August 5, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (08/05) - Jim Ryan comes on the show to talk about the redistricting drama in Texas. Gov. Newsom wants to redistrict parts of California in retaliation to Texas. Teens are turning to AI for emotional support. Has the mansion tax worked?
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We're gonna jump right in in just a moment, Jim Ryan,
ABC News correspondent out of Dallas, because this is really
an entertaining circus. Now, normally I don't really give a
crap as to a redistricting battle for congressional seats in Texas, right,
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it's not my top one hundred or top one thousand,
But Gavin Newsom has stuck his beak into this mess
and now he wants to redraw all the districts in
California and to the point, and we'll talk about this
later after Jim. Let's say a Trump got about thirty
eight percent of the vote, all right, so this is
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rounded off to make this easy. It's forty percent of
the people in the state will vote Republican under Newsom's plan.
Potentially you'll have four percent representation in Congress because they're
looking at a map. They could go Democratic here forty
nine to two. If they we redraw the districts the
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way Newsom wants to, it'll be forty nine Democrats two
Republicans among the congress people going from California to Washington.
So Republicans will end up with four percent representation in
Congress with forty percent of the vote. So that's that's
not good, and that's that's that's what Newsom is trying
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to do here. I well, I'll go on about it
in a few minutes, but first, Jim Ryan's got to
report the latest out of Texas. Jim, how are you, John?
How are you all right? So the Democrats in Texas
don't want to go along with this Jim governor Abbot
Republican scheme, so many of them bolted and ended up
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in Chicago as refugees. I guess Chicago's a sanctuary city
for legislators too. So there's no quorum in Texas. And
what's happening.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Well, yeah, the Speaker of the Texas House gavel the
session to order this afternoon. It took a headcount, realized
that there was no quorum today, so we shut it
down until tomorrow afternoon sometime. So yeah, so far has
been effective. Why Well, because of this redistricting map that's
before the state legislature, before the House, and so Democrats
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don't like it. It was drawn up mid census. Right,
normally this happens right after the census is taken every
ten years. Your legislators sit down, they dropped the congressional
map based on the census, on the population data. That's
what was done in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Here.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well, now years later, the Justice Department comes down and says, hey,
we think that map was drawn up based on racial lines. Well,
the Republicans who were in charge in twenty twenty one
and drew this map say no, it wasn't. The Justice
Department says, yes, it was. You need to redraw it.
So President Trump got with Governor Abbott. The Abbot called
back the legislature and said, we're going to redraw this map.
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President Trump has had you know, the Justice Department is
sort of saying, yeah, we think it was drawn on
racial lines, you got to redraw. President Trump has been
much more upfront about it and says no, I think
I can get five more Republicans out of Texas and
so redraw the lines. And that's what's been done. So
we'll see what happens with it. But this has been
done before. I remember in two thousand and three I
covered the Democrats. It was a redistricting fight back then
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as well. Democrats went up to Ardmore, Oklahoma, just over
the border from Texas, and stayed there. Someone finally broke
broke free from that, went back to Austin and they
voted and the redistricting map did pass at that time.
Likely to happen this time too, John.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
The legislators in Texas, they're not full time, so most
of them have real jobs, and so they've left their
real jobs and left their families and you know, living
in I guess i'll hotel right now. Who knows who's
paying for that?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, they'd be they would be living in Austin if
it weren't for that. Some legislator from El Paso has
to go clear over to Austin and stay there during
the special session. So they're not sleeping on their own
beds regardless.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Right, so they're out of the state. Abbot can't arrest
them when they're out of the state. Right they come back,
they'll get arrested unless they agree to go to work
in the legislature. It's quite a standoff. I mean, what
other weapons does Abbot have to force them to appear
at a special session?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Public opinion, that's it, and that's kind. That's why the
last time this was done in twenty twenty, and it
did happen in twenty twenty one, there was a quorum
break then over some voting right the Republicans wanted to pass.
But in two thousand and three, eventually some of the
legislators realized that the public opinion was turning against them,
and they said, screw it, let's just go back to Austin,
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will vote, we'll lose, will file suit, and be done.
So you know, that's what Abbott is counting on. These
civil arrest warrants really don't mean anything, and especially as
you point out, if you're in Illinois or some of
them are in New York, Selmarian in California. Actually, then
these these civil arrest warrants have no effect. That state
troopers can't go and arrestue if you're in Chicago and
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drag you back to Austin. So it's it's simbol as.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It since everything's polarized. Imagine, the Republicans obviously are unhappy
that the Democrats fled, but the Democrat voters would they
be loyal largely, Like, I wonder how much public pressure
there would be. You'd have one camp who obviously would
support you, in one camp who obviously would want you arrested.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, yeah, I think you're right, probably depending upon how
you feel about you know, this all comes down to
how you feel about President Trump. So whether you're here
in Texas or you're in Florida, you're you're in forherever.
If you love President Trump, you want to see this
map down here redrawn, because five more Republicans coming out
of Texas broadens the edge or the lead the Republicans
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have in Washington. Right. If they don't, then the Democrats
have a better chance of nullifying or taking over at least,
you know, one House of Congress in the midterm. So yeah,
so if you love him, you want to see it happen.
If you don't love him, then you don't want to
see this happen here, all.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Right, Jim, Jim Ryan, thank you very much. Thanks John
from ABC News and he's reporting out of Dallas about
this standoff between the legislature. Now, the reason it matters
here in California is Newsom wants to do the same
for the Democrats. He wants to play a tip for
tech game and says, well, if that thing in Techs
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goes through and they redraw the districts, that he wants
to redraw the California districts in order to get Democratic
votes back. Whatever they lose in Texas he wants to
make up for. But that screws voters here in California.
I don't think anybody, well nobody here should care what's
going on in Texas. That's their battle. But if you're
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a Republican or an independent voter, then your choices will
be diminished greatly because they're looking at a possibility of
Democrats beating Republicans by forty nine to two among California,
the California congressional districts, we could have forty nine Democrats
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and two Republicans, which is wildly wrong, wildly unfair. No
state should have their congressional delegation be forty nine to two.
