October 13, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (10/13)
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-JORDANA MILLER, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT, JERUSALEM
-LOU IS NOT OPTIMISTIC AND WHY
-DAY 12 AND ALL IS WELL
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
App Lou Penrose in for John Cobalt this week. Good
to have you along with us.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
A big day, lots of celebration here in the United
States and certainly in the Middle East, and a lot
of discussion about the path forward now that there is
a ceasefire and exchange of individuals. We got the hostages back,
they got a bunch of terrorists back.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We'll talk a little bit more about that.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
But there's certainly areas to critique and criticize this whole deal,
and I don't want to rain on the parade. I'm
not optimistic, and I'm just happy that we have the
twenty hostages that are still living back, But I'm just
eager for some accountability and justice because they were more
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than twenty when we started. ABC News' Jordannah Miller is
in Jerusalem. We'll get her on here in just a moment.
But Trump certainly doing a victory lap and he's on
his way home, and I think that's good. I'm glad
that there is a cease fire. There needs to be
a lot of rebuilding in the area. But there's still
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a lot of hurt feelings and a lot of injustice
that took place two years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And I just don't think.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I don't think we have an unconditional surrender, and I
want an unconditional surrender. And I don't think this is fair,
Like it's not even they talk about.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
You know, the war in the Middle East and the ceasefire.
This is not equal.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
What happened to Israelis was murder and terrorism and now
everyone's just happy to lay down the rifles and lay
down the weapons. And I just don't I don't think
it's fair, and I don't think it's justice.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
And I'm happy that we've taken.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It this far, so at least there's a ceasefire, but
I think a lot more justice needs to be served.
That there are still Hamas people issuing press release like
that is amazing. I've read this morning a statement issued
by Hamas. I'm like, who are these people issuing these statements?
And why are they not in prison? Why are we
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allowing them to issue statements, Why are we reading these statements?
Why why don't we just get them? Do we have
a Jordana Miller with us? Okay, very good, Yeah, she's
in Jerusalem. I'm sure it's a busy day over there too,
in the world of news. I'm watching all this footage
and they're very, very happy in Tel Aviv, and that's fine,
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and I suspect that they are happy in Gaza. I
see a lot of people walking around. It doesn't look
like a very good place. It looks like there's going
to be a lot of infrastructure rebuilding going on over
the weeks and months to come. Just basic structures are
not there, so I don't know what's going on with
respect to water, and.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Just look like a long road ahead, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Jordana Miller is ABC News correspondent in Jerusalem.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Thanks so much for hopping on with us. We appreciate it.
What is the mood there today?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Euphoric, surreal, elated. I mean, I think it's been a
day filled with emotions. And you know, to see twenty
living hostages come out of the Gaza strip that Hamas
did in fact turn over according to the deal that
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they find the President Trump broker to see them follow
through and turn over the hostages and free them after
two years of hell. I mean, these hostages, all of
them men, you know, they came out defiant, though I
have to say most of them quite thin. But I
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think it's such a real it almost feels like a
collective sense of relief that you know, there are no
longer Israelis being starved and tortured and abused and chained
in tunnels because the hostage crisis has been an open
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wound for Israeli throughout this whole war, right, I mean,
Hamas succeeded, in quotation marks in kidnapping two hundred and
fifty one citizens. And it's a lot, and it's you know,
and it was, as you know, it was a brutal war.
And I think people are just elated that this many
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hostages that were presumed to be alive were in fact alive,
and then Hamas actually turned them over and freedom. There
are still twenty four bodies that Hamas is holding, including
the bodies of two Americans they did turnover as well
today are free or turnover really four bodies of hostages
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that are being identified right now at the Israeli Forensic Institute.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You mentioned that this has been broker Who are we
brokering with? Who is in charge on the Hamas side?
I mean, where how are we able to be in
touch with them and have these kinds of discussions.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Great, so Hamas is essentially represented by Cutter and the
Egypt those are the two main mediators, and so we've
actually made the United States has actually made a deal
with Egypt and Cutter about you know, over Hamas. It's
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not a direct deal with Hamas. So it does turn
out that President Trump, on various occasions his team did
reach out and have direct negotiations with Hamas. But the
deal itself is one between you know, Israel, Israel, the
United States and some of these regional partners Hamas didn't
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find on the dotted line. But Hamas is you know,
they're now in a very weak position, and they're patrons
which used to be places like Qatar, in Iran, Syria,
you know, are either unwilling or unable to really back
them the way they once did. And I think that's
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in great part because of the success as all had
during this war on the other fronts fighting Husbalah, pushing
them back far off of Israel's northern border, and of
course the war with Iran, which Israel did significant damage
in a very short amount of time, and the help
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of the United States and hitting the Iranian nuclear site
as well as the fall of you know, Asad's regime
in Syria. There's been tremendous changes since October sixth, and
I think all of that has put Hamas really in
the doghouse, isolated, and so it's it's being forced by
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it's one time Patriots patrons to give up the game.
That's what they did essentially in this deal.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
That does sound like a good position for us to
be in going forward. ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller, thanks
so much for for coming on with us.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
When we come back, I have to express why I'm
not optimistic.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I really have mixed feelings about this.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I am certainly elated and certainly happy that innocent life
has been preserved what what what there's left of it,
But there just hasn't been retribution for October sixth, and
I think there needs to be. Louke Penrose in for
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Speaker 3 (08:12):
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Good to be with you this afternoon. Mixed emotions and
I'm hesitant. I'm happy that we got the hostages back.
