March 12, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/12) - Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about if Mahmoud Khalil is being detained legally and if the Trump administration has the right to deport Hamas supporting green card holders. Gov. Newsom paid to have a bust made of his own head to placed in San Francisco's City Hall. Newsom joked about dining at the French Laundry at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic on his new podcast. How is the $20 minimum wage for fast food workers?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Michael, did you make up
that story about Newsom paying for his own bust?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I wouldn't dare make up such a thing. In fact,
as the story goes, you can read more about it
in this I would say, not a very conservative title,
even though it may be conservative leading Fool's Gold, the radicals,
con artist and traders who killed the California dream and
now threaten us all. That's a book. That's a book.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I want, ray, I want somebody who wrote that book.
I gotta look some more of that up. He actually
paid money for I guess a bronze bust of his face.
In his defense, it's a handsome bust. Well, if i'd
pay for my own bust, it's going to be a
good looking version of me.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, we look forward to touching it every day on
the way into the station. That's a good idea. You
could just rub it on your way in. All right,
I'll get it. I'm gonna go find that story. That's
what a buffoon he is. What an absolute narcissistic buffoon. Okay,
let's let's move on.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm going to continue with the story we were doing
at the very end of last hour. Mahmood Khalil. He
is that Columbia University graduate student who started one of
the biggest protests against Israel and in support of the
terrorist Hamas group uh and Khalil was arrested and detained
by Ice on Saturday, was going to be deported, and
(01:30):
he's got a green card and a judge, Jesse Furman
blocked any immediate deportation, and he wants everybody to come
come to court. Let's get royal or right. I'm really
flustered by Newsom's bust oaks. ABC News legal analyst, How
are you. I'm fine, Well, I'm not that fine, but
(01:55):
I'll pretend for a while. If somebody gets a green
card and they do what Mahmoud Khalil did, and we
saw a lot of it on television, organized a big
noisy protest, Jewish students among others, were blocked from going
to class, they were harassed is I don't know what
else they have on Khalil, but they're calling him a
(02:18):
national security threat, and I don't know if that's hyperbole
or they've got a whole dossier on him. But canna
a person with a green card be kicked out just
for starting these protests and just for potentially violating the
civil rights of some of the American students.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, they probably can in a way. They're a second
class citizen because technically they're not citizens. They have lawful
permanent residence status here in America because they've got the
green card. Just like the movie with Andy McDowell and
who drank too much wine on the airplane? What was
his name? Depardue? My friends are not good. So here's
(02:57):
the deal of this guy is I think you know,
he doesn't realize what he's saying. He's saying, well, I'm
not adding semitic, but I do support Hamas. Support Hamas,
which is like saying, oh, I don't hate Jewish people,
but I'm a member of Hitler Youth because Hamas wants
all Jewish people to be killed. So the big question here,
John is what's the impact of his immigration status on
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the government's right to object to his speech? And if
you were a citizen. Supreme Court has repeatedly said for
decades it's okay to express opinions or anything like I
like isis or I like accordion, music or you know,
other wrongheaded notions. But if you are a non citizen,
then Supreme Court, okay, they're not exactly alike. The Supreme
Court says that if you're a non citizen, defense have
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brought authority to deport you for membership in subversive groups
even without evidence of criminal conduct. As a matter of fact,
only fifteen years ago, the US Supreme Court said, you know,
even nonviolent support for a terror group is unlawful. So
in general, the courts have deferred to executive authority when
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it comes to deportation for national security, and they have
more discretion if somebody is not a citizen. It's kind
of like the debate you know, we all had after
nine to eleven. You know, how far are we going
to go? What about free speech rights and so on?
But you know, who knows, maybe there's going to be
sort of a left wing federal immigration judge who looks
at distance as well, you know, you're just punishing the
guy for his opinions. But if it works its way up,
(04:21):
I think the US Supreme Court wouldn't have a problem
with saying, hey, you know, it's just too important. These
are not citizens and they are really fomenting all sorts
of opinions and actions, and you know, money talks. As
you know, the Trump administration has cut hundreds of millions
of bucks of Johns Hopkins and Columbia and other colleges
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because they didn't protect Jewish students. And of course we
saw it locally here at bi alma Mater UCLA was
you know, they had those Palestinian right there between Royce
Hall and and Powell Library and the quad. Jews were
not admitted in this in this little area where the
Palestinians were having their protests and so on. College didn't
do anything about it. So yeah, I think the short
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answer is that this guy is going to lose if
the thing goes up the court ladder.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I couldn't believe, you know, growing up as a kid
when the World War two generation was in charge and
all the memories were fresh, and the Holocaust was so
overwhelmingly horrible, and how often it was talked about the
whole thing, never forget in the Steven Spielberg movie. And
I cannot believe, just maybe thirty years after the Spielberg
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movie and the documentaries, that we had all these major
universities allowing this kind of abuse of Jewish students. I
mean this, this Hamas group was not just rhetoric. They
actually slaughtered thousands of Jewish people simply because they were Jewish.
I just I couldn't believe these universities allowed all this
to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And I was stunned when you know, the war started
well a year ago October, so when people just came
out of the woodwork with the most vile language and
all these anti Semitic attitudes and it's just continuing. I
think it's really just if you're really woke, really on
the left, you see the Palestinians as oh, well, you know,
they're victims of colonization and they're victims of oppressors, and
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so they just lump Israel in with all of the
other evil tyrants that they want to go against. But
you know, I think this guy is in some real
trouble because you just can't get away with supporting terrorist groups.
The stakes are just too high. You know, the problem
for the Trump administration might be that he's saying, well, look,
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all I did was it was just speech. It's not
like I hit anybody over the head.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's not like I e if it was just speech,
but they really Yeah it was just speak, but they
really did actively block is Jewish students from getting to
class and harass them physically.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Absolutely, you know, it's there is absolutely a basis for
having a double standard, if you want to call it that,
because you know, no national security is so important. I mean,
you know, we can deport people with student visas if
they get arrested for a dui, even without a conviction.
