October 15, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Koblyt Show Hour 3 (10/15) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Zach Schonfeld from The Hill calls and joins the show. Gov Newsom says haters have "California Derangement Syndrome". Lou asks why it doesn't feel like the 4th largest economy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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The Supreme Court today appeared inclined to limit the Voter
Voting Rights Act to allow states to draw congressional districts
that are favorable to minority voters. This all stems from
a case at of Louisiana, where a black majority House
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district is in question and the Planet's claim it relied
too heavily on race to draw those congressional lines, which
are technically not supposed to do. Zach Schoenfeld is with
the Hill and joins us. Now, the AP story says
that the Supreme Court appeared inclined. How do we draw
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that conclusion? Was there statements made?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Hey lou Well that is based on more than two
and a half hours of questioning today from the justices.
They heard from four different lawyers, one from the Trump administry,
one from Louisiana, and then two others from two different
groups of voters. These oral arguments are really the chance
where we have to see a glimpse into the justices
thinking on this case. Now that being said, this case
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is a bit unusual because this is actually a re argument.
This was the second time that they're hearing arguments in
this case. This doesn't happen very often. They heard arguments
last term, and now they're raising the states by presenting
a new question that really has implications not only for
Louisiana's congressional map, but asking this broad question of whether
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states can continue to be forced to draw additional majority
minority districts under section two of the voting Right Zack. So,
obviously we don't know anything for sure until a decision
comes down, but certainly a lot of skepticism today from
the Supreme Court conservative majority.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Is there any sense that we'll get a decision in
time for primary elections? I mean it, this is you
know sometimes you know, you hear oral arguments, and there
is no decision until June of next year. But that
might be too late for new congressional lines to be drawn.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I think that's right on now Louisiana. Today they did
ask the justices to issue this ruling in time for
this whatever the decision is, to be able to go
into a fact for the twenty twenty six in terms.
But as you mentioned, that primary calendar is already fast approaching,
and the Justices, you know, they could release a decision
rather quickly. Maybe they'll wait until their normal decision season
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in May and June. We just don't know at this point. Obviously,
if they get a decision out very quickly, there'd be
the potential that things could change in Louisiana before next November.
But it certainly seems like there is a strong possibility
here that if the Justices take their normal time, that
whatever ruling they hand down might not be in place
really until a future election cycles.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, it does seem to me though, that they seem
this Supreme Court seems to be a little bit more
thoughtful of implications of decision timing.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Like if you're listening.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
To arguments that affect a house district in Louisiana and
you have your opinion, then you might want to issue
that opinion in time for the next election in that district,
which would be next year.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And primaries are prior to the general election.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Of course, candidacies, statements have to be followed by candidates,
money has to be raised, So I mean, it wouldn't
be out of the ordinary for the Supreme Court to
go ahead and render their decision on this case, what
was the mood of those making arguments? I mean, is
there a sense that we're still in nineteen sixty five
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and these rules need to apply, or that nineteen sixty
five is a long time ago and conditions have just changed,
and to use Civil Rights Act language to try and
justify a black majority district in Louisiana in twenty twenty six,
which was next year, just is no longer you mean.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
That is one of the main arguments that we heard
today from Louisiana, arguing that even if this this section two,
these claims of forcing states to draw these districts was
okay back in the nineteen sixties and in decades after that,
that it's not okay today in twenty twenty five. And
that's a similar argument to what has been made. We
saw about a decade ago there was a case called
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Shelby County in which the Supreme Court struck down a
requirement under another section of the Voting Rights Act that
required states with the history of discrimination to get pre
clearance from the Justice Department before.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Enacting new voting rules. That was struck down.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Under that logic, And we've also seen a similar thing
play out recently in the battle over affirmative action. The
Supreme Court has had always said in their affirmative action
cases that there was going to be some sort of
end point on it. So certainly the argument that we
heard from some of the groups today was that the
Supreme Court should apply that same logic from the affirmative
action case to this one here and say that the
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time has come.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
To reign in Section two of the Voting Rights Act.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I have some friends in Shelby County and some friends
of Pology.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
They're still discussing that in Shelby County, Alabama.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
What's the mood on the hill?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Is there any concern among Democrats in the minority and
Republicans frankly in the majority that this could be a
game changer. I saw a report that depending on the
Supreme Court decision and the impact it has to this
black majority House district in Louisiana, it could impact nineteen
congressional districts in the United States.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, and I think that certainly members of Congress are
paying attention, whether you look at the outside briefs that
have been flooding in, but also just look at what
actually happened today in the courtroom. I was in that
courtroom this morning, and there's always a road that's actually
left open in the public gallery of the Supreme Court
courtroom for any members of Congress who want to show
up to an argument. Now, almost always it's empty, no
one comes. But today we actually saw lawmakers in that row,
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including Senator Kennedy, a Senator from Louisiana and one of
the representatives in Louisiana who is currently holding one of
those majority black districts. So I think certainly their presence
today in the court sent a message. And it's really
striking because I've had a lot of these arguments and
I very rarely see lawmakers actually take the time to
show up.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, they do have some time on their hands, so
that might be part of it.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
But I can certainly see why representatives from the state
of Louisiana and those that are in leadership in the
House of Representatives, both on the Democrats side and the
Republican side, that they want to know and if any longer,
going forward, we can on purpose bring color into the
consideration of designing a congressional district that is supposed to
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be about communities. Community, you know, the communities that have
that are common city hall, county hole.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We have these.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
We have these conversations every ten years here in California.
