December 29, 2025 • 33 mins
Hour 1 of John filling in for Clay Travis & Buck Sexton on the Clay & Buck Show! Hour 1 of today’s Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, guest-hosted by John Kobylt from KFI Los Angeles, delivers an unfiltered deep dive into California’s ongoing crisis and the political future of Governor Gavin Newsom, who is widely viewed as the leading Democratic contender for the 2028 presidential race. Kobylt paints a vivid picture of California’s decline, describing how once-idyllic cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Monica have become plagued by homelessness, rampant drug addiction, and untreated mental illness. He explains how Newsom’s “Housing First” policy has failed, pouring billions into housing projects without addressing root causes like addiction and psychiatric care, while corruption siphons off much of the funding. Kobylt also highlights California’s one-party rule, noting decades of Democratic dominance and the absence of meaningful opposition, which has led to unchecked policies and severe COVID lockdowns. He warns listeners about Newsom’s character, illustrating his tendency to lie and shift narratives through a detailed account of the Palisades Fire disaster. Kobylt recounts how Newsom falsely claimed to be on the phone with President Joe Biden during a confrontation with a distraught mother, later changing his story multiple times. The segment exposes further mismanagement, including state interference that allowed a small fire to reignite into a massive blaze—all to protect an endangered plant species—resulting in thousands of homes destroyed. The hour closes with Kobylt’s personal experience during the fire, describing a complete breakdown of public services that forced residents to hire armed security for protection. He underscores California’s skyrocketing gas prices—averaging $4.29 per gallon compared to $2.23 in Oklahoma—driven by climate-change-driven tax policies that disproportionately hurt working families. Kobylt promises more revelations in Hour 2, including an interview with Katie Grimes of California Globe to discuss Newsom’s national ambitions and the systemic corruption behind California’s decline. Key Topics Covered in Hour 1: • Gavin Newsom’s rise as the top Democratic candidate for 2028 • California’s homelessness crisis and failed “Housing First” policy • Rampant drug addiction and untreated mental illness in major cities • One-party rule and lack of accountability in California politics • The Palisades Fire scandal: lies, mismanagement, and environmental policy failures • Personal account of lawlessness and survival during the fire • California’s highest-in-the-nation gas prices and climate tax burdens This hour is a must-listen for anyone tracking Gavin Newsom’s political trajectory, California’s progressive policies, and their real-world consequences.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome. How are you to
the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John Cobalt
filling in for Claim Buck today and I want to
thank them for giving me the opportunity. I'm normally on Canfine,
Los Angeles every afternoon doing a radio show and have
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been out here for a long time and it's really
a lot of fun to be able to be on
Clay and Bucks network today. And what I wanted to
talk about, and we've got a lot of material here
is since Gavin Newsom has become undisputably the top Democratic
candidate for the twenty twenty eight race, he is. He
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is a piece of work, and there's a lot of
detail that you probably haven't heard about because I don't
think the national media has covered him very much. And
when you've probably seen all the video and all the
news stories, especially on Fox News about what a disaster
California is, and when you see that kind of coverage,
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I always wonder, I'm sure you do, it's like, all right,
are they taking things out of context? Are they cherry picking?
Is this one isolated block or town. Is it really
like this in much of the state, And the answer
is yes. What you're seeing on television the way California
is covered, it is that bad, especially if you're in
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the big cities. It cannot be overstated just how difficult
life is in places like Los Angeles and Santa Monica
and in San Francisco. It is a mess. It's a
mess coming from Gavin Newsom's policies. It is a mess
coming from local policies, city councils and mayors. It is
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a progressive nightmare out here. And I want to tell
you just a brief rundown, because whenever you utter in
a opinion these days, people want to dismiss it, saying, oh, well,
you're just blank, and they give you a label, Oh
you're just conservative, or you're just Republican, or you're just
some kind of hater. And then I always think it's like, no, no,
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this is real life here in California. This is what
normal people who are not overly political talk about all day.
This is the only thing non political, non partisan, ordinary
people talk about. Because life can be really difficult and frustrating.
And so when I was a kid, I grew up
in New Jersey, in santlebrig New Jersey. And you know,
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you know the winters in the Northeast, they're long, they're cold,
sunsets at four point thirty in the afternoon. I'm eight
years old, and the ray of hope when you're in
the middle of winter, let's say in December, is I
turned on the television and I would see late afternoon
football games from the West Coast. I'd see games from
Los Angeles games, San Diego Chargers, the Oakland Raiders, and
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I'd see sunshine right because it was three hours earlier. Sunshine,
people in short sleeves, beautiful women in the stands, and
I'm thinking, wow, this and this is an eight. I thought, well,
this is magical, this is wonderful. And you know, then
there was the Rose Parade every year, so it buried
in my head. It's like, when I grew up, I
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want to go live in California. That was the dream
because it was so wonderful. And eventually I fast forward,
maybe about twenty years, my wife and I got to
move to Los Angeles. I got a job offer from
KFI back in the nineties, and I thought, well, this
is exactly where I wanted to be, and we drove
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around our first three weeks here before I went on
the air, and we went everywhere from the Mexican border
through San Diego and San Francisco. San Francisco at the time,
I almost dropped dead because of its beauty. I thought,
this is the most gorgeous city I've ever seen in
my life. La was fun and exciting, the beaches, the weather,
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and you know, eventually, well we made a home. We
made a home here and raised three kids, and then
about ten years ago everything started going to hell. And
it was gradual. You know, it's first you don't you
shrug it off, saying, well, all right, they'll take care
of it. It's a bad policy, bad idea. Let me
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start with the homelessness, because the homelessness has infected and
overrun the city of Los Angeles, the city of Santa Monica,
which used to be a jewel, San Francisco, of course, Sacramento.
