May 26, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (05/26) - Memorial Day Best Of The John Kobylt Show. Attorney Joshua Moody guest-cohosts after winning the auction at Pastathon last Fall and he discusses a lot of issues in California with John.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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(00:24):
So we have a pair of guests in the studio
who've been with us for about an hour. Josh Moody
is an attorney up in the Apple Valley area, right,
that's where your firm is.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He's the pasta Thon winner.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He bibbed five six thousand dollars and won the right
to sit in the studio and co host the show,
the right to be with John Cobelt.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's right. So it's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Have bought a lot of dinners for Chef Bruno's kids
and his wife Mary.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Right. Yes, mariy Okay been.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Working on that for hours and she's a yeah, she's
a prosecutor. Uh, she's at it even higher level you're
you're attorney, but she's a prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I think that the guy had the name Colebelt smelled
of the K and a y. I know, it's like
one vowel. That's Polish. Yeah, that's what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But the Danish name is yeah, there's there's no bowels
in the Polish language.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
So all right, So anyway, what it's your turn now,
you you tell me what's what's on your mind, what
you're upset about, what issue you think ought to be covered,
and you know we'll.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Just still go from there. Wow, all of the above. Yeah,
living in California, there there are. There are two Californias,
wouldn't wouldn't you say?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, there there are in a lot of different ways
because there are a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Not to bore you too much, but I went to
my high school reunion a few years ago and there
was just a lot of group, a big group of
us who grew up in the LA area.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
And then you just.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Disperse and where'd you grow up in?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Lad Yeah, So it's a about well, it's about don't
know what twenty miles maybe I used to say twenty minutes,
but now it's now it's an hour, right, right.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So all right, so you seed you're forty seven, so
you went to high school, you know, about thirty plus
years ago. Yeah, so you know that would be in
the mid nineties, correct, Yeah, uh yeah, Well, I mean
that's that's near the time where my wife and I
first came here, right, and we started having kids and yeah,
a dramatic shock, right, and there's well talk about it
as a native.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, and there's nobody's there's nobody at least the people
I talked to that still lived there. In fact, one
of my best friends, I hope, hope he's listening.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I told him to.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
His parents just sold their house about two years ago,
and he is about the last person I know who's
still in that area because everybody's just moved out and
moved and gone and and Glen Door is nice, but
it's also expensive.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, you talk about the housing crisis.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You could you could afford a house back then, you know,
in your mid twenties and start making it. There's no
way you can afford a lot of these houses in
your mid twenties now with the requirements, you know, with
every with everything going on, so you have to go
to the suburbs. And a lot of my friends and
a lot of people I knew, and you know lost,
(03:14):
you know, you lose contact with people and then you
get back with them. They are they're in the in
the Empire, they're up north. And you had a guest
on the other day. I don't remember who, but he
made a good point of people are leaving California to
go to the freezing part of Idaho.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yes, I remember that, and that's a good point. It's true.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, they're going to places that people used to complain
about the weather. Like a lot of people have gone
to Texas from California, right, And I remember I first
got here, and people go Texas that that it's hot,
it's humid, there's mosquitos everywhere, and we talk about that
about you know Florida. No, we're not, We're not there yet.
I got a place in Florida. We were already built
(03:56):
an escape house. We're not that miserable yet.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's humid. There's alligators, Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I was in Miami a few weeks ago and the
lady there's a tour and this lady's like, oh, this
is the only place in the world where alligators and
crocodiles co exist.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
No, that's true, not going there because that's where the
saltwater meets the fresh water. You've taken the tour, Oh yeah,
like alligators in the fresh waters are in your salt water.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, no, I'll avoid all the water. I'm no, I've
seen some of the alligators.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
There's a stretch of road and they have because the
rains can be really heavy, right, so they have these
gullies along the side of the road, right, and it
creates you know, these these ponds, yep, these drainage canals.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Alligators are laying in them. Yeah. No, thanks, not for me.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'll deal with I'll complain in traffic and yell on
my radio until I deal a crocodiles.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, a lot of people have decided it's that bad.
I'd rather take on my take on the crocodiles.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And that's just what That's kind of the thing we
just I tell people all the time, is just how
long have you been here? In twenty thirty years, even fifteen?
Are things better? Have things gotten better? Have your taxes
gotten better? Has your commute gotten better? Has your job
gotten better? Has your pega?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And the answer to a lot of those is no,
and yeah, it's knowing all of that, no, on all
of it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And you know what's that all the politicians love to
say this definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over again.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And here in California we do it. We're doing We're
doing it. Yeah, So where did the insanity come from?
I think I think a lot of people are just
born with it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But I just remember they voted for normal people, whether
it was Democrats and Republicans, they were relatively normal.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
When I came here, Pete Wilson was governor, right, and
Tom Bradley and then Richard Reardon was the mayor. And
the nineties we were great, and the two thousands were great.
I mean Great Davis Schwarzenegger was you know, a celebrity version,
but he was within the norm range.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You know. Now it's the super woke, super progressive nonsense.
Well that's what I was saying.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I mean, you know, Gray Davis gets recalled and I
think nowadays begging for somebody like Great Dave.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That's right, somebody normal.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, Schwarzenegger lied and sold everybody out, but even he
would be welcome over over Newsham.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Right, and whoever's and we keep you know, I know
the Menendez brothers. Things is big right now, and people
are talking about whether or not Newsom is going to Oh,
I think he will.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Now, I don't think he will. You don't think so.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I'm worried about the next person because it keeps getting
worse and worse and worse. Yeah, I mean Newsom's well,
he's riding the clock out, right. I mean he's got
a year left. I believe a year in change.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Six months, yeah, about year and a half.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I think he's just riding the clock out. But Mike,
because I mean, we went from Schorarzenegger and like, I
can't be worse than Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Jerry Brown's comes back. He can't be that bad. No,
Schwarzenegger turned.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Out to be really bad. I don't want anybody to misunderstanding.
But it's just it's gotten so much worse. It is
like these guys are starting to look like, well, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That bad, isn't that bad? And then it's like well,
and then we get Brown.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I was like, well, okay, the next guy can't be
that bad, and they get Newsom. Well, and now my
now I'm saying, well, the next person can't be that battle.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Do you know any of your friends, like your old
high school friends or your adult friends who went woke
on you?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
What woke? Yeah? From high school?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Or because I just have to believe that some people
used to vote for normal and then they started going
woke unless they're not aware of what they're voting for.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I mean I think a lot of the woke, at
least the woke on the left is uh, the younger,
like maybe people ten fifteen years younger than me, right,
people who are like turning thirty. Now that seems to
be I mean a lot most of my friends are similar.
