June 2, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (06/02) - CA legislators have no plan to address the affordability issues in the state. Gov. Newsom refuses to fund Prop 36 still. There is a new proposal for a law that would return California to phonics based lessons in schools.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
By this, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Surect Ashley Zavala is the reporter for Channel three and
Sacramento covers the Assembly in the state Senate, and she's
got a piece I'm going to play in just a moment.
This was supposed to be the year that the Assembly
tries to do something to help taxpayers with California's lack
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of affordability. The cost of living is so insanely high here.
Of course, it starts with having gas prices that are
almost double than many other states. We have electricity prices
that are sixty percent higher than most other states. We
have the highest taxes. That's the root of all this. Also,
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their excessive regulations that keep housing from being constructed, also
providing so many lures to illegal aliens, like free healthcare,
it means that more illegals move into California, taking up
space that ought to go for a new housing construction
for American citizens. I mean, there's a lot going on here.
Much of this is self inflicted. Almost every problem here
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in California is self inflicted.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well this, I'm convinced that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The politicians and Sacramento, it's all progressive Democrats are starting
to sniff the winds a little and they realize people
are increasingly are getting more and more unhappy. And it's
not that they want to do something, it's they want
to pretend to do something in order to fool you anywhere.
Here's Ashley Zavala from KCRA Channel three and Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Friday is what's known as the House of Origin deadline,
the deadline for bills written in the state Assembly to
pass out of the Assembly and bills written in the
Senate to get out of the Senate. Bills from the
Assembly will be considered by the Senate between now in September,
and then the Assembly will consider those Senate bills between
now and then as well. So the proposed laws that
survive this point are officially halfway through the state's lawmaking process.
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One big question looming how much of a dent will
state lawmakers make on their promise to tackle affordability.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
As we reported at the start of.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
This legislative session, the Democrats Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves and
State Senate pro Tem Mike Maguire limited the amount of
bills lawmakers could file so they would be laser focused
on affordability. Both houses combined have six hundred and ninety
seven bills to get through by the end of this week.
Nine of them have to do with affordability. Most of
those nine look to address the cost of housing, one
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attempts to bring down utility costs, and others address wage theft.
Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves also announced new committees that will
hold a series of hearings to try to tackle the
affordability issues from different angles, including on the cost of energy, transportation, housing, childcare,
and food. But these hearings aren't really scheduled yet. It's
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not even clear when these committees will begin meeting. Meanwhile,
Republicans this week are ready to criticize Democratic leaders and
claim they're not doing enough. Now six months after making
this promise. To tackle the issue, they're launching a quote
cost of Living Week, which they announced this morning. In
a statement, Assembly Republican Minority leader James Gallagher wrote, quote,
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we don't need another select committee to tell us what
most Californians already know. Democrats admit that the cost of
living is the top threat to our future. He went
on to say, so why do they keep pushing policies
to raise prices, expand bureaucracy, and hammer working families with
higher taxes. Republicans are done waiting. Californians need relief now
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end quote far session kicks off this afternoon at one
pm in the Assembly and two pm in the Senate.
They'll vote on hundreds of bills a day to have
to get through that proposed pile of laws that they
need to finish by Friday.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
That is a lot too definitely, So what is the
governor's role in this?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Like?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Where is he this week?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Right?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Actually, so right now, the governor is at the Democratic
Governor's Association meeting in Oregon.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
He's supposed to be back tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
But in the background of all of this bill passing
and slashing is the negotiations around the state budget between
him and state lawmakers. The budget allows lawmakers and the
governor to tuck some proposed laws into the spending plan
to get them passed as quickly as possible.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
It's a controversial tactic, but.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
We do know that governor is on board with two
proposals that would exempt new housing and urban areas from
the state's environmental laws. We know those lawsuits, for example,
are used to slow down a new.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Apartment from being built.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
The governor wants to fast track this push so that
it goes into effect immediately, which supporters note could really
help around the state's housing affordability issues.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
But a lot of the debates still where there's a
lot of questions is how exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Is the state going to address the cost of fuel
and food housing. Most people seem to be on board,
but again that's what we're watching this week.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
First of all, the most important thing is the is
the price of gas in this state. I checked again
triple A state by state gas averages. In California it's
at four to seventy seven. In Mississippi it's two sixty
four a gallon, and that's the average two sixty four.
Twenty five states are below three dollars a gallon, twenty
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five of them half the country. The average price in
the nation is three fourteen. Forty four states are below
three forty a gallon. If I saw three forty, I'd
probably fall out of my car. Three forty under for
forty four states two ninety four in Arizona for me
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over the weekend. Yeah, what was that sign? You sent
us a message to sign that. And as soon as
I crossed over into the Arizona state line, there was
a sign that said, deer Californians, welcome to Arizona, but
don't California our Arizona. Don't California our Arizona.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Good, We're verb now, Well, I mean you go.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
You just cross the border and it drops to two
ninety four. Friend of mine sent me a gas station
here in La the other day. It was in the sevens.
The gas was in the sevens. Let me see if
I can find this really quick, I'll fight it later.
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But I did double take because it was regular. It
was the middle grade and then the premium, all the
seven dollar range, and it was in a major intersection
here in Los Angeles. Now the average is four seventy seven.
Many places are over five dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
What's getting you ready for the eight dollars plus? Forget right?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So last week the California a Resources Board chairman was
told she ought to resign by a Democrat and they
had a bunch of Democrats on the Assembly Transportation Committee
yelling at the Resources Board because this eight p fifty
gallon is real. They are now believing it in Sacramento.
