August 20, 2025 • 26 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (08/20) - How is Gavin Newsom a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nominee in 2028? Well he's a political chameleon! Bed, Bath & Beyond said they will not operate any stores in California. Today is the anniversary of when the Menendez Brothers killed their parents.
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of National Radio Day, Eric is put together a two photos,
one from my first job radio job in Canon, Pennsylvania,
back in nineteen eighty four, and then a photo from today.
(00:44):
We're actually yesterday. You took it yesterday, right, So this
is an up to date you can do an up
to date analysis of just what forty two years can
do to somebody if you spent your whole life in radio.
So I think I've come out pretty come out. Look
at okay after all this time, but it's uh, it
(01:07):
was not easy at the beginning. And you can go
look at those pictures, uh, and it's it's on X
and it's on uh where is it on Instagram? Instagram
and Facebook all that stuff, all right, I really admire
There's a few writers I really hold on the upper
echelon of admiration, and one of them is Joel Kotkin.
(01:28):
And he is U a Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies
at Chapman University. He's also does h he's a senior
research fellow at the University of Texas, and he writes
in a lot of publications, including Spiked online dot com.
And he's, uh, he's been around a while, and he's
(01:48):
a Democrat, that's his nature. But he is so appalled
by Gavin Newsom's existence. He wrote a column today entitled
Gavin Newsom the Chameleon who destroyed California. And I let
me just tell you that Joel Cockin does not write
incendiary things. He's restrained, analytical. He's a scholar, he's an academic.
(02:15):
And what he does here is he lays out what
he's done to California and how very little of this
is covered by the day to day media for all
the old tired reasons we always talk about. And he's
now trying, you know, to do this, this this Twitter
(02:40):
thing where he's or his staff, and I don't think
he can type by himself. His staff puts out these
Trump like announcements and all the syncophants, Oh that's really cool.
Look at that he's mocking Trump, and it's like a
bad imitation. It's it's what like a high school kid
would do. It's really pathetic. I don't know how they
(03:01):
don't see how pathetic it comes across. But you know,
in that little bubble, oh wow, look at that he's
taking it to Trump. He's fighting. And then they had
their own when they're not imitating Trump Trump, they had
their own peculiar nastiness. And it's just no way to
run a state, no way to communicate with with the voters.
He's got this stupid redistricting idea. But here's what Katkin writes,
(03:28):
Gavin Newsom may be saddled with an awful record, but
the California governor is rapidly emerging as a leading bet
in the race for the presidential nomination in twenty twenty eight.
How is this possible? And he says the simple answer
is Newsom might be the ultimate candidate for the attention
(03:48):
deficit generation. He's a political chameleon who changes positions compulsively,
not according to facts. But whatever best seems to fit
the national mood. I'll give you one example here he
gives several. He was one of his core issues was
climate change, and as Cockkin writes, but in April, he
(04:12):
basically fell on his knees before big oil, after two
companies said they were shutting down the California oil refineries.
He does something insanely irresponsible and stupid and dangerous, taxing
and regulating oil refineries out of business. And then when
they say, fine, we're getting out of here, it's like, oh,
what did I do? What did I do? What can
(04:33):
I do for you? We need oil, we need gas
like a child, he says, after trying to appeal to
MAGA voters. After Trump's victory, he's back to leting the resistance.
But here's what he's actually done to the state. Here's
the resume. This is what's really important, he says. The
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state was once the envy of the world. But now
we have huge wealth concentrated in a few hands, and
we have half of America's homeless population. We have the
highest poverty rate in the US, we have the highest
unemployment rate in the US. And get this statistic, almost
(05:23):
twenty percent of Californians live in poverty and another third
live near poverty. Add that up, that's fifty percent. Fifty
percent of the state lives near or in poverty. Do
you ever see any of this discussed in any media form?
(05:44):
How do you have half? It's the biggest state in
the Union. It's almost forty million people. We have twenty
million near or in poverty. I saw it the other day.
Only fifteen percent of the public can afford to buy
a home. It is the a single worse state Cotkin
rights for creating above average paying jobs, but it's number
(06:10):
one for producing below average and low paying jobs. California
hemorrhaged one point six million above average paying jobs in
the last decade, more than twice as many as any
other state. We lost a million six above average paying
(06:32):
jobs a million six and ten years since two thousand
and eight. It created five times as many low wage
jobs as high wage jobs. Few areas have exposed the
incompetence of Newsoan's economics than energy policy. California now has
the highest energy prices in the continental United States, thirty
(06:56):
percent more than the national average because of stupid green policies.