They just, like you said, they vote for the best person.
They the person over party.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I'ven't seen that in a while.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Well that's the problem is once I got so crazy,
you're forcing me onto this one.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I mean, in the mid nineties.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
People will probably get be shocked to hear this, but
the Republicans actually controlled the Assembly for a couple of
years in the mid nineties. I remember I was alive then,
and now you know the in I think in the
Assembly it's like it's like seventy seventy two to eight
or seventy one to nine, something like that and.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That that was just looking back as a complete lack
of leadership on the Republican Party. Back then, there was
no leadership and you just allowed one party rule to
take over.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And you know, there's that.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
But I think a lot of people from my high
school and my friends, I mean now they're not they
have other things other than politics, and they look at
those things. What's what's the issue of the day? Is
it taxes? Is it traffic?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And how do we.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Is this person or that person going to make my
life better? And you know, I think the big part too,
I think of the radical shift in this state was
in the two thousands or so when the Republican Party
just started an under Schwortzniggers just started taxing everybody just
like everybody.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I know, well I made a terrible mistake when it
caved in and did what every other Democrat.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Did, right, Because if there's nobody sticking up for us
on taxes, why am I going to vote for you
when I can vote for for who I know is
going at least I know what I'm getting out of
this side.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
All right, hang on, we got more coming up. You're
listening to Josh Moody, The pastathon winner, an attorney from
the Apple Valley area, and we're going to continue with him.
He won the pastathon bidding War.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Five everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Also at last segment, I mixed up the Assembly in
the state Senate, the Democrats have a sixty to twenty
advantage in the Assembly, which is still more than two thirds.
So whether they can do what they want or it's yeah,
three quarters death by hanging, death by that's right. And
in the Assembly, and that's the Assembly and the Senate
it's thirty to ten. So it's sixty twenty and thirty
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to ten, so they had better than a two thirds
majority in both houses and so and.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
All nine voted elected physicians. I believe there's nine positions, right, governored, Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Lieutenant governor, Secretary of state, the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, right, So when else? What else? Budge you?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
We were, uh, do you want to talk about what's
bugging us? Or we were just talking about what makes
us happy? It makes you happy? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Baseball a bit. We'll look into baseball for a couple
of minutes. Yeah, Dodger fan, I bet right, yeah, yeah, uh,
we like my parents had these in tickets. You know,
the Dodgers when I was growing up and went to
the eighty four Olympics has probably before your time.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Before I lived, Yeah, before you lived. Yeah, so yeah, Dodgers,
you know, lead Dodger blue.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So I grew up a Mets fan. Oh, but Dodgers
were the second favorite. Yeah. Well I got a Steve
garveyotograph when I was eleven.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Sot me too well when I was younger, too, right.
But the yeah, the Mets, what they've replaced the Dodgers
out there and people the Dodger contingency in New York
is still oh it's still big.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah. When they I mean, Mets is coming to play
the Dodgers for freak June here, it's gonna sell out.
I'm sure. Now you get to the games? Or is
the hours and hours of traffic?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Is it too daunting? It's very daunting. We actually travel more.
It's a lot cheaper to travel, cheaper cheaper to go
to the away game. So yeah, very much. Oh yeah, man,
we'll get We'll see now. Now, you know, they ought
to be ashamed of themselves in Sacramento for creating a
situation where it's cheaper to go to a Dodger game
(11:27):
in another state.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So you could probably look, you could look online. Somebody,
well fact check me. But we were talking about going
to the game tonight. But it's Shoho tani bobblehead right, No, yeah, impossible, Yeah,
we know, and you might not get a bobblehead.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Uh no, I heard. I believe. Ray just told us
that they're they're guaranteeing everybody bobblehead. Oh, they are to
try to.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yea a crowd out because friend of mine went to
like the last one of the earlier bubblehead games, and
he was furious because he ran into the two hour
traffic jam him from the west side, the long line
to get in with the car, then the long line
to get into the stadium right and go through the security.
And he finally gets there and they're out of bubble
(12:10):
heads because they only had forty thousand, and he was
like furious, like he was mad the whole game.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, he couldn't even watch the game he was so
pissed off.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, well, I told you earlier. We were in Florida
with crocodiles and alligators live in harmony. It was because
the Dodgers were there, and you're able to get a
relatively cheap flight, cheap hotel, and the tickets behind home plate, like,
you know, one hundred bucks, Well, what's one hundred dollars
ticket gets you a Dodger stadium.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
On bubblehead ninety?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
It gets you I think you get to sit in
the parking lot listening to the game on the radio.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So we've been traveling a lot trying to hit all
thirty stadiums, no kidding, Yeah, yeah, And it's cheap, cheaper,
and we'll buy a tawny bubblehead online or something.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, keep his ticket tonight's eighty bucks.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Keepstikes eighty When do you sit in the upper upper deck,
upper deck in the corner yep, right by the foul pole,
right by there you go, foul pole ticket in the
upper deck for eighty bucks.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
For eighty bucks. Yeah, what's what's the loads you get you?
What's the cheapest loads that's gonna about? I'll check. Yeah,
that's going to be over. That's got to be I'm
guessing minimum two hundred.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Eric runs a ticket selling operation on the side, so
you can you can give it the prices right away
because he's always scrambling to get last minute tickets as
a cheaply as possible.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I'm seeing in the loads anywhere between like one twenty
and one seventy. Oh okay, coming down a little bit
then the other day. I mean being here, you're closer. Yeah, right,
that's what we were talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Oh, it has taken me from Burbank like over an
hour to get to the stadium. Yeah, it's that that,
you know. And I and I zig zagged through uh
the park, Echo Park or something? Well, yeah, Echo Park.
You can get off on either the I don't know,
the one on one or where you take the two for.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
A little while.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
There's like a whole roundabout way and then what was
the name I'm blanking out on the park Allegian Yeah, yeah,
Lesion Park and on all these extremely hilly side roads.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Google's taking us there too, Yeah, right way up, way down,
like you're on a roller coaster.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
People out there offering to park your car for you. Yeah,
they're offering to take the car off your hands. We're trying.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't you don't really want that card?
Yeah right, we'll take it. We'll be here when you
get back.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, all right, more coming up. We're with Josh Moody.
