June 26, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (06/26) - A cop was ambushed in Santa Monica yesterday. CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio says CA should brace for $10-$12/gallon gas as the oil industry in the state is on the brink of collapse. A LA Times writer defended Cynthia Gonzalez and her statement calling out gang members to defend their territory from ICE. Gas prices across the country compared to California.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the show. We
are on every day from one until four o'clock and
after four o'clock. Whatever you missed, you go to the website,
you go to the iHeartRadio app. Rather John Coblt on demand.
That's the podcast. And it's good to have you all here. Now.
(00:24):
There are a lot of we laughing at I'm trying
to sincerely welcome people, and you laughed like, yeah, I
saw that look on your face, like, oh, come on,
who are you kidding? You don't care? You might be right.
There's plenty of crime stories right every day. We can
do nothing but crime stories. But every once in a
(00:45):
while one hits home. This one hit home. This is
the Santa Monica shooting of the police officer yesterday. This
started and this is the problem with you. No, my
wife's got a big issue with this. Most of my friends,
our friends do is how can we keep living here
(01:09):
because there's virtually no government keeping us just normally safe,
just the normal stuff. There are so many vagrants running around,
and crazy drug addicts and mental patients, violent criminal vagrants
and Karen Dass hasn't done anything about it. Okay, I've
(01:32):
said this almost every day. Do not believe a word
she says. It's as nutty out there as ever. Tracy
Park Council women on the West side. For me, she
has cleaned up some of the encampments, quite a few
of them actually, but it ends. You know, these people
just get relocated. And I'm happy they're relocated because you know,
(01:53):
people on my side of town are fighting, and people
on your side of town have to fight too, and
you have to elect new people. Jacy can't do everything.
But one of the places that has absolutely just collapsed
has been Santa Monica, which is right next door to
where I am. I just yeah, maybe two three miles away,
(02:16):
and it's where we've gone for years to go to
the beach, to go to the park, to go shopping,
to go to restaurants. We can't go there anymore. We
had John Alley on, a business leader, and we talked
with him at great length, and he talked about how,
you know, drug cartels have taken over some of the
public parks, like the one my wife and I used
(02:38):
to take. We take a morning walk maybe four days
a week and most of the time we would go
to Palisades Park, which overlooks the cliff overlooks the ocean
along Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, and there is an
upscale but used to be an upscale Santa Monica Mall
(02:58):
known as Santa Monica Place. You ever gone there? I have.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I don't think I've ever gone there.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Anchored by a Nordstrom.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Oh yes, I have, yes, because I've been in.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That nor Nordstrom's is. I knew you were there, and
it's it's mostly an outdoor moil two three tiers I think,
and a lot of upscale, upscale stories. I used to
go there when I had to get a special gift
for my wife.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Of course she did.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That's That's that's where I felt because it wasn't too big,
and they had the right kind of stores. It had
stuff that I knew she'd like, and it was easy.
And then some years ago it got so disgusting and scary.
I mean, guys living in the parking garages. You can't
go to Santa Monica. There are people living in the stairwells,
(03:43):
people living in the elevators, people living in between cars.
They're doing drugs, They're just complete back bleep, crazy frightening.
I mean, nobody wants to be in a dark parking
Sata Monica anymore. We've screamed about this. John Alley has
(04:04):
been on screaming about this. The people who run Santa
Monica don't change anything. They consider all the drug addicts
and the vagrants and criminals to be oppressed, and all
of us residents to be the oppressors. That is the
heart of the progressive theory. I was reading somebody who
was writing about this recently, and it's like, you have
(04:24):
to understand how they think. All the people that we
are disgusted by or afraid of are considered the oppressed
according to progressives, and then we all who work for
a living and pay all the bills and pay all
the taxes, we're the oppress ors. So we're always bad.
(04:46):
They're always good. The vagrants and criminals. Okay, those are
the two sides. Okay, I do really believe this, And
somehow they have majorities when it comes to to the vote.
They're run for office, they win. They're run for office,
(05:07):
they're part of the majority, whether it's in the Assembly
of the state Senate or it's your local city Council.
And it's the most bizarre thing that I've ever seen
in my life. There was just no such thing for
most of my life, most of your life. So now
at this upscale Santa Monica Place shopping mall, an officer
tried to detain a likely homeless person. This guy, his
(05:32):
name is David John Harston, was a suspect in a
Sunday shooting. There were two teenagers in a waymo, one
of those self driving robot taxis, and this guy, David Harriston,
started shooting at them. Now, how frightening is that? Another
(05:55):
limitation about these idiot way moos. A driver sees a
bad guy a gun, he could hit the gas and
peel out of there. Stupid robot doesn't know it's a threat,
so it's can continue following the law, doing the speed limits,
staying in the lane. It's not going to jump the curb,
it's not going to swerve and pass somebody. It's not
(06:16):
going to run over the bad guy. And it's like,
I hadn't thought of that. Absolutely, I'm never taking a
weimo And I was thinking about that the other well,
when they were sitting waymows on fire downtown during the
riots what if you're in a weymo and there's a
terrible disturbance or there's a bad neighborhood coming up. The
(06:37):
Weymo's not going to know the WAYMO will drive right
into the bad disturbance. They'll drive right into the riot.
They'll drive right into Uh like if the if the
if the software tells you drive down of the fifteenth Street,
well he doesn't know if that's a gang neighborhood. We
(06:57):
know what the gang neighborhoods are. You're not supposed to
say out loud, right, you're not supposed to say out
loud which neighborhoods you never drive into. But we know them.
And regular Uber drivers, taxi drivers, they know them.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
These things need to be reprogrammed.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, you do that though, It's like, well this is profiling,
is it it? Racial and ethnic profile?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Then you can argue against the driverless cars.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, that's why I'm never going to take one, because
the weaimo, as brilliant as it must be technologically, doesn't
have a brain in his head and is not going
to know not to drive into a bad neighborhood or
not to drive into a disturbance. I look at the
five dumbass Waymos that ended up getting set on fire.
