November 26, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (11/26) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. NewsNation's Alex Caprariello comes on the show to talk about Thanksgiving travel. More on the affordability of Thanksgiving this year. A woman assaulted an ICE agent at a protest. Talkbacks from listeners.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobel. Good to have you
along with us. Happy holiday week. If you're driving, then
you're halfway there, and just lay back and embrace this
portion of the vacation.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And that is the travel itself.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Put on State on KFI for all the traffic information
that will give you the confidence of knowing that it's
not your fault.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But a lot of people are going to be traveling.
I'm stunned by these numbers.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Eighteen million Americans will travel by air alone from yesterday
through next Tuesday, fifty two thousand flights. And of course
you don't need to you don't need me to tell
you the volume on the roadways and Americans are on
the move, not just here in southern California, but nationwide.
We'll talk with News Nations national correspondent Alex Caparrillo.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Is she is she with us? Okay, we'll talk to
her in a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
But yeah, it's stunning the volume of traffic and that
more people, record numbers of people are flying, record numbers
of people are driving traveling.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That's a good thing. Right. This is a good thing.
We wanted America back.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
We wanted to come back from COVID, We wanted things
to return back to normal. We wanted prosperity. This is
what prosperity looks like. It's a busy week. Look, the
good news is so many did not have to work
or go to school on Monday and Tuesday. I don't
know when that change took place, but all three of
my sons and two are in high school and one
(01:42):
is in elementary school, the schools are closed Monday and
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That's kind of a new thing. That wasn't the case
when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So that enabled families to leave on Monday like mine did,
or leave yesterday, which was the busiest travel day when
they used to be the busiest travel day.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Because Thursday is the day. What do you have to
leave on Tuesday for? And if Tuesday of next week
it's a busy travel day, then people are taking Monday off.
So people are able to afford this level of luxury.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Like other nations don't take a week off to celebrate
one meal on a Thursday. They don't take Tuesday to
Tuesday off. So we're doing something right here in the
United States, and I think we should just celebrate it, Like,
don't be mad at the traffic, be glad that somebody
Americans are taking advantage of the holiday and having a
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good time with it. Sean Duffy, is the Secretary of Transportation,
got into a little hot water earlier this week when
he said that he wants to embrace civility at the airport.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Now. The Secretary of Transportation, I think, is onto something here.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
We call on the Transportation Secretary to give us immediate
updates when things are bad, right if there are problems
in the sky, if air traffic controllers are not showing
up to work, if software outages are messing up flight schedules,
if there is some kind of strike going on with
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baggage handlers, whatever's going on in the industry. We rely
on the Secretary of Transportation to be straight with us.
Now that everything's fixed on the industry side, he went
directly to the American passenger and said, hey, I got
things right.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
On this side.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We are at pre government shutdown levels at the air
traffic control tower, and everybody's happy. Everybody's getting paid, everything's
on schedule. We have a huge cash infusion to the FAA.
We're going to get all new software. It was in
the One Big Beautiful Bill. We're doing everything we can
do to make traveling convenient and comfortable for you. Now
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I'm going to ask you, can you bring a little
more civility to the airport? Can you remember your pleases
and your thank you? Literally a cabinet member telling Americans
to remember their polices and thank you. But whatever, I
think it's I think it's fun. Then he got into
a little hot water when he called you all slobs.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Just maybe dressing with some respect, whether it's a pair
of jeens and and and a decent shirt.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Which encourage us, encourages us to maybe behave all a
little better.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And there's no question about that.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
We do know that in the professional world, there is
There are accounting.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Firms in Marina del Rey that have a policy there
is no casual Friday.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I know some of these firms, and when I worked
in Congress, there was no casual Friday when you work
for a congressman.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So there is a correlation.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Between wearing professional attire, whatever your profession is, and bringing
your a game to your profession, and that's what he's
leaning to. But he's doubled down on the whole civility thing.
And we'll share with you what do you have to say.
But First News Nation's national correspondent, Alex It's count.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
It is not right?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Did I pronounce it?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I nailed I nailed it. What's to looking like out there?
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Yeah, tough flooding for millions of Americans right now. I mean, obviously,
we know this is already a busy holiday to begin with.
Uh but then we add some of the inclement weather
that we've been seeing across the country, particularly in the Midwest,
surrounding major hubs Chicago, Hair namely, which had some really
nasty wind conditions today causing ground delays and ground stops
(05:41):
for a brief period of time. And you know what
one big, major hub like that can do, major wrinkles
all across the entire board, with delays across the country.
Uh So, a lot of people right now finding themselves
in a difficult position trying to get home for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Is that? I mean, are there ingency plans for as
you say, major wrinkles in hubs? Like everybody knows that, right,
I mean, you know, hubs out out of Chicago, O'Hare, Minneapolis, St.
H Salt Lake City, Right, they could get impacted far
more quickly than let's say, you know, Dull, Houston or right. So,
(06:20):
I mean, are there preset industry contingency plans to handle
the impact that that has of slowing down you know,
airports in the Midwest, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I mean one is part of the reason why you know,
UH flyers like to do NonStop flights is because it
lowers the likelihood or probability that they may be delayed
themselves as a layover in a major hub like that.
You know, other contingency plans are just abandoning flying all together,
and that's what we're seeing more people do instead, choosing
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to maybe take drive or take a train some other
ways to do it. But in general, I mean, the
weather is gonna weather. You know, it's not as if,
you know, United Airlines can control the fifty miles per
hour wind gusts here, and they got to do what's
in the best interests of everybody, And you know, it
can catch people off guard. You know, for example, I
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was talking to some folks that were coming from Lincoln, Nebraska,
and all of a sudden instead of fifteen minutes you
know away from landing in Chicago Air they hear the
pilot get on the line and say, sorry, folks, we
got to land in Milwaukee. That's an hour and a
half north of where they're originally supposed to be. So
it just is what it is. Sometimes that's the risk
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you take when choosing to fly one during the busiest
holiday of the year and then two in late November
where you know winds and snow and lizards can occur.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, the direct flights the way to go if you
can afford that ticket. Otherwise, I mean those of us
that do a lot of flying across country know that
in the next this month and in the next few months,
try and fly through Phoenix in Atlanta, right if you
can figure out to connect that way. Were talking about
the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy a moment ago. He's doubling
(08:06):
down on his civility campaign, but he did mention among
aside from the slippers comment, he did mention about a
major infrastructure investment.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
In the FAA. Are we seeing any.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Results of that yet or is it too soon to
see that impact?