He's the attorney who was the Pastathon winner. And uh,
you can hear us every day from one to four
and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand
on the iHeart app.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
We've got Josh Moody. He's the Pastathon winner. He's the
attorney who had the highest bid and gets the co
host of the show today. And thank you again and
brit Chef Bruno, thanks you, we all thank you for
your generous bid.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I thank you in return. You don't have to do this,
I mean you what you don't have to do this?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Do what allow people to come in and on your space,
on your time and talk about what we want to
talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I get half a day off, now you know. I
work hard enough. It's up to you. You get the
show for free. So well today you did, but today
you have to pay. No, it's very generous of you. There, no, no,
this is actually fun all right? So what else is
on your mind?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Uh? This is this is this is where you decide
the topics and which way we're going? Which way are
we going? Like the gas prices?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, do you hear we might get be paying eight
fifty nine dollars a gallon?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
At what point do people care?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
At what point do at what point do the people
who are so addicted to their blue no matter who
or their climate agenda?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
At what point did they say, you know what, I know,
this is fantastic. And maybe maybe we've gone a little
too far on because I mean there have been tremendous
revolts around the world of were gasoline. Remember remember going
back to Grey Davis quig three David right, Remember he
increased the car tax one hundred bucks? Yeah, I mean
(16:08):
gas has gone up one hundred bucks a week. And yeah,
he raised the car tax one hundred.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Bucks and that got him kicked out of office, end
of the end of his political career and opened the
door for.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
People had no problem recalling Democrats like we were recalling
a Republican.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Remember when when you first came. I know, I know,
and it doesn't matter, but yeah, but he you know
what he'd done. I remember he had done a one
to eighty on.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
A tack, right, and that's what they were We were
going to go off the financial cliff if we don't
vote for this.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Well, right, but you know they know they signed they
signed the pledge.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Remember that, Yes, they signed a pledge I will never
vote for a tax increase, right, Well, and.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Then a bunch of Republicans voted for a taxi that's right, y? Yeah? Yeah, So,
I mean it's been both parties, you know, for for
a long time now. But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I mean you probably heard we go through the Triple
A gas price report every day and somebody sent in.
One of our listeners in Oklahoma sent in two dollars
and thirty six cents.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And that's what I was gonna ask you, because I've
been yelling at my radio all week. What do you
think the average price of gasoline is or would be
if we took out Alaska, Hawaiian and California. It's probably
going to go down another right, Yeah, it's probably go
down another quarter, just with because you know, Hawaiian, Alaska outliers. Yes,
and we're obviously an outlier by our own making, right,
(17:26):
So what do you think.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The average price would actually be without the three of us?
Could be under three bucks?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Again?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, because I saw that twenty seven states are under
three bucks, including a lot of big states right, like
like like New Jersey and Massachusetts, and New York's only
at about three ten. The national average I saw was
like three between three ten and three fifteen. You know,
it goes up and down a couple of pennies every day.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I'm the guy who brings a gas can with me
when I go to Vegas, trying to get next to
six gallons out of it and bring it home.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Did you really do that?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Not so much anymore, but when I did a long time,
when I had my truck, you know, I mean, you
have a truck six gallons?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah? So I mean in France they had the Yellow
Vest riots, remember, I mean they were fire set and
people were really got violent because of some kind of
relatively mild tax compared to what we're going through. And
I'm so envious. It's like, where is our Yellow Vest riot?
Where are people really taking to the street. You look
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at what people like protest over.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Right, and.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
You know, they're saying that California has the fourth largest
economy now, which okay.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
May or may not be true, but is it really
a moving economy?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Because what really pushes economies and grows them is cheaper energy,
and we don't have cheap energy. We have expensive gas,
we have expensive electricity.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Well it's out.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
It's so weighted towards the tech companies, right, and the
people who work for those companies. When I saw the
average Facebook engineer a couple of years ago, I saw
I was making four hundred thousand a year. Well, think
all the people who work for Meta and Google and Apple.
I mean, if they're all making three, four or five
hundred thousand dollars a year just sitting and staring at
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a screen. All right, there's your economy. That's it's a
service economy. Doesn't produce anything. It doesn't there's no goods
that come with it.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And it sends likes out.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yes, And those people who make that kind of money
can live a few blocks away from their work and
the price of gas doesn't affect them.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And I've just seen like five bucks roughly a gallon.
Now you know it's champish, you can get it.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It's more expensive. It's more expensive here than it is
out in Sammerndino. It's at least fifty cents more more
more here in La County.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh definitely, yeah, you go you go
to you ever go with border in Arizona. Oh yeah,
it's in the threes. It suddenly drops by like a
dollar fifty once you cross the border.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
And that's what And that's why they say going back
to Baseball's why they say Dodger State are Field is
Dodger Stadium East.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
It's so easy to go there, right and get cheaper
in the hotel and the tickets are cheaper.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So Arizona is another one. Yeah, that's
really cheap.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
But and it's going to be like a triple whammy
within the next eighteen months because you're going to have
this California Air Resources Board with the new fuel standard
that's sixty five cents there.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
How is carb even legal? How is that a legal entity?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It shouldn't be because you can't You can't elect them, correct,
you can't replace them.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
The legislature passed up. Isn't the legislature job to legislate?
And if they pass that off onto somebody else, I
can't complain to my right legislature to say hey, don't
do this. And you get guys like Newsom who say, what,
it's not my fault. It's this organization that nobody.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Nearly everyone on that board is a newsom in point appointee. Yeah,
I think like eleven out of twelve voting members something
like that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Right, it gives it gives the legislature and the governor
the buffer to write to make an excuse for their policies, so.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
That you know, now I see, you know, I still
wonder when I was a kid some of the oppressive regimes,
like whether it's communists China, the old Soviet Union, Cuba
and other countries like that.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It's like why do people put up with this?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And now I'm watching them, you know, it's like, oh,
you gotta pay nine dollars a going okay?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And at what point is I mean, we have a
lot of Amazon centers here in southern California, Walmart centers, right,
it's a big hub for to get goods out to
other states. How are they are they paying it? We
are with their big trucks. It's going to be passed
off all it is.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The shipping prices get get higher when when when you
click on it, there's really no days for us to
be such an outlier.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And then there's two the other two events are going
to be the two refineries that are close, one up
in northern California and in Benetia, and then one in
Carson here.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And that's another going back to your original The first
question you asked me earlier today was what's changed in
southern California? And I remember you couldn't drive down anywhere
and even in the city of La and you'd see
those big pumps.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Remember those?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, they were everywhere. Yeah, I remember that,
and I haven't seen one of those in what twenty years.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
No, We've got an enormous amount of energy that we
walk over every day. It's underground, it leaks out. You
can smell a bra right exactly. It's actually bubbling up
to the surface. And we don't touch that. Am I
make the carbon no high. So we buy the oil
from Saudi Arabia like Venezuela, what like.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Their emissions don't go into the same atmosphere. But that's
what's so crazy, that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It's justly how stupid everybody is if we're gonna use
the same amount of gas and oil, so they make
it there.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
We end up paying much more money. It's still going
up into.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
The atmosphere, and we're shipping our jobs there. We don't
have people working in refineries here like we used to. Yeah,
so se see, this is what is what I like.
