July 31, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/31) - Jon Fleischman comes on the show to talk about the article he wrote that featured the show! More on who is leaving California and who is moving to California. Harvey Weinstein spoke to Candace Owens from a jail cell.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Or maybe you're working. You have a legitimate reason, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
When this morning, I was really surprised that there was
a good article about our show. I don't think I've
seen a good article about our show in a long
time California Patriot profile John Cobelt's unrelenting voice for accountability
by John Fleischman, who's been involved with politics for many
(00:48):
years at Orange County. And he's got a substack site
and it's called Sodoesitmatter dot com and goes through the
history of the show, going all the way back to
nineteen ninety when Ken and I were in New Jersey
and just wrote about a lot of the high points
right up till today. Let's get John fleisch Banan. How
(01:10):
are you John?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Hey, I'm doing great, Ken, how are you doing? Look
at that I called you Ken.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That was a compliment by the way you called me Ken.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well you said John and Ken and then you said
hi John. So my response was.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I Ken, Right, Okay, that works. That flows. Listen. Thank
you for writing this. It was a really good of you.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
And you know, actually it was actually kind of fun
because you know, we've been, you know, profiling various people
that really make a difference, and every time we do
one of these profiles, I found out so much more
about you and about Ken and the start of your
I didn't even know there was a Florio dump Florio
connection that started. Like I assumed that the pitchforks and
(01:52):
the Tea Party all started with you in California, but
apparently you brought it with you.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, we knocked off the governor in the early nineteen
nineties Florio, a Democrat. He had raised he and the
legislature had raised taxes at the time is the largest
single tax increase by a state in US history.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And they made.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Until you came out to until you came out to California,
and we had to deal with Schwarzenegger doing it here
right exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And then then you're the.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Common denominated maybe you're the common denominated maybe wherever you go,
taxes follow.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That has happened because we went the station, New Jersey.
We showed up in early May in nineteen ninety and
it was six weeks later this massive tax increase, and
we ended up drawing tens of thousands of people a
tax revoult rally, and then all hell broke loose, so
that that was.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Don't be surprised if Governor Desantus of Florida or Governor
of Abbott of Texas and by you to visit, but.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Don't ask you to stay.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, could you do you think there is any chance
in our lifetime that people in California are going to
get fed up with what's happened?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know. It's one of those situations where before I
used to say yes most assuredly, you know, and then
days turns into weeks, weeks turns into months, months turns
into years, years turned into decades, and you realize there's
so much money in this state that you just wonder
can they just keep doing it living off of all
this coastal money? And then you think, no, they can't.
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And then I had something on the on my site
a couple of days ago where they there's the Public
Policy Institute of California now did that actual legitimate data study,
and far more conservatives are leaving the state and far
more liberals are coming into the state. Well, if that keeps.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Happening, you know, we got a problem.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And that that jives with what I've heard, because I've
had friends tell me we've got people coming out here
from California, we don't want them, and then three four
months later they'd be like, actually, never, the people you're
sending us are great. You know, these are friends of
mine and they're in Idaho, they're in Tennessee, and they're like,
we're getting we're getting your conservatives are coming to see us,
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and so you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Know, yeah, our sugs had the common sense to get out.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, exactly. So I I do think they're you know,
in the last election, we saw noticeable differences. Republicans got
more votes than than they have in I bet I
wouldn't be surprised if in an entire generation, you know,
the way Trump Trump has put together a different kind
of coalition, and now he's bringing in young men, he's
bringing in union regular day to day union workers, as
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you know, and a lot of these more intellectual elites
have gone off to the Democrat Party. But it's really
you know, so so I think there's hope, you know,
to be honest with Yeah, I was just I was
just saying, I was I thought the next best thing
for us would have been, uh, the former vice president,
miss Harris running for governor, because I think that she
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would have been a great, great representative of how things
have gone wrong. So I was actually kind of disappointed
that she decided yesterday not to run. I think that
was a mistake on her part. But you know, running
against her was easy because she I mean, this is
the woman who I mean, arguably she either secretly ran
the country for the last two years or she had
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lunch with the president every week knew that the guy was,
you know, eating oatmeal at lunch and didn't say anything.
But either way, I mean, you know, what a great
person to have run for governy California. I think that
was turned it into like who wants to really be
the governor? And I could see I mean some people
want to say maybe Harris couldn't raise the money, that
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there was a hangover because she represents Oh you let trumplin.
I think at the end of the day, the job's
just not that attractive, because who in the heck wants
to deal with the homeless crisis, with the housing crisis,
with the unemployment scam of twenty billion dollars, with the
high speed rail, illegal alien funding. I mean, all you
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got to do is look at the topics that you
discuss on your show in like a week, and who
would want to be governor of this state?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I wrote to somebody last night that it's too much work.