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Well, I think it's a little too soon. But this
is something that is good headlines right now for Secretary Duffy,
given the bad headlines that have just happened, you know,
fifty days ago with the forty three days shutdown, but
you know the air traffic control issue, and I like
to remind our viewers of this was an issue before
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that government shutdown. We knew that there were shortages. We
were covering the delays that were happening in Newark Liberty
International Airport, in the air traffic controller shortages. So Secretary
Duffy is capitalizing on the fact that the shutdowns over
that he's the man in charge of making it happen
by repromoting these headlines like you know, better pay and quicker,
(09:09):
you know, expedited pathways through air traffic control school in
the different ways, and say the you know, the computer
system the outdated computer systems that the airline industry has
used for decades. Now, these are all great things that
would most certainly help our industry. But it's not necessarily
new news. It's something that he is working on in
(09:30):
that and the Trump administration has been pushing now for
several months, but it is still just a bit too
early to say that we've seen the effects. And when
we really are thinking about the computer systems, by the way,
that is not going to be a fixed overnight. Say
magically all these computers just came online and we had them,
it would essentially cripple the system. To just entirely take
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our entire industry off the bat just so that way
we could get these computers on. So people really should
be understanding that that is going to take time. It's
going to take a little bit of patient because it's
not going to be a quick rollout. It's going to
be a very slow rollout because they want to make
sure they do it the right way with as little
mistakes possible.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So I will still be seeing dot matrix printers behind
the ticket agent lady at the gate.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's that's not going away anytime soon, because they're still there.
I always think about that.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
I'm no expert, but I know that, you know looks
it's gonna be. It's gonna take some time. And I
remember working at rental car agencies with those carbon copy
printers too, so you know, it's just it's just how
it is.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Alex Caparolla, thanks so much for spending time with us.
Happy Thanksgiving to you News Nation's national correspondent.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Thanks so much, happy, Thanks, yeah, Thanks.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Lou Penrose infa John co Belt on kf I AM
six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
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Speaker 3 (10:54):
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Everybody focused on getting to where they need to be tonight,
So stay tuned to can'f im six forty. Another traffic
update coming up in just mere moments. If you're in
the car listening, be cool. We're talking about the affordability
of this year's Thanksgiving. By all numbers, it is certainly
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more affordable. But for some reason, Americans don't think America
is affordable right now.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And it's a conundrum.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And of course the President is trying to cheerlead a
little bit because it's his economy. He wants things to
be affordable, but he wants you to know that they're affordable.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It's not worth doing all.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
This work to make America great again if you don't
feel like America's great again.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Yes, I just bought a two pack twelve soft rolls
Pavilions own for four to ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
For twelve pack, so not too bad.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
I won't be eating any of it because it was
some crazy carbs, but nonetheless, everyone else will en.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I appreciate the call that is some crazy carbs, but
it's Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Four nine for a twelve pack at.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Pavilions is good, but four ninety nine is it a steal?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Dude?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Speaking of the McDonald's app, you can get forty chicken
nuggets for twelve dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Just get forty chicken nuggets. Everything's affordable. There's a good
Thanksgiving Day hack for you.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Here's more on the consumer confidence question.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
The Trump administration is making the case that prices are down.
Data from ols FAGO shows costs for common items like turkey, stuffing, cranberries,
frozen vegetables, and dinner rolls are lower, but consumer sentiment
is still pretty gloomy. Fox News polls show a majority
of Americans aren't happy with the way the economy is going.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
All right, so that's an interesting question.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
A majority of Americans, Okay, So let's start with that.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Certainly things are cheaper. Everybody is saying it.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Thanksgiving overall is down five percent, a majority of an Americans,
almost half of Americans voted for Kamala Harris. So all
it takes is every American with Trump derangement syndrome that
just wants to hate on Trump, even if things are
(13:13):
in fact cheaper and Thanksgiving is more affordable, They're just
going to say Trump economy sucks because Orange Man bad.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So you take.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Everybody that voted for Kamala Harris and a couple of
independent Neair Dowells, and boom, you got fifty plus one.
There's a majority of Americans saying that the economy sucks.
So you got to be careful with this whole majority
of Americans thing when we are so closely divided and
the other thing. And this is going to be a
problem for Trump. I think in the messaging going forward,
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things are way better than they were on January twentieth.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
On every platform, right, I mean international affairs, he's on
tom of it.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Every nation that's been fighting, they all have to come
to the White House to get their fights sorted out.
Middle least thing that's under control. We'll see where that goes.
But it's not open war like it was in gosm
back home, which I care more about than anywhere else
on the planet. Right, Energy and dependence. We're back to
energy and dependence. We are drilling in Alaska. We may
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soon be drilling off the coast of California, but we
are drilling, baby drilling. That's bringing energy prices down. That's
good for you because everything in the store was brought there.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
By a truck.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
So if you bring down the cost of that truck
getting to the grocery store, that immediately brings down the
cost of everything in the grocery store. Frankly, I would
argue that everything you have is brought to you by
a truck. Everything you're kitchen table, all the food on it,
the chairs, the car in your garage, it's all brought
to you by a truck. So if the cost of
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fueling up that truck goes down, then the cost of everything.
That's an immediate impact of bringing down energy prices, which
President Trump pledged.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He was going to do.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
But there is going to be a diminishing level of
marginal return on prosperity. In economics, we have this concept
called the diminishing level of marginal return.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That means, let's say you love.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Oreo cookies and you could just you love them, you
can't get enough. You couldn't stop eating Oreo cookies if
someone provided you NonStop. So I buy you a box
of Oreo cookies, and you devour the entire box. And
then I get you a second box, and you devour.