Now I'm bringing up the subject and you're yelling at me.
That's it's usually the other way around. Yeah, I want
to speak to Josh sick of this?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
All right?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
One more segment coming up and another final thoughts from
Josh Moody. And he's the attorney who is the pastathon winner.
And you know what you're from now, you at home
could be doing this if you have bit enough money
at the pastathon. I imagine we'll probably have the same
prize again. Yes I'm being told yes already. And you know, Deborah,
you could bid and what wait what you can bid
(23:38):
on the pastathon and you could have an hour of
just you know, able to do that anyway, have an
hour of Debra's topics.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
I am on with you everything but center on you
like all the punish you remember Ken used to have
Little Debbie's corner.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
That's right? Who is that? Closure sounds like the wicked
witch of the West. Oh God, this is not good
for my throat to be like this.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
All right, you came on a good day because you're
here she doesn't have to talk as much exactly because
she can barely get the news out.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
sixty final segment.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I really had a good time. I thank you for coming. Well,
thank you to me too. I didn't pass out or nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
No Josh Moody here, he's an attorney in Apple Valley
and he's Pastathon Winter and he bid on the prize,
had the highest bid, spent several thousand dollars and got
the co host of chou for Today. All the money
went to Katerina's club, Chef Bruno's charity. He's feeding kids
all over Orange County and beyond.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
All right, so.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
We just started talking about this off the air. This
is this is a great story to go out on.
How this sums up Los Angeles right now? You heard
about in Westlake homeless encampment where two bodies were found.
We have a report from KTLA reporter Rachel Mentov a
close attention.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Here, a heartbreaking discovery.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
A forty six year old woman now identified by the
medical examiner as Lucrecia Masias Barajas and another man were
found dead inside this tent on Huntley drive near the
Westlake District. It sits on a corner wedged in between
LAUSD headquarters, an apartment building, and a local high school.
A neighbor who recorded the chaotic aftermath believes the woman's
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daughter was looking for her mom, who had gone missing
days prior. She apparently ripped open the fabric around the encampment,
only to find her loved one dead, with signs she
may have been mulled by a dog.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
When I heard her heroing screens, it just shook us
all to our core.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
We all just thought of shaking because we knew, we
absolutely knew, someone's dead outside. This man wants to remain anonymous.
He's concerned about his safety.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Is the entire electrical setup that they have is a
reason why it's tax paying citizens don't even.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Have power for ourselves.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
But he felt it was important to talk about the
chronic dangers of this homeless encampment, which attracts drug users
and people breeding and mistreating their animals. If you lived
outside of this yourself, if this was something you saw
every time you had to step out and white your
neighbors and whte your family in, then.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
You would see rabbity. You would see rabity extremely Differently.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Another person who works in the area tells KTLA that
no one abides by the signage over here, whether it's.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Parking or camping related.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
She said, quote, everyone is well aware the police drive
by here several times a day, she calls three point one,
but the tents and the destructive behavior persists. These concerns
come as Governor Newsom is calling on cities and counties
to immediately address unhealthy encampments. He released a model ordinance
this week with provisions prohibiting persistent camping in one location
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and a requirement for local officials to provide notice and
make an effort to provide shelter prior to clearing an encampment.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It's time to take these incampments and provide alternatives, and
the state is giving you more resources than ever.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Longtime residents hope the mayor and city council take this
to heart.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
After all, they say, it's their well being on the line.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Truly, mostly carried than anything, because even just reporting this
is just They're gonna feel offended.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
They're gonna feel like we did something wrong here just
by telling them.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
They say they want somewhere to live. However, it says
nothing but danger in death.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Lapd says no foul play is suspected. We just heard
from the mayor's office who says this case reinforces the
urgent need to address this grave humanitarian crisis. She said
she's working with the council to bring more Angelinos inside
and to improve public safety.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
No, you go first, I'll say night for tomorrow. I
think I'm bringing it back this one tomorrow. So did
I hear that right?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Because sometimes I think I'm gonna say the daughter finds
her mom dead in a tent and have to eaten.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
By dogs and is known, and then and the neighborhood
keeps called in and nobody does anything about this encampment.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
But they're signs. But there are some signs, and the
police keep driving, and the.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Police drive by, and then we have to give them
notice before we kick them out.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
There's a sign. You couldn't make this up. You can't.
It's like a horror movie.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, Newsome's lack of leader.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I mean new if if here's some leadership advice, local
authorities go in and arrest these people, kick them out.
That's because what we're giving more money isn't working. Yeah,
if you really want to lead from the front, tell
these communities what they need to do.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Kick them out, clear it out, throw their stuff away.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I mean it's really time to call in the National
Guard and just go block to block and say this
is over.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Get out. Yeah, and I call you know, bass scarecrow
if she only had a brain. But again, more of those.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Those those US releases, the canned press releases. This is
why it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It's like and this is where yeah, this is where
their empathy just gets so it's doing more harm than good.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And I've been that whole report by that reporter.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I felt bad for those people who lived the even
you could hear in their voice, yeah, we're trying to
do something.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Nobody's helping us. Yeah, and I feel I feel horrible
for those people.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
They're living that every day. Yeah, and Eric saved that one.
All right, very good. Thank you for coming on. This
was a good time. Thank you, Marie. Thank you for
coming on as well. Joshua's wife who's a prosecutor in
San Bernardino County. Josh is an attorney up in Apple
Valley and again he was the pasta Thon winner and
he won the chance to co host the show.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
For the day.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Thank you very much, you, and thank you and thank
you to Ray Yes and to Michelle for putting this together.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
They've all been great, so I want to make sure
they get there. Well, I'm glad you had a good time.
And yeah, you seem like a very cranky guy, but
you're very nice.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
It's a very five hard shot.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I have a split personality. I have my own mental disorder.
