. But
at least you've contextualized your hate, which I but it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
My Hebrew name means God's lion, so it's like I
have the lion is my favorite animal.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So it's like it's kind of you're in a tough physician,
aren't you. You really are lions? Aren't cats? Those are? Those?
Are those big cats? Okay, all right, but I get it.
They're not house cats, but they are. Yeah. Uh well,
I mean apparently Eric hasn't issued his formal apology yet,
but she has. And uh this actress again from Hamnet
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uh saying look, I am, uh someone who has been misunderstood.
They're asking me if I They asked me if I
was a dog or cat person, and I'm thinking I'm
probably a quarter cat and three quarters dog. Anyway, I
love cat, and that's fair. She didn't address her comments
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about giving her husband Freddie Sorenson an ultimatum on the cats.
The interview with her co star in November included the
comment I don't like cat. Cats are mean my husband.
When I started dating you, I had two cats. This
is bad, so I'm going to get canceled. But one
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of the cats was like a pedigree model b So.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
How can you say you like cats?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Yeah? And I didn't like him.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And she continued and she staged like a coup against me.
I come home and there's just like boo on my pillow,
and I was like, it's me or the cats. But
I won, she said, So the cats were removed.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
They were okay. Well, then how can you say that you.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Don't you've been misunderstood, right, I agree, you're not misunderstood.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, you're clearly understood.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
You just didn't like your husband's cats.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Sounds like a win for me. I can team Merrick.
Jesse Buckley is trying to spin it, but it does
seem as though there's.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
No spinning that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, there really is. It's a big lift. There's no
question about it. So it goes. Timothy Shalome stepped in
it too. If we have time before the end of
the show. Oh, we'll get into that. He's another one's
up for an Academy Award, So a lot of Academy
Award nominees are backpedaling. Now, we'll get into some of
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it if there's If there's time a little bit later.
It is the co Belt Show Thompson Here KFI A
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Speaker 1 (17:50):
Mark Thompson for John Coe Belt. Of course Conway coming
in at six o'clock tonight. The story that's unfolding in
front is a fascinating one. This Renee Compost is forty
one year old who has a well, he's a registered
sex offender right and file paperwork to run for the
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Fresno City Council. I mean, it's more than a little
bit odd. This is a well obviously, you can imagine
him battled guy and mired in this controversy and finally
decided to come out and face the press. Had kind
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of a series of public remarks today to talk about
this Fresno race and about the fact that he's a
registered sex offender running for office, and one of the
ongoing controversies is like, how do you handle the fact
that you know this is in front of a church
where he's having this thing, and I guess the church
is across from an elementary school and you know you're
not allowing It's it's like, you know who thought this out?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I mean this is he needs to fire his peace.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
I build the city of Fresno.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
There are certain areas that represent rehabilitation people. This church
has been here for hundreds of years. Forgiveness isn't something
that is just given to you. It is not handed.
You earn it day by day, minute by minute. That's
what I'm doing. I'm not asking, I'm not demanding. I'm saying,
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grow with me.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Trust me.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
They chose to go on the news and say I
don't belong here, I don't belong in this race.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
What type of person doesn't belong here? Today?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
I don't belong Tomorrow they don't belong. So what are
we saying? Does the constitution matter anymore? The laws they're
pushing on us. They want us to believe in them.
You want us to follow them, You follow them. I've
been accountable. Let's hold them accountable.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I got to say you're on thin ice, my friend.
They're trying to now pass legislation aimed at preventing registered
sex offenders from holding public office, as you might imagine,
but again, composts addressing the practice is in front of
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Saint John's Cathedral on Mariposa Street in downtown Fresno. For
those who know the Fresno area.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Lead by example.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
There is another issue that I like to address. All right,
there is something that has publicly been said. How would
I address the issue of schools. I've never said I
would go to schools. Over the last few days, mothers
have reached out to me angry. I didn't silence them.
I talked with them. They said, how could a person
like you help? I listened, and I said, I can't
fix everything, and I'm not going to promise you the world,
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but I.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Can give you the advice I learned. That's the best
I can do.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Okay, the conditions what what? What is the advice?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Though there are California restrictions people must follow within the law,
and I follow the law to.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
The letter, what are those constrictions associated with the schools?