Those Waymos, if they were human, would have known there
(07:45):
was a riot going on and they were setting fires,
and they wouldn't. But I guess the warrant riders were
calling for the Waimos on their phones. And then the
Waimos show up all happy and shiny, and next thing
you know, they're on fire and toxic smoke is billowing
out of their electric their electric engines. So anyway, this
(08:06):
guy starts firing at well, he start firing at the
Waymo and the two kids got hurt and they start
getting pursued by the police, and David Harriston, according to police,
ambushed the officer, fired multiple rounds at him and struck
(08:28):
the cop. Now he's going to be okay eventually, by
four twenty he gets caught in Palisades Park. That's where
we walk every day. So the shopping center we used
to go to all the time and the park we
used to go to all the time. That the book
ends for this this shooting spree, that this whack job
(08:50):
went on.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Well, I don't want to hear you complaining about my
travels and that I have a travel curse, because look,
at you.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You're right, I've got a local, local travel curse. So
David Harriston arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, fell in
with a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon, controlled substance
or what do you know? He was on drugs and
he's thirty one. He's listed his employment as a table busser,
(09:21):
so he claims he's I don't think he currently had
a job. And when they asked for his address, he
had no address. This is the La Times going to
any length not to describe this guy as a homeless,
armed criminal, just the vague line gave no address. He's
a table busser. I guess he has an evening shift,
(09:46):
so he was available in the middle of the day
to shoot at teenagers in away mow and shoot a
cop that's chasing him. And this is what the council
and the may Santa Monica allows, and this is what
the people of Santa Monica vote for. It's ed if
(10:07):
you're if you don't live there, don't go there. We
don't go We can't go there anymore because this this kind,
if this stuff isn't happening, it's always the potential that
it's gonna happen. That's the way you feel, because there's
so many of these vagrants and criminals wandering around. It's
(10:29):
so menacing, it is so scary for once beautiful city,
an absolute jewel of a city. And sometime before I die,
I'm going to figure out why people, especially people with money,
would let their beautiful jewel of city dissolve into violence, chaos, gunfire,
(10:49):
homeless people, mental patience, neth vomit, I I I don't,
I just it's it's just overwhelming to me that this
has happened. Now, when we come back, we're going to
take a look at Cynthia Gonzalez day three, the vice
(11:11):
mayor still of Cuta Hae. I was thinking today Denise
Kinoniaz is still head of the DWP and Cynthia Gonzales
is still the vice mayor of Cuta Haey, even after
urging gangs to come to cut A Hay and let's
start shooting at ice agents if they show up.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Honestly, if you're driving, pull.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Over, John, you're scaring me.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Carlo Mile, our friend the Republican assemblyman. He put this
out on x California should brace for more than just
eight dollars per gallon of gas. I just left a
closed door briefing for legend where we were told that
the California oil industry is on the brink of collapse
(12:06):
and there is a pending pipeline shutdown, the result ten
to twelve dollars a gallon gas and gas rationing. What
I'm going to repeat this, Karl DeMier writes, California should
brace for more than just eight dollars per gallon of gas.
(12:27):
I just left the closed door briefing for legislators where
we were told the California oil industry is on the
brink of collapse and there is a pending pipeline shutdown
result ten to twelve dollars a gallon and gas rationing.
And they have been trying to destroy the oil industry
(12:48):
and apparently they've succeeded. They have taxed and regulated them
and prevented them from doing business in many different ways.
That's why we've already got close to five dollars a
gallon gas. It's supposed to go up to about six
dollars a gallon potentially within the next year, because there's
(13:10):
a sixty five cent gas tax increase with the new
California Air Resources Board, they've got a low carbon fuel
standard tax. Then there's a sales tax of a few
pennies coming up on July first. But now, now you
add two refineries are supposed to close within the next
(13:33):
year and a half. That's how you get from six
dollars to eight dollars. And now you have the whole
industry collapsing and a pipeline shutdown. I don't have any
more details. We have put in a call to Carl
to see what else. But Carl has posted a lot
two o'clock, he's going to come on, all right. Carl's
(13:54):
posted a lot of provocative stuff ever since he got
up to the Assembly in January, and he's been right
on every single thing. And every time I smack my
head when I see his post and I say, this
can't be real, this can't be true. Next thing you know,
it turns out's absolutely true. All the crazy votes, all
the crazy proposals you would like. I'll give you an example. Recently,
(14:16):
he said there was a vote whether to make buying
teenagers for sex a felony, and the Democrats voted no.
It's like, come on, that can't be what politician would
run on run on allowing teenagers to be bought for sex. Ah,
(14:37):
he's right. They did vote no on it. They did
not want to make it a felony until there was
huge outrage, huge star of protests, and so now buying
teenagers for sex is a felony. I do know from
everything I've read that this eight dollars a gallon gas
is not hype. It's real. Michael MChE the USC profess,
(15:00):
Sir who did the research on this, We've had him
on several times and we're trying to get him on
as well to see what he knows about this. So,
if you're just joining us, California, according to Carl Demo,
should brace for more than eight dollars a gallon gas.
Closed door briefing, we were told the California oil industry
on brink of collapse, there's a pending pipeline shut down.
(15:21):
We're looking at ten to twelve dollars a gallon and
gas rashing that. So it says Carl Demyo again, another
one of those things is like, no, this can't be true.
This kid. But look look what they've done. We are
what they call an energy island, a gasoline island. We
don't have pipelines coming in from the Gulf of Mexico.
(15:44):
We don't have pipelines coming from the outside to bring
us gas and oil. And they will not allow us
to drill for our own gas and oil, whether it's
oil natural gas. They don't allow us to build refineries
to turn oil and gat into gasoline. They don't. Everything
(16:09):
is taxed, everything is overregulated, Everything is in the name
of their stupid climate change religion, which is totally bogus nonsense.
And Trump has put an end to the electric car mandate.