This has hugely increased day to day living costs for
poor and working families. Rising energy costs have led that
traditional blue collar jobs in construction, logistics, and manufacturing have disappeared.
(07:20):
Even there's no California metro area that ranks in the
US top ten for well paying blue collar jobs, but
four cities are in the bottom ten Ventoria, Los Angeles,
San Jose, and San Diego bottom ten for well paying
blue collar jobs. On his watch, African Americans and Latinos
(07:43):
in California perform far worse in terms of income and
homeownership than the rest of the country. Even immigrants, because
there's a lack of good jobs and high housing costs,
are headed elsewhere. In the last decade, Los Angele US
has lost foreign born residents. They've been going to Houston, Dallas,
(08:04):
Sportworth in Miami. Migration to California, you, adjusted for population,
is lower than virtually any other state. I got more
coming up. This is his record. This is what he's
(08:24):
done to us, This is what he's done to you.
And I'm reading every day about a snarky tweet that
some ahole and his staff sent out, and that's cool.
Look look at this indictment here. It is comprehensive. There's
nothing he's touched that hasn't turned to crap. He's destroyed
(08:46):
the economy with his policies. We've got more coming up.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
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Speaker 1 (08:54):
Forty around from one until four o'clock, with the podcast
posted after four o'clock. We were talking about a piece written
by Joel Cochin. He's a Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies
at Chapman University, among other things, and he wrote a
piece for Spiked online dot com Gavin Newsom the chameleon
who destroyed California, and this is all factual stuff. Either
(09:20):
he puts his opinion in here. He's a Democrat, but
his opinion is based on the facts I gave you,
and I'll just briefly run through them again in case
you're joining us. We have half of the homeless population
in the country. We have the highest poverty rate in
the US. We have the highest unemployment rate in the US.
(09:43):
If you add up people in poverty and people near poverty,
that's fifty percent of the state. It is the worst
state for creating above average paying jobs. We've lost a
million six above average paying jobs twice as many as
any other state. Highest energy prices in the continental US
(10:07):
thirty percent more in the national average. No California Metro
area ranks in the top ten for well paying blue
collar jobs four or in the bottom ten. We're losing
even immigrants. We lost foreign born residents in the past decade.
They're going to Houston, Dallas, Sport Worth in Miami. Even
(10:30):
with the highest percentage of billionaires in the US, we've
got these huge budget deficits. And the states that he
Chris criticizes, Texas and Florida, have large budget surpluses, generate
more jobs, and have introduced tax cuts. Yeah, Florida and
(10:53):
Texas budget surpluses, more jobs, tax cuts, comparing, he says,
compare this to Newsom's bullet train farce. He refuses to
kill this disastrous high speed rail project, which devours billions
of dollars of taxpayer dollars billions of taxpayer dollars. Its
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chances of being finished before he grows very old is
increasingly remote, and Copkin says more far more critical infrastructure
needs such as roads and water supply, have fallen behind
the wayside. He quotes a venture capitalist Mark Andresen, who
said three years ago, compared California to the late decaying
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Roman Empire. And he says the liberal media may ignore
these issues like they did with Joe Biden's mental deterioration,
but the rest of the country is not going to
have the wool pulled over its eyes so easily. And
he says, people here in California they know something is off.
Most people, according to UC Burke Paul, say the state
(12:01):
is headed in the wrong direction by a two to
one margin. Californian see him c Newsom is more concerned
with being president than being a decent governor. Only one
in three residents than California is a good place to
achieve the American dream, and an ally time survey found
(12:21):
that only fifteen percent thought California was a model other
states should copy. But he blusters on with his nonsense
and lies and stupidity. And now it's mimicking Trump's tweets.
(12:41):
Now it's violating the California constitution and redrawing the district
lines because he wants to fight Trump. I mean, he
is a mental patient, a narcissistic ego bag, a manipulative,
narcissistic psychopath, and he's done real, real deep damage to
(13:04):
the state. And he's like after Karen Bass didn't prepare
for the big fire, ran off to Africa instead. It
is just enraging that he is governor and that she
is mayor for even another hour, another minute. It's unbelievable.