It's hard work, and you're still going to deal with
the extreme insanity of the legislature. And I don't think
she had any desire. Plus, I don't think she has
the only intellectual capacity to somehow bring a compromise together
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between normal people and the insane that are in the Assembly,
in the state Senate. I mean, you need some kind
of special powers to thread that needle, and she doesn't
have them. I mean, she doesn't have anything. She was
an accidental candidate. You know, there was no interest in
her from the voters in twenty nineteen. But because the
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summer of twenty twenty was so nuts, Biden selt he
had to, you know, check some boxes so we could
have the first black female vice presidential candidate. And then
he went I call her the.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Right I call her the accidental vice president. Yeah, and
she she had authority over nothing. As a matter of fact,
the only thing I think she actually had authority over
was supposedly she was the borders are and look how
that worked out. I mean, it's so clear with how
quickly President Trump was able to lock down the border
within like a month of coming into office that it
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was a willful intent by the Biden administration. Not Biden,
because he wasn't wilfully intending anything. He's checked out all
the people around him willfully said how many Illeal Aliens
can we get into this country while we have the
White House?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I agree with you, And.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Then Trump just shut again because anyway, let me, let me,
let me, let me feed off of each other, have
an aneurysm.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Let me ask you one one more thing going back,
because I saw that story you did a couple of
days ago, and I was going to talk about it
on the air. In fact, I'll find it and and
do that next about all the people leaving and then
the people replacing them being very liberal Democrats. But here
is the thing I haven't understood, is that the issues
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that I talk about a lot here, Let's say, let's
do the homelessness right. That's disgusting to everybody, regardless of
your politics. I never thought homelessness was political. It's like
nobody wants vomit and thess and needles and crazy people
screaming at them environment mental patience to tell me.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So, your question is either why isn't everybody leaving? Or
why isn't anybody Why isn't everybody doing something? I actually
have the answer to that question, which is Republicans, Conservatives,
and Democrats have a much different mindset about how they
approach things. It takes that maverick individualist person to conceive
of the idea of packing up your stuff and going
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and getting a new start somewhere. And I think more
liberal people are just not wired to have an individual
streak like that, and they're collectivist. And frankly, if you're
a liberal, you may not like all the homeless stuff,
but there's other stuff you do like and maybe you're
not quite as upset. But I think the biggest issue
at the end of the day, John, is it takes
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a certain kind of fed up person to say, you know,
I'm going to throw out every single tile and go
into the scrabble bag and get a whole new set
rather than just picking two new tiles. And that's my
analogy for what it takes to say I'm going to
move to a state I've never been to in my
entire life with whether that sucks compared to where I live,
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because it's that bad here. And you know what, I
can have a house there with a car and a yard,
and my kids can go to a good school where
you know, people say a prayer at the.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Beginning of the day.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I mean, is that that much to ask for it?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Here in California?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It is?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
All right, John good talking with you. Thank you for
the article this morning. All right, John FLI, thank you
very much.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And he his website is sodes Itmatter dot com. He
has been active in politics and writing about it for
many years, So does it Matter dot com. And he
wrote a profile on the show here and you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So read it. Did we post this on social media link? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Okay, good, go then go to go to Twitter and
click that link and read it. You're listening to John
Cobelt on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk radio. The Moist
Line has openings eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight
seven seven Moist eighty six, or usually talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app. We just had John Fleischmann on. He's
got a substack site called so does It Matter? And
he has been writing and participating in politics based in
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Orange County for a long time, as far back as
I could remember. And John wrote a piece on our
show called California Patriot Profile, John Cobelt's unrelenting voice for accountability.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
We urge you to read that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
We have links on Twitter on x so you could
just click it and find it where you can go
to so Doesitmatter dot com. And John was just on
and he mentioned that he'd written a piece a day
or two ago, which which I actually had saved. I
had it in my bag here and I walk around
with a bag of news stories just in case somebody
(11:37):
demands a radio show like on the spot spontaneously. Yeah,
you know, I could be out at a restaurant, walking
on the sidewalk and somebody wants a radio show. Do
I have material? Just set up a table on a
microphone and I can go, Really.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
You would do that if somebody asked you to.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I could do that, But would you would I? Well,
they'd have to pay a lot of money, they'd have
to be well, Okay, yeah, this is not a charity here.
I'm not donating time to a nonprofit. Okay, the parent
company's doing okay, running this show. So we're just getting
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a little peace.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But what he wrote what he wrote and is, and
we kind of knew this viscerally, but a lot of
people who find homelessness disgusting and crime frightening have gotten
up and left.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And that's why.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
As the state gets worse, the voting is more lopsided
towards progressives who bring us all this filth and danger.
Between twenty and twenty twenty four, he looked at numbers
from the Public Policy Institute and found they looked at
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voters who pecked up and left California. Now, only twenty
five percent of California's registered voters are Republican, but when
you looked at the people who were leaving, it was
almost forty percent. Forty percent Republican. And while Democrats in
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this state registered forty five percent of the population. When
you look at the politics of people moving in, they
register at a fifty four percent rate, So the average
in the state is forty five percent Democratic, but the
new people moving in are fifty four percent Democratic, and
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Republicans are twenty five percent of the state. But the
ones moving out, that's forty percent of those fleeing. So
you see over time what happens is you have one
party rule, lopsided rule, and then the most progressive elements
of the Democratic Party have taken over all the leadership.
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There are moderate normal Democrats, but they're too frightened because
the progressives, mostly out of San Francisco, have all the power,
and the normal Democrats are weak and cowardly. And there's
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another thing going on here. It looks like see analysts
who are often wrong, always looked at why people move,
why people move out of California, and there's some obvious targets.
Housing prices are crazy, the taxes are crazy. Can't run
a small business here because of all the regulations. But
this pPIC research revealed something deeper. Politics matters more than
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a lot of analysts would acknowledge. Fleischman writes, Republicans who
feel politically homeless in this state dominated by one party
rule are making a calculated decision to seek out places
where their values align with the local government. When you
live in a state where your voice feel are relevant,
where policies constantly move in directions that contradict your core beliefs,
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the logical response is to find somewhere that welcomes those principles.
So for every Republican who moves into California, almost five
leave because people are sick of the progressive one party
rule because.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Of something concrete.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Look at what it produces, extremely high taxes, all these
drug addicts and mental patients running amuck in the street,
the feces, the vomit, the needles, and then the criminals
running amuck stealing whatever they want without any punishment. So
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the Republicans have headed to places like Texas, Florida, and
Arizona where the taxes are lower. I mean Florida, the
income taxes not existent, and they enforce laws, and they
don't put up with drug addicts and mental patients laying
in the streets by the tens of thousands.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So when you're sitting.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Around waiting for everybody to wake up, a lot of
people did wake up and they got out.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
They left already. You didn't wake up. You stayed.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And shockingly, the people moving in are not looking around
and saying, oh my god, this is really awful.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Who's running this place? Hey, I'll vote for more of
that now.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It's like, can you imagine, I mean, can you imagine
if they got rid of all the homeless people, all
the mental patients, all the drug addicts, put the criminals
away for good, cleaned up all the disgusting garbage, and
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California would look beautiful again and would feel safe. There'd
be so many people here. That's what's shocking is California
was the most desirable place in the entire excuse me,
in the entire.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Nation, all our lives.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Since I was a little kid, watching the Rose Bowl
in the Rose Parade on TV, or watching Rams games
on Sundays, I'd see southern California in the wintertime back
east in New Jersey. You know, at four o'clock, the
four o'clock game on the East Coast, that was a
Rams game or a Chargers game, and everybody's standing there
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in the sunshine and shirt sleeves because it's you know,
seventy degrees here or better. And I'm back in New
Jersey as a little kid. I'm looking outside and it's
cold and gray and windy, and at dark the sunset's
at four point thirty and it's starting to rain. I'm
thinking I would see that on TV and I go,
that's that looks like fun. People don't feel that anymore.