And it's a policy from the top on down where
most of the homeless are not people quote down on
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their luck, who lost their job a couple of weeks
ago and can't make a rent payment. Most of them
are are drug addicts, just raised drug addicts. The rest
of them are mental patients. It's as if they opened
a mental institution and let everybody run free. Now, the
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drug addiction can make you mentally ill. The mentally ill
people turned to drugs, so it mixes together. I saw
a UCLA study where three quarters of the homeless they
estimated were mentally ill and three quarters were drug addicts.
Well that's one hundred and fifty percent of the homeless.
So that's what's going on. And you can't fix most
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of them, at least not by I don't know, opening
up a retail store clinic on the street. All these
people need intensive treatment. They need to be in beds,
they need to be locked up, they need long term therapy,
they need to be on medications. And instead, the official
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policy of Gavin Newsom is is housing first, and it's
the same thing with Karen Basterbor Los Angeles. Housing first,
which means nothing is done for their addictions, nothing is
done for their mental illness. They have thrown billions of
dollars to build apartments and all kinds of shelters, except
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all you're doing is you're taking the crazy person or
the addicted person, and you're putting them inside and then
they wander out during the day to buy their drugs
and to act crazy. And let me tell you, these
people are terrifying. My wife and I have been chased
by people with sticks running down the street screaming. We
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have been chased in our car. We have witnessed people
just You'll be walking down the street, just going to
the drug store, the grocery store, and somebody will drop
their pants and defecate right in front of you. These
are not anomalies. You go to Hollywood, you go to Venice,
you go to places that used to be the tourism
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capitals of America, and it's mind boggling what's allowed. And
everybody calls and everybody complains, and they have a new policy.
No matter who you call, they don't respond. They don't
answer the phone, they don't answer the email, they don't
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answer the door. They don't care because I don't know.
I think so many people have checked out that they
know they're all going to get re elected. It is
the strangest phenomenon. I noticed things starting to change. Like
I said, about ten years ago, I also noticed how
things changed with people responding to issues and taking action,
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and it was about the time the smartphone came out.
And I actually think people are so absorbed by their
smartphones and so absorbed by being on the internet and
scrolling social media and scrolling texting that they have kind
of lost connection with their neighborhood and their town and
they're just letting things happen. They've given up on forcing
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a Gavenusemmer or Karen Bass to do anything about it.
Oh and by the way, on the housing first, it's
extremely expensive, it takes an extremely long time, and there's
very little housing that's built. Most of the homeless money
is stolen. And I'll explain that to you coming up
in a few minutes. It is and there's one party rule.
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We've had a democratic governor now ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger,
so it's about fifteen sixteen years. We've got super majorities
in the Assembly, supermajorities in the state legislature. We have
a city council that's entirely democratic. We've got a mayor
that's entirely democratic. And that's all we've had as mayor
for twenty five years in La and so they the
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same thing with the Board of Supervisors that runs La County.
It's five to nothing Democratic women. And there is no
Republican party here. There's nothing, there's no resistance. There's a
handful of legislators in the Assembly. There's a hand and
I it's the Republican out here. Republicans out here are
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completely inept, completely feeble, impotent. There might be one or
two guys. And so we're locked down. And during COVID
we were literally locked down. We had the worst COVID
shutdown rules in the whole country. And so it is
what you're seeing in the national news. And Gavin Newsom
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is behind it all. And I told a friend of
mine the other day, old friend who normally votes Democratic.
I said, look, I'm not telling you to vote for Republican.
I'm just saying you got to find another Democrat. You
do not want Gavin Newsom. You do not want him
running the country. You've got to live here every day
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to understand just what a disaster that would be. I
will play you when we come back a clip of
Gavin Newsom so you could get a little window into
his character and see how quickly he will lie. And
he will change his lie two or three times in
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the middle of a conversation. They'll say anything to get
out of a conversation, to gain the upper hand, to
make a point, and it's actually fascinating. It has to
do with the famous Palisades fire. Also, later on in
the show, we're gonna have Katie Grimes on californiaglobe dot com.
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Katie has this website and it's filled the breach because
you may have wondered, as I was telling you about
the decay of California, well where's the media covering this? Well,
on a local basis, they don't scattered stories here and
there if something egregious happens, but they don't cover it.
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They run protection for everybody in the legislature, for Newsom,
for Karen Bass by simply not covering it. It's fascinating.
It's not that they're biased with all their coverage. There
is no coverage. It just doesn't exist, and so a
lot of people don't know the depth of what's going
on and how much money has been stolen. You'd think
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Tim Watson Minnesota is a story, and we're going to
get to that later as well. Gavin Newsom absolutely dwarfsome,
so we'll talk about all that coming up again. I
wanted to thank Clay and Buck for letting me fill
in today. I'm John Cobelt from KFI and Los Angeles
on the Klay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Welcome back to the Klay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
I'm John Cobel from CAFEI in Los Angeles, filling in
today and to take you through the next few hours.
And since I'm here in Los Angeles and have been
out here for over thirty years, I thought i'd try
to help you understand the Gavenusom phenomenon. Since in many polls,
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most polls, he's the leading Democratic candidate to be president.
And you see him, and he's always dressed in a
beautiful shiny suit, and he's got great hair, and he's
got a strong chin and can seem very affable. But
the state is a disaster here, and I just if
you haven't researched much about him or really delved into him,
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I'm trying to give you the first morning. Don't go
near this one. No matter what party you are, a Democrat, Republican, independent, whatever,
do not put this guy in charge of the country.
And I want to show you his character. Here. This
is a clip from the Palisades fire. I think everybody
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knows about that. And there was a woman and let
me get her name here, it's Rachel Darvish. She's driving
around looking at the devastation in her old neighborhood where
her old house used to be, and just and she
was with a Sky News reporter, like Rachel was given
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the Sky News reporter a tour of the neighborhood. And
just by chance, they happened on the block where Gavin
Newsom was, you know, with some of his staff members.