The massive incompetence, destructive incompetence. Not this kind of laise faire.
(13:30):
Ah well it doesn't really mean No, this was aggressive incompetence.
And only can do is have his the weirdos on
his staff, right, stupid snarky tweets, And we're supposed to go,
oh wow, look at that. Look how he fights. Oh
that's so clever. Man, you're eight years old. This is
(13:50):
an embarrassment. You're all gonna get in the car and
you're gonna pump your five dollar gas and not realize
just how far the place is gone. Huh, all right,
more coming up.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
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Speaker 1 (14:13):
Happy birthday to Ray Lopez, our producer. We had cake.
It was good cake. And Ray has been working well
with me and with Ken before that for now twenty
six years, twenty six years half his life, half his
(14:35):
life wasted producing this radio show. It's a lot of
good work he's done. No, he has. This wouldn't exist
without him. So I want to thank him publicly, because
you know, I'm accused of never saying nice things, so
I'm saying something nice that I mean, he has been
the most important person for this show over the years.
(14:56):
And happy birthday. I'm getting softer, aren't I?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Just the dad?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, it's just a little bit, all right. I was
talking about how disastrous Newsom has been. I read it
at Joel cockun article. By the way, go to Spiked
online dot com and go read it for yourself, because
I only could give you a piece of it. And
then I happened to find this bed Death and Beyond.
(15:23):
My wife is still in mourning that Bedbath and Beyond
closed all their stores. Now it's not something that means
a lot to me, although I spent a lot of
time going with her and carrying enormous amounts of stuff
back to the car, But she said it was the
all time best store for getting supplies and furnishings for
(15:43):
the home, all right, And honestly, not a week goes
by where she doesn't mourn that it went bankrupt and
closed and it still existed the name did anyway online,
but now there is new management. Mark Marcus Lamonis is
executive chairman of bet Beth and Beyond, and he's announcing
(16:05):
that they are coming back, and they've opened one store
and they're going to open more across America. They're going
to bring the brand back and they're going to be
following along with what they used to do and make
it better and all that. But he made it clear
that the one place they will not open, that they
will not operate a store is in California. It's the
(16:29):
only state that's off limits, according to Lamonas, and he
said it's overregulation and the exorbitant overhead costs in the state.
He says this decision is not about politics, it's about reality.
California has created one of the most overregulated, expensive and
(16:50):
risky environments for businesses in America. It's a system that
makes it harder to employ people, harder to keep the
doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers. And
all the statistics prove that true. Hundreds of businesses have
left the state, thousands and thousands of jobs, and nobody
wants to start a business out here. He's far from
(17:12):
the first one to say this. Now. If you're the
governor and you hear that, and your state is suffering
financially right, highest unemployment rate, highest poverty rate, half the
state in or near poverty, half the homeless people in
the state, most unaffordable state for housing. You hear all
(17:35):
this and you're thinking, Wow, this guy may be opening
in the other forty nine states, but not my state.
What can I do about it? What have I done?
What can I do? Listen to that. I told you
that his press office is now full of these snarky
jerks who just write. They're a bunch of a holes
and they write nasty things all day and they don't
it doesn't matter what the subject is. So the press
(17:59):
office put on after their bankruptcy and closure of every store.
Like most Americans, we thought bed, bath, and Beyond no
longer existed. We wish them well in their efforts to
become relevant again as they try to open a second store.
What Newsom and his staff are a bunch of jackasses. No,
(18:24):
you call them up and say, hey, you're coming back.
You got the financing, you got a great brand name.
He used to be a big I mean my wife
and her friends. As far as I know adored this
place like no other. Let's just say they wouldn't agree
with the snarky jerk at in Newsom's press office. Wow,
And that that line right there encapsulates everything that's wrong
(18:48):
with those people. They're nasty, arrogant whack jobs. And they
go through here in this story. Other corporations that have
left Tesla's, Chevron, Charles Schwab, and they've been leaving for years.
(19:09):
In fact, Yeah, here's what Ross Allen had, a spokesperson
for Chevron, said when they announced they were moving to Houston.