And those are all the numbers from Michael mcche the
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USC professor. And now this week, well you heard Ashley
as well as report six hundred and ninety seven bills.
Only one of the six ninety seven had anything to
do with lowering gas prices. They have to they have
to completely repeal all the taxes. They should repeal all
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the taxes, and that is going to reduce inflation substantially
in California because of all the excessive transportation costs, all
the food, all the products that are delivered by truck
everywhere in the state. Suddenly that whole transportation cost is
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going to be significantly cheaper. I mean, you could knock
off a dollar fifty just like that, bring the gas
price down to three twenty a gallon.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Then why is a newsome doing that.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I mean that that could be a great platform for
when he runs for president.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
See see look what I did.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Maybe should get a job in the newsom's.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Uh, I'll be the spokespersonally.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, public relations office. Huh okay, I like that idea.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
You do?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Would you have me on as a guest?
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Absolutely, They wouldn't let you on. But I was going
to say letter, but that that's what That's what he
should do, is you could rate it, because there's what
was it? What was it fifteen years ago? The budget
was about one hundred billion. Now it's well over three
hundred billion. Believe me, there's plenty of money here. They
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could squawk all they want, but they could knock a
dollar fifty off the price of gas just by repealing
all the gas taxes. Let us pay three twenty a gallon,
which is what most of the rest of the country
is paying. The average price is three fourteen. This is
just them stealing money, no purpose to it. They haven't
affected the climate at all.
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Speaker 1 (09:20):
You want the moistline.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven,
Moist eighty six, or the talkback feature on the iHeart
radio app the we were telling you about Gavin Newsom
and the legislature. They had promised to have a whole
session on affordability, right, and they have six hundred and
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ninety seven bills that they're six hundred and ninety seven.
Can you can you imagine the mayhem inside six hundred
and ninety seven of these things, but there's only one
that addresses gas prices, even though we're headed for eight
fifty a gallon. You know another thing that Newsom is
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stubbornly obnoxious about is he will not fund Prop thirty six.
George Calton had a common in the Alley Times this
Today about it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Prop thirty six, just to review, it just moved into
the state. It passed with over sixty eight percent of
the vote. All fifty eight counties voted for it. Fifty
five of the fifty eight counties that won by landslide margins,
including all the left wing counties in the San Francisco
Bay area. Okay, so it was a complete rejection of
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Gavin Newsom and the legislator's crime policies. It made theft
a crime again.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It made.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Drug use a crime again, and that was interesting because
it said you're going to have a choice. You either
go to jail or you go to treatment. Drug treatment.
It made various fentinyl crimes felonies for the first time,
kind of created a whole new class of fentinal felonies.
But Newsom and the Democrats fought Prop thirty six bitterly
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until they realized the polling was so stacked against them
they gave up. He though, is blocking it by not
funding it because the ballot measure imposed tougher penalties for
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not only fentonyl but you know, like I said, it
offered criminals a chance to get out of trouble just
by taking drug treatment.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
But he will not fund the drug treatment.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
And Prop thirty six did not have a funding mechanism,
and they didn't funding mechanism in there because what were
they going to do? Propose a tax increase? Then Newsom
would have campaigned against it saying, well, that's a tax increase.
So instead Newsom was campaigning against it saying, well, there's
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no funding mechanism.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You see how he does it.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Or they could have proposed stealing money from another program,
and then we would have heard all kinds of sob stories.
The truth is they have over three hundred million dollars
they should be funding drug treatment for people who've been
convicted of drug crimes. How do you I mean, that's
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why we have so many vagrants in the streets. Big
percentage of them are drug addicts. We're giving them a break. Hey,
we'll arrest you for the drug use and we're going
to give you free drug treatment.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So the uh, there's a lot of Prop.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Thirty six supporters think that, well the treatment isn't offered,
then maybe the judges won't allow them to be thrown
in jail. So we're gonna We're gonna get into a
bad place here where Newsom in the legislature is counting
on not funding the drug treatment, fearing the judges are
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not gonna throw these people in jail because it's the
state's fault for not funding the drug treatment. You know,
we offered it, but we don't have anybody to pay
for it. You see what Newsom does such a sneak,
isn't he He just ignores what the public wants. And
then George Scouting points this out. Best example is the
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death penalty. Voters twice rejected elimination of the death penalty.
In fact, they also voted to expedite e X executions
in twenty sixteen, but Newsom ignored the voters three times
we voted for executions or speeding up executions, and he
ignored it. In fact, he closed death row. And then
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he prattles on about threats to democracy. The uh. There
are so many things that he's doing to harm our
way of life, and we desperately need a strong charismatic
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candidate because many of the Democratic candidates to replace him,
if not all of them, want to continue his policies
because they don't they're all in the progressive cult. They
all believe in the progressive religion, and they don't think
there's any penalty to pay for it. I mean, look
at Newsom. He ignored three death penalty propositions and there
was no penalty. He's ignoring now funding proper thirty six
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and what's the penalty going to be. He is a
hardcore progressive. He dances around publicly sometimes and plays pretend
that he's a reasonable person. You look at his policies
and they're about as far left as you could find
without falling off the edge of the Earth, you got
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more coming up?