We're having a different conversation this year. You might have
heard about it, but back in the day, you know,
it was communities, agriculture, communities, urban communities versus suburban communities,
and those were the kinds of things that were allowed
to be taken into consideration.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And really the Civil Rights Act of sixty.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Five through and yet another thing, and a lot of
people for a long time think it has just been
abused and is no longer necessary. So we will wait
and see what the Supreme Court has to say. Zach Schoenfeldt,
thanks so much for checking in with us. Always appreciate
your insight.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Thanks for having me all right, coming up when when
we come back.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Governor Gavin Newsen was on a podcast, and he's always
on podcasts, but this time I thought he brought in
a discussion that we need to have. He's on the
Higher Learning podcast with Van Latham and Rachel Lindsay and
he says, I don't have Trump derangement syndrome, but Trump
has California derangement syndrome. We'll tell you what he thinks
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that means, and I want to know if you agree.
It's all coming up next. Luke Penrose in for John
Cobelt on The John coblt Show.
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six Fortyan.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Rose if John Cobelt on The John coblt Show. Higher
Learning is the name of the podcast hosted by Van
Latham and Rachel Lindsay. California Governor Gavin Newsom was on
the podcast. He does a lot of podcasting. I don't
know where he finds the bookers for these podcasts, Like
how would you know who to call or who to
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email to get on the podcast or maybe they reached
out to him. Anyway, he coined a new phrase and
I thought it was interesting and I.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Actually want to give the governor a little bit of credit.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
He said that he doesn't have Trump derangement syndrome, but
a lot of people, including President Trump, have California derangement syndrome.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think there's a.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
California derangement syndrome. He's part of it.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
I mean, I think people are obsessed with focusing on
what's wrong with the state and not what's right with
the state.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, I don't think President Trump is obsessed with focusing
on what's rung with the state. I think President Trump
is optimistic of what could be fixed about the state.
But I will give that aside. I will give the
governor credit. I think a lot of people are down
talking California for political reasons.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
He's the governor. Look, he's going to cheerlead for the state.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You don't want to get in an argument with a
governor of any state about the state's successes because the
governor is supposed to be the number one cheerleader of
the state and they're going to characterize their state in
the best life possible.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And I do think that he is right that there's
a lot of good things about California.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Look, we live here.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
A lot of people have left, and a lot of
people like to talk about U haul numbers and people
leaving California and losing congressional seats and.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Those are if you're truly dispassionate about it, They're just facts,
and there's ebbs and flows.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
But people do move to California too.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
But really, I'm not wanting to talk down California. I
want California to be better than it is. It can
be two things can be true at the same time.
California can be the best state in the Union and
the most beautiful place for any American to live.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And Comma, California can do a lot better on its
quality of life issues.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
California can do a lot better on its business on
attracting business, I'm being attractive to business, And California can
do a lot better on its taxes.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So two things can be true at the same time.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So I don't fault the governor for being proud of
the successes of the state, But you cannot not acknowledge
that it used to be better. Like maybe your numbers
are the best they've ever been, but you can't. You
can't avoid the fact that there wasn't this amount of
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homeless twenty five years ago in Los Angeles. There wasn't
this amount of problems in the public schools. We didn't
have this amount of egal aliens. We have not attended
to our infrastructure as much as we did back in
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the day.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Now other things have gone in the right direction.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Right, there's no smog in La anymore, well, I mean,
nowhere near the smog that was there. So it's right
and proper to acknowledge the good things, but you can't
discount that a lot more needs to be done.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
I mean, you have more scientists, engineers, more researchers, more
Nobel laureates in the state than any other state in
the nation.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Were the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
For hold God, So I hear this all the time.
He likes talking about the fourth largest economy in the world.
And he's right, and it is by the numbers. It
is the question that I have to the statement we're
the fourth largest.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I remember when.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
We were the sixth largest economy in the world and
everybody talked about it. We're the sixth largest economy in
the world. If we were a nation on its own,
we'd be number six, and I would.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Think, Wow, that's big. We must be doing something right.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Then we became the fifth largest economy. And then I
don't know what happened. Somebody stumbled out there and we
moved from five to four very quickly. And he talks
about it all the time, and again I I'll.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Defer, he's the governor.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
It's if the numbers show you are the fourth largest
economy in the world, you must be doing something.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Right.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
I mean, you have more scienceists, engineers, more researchers, more
Nobel laureates in the state than any other state in
the nation.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
We're the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So here's the question that I have.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Why doesn't it feel like we're the fourth largest economy
in the world. Why doesn't it look like we're the
fifth largest economy in the world and we just moved
up one nation into fourth And when I look at
countries that are six and seven and eight, they're like
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really nice and clean.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Why is it that we look worse.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Than we did when we were the sixth largest economy
in the world. I don't really need any Nobel Prize laureates,
do you. I don't know why that factors in. It's
business and quality of life. That's that's all there is,
Like infrastructure, business opportunities, and quality of life, Like what else?