We believe California policy makers have produced have pursued policies
that raise costs and consumer prices, creating a hardship for
all Californians, especially those who can at least afford it. Now,
(19:32):
going back to Lamnas Marcus Lamonis, the head of Bed
Bath and Beyond, he says the result has been higher taxes,
higher fees, higher wages than many businesses. These businesses cannot
sustain it, endless regulations that strain growth even when the
state announces a budget surplus. It's built on the backs
of ordinary citizens who are paying too much, and businesses
(19:53):
are squeezed until they break. So if you're Californian and
you want to shop at bed Bath and Beyond, you're
gonna have to order online. Other states will end up
getting these shops opening up. Lamona said, California system makes
(20:15):
it nearly impossible for businesses to succeed, and I won't
put our company, our employees, or our customers in that position.
And instead, all you're reading about is how Newsom wants
to redraw the congressional districts to make it nearly impossible
for Republicans to win any congressional seats. They're allowed four,
(20:41):
but the other forty eight are going to be Democratic.
Of his scheme goes through Am I insane? I mean really?
Am I insane? Or is this all insane? Nobody covers it.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You're listening to John Cobels, a man from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Thompson for Conway in moments. Today is an anniversary. It
is the thirty sixth anniversary of Eric and Lyle Menendez
blowing their parents' heads off. Yes and tomorrow possible reward
(21:24):
they could be on the verge of getting paroled. Eric
and Lyle has spent thirty five years in prison for
killing Jose and Kitty and now, after all this time,
it turns out life in prison does not mean life
(21:45):
in prison. Apparently the TikTok girls have convinced the system
that it's wrong to put away two guys who blew
their parents heads off and then partied for months afterwards
(22:06):
and never had to explain if life was so terrible,
and I'm sure it was, why didn't you just walk
out the door, And why did you do that to
mom who's crawling away on her hands and knees. Why'd
you do that for time to get out? And they're
only in their fifties. And imagine the amount of money
(22:26):
they're going to make. Whoop, more television shows, more Netflix
streaming specials, more one on one interviews with major television anchors,
maybe personal appearances, maybe a line of merchandise. If the
(22:53):
parole board recommends either or both for a parole and uh,
one brother is getting his hearing tomorrow and the other
on Friday down in San Diego, then it goes to
America's sweetheart, Gavin Newsom, who's gonna have ninety days to
(23:13):
accept or reject the parole grant. And they also have
the attorney's garrigos, asked Newsom, to consider clemency just and
the sentence just in one stroke of the pen. So
Gavin Newsom is going to let these two psychopathic narcissistic monsters.
(23:36):
But then again, Newsom himself is a narcissistic psychopath, so
he'll probably find some common grant as he goes through
the case.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
A Mark Thompson, you had me at psychopathic narcissistic monster.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yes, thank you, Yeah, yeah, very very cool.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
We've got a big show. John Colebelt, I know you're
out of here, You're going to go. I don't know
what you do with your You're a state, the co Belt,
a state where you live there.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I just spread out and turned the radio on. That's right.
What else would I do with my life?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
So there's a the lawsuit, we'll talk about it. You know,
didn't you know that when there was a back and
forth between Chief Crowley and Mayor bast that I thought
somehow this is going to spill all over everybody.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Oh oh yeah, I mean it was clear what was
going on at the time. That's what you get for
telling the truth. Yeah, you get fired. No, I mean
you always get in trouble for telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
You want to tow the party line. I mean, you know,
from from LA to Washington, that is the deal, right,
and if you don't toe the party line, you know,
under the next bus.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah right, it's not what they told us in school.
That's right, that's honest.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Turns out that's a joke. No points for.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Honesty anymore, although she may get money for honesty in
the in the end, right, I mean you she'll get money.
The city is no strain your settlements, so I think
it'll probably happen. Anyway, we'll start with that. We're going
to talk to Foosh today, who is a you know,
recovering from that incredible oh yeah, car wreck so well
from his hospital bed that and more. It's a it's
(25:15):
a pack show. It's also hot as hell out there, man,
I know, and it's only I think tomorrow is going
to be worse. That's what I was reading.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Worse. Yeah, how hot can it get? Is there a
limit to how hot the earth can get? I guess
we're gonna find out, aren't we? Apparently not? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Anyway, good times, so all right, a lot of exciting. Yeah,
So it's the Conway Show. Conway returns Monday, but we'll
do the show today.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
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social media at John Cobelt Radio and we're headed towards
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of National Radio Day, Eric is put together a two photos,
one from my first job radio job in Canon, Pennsylvania,
back in nineteen eighty four, and then a photo from today.