That's gone at least because nobody wanted the electric cars,
(16:34):
and there were no electrical chargers to service us, and
there's no electrical grid to serve to chargers. These people
are dangerous fanatics. It's the same progressive ideology that brings
you all the Mayhem and Santa Monica yesterday. Everything the
progressives believe in is destructive. It ruins civilization, and we
(16:59):
have it here more than anywhere else. Although it looks
like New York City is going to give it a
good run, because they've just nominated for their Democratic mayoral candidate,
Zorn Mandami, absolute five star lunatic. Hete put the LA
City Council to shame this guy. They got to stop
(17:19):
him or New York City is going to be destroyed.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And John Cynthia Gonzalez, her attorney, just put out a statement.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
This is the Cutahey, Vice Mayor, do you want to
hear it real quick?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Okay, so she just broke her silence. Gonzalez's attorney, Damian Martinez,
said her client called upon her local community to exercise
their First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly to
express their views on recent ice enforcement actions. In the
social media post, doctor Gonzalez is no way encouraged anyone
to engage in violence. Any suggestion that she advocated for
(17:55):
violence is categorically false and without merit, Martina said on
behalf of the Vice mayor, who has an education doctor
grew up from the UCLA blah blah.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Blah blah blah bull crap says me.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
She was trying to challenge her community to join other
Angelinos to peacefully organize in response to ongoing immigration enforcement.
She explicitly mentioned two of the most notorious groups we
know that in the video.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Uh, that attorney ought to come on the air here.
He's full of crap. Attorney's life for a living, And
that's a whopper. That is total nonsense. Everybody knows exactly
what she did. There is no other purpose for doing that.
Oh and by the way, this is why I want
to get to you can always rely on the La Times.
(18:41):
One of their columnists actually wrote a semi apology column
explaining what Cynthia Gonzalez was really trying to stay.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Well, that's kind of what our attorney is saying. Yeah,
I don't so we had it all wrong. Yes, apparently
we did. How the Eighteenth Street Game and the Florencia gang. Hey,
cholo's he she's saying, Cholo's.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I looked it up. I didn't know that's the word
for gangster. What do gangsters do? What are these what
are these two gangs?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
He wants them to come out peacefully and to just
show a show of support.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Don't kill any immigrant community.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Don't kill any more cops than you've done in the past.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Oh, it's like the conveyor belt of doom here sorry
to bring all this bad news, but somebody's got to
do it. It's not like anybody else covers it in
the media in this city. So this is it here
we're going to bring you. Carl DeMaio coming up at
two o'clock, the Republican Assemblyman. He has put out an
x that he just got out of a closed door
meeting and legislators were told that the California oil industry
(19:49):
is on the verge of collapse and we may be
looking at ten and twelve dollars a gallon gas very soon.
I don't know a lot of details because he didn't
publish anything else, just that the industry is on the
brink of collapse. There's a pending pipeline shut down. I
don't know why. You know two refineries are going to
(20:09):
be closing in the next year and a half. You know,
there's a huge sixty five cent gas techts coming from
the California Air Resources Board. And again, nobody else in
the country is anywhere close to our gas prices. In fact,
maybe the next segment, just to set up, Carl, I'll
give you a rundown of gas prices around the country
(20:32):
because most people don't know. Most people don't know anything,
which I guess is the root cause of the problem.
All right, So Cynthia Gonzales is the vice mayor of
Kada Hay. She's been in the news everywhere if you
watch the news or read the news anymore, or listen
to us. She's the vice mayor who called on two
(20:53):
major violent gangs who have a history of killing cops,
Eighteenth Street Gang and Florencia Gang, to come to kut
of Hay, which is ninety seven percent Latino, and face
off with ice if needed. And virtually everybody except her lawyer. Well, actually,
most politicians in this city and county are dead quiet.
(21:16):
It's amazing. They are so woke. So PC sell in love. Well,
I mean the same crowd that the defunded the police,
that was kneeling in front of the UH, the agitators
and anarchists during the twenty twenty riots. So of course
(21:36):
they're not going to criticize CYNTHI and Gonzales. I guess
that day is gone right now. Now you can call
on gang members to shoot cops and no other no
other politician is going to say, hey, wait, wait a second,
you've gone too far. I can't even get that best
you can hope for is silence. Okay, so her attorney
is blowing a lot of gas, and you can always
(21:57):
rely on the La Times. There's always Why was this?
I was opening up the paper the last couple of days.
I got who's going to be the columnist who goes
out there and at least somewhat defends Cynthia Gonzalez And
the winner is Gustavo Ariano. Of course, Gustavo Ariana. We
have a limited history with him, going back many years.
(22:19):
He used to take potshots at Ken and I all
the time over illegal immigration. He was totally wrong. He
also briefly, very briefly had a show on KFI a
long time ago called Aska Mexican. I think it ran
on Saturday night or Sunday night, something like that. I
(22:40):
never heard it. So he I will give him this
much credit. We printed this out and after describing the
situation with Cincia Gonzales, he said that this is going
to backfire because the Trump administration is looking for any
(23:00):
reason to send even more National Guard troops. If inviting
a gang to help, let alone, two gangs as notorious
as eighteen Street in Florencia, doesn't sound like what Trump
claims he's trying to quatch. I'm not sure what is.
At least, he's admitting that it was clear she was
inviting a gang to come and take on the National Guard.
(23:24):
He writes, perhaps worst of all, Gonzales brought political and
nominee once again to southeast La County. It's small super
majority Latino cities have long been synonymous with political corruption
and never seem to get a lucky break from their leaders. Well,
maybe it's because the voters keep voting in these corrupt bastards.
(23:48):
It's the people's fault. You could vote in somebody who
isn't corrupt and destructive, they choose not to. It's like
the people of Santa Monica. And he goes on. So
he gives some criticism. He writes, trying to enlist gangs
(24:08):
to advocate for immigrants comes off as both laughable and offensive,
and describing the Eighteenth Street in Florencia as the Latino
community is like describing the Manson family as fun loving hippies.
Gang members have extorted immigrant entrepreneurs and terrorized immigrant communities,
going back to the days of gangs of New York.
(24:30):
Their modus operandi is expanding turf profit and power via
fear and bloodshed and will forever peg Latinos is prone
to violence. In the minds of too many Americans. Transnational
gangs like Trendy, Iragua and MS thirteen are Trump's ostensible
reason for his deportation Tsunami, and now a politician thinks
it's wise to ask cholos to draw closer. So he's
(24:52):
on the right track, right, and I'm like two thirds
of the way through now here it goes off the cliff.