I'm cranky and reasonable at the same time. All Right, well,
welcome and thank you to Josh and Conways. Next, now
here's an update from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
(30:19):
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and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one to four o'clock. After
four o'clock, you can hear us online John Cobelt's Show
on demand. It's the podcast same as the radio show
and Moistline's eight seven seven moist st eighty six. So
eight seven seven moist eighty six talkback feature in the
iHeart app is another way you could do it, all right,
(00:24):
So we have a pair of guests in the studio
who've been with us for about an hour. Josh Moody
is an attorney up in the Apple Valley area, right,
that's where your firm is.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He's the pasta Thon winner.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He bibbed five six thousand dollars and won the right
to sit in the studio and co host the show,
the right to be with John Cobelt.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's right. So it's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Have bought a lot of dinners for Chef Bruno's kids
and his wife Mary.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Right. Yes, mariy Okay been.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Working on that for hours and she's a yeah, she's
a prosecutor. Uh, she's at it even higher level you're
you're attorney, but she's a prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I think that the guy had the name Colebelt smelled
of the K and a y. I know, it's like
one vowel. That's Polish. Yeah, that's what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But the Danish name is yeah, there's there's no bowels
in the Polish language.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
So all right, So anyway, what it's your turn now,
you you tell me what's what's on your mind, what
you're upset about, what issue you think ought to be covered,
and you know we'll.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Just still go from there. Wow, all of the above. Yeah,
living in California, there there are. There are two Californias,
wouldn't wouldn't you say?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, there there are in a lot of different ways
because there are a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Not to bore you too much, but I went to
my high school reunion a few years ago and there
was just a lot of group, a big group of
us who grew up in the LA area.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
And then you just.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Disperse and where'd you grow up in?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Lad Yeah, So it's a about well, it's about don't
know what twenty miles maybe I used to say twenty minutes,
but now it's now it's an hour, right, right.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So all right, so you seed you're forty seven, so
you went to high school, you know, about thirty plus
years ago. Yeah, so you know that would be in
the mid nineties, correct, Yeah, uh yeah, Well, I mean
that's that's near the time where my wife and I
first came here, right, and we started having kids and yeah,
a dramatic shock, right, and there's well talk about it
as a native.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, and there's nobody's there's nobody at least the people
I talked to that still lived there. In fact, one
of my best friends, I hope, hope he's listening.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I told him to.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
His parents just sold their house about two years ago,
and he is about the last person I know who's
still in that area because everybody's just moved out and
moved and gone and and Glen Door is nice, but
it's also expensive.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, you talk about the housing crisis.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You could you could afford a house back then, you know,
in your mid twenties and start making it. There's no
way you can afford a lot of these houses in
your mid twenties now with the requirements, you know, with
every with everything going on, so you have to go
to the suburbs. And a lot of my friends and
a lot of people I knew, and you know lost,
(03:14):
you know, you lose contact with people and then you
get back with them. They are they're in the in
the Empire, they're up north. And you had a guest
on the other day. I don't remember who, but he
made a good point of people are leaving California to
go to the freezing part of Idaho.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yes, I remember that, and that's a good point. It's true.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, they're going to places that people used to complain
about the weather. Like a lot of people have gone
to Texas from California, right, And I remember I first
got here, and people go Texas that that it's hot,
it's humid, there's mosquitos everywhere, and we talk about that
about you know Florida. No, we're not, We're not there yet.
I got a place in Florida. We were already built
(03:56):
an escape house. We're not that miserable yet.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's humid. There's alligators, Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I was in Miami a few weeks ago and the
lady there's a tour and this lady's like, oh, this
is the only place in the world where alligators and
crocodiles co exist.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
No, that's true, not going there because that's where the
saltwater meets the fresh water. You've taken the tour, Oh yeah,
like alligators in the fresh waters are in your salt water.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, no, I'll avoid all the water. I'm no, I've
seen some of the alligators.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
There's a stretch of road and they have because the
rains can be really heavy, right, so they have these
gullies along the side of the road, right, and it
creates you know, these these ponds, yep, these drainage canals.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Alligators are laying in them. Yeah. No, thanks, not for me.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'll deal with I'll complain in traffic and yell on
my radio until I deal a crocodiles.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, a lot of people have decided it's that bad.
I'd rather take on my take on the crocodiles.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And that's just what That's kind of the thing we
just I tell people all the time, is just how
long have you been here? In twenty thirty years, even fifteen?
Are things better? Have things gotten better? Have your taxes
gotten better? Has your commute gotten better? Has your job
gotten better? Has your pega?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And the answer to a lot of those is no,
and yeah, it's knowing all of that, no, on all
of it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And you know what's that all the politicians love to
say this definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over again.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And here in California we do it. We're doing We're
doing it. Yeah, So where did the insanity come from?
I think I think a lot of people are just
born with it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But I just remember they voted for normal people, whether
it was Democrats and Republicans, they were relatively normal.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
When I came here, Pete Wilson was governor, right, and
Tom Bradley and then Richard Reardon was the mayor. And
the nineties we were great, and the two thousands were great.
I mean Great Davis Schwarzenegger was you know, a celebrity version,
but he was within the norm range.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You know. Now it's the super woke, super progressive nonsense.
Well that's what I was saying.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I mean, you know, Gray Davis gets recalled and I
think nowadays begging for somebody like Great Dave.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That's right, somebody normal.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, Schwarzenegger lied and sold everybody out, but even he
would be welcome over over Newsham.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Right, and whoever's and we keep you know, I know
the Menendez brothers. Things is big right now, and people
are talking about whether or not Newsom is going to Oh,
I think he will.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Now, I don't think he will. You don't think so.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I'm worried about the next person because it keeps getting
worse and worse and worse. Yeah, I mean Newsom's well,
he's riding the clock out, right. I mean he's got
a year left. I believe a year in change.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Six months, yeah, about year and a half.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I think he's just riding the clock out. But Mike,
because I mean, we went from Schorarzenegger and like, I
can't be worse than Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Jerry Brown's comes back. He can't be that bad. No,
Schwarzenegger turned.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Out to be really bad. I don't want anybody to misunderstanding.
But it's just it's gotten so much worse. It is
like these guys are starting to look like, well, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That bad, isn't that bad? And then it's like well,
and then we get Brown.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I was like, well, okay, the next guy can't be
that bad, and they get Newsom. Well, and now my
now I'm saying, well, the next person can't be that battle.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Do you know any of your friends, like your old
high school friends or your adult friends who went woke
on you?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
What woke? Yeah? From high school?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Or because I just have to believe that some people
used to vote for normal and then they started going
woke unless they're not aware of what they're voting for.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I mean I think a lot of the woke, at
least the woke on the left is uh, the younger,
like maybe people ten fifteen years younger than me, right,
people who are like turning thirty. Now that seems to
be I mean a lot most of my friends are similar.
