January 2, 2026 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (01/02) - Best Of The John Kobylt Show. Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped his lawsuit against the Trump administration regarding high-speed rail in California. What is worse in California, speeding or vehicular manslaughter? David Goldblum comes on the show to talk about his documentary “Big Rock Burning”. An investigation stated that oil companies are not price gouging consumers at the gas pump but California’s high taxes and regulations are the cause of high gas prices in the state.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio
app John Cobelt Show, can if I Am six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm here to let
the world know just what a freaking disaster Gavin Newsom
has been to the state, and it's been destroyed right
in front of our eyes. You know, I've been here
over thirty years, and when I was a little kid,
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this looked like paradise on TV. I came here and
it actually was and it stayed that way for the first,
you know, twenty plus years or so, and then it's
gone really downhill, and it's it's almost entirely due to
self inflicted bad democratic progressive policies. I am no cheerleader
for any political party, but I am telling you that
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this progressive movement over the last ten years has utterly
disemboweled the state. It is terrible and it's heartbreaking. It's
very sad, and you know, it's funny. I've got I've
got three sons who are in their twenties and they
all they all moved out, and none of them want
to come back to California. And but we visit them
around the country, and when I go to other states,
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within a few hours.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I look around and I go, what happened? Like, where
are the homeless people?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You know, where are all the woe level criminals skulking about?
Look at that gas price, that's two eighty nine. That's
two sixty nine a gallon. I feel like I've broken
out of Cuba, I mean, or we're communist Russia. I
really have that feeling. And my sons used to hear
my wife and I complain and grumble all the time
about various policies and taxes and just everything, quality of
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life issues, and the insta role arives.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
At us until they moved out. And so now they
go out.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And I have one son of Wyoming, one in North Carolina,
one in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
They're going to school.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Or various you know, early parts of their career and
they come back.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
They're shocked.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Now they're shocked by la because they spend you know,
three six months in peace before they return for a visit,
and they go, you know, now, I know what you're
talking about, because they get so used to normal life,
pleasant life. I visited one of my sons in North
Carolina over the summer and then we took a road trip.
We went through Savannah, Georgia, we went to Charleston, South Carolina.
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We ended up in Sarasota, where my wife grew up
a part of her childhood as a teenager, and beyond
because her parents had moved. And so just seeing those
four cities, seeing Charlotte, Charleston, Savannah, Sarasota, and I'm looking around,
it's like, look at this.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Nobody's on the sidewalks. We're not looking at our shoulder.
We're not afraid.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And that is the single thing that makes you crazy
in La. We never know when somebody's going to come
flying at you, because it happens. People get punched in
the face, they get stabbed. There is a girl that
my sons went to school with from the local school,
and she'd gone to college and she was taken a
job to earn money and to leave it a furniture store.
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Homeless guy who'd been arrested, you know, many many many times,
walked in one day and stabbed her to death right
in the furniture store. It's like, oh my god, you
know what. My sons knew that girl. I used to
see her. She used to work out at a park
that I worked out at, and I remembered her. And
it really hits home to a lot of people. I mean,
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we know, we know dozens and dozens of people who
lost their homes in the fire because many of the
people in the Palisades went to the same school as
my children. And so the pain is intense, The pain
is personal. You go from paradise to what we have now,
and now a lot of people have packed up and left,
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and I understand. And people always say, well, why are
you staying. Well, I do have a good job, and
we do have a lot of friends. You know, you
do spread roots, and I don't really want to go
to another state and not know anybody.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That just doesn't sound appealing. Let me tell you about
some of the fraud.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And we went over with Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com.
And so I keep saying, if, like you think Waltz
is something else with the fraud, just listen to these
Gavin Newsom stories. And California dropped its lawsuit. Four billion
dollars in federal money was supposed to come for high
speed rail and Trump pulled it. And Trump has done
a lot of damage to Newsom. This is one example,
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four billion dollars of federal money. Obama had originally appropriated
some of it. And the first thing that Newsom and
the Attorney general in California does, Rob Bonta, is they
hold a press conference. We're suing Trump, big headlines in
all the left wing papers. Newsom sues Trump, Bonta sues Trump. Well,
(04:46):
the follow up to that is that Newsom and Vonta
dropped their four billion dollar lawsuit. They're not even going
to try to get the four billion back because guess what,
they did violate the grant agreement.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
They dismissed their own lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Trump's Transportation Department said they did a compliance review and
found that California didn't meet federal grant requirements. There were
too many costly changes to the contracts, The ridership forecasts
were bogus.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And on and on.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Let me tell you when this thing passed in two
thousand and eight, what the voters were told. I think
it passed fifty two to forty eight. It was a
statewide referendum, do you want high speed rail? Here is
what they sold the public. I voted no. I knew
it was a bunch of lies. A lot of people
went for it, and I understand why because at the time,
and this was a remnant of like the Schwarzenegger administration.
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They said, you were going to have two hundred and
twenty mile an hour trains. Yeah, really two hundred and
twenty mile an hour trains, and they were going to
run from get this, It was going to run from
Sacramento to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles, then to Anaheim,
then to San Diego. The whole state, all the major
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cities from north to south, would be connected by a
single track. And we were going to build that in
about within fifteen years, by twenty twenty, and the total
price was going to be thirty three billion dollars thirty
three billion dollars for the whole thing, Sacramento, San Francisco,
La Anaheim, San Diego, and the trains would go two
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hundred and twenty miles an hour and you'd be able
to order from San Francisco to Los Angeles in like,
I don't know, two and a half hours. And people
got excited. Right, people love it. It's science fiction, right,
shiny bullet trains speeding you know, through the California farm
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regions connecting the cities. Everyone bought into it. So now
what have we got eighteen years later? We have no track.
What we have is scattered out in the central valleys.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
They call it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's a lot of farmland, right, Well, they tore up
a lot of farmland, and they have left these pillars.