Then I hand you a third box of Oreo cookies,
and about three quarters of the way through the box
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you can enjoy that last twenty five percent of that
box of Oreo cookies. Then I hand you a fourth box,
and you don't. You don't open it. You won't open it.
That's called a diminishing level of marginal return. Right on
the margin, the return diminishes. The same thing happens with
good economic times and prosperity. Right, we notice things are
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way better than they were when Trump first took office,
and way better than during the Biden years, and they'll
continue to get way better, and then they'll.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Just kind of lay level off into better.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You won't notice it, because it's not like next Thanksgiving
won't be so much better than this Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
This Thanksgiving way.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Better than last, and there's three other Thanksgivings ahead of
us in which Trump has got to constantly, you know,
beat last years, or else people will say, well, it's
flat or even they've gone up a little bit, so
that's gonna have to be a very challenging narrative. I mean,
we always want things to be better, but things are
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hot right now. They can only get so hot then
you have to actually go in the other direction with
inflation and cool things down, and you don't want to
do that. So there's a lot to be done. Certainly,
there is a lot more to do, but we're on
the right track and it's going to be a fantastic
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holiday and everybody is the fact that we are traveling
in record numbers, whether people admit it or not, proves
that you can afford to travel in record numbers, even.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Though, even though, even though.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Right even though housing is expensive, oh boy, yeah it is.
You live in southern California. You're not hanging out with
the snowplows in Chicago. So it's always going to be
a little bit more expensive to live in desirable places.
And there's always going to be some level of inflation.
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And that's good for you because you want the value
of your house to go up and you want your
wages to go up. You just don't want it to
outpace your wages. And that's a tricky little game that
economists play with. So happy Thanksgiving times are good, Lou Penrose.
If a John Coblt on KFI AM six forty live
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI six.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on the John Cobelt
Show talking about the Big holiday and all the discussions
about Turkey and about affordability and everything else.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Well, you are completely full of lives, just spewing the
crap out.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Unbelievable how you twist the truth around. Things are not better,
not that long shot. And any person that has even
one brain Selle knows that. Obviously that doesn't include you.
I appreciate the call. See that's what's gonna happen at
the Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Day table by the people that voted for Kamala, They're like,
you don't have any brains.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Things are obviously terrible.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Nobody has any money, nothing's affordable, everybody's dying, nobody can
afford Thanksgiving. Well, you flew here from Boston, you must
have money. Well, well yeah, some but not everybody. All right, Well,
it's record travel by air and land. How are they
affording the travel? If they can't afford to eat or
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pay their mortgage. Trump's bad and you don't have any
brain cells, sir. I don't think you're ever going to
be happy.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Have a nice day.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
We got a twenty pound turkey on Amazon for fourteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I don't know where they get these people's say it's
more expensive. I bought that thirty nine dollars and six
cent Walmart Basket Thanksgiving deal and it came with a
lot of good stuff for thirty nine bucks, cheapest I've
ever spent on a Thanksgiving turkey with all the stuff.
Have a good day, Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Happy Thanksgiving, Good luck with that Walmart turkey. Everybody's talking
about that Walmart thirty seven dollars turkey, and I think
it feeds ten Like unbelievable what they got going on there.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I think, first off, we should not.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Be benchmarking the national health against a turkey dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
This is not an expensive meal to.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Prepare, and I don't know why we wait all year
to have it.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
In my house, we have turkey almost once a week.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
There was a while there where it was once a
week during football season. Certainly it was once a week
during football. I have three boys, and my wife and
I basically have the same menu during the week because
it's just easier, Like you find something that all three
kids like and will eat, and you don't have to
hear about it, and you stick with the recipes. How
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you change things up every once in a while, but
with lacrosse and football and who knows what I'm reading,
it's just easier to know in the morning what we're
going to be serving them for dinner, so then you
go buy what you need on Sunday and that's I mean,
that's working for us. And the turkey breast in the
crock pot was a big fave. You had a side
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of greens to that, and you're golden and turkeys just
an inexpensive bird.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It always has been.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And you don't have to prepare every turkey dinner like
it's Thanksgiving, Like you don't have to do sweet potatoes,
mashed potatoes or smashed potatoes if you're like my twelve
year old, obviously you don't have to have cranberry sauce.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Frankly ever, but like.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Just turkey as your protein is a very inexpensive way
to go and always has been.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
So this was never really a big deal.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
What it is is the tradition of the feast where
you have the big appetizers and then you know, you
graze around the kitchen and then the bird, and then
the desserts, and then the coffee and then all the booze. Right,
it's a feast, it's a party. That's what makes it
a big thing. In my family, we do it completely backwards.
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You want to know what the tradition is in my family,
The pumpkin pie is consumed at breakfast. You can't get
up early enough to beat my mother in law to
that pumpkin pie.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
She's in that pumpkin pie.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
She'll be in that pumpkin pie eight o'clock tomorrow morning,
and she has it with ice cream. My mother in
law always ate ice cream for breakfast. When I first
met my now wife, when she was my date, I
remember meeting her folks and for whatever reason, I had
to pick up earlier. Her mom was eating a bowl
of ice cream for breakfast with her coffee.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I thought, that's smart. Why aren't we all doing that?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
That makes all the sense in the world if you
think it's through. So she'll, yeah, she'll have pumpkin pie
al the mode for breakfast and that now everybody does it.
