August 11, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (08/11) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio comes on the show to talk about all of the redistricting drama that is being stirred up in California. More on the high gas prices in California. Students today are "zombies" according to two teachers that John knows. Update on the LADWP repair mishap in Granada Hills and Porter Ranch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Spend a lot of time last hour on Donald Trump
taking over the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, d C.
Sending in the National Guard and saying he's fed up
with the crime and the murders and the homeless people.
We'll do more on that later on. Now Here in California,
we've got Gavin Newsom, who is obsessed with Texas and
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after the Texas legislature tried to pass a new law
that would redraw the districts, they haven't been able to yet.
You may have seen the Democrats and the legislature there
fled to Chicago, but they continue to try this. Newsom says, well,
if they do that, then we are going to have
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a special election, and I'm going to get the voters
to overturn a constitutional amendment that we passed about fifteen
years ago, which said for congressional district lines, we have
an outside Commission draw them, and Newsom wants to bamboozle
us into changing the law and then and then the
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Commission would would no longer draw the lines for the
next few years because he wants they have a plan
to make it forty nine Republicans and three Democrats representing
California in Congress forty nine to three. Right now, it's
forty three to nine, and that's.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Not enough for him.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Now over forty percent of voters vote for Republican congress people,
and even then it's forty three to nine, so he
thinks it's equitable to make it. It's good democracy if
the Republican resident representation was reduced to about six percent
of our delegation. Well, Carlamo's on because Naber backs down
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from a good fight with Newsom, and he's got his
organization Refum California.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And if Newsom.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Does this, there's going to be a strong resistance that
tomorrow is going to organize. Carl, how are you.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, we're gearing up for a fight. It's not a
fight that we chose. We'd rather be dealing with the
cost of living in California, or balancing the budget, or
dealing with homelessness. But oh no, No, Davin Newsom wants
to play politics. He's running for president. He needs to
go out there and show vote. At a cost of
two hundred and fifty million dollars from worthless unnecessary special
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election all designed to allow politicians to get their power back,
to manipulate lines so they get to choose the voters
versus an independent commission drawing line so that the voters
choose the policy. Phisicians and John, We've got both a
legal strategy to stop them in the courtroom, but we
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also have a political stat strategy, a campaign strategy to
stop them at the ballot box if necessary. We cannot
allow this to happen, or else the notion of fair
elections in California will be dead and over and our
state will be unrecognizable. The politicians will have all the
power backs.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What's the legal strategy? Is there a simple way to
explain it so people can understand.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Well, I will tell you this tomorrow. I am going
to be unveiling three violations of the state constitution that
the governor and the state legislature will be committing if
they vote next week on maps and call a special
election next week. The first violation is clear the state
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constitution prohibits mid cycle redistricting. This is illegal what they're
trying to do. The Constitution of the state of California
says that we will do this in the the one
years each decade, so twenty twenty one, twenty thirty one,
twenty forty one. By then calling a special election outside
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of that schedule, they're violating the timeline that the voters
put into the state constitution. Second is, the legislature is
expressly prohibited from engaging in map making and in redistricting.
And next week they're going to introduce a map and
vote on a map, and that's patently unconstitutional. And bird,
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the state constitution expressly prohibits the use of politics or
political parties or political candidates as a criteria for drawing maps.
I'm going to quote from the constitution. It says, quote,
districts shall not be drawn for the purpose of favoring
or discriminating against any incumbent political candidate or political party.
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What they're doing is they've actually gone out and admitted
it's not even evidence there are actually giving us the
smoking gun. They're admitting a violation of their oath of
office to adhere to the Constitution. This is as plain
as day. The media has not picked up on this,
but we're going to spell it out in legal memo
tomorrow and if they if they proceed forward with this
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illegal and unconstitutional scheme, we are going to take them
to court. And that's not just state court. We'll pursue
them in federal court as well, because what they're doing
is on the face of the illegal. The conclusion of
the legal memo that's going out tomorrow is that the
legislature and the governor do not have the ability to
call a special election or put something on the ballot.
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That the only way is for citizens to do an
initiative with signatures. Since the citizens amended the constitution, the
notion that the governor or the legislature have any involvement
in redistricting is off the table, and the only way
for that to be changed is with the signature drive
a citizen's initiative. That is where we are. The voters
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made that change in twenty ten, and no amount of
puffing and huffing by Gavin Newsom is going to change that.
What he's doing is patently illegal and he needs to
stand down.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Needless to say, I haven't seen the information that you
just gave us in any news coverage anywhere, just.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Because the media either is too ignorant or too unwilling
to cover the story properly. But this is plain English
spelled out in our state constitution. And I know what
the politicians are going to say, Well, yeah, it's against
the constitution now, but we're going to do a special
elections and the voters are going to ratify what you've
done after the fact. That's like saying you're going to
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commit a crime, but you're going to then go instead
of going to court, you're going to go to the
legislature and ask them to retroactively make it not a crime. No,
what you're doing right now is not lawful, it's not constitutional,
and therefore you're not allowed to do it, period, end
of story. No debate. Do they should be reporting on this,
but they won't.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Do they do?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The Democrats know this, is Newsom know this, and they're
doing it anyway.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Newsom is as dumb as Dirt. Okay, this is a
guy that's not particularly sharp, and I'm so sorry to
offend Dirt by putting him in the same category as Newsome,
But I don't think any of them think that there's
any consequence. I think they're just like, well, you know,
they can sue us, but we have the Supreme Court
on our side. Here's the thing. The US Supreme Court
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very well will get involved in this because it deals
with redistricting for the US Congress, and that's always been
seen as a federal purview, even when the states engage
in redistricting. Now, if this were just for assembly districts
and Senate districts, the US Supreme Court might not have
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a reason to get involved. They might say, well, you know,
that's up for the voters of that state. But these
are for congressional seats. And so I think that the
likelihood that the US Supreme Court sees what's going on
and come in and says, no, you're not allowed to
do this. Your own legislature is acting in an illegal manner.