You know, immigration has a lot of flexibility if you
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commit marriage fraud, like in the Green Card movie, if
you don't tell the immigration official about your address change,
boom out you go. If you commit certain crimes and
you don't have to necessarily be convicted, it's okay to
to deport him if the government shows near likely to
engage in terrorist activities. And so for him to be
a prime mover and sponsor an organizer of these Columbia
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protests that Randy Semitic and direct support of Hamas, yeah,
I think he's in deep legal trouble.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So having a green card, being a quote permanent resident,
it's not ironclad. It's not absolute protection that you can
do and say anything you want.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Exactly right, even though you may have a right to
stay till you're one hundred and five, you don't have
the same rights as citizens. And the Supreme Court has
upheld that all lot. And now that we've got a
we've probably got a five to four sixty three conservative majority.
You know, there's done a lot to talk about how
Amy Cony Barrett is kind of tilting over to the left,
and boy, if she turns out to be like David Souter,
that is going to be a real mess. So I
(08:13):
think the Supreme Court is going to be solid if
this thing works its way up to the High Court.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
All right, royal looks, thank you very much for coming on,
do you bet? Thanks? ABC News Legal analyst Trump sent
out this on social media. If you support terrorism, including
the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence
is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests. You
are not welcome here. And Caroline Levitt, the White House
(08:40):
Press Secretary, said today the group that Khalil organized group
protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed
Jewish American students made them feel unsafe on their own
college campus, but also distributed pro Hamas propaganda flyers with
the logo of Hamas and their own. Their main purpose
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and if you read their mission statement from nineteen eighty
eight and I have their main organizing principle is the
elimination of all Jews and the elimination of Israel entirely.
That's what they live for, that's what they teach all
their children and grandchildren. And this guy should have been
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kicked out immediately, staid the Biden administration indulge this crowd,
which you know, the Hitler's and Nazis, has become cheap.
And everybody throws around Hitler and Nazism all the time
every time they run into something they disagree with. But
this truly was the closest thing I'd ever seen to
the Nazi days in Germany. More coming up, I am
(09:47):
going to look for further information on Gavin Newsoen paying
money for his own bust own Bronze Bust in San Francisco.
This is the highest form of narcissism. If you are
not convinced that this guy's not a looney tune, I
don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
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Speaker 2 (10:09):
John Cobelt's Show, and we're on from one to four
every day and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show
on demand the podcast on the iHeart Radio app. So,
about twenty minutes ago, my head snapped around. I hear
Michael Monks with an alleged news story that there's a
bronze bust of Gavin Newsom that's been up for years
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in San Francisco, and according to a new book, he
paid for it. And I thought no. And Eric saw
the same story and thought it was a parody. Thought
it was an onion piece. Yeah, I saw it on
Twitter last night. I literally thought it was the onion Yeah.
Because it's it seems to be true. This is from
a book by Jed McPhatter and Susan Crabtree. They're political writers.
(10:57):
It's called Fool's Gold. The Radicals, Connor and Traders who
killed the Californian dream and now threatens us all. So
one of the stories they have is that when Newsom
was mayor of California, that was from twenty and four
to twenty eleven, and he put together a memorial to
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his time in the city. This this bust of looking
quite handsome, very serious face, chin jutting out head pointed
up just a bit like he's staring off in the
distance thinking great thoughts, just wearing a casual shirt, form
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fitting though around it. It looks tight around his body.
It's an attractive bust and according to the book, it
came from something called Behested payments. Now follow me on this.
Politicians twist arms from their donors and from companies corporations
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to make donations to these nonprofits, these fake charities that
the mayors or the governors they influence that their people
are running the charity, so they get to decide where
the money goes. It's a slush fund. It's an enormous
slush fund. And Eric Carcetti was the king of this.
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He would force companies to donate money to his fake charities.
One of them was called the Mayor's Fund, and they
would do it. Otherwise they wouldn't get approvals for their
business operations, they wouldn't get permits to build buildings. And
it worked. They raise a lot of money and God
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knows where the money goes, right. Well, in this case,
he had two There was a nonprofit which earmarked the
money for the mayoral bust at San Francisco City Hall.
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Two companies specifically donated money to the nonprofit. Does this
sound like money laundering? These two companies donated money to
the nonprofit, which would then spend the money to make
the mayoral bust to these two companies, Balboa Cafe Partners
and Plump Jack Management Group. Newsome owns the two companies.
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They donated a combined ten thousand dollars to the ninety
seven thousand dollars bust. So he had his companies that
he owns paid ten grand to have this thing sculpt sculpted.
I've just never heard of this. This is the epitome
of narcissism.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
We talked about this yesterday. He also has has has
squeezed money at a PG and E Pacific as an
electric over the years. Because after PG and E murdered
all those people at the camp with the campfire up
in Paradise eighty four counts of manslaughter. To get out
of the lawsuit how they were in, Newsom made a
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deal so the state would fund PG and E. In return,
PG and E had to cough up money for Jennifer
Newsom's gender justice films. We played a couple of clips yesterday.
They'll give you a headache. The thing is at the
time that the bust was constructed, Newsom admitted that he
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thought the whole thing was odd. He pretended he didn't
know that this was going on. He was playing naive.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I don't want to call embarrassing, but it's a strange thing.
I'm just awkward about it. But now the word is out.
What a phony. He paid for part of the bust
and he's pretending it's like, Ah, it's kind of awkward.
It's embarrassing. I mean, a bust for me. I don't
know who authorized this he did. At the time, a
newspaper reported that Newsome supporters had paid for the bust
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with private funds. No, he paid for the bust with
his private funds. That that he that he ran out
of his companies to some nonprofit that actually just paid
the sculptor. She's what a buffoon, I mean, what an
absolute total pomp foon. I mean, are people supposed to
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come and worship at the bust? What are they supposed
to do? It's supposed to get on their knees and pray,
pray to his to his face. Oh god, he see
that's that that actually goes to the core. The only
thing he's got going for him are the physical features
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he was born with. He does not have a brain
in his head. He's a total sociopath. He has no
conscience at all, and he is one of the great
narcissists of all time. But people are mesmerized by his
hair and his jawline. Tivity too, Tivity two. He love you,
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so we come back. We actually have a lot of clips.