And Newsom was literally walking across the street, and Rachel
Darvish jumped out of the car and ran up to Newsom,
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and Newsom was really startled. Rachel wanted to know what
he was going to do about the fire and making
sure it doesn't happen again because Rachel's daughter's school had
burned to the ground. And listen to the excuse that
Newsome gives as to why he can't talk to her
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right now, and then listen how he changes his story, like.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Cut one, Governor, you got a second governor, Governor, I
live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Governor please tell me what you're gonna do. But I'm
not gonna hurt of my promise.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically
answer the question of what we can do for you
and your daughter?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Can I hear it?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it?
Fun I'm sorry, can I there's literally I've tried five times.
That's why I'm walking around to make that I'm the
president not taking your call because it's not going through.
Why I have to get self service, Let's get it,
let's get it. I want to be here when you
call the President. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I'm doing that right now, and to immediately get reimbursements,
individual assistance.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And to help God Devis look at I'm so sorry,
especially for your daughter. I have four kids. Everyone who
went to school there, they lost their homes. They lost
two homes because they were living in one and building another. Kevin,
please tell me, tell me what are you going to
do with the president.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Right now, we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Is there no water in the hydrants? Governor?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
That's all?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Literally? Is it going to be different next time? That
has to be has to be of course, what.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Are you going to do all the hydrants?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I would fill them up personally, you know that. Literally
I would fill up the hugrants myself, but would you
do them? I would do whatever I can, but you're not.
I see the Do you know there's water dripping over there?
Governor there's water coming out there? You can use it.
I appreciate it. I'm going to make the call to
address everything I can right now, including making sure people
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to make sure you can I have an opportunity to
at least tell people you're doing what you're saying you're doing.
Did somebody have a contract? Can I have your contact now?
When she first ran up to him, he said, I'm
literally talking to Joe Biden right now. Well he wasn't
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literally talking to him. He made that up. And then
he said, well, I've been trying to call five times,
and then it's like, well I can't get a cell
signal here. So when we come back, we'll talk more
about He's a shape shifter and you heard a great
example of that there. This is John Cobelt filling in
(16:33):
on the Milke Travis at Buck Sexton show.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Welcome back, Hi there to the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show. I'm John Cobel to your guest host for
the day from KFI and Los Angeles have a daily
radio show in the afternoon. And we've been talking about
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, because I've lived out
here for over thirty years, and I explained earlier on
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that I came here having seen California through a television
screen thinking it was paradise, and I got here and
it actually was. And then over the last ten years
everything has just gone to hell. The place has rotted out.
It's not an exaggeration what you hear, it's it's it's accurate.
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If anything, it's underplayed. And at the top of the
food chain is Gavin Newsom, the governor. And he's been
governor for a long time now. He can't weasel out
and say it with somebody else's problem. He's been the
governor for seven years next year's his last eight years.
Before that, he was lieutenant governor. Eight years before that,
he was the mayor of San Francisco. And his character
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is not existent. And I played a clip in the
last segment to demonstrate it, and I'm going to go
over like step by step. Here this woman, Rachel Dervish,
runs up to him. She's a distraught, very upset mother
in the Palisades. This is right in the midst of
fire week. Her home is burned down, her kid, her
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daughter's school is burned down, and there's this reporter from
Sky News in London following her around as she goes
through the neighborhood. They're driving in a car. By coincidence,
Gavin Newsom is on the block crossing the street. She
jumps out. Sky News follows her and gets this conversation
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that we played and says, you know, he says, She says, Governor,
you know, can you do something? And his first line,
I'm literally talking to Joe Biden right now. And he
used the word literally and she immediately picked up that
he was lying and said, well, let me talk to him. Oh,
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he wasn't literally talking to anybody. He was holding a
disconnected phone. There was no Joe Biden on the other end.
By the way, what are the odds that if he
actually got through to Joe Biden, Biden would have been
awake to answer it. So he's not talking to Biden.
And then he changed the story. Well, I've tried to
call five times. Five times. Oh, I thought you were
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literally talking. And then well, I'm trying to get cell service,
so you're not. You did you weren't literally talking to him.
He isn't on the phone. You didn't try to call
five times because you don't have cell service. You can
just look at the phone. You're not going to keep
dialing and dialing if you've got the no cell service
icon at the top of the phone. In fact, you'd
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be getting in a car and driving downhill where there
is cell service. He was just making it up on
the fly. This is what he does. I'll give you
another example, also connected to the fire. At various times
when he spoke of the fire, he lied and said
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it was climate change. Well, then we discovered it was
an arsonist that set the original fire. Oh well, then
he lied and said he had pre deployed fire trucks
one hundred and ten of them throughout the mountain range
across Los Angeles. He didn't deploy any that would be zero.
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He gives specific numbers. Liked I called five times, Joe Buden,
I put out one hundred and ten fire trucks. There
were zero fire trucks. It wasn't climate change. It was
a crazy arsonist. None of the fires start out here
in California because of climate change. Zero. They start primarily
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because of lightning. Arson or this is a big cat
that has sparked the worst fires. Power lines fall down,
electrical equipment starts sparking because the major power companies out here,
Pged in southern California Edison, don't maintain their wires, their poles.
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They're transformers. Some of this stuff is one hundred years old,
so it falls apart, it falls over in the wind,
and it starts huge blazes. It's always electric companies. And
if it's not that, it's arsonust And if it's not that,
it's lightning strikes, dry lightning in the summer out here,
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it's like a desert phenomenon. Dry air comes in from
the desert and sparks the lightning. That's what starts vast
majority of the fires. And there was the third life. Okay,
he said it was climate change. Then he said it
he pre deployed fire trucks, and then he said, well
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he really they had nothing to do with it because
it wasn't on state land. Well, weeks later we found
out it did start on state land. It started on
state land on the night of January first. This was
called the Lockman fire. This is a week before the
Big Palisades Fire. And the LA Fire Department showed up
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and put it out on New Year's Day morning, and
then within hours Newsom's Parks Department set down representatives to
stop the fire department from mopping up. When a fire
department mops up, they have to tamp down all the hotspots.