This is a Gustavo Ariano. And yet I sympathize and
even agree with what Gonzales was really getting at. As
imperfect and bumbling as she was, Homeland securities claim that
she was riling up gangs to commit violence against our
(25:15):
brave ice law enforcement doesn't hold up in the context
of history. Latino activists for decades have strained to inspire
gang members to join move A Biento, not as stormtroopers,
but as wayward youngsters and veteranos who can leave La
vina Loca behind if they only become enlightened. I don't
(25:37):
know what all this means. US throws in a lot
of Spanish words but a lot of people don't know
these words, and once you know, speak English. At the
height of the Chicano movement, there was a manifesto and
they envisioned a world where there would no longer be
acts of juven delinquency, but revolutionary acts. There was some
(25:59):
planned they sent to Barber some other revolutionary manifesto. Weren't activists.
They must be able to relate to all segments of
the barrio, from the middle class assimilationists to the volos locos.
It's one thing to about gibberish, but us about gibberish
in a foreign language. A lot of readers get lost,
he says. From homeboy industries to colleges that develop prison
(26:21):
inmates to earn a degree, people still believe in the
power of forgiveness and strive to reincorporate gang members into
society as productive people. Oh I see, So he thinks
she was asking them to come back home to cut
a hay and be productive and be part of the
community and defend the illegal alien community members who are
(26:41):
under siege. Yeah, that's what they're gonna do. These aren't
rehabilitated gang members. These are current gang members. These are
guys who are like get nineteen years old with lots
of testosterone and adrenaline and and grievances, and they've got
no prefrontal cortex to put a break on their desires.
But he writes their relatives and friends and community members.
(27:04):
The thinking goes, not irredeemable monsters. I believe they're irredeemable monsters.
Gonzala's video comes from that Do good or vain A
closer listen show. She isn't lionizing eighteenth Street or Flancy thirteen.
She's pushing them to be truly tough by practicing civil
not criminal disobedience. Good lord, when you go on social
(27:35):
media and give an hour long speech scolding gang members
that they've got to come here and defend their home turf,
you're not talking about civil disobedience. You're not talking about
holding a sign and doing a stupid chant. Everybody's been
doing that and it hasn't stopped ice. You know what
(27:58):
she's talking about. The only thing that's going to stop
Ice are guns. That's what she's saying. That's what she means.
That's what they all mean, all the activists, that's what
they mean. Because the reason they're so frustrated and angry
is the signs didn't do anything, The chance didn't do anything.
Deportations are still going on. You haven't slowed them down
at all.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Carl DeMaio coming on right after Deborah's news. He put
out a tweet that California should brace for more than
eight dollars a gallon, more than just eight dollars a gallon,
because he left a closed door briefing for legislators he
was told. They were told that the California oil industry
(28:45):
is on the brink of collapse, and there's a pending
pipeline shut down. Could be ten to twelve dollars a
gallon gas rationing coming, so says Carl Demaya put that
out an hour ago. I guess it still holds. I
keep waiting for somebody to say no, no mistake. So, uh,
here's what you need to know about gas prices. Get
(29:05):
yourself in a frame of mind. The average price for
gas regular here in California four dollars sixty two cents.
The national average is three dollars and twenty two cents.
So it's a dollar forty more here. But in some
states it's as low as two seventy three, So it's
(29:28):
a dollar ninety more here per gallen than in Mississippi,
fat Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, Georgia,
North Carolina, North Dakota all under three bucks a gallon.
Florida's three oh two. If you're looking for big states.
(29:50):
If you're looking for big liberal states, Massachusetts is only
three oh nine, New Jersey is only three nineteen. New
York is only three twenty two. We're four six and
I got two stories here, and we'll delve into these
in more detail after Carl. One of them says this
from the New York Times, Summer gas prices haven't been this
(30:13):
low since twenty twenty one, hovering around three twenty a
gallon this week, lower since June to twenty twenty one,
when we're still coming out of the pandemic, so it's
about three twenty. Haven't been this low in four years. Meantime,
LA Times says California gas prices to jump in July,
(30:38):
and between the carbon tax and the sales tax increase,
the combined increase could boost gas prices by almost seventy
cents next month. So what we've been telling you is true,
and even the La Times is admitting it. You're looking
at a seventy cent increase, So if the average price
(31:02):
is four sixty two, we're looking at an average of
five thirty to a gallon. And this doesn't count the
two refineries that are supposed to close in the next
eighteen months. They also point out that California has a
(31:22):
goal of cutting fuel use by ninety four percent over
the next twenty years. These are the fanatics we have here.
They think they're going to cut nearly all the gasoline
use in the state within twenty years. It's never going
(31:44):
to happen, but they're going to use every trick to
try to make it happen and then drive the gas
prices into double digits unless you wake up, but everyone's asleep.
I can't believe I. I was just talking about this
with Eric. It's another story here that eighty three percent
(32:06):
of people if they hit a payroll a pay wall
on a news site, they don't read the story, which
is understandable because people don't want to waste money on subscriptions.
They think they don't need. But it means all they
see is a headline eighty three percent. Maybe they get
(32:29):
little one to two paragraph summaries on the Instagram feed.
And I'm looking at that, and I'm realizing, clearly this
proves most people don't know anything, because most newscasts are
record low ratings, whether local audiences or national audiences except here.
Except here. But we're you know, we're always screaming about
(32:50):
people live in a bubble. We're in a bubble because
this is our job, and our audience knows these things,
but euch of the state knows nothing. So what's gonna
happen when the price goes to six bucks or eight
bucks or ten bucks a gallon? Because most of them
aren't gonna see it coming. It's gonna be like a
(33:14):
locomotive in their face. Does Is that what has to
happen to finally overthrow the government? Is that what it's
gonna take? All right, we come back. Carl Demayo, the
Republican Assemblymen. He put out a tweet on x saying
left the closed door meeting told the California industries on
(33:36):
brink of collapse pending pipeline shutdown could be ten to
twelve dollars a gallon gas gas rationing. That'll be fun.
Yabra Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. 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 every Monday through Friday,
and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the show. We
are on every day from one until four o'clock and
after four o'clock. Whatever you missed, you go to the website,
you go to the iHeartRadio app. Rather John Coblt on demand.