I mean, so that sign Newsom is getting all aggravated
because he's trying to whip up the anti Trump crowd,
and he's totally screwing over California voters. And he's supposed
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to represent all California voters, not just the people in
his party. He's going to take away representation from forty
percent of the state in order to satisfy his longings
to be the anti Trump King. We're going to tell
you more about this when we come back.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
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We just had Jim Ryan on from ABC News. Because
the Texas House Democrats are still a wall. They've many
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of them taken refuge refuge in Chicago, some in New York.
They don't want to vote, so the Republicans in the
Texas Legislature don't have a quorum and the vote is
over redrawing the congressional district maps so there are more
Republicans and fewer Democrats. The Republicans could gain five seats
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for Trump, and obviously the Democrats don't want that to happen,
and they don't have enough votes to stop it, so
they just decided to bolt. And this kind of thing
happens every so often. However, Gavin Newsom stuck his oily
little beak into the story and said, if, well, if
Texas does this, then California is going to retaliate. Now
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bear with me a second. Here, the legislature is not
allowed to redraw the district lines. Here there's an independent commission.
Who knows how independent it really is, but that's what
it says. It was a constitutional amendment that the public
voted on. So how does Newsom get around the constitutional amendment. Well,
he wants to create another Constant Tuchiel amendment, repealing the
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first one, and so he wants to run on the
anti Trump sentiment in California, whip up people's emotions with
all kinds of garbage and nonsense. So they vote for
the redistricting. And then here's what happens. The redistrictors start
drawing these complicated districts. Now they're supposed to be you know,
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compact squares and rectangles, right, and the people in those
districts should have something in common geography, income, certain way
of life, you know, certain like you know, suburban people
ought to be in a suburban district. City people ought
to be in an urban district, and on and on.
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You get the idea. But they draw these elaborate maps
where the district's snake and curl and double back, and
they have really jagged lines, and you have people you
could be one hundred miles from some of your fellow
citizens in your district. And it's wrong. That's not the
way it's supposed to be. And so we passed, the
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public passed this constitucial amendment saying stop this stuff. You know,
draw normal districts. And well, Newsom wants to deceive the public.
But what really got me is how passionate he is
about this, how angry, how he's fighting, and he's fighting Trump,
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and he's fighting Greg Abbott in Texas and the Texas
He's fighting, fighting, fighting, you know, every three words out
of his mouth, I'm fighting, and I'm thinking, hello over
here where the voters in California, where the constituents. I
never hear him getting that aggravated over I don't know.
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We got got over one hundred thousand homeless people in
the state. We got four dollars fifty five dollars gas.
You don't hear him. I'm fighting for that doesn't talk
about it, doesn't care crime, right, I mean when people
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revolted against all the crime and past Prop thirty six,
he won't fund it. He refuses to fund it. He
won't fund mental health and drug treatment to get the
homeless off the street. All the stuff that's making us crazy,
he won't address. He doesn't take any action, let alone
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talk about it. But a Texas governor and a Texas
legislature redraws their districts and now you can't get them
off TV because he doesn't care anymore. Here he wants
to run, become the Democratic nominee, be the anti Trump guy.
So he's going to show that he fights and screw
you in California. Now, if his plan actually passed, because
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the Democrats are really good at it, manipulating people's emotions
and distracting, and if they get this redistricting idea in
California passed, I saw that one of the projected maps
would give the Democrats forty nine congress people from California
in Congress forty nine, and the Republican voters would have
to Now, since the Republicans are forty percent of the
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presidential vote according to the last election, you'd end up
with four percent of the Congress people. That doesn't sound
right or legal or ethical. That's wrong. Yeah, the Democratic
the Democratic Congress people deserve obviously a big majority, that's
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the way people vote here. But the Republicans be reduced
to four percent. That's wrong. But this is what he's
putting his time into. This is his passion, this is
his anger, this is his rhetoric, this is everything and
af the rest of us we're still stuck with. Oh
just look at here in La seventy thousand homeless people
in the street. Oh. Remember he wasted twenty four billion
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dollars on state homeless money and he admitted it. Oh,
it's all gone. We don't know where it went. Seventeen
billion dollars on high speed rail. Yeah, it's gone, we
don't know where it went. Thirty two billion on unemployment
payouts during COVID, fake unemployment payments. Well, the payments were real,
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but the customers are fraudulent. That's thirty two billion. There
seventeen million for high speed rail, twenty four million for homeless.
What does that amount to. That's about almost seventy five
billion dollars right there that we've been defrauded on. And
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he never stopped any of it. He enabled a lot
of it, and he doesn't talk about it, not to
mention the thirty five billion dollars a year on I
llegal aliens. Twelve billion of that on illegal alien healthcare.
Now that's over one hundred billion dollars blown to hell.
Never talks about it, isn't angry about it, no press conferences,
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He never says, I'm gonna fight to stop this. I'm
gonna fight to stop this high spreed rail waste. I'm
gonna fight to stop all this homeless money waste. I'm
gonna get the homeless off the street and into drug
care and mental health care, none of that. But God forbid.
In Texas, they're redrawing their district. So that's their business. Oh,
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I'm gonna fight Trump. Nobody's asked you to fight Trump.
People are asking you to put California in order. How
about repealing about a dollar fifty worth of taxes so
we could pay something close to the rest of the
country on gas. How about that dumbass. He's the most destructive,
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He's so he's just such a blockhead. And damn the's voters,
all everybody with their heads staring at heads down, staring
at the screens. And I'm getting closer and closer out
of traffic light, dragging somebody out of their car if
they don't move and the light changes.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I wouldn't advise that.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I understand that that's probably not a good move, but
this is the level of rage when I was I
was just driving out of my house today, right when
two streets four zombies walking aimlessly in my neighborhood, heads down.
They're kind of weaving and wandering as they're walking, staring
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at the at the phones. Don't notice anything going on.
