March 20, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (03/20) - Katy Grimes comes on the show to talk about why CA high gas prices are self imposed. More on the billion dollar budget shortfall LA is experiencing. Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about Tesla's being vandalized as a way to protest against Elon Musk. A state senator wants to defund high speed rail and use the money to offset and lower the gas tax but Democrats in the state voted the idea down.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio
app so much to cover this hour. We're on every
day from one until four. There's been a lot of
stuff today. So if you missed anything in the first
two hours after four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand,
it's the podcast same as the radio show, and you
could listen to whatever you missed. We're gonna talk now
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with Katie Grimes gat oh oh uh. Well before I
talk to Katie just we do this every day. We
would like to know. We would like to know what
the cause of the Palisades fire was. If anybody knows,
if you could call in here, may you know, maybe
a news news tip for Deborah. You know Calray Lopez,
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our producer, if you know what started the fire. It
looks like it's being covered up by the city and
the La Fire Department. I do not believe after two
and a half months, they don't don't know what the
cause of the fire is, Okay, and I'm guessing it's
one of two things. It's a homeless guy and they
don't want to admit that, or the fire department screwed
up and did not monitor the remnants of that fireworks
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blaze from New Year's Day morning, one of the two
I think of the top two suspects from what I've read,
So they know by now and they're not telling us,
and I think everybody should know. So if anybody does
know on the inside, and you want anonymous, anonymously give
us some information, you know we're going to take it.
(01:35):
We'll give out a Temper's home phone number.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
No, we're not going to do that. You can have
a scoop. You can email me.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Okay, let's get to Katie grimes on now. Because also
another thing we do not every day, but quite often,
as we look at gas prices around the country, and
right now, gas goes for two sixty six a gallon
in Mississippi, and there are twenty four states where the
gas is less than three dollars a gallon. There's forty
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two states where gas is less than three twenty five,
and we're at four sixty four. We're at four sixty
four and Massachusetts, I'm sorry, what did I say. Mississippi
is at two sixty six, So we are almost ninety nine.
We're almost two dollars higher, almost two full dollars higher
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than Mississippi. And there's a new study app by a
USC professor Michael Mischi which has found that California's high
gas prices are largely self inflicted. All right, now, let's
get to Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Katie, how are you hi, John, I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Tell me tell me about this study. Michael Mischi is
a USC professor. I hope I'm pronouncing his name right.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah. What is he found?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah? Well, he he's written for us before about the
gas prices, and you know what it costs in California,
particularly by the way, I just paid five dollars and
fifteen cents a gallon day before yesterday, So yeah, we're
pretty bad in Texas to forty five a gallon. So yeah,
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that's how bad it is here. So what what especially
niche found over He examined data over fifty years and
found that this is not only self imposed, but it's
he names the factors of course, aggressive environmental policies, costly reporting,
and compliance to regulatory and environmental mandates. You know, it's
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all the same garbage we're dealing with today, only on steroids.
Today as opposed to you know what it was thirty
years ago, even fifty years ago, and a.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Tremendous amount of taxes and fees that are tech price
always exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And so I include his list in here of the
sources that he found. The other thing that was so
interesting is there is yet another study, and this one
comes from the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, that reports
the oil and gas industry contributes hundreds of billions of
dollars to the state's economy. And John, think about it
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at its reduced capacity right now in California, they're still
contributing hundreds of billions of dollars to our economy through
nice big paychecks to employees, taxes, state, local, as well
as federal. You know, you think about what it would
be like if we ramped up oil and gas extraction
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and production in this state the way it was thirty
years ago. Our state would not only be energy independent,
would be selling it to other states.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
We would be making a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You got it. Yeah, we wouldn't have this what's the
budget deficit? Anywhere from seven billion to seventy five billion.
I can't keep track, but it's huge.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It depends what type of Lie Newsome is spinning on
any given day.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Exactly, yes, exactly. The other thing that was so interesting
in Professor Mishi's study is that when he says we're
super highly dependent on oil imports, they're coming from Iraq, Brazil, Guiana,
and Ecuador. The other thing that was so interesting is
in nineteen eighty two, California imported five point six percent
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of its crude oil five point six percent in eighty
two from foreign sources. Today it's sixty point seven percent.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Sixty point seven percent.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Wow. And what's so irritating is we are capable of
producing our own. And so I think that these two
studies I squished into one article because I think they're
terribly important. I'm going to stay on top of them.
They're both a couple hundred pages long, so there's.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
More to report. People just don't understand how badly we're
getting screwed, how badly managed this whole situation is.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You know, I look at it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You can look online at Triple a dot com. Actually
they have a page gasprices dot Triple a dot com.
They have a state by state gas price chart, and
I look at it all the time. That's right, And
like I said, twenty four states are less than three
bucks a gallon on average. There's forty two states that
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are less than three and a quarter. Then you go
down to the bottom. In California, we're sitting by ourselves at.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Four sixty five.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But that's an average, Like you said in Sacramento, it's
five point fifteen, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
And again we're paying higher gas prices than Hawaii, which
has to import one hundred percent of their oil and gas.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, this is this is done on purpose. It is
just fanatical, it's irrational, it's stupid and people and the
biggest complaint people have about California, the number one reason
they move out is the high cost of living.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, everything starts with energy.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You can't manufacture any products, you can't deliver any products
without having energy. And the energy here is so ridiculously
expensive and for no reason.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No, and as you say, it's artificial, this is being
done to us, this is being ordered, and it is
killing us. I mean, when you think about the jobs
that would be made available to people, and these are
high paying, good benefit jobs. When you think about the
amount of money that would be flushed right back into
our economy, we're even at our staggering state. Right now,
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we're supposed to still be the fifth largest economy in
the world. It really doesn't take into account all the
debt we have also, But I mean, you think about
all of that, even think about things like these companies
are very generous. They give to charitable organizations, They support
communities and schools. So when they are reduced and moving
out of state, those groups lose money too.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Modern life happens because of oil and gas. You take
away oil and gas, we are living back in the
fifteen hundreds. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Obviously that's where they want us.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Right, and we'd all have incomes like people had in
the fifteen hundreds. We would just be growing some fruits
and vegetables and raising a couple of chickens and helping
they lay eggs. That life wouldn't be much more than that.