And someday someone's going to come back to California and
wonder what these pillars are for, because they're really high.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
They're like twenty thirty feet high.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
They're supposed to hold up the railroad track, the overhead
railroad track, except the railroad track was never built. So
you have these things that it looks like Stonehenge out there.
Like if you had, i know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
People from a foreign country come, they'd be looking around.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It's like this, this is the ancient civilization that left behind.
You know, were they tracking the sun?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Here?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Were they plotting the stars? Do these cast shadows? That's
all we have are these stonehenge pillars to hold up track.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
That's never been built.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
They have reduced the train to Bakersfield to Merced. You
can't run a train back and forth. There's no market there.
They're no commuters wanting to go for Bakersfield. To Mersaid.
And even then the train stops are outside Bakersfield in Merceente,
and that's the extent of the train they're trying to build.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's gonna be one hundred and seventy one miles.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
There is no Sacramento, there's no San Francisco, there's no
Los Angeles, no Anaheim, no San Diego, there's nothing. There's
Baker's Field to Mercede. And now they're estimating it's like, well,
if we ever built the whole thing, which we're not
going to, it would cost all one hundred and thirty
million dollars, which means it would probably cost one hundred
and thirty billion, which means it would probably cost two
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hundred and fifty billion. Remember what I said at the beginning,
it's gonna be thirty three billion, all five major cities.
It's gonna be done about twelve to fifteen years. They
did several audits. And when the auditors went in, as
somebody else says, want they do an audit, I don't
do it forensic audit and track down every penny. Well,
when they do the audits, they find out the money evaporated.
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It's it's not written down, there's no paperwork. There's literally
no paperwork. Tax money was withdrawn from accounts and then
it was gone. We agreed to borrow ten billion dollars
that we're now paying back. They also said, well, we're
going to get private investors. Way back when well a
Newsoman Bonta dropped this lawsuit, somebody said, well, where are
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you going to get the money. Oh, we're going to
get private investor. There are no private investors in the world.
They've been trying for twenty five years to get private investors.
But it's a boondoggle. You know, when the private sector
says this thing is a scam, it's a scam.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But it keeps the unions employed.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
We're busy building these stonehenge pillars for no reason.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's astonishing.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Okay, we've got more coming up on The John Cobelt Show.
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slash at John cobelt Show. All Right, what it's worse
in California? A speeding ticket or you run over someone
with your car and kill them. Well, in some cases,
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the speeding ticket is worse. You could speed, no accident,
no casualties, You're just caught going too fast. In the
other case, you do something and you kill another motorist,
a pedestrian, a bicyclist, and you've done something wrong, and
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they charge you with a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, which can
be either a felony or a misdemeanor. So you're guilty
of the hicular manslaughter, but you will get less well,
you'll get nothing on your public record potentially. Let me
explain cal Matters, which is another good news website on California.
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Since most of the regular media has abandoned coverage, including
just about all the media here in Los Angeles, cal
Matters has found that there's something called a misdemeanor diversion program.
This was passed in twenty twenty by the legislature, so
a judge can erase a misdemeanor case from existence, what
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they call low level crimes, so you don't have a stigma.
Because having a stigma, you have a conviction on your record. Well,
sometimes you can't get work, Sometimes you can't get an
apartment because nobody wants a criminal in the workplace. Nobody
wants to rent to a criminal, can't trust him. So
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they extended this so that you could kill somebody while driving,
go to a diversion program, and you have that vehicular
manslaughter charge wiped off the books as if it ever
happened again. You've actually killed someone. Here's an example. Alison Lyman,
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she had a son named Connor twenty three. He's riding
his motorcycle. An oncoming car made a left turn, collided
with him, and Connor Lopez, a piano teacher, died in
the roadway. Very sad story. The DA's office charged the driver,
Herjeet's cower, the misdemeanor of vehicular manslaughter because she did
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not yield to oncoming traffic and that caused the fatal crash,
killing Connor, and then a prosecutor broke the news to
Alison Lyman, the mun the mother the case could be
wiped off Kower's record and sealed if Kauer asks for
a diversion program and a judge grants it. And Lyman said,
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I'm forty three. I'll have to live the rest of
my life without my son, but there'll be no record
of it for her. One of the officers kept telling
her that it's a low level case, and Lyman said,
she took my son's life. But that's how they're seeing
low level again. It wasn't declared an accident. She was
at fault and charged with the hicular manslaughter and then
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it gets wiped away. You know, you have to do
community service. That kind of nonsense. In twenty twenty, the
far left wing let all the criminals, Let all the
criminals free. State legislature created diversion for almost all misdemeanors,
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with few requirements that defendants have to fulfill even if
the prosecutor objects. So defense attorneys are requesting diversion all
the time. That's how shoplifting and drug possession got legalized,
and now it extends to cases where somebody's died. In fact,
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cow Matters identified three dozen drivers who avoided a vehicular
manslaughter conviction by going conviction by going to a diversion program.
So suddenly those three vehicular those excuse me, those thirty
six vehicular deaths weren't crimes anymore. It's as if they
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never happened. I'm the people are still dead, the victims,
but none of the thirty six drivers are at fault.
He could get a misdemeanor charge if you weren't drunk
or driving extremely dangerous. However, if you get a traffic ticket,
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the traffic ticket stays on your record. There was a
young man in Los Angeles who fell asleep at the
wheel and ran over a bicyclist. He got a red
light ticket. A few months after the judge granted diversion,
and then he got a speeding ticket. Oh, the speeding ticket,
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the red light ticket or on his record. But the
incident where he fell asleep and ran a bicyclist over
and killed him not on the record. Here's a story
about a driver involved in a fatal twenty twenty crash.