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We are on from one to four every day. If
you miss stuff after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand,
it's the podcast that's what you ought to listen to
on the on that iHeart app. I saw a story
today in The Times and I thought I was I'd
gone back in a time warp, like back to the
nineteen nineties. Do you back in the nineteen nineties. There
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was a big ruckus now that the kids were going
into school back then. I guess, God, some of them
are probably you know, years old now, right, And there
was a big fight over how you teach reading to
school kids. And I grew up on these coasts, so
I'd never encountered this problem before because where I grew up,
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you know, in Jersey, we all used phonics. I remember
had little phonics workbooks as a kid and got here
to California and I was totally baffled by this idea
that they don't they don't use phonics. The Teachers' Union
fell in love with some really stupid trendy idea that
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you teach kids by using whole language, and it was
really exotic, and I thought, well, what is whole language?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And you know what it is? Do you know this?
Have you heard of it?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I vaguely remember that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Right, it's you have your child look at a picture
and he guesses the word yeah, and that over time
they end up putting it all together and they.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Could read instead of sounding out the words.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Right, instead of using phonics. And I thought it was
the most insane idea. And it was an insane idea
because reading scores back then were terrible, and it's like, well,
obviously it's somehow it became political. It became one of
those stupid right wing, left wing things. It's like, no
phonics works. In fact, one of the advertisers we had
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back then, I did commercials for Hooked on Phonics. Oh yeah,
guy named John Shanahan, very wealthy guy. He ended up
syndicating Doctor Laura's program and it was a phonics game
and I played it with my kids and it wasn't
Hooked on Phonics.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I think it was the phonics game. But there was
another company. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
In any event, that was suddenly an industry because the
schools had given up on it and nobody knew why,
and I remember the story was they traced it to
a conference. Somebody gave a presentation, and there's something weird
in human nature where there's a certain number of people
who like to jump on something that's new and cool
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and trendy, and it doesn't matter if it makes life worse.
It's cool and trendy. That's all that matters. Anyway, fast
forward to now LA Times. This morning, I'm looking and
it turns out they're still teaching. They're still teaching whole language.
And what you should know is back in the nineties
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and now, the reading proficiency of California fourth graders has
been stuck between twenty five and thirty percent. Seventy to
seventy five percent of fourth graders are not proficient in reading.
They can't read. Same thing in math too. But put
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that aside for a second.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I don't remember my kids learning to read that way.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
With whole average.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
I mean I read to my kids every single night
and would help them with reading, and we always sounded
out words.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, that that's what.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
That's the only way I knew how to read, because
that's the process I had. Yeah, and everybody I knew
growing up, I don't remember kids having problems with reading.
I see this California thing where you know, seventy percent
or seventy five percent can't read, and I go, what
how does this happen? And by the way, we're last
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or close to last when it comes to reading proficiency.
I don't think if you've been able to get your
kids out of a public school system, especially the city systems,
you have no idea how atrocious like LA Unified is.
I mean, it's exceptionally atrocious. They simply don't teach anything.
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They just don't like some of the wealthier some of
the wealthier suburban school districts are really good, obviously private
schools and religious schools, but man, you get the ones
where the teachers' unions are powerful. For some reason, the teachers'
unions fell in love with this whole language concept and
it didn't work.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Back then. It still doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
That's not how the brain. That's not how a child
brain is constructed. A child's brain is constructed. It's called well,
it's called the science of reading. And because phonics is
the natural, scientific way a brain can learn languages. You
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print the words and you have them sound out the
words based on the letters and the different sounds that
the letters can make depending on how they're arranged.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Right now, guess.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
John, can't that just be memorizing. You're not really learning
how to read if you're looking at a tree, right,
And so you've shown a picture of a tree and
you say tree, and then the next time your kid
sees that, they say tree, but they don't know how.
They don't know how to sound it out.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
It just doesn't and you're you can't and you have
to do this when they're very young or the brain hardens.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
If kids don't learn how to read, you know, by
time they're eight nine years old, they're never going to
read well for the rest of their life. And I
think that's why most people don't read much. I think
that's why people are attracted to social media, because you
don't have to know how to read. There's a picture
or a video and they you know you've seen on
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like the Instagram videos, they flash the words and its
short bursts of words, and that's really popular with people
because they their brains were literally literally not designed in
childhood to pick up a three hundred page book and
digest it. Because if you're you're just memorizing tree. Well,
there's thousands of words, and there's no way to there's
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no textbook with thousands of pictures where you could then memorize,
and then you have multi syllabic words, and you know,
things can get complicated. But if you do it right
when they're young, because the young brains are so powerful,
they're so pliable.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So here's a proposed law.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Up up in the legislature, and it's a bill that
would return California to phonics. Phonics based lessons are on
a fast track to become law, a sweeping bill moving
through the legislature that will mandate how schools teach reading.
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And I was just I was looking at it this morning.
I'm thinking, I thought that was settled thirty years ago.
I had no idea, and in the back of my mind,
I was always wondering, well, why are reading scores so bad?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I didn't, you know, it just wasn't covered. It just
wasn't a thing.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And I didn't send my kids to public school, so
at probably I would have pulled them out in about
you know, twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's a couple of generations of kids whose brains were
wasted by trending nonsense out of a conference.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
God, we're a stupid species.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Leslie Zaroya leads an initiative at the La County Office
of Education, saying there's only twenty six letters and forty
four sounds. Phonics isn't forever. You just have to teach
them the twenty six letters and the forty four sounds,
and once the brains memorize that, then they can read
and the reading comes fluently and quickly. This bill failed
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last year, but somehow the teachers' unions have signed on
this year. I I'm just absolutely flabbergasted. They've been fighting
about this all these decades, and it's just like ruined
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a lot of kids' lives. A lot of teachers in
the state going back twenty years and more. They they're
very passionate about their whole language methods. They don't like
the state getting in the way. They don't like the
phonics drills that teach the letter sounds and the decoding.