And it just it angers me to no end, this
constant garbage and nonsense about oil and gas companies. That's
the lifeline for the modern world is gas and oil.
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The modern world simply doesn't exist without it. And for
us to have to pay four and a half five
bucks a gallon and everyone else is paying two sixty
three dollars a gallon is just unconscionable.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Why do people put up with this stuff in the state?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
There's so much stupid stuff put up with me?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, I know, I guess it hasn't gotten bad enough.
I mean, when you think about the hundreds of thousands
of jobs that the oil and gas is currently supporting,
and how much more, and you look around at all
the people not working living on the streets, you just
think life could be so much better in California the
way you and I remember it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, not that long ago either, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I mean, I can't believe you just take all the
oil that comes through on imports and Iraq gives us
twenty one percent of our import oil a rock.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
How is that?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Because because news always carries on as if this is
some moral crusade against the oil and gas companies, he's
taking twenty one percent of the imported oil from a
terrace nation that financed all the mayhem in the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Exactly, I know, I know what. Yeah, when you look
at what we're sitting on, it should it should be
mandatory that we tap our own resource before we buy
anything out of the state or out of the country.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
All right, Well keep this up, all right, because I'm
gonna keep doing a lot more on this as well. Again,
this is the stuff people don't know. Michael Mischi, USC
professor has done this study on the on the price
of gasoline. Why do we pay so much? It's almost
entirely self inflicted by the California government. All Right, Katie Grimes,
californiaglobe dot com, go read her story there.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Talk with you again soon.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Thanks, John.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
All Right, we come back.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Los Angeles has a billion dollar budget deficit because of
the stupidity. We really have some of the dumbest, the
dumbest politicians in the country, maybe the world. And it
starts with Newsom in Karen Bass. They knew months ago
there's gonna be a huge budget deficit, and they completely
ignored all the warning signs. And now there's an emergency.
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And now it looks like Karen Bass is going to
do the Elon Musk dance. They're gonna have to lay
off thousands of government why because we're broke, just like
the federal government. Bass is Trump, Who's going to play
the role of Elon Musk and do the cutting.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Forty coming up after three point thirty.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Lunatic anarchists are setting fire to Tesla's because we're laying
off deadbeat government workers. I like to remind people that
ninety four percent of government workers were not even showing
up to the office regularly.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
These people didn't care about their jobs enough to go
to the office every day, ninety four percent. So why
do you give a crap? If they got laid off?
You show up, don't you. And on top of that,
they're using your money, that's that's their paycheck. Is your
money not to show up? And they're getting rid of
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the education department or at least as much as the
law allows.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And why not?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I mean, I'm just looking at test scores across the country.
Do you don't like seventy percent of more than seventy
percent of fourth graders don't meet minimal reading and math proficiency.
Seventy percent of fourth graders. What does this education department do?
What does all the money do? Can they walk out
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of school?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
We have a lot, We.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Have millions and millions, tens of millions of kids graduating
and they're illiterate. And enumerate, which means they can't do math.
So I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Oh, you can't cut the education department. Of course you can.
It doesn't do any good.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What only twenty eight percent of the kids in this
country in fourth grade can do minimum don't have minimum
proficiency at math and reading. He all right, so talk
more about that. The I told you California is bankrupt.
(13:05):
Los Angeles is bankrupt. They're a billion dollars a billion
dollar deficit for the coming fiscal year and there could
be thousands of layoffs. The city administrative officer for Matt
Zebo said that Karen Bass's proposed budget, they're going to
release that April twenty first, in a month. There's gonna
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be a lot of cost cutting, severe revenue declines, rising costs.
One of the rising costs lawsuits. So many people sue
the city, and the city settles for lots of money.
The city almost never goes to court to fight the lawsuits.
And people claim that they're tripping on sidewalks and trees
are landing on their heads, and well, you know, the
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infrastructure sucks in this city. So they thought they saved
the money by not spending it on infrastructure until it
collapses enough that people get hurt and they sue, and
then you know, the cops. Every once in a while
you have one or two cops going nuts and juries
stupidly give the victim an excessive amount of money. There's
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no printing press that a city has. You can do
that with the federal government. They can create money out
of thin air, and they do by the trillions.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
City can't do that. So when you.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Give millions of dollars to some alleged victim, you're just
screwed over all the taxpayers. We didn't We had nothing
to do with it. We weren't out getting into some
kind of shooting match with a cop. I'm eight o'clock
at night. I'm sitting in my in my den watching
watching television. I don't know what the You know, the
people who end up getting shot almost never are good people.
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They're bad guys that cops may have overreacted to in
the eyes of the jury, but that's it. They're not
really most of them are not really victims.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Well.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Plus, you know, they've driven so much business out of
the city and out of the state. So many retail shops,
so many restaurants have closed starting with COVID, the George
Floyd Riots, the the excessive taxes and regulation that.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
They have.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
They're missing three hundred million dollars in tax revenue. Their
reserve fund is half depleted. They gave away too much
in terms of salary and pensions. They made every bad
decision you could make. Karen Bass has one of these capabilities.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I've seen.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I've worked for people like this. Every decision they make
is wrong. I don't know how they do it. But
no matter what, Karen Bass gave away too much money
to the unions, salaries, benefits, police fire. See, you got
to spend more money on the fire department, But it
doesn't mean you keep increasing everybody's salary and pension. It
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means you spend the money on hiring more firefighters and
more engines, and more mechanics to fix the engines. That's
what the increase is supposed to be. Instead they just
turn it into raises. Well, that's wonderful to get the
firefighters a raise, but it doesn't increase fire coverage. It
doesn't increase fire response. Same thing with teaching. Giving more
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money to teachers doesn't increase the percentage of kids who
are proficient in math and reading. It just gives the
teachers more money. People don't get that, oh, we're going
to spend more money on education, We're going to spend
more money on the foot Well, it depends what you
spend it on. If it's just salary increases, it's not
going to change anything. So they're telling the unions that
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something's got to be done. There's got to be give backs.