He got two tickets last year, then a drudge grants
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some diversion, and he got a speeding ticket. Well, almost tickets,
they're permanently on the record. Not the accident where he
killed somebody, you know. I read the other day too
that California has some of the weakest DUI law, and
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I think we talked about on the air some of
the weakest DUI laws in the country. And it's just
startling because this is such an oppressive nanny state. And
yet when it comes to drunk driving, when it comes
to killing somebody, because you drove so badly not so much,
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you don't go to jail and your record is wiped clean.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
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that's the podcast, and listen to what you missed. I
want to get right to David Goldbloom here. He is
director of a really a powerful emotional documentary called Big
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Rock Burning, and it's about people who live in Malibu's
Big Rock community as they try to come back after
the fire that wiped out many of the homes there.
Let's get to David Goldbloom.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
On Thanks for having me, John, I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Really glad to have you, and I'm a little fired
up because we just found out the new details about
the Palisades fire.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
What got you in? What motivated you to do this documentary?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Oh well, I guess a little bit of craziness. My
home burned down and the fires and that night my community,
very tight knit community in Big Rock and mount we
formed a WhatsApp group and people That's how we were
getting information out to each other. That's how we were
finding out that no help came. There was a standdown order,
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no firefighters, no water, and the reservoirs were kind of
became a news network overnight, and everybody just kept saying,
we have to get our story out there. How come
not one firefighter came to our mountain the entire night
of the fires. And I kept hearing that for a
couple of nights, and the more people kept saying, we
got to get our story out there. Eventually, I was
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just like, Okay, if we want to tell this story,
I'll jump in the ring and I'll shepherd it. And
I think over forty residents who had lost their homes
reached out to me and said, you know, we're on board.
We'll do whatever we can to help you.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And where is Big Rock in Malibu? Exactly? So people
not familiar Cana.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
So if you think about the Palisades fire, it went
down the pch and really the first mountain enclave leading
tour Malibu was was Big Rock once you pass Pacific policy,
so it's kind of at the beginning of Malibu.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And what fired.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Jurisdiction covers that community, I think La County, La County,
So that's who you were waiting on to come and
nobody did.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, there were apparently there was a stand down order
and the standown order events.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, one of.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
The residents heard it on a dispatch.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That's really common in fires, right, a standout rather than
send more guys, send less guys, in fact, don't send anybody,
stay home.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Well, I guess let it burn was the mantra.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, you know what what it It really was, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It really was the philosophy.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
After the first a couple of hours, it's like, ah,
nothing we can do, let it go.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah, And it wasn't just fire to somebody in the film.
She called nine one one and they kind of just said, sorry,
we can't help you. And she was stranded on a
mountain like on a boulder. Yeah, with fire all and
like all around her, and just there was every man
for themselves.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
How do you feel like like today? I don't know
if you heard.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
We've got we've got another round of stories from the
attorneys representing the Palisades owners. And it looks like the
state put a stop to the LA Fire Department cleaning
up the January first fire, which is where the rekindling happened,
because they wanted us to protect the milkfitch plant. So
no bulldozers, no fire lines, no tamping down the hotspots.
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When you hear these things, and there's been a lot
of these stories, how do you feel like, what does
that do to your psyche?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
It's really sad and it's really disappointing. And I was
on an La Times Studio podcast the other day and
I said, it makes you kind of not want to
be here anymore. You know the fact that nobody has
stepped up, nobody's taken accountability, nobody said we messed up.
And what I wanted to do with our film is
to show the human stories of loss and grief and
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resilience too, and kind of show these were real people
who lost everything.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I felt and I didn't know anybody in your film.
I felt so sad for everybody. I felt sad, I
felt angry, and it's like, this shouldn't happen to these people.
These are regular people just living their lives.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What kind of reaction have you gotten to the film
and where's it playing and how can people find it.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
It's been incredible because I think this whole issue has
become somewhat of a political hotbed, and I tried to
I tried to focus on the human stories. He has
to call out a lot of people for what they
did or didn't do. But it seems to have been
well received all over the map, maybe except for Carabath,
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but everybody's really appreciative. And we premiered at Malibu City
Hall to a sold out crowd in August, and I
think almost every everybody there had lost their homes and
some fire. And then we've been around the country. We
were at scad, Savannah, Mill Valley, Newport, Santa Fe. And
now we're coming to PBS on the anniversary of the fire,
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so it'll be broadcast into twenty million homes across California.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
All Right, so you've done a lot of film festivals
and now PBS, and it's going to be on January seventh.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yep, the anniversary of the fires.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Oh that's great. So it's going to be seeing all
over the country. I mean, it's impossible not to get
emotionally affected while you're watching it. I actually had to
stop it a couple of times because you know, I'm
covering this stuff every day, and you know, nothing bad
happened to me. That's why I cannot imagine what it
must feel like to suffer the trauma. And then you
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get reminded of it every day or every week. You know,
more and more these stories come out. It's got to
be just unbelievable. But you know, there was a sense
of optimism in some of the people also with the sadness.
It was fascinating to see like all those human, human
emotions playing out at once in the aftermath.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, there's one character in the film. He stayed behind,
and he fought with a garden hose, and that was
the kind of theme of that night. The people who
stayed behind were fighting with garden hoses and pool water
and bathtub water. But his home survived the night of
the fires, and then the next morning, he went around
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and he went from home to home. That's how I
found out my home had burned down. He took everybody's
address in the WhatsApp group and he was driving around
telling people whether their housemade it or not, because we
were all kind of wanting this sense of closure. And
then he got back to his home and his home
was burning. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
That's one of the toughest parts of the film. Yeah,
because he's just standing there looking out over where the
house used to be and he had saved it, and
then he tried to help everybody else out and that's
when the fire.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Came back and got him.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's just, yeah, that is some story you mentioned in
passing that Karen Bass didn't necessarily have a good reaction.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Has she seen or she heard about the movie? I mean, what.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You know, I when I we started three days after
the fire, and I had reached out to everybody. I
was trying to get everybody to just kind of have
a voice. And I reached out to Karen's office and
really was persistent, really trying to get her to, you know,
be on camera have an interview, and they kept just
saying she's done a lot for the community in Malibu
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already and she has a busy schedule, and I was
kind of like, I'll come anywhere, you know. I don't
know where she's been in Malibu. I haven't seen her,
but she was not I don't think she wanted to
be part of this.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No, no, Well, the movie is fantastic. I'm glad that
it's going to be on PBS and the whole nation
can see it. And you've had great reaction at the
film festivals. And it's thirty minutes, but it's some of
the most powerful thirty minutes you're.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Ever going to experience.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, so good luck with it, and as time goes on,
anything you need from us to publicize it further or
in any way try to make life better for the
people there in Malibu, just let us know.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Okay, thank you, I'm a good send your show.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Thank you very much, David Goldblum. And again PBS. On
January seventh, the anniversary of the fire, you get to
see his documentary. Okay, we've got more coming up on
the John Cobelt Show.
