March 18, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (03/18) - Author Susan Crabtree comes on the show to talk about her book titled "Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All" Animal stories for Debra.
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All right, We're going to talk now with Susan Crabtree.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
She has co written a book about California politics.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's called Fool's Gold.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The Radicals, con artists and traders who killed the California
Dream and now threaten us all. She wrote this with
Jed McPhatter and zug up a lot of dirt on
the Democrats and specifically Gavin Newsom too. There are a
number of news stories that have come out because of
what this book revealed. And let's get Susan Crabtree on. Susan.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yes, Ron, I'll to be on with you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Oh, it's good to have you.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I'm so thrilled to be on with you. John. It's
been decades since I've been listening to you. And my
entire family grew up in California, then went to DC
and decided to come back in about twenty seventeen. And
when I got here, I was startled by what had
happened to the state. And I know that you are
one of the true two patriots trying to fix things.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, for me to broadcast, I need other people to
do the work and bring us the information, and you
certainly have done that with this book. You and your
partner Jeded mcpatter talk about the overall thrust of the book.
If people haven't heard about this, what is the general
idea behind what you wrote.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, we are focused on the leading characters in California
politics that are basically getting a lot of attention on
the national stage. Of course, Skavin Newson is the leading
man in the book. We have Kamala Harris, of course,
and Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. Those are the main figures.
Of course, Willie Brown plays a huge role. But what
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we're talking about in California is not just the failed policy,
because many there's been a lot of inks filled on those,
but the corruption. We're trying to reveal the corrupt policies
behind them. And we've uncovered a lot of things about
mister Newsom that you may have heard about, but we
get to the heart of them. From his college admission
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that was basically the story around it. Is very deceptive
about his baseball the athletic prowess that got him into
college not exactly true. We break that down to the
launch of his wine business with Getty Oil money. But
he talks about climate change to its political rise based
on his connections with Willie Brown and his father's connections
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to the Pelosis and the Browns and the Getties. All
were handed to him on a silver platter, and that's
why he thinks he can run for president via podcast
while leaving his state and shambles and not solving any
of its problems, in fact making them very, very worse.
So it's also one of the reasons why he has
no problem taking money. This is one of my big
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things in the book from PG and E which caused
the deadliest fire in California history, to fund his campaigns,
his ballad and niches, his wife's gender justice films, which
she then sells to the whole entire country and makes
a profit from to public schools and across the country.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Then he starts.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Then he acts like he cares about Wilde victims. It's
all performative, and we can go in chapter and verse
two from his his bogus baseball college admission story to
his CCP ties to his letting out prisoners during COVID.
We have so many nuggets in this book.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Give us an overview.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Because I've talked about the pg ande connection frequently. They
donate a tremendous amount of money to him for his
campaigns and to Jennifer Newsom for these I'm sure irritated.
We played actually a couple of clips recently. These these these,
these these feminist movies that she creates about gender justice,
and in return, Newsom made sure that PG and E
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was completely bailed out after that fire where they killed
eighty five people and burned an entire city paradise up
in northern California. Talk about the extent of their relationship here.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yes, it's it's quite close. As you described all of
the utilities across California, it's unique to California. Usually people
associate the energy companies utilities mainly with more with Republicans,
but in this state they have bought and paid for
the Democrats. Newsom and his wife as of such close
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relationships with PGNY and its top executives that they are
listed as associate producers and at least one of her films,
her gender justice films, and which one of them was
screened at pgn E headquarters in downtown San Francisco, because
they have given her and Gavin Nissam a total of
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seven hundred thousand dollars, part of that being for her
gender justice films, and as you mentioned, he played a
key role. He actually used with taxpayer money, the lawyers
that PG and E had on retainer for years O
Melvinie and Myers to craft that's behind the scenes bailout
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for PG and E that saved them from bankruptcy and
really limited the amount that the victims of the Paradise
wildfire that killed eighty five people. PG and E was
found guilty of manslaughter, it limited the amount of money
they could receive from that utility. And now we have
other utilities so cal Edison, all of the utilities have
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given Democrats in the state two hundred million over the
course of two decades, they've given him two point five million.
And basically this in so cal Edison, as you know,
is now under investigation for causing the eat In fire.