There were hot rocks, there were hot tree stumps, that
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was smoldering, smoke coming out of the ground. You know,
the root system is still very hot. And these employees
from the State Parks Department, and there's video and photos
of this, basically chased the LA Fire Department off the
state land. And you're probably saying, now, why would they
do that. They did it because they didn't want the
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firefighters stomping on the milk vetch plant. The milk vetch plant. Seriously,
there's a Latin name for it, the astrologus plant. And
there are now text messages memos where the fire the
Parks employees are telling the LA Fire Department basically get
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off the land. The fire department wanted to bring in
a bulldozer to cut a fire break, and they wanted
to put out all the smoldering. They said, no, you
can't do that. You will tear up the milk vetch plant.
It's an endangered plant. Why am I explaining all this
because six days later in that exact spot, the winds
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started blowing on January seventh, whipped up the smoldering fire
and turned it into the big one, turned it into
the huge blaze that we all watched or experienced for
a week. And it was because his state employees were
following state policy not to destroy the milkvetch plant, and
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they actually kicked out the Los Angeles Fire Department. And
then he went around saying, well, the state had nothing
to do with it. The state was the cause of
the huge Palisates fire hit policies under his administration. And
the new tactic now as all these bombshells come out
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is everybody runs in highs. Nobody even bothers to deny
things anymore. Nobody contests the story anymore. They just shut
down and the beating out. And here in California at least,
and the national media too, is so compliant because he's
the great Hope. They don't question anything. Again, very similar
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to the Tim Waltz situation. They knew that story was
going on with the fraud for seven years. There were
employees reporting it. There were occasionally scattered news stories, but
nobody followed up, and so for seven years all the
money could be looted in Minnesota under Tim Waltz's nose.
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Here is the same thing. There's tremendously damaging information and
it's coming from a civil lawsuit filed by thousands of
Pacific Palisades residents and their attorneys are now subpoenaing records,
getting testimony, and now we're finding out what the real
story is. The Palisades burned down, six thousand plus homes
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burned for the sake of the milkvetch plant because the
first fire was you could put out easily. And this
is what's astonishing about what's going on going on and
how badly it's covered in the news media. And believe me,
a lot of people when they see Gavin Knewsome primping
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and preening around think it physically ill. It's how cool?
Were you kidding? And this is just story. I told
you it was just about that disaster in the Palisades. Oh,
by the way, just as a personal thing. I live
about three miles from the fire, and that week we
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had no power, we had no water, and I wanted
to go to a hotel with my wife and we
have a bunch of pets and we but my wife
wanted to stay because she knew the looters would come
and steal all our stuff. And at first I thought
that was an overreaction. It turned out she was right.
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Seven homes in her neighborhood got looted because it was
completely dark. There was no electricity whatsoever, and we had
baseball bats all over the house, and my wife is
walking around pacing around the baseball bat, and so was I.
In case a bad guy got in and seven homes
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were looted, we put up a lot of flashlights all
over the place to make it look like we were home,
and we had to hire a guy. We had to
hire an ex marine who stood in front of the
house with a loaded gun. He showed us his loaded
pistol and he said, I see him, I shoot him,
I kill him. That's what we resorted to. We had
to hire it. Was somebody's electrician in the neighborhood who
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used to be a marine, and he had a gun.
And I remember after I left the guy in front
of the house to go to the hardware store to
get flashlights, I thought, Wow, total breakdown of government. There's
no fire, there's no police, there's no electricity, there's no water,
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there's no nothing. It was. It was a total breakdown
of civilization. And I felt like I never felt in
my life, right. I mean, we'll all grow up. It's like, well,
somebody's gonna take care of us, right. The police will
show up, the fire department will show up, the government
will take care of things, you know, the mommy and
daddy they'll come. No, there was nothing. It was every
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man for himself. You had to find a guy who
owned a gun and hire him to stand in front
of your house. And my son said, well, what if
what if he shoots and kills somebody. It's like, I
don't want to know. I don't want to be shot
and killed. That's up to him to make make his
own judgment. And this is this is what we were
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reduced to. And that sounds like a once in a
lifetime outrageous story, but there's many versions of this going
on every day throughout the state and LA just to
complete collapse in ordinary government. Tell you more about this
when we come back in the next hour. We're gonna
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have Katie Grimes on from California Globe and she's got
a long term kind of global perception of what Gavin
Newsom has been to the state because she covers him
every day. And you're listening, I'm John Cobelt from CAFI
Radio in LA, and you're listening to the Klay, Travis
and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
This is Brian from Orange County, California, and I just
want to say I am pleasantly surprised to be hearing
John cole Belt's voice on the radio this morning on
the John and Buck segment as I often listen to
him in the afternoon drives on KFI. So thank you
so much and nice hearing a familiar local voice. Keep
it up, John, and happy happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
That's really nice. Yeah. John Cobelt here from KFI and
LA filling in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. We
got another one from Debbie.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
John Colebelt, congratulations for filling them on clan Buck. Very exciting,
happy to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
This is Debbie from Long Beach. Wow, nice voice. Thank you, Debbi.
It's good to be here. And we're going to be
continuing on for a couple of more hours. So I
was just telling you the fire story, the Palas State's
fire story, and just the incessant incompetence, and on top
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of them, on top of the line the caven Newsom
does as governor of the state. There's just the practical
day to day living. And I just off the top
of my head during a commercial break, wrote down I'm
not going to read them all here, but I wrote
down like a dozen categories where California is the worst
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or the highest or the most, and all the categories
are bad category. And that's just off the top of
my head. I'll give you one example, which we talk
about all the time. We have the highest gas taxes
in the state by far. There's the Triple A has
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a state by state fuel price. It's a ranking and
it tells you the cheapest all the way to the
most expensive. You know, how much California gas goes for
average is four twenty nine a gallon. Many places it's
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five dollars a gallon in other states. I'm looking here
in Oklahoma it's two twenty three. The average Colorado is
two thirty eight. Texas is two forty. And you might say, well,
you know, that's a left wing democratic state. What do
you expect, except it's way more than the other left
wing Democratics states. That's the thing. We stand by ourselves.