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You can't control the web. We have the best weather,
but that can't be controlled. There are like there are
economies of the world that don't have the climate we have,
but they're better than us on the scale. So why
why is it that there's no nothing about Los Angeles
that feels like this is the fourth best place on
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planet Earth in the history of man, because that's what
it would mean to say, we're the fourth largest economy
in the world. Like, having a big economy should produce
something good. It should produce unbridled income, opportunity, it should
produce unbridled wealth. It should it should produce the cleanest
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streets and the best infrastructure, and the best education systems
and the best of everything.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I mean, we got all.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
These Nobel Prize laureates. As you said, why aren't they
working for us? Why isn't it making our quality of
life better? So you think about that. I'm gonna take
a break and then we come back. I'm gonna give
you some short answers. But Governor Newsom says that there
is California derangement syndrome out there.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You agree or disagree.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
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six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John all this week. Good
to have you along with us. California Governor Gavin Newsom
on a podcast, the Higher Learning Podcast, said there is
a Trump derangement. There's a California derangement syndrome out there.
Who's answering a question about the whole notion of Trump
arrangement syndrome. He says, there's a tendency for a lot
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of California haters and people that hate Newsom to always
talk down California.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Here he is.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
I think there's a California de arrangement syndrome, and he's
part of it. I mean, I think people are obsessed
with focusing on what's wrong with the state and not
what's right with the state.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think there is some truth to that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I think people that want to pick on Newsom will
pick on California. But we here in California. No, there
is a lot wrong with the state, but there's also
a lot right with the state. And as governor, he'll
go through the laundry list of things that he can celebrate,
including the fact that we're the fourth largest economy in
the world.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
I mean, you have more scienceists, engineers, more researchers, more
Nobel laureates in the state than any other state in
the nation.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
We're the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
For And the question that I always have is when
he says things like that, why doesn't it feel like it?
And why doesn't it feel like when we move up
on the ranking, Why isn't it like Why isn't.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
There a noticeable increase in something?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So the fourth place goes back and forth between California
and Japan a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It's US.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
US has the largest economy in the world, clearly, China
is second. Germany is third, by the way, just to
put that in perspective, because it's not enough to just
go linearly and do one, two three. The US is
way bigger than the second largest economy, and that's based
on the numbers we know from China. Communists lie, so
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they're padding the books.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
But even with the numbers that the.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Chinese communist government offer, we are still way bigger. So
it's US, China, then Germany, and Germany's kind of a
nice place. I've been to Germany and they look like
the third largest economy in the world. You look around
and everybody is all scrubbed and shampooed, and the streets
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are clean, and you know, they do have some spray
painting from time to time, but it's washed away, right
away and everybody frowns upon it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
A bunch of clean, snappy people over there.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Then you get India, and then it's California, followed by
Japan because California has overtaken Japan. And in Japan there
is zero garbage, no garbage, and no garbage can. Did
you know that if you go to Japan and you
take an apple with you walking on your way to work,
there's no place to throw that apple. You got to
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take a ziploc bag with you in your purse because
there's no garbage cans. Because the Japanese don't have garbage out.
They so want Tokyo to look beautiful all the time
that they literally direct their own residents to carry their
garbage cleanly on their person until they privately get back
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to their own house.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
So you can't find a trash can.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Don't think you can unwrap something a candy bar and
just throw the candy bar wrapper in some trash can.
When you get to a train station, there are none
and there's no trash on the.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Ground, not a.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Not a soda straw wrapper, nothing, zero. So you can
imagine where there is zero trash, that's going to be
zero homeless. So these are the kinds of things that
come to mind when you think of somebody going from
the fourth largest economy in the world to the.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
To the third, or from the fourth to the from
the fifth to the fourth.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Moving up the scale, you would think, all right, things
must be getting really better.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You guys are doing really well.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Economic output GDP, that's all going in the right direction.
Those are not everything, but they are measurements, right, It's
a barometer that things are going well.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You're not going backwards.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
If we were slipping, if we were the fourth largest
economy and then we were the seventh, then hour we're
down at twelve and homeless.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Has increased, it would make sense.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
But homeless is either flat or increasing, and we're moving
up and there's more spray pain.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
And like the inequal amount of.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Trash and wages are flat and taxes are going up.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Like that, that doesn't compute. It doesn't even out at all.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Doesn't make sense that we are better on the scale
but worse off. Yeah, and Newson likes to make a
big deal about being the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
That's despite the policy of democratic leadership, not because of it.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
No, that's not necessarily true.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
That would suggest that we'd be like number two or
number one if it wasn't for Newsome.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Now I don't think that's it. I do think that
we are.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Getting along here in California despite a higher tax burden.
I think we are getting along here in California despite
the regulatory environment. I think we are constantly fighting with
Sacramento trying to take more money out of our pockets.
So I think we do do well because I think
we're Californians, are productive people despite the burdens placed upon
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us by government, and.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
We're just in a good mood, so we.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Don't feel like fighting all day every day, which is
part of the reason that we can't defeat things like
Prop fifty, which is part of the reason why we
can't get pro business candidates into office, lower tax candidates
into office, is because we can't fight all day every day.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It's too nice out. Trust me. If it was rating all.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
The time like Bighamton, New York, and you overtaxed and overregulated,
you'd spend more time with that ballot, no question about it.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
With the biggest manufacturing state, biggest farming state, ranchers and
hunting jobs, which is interesting biggest manufacturing.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I don't know anything that's made in California. What in
your kitchen is made in California? Is your washing machine
and dryer made in California? Like, nothing is manufactured in
California that I'm aware of. I've not seen made in California.