You don't even have the authority to do this based
upon your own state constitution. We're going to nullify the
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map because you acted illegally. I think that that ultimately
we're headed to federal court because I don't trust the
California Supreme Court to actually stand up to the people
that appoint them.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I only got a minute but just you mentioned you
also have a political strategy, you know, to let the
people understand what's going on here. Can you outline what
that strategy is going to be?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, do you know what we're doing October first? We've
already you know, previewd on your show multiple times. We're
launching a statewide campaign to collect a million signatures for
fair elections in the form of our California Voter Idea initiative.
Well guess what. The ballots for a special election on
November fourth, They hit the mailbox October first as well.
So we already have ten thousand foot soldiers as part
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of this grassroots army. They're already going to be out
there collecting signatures in front of stores, going door to door.
So you know what we're going to do. We're going
to have them also educating voters at the door that
army is not something that Newsom has. They've got money,
but they don't have an army. I also know that
there are a lot of national donors who are going
to pour money in on our side to save these
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congressional seats. And so Newsom is used to having all
the money advantage. Not in this fight, baby, Plus the
polling shows that voters don't want to get rid of
the Independent Redistricting Commission. They don't want partisan maps, they
want competitive, nonpartisan maps. And that's why I think we're
going to win this height. We need everybody involved.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I saw a polling there wasn't much immediate support for this.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
No, there's not, even with the misleading ballot title. Even
with them claiming that they're retaining the Independent Citizens Redistricting
Commission when in fact they're nullifying it and giving the
power back of the politicians, they still only get fifty
two percent of the vote right now in the polling,
with a bunch of people undecided, and a lot of
those people once they hear arguments that fifty drops to
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the low thirties. The low thirties. We're winning thirty percent
of Democrats. So if people want to get involved in
the fight, go to the website Reform California dot org.
That's reform California dot org and sign up.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And if somehow Newsom's idea went to the ballot, he
needs a two thirds majority.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Correct, No, he needs a majority vote. But I am
very bullish on this fight being won by us because
the issue is on our side. I am Democrats.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
If this putting a new constitutional amendment requires a higher
threshold than that, but.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
No, it requires a two thirds vote of the legislators
to put it forward, but only a majority vote of
the voters. But we're going to win that majority vote.
We have the right side of this issue. We just
need to get everyone involved in the fight.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
All right, Very good, Carl, Thank you for explaining all that.
Thank you, all right, Carl Demayer, Reform California, the assembleman
from San Diego.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, we have been telling you for probably at least
a couple of months that Gavin Newsom is just driven
his political future into a brick wall when it comes
to gas prices, because, as you know, we have the
highest gas prices in the country, and it's averaging about
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four point fifty a gallon for regular and there are
many states that are below three bucks. I'll give you
an example. Mississippi is selling gas average two sixty nine
right now to sixty nine, Oklahoma two seventy one, Texas
two seventy one. In Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina
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in the two seventies, Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Iowa in the two and then you have Georgia, Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, Minnesota,
South Dakota in the two nineties. And we're at four fifty.
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And he promised to he promised to destroy the oil industry,
and he was doing his best to make good on
the promise. But there wasn't a replacement for oil and gas.
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The electric cars are mostly unpopular. The one popular car
out there, the owner of the company, is wildly unpopular.
So there is no market to buy many electric cars
in California. There just isn't. Maybe you have one or
your neighbor has one, but get out of your bubble.
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Most of the state, most of the country has decisively
rejected electric cars as they're currently constituted. And now he's
destroyed much of the oil industry. So even even the
Los Angeles Times has finally waved the red flag on this.
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Tarren Luna is the writer. And of course the way
it the way it's written, Newsom's clash with California's thirst
for gasoline. Yes, it's our fault because we're so thirsty
for gasoline because it's some kind of weird sick addiction
jelly way to modern life is with gasoline. And they
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recalled that Newsom would run ads contrasting his policies with
Florida's and Ron de Santis, and uh. It turns out,
according to Taran Luna of the La Times, California's battle
with oil both politically not the pump maybe too much
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for the governor and the state to bear. With two
oil refineries expected to shut down over the next year,
Newsom has halted his fight with the industry that he
accused of price gouging and he targeted in two special sessions. Yes,
you remember his price gouging tantrum. Yeah, price gouging Oklahoma
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two sixty nine. So now the Phillip sixty six refinery
in Wilmington is going to close at the end of
the year. Valero and Benetia is going to shut down
in April, and it looks like we're going to have
to increase reliance on foreign oil. The refining capacity in
the state will be down by twenty percent. And now
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he's trying to get people in his administration and lawmakers
to help the refineries remain open.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
What a blockhead? Who does this? Who does this?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Who takes a wildly successful industry, an absolutely necessary industry
for modern life, and single handedly tries to destroy it
and succeeds to a great extent, and it goes through
how He sent a letter to the Vice chairman of
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the California Energy Commission, Shiva Gunda, asking that he redouble
the state's efforts to work closely with refineries to try
to keep them going even though they want to shut
him down. Gunda responded with a warning that the state
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faces the prospect of continued reduction and refining capacity. And
now it's a complete one eighty, it's a complete flip flop.