They just, like you said, they vote for the best person.
They the person over party.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I'ven't seen that in a while.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Well that's the problem is once I got so crazy,
you're forcing me onto this one.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I mean, in the mid nineties.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
People will probably get be shocked to hear this, but
the Republicans actually controlled the Assembly for a couple of
years in the mid nineties. I remember I was alive then,
and now you know the in I think in the
Assembly it's like it's like seventy seventy two to eight
or seventy one to nine, something like that and.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That that was just looking back as a complete lack
of leadership on the Republican Party. Back then, there was
no leadership and you just allowed one party rule to
take over.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And you know, there's that.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
But I think a lot of people from my high
school and my friends, I mean now they're not they
have other things other than politics, and they look at
those things. What's what's the issue of the day? Is
it taxes? Is it traffic?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And how do we.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Is this person or that person going to make my
life better? And you know, I think the big part too,
I think of the radical shift in this state was
in the two thousands or so when the Republican Party
just started an under Schwortzniggers just started taxing everybody just
like everybody.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I know, well I made a terrible mistake when it
caved in and did what every other Democrat.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Did, right, Because if there's nobody sticking up for us
on taxes, why am I going to vote for you
when I can vote for for who I know is
going at least I know what I'm getting out of
this side.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
All right, hang on, we got more coming up. You're
listening to Josh Moody, The pastathon winner, an attorney from
the Apple Valley area, and we're going to continue with him.
He won the pastathon bidding War.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Five everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Also at last segment, I mixed up the Assembly in
the state Senate, the Democrats have a sixty to twenty
advantage in the Assembly, which is still more than two thirds.
So whether they can do what they want or it's yeah,
three quarters death by hanging, death by that's right. And
in the Assembly, and that's the Assembly and the Senate
it's thirty to ten. So it's sixty twenty and thirty
(09:46):
to ten, so they had better than a two thirds
majority in both houses and so and.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
All nine voted elected physicians. I believe there's nine positions, right, governored, Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Lieutenant governor, Secretary of state, the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, right, So when else? What else? Budge you?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
We were, uh, do you want to talk about what's
bugging us? Or we were just talking about what makes
us happy? It makes you happy? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Baseball a bit. We'll look into baseball for a couple
of minutes. Yeah, Dodger fan, I bet right, yeah, yeah, uh,
we like my parents had these in tickets. You know,
the Dodgers when I was growing up and went to
the eighty four Olympics has probably before your time.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Before I lived, Yeah, before you lived. Yeah, so yeah, Dodgers,
you know, lead Dodger blue.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So I grew up a Mets fan. Oh, but Dodgers
were the second favorite. Yeah. Well I got a Steve
garveyotograph when I was eleven.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Sot me too well when I was younger, too, right.
But the yeah, the Mets, what they've replaced the Dodgers
out there and people the Dodger contingency in New York
is still oh it's still big.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah. When they I mean, Mets is coming to play
the Dodgers for freak June here, it's gonna sell out.
I'm sure. Now you get to the games? Or is
the hours and hours of traffic?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Is it too daunting? It's very daunting. We actually travel more.
It's a lot cheaper to travel, cheaper cheaper to go
to the away game. So yeah, very much. Oh yeah, man,
we'll get We'll see now. Now, you know, they ought
to be ashamed of themselves in Sacramento for creating a
situation where it's cheaper to go to a Dodger game
(11:27):
in another state.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So you could probably look, you could look online. Somebody,
well fact check me. But we were talking about going
to the game tonight. But it's Shoho tani bobblehead right, No, yeah, impossible, Yeah,
we know, and you might not get a bobblehead.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Uh no, I heard. I believe. Ray just told us
that they're they're guaranteeing everybody bobblehead. Oh, they are to
try to.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yea a crowd out because friend of mine went to
like the last one of the earlier bubblehead games, and
he was furious because he ran into the two hour
traffic jam him from the west side, the long line
to get in with the car, then the long line
to get into the stadium right and go through the security.
And he finally gets there and they're out of bubble
(12:10):
heads because they only had forty thousand, and he was
like furious, like he was mad the whole game.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, he couldn't even watch the game he was so
pissed off.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, well, I told you earlier. We were in Florida
with crocodiles and alligators live in harmony. It was because
the Dodgers were there, and you're able to get a
relatively cheap flight, cheap hotel, and the tickets behind home plate, like,
you know, one hundred bucks, Well, what's one hundred dollars
ticket gets you a Dodger stadium.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
On bubblehead ninety?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
It gets you I think you get to sit in
the parking lot listening to the game on the radio.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So we've been traveling a lot trying to hit all
thirty stadiums, no kidding, Yeah, yeah, And it's cheap, cheaper,
and we'll buy a tawny bubblehead online or something.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, keep his ticket tonight's eighty bucks.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Keepstikes eighty When do you sit in the upper upper deck,
upper deck in the corner yep, right by the foul pole,
right by there you go, foul pole ticket in the
upper deck for eighty bucks.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
For eighty bucks. Yeah, what's what's the loads you get you?
What's the cheapest loads that's gonna about? I'll check. Yeah,
that's going to be over. That's got to be I'm
guessing minimum two hundred.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Eric runs a ticket selling operation on the side, so
you can you can give it the prices right away
because he's always scrambling to get last minute tickets as
a cheaply as possible.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I'm seeing in the loads anywhere between like one twenty
and one seventy. Oh okay, coming down a little bit
then the other day. I mean being here, you're closer. Yeah, right,
that's what we were talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Oh, it has taken me from Burbank like over an
hour to get to the stadium. Yeah, it's that that,
you know. And I and I zig zagged through uh
the park, Echo Park or something? Well, yeah, Echo Park.
You can get off on either the I don't know,
the one on one or where you take the two for.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
A little while.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
There's like a whole roundabout way and then what was
the name I'm blanking out on the park Allegian Yeah, yeah,
Lesion Park and on all these extremely hilly side roads.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Google's taking us there too, Yeah, right way up, way down,
like you're on a roller coaster.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
People out there offering to park your car for you. Yeah,
they're offering to take the car off your hands. We're trying.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't you don't really want that card?
Yeah right, we'll take it. We'll be here when you
get back.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, all right, more coming up. We're with Josh Moody.