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Is the fact as of right now, it's the basic
restrictions of California law.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
And what are those again, It's going to.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Be the California laws that are restricted to that pinal
code elementary school.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Okay, there's an elementary school right across the street, is
what the guys saying.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
I would say during operational hours. Absolutely, I believe they
are closed right now. I don't see anyone, and I
don't see I don't Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
So the point is, you know, this is a guy,
by the way, you know, registered sex offender because said
child porn by the way, I don't know if that
was said earlier. So this is why there's a restriction
on him having anything to do with elementary school. But
the guy has a pressure in front of a church,
which is sort of to suggest, you know, it's about forgiveness,
it's about moving on. Yeah, well, you can't get any
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closer to that elementary school than you are right now
because you are legally restricted from doing so because you're
a registered sex offender who had child pornography and you're
running for political office.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
I understand the issue.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
However, I called it here because I felt this place
was important. We can't say, we can't say this person
is that person I have rehabilitated, and people can't keep
saying I'm afraid of him. If you keep saying that
you don't believe in rehabilitation, you don't believe in what
you're voting for.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, well, I'll I'm going to call this one now
on Renee Campos in Fresno. Yeah, take this to the
to the to the betting window. Renee Campos will be
losing in the race for city council in Fresno, I
would hope. So, yeah, I don't even understand it. I mean,
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if ever you wanted to move on with your life,
this isn't the way to do it. You've now achieved
notoriety in all the ugliest ways, both here in California
and across the nation.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
What parent is going to want to vote for him?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Thank you? Thank you? And he doesn't even do anything
to suggest that. You know, somehow he's found a magnetic
north in his life.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
You know, he's been rehabilitated.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Right exactly, when we continue, I will tell you one
last controversy as we tie think of This is a
Hollywood controversy. This is a little less sortid as we
wrap things up around here. So we'll do it next.
It's the John coblt Show. Mark Thompson sitting in KFI
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Speaker 1 (23:53):
John Cobelt's show. He was mentioning before that, you know,
it's an Oscar season and awards season. There's a lot
of controversy. See it's funny how they yeah, they go
out and they do these publicity interviews. They have to
promote the film and they have to promote themselves. It's
so different than the old days. I think it's become
almost part of contracts now that when you sign on
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to do the film, doing the film part is just
a portion of what your obligation will be. You'll need
to go out and do publicity for the film, and
then if award season comes, you'll want and you know,
I get it, they have an interest in doing that,
but there's a contractual obligation now to do it. There's
a real obligation on the part of actors and performers
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and stars to show up and support the project. So
all of a sudden, this you know, there are a
lot of close races, and you could even argue the
whole things ridiculous. I mean, how can you compare movies?
I mean, they're pieces of art on one level, right there,
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creations that just are so different. How do you compare?
How do you award one over the other? You'd almost
have to how do you even award best Actor? Wouldn't
the actor have to be in all the different movies
to really evaluate if they're best at it. I mean, so,
what started as a promotion for Hollywood, which is what
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the Oscars really started as, has turned into, you know,
something of such great value because it is truly monetizable.
These are awards that you can get big money as
a result of winning. So all the studios have great
interest in this. And there are many many award ceremonies
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and award events that go into this season. So when
you look at the Critics Choice Awards and they're the
Independent Spirit Awards, and then the Oscars, and then the
Golden Globes, you know, and so on, and when an
actor or a high profile person steps in it, it
becomes a problem. I told you about the start and
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what she got into, and apparently the race for Best
Actor at the Academy Awards is suddenly turning into one
of the most unpredictable showdowns in memory. They say, for months,
timoth A's Schallomaye looked unstoppable because of his performance in
Marty Supreme. But now in the final round of voting,
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the mood in Hollywood appears to be shifting. Rivals are
gaining ground, industry chatter is growing louder, and a quiet
push among insiders is raising a controversial question. Is the
industry starting to turn on Timothy's shallow? May? Are you
turning on Timothy Shallow?
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Turning on it? No, I just like turning on people.
I don't even know why I'm turning on it. The
truth is that he is so talented, so good. I mean,
he inhabits that that Bob Dylan thing he did kidding
me phenomenal. The guy is incredible and he truly like
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an actor just so inhabits a role, reinvents himself. It's extraordinary.
So that's why I say, because I get this at home,
at least dating a Kardashian, I don't know how you
can like him because he's dating a car So what
he's He's an young actor in Hollywood. Why shouldn't he
be dating a Kardashian. Well, She's a Jenner. That's it, right, Okay,
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So I'm just if we want to be Samantha samant it.
So you're saying that that that's a better that's the
better strain of that group. Well, she's just not a Kardashian. Yeah,
you're right, she is a Kardashian. I guess what is
argued is why is he someone of such elevated performance
sullying himself with those who are involved in the gossip
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and the kind of that stuff of Hollywood. Have you
seen what Kylie looks like? That's what I said. I
said the exact same thing I said, Why shouldn't he
as result of his prowess in acting in show business?
