July 30, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/30) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about California being under a tsunami warning for a period of time yesterday and overnight. What is "Ozempic face"? CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio comes on the show to talk about former VP Kamala Harris not running for CA Governor and Gov. Newsom's plan to try to redistrict parts of CA in favor of Democrats. More on former VP Kamala Harris saying she won't run for Governor of California.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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It's so you catch up and you follow us on
social media at John Covelt Radio. We had this big
tsunami hysteria last night, and I knew I knew it
was it was gonna peter out and fizzle because I
looked on the map and it was a huge earthquake,
sixth largest earthquakes since they started keeping track in nineteen hundred,
(00:38):
although I imagine the earthquakes that produced the Rocky Mountains
were probably a little stronger, but for modern times, for
our lifetime, it was the sixth strongest. And I saw
it was up way out near Russia, and I'm thinking, well,
it's not going to be much of a rumble by
time he gets here, and it wasn't. It was like,
I'm not even a foot and a half in Santa Mona.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
But what if it was?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
What if it turned out that way and we didn't
get any warnings advisories. Then we'd all be complaining about
not getting alerted.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Right, It's just yeah, yeah, but you have to look
and see how many thousands of miles away it is.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I get that. I thought that too, but just in.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Case, well we got Alex Stone.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
He's been on the search for a tsunami wave all
day long, tracking up and down the coast to California,
you know. And then there were all kinds of reports
coming in last night of tsunami waves are going in,
and to scientists they were, but they were like a
foot two feet you know that it was censors that
were bobbing around that we're reporting these in. And then
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the reports were now tsunami waves are hitting California and
you're like, well, to the average Joe, that it would
mean a wall of water coming in like Fukushima in
twenty eleven or that's and yeah in two thousand and four,
and I covered both of those. Those were walls of
water coming in. But all the warnings have come down now.
Some advisories do remain up in the Santa Barbara area
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and San Luis Obispo in that area, but even you know,
I like count of beaches are open again that the
county announced, the bathrooms, the walkways, everything was being opened
up this morning, earlier than they were expecting. But it
was a fairly tense based on the forecast eight or
nine hours overnight with the entire Pacific rim from Japan
to Russia to the US waiting for a fear of
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what might have been coming. In Russia and Japan did
get a little bit of an impact, but here in
the US or describing it is dodging a bullet that
a very similar earthquake years ago killed quite a few
people on the Hawaiian Islands, so it can, especially for Hawaii,
have a major impact. But the governor of Hawaii was
telling everybody, hey, take it very seriously.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Have a tsunami warning. And what does that mean.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That is the most serious warning that you can have.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It is not a watch. It is a warning which
means we have to evacuate the coastal zones right away.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And it was a mad dash to evacuate the beach
areas all around the Hawaiian Islands with all the visitors
and all the resorts along the water for fear of
the tsunami. And yeah, it really was that what if
it did come in and then killed tens of thousands
of people. And they hadn't put out that warning. But
it was bumper to bumper for many hours for people
trying to get to higher ground. The military even Oprah
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opening up roads on their property. Yeah, let people have access.
There were some reports that were not correct that that
Oprah wasn't doing it, that that her staff did open
up those roads so they could go on. You just
together with the military. They brought a land and they've
got closed roads and you know, she's she's got quite a.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Bit of land.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I'd hate to live in an area where I have
to depend on Oprah's generosity so I don't die. Yeah,
and let them go to higher ground. And they really
did come into that. And in the end it was
sensors picking up the tsunami waves. But they they were
relatively small. I'm sure in the scientific world they were not,
but in the the general world they were. And the
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water did recede a bit. It is not even much
of a high tide. Now, well, Hawaii was, they were
in at one portion of this in high tide. Southern
California was not so that that spared any real concern
about Southern California, but.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That there were.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
The big focus was going to be on where it
always is, Crescent City near the Oregon border, where they
have a history of tsunamis based on their geography that
if there's going to be one, it's going to be
in in Crescent City, and they've over the last even decade,
they've had a number of them.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
But they did. They're the only damage that we know of.
They had a little bit. The harbor Master today saying as.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
The water levels continued to rise, the structure was unable
to adjust and attack and became lodged on the pilings
and was eventually submerged in. This resulted major structural failure
and complete separation of the dock.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So there was a dock that was destroyed. That was
the worst of the damage was that the structure was
unable to adjust. Yeah, well, it couldn't float up and down.
You know how dock does where it moves up and
down with the water. Where do these guys learned to
talk this way? And harbor Master's school apparently. But yeah,
in the end, yeah, eight point eight magnitude earthquake. There
was a lot of concern that there was gonna be worse,
but no major damage it's in Hawaii now. They declared
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the all clear at ten am Hawaii Times, so about
an hour ago is the official all clear.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And and they're saying, okay, they have.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Tsunami sirens in a while, they do, and they were
they were sounding and scaring a lot of tourists last
night as those sirens were going on. Do we have
them in the California. It's a good question. I think
we do along the water and in areas that are
prone to it. And they sound different than the fire
sirens that go off all day and when they're.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Good, you got homeless people. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I mean, you see the tsunami evacuation route signs whenever
you're near the ocean at any of the southern California beaches.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I assume that there are sirens, but I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I like those evacuation roots signs because it points out
the obvious Go inland, get away from the water, go
east up. Thanks for that, All right, very good, Alex,
you got it. Thanks Seon Alex Stone from ABC News
reporting here for KFI on the uh the big disaster
(06:12):
that wasn't just another missed opportunity. Yeah, the LA Times
now modest tsunami waves.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
We don't need any more disasters. We've had enough. We
need a break here in southern California.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, I know, but I mean the tsunamis there's nothing
you can do. See the fire disaster could have been mitigated.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yes, absolutely, But we don't need to put into the
universe that you're you know, hoping for that kind.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Of chaos coming up. Ozempic face, do you know people
on ozempic? Got any friends on ozempik?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I know people on ozempik.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
If it works and you lose a lot of weight,
you know, your face could sag. I've seen that you
need a lot of a lot of face work to
put it back.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Start of surgeons, Yeah, very happy.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Actually, ozempic patients are big customers for plastic surgery. Now
those guys are making another fortune.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Here.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
We'll explain, because I don't think a day goes by.