That we had to get the hostages back makes me
unhappy because we're still dealing with the same people.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So let's just be brutally honest.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
First, if none of the hostages were alive and you
learned that this morning, would you have been surprised. You'd
be shocked and saddened, for sure, But would you be
surprised And the answer is no, you wouldn't be surprised
because we're dealing with horrible people.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
These are murderers. And it's been two years and there
has been no.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Sub group of self described Palestinians, whether they're here in
the United States or whether they're in Western Europe or anywhere.
There has been no subgroup that has denounced what took
place on October sixth, like it's never happened. I've never seen,
not one, not one group of individuals that identify themselves
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as Palestinian, whether they're in the Middle East or here
in the United States, or here in southern California on
college campuses everywhere you see they're calling for Intafada. Nobody
has ever said, hey, those people are terrorists, those are
terrible people that should not have happened. They don't represent us.
So I have to draw the conclusion that whether you
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are a Palestinian terrorist or a Palestinian terrorist sympathizer, you're
not sad that all those innocent lives were taken. And
that's not cool. I'm not good with that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
First and.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Second point that needs to be made. This is not
a war. It wasn't a war. Soldiers fight in wars.
These terrorists went into Israel and slaughtered innocent civilians, not soldiers.
This wasn't a prisoner exchange. We got back innocent hostages.
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And by the way, we released a number of terrorists,
some of them were serving a life sentence because they're
very horrible people. And I cease fire and ending of
the war and everybody cheering it adds something to a
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moral equivalence of both sides, and it just isn't there.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I have been watching this go on now my entire
adult life.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You know, it's amazing that the Nobel Prize just came out,
and not only did it not go to President Trump,
and it didn't go to anybody that was brokering this,
the ceasefire in the Middle East. All of a sudden
now they have some woman in Venezuela that needed the
Nobel Peace Prize. My entire life, everybody in the Middle East,
that's all that happened. I mean, and I mean whether
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on war sadat knock Embagan, it's Akrabin. I mean Jimmy Carter.
Growing up as a kid, I would come home from
school and watch television and literally every day of my
life President Carter was shaking hands with somebody from Egypt
and somebody from Israel, and they were all excited that
Camp David Accords. That's all you ever heard about. You
You would have thought there was nothing going on in
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the United States. The whole job of the United States
president was shaking hands with somebody from Egypt and somebody
from Israel.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
That's all President Carter ever did.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And they gave him the Peace Prize, and all of
a sudden, now we have one of the most destabilizing
times in the Middle East, and the Nobel Prize Committee
for about the Middle East they had to go find
some woman in South America. So whatever, I don't care.
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I don't want the Nobel Peace Prize, but it's.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Interesting to me.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
We just talked with Jordanah Miller and she said that
for the most part of Egypt is brokering or representing Hamas,
and correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Wasn't there a big fight between Egypt.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And Israel in the seventies that we have to have
a great, big shaking of hands, you know, with the
egypt guy on the one side of the table and
the Israeli guy on the other side of the table,
and there's Jimmy Carter in the middle doing the three
way handshake. So these probably aren't the right people to.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Be brokering peace with.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
But I want to go back to that first point,
and that is there is no justice nobody in this
community of Palestinian Americans or Palestinian Europeans or Palestinian Palestinians,
Like nowhere in this community is there any regrets, Like
these people were route for the killing of children. So
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I don't know why you want to be friends with
these people. I don't know why we want to why
we would trust that they would keep the peace. Like
there's something very maniacal going on in that culture, and
I don't know what it is. And until we figure
it out, the best thing we can do is keep
them away from us. So I uh, I'm I'm I'm
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just I'm I'm hesitant because these people, when you hear ceasefire,
they hear reload, and I just I'm not I don't
I don't understand why there are anybody like, why there
are Hummas people like we should If that's true, if
they're being represented by Cutter and Egypt, then we should
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direct the leadership of Cutter in Egypt to go get
them and deliver them to us. That's the unconditional surrender
that I'm looking for. That every person that identifies as
a member of Hamas or like Samaas, or is rooting
for Hamas, they need to be put behind bars in
Tel Aviv, no other way. So yeah, I mean, so yeah,
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excuse me if I'm just not all that thrilled that
these people are allowed to just be They're allowed to
be free, they're allowed to live, and I just don't
think that that is justice and we are going to
get together and start rebuilding for them. There needs to
be an atonement. There needs to be some kind of
shame that all these people that were cheering and rooting, right,
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I mean, there were people in Gaza cheering that innocent
civilians were killed in Israel also saying people that were
cheering in hand out candy on September eleventh, when the
planes flew into the World Trade Center. There is footage
and you've seen it of people dancing in the streets
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in Gaza and handing out little pieces of candy. These children,
this is what we're dealing with. These are the kinds
of people we're dealing with. So I don't know how
you can have peace with them. Former House Speaker Newt
Gingridge famously said, when horrible people pledge to do horrible
things to you and post it on the internet in English,
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the safest thing we can do is take them at
their word.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
And I think that's where we are.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So, yeah, there is a cease fire, Israel will move back,
but I think somebody's got to keep an eye on
these people and make sure that their leadership is just
completely obliterated. So that would be a so of celebration
for me. Unconditional surrender and everybody that is in Hamas
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or identifies with Hamas or is rooting for Hamas, they
are either dead or in prison.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's peace.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Otherwise it's a constant threat, and it's these people. They
don't target soldiers or army, barracks or army. They don't
even play fair. They go after children and women and
it's just that. And by the way, did anyone notice
that all twenty hostages that were alive and released today,
not a single woman.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
That's kind of a terrifying reality.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
All right, when we come back, it's day twelve federal
government shut down. Today's a federal holiday anyway, so it's
nothing going on in DC anyway. But notice how we're
all fine. Notice how we're all still alive. Notice how
we all have health insurance and the federal government hasn't
been operating for twelve days.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
We'll talk about it coming up next. Lou Penrose. If
John Colebelt on the John Cobelt Show it.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