So the pumpkin pie is the breakfast. Then we'll start
cutting up appetizers and somebody will work on the bird
and yeah, we really we don't have dessert. We might
have coffee or a nightcap, but that's the tradition in
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our house. Hey, I got an update on the the
file of liberal women going crazy. Another liberal woman assaulted
an ice agent at an anti ice protest. This is
out of the I've been on the liberal woman going
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crazy beat for quite some time, and it's because I
have a rule, and that is Democrats do not have
a political problem.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Democrats have a maturity problem.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And I saw this during the protest against the ice
raids in Los Angeles back in June. And the people
that were caught assaulting ice vehicles, the ones that were
throwing rocks at the windshields, and the ones that were
driving nails in the parked ice units in Rancho Cucamonga. Like,
after these people, after all the dust settled and the
(23:50):
Justice Department got on them and found like through ring camera,
doorbells and cameras and whatever, found these people and actually
brought them to justice.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
What was most.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Shocking to me was the age.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
The guy that was ramming nails into the tires of
the ICE vehicles in Rancho Cucamonga fifty one years old.
The guy that threw the cinder block into the windshield
of the ICE vehicle as it was leaving that marijuana
farm in Camillo thirty one like, not college aged maniacs,
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grown ass man.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I really couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
And then I've been noticing that over and over, just
to like, adults are the ones committing these things, not
to like everyone thinks.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
That these skinny people are just young people that are misguided,
But they're not.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
They're grown people who should have the capacity to know better.
This woman was mad at Ice, so Ice was conducting
a lawful execution of a deportation warrant. That means they
grabbed an illegal and wrastled them to the ground.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
They always wrestle because the illegals know they're going home.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Like the illegals are not saying, hey, I want to
see a warrant, Hey what about my due process?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
No, the illegals know that the jig is up.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
That's why they wrestle, and they're and it's dangerous for
the Ice agent. So the ice agent's got to wrestle
them to the ground and get those cuffs on them
and throw them in the back of the ice van.
So you have to have another like federal agent guarding
this wrestle match, wrestling match that's going on, and you
have this liberal white woman screaming at the federal agent
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until at one point she dumps a a cup of
mountain dew on his head. That's the crowd reacting, Oh
look what she did.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
She got him. Boy, I'll tell you what she got them.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
She dumped it into her entire big gulp of mountain
dew on the agent's head.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Everybody, Oh, look it at you. You got him.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
And then seconds later he turns and wrestles her to
the ground.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
No, what do you get? I love that, the quick
turnaround from the like the celebration, Oh we got the
ice guy. He's soaked.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We soaked him with mountain dew. And then all of
a sudden, she's screaming, don't you touch me. You know
where you're going, lady, to jail because that would be
battery of a federal agent. Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt
on KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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Lou Penrose Info. John coblt Good to have you along
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Traffic reports coming up in just about seven minutes. But
right now, talking about the affordability of Thanksgiving, everybody's weighing in.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
I love how these people call in and say you're
full of lies when you're throwing out actual numbers. Meanwhile,
they look the other way while they support all the
politicians that are proven and completely guilty of corruption, theft, stealing, lying, cheating,
just being horrible human beings, burning down neighborhoods in our
state of California particular. And everybody wants to look past
(27:30):
that because Trump's staff, you know that.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Look, it's Trump derangement syndrome. And it's okay because we won.
So I'm not going to have the Thanksgiving Day discussion
like Altered by the Losers. I was watching this morning.
I don't know if it was ABC. Somebody had like
some therapists, family counsel or on Oh, the big discussion.
(27:55):
What if politics comes up during Thanksgiving dinner? And she
was telling you how you want to first? You want
to also, if you're the host, you have every right
to set the rules.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
No politics discussed.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
During dinner, or if they do, you listen to people,
hear them out.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And I thought, the hell with that.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
If anybody brings up anything that has to slightly to
do with conditions in our country, I'm gonna say, Wow,
look at this Thanksgiving feast. Remember when you said Trump
was going to destroy the economy and the stock market
was gonna plummet and he was going to be a dictator.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
On day one? Boy, were you wrong? Look at all
this food.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Remember when you said, if Trump deports all the illegals,
then there'll be nobody to work the agriculture in California
and there'd be no food because only illegals know how
to work.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Boy, were you wrong?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
You really voted for the wrong person. We really voted
for the right person.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Look at the price of the pump.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Boy, the gas prices are really affordable this Thanksgiving capital
last Thanksgiving, Remember when you said if Donald Trump won,
he was gonna be a dictator and the world economy
was going to collapse and there was gonna be.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
World War three? Boy, were you wrong? Good thing?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Nobody listened to you, Like, that's what I'm gonna do,
and that's what I encourage all of you to do.
And let them suck it up because you know, if
the if the shoe.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Was on the other foot, they'd be doing that to us.
So walk tall because you're right.
Speaker 11 (29:36):
Things are more expensive if you go to Michaels for
the Christmas season, and if you go to Target, they
don't put prices on everything because they change them. They
go up and down because of tariffs. And they said
that it's just really a problem. If you go to
the baby department at Target, there's no prices on anything.
If you go to Michael's, there's no prices on anything.
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They change them because the tariff.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Well, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I don't know why you would buy a baby product
manufactured in China. That would be an error, like why
would you put anything in a baby's mouth that was
made in China? And no, I don't go to Michael's
because I'm heterosexual.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Me and my family seen you doing well, But once again,
my family works and makes the honest living and doesn't
depend on the government to provide my food or my
Thanksgiving dinner. Und about thirty people over cost me a
couple hundred bucks. But you know what, I can afford it.
You know why because I've worked peace.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Out peace out.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah, it's amazing when you work and earn how much
you can afford instead of waiting around for the government
to make things more affordable, or worse, waiting for the
government to mail you some form of government welfare so
that you can have your Thanksgiving Like in all seriousness,
it was sad for me during the shutdown to watch
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my fellow Americans testifying on the Hill about how she
was not able to afford Thanksgiving dinner without SNAP. She
was literally she was testifying saying about how and she
had a full time job.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
She got a full time job, and that doesn't make
ends meet.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
And frankly, without these SNAP benefits, I won't be able
to host a Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
And I thought, lady, that's humiliating. You should get off TV.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And it's also a very sad thing that you think
you need the government to provide you with a Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It wasn't true, but they're all out there.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Hey, look have yourself as a happy Thanksgiving and we'll
see you next time on Lou Penrose. If John Coblt
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobel. Good to have you
along with us. Happy holiday week. If you're driving, then
you're halfway there, and just lay back and embrace this
portion of the vacation.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And that is the travel itself.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Put on State on KFI for all the traffic information
that will give you the confidence of knowing that it's
not your fault.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But a lot of people are going to be traveling.