He's the attorney who was the Pastathon winner. And uh,
you can hear us every day from one to four
and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand
on the iHeart app.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
We've got Josh Moody. He's the Pastathon winner. He's the
attorney who had the highest bid and gets the co
host of the show today. And thank you again and
brit Chef Bruno, thanks you, we all thank you for
your generous bid.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I thank you in return. You don't have to do this,
I mean you what you don't have to do this?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Do what allow people to come in and on your space,
on your time and talk about what we want to
talk about.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I get half a day off, now you know. I
work hard enough. It's up to you. You get the
show for free. So well today you did, but today
you have to pay. No, it's very generous of you. There, no, no,
this is actually fun all right? So what else is
on your mind?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Uh? This is this is this is where you decide
the topics and which way we're going? Which way are
we going? Like the gas prices?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, do you hear we might get be paying eight
fifty nine dollars a gallon?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
At what point do people care?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
At what point do at what point do the people
who are so addicted to their blue no matter who
or their climate agenda?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
At what point did they say, you know what, I know,
this is fantastic. And maybe maybe we've gone a little
too far on because I mean there have been tremendous
revolts around the world of were gasoline. Remember remember going
back to Grey Davis quig three David right, Remember he
increased the car tax one hundred bucks? Yeah, I mean
(16:08):
gas has gone up one hundred bucks a week. And yeah,
he raised the car tax one hundred.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Bucks and that got him kicked out of office, end
of the end of his political career and opened the
door for.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
People had no problem recalling Democrats like we were recalling
a Republican.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Remember when when you first came. I know, I know,
and it doesn't matter, but yeah, but he you know
what he'd done. I remember he had done a one
to eighty on.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
A tack, right, and that's what they were We were
going to go off the financial cliff if we don't
vote for this.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Well, right, but you know they know they signed they
signed the pledge.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Remember that, Yes, they signed a pledge I will never
vote for a tax increase, right, Well, and.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Then a bunch of Republicans voted for a taxi that's right, y? Yeah? Yeah, So,
I mean it's been both parties, you know, for for
a long time now. But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I mean you probably heard we go through the Triple
A gas price report every day and somebody sent in.
One of our listeners in Oklahoma sent in two dollars
and thirty six cents.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And that's what I was gonna ask you, because I've
been yelling at my radio all week. What do you
think the average price of gasoline is or would be
if we took out Alaska, Hawaiian and California. It's probably
going to go down another right, Yeah, it's probably go
down another quarter, just with because you know, Hawaiian, Alaska outliers. Yes,
and we're obviously an outlier by our own making, right,
(17:26):
So what do you think.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The average price would actually be without the three of us?
Could be under three bucks?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Again?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, because I saw that twenty seven states are under
three bucks, including a lot of big states right, like
like like New Jersey and Massachusetts, and New York's only
at about three ten. The national average I saw was
like three between three ten and three fifteen. You know,
it goes up and down a couple of pennies every day.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I'm the guy who brings a gas can with me
when I go to Vegas, trying to get next to
six gallons out of it and bring it home.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Did you really do that?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Not so much anymore, but when I did a long time,
when I had my truck, you know, I mean, you
have a truck six gallons?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah? So I mean in France they had the Yellow
Vest riots, remember, I mean they were fire set and
people were really got violent because of some kind of
relatively mild tax compared to what we're going through. And
I'm so envious. It's like, where is our Yellow Vest riot?
Where are people really taking to the street. You look
(18:27):
at what people like protest over.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Right, and.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
You know, they're saying that California has the fourth largest
economy now, which okay.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
May or may not be true, but is it really
a moving economy?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Because what really pushes economies and grows them is cheaper energy,
and we don't have cheap energy. We have expensive gas,
we have expensive electricity.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Well it's out.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
It's so weighted towards the tech companies, right, and the
people who work for those companies. When I saw the
average Facebook engineer a couple of years ago, I saw
I was making four hundred thousand a year. Well, think
all the people who work for Meta and Google and Apple.
I mean, if they're all making three, four or five
hundred thousand dollars a year just sitting and staring at
(19:09):
a screen. All right, there's your economy. That's it's a
service economy. Doesn't produce anything. It doesn't there's no goods
that come with it.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And it sends likes out.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yes, And those people who make that kind of money
can live a few blocks away from their work and
the price of gas doesn't affect them.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And I've just seen like five bucks roughly a gallon.
Now you know it's champish, you can get it.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It's more expensive. It's more expensive here than it is
out in Sammerndino. It's at least fifty cents more more
more here in La County.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh definitely, yeah, you go you go
to you ever go with border in Arizona. Oh yeah,
it's in the threes. It suddenly drops by like a
dollar fifty once you cross the border.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
And that's what And that's why they say going back
to Baseball's why they say Dodger State are Field is
Dodger Stadium East.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
It's so easy to go there, right and get cheaper
in the hotel and the tickets are cheaper.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So Arizona is another one. Yeah, that's
really cheap.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
But and it's going to be like a triple whammy
within the next eighteen months because you're going to have
this California Air Resources Board with the new fuel standard
that's sixty five cents there.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
How is carb even legal? How is that a legal entity?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It shouldn't be because you can't You can't elect them, correct,
you can't replace them.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
The legislature passed up. Isn't the legislature job to legislate?
And if they pass that off onto somebody else, I
can't complain to my right legislature to say hey, don't
do this. And you get guys like Newsom who say, what,
it's not my fault. It's this organization that nobody.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Nearly everyone on that board is a newsom in point appointee. Yeah,
I think like eleven out of twelve voting members something
like that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Right, it gives it gives the legislature and the governor
the buffer to write to make an excuse for their policies, so.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
That you know, now I see, you know, I still
wonder when I was a kid some of the oppressive regimes,
like whether it's communists China, the old Soviet Union, Cuba
and other countries like that.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It's like why do people put up with this?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And now I'm watching them, you know, it's like, oh,
you gotta pay nine dollars a going okay?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And at what point is I mean, we have a
lot of Amazon centers here in southern California, Walmart centers, right,
it's a big hub for to get goods out to
other states. How are they are they paying it? We
are with their big trucks. It's going to be passed
off all it is.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The shipping prices get get higher when when when you
click on it, there's really no days for us to
be such an outlier.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And then there's two the other two events are going
to be the two refineries that are close, one up
in northern California and in Benetia, and then one in
Carson here.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And that's another going back to your original The first
question you asked me earlier today was what's changed in
southern California? And I remember you couldn't drive down anywhere
and even in the city of La and you'd see
those big pumps.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Remember those?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, they were everywhere. Yeah, I remember that,
and I haven't seen one of those in what twenty years.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
No, We've got an enormous amount of energy that we
walk over every day. It's underground, it leaks out. You
can smell a bra right exactly. It's actually bubbling up
to the surface. And we don't touch that. Am I
make the carbon no high. So we buy the oil
from Saudi Arabia like Venezuela, what like.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Their emissions don't go into the same atmosphere. But that's
what's so crazy, that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It's justly how stupid everybody is if we're gonna use
the same amount of gas and oil, so they make
it there.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
We end up paying much more money. It's still going
up into.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
The atmosphere, and we're shipping our jobs there. We don't
have people working in refineries here like we used to. Yeah,
so se see, this is what is what I like.