Wine is manufacturing in California. Maybe that's what he meant
speaking of manufacturing. Manufacturing. Coming back, by the way, with
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respect to your kitchen appliance is big story on this
Walmart is going a I so you better.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Get used to it.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
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Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show.
John will be back with us next week. Talking about
Governor avenusom and is concerned that there's not so much
a Trump derangement syndrome, but there is a California derangement syndrome.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I'm sorry to correct you, but California is the fifth
largest economy.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It just broke from laries today.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, well tell the governor so we slid. We slid
back behind Japan, which makes a little more sense because
Japan's cleaner.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
California not as clean as it was.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
A number of Nobel Laureates, scientists, engineers, et cetera. Do
absolutely nothing to help the average American living in California.
The things that would help us would be low tax
it's lower gas prices, less homeless people, better housing prices.
Those are the things that affect us when you look
at great places to live. And what makes California the
only thing we have going for us right now is our.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Findance, right but it is that beautiful climate and the
culture in California. There is a California culture. There's an
attitude here that is comfortable to be around. It's welcoming
and it's optimistic. So it's more than just the sunshine.
But the sun is shining and it is that that
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lulls us into a California sunset every day of the week.
And that's what keeps us in a high tax state
with lawmakers that continue to tax us to death. Hey,
Walmart is going to go completely AI and I'm not
sure how far this can go before there is an
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unattended consequence.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Walmart is partnering with open Ai to allow customers to
buy its products through chat.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
GPT using instant checkout.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
The new offering will give Walmart customers the option to
simply chat and buy.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Just chat and buy.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Eventually there'll be nobody at Walmart. They'll just be products
at Walmart and they'll rig away for your phone to
be like that scan gun that the people have when
you're not sure what the price is. Do you ever
have that happen? They have that at Target too. Target's
great Target. They can tell you if it's at a stock.
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Like let's say you need a size seven to eight
in khaki pants for your son for some special location
at school, and you go to Target and there's none
there because everybody in the school beats you to Target.
But Target will tell you, you know, the other Target
has three.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I don't know if Walmart can do that for you,
but I like that trick. They can tell you what
the inventory is at the end. This is assuming that
the people doing inventory at the other target did inventory
properly and the customers put everything back on the rack
where it belongs.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But this is the new way.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
This is the way it's gonna go and I'm sure
that's it's gonna be for everything.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
You'll just take your phone.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
With you to Walmart and you just scan things and
leave and it just deducts from whatever account is attached
to the account.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
And that sounds cool.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I did this. There is one of these places that
I know of at LAX. I think it's at the
end of the Delta terminal. They must be, because Delta
is new. It's all the way down at the Delta ternal.
When you get to the end, and there's a kind
of like a rotunda down there, there's a store where
you can get food and candy and snacks and everything
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you need to get on the plane. But there's nobody
in the store and it's all sealed in a great
big glass box. And you walk in and something beeps,
and you just take what you want off the show
and you walk out and something beeps and somewhere your
credit card's debited, or my wife's credit card is debited.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I don't know, and it's kind of space age.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
It's pretty cool, but the problem is there's no friction,
and there ought to be a little bit of friction,
like you need to know what.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
The prices are. I'm sure the prices are listed somewhere,
but nobody.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Was looking at the prices because you're just grabbing what
you want and then you walk out, and like it's
frictionless in that regard, but there is no friction with
respect to price, So they could be charging whatever they
want and you won't notice it because you're just walking around.
I haven't been to one of those Amazon stores yet,
but I understand it works the same way, where like
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the whole store is being scanned at all times, and
you just load things into your shopping cart and somewhere
at some point, the scanner hits your can of coffee
or whatever it is is in your cart and finds
the code, the barcode, and it's all good.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
And that's the way it's going to be at Walmart.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
So this is going to be and if AI is
moving as fast as they say AI is moving, then
this will be in every Walmart immediately because this is
a huge cost saver. Labor and manpower a big cost
for a lot of these stories, especially with the wage
laws now.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So we'll see where this goes, but they're already using it.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I noticed at Wendy's the drive through Lady is completely AI.
I was just throw a Wendy's drive through and it
was completely AI and she got it right.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
She got everything right.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
And I'm particular I get things extra pickles and no
mayo and they got it all right. So it was
completely amazing. So this is one of these things that
I think is going to happen fast. Like back in
the day, you had a deal. When you called customer
service or called anybody on the phone, you had to
go through voice menu prompts, and that was cumbersome and
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somewhat annoying from time to time, but it was ever
present and ubiquitous. There's no way out of it. You
would just hit zero hoping to get a customer service.
Remember how hard you would hit zero to get customer service,
thinking that would solve your problem. And you finally get
a person that might have worked back in the day
that doesn't work anymore now, and there is not going
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to be a person.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
It's just going to be AI everywhere all the time.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
So that's going to be the new Walmart Hey, new
menus in California as well. So if you're allergic to
anything now, the law says they got to tell you
right on the menu.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Starting in twenty twenty six, businesses in California will have
to disclose ingredients including milk, eggs, shellfish, and tree nuts
when they know or reasonably should know, that they are
in their products. The bill's sponsor, California Democratic State Senator
Caroline Benjebark, said the new bill will give peace of
mind and millions of Californians with food allergies when eating out.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
That's right, So all the tree nut people, you're all
good to go.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Lou Penrose in for John Coblt on The John Coblt
Show on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
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
Can't find a M six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good to have you along with us.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
The Supreme Court today appeared inclined to limit the Voter
Voting Rights Act to allow states to draw congressional districts
that are favorable to minority voters. This all stems from
a case at of Louisiana, where a black majority House
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district is in question and the Planet's claim it relied
too heavily on race to draw those congressional lines, which
are technically not supposed to do. Zach Schoenfeld is with
the Hill and joins us. Now, the AP story says
that the Supreme Court appeared inclined. How do we draw
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that conclusion? Was there statements made?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Hey lou Well that is based on more than two
and a half hours of questioning today from the justices.