We were playing clips last week of his podcast. He's
had three podcasts out now and he can't even keep
up with him and he's talking to all these right
wing guys like Steve Banning of one of Trump's he
managed Trump's first campaign. He's ended up in prison a
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couple of times since, I think. And he also talked
to my Savage, the talk show host, and last week
it was Charlie Kirk, who was a conservative activist. There's
more Gavin Newsom audio out there that we can keep
up with, but a couple of things we didn't get to.
One of them was him talking about the French laundry
at Charlie Kirk. We'll play that next.
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in the last segment. Thanks to a tip from Michael Monks.
There we found out that yes it's true. There is
a bronze bust of Gavin Newsom in San Francisco that
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was erected some years ago and Newsom actually donated money
to his own bust, and at the time that it
was being constructed, he pretended he didn't know anything about it.
I don't want to call it embarrassing, but it's a
strange thing. I'm just awkward about it. But now the
word is out and he claimed that Newsome supporters paid
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for the bust with private funds. Well, actually part of
the money came from two of the companies that knew
some owns. There's a money laundering scam, which is what
all these nonprofits are about. Balboa Cafe partners in plump
Jack Management Group. Plump Jack that's the name of his wine,
and the name always stuck my head, plump Jack, because
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I thought it was kind of disgusting. I just did
just the sound plump Jack just bothered me. And there
was one time my wife and I were given a
gift gift basket of wine, and I heard the conversation
over the phone. The woman at the wine shop said, well,
what kind of wines do you want? And the lady
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recommended a plump Jack wine. And I heard this and
I started waving my arms. I go, no, no, no,
my wife goes Newsome's winery. We're not buying a bottle
of Newsome line here, no way, that's not a gift.
He is just such a pretentious phony, as was proved
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during the famous French laundry incident, which really is what
it really supercharged his recall. There was a recall effort
against him and it was floundering, and then French laundry happened,
and that if you remember, since this, I think yesterday
was the fifth anniversary of COVID when they first announced it.
So to celebrate the fifth anniversary of COVID, we thought
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we'd play you the clip from his recent podcast with
Charlie Kirk where he starts talking about French laundry. If
you remember, he was photographed with about a dozen other
people after all of us were under a severe lockdown.
He was in an enclosed room drinking and eating nobody
wearing mask masks everyone sitting on top of each other,
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and Charlie Kirk and he had a discussion.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
We live in these filter bubbles. We're talking to ourselves.
We're in the sort of yeah, it's Newsmax one, American News, Fox,
and then it gets into all the stuff that you
guys are doing and everybody else, And meanwhile, I'm safe
over here at MSNBC and CNN, reading the New York Times,
feeling really great about things and having a nice glass
of chardonnay, listening to Rachel Maddow, self medicating and just.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Going yes, yes, Fress laundry, Yeah, the French.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
That's of course the only place I eat. And you know,
give me a great stakeout in the whole thing where
I should have been at Applebee's. I get Applebee's America.
I read that.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Come on, and here's a guy who makes.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Twenty five times more money than I do and sitting
here with it with a jacket, and I'm sitting here
with it. And you control the fifth largest economy on
the milling Well, we don't control the people control the
fifth largest economy. And by the way, proud that you know.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It's a three point.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Any population one last year of population went up last year.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Because of the illegal border. We'll talk about later.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
We got on the thing.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
That's just factually and true, and that, by the way,
three hundred and ninety four National Guard that I put
down at the border six years ago, you should be
championing that. As governor, three hundred ninety four we have
down at the border. We've been focused on defend. I've
been working out anyway, you're you're getting somewhere compliments to stay.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
No, yeah, I was going back to you're talking about
your your wine and French launder.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Yes, that was talking about the importance of of of
Never Well, I can't help you with the reservation such
I've been with this whole stick.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I got to do very nice.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
By the way, we couldn't have this conversation with that conversation.
Dumbest bonehead, move my life, okay, own it, move on,
grow up.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And I'm trying that you talking to you, I'd be
talking to myself.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
I'm just looking. I'm staring looking right you and the
eyes as I say that, just to get your reaction.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
No one's ever going to move on. That'll hang around
his neck forever. It should because it was so traumatizing
for most people to be locked up in the house,
and we weren't allowed. People weren't allowed to say goodbye
to their dying grandparents because we were so locked down.
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And he says, yeah, I get it. I should have
got to Applebee's. No, no, no, we couldn't go to Applebee's.
We couldn't go to In and Out. We can go anywhere.
Move on, grow up. Thousands of restaurants closed permanently because
of him, and now five years later he's yucking it
up as if he's the victim. Yeah, I own it.
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I was boneheaded thing to do. Grow up, Move on,
grow up, move on, grow up. Hearing him talk, he's
like he's like a teenager.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Really he is the maturity level of a seventeen year old.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And he.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I remember when they locked down outdoor dining here in
La outdoor dining. Oh well, he locked it down too
from the state. But La did it on its own
when there was a resurgence a year and a half later.
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And now I put so many people out of work
and so many people out of business. And now years
later it's uh, I'll move on, grow up, move on,
grow up. That that's right, Move on, grow up. What
I lose it? And then he said, yeah, yeah, I
should have gone to Appleby's. The issue wasn't the restaurant
you went to. The issue was that To this day,
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I wonder he was he and his staff were giving
out all these fear warnings. Everybody in government was doing it.
And the thing I thought of it wasn't so much.
Oh he goes to a fancy restaurant. It was like,
why isn't he afraid? Why is he comfortable with twelve
other people jammed into a tight, warm room. How come
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they were all relaxed about it, they were drinking, they
were having a good time. Oh, it was a bunch
of healthcare lobbyists too in there. And I'm thinking that's
just because even the people who felt it was an
overreaction and unnecessary, I think we if we ever found
ourselves in a crowded situation in an enclosed room, we
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were all a little nervous about it, a little uptight
about it. Not comfortable enough to spend three hours with
everybody on time. They're practically sitting in each other's laps.