That's the podcast. And it's good to have you all here. Now.
(00:24):
There are a lot of we laughing at I'm trying
to sincerely welcome people, and you laughed like, yeah, I
saw that look on your face, like, oh, come on,
who are you kidding? You don't care? You might be right.
There's plenty of crime stories right every day. We can
do nothing but crime stories. But every once in a
(00:45):
while one hits home. This one hit home. This is
the Santa Monica shooting of the police officer yesterday. This
started and this is the problem with you. No, my
wife's got a big issue with this. Most of my friends,
our friends do is how can we keep living here
(01:09):
because there's virtually no government keeping us just normally safe,
just the normal stuff. There are so many vagrants running around,
and crazy drug addicts and mental patients, violent criminal vagrants
and Karen Dass hasn't done anything about it. Okay, I've
(01:32):
said this almost every day. Do not believe a word
she says. It's as nutty out there as ever. Tracy
Park Council women on the West side. For me, she
has cleaned up some of the encampments, quite a few
of them actually, but it ends. You know, these people
just get relocated. And I'm happy they're relocated because you know,
(01:53):
people on my side of town are fighting, and people
on your side of town have to fight too, and
you have to elect new people. Jacy can't do everything.
But one of the places that has absolutely just collapsed
has been Santa Monica, which is right next door to
where I am. I just yeah, maybe two three miles away,
(02:16):
and it's where we've gone for years to go to
the beach, to go to the park, to go shopping,
to go to restaurants. We can't go there anymore. We
had John Alley on, a business leader, and we talked
with him at great length, and he talked about how,
you know, drug cartels have taken over some of the
public parks, like the one my wife and I used
(02:38):
to take. We take a morning walk maybe four days
a week and most of the time we would go
to Palisades Park, which overlooks the cliff overlooks the ocean
along Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, and there is an
upscale but used to be an upscale Santa Monica Mall
(02:58):
known as Santa Monica Place. You ever gone there? I have.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I don't think I've ever gone there.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Anchored by a Nordstrom.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Oh yes, I have, yes, because I've been in.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That nor Nordstrom's is. I knew you were there, and
it's it's mostly an outdoor moil two three tiers I think,
and a lot of upscale, upscale stories. I used to
go there when I had to get a special gift
for my wife.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Of course she did.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That's That's that's where I felt because it wasn't too big,
and they had the right kind of stores. It had
stuff that I knew she'd like, and it was easy.
And then some years ago it got so disgusting and scary.
I mean, guys living in the parking garages. You can't
go to Santa Monica. There are people living in the stairwells,
(03:43):
people living in the elevators, people living in between cars.
They're doing drugs, They're just complete back bleep, crazy frightening.
I mean, nobody wants to be in a dark parking
Sata Monica anymore. We've screamed about this. John Alley has
(04:04):
been on screaming about this. The people who run Santa
Monica don't change anything. They consider all the drug addicts
and the vagrants and criminals to be oppressed, and all
of us residents to be the oppressors. That is the
heart of the progressive theory. I was reading somebody who
was writing about this recently, and it's like, you have
(04:24):
to understand how they think. All the people that we
are disgusted by or afraid of are considered the oppressed
according to progressives, and then we all who work for
a living and pay all the bills and pay all
the taxes, we're the oppress ors. So we're always bad.
(04:46):
They're always good. The vagrants and criminals. Okay, those are
the two sides. Okay, I do really believe this, And
somehow they have majorities when it comes to to the vote.
They're run for office, they win. They're run for office,
(05:07):
they're part of the majority, whether it's in the Assembly
of the state Senate or it's your local city Council.
And it's the most bizarre thing that I've ever seen
in my life. There was just no such thing for
most of my life, most of your life. So now
at this upscale Santa Monica Place shopping mall, an officer
tried to detain a likely homeless person. This guy, his
(05:32):
name is David John Harston, was a suspect in a
Sunday shooting. There were two teenagers in a waymo, one
of those self driving robot taxis, and this guy, David Harriston,
started shooting at them. Now, how frightening is that? Another
(05:55):
limitation about these idiot way moos. A driver sees a
bad guy a gun, he could hit the gas and
peel out of there. Stupid robot doesn't know it's a threat,
so it's can continue following the law, doing the speed limits,
staying in the lane. It's not going to jump the curb,
it's not going to swerve and pass somebody. It's not
(06:16):
going to run over the bad guy. And it's like,
I hadn't thought of that. Absolutely, I'm never taking a
weimo And I was thinking about that the other well,
when they were sitting waymows on fire downtown during the
riots what if you're in a weymo and there's a
terrible disturbance or there's a bad neighborhood coming up. The
(06:37):
Weymo's not going to know the WAYMO will drive right
into the bad disturbance. They'll drive right into the riot.
They'll drive right into Uh like if the if the
if the software tells you drive down of the fifteenth Street,
well he doesn't know if that's a gang neighborhood. We
(06:57):
know what the gang neighborhoods are. You're not supposed to
say out loud, right, you're not supposed to say out
loud which neighborhoods you never drive into. But we know them.
And regular Uber drivers, taxi drivers, they know them.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
These things need to be reprogrammed.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, you do that though, It's like, well this is profiling,
is it it? Racial and ethnic profile?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Then you can argue against the driverless cars.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, that's why I'm never going to take one, because
the weaimo, as brilliant as it must be technologically, doesn't
have a brain in his head and is not going
to know not to drive into a bad neighborhood or
not to drive into a disturbance. I look at the
five dumbass Waymos that ended up getting set on fire.