We're out here somebody in a conversation about ozempic or
WeGo V or any of these There seems to be
dozens of these drugs out there on the market. So
we'll tell you why your face will Apparently you look
deflated like a pop balloon.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I think you look well, some people look ill.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, I've seen one person that I thought, wow, do
they have it? I mean, that's we'll talk about we
come back.
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we're going to have Carl Demyel on. He's the Republican assemblyman.
(08:15):
There's so many disastrous things going on in the state,
and Gavin Newsoen is obsessed with getting more Democratic congress
people in Washington because some Republican governors are doing redistricting
to create more Republican seats. You know, it's a trick
you draw the lines called jerrymandering. You may have heard
(08:36):
of that. You draw the lines in very creative ways
so that you can just collect all Republican voters or
all Democratic voters into one district. Well, the Democrats have
forty three out of the fifty two seats that California
sends to the House of Representatives and News once more,
and he's willing to spend two hundred and fifty million
(08:59):
dollars of your tax money to get more. Carl Demiel
will explain all this coming up after two thirty ozempic face.
You take ozempic, if it works, you lose weight and
then what happens, well, in about forty percent of the cases,
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your face collapses, so you look like a pop balloon.
There is a celebrity cosmetic dermatologist named doctor Paul Jared Frank.
He's in New York and he says about two years
ago a new kind of patient was coming in. They
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had taken ozempic and they ended up with ozempic face,
sagging skin, hollowed out appearance. He said, people from their
mid forties and on. Once you start losing ten pounds
or more, you get this kind of deflated look. Certainly,
(10:00):
if you lose twenty or thirty pounds, you're going to
have this problem. The drugs work by stimulating the pancreas
to trigger insulin production and that curbs your appetite. And
this was for diabetic patients, but then they found it
worked on potentially anybody and you'd lose the weight because
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you just don't.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Want to eat.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So now you've got this this deflated face, sagging and drooping.
So what they do is they inject dermal fillers. It
restores facial volume. You're nodding, you do this, No.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I don't, okay, but I knew that's what I knew
that that's what you.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Were going to say, face lifts. And they also do
fat transfers.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Do they suck fat out of other parts of your body,
but because you don't make any more fat cells once
you're an adult, your fat is the same fat cells,
they either get bigger or smaller.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, I heard years ago when what was that surgery,
the fat sucking surgery, liposuction.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
That's right, that.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
When that was popular and some people are getting the
fat sucked out of them, that they started gaining the
weight back because those fat cells were gone. The remaining
fat cells would expand in unusual ways because now there
were fewer of them, right, So you'd end up with
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fat bulges in unpredictable areas, not attractive. So well, you
could end up with a big fat bulge on your
back or a fat bulge on your thigh because they'd
sucked so much fat out of your abdomen. So more
(11:58):
than twenty percent of this demotologists patients are using the
fat drugs and so they get the dermal fillers. He says,
you can only refill a deflated boop a deflated You
can only refill a deflated balloon so much, and then
you have to have surgery. Just upping the dosage of
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the volume is usually more than enough.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
But then if and then they don't last, do you
have to keep doing it, doing it, doing it?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I guess, so I guess the filler degrades. Yeah, people
were walking around with all those chemical filler in their faces.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yes, not just people that are on ozembic.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
They have a case study here a woman named Kimberly Bungorno,
government worker, New Jersey. So she had too much weight
and she had a gastric sleeve surgery in twenty nineteen.
But then COVID nineteen hit and she started stuffing herself. Well,
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she did, and she ended up gaining forty pounds. So
now she had to start taking a zembic and the
weight dropped from one seventy to one to twenty five.
But she's fifty five years old now and uh, after
she lost the forty five pounds. Well, these are these
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are her words. Everything just kind of hung oh and
was very loose. I felt like I no longer had cheeks.
I had a lot of loose skin under my neck.
It looks like I had melted.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Oh oh, that's.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It was horrifying.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, I'd say that.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It was so disheartening to see how my face looked
and how it had changed. I thought I looked a
lot older than I am. So she went. She went
to a doctor in Jersey underwent a deep plain thing
facelift that lifted her skin and repositioned some of her
muscles and connective tissues.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, good thing that's available.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Write all this down.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You never know you're holding, you're holding together, but you
know you can wake up one day, Yeah, and it
just just collapsed.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's right in your lap.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
She opted for a neck lift that refined and smoothed
her neck contours and addressed excess skin left by her
weight loss. They use this hy luronic filling high luronic
acid fillers.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yes you know this, I know.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You, Yes, yes, absolutely, that's right. But you don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I use hyaluronic acid as a face.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Erum, hyaluronic acid. Anything with the word acid in it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Seem right now, It's not what you think.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, spare it on your face.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yes, every day, twice a day.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
In fact, you put hyluronic acid twice a day and
your y Yes, look it up.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
A lot of the women and maybe men do what
men people guys that don't want wrinkles and want their
face to look nice and smooth.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, that's a certain kind of man. You get to
hear one of my male friendssturi does who moisturize?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
No? Do I moisturize?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Do you put sunscreen on?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
At least sometimes? My wife? It's just sounded enough.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, boy.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And anyway this uh, I don't know who I'm reading here.
Uh oh.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
A plastic surgeon says, your body doesn't make more fat cells.
The fat cells don't multiply. They're getting bigger or smaller
depending on your weight. So these fat cells, when you
lose weight, have decreased volume. There's less fullness and that's
why you need all this all this trickery.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Well, I mean, the good news is that there's a fix.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, that's a lot of work and it's a lot
of money. You go through all.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The trouble, had taken the injections, you lose the weight
and now you're looking all deflated and saggy and droopy.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
But any kind of weight loss surgery, right when they
suck out the fat, you have the I'm assuming you
have the stretched out skin that's just hanging.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, you could end up with a big droop. I
mean you could end up with if you lose a
lot of weight in your belly, right.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yes, you stretched out, right, where's the skin gonna go?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I mean you end up with a big flap, yes,
a sagging flapp and you have to get that cut out. Yeah,
or you could use it as a pouch, like to
put your wallet, earphone in there and roll it up.