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Teachers always get upset with drills and testing.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You produced for thirty five years now a seventy to
seventy five percent failure rate.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Why are.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Why you and you're so passionate about your method, your method,
it stinks. It's a massive failure. There are kids now
in their forties who still can't read. There's nothing more
stupid and more obstinate than public school teachers when they unionize.
That may be the dumbest, most stubborn creature on the planet.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
I'm gonna have to ask my brother, he's a teacher,
because we've never talked about this.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
And there the the advocates for kids who who were
learning multiple languages. Again, this goes back to legal immigration.
So many Spanish speaking kids came here to California, and
there there became a whole u an industry surrounding them
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and protecting their rights and coming up with their own
unique theories on how to teach multi or bilingual kids.
And they thought that kids were still learning English would
not receive the right support if you used phonics. I mean,
it's all stupid, but the idea of you look at
pictures or the context of a story to guess a
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word that sounds on its face insane. But they were activists.
All right, all right, we're coming up.
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Speaker 8 (26:25):
I don't know you want me here now. I thought
you saw you want me right before the end.
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Of the show. No, God'll talk to you as long
as you know you're right. I Tim has been felled by.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I was going to say, I just heard him promoting
something for his show seconds ago.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
He sounded okay in the promo. Yeah he did, But
I think you recorded that on Friday, right, And now
he's been hit with his doctor said take two days off,
is that right? Yeah, so it must be pretty bad.
I mean because usually, of course, the much celebrated Conway
immune system is to get him back up on his feet.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
He did a fair amount of damage to that immune city.
That is true. It might be wearing out.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
He's taken some incoming fire on that immune sattell appune
system lasts forever.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Eventually, it breaks down, usually over the stuff you did
when you were twenty five.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
This is true.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
If only we knew, you know, the the wisdom of age. Yeah,
I missed you at the Pride stuff this weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
But I uh, I was Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
Well, I mean it's by now become kind of just
a thing.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Right, People get out and you attended.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
I didn't because I was on the air yesterday here
at this great radio station.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
But I did get affected by.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
It because the circuitous way that you have to get
around town, and they, you know, they cut off a
lot of streets, and I you know, I used to
go there every year for Halloween and one other event
I forget. Maybe it was the pride event for Channel eleven.
You know, because I will send the weather guy out
to some colorful place.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it was. It was but one
of those leather outfits but cutouts. Well, hey, listen, don't
make fun of it until you see it. You know.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
I have the buttox cut out of the later Hosen
and that was quite beautiful. But the event when you
go on late, like remember the ten o'clock news. I
came on around like twenty to eleven, sure, and things
are getting nuts then, I mean it was, it was,
and you see these wild outfits. I mean, it really
is a crazy spectacle. That's Halloween I'm talking about. I
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don't know how crazy it was. Not today Friday at
your house. It's half a click off of Friday. Okay, yeah,
But my point is I and I think I want
to say Ryan Seacrest has done the I didn't. He
wasn't either the Marshal Grand Marshal at a Pride event.
That's not something I tracked. So I can't have the scorecard.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I can't offer any exact information on who's getting on
ORed if you.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Were offered the Grand Marshall ship.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I have never been offered a Grand Marshall ship of anything.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Wow, yeah, why do you think that is? John? Huh?
I don't think people like me. You have good reason?
Do you have an immensely popular radio show? How? I
don't see how those two things can be true.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It seems when it comes to being the face of
some organization, I see you know, they don't they don't.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
They don't want the Trump. But you're not a glad hander.
I could see that.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
No I'm not. Yeah, I'm not really good at public relations.
But you're not an ambassador.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
She's the yang to your yin because she is super social,
Yes she is.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, it's it's annoyingly anyway anyway. I have to get
dragged along sometimes.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But yeah, exactly, you're forced into.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
If anybody wants her to be a Grand Marshals, then.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Oh that's a thought. Yeah, you know and I can
just wave it or going by.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Uh, well they've I did that suspect, as you know
in the Baldwin Park shooting.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
And we'll we'll talk a bit about that.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
The FAA is launching a task force, which is what
we need, is another task force.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Don't you think task force exactly?
Speaker 8 (30:02):
Big cuts at Disney. We'll get to that and Big
Bear News then you place a Big Bear.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, you should come up sometimes. I would love to.
Speaker 8 (30:14):
I see your wife's Instagram and it looks like just
the most magnificent times every time you guys are to
gather up there. But there was big news at a
Big Bear, so we'll be talking about that as well.
And fewer tourists are traveling to this popular destination for
Angelino's Las Vegas, and there is a reason for that
that I'll share with you coming up.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Well, yeah, so there's let me.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Just say, I picked a handful of stories, John, that's
not the whole show.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
That's not everything, thank you, No, okay, just a little
all right. We've got Mark Thompson in for the ailing
Tim Conway.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
He's ailing.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Do he lose his voice or just I haven't gotten
to the tails. I think there's a whole. Maybe there's
a GI involvement. I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
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all right now Before I was rudely interrupted.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
By this, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Surect Ashley Zavala is the reporter for Channel three and
Sacramento covers the Assembly in the state Senate, and she's
got a piece I'm going to play in just a moment.