(00:44):
We're actually yesterday. You took it yesterday, right, So this
is an up to date you can do an up
to date analysis of just what forty two years can
do to somebody if you spent your whole life in radio.
So I think I've come out pretty come out. Look
at okay after all this time, but it's uh, it
(01:07):
was not easy at the beginning. And you can go
look at those pictures, uh, and it's it's on X
and it's on uh where is it on Instagram? Instagram
and Facebook all that stuff, all right, I really admire
There's a few writers I really hold on the upper
echelon of admiration, and one of them is Joel Kotkin.
(01:28):
And he is U a Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies
at Chapman University. He's also does h he's a senior
research fellow at the University of Texas, and he writes
in a lot of publications, including Spiked online dot com.
And he's, uh, he's been around a while, and he's
(01:48):
a Democrat, that's his nature. But he is so appalled
by Gavin Newsom's existence. He wrote a column today entitled
Gavin Newsom the Chameleon who destroyed California. And I let
me just tell you that Joel Cockin does not write
incendiary things. He's restrained, analytical. He's a scholar, he's an academic.
(02:15):
And what he does here is he lays out what
he's done to California and how very little of this
is covered by the day to day media for all
the old tired reasons we always talk about. And he's
now trying, you know, to do this, this this Twitter
(02:40):
thing where he's or his staff, and I don't think
he can type by himself. His staff puts out these
Trump like announcements and all the syncophants, Oh that's really cool.
Look at that he's mocking Trump, and it's like a
bad imitation. It's it's what like a high school kid
would do. It's really pathetic. I don't know how they
(03:01):
don't see how pathetic it comes across. But you know,
in that little bubble, oh wow, look at that he's
taking it to Trump. He's fighting. And then they had
their own when they're not imitating Trump Trump, they had
their own peculiar nastiness. And it's just no way to
run a state, no way to communicate with with the voters.
He's got this stupid redistricting idea. But here's what Katkin writes,
(03:28):
Gavin Newsom may be saddled with an awful record, but
the California governor is rapidly emerging as a leading bet
in the race for the presidential nomination in twenty twenty eight.
How is this possible? And he says the simple answer
is Newsom might be the ultimate candidate for the attention
(03:48):
deficit generation. He's a political chameleon who changes positions compulsively,
not according to facts. But whatever best seems to fit
the national mood. I'll give you one example here he
gives several. He was one of his core issues was
climate change, and as Cockkin writes, but in April, he
(04:12):
basically fell on his knees before big oil, after two
companies said they were shutting down the California oil refineries.
He does something insanely irresponsible and stupid and dangerous, taxing
and regulating oil refineries out of business. And then when
they say, fine, we're getting out of here, it's like, oh,
what did I do? What did I do? What can
(04:33):
I do for you? We need oil, we need gas
like a child, he says, after trying to appeal to
MAGA voters. After Trump's victory, he's back to leting the resistance.
But here's what he's actually done to the state. Here's
the resume. This is what's really important, he says. The
(04:58):
state was once the envy of the world. But now
we have huge wealth concentrated in a few hands, and
we have half of America's homeless population. We have the
highest poverty rate in the US, we have the highest
unemployment rate in the US. And get this statistic, almost
(05:23):
twenty percent of Californians live in poverty and another third
live near poverty. Add that up, that's fifty percent. Fifty
percent of the state lives near or in poverty. Do
you ever see any of this discussed in any media form?
(05:44):
How do you have half? It's the biggest state in
the Union. It's almost forty million people. We have twenty
million near or in poverty. I saw it the other day.
Only fifteen percent of the public can afford to buy
a home. It is the a single worse state Cotkin
rights for creating above average paying jobs, but it's number
(06:10):
one for producing below average and low paying jobs. California
hemorrhaged one point six million above average paying jobs in
the last decade, more than twice as many as any
other state. We lost a million six above average paying
(06:32):
jobs a million six and ten years since two thousand
and eight. It created five times as many low wage
jobs as high wage jobs. Few areas have exposed the
incompetence of Newsoan's economics than energy policy. California now has
the highest energy prices in the continental United States, thirty
(06:56):
percent more than the national average because of stupid green policies.