All right, we got Carl de Mayo is coming on
with us. Carl's the Republican Assemblyman Reform California as his group,
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and his group is going into action because Gavin Newsom,
even though there's a constant constitutional amendment that says he
can't do this, well, he wants to override it and
he wants to spend two hundred and fifty million dollars
on a special election. He wants more Democratic congress people
from California. He wants to redraw the district lines because
having forty three out of fifty two isn't enough.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Carl will explain all this next.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
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Speaker 2 (17:23):
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the iHeartRadio app. We're going to talk with Carl Demail.
The Republican Assemblyman. Gavin Newsom is obsessed with the redrawing
congressional districts. He normally it's done every ten years after
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the census. He wants to speed this process up because
he feels like Republican governors are redrawing districts in other states,
so he wants to do it too, to balance the
out and ensure more Democrats are elected from California to Washington,
d c. And it could mean a special election, which
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would cost a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And that's what we're going to have a Carl DeMaio
talk about it here. Carl, how are you?
Speaker 7 (18:16):
I'm doing fine. Our democracy doesn't seem to be doing
very well.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
One quick question, what do you think of Kamal Harris
dropping out?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
She was a very weak candidate. I think she was
getting consistent feedback from Democrats across the state that she
shouldn't run. Donors were not very happy. I think her
polling numbers continue to weaken with each day that passed
since the November election. But his spells bad news for
Gavin Newso what this means is Kamala Harris. Harris had
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an opportunity to run for governor, but then she'd have
to sit out the twenty twenty eight presidential race because
you can't run for governor in twenty six and the
turn around and immediately.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Run for president, So she would have had to have
been committed.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
What this says is that she still has an eye
on the presdential race, and that is very bad news
for Davin because Kamala Harris could very well end up
running against him. And I think that Newsomb has a
lot of liabilities and I think Kamala Harris knows that
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Oh yeah, I mean, he's got so much baggage around
his neck.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'm just shocked that.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
He keeps plugging away and acting like he's a presidential
candidate her too, although at least she can claim she got,
you know, forty eight percent of the vote in the
last election. I can't imagine Newsom getting anywhere near that. Well,
let's talk about what he's what he's trying to do.
Most people don't keep track of this stuff. But in Texas,
the governor there, Greg Abbott, is trying to get districts
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redrawn so they're more Republicans sent from Texas to Congress.
So Newsom is trying to counter him. Try to explain
it to people who don't follow this stuff in all
the minutia.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Well, there's two stories here. The first story, as you
have described it, there is an effort underway by Democrats
in blue states and Republicans in red states to change
congressional district lines mid cycle. Because we're only supposed to
do this every ten years through redistricting to equal out
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the population of these districts. But they're trying to jerry mander.
Jerry mander is a term that says politicians are trying
to manipulate the lines of districts so that they get
a partisan political advantage, so that it favors one candidate
of a party over another. And jerry mandering is corrupt.
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It's how politicians choose the voters versus the voters choosing politicians.
I don't like it. I think no matter who does it,
it's wrong. I think what's happening in Texas is wrong.
I think what's happening in California is wrong. Redistricting it's
just plain wrong, and all of us should reject it.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Right now.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
That's happening across the country. Blue states trying to rewrite
to get more Democrats seats, Red.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
States trying to rewrite to get more Republican seats.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
But there's a bigger story here in California, and that
is we took the power away from the politicians in
twenty ten with a state constitutional initiative. The citizens said,
we're sick and.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Tired of gerrymanderin.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
We want districts that reflect geographic compactness, that reflect communities
of interests. You know, people who go to church together,
school districts, water districts, people who basically, you know, try
not to split up a city if you can avoid it,
or splitting up a county. It's geographic compactness and ties,
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community ties. So the citizens said, let's do it that way,
Let's not have politicians do it, let's ban any partisan consideration,
and that was done in twenty tens. He hated it, John,
They hated it because they want to write their own districts.
But they couldn't stop it. So in twenty ten we
switched over to the Citizen Commission models of independent, non
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partisan redistricting. So now in twenty twenty six, what Gavinuson
needs to do is he needs to go to the
voters and get them by hooker crook with a misleading
ballot title, by using Donald Trump. And you know, here's
an anti Trumpe initiative. He's trying to eviscerate the independent
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citizen's redistricting process.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
How can he do that if it's a constitutional amendment,
you take it.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
To a vote of the people. That's why he has
to do a special election. So originally, because he's so dumb,
he's done his dirt. You know that this guy doesn't know,
you know, his his.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
Rear end from a hole in the ground.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
But he started saying, we're going to do this in
the legislature, and of course I said, the hell you are.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
The Constitution was amended by the voters.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
You can't do it without the constitutional amendment. So that's
exactly what he's.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Going to do.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
He's going to call a special election as early as
November to at a cost of two hundred and fifty
million dollars, by the way, a quarter billion dollars of
taxpayer costs, have a special election in November to call
the voters to the polls and get them again by hooker.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Wait, did I here write two hundred and fifty million
dollars to five h million?
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Correct? Correct, we're talking. Remember we have a They say
a twelve billion dollars budget deficit. I say it's twenty
five billion. But let's take their maths twelve billion. A
quarter billion of that would be added to the deficit
because of our special election costs. The recall election costs
a little over two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
In twenty twenty one.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
But since then we've added about eight hundred thousand voters.
So that means more mail in, ballots, mailing out, and
more processing, more issuing. Right, we also have had a
nineteen percent increase in local government salaries. They have to
actually manage the elections. Postage rates are going up by
seventeen percent since twenty twenty one. So my office did
a cost assession. It's easily two.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Hundred fift million dollars.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
And that's probably even counting these NGOs that use some
of the Democrats fund during the election to go out
and harvest bellots.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
So we're talking to two huni fifty million.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Dollars just to have an election, probably three and fifty
four hund million dollars, and you add in all the
money laundering that they engage in during these special elections
with judios.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Let me ask you one more thing, though, they can
redraw the districts to get more Democrats. Already, the Democrats
have forty three House seats out of California, the Republicans
have only nine, with forty three out of fifty two,
how many more could they get?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Again, jerrymandering is very sinister, and you could literally draw
the maps so that you will have districts that will
make no sense whatsoever. But you could eliminate all the
Republicans in California. I think that they're going to end
up eliminating five to seven congressional seats for Republicans. Republicans
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will then be down to maybe two or three. At
the end of the day, you know, you could have
you could have a district. For example, Maxine Waters could
end up representing a portion of Huntington Beach, California. Although seriously, no, no, no, no.