This was supposed to be the year that the Assembly
tries to do something to help taxpayers with California's lack
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of affordability. The cost of living is so insanely high here.
Of course, it starts with having gas prices that are
almost double than many other states. We have electricity prices
that are sixty percent higher than most other states. We
have the highest taxes. That's the root of all this. Also,
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their excessive regulations that keep housing from being constructed, also
providing so many lures to illegal aliens, like free healthcare,
it means that more illegals move into California, taking up
space that ought to go for a new housing construction
for American citizens. I mean, there's a lot going on here.
Much of this is self inflicted. Almost every problem here
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in California is self inflicted.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well this, I'm convinced that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The politicians and Sacramento, it's all progressive Democrats are starting
to sniff the winds a little and they realize people
are increasingly are getting more and more unhappy. And it's
not that they want to do something, it's they want
to pretend to do something in order to fool you anywhere.
Here's Ashley Zavala from KCRA Channel three and Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Friday is what's known as the House of Origin deadline,
the deadline for bills written in the state Assembly to
pass out of the Assembly and bills written in the
Senate to get out of the Senate. Bills from the
Assembly will be considered by the Senate between now in September,
and then the Assembly will consider those Senate bills between
now and then as well. So the proposed laws that
survive this point are officially halfway through the state's lawmaking process.
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One big question looming how much of a dent will
state lawmakers make on their promise to tackle affordability.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
As we reported at the start of.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
This legislative session, the Democrats Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves and
State Senate pro Tem Mike Maguire limited the amount of
bills lawmakers could file so they would be laser focused
on affordability. Both houses combined have six hundred and ninety
seven bills to get through by the end of this week.
Nine of them have to do with affordability. Most of
those nine look to address the cost of housing, one
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attempts to bring down utility costs, and others address wage theft.
Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves also announced new committees that will
hold a series of hearings to try to tackle the
affordability issues from different angles, including on the cost of energy, transportation, housing, childcare,
and food. But these hearings aren't really scheduled yet. It's
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not even clear when these committees will begin meeting. Meanwhile,
Republicans this week are ready to criticize Democratic leaders and
claim they're not doing enough. Now six months after making
this promise. To tackle the issue, they're launching a quote
cost of Living Week, which they announced this morning. In
a statement, Assembly Republican Minority leader James Gallagher wrote, quote,
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we don't need another select committee to tell us what
most Californians already know. Democrats admit that the cost of
living is the top threat to our future. He went
on to say, so why do they keep pushing policies
to raise prices, expand bureaucracy, and hammer working families with
higher taxes. Republicans are done waiting. Californians need relief now
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end quote far session kicks off this afternoon at one
pm in the Assembly and two pm in the Senate.
They'll vote on hundreds of bills a day to have
to get through that proposed pile of laws that they
need to finish by Friday.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
That is a lot too definitely, So what is the
governor's role in this?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Like?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Where is he this week?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Right?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Actually, so right now, the governor is at the Democratic
Governor's Association meeting in Oregon.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
He's supposed to be back tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
But in the background of all of this bill passing
and slashing is the negotiations around the state budget between
him and state lawmakers. The budget allows lawmakers and the
governor to tuck some proposed laws into the spending plan
to get them passed as quickly as possible.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
It's a controversial tactic, but.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
We do know that governor is on board with two
proposals that would exempt new housing and urban areas from
the state's environmental laws. We know those lawsuits, for example,
are used to slow down a new.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Apartment from being built.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
The governor wants to fast track this push so that
it goes into effect immediately, which supporters note could really
help around the state's housing affordability issues.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
But a lot of the debates still where there's a
lot of questions is how exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Is the state going to address the cost of fuel
and food housing. Most people seem to be on board,
but again that's what we're watching this week.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
First of all, the most important thing is the is
the price of gas in this state. I checked again
triple A state by state gas averages. In California it's
at four to seventy seven. In Mississippi it's two sixty
four a gallon, and that's the average two sixty four.
Twenty five states are below three dollars a gallon, twenty
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five of them half the country. The average price in
the nation is three fourteen. Forty four states are below
three forty a gallon. If I saw three forty, I'd
probably fall out of my car. Three forty under for
forty four states two ninety four in Arizona for me
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over the weekend. Yeah, what was that sign? You sent
us a message to sign that. And as soon as
I crossed over into the Arizona state line, there was
a sign that said, deer Californians, welcome to Arizona, but
don't California our Arizona. Don't California our Arizona.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Good, We're verb now, Well, I mean you go.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
You just cross the border and it drops to two
ninety four. Friend of mine sent me a gas station
here in La the other day. It was in the sevens.
The gas was in the sevens. Let me see if
I can find this really quick, I'll fight it later.
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But I did double take because it was regular. It
was the middle grade and then the premium, all the
seven dollar range, and it was in a major intersection
here in Los Angeles. Now the average is four seventy seven.
Many places are over five dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
What's getting you ready for the eight dollars plus? Forget right?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So last week the California a Resources Board chairman was
told she ought to resign by a Democrat and they
had a bunch of Democrats on the Assembly Transportation Committee
yelling at the Resources Board because this eight p fifty
gallon is real. They are now believing it in Sacramento.