And I was wondering, It's like, how come and they
were in the healthcare industry, some of these people, and
I thought, did they get an advance did they get
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a rush vaccine? Did they get was there an early
testing uh supply of vaccine that they got a hold of.
And that's why they could all sit there comfortably because
the lobbyists, we're with the healthcare industry. Maybe they had connections.
Maybe the reason Newsom was called so comfortable as he
got a vaccine well in advance of everybody else. Because
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if he's scaring us, he shut down our schools for
a year and a half. So if it was so
scary and so deadly, why weren't you afraid? If I
ever get on that podcast with him, that's my French
lunching question, why weren't you afraid? You told us all
to be terrified? All right? More coming up? Oh, here's another.
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There's some study has come out. One of the worst
things that Newsome did to the restaurant industry since he
shut everything down, was the twenty dollars minimum wage law.
And just in your head, guess how many fast food
jobs have been lost since they put it into effect.
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It was signed in September twenty twenty three, so it's
a year and a half. Guess how many jobs were lost.
I'll tell you Next.
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After Michael Monks three o'clock news, we're going to talk
to Alex Stone from ABC Southwest Airlines. I took Southwest
Airlines twice over the weekend and they're changing their whole method.
People adore Southwest. I'd never have I'll explain, but they're
adding bag fees, they're allowing seat assignments, so you can't
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just walk in there and get a front row seat anymore.
They're gonna act like all the other airlines. Alex, and
we'll talk about it coming up after three o'clock. Gavin
Newsome and the Progressive Democrats really went to the matt
insisting that the fast food unions be appeased and force
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on fast food companies twenty dollars an hour minimum wages,
and they lied about the beneficial effects. What happened is
exactly what many predicted. Sixteen thousand fast food jobs have
disappeared in a year and a half, sixteen thousand, and
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fast food prices are up fourteen and a half percent.
Who lost their jobs four people? Four people take fast
food jobs and the idiot progressives who had like zero
economic sense destroy those people's livelihoods and made it more expensive,
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seriously hurting the business owners who are largely middle class.
One of the stupidest talking points from union leaders, amplified
by the moron cheerleaders in the media, is that while
you're going after multi billion dollar corporations, most of the
franchises are owned by middle class people, local business people
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and their families. McDonald's doesn't own. They license out their
name and their system to the franchise. You have to
pay McDonald's for the franchise license, and then you run
the business on your own, but you have to follow
McDonald's rules. But when there's a twenty dollars an hour
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minimum wage, it's the business owner, the local guy, the
middle class guy who gets it in the pants, not McDonald's.
By the way, all these all these numbers I'm giving
you is from the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
They have a quarterly census of employment and wages, and
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we're down sixteen thousand jobs since September of twenty twenty three.
It officially went into effect April of twenty twenty four,
We've lost fourteen thousand since then. So as soon as
the law was passed, restaurant owners started letting people go,
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and then when it went into effect then it was
an avalanche. So well, we're talking only a year, not
even a year fourteen thousand. The data comes from good
sources because it includes mandatory reporting from all the fast
food establishments, and it covers the first six months since
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the law went into effect, and I've got the month
by month breakout here. In September twenty twenty three, there
were five hundred and seventy thousand fast food jobs. By
January it was down to five hundred and sixty three.
Now it's down or as of September it was down
a five hundred and fifty four thousand. And as part
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of the and again this was all to the unions.
The unions paid big bribes to Newsom and the progressive legislators,
so those bastards just bend over and do whatever the
union asks for. The union wanted a fast Food Council
to regulate conditions for fast food workers, except they have
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hardly done anything. It was supposed to be made of
business owners, workers and union reps, and they have had
a couple of meetings and three staff members have been
hired and that's it in a year. What they wanted.
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They have these things in Europe they want the unions
wanted a state council, which they would have the government
mediate negotiations between fast food workers and business owners. I
have never and I've never encountered this until I came
to California. I think we all know that years ago.
I mean when I was in high school, people a
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lot of my friends had fast food jobs and you
just worked at them in the summer, you worked weekends
during a school year, you put somebodey away to pay
for college. Never did anybody think they were going to
be lifetime jobs. Never this idea of a living wage
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shoveling fast food, shaking the fry basket, flipping burgers. The
unions eventually are going to cost all these people, and
a lot of them are legal aliens, They're going to
cost them all their jobs because it's all going to
be automated. I've gone into a number of places.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You just walk up to a kiosk. You've probably seen this.
You just ask for your order and they'll have machines
in the back making the fries, making the burgers. You
can easily automate that system because the food is not complicated. Right,
Flip a burger on one side, flip it on the
other side, lower the fries into the hot oil, pull
(32:24):
it up. That's it, and there's like one person there
carrying out the food to the counter. But you see,
the the union doesn't really care about the workers. The
union cares about the dues they get from the workers.
They don't care about the industry, how many burgers and
fries are sold, whether all these stores open or closed,
just as long as they get their big cut in
(32:45):
union dues. They pay themselves six figure salaries, and they
live fat, and by time this whole thing collapses, they'll
have made their money. All Right, we come back, it's
going to be Alex Stone Southwest Airline. The days of
Southwest Airlines being unique are over. They're gonna be like
(33:05):
every other, every other stupid airline. No more free bags,
no more pick your own seat. I have not had
a lot of good experiences on Southwest. In fact, I
boycotted them for six years, and I just went back
this weekend, first time in six years, and I think
(33:26):
I'm gonna boycott him again. But I'll tell you about
it coming up and talk with Alex Michael Monks live
in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been
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Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Michael, did you make up
that story about Newsom paying for his own bust?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I wouldn't dare make up such a thing. In fact,
as the story goes, you can read more about it
in this I would say, not a very conservative title,
even though it may be conservative leading Fool's Gold, the radicals,
con artist and traders who killed the California dream and
now threaten us all. That's a book. That's a book.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I want, ray, I want somebody who wrote that book.