I'm stunned by these numbers.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Eighteen million Americans will travel by air alone from yesterday
through next Tuesday, fifty two thousand flights. And of course
you don't need to you don't need me to tell
you the volume on the roadways and Americans are on
the move, not just here in southern California, but nationwide.
We'll talk with News Nations national correspondent Alex Caparrillo.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Is she is she with us? Okay, we'll talk to
her in a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
But yeah, it's stunning the volume of traffic and that
more people, record numbers of people are flying, record numbers
of people are driving traveling.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That's a good thing. Right. This is a good thing.
We wanted America back.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
We wanted to come back from COVID, We wanted things
to return back to normal. We wanted prosperity. This is
what prosperity looks like. It's a busy week. Look, the
good news is so many did not have to work
or go to school on Monday and Tuesday. I don't
know when that change took place, but all three of
my sons and two are in high school and one
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is in elementary school, the schools are closed Monday and
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That's kind of a new thing. That wasn't the case
when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So that enabled families to leave on Monday like mine did,
or leave yesterday, which was the busiest travel day when
they used to be the busiest travel day.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Because Thursday is the day. What do you have to
leave on Tuesday for? And if Tuesday of next week
it's a busy travel day, then people are taking Monday off.
So people are able to afford this level of luxury.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Like other nations don't take a week off to celebrate
one meal on a Thursday. They don't take Tuesday to
Tuesday off. So we're doing something right here in the
United States, and I think we should just celebrate it, Like,
don't be mad at the traffic, be glad that somebody
Americans are taking advantage of the holiday and having a
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good time with it. Sean Duffy, is the Secretary of Transportation,
got into a little hot water earlier this week when
he said that he wants to embrace civility at the airport.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Now. The Secretary of Transportation, I think, is onto something here.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
We call on the Transportation Secretary to give us immediate
updates when things are bad, right if there are problems
in the sky, if air traffic controllers are not showing
up to work, if software outages are messing up flight schedules,
if there is some kind of strike going on with
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baggage handlers, whatever's going on in the industry. We rely
on the Secretary of Transportation to be straight with us.
Now that everything's fixed on the industry side, he went
directly to the American passenger and said, hey, I got
things right.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
On this side.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We are at pre government shutdown levels at the air
traffic control tower, and everybody's happy. Everybody's getting paid, everything's
on schedule. We have a huge cash infusion to the FAA.
We're going to get all new software. It was in
the One Big Beautiful Bill. We're doing everything we can
do to make traveling convenient and comfortable for you. Now
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I'm going to ask you, can you bring a little
more civility to the airport? Can you remember your pleases
and your thank you? Literally a cabinet member telling Americans
to remember their polices and thank you. But whatever, I
think it's I think it's fun. Then he got into
a little hot water when he called you all slobs.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Just maybe dressing with some respect, whether it's a pair
of jeens and and and a decent shirt.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Which encourage us, encourages us to maybe behave all a
little better.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And there's no question about that.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
We do know that in the professional world, there is
There are accounting.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Firms in Marina del Rey that have a policy there
is no casual Friday.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I know some of these firms, and when I worked
in Congress, there was no casual Friday when you work
for a congressman.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So there is a correlation.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Between wearing professional attire, whatever your profession is, and bringing
your a game to your profession, and that's what he's
leaning to. But he's doubled down on the whole civility thing.
And we'll share with you what do you have to say.
But First News Nation's national correspondent, Alex It's count.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
It is not right?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Did I pronounce it?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I nailed I nailed it. What's to looking like out there?
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Yeah, tough flooding for millions of Americans right now. I mean, obviously,
we know this is already a busy holiday to begin with.
Uh but then we add some of the inclement weather
that we've been seeing across the country, particularly in the Midwest,
surrounding major hubs Chicago, Hair namely, which had some really
nasty wind conditions today causing ground delays and ground stops
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for a brief period of time. And you know what
one big, major hub like that can do, major wrinkles
all across the entire board, with delays across the country.
Uh So, a lot of people right now finding themselves
in a difficult position trying to get home for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Is that? I mean, are there ingency plans for as
you say, major wrinkles in hubs? Like everybody knows that, right,
I mean, you know, hubs out out of Chicago, O'Hare, Minneapolis, St.
H Salt Lake City, Right, they could get impacted far
more quickly than let's say, you know, Dull, Houston or right. So,
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I mean, are there preset industry contingency plans to handle
the impact that that has of slowing down you know,
airports in the Midwest, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I mean one is part of the reason why you know,
UH flyers like to do NonStop flights is because it
lowers the likelihood or probability that they may be delayed
themselves as a layover in a major hub like that.
You know, other contingency plans are just abandoning flying all together,
and that's what we're seeing more people do instead, choosing
(06:52):
to maybe take drive or take a train some other
ways to do it. But in general, I mean, the
weather is gonna weather. You know, it's not as if,
you know, United Airlines can control the fifty miles per
hour wind gusts here, and they got to do what's
in the best interests of everybody, And you know, it
can catch people off guard. You know, for example, I
(07:12):
was talking to some folks that were coming from Lincoln, Nebraska,
and all of a sudden instead of fifteen minutes you
know away from landing in Chicago Air they hear the
pilot get on the line and say, sorry, folks, we
got to land in Milwaukee. That's an hour and a
half north of where they're originally supposed to be. So
it just is what it is. Sometimes that's the risk
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you take when choosing to fly one during the busiest
holiday of the year and then two in late November
where you know winds and snow and lizards can occur.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, the direct flights the way to go if you
can afford that ticket. Otherwise, I mean those of us
that do a lot of flying across country know that
in the next this month and in the next few months,
try and fly through Phoenix in Atlanta, right if you
can figure out to connect that way. Were talking about
the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy a moment ago. He's doubling
(08:06):
down on his civility campaign, but he did mention among
aside from the slippers comment, he did mention about a
major infrastructure investment.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
In the FAA. Are we seeing any.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Results of that yet or is it too soon to
see that impact?