And yet Gavin Newsom is pointing fingers and in trying
to investigate everybody but the lead cause of the utility
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of these fires, and that is the utilities.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, the utilities start the fires, they kill the people,
they burned down the towns, and then Newsome blames climate change,
ensues the oil and gas companies.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
That's exactly right, and then he talks about climate chates
contributing to these wildfires. And then he you know, he's
claiming he's sewing the oil and gas companies and they're
heading out of town. More refineries are leaving the.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
State because of those suits.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But yet he keeps blaming climate change the fires themselves
from twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen, just those fires, not
to mention the ones we just had, they erased all
of the crop carbon emissions progress that California's clean air
mandates have that they've said they've had success in his
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a rate fellows according to UCLA studies and Stanford studies.
So if they really claimed it cared about climate chates,
they would hold these utilities feed to the fire and
start doing prescribe burns all of the lifting environmental regulations
that so many people have blamed the fires for, including
Donald Trump. But in California, we know, oh that the
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Public Utility Commission in Sacramento does not hold these people's
feet to the fire. And Gavin news Some appoints those
commissioners and they are increasing the rates, the utility rates
on calebni and customers six times last year alone, and
they made two five billion dollars in profits. This is
not really a partisan issue. It's a money in politics issue.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
All right, Can you hang on for another segment because
when we come back, I want to talk about some
of the other things you've discovered, such as Gavin Newso
funding his own Bronze bust, his ties to the Chinese
come and his party, and all the COVID prisoners are
all prisoners he let out during COVID, who went on
to create the Big crime wave that we suffered from
in recent years. That's all in the book. That's all
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coming up next, and we're talking with Susan Crabtree. She
has co written a book called Fool's Gold, The radicals,
con artists and traders who killed the California Dream and
now threaten us all.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Susan will continue next.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand kf I AM
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continue with Susan Crabtree. She and Jed mcpatter have co
written a book called Fool's Gold, The Radicals, con artists
and traders who killed the California Dream and now threaten
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us all. And we've been focusing on Gavendusom. He's one
of the leading figures in the book, as as as Susan,
as she said, came back from spending some time away
from California and was just horrified at what the state
has become. H let's let's put Susan back on here.
Talk about the Bronze Bus story. We've discussed this on
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the air, and I find this classic narcissistic dishonest Newsom,
this this whole thing from beginning to end, and and
and you touched a nerve because I know he's putting
out furious denials to this particular story.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Well, yes, but he can't deny it because we looked
at based on documents their public but nobody bothered, No
other reporters bothered to look at those are documents for
the hestic payments. So everyone knows that Gavin Newsom's, you know,
the self promoting political shape shifter who has run California
into the ground. But the book Fool's Goal that we
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wrote reveals for the first time that Newsom solicited the funds,
some of the funds for the Bronze bus, from himself,
and it's a monument to himself. Basically, what we found
was there are that he solicited from others to pay
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for the bust And as you know, in California, that's
perfectly legal, not that it's necessarily ethical. I view it
as a pay to play system. So politicians can ask
certain outside companies with business before the state to give
to their fate pet charity. In this case, that pet
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charity was asking his own companies. Two of his own
companies a pump Jack winery and a Babelo Cafe restaurant
he owns to pay partially pay for the bust that
a sculptor and the San Francisco Arts Commission was making
of him, and he just wanted to make sure they
got the hair right.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I'm dead serious this is And he's saying that this
is not secret. Well, we didn't say it was secret.
We didn't say it was secret. We said that nobody
looked at this, nobody revealed this until we looked at
the documents. We couldn't believe it ourselves because we thought
maybe it's a bus for Willie Brown, because you know,
he was a mentor and benefactor.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
But no, it was for his own.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Bust, for his own bust.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I mean, it seems he's more of a caricature than
his caricature, Like you could stereotype him as this vain,
greasy narcissist, and he is that, but he is that
exponentially more to the core. I mean, there is no
Gavin Newsom, is there. There's just no he just his
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whole life. Is he worshiping himself?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
And he even told the San Francisco at the time
that when they did a story that the bus was
coming out, not that he was helping pay for it,
but he said, oh, you know, he's kind of embarrassed
about it, and he didn't. It's a bit reluctant to
talk about himself, and it's a strange thing that I'm
just awkward about it. Meanwhile, he's paying for it to
his own company. It's not it's hardly full disclosure, to
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say the least. But it's very similar to his baseball
story where he talks about how he got this great
partial baseball scholarship and that's what got him into Santa
Clara because he had a nine sixty SAT And actually
what we found out he was only on the JV team.