This has hugely increased day to day living costs for
poor and working families. Rising energy costs have led that
traditional blue collar jobs in construction, logistics, and manufacturing have disappeared.
(07:20):
Even there's no California metro area that ranks in the
US top ten for well paying blue collar jobs, but
four cities are in the bottom ten Ventoria, Los Angeles,
San Jose, and San Diego bottom ten for well paying
blue collar jobs. On his watch, African Americans and Latinos
(07:43):
in California perform far worse in terms of income and
homeownership than the rest of the country. Even immigrants, because
there's a lack of good jobs and high housing costs,
are headed elsewhere. In the last decade, Los Angele US
has lost foreign born residents. They've been going to Houston, Dallas,
(08:04):
Sportworth in Miami. Migration to California, you, adjusted for population,
is lower than virtually any other state. I got more
coming up. This is his record. This is what he's
(08:24):
done to us, This is what he's done to you.
And I'm reading every day about a snarky tweet that
some ahole and his staff sent out, and that's cool.
Look look at this indictment here. It is comprehensive. There's
nothing he's touched that hasn't turned to crap. He's destroyed
(08:46):
the economy with his policies. We've got more coming up.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Forty around from one until four o'clock, with the podcast
posted after four o'clock. We were talking about a piece written
by Joel Cochin. He's a Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies
at Chapman University, among other things, and he wrote a
piece for Spiked online dot com Gavin Newsom the chameleon
who destroyed California, and this is all factual stuff. Either
(09:20):
he puts his opinion in here. He's a Democrat, but
his opinion is based on the facts I gave you,
and I'll just briefly run through them again in case
you're joining us. We have half of the homeless population
in the country. We have the highest poverty rate in
the US. We have the highest unemployment rate in the US.
(09:43):
If you add up people in poverty and people near poverty,
that's fifty percent of the state. It is the worst
state for creating above average paying jobs. We've lost a
million six above average paying jobs twice as many as
any other state. Highest energy prices in the continental US
(10:07):
thirty percent more in the national average. No California Metro
area ranks in the top ten for well paying blue
collar jobs four or in the bottom ten. We're losing
even immigrants. We lost foreign born residents in the past decade.
They're going to Houston, Dallas, Sport Worth in Miami. Even
(10:30):
with the highest percentage of billionaires in the US, we've
got these huge budget deficits. And the states that he
Chris criticizes, Texas and Florida, have large budget surpluses, generate
more jobs, and have introduced tax cuts. Yeah, Florida and
(10:53):
Texas budget surpluses, more jobs, tax cuts, comparing, he says,
compare this to Newsom's bullet train farce. He refuses to
kill this disastrous high speed rail project, which devours billions
of dollars of taxpayer dollars billions of taxpayer dollars. Its
(11:15):
chances of being finished before he grows very old is
increasingly remote, and Copkin says more far more critical infrastructure
needs such as roads and water supply, have fallen behind
the wayside. He quotes a venture capitalist Mark Andresen, who
said three years ago, compared California to the late decaying
(11:38):
Roman Empire. And he says the liberal media may ignore
these issues like they did with Joe Biden's mental deterioration,
but the rest of the country is not going to
have the wool pulled over its eyes so easily. And
he says, people here in California they know something is off.
Most people, according to UC Burke Paul, say the state
(12:01):
is headed in the wrong direction by a two to
one margin. Californian see him c Newsom is more concerned
with being president than being a decent governor. Only one
in three residents than California is a good place to
achieve the American dream, and an ally time survey found
(12:21):
that only fifteen percent thought California was a model other
states should copy. But he blusters on with his nonsense
and lies and stupidity. And now it's mimicking Trump's tweets.
(12:41):
Now it's violating the California constitution and redrawing the district
lines because he wants to fight Trump. I mean, he
is a mental patient, a narcissistic ego bag, a manipulative,
narcissistic psychopath, and he's done real, real deep damage to
(13:04):
the state. And he's like after Karen Bass didn't prepare
for the big fire, ran off to Africa instead. It
is just enraging that he is governor and that she
is mayor for even another hour, another minute. It's unbelievable.