They heard from four different lawyers, one from the Trump administry,
one from Louisiana, and then two others from two different
groups of voters. These oral arguments are really the chance
where we have to see a glimpse into the justices
thinking on this case. Now that being said, this case
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is a bit unusual because this is actually a re argument.
This was the second time that they're hearing arguments in
this case. This doesn't happen very often. They heard arguments
last term, and now they're raising the states by presenting
a new question that really has implications not only for
Louisiana's congressional map, but asking this broad question of whether
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states can continue to be forced to draw additional majority
minority districts under section two of the voting Right Zack. So,
obviously we don't know anything for sure until a decision
comes down, but certainly a lot of skepticism today from
the Supreme Court conservative majority.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Is there any sense that we'll get a decision in
time for primary elections? I mean it, this is you
know sometimes you know, you hear oral arguments, and there
is no decision until June of next year. But that
might be too late for new congressional lines to be drawn.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I think that's right on now Louisiana. Today they did
ask the justices to issue this ruling in time for
this whatever the decision is, to be able to go
into a fact for the twenty twenty six in terms.
But as you mentioned, that primary calendar is already fast approaching,
and the Justices, you know, they could release a decision
rather quickly. Maybe they'll wait until their normal decision season
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in May and June. We just don't know at this point. Obviously,
if they get a decision out very quickly, there'd be
the potential that things could change in Louisiana before next November.
But it certainly seems like there is a strong possibility
here that if the Justices take their normal time, that
whatever ruling they hand down might not be in place
really until a future election cycles.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, it does seem to me though, that they seem
this Supreme Court seems to be a little bit more
thoughtful of implications of decision timing.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Like if you're listening.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
To arguments that affect a house district in Louisiana and
you have your opinion, then you might want to issue
that opinion in time for the next election in that district,
which would be next year.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And primaries are prior to the general election.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Of course, candidacies, statements have to be followed by candidates,
money has to be raised, So I mean, it wouldn't
be out of the ordinary for the Supreme Court to
go ahead and render their decision on this case, what
was the mood of those making arguments? I mean, is
there a sense that we're still in nineteen sixty five
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and these rules need to apply, or that nineteen sixty
five is a long time ago and conditions have just changed,
and to use Civil Rights Act language to try and
justify a black majority district in Louisiana in twenty twenty six,
which was next year, just is no longer you mean.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
That is one of the main arguments that we heard
today from Louisiana, arguing that even if this this section two,
these claims of forcing states to draw these districts was
okay back in the nineteen sixties and in decades after that,
that it's not okay today in twenty twenty five. And
that's a similar argument to what has been made. We
saw about a decade ago there was a case called
(04:14):
Shelby County in which the Supreme Court struck down a
requirement under another section of the Voting Rights Act that
required states with the history of discrimination to get pre
clearance from the Justice Department before.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Enacting new voting rules. That was struck down.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Under that logic, And we've also seen a similar thing
play out recently in the battle over affirmative action. The
Supreme Court has had always said in their affirmative action
cases that there was going to be some sort of
end point on it. So certainly the argument that we
heard from some of the groups today was that the
Supreme Court should apply that same logic from the affirmative
action case to this one here and say that the
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time has come.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
To reign in Section two of the Voting Rights Act.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I have some friends in Shelby County and some friends
of Pology.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
They're still discussing that in Shelby County, Alabama.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
What's the mood on the hill?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Is there any concern among Democrats in the minority and
Republicans frankly in the majority that this could be a
game changer. I saw a report that depending on the
Supreme Court decision and the impact it has to this
black majority House district in Louisiana, it could impact nineteen
congressional districts in the United States.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, and I think that certainly members of Congress are
paying attention, whether you look at the outside briefs that
have been flooding in, but also just look at what
actually happened today in the courtroom. I was in that
courtroom this morning, and there's always a road that's actually
left open in the public gallery of the Supreme Court
courtroom for any members of Congress who want to show
up to an argument. Now, almost always it's empty, no
one comes. But today we actually saw lawmakers in that row,
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including Senator Kennedy, a Senator from Louisiana and one of
the representatives in Louisiana who is currently holding one of
those majority black districts. So I think certainly their presence
today in the court sent a message. And it's really
striking because I've had a lot of these arguments and
I very rarely see lawmakers actually take the time to
show up.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, they do have some time on their hands, so
that might be part of it.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
But I can certainly see why representatives from the state
of Louisiana and those that are in leadership in the
House of Representatives, both on the Democrats side and the
Republican side, that they want to know and if any longer,
going forward, we can on purpose bring color into the
consideration of designing a congressional district that is supposed to
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be about communities. Community, you know, the communities that have
that are common city hall, county hole.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We have these.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
We have these conversations every ten years here in California.