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Speaker 2 (17:04):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobalt this week. Good
to be with you.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
It is day twelve of the federal government shutdown, and
everything's fine. The narrative that we were all going to
die was pretty hysterical, and it's been a dozen.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Days and everybody's good. And this is the first budget
battle shut.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Down anything where the Republicans are actually winning the fight.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Usually it's the other way around.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Usually we have to shut things down, and it's a
Democrat president and Republicans are always losing the fight and
then eventually have to put their tail between their legs
and open up the federal government and give Democrats everything
they want. This is the first time since I've been
watching federal government shutdowns going all the way back to
the nineties, where we are in a position of strength
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because we want limited government. So it's okay with the
average Republican that non essential workers are not going to work.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It helps make the point that you don't need non
essential workers.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
They're non essential, and the government is too big and
too bloated, and it's just impossible to pare down the
size of government. I have been promised by every Republican
presidential candidate since nineteen eighty that if elected, they will
reduce the size and scope of the federal government. It's
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been in every campaign speech. It's been every campaign promise
of every Republican candidate for president and some Democrat candidates
for president. In the nineties, Governor Bill Clinton wanted to
reduce the size and scope of the federal government. He
ran on the fact that DC issued to state's unfunded
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mandates and he didn't like that.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
So he too was a limited government guy.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He didn't decrease the size and scope of government, but
neither did any real Republican, not really. In nineteen eighty one,
when Ronald Reagan gave his inaugural address, he famously said
government is not the solution to our problems. Government is
the problem. And he was right, and I said, hooray,
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then go and limit it. And it's never happened. President
Trump has been president for two hundred and sixty six
days and he's literally eliminating thousands of federal employees, just
reducing down the size of government because with the government
shut down, he can do that. Otherwise it's almost impossible,
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almost impossible to reduce the size of government. Mostly you
have to wait for them to retire. A dozen years ago,
there was a congressman in Orange County at a Newport
Beach called Chris Cox. And Chris Cox was nominated to
had the Security and Exchange Commission by then President Bush.
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And he vacated his congressional seat and went to Washington,
and I remember like six months later he came back
to Orange County, Newport Beach, and there was a reception
for him and he was doing a Q and A
and I wondered, because he had been in Congress, but
this is the other side, this is the executive branch.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
He's now in the cabinet.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And I said, what was what was your biggest surprise? Like,
what did you not expect, Congressman? He said, Lou, what's
most amazing about DC is that it's impossible to fire anybody.
Like I went to Washington to head up an agency
and I was gonna I'm a conservative, so I was
gonna run it leaner and meaner and get rid of
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dead weight.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And I realized that you can't. You literally cannot.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Fire anybody in DC, Like you have to have to
have write ups, they have to have done something wrong,
you have to have helped correct them.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I mean, it's just just impossible. He said.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You think when you, you know, get confirmed by the Senate
and now you're running a cabinet post, you think you're
in charge, but you're really not in charge. You're presiding
over a dysfunctional bureaucracy. And it was I remember him
saying it, and he was very sincere in that he
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was really surprised, but it is true.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
You can't fire DC people. It's impossible.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Like being drunk on the job needs to be remedied.
You can't say, you know what, you're drunk, go home
and never come back. Now you've got to prove because
alcoholism is a disease, you know, not a character flaw.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
So you've got to help them.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
If they don't turn in their work on time, you've
got to direct them. You have to do performance improvement plans, pips,
performance improvement plans.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You have to sit down with.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
The terrible bureaucrat and help them better themselves and give
them training and give them all kinds of aid. Like
you can't just cut people loose because they suck.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You as the manager.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Have to improve them and keep trying and keep trying
and keep trying. So it's really really good that we're
in a position now where President Trump can actually just
eliminate thousands of federal workers just to reduce the size
of government. I am in favor of reducing it all
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the way to the point where if I need it,
we can hire people back. You know, Democrats never tell
you this. We could in fact hire people back on Friday,
like four hundred people from the Department of Housing and
Urban Development were separated and they're fired, not furloughed, fired,
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And I remember thinking, all right, let's do another round
of a couple hundred when it gets to the point
where I notice, gee, I really need more housing and
urban development, So why don't we hire fifty housing in
urban Like, Let's keep going until we feel some kind
of this, you know, where our lives need more federal bureaucrats,
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and then we'll hire them.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
So that's that's where we're at right now. It is
day twelve.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
House Speaker Mike Johnson, praising the Trump administration and Department
of War for making adjustments amid the government shutdown to
ensure troops don't miss their next paycheck. The Speaker also
defending his decision to keep lawmakers home for a third
straight week.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yeah, three weeks with members of Congress back in the district.
That no harm can come from that. I think having
Congress members home, talking the talking to their constituents and
finding out what life is like back in the congressional
district is probably the healthiest thing that members of Congress
can do. So I think this is working out really well.
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It's demonstrating to the broader American audience that non essential
government work is basically the Smithsonian and emptying the trash
cans at Yosemite National Park like that's it in federal courts,
and President Trump is figuring out a way to pay
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the troops. So this is going to go on for
a while, and I think Democrats are going to have
to cave at some point. But in between until that
day comes, we are reducing the size and scope of
the federal government. And this is what limited government is about.
It's returning authority and power back to the states and
the people. And we've been trying to do it since
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nineteen eighty and here we have a president that's done
more in two hundred and sixty six days than all
the past presidential candidates from the Republican side combined. Louke
Penrose if John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show.