And those are all the numbers from Michael mcche the
(07:19):
USC professor. And now this week, well you heard Ashley
as well as report six hundred and ninety seven bills.
Only one of the six ninety seven had anything to
do with lowering gas prices. They have to they have
to completely repeal all the taxes. They should repeal all
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the taxes, and that is going to reduce inflation substantially
in California because of all the excessive transportation costs, all
the food, all the products that are delivered by truck
everywhere in the state. Suddenly that whole transportation cost is
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going to be significantly cheaper. I mean, you could knock
off a dollar fifty just like that, bring the gas
price down to three twenty a gallon.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Then why is a newsome doing that.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I mean that that could be a great platform for
when he runs for president.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
See see look what I did.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Maybe should get a job in the newsom's.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Uh, I'll be the spokespersonally.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, public relations office. Huh okay, I like that idea.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
You do?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Would you have me on as a guest?
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Absolutely, They wouldn't let you on. But I was going
to say letter, but that that's what That's what he
should do, is you could rate it, because there's what
was it? What was it fifteen years ago? The budget
was about one hundred billion. Now it's well over three
hundred billion. Believe me, there's plenty of money here. They
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could squawk all they want, but they could knock a
dollar fifty off the price of gas just by repealing
all the gas taxes. Let us pay three twenty a gallon,
which is what most of the rest of the country
is paying. The average price is three fourteen. This is
just them stealing money, no purpose to it. They haven't
affected the climate at all.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You want the moistline.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven,
Moist eighty six, or the talkback feature on the iHeart
radio app the we were telling you about Gavin Newsom
and the legislature. They had promised to have a whole
session on affordability, right, and they have six hundred and
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ninety seven bills that they're six hundred and ninety seven.
Can you can you imagine the mayhem inside six hundred
and ninety seven of these things, but there's only one
that addresses gas prices, even though we're headed for eight
fifty a gallon. You know another thing that Newsom is
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stubbornly obnoxious about is he will not fund Prop thirty six.
George Calton had a common in the Alley Times this
Today about it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Prop thirty six, just to review, it just moved into
the state. It passed with over sixty eight percent of
the vote. All fifty eight counties voted for it. Fifty
five of the fifty eight counties that won by landslide margins,
including all the left wing counties in the San Francisco
Bay area. Okay, so it was a complete rejection of
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Gavin Newsom and the legislator's crime policies. It made theft
a crime again.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It made.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Drug use a crime again, and that was interesting because
it said you're going to have a choice. You either
go to jail or you go to treatment. Drug treatment.
It made various fentinyl crimes felonies for the first time,
kind of created a whole new class of fentinal felonies.
But Newsom and the Democrats fought Prop thirty six bitterly
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until they realized the polling was so stacked against them
they gave up. He though, is blocking it by not
funding it because the ballot measure imposed tougher penalties for
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not only fentonyl but you know, like I said, it
offered criminals a chance to get out of trouble just
by taking drug treatment.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
But he will not fund the drug treatment.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
And Prop thirty six did not have a funding mechanism,
and they didn't funding mechanism in there because what were
they going to do? Propose a tax increase? Then Newsom
would have campaigned against it saying, well, that's a tax increase.
So instead Newsom was campaigning against it saying, well, there's
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no funding mechanism.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You see how he does it.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Or they could have proposed stealing money from another program,
and then we would have heard all kinds of sob stories.
The truth is they have over three hundred million dollars
they should be funding drug treatment for people who've been
convicted of drug crimes. How do you I mean, that's
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why we have so many vagrants in the streets. Big
percentage of them are drug addicts. We're giving them a break. Hey,
we'll arrest you for the drug use and we're going
to give you free drug treatment.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So the uh, there's a lot of Prop.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Thirty six supporters think that, well the treatment isn't offered,
then maybe the judges won't allow them to be thrown
in jail. So we're gonna We're gonna get into a
bad place here where Newsom in the legislature is counting
on not funding the drug treatment, fearing the judges are
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not gonna throw these people in jail because it's the
state's fault for not funding the drug treatment. You know,
we offered it, but we don't have anybody to pay
for it. You see what Newsom does such a sneak,
isn't he He just ignores what the public wants. And
then George Scouting points this out. Best example is the
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death penalty. Voters twice rejected elimination of the death penalty.
In fact, they also voted to expedite e X executions
in twenty sixteen, but Newsom ignored the voters three times
we voted for executions or speeding up executions, and he
ignored it. In fact, he closed death row. And then
(14:15):
he prattles on about threats to democracy. The uh. There
are so many things that he's doing to harm our
way of life, and we desperately need a strong charismatic
(14:38):
candidate because many of the Democratic candidates to replace him,
if not all of them, want to continue his policies
because they don't they're all in the progressive cult. They
all believe in the progressive religion, and they don't think
there's any penalty to pay for it. I mean, look
at Newsom. He ignored three death penalty propositions and there
was no penalty. He's ignoring now funding proper thirty six
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and what's the penalty going to be. He is a
hardcore progressive. He dances around publicly sometimes and plays pretend
that he's a reasonable person. You look at his policies
and they're about as far left as you could find
without falling off the edge of the Earth, you got
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more coming up?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
We are on from one to four every day. If
you miss stuff after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand,
it's the podcast that's what you ought to listen to
on the on that iHeart app. I saw a story
today in The Times and I thought I was I'd
gone back in a time warp, like back to the
nineteen nineties. Do you back in the nineteen nineties. There
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was a big ruckus now that the kids were going
into school back then. I guess, God, some of them
are probably you know, years old now, right, And there
was a big fight over how you teach reading to
school kids. And I grew up on these coasts, so
I'd never encountered this problem before because where I grew up,
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you know, in Jersey, we all used phonics. I remember
had little phonics workbooks as a kid and got here
to California and I was totally baffled by this idea
that they don't they don't use phonics. The Teachers' Union
fell in love with some really stupid trendy idea that
(16:35):
you teach kids by using whole language, and it was
really exotic, and I thought, well, what is whole language?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And you know what it is? Do you know this?