Redistricting is so bad, it is so sinister. You literally
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have seen districts where they take the four oh five
Freeway and they just run along the four or five
freeway to connect two very different pieces of southern California
just because they're like, hey, you know, crazy Maxine mad
Maxine Waters can can hold this seat, and we can
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we can layer in a bunch of Republicans who won't
have a voice. That's how bad this is. That's what
Nisson is trying to suggest. It's unfair, undemocratic, and I'm
hoping the voters will join me in rejecting it. We're
leading the campaign at Reform California to stop it. I
wasn't expecting to suit up and go into battle this early.
We have our California Voter Idea initiative that we've been
(26:12):
focusing on, and we're not going to take our eye
off of that. But we can shoot bubble gum and walk.
At the same time, we're gonna have to get ready
for a special election. So I'm asking people go to
the website Reform California dot org. Reform California dot org,
sign up, chip in and be part of the fight.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Carl DeMaio, thanks very much, Thanks much.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
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Speaker 2 (26:39):
Moist Fine, we need we have vacancies eight seven seven
moist d eighty six. Perhaps you have some reasoned analysis
of Kamala Harris not running for governor. It's true a
couple of hours ago if you did in here numbers
eight seven seven moist daty six eight seven seven six
six four seven eight eighty six were He's the talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app. You want to see me
(27:00):
on video? My wife has a video podcast on YouTube.
It's called Deborah Cobet Live, and I'm the guest. So
Deborah Cobet Live on YouTube, go and watch that. Just
posted it yesterday after three o'clock. David Howard from one
of the KFI sales managers who lost his home in
the Palisades fire and has been informing us periodically of
(27:22):
what's going on. In the endless battle with the Karen
Bass bureaucracy. Bass, of course hopes all these people move out,
sell and get out of the palisades so she can
replace everyone with low income housing refugees and homeless people
and mental patients. Really upsets her to have tax paying citizens,
(27:46):
successful tax paying citizens living there, But you know that's
the way communists are. So David Howard will be coming
up in just a few minutes. As I mentioned, Karen, Karen,
it's the same person. Kamala Harris says she's not running
for governor, and I you know, you read all these
left wing news sites La Times and Politico, and the
(28:10):
way they treat it. The way they treat her as
if she's a serious person and not a cartoon character
just amuses me. Here's how the La Times writes on
this issue. Veteran Democratic strategist Sean Clegg, a longtime adviser
(28:31):
to Harris.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
What is that like? Imagine sitting in a room for
more than five minutes? Oh what do you think, Sean? Huh?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
He said that Harris weighed the run but decided that
her next chapter would be focused on other political pursuits
outside of elected office. I have no idea what that means.
I think she listened to her gut. Obviously she saw
a huge opportunity she had to consumer. But at the
end of the day, she just didn't feel called called.
(29:06):
Who calls when somebody runs for officees because they feel called.
He's worked on Harris's campaign since two thousand and eight.
That is twenty years of talking to Kamala Harris. Wow,
people will do for money. Until January of this year,
(29:27):
she'd been in public office for twenty two consecutive years.
I think she's interested in exploring how she can have
an impact from the outside. There's no impact from the outside.
What what am I insane? I feel like I'm on
planet insanity. When has she said anything at all about
(29:50):
all the issues that are absolutely paralyzing the state and
just choking all the residents. Huh. I'd never hear her
say anything. I hear more from the grocery clerks that
I've heard from her. She's never shown any interest in
what goes on here. I've never heard her say anything
interesting about it. I mean, the riots happened when when
(30:13):
Ice was chasing the illegal aliens around, she said nothing
about it. Palisades fire wiped everything out because Karen Bass
was in Africa, k Newsom was asleep. She didn't say
anything about that either. She never said anything about oh,
I don't know, highest, uh, highest taxes in the country, income, sales,
(30:35):
business taxes, gas tag nothing. I mean, we might have
an oil pipeline shut down. We've got oil, refineries, clothing.
Do you think she was actually capable intellectually of handling
any of this, or that she had the slightest interest
in any of this? You take over as governor, you
have two refineries, clothes, and if gas is several dollars
more a gallon, what are you gonna do? You're just
(30:57):
gonna sit there? You got you got the legislatures overrun,
infested with malignant progressives. You really think she had the
intellect for this, the energy, the creativity, the force of personality, what.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
She just didn't feel called? Here's another one, Politico.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
There were warning, with near universal name recognition, strong approval
ratings among Democrats, and a national fundraising network, Harris would
have begun the race as an imposing front runner. Again,
not one word about her lack of a brain, that
(31:45):
she has no interesting thoughts about anything. I could name
you a dozen issues I think guy named a half
a dozen just thirty seconds ago, never heard a word.
Does anybody think she really cares? She hasn't even been
living here for the last what I don't know how
(32:06):
many years, because she was a senator, So there were
warning signs that Harris, though formidable, would face some challenges.
Party activists and some donors were lukewarm to her potential.
Bit lukewarm, it's a polite way of saying, don't do this.
(32:26):
I'm not giving you money. Still nursing a hangover from
twenty twenty four, reluctant to be reminded of her losing
presidential campaign. They're reminded every day. Trump's on television twenty
four hours a day. That's a reminder that she was
an awful candidate, and she blew over a billion dollars.
She blew over a billion dollars. Oh, I don't see
(32:50):
anything I would do differently.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Pressure was mounting for Harris to articulate a vision for
governing a massive and complicated state where she had not
lived full time in nearly a decade. There you go,
articulate a vision. Wouldn't she just being in public service
(33:16):
as a senator and a vice president and a possible
candidate for governor. Wouldn't you be articulating your vision every day?
Wouldn't that be wouldn't somebody has to ask, would you
articulate a vision? I mean, what what is she doing
all day besides popping gummies?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I don't know. I don't understand the world. I don't
understand anything.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Right. David Howard's coming in KFI Sales Management, who lost
his house in the Palisades and has been updating us frequently.