His excellence gives him, you know, four seats at the
Lakers game, and you know the key to her a house.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Well, I mean, if you just think about it like this,
shouldn't the number one IT guy be with quote unquote
the number one IT girl, thank you?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Shouldn't the apex predators of show business hang out together?
It's the way I see it. Well, if you can,
wouldn't mind stopping by the house leader, you could argue
with my de facto wife about this, say less I'll
be there anytime for you. Mark. Apparently, his performance in
Marty Supreme, this is a wildly successful film, positions him
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for this Oscar. He acknowledged his girlfriend Kylie Jenner when
he was at the Golden Globes, and everybody thought he
was on track for, you know, the final approach for Oscar.
But now Michael B. Jordan appears to be in position.
Sinners has suddenly gained strong backing and it looks as
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though Michael B. Jordan, who won Best Actor at the
Actors Awards, may be the one who'll get the coveted statue.
I don't know. His public remarks also have gotten him
into trouble last thing, because this is sort of the
cancelation of Hollywood. It's what he said about ballet and opera.
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We're talking about the endurance of film, okay, And in
so doing he kind of said, Wow, I'd rather be
in film than like in ballet or opera. Members of
the ballet and opera community would differ. He said, I'm glad.
(29:58):
I admire people and I've done it my myself. Who
go and say we've got to keep movie theaters alive.
We've got to keep this genre alive. And then he
was kind of talking about I guess with the in
the Matthew McConaughey podcast or conversation, he said, I don't
want to be working in ballet or opera or things
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where it's like, hey, keep this thing alive, even though
like no one cares about this anymore. So he was
suggesting ballet and opera is kept alive, but it's essentially
two art forms that are not valued. Well, Hollywood is
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filled with actors and performers and others who feel tied
to the arts and they're not happy. So it's the
thinking that Oscar voting may not favor him as a
result of these remarks, even though his remarks had nothing
to do with movies. I mean, really, the Royal Ballet
and Opera countered the actors take in a statement, Ballet
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and opera have never existed in isolation. They said, they've
continually informed, inspired, and elevated other art forms. Their influence
can be felt across theater, film, contemporary music, fashion and beyond.
And it's the way they said it that was so good. Well,
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they're saying, now, look, if you take cheap shots at
fellow artists, it really reflects negatively on your characters. So
the way, even that we have elevated him, Eric and
I both have mad respect for timothay' shalomey. The show
business community could be turning on him. How you could
diminish others who are in the arts. It's simply unacceptable.
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The Berlin based opera performer Dean Murphy even took him on.
This is a worldwide scandal, my friends, and so it
is an Oscar night. If Timothy Shallam doesn't get it,
you'll know. Maybe not saying it was the only reason,
but it might be a warm weekend. Awake two and
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strong wins, but it should be a gorgeous southern California weekend.
So enjoy always love hanging out on the John coblt Show.
Thank you, Eric, thank you, Rock and Roll, Ray Lopez,
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whole crew is rolled in. Can't wait to listen. We're
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
It is the John Cobelt Show. Mark Thompson sitting in
and gas prices are insane already in California, as you know,
getting more insane with everything going on in the Middle East.
From gas buddy, Matt McClain joins us to help sort
this out a bit.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hi, Matt, how's it going so?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Matt? Uh? You know it already stinks in California to
be paying more than anywhere else in the entire nation.
What is happening with gas prices and what are the
realities concerning where they're going to be going given what's
happening in the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Man, I wish I had better news for you right
now four ninety nine a gallon. That's the statewide average
for California. Los Angeles County is sitting at four eighty nine.
That is up seventeen point six since just since yesterday,
thirty seven point six cents since last week, fifty nine
cents a gallon since last month. On this particular time,
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I highly expect that California is a statewide average will
top five dollars a gallon before midnight tonight. We have
seen prices increasing across the country in a very staggering pattern.
In fact, nationwide gas prices on average are up eleven
cents a gallon just in the past twenty four hours
and forty two cents for the past week. And that
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straight of hormuz. That's the main issue, the main culprit,
and it is becoming a very sincere problem, and the
longer it stays closed, unfortunately, the worst it's going to get.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, just because you mentioned it, I'll focus on that
for a second. Then I want to double back to
what we're paying in California versus the rest of the country.