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Speaker 3 (24:59):
Loup Penrose Info John Cobalt all this week, Thank you
for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Good to have you along with us.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Coming up following the news at two o'clock, so the
governor signed SB seventy nine. You've been hearing John talk
about it all last week. This is a very, very
bad thing for communities. And I hope you like apartment
buildings because one's going up next to your house. And
it's just so wrong headed because it does nothing to
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bring all the things they tell you it's going to do,
and it's gonna bring down the cost of housing.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Doesn't bring down the cost of housing. It puts people.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Where they don't want to be, and that is in
apartments next to transit centers. Nobody wants to be like that,
Like maybe you do in college, or maybe you do,
you know, if you're a young person and you like
to take the train, but most people don't. And this
isn't Germany, and Democrat policymakers in California want to become
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more and more like and we just don't have the infrastructure.
We don't want the infrastructure. This is California, for crying
out loud. We like our cars and we need more
parking spaces. So what they're gonna do is they're going
to allow apartments up to.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I heard eight stories, Yeah, eight stories.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
They're gonna allow you to if you're in the apartment
building business, go around whatever the city general plan is.
You know, cities have planning commissions and then those planning
commissions report to the city council members, and cities spend an.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Awful lot of time.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
One of the things that cities do do well is planning.
They're like, Okay, we want to have an industrial park
over there, but we don't want the industrial park near
the schools, So we'll put the schools over there, and
then let's put a lot of you know, family houses,
you know, single family residences, because that's the kinds of
place that people live when they have kids in schools.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So it's put those homes over there.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
And then you know, the downtown, that's where the young
people are, the hipsters, so we can put the apartments
there as long as we don't go too high and
block the view.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Like they literally.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Spend a lot of time zoning out the city and
putting together the master plan. And this way they so
much space is open space, so much space for parks,
so much space to develop, you know, when you want
to put the airport way out there. Like, city planning
is a thing, and in Sacramento they're just turning it
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on its head and basically taking the authority away from
the people who live in the city, to stick apartment
buildings near transit hubs, to force you to live in
an East German cinder block building and take the bus
with a bunch of homeless people. And nobody wants to
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do that, but they're literally trying to force it on
because if it worked, you wouldn't need a law.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Like if everyone just decided I.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Hate driving, I love these buses, then they would do
it naturally.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
You wouldn't have to force a law.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
And if city councils notice that, hey, everybody, no one
wants to live in a house anymore, everybody wants to
live in an eight story apartment building next to a
train station, then the market would just solve the problem.
But it doesn't because nobody wants to live like that.
Like you endure living like that until you actually have
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some success. And what's the first thing you do when
you have some success. You move out into the suburbs
and live like a normal person. But democrats want you
in these in the projects, and they want you riding
on the buses. And now they're going to force the
projects next to your house. And the other problem with this,
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and this is my favorite part, so I'd work with
these people. I spent some time doing government affairs consulting,
and the way this works just so you know, near
a transit center, well what does that mean? Like in
your mind, you've already painted a picture of what a
transit center is, right, it's a union station, that's a
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transit center. Well, frankly, a bus stop could be defined
as a transit center. And now what's happened is anybody
with a worthless piece of land that's undevelopable because it's
not near anything or doesn't just worthless piece of land.
And there are still some pieces of land in California,
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believe it or not, that are not really that valuable.
All you have to do now is stick a stop,
a bus stop sign in front of this land, and
that land has that royal land just increased in value
by a factor of three. And guess who gets to
decide where the bus stops go? The mayors or city council.
But like all these mayors and city council members, they
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all sit on local transportation commissions, and so they decide
where the new bus stops go. And every mayor in
southern California has a nair to well, brother in law
with a worthless piece of land somewhere out in the sticks.
But if you stick a bus stop in front of it,
now according to SB seventy nine, now it's an eight
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story apartment building, start breaking dirt. So we will talk
with crys Lagrapp on the latest on this. It's getting
a lot of reaction. Now goes into law July one
of next year, and it was signed by Gavin Newsom,
so there's a lot of blowback on this. A lot
of people are hopping mad, including a lot of Democrat
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City council members, because it takes their authority away too,
and it's just designed to force you to leave your
car or sell your car.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
So it's just.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Another one of these environmentalist ideas where we're all just
going to ride a bike, we're all going to ride
on the train, we're all going to ride on some
kind of light rail, and we're all going to start
pretending that we live in Europe.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
And that's what they're constantly trying to do. Hey, it's
Columbus Day.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's one of these weird holidays where almost everybody's off,
like schools are at least the schools my kids go
to are open today. My wife's office is closed because
the banks are closed. I guess the banks and the
post offices are closed. It is still Columbus Day. President
Biden made it also Indigenous People's Day, so it's.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Really both holidays on the same day.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
But it feels weird because everybody's kind of working, except
if you work for the government or the post office
or the bank.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Don't bother going to the post office. It's closed and
no home or business mail deliveries. Priority Mail Express is
available three hundred and sixty five days yere, including federal holidays.
UPS and FedEx are open.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Per their websites. Branch is a major bank.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
It's like Capital One Bank of America, Wells Fargo, PNC,
Truist City Bank, and JP Morgan Chase are closed.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah, all the banks are closed, so you can't conduct
any business. We need to straighten these kinds of holidays
out this This is one of the biggest pet peeves
of mine. Either it's a holiday or it's not, like,
let's just have holidays. When we have holidays, not like
state holidays, but they're not federal holidays or their federal holidays.