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Well, I think it's a little too soon. But this
is something that is good headlines right now for Secretary Duffy,
given the bad headlines that have just happened, you know,
fifty days ago with the forty three days shutdown, but
you know the air traffic control issue, and I like
to remind our viewers of this was an issue before
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that government shutdown. We knew that there were shortages. We
were covering the delays that were happening in Newark Liberty
International Airport, in the air traffic controller shortages. So Secretary
Duffy is capitalizing on the fact that the shutdowns over
that he's the man in charge of making it happen
by repromoting these headlines like you know, better pay and quicker,
(09:09):
you know, expedited pathways through air traffic control school in
the different ways, and say the you know, the computer
system the outdated computer systems that the airline industry has
used for decades. Now, these are all great things that
would most certainly help our industry. But it's not necessarily
new news. It's something that he is working on in
(09:30):
that and the Trump administration has been pushing now for
several months, but it is still just a bit too
early to say that we've seen the effects. And when
we really are thinking about the computer systems, by the way,
that is not going to be a fixed overnight. Say
magically all these computers just came online and we had them,
it would essentially cripple the system. To just entirely take
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our entire industry off the bat just so that way
we could get these computers on. So people really should
be understanding that that is going to take time. It's
going to take a little bit of patient because it's
not going to be a quick rollout. It's going to
be a very slow rollout because they want to make
sure they do it the right way with as little
mistakes possible.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So I will still be seeing dot matrix printers behind
the ticket agent lady at the gate.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's that's not going away anytime soon, because they're still there.
I always think about that.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
I'm no expert, but I know that, you know looks
it's gonna be. It's gonna take some time. And I
remember working at rental car agencies with those carbon copy
printers too, so you know, it's just it's just how
it is.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Alex Caparolla, thanks so much for spending time with us.
Happy Thanksgiving to you News Nation's national correspondent.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Thanks so much, happy, Thanks, yeah, Thanks.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
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six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
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Everybody focused on getting to where they need to be tonight,
So stay tuned to can'f im six forty. Another traffic
update coming up in just mere moments. If you're in
the car listening, be cool. We're talking about the affordability
of this year's Thanksgiving. By all numbers, it is certainly
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more affordable. But for some reason, Americans don't think America
is affordable right now.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And it's a conundrum.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And of course the President is trying to cheerlead a
little bit because it's his economy. He wants things to
be affordable, but he wants you to know that they're affordable.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It's not worth doing all.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
This work to make America great again if you don't
feel like America's great again.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Yes, I just bought a two pack twelve soft rolls
Pavilions own for four to ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
For twelve pack, so not too bad.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
I won't be eating any of it because it was
some crazy carbs, but nonetheless, everyone else will en.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I appreciate the call that is some crazy carbs, but
it's Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Four nine for a twelve pack at.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Pavilions is good, but four ninety nine is it a steal?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Dude?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Speaking of the McDonald's app, you can get forty chicken
nuggets for twelve dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Just get forty chicken nuggets. Everything's affordable. There's a good
Thanksgiving Day hack for you.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Here's more on the consumer confidence question.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
The Trump administration is making the case that prices are down.
Data from ols FAGO shows costs for common items like turkey, stuffing, cranberries,
frozen vegetables, and dinner rolls are lower, but consumer sentiment
is still pretty gloomy. Fox News polls show a majority
of Americans aren't happy with the way the economy is going.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
All right, so that's an interesting question.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
A majority of Americans, Okay, So let's start with that.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Certainly things are cheaper. Everybody is saying it.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Thanksgiving overall is down five percent, a majority of an Americans,
almost half of Americans voted for Kamala Harris. So all
it takes is every American with Trump derangement syndrome that
just wants to hate on Trump, even if things are
(13:13):
in fact cheaper and Thanksgiving is more affordable, They're just
going to say Trump economy sucks because Orange Man bad.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So you take.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Everybody that voted for Kamala Harris and a couple of
independent Neair Dowells, and boom, you got fifty plus one.
There's a majority of Americans saying that the economy sucks.
So you got to be careful with this whole majority
of Americans thing when we are so closely divided and
the other thing. And this is going to be a
problem for Trump. I think in the messaging going forward,
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things are way better than they were on January twentieth.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
On every platform, right, I mean international affairs, he's on
tom of it.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Every nation that's been fighting, they all have to come
to the White House to get their fights sorted out.
Middle least thing that's under control. We'll see where that goes.
But it's not open war like it was in gosm
back home, which I care more about than anywhere else
on the planet. Right, Energy and dependence. We're back to
energy and dependence. We are drilling in Alaska. We may
(14:19):
soon be drilling off the coast of California, but we
are drilling, baby drilling. That's bringing energy prices down. That's
good for you because everything in the store was brought there.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
By a truck.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
So if you bring down the cost of that truck
getting to the grocery store, that immediately brings down the
cost of everything in the grocery store. Frankly, I would
argue that everything you have is brought to you by
a truck. Everything you're kitchen table, all the food on it,
the chairs, the car in your garage, it's all brought
to you by a truck. So if the cost of
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fueling up that truck goes down, then the cost of everything.
That's an immediate impact of bringing down energy prices, which
President Trump pledged.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He was going to do.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
But there is going to be a diminishing level of
marginal return on prosperity. In economics, we have this concept
called the diminishing level of marginal return.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That means, let's say you love.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Oreo cookies and you could just you love them, you
can't get enough. You couldn't stop eating Oreo cookies if
someone provided you NonStop. So I buy you a box
of Oreo cookies, and you devour the entire box. And
then I get you a second box, and you devour.