But the straight up hormones, the problem can be really
so tough to short out because even if tankers aren't
attacked and that is being threatened without question, the insurance
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rates I guess for these tankers to go through now
they're up five hundred percent, I mean literally, just they
can't afford to go through the straightformers. And then there's
even the notion that there can be mining of the strait.
There can be all kinds of attacks now that are threatened,
and just the threat essentially creates the logjam.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That is the unfortunate aspect, And you're exactly right, and
I can actually add to that a little bit. We're receiving,
obviously word from some of those Middle Eastern countries a
part of OPEC and OPEC plus that their storage tanks
are basically full. They're ramping down production because they've gotten
no place to store the oil simply because there are
(02:43):
no tankers that can pull up to port and begin
loading the oil. So this doesn't have a quick ending.
Even if the conflict ended tonight and things we waved
a magic wand and things went back to some sort
of sense of normalcy, we could not unwind the straight
of hoorn moves issues overnight. It will take days, and
(03:05):
quite a few of them, just to begin seeing things
roll out. And that's just a role play. I don't
expect that to happen. You probably don't either. It's going
to be a while, and the longer it stays closed,
I'm getting genuinely very concerned.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So where does that leave us in California? And in fact,
just you talked about the increase in prices here in California.
You talked about the increase in prices elsewhere, are we
seeing greater increases here than elsewhere. I saw something yesterday
that suggested that actually the rest of the country, you see,
I mean again, these are all modest amounts, but the
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rest of the country was actually paying a bit more.
They'd seen a slight increase beyond what we've seen in California.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Correct, And I wouldn't necessarily feel lucky, obviously, and you're
not alluding to that, but at five bucks a gallon,
I wouldn't call that a good deal no matter what
it is. But the reality, yes, California has gone up
just a little little bit less than maybe the rest
of the country. So take for example, today was up
eleven cents nationwide, but in California it went up a
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seventeen point seven Since nation wide over the past week
on average, forty two point four cents, back to California
we go, and just within the past week thirty seven
point seven cents. So it's a very moot point, and
you're catching up quickly. I do expect that you will
overall catch up quickly. In fact, just as you and
I have been talking, we've added another fraction of a
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penny to the price point, and you're only seven tenths
away from being five bucks a gallon on average. And
that's literally live as we're talking.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Matt McLain from a gas buddy watching it, I guess
in real time even as we're talking. All right, So
now let's talk about some of the things that could
happen to take the prices down. You can, I guess.
I'll let you start, and then I know what I've read,
but you really know this base better than anyone. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
The very best thing that could happen would be to
open up the straight up or moves. Unfortunately, lead there's
just simply not a lot else there. Now, I do
want to preface this and balance out the comments by
simply saying, because we've been asked this an awful lot.
Will America experience shortages and other aspects when it comes
to fuel, that's really not in the cards overall for
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our country. We get such a small amount of oil
from the Middle East, somewhere between seven to ten percent,
maybe on a good week twelve or thirteen percent. But
the reality the vast majority of our oil supplies come
from domestic produced oil or our friends in Canada or Mexico.
We really are not going to run into a supply issue.
But because the crude oil pricing is are on a
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global scale and traded in UF dollars, that's where we
start running into a bit of a different situation all
the way around. And it's why because we're having such
an upset over in the Middle Eastern area that it's
creating a huge intake as far as the price points go,
and everyone across the globe is going to be paying
royalty for this. And I hate to say it, but
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five dollars a gallon is going to look very cheap
to some other places like Asia, which gets the vast
majority of their oil from the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Wow. Wow, I mean there is the ripple effect, as
you say, man in this country, could you see something
along the lines of what you saw Biden do, which
was release all of these strategic reserve.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's really not going to help. We don't have a
supply issue. What we have is a price issue, and
more oil out on the market isn't going to help that.
We're we are completely satisfied with our oil production needs domestically.
We're having no issues. If if God forbid, an oil
pipeline burst, maybe the strategic petroleum reserve might be able
(06:42):
to step in, or we had some sort of other
issue that would create a hiccup in our oil supply
that would make a great reason to tap the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve. But there's really no way to just hop
on in there and try to decrease the price by
adding more oil to the system. We have plenty of product,
(07:02):
plenty of ability to refine it, and the price of
oil is why things are going up, not because of
a supply issue.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So this sort of gets to the essence of how
oil and the drill baby drill thing works. The oil
goes out onto the world market and then it is
sold at whatever the oil is sold for per.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Barrel correct, And there's a couple of different exchanges, one
West Texas Intermediate that's handled in the New York Exchange,
and then we have the brink crude handled in the
European Exchange. And usually there is a slight difference between
the two exchanges when it comes to crude oil. But
(07:42):
now we're starting to see a slight demand on the
West Texas Intermediate because well countries need oil, and so
when you can't get it from the Middle East, there
are other avenues. One of them being the West Texas
intermediate oil and so now we're seeing a higher demand
on that regard. It's not anything that's stressing out the
situation for our own domestic supply, but it is driving
(08:03):
the price point up, and it's really almost in parody
now with the Brink crued out of the European exchange.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Matt McLain from Gas Buddy, My last question is, as
you game it out, and I know you do, how
high could the price actually go in California.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
There are times where it's really wise to try to
game it out and create projections. I have had well
over one hundred and fifty television and radio interviews this week.