Those Waymos, if they were human, would have known there
(07:45):
was a riot going on and they were setting fires,
and they wouldn't. But I guess the warrant riders were
calling for the Waimos on their phones. And then the
Waimos show up all happy and shiny, and next thing
you know, they're on fire and toxic smoke is billowing
out of their electric their electric engines. So anyway, this
(08:06):
guy starts firing at well, he start firing at the
Waymo and the two kids got hurt and they start
getting pursued by the police, and David Harriston, according to police,
ambushed the officer, fired multiple rounds at him and struck
(08:28):
the cop. Now he's going to be okay eventually, by
four twenty he gets caught in Palisades Park. That's where
we walk every day. So the shopping center we used
to go to all the time and the park we
used to go to all the time. That the book
ends for this this shooting spree, that this whack job
(08:50):
went on.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Well, I don't want to hear you complaining about my
travels and that I have a travel curse, because look,
at you.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You're right, I've got a local, local travel curse. So
David Harriston arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, fell in
with a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon, controlled substance
or what do you know? He was on drugs and
he's thirty one. He's listed his employment as a table busser,
(09:21):
so he claims he's I don't think he currently had
a job. And when they asked for his address, he
had no address. This is the La Times going to
any length not to describe this guy as a homeless,
armed criminal, just the vague line gave no address. He's
a table busser. I guess he has an evening shift,
(09:46):
so he was available in the middle of the day
to shoot at teenagers in away mow and shoot a
cop that's chasing him. And this is what the council
and the may Santa Monica allows, and this is what
the people of Santa Monica vote for. It's ed if
(10:07):
you're if you don't live there, don't go there. We
don't go We can't go there anymore because this this kind,
if this stuff isn't happening, it's always the potential that
it's gonna happen. That's the way you feel, because there's
so many of these vagrants and criminals wandering around. It's
(10:29):
so menacing, it is so scary for once beautiful city,
an absolute jewel of a city. And sometime before I die,
I'm going to figure out why people, especially people with money,
would let their beautiful jewel of city dissolve into violence, chaos, gunfire,
(10:49):
homeless people, mental patience, neth vomit, I I I don't,
I just it's it's just overwhelming to me that this
has happened. Now, when we come back, we're going to
take a look at Cynthia Gonzalez day three, the vice
(11:11):
mayor still of Cuta Hae. I was thinking today Denise
Kinoniaz is still head of the DWP and Cynthia Gonzales
is still the vice mayor of Cuta Haey, even after
urging gangs to come to cut A Hay and let's
start shooting at ice agents if they show up.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Honestly, if you're driving, pull.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Over, John, you're scaring me.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Carlo Mile, our friend the Republican assemblyman. He put this
out on x California should brace for more than just
eight dollars per gallon of gas. I just left a
closed door briefing for legend where we were told that
the California oil industry is on the brink of collapse
(12:06):
and there is a pending pipeline shutdown, the result ten
to twelve dollars a gallon gas and gas rationing. What
I'm going to repeat this, Karl DeMier writes, California should
brace for more than just eight dollars per gallon of gas.
(12:27):
I just left the closed door briefing for legislators where
we were told the California oil industry is on the
brink of collapse and there is a pending pipeline shutdown
result ten to twelve dollars a gallon and gas rationing.
And they have been trying to destroy the oil industry
(12:48):
and apparently they've succeeded. They have taxed and regulated them
and prevented them from doing business in many different ways.
That's why we've already got close to five dollars a
gallon gas. It's supposed to go up to about six
dollars a gallon potentially within the next year, because there's
(13:10):
a sixty five cent gas tax increase with the new
California Air Resources Board, they've got a low carbon fuel
standard tax. Then there's a sales tax of a few
pennies coming up on July first. But now, now you
add two refineries are supposed to close within the next
(13:33):
year and a half. That's how you get from six
dollars to eight dollars. And now you have the whole
industry collapsing and a pipeline shutdown. I don't have any
more details. We have put in a call to Carl
to see what else. But Carl has posted a lot
two o'clock, he's going to come on, all right. Carl's
(13:54):
posted a lot of provocative stuff ever since he got
up to the Assembly in January, and he's been right
on every single thing. And every time I smack my
head when I see his post and I say, this
can't be real, this can't be true. Next thing you know,
it turns out's absolutely true. All the crazy votes, all
the crazy proposals you would like. I'll give you an example. Recently,
(14:16):
he said there was a vote whether to make buying
teenagers for sex a felony, and the Democrats voted no.
It's like, come on, that can't be what politician would
run on run on allowing teenagers to be bought for sex. Ah,
(14:37):
he's right. They did vote no on it. They did
not want to make it a felony until there was
huge outrage, huge star of protests, and so now buying
teenagers for sex is a felony. I do know from
everything I've read that this eight dollars a gallon gas
is not hype. It's real. Michael MChE the USC profess,
(15:00):
Sir who did the research on this, We've had him
on several times and we're trying to get him on
as well to see what he knows about this. So,
if you're just joining us, California, according to Carl Demo,
should brace for more than eight dollars a gallon gas.
Closed door briefing, we were told the California oil industry
on brink of collapse, there's a pending pipeline shut down.
(15:21):
We're looking at ten to twelve dollars a gallon and
gas rashing that. So it says Carl Demyo again, another
one of those things is like, no, this can't be true.
This kid. But look look what they've done. We are
what they call an energy island, a gasoline island. We
don't have pipelines coming in from the Gulf of Mexico.
(15:44):
We don't have pipelines coming from the outside to bring
us gas and oil. And they will not allow us
to drill for our own gas and oil, whether it's
oil natural gas. They don't allow us to build refineries
to turn oil and gat into gasoline. They don't. Everything
(16:09):
is taxed, everything is overregulated, Everything is in the name
of their stupid climate change religion, which is totally bogus nonsense.
And Trump has put an end to the electric car mandate.
That's gone at least because nobody wanted the electric cars,
(16:34):
and there were no electrical chargers to service us, and
there's no electrical grid to serve to chargers. These people
are dangerous fanatics. It's the same progressive ideology that brings
you all the Mayhem and Santa Monica yesterday. Everything the
progressives believe in is destructive. It ruins civilization, and we
(16:59):
have it here more than anywhere else. Although it looks
like New York City is going to give it a
good run, because they've just nominated for their Democratic mayoral candidate,
Zorn Mandami, absolute five star lunatic. Hete put the LA
City Council to shame this guy. They got to stop
(17:19):
him or New York City is going to be destroyed.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
And John Cynthia Gonzalez, her attorney, just put out a statement.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
This is the Cutahey, Vice Mayor, do you want to
hear it real quick?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Okay, so she just broke her silence. Gonzalez's attorney, Damian Martinez,
said her client called upon her local community to exercise
their First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly to
express their views on recent ice enforcement actions. In the
social media post, doctor Gonzalez is no way encouraged anyone
to engage in violence. Any suggestion that she advocated for
(17:55):
violence is categorically false and without merit, Martina said on
behalf of the Vice mayor, who has an education doctor
grew up from the UCLA blah blah.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Blah blah blah bull crap says me.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
She was trying to challenge her community to join other
Angelinos to peacefully organize in response to ongoing immigration enforcement.