We're having a different conversation this year. You might have
heard about it, but back in the day, you know,
it was communities, agriculture, communities, urban communities versus suburban communities,
and those were the kinds of things that were allowed
to be taken into consideration.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And really the Civil Rights Act of sixty.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Five through and yet another thing, and a lot of
people for a long time think it has just been
abused and is no longer necessary. So we will wait
and see what the Supreme Court has to say. Zach Schoenfeldt,
thanks so much for checking in with us. Always appreciate
your insight.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Thanks for having me all right, coming up when when
we come back.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Governor Gavin Newsen was on a podcast, and he's always
on podcasts, but this time I thought he brought in
a discussion that we need to have. He's on the
Higher Learning podcast with Van Latham and Rachel Lindsay and
he says, I don't have Trump derangement syndrome, but Trump
has California derangement syndrome. We'll tell you what he thinks
(07:44):
that means, and I want to know if you agree.
It's all coming up next. Luke Penrose in for John
Cobelt on The John coblt Show.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six Fortyan.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Rose if John Cobelt on The John coblt Show. Higher
Learning is the name of the podcast hosted by Van
Latham and Rachel Lindsay. California Governor Gavin Newsom was on
the podcast. He does a lot of podcasting. I don't
know where he finds the bookers for these podcasts, Like
how would you know who to call or who to
(08:22):
email to get on the podcast or maybe they reached
out to him. Anyway, he coined a new phrase and
I thought it was interesting and I.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Actually want to give the governor a little bit of credit.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
He said that he doesn't have Trump derangement syndrome, but
a lot of people, including President Trump, have California derangement syndrome.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think there's a.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
California derangement syndrome. He's part of it.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
I mean, I think people are obsessed with focusing on
what's wrong with the state and not what's right with
the state.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, I don't think President Trump is obsessed with focusing
on what's rung with the state. I think President Trump
is optimistic of what could be fixed about the state.
But I will give that aside. I will give the
governor credit. I think a lot of people are down
talking California for political reasons.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
He's the governor. Look, he's going to cheerlead for the state.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You don't want to get in an argument with a
governor of any state about the state's successes because the
governor is supposed to be the number one cheerleader of
the state and they're going to characterize their state in
the best life possible.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And I do think that he is right that there's
a lot of good things about California.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Look, we live here.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
A lot of people have left, and a lot of
people like to talk about U haul numbers and people
leaving California and losing congressional seats and.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Those are if you're truly dispassionate about it, They're just facts,
and there's ebbs and flows.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
But people do move to California too.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
But really, I'm not wanting to talk down California. I
want California to be better than it is. It can
be two things can be true at the same time.
California can be the best state in the Union and
the most beautiful place for any American to live.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And Comma, California can do a lot better on its
quality of life issues.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
California can do a lot better on its business on
attracting business, I'm being attractive to business, And California can
do a lot better on its taxes.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So two things can be true at the same time.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So I don't fault the governor for being proud of
the successes of the state, But you cannot not acknowledge
that it used to be better. Like maybe your numbers
are the best they've ever been, but you can't. You
can't avoid the fact that there wasn't this amount of
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homeless twenty five years ago in Los Angeles. There wasn't
this amount of problems in the public schools. We didn't
have this amount of egal aliens. We have not attended
to our infrastructure as much as we did back in
(11:25):
the day.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Now other things have gone in the right direction.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Right, there's no smog in La anymore, well, I mean,
nowhere near the smog that was there. So it's right
and proper to acknowledge the good things, but you can't
discount that a lot more needs to be done.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
I mean, you have more scientists, engineers, more researchers, more
Nobel laureates in the state than any other state in
the nation.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Were the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
For hold God, So I hear this all the time.
He likes talking about the fourth largest economy in the world.
And he's right, and it is by the numbers. It
is the question that I have to the statement we're
the fourth largest.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I remember when.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
We were the sixth largest economy in the world and
everybody talked about it. We're the sixth largest economy in
the world. If we were a nation on its own,
we'd be number six, and I would.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Think, Wow, that's big. We must be doing something right.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Then we became the fifth largest economy. And then I
don't know what happened. Somebody stumbled out there and we
moved from five to four very quickly. And he talks
about it all the time, and again I I'll.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Defer, he's the governor.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
It's if the numbers show you are the fourth largest
economy in the world, you must be doing something.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Right.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
I mean, you have more scienceists, engineers, more researchers, more
Nobel laureates in the state than any other state in
the nation.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
We're the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So here's the question that I have.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Why doesn't it feel like we're the fourth largest economy
in the world. Why doesn't it look like we're the
fifth largest economy in the world and we just moved
up one nation into fourth And when I look at
countries that are six and seven and eight, they're like
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really nice and clean.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Why is it that we look worse.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Than we did when we were the sixth largest economy
in the world. I don't really need any Nobel Prize laureates,
do you. I don't know why that factors in. It's
business and quality of life. That's that's all there is,
Like infrastructure, business opportunities, and quality of life, Like what else?