Patrick Dahan has as well, independently from those accounts that
I've given you what I have been saying consistently across
the board, conflicts are very volatile, and you don't know
(08:42):
how it ends until it ends. We don't know what
the missiles are, where the missiles are going to land
today until they land, and so it's really not wise
as an analyst to try to get out in there
and start projecting way off into the distance because the
amount of scenarios that it could roll or at that
particular point, it would basically be like putting a blindfold
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on and trying to throw a dart at the dartboard
and hopefully hitting the bulls eye, and it's probably not
going to happen. I'm not even good without a blindfold,
So we don't really want to go back direction. The
reality that we want to look at, though, is kind
of an integral analysis. I should say, the immediate past
in the conflict. So when we say that on average
gas prices across the nation are about to hit three
(09:27):
point fifty to three seventy a gallon, we feel concrete
about that right now in the ongoing conflict because we
are basing that prediction upon the immediate past, the past
twenty four forty eight seventy two hours, and we feel
very confident about that. But tomorrow we don't know where
the missiles are going to go to create any additional
havoc at this point, Well.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Matt, I would say you're a help, and then you're
really not much of a help, is what I would say.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Matt. Now, I did radio for twenty seven years, so
I mean, here we are.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
We'll be in touch. That is the one certainty. Matt
McClain from guess, buddy, thanks for joining us today on KOFI.
Appreciate you, my friend. Have a good weekend. Ad one.
All right, when we come back, it's a bizarre story.
The registered sex offender who's been making your headlines nationally
announcing a run for Fresno City Council. The paperwork just
(10:18):
got filed. We'll tell you that story next. Mark Thompson
for John Coblt. We are KFI AM six forty live
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You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (10:32):
We are KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. It is the John coblt Show. Mark Thompson
sitting in. Have you seen this controversy that's racking Hollywood. Yeah,
they're two parallel controversies. My friends. We are getting to
awards season so that when a controversy crops up, it
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can have the ripple effect of affecting voting or the
many awards that are presented during the holiday season. During
the award season, I should say the star of the
Oscar nominated film Hamnet, a film that I can state
with confidence as you listen to me now you have
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not seen.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I say that I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
No, because I don't know anybody who's seen it.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I haven't seen any movie.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Have any I haven't either. No, no, no. And I'm
making fun because I think it's one of those films
that I just feel like it's not super mainstream, but
it's Look, it's Oscar nominated. It must be great. I'm
sure everybody has it on their list of things to do.
Maybe not. Anyway, the star is Jesse Buckley, and again
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this is an Oscar nominated film and Jesse Buckley. You
know how they do these interviews. It's all part of
really the what would you call it is that ablicity
tour that they're on yet. Okay, so publicity tour around
both promoting the film and trying to get it out
there a bit, and also to curry favor with many
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who might be again during this award season, voting for
one award or another, not the least of which is
sort of those who are in the Academy and are
voting on for the Oscar. So anyway, she apparently doesn't
like cats, or had a bad interaction with her husband's cats,
(12:32):
and she joked this is in a podcast that she
forced her husband to get rid of his two cats.
She claimed that one cat staged a coup by poohing
on her pillow, prompting her to say, quote, it's me
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or the cats.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
And what did the husband say?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Well, I guess they're married, so.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Oh no, the cats. The cats are gone.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, she's saying she despite this controversy, and you can
imagine the cat community bit back with some fervor that
she is still a lover of cats. She said this
to deal with the backlash, I need to clarify something
(13:23):
for all cat lovers, she said. I am a lover
of cats. I woke up this morning to the world
thinking I really don't love cats, and it really weighed
on me all day. I felt sick. I want to
just tell cat people there's been misconceptions because of an
interview that I did that asked me if I was
a dog or a cat person. By the way, to
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be fair to her, I hate that question. Why do
you have to be a dog or a cat person?