It's it's a total reversal. And he actually said out
loud in front of reporters recently, Oh no, it's completely consistent.
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And then it's completely consistent to say, though, well, all
the companies are godging us, and you know, we we
have to transition to uh electric electric cars, electric everything.
Oh yeah, Well, did you did you build an electrical
grid to handle it?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No? Oh uh did you build uh you know, the
generating capacity to create electricity?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh no? How about electric car chargers?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
On the highway. They didn't do that either. Why is
he there? Explain this to me? Explain why this guy?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What did Carl Demio say? He's dumb as dirt?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
He's so handsome, Not that I'm not saying that.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
I even think he's so handsome, but I think that's
why he's here.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I wish I would love to do a focus group
of people who voted for him, and they're out there.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Because I see comments online about this stuff. I've seen
the phrase governor McDreamy.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I have not seen that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes, yes, one woman wrote that.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Well, there you go, that's why he's here.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah. And now environmentalists are upset and uh, this is uh,
who's this whack job? Mary Krisman, chief executive of California
Environmental Voters. We're at a crucial inflection point in the
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transition of clean energy. The world is watching the state.
Now is not the time to retreat. Now is the
time to double down and innovate the way through this.
That's what the moment calls for. How do you innovate?
The world runs on oil and gas, period, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
To make electricity, you have to oil and gas. What's
wrong with these people. What is wrong with them?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
They need to meet the moment.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
We met the moment we perfected cheap, reliable energy oil
and gas. We did something that nobody else did for
the first four and a half billion years of the planet.
We took a natural resource in the ground, huge gigantic supply,
and we turned used it. There is no modern society
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about gas and oil. We did something unbelievably outstanding and innovative,
and then he tried to destroy it all by himself.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
In California.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Well. Trump's said taking the National Guard to Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
But his.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
National Guard experiment here in Los Angeles legally is far
from over, because there's going to be There was to
be a trial today up in the San Francisco area,
a bench trial. A judge was going to hear real
arguments from both sides. This is not just a hearing
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whether Trump has the legal authority to take over the
California National Guard against the will of the governor and
take control and send them into the streets of la
I remember, one judge on the district level said no.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
An appeals court.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Said said, well, keep doing it until we have a
real trial on this. So that real trial was supposed
to start today. Alex Stone from ABC News is going
to have the details. I've got two people who teach
classes at times that I know, and I heard from
both of them in the last week that the new
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class of students is unlike anything they've ever seen in
their lives, different than anything they went to, anyone they
went to school with, anyone they have previously taught. It's
it's really strange, and the best word to describe them,
and these are two different universities thousands of miles apart,
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the best way to describe it is zombies. One of
my friends flat out said they have no social skills,
and the other one says, nobody pays any attention to anything.
They're staring at their screens on social media, and he said,
like almost everybody you know, there might be one, and
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then they carry the conversation, they carry the class. Of course,
that's the person who's going to be wildly successful. And
the rest of these zombies, I don't know what they're
going to do.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Well, they won't have work because you know AI is
going to be taking over anyways.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, maybe maybe they're maybe they're right on this.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Maybe there is no point in going to college and
studying and trying to get the big job, because there
is no big job anymore. Everything's been everything, everything's been
overwhelmed by the the AI monster. I'm just trying to
call something up here because there's a there's a chart
that was published today to illustrate the point I'm going
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to about to explain to you. Yeah, here it is
all right. This is a study and it's the headline
is young adults personalities are changing their actual personalities of
an entire generation. John burn Murdoch wrote a column in
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The Financial Times, and burn Murdoch finds among Americans ages
sixteen to thirty nine, the personality traits that equip us
to do well in life are in sharp decline among
younger people. You ever hear about the Big five attributes.
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These are five major factors. They've done years of psychological research. Conscientiousness.
Conscientiousness is the ability to to.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Let me see.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Conscientiousness the quality of being dependable and disciplined.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You have that right, yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Of all personality types, conscientious people tend to fare best,
They live the longest, have the most career success less
likely to go through divorce. They're the ones who hold
jobs during recessions. But they found that people in their
twenties and thirties are increasingly distracted and careless, less tenacious,
less likely to make and deliver on commitments. And they
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have a chart here which shows how conscientious people in
their sixties are their forties, and then you go to
the age sixteen to thirty nine and the line drops
right through the floor. They simply don't have those qualities anymore.
And again those qualities are dependability and discipline. Here's another
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one that's dropped off, agreeableness, which is politeness and compassion
extraversion that measures how good we are at social interaction.
The only personality trait that's gone up among young adults
is neuroticism, which is negative emotions like anger and sadness
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that you know, you keep spinning around and spinning around,
and anxiety. They had and start. It goes back to
probably almost fifteen years ago with the iPhone and people
became immersed in their little handheld screen scrolling social media.
Influenced by social media, the current generation is dating at
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the lowest rates ever. They are having sex at the
lowest rates. They're getting married at the lowest rates, they're
drinking at the lowest rates. I mean, there is no
fun going on there. And you know, the guys are
playing video games in the basement. The girls are scrolling
influencers on TikTok, and they don't know how to talk
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to each other. And that's what my my friends told me,
is like they don't engage. They literally didn't develop that
part of the brain. Where as a child, or is
when you're very young, you learn how to react, how
to read a room, how to read body language, how
to think quickly.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Is that scary?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:56):
And imagine what your grandchildren are going to be like, John,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
This is why you know it's time to get out.