And I don't know why it pisses me off, but
I think this is one of the reasons it pisses
me off, is like nobody pays attention to the stuff
that matters because scrolling, scrolling, scroll, it's all. It's all social.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
The same thing happens when I pull out of the
parking structure here.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Oh yeah, do you ever see the losers crossing the streets?
The whole foods.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Oh well, it's not about whole foods. But I see people.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
But I'm talking about literally right in front of our
cars when we're pulling out, and it will say stop right,
it's the crosswalks has stopped.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
About to go. And they're just looking at their phone.
Yeah that I want to hit them.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
And you have the same merge I do. Yeah. Yeah,
you're hoping a bus does the dirty work.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
It's very frustrating, I know.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And then you know, I got a come in here
and I'm looking at what's going on. It's like this
ought to be stopped. This ought to be stopped. We
should not have all the mental patients and the vagrants
and the drug addicts in the street. We should not
be paying five dollars for gas. We should not have
all these excessive taxes. We should not have billions blown
on high speed rail, billions blown on fake unemployment claims
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in Nigeria. I mean, it never stop. And then I'm
driving in and I'm hearing Gavin Newsom on the radio
like every three minutes, we're gonna fight. We're gonna fight, man,
all right, I'm going to arrest.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Take a breath, take a risk, you talk for a
little bit, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
We come back.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
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have us on in your earphones, that's that's acceptable. By
the way, one more thing about Newsome trying to redraw
the districts here in California to retaliate what's against what's
going on in Texas. There's somebody on this side of
the people, and that's Arnold Schwarzeneger. You believe this. He's
ready to campaign against Newsom's pinheaded idea to draw the
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redistricting because Schwarzeneger put together Proposition eleven back in two
thousand and eight, which created an independent commission for the
California legislative maps, and then in twenty ten Proposition twenty,
which made an independent commission for the congressional maps. They
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become constitutional amendments, and so it was under his administration,
his direction, that these propositions passed. The people voted for
him their constitutional amendments, and Knewson wants to undo all this.
So I hope, I hope Schwarzeneger squashes that little pinhead.
It'd be great if the Schwarzenegger in this regard got
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involved again, because there's virtually no pushback in this state
at all because people aren't paying attention to anything, but
you are. We appreciate that. Now the next generation is
not paying attention to anything even less. Did you see
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this story in the Times? Today? Teens are turning to
AI for friendship, advice and emotional support.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
There are a lot of lonely people out there, John.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You know, it's one thing. If you're an obese, unwashed
guy in your basement in your fifties and you have
no life and you're just watching porn videos all day
and eating pizzas and data chips, Yeah, maybe you should
talk to your AI friend. There's no market for you.
(20:50):
I should be careful. There's a certain percentage of that listening.
I know.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yeah, they're just going to tune you out.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, But now the teenagers are totally wired for not
only chet GPT, but these more sophisticated artificial intelligence H
platforms like character dot AI or Replica spelled with a
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k R E P l I k A, and you
can customize fake people with specific traits or personalities, and
they can offer emotional support, companionship, and conversations that feel
human like like somebody could make a fake Deborah.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Why if you read uh huh yeah, but you said why.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I don't think they answer every question. I just tell
my kids you can't get in trouble for what you
don't say, which apparently ignored. Well, it's the AP interviewed
a lot of teenagers and they say they're interacting with
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AI as if it was a companion, providing advice and friendship.
One woman named Kayla Cheggi says everyone uses AI for
everything now it's really taking over. I think kids use
AI to get out of thinking. So you could, you could,
You could spend your your whole adolescens now with a
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fake teenage bot. Uh, here's another girl named Ganesh. Maybe
this is a boy. Nobody nobody has a name where
you can determine their sex anymore. AI is always available
Ganesh says, it ever gets bored with you, it's never judgmental. Oh,
for god's sakes, what kind of a wimp barre you?
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You're worried that somebody is judgmental. Oh that stuff makes
me nuts. Oh oh, don't judge me. Well, don't act
like an idiot. Somebody's judging you. Maybe you've done something
really stupid.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Not necessarily. There are a lot of judging people out there.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, there are. But sometimes the judgments are accurate.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And sometimes they're not.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You gotta roll with it. You just got to deal
with it. Not everybody's gonna like you.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I know. That is a good lesson to be taught.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, not everybody's gonna think you're wonderful. You can't stop
and go, oh, you've judged me? Oh really? Is that
like shooting you in the head, because that's the way
they act. They act like you just shot a bullet
at them. You have judged me being judged, Well, that's
a good sign to get out of the room.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Not everybody has hard, thick skin like you.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Though, Uh, well, they ought to get it because it's
an easier way to live if you walk around getting
offended and insulted. Every five minutes. That's exhausting. You haven't attitude,
like I don't have a flying f Let's get out
of here.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
You're like that in some cases, but I am. I
am sensitive in other ways.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
You do not.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
No matter what you say, does not insult me, It
doesn't bother me. I don't get offended.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, I have some kind of teflon with her. Yeah,
it's like nothing I can do to get her up.
And I try. I mean you can see I try.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
It's weird. But there are other people right that do
get under my skin.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, but you fight back.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I do.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You don't go oh, don't judge me, you go right
in there.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
But yes, that that is true. Yes you know that
about me. But you know my feelings do get hurt.
They do.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I don't have feelings.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I know that is the difference between us.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
So anyway, Ganish oh hey, he says a high school
friend use an AI companion to write the breakup text
with his girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Come on, why are people are gonna say I to
write obituaries?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
What I mean, there's not going to be the originality
ever again.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Rigine getting a breakup text from from a.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Bot that's hysterical.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Does that mean the bot broke up with you or did.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
If you don't want to break up with a person,
you could say.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Hey me, I still love you. The bod is judgmental,
not me. God, what a weien er, What a weirdo?
You see? Isn't that hard to, you know, talk to
somebody and I just uh and Ganess seems like a
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smart guy if he is a guy. Uh. This feels
a little bit dystopian that a computer generated the end
of a real relationship. We're allowing computers to replace our
relationships with people. Yeah, because people don't have, you know,
a thick skin. They're so hyper sensitive and they're so windy.