I gotta look some more of that up. He actually
paid money for I guess a bronze bust of his face.
In his defense, it's a handsome bust. Well, if i'd
pay for my own bust, it's going to be a
good looking version of me.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, we look forward to touching it every day on
the way into the station. That's a good idea. You
could just rub it on your way in. All right,
I'll get it. I'm gonna go find that story. That's
what a buffoon he is. What an absolute narcissistic buffoon. Okay,
let's let's move on.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm going to continue with the story we were doing
at the very end of last hour. Mahmood Khalil. He
is that Columbia University graduate student who started one of
the biggest protests against Israel and in support of the
terrorist Hamas group uh and Khalil was arrested and detained
by Ice on Saturday, was going to be deported, and
(01:30):
he's got a green card and a judge, Jesse Furman
blocked any immediate deportation, and he wants everybody to come
come to court. Let's get royal or right. I'm really
flustered by Newsom's bust oaks. ABC News legal analyst, How
are you. I'm fine, Well, I'm not that fine, but
(01:55):
I'll pretend for a while. If somebody gets a green
card and they do what Mahmoud Khalil did, and we
saw a lot of it on television, organized a big
noisy protest, Jewish students among others, were blocked from going
to class, they were harassed is I don't know what
else they have on Khalil, but they're calling him a
(02:18):
national security threat, and I don't know if that's hyperbole
or they've got a whole dossier on him. But canna
a person with a green card be kicked out just
for starting these protests and just for potentially violating the
civil rights of some of the American students.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, they probably can in a way. They're a second
class citizen because technically they're not citizens. They have lawful
permanent residence status here in America because they've got the
green card. Just like the movie with Andy McDowell and
who drank too much wine on the airplane? What was
his name? Depardue? My friends are not good. So here's
(02:57):
the deal of this guy is I think you know,
he doesn't realize what he's saying. He's saying, well, I'm
not adding semitic, but I do support Hamas. Support Hamas,
which is like saying, oh, I don't hate Jewish people,
but I'm a member of Hitler Youth because Hamas wants
all Jewish people to be killed. So the big question here,
John is what's the impact of his immigration status on
(03:18):
the government's right to object to his speech? And if
you were a citizen. Supreme Court has repeatedly said for
decades it's okay to express opinions or anything like I
like isis or I like accordion, music or you know,
other wrongheaded notions. But if you are a non citizen,
then Supreme Court, okay, they're not exactly alike. The Supreme
Court says that if you're a non citizen, defense have
(03:39):
brought authority to deport you for membership in subversive groups
even without evidence of criminal conduct. As a matter of fact,
only fifteen years ago, the US Supreme Court said, you know,
even nonviolent support for a terror group is unlawful. So
in general, the courts have deferred to executive authority when
(04:00):
it comes to deportation for national security, and they have
more discretion if somebody is not a citizen. It's kind
of like the debate you know, we all had after
nine to eleven. You know, how far are we going
to go? What about free speech rights and so on?
But you know, who knows, maybe there's going to be
sort of a left wing federal immigration judge who looks
at distance as well, you know, you're just punishing the
guy for his opinions. But if it works its way up,
(04:21):
I think the US Supreme Court wouldn't have a problem
with saying, hey, you know, it's just too important. These
are not citizens and they are really fomenting all sorts
of opinions and actions, and you know, money talks. As
you know, the Trump administration has cut hundreds of millions
of bucks of Johns Hopkins and Columbia and other colleges
(04:42):
because they didn't protect Jewish students. And of course we
saw it locally here at bi alma Mater UCLA was
you know, they had those Palestinian right there between Royce
Hall and and Powell Library and the quad. Jews were
not admitted in this in this little area where the
Palestinians were having their protests and so on. College didn't
do anything about it. So yeah, I think the short
(05:03):
answer is that this guy is going to lose if
the thing goes up the court ladder.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I couldn't believe, you know, growing up as a kid
when the World War two generation was in charge and
all the memories were fresh, and the Holocaust was so
overwhelmingly horrible, and how often it was talked about the
whole thing, never forget in the Steven Spielberg movie. And
I cannot believe, just maybe thirty years after the Spielberg
(05:30):
movie and the documentaries, that we had all these major
universities allowing this kind of abuse of Jewish students. I
mean this, this Hamas group was not just rhetoric. They
actually slaughtered thousands of Jewish people simply because they were Jewish.
I just I couldn't believe these universities allowed all this
to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And I was stunned when you know, the war started
well a year ago October, so when people just came
out of the woodwork with the most vile language and
all these anti Semitic attitudes and it's just continuing. I
think it's really just if you're really woke, really on
the left, you see the Palestinians as oh, well, you know,
they're victims of colonization and they're victims of oppressors, and
(06:13):
so they just lump Israel in with all of the
other evil tyrants that they want to go against. But
you know, I think this guy is in some real
trouble because you just can't get away with supporting terrorist groups.
The stakes are just too high. You know, the problem
for the Trump administration might be that he's saying, well, look,
(06:34):
all I did was it was just speech. It's not
like I hit anybody over the head.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's not like I e if it was just speech,
but they really Yeah it was just speak, but they
really did actively block is Jewish students from getting to
class and harass them physically.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Absolutely, you know, it's there is absolutely a basis for
having a double standard, if you want to call it that,
because you know, no national security is so important. I mean,
you know, we can deport people with student visas if
they get arrested for a dui, even without a conviction.
You know, immigration has a lot of flexibility if you
(07:11):
commit marriage fraud, like in the Green Card movie, if
you don't tell the immigration official about your address change,
boom out you go. If you commit certain crimes and
you don't have to necessarily be convicted, it's okay to
to deport him if the government shows near likely to
engage in terrorist activities. And so for him to be
a prime mover and sponsor an organizer of these Columbia
(07:33):
protests that Randy Semitic and direct support of Hamas, yeah,
I think he's in deep legal trouble.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So having a green card, being a quote permanent resident,
it's not ironclad. It's not absolute protection that you can
do and say anything you want.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Exactly right, even though you may have a right to
stay till you're one hundred and five, you don't have
the same rights as citizens. And the Supreme Court has
upheld that all lot. And now that we've got a
we've probably got a five to four sixty three conservative majority.