They were really only doing Scrimma James playing community call.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
He had ninety sixty total on the SAT.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yes, he talked about that with Charlie Kirk. He keeps
talking about that only because of the baseball scholarship was
he able to go to a four year college.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That's really low for a governor. Nine sixty. That doesn't
surprise me.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yes, he talks about being dyslexic and that's the reason
for it. But what he doesn't disclose is that Jerry Brown,
the previous governor and who was tight with his father,
gave him a letter of recommendation to Santa Clara University,
so he didn't bother to disclose it. In the same time,
he's talking that the baseball his athletic prowess that he
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you know, he was getting, he was dragging himself up
from his cleat straps. And that's not the truth. He
had a letter of recommendation that Jerry Brown wrote for him.
And also I talked to his assistant coach at the time,
Mike Comings, who said a former powerful alarm tight with
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his father, who played on the baseball team in the
nineteen sixties, also recommended him and pushed them to get.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Him on the team.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, but the no All star baseball player, that's not
really why he got in.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
No, he's even said that the the New York the
Texas Rangers had scouted him.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, I've seen and that turned into.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
An urban myth. Yeah, in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Do you think he believes in anything in particular or
he believes in whatever the fashion is of the moment,
Like if for some reason conservatism was a winning strategy
in California, would he be just as conservative as the
next guy.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I truly feel like he's very similar to Joe Biden
in that way. I covered Joe item for decades, and
he was whatever they wanted him to be, mister backslapping
friendly guy, but an empty vessel in terms of ideology. Yeah,
he plays to the crowd. Of course in San Francisco.
He was an early pioneer with a marrying gays, so
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that played very well in the in the day community
in San Francisco. So then you know he tries to
be very progressive on LGBTQ issues, and now you know
he's trying to move back to the middle without even
changing his policies. As you know, while his own wife
is doing gender justice films and with LGBTQ plus themes,
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the genderbred person is part of the curriculum that she
sells in these films. Two schools five thousand schools across
the country, and they make make a profit at least
one point four million dollars they've made on screening her
gender justice films in public schools across the country. But
he's not changing his policies. He says it's not fair
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to have trans athletes in women's sports, but when you
ask his office, as I did, so you're going to
rule back the policies in California that allows that. And
they said they don't respond to that question.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
They just point to his comments respond to the question,
all right, And we got a couple of minutes. Tell
me about him letting all those prisoners out during the
COVID lockdown and how that affected the crime rate in California.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
That's the most egregious things that I've found. And this
is very serious. So a Whizzard lawyer came forward to us,
and a top official in the in the prison system,
then we name him. He told me that Gavin Newsom,
he tried to warn Gavin Newsom that what he was
telling in the public wasn't really true about releasing prisoners.
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He thought there would be He was saying to California
citizens that he was releasing the prisoners because he thought
there would be a desk viral in the prison system.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
But really the.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
COVID rates and the infection death rates were higher in
the community. But they he the person in charge of
keeping track of those rates in the prison system told
Gavin Newson's office.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Hey, what you're saying isn't true, and you know, we
can't rationalize it that way, and they continue to do so,
and then of course crime skyrocketed across the state and.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
And then you head smashing grabs and we can't even
go get our conditioner without having to ask for it
to get unlocked at the CBS. And this is this
is the direct result, according to this top prison official
who is now retired, and from these release, the releases
of these prisoners, some of them were very hard in
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personal prisoners, violence prisoners, prisons.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It makes sense, that's what that's what criminals do. If
you give them freedom, they're going to start committing crimes.
And if you're in state prison, you're often in state
prison because you committed violent crimes. It's not because you
shoplifted at target. It's because you're a really bad guy.