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When I go to Florida, my wife and I were
talking to the guy we were going going kayaking, and
so kayak guy was setting up our our kayak and
telling us, you know what we have to do, and
he said, where are you from? I go California and
he like visibly recoiled like I thought he was gonna
spit on me.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
They do you set your own kayak?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I mean that was it was really like it stuck
with me. It was just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It's like, Wow, Usually you said you're from California, It's
oh cool, what's that like?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It's everybody's dream? And that now it was like, oh.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
That's so sad.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I know.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Same thing with San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh I know. And that's what I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
How do people move to San Francisco and see the
open air drug markets and the people bent over on
fentanyl and all the crazy people like the bank like
it went for a red light. People bang on your window,
screaming at you, thing at the mouth, and you come
here and you vote for more.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
When we come back. Candace Owens is a right wing
what is she? A right wing podcaster? Activist? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I've heard of her, but I don't really follow. The
only reason I'm going to play some clips from her
podcast is she got the first interview with Harvey Weinstein
while he's in jail.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I was talking with Eric.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It used to be one of the one of the
magazine shows at night, you know, something like Diane Sawyer
would do right, they would get the exclusive interview.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Barbara Walters, Barbara Walters.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
But now it's Candace Owens and somehow she got Harvey
Weinstein to talk about what it's like being on Rikers
Island in New York because he's still he's not only
convicted here in LA but he's also going through all
kinds of legal tangles in New York for all the
second assaults. So play with some of these clips only
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because I haven't heard his voice, you know, since he's
been arrested and imprisoned for all his sexual crimes. You
miss him, Yes, desperately. You're listening to John Cobbel's on
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(20:22):
missed John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app.
In fact, what you missed is Michael Monks, who covered
the protesters fighting with law enforcement. Oh, today's problem was
Karen Bass decided to clean clean up a homeless encampment
in vent Eyes after it sat there for nine months,
and she even showed up to take the glory. We'll
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talk more about that next hour. And also we talked
with John Fleischman, who wrote a nice piece on us
at so does it Matter dot com about our show.
You should go read. Go read that now. Harvey Weinstein
and his deformed genitals sat for an interview and I
haven't heard him interviewed since he went off to prison.
(21:06):
A quick rundown of all his all his sentences. He
was sentenced in Los Angeles guilty of three sexual assault
or rape charges they don't have them all listed here,
and sentenced to sixteen years. Separately, he was found guilty
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in New York of rape charges and sentenced to twenty
three years, the Court of Appeals overturned his conviction in
order to retrial, and then he was convicted again of
some of those charges. In June twenty twenty five. There
was another rape case that was given a mistrial that
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could be a retrial. Anyways, He's sitting on Rikers Island,
which is one of the most horrific jails in America.
I mean, it is really foul. God knows what they're
doing into poor Harvey and his deformed genitals.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
But you have to.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Keep thinking that a vision comes to mind.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It's radio.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You know, I can't show a photo of them. And
who interviewed Harvey was not one of the network anchors
or one of the hosts of the magazine shows or
major talk show hosts. No, it was someone named Candace
Owens who's a conservative influencer. And I'm aware of that name,
but I really don't know anything about her, because you know,
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I don't get into influencer world, you know, I have
my standards. But she got Harvey Weinstein, and so we
have some clips because I haven't heard him interviewed since
he and his generals ended up in prison.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
So I know I'm wearing you out.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, okay, all right, play cut number one. She asks
where his case stands.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Now, So what happens now with your case?
Speaker 8 (22:55):
Well, what happens now with my case is that Arthur
ayadala is you know what I mean, circling the wagons,
and you know I mean and interviewing the jurors. You know,
we're doing the interviews ourselves, and obviously we have the
right to bring this situation back up, and hopefully the
court will listen.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
But I'm not sure that they will.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
You know, they might just turn us down again and
just say forget about it. Even with all this publicity,
even with all the stirm and draying of these jurors,
the court might just say, look, they made an opinion,
you know, the Verdick sticks, and you've got to pay
the price. So, you know, the district attorney in Jennifer
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Mann's Jessicamand's situation, we had a hung jury and the
deep district attorney wants to immediately prosecute that again. They
want to go again, and Jessica Man wants to go again,
which just shows how absolutely off the wall Jessica mand is.