There was some big news from Gavin Newsom yesterday and
I'm going to talk to David about it. He's keeping
us in touch with the fight against the bureaucracy deb
remark live in the Cafight twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
(34:01):
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It's so you catch up and you follow us on
social media at John Covelt Radio. We had this big
tsunami hysteria last night, and I knew I knew it
was it was gonna peter out and fizzle because I
looked on the map and it was a huge earthquake,
sixth largest earthquakes since they started keeping track in nineteen hundred,
(00:38):
although I imagine the earthquakes that produced the Rocky Mountains
were probably a little stronger, but for modern times, for
our lifetime, it was the sixth strongest. And I saw
it was up way out near Russia, and I'm thinking, well,
it's not going to be much of a rumble by
time he gets here, and it wasn't. It was like,
I'm not even a foot and a half in Santa Mona.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
But what if it was?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
What if it turned out that way and we didn't
get any warnings advisories. Then we'd all be complaining about
not getting alerted.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Right, It's just yeah, yeah, but you have to look
and see how many thousands of miles away it is.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I get that. I thought that too, but just in.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Case, well we got Alex Stone.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
He's been on the search for a tsunami wave all
day long, tracking up and down the coast to California,
you know. And then there were all kinds of reports
coming in last night of tsunami waves are going in,
and to scientists they were, but they were like a
foot two feet you know that it was censors that
were bobbing around that we're reporting these in. And then
(01:42):
the reports were now tsunami waves are hitting California and
you're like, well, to the average Joe, that it would
mean a wall of water coming in like Fukushima in
twenty eleven or that's and yeah in two thousand and four,
and I covered both of those. Those were walls of
water coming in. But all the warnings have come down now.
Some advisories do remain up in the Santa Barbara area
(02:04):
and San Luis Obispo in that area, but even you know,
I like count of beaches are open again that the
county announced, the bathrooms, the walkways, everything was being opened
up this morning, earlier than they were expecting. But it
was a fairly tense based on the forecast eight or
nine hours overnight with the entire Pacific rim from Japan
to Russia to the US waiting for a fear of
(02:27):
what might have been coming. In Russia and Japan did
get a little bit of an impact, but here in
the US or describing it is dodging a bullet that
a very similar earthquake years ago killed quite a few
people on the Hawaiian Islands, so it can, especially for Hawaii,
have a major impact. But the governor of Hawaii was
telling everybody, hey, take it very seriously.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Have a tsunami warning. And what does that mean.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
That is the most serious warning that you can have.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It is not a watch. It is a warning which
means we have to evacuate the coastal zones right away.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And it was a mad dash to evacuate the beach
areas all around the Hawaiian Islands with all the visitors
and all the resorts along the water for fear of
the tsunami. And yeah, it really was that what if
it did come in and then killed tens of thousands
of people. And they hadn't put out that warning. But
it was bumper to bumper for many hours for people
trying to get to higher ground. The military even Oprah
(03:19):
opening up roads on their property. Yeah, let people have access.
There were some reports that were not correct that that
Oprah wasn't doing it, that that her staff did open
up those roads so they could go on. You just
together with the military. They brought a land and they've
got closed roads and you know, she's she's got quite a.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Bit of land.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I'd hate to live in an area where I have
to depend on Oprah's generosity so I don't die. Yeah,
and let them go to higher ground. And they really
did come into that. And in the end it was
sensors picking up the tsunami waves. But they they were
relatively small. I'm sure in the scientific world they were not,
but in the the general world they were. And the
(04:02):
water did recede a bit. It is not even much
of a high tide. Now, well, Hawaii was, they were
in at one portion of this in high tide. Southern
California was not so that that spared any real concern
about Southern California, but.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That there were.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
The big focus was going to be on where it
always is, Crescent City near the Oregon border, where they
have a history of tsunamis based on their geography that
if there's going to be one, it's going to be
in in Crescent City, and they've over the last even decade,
they've had a number of them.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
But they did. They're the only damage that we know of.
They had a little bit. The harbor Master today saying as.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
The water levels continued to rise, the structure was unable
to adjust and attack and became lodged on the pilings
and was eventually submerged in. This resulted major structural failure
and complete separation of the dock.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So there was a dock that was destroyed. That was
the worst of the damage was that the structure was
unable to adjust. Yeah, well, it couldn't float up and down.
You know how dock does where it moves up and
down with the water. Where do these guys learned to
talk this way? And harbor Master's school apparently. But yeah,
in the end, yeah, eight point eight magnitude earthquake. There
was a lot of concern that there was gonna be worse,
but no major damage it's in Hawaii now. They declared
(05:13):
the all clear at ten am Hawaii Times, so about
an hour ago is the official all clear.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And and they're saying, okay, they have.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Tsunami sirens in a while, they do, and they were
they were sounding and scaring a lot of tourists last
night as those sirens were going on. Do we have
them in the California. It's a good question. I think
we do along the water and in areas that are
prone to it. And they sound different than the fire
sirens that go off all day and when they're.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Good, you got homeless people. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I mean, you see the tsunami evacuation route signs whenever
you're near the ocean at any of the southern California beaches.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I assume that there are sirens, but I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I like those evacuation roots signs because it points out
the obvious Go inland, get away from the water, go
east up. Thanks for that, All right, very good, Alex,
you got it. Thanks Seon Alex Stone from ABC News
reporting here for KFI on the uh the big disaster
(06:12):
that wasn't just another missed opportunity. Yeah, the LA Times
now modest tsunami waves.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
We don't need any more disasters. We've had enough. We
need a break here in southern California.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, I know, but I mean the tsunamis there's nothing
you can do. See the fire disaster could have been mitigated.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yes, absolutely, But we don't need to put into the
universe that you're you know, hoping for that kind.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Of chaos coming up. Ozempic face, do you know people
on ozempic? Got any friends on ozempik?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I know people on ozempik.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
If it works and you lose a lot of weight,
you know, your face could sag. I've seen that you
need a lot of a lot of face work to
put it back.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Start of surgeons, Yeah, very happy.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Actually, ozempic patients are big customers for plastic surgery. Now
those guys are making another fortune.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Here.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
We'll explain, because I don't think a day goes by.
We're out here somebody in a conversation about ozempic or
WeGo V or any of these There seems to be
dozens of these drugs out there on the market. So
we'll tell you why your face will Apparently you look
deflated like a pop balloon.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I think you look well, some people look ill.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, I've seen one person that I thought, wow, do
they have it? I mean, that's we'll talk about we
come back.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. I'm
on my wife's video podcast on YouTube. Go to Deborah
Cobalt live on YouTube. And we were talking about all
the news of the past week, and that was posted yesterday.