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study Newsome closely. I understand his patterns.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I understand you're obsessed with him. I am. I know,
I can't. It's the hair, John, I get it.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
He is so dishonest and manipulative. He's such a psychopathic,
compulsive liar that I'm fascinated by his hold over ordinary people.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I justlike warn't than the politician that sits there and
lies to you, and the way he finds an issue
and then postures. You know, he gets all outraged and
angry and he's waving his arms. He likes to wave
his arms and his hands. He always looks like he's
landing airplanes.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
When he talked, I'm going to express my relationship to
my truth.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So two years ago, when Biden was still president and
the Green New Deal was a big thing and they
were blowing literally hundreds of billions of dollars on green nonsense,
Gavin said, Okay, that's the way the wind is blowing.
And for most of twenty twenty three and twenty twenty
four he was on a crusade against high gas prices,
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which I was found fascinating because.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
He's the reason we have them.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
A dollar fifty of the gas price is taxes and
regulatory fees imposed by the state, so it's him. But
he was pounding his fist that the oil companies, the
energy companies were gouging us, and they had to be investigated,
and they had to be further regulated, and there had
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to be commissions and investigations. So today, and I just
looked at this minutes ago, you now you know what
the lowest price in America for gases. It is Oklahoma
at two dollars and forty nine cents two forty nine.
(28:36):
There are twenty nine states at three bucks a gallon
or less. There are forty four states under three forty
forty four. And then if you scroll away to the
bottom of the list. The most expensive state, it's California,
four sixty six a gallon, twenty cents more than Hawaii,
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twenty cents more than Hawaii, almost almost fifty cents more
than the state of Washington, which is third most expensive.
So we are far and away the most expensive. I mean,
we're getting close to double Oklahoma. And Dan Walters for
(29:21):
col Matters wrote this piece on now and we've talked
about this. Now you have refineries closing, you have the
pipeline is going to shut itself down because we produce
so little oil that the pipeline mechanics are going to
seize up. And the price of gas is out of
sight and new some like the rest of these idiots, now, Babbel,
(29:46):
I hate it. I hate it when everybody in politics
and the media sees on a word or a phrase
it's like, oh, it's affordability, it's all about affordability. Well,
I'm looking at you know, I'm looking at the price
of gas here and it's fourth sixty six a gallon.
And I don't know where that for sixty six is.
It's not in my neighborhood. A lot of neighborhoods, it's
(30:06):
closer to five dollars a gallon, but fine, and that
adds up to I don't know, if you get a
tank full of gas a week, you know twenty you know,
twenty gallons of gas, Well that's thirty dollars more than
a lot of states every week. That's fifteen hundred dollars
(30:27):
more a year. Affordability my ass. Now, part of his crusade,
he created the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
This is new.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
This is supposed to track how the California oil companies
are gouging you because a year ago this week he said,
they continue to lie, they continue to manipulate. They've been
rinking an unprecedented profits because they can. Nobody who's making
record profits closes their business and moves out of the state. Somehow,
(31:08):
the oil companies in California are the first companies in
the history of the state who are making so much
money they've decided to go out of business and leave.
But he's such a narcissistic, psychopath, compulsive wire. So anyway,
last month, the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight released its
(31:30):
first annual report. It's like, ah, now we're going to
find out how much gouging is going on. Well, they
didn't find any gouge they According to Dan Walters, the
report confirmed what was already known that the price is
here are much higher than other states, and most of
the price differential is due to taxes and regulatory costs.
(31:55):
So all all that glovy, all that preening and primping
before the cameras, the fake outrage oil companies are gouging us,
and stupid asses in the stay gone.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yeah, yeah, there, all companies are gouging us. They're gouging us.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
And apparently people in California never travel to the other
forty nine states. I guess maybe everybody's so broke they
can't they don't travel anymore, because there isn't a state
I've traveled to in the last year or two where
I haven't been at first stunned by the price, because
you just get used to seeing, you know, four eighty
nine a gallon in the neighborhood. And I know Eric
(32:36):
runs into this all the time, and you travel and
he sends back photos and it's, you know, it's like
two eighty nine in Arizona or something like that. And
they're gran out of business because of the high costs
and high taxes. High regulatory burden because all those regulations
(32:58):
add more cost. There's taxes on the energy companies that
are passed to us, there's taxes directly at the pump.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
And it's all from Gavin Newsom. It's entirely him.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
He created a commission to find out that he's the
cause of the high gas prices.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I mean, what a bozo.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
And this is going to be so entertaining because I
bet you there's gonna be ten Democrats running for president.
Let's say there's ten, right, and they're going to have
a debate, and they're all going to be arrayed across
and the other nine are going to hammer on his
head because of his hair and his jaw. He'll be
at or near the top of the poles. And you
always go after the front runner, and you are going
(33:38):
to see nine people. The only thing they're going to
debate in the first time they get together is Gavin
Newsom's disastrous reign as governor. Here that is, I'm going
to take I'm going to talk you off, take off
work that day and just get drunk and enjoy this thing. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
(33:58):
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio
app John Cobelt Show, can if I Am six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm here to let
the world know just what a freaking disaster Gavin Newsom
has been to the state, and it's been destroyed right
in front of our eyes. You know, I've been here
over thirty years, and when I was a little kid,
(00:22):
this looked like paradise on TV. I came here and
it actually was and it stayed that way for the first,
you know, twenty plus years or so, and then it's
gone really downhill, and it's it's almost entirely due to
self inflicted bad democratic progressive policies. I am no cheerleader
for any political party, but I am telling you that
(00:42):
this progressive movement over the last ten years has utterly
disemboweled the state. It is terrible and it's heartbreaking. It's
very sad, and you know, it's funny. I've got I've
got three sons who are in their twenties and they
all they all moved out, and none of them want
to come back to California. And but we visit them
around the country, and when I go to other states,
(01:05):
within a few hours.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I look around and I go, what happened? Like, where
are the homeless people?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You know, where are all the woe level criminals skulking about?