And all these attributes can be shaped in formed when
a child is young, right through their teenage years. This
was an entire parental generation abandoning their children to the screen.
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Nobody dealt nobody could deal with the social pressure where
everybody felt they had to be looking at the screen,
they had to be texting, they had to be scrolling
social media because everybody else is doing it and everybody's
following the influencers and all the guys are playing video games,
and nobody wanted to set nobody no, no parent wanted
to say no, this is this bad idea, This is
no good because the kids don't know any better, right,
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this is the world they grew up in, so they
they see everyone else doing it, and they will never
know what they could have been in life. They'll never
know how focused and confident and successful they could have been.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Isn't it sad?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Very sad?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
But I'm looking at this chart and.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
If if you could see this, and it's it's correlated
right with the start of the iPhone erar. The iPhone
era was like the peak of people being conscientious and
agreeable and extroverted with lower neuroticism.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
There's always some.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
But it is a steep slope downwards, like after twenty thirteen,
and it's hit bottom, but it hasn't bottomed out yet.
It's this is the scariest thing I've saying. I just
don't know what the what's it like to be living
in a world where nobody has any life to them,
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No one's able to engage.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
That's all AI, right, They're just going to be Everyone's
going to.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Be a robot.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
And that's why they're so frightened to go to college
and hear opposing viewpoints or controversial viewpoints, and they freak out.
They don't have the equipment to deal with it, and
so they have panic attacks because they hear somebody say
something that sounds offensive or insulting or disagreeable.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Coming up after three o'clock, we've got Alex Stone from
ABC News. Trump is Take it On, Take it over, Washington,
d C. But the whole business of sending the National
Guard to Los Angeles is not done legally. In fact,
there's a bench trial that was supposed to start today
in California with a federal judge to see if what
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Trump did in La truly is legal or not. An
appeals court decided you could keep with your National Guard
experiment here in Los Angeles until it's determined whether it's
truly within the bounds of the Constitution in federal law.
We will talk to Alex Stone to see what what
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came of the trial today. Now you may have heard
that the Department of Water, Water and Power, run by
the great idiot Genie Keinonias seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Janie Knonez, she of the empty.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Reservoir, Well, they had a big botch up last week
in Granada Hills and Porter Ranch. Ninety two hundred customers.
Those are households without water service for almost a week,
and finally this morning at two twenty seven, water service
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was restored.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
However, they don't want.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You to drink it yet because they have to do
two rounds of water quality testing and that could go
on for a day and a half. So you get water,
but don't drink it because they don't know it's in it.
But you can flush your toilet.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Well that's good, that's very very important.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh my god, what were people doing.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Well, they were going and I think people were taking
water from their pools and buckets and putting it in
the toilets.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh man, that's now.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Probably some people were just we're just going in the backyard.
They couldn't take showers. Oh this is really people. I mean,
did people really start to reak in Grenada Hills and Porto.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I didn't go there to sniff under anybody's arms.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
No flushing of the toilet, no, no personal hygiene. Uh,
you couldn't water your lawns. You couldn't do anything. But
now they have. Now they've restored the water the uh,
they're refilling the ten million gallons Susannah tank.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And what happened is a valve broke while they were
doing repair work at a pump station and that cut
off float through a wide pipeline that feeds the Susanna
tank and they had to excavate twenty four feet underground. Now,
they didn't know that there was a collection of oil pipelines,
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a fiber optic line, and a gas line underneath. And
we asked this last week, is like, isn't there a
map of all the lines? It should be you just
call it up on your tablet.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Right, you would think, and you see a layout of.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All the lines underground.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Because if anybody, a homeowner or a business, if anybody
decides to start digging to build anything, install anything, you
got to know what's under there. But the City of
Los Angeles, the DWP had no idea. That might be
something else. Janise Canonians would like to get a hand on.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Yeah, I wonder if those customers.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I'd love to see their bill to see if their
bills reflect not having water for almost a week.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, yeah, they're good at that. There's probably gonna be
a charge.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Even more expense.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, and of.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Course, you know, it was very hot last week. It
was near one hundred degrees. They did distribute more than
a million bottles of water and they delivered twelve hundred
gallons to people who were stuck in their homes, elderly people,
disabled people. And they still have five service sites where
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you could get water, and there's restrooms and showers. There's
that disgusting mobile laundry unit at each one of these
each one of these locations. But I guess by maybe
by the end of the day tomorrow, it should be
over the whole crisis.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
I would hope so.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
But that is one incompetent department. I mean, just a
bunch of boobs. For some reason, the valve stuck, but
they didn't explain why it's stuck. It gets stuck twenty
four feet underground.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Well do we know what caused the fire yet?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
In the policy, no we do not, But thank you
for asking. Somebody has to ask the tough questions. All right,
when we come back, we are going to talk to
Alex Stone from ABC News. There was to be a
trial today. The question did Trump have the legal authority
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to federalize the National Guard against Newsom's will and then
send him into the LA streets during the protests the
ice protests.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Back in June.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, even though he was allowed to do it by
an appeals court panel, there was no ruling as to
whether the whole idea was constitutional. We'll see what's coming
this hearing today, this trial. Actually, Deborah Mark is lied
in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been
listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
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Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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We're on every day one until four o'clock, and after
four o'clock you can get John Cobelt's show on demand
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
App and listen to what you missed.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Spend a lot of time last hour on Donald Trump
taking over the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, d C.