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Ain't even the guys. It's like all the guys have
been neutered, walking around without their testicles. Thirty teens say
their conversations with AI companions were as satisfying or more
satisfying than talking with real friends. Thirty three percent had
discussed serious or important issues with their AI friend instead
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of real people. And they talked to a one thousand
teenagers to get this study. Oh yeah, and there's one
researcher who said, if teens are getting developing social skills
on AI platforms where they're constantly being validated. That's that's
another phrase that's right up there with don't be judgmental. Yeah,
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I need to be validated.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Well, everybody wants to be validated, including you, mister coblt.
We all need a little pat on the back. Sometimes
pat on the back, though you'll me be told we're
doing a good job. What would we look nice today?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
What if you're not doing a good job? And what
if you look like hell?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Okay, well, if you're not doing a good job, then
your boss should fire you or give you a warning.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
And if you're not looking good, then just then you
don't need to say anything.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
That's that's being judgmental. If they're constantly they're getting validated,
not being challenged, not learning to read social cues or
understand somebody else's perspective. They're not going to be adequately
prepared in the real world. I shouldn't already seen some
of that wander into the building here. Some of the
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people have applied for jobs or actually gotten jobs. All right,
more coming up? All right, miss sensitive eat gentle this
is my gentle size. Oh god, yes, you bring up
my gentle side. Okay, you're listening.
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on the iHeartRadio app. One of our rhetorical questions that
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we both ask repeatedly is where'd the homeless money go?
Because we had another homeless tax. If you remember people
voted on back in November, it doubled the sales tax
that's geared towards homeless people.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
That needs to be rescinded.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yes, that needs to be completely abolished, wiped out, rolled
back is a remarkable waste of money and people just
here in California. And I'm telling you that's why I
keep bringing this up. It sounds like a broken record,
but it's because people spend all their time scrolling nonsense
on social media that they don't have the slightest idea,
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and plus they get weird stuff in their feed. Because
my wife is on social media, you know about ten
thousand times more than I do and I see when
she scrolls and she shows me stuff, because she'll say
is this true? Is this true? And it's complete nonsense,
just stuff that's just flat out not true. But it's
made up by I don't know, partisan people, political activist groups,
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maybe pranksters. But it circulates around and everybody can make
it look like a professional presentation and it's complete lies
and nonsense. And that's where people are getting their news.
You know. They say, well, you know, fifty eight percent
of the public now gets its news for social media. Well,
if they were reading, well, yeah, I was going to
say traditional news sources, but those lie all the time too,
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all right, But this is even a step below that.
This is absolutely fabricated nonsense, not just slanted nonsense. So, honey,
we've blown all this money. And now we've doubled the
homeless sales tax in La County. Here's another one. Westside
Current Los Angeles collected seven hundred million dollars from the
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mansion tax. Remember this thing.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Oh yeah, if you have a.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
House that sells for more than five million dollars, that
money above five million is taxed at four percent. If
you sell a house for over ten million dollars, that's
taxed five and a half percent, and I know a
(30:25):
lot of people are going if those rich people. There
is always an appetite for people who don't accomplish things
to get angry with people who do accomplish things, and
the impulse is to take their money, not because you
deserve it or even need it, but because they earned it.
And it's not fair, all right, So you took their money.
(30:51):
You voted to take their money. And it's by the way,
revenues came in well below expectations. People just stopped selling
their properties unless they absolutely had to, and a lot
of them sold it before the tax kicked in to effect.
But now in about two years, they've collected seven hundred
million dollars and according to an update presented to a
(31:18):
citizen's oversight committee, the City Los Angeles, out of seven
hundred and three million dollars are you ready for this,
spent nine hundred and twelve thousand on new affordable housing
nine hundred and twelve thousand dollars out of seven hundred
(31:40):
and three million. There is one particular pot of money
called affordable housing programs, and there's one hundred and eighty
eight million sitting in that bank account unspent. Uh. Then
they spent money twenty five million on homeless pre programs,
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rent relief, and eviction defense, and the city has projected
to spend thirteen million in administrative expenses. So there we go,
the bureaucrats getting rich. The city has spent fifteen times
more on running the program than actually building the housing
that it was intended to create. Can I say that
(32:24):
again for all you you, you brainstems, all you vegetables
out there. E screw those rich people who are going
to help the homes. Okay, you gave it to the
city of la which is filled with incredibly corrupt thieves.
So I'm going to say it again. The city has
spent fifteen times more on running the program than actually
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building the housing. And people were told it's like, oh, yeah,
you steal the money from these rich people and it'll go,
it'll go. Or for housing. You ain't get the housing.
You can't get anything. You got thirteen million dollars in
administrative salaries. That's what you've got. People are just so
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easily scammed or they're blinded by there. They're envy and
hatred for those who accomplish things they can't even see straight.
I know there are still lawsuits in progress. Maybe that'll
get rolled back too, because it ought to be all
rolled back, because all of the money is wasted. The
sales tax ought to be rolled back, the mansion tax
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ought to be rolled back. And it doesn't matter what
you think about how homelessness ought to be funded and
how wealthy people ought to be punished. The money is
stolen and is given to these these thieving bureaucrats. So
on that basis alone, all right, when we come back.
So the big story in the last couple of weeks
(33:56):
is in a business world here in California is the
In and Out owner Lindsey Snyder announcing a move from
California to Tennessee. And this got like the news of administration,
all worked up and some people in the media who
kiss his rear end. But the truth is In and
(34:17):
Out is only one of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of businesses that have moved out of California in recent years.
We've had a net loss in recent years every year
of hundreds of businesses compared to those moving in. I'll
tell you all about it coming up. Debra Mark is
Live in the KFI twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've
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We're gonna jump right in in just a moment, Jim Ryan,
ABC News correspondent out of Dallas, because this is really
an entertaining circus. Now, normally I don't really give a
crap as to a redistricting battle for congressional seats in Texas, right,
(00:44):
it's not my top one hundred or top one thousand,
But Gavin Newsom has stuck his beak into this mess
and now he wants to redraw all the districts in
California and to the point, and we'll talk about this
later after Jim. Let's say a Trump got about thirty
eight percent of the vote, all right, so this is
(01:05):
rounded off to make this easy. It's forty percent of
the people in the state will vote Republican under Newsom's plan.