She explicitly mentioned two of the most notorious groups we
know that in the video.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Uh, that attorney ought to come on the air here.
He's full of crap. Attorney's life for a living, And
that's a whopper. That is total nonsense. Everybody knows exactly
what she did. There is no other purpose for doing that.
Oh and by the way, this is why I want
to get to you can always rely on the La Times.
(18:41):
One of their columnists actually wrote a semi apology column
explaining what Cynthia Gonzalez was really trying to stay.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Well, that's kind of what our attorney is saying. Yeah,
I don't so we had it all wrong. Yes, apparently
we did. How the Eighteenth Street Game and the Florencia gang. Hey,
cholo's he she's saying, Cholo's.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I looked it up. I didn't know that's the word
for gangster. What do gangsters do? What are these what
are these two gangs?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
He wants them to come out peacefully and to just
show a show of support.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Don't kill any immigrant community.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Don't kill any more cops than you've done in the past.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Oh, it's like the conveyor belt of doom here sorry
to bring all this bad news, but somebody's got to
do it. It's not like anybody else covers it in
the media in this city. So this is it here
we're going to bring you. Carl DeMaio coming up at
two o'clock, the Republican Assemblyman. He has put out an
x that he just got out of a closed door
meeting and legislators were told that the California oil industry
(19:49):
is on the verge of collapse and we may be
looking at ten and twelve dollars a gallon gas very soon.
I don't know a lot of details because he didn't
publish anything else, just that the industry is on the
brink of collapse. There's a pending pipeline shut down. I
don't know why. You know two refineries are going to
(20:09):
be closing in the next year and a half. You know,
there's a huge sixty five cent gas techts coming from
the California Air Resources Board. And again, nobody else in
the country is anywhere close to our gas prices. In fact,
maybe the next segment, just to set up, Carl, I'll
give you a rundown of gas prices around the country
(20:32):
because most people don't know. Most people don't know anything,
which I guess is the root cause of the problem.
All right, So Cynthia Gonzales is the vice mayor of
Kada Hay. She's been in the news everywhere if you
watch the news or read the news anymore, or listen
to us. She's the vice mayor who called on two
(20:53):
major violent gangs who have a history of killing cops,
Eighteenth Street Gang and Florencia Gang, to come to kut
of Hay, which is ninety seven percent Latino, and face
off with ice if needed. And virtually everybody except her lawyer. Well, actually,
most politicians in this city and county are dead quiet.
(21:16):
It's amazing. They are so woke. So PC sell in love. Well,
I mean the same crowd that the defunded the police,
that was kneeling in front of the UH, the agitators
and anarchists during the twenty twenty riots. So of course
(21:36):
they're not going to criticize CYNTHI and Gonzales. I guess
that day is gone right now. Now you can call
on gang members to shoot cops and no other no
other politician is going to say, hey, wait, wait a second,
you've gone too far. I can't even get that best
you can hope for is silence. Okay, so her attorney
is blowing a lot of gas, and you can always
(21:57):
rely on the La Times. There's always Why was this?
I was opening up the paper the last couple of days.
I got who's going to be the columnist who goes
out there and at least somewhat defends Cynthia Gonzalez And
the winner is Gustavo Ariano. Of course, Gustavo Ariana. We
have a limited history with him, going back many years.
(22:19):
He used to take potshots at Ken and I all
the time over illegal immigration. He was totally wrong. He
also briefly, very briefly had a show on KFI a
long time ago called Aska Mexican. I think it ran
on Saturday night or Sunday night, something like that. I
(22:40):
never heard it. So he I will give him this
much credit. We printed this out and after describing the
situation with Cincia Gonzales, he said that this is going
to backfire because the Trump administration is looking for any
(23:00):
reason to send even more National Guard troops. If inviting
a gang to help, let alone, two gangs as notorious
as eighteen Street in Florencia, doesn't sound like what Trump
claims he's trying to quatch. I'm not sure what is.
At least, he's admitting that it was clear she was
inviting a gang to come and take on the National Guard.
(23:24):
He writes, perhaps worst of all, Gonzales brought political and
nominee once again to southeast La County. It's small super
majority Latino cities have long been synonymous with political corruption
and never seem to get a lucky break from their leaders. Well,
maybe it's because the voters keep voting in these corrupt bastards.
(23:48):
It's the people's fault. You could vote in somebody who
isn't corrupt and destructive, they choose not to. It's like
the people of Santa Monica. And he goes on. So
he gives some criticism. He writes, trying to enlist gangs
(24:08):
to advocate for immigrants comes off as both laughable and offensive,
and describing the Eighteenth Street in Florencia as the Latino
community is like describing the Manson family as fun loving hippies.
Gang members have extorted immigrant entrepreneurs and terrorized immigrant communities,
going back to the days of gangs of New York.
(24:30):
Their modus operandi is expanding turf profit and power via
fear and bloodshed and will forever peg Latinos is prone
to violence. In the minds of too many Americans. Transnational
gangs like Trendy, Iragua and MS thirteen are Trump's ostensible
reason for his deportation Tsunami, and now a politician thinks
it's wise to ask cholos to draw closer. So he's
(24:52):
on the right track, right, and I'm like two thirds
of the way through now here it goes off the cliff.
This is a Gustavo Ariano. And yet I sympathize and
even agree with what Gonzales was really getting at. As
imperfect and bumbling as she was, Homeland securities claim that
she was riling up gangs to commit violence against our
(25:15):
brave ice law enforcement doesn't hold up in the context
of history. Latino activists for decades have strained to inspire
gang members to join move A Biento, not as stormtroopers,
but as wayward youngsters and veteranos who can leave La
vina Loca behind if they only become enlightened. I don't
(25:37):
know what all this means. US throws in a lot
of Spanish words but a lot of people don't know
these words, and once you know, speak English. At the
height of the Chicano movement, there was a manifesto and
they envisioned a world where there would no longer be
acts of juven delinquency, but revolutionary acts. There was some
(25:59):
planned they sent to Barber some other revolutionary manifesto. Weren't activists.