Look at that gas price, that's two eighty nine. That's
two sixty nine a gallon. I feel like I've broken
out of Cuba, I mean, or we're communist Russia. I
really have that feeling. And my sons used to hear
my wife and I complain and grumble all the time
about various policies and taxes and just everything, quality of
(01:35):
life issues, and the insta role arives.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
At us until they moved out. And so now they
go out.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And I have one son of Wyoming, one in North Carolina,
one in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
They're going to school.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Or various you know, early parts of their career and
they come back.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
They're shocked.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Now they're shocked by la because they spend you know,
three six months in peace before they return for a visit,
and they go, you know, now, I know what you're
talking about, because they get so used to normal life,
pleasant life. I visited one of my sons in North
Carolina over the summer and then we took a road trip.
We went through Savannah, Georgia, we went to Charleston, South Carolina.
(02:16):
We ended up in Sarasota, where my wife grew up
a part of her childhood as a teenager, and beyond
because her parents had moved. And so just seeing those
four cities, seeing Charlotte, Charleston, Savannah, Sarasota, and I'm looking around,
it's like, look at this.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Nobody's on the sidewalks. We're not looking at our shoulder.
We're not afraid.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And that is the single thing that makes you crazy
in La. We never know when somebody's going to come
flying at you, because it happens. People get punched in
the face, they get stabbed. There is a girl that
my sons went to school with from the local school,
and she'd gone to college and she was taken a
job to earn money and to leave it a furniture store.
(03:00):
Homeless guy who'd been arrested, you know, many many many times,
walked in one day and stabbed her to death right
in the furniture store. It's like, oh my god, you
know what. My sons knew that girl. I used to
see her. She used to work out at a park
that I worked out at, and I remembered her. And
it really hits home to a lot of people. I mean,
(03:20):
we know, we know dozens and dozens of people who
lost their homes in the fire because many of the
people in the Palisades went to the same school as
my children. And so the pain is intense, The pain
is personal. You go from paradise to what we have now,
and now a lot of people have packed up and left,
(03:41):
and I understand. And people always say, well, why are
you staying. Well, I do have a good job, and
we do have a lot of friends. You know, you
do spread roots, and I don't really want to go
to another state and not know anybody.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That just doesn't sound appealing. Let me tell you about
some of the fraud.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And we went over with Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com.
And so I keep saying, if, like you think Waltz
is something else with the fraud, just listen to these
Gavin Newsom stories. And California dropped its lawsuit. Four billion
dollars in federal money was supposed to come for high
speed rail and Trump pulled it. And Trump has done
a lot of damage to Newsom. This is one example,
(04:26):
four billion dollars of federal money. Obama had originally appropriated
some of it. And the first thing that Newsom and
the Attorney general in California does, Rob Bonta, is they
hold a press conference. We're suing Trump, big headlines in
all the left wing papers. Newsom sues Trump, Bonta sues Trump. Well,
(04:46):
the follow up to that is that Newsom and Vonta
dropped their four billion dollar lawsuit. They're not even going
to try to get the four billion back because guess what,
they did violate the grant agreement.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
They dismissed their own lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Trump's Transportation Department said they did a compliance review and
found that California didn't meet federal grant requirements. There were
too many costly changes to the contracts, The ridership forecasts
were bogus.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And on and on.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Let me tell you when this thing passed in two
thousand and eight, what the voters were told. I think
it passed fifty two to forty eight. It was a
statewide referendum, do you want high speed rail? Here is
what they sold the public. I voted no. I knew
it was a bunch of lies. A lot of people
went for it, and I understand why because at the time,
and this was a remnant of like the Schwarzenegger administration.
(05:38):
They said, you were going to have two hundred and
twenty mile an hour trains. Yeah, really two hundred and
twenty mile an hour trains, and they were going to
run from get this, It was going to run from
Sacramento to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles, then to Anaheim,
then to San Diego. The whole state, all the major
(06:00):
cities from north to south, would be connected by a
single track. And we were going to build that in
about within fifteen years, by twenty twenty, and the total
price was going to be thirty three billion dollars thirty
three billion dollars for the whole thing, Sacramento, San Francisco,
La Anaheim, San Diego, and the trains would go two
(06:23):
hundred and twenty miles an hour and you'd be able
to order from San Francisco to Los Angeles in like,
I don't know, two and a half hours. And people
got excited. Right, people love it. It's science fiction, right,
shiny bullet trains speeding you know, through the California farm
(06:45):
regions connecting the cities. Everyone bought into it. So now
what have we got eighteen years later? We have no track.
What we have is scattered out in the central valleys.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
They call it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's a lot of farmland, right, Well, they tore up
a lot of farmland, and they have left these pillars.
And someday someone's going to come back to California and
wonder what these pillars are for, because they're really high.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
They're like twenty thirty feet high.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
They're supposed to hold up the railroad track, the overhead
railroad track, except the railroad track was never built. So
you have these things that it looks like Stonehenge out there.
Like if you had, i know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
People from a foreign country come, they'd be looking around.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It's like this, this is the ancient civilization that left behind.
You know, were they tracking the sun?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Here?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Were they plotting the stars? Do these cast shadows? That's
all we have are these stonehenge pillars to hold up track.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
That's never been built.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
They have reduced the train to Bakersfield to Merced. You
can't run a train back and forth. There's no market there.