Have you heard of it?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I vaguely remember that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Right, it's you have your child look at a picture
and he guesses the word yeah, and that over time
they end up putting it all together and they.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Could read instead of sounding out the words.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Right, instead of using phonics. And I thought it was
the most insane idea. And it was an insane idea
because reading scores back then were terrible, and it's like, well,
obviously it's somehow it became political. It became one of
those stupid right wing, left wing things. It's like, no
phonics works. In fact, one of the advertisers we had
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back then, I did commercials for Hooked on Phonics. Oh yeah,
guy named John Shanahan, very wealthy guy. He ended up
syndicating Doctor Laura's program and it was a phonics game
and I played it with my kids and it wasn't
Hooked on Phonics.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I think it was the phonics game. But there was
another company. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
In any event, that was suddenly an industry because the
schools had given up on it and nobody knew why,
and I remember the story was they traced it to
a conference. Somebody gave a presentation, and there's something weird
in human nature where there's a certain number of people
who like to jump on something that's new and cool
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and trendy, and it doesn't matter if it makes life worse.
It's cool and trendy. That's all that matters. Anyway, fast
forward to now LA Times. This morning, I'm looking and
it turns out they're still teaching. They're still teaching whole language.
And what you should know is back in the nineties
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and now, the reading proficiency of California fourth graders has
been stuck between twenty five and thirty percent. Seventy to
seventy five percent of fourth graders are not proficient in reading.
They can't read. Same thing in math too. But put
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that aside for a second.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I don't remember my kids learning to read that way.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
With whole average.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
I mean I read to my kids every single night
and would help them with reading, and we always sounded
out words.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, that that's what.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
That's the only way I knew how to read, because
that's the process I had. Yeah, and everybody I knew
growing up, I don't remember kids having problems with reading.
I see this California thing where you know, seventy percent
or seventy five percent can't read, and I go, what
how does this happen? And by the way, we're last
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or close to last when it comes to reading proficiency.
I don't think if you've been able to get your
kids out of a public school system, especially the city systems,
you have no idea how atrocious like LA Unified is.
I mean, it's exceptionally atrocious. They simply don't teach anything.
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They just don't like some of the wealthier some of
the wealthier suburban school districts are really good, obviously private
schools and religious schools, but man, you get the ones
where the teachers' unions are powerful. For some reason, the teachers'
unions fell in love with this whole language concept and
it didn't work.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Back then. It still doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
That's not how the brain. That's not how a child
brain is constructed. A child's brain is constructed. It's called well,
it's called the science of reading. And because phonics is
the natural, scientific way a brain can learn languages. You
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print the words and you have them sound out the
words based on the letters and the different sounds that
the letters can make depending on how they're arranged.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Right now, guess.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
John, can't that just be memorizing. You're not really learning
how to read if you're looking at a tree, right,
And so you've shown a picture of a tree and
you say tree, and then the next time your kid
sees that, they say tree, but they don't know how.
They don't know how to sound it out.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
It just doesn't and you're you can't and you have
to do this when they're very young or the brain hardens.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
If kids don't learn how to read, you know, by
time they're eight nine years old, they're never going to
read well for the rest of their life. And I
think that's why most people don't read much. I think
that's why people are attracted to social media, because you
don't have to know how to read. There's a picture
or a video and they you know you've seen on
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like the Instagram videos, they flash the words and its
short bursts of words, and that's really popular with people
because they their brains were literally literally not designed in
childhood to pick up a three hundred page book and
digest it. Because if you're you're just memorizing tree. Well,
there's thousands of words, and there's no way to there's
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no textbook with thousands of pictures where you could then memorize,
and then you have multi syllabic words, and you know,
things can get complicated. But if you do it right
when they're young, because the young brains are so powerful,
they're so pliable.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So here's a proposed law.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Up up in the legislature, and it's a bill that
would return California to phonics. Phonics based lessons are on
a fast track to become law, a sweeping bill moving
through the legislature that will mandate how schools teach reading.
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And I was just I was looking at it this morning.
I'm thinking, I thought that was settled thirty years ago.
I had no idea, and in the back of my mind,
I was always wondering, well, why are reading scores so bad?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I didn't, you know, it just wasn't covered. It just
wasn't a thing.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And I didn't send my kids to public school, so
at probably I would have pulled them out in about
you know, twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's a couple of generations of kids whose brains were
wasted by trending nonsense out of a conference.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
God, we're a stupid species.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Leslie Zaroya leads an initiative at the La County Office
of Education, saying there's only twenty six letters and forty
four sounds. Phonics isn't forever. You just have to teach
them the twenty six letters and the forty four sounds,
and once the brains memorize that, then they can read
and the reading comes fluently and quickly. This bill failed
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last year, but somehow the teachers' unions have signed on
this year. I I'm just absolutely flabbergasted. They've been fighting
about this all these decades, and it's just like ruined
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a lot of kids' lives. A lot of teachers in
the state going back twenty years and more. They they're
very passionate about their whole language methods. They don't like
the state getting in the way. They don't like the
phonics drills that teach the letter sounds and the decoding.