They must be able to relate to all segments of
the barrio, from the middle class assimilationists to the volos locos.
It's one thing to about gibberish, but us about gibberish
in a foreign language. A lot of readers get lost,
he says. From homeboy industries to colleges that develop prison
(26:21):
inmates to earn a degree, people still believe in the
power of forgiveness and strive to reincorporate gang members into
society as productive people. Oh I see, So he thinks
she was asking them to come back home to cut
a hay and be productive and be part of the
community and defend the illegal alien community members who are
(26:41):
under siege. Yeah, that's what they're gonna do. These aren't
rehabilitated gang members. These are current gang members. These are
guys who are like get nineteen years old with lots
of testosterone and adrenaline and and grievances, and they've got
no prefrontal cortex to put a break on their desires.
But he writes their relatives and friends and community members.
(27:04):
The thinking goes, not irredeemable monsters. I believe they're irredeemable monsters.
Gonzala's video comes from that Do good or vain A
closer listen show. She isn't lionizing eighteenth Street or Flancy thirteen.
She's pushing them to be truly tough by practicing civil
not criminal disobedience. Good lord, when you go on social
(27:35):
media and give an hour long speech scolding gang members
that they've got to come here and defend their home turf,
you're not talking about civil disobedience. You're not talking about
holding a sign and doing a stupid chant. Everybody's been
doing that and it hasn't stopped ice. You know what
(27:58):
she's talking about. The only thing that's going to stop
Ice are guns. That's what she's saying. That's what she means.
That's what they all mean, all the activists, that's what
they mean. Because the reason they're so frustrated and angry
is the signs didn't do anything, The chance didn't do anything.
Deportations are still going on. You haven't slowed them down
at all.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Carl DeMaio coming on right after Deborah's news. He put
out a tweet that California should brace for more than
eight dollars a gallon, more than just eight dollars a gallon,
because he left a closed door briefing for legislators he
was told. They were told that the California oil industry
(28:45):
is on the brink of collapse, and there's a pending
pipeline shut down. Could be ten to twelve dollars a
gallon gas rationing coming, so says Carl Demaya put that
out an hour ago. I guess it still holds. I
keep waiting for somebody to say no, no mistake. So, uh,
here's what you need to know about gas prices. Get
(29:05):
yourself in a frame of mind. The average price for
gas regular here in California four dollars sixty two cents.
The national average is three dollars and twenty two cents.
So it's a dollar forty more here. But in some
states it's as low as two seventy three, So it's
(29:28):
a dollar ninety more here per gallen than in Mississippi,
fat Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Missouri, South Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, Georgia,
North Carolina, North Dakota all under three bucks a gallon.
Florida's three oh two. If you're looking for big states.
(29:50):
If you're looking for big liberal states, Massachusetts is only
three oh nine, New Jersey is only three nineteen. New
York is only three twenty two. We're four six and
I got two stories here, and we'll delve into these
in more detail after Carl. One of them says this
from the New York Times, Summer gas prices haven't been this
(30:13):
low since twenty twenty one, hovering around three twenty a
gallon this week, lower since June to twenty twenty one,
when we're still coming out of the pandemic, so it's
about three twenty. Haven't been this low in four years. Meantime,
LA Times says California gas prices to jump in July,
(30:38):
and between the carbon tax and the sales tax increase,
the combined increase could boost gas prices by almost seventy
cents next month. So what we've been telling you is true,
and even the La Times is admitting it. You're looking
at a seventy cent increase, So if the average price
(31:02):
is four sixty two, we're looking at an average of
five thirty to a gallon. And this doesn't count the
two refineries that are supposed to close in the next
eighteen months. They also point out that California has a
(31:22):
goal of cutting fuel use by ninety four percent over
the next twenty years. These are the fanatics we have here.
They think they're going to cut nearly all the gasoline
use in the state within twenty years. It's never going
(31:44):
to happen, but they're going to use every trick to
try to make it happen and then drive the gas
prices into double digits unless you wake up, but everyone's asleep.
I can't believe I. I was just talking about this
with Eric. It's another story here that eighty three percent
(32:06):
of people if they hit a payroll a pay wall
on a news site, they don't read the story, which
is understandable because people don't want to waste money on subscriptions.
They think they don't need. But it means all they
see is a headline eighty three percent. Maybe they get
(32:29):
little one to two paragraph summaries on the Instagram feed.
And I'm looking at that, and I'm realizing, clearly this
proves most people don't know anything, because most newscasts are
record low ratings, whether local audiences or national audiences except here.
Except here. But we're you know, we're always screaming about
(32:50):
people live in a bubble. We're in a bubble because
this is our job, and our audience knows these things,
but euch of the state knows nothing. So what's gonna
happen when the price goes to six bucks or eight
bucks or ten bucks a gallon? Because most of them
aren't gonna see it coming. It's gonna be like a
(33:14):
locomotive in their face. Does Is that what has to
happen to finally overthrow the government? Is that what it's
gonna take? All right, we come back. Carl Demayo, the
Republican Assemblymen. He put out a tweet on x saying
left the closed door meeting told the California industries on
(33:36):
brink of collapse pending pipeline shutdown could be ten to
twelve dollars a gallon gas gas rationing. That'll be fun.
Yabra Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. 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 every Monday through Friday,
and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
The John Kobylt Show News
Host
John Kobylt
Popular Podcasts
Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club
Welcome to Bookmarked by Reese’s Book Club — the podcast where great stories, bold women, and irresistible conversations collide! Hosted by award-winning journalist Danielle Robay, each week new episodes balance thoughtful literary insight with the fervor of buzzy book trends, pop culture and more. Bookmarked brings together celebrities, tastemakers, influencers and authors from Reese's Book Club and beyond to share stories that transcend the page. Pull up a chair. You’re not just listening — you’re part of the conversation.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com