Then I hand you a third box of Oreo cookies,
and about three quarters of the way through the box
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you can enjoy that last twenty five percent of that
box of Oreo cookies. Then I hand you a fourth box,
and you don't. You don't open it. You won't open it.
That's called a diminishing level of marginal return. Right on
the margin, the return diminishes. The same thing happens with
good economic times and prosperity. Right, we notice things are
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way better than they were when Trump first took office,
and way better than during the Biden years, and they'll
continue to get way better, and then they'll.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Just kind of lay level off into better.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
You won't notice it, because it's not like next Thanksgiving
won't be so much better than this Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
This Thanksgiving way.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Better than last, and there's three other Thanksgivings ahead of
us in which Trump has got to constantly, you know,
beat last years, or else people will say, well, it's
flat or even they've gone up a little bit, so
that's gonna have to be a very challenging narrative. I mean,
we always want things to be better, but things are
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hot right now. They can only get so hot then
you have to actually go in the other direction with
inflation and cool things down, and you don't want to
do that. So there's a lot to be done. Certainly,
there is a lot more to do, but we're on
the right track and it's going to be a fantastic
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holiday and everybody is the fact that we are traveling
in record numbers, whether people admit it or not, proves
that you can afford to travel in record numbers, even.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Though, even though, even though.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Right even though housing is expensive, oh boy, yeah it is.
You live in southern California. You're not hanging out with
the snowplows in Chicago. So it's always going to be
a little bit more expensive to live in desirable places.
And there's always going to be some level of inflation.
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And that's good for you because you want the value
of your house to go up and you want your
wages to go up. You just don't want it to
outpace your wages. And that's a tricky little game that
economists play with. So happy Thanksgiving times are good, Lou Penrose.
If a John Coblt on KFI AM six forty live
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI six.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on the John Cobelt
Show talking about the Big holiday and all the discussions
about Turkey and about affordability and everything else.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Well, you are completely full of lives, just spewing the
crap out.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Unbelievable how you twist the truth around. Things are not better,
not that long shot. And any person that has even
one brain Selle knows that. Obviously that doesn't include you.
I appreciate the call. See that's what's gonna happen at
the Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Day table by the people that voted for Kamala, They're like,
you don't have any brains.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Things are obviously terrible.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Nobody has any money, nothing's affordable, everybody's dying, nobody can
afford Thanksgiving. Well, you flew here from Boston, you must
have money. Well, well yeah, some but not everybody. All right, Well,
it's record travel by air and land. How are they
affording the travel? If they can't afford to eat or
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pay their mortgage. Trump's bad and you don't have any
brain cells, sir. I don't think you're ever going to
be happy.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Have a nice day.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
We got a twenty pound turkey on Amazon for fourteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I don't know where they get these people's say it's
more expensive. I bought that thirty nine dollars and six
cent Walmart Basket Thanksgiving deal and it came with a
lot of good stuff for thirty nine bucks, cheapest I've
ever spent on a Thanksgiving turkey with all the stuff.
Have a good day, Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Happy Thanksgiving, Good luck with that Walmart turkey. Everybody's talking
about that Walmart thirty seven dollars turkey, and I think
it feeds ten Like unbelievable what they got going on there.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I think, first off, we should not.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Be benchmarking the national health against a turkey dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
This is not an expensive meal to.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Prepare, and I don't know why we wait all year
to have it.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
In my house, we have turkey almost once a week.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
There was a while there where it was once a
week during football season. Certainly it was once a week
during football. I have three boys, and my wife and
I basically have the same menu during the week because
it's just easier, Like you find something that all three
kids like and will eat, and you don't have to
hear about it, and you stick with the recipes. How
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you change things up every once in a while, but
with lacrosse and football and who knows what I'm reading,
it's just easier to know in the morning what we're
going to be serving them for dinner, so then you
go buy what you need on Sunday and that's I mean,
that's working for us. And the turkey breast in the
crock pot was a big fave. You had a side
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of greens to that, and you're golden and turkeys just
an inexpensive bird.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It always has been.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And you don't have to prepare every turkey dinner like
it's Thanksgiving, Like you don't have to do sweet potatoes,
mashed potatoes or smashed potatoes if you're like my twelve
year old, obviously you don't have to have cranberry sauce.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Frankly ever, but like.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Just turkey as your protein is a very inexpensive way
to go and always has been.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
So this was never really a big deal.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
What it is is the tradition of the feast where
you have the big appetizers and then you know, you
graze around the kitchen and then the bird, and then
the desserts, and then the coffee and then all the booze. Right,
it's a feast, it's a party. That's what makes it
a big thing. In my family, we do it completely backwards.
(21:51):
You want to know what the tradition is in my family,
The pumpkin pie is consumed at breakfast. You can't get
up early enough to beat my mother in law to
that pumpkin pie.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
She's in that pumpkin pie.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
She'll be in that pumpkin pie eight o'clock tomorrow morning,
and she has it with ice cream. My mother in
law always ate ice cream for breakfast. When I first
met my now wife, when she was my date, I
remember meeting her folks and for whatever reason, I had
to pick up earlier. Her mom was eating a bowl
of ice cream for breakfast with her coffee.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I thought, that's smart. Why aren't we all doing that?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
That makes all the sense in the world if you
think it's through. So she'll, yeah, she'll have pumpkin pie
al the mode for breakfast and that now everybody does it.
So the pumpkin pie is the breakfast. Then we'll start
cutting up appetizers and somebody will work on the bird
and yeah, we really we don't have dessert. We might
have coffee or a nightcap, but that's the tradition in
(22:52):
our house. Hey, I got an update on the the
file of liberal women going crazy. Another liberal woman assaulted
an ice agent at an anti ice protest. This is
out of the I've been on the liberal woman going
(23:13):
crazy beat for quite some time, and it's because I
have a rule, and that is Democrats do not have
a political problem.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Democrats have a maturity problem.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And I saw this during the protest against the ice
raids in Los Angeles back in June. And the people
that were caught assaulting ice vehicles, the ones that were
throwing rocks at the windshields, and the ones that were
driving nails in the parked ice units in Rancho Cucamonga. Like,
after these people, after all the dust settled and the
(23:50):
Justice Department got on them and found like through ring camera,
doorbells and cameras and whatever, found these people and actually
brought them to justice.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
What was most.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Shocking to me was the age.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
The guy that was ramming nails into the tires of
the ICE vehicles in Rancho Cucamonga fifty one years old.