Potentially you'll have four percent representation in Congress because they're
looking at a map. They could go Democratic here forty
nine to two. If they we redraw the districts the
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way Newsom wants to, it'll be forty nine Democrats two
Republicans among the congress people going from California to Washington.
So Republicans will end up with four percent representation in
Congress with forty percent of the vote. So that's that's
not good, and that's that's that's what Newsom is trying
(01:50):
to do here. I well, I'll go on about it
in a few minutes, but first, Jim Ryan's got to
report the latest out of Texas. Jim, how are you, John?
How are you all right? So the Democrats in Texas
don't want to go along with this Jim governor Abbot
Republican scheme, so many of them bolted and ended up
(02:12):
in Chicago as refugees. I guess Chicago's a sanctuary city
for legislators too. So there's no quorum in Texas. And
what's happening.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Well, yeah, the Speaker of the Texas House gavel the
session to order this afternoon. It took a headcount, realized
that there was no quorum today, so we shut it
down until tomorrow afternoon sometime. So yeah, so far has
been effective. Why Well, because of this redistricting map that's
before the state legislature, before the House, and so Democrats
(02:43):
don't like it. It was drawn up mid census. Right,
normally this happens right after the census is taken every
ten years. Your legislators sit down, they dropped the congressional
map based on the census, on the population data. That's
what was done in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Here.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well, now years later, the Justice Department comes down and says, hey,
we think that map was drawn up based on racial lines. Well,
the Republicans who were in charge in twenty twenty one
and drew this map say no, it wasn't. The Justice
Department says, yes, it was. You need to redraw it.
So President Trump got with Governor Abbott. The Abbot called
back the legislature and said, we're going to redraw this map.
(03:22):
President Trump has had you know, the Justice Department is
sort of saying, yeah, we think it was drawn on
racial lines, you got to redraw. President Trump has been
much more upfront about it and says no, I think
I can get five more Republicans out of Texas and
so redraw the lines. And that's what's been done. So
we'll see what happens with it. But this has been
done before. I remember in two thousand and three I
covered the Democrats. It was a redistricting fight back then
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as well. Democrats went up to Ardmore, Oklahoma, just over
the border from Texas, and stayed there. Someone finally broke
broke free from that, went back to Austin and they
voted and the redistricting map did pass at that time.
Likely to happen this time too, John.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
The legislators in Texas, they're not full time, so most
of them have real jobs, and so they've left their
real jobs and left their families and you know, living
in I guess i'll hotel right now. Who knows who's
paying for that?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, they'd be they would be living in Austin if
it weren't for that. Some legislator from El Paso has
to go clear over to Austin and stay there during
the special session. So they're not sleeping on their own
beds regardless.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Right, so they're out of the state. Abbot can't arrest
them when they're out of the state. Right they come back,
they'll get arrested unless they agree to go to work
in the legislature. It's quite a standoff. I mean, what
other weapons does Abbot have to force them to appear
at a special session?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Public opinion, that's it, and that's kind. That's why the
last time this was done in twenty twenty, and it
did happen in twenty twenty one, there was a quorum
break then over some voting right the Republicans wanted to pass.
But in two thousand and three, eventually some of the
legislators realized that the public opinion was turning against them,
and they said, screw it, let's just go back to Austin,
(05:11):
will vote, we'll lose, will file suit, and be done.
So you know, that's what Abbott is counting on. These
civil arrest warrants really don't mean anything, and especially as
you point out, if you're in Illinois or some of
them are in New York, Selmarian in California. Actually, then
these these civil arrest warrants have no effect. That state
troopers can't go and arrestue if you're in Chicago and
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drag you back to Austin. So it's it's simbol as.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It since everything's polarized. Imagine, the Republicans obviously are unhappy
that the Democrats fled, but the Democrat voters would they
be loyal largely, Like, I wonder how much public pressure
there would be. You'd have one camp who obviously would
support you, in one camp who obviously would want you arrested.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, yeah, I think you're right, probably depending upon how
you feel about you know, this all comes down to
how you feel about President Trump. So whether you're here
in Texas or you're in Florida, you're you're in forherever.
If you love President Trump, you want to see this
map down here redrawn, because five more Republicans coming out
of Texas broadens the edge or the lead the Republicans
(06:20):
have in Washington. Right. If they don't, then the Democrats
have a better chance of nullifying or taking over at least,
you know, one House of Congress in the midterm. So yeah,
so if you love him, you want to see it happen.
If you don't love him, then you don't want to
see this happen here, all.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Right, Jim, Jim Ryan, thank you very much. Thanks John
from ABC News and he's reporting out of Dallas about
this standoff between the legislature. Now, the reason it matters
here in California is Newsom wants to do the same
for the Democrats. He wants to play a tip for
tech game and says, well, if that thing in Techs
(07:01):
goes through and they redraw the districts, that he wants
to redraw the California districts in order to get Democratic
votes back. Whatever they lose in Texas he wants to
make up for. But that screws voters here in California.
I don't think anybody, well nobody here should care what's
going on in Texas. That's their battle. But if you're
(07:23):
a Republican or an independent voter, then your choices will
be diminished greatly because they're looking at a possibility of
Democrats beating Republicans by forty nine to two among California,
the California congressional districts, we could have forty nine Democrats
(07:46):
and two Republicans, which is wildly wrong, wildly unfair. No
state should have their congressional delegation be forty nine to two.
I mean, so that sign Newsom is getting all aggravated
because he's trying to whip up the anti Trump crowd,
and he's totally screwing over California voters. And he's supposed
(08:08):
to represent all California voters, not just the people in
his party. He's going to take away representation from forty
percent of the state in order to satisfy his longings
to be the anti Trump King. We're going to tell
you more about this when we come back.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
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We just had Jim Ryan on from ABC News. Because
the Texas House Democrats are still a wall. They've many
(08:54):
of them taken refuge refuge in Chicago, some in New York.