She just wants to continue and continue and continue. No
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matter how much she has to get on that witness stand,
it's her life, it's become her identity. You know, the
victimhood is so strong with who she identifies with.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I assume that's one of the people he assaulted.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, he doesn't seem to understand why somebody would keep
going back.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
And going back the victim hood, the victimhood.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Billy Harvey, he's a psycho.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Your voice hurt my ears.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
He sounds like he's dying, doesn't he.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I don't know. It just really it.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Sounds like he's close to keeling over all right here,
since you are enjoying this so much, Cut number two,
Candace oone's asking Harvey if he's optimistic.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Are you optimistic on the outcome that you know, once
you once Arthur shows that this clearly should have been
declared a mistrial, that they might do the right thing.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Here canvas, Like you say, the system the way it is,
I'm not optimistic and I'm not pessimistic. I'm somewhere in
the middle. I don't know what's gonna happen. I really
don't know what's gonna happen. It's you know, it's it's
like I said to the judge the first time. It's
a profile and courage, you know, to the judge.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I looked up, Jessica Man, Yeah, this particular article I
pulled up, said. She faces a second day of cross
examination about the complex nature of her relationship with the
disgraced producer, hairdresser.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
And an aspiring actor.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Gave explosive testimony where she accused Weinstein of violent sexual
assault and rape and claimed that the former movie mogul
had to formed Genitalia.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You just love that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
That's in the second paragraph. See, that was a cruise quest.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
It was because that's how Yes, because they were able
to describe.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Yeah, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Nobody's ever seen that before. Right, It's like, no, I
know it's him.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Because I've never seen this before. Never want to again.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
In the Bill Clinton story, right, didn't one of his
victims actually draw a picture?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yes, Yes, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yes, because it bent to the left and she drew
it for prosecutors. That's why these guys, that's why these
guys do this though, Yeah, because they're so ashamed and
embarrassed and they want to prove.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
But that makes no sense because if you're ashamed and embarrassed,
why would you want everybody to see it. I don't know,
I think because you know why why because this is
this is what I think.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
By the way she's pointing her finger.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Naw.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Your Harvey was such a piece of work, right, and
he thought that he was just.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
The real king of the world producer.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
And I think that he just wanted to, you know,
just prove that he could have anybody and he didn't care.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
And just listening to him, he just so arrogant.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, the way the way he's upset with the way
with the way Jessica Man is acting by going out
the waitness stand repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
How dare she?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
How dare she it supposedly was a violent sexual assault
and rape. How dare she keep talking about it and
keep trying to get me in prison. I've got another clip,
but we'll play it after the commercial.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Oh goody, this is so gross.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
This is about Rikers Island on lockdown for violence, and
Weinstein starts complaining about what a terrible place it is.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Well, don't do bad things and you won't get there.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Apparently it's not like the rich Carlton You're listening to
John Cobelts on demand from KFI A six after three o'clock,
we're going to have a California Assemblyman David TONGEPA, and
David represents Central Valley. And Newsom is getting so much
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crap for this high speed rail disaster that he's actually
agreed to sign Tangepa's bill, which calls for a comprehensive
budget and spending plan for what's left of high speed rail,
which is we're said to Bakersfield, which everyone mocks, but
Newsom keeps going. But this is going to lock him
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into an actual budget and spending plan, and he really
signed it. So we're gonna we're gonna find out why
and what effect this might have on the high speed
rail disaster. And you should you should we read We
read this before. But Sean Duffy, the Transportation secretary in
the Trump administration, wrote a really hysterical column in the
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Sacramento b just whipping Newsom up one side and down
the other for the idiocy of insisting on spending more
money on high speed and bitching and suing that the
Fed's cut the four billion and funding out.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I mean, Newsom is a fool.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
When you read Sean Duffy's whole column, you realize it's
like my god, Newsom is just a big dope.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
There's just no excuse for this.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
All right, back to Harvey Weinstein, because I'm what is
he going to go on a media tour now?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I bet you everybody's clamoring to get a piece of this.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Candice Owens, who's a conservative influencer podcaster, was interviewing Harvey Weinstein,
who I guess was spending a lot of time at
Riker's Island. He was supposed to do the interview there,
but it was put on lockdown because everything was so
violent and asks Harvey about what it's like living on
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Riker's Island.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
We were supposed to do this call last week and
then everything got locked down because there was a stabbing
is that correct?
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Very gunfight and a stabbing and you know, I was
at you know, sitting at the d dentist office at
twelve o'clock with you know, more than two hours to
prepare to go to do the interview, and then the
lockdown happened. This is a very rough place. This is
an unhygienic place. You don't get your shirts, you don't
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get your socks, you don't get your underwear. You know,
the food is rancid. I mean it is really awful,
you know, the food, and it's just it took me
five days to get a pillow when I got back,
and a pillow is in the patient's bill of rights.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
But I didn't get the pillow.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
I had to have Arthur and Craig, you know, I
mean lobby the heads of Riker's Island to get a pillow.
I mean, and I had a pillow and they took
my pillow and I guess they gave it to somebody else.
I mean, it's just absurd, the biting for these little
things that we take for granted. I mean, I've been
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in Upstate New York in prison and those things come
to you, you know what I mean. The prisons are
running better, but Rikers Island is medieval, and it's a
it's an entity unto itself and it's no good. And
everybody says it should be closed down, and for once
it should be closed down.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
That can't be real. They took my pill off his underwear.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
He didn't get any underwear.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
He didn't get he didn't get shirts.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I guess he was used to having a probably a
woman come in and press his shirts and.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
And presses underwear.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Press is underwear, among other things, and the food is ransom.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
What do you expect when you're in Rikers I mean
really five star dining.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You probably should have thought of that while you were
raping all these women, that the food wasn't gonna be
good at Rikers Island.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
They took my pillow. He sundled like a little kid, right.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
So kay.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
He went on and on about that pillow. He didn't
have a pillow for upstate New York they had a pillow. Well,
this is bart Barrick down here. They won't give me
a pillow.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
You know, Harvey, you're getting what you deserve.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I wonder if he has any robes.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
How many guys who ended up in sexual scandals like
to wear robes? I mean Cosby was famous for wearing robes.
Charlie Rose like to invite his the women on his
staff over at his house and he'd be walking around
in robes and all his merchandise hanging out. You don't
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trust guys with robes. All right, we come back. David
Tangeepa Newsome is getting tarred over this high speed rail debacle.
He's don't people know he's trying to run for president.
Just stop bringing it up. But it's such a costly boondoggle.