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I mean, we're at four to twenty nine. New York's
only three h four. Where's Massachusetts go? Massachusetts is two
ninety six. Massachusetts is in the twos New Jersey I
used to live there. That's a very high tax state.
That's two eighty four. So this is I'm talking to
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the daily grind of just trying to exist here. And
this absolutely crushes the lower and middle class in this state.
So it's it's not just as lying, it's just like,
why would you do this? And you know what all
the taxes are for. It's the climate change obsession, which
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is another big racket. There's several big rackets in this state,
again along the lines of the Somalian racket in Minnesota.
It's billions and billions of dollars, and later on I'll
tell you about all all the different rackets that go
on here. And we're going to talk to Katie grimesnext
from californiaglobe dot com and she'll give you her assessment
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of Gavin Newsom as a national political figure and a
possible president. I'm really happy to be here, John Coblt
from CAFI, Los Angeles, here on the Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show. Hey, you've been listening to the John
Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live
on KFI AM six forty from one to four pm
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every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand
on the iHeartRadio app
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome. How are you to
the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm John Cobalt
filling in for Claim Buck today and I want to
thank them for giving me the opportunity. I'm normally on Canfine,
Los Angeles every afternoon doing a radio show and have
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been out here for a long time and it's really
a lot of fun to be able to be on
Clay and Bucks network today. And what I wanted to
talk about, and we've got a lot of material here
is since Gavin Newsom has become undisputably the top Democratic
candidate for the twenty twenty eight race, he is. He
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is a piece of work, and there's a lot of
detail that you probably haven't heard about because I don't
think the national media has covered him very much. And
when you've probably seen all the video and all the
news stories, especially on Fox News about what a disaster
California is, and when you see that kind of coverage,
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I always wonder, I'm sure you do, it's like, all right,
are they taking things out of context? Are they cherry picking?
Is this one isolated block or town. Is it really
like this in much of the state, And the answer
is yes. What you're seeing on television the way California
is covered, it is that bad, especially if you're in
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the big cities. It cannot be overstated just how difficult
life is in places like Los Angeles and Santa Monica
and in San Francisco. It is a mess. It's a
mess coming from Gavin Newsom's policies. It is a mess
coming from local policies, city councils and mayors. It is
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a progressive nightmare out here. And I want to tell
you just a brief rundown, because whenever you utter in
a opinion these days, people want to dismiss it, saying, oh, well,
you're just blank, and they give you a label, Oh
you're just conservative, or you're just Republican, or you're just
some kind of hater. And then I always think it's like, no, no,
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this is real life here in California. This is what
normal people who are not overly political talk about all day.
This is the only thing non political, non partisan, ordinary
people talk about. Because life can be really difficult and frustrating.
And so when I was a kid, I grew up
in New Jersey, in santlebrig New Jersey. And you know,
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you know the winters in the Northeast, they're long, they're cold,
sunsets at four point thirty in the afternoon. I'm eight
years old, and the ray of hope when you're in
the middle of winter, let's say in December, is I
turned on the television and I would see late afternoon
football games from the West Coast. I'd see games from
Los Angeles games, San Diego Chargers, the Oakland Raiders, and
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I'd see sunshine right because it was three hours earlier. Sunshine,
people in short sleeves, beautiful women in the stands, and
I'm thinking, wow, this and this is an eight. I thought, well,
this is magical, this is wonderful. And you know, then
there was the Rose Parade every year, so it buried
in my head. It's like, when I grew up, I
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want to go live in California. That was the dream
because it was so wonderful. And eventually I fast forward,
maybe about twenty years, my wife and I got to
move to Los Angeles. I got a job offer from
KFI back in the nineties, and I thought, well, this
is exactly where I wanted to be, and we drove
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around our first three weeks here before I went on
the air, and we went everywhere from the Mexican border
through San Diego and San Francisco. San Francisco at the time,
I almost dropped dead because of its beauty. I thought,
this is the most gorgeous city I've ever seen in
my life. La was fun and exciting, the beaches, the weather,
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and you know, eventually, well we made a home. We
made a home here and raised three kids, and then
about ten years ago everything started going to hell. And
it was gradual. You know, it's first you don't you
shrug it off, saying, well, all right, they'll take care
of it. It's a bad policy, bad idea. Let me
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start with the homelessness, because the homelessness has infected and
overrun the city of Los Angeles, the city of Santa Monica,
which used to be a jewel, San Francisco, of course, Sacramento.
And it's a policy from the top on down where
most of the homeless are not people quote down on
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their luck, who lost their job a couple of weeks
ago and can't make a rent payment. Most of them
are are drug addicts, just raised drug addicts. The rest
of them are mental patients. It's as if they opened
a mental institution and let everybody run free. Now, the
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drug addiction can make you mentally ill. The mentally ill
people turned to drugs, so it mixes together. I saw
a UCLA study where three quarters of the homeless they
estimated were mentally ill and three quarters were drug addicts.
Well that's one hundred and fifty percent of the homeless.
So that's what's going on. And you can't fix most
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of them, at least not by I don't know, opening
up a retail store clinic on the street. All these
people need intensive treatment. They need to be in beds,
they need to be locked up, they need long term therapy,
they need to be on medications. And instead, the official
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policy of Gavin Newsom is is housing first, and it's
the same thing with Karen Basterbor Los Angeles. Housing first,
which means nothing is done for their addictions, nothing is
done for their mental illness. They have thrown billions of
dollars to build apartments and all kinds of shelters, except
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all you're doing is you're taking the crazy person or
the addicted person, and you're putting them inside and then
they wander out during the day to buy their drugs
and to act crazy. And let me tell you, these
people are terrifying. My wife and I have been chased
by people with sticks running down the street screaming. We
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have been chased in our car. We have witnessed people
just You'll be walking down the street, just going to
the drug store, the grocery store, and somebody will drop
their pants and defecate right in front of you. These
are not anomalies. You go to Hollywood, you go to Venice,
you go to places that used to be the tourism
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capitals of America, and it's mind boggling what's allowed. And
everybody calls and everybody complains, and they have a new policy.