The massive incompetence, destructive incompetence. Not this kind of laise faire.
(13:30):
Ah well it doesn't really mean No, this was aggressive incompetence.
And only can do is have his the weirdos on
his staff, right, stupid snarky tweets, And we're supposed to go,
oh wow, look at that. Look how he fights. Oh
that's so clever. Man, you're eight years old. This is
(13:50):
an embarrassment. You're all gonna get in the car and
you're gonna pump your five dollar gas and not realize
just how far the place is gone. Huh, all right,
more coming up.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Happy birthday to Ray Lopez, our producer. We had cake.
It was good cake. And Ray has been working well
with me and with Ken before that for now twenty
six years, twenty six years half his life, half his
(14:35):
life wasted producing this radio show. It's a lot of
good work he's done. No, he has. This wouldn't exist
without him. So I want to thank him publicly, because
you know, I'm accused of never saying nice things, so
I'm saying something nice that I mean, he has been
the most important person for this show over the years.
(14:56):
And happy birthday. I'm getting softer, aren't I?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Just the dad?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, it's just a little bit, all right. I was
talking about how disastrous Newsom has been. I read it
at Joel cockun article. By the way, go to Spiked
online dot com and go read it for yourself, because
I only could give you a piece of it. And
then I happened to find this bed Death and Beyond.
(15:23):
My wife is still in mourning that Bedbath and Beyond
closed all their stores. Now it's not something that means
a lot to me, although I spent a lot of
time going with her and carrying enormous amounts of stuff
back to the car, But she said it was the
all time best store for getting supplies and furnishings for
(15:43):
the home, all right, And honestly, not a week goes
by where she doesn't mourn that it went bankrupt and
closed and it still existed the name did anyway online,
but now there is new management. Mark Marcus Lamonis is
executive chairman of bet Beth and Beyond, and he's announcing
(16:05):
that they are coming back, and they've opened one store
and they're going to open more across America. They're going
to bring the brand back and they're going to be
following along with what they used to do and make
it better and all that. But he made it clear
that the one place they will not open, that they
will not operate a store is in California. It's the
(16:29):
only state that's off limits, according to Lamonas, and he
said it's overregulation and the exorbitant overhead costs in the state.
He says this decision is not about politics, it's about reality.
California has created one of the most overregulated, expensive and
(16:50):
risky environments for businesses in America. It's a system that
makes it harder to employ people, harder to keep the
doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers. And
all the statistics prove that true. Hundreds of businesses have
left the state, thousands and thousands of jobs, and nobody
wants to start a business out here. He's far from
(17:12):
the first one to say this. Now. If you're the
governor and you hear that, and your state is suffering
financially right, highest unemployment rate, highest poverty rate, half the
state in or near poverty, half the homeless people in
the state, most unaffordable state for housing. You hear all
(17:35):
this and you're thinking, Wow, this guy may be opening
in the other forty nine states, but not my state.
What can I do about it? What have I done?
What can I do? Listen to that. I told you
that his press office is now full of these snarky
jerks who just write. They're a bunch of a holes
and they write nasty things all day and they don't
it doesn't matter what the subject is. So the press
(17:59):
office put on after their bankruptcy and closure of every store.
Like most Americans, we thought bed, bath, and Beyond no
longer existed. We wish them well in their efforts to
become relevant again as they try to open a second store.
What Newsom and his staff are a bunch of jackasses. No,
(18:24):
you call them up and say, hey, you're coming back.
You got the financing, you got a great brand name.
He used to be a big I mean my wife
and her friends. As far as I know adored this
place like no other. Let's just say they wouldn't agree
with the snarky jerk at in Newsom's press office. Wow,
And that that line right there encapsulates everything that's wrong
(18:48):
with those people. They're nasty, arrogant whack jobs. And they
go through here in this story. Other corporations that have
left Tesla's, Chevron, Charles Schwab, and they've been leaving for years.
(19:09):
In fact, Yeah, here's what Ross Allen had, a spokesperson
for Chevron, said when they announced they were moving to Houston.