And now a Republican assemblyman got his bill signed by
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Newsom to create a comprehensive budget and spending plan. From
her said to Bakersfield, this is real. Coming up next,
Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We we're on every day from one until four o'clock,
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Or maybe you're working. You have a legitimate reason, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
When this morning, I was really surprised that there was
a good article about our show. I don't think I've
seen a good article about our show in a long
time California Patriot profile John Cobelt's unrelenting voice for accountability
by John Fleischman, who's been involved with politics for many
(00:48):
years at Orange County. And he's got a substack site
and it's called Sodoesitmatter dot com and goes through the
history of the show, going all the way back to
nineteen ninety when Ken and I were in New Jersey
and just wrote about a lot of the high points
right up till today. Let's get John fleisch Banan. How
(01:10):
are you John?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Hey, I'm doing great, Ken, how are you doing? Look
at that I called you Ken.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That was a compliment by the way you called me Ken.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well you said John and Ken and then you said
hi John. So my response was.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I Ken, Right, Okay, that works. That flows. Listen. Thank
you for writing this. It was a really good of you.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
And you know, actually it was actually kind of fun
because you know, we've been, you know, profiling various people
that really make a difference, and every time we do
one of these profiles, I found out so much more
about you and about Ken and the start of your
I didn't even know there was a Florio dump Florio
connection that started. Like I assumed that the pitchforks and
(01:52):
the Tea Party all started with you in California, but
apparently you brought it with you.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, we knocked off the governor in the early nineteen
nineties Florio, a Democrat. He had raised he and the
legislature had raised taxes at the time is the largest
single tax increase by a state in US history.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And they made.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Until you came out to until you came out to California,
and we had to deal with Schwarzenegger doing it here
right exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And then then you're the.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Common denominated maybe you're the common denominated maybe wherever you go,
taxes follow.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That has happened because we went the station, New Jersey.
We showed up in early May in nineteen ninety and
it was six weeks later this massive tax increase, and
we ended up drawing tens of thousands of people a
tax revoult rally, and then all hell broke loose, so
that that was.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Don't be surprised if Governor Desantus of Florida or Governor
of Abbott of Texas and by you to visit, but.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Don't ask you to stay.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, could you do you think there is any chance
in our lifetime that people in California are going to
get fed up with what's happened?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know. It's one of those situations where before I
used to say yes most assuredly, you know, and then
days turns into weeks, weeks turns into months, months turns
into years, years turned into decades, and you realize there's
so much money in this state that you just wonder
can they just keep doing it living off of all
this coastal money? And then you think, no, they can't.
(03:29):
And then I had something on the on my site
a couple of days ago where they there's the Public
Policy Institute of California now did that actual legitimate data study,
and far more conservatives are leaving the state and far
more liberals are coming into the state. Well, if that keeps.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Happening, you know, we got a problem.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And that that jives with what I've heard, because I've
had friends tell me we've got people coming out here
from California, we don't want them, and then three four
months later they'd be like, actually, never, the people you're
sending us are great. You know, these are friends of
mine and they're in Idaho, they're in Tennessee, and they're like,
we're getting we're getting your conservatives are coming to see us,
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and so you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Know, yeah, our sugs had the common sense to get out.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, exactly. So I I do think they're you know,
in the last election, we saw noticeable differences. Republicans got
more votes than than they have in I bet I
wouldn't be surprised if in an entire generation, you know,
the way Trump Trump has put together a different kind
of coalition, and now he's bringing in young men, he's
bringing in union regular day to day union workers, as
(04:41):
you know, and a lot of these more intellectual elites
have gone off to the Democrat Party. But it's really
you know, so so I think there's hope, you know,
to be honest with Yeah, I was just I was
just saying, I was I thought the next best thing
for us would have been, uh, the former vice president,
miss Harris running for governor, because I think that she
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would have been a great, great representative of how things
have gone wrong. So I was actually kind of disappointed
that she decided yesterday not to run. I think that
was a mistake on her part. But you know, running
against her was easy because she I mean, this is
the woman who I mean, arguably she either secretly ran
the country for the last two years or she had
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lunch with the president every week knew that the guy was,
you know, eating oatmeal at lunch and didn't say anything.
But either way, I mean, you know, what a great
person to have run for governy California. I think that
was turned it into like who wants to really be
the governor? And I could see I mean some people
want to say maybe Harris couldn't raise the money, that
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there was a hangover because she represents Oh you let trumplin.
I think at the end of the day, the job's
just not that attractive, because who in the heck wants
to deal with the homeless crisis, with the housing crisis,
with the unemployment scam of twenty billion dollars, with the
high speed rail, illegal alien funding. I mean, all you
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got to do is look at the topics that you
discuss on your show in like a week, and who
would want to be governor of this state?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I wrote to somebody last night that it's too much work.