Sending in the National Guard and saying he's fed up
with the crime and the murders and the homeless people.
We'll do more on that later on. Now Here in California,
we've got Gavin Newsom, who is obsessed with Texas and
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after the Texas legislature tried to pass a new law
that would redraw the districts, they haven't been able to yet.
You may have seen the Democrats and the legislature there
fled to Chicago, but they continue to try this. Newsom says, well,
if they do that, then we are going to have
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a special election, and I'm going to get the voters
to overturn a constitutional amendment that we passed about fifteen
years ago, which said for congressional district lines, we have
an outside Commission draw them, and Newsom wants to bamboozle
us into changing the law and then and then the
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Commission would would no longer draw the lines for the
next few years because he wants they have a plan
to make it forty nine Republicans and three Democrats representing
California in Congress forty nine to three. Right now, it's
forty three to nine, and that's.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Not enough for him.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Now over forty percent of voters vote for Republican congress people,
and even then it's forty three to nine, so he
thinks it's equitable to make it. It's good democracy if
the Republican resident representation was reduced to about six percent
of our delegation. Well, Carlamo's on because Naber backs down
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from a good fight with Newsom, and he's got his
organization Refum California.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And if Newsom.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Does this, there's going to be a strong resistance that
tomorrow is going to organize. Carl, how are you.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, we're gearing up for a fight. It's not a
fight that we chose. We'd rather be dealing with the
cost of living in California, or balancing the budget, or
dealing with homelessness. But oh no, No, Davin Newsom wants
to play politics. He's running for president. He needs to
go out there and show vote. At a cost of
two hundred and fifty million dollars from worthless unnecessary special
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election all designed to allow politicians to get their power back,
to manipulate lines so they get to choose the voters
versus an independent commission drawing line so that the voters
choose the policy. Phisicians and John, We've got both a
legal strategy to stop them in the courtroom, but we
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also have a political stat strategy, a campaign strategy to
stop them at the ballot box if necessary. We cannot
allow this to happen, or else the notion of fair
elections in California will be dead and over and our
state will be unrecognizable. The politicians will have all the
power backs.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What's the legal strategy? Is there a simple way to
explain it so people can understand.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Well, I will tell you this tomorrow. I am going
to be unveiling three violations of the state constitution that
the governor and the state legislature will be committing if
they vote next week on maps and call a special
election next week. The first violation is clear the state
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constitution prohibits mid cycle redistricting. This is illegal what they're
trying to do. The Constitution of the state of California
says that we will do this in the the one
years each decade, so twenty twenty one, twenty thirty one,
twenty forty one. By then calling a special election outside
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of that schedule, they're violating the timeline that the voters
put into the state constitution. Second is, the legislature is
expressly prohibited from engaging in map making and in redistricting.
And next week they're going to introduce a map and
vote on a map, and that's patently unconstitutional. And bird,
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the state constitution expressly prohibits the use of politics or
political parties or political candidates as a criteria for drawing maps.
I'm going to quote from the constitution. It says, quote,
districts shall not be drawn for the purpose of favoring
or discriminating against any incumbent political candidate or political party.
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What they're doing is they've actually gone out and admitted
it's not even evidence there are actually giving us the
smoking gun. They're admitting a violation of their oath of
office to adhere to the Constitution. This is as plain
as day. The media has not picked up on this,
but we're going to spell it out in legal memo
tomorrow and if they if they proceed forward with this
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illegal and unconstitutional scheme, we are going to take them
to court. And that's not just state court. We'll pursue
them in federal court as well, because what they're doing
is on the face of the illegal. The conclusion of
the legal memo that's going out tomorrow is that the
legislature and the governor do not have the ability to
call a special election or put something on the ballot.
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That the only way is for citizens to do an
initiative with signatures. Since the citizens amended the constitution, the
notion that the governor or the legislature have any involvement
in redistricting is off the table, and the only way
for that to be changed is with the signature drive
a citizen's initiative. That is where we are. The voters
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made that change in twenty ten, and no amount of
puffing and huffing by Gavin Newsom is going to change that.
What he's doing is patently illegal and he needs to
stand down.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Needless to say, I haven't seen the information that you
just gave us in any news coverage anywhere, just.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Because the media either is too ignorant or too unwilling
to cover the story properly. But this is plain English
spelled out in our state constitution. And I know what
the politicians are going to say, Well, yeah, it's against
the constitution now, but we're going to do a special
elections and the voters are going to ratify what you've
done after the fact. That's like saying you're going to
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commit a crime, but you're going to then go instead
of going to court, you're going to go to the
legislature and ask them to retroactively make it not a crime. No,
what you're doing right now is not lawful, it's not constitutional,
and therefore you're not allowed to do it, period, end
of story. No debate. Do they should be reporting on this,
but they won't.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Do they do?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The Democrats know this, is Newsom know this, and they're
doing it anyway.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Newsom is as dumb as Dirt. Okay, this is a
guy that's not particularly sharp, and I'm so sorry to
offend Dirt by putting him in the same category as Newsome,
But I don't think any of them think that there's
any consequence. I think they're just like, well, you know,
they can sue us, but we have the Supreme Court
on our side. Here's the thing. The US Supreme Court
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very well will get involved in this because it deals
with redistricting for the US Congress, and that's always been
seen as a federal purview, even when the states engage
in redistricting. Now, if this were just for assembly districts
and Senate districts, the US Supreme Court might not have
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a reason to get involved. They might say, well, you know,
that's up for the voters of that state. But these
are for congressional seats. And so I think that the
likelihood that the US Supreme Court sees what's going on
and come in and says, no, you're not allowed to
do this. Your own legislature is acting in an illegal manner.