Never were called out live on YouTube. After two thirty
we're going to have Carl Demyel on. He's the Republican assemblyman.
(08:15):
There's so many disastrous things going on in the state,
and Gavin Newsoen is obsessed with getting more Democratic congress
people in Washington because some Republican governors are doing redistricting
to create more Republican seats. You know, it's a trick
you draw the lines called jerrymandering. You may have heard
(08:36):
of that. You draw the lines in very creative ways
so that you can just collect all Republican voters or
all Democratic voters into one district. Well, the Democrats have
forty three out of the fifty two seats that California
sends to the House of Representatives and News once more,
and he's willing to spend two hundred and fifty million
(08:59):
dollars of your tax money to get more. Carl Demiel
will explain all this coming up after two thirty ozempic face.
You take ozempic, if it works, you lose weight and
then what happens, well, in about forty percent of the cases,
(09:19):
your face collapses, so you look like a pop balloon.
There is a celebrity cosmetic dermatologist named doctor Paul Jared Frank.
He's in New York and he says about two years
ago a new kind of patient was coming in. They
(09:40):
had taken ozempic and they ended up with ozempic face,
sagging skin, hollowed out appearance. He said, people from their
mid forties and on. Once you start losing ten pounds
or more, you get this kind of deflated look. Certainly,
(10:00):
if you lose twenty or thirty pounds, you're going to
have this problem. The drugs work by stimulating the pancreas
to trigger insulin production and that curbs your appetite. And
this was for diabetic patients, but then they found it
worked on potentially anybody and you'd lose the weight because
(10:22):
you just don't.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Want to eat.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So now you've got this this deflated face, sagging and drooping.
So what they do is they inject dermal fillers. It
restores facial volume. You're nodding, you do this, No.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I don't, okay, but I knew that's what I knew
that that's what you.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Were going to say, face lifts. And they also do
fat transfers.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Do they suck fat out of other parts of your body,
but because you don't make any more fat cells once
you're an adult, your fat is the same fat cells,
they either get bigger or smaller.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, I heard years ago when what was that surgery,
the fat sucking surgery, liposuction.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
That's right, that.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
When that was popular and some people are getting the
fat sucked out of them, that they started gaining the
weight back because those fat cells were gone. The remaining
fat cells would expand in unusual ways because now there
were fewer of them, right, So you'd end up with
(11:36):
fat bulges in unpredictable areas, not attractive. So well, you
could end up with a big fat bulge on your
back or a fat bulge on your thigh because they'd
sucked so much fat out of your abdomen. So more
(11:58):
than twenty percent of this demotologists patients are using the
fat drugs and so they get the dermal fillers. He says,
you can only refill a deflated boop a deflated You
can only refill a deflated balloon so much, and then
you have to have surgery. Just upping the dosage of
(12:20):
the volume is usually more than enough.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
But then if and then they don't last, do you
have to keep doing it, doing it, doing it?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I guess, so I guess the filler degrades. Yeah, people
were walking around with all those chemical filler in their faces.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yes, not just people that are on ozembic.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
They have a case study here a woman named Kimberly Bungorno,
government worker, New Jersey. So she had too much weight
and she had a gastric sleeve surgery in twenty nineteen.
But then COVID nineteen hit and she started stuffing herself. Well,
(13:03):
she did, and she ended up gaining forty pounds. So
now she had to start taking a zembic and the
weight dropped from one seventy to one to twenty five.
But she's fifty five years old now and uh, after
she lost the forty five pounds. Well, these are these
(13:24):
are her words. Everything just kind of hung oh and
was very loose. I felt like I no longer had cheeks.
I had a lot of loose skin under my neck.
It looks like I had melted.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Oh oh, that's.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It was horrifying.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, I'd say that.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It was so disheartening to see how my face looked
and how it had changed. I thought I looked a
lot older than I am. So she went. She went
to a doctor in Jersey underwent a deep plain thing
facelift that lifted her skin and repositioned some of her
muscles and connective tissues.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, good thing that's available.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Write all this down.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You never know you're holding, you're holding together, but you
know you can wake up one day, Yeah, and it
just just collapsed.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's right in your lap.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
She opted for a neck lift that refined and smoothed
her neck contours and addressed excess skin left by her
weight loss. They use this hy luronic filling high luronic
acid fillers.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yes you know this, I know.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You, Yes, yes, absolutely, that's right. But you don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I use hyaluronic acid as a face.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Erum, hyaluronic acid. Anything with the word acid in it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Seem right now, It's not what you think.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Okay, spare it on your face.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yes, every day, twice a day.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
In fact, you put hyluronic acid twice a day and
your y Yes, look it up.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
A lot of the women and maybe men do what
men people guys that don't want wrinkles and want their
face to look nice and smooth.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, that's a certain kind of man. You get to
hear one of my male friendssturi does who moisturize?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
No? Do I moisturize?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Do you put sunscreen on?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
At least sometimes? My wife? It's just sounded enough.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, boy.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And anyway this uh, I don't know who I'm reading here.
Uh oh.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
A plastic surgeon says, your body doesn't make more fat cells.
The fat cells don't multiply. They're getting bigger or smaller
depending on your weight. So these fat cells, when you
lose weight, have decreased volume. There's less fullness and that's
why you need all this all this trickery.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Well, I mean, the good news is that there's a fix.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, that's a lot of work and it's a lot
of money. You go through all.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The trouble, had taken the injections, you lose the weight
and now you're looking all deflated and saggy and droopy.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
But any kind of weight loss surgery, right when they
suck out the fat, you have the I'm assuming you
have the stretched out skin that's just hanging.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, you could end up with a big droop. I
mean you could end up with if you lose a
lot of weight in your belly, right.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yes, you stretched out, right, where's the skin gonna go?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I mean you end up with a big flap, yes,
a sagging flapp and you have to get that cut out. Yeah,
or you could use it as a pouch, like to
put your wallet, earphone in there and roll it up.
All right, we got Carl de Mayo is coming on
with us. Carl's the Republican Assemblyman Reform California as his group,
(16:50):
and his group is going into action because Gavin Newsom,
even though there's a constant constitutional amendment that says he
can't do this, well, he wants to override it and
he wants to spend two hundred and fifty million dollars
on a special election. He wants more Democratic congress people
from California. He wants to redraw the district lines because
having forty three out of fifty two isn't enough.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Carl will explain all this next.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Ron all the time, every day, one until four o'clock
and after four o'clock. If you miss anything, you can
catch the podcast same as the radio show hosted on
the iHeartRadio app. We're going to talk with Carl Demail.