In fact, I've heard somebody say to get in state prison,
you've got to be a really bad guy. And he
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let a lot of them out, and so look what
happened next in California, and.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
He got none, none of the blame for that. Huh.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It's amazing how little he's covered critically, It's just shocking.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
That's the problem that we saw. This is the reason
for this book because he is skating in California, and
nobody has taken a look at his connections to the
CCC CCP in China, even though he's over there show
voting with our taxpayer money, taking photo photos on the
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Great Wall of China with a photographer that costs the
taxpayers one hundred thousand dollars a year, and taking pictures
shaking hands with prison g but nobody knows that he
was had started this nonprofit called China SS and brought
in a hundred, more than one hundred companies in from
China into California, and they were found guilty of Some
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of these officials from these companies were found convicted of bribery.
The companies went bus they undercut They were dumping solar
panels onto our markets and cutting undercutting our companies, including
Cilindra that been was had to sue the Chinese company
Suntech All this was its occurring and nobody's held an
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account and nobody really even knows that he trademarked his wines,
his Plump Chalk wines into China at the same time
and had a tasting that included CCP officials at a
very Sheishi restaurant in Shanghai. So what do you think
was the motivation there? Do you think it had anything
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to do with getting his wines into China into top
CCP officials of Seal of the.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Pref I never knew about his ties to the Chinese
Communist Party. Listen, Susan, I could go on forever, but
you know what people should read your book, and it's
Susan Crabtree and Jed mcfatter. They've written a book called
Fool's Gold. The radical con artists, the radicals con artists
and traders who killed the California dream and now threaten
us all a lot of it. Obviously on Gavin Newsom,
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we just gave you some some of the highlights right
off the top. You really should get on Amazon and
order the book immediately or go to a bookstore. Thank
you for coming on, Susan. Best of luck with this.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
So thankful to your time and your your attention to this.
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
John All right, Susan Crabtree, you're listening to John Cobels
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iHeartRadio app. The crew has landed in the SpaceX capsule, astronauts,
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two of them returning after being stranded for nine months,
Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore. And they've taken the capsule
out of the ocean. It's up on a ship and
now there's two crew members crying open the hatch door,
and the astronauts are supposed to emerge any moment now.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And I don't know if it's jammed.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Well, they have it sealed pretty well.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, right, well, I guess they need that. But yeah, boy,
i'd be so anxious. How anxious you are when you're
on a plane, Yes, you know. And there's a long
delay and everybody's pulling out their bags and lined up
slowly to get out. Well, the two astronauts from June
must be. I would want a big, greasy cheeseburger waiting
for me. I'd want somebody to hand me that on
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a plate.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I'd want some quene wah with some rice and some avocado.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Nine months in space and they come back to a
bowl of keen.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yes, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
All right, so if they come out, we'll let you know. Oh,
just one more thing. We just had Susan Crabtree on
and she's written this co written this great book called
Fool's Gold about California going to Hell and Gavin Newsom's role.
She mentioned that Gavin Newsom admitted on one of his
podcast episodes and I don't know how he can find this, Eric.
(22:20):
I don't want to make it go through hours of
Gavin Newsom, but if we could get him actually saying
that his SAT score was nine to sixty, which is
below average. I looked up the national average for an
SAT score is ten to twenty eight. Nine sixty. Not
good for a governor, but that's not surprising. I mean
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I always thought he was below average diligence and he's
just gotten away with his looks and he knows it.
That's why when he had that bust, the bust commissioned
in San Francisco, his main interest was that they get
the hair right. He knew that was his ticket, his hair,
not his intellect.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Nine.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
If I got nine sixty, I would have I would
have taken the test over and over and over. Oh
my god, but he got it. He got into Uh,
he got into college because Jerry Brown and his family
wrote a letter and then he passed it off as
as as a baseball admission that he was so good
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at baseball. What a phony. All right, onto the animal stories. Yes,
we'll start with the turtle smuggler. There's a man named
cy Kung Tin Chinese citizen Uh. They found packages at
a California mail facility. They were labeled as almonds and
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chocolate cookies. Inside though, were dozens of turtles wrapped in socks.