You know, there's done a lot to talk about how
Amy Cony Barrett is kind of tilting over to the left,
and boy, if she turns out to be like David Souter,
that is going to be a real mess. So I
(08:13):
think the Supreme Court is going to be solid if
this thing works its way up to the High Court.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
All right, royal looks, thank you very much for coming on,
do you bet? Thanks? ABC News Legal analyst Trump sent
out this on social media. If you support terrorism, including
the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence
is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests. You
are not welcome here. And Caroline Levitt, the White House
(08:40):
Press Secretary, said today the group that Khalil organized group
protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed
Jewish American students made them feel unsafe on their own
college campus, but also distributed pro Hamas propaganda flyers with
the logo of Hamas and their own. Their main purpose
(09:00):
and if you read their mission statement from nineteen eighty
eight and I have their main organizing principle is the
elimination of all Jews and the elimination of Israel entirely.
That's what they live for, that's what they teach all
their children and grandchildren. And this guy should have been
(09:22):
kicked out immediately, staid the Biden administration indulge this crowd,
which you know, the Hitler's and Nazis, has become cheap.
And everybody throws around Hitler and Nazism all the time
every time they run into something they disagree with. But
this truly was the closest thing I'd ever seen to
the Nazi days in Germany. More coming up, I am
(09:47):
going to look for further information on Gavin Newsoen paying
money for his own bust own Bronze Bust in San Francisco.
This is the highest form of narcissism. If you are
not convinced that this guy's not a looney tune, I
don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
John Cobelt's Show, and we're on from one to four
every day and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show
on demand the podcast on the iHeart Radio app. So,
about twenty minutes ago, my head snapped around. I hear
Michael Monks with an alleged news story that there's a
bronze bust of Gavin Newsom that's been up for years
(10:32):
in San Francisco, and according to a new book, he
paid for it. And I thought no. And Eric saw
the same story and thought it was a parody. Thought
it was an onion piece. Yeah, I saw it on
Twitter last night. I literally thought it was the onion Yeah.
Because it's it seems to be true. This is from
a book by Jed McPhatter and Susan Crabtree. They're political writers.
(10:57):
It's called Fool's Gold. The Radicals, Connor and Traders who
killed the Californian dream and now threatens us all. So
one of the stories they have is that when Newsom
was mayor of California, that was from twenty and four
to twenty eleven, and he put together a memorial to
(11:20):
his time in the city. This this bust of looking
quite handsome, very serious face, chin jutting out head pointed
up just a bit like he's staring off in the
distance thinking great thoughts, just wearing a casual shirt, form
(11:42):
fitting though around it. It looks tight around his body.
It's an attractive bust and according to the book, it
came from something called Behested payments. Now follow me on this.
Politicians twist arms from their donors and from companies corporations
(12:04):
to make donations to these nonprofits, these fake charities that
the mayors or the governors they influence that their people
are running the charity, so they get to decide where
the money goes. It's a slush fund. It's an enormous
slush fund. And Eric Carcetti was the king of this.
(12:31):
He would force companies to donate money to his fake charities.
One of them was called the Mayor's Fund, and they
would do it. Otherwise they wouldn't get approvals for their
business operations, they wouldn't get permits to build buildings. And
it worked. They raise a lot of money and God
(12:51):
knows where the money goes, right. Well, in this case,
he had two There was a nonprofit which earmarked the
money for the mayoral bust at San Francisco City Hall.
(13:13):
Two companies specifically donated money to the nonprofit. Does this
sound like money laundering? These two companies donated money to
the nonprofit, which would then spend the money to make
the mayoral bust to these two companies, Balboa Cafe Partners
and Plump Jack Management Group. Newsome owns the two companies.
(13:41):
They donated a combined ten thousand dollars to the ninety
seven thousand dollars bust. So he had his companies that
he owns paid ten grand to have this thing sculpt sculpted.
I've just never heard of this. This is the epitome
of narcissism.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
We talked about this yesterday. He also has has has
squeezed money at a PG and E Pacific as an
electric over the years. Because after PG and E murdered
all those people at the camp with the campfire up
in Paradise eighty four counts of manslaughter. To get out
of the lawsuit how they were in, Newsom made a
(14:26):
deal so the state would fund PG and E. In return,
PG and E had to cough up money for Jennifer
Newsom's gender justice films. We played a couple of clips yesterday.
They'll give you a headache. The thing is at the
time that the bust was constructed, Newsom admitted that he
(14:50):
thought the whole thing was odd. He pretended he didn't
know that this was going on. He was playing naive.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I don't want to call embarrassing, but it's a strange thing.
I'm just awkward about it. But now the word is out.
What a phony. He paid for part of the bust
and he's pretending it's like, Ah, it's kind of awkward.
It's embarrassing. I mean, a bust for me. I don't
know who authorized this he did. At the time, a
newspaper reported that Newsome supporters had paid for the bust
(15:23):
with private funds. No, he paid for the bust with
his private funds. That that he that he ran out
of his companies to some nonprofit that actually just paid
the sculptor. She's what a buffoon, I mean, what an
absolute total pomp foon. I mean, are people supposed to
(15:49):
come and worship at the bust? What are they supposed
to do? It's supposed to get on their knees and pray,
pray to his to his face. Oh god, he see
that's that that actually goes to the core. The only
thing he's got going for him are the physical features
(16:11):
he was born with. He does not have a brain
in his head. He's a total sociopath. He has no
conscience at all, and he is one of the great
narcissists of all time. But people are mesmerized by his
hair and his jawline. Tivity too, Tivity two. He love you,
(16:34):
so we come back. We actually have a lot of clips.