They're no commuters wanting to go for Bakersfield. To Mersaid.
And even then the train stops are outside Bakersfield in Merceente,
and that's the extent of the train they're trying to build.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's gonna be one hundred and seventy one miles.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
There is no Sacramento, there's no San Francisco, there's no
Los Angeles, no Anaheim, no San Diego, there's nothing. There's
Baker's Field to Mercede. And now they're estimating it's like, well,
if we ever built the whole thing, which we're not
going to, it would cost all one hundred and thirty
million dollars, which means it would probably cost one hundred
and thirty billion, which means it would probably cost two
(08:29):
hundred and fifty billion. Remember what I said at the beginning,
it's gonna be thirty three billion, all five major cities.
It's gonna be done about twelve to fifteen years. They
did several audits. And when the auditors went in, as
somebody else says, want they do an audit, I don't
do it forensic audit and track down every penny. Well,
when they do the audits, they find out the money evaporated.
(08:50):
It's it's not written down, there's no paperwork. There's literally
no paperwork. Tax money was withdrawn from accounts and then
it was gone. We agreed to borrow ten billion dollars
that we're now paying back. They also said, well, we're
going to get private investors. Way back when well a
Newsoman Bonta dropped this lawsuit, somebody said, well, where are
(09:13):
you going to get the money. Oh, we're going to
get private investor. There are no private investors in the world.
They've been trying for twenty five years to get private investors.
But it's a boondoggle. You know, when the private sector
says this thing is a scam, it's a scam.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But it keeps the unions employed.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
We're busy building these stonehenge pillars for no reason.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's astonishing.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Okay, we've got more coming up on The John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
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YouTube dot com slash at Johncobelt's show, YouTube dot com
slash at John cobelt Show. All Right, what it's worse
in California? A speeding ticket or you run over someone
with your car and kill them. Well, in some cases,
(10:36):
the speeding ticket is worse. You could speed, no accident,
no casualties, You're just caught going too fast. In the
other case, you do something and you kill another motorist,
a pedestrian, a bicyclist, and you've done something wrong, and
(10:56):
they charge you with a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, which can
be either a felony or a misdemeanor. So you're guilty
of the hicular manslaughter, but you will get less well,
you'll get nothing on your public record potentially. Let me
explain cal Matters, which is another good news website on California.
(11:20):
Since most of the regular media has abandoned coverage, including
just about all the media here in Los Angeles, cal
Matters has found that there's something called a misdemeanor diversion program.
This was passed in twenty twenty by the legislature, so
a judge can erase a misdemeanor case from existence, what
(11:43):
they call low level crimes, so you don't have a stigma.
Because having a stigma, you have a conviction on your record. Well,
sometimes you can't get work, Sometimes you can't get an
apartment because nobody wants a criminal in the workplace. Nobody
wants to rent to a criminal, can't trust him. So
(12:05):
they extended this so that you could kill somebody while driving,
go to a diversion program, and you have that vehicular
manslaughter charge wiped off the books as if it ever
happened again. You've actually killed someone. Here's an example. Alison Lyman,
(12:28):
she had a son named Connor twenty three. He's riding
his motorcycle. An oncoming car made a left turn, collided
with him, and Connor Lopez, a piano teacher, died in
the roadway. Very sad story. The DA's office charged the driver,
Herjeet's cower, the misdemeanor of vehicular manslaughter because she did
(12:52):
not yield to oncoming traffic and that caused the fatal crash,
killing Connor, and then a prosecutor broke the news to
Alison Lyman, the mun the mother the case could be
wiped off Kower's record and sealed if Kauer asks for
a diversion program and a judge grants it. And Lyman said,
(13:16):
I'm forty three. I'll have to live the rest of
my life without my son, but there'll be no record
of it for her. One of the officers kept telling
her that it's a low level case, and Lyman said,
she took my son's life. But that's how they're seeing
low level again. It wasn't declared an accident. She was
at fault and charged with the hicular manslaughter and then
(13:38):
it gets wiped away. You know, you have to do
community service. That kind of nonsense. In twenty twenty, the
far left wing let all the criminals, Let all the
criminals free. State legislature created diversion for almost all misdemeanors,
(14:04):
with few requirements that defendants have to fulfill even if
the prosecutor objects. So defense attorneys are requesting diversion all
the time. That's how shoplifting and drug possession got legalized,
and now it extends to cases where somebody's died. In fact,
(14:25):
cow Matters identified three dozen drivers who avoided a vehicular
manslaughter conviction by going conviction by going to a diversion program.
So suddenly those three vehicular those excuse me, those thirty
six vehicular deaths weren't crimes anymore. It's as if they
(14:48):
never happened. I'm the people are still dead, the victims,
but none of the thirty six drivers are at fault.
He could get a misdemeanor charge if you weren't drunk
or driving extremely dangerous. However, if you get a traffic ticket,
(15:15):
the traffic ticket stays on your record. There was a
young man in Los Angeles who fell asleep at the
wheel and ran over a bicyclist. He got a red
light ticket. A few months after the judge granted diversion,
and then he got a speeding ticket. Oh, the speeding ticket,
(15:36):
the red light ticket or on his record. But the
incident where he fell asleep and ran a bicyclist over
and killed him not on the record. Here's a story
about a driver involved in a fatal twenty twenty crash.
He got two tickets last year, then a drudge grants
(16:00):
some diversion, and he got a speeding ticket. Well, almost tickets,
they're permanently on the record. Not the accident where he
killed somebody, you know. I read the other day too
that California has some of the weakest DUI law, and
(16:24):
I think we talked about on the air some of
the weakest DUI laws in the country. And it's just
startling because this is such an oppressive nanny state. And
yet when it comes to drunk driving, when it comes
to killing somebody, because you drove so badly not so much,
(16:45):
you don't go to jail and your record is wiped clean.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
More coming up, you're listening to John Cobel's on demand
from KFI Am.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Six John Cobel's show KFI Am six' everywhere on the
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four o'clock. After four o'clock John Covelt Show on Demand,
that's the podcast, and listen to what you missed. I
want to get right to David Goldbloom here. He is
director of a really a powerful emotional documentary called Big
(17:18):
Rock Burning, and it's about people who live in Malibu's
Big Rock community as they try to come back after
the fire that wiped out many of the homes there.