They don't want to vote, so the Republicans in the
Texas Legislature don't have a quorum and the vote is
over redrawing the congressional district maps so there are more
Republicans and fewer Democrats. The Republicans could gain five seats
(09:15):
for Trump, and obviously the Democrats don't want that to happen,
and they don't have enough votes to stop it, so
they just decided to bolt. And this kind of thing
happens every so often. However, Gavin Newsom stuck his oily
little beak into the story and said, if, well, if
Texas does this, then California is going to retaliate. Now
(09:38):
bear with me a second. Here, the legislature is not
allowed to redraw the district lines. Here there's an independent commission.
Who knows how independent it really is, but that's what
it says. It was a constitutional amendment that the public
voted on. So how does Newsom get around the constitutional amendment. Well,
he wants to create another Constant Tuchiel amendment, repealing the
(10:01):
first one, and so he wants to run on the
anti Trump sentiment in California, whip up people's emotions with
all kinds of garbage and nonsense. So they vote for
the redistricting. And then here's what happens. The redistrictors start
drawing these complicated districts. Now they're supposed to be you know,
(10:25):
compact squares and rectangles, right, and the people in those
districts should have something in common geography, income, certain way
of life, you know, certain like you know, suburban people
ought to be in a suburban district. City people ought
to be in an urban district, and on and on.
(10:45):
You get the idea. But they draw these elaborate maps
where the district's snake and curl and double back, and
they have really jagged lines, and you have people you
could be one hundred miles from some of your fellow
citizens in your district. And it's wrong. That's not the
way it's supposed to be. And so we passed, the
(11:08):
public passed this constitucial amendment saying stop this stuff. You know,
draw normal districts. And well, Newsom wants to deceive the public.
But what really got me is how passionate he is
about this, how angry, how he's fighting, and he's fighting Trump,
(11:28):
and he's fighting Greg Abbott in Texas and the Texas
He's fighting, fighting, fighting, you know, every three words out
of his mouth, I'm fighting, and I'm thinking, hello over
here where the voters in California, where the constituents. I
never hear him getting that aggravated over I don't know.
(11:49):
We got got over one hundred thousand homeless people in
the state. We got four dollars fifty five dollars gas.
You don't hear him. I'm fighting for that doesn't talk
about it, doesn't care crime, right, I mean when people
(12:10):
revolted against all the crime and past Prop thirty six,
he won't fund it. He refuses to fund it. He
won't fund mental health and drug treatment to get the
homeless off the street. All the stuff that's making us crazy,
he won't address. He doesn't take any action, let alone
(12:32):
talk about it. But a Texas governor and a Texas
legislature redraws their districts and now you can't get them
off TV because he doesn't care anymore. Here he wants
to run, become the Democratic nominee, be the anti Trump guy.
So he's going to show that he fights and screw
you in California. Now, if his plan actually passed, because
(12:58):
the Democrats are really good at it, manipulating people's emotions
and distracting, and if they get this redistricting idea in
California passed, I saw that one of the projected maps
would give the Democrats forty nine congress people from California
in Congress forty nine, and the Republican voters would have
to Now, since the Republicans are forty percent of the
(13:22):
presidential vote according to the last election, you'd end up
with four percent of the Congress people. That doesn't sound
right or legal or ethical. That's wrong. Yeah, the Democratic
the Democratic Congress people deserve obviously a big majority, that's
(13:45):
the way people vote here. But the Republicans be reduced
to four percent. That's wrong. But this is what he's
putting his time into. This is his passion, this is
his anger, this is his rhetoric, this is everything and
af the rest of us we're still stuck with. Oh
just look at here in La seventy thousand homeless people
in the street. Oh. Remember he wasted twenty four billion
(14:08):
dollars on state homeless money and he admitted it. Oh,
it's all gone. We don't know where it went. Seventeen
billion dollars on high speed rail. Yeah, it's gone, we
don't know where it went. Thirty two billion on unemployment
payouts during COVID, fake unemployment payments. Well, the payments were real,
(14:28):
but the customers are fraudulent. That's thirty two billion. There
seventeen million for high speed rail, twenty four million for homeless.
What does that amount to. That's about almost seventy five
billion dollars right there that we've been defrauded on. And
(14:49):
he never stopped any of it. He enabled a lot
of it, and he doesn't talk about it, not to
mention the thirty five billion dollars a year on I
llegal aliens. Twelve billion of that on illegal alien healthcare.
Now that's over one hundred billion dollars blown to hell.
Never talks about it, isn't angry about it, no press conferences,
(15:12):
He never says, I'm gonna fight to stop this. I'm
gonna fight to stop this high spreed rail waste. I'm
gonna fight to stop all this homeless money waste. I'm
gonna get the homeless off the street and into drug
care and mental health care, none of that. But God forbid.
In Texas, they're redrawing their district. So that's their business. Oh,
(15:35):
I'm gonna fight Trump. Nobody's asked you to fight Trump.
People are asking you to put California in order. How
about repealing about a dollar fifty worth of taxes so
we could pay something close to the rest of the
country on gas. How about that dumbass. He's the most destructive,
(15:56):
He's so he's just such a blockhead. And damn the's voters,
all everybody with their heads staring at heads down, staring
at the screens. And I'm getting closer and closer out
of traffic light, dragging somebody out of their car if
they don't move and the light changes.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I wouldn't advise that.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I understand that that's probably not a good move, but
this is the level of rage when I was I
was just driving out of my house today, right when
two streets four zombies walking aimlessly in my neighborhood, heads down.
They're kind of weaving and wandering as they're walking, staring
(16:37):
at the at the phones. Don't notice anything going on.
And I don't know why it pisses me off, but
I think this is one of the reasons it pisses
me off, is like nobody pays attention to the stuff
that matters because scrolling, scrolling, scroll, it's all. It's all social.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
The same thing happens when I pull out of the
parking structure here.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Oh yeah, do you ever see the losers crossing the streets?