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But we changed the name. We could have had an
Indigenous People's Day.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And put it like in August.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
August has no good holidays, so you should have at
least one three day week in a month.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
That's the way you want to go. And I'm here to.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Tell you, as a proud Italian American, I don't care
like I've never I grew up Italian.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
My whole family's the time.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
My dad was born in Italy, and I never heard
them mention Christopher Columbus once. So this idea that it's
a huge source of Italian American prom a little overplayed,
But the parade is fun. Lou Penrose Info John Coblt
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to have you along with us.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
A big day, lots of celebration here in the United
States and certainly in the Middle East, and a lot
of discussion about the path forward now that there is
a ceasefire and exchange of individuals. We got the hostages back,
they got a bunch of terrorists back.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We'll talk a little bit more about that.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
But there's certainly areas to critique and criticize this whole deal,
and I don't want to rain on the parade. I'm
not optimistic, and I'm just happy that we have the
twenty hostages that are still living back, But I'm just
eager for some accountability and justice because they were more
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than twenty when we started. ABC News' Jordannah Miller is
in Jerusalem. We'll get her on here in just a moment.
But Trump certainly doing a victory lap and he's on
his way home, and I think that's good. I'm glad
that there is a cease fire. There needs to be
a lot of rebuilding in the area. But there's still
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a lot of hurt feelings and a lot of injustice
that took place two years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And I just don't think.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I don't think we have an unconditional surrender, and I
want an unconditional surrender. And I don't think this is fair,
Like it's not even they talk about.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
You know, the war in the Middle East and the ceasefire.
This is not equal.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
What happened to Israelis was murder and terrorism and now
everyone's just happy to lay down the rifles and lay
down the weapons. And I just don't I don't think
it's fair, and I don't think it's justice.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
And I'm happy that we've taken.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
It this far, so at least there's a ceasefire, but
I think a lot more justice needs to be served.
That there are still Hamas people issuing press release like
that is amazing. I've read this morning a statement issued
by Hamas. I'm like, who are these people issuing these statements?
And why are they not in prison? Why are we
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allowing them to issue statements, Why are we reading these statements?
Why why don't we just get them? Do we have
a Jordana Miller with us? Okay, very good, Yeah, she's
in Jerusalem. I'm sure it's a busy day over there too,
in the world of news. I'm watching all this footage
and they're very, very happy in Tel Aviv, and that's fine,
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and I suspect that they are happy in Gaza. I
see a lot of people walking around. It doesn't look
like a very good place. It looks like there's going
to be a lot of infrastructure rebuilding going on over
the weeks and months to come. Just basic structures are
not there, so I don't know what's going on with
respect to water, and.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Just look like a long road ahead, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Jordana Miller is ABC News correspondent in Jerusalem.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Thanks so much for hopping on with us. We appreciate it.
What is the mood there today?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Euphoric, surreal, elated. I mean, I think it's been a
day filled with emotions. And you know, to see twenty
living hostages come out of the Gaza strip that Hamas
did in fact turn over according to the deal that
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they find the President Trump broker to see them follow
through and turn over the hostages and free them after
two years of hell. I mean, these hostages, all of
them men, you know, they came out defiant, though I
have to say most of them quite thin. But I
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think it's such a real it almost feels like a
collective sense of relief that you know, there are no
longer Israelis being starved and tortured and abused and chained
in tunnels because the hostage crisis has been an open
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wound for Israeli throughout this whole war, right, I mean,
Hamas succeeded, in quotation marks in kidnapping two hundred and
fifty one citizens. And it's a lot, and it's you know,
and it was, as you know, it was a brutal war.
And I think people are just elated that this many
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hostages that were presumed to be alive were in fact alive,
and then Hamas actually turned them over and freedom. There
are still twenty four bodies that Hamas is holding, including
the bodies of two Americans they did turnover as well
today are free or turnover really four bodies of hostages
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that are being identified right now at the Israeli Forensic Institute.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You mentioned that this has been broker Who are we
brokering with? Who is in charge on the Hamas side?
I mean, where how are we able to be in
touch with them and have these kinds of discussions.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Great, so Hamas is essentially represented by Cutter and the
Egypt those are the two main mediators, and so we've
actually made the United States has actually made a deal
with Egypt and Cutter about you know, over Hamas. It's
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not a direct deal with Hamas. So it does turn
out that President Trump, on various occasions his team did
reach out and have direct negotiations with Hamas. But the
deal itself is one between you know, Israel, Israel, the
United States and some of these regional partners Hamas didn't
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find on the dotted line. But Hamas is you know,
they're now in a very weak position, and they're patrons
which used to be places like Qatar, in Iran, Syria,
you know, are either unwilling or unable to really back
them the way they once did. And I think that's
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in great part because of the success as all had
during this war on the other fronts fighting Husbalah, pushing
them back far off of Israel's northern border, and of
course the war with Iran, which Israel did significant damage
in a very short amount of time, and the help
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of the United States and hitting the Iranian nuclear site
as well as the fall of you know, Asad's regime
in Syria. There's been tremendous changes since October sixth, and
I think all of that has put Hamas really in
the doghouse, isolated, and so it's it's being forced by
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it's one time Patriots patrons to give up the game.
That's what they did essentially in this deal.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
That does sound like a good position for us to
be in going forward. ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller, thanks
so much for for coming on with us.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
When we come back, I have to express why I'm
not optimistic.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I really have mixed feelings about this.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I am certainly elated and certainly happy that innocent life
has been preserved what what what there's left of it,
But there just hasn't been retribution for October sixth, and
I think there needs to be. Louke Penrose in for
John coblt on The John Cobolt Show.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
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Good to be with you this afternoon. Mixed emotions and
I'm hesitant. I'm happy that we got the hostages back.
That we had to get the hostages back makes me
unhappy because we're still dealing with the same people.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So let's just be brutally honest.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
First, if none of the hostages were alive and you
learned that this morning, would you have been surprised. You'd
be shocked and saddened, for sure, But would you be
surprised And the answer is no, you wouldn't be surprised
because we're dealing with horrible people.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
These are murderers. And it's been two years and there
has been no.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Sub group of self described Palestinians, whether they're here in
the United States or whether they're in Western Europe or anywhere.