The unions are telling them to go to go screw themselves.
We don't have much of a savings account left. And
of course the big elephant is all the money wasted
on the homeless. I am so pissed that every drug
addict and every mental patient that wandered into Los Angeles
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laid on the streets roomed neighborhoods. They spent all day
with needles in their arms, snorting meth, leaving their feces
on the sidewalk. They bankrupt the city. The homeless have
bankrupted the city. They spent a billion three, a billion
four in homelessness. If you just got rid of the
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homeless programs, we'd be in the black and you'd have
the same amount of homeless. The homeless start seventeen thousand
fires a year.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
More than half the fires are from homeless people, and
you have this whole industry of criminal nonprofits who get
these grants and they run off with the money and
the homeless.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Situation doesn't change. What is this going to stop?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And now they're bankrupt, what are they gonna want taxes?
And now they're gonna te to do the elon musk Dos.
You're gonna see thousands of people brutal cuts no different
than what they're doing in.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Washington and John, when those people are cut, they're going
to be pissed. So if any of them work for
the mayor, I wonder if we're going to hear some
some details about what really went on behind closed doors
when the fire broke out.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, that would be great, and you could you could
send your information to Debor I deputize you. If nothing
as the investigative report. John doesn't read his emails, so
don't boy, don't email to me, email to Debbor.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
She reads her emails composibly.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yes, sometimes, No, we want we want background information on
what's the cause of the fire. There's people who know, obviously,
and we want to know what's going on in Karen
Bass's office. All right, you're gonna get fired anyway, So
I want not to be a hero.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
John Watching wants snitches.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, stitches, that's right. So you know we're gonna have
a snitch hotline. You come right, We'll have a snitch
chair here. We'll have like a Snitch of the day.
You come in and you tell us the truth. What's
going on with there? With Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Absolutely? Okay, Well well.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well we'll have like a like a snitching co host. Yeah,
snitches get the co host for an hour, as long
as they.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Spill all the dirt, as long as it's true. I mean,
how are you gonna vet that person or people?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
It has to be true.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yeah, we don't do fake news around here.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
John, We don't know, we don't.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Okay, you're tough. Uh, we come back, Alex Stone, ABC News. Uh,
you've got Tesla cars being set on fire.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And and Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general says these are
domestic terrorists, and they're actually filing charges against these terrorists.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
This is for Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Cutting government workers because the federal government is.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Out of money.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So when Karen Bass cuts thousands of workers because LA's
out of money, what's what's gonna happen. What are the
are these anarchists going to blow up? What are they
going to blow up?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Here?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
They're gonna go after Karen Bass the way they're going
after Musk.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
If you can follow us at John Colebelt Radio on
all social media. Let's go to Alex Stone now ABC News.
There has been a string of attacks on Tesla vehicles
and Tesla dealerships, cars getting set on fire, Molotov cocktails
being used to destroy some of the vehicles, and Alex
Stone for ABC has details what's going on? Hey, they're John, Yeah,
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So that the FBI is trying to figure out if
the attacks on mainly Tesla lots. It's been lots collision centers,
at charging stations and parking lots, but but a lot
of them on lots nationwide, if they're linked in some
coordinated way, or if they're being done individually by people
who feel like they need to go out and express
themselves and their anger against elon Musk and they hear
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what's been going on elsewhere in the country and then
they do it as well. It's all been really crude,
and even the molotov cocktails have been like beer bottles
filled from inside of a pizza restaurant, so it hasn't
been all that sophisticated. But in Las Vegas, the Joint
Terrorism Task Force is looking into one. Earlier this week,
two forty four in the morning, somebody dressed all in
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black at a Tesla collision center in Vegas shot a
gun into several of the vehicles in the parking lot,
then used molotov cocktails to set two of the cars
on fire. Five were damaged, but two totally destroyed, and
they rode on the wall of the building. Resist and
Vegas police saying this was a targeted attack against a
Tesla facility and while they don't have enough evidence to
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call it terrorism. Agpam Bondi has said it clearly was
domestic terrorism, but the FBI saying, well, they haven't determined
that yet. There are legal things that have to be
determined before they can just come out and say this
is terrorism. And it makes it goes up a lot
from vandalism to then saying terrorism for what kind of
case it would be. But the FBI Special Agent in
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charge in Vegas saying it does have the earmarks as
being that. It certainly has some of the hallmarks that
we might think so. In Kansas City polic two Tesla
cyber trucks were set on fire. Earlier this month, shots
were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon. South Carolina
guy's been arrested for vandalizing a charging station. He had
molotov cocktails outside of a pizza restaurant and the ATF
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found a three page letter he had with anti government beliefs.
Charging stations in Massachusetts have been set on fire, and
firefighters say.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
The fires are relatively small.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
However, again involving seven of them, there was quite a
bit of smoke that was coming off of it. And
John now there's a call for big protests at Tesla's
showrooms next week, a day of action. The group is
calling for them to be peaceful, but once they say,
bigger than what anybody has seen at Tesla, and the
White House is saying, and this about everything.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Now we've seen despicable and unacceptable violence taking place across
our country at Tesla dealerships against workers, employees, and also
innocent Americans who drive these vehicles.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And then President Trump last week he was essentially doing
that commercial outside the White House for Tesla's, with Elon
Musk calling them amazing and that he was buying one
and the greatest thing ever. He was asked about them
and about the vandals and what they're doing, he called
the vandals garbage.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
You do it to Tesla, and you do it to
any company, We're gonna catch you, and you're gonna you're
gonna go through hell.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
And there are some less violent protests that are going on,
people putting stickers over the Tesla logo on their car
to make a point. Some are selling them, and then
you have this whole other customer base buying them right now,
and it's kind of a one eighty here of those
who you know everywhere in California for environmental reasons, and
now people are ditching those and selling them, with numbers
of used Tesla's being available have now shot up. And
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then you've got those who support Elon Musk and President
Trump who are now who were probably you know, pickup
truck crowd wasn't they weren't going to go electric, now
going to buy them. But Tessa stock down nine weeks
in a row. Their sales are down considerably, But we'll
see where it all shakes out.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
In the end.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is there any information as to whether this is an
organized group, who it is, and who's funding them. No? Nothing,
I mean there's not a lot of funding that goes
into it, at least in the vandalism part of it.