Let's get to David Goldbloom.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
On Thanks for having me, John, I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Really glad to have you, and I'm a little fired
up because we just found out the new details about
the Palisades fire.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
What got you in? What motivated you to do this documentary?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Oh well, I guess a little bit of craziness. My
home burned down and the fires and that night my community,
very tight knit community in Big Rock and mount we
formed a WhatsApp group and people That's how we were
getting information out to each other. That's how we were
finding out that no help came. There was a standdown order,
(18:10):
no firefighters, no water, and the reservoirs were kind of
became a news network overnight, and everybody just kept saying,
we have to get our story out there. How come
not one firefighter came to our mountain the entire night
of the fires. And I kept hearing that for a
couple of nights, and the more people kept saying, we
got to get our story out there. Eventually, I was
(18:32):
just like, Okay, if we want to tell this story,
I'll jump in the ring and I'll shepherd it. And
I think over forty residents who had lost their homes
reached out to me and said, you know, we're on board.
We'll do whatever we can to help you.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And where is Big Rock in Malibu? Exactly? So people
not familiar Cana.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
So if you think about the Palisades fire, it went
down the pch and really the first mountain enclave leading
tour Malibu was was Big Rock once you pass Pacific policy,
so it's kind of at the beginning of Malibu.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And what fired.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Jurisdiction covers that community, I think La County, La County,
So that's who you were waiting on to come and
nobody did.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, there were apparently there was a stand down order
and the standown order events.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, one of.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
The residents heard it on a dispatch.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That's really common in fires, right, a standout rather than
send more guys, send less guys, in fact, don't send anybody,
stay home.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Well, I guess let it burn was the mantra.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, you know what what it It really was, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It really was the philosophy.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
After the first a couple of hours, it's like, ah,
nothing we can do, let it go.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah, And it wasn't just fire to somebody in the film.
She called nine one one and they kind of just said, sorry,
we can't help you. And she was stranded on a
mountain like on a boulder. Yeah, with fire all and
like all around her, and just there was every man
for themselves.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
How do you feel like like today? I don't know
if you heard.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
We've got we've got another round of stories from the
attorneys representing the Palisades owners. And it looks like the
state put a stop to the LA Fire Department cleaning
up the January first fire, which is where the rekindling happened,
because they wanted us to protect the milkfitch plant. So
no bulldozers, no fire lines, no tamping down the hotspots.
(20:36):
When you hear these things, and there's been a lot
of these stories, how do you feel like, what does
that do to your psyche?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
It's really sad and it's really disappointing. And I was
on an La Times Studio podcast the other day and
I said, it makes you kind of not want to
be here anymore. You know the fact that nobody has
stepped up, nobody's taken accountability, nobody said we messed up.
And what I wanted to do with our film is
to show the human stories of loss and grief and
(21:05):
resilience too, and kind of show these were real people
who lost everything.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I felt and I didn't know anybody in your film.
I felt so sad for everybody. I felt sad, I
felt angry, and it's like, this shouldn't happen to these people.
These are regular people just living their lives.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What kind of reaction have you gotten to the film
and where's it playing and how can people find it.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
It's been incredible because I think this whole issue has
become somewhat of a political hotbed, and I tried to
I tried to focus on the human stories. He has
to call out a lot of people for what they
did or didn't do. But it seems to have been
well received all over the map, maybe except for Carabath,
(21:59):
but everybody's really appreciative. And we premiered at Malibu City
Hall to a sold out crowd in August, and I
think almost every everybody there had lost their homes and
some fire. And then we've been around the country. We
were at scad, Savannah, Mill Valley, Newport, Santa Fe. And
now we're coming to PBS on the anniversary of the fire,
(22:21):
so it'll be broadcast into twenty million homes across California.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
All Right, so you've done a lot of film festivals
and now PBS, and it's going to be on January seventh.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yep, the anniversary of the fires.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Oh that's great. So it's going to be seeing all
over the country. I mean, it's impossible not to get
emotionally affected while you're watching it. I actually had to
stop it a couple of times because you know, I'm
covering this stuff every day, and you know, nothing bad
happened to me. That's why I cannot imagine what it
must feel like to suffer the trauma. And then you
(22:57):
get reminded of it every day or every week. You know,
more and more these stories come out. It's got to
be just unbelievable. But you know, there was a sense
of optimism in some of the people also with the sadness.