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You can't control the web. We have the best weather,
but that can't be controlled. There are like there are
economies of the world that don't have the climate we have,
but they're better than us on the scale. So why
why is it that there's no nothing about Los Angeles
that feels like this is the fourth best place on
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planet Earth in the history of man, because that's what
it would mean to say, we're the fourth largest economy
in the world. Like, having a big economy should produce
something good. It should produce unbridled income, opportunity, it should
produce unbridled wealth. It should it should produce the cleanest
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streets and the best infrastructure, and the best education systems
and the best of everything.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I mean, we got all.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
These Nobel Prize laureates. As you said, why aren't they
working for us? Why isn't it making our quality of
life better? So you think about that. I'm gonna take
a break and then we come back. I'm gonna give
you some short answers. But Governor Newsom says that there
is California derangement syndrome out there.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You agree or disagree.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Louke Penrose, if of John Cobelt on the John Cobelt
Show on kf I Am six forty Live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John all this week. Good
to have you along with us. California Governor Gavin Newsom
on a podcast, the Higher Learning Podcast, said there is
a Trump derangement. There's a California derangement syndrome out there.
Who's answering a question about the whole notion of Trump
arrangement syndrome. He says, there's a tendency for a lot
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of California haters and people that hate Newsom to always
talk down California.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Here he is.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
I think there's a California de arrangement syndrome, and he's
part of it. I mean, I think people are obsessed
with focusing on what's wrong with the state and not
what's right with the state.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think there is some truth to that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I think people that want to pick on Newsom will
pick on California. But we here in California. No, there
is a lot wrong with the state, but there's also
a lot right with the state. And as governor, he'll
go through the laundry list of things that he can celebrate,
including the fact that we're the fourth largest economy in
the world.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
I mean, you have more scienceists, engineers, more researchers, more
Nobel laureates in the state than any other state in
the nation.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
We're the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
For And the question that I always have is when
he says things like that, why doesn't it feel like it?
And why doesn't it feel like when we move up
on the ranking, Why isn't it like Why isn't.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
There a noticeable increase in something?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So the fourth place goes back and forth between California
and Japan a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It's US.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
US has the largest economy in the world, clearly, China
is second. Germany is third, by the way, just to
put that in perspective, because it's not enough to just
go linearly and do one, two three. The US is
way bigger than the second largest economy, and that's based
on the numbers we know from China. Communists lie, so
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they're padding the books.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
But even with the numbers that the.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Chinese communist government offer, we are still way bigger. So
it's US, China, then Germany, and Germany's kind of a
nice place. I've been to Germany and they look like
the third largest economy in the world. You look around
and everybody is all scrubbed and shampooed, and the streets
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are clean, and you know, they do have some spray
painting from time to time, but it's washed away, right
away and everybody frowns upon it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
A bunch of clean, snappy people over there.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Then you get India, and then it's California, followed by
Japan because California has overtaken Japan. And in Japan there
is zero garbage, no garbage, and no garbage can. Did
you know that if you go to Japan and you
take an apple with you walking on your way to work,
there's no place to throw that apple. You got to
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take a ziploc bag with you in your purse because
there's no garbage cans. Because the Japanese don't have garbage out.
They so want Tokyo to look beautiful all the time
that they literally direct their own residents to carry their
garbage cleanly on their person until they privately get back
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to their own house.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
So you can't find a trash can.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Don't think you can unwrap something a candy bar and
just throw the candy bar wrapper in some trash can.
When you get to a train station, there are none
and there's no trash on the.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Ground, not a.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Not a soda straw wrapper, nothing, zero. So you can
imagine where there is zero trash, that's going to be
zero homeless. So these are the kinds of things that
come to mind when you think of somebody going from
the fourth largest economy in the world to the.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
To the third, or from the fourth to the from
the fifth to the fourth.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Moving up the scale, you would think, all right, things
must be getting really better.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You guys are doing really well.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Economic output GDP, that's all going in the right direction.
Those are not everything, but they are measurements, right, It's
a barometer that things are going well.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You're not going backwards.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
If we were slipping, if we were the fourth largest
economy and then we were the seventh, then hour we're
down at twelve and homeless.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Has increased, it would make sense.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
But homeless is either flat or increasing, and we're moving
up and there's more spray pain.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
And like the inequal amount of.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Trash and wages are flat and taxes are going up.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Like that, that doesn't compute. It doesn't even out at all.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Doesn't make sense that we are better on the scale
but worse off. Yeah, and Newson likes to make a
big deal about being the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
That's despite the policy of democratic leadership, not because of it.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
No, that's not necessarily true.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
That would suggest that we'd be like number two or
number one if it wasn't for Newsome.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Now I don't think that's it. I do think that
we are.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Getting along here in California despite a higher tax burden.
I think we are getting along here in California despite
the regulatory environment. I think we are constantly fighting with
Sacramento trying to take more money out of our pockets.
So I think we do do well because I think
we're Californians, are productive people despite the burdens placed upon
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us by government, and.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
We're just in a good mood, so we.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Don't feel like fighting all day every day, which is
part of the reason that we can't defeat things like
Prop fifty, which is part of the reason why we
can't get pro business candidates into office, lower tax candidates
into office, is because we can't fight all day every day.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It's too nice out. Trust me. If it was rating all.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
The time like Bighamton, New York, and you overtaxed and overregulated,
you'd spend more time with that ballot, no question about it.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
With the biggest manufacturing state, biggest farming state, ranchers and
hunting jobs, which is interesting biggest manufacturing.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I don't know anything that's made in California. What in
your kitchen is made in California? Is your washing machine
and dryer made in California? Like, nothing is manufactured in
California that I'm aware of. I've not seen made in California.