There has been no subgroup that has denounced what took
place on October sixth, like it's never happened. I've never seen,
not one, not one group of individuals that identify themselves
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as Palestinian, whether they're in the Middle East or here
in the United States, or here in southern California on
college campuses everywhere you see they're calling for Intafada. Nobody
has ever said, hey, those people are terrorists, those are
terrible people that should not have happened. They don't represent us.
So I have to draw the conclusion that whether you
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are a Palestinian terrorist or a Palestinian terrorist sympathizer, you're
not sad that all those innocent lives were taken. And
that's not cool. I'm not good with that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
First and.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Second point that needs to be made. This is not
a war. It wasn't a war. Soldiers fight in wars.
These terrorists went into Israel and slaughtered innocent civilians, not soldiers.
This wasn't a prisoner exchange. We got back innocent hostages.
(10:25):
And by the way, we released a number of terrorists,
some of them were serving a life sentence because they're
very horrible people. And I cease fire and ending of
the war and everybody cheering it adds something to a
(10:45):
moral equivalence of both sides, and it just isn't there.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I have been watching this go on now my entire
adult life.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You know, it's amazing that the Nobel Prize just came out,
and not only did it not go to President Trump,
and it didn't go to anybody that was brokering this,
the ceasefire in the Middle East. All of a sudden
now they have some woman in Venezuela that needed the
Nobel Peace Prize. My entire life, everybody in the Middle East,
that's all that happened. I mean, and I mean whether
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on war sadat knock Embagan, it's Akrabin. I mean Jimmy Carter.
Growing up as a kid, I would come home from
school and watch television and literally every day of my
life President Carter was shaking hands with somebody from Egypt
and somebody from Israel, and they were all excited that
Camp David Accords. That's all you ever heard about. You
You would have thought there was nothing going on in
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the United States. The whole job of the United States
president was shaking hands with somebody from Egypt and somebody
from Israel.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
That's all President Carter ever did.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And they gave him the Peace Prize, and all of
a sudden, now we have one of the most destabilizing
times in the Middle East, and the Nobel Prize Committee
for about the Middle East they had to go find
some woman in South America. So whatever, I don't care.
(12:07):
I don't want the Nobel Peace Prize, but it's.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Interesting to me.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
We just talked with Jordanah Miller and she said that
for the most part of Egypt is brokering or representing Hamas,
and correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Wasn't there a big fight between Egypt.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And Israel in the seventies that we have to have
a great, big shaking of hands, you know, with the
egypt guy on the one side of the table and
the Israeli guy on the other side of the table,
and there's Jimmy Carter in the middle doing the three
way handshake. So these probably aren't the right people to.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Be brokering peace with.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
But I want to go back to that first point,
and that is there is no justice nobody in this
community of Palestinian Americans or Palestinian Europeans or Palestinian Palestinians,
Like nowhere in this community is there any regrets, Like
these people were route for the killing of children. So
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I don't know why you want to be friends with
these people. I don't know why we want to why
we would trust that they would keep the peace. Like
there's something very maniacal going on in that culture, and
I don't know what it is. And until we figure
it out, the best thing we can do is keep
them away from us. So I uh, I'm I'm I'm
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just I'm I'm hesitant because these people, when you hear ceasefire,
they hear reload, and I just I'm not I don't
I don't understand why there are anybody like, why there
are Hummas people like we should If that's true, if
they're being represented by Cutter and Egypt, then we should
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direct the leadership of Cutter in Egypt to go get
them and deliver them to us. That's the unconditional surrender
that I'm looking for. That every person that identifies as
a member of Hamas or like Samaas, or is rooting
for Hamas, they need to be put behind bars in
Tel Aviv, no other way. So yeah, I mean, so yeah,
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excuse me if I'm just not all that thrilled that
these people are allowed to just be They're allowed to
be free, they're allowed to live, and I just don't
think that that is justice and we are going to
get together and start rebuilding for them. There needs to
be an atonement. There needs to be some kind of
shame that all these people that were cheering and rooting, right,
(14:49):
I mean, there were people in Gaza cheering that innocent
civilians were killed in Israel also saying people that were
cheering in hand out candy on September eleventh, when the
planes flew into the World Trade Center. There is footage
and you've seen it of people dancing in the streets
(15:11):
in Gaza and handing out little pieces of candy. These children,
this is what we're dealing with. These are the kinds
of people we're dealing with. So I don't know how
you can have peace with them. Former House Speaker Newt
Gingridge famously said, when horrible people pledge to do horrible
things to you and post it on the internet in English,
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the safest thing we can do is take them at
their word.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
And I think that's where we are.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So, yeah, there is a cease fire, Israel will move back,
but I think somebody's got to keep an eye on
these people and make sure that their leadership is just
completely obliterated. So that would be a so of celebration
for me. Unconditional surrender and everybody that is in Hamas
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or identifies with Hamas or is rooting for Hamas, they
are either dead or in prison.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's peace.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Otherwise it's a constant threat, and it's these people. They
don't target soldiers or army, barracks or army. They don't
even play fair. They go after children and women and
it's just that. And by the way, did anyone notice
that all twenty hostages that were alive and released today,
not a single woman.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
That's kind of a terrifying reality.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
All right, when we come back, it's day twelve federal
government shut down. Today's a federal holiday anyway, so it's
nothing going on in DC anyway. But notice how we're
all fine. Notice how we're all still alive. Notice how
we all have health insurance and the federal government hasn't
been operating for twelve days.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
We'll talk about it coming up next. Lou Penrose. If
John Colebelt on the John Cobelt Show it.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
You're listening to dude, John cobelts on demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobalt this week. Good
to be with you.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
It is day twelve of the federal government shutdown, and
everything's fine. The narrative that we were all going to
die was pretty hysterical, and it's been a dozen.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Days and everybody's good. And this is the first budget
battle shut.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Down anything where the Republicans are actually winning the fight.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Usually it's the other way around.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Usually we have to shut things down, and it's a
Democrat president and Republicans are always losing the fight and
then eventually have to put their tail between their legs
and open up the federal government and give Democrats everything
they want. This is the first time since I've been