It's keying of vehicles. It is spray painting words on one.
I wonder if the organism, if there's an organization, has
a battle plan and strategy. That's what the FBI is
trying to figure out right now. They don't seem to
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see anything linking these together. It seems more like people
who are saying, you know, that's a good idea, and
that's a good idea that they heard what went on
in Massachusetts, and then somebody in Vegas does it, and
then somebody. But so they're looking into it. It's individual copycats. Yeah,
I mean, at this point it seems and again it's
all the guy in South Carolina was outside of a
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pizza restaurant and it was very crude, these molotas cocktails
that were made out of I believe beer bottles from
inside the restaurant. People people get this upset over government
workers getting laid off. Yeah, apparently, what are they going
to do in La once Karen Bass starts laying off thousands. Oh,
it sounds like the layoffs are definitely coming. Yeah, we
heard yesterday because all levels of government are broke. Yeah, yeah,
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that's the It's.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Gonna go on for quite a while.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
All right, Alex, very good, Thank you, you got it?
Think jod all right, Alex Stone, ABC News. I imagine
there are some left wing anarchist groups that might be
behind some of the violence. Uh, you know, they they
were they were involved with the George Floyd riots, they
were involved with all those Antifa protests. Could be the
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same characters, could be new characters. Uh, there's there's a
lot of people. I don't know what snaps if it
is just one off guys, there's a lot of mentally
ill people running around. Huh you got to blow up
a tesla because government workers are getting laid off? Really
that it doesn't happen when everyone else gets laid off. Right,
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We lost millions of jobs in the last twenty five
years to China. I don't remember any violent protests over that.
Why government workers, who most of them don't even show
up for work, and when they do show up for work,
is what do they do.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
What do they do? What's the big benefit we're getting?
We come back.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Can I talk about State Senator Tony Strickland. We're gonna
have him on the show tomorrow. But he had a
bill that got squashed by the state Senate today.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Is really radical.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It was about defunding high speed rail and giving the
money to lower the gas tax in this state. Guess
what the Senate the Senate's response to that idea was.
We'll tell you about it coming up.
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Speaker 1 (27:16):
And and what else? What else is on the whiteboard?
And what else is on the whiteboard? Oh?
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Speaker 2 (27:34):
State Senator Tony Strickland from Huntington Beach, the Republican. He
has this bill. This is really simple. Defund high speed rail,
use the money to reduce the gas tax.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
What did the Senate say? No?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Senate Democrats rejected this idea again, Defund high speed rail,
use the money to lower the gas tax. They will
not do it, even after spending seventeen billion dollars on
high speed rail and it doesn't exist after seventeen years.
They are so corrupt. They are such a bunch of criminals.
(28:12):
I wish nothing but bad things to happen to them
because they're thieves. They should they all these legislators ought
to be in a prison cell. They should reopen those
prisons that Newsom closed and put the Assembly and State Senate,
all the offending members who vote down, who vote down
this bill, they should be locked up. Strickland says, we've
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been wasting billions of hard working families dollars on a
train everybody knows will not be built.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
They know this is not going to be built, and
they're spending it anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Because they don't think there's any consequence.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And he says Newsom and the Democrats have raised gas
prices every year for the last four years, and the
tax falls disproportionately on hard working families living paycheck to paycheck.
They know, they know that the poor in the middle class,
it's a bigger.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Hit to them.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Tony Strickland's going to come on our show tomorrow after
three o'clock to talk about all this and conways.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
He know, we'll talk to Alex Stone from ABC News
about everybody burning up these Tesla's. Did you see that
Tim Walls was rooting for the demise of Tesla? He said,
he said, he put it on his phone. He gets
an extra charge every time the stock drops.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
He's such an idiot.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
He's rooting for the demise of an American car company.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah, which employs how many thousand, thousands and thousands of workers?
And how many people have Tesla in their four win
case in Minnesota? In Minnesota? Yeah, he is a complete warron.
It's like somebody dropped him on his head. Seems odd.
Eric scar the Duke of Sports, is coming on with us.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
You might know that man, right talk about March madness
that's going on right now.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, there is, there's Marsh Yeah, it's not mad yet,
but it's getting there.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
Dollar General and other stores we'll talk about the man.
It seems like every store is going out of business,
even the stores that sell crap are going out.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Of It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
People don't even have nothing to buy crap.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
That's right, right, people don't have one.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
You know those I think those stores, you know, like
Dollar General and you know the ninety nine Cents Store,
I think those are like hoarders warehouses. You know, if
you love collecting cheap stuff, you go there to buy
and you hoard it. Yeah, but I like that Dollar General.
I enjoy walking over there. Yeah, the Dollar King as well.
Do you ever go into a nice store or a
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nice restaurant. I like the prices of that. The nice restaurants,
they're really expensive. Jim Jim Taylor's coming on, Well, le's
I'm gonna be in the San Juan Capistrano parade, So
buzz on down there.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Look at the parade.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
It's the my second time, but it's the I think
it's the eighty fifth or sixty fifth annual. If you're
been then there that parade, not to the parade, you know,
I'm really bummed because one of my favorite parades was
the Palisades. You were in that one year a few times. Yeah,
and that's not gonna happen. Obviously they're going to have it,
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but I don't know where. Oh good, they should have it. Yeah,
there's a lot of people in the Palisades that want
to good get just get back to normal. Get back
to normal from any small way.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
That's great. Yeah, that's a great idea.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
And then we also have Dean Sharp coming on with
us as well, so we got almost too much show,
you know, almost too much. Yeah, and then Moe's not
in tonight, but Twala's taken over for him and that
guy's great. All right, yeah, all right. Last on his
guy You and Towada. Last on his Guys the Radiary,
What does that make you? A cheap order? We got
Conway to X think dog right go.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Krozier has the news live on the KFI twenty four
hour Newsroom.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Hey, you've been.