It's hard work, and you're still going to deal with
the extreme insanity of the legislature. And I don't think
she had any desire. Plus, I don't think she has
the only intellectual capacity to somehow bring a compromise together
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between normal people and the insane that are in the Assembly,
in the state Senate. I mean, you need some kind
of special powers to thread that needle, and she doesn't
have them. I mean, she doesn't have anything. She was
an accidental candidate. You know, there was no interest in
her from the voters in twenty nineteen. But because the
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summer of twenty twenty was so nuts, Biden selt he
had to, you know, check some boxes so we could
have the first black female vice presidential candidate. And then
he went I call her the.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Right I call her the accidental vice president. Yeah, and
she she had authority over nothing. As a matter of fact,
the only thing I think she actually had authority over
was supposedly she was the borders are and look how
that worked out. I mean, it's so clear with how
quickly President Trump was able to lock down the border
within like a month of coming into office that it
(07:39):
was a willful intent by the Biden administration. Not Biden,
because he wasn't wilfully intending anything. He's checked out all
the people around him willfully said how many Illeal Aliens
can we get into this country while we have the
White House?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I agree with you, And.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Then Trump just shut again because anyway, let me, let me,
let me, let me feed off of each other, have
an aneurysm.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Let me ask you one one more thing going back,
because I saw that story you did a couple of
days ago, and I was going to talk about it
on the air. In fact, I'll find it and and
do that next about all the people leaving and then
the people replacing them being very liberal Democrats. But here
is the thing I haven't understood, is that the issues
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that I talk about a lot here, Let's say, let's
do the homelessness right. That's disgusting to everybody, regardless of
your politics. I never thought homelessness was political. It's like
nobody wants vomit and thess and needles and crazy people
screaming at them environment mental patience to tell me.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So, your question is either why isn't everybody leaving? Or
why isn't anybody Why isn't everybody doing something? I actually
have the answer to that question, which is Republicans, Conservatives,
and Democrats have a much different mindset about how they
approach things. It takes that maverick individualist person to conceive
of the idea of packing up your stuff and going
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and getting a new start somewhere. And I think more
liberal people are just not wired to have an individual
streak like that, and they're collectivist. And frankly, if you're
a liberal, you may not like all the homeless stuff,
but there's other stuff you do like and maybe you're
not quite as upset. But I think the biggest issue
at the end of the day, John, is it takes
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a certain kind of fed up person to say, you know,
I'm going to throw out every single tile and go
into the scrabble bag and get a whole new set
rather than just picking two new tiles. And that's my
analogy for what it takes to say I'm going to
move to a state I've never been to in my
entire life with whether that sucks compared to where I live,
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because it's that bad here. And you know what, I
can have a house there with a car and a yard,
and my kids can go to a good school where
you know, people say a prayer at the.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Beginning of the day.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I mean, is that that much to ask for it?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Here in California?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It is?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
All right, John good talking with you. Thank you for
the article this morning. All right, John FLI, thank you
very much.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And he his website is sodes Itmatter dot com. He
has been active in politics and writing about it for
many years, So does it Matter dot com. And he
wrote a profile on the show here and you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So read it. Did we post this on social media link? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Okay, good, go then go to go to Twitter and
click that link and read it. You're listening to John
Cobelt on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk radio. The Moist
Line has openings eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight
seven seven Moist eighty six, or usually talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app. We just had John Fleischmann on. He's
got a substack site called so does It Matter? And
he has been writing and participating in politics based in
(11:03):
Orange County for a long time, as far back as
I could remember. And John wrote a piece on our
show called California Patriot Profile, John Cobelt's unrelenting voice for accountability.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
We urge you to read that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
We have links on Twitter on x so you could
just click it and find it where you can go
to so Doesitmatter dot com. And John was just on
and he mentioned that he'd written a piece a day
or two ago, which which I actually had saved. I
had it in my bag here and I walk around
with a bag of news stories just in case somebody
(11:37):
demands a radio show like on the spot spontaneously. Yeah,
you know, I could be out at a restaurant, walking
on the sidewalk and somebody wants a radio show. Do
I have material? Just set up a table on a
microphone and I can go, Really.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
You would do that if somebody asked you to.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I could do that, But would you would I? Well,
they'd have to pay a lot of money, they'd have
to be well, Okay, yeah, this is not a charity here.
I'm not donating time to a nonprofit. Okay, the parent
company's doing okay, running this show. So we're just getting
(12:12):
a little peace.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But what he wrote what he wrote and is, and
we kind of knew this viscerally, but a lot of
people who find homelessness disgusting and crime frightening have gotten
up and left.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And that's why.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
As the state gets worse, the voting is more lopsided
towards progressives who bring us all this filth and danger.
Between twenty and twenty twenty four, he looked at numbers
from the Public Policy Institute and found they looked at
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voters who pecked up and left California. Now, only twenty
five percent of California's registered voters are Republican, but when
you looked at the people who were leaving, it was
almost forty percent. Forty percent Republican. And while Democrats in
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this state registered forty five percent of the population. When
you look at the politics of people moving in, they
register at a fifty four percent rate, So the average
in the state is forty five percent Democratic, but the
new people moving in are fifty four percent Democratic, and
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Republicans are twenty five percent of the state. But the
ones moving out, that's forty percent of those fleeing. So
you see over time what happens is you have one
party rule, lopsided rule, and then the most progressive elements
of the Democratic Party have taken over all the leadership.
(13:56):
There are moderate normal Democrats, but they're too frightened because
the progressives, mostly out of San Francisco, have all the power,
and the normal Democrats are weak and cowardly. And there's
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another thing going on here. It looks like see analysts
who are often wrong, always looked at why people move,
why people move out of California, and there's some obvious targets.
Housing prices are crazy, the taxes are crazy. Can't run
a small business here because of all the regulations. But
this pPIC research revealed something deeper. Politics matters more than
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a lot of analysts would acknowledge. Fleischman writes, Republicans who
feel politically homeless in this state dominated by one party
rule are making a calculated decision to seek out places
where their values align with the local government. When you
live in a state where your voice feel are relevant,
where policies constantly move in directions that contradict your core beliefs,
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the logical response is to find somewhere that welcomes those principles.
So for every Republican who moves into California, almost five
leave because people are sick of the progressive one party
rule because.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Of something concrete.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Look at what it produces, extremely high taxes, all these
drug addicts and mental patients running amuck in the street,
the feces, the vomit, the needles, and then the criminals
running amuck stealing whatever they want without any punishment. So
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the Republicans have headed to places like Texas, Florida, and
Arizona where the taxes are lower. I mean Florida, the
income taxes not existent, and they enforce laws, and they
don't put up with drug addicts and mental patients laying
in the streets by the tens of thousands.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So when you're sitting.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Around waiting for everybody to wake up, a lot of
people did wake up and they got out.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
They left already. You didn't wake up. You stayed.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And shockingly, the people moving in are not looking around
and saying, oh my god, this is really awful.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Who's running this place? Hey, I'll vote for more of
that now.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It's like, can you imagine, I mean, can you imagine
if they got rid of all the homeless people, all
the mental patients, all the drug addicts, put the criminals
away for good, cleaned up all the disgusting garbage, and
(16:53):
California would look beautiful again and would feel safe. There'd
be so many people here. That's what's shocking is California
was the most desirable place in the entire excuse me,
in the entire.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Nation, all our lives.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Since I was a little kid, watching the Rose Bowl
in the Rose Parade on TV, or watching Rams games
on Sundays, I'd see southern California in the wintertime back
east in New Jersey. You know, at four o'clock, the
four o'clock game on the East Coast, that was a
Rams game or a Chargers game, and everybody's standing there
(17:38):
in the sunshine and shirt sleeves because it's you know,
seventy degrees here or better. And I'm back in New
Jersey as a little kid. I'm looking outside and it's
cold and gray and windy, and at dark the sunset's
at four point thirty and it's starting to rain. I'm
thinking I would see that on TV and I go,
that's that looks like fun. People don't feel that anymore.