No matter who you call, they don't respond. They don't
answer the phone, they don't answer the email, they don't
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answer the door. They don't care because I don't know.
I think so many people have checked out that they
know they're all going to get re elected. It is
the strangest phenomenon. I noticed things starting to change. Like
I said, about ten years ago, I also noticed how
things changed with people responding to issues and taking action,
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and it was about the time the smartphone came out.
And I actually think people are so absorbed by their
smartphones and so absorbed by being on the internet and
scrolling social media and scrolling texting that they have kind
of lost connection with their neighborhood and their town and
they're just letting things happen. They've given up on forcing
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a Gavenusemmer or Karen Bass to do anything about it.
Oh and by the way, on the housing first, it's
extremely expensive, it takes an extremely long time, and there's
very little housing that's built. Most of the homeless money
is stolen. And I'll explain that to you coming up
in a few minutes. It is and there's one party rule.
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We've had a democratic governor now ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger,
so it's about fifteen sixteen years. We've got super majorities
in the Assembly, supermajorities in the state legislature. We have
a city council that's entirely democratic. We've got a mayor
that's entirely democratic. And that's all we've had as mayor
for twenty five years in La and so they the
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same thing with the Board of Supervisors that runs La County.
It's five to nothing Democratic women. And there is no
Republican party here. There's nothing, there's no resistance. There's a
handful of legislators in the Assembly. There's a hand and
I it's the Republican out here. Republicans out here are
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completely inept, completely feeble, impotent. There might be one or
two guys. And so we're locked down. And during COVID
we were literally locked down. We had the worst COVID
shutdown rules in the whole country. And so it is
what you're seeing in the national news. And Gavin Newsom
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is behind it all. And I told a friend of
mine the other day, old friend who normally votes Democratic.
I said, look, I'm not telling you to vote for Republican.
I'm just saying you got to find another Democrat. You
do not want Gavin Newsom. You do not want him
running the country. You've got to live here every day
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to understand just what a disaster that would be. I
will play you when we come back a clip of
Gavin Newsom so you could get a little window into
his character and see how quickly he will lie. And
he will change his lie two or three times in
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the middle of a conversation. They'll say anything to get
out of a conversation, to gain the upper hand, to
make a point, and it's actually fascinating. It has to
do with the famous Palisades fire. Also, later on in
the show, we're gonna have Katie Grimes on californiaglobe dot com.
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Katie has this website and it's filled the breach because
you may have wondered, as I was telling you about
the decay of California, well where's the media covering this? Well,
on a local basis, they don't scattered stories here and
there if something egregious happens, but they don't cover it.
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They run protection for everybody in the legislature, for Newsom,
for Karen Bass by simply not covering it. It's fascinating.
It's not that they're biased with all their coverage. There
is no coverage. It just doesn't exist, and so a
lot of people don't know the depth of what's going
on and how much money has been stolen. You'd think
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Tim Watson Minnesota is a story, and we're going to
get to that later as well. Gavin Newsom absolutely dwarfsome,
so we'll talk about all that coming up again. I
wanted to thank Clay and Buck for letting me fill
in today. I'm John Cobelt from KFI and Los Angeles
on the Klay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Welcome back to the Klay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
I'm John Cobel from CAFEI in Los Angeles, filling in
today and to take you through the next few hours.
And since I'm here in Los Angeles and have been
out here for over thirty years, I thought i'd try
to help you understand the Gavenusom phenomenon. Since in many polls,
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most polls, he's the leading Democratic candidate to be president.
And you see him, and he's always dressed in a
beautiful shiny suit, and he's got great hair, and he's
got a strong chin and can seem very affable. But
the state is a disaster here, and I just if
you haven't researched much about him or really delved into him,
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I'm trying to give you the first morning. Don't go
near this one. No matter what party you are, a Democrat, Republican, independent, whatever,
do not put this guy in charge of the country.
And I want to show you his character. Here. This
is a clip from the Palisades fire. I think everybody
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knows about that. And there was a woman and let
me get her name here, it's Rachel Darvish. She's driving
around looking at the devastation in her old neighborhood where
her old house used to be, and just and she
was with a Sky News reporter, like Rachel was given
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the Sky News reporter a tour of the neighborhood. And
just by chance, they happened on the block where Gavin
Newsom was, you know, with some of his staff members.
And Newsom was literally walking across the street, and Rachel
Darvish jumped out of the car and ran up to Newsom,
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and Newsom was really startled. Rachel wanted to know what
he was going to do about the fire and making
sure it doesn't happen again because Rachel's daughter's school had
burned to the ground. And listen to the excuse that
Newsome gives as to why he can't talk to her
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right now, and then listen how he changes his story, like.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Cut one, Governor, you got a second governor, Governor, I
live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Governor please tell me what you're gonna do. But I'm
not gonna hurt of my promise.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically
answer the question of what we can do for you
and your daughter?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Can I hear it?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it?
Fun I'm sorry, can I there's literally I've tried five times.
That's why I'm walking around to make that I'm the
president not taking your call because it's not going through.
Why I have to get self service, Let's get it,
let's get it. I want to be here when you
call the President. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I'm doing that right now, and to immediately get reimbursements,
individual assistance.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And to help God Devis look at I'm so sorry,
especially for your daughter. I have four kids. Everyone who
went to school there, they lost their homes. They lost
two homes because they were living in one and building another. Kevin,
please tell me, tell me what are you going to
do with the president.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Right now, we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Is there no water in the hydrants? Governor?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
That's all?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Literally? Is it going to be different next time? That
has to be has to be of course, what.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Are you going to do all the hydrants?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I would fill them up personally, you know that. Literally
I would fill up the hugrants myself, but would you
do them? I would do whatever I can, but you're not.