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio
app so much to cover this hour. We're on every
day from one until four. There's been a lot of
stuff today. So if you missed anything in the first
two hours after four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand,
it's the podcast same as the radio show, and you
could listen to whatever you missed. We're gonna talk now
(00:24):
with Katie Grimes gat oh oh uh. Well before I
talk to Katie just we do this every day. We
would like to know. We would like to know what
the cause of the Palisades fire was. If anybody knows,
if you could call in here, may you know, maybe
a news news tip for Deborah. You know Calray Lopez,
(00:46):
our producer, if you know what started the fire. It
looks like it's being covered up by the city and
the La Fire Department. I do not believe after two
and a half months, they don't don't know what the
cause of the fire is, Okay, and I'm guessing it's
one of two things. It's a homeless guy and they
don't want to admit that, or the fire department screwed
up and did not monitor the remnants of that fireworks
(01:13):
blaze from New Year's Day morning, one of the two
I think of the top two suspects from what I've read,
So they know by now and they're not telling us,
and I think everybody should know. So if anybody does
know on the inside, and you want anonymous, anonymously give
us some information, you know we're going to take it.
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We'll give out a Temper's home phone number.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
No, we're not going to do that. You can have
a scoop. You can email me.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Okay, let's get to Katie grimes on now. Because also
another thing we do not every day, but quite often,
as we look at gas prices around the country, and
right now, gas goes for two sixty six a gallon
in Mississippi, and there are twenty four states where the
gas is less than three dollars a gallon. There's forty
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two states where gas is less than three twenty five,
and we're at four sixty four. We're at four sixty
four and Massachusetts, I'm sorry, what did I say. Mississippi
is at two sixty six, So we are almost ninety nine.
We're almost two dollars higher, almost two full dollars higher
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than Mississippi. And there's a new study app by a
USC professor Michael Mischi which has found that California's high
gas prices are largely self inflicted. All right, now, let's
get to Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Katie, how are you hi, John, I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Tell me tell me about this study. Michael Mischi is
a USC professor. I hope I'm pronouncing his name right.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah. What is he found?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah? Well, he he's written for us before about the
gas prices, and you know what it costs in California,
particularly by the way, I just paid five dollars and
fifteen cents a gallon day before yesterday, So yeah, we're
pretty bad in Texas to forty five a gallon. So yeah,
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that's how bad it is here. So what what especially
niche found over He examined data over fifty years and
found that this is not only self imposed, but it's
he names the factors of course, aggressive environmental policies, costly reporting,
and compliance to regulatory and environmental mandates. You know, it's
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all the same garbage we're dealing with today, only on steroids.
Today as opposed to you know what it was thirty
years ago, even fifty years ago, and a.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Tremendous amount of taxes and fees that are tech price
always exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And so I include his list in here of the
sources that he found. The other thing that was so
interesting is there is yet another study, and this one
comes from the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, that reports
the oil and gas industry contributes hundreds of billions of
dollars to the state's economy. And John, think about it
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at its reduced capacity right now in California, they're still
contributing hundreds of billions of dollars to our economy through
nice big paychecks to employees, taxes, state, local, as well
as federal. You know, you think about what it would
be like if we ramped up oil and gas extraction
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and production in this state the way it was thirty
years ago. Our state would not only be energy independent,
would be selling it to other states.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
We would be making a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You got it. Yeah, we wouldn't have this what's the
budget deficit? Anywhere from seven billion to seventy five billion.
I can't keep track, but it's huge.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It depends what type of Lie Newsome is spinning on
any given day.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Exactly, yes, exactly. The other thing that was so interesting
in Professor Mishi's study is that when he says we're
super highly dependent on oil imports, they're coming from Iraq, Brazil, Guiana,
and Ecuador. The other thing that was so interesting is
in nineteen eighty two, California imported five point six percent
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of its crude oil five point six percent in eighty
two from foreign sources. Today it's sixty point seven percent.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Sixty point seven percent.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Wow. And what's so irritating is we are capable of
producing our own. And so I think that these two
studies I squished into one article because I think they're
terribly important. I'm going to stay on top of them.
They're both a couple hundred pages long, so there's.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
More to report. People just don't understand how badly we're
getting screwed, how badly managed this whole situation is.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You know, I look at it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You can look online at Triple a dot com. Actually
they have a page gasprices dot Triple a dot com.
They have a state by state gas price chart, and
I look at it all the time. That's right, And
like I said, twenty four states are less than three
bucks a gallon on average. There's forty two states that
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are less than three and a quarter. Then you go
down to the bottom. In California, we're sitting by ourselves at.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Four sixty five.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But that's an average, Like you said in Sacramento, it's
five point fifteen, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
And again we're paying higher gas prices than Hawaii, which
has to import one hundred percent of their oil and gas.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, this is this is done on purpose. It is
just fanatical, it's irrational, it's stupid and people and the
biggest complaint people have about California, the number one reason
they move out is the high cost of living.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, everything starts with energy.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You can't manufacture any products, you can't deliver any products
without having energy. And the energy here is so ridiculously
expensive and for no reason.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No, and as you say, it's artificial, this is being
done to us, this is being ordered, and it is
killing us. I mean, when you think about the jobs
that would be made available to people, and these are
high paying, good benefit jobs. When you think about the
amount of money that would be flushed right back into
our economy, we're even at our staggering state. Right now,
(07:42):
we're supposed to still be the fifth largest economy in
the world. It really doesn't take into account all the
debt we have also, But I mean, you think about
all of that, even think about things like these companies
are very generous. They give to charitable organizations, They support
communities and schools. So when they are reduced and moving
out of state, those groups lose money too.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Modern life happens because of oil and gas. You take
away oil and gas, we are living back in the
fifteen hundreds. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Obviously that's where they want us.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Right, and we'd all have incomes like people had in
the fifteen hundreds. We would just be growing some fruits
and vegetables and raising a couple of chickens and helping
they lay eggs. That life wouldn't be much more than that.
And it just it angers me to no end, this
constant garbage and nonsense about oil and gas companies. That's
the lifeline for the modern world is gas and oil.