The whole foods.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Oh well, it's not about whole foods. But I see people.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
But I'm talking about literally right in front of our
cars when we're pulling out, and it will say stop right,
it's the crosswalks has stopped.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
About to go. And they're just looking at their phone.
Yeah that I want to hit them.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
And you have the same merge I do. Yeah. Yeah,
you're hoping a bus does the dirty work.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
It's very frustrating, I know.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And then you know, I got a come in here
and I'm looking at what's going on. It's like this
ought to be stopped. This ought to be stopped. We
should not have all the mental patients and the vagrants
and the drug addicts in the street. We should not
be paying five dollars for gas. We should not have
all these excessive taxes. We should not have billions blown
on high speed rail, billions blown on fake unemployment claims
(17:56):
in Nigeria. I mean, it never stop. And then I'm
driving in and I'm hearing Gavin Newsom on the radio
like every three minutes, we're gonna fight. We're gonna fight, man,
all right, I'm going to arrest.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Take a breath, take a risk, you talk for a
little bit, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
We come back.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
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(18:45):
have us on in your earphones, that's that's acceptable. By
the way, one more thing about Newsome trying to redraw
the districts here in California to retaliate what's against what's
going on in Texas. There's somebody on this side of
the people, and that's Arnold Schwarzeneger. You believe this. He's
ready to campaign against Newsom's pinheaded idea to draw the
(19:11):
redistricting because Schwarzeneger put together Proposition eleven back in two
thousand and eight, which created an independent commission for the
California legislative maps, and then in twenty ten Proposition twenty,
which made an independent commission for the congressional maps. They
(19:34):
become constitutional amendments, and so it was under his administration,
his direction, that these propositions passed. The people voted for
him their constitutional amendments, and Knewson wants to undo all this.
So I hope, I hope Schwarzeneger squashes that little pinhead.
It'd be great if the Schwarzenegger in this regard got
(19:55):
involved again, because there's virtually no pushback in this state
at all because people aren't paying attention to anything, but
you are. We appreciate that. Now the next generation is
not paying attention to anything even less. Did you see
(20:15):
this story in the Times? Today? Teens are turning to
AI for friendship, advice and emotional support.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
There are a lot of lonely people out there, John.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You know, it's one thing. If you're an obese, unwashed
guy in your basement in your fifties and you have
no life and you're just watching porn videos all day
and eating pizzas and data chips, Yeah, maybe you should
talk to your AI friend. There's no market for you.
(20:50):
I should be careful. There's a certain percentage of that listening.
I know.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yeah, they're just going to tune you out.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, But now the teenagers are totally wired for not
only chet GPT, but these more sophisticated artificial intelligence H
platforms like character dot AI or Replica spelled with a
(21:17):
k R E P l I k A, and you
can customize fake people with specific traits or personalities, and
they can offer emotional support, companionship, and conversations that feel
human like like somebody could make a fake Deborah.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Why if you read uh huh yeah, but you said why.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I don't think they answer every question. I just tell
my kids you can't get in trouble for what you
don't say, which apparently ignored. Well, it's the AP interviewed
a lot of teenagers and they say they're interacting with
(22:09):
AI as if it was a companion, providing advice and friendship.
One woman named Kayla Cheggi says everyone uses AI for
everything now it's really taking over. I think kids use
AI to get out of thinking. So you could, you could,
You could spend your your whole adolescens now with a
(22:33):
fake teenage bot. Uh, here's another girl named Ganesh. Maybe
this is a boy. Nobody nobody has a name where
you can determine their sex anymore. AI is always available
Ganesh says, it ever gets bored with you, it's never judgmental. Oh,
for god's sakes, what kind of a wimp barre you?
(22:54):
You're worried that somebody is judgmental. Oh that stuff makes
me nuts. Oh oh, don't judge me. Well, don't act
like an idiot. Somebody's judging you. Maybe you've done something
really stupid.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Not necessarily. There are a lot of judging people out there.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, there are. But sometimes the judgments are accurate.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And sometimes they're not.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You gotta roll with it. You just got to deal
with it. Not everybody's gonna like you.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I know. That is a good lesson to be taught.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, not everybody's gonna think you're wonderful. You can't stop
and go, oh, you've judged me? Oh really? Is that
like shooting you in the head, because that's the way
they act. They act like you just shot a bullet
at them. You have judged me being judged, Well, that's
a good sign to get out of the room.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Not everybody has hard, thick skin like you.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Though, Uh, well, they ought to get it because it's
an easier way to live if you walk around getting
offended and insulted. Every five minutes. That's exhausting. You haven't attitude,
like I don't have a flying f Let's get out
of here.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
You're like that in some cases, but I am. I
am sensitive in other ways.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
You do not.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
No matter what you say, does not insult me, It
doesn't bother me. I don't get offended.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, I have some kind of teflon with her. Yeah,
it's like nothing I can do to get her up.
And I try. I mean you can see I try.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
It's weird. But there are other people right that do
get under my skin.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, but you fight back.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I do.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You don't go oh, don't judge me, you go right
in there.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
But yes, that that is true. Yes you know that
about me. But you know my feelings do get hurt.
They do.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I don't have feelings.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I know that is the difference between us.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
So anyway, Ganish oh hey, he says a high school
friend use an AI companion to write the breakup text
with his girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Come on, why are people are gonna say I to
write obituaries?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
What I mean, there's not going to be the originality
ever again.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Rigine getting a breakup text from from a.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Bot that's hysterical.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Does that mean the bot broke up with you or did.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
If you don't want to break up with a person,
you could say.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Hey me, I still love you. The bod is judgmental,
not me. God, what a weien er, What a weirdo?
You see? Isn't that hard to, you know, talk to
somebody and I just uh and Ganess seems like a
(25:33):
smart guy if he is a guy. Uh. This feels
a little bit dystopian that a computer generated the end
of a real relationship. We're allowing computers to replace our
relationships with people. Yeah, because people don't have, you know,
a thick skin. They're so hyper sensitive and they're so windy.