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Teachers always get upset with drills and testing.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You produced for thirty five years now a seventy to
seventy five percent failure rate.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Why are.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Why you and you're so passionate about your method, your method,
it stinks. It's a massive failure. There are kids now
in their forties who still can't read. There's nothing more
stupid and more obstinate than public school teachers when they unionize.
That may be the dumbest, most stubborn creature on the planet.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
I'm gonna have to ask my brother, he's a teacher,
because we've never talked about this.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
And there the the advocates for kids who who were
learning multiple languages. Again, this goes back to legal immigration.
So many Spanish speaking kids came here to California, and
there there became a whole u an industry surrounding them
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and protecting their rights and coming up with their own
unique theories on how to teach multi or bilingual kids.
And they thought that kids were still learning English would
not receive the right support if you used phonics. I mean,
it's all stupid, but the idea of you look at
pictures or the context of a story to guess a
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word that sounds on its face insane. But they were activists.
All right, all right, we're coming up.
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I don't know you want me here now. I thought
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Of the show. No, God'll talk to you as long
as you know you're right. I Tim has been felled by.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I was going to say, I just heard him promoting
something for his show seconds ago.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
He sounded okay in the promo. Yeah he did, But
I think you recorded that on Friday, right, And now
he's been hit with his doctor said take two days off,
is that right? Yeah, so it must be pretty bad.
I mean because usually, of course, the much celebrated Conway
immune system is to get him back up on his feet.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
He did a fair amount of damage to that immune city.
That is true. It might be wearing out.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
He's taken some incoming fire on that immune sattell appune
system lasts forever.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Eventually, it breaks down, usually over the stuff you did
when you were twenty five.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
This is true.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
If only we knew, you know, the the wisdom of age. Yeah,
I missed you at the Pride stuff this weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
But I uh, I was Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
Well, I mean it's by now become kind of just
a thing.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Right, People get out and you attended.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
I didn't because I was on the air yesterday here
at this great radio station.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
But I did get affected by.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
It because the circuitous way that you have to get
around town, and they, you know, they cut off a
lot of streets, and I you know, I used to
go there every year for Halloween and one other event
I forget. Maybe it was the pride event for Channel eleven.
You know, because I will send the weather guy out
to some colorful place.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it was. It was but one
of those leather outfits but cutouts. Well, hey, listen, don't
make fun of it until you see it. You know.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
I have the buttox cut out of the later Hosen
and that was quite beautiful. But the event when you
go on late, like remember the ten o'clock news. I
came on around like twenty to eleven, sure, and things
are getting nuts then, I mean it was, it was,
and you see these wild outfits. I mean, it really
is a crazy spectacle. That's Halloween I'm talking about. I
(28:29):
don't know how crazy it was. Not today Friday at
your house. It's half a click off of Friday. Okay, yeah,
But my point is I and I think I want
to say Ryan Seacrest has done the I didn't. He
wasn't either the Marshal Grand Marshal at a Pride event.
That's not something I tracked. So I can't have the scorecard.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I can't offer any exact information on who's getting on
ORed if you.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Were offered the Grand Marshall ship.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I have never been offered a Grand Marshall ship of anything.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Wow, yeah, why do you think that is? John? Huh?
I don't think people like me. You have good reason?
Do you have an immensely popular radio show? How? I
don't see how those two things can be true.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It seems when it comes to being the face of
some organization, I see you know, they don't they don't.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
They don't want the Trump. But you're not a glad hander.
I could see that.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
No I'm not. Yeah, I'm not really good at public relations.
But you're not an ambassador.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
She's the yang to your yin because she is super social,
Yes she is.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, it's it's annoyingly anyway anyway. I have to get
dragged along sometimes.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But yeah, exactly, you're forced into.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
If anybody wants her to be a Grand Marshals, then.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Oh that's a thought. Yeah, you know and I can
just wave it or going by.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Uh, well they've I did that suspect, as you know
in the Baldwin Park shooting.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
And we'll we'll talk a bit about that.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
The FAA is launching a task force, which is what
we need, is another task force.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Don't you think task force exactly?
Speaker 8 (30:02):
Big cuts at Disney. We'll get to that and Big
Bear News then you place a Big Bear.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, you should come up sometimes. I would love to.
Speaker 8 (30:14):
I see your wife's Instagram and it looks like just
the most magnificent times every time you guys are to
gather up there. But there was big news at a
Big Bear, so we'll be talking about that as well.
And fewer tourists are traveling to this popular destination for
Angelino's Las Vegas, and there is a reason for that
that I'll share with you coming up.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Well, yeah, so there's let me.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Just say, I picked a handful of stories, John, that's
not the whole show.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
That's not everything, thank you, No, okay, just a little
all right. We've got Mark Thompson in for the ailing
Tim Conway.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
He's ailing.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Do he lose his voice or just I haven't gotten
to the tails. I think there's a whole. Maybe there's
a GI involvement. I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
No, Yeah, Cruzy's got the news in the KFI twenty
four hours. Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt
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