We were playing clips last week of his podcast. He's
had three podcasts out now and he can't even keep
up with him and he's talking to all these right
wing guys like Steve Banning of one of Trump's he
managed Trump's first campaign. He's ended up in prison a
(16:57):
couple of times since, I think. And he also talked
to my Savage, the talk show host, and last week
it was Charlie Kirk, who was a conservative activist. There's
more Gavin Newsom audio out there that we can keep
up with, but a couple of things we didn't get to.
One of them was him talking about the French laundry
at Charlie Kirk. We'll play that next.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
After four o'clock. You get John Cobelt Show on demand
the podcast and you could listen to what you missed
in the last segment. Thanks to a tip from Michael Monks.
There we found out that yes it's true. There is
a bronze bust of Gavin Newsom in San Francisco that
(17:45):
was erected some years ago and Newsom actually donated money
to his own bust, and at the time that it
was being constructed, he pretended he didn't know anything about it.
I don't want to call it embarrassing, but it's a
strange thing. I'm just awkward about it. But now the
word is out and he claimed that Newsome supporters paid
(18:10):
for the bust with private funds. Well, actually part of
the money came from two of the companies that knew
some owns. There's a money laundering scam, which is what
all these nonprofits are about. Balboa Cafe partners in plump
Jack Management Group. Plump Jack that's the name of his wine,
and the name always stuck my head, plump Jack, because
(18:32):
I thought it was kind of disgusting. I just did
just the sound plump Jack just bothered me. And there
was one time my wife and I were given a
gift gift basket of wine, and I heard the conversation
over the phone. The woman at the wine shop said, well,
what kind of wines do you want? And the lady
(18:53):
recommended a plump Jack wine. And I heard this and
I started waving my arms. I go, no, no, no,
my wife goes Newsome's winery. We're not buying a bottle
of Newsome line here, no way, that's not a gift.
He is just such a pretentious phony, as was proved
(19:16):
during the famous French laundry incident, which really is what
it really supercharged his recall. There was a recall effort
against him and it was floundering, and then French laundry happened,
and that if you remember, since this, I think yesterday
was the fifth anniversary of COVID when they first announced it.
So to celebrate the fifth anniversary of COVID, we thought
(19:39):
we'd play you the clip from his recent podcast with
Charlie Kirk where he starts talking about French laundry. If
you remember, he was photographed with about a dozen other
people after all of us were under a severe lockdown.
He was in an enclosed room drinking and eating nobody
wearing mask masks everyone sitting on top of each other,
(20:02):
and Charlie Kirk and he had a discussion.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
We live in these filter bubbles. We're talking to ourselves.
We're in the sort of yeah, it's Newsmax one, American News, Fox,
and then it gets into all the stuff that you
guys are doing and everybody else, And meanwhile, I'm safe
over here at MSNBC and CNN, reading the New York Times,
feeling really great about things and having a nice glass
of chardonnay, listening to Rachel Maddow, self medicating and just.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Going yes, yes, Fress laundry, Yeah, the French.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
That's of course the only place I eat. And you know,
give me a great stakeout in the whole thing where
I should have been at Applebee's. I get Applebee's America.
I read that.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Come on, and here's a guy who makes.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Twenty five times more money than I do and sitting
here with it with a jacket, and I'm sitting here
with it. And you control the fifth largest economy on
the milling Well, we don't control the people control the
fifth largest economy. And by the way, proud that you know.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It's a three point.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Any population one last year of population went up last year.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Because of the illegal border. We'll talk about later.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
We got on the thing.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
That's just factually and true, and that, by the way,
three hundred and ninety four National Guard that I put
down at the border six years ago, you should be
championing that. As governor, three hundred ninety four we have
down at the border. We've been focused on defend. I've
been working out anyway, you're you're getting somewhere compliments to stay.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
No, yeah, I was going back to you're talking about
your your wine and French launder.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Yes, that was talking about the importance of of of
Never Well, I can't help you with the reservation such
I've been with this whole stick.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I got to do very nice.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
By the way, we couldn't have this conversation with that conversation.
Dumbest bonehead, move my life, okay, own it, move on,
grow up.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And I'm trying that you talking to you, I'd be
talking to myself.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
I'm just looking. I'm staring looking right you and the
eyes as I say that, just to get your reaction.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
No one's ever going to move on. That'll hang around
his neck forever. It should because it was so traumatizing
for most people to be locked up in the house,
and we weren't allowed. People weren't allowed to say goodbye
to their dying grandparents because we were so locked down.
(22:14):
And he says, yeah, I get it. I should have
got to Applebee's. No, no, no, we couldn't go to Applebee's.
We couldn't go to In and Out. We can go anywhere.
Move on, grow up. Thousands of restaurants closed permanently because
of him, and now five years later he's yucking it
up as if he's the victim. Yeah, I own it.
(22:35):
I was boneheaded thing to do. Grow up, Move on,
grow up, move on, grow up. Hearing him talk, he's
like he's like a teenager.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Really he is the maturity level of a seventeen year old.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And he.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I remember when they locked down outdoor dining here in
La outdoor dining. Oh well, he locked it down too
from the state. But La did it on its own
when there was a resurgence a year and a half later.
(23:14):
And now I put so many people out of work
and so many people out of business. And now years
later it's uh, I'll move on, grow up, move on,
grow up. That that's right, Move on, grow up. What
I lose it? And then he said, yeah, yeah, I
should have gone to Appleby's. The issue wasn't the restaurant
you went to. The issue was that To this day,
(23:37):
I wonder he was he and his staff were giving
out all these fear warnings. Everybody in government was doing it.
And the thing I thought of it wasn't so much.
Oh he goes to a fancy restaurant. It was like,
why isn't he afraid? Why is he comfortable with twelve
other people jammed into a tight, warm room. How come
(24:01):
they were all relaxed about it, they were drinking, they
were having a good time. Oh, it was a bunch
of healthcare lobbyists too in there. And I'm thinking that's
just because even the people who felt it was an
overreaction and unnecessary, I think we if we ever found
ourselves in a crowded situation in an enclosed room, we
(24:25):
were all a little nervous about it, a little uptight
about it. Not comfortable enough to spend three hours with
everybody on time. They're practically sitting in each other's laps.