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When I go to Florida, my wife and I were
talking to the guy we were going going kayaking, and
so kayak guy was setting up our our kayak and
telling us, you know what we have to do, and
he said, where are you from? I go California and
he like visibly recoiled like I thought he was gonna
spit on me.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
They do you set your own kayak?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I mean that was it was really like it stuck
with me. It was just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It's like, Wow, Usually you said you're from California, It's
oh cool, what's that like?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It's everybody's dream? And that now it was like, oh.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
That's so sad.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I know.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Same thing with San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh I know. And that's what I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
How do people move to San Francisco and see the
open air drug markets and the people bent over on
fentanyl and all the crazy people like the bank like
it went for a red light. People bang on your window,
screaming at you, thing at the mouth, and you come
here and you vote for more.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
When we come back. Candace Owens is a right wing
what is she? A right wing podcaster? Activist? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I've heard of her, but I don't really follow. The
only reason I'm going to play some clips from her
podcast is she got the first interview with Harvey Weinstein
while he's in jail.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I was talking with Eric.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It used to be one of the one of the
magazine shows at night, you know, something like Diane Sawyer
would do right, they would get the exclusive interview.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Barbara Walters, Barbara Walters.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
But now it's Candace Owens and somehow she got Harvey
Weinstein to talk about what it's like being on Rikers
Island in New York because he's still he's not only
convicted here in LA but he's also going through all
kinds of legal tangles in New York for all the
second assaults. So play with some of these clips only
(20:02):
because I haven't heard his voice, you know, since he's
been arrested and imprisoned for all his sexual crimes. You
miss him, Yes, desperately. You're listening to John Cobbel's on
demand from KFI A six forty ron every day from
one until four o'clock and after four o'clock. Whatever you
(20:22):
missed John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app.
In fact, what you missed is Michael Monks, who covered
the protesters fighting with law enforcement. Oh, today's problem was
Karen Bass decided to clean clean up a homeless encampment
in vent Eyes after it sat there for nine months,
and she even showed up to take the glory. We'll
(20:43):
talk more about that next hour. And also we talked
with John Fleischman, who wrote a nice piece on us
at so does it Matter dot com about our show.
You should go read. Go read that now. Harvey Weinstein
and his deformed genitals sat for an interview and I
haven't heard him interviewed since he went off to prison.
(21:06):
A quick rundown of all his all his sentences. He
was sentenced in Los Angeles guilty of three sexual assault
or rape charges they don't have them all listed here,
and sentenced to sixteen years. Separately, he was found guilty
(21:28):
in New York of rape charges and sentenced to twenty
three years, the Court of Appeals overturned his conviction in
order to retrial, and then he was convicted again of
some of those charges. In June twenty twenty five. There
was another rape case that was given a mistrial that
(21:49):
could be a retrial. Anyways, He's sitting on Rikers Island,
which is one of the most horrific jails in America.
I mean, it is really foul. God knows what they're
doing into poor Harvey and his deformed genitals.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
But you have to.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Keep thinking that a vision comes to mind.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It's radio.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You know, I can't show a photo of them. And
who interviewed Harvey was not one of the network anchors
or one of the hosts of the magazine shows or
major talk show hosts. No, it was someone named Candace
Owens who's a conservative influencer. And I'm aware of that name,
but I really don't know anything about her, because you know,
(22:30):
I don't get into influencer world, you know, I have
my standards. But she got Harvey Weinstein, and so we
have some clips because I haven't heard him interviewed since
he and his generals ended up in prison.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
So I know I'm wearing you out.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, okay, all right, play cut number one. She asks
where his case stands.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Now, So what happens now with your case?
Speaker 8 (22:55):
Well, what happens now with my case is that Arthur
ayadala is you know what I mean, circling the wagons,
and you know I mean and interviewing the jurors. You know,
we're doing the interviews ourselves, and obviously we have the
right to bring this situation back up, and hopefully the
court will listen.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
But I'm not sure that they will.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
You know, they might just turn us down again and
just say forget about it. Even with all this publicity,
even with all the stirm and draying of these jurors,
the court might just say, look, they made an opinion,
you know, the Verdick sticks, and you've got to pay
the price. So, you know, the district attorney in Jennifer
(23:39):
Mann's Jessicamand's situation, we had a hung jury and the
deep district attorney wants to immediately prosecute that again. They
want to go again, and Jessica Man wants to go again,
which just shows how absolutely off the wall Jessica mand is.