watching federal government shutdowns going all the way back to
the nineties, where we are in a position of strength
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because we want limited government. So it's okay with the
average Republican that non essential workers are not going to work.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It helps make the point that you don't need non
essential workers.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
They're non essential, and the government is too big and
too bloated, and it's just impossible to pare down the
size of government. I have been promised by every Republican
presidential candidate since nineteen eighty that if elected, they will
reduce the size and scope of the federal government. It's
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been in every campaign speech. It's been every campaign promise
of every Republican candidate for president and some Democrat candidates
for president. In the nineties, Governor Bill Clinton wanted to
reduce the size and scope of the federal government. He
ran on the fact that DC issued to state's unfunded
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mandates and he didn't like that.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
So he too was a limited government guy.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He didn't decrease the size and scope of government, but
neither did any real Republican, not really. In nineteen eighty one,
when Ronald Reagan gave his inaugural address, he famously said
government is not the solution to our problems. Government is
the problem. And he was right, and I said, hooray,
(19:22):
then go and limit it. And it's never happened. President
Trump has been president for two hundred and sixty six
days and he's literally eliminating thousands of federal employees, just
reducing down the size of government because with the government
shut down, he can do that. Otherwise it's almost impossible,
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almost impossible to reduce the size of government. Mostly you
have to wait for them to retire. A dozen years ago,
there was a congressman in Orange County at a Newport
Beach called Chris Cox. And Chris Cox was nominated to
had the Security and Exchange Commission by then President Bush.
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And he vacated his congressional seat and went to Washington,
and I remember like six months later he came back
to Orange County, Newport Beach, and there was a reception
for him and he was doing a Q and A
and I wondered, because he had been in Congress, but
this is the other side, this is the executive branch.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
He's now in the cabinet.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And I said, what was what was your biggest surprise? Like,
what did you not expect, Congressman? He said, Lou, what's
most amazing about DC is that it's impossible to fire anybody.
Like I went to Washington to head up an agency
and I was gonna I'm a conservative, so I was
gonna run it leaner and meaner and get rid of
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dead weight.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
And I realized that you can't. You literally cannot.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Fire anybody in DC, Like you have to have to
have write ups, they have to have done something wrong,
you have to have helped correct them.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I mean, it's just just impossible. He said.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You think when you, you know, get confirmed by the Senate
and now you're running a cabinet post, you think you're
in charge, but you're really not in charge. You're presiding
over a dysfunctional bureaucracy. And it was I remember him
saying it, and he was very sincere in that he
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was really surprised, but it is true.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
You can't fire DC people. It's impossible.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Like being drunk on the job needs to be remedied.
You can't say, you know what, you're drunk, go home
and never come back. Now you've got to prove because
alcoholism is a disease, you know, not a character flaw.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
So you've got to help them.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
If they don't turn in their work on time, you've
got to direct them. You have to do performance improvement plans, pips,
performance improvement plans.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You have to sit down with.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
The terrible bureaucrat and help them better themselves and give
them training and give them all kinds of aid. Like
you can't just cut people loose because they suck.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You as the manager.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Have to improve them and keep trying and keep trying
and keep trying. So it's really really good that we're
in a position now where President Trump can actually just
eliminate thousands of federal workers just to reduce the size
of government. I am in favor of reducing it all
(22:31):
the way to the point where if I need it,
we can hire people back. You know, Democrats never tell
you this. We could in fact hire people back on Friday,
like four hundred people from the Department of Housing and
Urban Development were separated and they're fired, not furloughed, fired,
(22:54):
And I remember thinking, all right, let's do another round
of a couple hundred when it gets to the point
where I notice, gee, I really need more housing and
urban development, So why don't we hire fifty housing in
urban Like, Let's keep going until we feel some kind
of this, you know, where our lives need more federal bureaucrats,
(23:15):
and then we'll hire them.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
So that's that's where we're at right now. It is
day twelve.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
House Speaker Mike Johnson, praising the Trump administration and Department
of War for making adjustments amid the government shutdown to
ensure troops don't miss their next paycheck. The Speaker also
defending his decision to keep lawmakers home for a third
straight week.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yeah, three weeks with members of Congress back in the district.
That no harm can come from that. I think having
Congress members home, talking the talking to their constituents and
finding out what life is like back in the congressional
district is probably the healthiest thing that members of Congress
can do. So I think this is working out really well.
(23:57):
It's demonstrating to the broader American audience that non essential
government work is basically the Smithsonian and emptying the trash
cans at Yosemite National Park like that's it in federal courts,
and President Trump is figuring out a way to pay
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the troops. So this is going to go on for
a while, and I think Democrats are going to have
to cave at some point. But in between until that
day comes, we are reducing the size and scope of
the federal government. And this is what limited government is about.
It's returning authority and power back to the states and
the people. And we've been trying to do it since
(24:40):
nineteen eighty and here we have a president that's done
more in two hundred and sixty six days than all
the past presidential candidates from the Republican side combined. Louke
Penrose if John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
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six forty.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Loup Penrose Info John Cobalt all this week, Thank you
for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Good to have you along with us.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Coming up following the news at two o'clock, so the
governor signed SB seventy nine. You've been hearing John talk
about it all last week. This is a very, very
bad thing for communities. And I hope you like apartment
buildings because one's going up next to your house. And
it's just so wrong headed because it does nothing to
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bring all the things they tell you it's going to do,
and it's gonna bring down the cost of housing.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Doesn't bring down the cost of housing. It puts people.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Where they don't want to be, and that is in
apartments next to transit centers. Nobody wants to be like that,
Like maybe you do in college, or maybe you do,
you know, if you're a young person and you like
to take the train, but most people don't. And this
isn't Germany, and Democrat policymakers in California want to become
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more and more like and we just don't have the infrastructure.