Wine is manufacturing in California. Maybe that's what he meant
speaking of manufacturing. Manufacturing. Coming back, by the way, with
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respect to your kitchen appliance is big story on this
Walmart is going a I so you better.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Get used to it.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Lou Penrose on the John Cobelt Show on kf I
Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show.
John will be back with us next week. Talking about
Governor avenusom and is concerned that there's not so much
a Trump derangement syndrome, but there is a California derangement syndrome.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I'm sorry to correct you, but California is the fifth
largest economy.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It just broke from laries today.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, well tell the governor so we slid. We slid
back behind Japan, which makes a little more sense because
Japan's cleaner.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
California not as clean as it was.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
A number of Nobel Laureates, scientists, engineers, et cetera. Do
absolutely nothing to help the average American living in California.
The things that would help us would be low tax
it's lower gas prices, less homeless people, better housing prices.
Those are the things that affect us when you look
at great places to live. And what makes California the
only thing we have going for us right now is our.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Findance, right but it is that beautiful climate and the
culture in California. There is a California culture. There's an
attitude here that is comfortable to be around. It's welcoming
and it's optimistic. So it's more than just the sunshine.
But the sun is shining and it is that that
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lulls us into a California sunset every day of the week.
And that's what keeps us in a high tax state
with lawmakers that continue to tax us to death. Hey,
Walmart is going to go completely AI and I'm not
sure how far this can go before there is an
(23:53):
unattended consequence.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Walmart is partnering with open Ai to allow customers to
buy its products through chat.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
GPT using instant checkout.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
The new offering will give Walmart customers the option to
simply chat and buy.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Just chat and buy.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Eventually there'll be nobody at Walmart. They'll just be products
at Walmart and they'll rig away for your phone to
be like that scan gun that the people have when
you're not sure what the price is. Do you ever
have that happen? They have that at Target too. Target's
great Target. They can tell you if it's at a stock.
(24:26):
Like let's say you need a size seven to eight
in khaki pants for your son for some special location
at school, and you go to Target and there's none
there because everybody in the school beats you to Target.
But Target will tell you, you know, the other Target
has three.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I don't know if Walmart can do that for you,
but I like that trick. They can tell you what
the inventory is at the end. This is assuming that
the people doing inventory at the other target did inventory
properly and the customers put everything back on the rack
where it belongs.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But this is the new way.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
This is the way it's gonna go and I'm sure
that's it's gonna be for everything.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
You'll just take your phone.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
With you to Walmart and you just scan things and
leave and it just deducts from whatever account is attached
to the account.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
And that sounds cool.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I did this. There is one of these places that
I know of at LAX. I think it's at the
end of the Delta terminal. They must be, because Delta
is new. It's all the way down at the Delta ternal.
When you get to the end, and there's a kind
of like a rotunda down there, there's a store where
you can get food and candy and snacks and everything
(25:47):
you need to get on the plane. But there's nobody
in the store and it's all sealed in a great
big glass box. And you walk in and something beeps,
and you just take what you want off the show
and you walk out and something beeps and somewhere your
credit card's debited, or my wife's credit card is debited.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I don't know, and it's kind of space age.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
It's pretty cool, but the problem is there's no friction,
and there ought to be a little bit of friction,
like you need to know what.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
The prices are. I'm sure the prices are listed somewhere,
but nobody.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Was looking at the prices because you're just grabbing what
you want and then you walk out, and like it's
frictionless in that regard, but there is no friction with
respect to price, So they could be charging whatever they
want and you won't notice it because you're just walking around.
I haven't been to one of those Amazon stores yet,
but I understand it works the same way, where like
(26:43):
the whole store is being scanned at all times, and
you just load things into your shopping cart and somewhere
at some point, the scanner hits your can of coffee
or whatever it is is in your cart and finds
the code, the barcode, and it's all good.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
And that's the way it's going to be at Walmart.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
So this is going to be and if AI is
moving as fast as they say AI is moving, then
this will be in every Walmart immediately because this is
a huge cost saver. Labor and manpower a big cost
for a lot of these stories, especially with the wage
laws now.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So we'll see where this goes, but they're already using it.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I noticed at Wendy's the drive through Lady is completely AI.
I was just throw a Wendy's drive through and it
was completely AI and she got it right.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
She got everything right.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
And I'm particular I get things extra pickles and no
mayo and they got it all right. So it was
completely amazing. So this is one of these things that
I think is going to happen fast. Like back in
the day, you had a deal. When you called customer
service or called anybody on the phone, you had to
go through voice menu prompts, and that was cumbersome and
(27:54):
somewhat annoying from time to time, but it was ever
present and ubiquitous. There's no way out of it. You
would just hit zero hoping to get a customer service.
Remember how hard you would hit zero to get customer service,
thinking that would solve your problem. And you finally get
a person that might have worked back in the day
that doesn't work anymore now, and there is not going
(28:14):
to be a person.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
It's just going to be AI everywhere all the time.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
So that's going to be the new Walmart Hey, new
menus in California as well. So if you're allergic to
anything now, the law says they got to tell you
right on the menu.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Starting in twenty twenty six, businesses in California will have
to disclose ingredients including milk, eggs, shellfish, and tree nuts
when they know or reasonably should know, that they are
in their products. The bill's sponsor, California Democratic State Senator
Caroline Benjebark, said the new bill will give peace of
mind and millions of Californians with food allergies when eating out.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
That's right, So all the tree nut people, you're all
good to go.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
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