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The modern world simply doesn't exist without it. And for
us to have to pay four and a half five
bucks a gallon and everyone else is paying two sixty
three dollars a gallon is just unconscionable.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Why do people put up with this stuff in the state?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
There's so much stupid stuff put up with me?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, I know, I guess it hasn't gotten bad enough.
I mean, when you think about the hundreds of thousands
of jobs that the oil and gas is currently supporting,
and how much more, and you look around at all
the people not working living on the streets, you just
think life could be so much better in California the
way you and I remember it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, not that long ago either, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I mean, I can't believe you just take all the
oil that comes through on imports and Iraq gives us
twenty one percent of our import oil a rock.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
How is that?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Because because news always carries on as if this is
some moral crusade against the oil and gas companies, he's
taking twenty one percent of the imported oil from a
terrace nation that financed all the mayhem in the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Exactly, I know, I know what. Yeah, when you look
at what we're sitting on, it should it should be
mandatory that we tap our own resource before we buy
anything out of the state or out of the country.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
All right, Well keep this up, all right, because I'm
gonna keep doing a lot more on this as well. Again,
this is the stuff people don't know. Michael Mischi, USC
professor has done this study on the on the price
of gasoline. Why do we pay so much? It's almost
entirely self inflicted by the California government. All Right, Katie Grimes,
californiaglobe dot com, go read her story there.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Talk with you again soon.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Thanks, John.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
All Right, we come back.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Los Angeles has a billion dollar budget deficit because of
the stupidity. We really have some of the dumbest, the
dumbest politicians in the country, maybe the world. And it
starts with Newsom in Karen Bass. They knew months ago
there's gonna be a huge budget deficit, and they completely
ignored all the warning signs. And now there's an emergency.
(10:54):
And now it looks like Karen Bass is going to
do the Elon Musk dance. They're gonna have to lay
off thousands of government why because we're broke, just like
the federal government. Bass is Trump, Who's going to play
the role of Elon Musk and do the cutting.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Forty coming up after three point thirty.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Lunatic anarchists are setting fire to Tesla's because we're laying
off deadbeat government workers. I like to remind people that
ninety four percent of government workers were not even showing
up to the office regularly.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
These people didn't care about their jobs enough to go
to the office every day, ninety four percent. So why
do you give a crap? If they got laid off?
You show up, don't you. And on top of that,
they're using your money, that's that's their paycheck. Is your
money not to show up? And they're getting rid of
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the education department or at least as much as the
law allows.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And why not?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I mean, I'm just looking at test scores across the country.
Do you don't like seventy percent of more than seventy
percent of fourth graders don't meet minimal reading and math proficiency.
Seventy percent of fourth graders. What does this education department do?
What does all the money do? Can they walk out
(12:24):
of school?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
We have a lot, We.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Have millions and millions, tens of millions of kids graduating
and they're illiterate. And enumerate, which means they can't do math.
So I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Oh, you can't cut the education department. Of course you can.
It doesn't do any good.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What only twenty eight percent of the kids in this
country in fourth grade can do minimum don't have minimum
proficiency at math and reading. He all right, so talk
more about that. The I told you California is bankrupt.
(13:05):
Los Angeles is bankrupt. They're a billion dollars a billion
dollar deficit for the coming fiscal year and there could
be thousands of layoffs. The city administrative officer for Matt
Zebo said that Karen Bass's proposed budget, they're going to
release that April twenty first, in a month. There's gonna
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be a lot of cost cutting, severe revenue declines, rising costs.
One of the rising costs lawsuits. So many people sue
the city, and the city settles for lots of money.
The city almost never goes to court to fight the lawsuits.
And people claim that they're tripping on sidewalks and trees
are landing on their heads, and well, you know, the
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infrastructure sucks in this city. So they thought they saved
the money by not spending it on infrastructure until it
collapses enough that people get hurt and they sue, and
then you know, the cops. Every once in a while
you have one or two cops going nuts and juries
stupidly give the victim an excessive amount of money. There's
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no printing press that a city has. You can do
that with the federal government. They can create money out
of thin air, and they do by the trillions.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
City can't do that. So when you.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Give millions of dollars to some alleged victim, you're just
screwed over all the taxpayers. We didn't We had nothing
to do with it. We weren't out getting into some
kind of shooting match with a cop. I'm eight o'clock
at night. I'm sitting in my in my den watching
watching television. I don't know what the You know, the
people who end up getting shot almost never are good people.
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They're bad guys that cops may have overreacted to in
the eyes of the jury, but that's it. They're not
really most of them are not really victims.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Well.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Plus, you know, they've driven so much business out of
the city and out of the state. So many retail shops,
so many restaurants have closed starting with COVID, the George
Floyd Riots, the the excessive taxes and regulation that.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
They have.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
They're missing three hundred million dollars in tax revenue. Their
reserve fund is half depleted. They gave away too much
in terms of salary and pensions. They made every bad
decision you could make. Karen Bass has one of these capabilities.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I've seen.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I've worked for people like this. Every decision they make
is wrong. I don't know how they do it. But
no matter what, Karen Bass gave away too much money
to the unions, salaries, benefits, police fire. See, you got
to spend more money on the fire department, But it
doesn't mean you keep increasing everybody's salary and pension. It
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means you spend the money on hiring more firefighters and
more engines, and more mechanics to fix the engines. That's
what the increase is supposed to be. Instead they just
turn it into raises. Well, that's wonderful to get the
firefighters a raise, but it doesn't increase fire coverage. It
doesn't increase fire response. Same thing with teaching. Giving more
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money to teachers doesn't increase the percentage of kids who
are proficient in math and reading. It just gives the
teachers more money. People don't get that, oh, we're going
to spend more money on education, We're going to spend
more money on the foot Well, it depends what you
spend it on. If it's just salary increases, it's not
going to change anything. So they're telling the unions that
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something's got to be done. There's got to be give backs.
The unions are telling them to go to go screw themselves.