I see the Do you know there's water dripping over there?
Governor there's water coming out there? You can use it.
I appreciate it. I'm going to make the call to
address everything I can right now, including making sure people
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to make sure you can I have an opportunity to
at least tell people you're doing what you're saying you're doing.
Did somebody have a contract? Can I have your contact now?
When she first ran up to him, he said, I'm
literally talking to Joe Biden right now. Well he wasn't
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literally talking to him. He made that up. And then
he said, well, I've been trying to call five times,
and then it's like, well I can't get a cell
signal here. So when we come back, we'll talk more
about He's a shape shifter and you heard a great
example of that there. This is John Cobelt filling in
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on the Milke Travis at Buck Sexton show.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Welcome back, Hi there to the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show. I'm John Cobel to your guest host for
the day from KFI and Los Angeles have a daily
radio show in the afternoon. And we've been talking about
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, because I've lived out
here for over thirty years, and I explained earlier on
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that I came here having seen California through a television
screen thinking it was paradise, and I got here and
it actually was. And then over the last ten years
everything has just gone to hell. The place has rotted out.
It's not an exaggeration what you hear, it's it's it's accurate.
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If anything, it's underplayed. And at the top of the
food chain is Gavin Newsom, the governor. And he's been
governor for a long time now. He can't weasel out
and say it with somebody else's problem. He's been the
governor for seven years next year's his last eight years.
Before that, he was lieutenant governor. Eight years before that,
he was the mayor of San Francisco. And his character
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is not existent. And I played a clip in the
last segment to demonstrate it, and I'm going to go
over like step by step. Here this woman, Rachel Dervish,
runs up to him. She's a distraught, very upset mother
in the Palisades. This is right in the midst of
fire week. Her home is burned down, her kid, her
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daughter's school is burned down, and there's this reporter from
Sky News in London following her around as she goes
through the neighborhood. They're driving in a car. By coincidence,
Gavin Newsom is on the block crossing the street. She
jumps out. Sky News follows her and gets this conversation
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that we played and says, you know, he says, She says, Governor,
you know, can you do something? And his first line,
I'm literally talking to Joe Biden right now. And he
used the word literally and she immediately picked up that
he was lying and said, well, let me talk to him. Oh,
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he wasn't literally talking to anybody. He was holding a
disconnected phone. There was no Joe Biden on the other end.
By the way, what are the odds that if he
actually got through to Joe Biden, Biden would have been
awake to answer it. So he's not talking to Biden.
And then he changed the story. Well, I've tried to
call five times. Five times. Oh, I thought you were
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literally talking. And then well, I'm trying to get cell service,
so you're not. You did you weren't literally talking to him.
He isn't on the phone. You didn't try to call
five times because you don't have cell service. You can
just look at the phone. You're not going to keep
dialing and dialing if you've got the no cell service
icon at the top of the phone. In fact, you'd
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be getting in a car and driving downhill where there
is cell service. He was just making it up on
the fly. This is what he does. I'll give you
another example, also connected to the fire. At various times
when he spoke of the fire, he lied and said
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it was climate change. Well, then we discovered it was
an arsonist that set the original fire. Oh well, then
he lied and said he had pre deployed fire trucks
one hundred and ten of them throughout the mountain range
across Los Angeles. He didn't deploy any that would be zero.
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He gives specific numbers. Liked I called five times, Joe Buden,
I put out one hundred and ten fire trucks. There
were zero fire trucks. It wasn't climate change. It was
a crazy arsonist. None of the fires start out here
in California because of climate change. Zero. They start primarily
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because of lightning. Arson or this is a big cat
that has sparked the worst fires. Power lines fall down,
electrical equipment starts sparking because the major power companies out here,
Pged in southern California Edison, don't maintain their wires, their poles.
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They're transformers. Some of this stuff is one hundred years old,
so it falls apart, it falls over in the wind,
and it starts huge blazes. It's always electric companies. And
if it's not that, it's arsonust And if it's not that,
it's lightning strikes, dry lightning in the summer out here,
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it's like a desert phenomenon. Dry air comes in from
the desert and sparks the lightning. That's what starts vast
majority of the fires. And there was the third life. Okay,
he said it was climate change. Then he said it
he pre deployed fire trucks, and then he said, well
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he really they had nothing to do with it because
it wasn't on state land. Well, weeks later we found
out it did start on state land. It started on
state land on the night of January first. This was
called the Lockman fire. This is a week before the
Big Palisades Fire. And the LA Fire Department showed up
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and put it out on New Year's Day morning, and
then within hours Newsom's Parks Department set down representatives to
stop the fire department from mopping up. When a fire
department mops up, they have to tamp down all the hotspots.
There were hot rocks, there were hot tree stumps, that
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was smoldering, smoke coming out of the ground. You know,
the root system is still very hot. And these employees
from the State Parks Department, and there's video and photos
of this, basically chased the LA Fire Department off the
state land. And you're probably saying, now, why would they
do that. They did it because they didn't want the
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firefighters stomping on the milk vetch plant. The milk vetch plant. Seriously,
there's a Latin name for it, the astrologus plant. And
there are now text messages memos where the fire the
Parks employees are telling the LA Fire Department basically get
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off the land. The fire department wanted to bring in
a bulldozer to cut a fire break, and they wanted
to put out all the smoldering. They said, no, you
can't do that. You will tear up the milk vetch plant.
It's an endangered plant. Why am I explaining all this
because six days later in that exact spot, the winds
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started blowing on January seventh, whipped up the smoldering fire
and turned it into the big one, turned it into
the huge blaze that we all watched or experienced for
a week. And it was because his state employees were
following state policy not to destroy the milkvetch plant, and
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they actually kicked out the Los Angeles Fire Department. And
then he went around saying, well, the state had nothing
to do with it. The state was the cause of
the huge Palisates fire hit policies under his administration. And
the new tactic now as all these bombshells come out
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is everybody runs in highs. Nobody even bothers to deny
things anymore. Nobody contests the story anymore. They just shut
down and the beating out. And here in California at least,
and the national media too, is so compliant because he's
the great Hope. They don't question anything. Again, very similar
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to the Tim Waltz situation. They knew that story was
going on with the fraud for seven years. There were
employees reporting it. There were occasionally scattered news stories, but
nobody followed up, and so for seven years all the
money could be looted in Minnesota under Tim Waltz's nose.