Now I'm bringing up the subject and you're yelling at me.
That's it's usually the other way around. Yeah, I want
to speak to Josh sick of this?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
All right?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
One more segment coming up and another final thoughts from
Josh Moody. And he's the attorney who is the pastathon winner.
And you know what you're from now, you at home
could be doing this if you have bit enough money
at the pastathon. I imagine we'll probably have the same
prize again. Yes I'm being told yes already. And you know, Deborah,
you could bid and what wait what you can bid
(23:38):
on the pastathon and you could have an hour of
just you know, able to do that anyway, have an
hour of Debra's topics.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
I am on with you everything but center on you
like all the punish you remember Ken used to have
Little Debbie's corner.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
That's right? Who is that? Closure sounds like the wicked
witch of the West. Oh God, this is not good
for my throat to be like this.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
All right, you came on a good day because you're
here she doesn't have to talk as much exactly because
she can barely get the news out.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
sixty final segment.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I really had a good time. I thank you for coming. Well,
thank you to me too. I didn't pass out or nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
No Josh Moody here, he's an attorney in Apple Valley
and he's Pastathon Winter and he bid on the prize,
had the highest bid, spent several thousand dollars and got
the co host of chou for Today. All the money
went to Katerina's club, Chef Bruno's charity. He's feeding kids
all over Orange County and beyond.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
All right, so.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
We just started talking about this off the air. This
is this is a great story to go out on.
How this sums up Los Angeles right now? You heard
about in Westlake homeless encampment where two bodies were found.
We have a report from KTLA reporter Rachel Mentov a
close attention.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Here, a heartbreaking discovery.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
A forty six year old woman now identified by the
medical examiner as Lucrecia Masias Barajas and another man were
found dead inside this tent on Huntley drive near the
Westlake District. It sits on a corner wedged in between
LAUSD headquarters, an apartment building, and a local high school.
A neighbor who recorded the chaotic aftermath believes the woman's
(25:34):
daughter was looking for her mom, who had gone missing
days prior. She apparently ripped open the fabric around the encampment,
only to find her loved one dead, with signs she
may have been mulled by a dog.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
When I heard her heroing screens, it just shook us
all to our core.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
We all just thought of shaking because we knew, we
absolutely knew, someone's dead outside. This man wants to remain anonymous.
He's concerned about his safety.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Is the entire electrical setup that they have is a
reason why it's tax paying citizens don't even.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Have power for ourselves.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
But he felt it was important to talk about the
chronic dangers of this homeless encampment, which attracts drug users
and people breeding and mistreating their animals. If you lived
outside of this yourself, if this was something you saw
every time you had to step out and white your
neighbors and whte your family in, then.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
You would see rabbity. You would see rabity extremely Differently.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Another person who works in the area tells KTLA that
no one abides by the signage over here, whether it's.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Parking or camping related.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
She said, quote, everyone is well aware the police drive
by here several times a day, she calls three point one,
but the tents and the destructive behavior persists. These concerns
come as Governor Newsom is calling on cities and counties
to immediately address unhealthy encampments. He released a model ordinance
this week with provisions prohibiting persistent camping in one location
(26:51):
and a requirement for local officials to provide notice and
make an effort to provide shelter prior to clearing an encampment.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It's time to take these incampments and provide alternatives, and
the state is giving you more resources than ever.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Longtime residents hope the mayor and city council take this
to heart.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
After all, they say, it's their well being on the line.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Truly, mostly carried than anything, because even just reporting this
is just They're gonna feel offended.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
They're gonna feel like we did something wrong here just
by telling them.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
They say they want somewhere to live. However, it says
nothing but danger in death.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Lapd says no foul play is suspected. We just heard
from the mayor's office who says this case reinforces the
urgent need to address this grave humanitarian crisis. She said
she's working with the council to bring more Angelinos inside
and to improve public safety.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
No, you go first, I'll say night for tomorrow. I
think I'm bringing it back this one tomorrow. So did
I hear that right?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Because sometimes I think I'm gonna say the daughter finds
her mom dead in a tent and have to eaten.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
By dogs and is known, and then and the neighborhood
keeps called in and nobody does anything about this encampment.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
But they're signs. But there are some signs, and the
police keep driving, and the.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Police drive by, and then we have to give them
notice before we kick them out.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
There's a sign. You couldn't make this up. You can't.
It's like a horror movie.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, Newsome's lack of leader.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I mean new if if here's some leadership advice, local
authorities go in and arrest these people, kick them out.
That's because what we're giving more money isn't working. Yeah,
if you really want to lead from the front, tell
these communities what they need to do.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Kick them out, clear it out, throw their stuff away.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I mean it's really time to call in the National
Guard and just go block to block and say this
is over.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Get out. Yeah, and I call you know, bass scarecrow
if she only had a brain. But again, more of those.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Those those US releases, the canned press releases. This is
why it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It's like and this is where yeah, this is where
their empathy just gets so it's doing more harm than good.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And I've been that whole report by that reporter.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I felt bad for those people who lived the even
you could hear in their voice, yeah, we're trying to
do something.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Nobody's helping us. Yeah, and I feel I feel horrible
for those people.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
They're living that every day. Yeah, and Eric saved that one.
All right, very good. Thank you for coming on. This
was a good time. Thank you, Marie. Thank you for
coming on as well. Joshua's wife who's a prosecutor in
San Bernardino County. Josh is an attorney up in Apple
Valley and again he was the pasta Thon winner and
he won the chance to co host the show.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
For the day.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Thank you very much, you, and thank you and thank
you to Ray Yes and to Michelle for putting this together.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
They've all been great, so I want to make sure
they get there. Well, I'm glad you had a good time.
And yeah, you seem like a very cranky guy, but
you're very nice.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
It's a very five hard shot.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I have a split personality. I have my own mental disorder.
I'm cranky and reasonable at the same time. All Right, well,
welcome and thank you to Josh and Conways. Next, now
here's an update from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
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