She just wants to continue and continue and continue. No
(24:02):
matter how much she has to get on that witness stand,
it's her life, it's become her identity. You know, the
victimhood is so strong with who she identifies with.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I assume that's one of the people he assaulted.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, he doesn't seem to understand why somebody would keep
going back.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
And going back the victim hood, the victimhood.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Billy Harvey, he's a psycho.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Your voice hurt my ears.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
He sounds like he's dying, doesn't he.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I don't know. It just really it.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Sounds like he's close to keeling over all right here,
since you are enjoying this so much, Cut number two,
Candace oone's asking Harvey if he's optimistic.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Are you optimistic on the outcome that you know, once
you once Arthur shows that this clearly should have been
declared a mistrial, that they might do the right thing.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Here canvas, Like you say, the system the way it is,
I'm not optimistic and I'm not pessimistic. I'm somewhere in
the middle. I don't know what's gonna happen. I really
don't know what's gonna happen. It's you know, it's it's
like I said to the judge the first time. It's
a profile and courage, you know, to the judge.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I looked up, Jessica Man, Yeah, this particular article I
pulled up, said. She faces a second day of cross
examination about the complex nature of her relationship with the
disgraced producer, hairdresser.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
And an aspiring actor.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Gave explosive testimony where she accused Weinstein of violent sexual
assault and rape and claimed that the former movie mogul
had to formed Genitalia.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You just love that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
That's in the second paragraph. See, that was a cruise quest.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
It was because that's how Yes, because they were able
to describe.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Yeah, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Nobody's ever seen that before. Right, It's like, no, I
know it's him.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Because I've never seen this before. Never want to again.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
In the Bill Clinton story, right, didn't one of his
victims actually draw a picture?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yes, Yes, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yes, because it bent to the left and she drew
it for prosecutors. That's why these guys, that's why these
guys do this though, Yeah, because they're so ashamed and
embarrassed and they want to prove.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
But that makes no sense because if you're ashamed and embarrassed,
why would you want everybody to see it. I don't know,
I think because you know why why because this is
this is what I think.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
By the way she's pointing her finger.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Naw.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Your Harvey was such a piece of work, right, and
he thought that he was just.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
The real king of the world producer.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
And I think that he just wanted to, you know,
just prove that he could have anybody and he didn't care.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
And just listening to him, he just so arrogant.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, the way the way he's upset with the way
with the way Jessica Man is acting by going out
the waitness stand repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
How dare she?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
How dare she it supposedly was a violent sexual assault
and rape. How dare she keep talking about it and
keep trying to get me in prison. I've got another clip,
but we'll play it after the commercial.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Oh goody, this is so gross.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
This is about Rikers Island on lockdown for violence, and
Weinstein starts complaining about what a terrible place it is.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Well, don't do bad things and you won't get there.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Apparently it's not like the rich Carlton You're listening to
John Cobelts on demand from KFI A six after three o'clock,
we're going to have a California Assemblyman David TONGEPA, and
David represents Central Valley. And Newsom is getting so much
(28:04):
crap for this high speed rail disaster that he's actually
agreed to sign Tangepa's bill, which calls for a comprehensive
budget and spending plan for what's left of high speed rail,
which is we're said to Bakersfield, which everyone mocks, but
Newsom keeps going. But this is going to lock him
(28:27):
into an actual budget and spending plan, and he really
signed it. So we're gonna we're gonna find out why
and what effect this might have on the high speed
rail disaster. And you should you should we read We
read this before. But Sean Duffy, the Transportation secretary in
the Trump administration, wrote a really hysterical column in the
(28:48):
Sacramento b just whipping Newsom up one side and down
the other for the idiocy of insisting on spending more
money on high speed and bitching and suing that the
Fed's cut the four billion and funding out.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I mean, Newsom is a fool.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
When you read Sean Duffy's whole column, you realize it's
like my god, Newsom is just a big dope.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
There's just no excuse for this.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
All right, back to Harvey Weinstein, because I'm what is
he going to go on a media tour now?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I bet you everybody's clamoring to get a piece of this.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Candice Owens, who's a conservative influencer podcaster, was interviewing Harvey Weinstein,
who I guess was spending a lot of time at
Riker's Island. He was supposed to do the interview there,
but it was put on lockdown because everything was so
violent and asks Harvey about what it's like living on
(29:50):
Riker's Island.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
We were supposed to do this call last week and
then everything got locked down because there was a stabbing
is that correct?
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Very gunfight and a stabbing and you know, I was
at you know, sitting at the d dentist office at
twelve o'clock with you know, more than two hours to
prepare to go to do the interview, and then the
lockdown happened. This is a very rough place. This is
an unhygienic place. You don't get your shirts, you don't
(30:19):
get your socks, you don't get your underwear. You know,
the food is rancid. I mean it is really awful,
you know, the food, and it's just it took me
five days to get a pillow when I got back,
and a pillow is in the patient's bill of rights.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
But I didn't get the pillow.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
I had to have Arthur and Craig, you know, I
mean lobby the heads of Riker's Island to get a pillow.
I mean, and I had a pillow and they took
my pillow and I guess they gave it to somebody else.
I mean, it's just absurd, the biting for these little
things that we take for granted. I mean, I've been
(31:01):
in Upstate New York in prison and those things come
to you, you know what I mean. The prisons are
running better, but Rikers Island is medieval, and it's a
it's an entity unto itself and it's no good. And
everybody says it should be closed down, and for once
it should be closed down.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
That can't be real. They took my pill off his underwear.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
He didn't get any underwear.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
He didn't get he didn't get shirts.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I guess he was used to having a probably a
woman come in and press his shirts and.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
And presses underwear.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Press is underwear, among other things, and the food is ransom.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
What do you expect when you're in Rikers I mean
really five star dining.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You probably should have thought of that while you were
raping all these women, that the food wasn't gonna be
good at Rikers Island.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
They took my pillow. He sundled like a little kid, right.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
So kay.
Speaker 9 (31:55):
He went on and on about that pillow. He didn't
have a pillow for upstate New York they had a pillow. Well,
this is bart Barrick down here. They won't give me
a pillow.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
You know, Harvey, you're getting what you deserve.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I wonder if he has any robes.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
How many guys who ended up in sexual scandals like
to wear robes? I mean Cosby was famous for wearing robes.
Charlie Rose like to invite his the women on his
staff over at his house and he'd be walking around
in robes and all his merchandise hanging out. You don't
(32:42):
trust guys with robes. All right, we come back. David
Tangeepa Newsome is getting tarred over this high speed rail debacle.
He's don't people know he's trying to run for president.
Just stop bringing it up. But it's such a costly boondoggle.
And now a Republican assemblyman got his bill signed by
(33:03):
Newsom to create a comprehensive budget and spending plan. From
her said to Bakersfield, this is real. Coming up next,
Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
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