The Republican Assemblyman. Gavin Newsom is obsessed with the redrawing
congressional districts. He normally it's done every ten years after
(17:48):
the census. He wants to speed this process up because
he feels like Republican governors are redrawing districts in other states,
so he wants to do it too, to balance the
out and ensure more Democrats are elected from California to Washington,
d c. And it could mean a special election, which
(18:11):
would cost a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And that's what we're going to have a Carl DeMaio
talk about it here. Carl, how are you?
Speaker 7 (18:16):
I'm doing fine. Our democracy doesn't seem to be doing
very well.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
One quick question, what do you think of Kamal Harris
dropping out?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
She was a very weak candidate. I think she was
getting consistent feedback from Democrats across the state that she
shouldn't run. Donors were not very happy. I think her
polling numbers continue to weaken with each day that passed
since the November election. But his spells bad news for
Gavin Newso what this means is Kamala Harris. Harris had
(18:48):
an opportunity to run for governor, but then she'd have
to sit out the twenty twenty eight presidential race because
you can't run for governor in twenty six and the
turn around and immediately.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Run for president, So she would have had to have
been committed.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
What this says is that she still has an eye
on the presdential race, and that is very bad news
for Davin because Kamala Harris could very well end up
running against him. And I think that Newsomb has a
lot of liabilities and I think Kamala Harris knows that
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Oh yeah, I mean, he's got so much baggage around
his neck.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'm just shocked that.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
He keeps plugging away and acting like he's a presidential
candidate her too, although at least she can claim she got,
you know, forty eight percent of the vote in the
last election. I can't imagine Newsom getting anywhere near that. Well,
let's talk about what he's what he's trying to do.
Most people don't keep track of this stuff. But in Texas,
the governor there, Greg Abbott, is trying to get districts
(19:48):
redrawn so they're more Republicans sent from Texas to Congress.
So Newsom is trying to counter him. Try to explain
it to people who don't follow this stuff in all
the minutia.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Well, there's two stories here. The first story, as you
have described it, there is an effort underway by Democrats
in blue states and Republicans in red states to change
congressional district lines mid cycle. Because we're only supposed to
do this every ten years through redistricting to equal out
(20:21):
the population of these districts. But they're trying to jerry mander.
Jerry mander is a term that says politicians are trying
to manipulate the lines of districts so that they get
a partisan political advantage, so that it favors one candidate
of a party over another. And jerry mandering is corrupt.
(20:42):
It's how politicians choose the voters versus the voters choosing politicians.
I don't like it. I think no matter who does it,
it's wrong. I think what's happening in Texas is wrong.
I think what's happening in California is wrong. Redistricting it's
just plain wrong, and all of us should reject it.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Right now.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
That's happening across the country. Blue states trying to rewrite
to get more Democrats seats, Red.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
States trying to rewrite to get more Republican seats.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
But there's a bigger story here in California, and that
is we took the power away from the politicians in
twenty ten with a state constitutional initiative. The citizens said,
we're sick and.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Tired of gerrymanderin.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
We want districts that reflect geographic compactness, that reflect communities
of interests. You know, people who go to church together,
school districts, water districts, people who basically, you know, try
not to split up a city if you can avoid it,
or splitting up a county. It's geographic compactness and ties,
(21:49):
community ties. So the citizens said, let's do it that way,
Let's not have politicians do it, let's ban any partisan consideration,
and that was done in twenty tens. He hated it, John,
They hated it because they want to write their own districts.
But they couldn't stop it. So in twenty ten we
switched over to the Citizen Commission models of independent, non
(22:12):
partisan redistricting. So now in twenty twenty six, what Gavinuson
needs to do is he needs to go to the
voters and get them by hooker crook with a misleading
ballot title, by using Donald Trump. And you know, here's
an anti Trumpe initiative. He's trying to eviscerate the independent
(22:33):
citizen's redistricting process.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
How can he do that if it's a constitutional amendment,
you take it.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
To a vote of the people. That's why he has
to do a special election. So originally, because he's so dumb,
he's done his dirt. You know that this guy doesn't know,
you know, his his.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
Rear end from a hole in the ground.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
But he started saying, we're going to do this in
the legislature, and of course I said, the hell you are.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
The Constitution was amended by the voters.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
You can't do it without the constitutional amendment. So that's
exactly what he's.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Going to do.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
He's going to call a special election as early as
November to at a cost of two hundred and fifty
million dollars, by the way, a quarter billion dollars of
taxpayer costs, have a special election in November to call
the voters to the polls and get them again by hooker.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Wait, did I here write two hundred and fifty million
dollars to five h million?
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Correct? Correct, we're talking. Remember we have a They say
a twelve billion dollars budget deficit. I say it's twenty
five billion. But let's take their maths twelve billion. A
quarter billion of that would be added to the deficit
because of our special election costs. The recall election costs
a little over two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
In twenty twenty one.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
But since then we've added about eight hundred thousand voters.
So that means more mail in, ballots, mailing out, and
more processing, more issuing. Right, we also have had a
nineteen percent increase in local government salaries. They have to
actually manage the elections. Postage rates are going up by
seventeen percent since twenty twenty one. So my office did
a cost assession. It's easily two.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Hundred fift million dollars.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
And that's probably even counting these NGOs that use some
of the Democrats fund during the election to go out
and harvest bellots.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
So we're talking to two huni fifty million.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Dollars just to have an election, probably three and fifty
four hund million dollars, and you add in all the
money laundering that they engage in during these special elections
with judios.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Let me ask you one more thing, though, they can
redraw the districts to get more Democrats. Already, the Democrats
have forty three House seats out of California, the Republicans
have only nine, with forty three out of fifty two,
how many more could they get?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Again, jerrymandering is very sinister, and you could literally draw
the maps so that you will have districts that will
make no sense whatsoever. But you could eliminate all the
Republicans in California. I think that they're going to end
up eliminating five to seven congressional seats for Republicans. Republicans
(25:08):
will then be down to maybe two or three. At
the end of the day, you know, you could have
you could have a district. For example, Maxine Waters could
end up representing a portion of Huntington Beach, California. Although seriously, no, no, no, no.