It's absurd. It really is just absolute. It's like one
more way that we divide ourselves. Why do I have
to be dog or cat?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Because I think there are not a lot of people
that have dogs and cats.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Cobel does.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
He has a dog in the cat you have, you're
a cat. I don't want to say you're a cat person.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
No, we have cats, but we had a dog with
the cats. But now the dog dies, so now it's
just you.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I have never had a cat because I'm allergic, but
I like that it has nothing to do with not
like cats.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, and then you get Eric, who that that hate
is based on what Eric, Well, when I was a kid, See,
I knew there was an incident would go ahead. What
was it?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I was my parents would take me to a daycare
so they could go to work and stuff. When I
was young and couldn't go to school whatever. I was
probably like three years old. This daycare had a lot
of cats, and me, being the curious three year old,
decided to pull one of the tails of the cat.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, well then I know what I was doing. Okay, No,
I'm not blaming you, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Just saying, you don't pull the cat's tail.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You can't blame the cat for the reaction. Turn the
cat turns around and swipes me. Of course, what would
you what?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
He was traumatized Okay, alright, traumatized. I read a poem
in third grade I hate cats. Oh my god. Wow,
well that's just uh look, no, I thought this actress
was in trouble.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I think Eric could be in trouble. Team dog all
the way. All right, Well again, I don't think you
should have to choose between one and the other. But
at least you've contextualized your hate, which I but it's interesting.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
My Hebrew name means God's lion, so it's like I
have the lion is my favorite animal.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So it's like it's kind of you're in a tough physician,
aren't you. You really are lions? Aren't cats? Those are? Those?
Are those big cats? Okay, all right, but I get it.
They're not house cats, but they are. Yeah. Uh well,
I mean apparently Eric hasn't issued his formal apology yet,
but she has. And uh this actress again from Hamnet
(15:49):
uh saying look, I am, uh someone who has been misunderstood.
They're asking me if I They asked me if I
was a dog or cat person, and I'm thinking I'm
probably a quarter cat and three quarters dog. Anyway, I
love cat, and that's fair. She didn't address her comments
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about giving her husband Freddie Sorenson an ultimatum on the cats.
The interview with her co star in November included the
comment I don't like cat. Cats are mean my husband.
When I started dating you, I had two cats. This
is bad, so I'm going to get canceled. But one
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of the cats was like a pedigree model b So.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
How can you say you like cats?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Yeah? And I didn't like him.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And she continued and she staged like a coup against me.
I come home and there's just like boo on my pillow,
and I was like, it's me or the cats. But
I won, she said, So the cats were removed.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
They were okay. Well, then how can you say that you.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Don't you've been misunderstood, right, I agree, you're not misunderstood.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, you're clearly understood.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
You just didn't like your husband's cats.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Sounds like a win for me. I can team Merrick.
Jesse Buckley is trying to spin it, but it does
seem as though there's.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
No spinning that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, there really is. It's a big lift. There's no
question about it. So it goes. Timothy Shalome stepped in
it too. If we have time before the end of
the show. Oh, we'll get into that. He's another one's
up for an Academy Award, So a lot of Academy
Award nominees are backpedaling. Now, we'll get into some of
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it if there's If there's time a little bit later.
It is the co Belt Show Thompson Here KFI A
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Mark Thompson for John Coe Belt. Of course Conway coming
in at six o'clock tonight. The story that's unfolding in
front is a fascinating one. This Renee Compost is forty
one year old who has a well, he's a registered
sex offender right and file paperwork to run for the
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Fresno City Council. I mean, it's more than a little
bit odd. This is a well obviously, you can imagine
him battled guy and mired in this controversy and finally
decided to come out and face the press. Had kind
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of a series of public remarks today to talk about
this Fresno race and about the fact that he's a
registered sex offender running for office, and one of the
ongoing controversies is like, how do you handle the fact
that you know this is in front of a church
where he's having this thing, and I guess the church
is across from an elementary school and you know you're
not allowing It's it's like, you know who thought this out?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I mean this is he needs to fire his peace.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
I build the city of Fresno.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
There are certain areas that represent rehabilitation people. This church
has been here for hundreds of years. Forgiveness isn't something
that is just given to you. It is not handed.
You earn it day by day, minute by minute. That's
what I'm doing. I'm not asking, I'm not demanding. I'm saying,
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grow with me.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Trust me.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
They chose to go on the news and say I
don't belong here, I don't belong in this race.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
What type of person doesn't belong here? Today?