And I was wondering, It's like, how come and they
were in the healthcare industry, some of these people, and
I thought, did they get an advance did they get
(24:47):
a rush vaccine? Did they get was there an early
testing uh supply of vaccine that they got a hold of.
And that's why they could all sit there comfortably because
the lobbyists, we're with the healthcare industry. Maybe they had connections.
Maybe the reason Newsom was called so comfortable as he
got a vaccine well in advance of everybody else. Because
(25:10):
if he's scaring us, he shut down our schools for
a year and a half. So if it was so
scary and so deadly, why weren't you afraid? If I
ever get on that podcast with him, that's my French
lunching question, why weren't you afraid? You told us all
to be terrified? All right? More coming up? Oh, here's another.
(25:32):
There's some study has come out. One of the worst
things that Newsome did to the restaurant industry since he
shut everything down, was the twenty dollars minimum wage law.
And just in your head, guess how many fast food
jobs have been lost since they put it into effect.
(25:56):
It was signed in September twenty twenty three, so it's
a year and a half. Guess how many jobs were lost.
I'll tell you Next.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
After Michael Monks three o'clock news, we're going to talk
to Alex Stone from ABC Southwest Airlines. I took Southwest
Airlines twice over the weekend and they're changing their whole method.
People adore Southwest. I'd never have I'll explain, but they're
adding bag fees, they're allowing seat assignments, so you can't
(26:32):
just walk in there and get a front row seat anymore.
They're gonna act like all the other airlines. Alex, and
we'll talk about it coming up after three o'clock. Gavin
Newsome and the Progressive Democrats really went to the matt
insisting that the fast food unions be appeased and force
(26:56):
on fast food companies twenty dollars an hour minimum wages,
and they lied about the beneficial effects. What happened is
exactly what many predicted. Sixteen thousand fast food jobs have
disappeared in a year and a half, sixteen thousand, and
(27:17):
fast food prices are up fourteen and a half percent.
Who lost their jobs four people? Four people take fast
food jobs and the idiot progressives who had like zero
economic sense destroy those people's livelihoods and made it more expensive,
(27:47):
seriously hurting the business owners who are largely middle class.
One of the stupidest talking points from union leaders, amplified
by the moron cheerleaders in the media, is that while
you're going after multi billion dollar corporations, most of the
franchises are owned by middle class people, local business people
(28:13):
and their families. McDonald's doesn't own. They license out their
name and their system to the franchise. You have to
pay McDonald's for the franchise license, and then you run
the business on your own, but you have to follow
McDonald's rules. But when there's a twenty dollars an hour
(28:40):
minimum wage, it's the business owner, the local guy, the
middle class guy who gets it in the pants, not McDonald's.
By the way, all these all these numbers I'm giving
you is from the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
They have a quarterly census of employment and wages, and
(29:02):
we're down sixteen thousand jobs since September of twenty twenty three.
It officially went into effect April of twenty twenty four,
We've lost fourteen thousand since then. So as soon as
the law was passed, restaurant owners started letting people go,
(29:22):
and then when it went into effect then it was
an avalanche. So well, we're talking only a year, not
even a year fourteen thousand. The data comes from good
sources because it includes mandatory reporting from all the fast
food establishments, and it covers the first six months since
(29:47):
the law went into effect, and I've got the month
by month breakout here. In September twenty twenty three, there
were five hundred and seventy thousand fast food jobs. By
January it was down to five hundred and sixty three.
Now it's down or as of September it was down
a five hundred and fifty four thousand. And as part
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of the and again this was all to the unions.
The unions paid big bribes to Newsom and the progressive legislators,
so those bastards just bend over and do whatever the
union asks for. The union wanted a fast Food Council
to regulate conditions for fast food workers, except they have
(30:40):
hardly done anything. It was supposed to be made of
business owners, workers and union reps, and they have had
a couple of meetings and three staff members have been
hired and that's it in a year. What they wanted.
(31:01):
They have these things in Europe they want the unions
wanted a state council, which they would have the government
mediate negotiations between fast food workers and business owners. I
have never and I've never encountered this until I came
to California. I think we all know that years ago.
I mean when I was in high school, people a
(31:22):
lot of my friends had fast food jobs and you
just worked at them in the summer, you worked weekends
during a school year, you put somebodey away to pay
for college. Never did anybody think they were going to
be lifetime jobs. Never this idea of a living wage
(31:44):
shoveling fast food, shaking the fry basket, flipping burgers. The
unions eventually are going to cost all these people, and
a lot of them are legal aliens, They're going to
cost them all their jobs because it's all going to
be automated. I've gone into a number of places.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You just walk up to a kiosk. You've probably seen this.
You just ask for your order and they'll have machines
in the back making the fries, making the burgers. You
can easily automate that system because the food is not complicated. Right,
Flip a burger on one side, flip it on the
other side, lower the fries into the hot oil, pull
(32:24):
it up. That's it, and there's like one person there
carrying out the food to the counter. But you see,
the the union doesn't really care about the workers. The
union cares about the dues they get from the workers.
They don't care about the industry, how many burgers and
fries are sold, whether all these stores open or closed,
just as long as they get their big cut in
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union dues. They pay themselves six figure salaries, and they
live fat, and by time this whole thing collapses, they'll
have made their money. All Right, we come back, it's
going to be Alex Stone Southwest Airline. The days of
Southwest Airlines being unique are over. They're gonna be like
(33:05):
every other, every other stupid airline. No more free bags,
no more pick your own seat. I have not had
a lot of good experiences on Southwest. In fact, I
boycotted them for six years, and I just went back
this weekend, first time in six years, and I think
(33:26):
I'm gonna boycott him again. But I'll tell you about
it coming up and talk with Alex Michael Monks live
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