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Here is the same thing. There's tremendously damaging information and
it's coming from a civil lawsuit filed by thousands of
Pacific Palisades residents and their attorneys are now subpoenaing records,
getting testimony, and now we're finding out what the real
story is. The Palisades burned down, six thousand plus homes
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burned for the sake of the milkvetch plant because the
first fire was you could put out easily. And this
is what's astonishing about what's going on going on and
how badly it's covered in the news media. And believe me,
a lot of people when they see Gavin Knewsome primping
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and preening around think it physically ill. It's how cool?
Were you kidding? And this is just story. I told
you it was just about that disaster in the Palisades. Oh,
by the way, just as a personal thing. I live
about three miles from the fire, and that week we
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had no power, we had no water, and I wanted
to go to a hotel with my wife and we
have a bunch of pets and we but my wife
wanted to stay because she knew the looters would come
and steal all our stuff. And at first I thought
that was an overreaction. It turned out she was right.
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Seven homes in her neighborhood got looted because it was
completely dark. There was no electricity whatsoever, and we had
baseball bats all over the house, and my wife is
walking around pacing around the baseball bat, and so was I.
In case a bad guy got in and seven homes
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were looted, we put up a lot of flashlights all
over the place to make it look like we were home,
and we had to hire a guy. We had to
hire an ex marine who stood in front of the
house with a loaded gun. He showed us his loaded
pistol and he said, I see him, I shoot him,
I kill him. That's what we resorted to. We had
to hire it. Was somebody's electrician in the neighborhood who
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used to be a marine, and he had a gun.
And I remember after I left the guy in front
of the house to go to the hardware store to
get flashlights, I thought, Wow, total breakdown of government. There's
no fire, there's no police, there's no electricity, there's no water,
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there's no nothing. It was. It was a total breakdown
of civilization. And I felt like I never felt in
my life, right. I mean, we'll all grow up. It's like, well,
somebody's gonna take care of us, right. The police will
show up, the fire department will show up, the government
will take care of things, you know, the mommy and
daddy they'll come. No, there was nothing. It was every
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man for himself. You had to find a guy who
owned a gun and hire him to stand in front
of your house. And my son said, well, what if
what if he shoots and kills somebody. It's like, I
don't want to know. I don't want to be shot
and killed. That's up to him to make make his
own judgment. And this is this is what we were
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reduced to. And that sounds like a once in a
lifetime outrageous story, but there's many versions of this going
on every day throughout the state and LA just to
complete collapse in ordinary government. Tell you more about this
when we come back in the next hour. We're gonna
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have Katie Grimes on from California Globe and she's got
a long term kind of global perception of what Gavin
Newsom has been to the state because she covers him
every day. And you're listening, I'm John Cobelt from CAFI
Radio in LA, and you're listening to the Klay, Travis
and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
This is Brian from Orange County, California, and I just
want to say I am pleasantly surprised to be hearing
John cole Belt's voice on the radio this morning on
the John and Buck segment as I often listen to
him in the afternoon drives on KFI. So thank you
so much and nice hearing a familiar local voice. Keep
it up, John, and happy happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
That's really nice. Yeah. John Cobelt here from KFI and
LA filling in for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. We
got another one from Debbie.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
John Colebelt, congratulations for filling them on clan Buck. Very exciting,
happy to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
This is Debbie from Long Beach. Wow, nice voice. Thank you, Debbi.
It's good to be here. And we're going to be
continuing on for a couple of more hours. So I
was just telling you the fire story, the Palas State's
fire story, and just the incessant incompetence, and on top
(30:30):
of them, on top of the line the caven Newsom
does as governor of the state. There's just the practical
day to day living. And I just off the top
of my head during a commercial break, wrote down I'm
not going to read them all here, but I wrote
down like a dozen categories where California is the worst
(30:55):
or the highest or the most, and all the categories
are bad category. And that's just off the top of
my head. I'll give you one example, which we talk
about all the time. We have the highest gas taxes
in the state by far. There's the Triple A has
(31:17):
a state by state fuel price. It's a ranking and
it tells you the cheapest all the way to the
most expensive. You know, how much California gas goes for
average is four twenty nine a gallon. Many places it's
(31:39):
five dollars a gallon in other states. I'm looking here
in Oklahoma it's two twenty three. The average Colorado is
two thirty eight. Texas is two forty. And you might say, well,
you know, that's a left wing democratic state. What do
you expect, except it's way more than the other left
wing Democratics states. That's the thing. We stand by ourselves.
(32:04):
I mean, we're at four to twenty nine. New York's
only three h four. Where's Massachusetts go? Massachusetts is two
ninety six. Massachusetts is in the twos New Jersey I
used to live there. That's a very high tax state.
That's two eighty four. So this is I'm talking to
(32:25):
the daily grind of just trying to exist here. And
this absolutely crushes the lower and middle class in this state.
So it's it's not just as lying, it's just like,
why would you do this? And you know what all
the taxes are for. It's the climate change obsession, which
(32:46):
is another big racket. There's several big rackets in this state,
again along the lines of the Somalian racket in Minnesota.
It's billions and billions of dollars, and later on I'll
tell you about all all the different rackets that go
on here. And we're going to talk to Katie grimesnext
from californiaglobe dot com and she'll give you her assessment
(33:07):
of Gavin Newsom as a national political figure and a
possible president. I'm really happy to be here, John Coblt
from CAFI, Los Angeles, here on the Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show. Hey, you've been listening to the John
Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live
on KFI AM six forty from one to four pm
(33:28):
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