Speaker 8 (19:38):
I don't belong Tomorrow they don't belong. So what are
we saying? Does the constitution matter anymore? The laws they're
pushing on us. They want us to believe in them.
You want us to follow them, You follow them. I've
been accountable. Let's hold them accountable.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I got to say you're on thin ice, my friend.
They're trying to now pass legislation aimed at preventing registered
sex offenders from holding public office, as you might imagine,
but again, composts addressing the practice is in front of
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Saint John's Cathedral on Mariposa Street in downtown Fresno. For
those who know the Fresno area.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Lead by example.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
There is another issue that I like to address. All right,
there is something that has publicly been said. How would
I address the issue of schools. I've never said I
would go to schools. Over the last few days, mothers
have reached out to me angry. I didn't silence them.
I talked with them. They said, how could a person
like you help? I listened, and I said, I can't
fix everything, and I'm not going to promise you the world,
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but I.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Can give you the advice I learned. That's the best
I can do.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Okay, the conditions what what? What is the advice?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Though there are California restrictions people must follow within the law,
and I follow the law to.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
The letter, what are those constrictions associated with the schools?
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Is the fact as of right now, it's the basic
restrictions of California law.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
And what are those again, It's going to.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Be the California laws that are restricted to that pinal
code elementary school.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Okay, there's an elementary school right across the street, is
what the guys saying.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
I would say during operational hours. Absolutely, I believe they
are closed right now. I don't see anyone, and I
don't see I don't Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
So the point is, you know, this is a guy,
by the way, you know, registered sex offender because said
child porn by the way, I don't know if that
was said earlier. So this is why there's a restriction
on him having anything to do with elementary school. But
the guy has a pressure in front of a church,
which is sort of to suggest, you know, it's about forgiveness,
it's about moving on. Yeah, well, you can't get any
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closer to that elementary school than you are right now
because you are legally restricted from doing so because you're
a registered sex offender who had child pornography and you're
running for political office.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
I understand the issue.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
However, I called it here because I felt this place
was important. We can't say, we can't say this person
is that person I have rehabilitated, and people can't keep
saying I'm afraid of him. If you keep saying that
you don't believe in rehabilitation, you don't believe in what
you're voting for.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, well, I'll I'm going to call this one now
on Renee Campos in Fresno. Yeah, take this to the
to the to the betting window. Renee Campos will be
losing in the race for city council in Fresno, I
would hope. So, yeah, I don't even understand it. I mean,
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if ever you wanted to move on with your life,
this isn't the way to do it. You've now achieved
notoriety in all the ugliest ways, both here in California
and across the nation.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
What parent is going to want to vote for him?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Thank you? Thank you? And he doesn't even do anything
to suggest that. You know, somehow he's found a magnetic
north in his life.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
You know, he's been rehabilitated.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Right exactly, when we continue, I will tell you one
last controversy as we tie think of This is a
Hollywood controversy. This is a little less sortid as we
wrap things up around here. So we'll do it next.
It's the John coblt Show. Mark Thompson sitting in KFI
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John Cobelt's show. He was mentioning before that, you know,
it's an Oscar season and awards season. There's a lot
of controversy. See it's funny how they yeah, they go
out and they do these publicity interviews. They have to
promote the film and they have to promote themselves. It's
so different than the old days. I think it's become
almost part of contracts now that when you sign on
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to do the film, doing the film part is just
a portion of what your obligation will be. You'll need
to go out and do publicity for the film, and
then if award season comes, you'll want and you know,
I get it, they have an interest in doing that,
but there's a contractual obligation now to do it. There's
a real obligation on the part of actors and performers
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and stars to show up and support the project. So
all of a sudden, this you know, there are a
lot of close races, and you could even argue the
whole things ridiculous. I mean, how can you compare movies?
I mean, they're pieces of art on one level, right there,
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creations that just are so different. How do you compare?
How do you award one over the other? You'd almost
have to how do you even award best Actor? Wouldn't
the actor have to be in all the different movies
to really evaluate if they're best at it. I mean, so,
what started as a promotion for Hollywood, which is what
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the Oscars really started as, has turned into, you know,
something of such great value because it is truly monetizable.