We don't want the infrastructure. This is California, for crying
out loud. We like our cars and we need more
parking spaces. So what they're gonna do is they're going
to allow apartments up to.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I heard eight stories, Yeah, eight stories.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
They're gonna allow you to if you're in the apartment
building business, go around whatever the city general plan is.
You know, cities have planning commissions and then those planning
commissions report to the city council members, and cities spend an.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Awful lot of time.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
One of the things that cities do do well is planning.
They're like, Okay, we want to have an industrial park
over there, but we don't want the industrial park near
the schools, So we'll put the schools over there, and
then let's put a lot of you know, family houses,
you know, single family residences, because that's the kinds of
place that people live when they have kids in schools.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So it's put those homes over there.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
And then you know, the downtown, that's where the young
people are, the hipsters, so we can put the apartments
there as long as we don't go too high and
block the view.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Like they literally.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Spend a lot of time zoning out the city and
putting together the master plan. And this way they so
much space is open space, so much space for parks,
so much space to develop, you know, when you want
to put the airport way out there. Like, city planning
is a thing, and in Sacramento they're just turning it
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on its head and basically taking the authority away from
the people who live in the city, to stick apartment
buildings near transit hubs, to force you to live in
an East German cinder block building and take the bus
with a bunch of homeless people. And nobody wants to
(27:54):
do that, but they're literally trying to force it on
because if it worked, you wouldn't need a law.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Like if everyone just decided I.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Hate driving, I love these buses, then they would do
it naturally.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
You wouldn't have to force a law.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
And if city councils notice that, hey, everybody, no one
wants to live in a house anymore, everybody wants to
live in an eight story apartment building next to a
train station, then the market would just solve the problem.
But it doesn't because nobody wants to live like that.
Like you endure living like that until you actually have
(28:31):
some success. And what's the first thing you do when
you have some success. You move out into the suburbs
and live like a normal person. But democrats want you
in these in the projects, and they want you riding
on the buses. And now they're going to force the
projects next to your house. And the other problem with this,
(28:52):
and this is my favorite part, so I'd work with
these people. I spent some time doing government affairs consulting,
and the way this works just so you know, near
a transit center, well what does that mean? Like in
your mind, you've already painted a picture of what a
transit center is, right, it's a union station, that's a
(29:14):
transit center. Well, frankly, a bus stop could be defined
as a transit center. And now what's happened is anybody
with a worthless piece of land that's undevelopable because it's
not near anything or doesn't just worthless piece of land.
And there are still some pieces of land in California,
(29:36):
believe it or not, that are not really that valuable.
All you have to do now is stick a stop,
a bus stop sign in front of this land, and
that land has that royal land just increased in value
by a factor of three. And guess who gets to
decide where the bus stops go? The mayors or city council.
But like all these mayors and city council members, they
(29:57):
all sit on local transportation commissions, and so they decide
where the new bus stops go. And every mayor in
southern California has a nair to well, brother in law
with a worthless piece of land somewhere out in the sticks.
But if you stick a bus stop in front of it,
now according to SB seventy nine, now it's an eight
(30:18):
story apartment building, start breaking dirt. So we will talk
with crys Lagrapp on the latest on this. It's getting
a lot of reaction. Now goes into law July one
of next year, and it was signed by Gavin Newsom,
so there's a lot of blowback on this. A lot
of people are hopping mad, including a lot of Democrat
(30:41):
City council members, because it takes their authority away too,
and it's just designed to force you to leave your
car or sell your car.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
So it's just.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Another one of these environmentalist ideas where we're all just
going to ride a bike, we're all going to ride
on the train, we're all going to ride on some
kind of light rail, and we're all going to start
pretending that we live in Europe.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
And that's what they're constantly trying to do. Hey, it's
Columbus Day.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's one of these weird holidays where almost everybody's off,
like schools are at least the schools my kids go
to are open today. My wife's office is closed because
the banks are closed. I guess the banks and the
post offices are closed. It is still Columbus Day. President
Biden made it also Indigenous People's Day, so it's.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Really both holidays on the same day.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
But it feels weird because everybody's kind of working, except
if you work for the government or the post office
or the bank.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Don't bother going to the post office. It's closed and
no home or business mail deliveries. Priority Mail Express is
available three hundred and sixty five days yere, including federal holidays.
UPS and FedEx are open.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Per their websites. Branch is a major bank.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
It's like Capital One Bank of America, Wells Fargo, PNC,
Truist City Bank, and JP Morgan Chase are closed.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah, all the banks are closed, so you can't conduct
any business. We need to straighten these kinds of holidays
out this This is one of the biggest pet peeves
of mine. Either it's a holiday or it's not, like,
let's just have holidays. When we have holidays, not like
state holidays, but they're not federal holidays or their federal holidays.
(32:27):
But we changed the name. We could have had an
Indigenous People's Day.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And put it like in August.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
August has no good holidays, so you should have at
least one three day week in a month.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
That's the way you want to go. And I'm here to.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Tell you, as a proud Italian American, I don't care
like I've never I grew up Italian.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
My whole family's the time.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
My dad was born in Italy, and I never heard
them mention Christopher Columbus once. So this idea that it's
a huge source of Italian American prom a little overplayed,
But the parade is fun. Lou Penrose Info John Coblt
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