(25:54):
Ain't even the guys. It's like all the guys have
been neutered, walking around without their testicles. Thirty teens say
their conversations with AI companions were as satisfying or more
satisfying than talking with real friends. Thirty three percent had
discussed serious or important issues with their AI friend instead
(26:17):
of real people. And they talked to a one thousand
teenagers to get this study. Oh yeah, and there's one
researcher who said, if teens are getting developing social skills
on AI platforms where they're constantly being validated. That's that's
another phrase that's right up there with don't be judgmental. Yeah,
(26:41):
I need to be validated.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Well, everybody wants to be validated, including you, mister coblt.
We all need a little pat on the back. Sometimes
pat on the back, though you'll me be told we're
doing a good job. What would we look nice today?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
What if you're not doing a good job? And what
if you look like hell?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Okay, well, if you're not doing a good job, then
your boss should fire you or give you a warning.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
And if you're not looking good, then just then you
don't need to say anything.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
That's that's being judgmental. If they're constantly they're getting validated,
not being challenged, not learning to read social cues or
understand somebody else's perspective. They're not going to be adequately
prepared in the real world. I shouldn't already seen some
of that wander into the building here. Some of the
(27:26):
people have applied for jobs or actually gotten jobs. All right,
more coming up? All right, miss sensitive eat gentle this
is my gentle size. Oh god, yes, you bring up
my gentle side. Okay, you're listening.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
To John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Caf I AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio at John
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or you who can contact us with the talkback feature
on the iHeartRadio app. One of our rhetorical questions that
(28:11):
we both ask repeatedly is where'd the homeless money go?
Because we had another homeless tax. If you remember people
voted on back in November, it doubled the sales tax
that's geared towards homeless people.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
That needs to be rescinded.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yes, that needs to be completely abolished, wiped out, rolled
back is a remarkable waste of money and people just
here in California. And I'm telling you that's why I
keep bringing this up. It sounds like a broken record,
but it's because people spend all their time scrolling nonsense
on social media that they don't have the slightest idea,
(28:50):
and plus they get weird stuff in their feed. Because
my wife is on social media, you know about ten
thousand times more than I do and I see when
she scrolls and she shows me stuff, because she'll say
is this true? Is this true? And it's complete nonsense,
just stuff that's just flat out not true. But it's
made up by I don't know, partisan people, political activist groups,
(29:15):
maybe pranksters. But it circulates around and everybody can make
it look like a professional presentation and it's complete lies
and nonsense. And that's where people are getting their news.
You know. They say, well, you know, fifty eight percent
of the public now gets its news for social media. Well,
if they were reading, well, yeah, I was going to
say traditional news sources, but those lie all the time too,
(29:37):
all right, But this is even a step below that.
This is absolutely fabricated nonsense, not just slanted nonsense. So, honey,
we've blown all this money. And now we've doubled the
homeless sales tax in La County. Here's another one. Westside
Current Los Angeles collected seven hundred million dollars from the
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mansion tax. Remember this thing.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Oh yeah, if you have a.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
House that sells for more than five million dollars, that
money above five million is taxed at four percent. If
you sell a house for over ten million dollars, that's
taxed five and a half percent, and I know a
(30:25):
lot of people are going if those rich people. There
is always an appetite for people who don't accomplish things
to get angry with people who do accomplish things, and
the impulse is to take their money, not because you
deserve it or even need it, but because they earned it.
And it's not fair, all right, So you took their money.
(30:51):
You voted to take their money. And it's by the way,
revenues came in well below expectations. People just stopped selling
their properties unless they absolutely had to, and a lot
of them sold it before the tax kicked in to effect.
But now in about two years, they've collected seven hundred
million dollars and according to an update presented to a
(31:18):
citizen's oversight committee, the City Los Angeles, out of seven
hundred and three million dollars are you ready for this,
spent nine hundred and twelve thousand on new affordable housing
nine hundred and twelve thousand dollars out of seven hundred
(31:40):
and three million. There is one particular pot of money
called affordable housing programs, and there's one hundred and eighty
eight million sitting in that bank account unspent. Uh. Then
they spent money twenty five million on homeless pre programs,
(32:01):
rent relief, and eviction defense, and the city has projected
to spend thirteen million in administrative expenses. So there we go,
the bureaucrats getting rich. The city has spent fifteen times
more on running the program than actually building the housing
that it was intended to create. Can I say that
(32:24):
again for all you you, you brainstems, all you vegetables
out there. E screw those rich people who are going
to help the homes. Okay, you gave it to the
city of la which is filled with incredibly corrupt thieves.
So I'm going to say it again. The city has
spent fifteen times more on running the program than actually
(32:50):
building the housing. And people were told it's like, oh, yeah,
you steal the money from these rich people and it'll go,
it'll go. Or for housing. You ain't get the housing.
You can't get anything. You got thirteen million dollars in
administrative salaries. That's what you've got. People are just so
(33:14):
easily scammed or they're blinded by there. They're envy and
hatred for those who accomplish things they can't even see straight.
I know there are still lawsuits in progress. Maybe that'll
get rolled back too, because it ought to be all
rolled back, because all of the money is wasted. The
sales tax ought to be rolled back, the mansion tax
(33:36):
ought to be rolled back. And it doesn't matter what
you think about how homelessness ought to be funded and
how wealthy people ought to be punished. The money is
stolen and is given to these these thieving bureaucrats. So
on that basis alone, all right, when we come back.
So the big story in the last couple of weeks
(33:56):
is in a business world here in California is the
In and Out owner Lindsey Snyder announcing a move from
California to Tennessee. And this got like the news of administration,
all worked up and some people in the media who
kiss his rear end. But the truth is In and
(34:17):
Out is only one of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of businesses that have moved out of California in recent years.
We've had a net loss in recent years every year
of hundreds of businesses compared to those moving in. I'll
tell you all about it coming up. Debra Mark is
Live in the KFI twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've
(34:39):
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