These are awards that you can get big money as
a result of winning. So all the studios have great
interest in this. And there are many many award ceremonies
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and award events that go into this season. So when
you look at the Critics Choice Awards and they're the
Independent Spirit Awards, and then the Oscars, and then the
Golden Globes, you know, and so on, and when an
actor or a high profile person steps in it, it
becomes a problem. I told you about the start and
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what she got into, and apparently the race for Best
Actor at the Academy Awards is suddenly turning into one
of the most unpredictable showdowns in memory. They say, for months,
timoth A's Schallomaye looked unstoppable because of his performance in
Marty Supreme. But now in the final round of voting,
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the mood in Hollywood appears to be shifting. Rivals are
gaining ground, industry chatter is growing louder, and a quiet
push among insiders is raising a controversial question. Is the
industry starting to turn on Timothy's shallow? May? Are you
turning on Timothy Shallow?
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Turning on it? No, I just like turning on people.
I don't even know why I'm turning on it. The
truth is that he is so talented, so good. I mean,
he inhabits that that Bob Dylan thing he did kidding
me phenomenal. The guy is incredible and he truly like
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an actor just so inhabits a role, reinvents himself. It's extraordinary.
So that's why I say, because I get this at home,
at least dating a Kardashian, I don't know how you
can like him because he's dating a car So what
he's He's an young actor in Hollywood. Why shouldn't he
be dating a Kardashian. Well, She's a Jenner. That's it, right, Okay,
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So I'm just if we want to be Samantha samant it.
So you're saying that that that's a better that's the
better strain of that group. Well, she's just not a Kardashian. Yeah,
you're right, she is a Kardashian. I guess what is
argued is why is he someone of such elevated performance
sullying himself with those who are involved in the gossip
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and the kind of that stuff of Hollywood. Have you
seen what Kylie looks like? That's what I said. I
said the exact same thing I said, Why shouldn't he
as result of his prowess in acting in show business?
His excellence gives him, you know, four seats at the
Lakers game, and you know the key to her a house.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Well, I mean, if you just think about it like this,
shouldn't the number one IT guy be with quote unquote
the number one IT girl, thank you?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Shouldn't the apex predators of show business hang out together?
It's the way I see it. Well, if you can,
wouldn't mind stopping by the house leader, you could argue
with my de facto wife about this, say less I'll
be there anytime for you. Mark. Apparently, his performance in
Marty Supreme, this is a wildly successful film, positions him
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for this Oscar. He acknowledged his girlfriend Kylie Jenner when
he was at the Golden Globes, and everybody thought he
was on track for, you know, the final approach for Oscar.
But now Michael B. Jordan appears to be in position.
Sinners has suddenly gained strong backing and it looks as
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though Michael B. Jordan, who won Best Actor at the
Actors Awards, may be the one who'll get the coveted statue.
I don't know. His public remarks also have gotten him
into trouble last thing, because this is sort of the
cancelation of Hollywood. It's what he said about ballet and opera.
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We're talking about the endurance of film, okay, And in
so doing he kind of said, Wow, I'd rather be
in film than like in ballet or opera. Members of
the ballet and opera community would differ. He said, I'm glad.
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I admire people and I've done it my myself. Who
go and say we've got to keep movie theaters alive.
We've got to keep this genre alive. And then he
was kind of talking about I guess with the in
the Matthew McConaughey podcast or conversation, he said, I don't
want to be working in ballet or opera or things
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where it's like, hey, keep this thing alive, even though
like no one cares about this anymore. So he was
suggesting ballet and opera is kept alive, but it's essentially
two art forms that are not valued. Well, Hollywood is
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filled with actors and performers and others who feel tied
to the arts and they're not happy. So it's the
thinking that Oscar voting may not favor him as a
result of these remarks, even though his remarks had nothing
to do with movies. I mean, really, the Royal Ballet
and Opera countered the actors take in a statement, Ballet
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and opera have never existed in isolation. They said, they've
continually informed, inspired, and elevated other art forms. Their influence
can be felt across theater, film, contemporary music, fashion and beyond.
And it's the way they said it that was so good. Well,
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they're saying, now, look, if you take cheap shots at
fellow artists, it really reflects negatively on your characters. So
the way, even that we have elevated him, Eric and
I both have mad respect for timothay' shalomey. The show
business community could be turning on him. How you could
diminish others who are in the arts. It's simply unacceptable.
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The Berlin based opera performer Dean Murphy even took him on.
This is a worldwide scandal, my friends, and so it
is an Oscar night. If Timothy Shallam doesn't get it,
you'll know. Maybe not saying it was the only reason,
but it might be a warm weekend. Awake two and
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strong wins, but it should be a gorgeous southern California weekend.
So enjoy always love hanging out on the John coblt Show.
Thank you, Eric, thank you, Rock and Roll, Ray Lopez,
all of the Cobalt people, Deborah two, Conway's next. That
whole crew is rolled in. Can't wait to listen. We're
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