You don't even have the authority to do this based
upon your own state constitution. We're going to nullify the
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map because you acted illegally. I think that that ultimately
we're headed to federal court because I don't trust the
California Supreme Court to actually stand up to the people
that appoint them.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I only got a minute but just you mentioned you
also have a political strategy, you know, to let the
people understand what's going on here. Can you outline what
that strategy is going to be?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, do you know what we're doing October first? We've
already you know, previewd on your show multiple times. We're
launching a statewide campaign to collect a million signatures for
fair elections in the form of our California Voter Idea initiative.
Well guess what. The ballots for a special election on
November fourth, They hit the mailbox October first as well.
So we already have ten thousand foot soldiers as part
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of this grassroots army. They're already going to be out
there collecting signatures in front of stores, going door to door.
So you know what we're going to do. We're going
to have them also educating voters at the door that
army is not something that Newsom has. They've got money,
but they don't have an army. I also know that
there are a lot of national donors who are going
to pour money in on our side to save these
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congressional seats. And so Newsom is used to having all
the money advantage. Not in this fight, baby, Plus the
polling shows that voters don't want to get rid of
the Independent Redistricting Commission. They don't want partisan maps, they
want competitive, nonpartisan maps. And that's why I think we're
going to win this height. We need everybody involved.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I saw a polling there wasn't much immediate support for this.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
No, there's not, even with the misleading ballot title. Even
with them claiming that they're retaining the Independent Citizens Redistricting
Commission when in fact they're nullifying it and giving the
power back of the politicians, they still only get fifty
two percent of the vote right now in the polling,
with a bunch of people undecided, and a lot of
those people once they hear arguments that fifty drops to
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the low thirties. The low thirties. We're winning thirty percent
of Democrats. So if people want to get involved in
the fight, go to the website Reform California dot org.
That's reform California dot org and sign up.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And if somehow Newsom's idea went to the ballot, he
needs a two thirds majority.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Correct, No, he needs a majority vote. But I am
very bullish on this fight being won by us because
the issue is on our side. I am Democrats.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
If this putting a new constitutional amendment requires a higher
threshold than that, but.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
No, it requires a two thirds vote of the legislators
to put it forward, but only a majority vote of
the voters. But we're going to win that majority vote.
We have the right side of this issue. We just
need to get everyone involved in the fight.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
All right, Very good, Carl, Thank you for explaining all that.
Thank you, all right, Carl Demayer, Reform California, the assembleman
from San Diego.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, we have been telling you for probably at least
a couple of months that Gavin Newsom is just driven
his political future into a brick wall when it comes
to gas prices, because, as you know, we have the
highest gas prices in the country, and it's averaging about
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four point fifty a gallon for regular and there are
many states that are below three bucks. I'll give you
an example. Mississippi is selling gas average two sixty nine
right now to sixty nine, Oklahoma two seventy one, Texas
two seventy one. In Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina
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in the two seventies, Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Iowa in the two and then you have Georgia, Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, Minnesota,
South Dakota in the two nineties. And we're at four fifty.
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And he promised to he promised to destroy the oil industry,
and he was doing his best to make good on
the promise. But there wasn't a replacement for oil and gas.
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The electric cars are mostly unpopular. The one popular car
out there, the owner of the company, is wildly unpopular.
So there is no market to buy many electric cars
in California. There just isn't. Maybe you have one or
your neighbor has one, but get out of your bubble.
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Most of the state, most of the country has decisively
rejected electric cars as they're currently constituted. And now he's
destroyed much of the oil industry. So even even the
Los Angeles Times has finally waved the red flag on this.
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Tarren Luna is the writer. And of course the way
it the way it's written, Newsom's clash with California's thirst
for gasoline. Yes, it's our fault because we're so thirsty
for gasoline because it's some kind of weird sick addiction
jelly way to modern life is with gasoline. And they
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recalled that Newsom would run ads contrasting his policies with
Florida's and Ron de Santis, and uh. It turns out,
according to Taran Luna of the La Times, California's battle
with oil both politically not the pump maybe too much
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for the governor and the state to bear. With two
oil refineries expected to shut down over the next year,
Newsom has halted his fight with the industry that he
accused of price gouging and he targeted in two special sessions. Yes,
you remember his price gouging tantrum. Yeah, price gouging Oklahoma
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two sixty nine. So now the Phillip sixty six refinery
in Wilmington is going to close at the end of
the year. Valero and Benetia is going to shut down
in April, and it looks like we're going to have
to increase reliance on foreign oil. The refining capacity in
the state will be down by twenty percent. And now
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he's trying to get people in his administration and lawmakers
to help the refineries remain open.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
What a blockhead? Who does this? Who does this?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Who takes a wildly successful industry, an absolutely necessary industry
for modern life, and single handedly tries to destroy it
and succeeds to a great extent, and it goes through
how He sent a letter to the Vice chairman of
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the California Energy Commission, Shiva Gunda, asking that he redouble
the state's efforts to work closely with refineries to try
to keep them going even though they want to shut
him down. Gunda responded with a warning that the state
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faces the prospect of continued reduction and refining capacity. And
now it's a complete one eighty, it's a complete flip flop.