We believe California policy makers have produced have pursued policies
that raise costs and consumer prices, creating a hardship for
all Californians, especially those who can at least afford it. Now,
(19:32):
going back to Lamnas Marcus Lamonis, the head of Bed
Bath and Beyond, he says the result has been higher taxes,
higher fees, higher wages than many businesses. These businesses cannot
sustain it, endless regulations that strain growth even when the
state announces a budget surplus. It's built on the backs
of ordinary citizens who are paying too much, and businesses
(19:53):
are squeezed until they break. So if you're Californian and
you want to shop at bed Bath and Beyond, you're
gonna have to order online. Other states will end up
getting these shops opening up. Lamona said, California system makes
(20:15):
it nearly impossible for businesses to succeed, and I won't
put our company, our employees, or our customers in that position.
And instead, all you're reading about is how Newsom wants
to redraw the congressional districts to make it nearly impossible
for Republicans to win any congressional seats. They're allowed four,
(20:41):
but the other forty eight are going to be Democratic.
Of his scheme goes through Am I insane? I mean really?
Am I insane? Or is this all insane? Nobody covers it.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You're listening to John Cobels, a man from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Thompson for Conway in moments. Today is an anniversary. It
is the thirty sixth anniversary of Eric and Lyle Menendez
blowing their parents' heads off. Yes and tomorrow possible reward
(21:24):
they could be on the verge of getting paroled. Eric
and Lyle has spent thirty five years in prison for
killing Jose and Kitty and now, after all this time,
it turns out life in prison does not mean life
(21:45):
in prison. Apparently the TikTok girls have convinced the system
that it's wrong to put away two guys who blew
their parents heads off and then partied for months afterwards
(22:06):
and never had to explain if life was so terrible,
and I'm sure it was, why didn't you just walk
out the door, And why did you do that to
mom who's crawling away on her hands and knees. Why'd
you do that for time to get out? And they're
only in their fifties. And imagine the amount of money
(22:26):
they're going to make. Whoop, more television shows, more Netflix
streaming specials, more one on one interviews with major television anchors,
maybe personal appearances, maybe a line of merchandise. If the
(22:53):
parole board recommends either or both for a parole and uh,
one brother is getting his hearing tomorrow and the other
on Friday down in San Diego, then it goes to
America's sweetheart, Gavin Newsom, who's gonna have ninety days to
(23:13):
accept or reject the parole grant. And they also have
the attorney's garrigos, asked Newsom, to consider clemency just and
the sentence just in one stroke of the pen. So
Gavin Newsom is going to let these two psychopathic narcissistic monsters.
(23:36):
But then again, Newsom himself is a narcissistic psychopath, so
he'll probably find some common grant as he goes through
the case.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
A Mark Thompson, you had me at psychopathic narcissistic monster.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yes, thank you, Yeah, yeah, very very cool.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
We've got a big show. John Colebelt, I know you're
out of here, You're going to go. I don't know
what you do with your You're a state, the co Belt,
a state where you live there.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I just spread out and turned the radio on. That's right.
What else would I do with my life?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
So there's a the lawsuit, we'll talk about it. You know,
didn't you know that when there was a back and
forth between Chief Crowley and Mayor bast that I thought
somehow this is going to spill all over everybody.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Oh oh yeah, I mean it was clear what was
going on at the time. That's what you get for
telling the truth. Yeah, you get fired. No, I mean
you always get in trouble for telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
You want to tow the party line. I mean, you know,
from from LA to Washington, that is the deal, right,
and if you don't toe the party line, you know,
under the next bus.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah right, it's not what they told us in school.
That's right, that's honest.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Turns out that's a joke. No points for.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Honesty anymore, although she may get money for honesty in
the in the end, right, I mean you she'll get money.
The city is no strain your settlements, so I think
it'll probably happen. Anyway, we'll start with that. We're going
to talk to Foosh today, who is a you know,
recovering from that incredible oh yeah, car wreck so well
from his hospital bed that and more. It's a it's
(25:15):
a pack show. It's also hot as hell out there, man,
I know, and it's only I think tomorrow is going
to be worse. That's what I was reading.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Worse. Yeah, how hot can it get? Is there a
limit to how hot the earth can get? I guess
we're gonna find out, aren't we? Apparently not? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Anyway, good times, so all right, a lot of exciting. Yeah,
So it's the Conway Show. Conway returns Monday, but we'll
do the show today.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Mark Thompson in for Conway Minutes, Michael Krazier live in
the Can'tfi twenty four hour news room. Hey, you've been
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