We don't have much of a savings account left. And
of course the big elephant is all the money wasted
on the homeless. I am so pissed that every drug
addict and every mental patient that wandered into Los Angeles
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laid on the streets roomed neighborhoods. They spent all day
with needles in their arms, snorting meth, leaving their feces
on the sidewalk. They bankrupt the city. The homeless have
bankrupted the city. They spent a billion three, a billion
four in homelessness. If you just got rid of the
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homeless programs, we'd be in the black and you'd have
the same amount of homeless. The homeless start seventeen thousand
fires a year.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
More than half the fires are from homeless people, and
you have this whole industry of criminal nonprofits who get
these grants and they run off with the money and
the homeless.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Situation doesn't change. What is this going to stop?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And now they're bankrupt, what are they gonna want taxes?
And now they're gonna te to do the elon musk Dos.
You're gonna see thousands of people brutal cuts no different
than what they're doing in.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Washington and John, when those people are cut, they're going
to be pissed. So if any of them work for
the mayor, I wonder if we're going to hear some
some details about what really went on behind closed doors
when the fire broke out.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, that would be great, and you could you could
send your information to Debor I deputize you. If nothing
as the investigative report. John doesn't read his emails, so
don't boy, don't email to me, email to Debbor.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
She reads her emails composibly.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yes, sometimes, No, we want we want background information on
what's the cause of the fire. There's people who know, obviously,
and we want to know what's going on in Karen
Bass's office. All right, you're gonna get fired anyway, So
I want not to be a hero.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
John Watching wants snitches.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, stitches, that's right. So you know we're gonna have
a snitch hotline. You come right, We'll have a snitch
chair here. We'll have like a Snitch of the day.
You come in and you tell us the truth. What's
going on with there? With Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Absolutely? Okay, Well well.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well we'll have like a like a snitching co host. Yeah,
snitches get the co host for an hour, as long
as they.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Spill all the dirt, as long as it's true. I mean,
how are you gonna vet that person or people?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
It has to be true.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yeah, we don't do fake news around here.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
John, We don't know, we don't.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Okay, you're tough. Uh, we come back, Alex Stone, ABC News. Uh,
you've got Tesla cars being set on fire.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And and Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general says these are
domestic terrorists, and they're actually filing charges against these terrorists.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
This is for Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Cutting government workers because the federal government is.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Out of money.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So when Karen Bass cuts thousands of workers because LA's
out of money, what's what's gonna happen. What are the
are these anarchists going to blow up? What are they
going to blow up?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Here?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
They're gonna go after Karen Bass the way they're going
after Musk.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
If you can follow us at John Colebelt Radio on
all social media. Let's go to Alex Stone now ABC News.
There has been a string of attacks on Tesla vehicles
and Tesla dealerships, cars getting set on fire, Molotov cocktails
being used to destroy some of the vehicles, and Alex
Stone for ABC has details what's going on? Hey, they're John, Yeah,
(20:45):
So that the FBI is trying to figure out if
the attacks on mainly Tesla lots. It's been lots collision centers,
at charging stations and parking lots, but but a lot
of them on lots nationwide, if they're linked in some
coordinated way, or if they're being done individually by people
who feel like they need to go out and express
themselves and their anger against elon Musk and they hear
(21:06):
what's been going on elsewhere in the country and then
they do it as well. It's all been really crude,
and even the molotov cocktails have been like beer bottles
filled from inside of a pizza restaurant, so it hasn't
been all that sophisticated. But in Las Vegas, the Joint
Terrorism Task Force is looking into one. Earlier this week,
two forty four in the morning, somebody dressed all in
(21:27):
black at a Tesla collision center in Vegas shot a
gun into several of the vehicles in the parking lot,
then used molotov cocktails to set two of the cars
on fire. Five were damaged, but two totally destroyed, and
they rode on the wall of the building. Resist and
Vegas police saying this was a targeted attack against a
Tesla facility and while they don't have enough evidence to
(21:48):
call it terrorism. Agpam Bondi has said it clearly was
domestic terrorism, but the FBI saying, well, they haven't determined
that yet. There are legal things that have to be
determined before they can just come out and say this
is terrorism. And it makes it goes up a lot
from vandalism to then saying terrorism for what kind of
case it would be. But the FBI Special Agent in
(22:10):
charge in Vegas saying it does have the earmarks as
being that. It certainly has some of the hallmarks that
we might think so. In Kansas City polic two Tesla
cyber trucks were set on fire. Earlier this month, shots
were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon. South Carolina
guy's been arrested for vandalizing a charging station. He had
molotov cocktails outside of a pizza restaurant and the ATF
(22:32):
found a three page letter he had with anti government beliefs.
Charging stations in Massachusetts have been set on fire, and
firefighters say.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
The fires are relatively small.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
However, again involving seven of them, there was quite a
bit of smoke that was coming off of it. And
John now there's a call for big protests at Tesla's
showrooms next week, a day of action. The group is
calling for them to be peaceful, but once they say,
bigger than what anybody has seen at Tesla, and the
White House is saying, and this about everything.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Now we've seen despicable and unacceptable violence taking place across
our country at Tesla dealerships against workers, employees, and also
innocent Americans who drive these vehicles.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And then President Trump last week he was essentially doing
that commercial outside the White House for Tesla's, with Elon
Musk calling them amazing and that he was buying one
and the greatest thing ever. He was asked about them
and about the vandals and what they're doing, he called
the vandals garbage.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
You do it to Tesla, and you do it to
any company, We're gonna catch you, and you're gonna you're
gonna go through hell.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
And there are some less violent protests that are going on,
people putting stickers over the Tesla logo on their car
to make a point. Some are selling them, and then
you have this whole other customer base buying them right now,
and it's kind of a one eighty here of those
who you know everywhere in California for environmental reasons, and
now people are ditching those and selling them, with numbers
of used Tesla's being available have now shot up. And
(23:55):
then you've got those who support Elon Musk and President
Trump who are now who were probably you know, pickup
truck crowd wasn't they weren't going to go electric, now
going to buy them. But Tessa stock down nine weeks
in a row. Their sales are down considerably, But we'll
see where it all shakes out.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
In the end.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is there any information as to whether this is an
organized group, who it is, and who's funding them. No? Nothing,
I mean there's not a lot of funding that goes
into it, at least in the vandalism part of it.