Redistricting is so bad, it is so sinister. You literally
(25:29):
have seen districts where they take the four oh five
Freeway and they just run along the four or five
freeway to connect two very different pieces of southern California
just because they're like, hey, you know, crazy Maxine mad
Maxine Waters can can hold this seat, and we can
(25:50):
we can layer in a bunch of Republicans who won't
have a voice. That's how bad this is. That's what
Nisson is trying to suggest. It's unfair, undemocratic, and I'm
hoping the voters will join me in rejecting it. We're
leading the campaign at Reform California to stop it. I
wasn't expecting to suit up and go into battle this early.
We have our California Voter Idea initiative that we've been
(26:12):
focusing on, and we're not going to take our eye
off of that. But we can shoot bubble gum and walk.
At the same time, we're gonna have to get ready
for a special election. So I'm asking people go to
the website Reform California dot org. Reform California dot org,
sign up, chip in and be part of the fight.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Carl DeMaio, thanks very much, Thanks much.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
All right, you're listening to John Cobel on demand from
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Speaker 1 (26:38):
John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Moist Fine, we need we have vacancies eight seven seven
moist d eighty six. Perhaps you have some reasoned analysis
of Kamala Harris not running for governor. It's true a
couple of hours ago if you did in here numbers
eight seven seven moist daty six eight seven seven six
six four seven eight eighty six were He's the talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app. You want to see me
(27:00):
on video? My wife has a video podcast on YouTube.
It's called Deborah Cobet Live, and I'm the guest. So
Deborah Cobet Live on YouTube, go and watch that. Just
posted it yesterday after three o'clock. David Howard from one
of the KFI sales managers who lost his home in
the Palisades fire and has been informing us periodically of
(27:22):
what's going on. In the endless battle with the Karen
Bass bureaucracy. Bass, of course hopes all these people move out,
sell and get out of the palisades so she can
replace everyone with low income housing refugees and homeless people
and mental patients. Really upsets her to have tax paying citizens,
(27:46):
successful tax paying citizens living there, But you know that's
the way communists are. So David Howard will be coming
up in just a few minutes. As I mentioned, Karen, Karen,
it's the same person. Kamala Harris says she's not running
for governor, and I you know, you read all these
left wing news sites La Times and Politico, and the
(28:10):
way they treat it. The way they treat her as
if she's a serious person and not a cartoon character
just amuses me. Here's how the La Times writes on
this issue. Veteran Democratic strategist Sean Clegg, a longtime adviser
(28:31):
to Harris.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
What is that like? Imagine sitting in a room for
more than five minutes? Oh what do you think, Sean? Huh?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
He said that Harris weighed the run but decided that
her next chapter would be focused on other political pursuits
outside of elected office. I have no idea what that means.
I think she listened to her gut. Obviously she saw
a huge opportunity she had to consumer. But at the
end of the day, she just didn't feel called called.
(29:06):
Who calls when somebody runs for officees because they feel called.
He's worked on Harris's campaign since two thousand and eight.
That is twenty years of talking to Kamala Harris. Wow,
people will do for money. Until January of this year,
(29:27):
she'd been in public office for twenty two consecutive years.
I think she's interested in exploring how she can have
an impact from the outside. There's no impact from the outside.
What what am I insane? I feel like I'm on
planet insanity. When has she said anything at all about
(29:50):
all the issues that are absolutely paralyzing the state and
just choking all the residents. Huh. I'd never hear her
say anything. I hear more from the grocery clerks that
I've heard from her. She's never shown any interest in
what goes on here. I've never heard her say anything
interesting about it. I mean, the riots happened when when
(30:13):
Ice was chasing the illegal aliens around, she said nothing
about it. Palisades fire wiped everything out because Karen Bass
was in Africa, k Newsom was asleep. She didn't say
anything about that either. She never said anything about oh,
I don't know, highest, uh, highest taxes in the country, income, sales,
(30:35):
business taxes, gas tag nothing. I mean, we might have
an oil pipeline shut down. We've got oil, refineries, clothing.
Do you think she was actually capable intellectually of handling
any of this, or that she had the slightest interest
in any of this? You take over as governor, you
have two refineries, clothes, and if gas is several dollars
more a gallon, what are you gonna do? You're just
(30:57):
gonna sit there? You got you got the legislatures overrun,
infested with malignant progressives. You really think she had the
intellect for this, the energy, the creativity, the force of personality, what.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
She just didn't feel called? Here's another one, Politico.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
There were warning, with near universal name recognition, strong approval
ratings among Democrats, and a national fundraising network, Harris would
have begun the race as an imposing front runner. Again,
not one word about her lack of a brain, that
(31:45):
she has no interesting thoughts about anything. I could name
you a dozen issues I think guy named a half
a dozen just thirty seconds ago, never heard a word.
Does anybody think she really cares? She hasn't even been
living here for the last what I don't know how
(32:06):
many years, because she was a senator, So there were
warning signs that Harris, though formidable, would face some challenges.
Party activists and some donors were lukewarm to her potential.
Bit lukewarm, it's a polite way of saying, don't do this.
(32:26):
I'm not giving you money. Still nursing a hangover from
twenty twenty four, reluctant to be reminded of her losing
presidential campaign. They're reminded every day. Trump's on television twenty
four hours a day. That's a reminder that she was
an awful candidate, and she blew over a billion dollars.
She blew over a billion dollars. Oh, I don't see
(32:50):
anything I would do differently.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Pressure was mounting for Harris to articulate a vision for
governing a massive and complicated state where she had not
lived full time in nearly a decade. There you go,
articulate a vision. Wouldn't she just being in public service
(33:16):
as a senator and a vice president and a possible
candidate for governor. Wouldn't you be articulating your vision every day?
Wouldn't that be wouldn't somebody has to ask, would you
articulate a vision? I mean, what what is she doing
all day besides popping gummies?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I don't know. I don't understand the world. I don't
understand anything.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Right. David Howard's coming in KFI Sales Management, who lost
his house in the Palisades and has been updating us frequently.
There was some big news from Gavin Newsom yesterday and
I'm going to talk to David about it. He's keeping
us in touch with the fight against the bureaucracy deb
remark live in the Cafight twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
(34:01):
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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