It's it's a total reversal. And he actually said out
loud in front of reporters recently, Oh no, it's completely consistent.
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And then it's completely consistent to say, though, well, all
the companies are godging us, and you know, we we
have to transition to uh electric electric cars, electric everything.
Oh yeah, Well, did you did you build an electrical
grid to handle it?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No? Oh uh did you build uh you know, the
generating capacity to create electricity?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh no? How about electric car chargers?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
On the highway. They didn't do that either. Why is
he there? Explain this to me? Explain why this guy?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What did Carl Demio say? He's dumb as dirt?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
He's so handsome, Not that I'm not saying that.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
I even think he's so handsome, but I think that's
why he's here.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I wish I would love to do a focus group
of people who voted for him, and they're out there.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Because I see comments online about this stuff. I've seen
the phrase governor McDreamy.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I have not seen that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes, yes, one woman wrote that.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Well, there you go, that's why he's here.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah. And now environmentalists are upset and uh, this is uh,
who's this whack job? Mary Krisman, chief executive of California
Environmental Voters. We're at a crucial inflection point in the
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transition of clean energy. The world is watching the state.
Now is not the time to retreat. Now is the
time to double down and innovate the way through this.
That's what the moment calls for. How do you innovate?
The world runs on oil and gas, period, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
To make electricity, you have to oil and gas. What's
wrong with these people. What is wrong with them?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
They need to meet the moment.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
We met the moment we perfected cheap, reliable energy oil
and gas. We did something that nobody else did for
the first four and a half billion years of the planet.
We took a natural resource in the ground, huge gigantic supply,
and we turned used it. There is no modern society
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about gas and oil. We did something unbelievably outstanding and innovative,
and then he tried to destroy it all by himself.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
In California.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Well. Trump's said taking the National Guard to Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
But his.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
National Guard experiment here in Los Angeles legally is far
from over, because there's going to be There was to
be a trial today up in the San Francisco area,
a bench trial. A judge was going to hear real
arguments from both sides. This is not just a hearing
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whether Trump has the legal authority to take over the
California National Guard against the will of the governor and
take control and send them into the streets of la
I remember, one judge on the district level said no.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
An appeals court.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Said said, well, keep doing it until we have a
real trial on this. So that real trial was supposed
to start today. Alex Stone from ABC News is going
to have the details. I've got two people who teach
classes at times that I know, and I heard from
both of them in the last week that the new
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class of students is unlike anything they've ever seen in
their lives, different than anything they went to, anyone they
went to school with, anyone they have previously taught. It's
it's really strange, and the best word to describe them,
and these are two different universities thousands of miles apart,
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the best way to describe it is zombies. One of
my friends flat out said they have no social skills,
and the other one says, nobody pays any attention to anything.
They're staring at their screens on social media, and he said,
like almost everybody you know, there might be one, and
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then they carry the conversation, they carry the class. Of course,
that's the person who's going to be wildly successful. And
the rest of these zombies, I don't know what they're
going to do.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Well, they won't have work because you know AI is
going to be taking over anyways.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, maybe maybe they're maybe they're right on this.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Maybe there is no point in going to college and
studying and trying to get the big job, because there
is no big job anymore. Everything's been everything, everything's been
overwhelmed by the the AI monster. I'm just trying to
call something up here because there's a there's a chart
that was published today to illustrate the point I'm going
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to about to explain to you. Yeah, here it is
all right. This is a study and it's the headline
is young adults personalities are changing their actual personalities of
an entire generation. John burn Murdoch wrote a column in
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The Financial Times, and burn Murdoch finds among Americans ages
sixteen to thirty nine, the personality traits that equip us
to do well in life are in sharp decline among
younger people. You ever hear about the Big five attributes.
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These are five major factors. They've done years of psychological research. Conscientiousness.
Conscientiousness is the ability to to.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Let me see.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Conscientiousness the quality of being dependable and disciplined.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You have that right, yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Of all personality types, conscientious people tend to fare best,
They live the longest, have the most career success less
likely to go through divorce. They're the ones who hold
jobs during recessions. But they found that people in their
twenties and thirties are increasingly distracted and careless, less tenacious,
less likely to make and deliver on commitments. And they
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have a chart here which shows how conscientious people in
their sixties are their forties, and then you go to
the age sixteen to thirty nine and the line drops
right through the floor. They simply don't have those qualities anymore.
And again those qualities are dependability and discipline. Here's another
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one that's dropped off, agreeableness, which is politeness and compassion
extraversion that measures how good we are at social interaction.
The only personality trait that's gone up among young adults
is neuroticism, which is negative emotions like anger and sadness
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that you know, you keep spinning around and spinning around,
and anxiety. They had and start. It goes back to
probably almost fifteen years ago with the iPhone and people
became immersed in their little handheld screen scrolling social media.
Influenced by social media, the current generation is dating at
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the lowest rates ever. They are having sex at the
lowest rates. They're getting married at the lowest rates, they're
drinking at the lowest rates. I mean, there is no
fun going on there. And you know, the guys are
playing video games in the basement. The girls are scrolling
influencers on TikTok, and they don't know how to talk
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to each other. And that's what my my friends told me,
is like they don't engage. They literally didn't develop that
part of the brain. Where as a child, or is
when you're very young, you learn how to react, how
to read a room, how to read body language, how
to think quickly.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Is that scary?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:56):
And imagine what your grandchildren are going to be like, John,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
This is why you know it's time to get out.