The guy that threw the cinder block into the windshield
of the ICE vehicle as it was leaving that marijuana
farm in Camillo thirty one like, not college aged maniacs,
(24:25):
grown ass man.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I really couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
And then I've been noticing that over and over, just
to like, adults are the ones committing these things, not
to like everyone thinks.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
That these skinny people are just young people that are misguided,
But they're not.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
They're grown people who should have the capacity to know better.
This woman was mad at Ice, so Ice was conducting
a lawful execution of a deportation warrant. That means they
grabbed an illegal and wrastled them to the ground.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
They always wrestle because the illegals know they're going home.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Like the illegals are not saying, hey, I want to
see a warrant, Hey what about my due process?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
No, the illegals know that the jig is up.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
That's why they wrestle, and they're and it's dangerous for
the Ice agent. So the ice agent's got to wrestle
them to the ground and get those cuffs on them
and throw them in the back of the ice van.
So you have to have another like federal agent guarding
this wrestle match, wrestling match that's going on, and you
have this liberal white woman screaming at the federal agent
(25:30):
until at one point she dumps a a cup of
mountain dew on his head. That's the crowd reacting, Oh
look what she did.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
She got him. Boy, I'll tell you what she got them.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
She dumped it into her entire big gulp of mountain
dew on the agent's head.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Everybody, Oh, look it at you. You got him.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
And then seconds later he turns and wrestles her to
the ground.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
No, what do you get? I love that, the quick
turnaround from the like the celebration, Oh we got the
ice guy. He's soaked.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We soaked him with mountain dew. And then all of
a sudden, she's screaming, don't you touch me. You know
where you're going, lady, to jail because that would be
battery of a federal agent. Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt
on KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
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Speaker 3 (26:45):
Lou Penrose Info. John coblt Good to have you along
with us. Hope everything is moving along swimmingly. If you
are traveling out there, stay tuned to KFI AM six forty.
Traffic reports coming up in just about seven minutes. But
right now, talking about the affordability of Thanksgiving, everybody's weighing in.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
I love how these people call in and say you're
full of lies when you're throwing out actual numbers. Meanwhile,
they look the other way while they support all the
politicians that are proven and completely guilty of corruption, theft, stealing, lying, cheating,
just being horrible human beings, burning down neighborhoods in our
state of California particular. And everybody wants to look past
(27:30):
that because Trump's staff, you know that.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Look, it's Trump derangement syndrome. And it's okay because we won.
So I'm not going to have the Thanksgiving Day discussion
like Altered by the Losers. I was watching this morning.
I don't know if it was ABC. Somebody had like
some therapists, family counsel or on Oh, the big discussion.
(27:55):
What if politics comes up during Thanksgiving dinner? And she
was telling you how you want to first? You want
to also, if you're the host, you have every right
to set the rules.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
No politics discussed.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
During dinner, or if they do, you listen to people,
hear them out.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And I thought, the hell with that.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
If anybody brings up anything that has to slightly to
do with conditions in our country, I'm gonna say, Wow,
look at this Thanksgiving feast. Remember when you said Trump
was going to destroy the economy and the stock market
was gonna plummet and he was going to be a dictator.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
On day one? Boy, were you wrong? Look at all
this food.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Remember when you said, if Trump deports all the illegals,
then there'll be nobody to work the agriculture in California
and there'd be no food because only illegals know how
to work.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Boy, were you wrong?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
You really voted for the wrong person. We really voted
for the right person.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Look at the price of the pump.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Boy, the gas prices are really affordable this Thanksgiving capital
last Thanksgiving, Remember when you said if Donald Trump won,
he was gonna be a dictator and the world economy
was going to collapse and there was gonna be.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
World War three? Boy, were you wrong? Good thing?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Nobody listened to you, Like, that's what I'm gonna do,
and that's what I encourage all of you to do.
And let them suck it up because you know, if
the if the shoe.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Was on the other foot, they'd be doing that to us.
So walk tall because you're right.
Speaker 11 (29:36):
Things are more expensive if you go to Michaels for
the Christmas season, and if you go to Target, they
don't put prices on everything because they change them. They
go up and down because of tariffs. And they said
that it's just really a problem. If you go to
the baby department at Target, there's no prices on anything.
If you go to Michael's, there's no prices on anything.
(29:58):
They change them because the tariff.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Well, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I don't know why you would buy a baby product
manufactured in China. That would be an error, like why
would you put anything in a baby's mouth that was
made in China? And no, I don't go to Michael's
because I'm heterosexual.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Me and my family seen you doing well, But once again,
my family works and makes the honest living and doesn't
depend on the government to provide my food or my
Thanksgiving dinner. Und about thirty people over cost me a
couple hundred bucks. But you know what, I can afford it.
You know why because I've worked peace.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Out peace out.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah, it's amazing when you work and earn how much
you can afford instead of waiting around for the government
to make things more affordable, or worse, waiting for the
government to mail you some form of government welfare so
that you can have your Thanksgiving Like in all seriousness,
it was sad for me during the shutdown to watch
(31:00):
my fellow Americans testifying on the Hill about how she
was not able to afford Thanksgiving dinner without SNAP. She
was literally she was testifying saying about how and she
had a full time job.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
She got a full time job, and that doesn't make
ends meet.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
And frankly, without these SNAP benefits, I won't be able
to host a Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
And I thought, lady, that's humiliating. You should get off TV.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And it's also a very sad thing that you think
you need the government to provide you with a Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It wasn't true, but they're all out there.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Hey, look have yourself as a happy Thanksgiving and we'll
see you next time on Lou Penrose. If John Coblt
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
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