It's keying of vehicles. It is spray painting words on one.
I wonder if the organism, if there's an organization, has
a battle plan and strategy. That's what the FBI is
trying to figure out right now. They don't seem to
(24:35):
see anything linking these together. It seems more like people
who are saying, you know, that's a good idea, and
that's a good idea that they heard what went on
in Massachusetts, and then somebody in Vegas does it, and
then somebody. But so they're looking into it. It's individual copycats. Yeah,
I mean, at this point it seems and again it's
all the guy in South Carolina was outside of a
(24:56):
pizza restaurant and it was very crude, these molotas cocktails
that were made out of I believe beer bottles from
inside the restaurant. People people get this upset over government
workers getting laid off. Yeah, apparently, what are they going
to do in La once Karen Bass starts laying off thousands. Oh,
it sounds like the layoffs are definitely coming. Yeah, we
heard yesterday because all levels of government are broke. Yeah, yeah,
(25:19):
that's the It's.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Gonna go on for quite a while.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
All right, Alex, very good, Thank you, you got it?
Think jod all right, Alex Stone, ABC News. I imagine
there are some left wing anarchist groups that might be
behind some of the violence. Uh, you know, they they
were they were involved with the George Floyd riots, they
were involved with all those Antifa protests. Could be the
(25:42):
same characters, could be new characters. Uh, there's there's a
lot of people. I don't know what snaps if it
is just one off guys, there's a lot of mentally
ill people running around. Huh you got to blow up
a tesla because government workers are getting laid off? Really
that it doesn't happen when everyone else gets laid off. Right,
(26:03):
We lost millions of jobs in the last twenty five
years to China. I don't remember any violent protests over that.
Why government workers, who most of them don't even show
up for work, and when they do show up for work,
is what do they do.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
What do they do? What's the big benefit we're getting?
We come back.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Can I talk about State Senator Tony Strickland. We're gonna
have him on the show tomorrow. But he had a
bill that got squashed by the state Senate today.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Is really radical.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It was about defunding high speed rail and giving the
money to lower the gas tax in this state. Guess
what the Senate the Senate's response to that idea was.
We'll tell you about it coming up.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
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Speaker 1 (26:55):
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Speaker 2 (26:58):
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Speaker 1 (27:16):
And and what else? What else is on the whiteboard?
And what else is on the whiteboard? Oh?
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Speaker 1 (27:28):
All right, did all my proper announcements. Uh, all right.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
State Senator Tony Strickland from Huntington Beach, the Republican. He
has this bill. This is really simple. Defund high speed rail,
use the money to reduce the gas tax.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
What did the Senate say? No?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Senate Democrats rejected this idea again, Defund high speed rail,
use the money to lower the gas tax. They will
not do it, even after spending seventeen billion dollars on
high speed rail and it doesn't exist after seventeen years.
They are so corrupt. They are such a bunch of criminals.
(28:12):
I wish nothing but bad things to happen to them
because they're thieves. They should they all these legislators ought
to be in a prison cell. They should reopen those
prisons that Newsom closed and put the Assembly and State Senate,
all the offending members who vote down, who vote down
this bill, they should be locked up. Strickland says, we've
(28:36):
been wasting billions of hard working families dollars on a
train everybody knows will not be built.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
They know this is not going to be built, and
they're spending it anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Because they don't think there's any consequence.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
And he says Newsom and the Democrats have raised gas
prices every year for the last four years, and the
tax falls disproportionately on hard working families living paycheck to paycheck.
They know, they know that the poor in the middle class,
it's a bigger.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Hit to them.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Tony Strickland's going to come on our show tomorrow after
three o'clock to talk about all this and conways.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
He know, we'll talk to Alex Stone from ABC News
about everybody burning up these Tesla's. Did you see that
Tim Walls was rooting for the demise of Tesla? He said,
he said, he put it on his phone. He gets
an extra charge every time the stock drops.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
He's such an idiot.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
He's rooting for the demise of an American car company.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah, which employs how many thousand, thousands and thousands of workers?
And how many people have Tesla in their four win
case in Minnesota? In Minnesota? Yeah, he is a complete warron.
It's like somebody dropped him on his head. Seems odd.
Eric scar the Duke of Sports, is coming on with us.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
You might know that man, right talk about March madness
that's going on right now.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, there is, there's Marsh Yeah, it's not mad yet,
but it's getting there.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
Dollar General and other stores we'll talk about the man.
It seems like every store is going out of business,
even the stores that sell crap are going out.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Of It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
People don't even have nothing to buy crap.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
That's right, right, people don't have one.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
You know those I think those stores, you know, like
Dollar General and you know the ninety nine Cents Store,
I think those are like hoarders warehouses. You know, if
you love collecting cheap stuff, you go there to buy
and you hoard it. Yeah, but I like that Dollar General.
I enjoy walking over there. Yeah, the Dollar King as well.
Do you ever go into a nice store or a
(30:40):
nice restaurant. I like the prices of that. The nice restaurants,
they're really expensive. Jim Jim Taylor's coming on, Well, le's
I'm gonna be in the San Juan Capistrano parade, So
buzz on down there.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Look at the parade.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
It's the my second time, but it's the I think
it's the eighty fifth or sixty fifth annual. If you're
been then there that parade, not to the parade, you know,
I'm really bummed because one of my favorite parades was
the Palisades. You were in that one year a few times. Yeah,
and that's not gonna happen. Obviously they're going to have it,
(31:14):
but I don't know where. Oh good, they should have it. Yeah,
there's a lot of people in the Palisades that want
to good get just get back to normal. Get back
to normal from any small way.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
That's great. Yeah, that's a great idea.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
And then we also have Dean Sharp coming on with
us as well, so we got almost too much show,
you know, almost too much. Yeah, and then Moe's not
in tonight, but Twala's taken over for him and that
guy's great. All right, yeah, all right. Last on his
guy You and Towada. Last on his Guys the Radiary,
What does that make you? A cheap order? We got
Conway to X think dog right go.
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