And all these attributes can be shaped in formed when
a child is young, right through their teenage years. This
was an entire parental generation abandoning their children to the screen.
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Nobody dealt nobody could deal with the social pressure where
everybody felt they had to be looking at the screen,
they had to be texting, they had to be scrolling
social media because everybody else is doing it and everybody's
following the influencers and all the guys are playing video games,
and nobody wanted to set nobody no, no parent wanted
to say no, this is this bad idea, This is
no good because the kids don't know any better, right,
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this is the world they grew up in, so they
they see everyone else doing it, and they will never
know what they could have been in life. They'll never
know how focused and confident and successful they could have been.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Isn't it sad?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Very sad?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
But I'm looking at this chart and.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
If if you could see this, and it's it's correlated
right with the start of the iPhone erar. The iPhone
era was like the peak of people being conscientious and
agreeable and extroverted with lower neuroticism.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
There's always some.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
But it is a steep slope downwards, like after twenty thirteen,
and it's hit bottom, but it hasn't bottomed out yet.
It's this is the scariest thing I've saying. I just
don't know what the what's it like to be living
in a world where nobody has any life to them,
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No one's able to engage.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
That's all AI, right, They're just going to be Everyone's
going to.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Be a robot.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
And that's why they're so frightened to go to college
and hear opposing viewpoints or controversial viewpoints, and they freak out.
They don't have the equipment to deal with it, and
so they have panic attacks because they hear somebody say
something that sounds offensive or insulting or disagreeable.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Coming up after three o'clock, we've got Alex Stone from
ABC News. Trump is Take it On, Take it over, Washington,
d C. But the whole business of sending the National
Guard to Los Angeles is not done legally. In fact,
there's a bench trial that was supposed to start today
in California with a federal judge to see if what
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Trump did in La truly is legal or not. An
appeals court decided you could keep with your National Guard
experiment here in Los Angeles until it's determined whether it's
truly within the bounds of the Constitution in federal law.
We will talk to Alex Stone to see what what
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came of the trial today. Now you may have heard
that the Department of Water, Water and Power, run by
the great idiot Genie Keinonias seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Janie Knonez, she of the empty.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Reservoir, Well, they had a big botch up last week
in Granada Hills and Porter Ranch. Ninety two hundred customers.
Those are households without water service for almost a week,
and finally this morning at two twenty seven, water service
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was restored.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
However, they don't want.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You to drink it yet because they have to do
two rounds of water quality testing and that could go
on for a day and a half. So you get water,
but don't drink it because they don't know it's in it.
But you can flush your toilet.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Well that's good, that's very very important.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh my god, what were people doing.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Well, they were going and I think people were taking
water from their pools and buckets and putting it in
the toilets.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh man, that's now.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Probably some people were just we're just going in the backyard.
They couldn't take showers. Oh this is really people. I mean,
did people really start to reak in Grenada Hills and Porto.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I didn't go there to sniff under anybody's arms.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
No flushing of the toilet, no, no personal hygiene. Uh,
you couldn't water your lawns. You couldn't do anything. But
now they have. Now they've restored the water the uh,
they're refilling the ten million gallons Susannah tank.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And what happened is a valve broke while they were
doing repair work at a pump station and that cut
off float through a wide pipeline that feeds the Susanna
tank and they had to excavate twenty four feet underground. Now,
they didn't know that there was a collection of oil pipelines,
(30:11):
a fiber optic line, and a gas line underneath. And
we asked this last week, is like, isn't there a
map of all the lines? It should be you just
call it up on your tablet.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Right, you would think, and you see a layout of.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All the lines underground.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Because if anybody, a homeowner or a business, if anybody
decides to start digging to build anything, install anything, you
got to know what's under there. But the City of
Los Angeles, the DWP had no idea. That might be
something else. Janise Canonians would like to get a hand on.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Yeah, I wonder if those customers.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I'd love to see their bill to see if their
bills reflect not having water for almost a week.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, yeah, they're good at that. There's probably gonna be
a charge.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Even more expense.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, and of.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Course, you know, it was very hot last week. It
was near one hundred degrees. They did distribute more than
a million bottles of water and they delivered twelve hundred
gallons to people who were stuck in their homes, elderly people,
disabled people. And they still have five service sites where
(31:29):
you could get water, and there's restrooms and showers. There's
that disgusting mobile laundry unit at each one of these
each one of these locations. But I guess by maybe
by the end of the day tomorrow, it should be
over the whole crisis.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
I would hope so.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
But that is one incompetent department. I mean, just a
bunch of boobs. For some reason, the valve stuck, but
they didn't explain why it's stuck. It gets stuck twenty
four feet underground.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Well do we know what caused the fire yet?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
In the policy, no we do not, But thank you
for asking. Somebody has to ask the tough questions. All right,
when we come back, we are going to talk to
Alex Stone from ABC News. There was to be a
trial today. The question did Trump have the legal authority
(32:23):
to federalize the National Guard against Newsom's will and then
send him into the LA streets during the protests the
ice protests.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Back in June.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, even though he was allowed to do it by
an appeals court panel, there was no ruling as to
whether the whole idea was constitutional. We'll see what's coming
this hearing today, this trial. Actually, Deborah Mark is lied
in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been
listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
(32:53):
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