It was fascinating to see like all those human, human
emotions playing out at once in the aftermath.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, there's one character in the film. He stayed behind,
and he fought with a garden hose, and that was
the kind of theme of that night. The people who
stayed behind were fighting with garden hoses and pool water
and bathtub water. But his home survived the night of
the fires, and then the next morning, he went around
(23:39):
and he went from home to home. That's how I
found out my home had burned down. He took everybody's
address in the WhatsApp group and he was driving around
telling people whether their housemade it or not, because we
were all kind of wanting this sense of closure. And
then he got back to his home and his home
was burning. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
That's one of the toughest parts of the film. Yeah,
because he's just standing there looking out over where the
house used to be and he had saved it, and
then he tried to help everybody else out and that's
when the fire.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Came back and got him.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's just, yeah, that is some story you mentioned in
passing that Karen Bass didn't necessarily have a good reaction.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Has she seen or she heard about the movie? I mean, what.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You know, I when I we started three days after
the fire, and I had reached out to everybody. I
was trying to get everybody to just kind of have
a voice. And I reached out to Karen's office and
really was persistent, really trying to get her to, you know,
be on camera have an interview, and they kept just
saying she's done a lot for the community in Malibu
(24:49):
already and she has a busy schedule, and I was
kind of like, I'll come anywhere, you know. I don't
know where she's been in Malibu. I haven't seen her,
but she was not I don't think she wanted to
be part of this.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No, no, Well, the movie is fantastic. I'm glad that
it's going to be on PBS and the whole nation
can see it. And you've had great reaction at the
film festivals. And it's thirty minutes, but it's some of
the most powerful thirty minutes you're.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Ever going to experience.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, so good luck with it, and as time goes on,
anything you need from us to publicize it further or
in any way try to make life better for the
people there in Malibu, just let us know.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Okay, thank you, I'm a good send your show.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Thank you very much, David Goldblum. And again PBS. On
January seventh, the anniversary of the fire, you get to
see his documentary. Okay, we've got more coming up on
the John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
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Speaker 2 (25:57):
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YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt Show, and it's
at John Cobelt Radio Newsome because we are forced to
study Newsome closely. I understand his patterns.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I understand you're obsessed with him. I am. I know,
I can't. It's the hair, John, I get it.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
He is so dishonest and manipulative. He's such a psychopathic,
compulsive liar that I'm fascinated by his hold over ordinary people.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I justlike warn't than the politician that sits there and
lies to you, and the way he finds an issue
and then postures. You know, he gets all outraged and
angry and he's waving his arms. He likes to wave
his arms and his hands. He always looks like he's
landing airplanes.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
When he talked, I'm going to express my relationship to
my truth.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So two years ago, when Biden was still president and
the Green New Deal was a big thing and they
were blowing literally hundreds of billions of dollars on green nonsense,
Gavin said, Okay, that's the way the wind is blowing.
And for most of twenty twenty three and twenty twenty
four he was on a crusade against high gas prices,
(27:49):
which I was found fascinating because.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
He's the reason we have them.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
A dollar fifty of the gas price is taxes and
regulatory fees imposed by the state, so it's him. But
he was pounding his fist that the oil companies, the
energy companies were gouging us, and they had to be investigated,
and they had to be further regulated, and there had
(28:14):
to be commissions and investigations. So today, and I just
looked at this minutes ago, you now you know what
the lowest price in America for gases. It is Oklahoma
at two dollars and forty nine cents two forty nine.
(28:36):
There are twenty nine states at three bucks a gallon
or less. There are forty four states under three forty
forty four. And then if you scroll away to the
bottom of the list. The most expensive state, it's California,
four sixty six a gallon, twenty cents more than Hawaii,
(29:00):
twenty cents more than Hawaii, almost almost fifty cents more
than the state of Washington, which is third most expensive.
So we are far and away the most expensive. I mean,
we're getting close to double Oklahoma. And Dan Walters for
(29:21):
col Matters wrote this piece on now and we've talked
about this. Now you have refineries closing, you have the
pipeline is going to shut itself down because we produce
so little oil that the pipeline mechanics are going to
seize up. And the price of gas is out of
sight and new some like the rest of these idiots, now, Babbel,
(29:46):
I hate it. I hate it when everybody in politics
and the media sees on a word or a phrase
it's like, oh, it's affordability, it's all about affordability. Well,
I'm looking at you know, I'm looking at the price
of gas here and it's fourth sixty six a gallon.
And I don't know where that for sixty six is.
It's not in my neighborhood. A lot of neighborhoods, it's
(30:06):
closer to five dollars a gallon, but fine, and that
adds up to I don't know, if you get a
tank full of gas a week, you know twenty you know,
twenty gallons of gas, Well that's thirty dollars more than
a lot of states every week. That's fifteen hundred dollars
(30:27):
more a year. Affordability my ass. Now, part of his crusade,
he created the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
This is new.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
This is supposed to track how the California oil companies
are gouging you because a year ago this week he said,
they continue to lie, they continue to manipulate. They've been
rinking an unprecedented profits because they can. Nobody who's making
record profits closes their business and moves out of the state. Somehow,
(31:08):
the oil companies in California are the first companies in
the history of the state who are making so much
money they've decided to go out of business and leave.
But he's such a narcissistic, psychopath, compulsive wire. So anyway,
last month, the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight released its
(31:30):
first annual report. It's like, ah, now we're going to
find out how much gouging is going on. Well, they
didn't find any gouge they According to Dan Walters, the
report confirmed what was already known that the price is
here are much higher than other states, and most of
the price differential is due to taxes and regulatory costs.
(31:55):
So all all that glovy, all that preening and primping
before the cameras, the fake outrage oil companies are gouging us,
and stupid asses in the stay gone.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yeah, yeah, there, all companies are gouging us. They're gouging us.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
And apparently people in California never travel to the other
forty nine states. I guess maybe everybody's so broke they
can't they don't travel anymore, because there isn't a state
I've traveled to in the last year or two where
I haven't been at first stunned by the price, because
you just get used to seeing, you know, four eighty
nine a gallon in the neighborhood. And I know Eric
(32:36):
runs into this all the time, and you travel and
he sends back photos and it's, you know, it's like
two eighty nine in Arizona or something like that. And
they're gran out of business because of the high costs
and high taxes. High regulatory burden because all those regulations
(32:58):
add more cost. There's taxes on the energy companies that
are passed to us, there's taxes directly at the pump.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
And it's all from Gavin Newsom. It's entirely him.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
He created a commission to find out that he's the
cause of the high gas prices.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I mean, what a bozo.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
And this is going to be so entertaining because I
bet you there's gonna be ten Democrats running for president.
Let's say there's ten, right, and they're going to have
a debate, and they're all going to be arrayed across
and the other nine are going to hammer on his
head because of his hair and his jaw. He'll be
at or near the top of the poles. And you
always go after the front runner, and you are going
(33:38):
to see nine people. The only thing they're going to
debate in the first time they get together is Gavin
Newsom's disastrous reign as governor. Here that is, I'm going
to take I'm going to talk you off, take off
work that day and just get drunk and enjoy this thing. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
(33:58):
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