They were wrapped up so that authorities wouldn't notice them moving,
that nobody would notice them moving. And this guy, cy
Kung Tin uh has has transported over two thousand turtles
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over five years.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Illegal turtle trafficking. You know why he uh.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I was going to say why.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Because in China, middle class families buy them and raise
them as pets.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
They're a status symbol.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
According to Ryan Connors, an attorney with the Department of Justice,
some people prize wine, fancy cars, artwork, but with the
rise of the middle class, it is turtles. If you
have a pet turtle, that's a sign you made it
in China. Although in China they are all kinds of
they you know, the reason that the the ivory trade
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is so popular in Africa, and they kill elephants and
rip the tusks out of the elephants. Is because all
these guys believe it'll give them an erection.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Yeah, well you get an erection in some other way city.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Do you have any alternative ideas there?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I do, but I'm not going to say them on
the air. But leave the elephants alone.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
No need for ivory dust.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
He he smuggled turtles worth over four million dollars and
over a five year period, and they're supposed to be
family pets. But now he's going to prison.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Another story involving a turtle is the Peruvian fisherman that
I was telling you about ninety five days. He had
a ten day fishing trip. He left his town of Marcona, Peru,
December seventh, enough food to last him two weeks, but
ten days bad weather and his boat went off course,
drifted aimlessly, and for ninety five days he was drinking
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rain water. And he tried, well here's what he e.
He ate roaches, god roaches, floating in the water, birds,
and the last thing I ate was turtles. I did
not want to die, so you'd have to grab the
turtle out of the water, and I guess rip.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Its shell off unless he ate it with the shell.
Oh god, that'd be too tough, right, I don't know.
I have never had turtle.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Well he paid, I guess he had to bite right
into the turtle meat. There.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
The turtle would suffer.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Can you imagine, Yeah, because the turtle would I don't
know if.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
He No, we don't need to go into that. That's
really awful.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
He was found heavily dehydrated and in critical condition. He
was down, it was down to it was just emaciated. Yeah,
which is why I'm telling you there's no need to
carry on about about all these dieting fads and crazes.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Okay, you want to be in critical condition and on
your deathbed.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Just just control the intake.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
He went to fifteen days without eating. Fifteen days, Yeah,
that'll do it. Then he started eating the turtles and
the birds and the roaches. Yeah all right, But you
know what.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
You can lose weight. You lost weight, Yeah, I know,
you can do it a much healthier way.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Whenever I hear people complain, I say, stop eating. Why
just stop eating? Stop complaining and bitching. It's like, you know,
all right, here's another one, another animal story. A woman
named sam Jones. I guess Samantha Jones. She there's a
video of this. She picked up a baby wombat and
stole it from its mother.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I saw that video. I was screaming, how do you
do that?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
A wombat is like as a marsupial as a pouch.
She has one hundred thousand Instagram followers, idiots, and she
grabbed the baby wombat away from the mother.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's trying going after them.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Who does that? She picked up the baby wombat and
ran away from the mother. Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
The cameraman laughs, and the mother ran away out of
fear and then comes back to retrieve her baby. And
the baby is dangling in Samantha Jones's hands. The cameraman
is still yucking it up. Look at the mother. It's
like chasing after us, you know. Jones goes, I got
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the baby wombat. Okay, mom is right here and she
is pissed.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
John, one of the astronauts is merged.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Look at him. There he is. They have him in
a wo and then and then some kind of they're
giving him a ride.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, yeah, well he just gave the thumbs up. He's happy.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, he's in a wheelchair with his legs stretched out
looking forward. Now the woman's coming out. But I tell you,
when I saw a video of her, she always looked
really unhealthy. I mean no, just really emaciated and sunk
in eyes and nothing like she did when she boarded.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I mean she haven't seen her yet.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Looked like that Peruvian fisherman.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Oh no, she didn't.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
The baby wombat was so distressed, and now she's getting
pilloried on social media. Suddenly her crowd has turned on her.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Good, good, you know what. Nobody should be following her.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
And she said, I've done a great deal of reflection
on this, and I've realized I did not handle the
situation as best as I shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
You should have left the animal alone. You don't take
it away from its mother.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
My only intent was to prevent these amazing animals from being.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
Hit from what you know, I'm so sick of people
spinning things so ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I have learned from this situation. I'm truly sorry for
the distress I've caused. It was never about social media
for getting like.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Come on, yes, it was. It was about getting light.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And you know, I know, and I would never do that?
Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You can testify to that condition. Yeah, Oh, we got
to take a break. Wait a minute, too many animal
stories never Mark Live CANFI twenty four hour news. You're
listening to John Cobbel on demand from KFI A sixty.
Sunny Williams came out of the capsule and they put
her on a on a wheelchair stretcher set up and
(30:40):
rolled her out.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
She looked really happy.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
So both well, four astronauts came off the SpaceX capsule,
the two that were making their ordinary return to Earth
and then the two that were left over from June.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
And that was Sunny Williams. What's the other guy's name?
I forgot that's right? And uh, Conway's here dang dong
with Mark Thompson. Yeah, Conway loves the space shout stuff.
Don't you tell me?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Am I getting two stories confused here? Or did one
of the astronauts die? You're getting something confused?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Was that the eglids?
Speaker 7 (31:17):
That was that was the Yeah, the egli Yeah, I
got I get my stories mixed up. One of the eglids.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Died, right, Yeah, And they didn't carry any eglids out
of the space cap center, right, and there's no astronaut
living in a nest and big Bear.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
Okay, but don't you think those two are gonna get married.
They're supposed to be up there eight days. They were
up there nine months.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Gon'd be greater. She walked out with a little baby
in the movie.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
They did think she was six days in the movie.
It's Scarlett Johansson up there. And then they get married.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh yeah, well they're back.
Speaker 7 (31:49):
You know you you you get taller in space, so
he's probably about an inch taller you.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Get Oh yeah, because you're not checked too much of gravity. Yeah,
they say you grow by an inch or two in space.
That's true. Something something to look forward to night. Not
worth it, but it's a true story.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Alex Stone's coming on with us and uh, and then
you're not going to believe this.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
We have Rick D's at five o'clock. That's very cool.
Rick D Wow. And the Weekly Top forty.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
Tim Tim Yeah, Rick D's not the money, it's the
amount that's right.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
And then we have Valentine in the Morning or somebody
from the oh the co hosts from Valentine.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
You got a lot of big broadcast people coming through here.
That's right, very cool.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
John is come on with us.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
It just says, uh, coz, John Kuch is great, He's
coming on with us. And then I was on with
Booker and Striker about ten minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
We'll play that. Gosh, this is on love I love radio.
I know you guys, don't I do. I enjoy.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
So you just wander into the studio and walk.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Around until people invite me on their show. That's great,
all right, yeah, well that's the way to kill an afternoon.
I'm a the world can't get enough of you.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
I don't off and say this, but I that that
woman guest you had on just before I came in
with terrific Susan Crabtree.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
She's great.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
She wrote a book. She wrote a book. Yeah, a
lot of it undewsome she is going to get whacked.
What's the name of the book though, fools Gold. Okay,
that's why I wanted to make a note of it.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Also, But it's amazing how much of that information is
out there, and she's the first one to report all that.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
A lot of it was sitting there, right. You have
to want to report it, you have, You've got to
go look for things. And it's it's out there.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Yes, and not enough people are looking for Nobody's really interested,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
LA is so corrupt?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Conway Thompson and Rick D's and Rick d d and
Crozier is the news for our newsroom.
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All right, We're going to talk now with Susan Crabtree.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
She has co written a book about California politics.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's called Fool's Gold.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The Radicals, con artists and traders who killed the California
Dream and now threaten us all. She wrote this with
Jed McPhatter and zug up a lot of dirt on
the Democrats and specifically Gavin Newsom too. There are a
number of news stories that have come out because of
what this book revealed. And let's get Susan Crabtree on. Susan.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yes, Ron, I'll to be on with you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Oh, it's good to have you.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I'm so thrilled to be on with you. John. It's
been decades since I've been listening to you. And my
entire family grew up in California, then went to DC
and decided to come back in about twenty seventeen. And
when I got here, I was startled by what had
happened to the state. And I know that you are
one of the true two patriots trying to fix things.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, for me to broadcast, I need other people to
do the work and bring us the information, and you
certainly have done that with this book. You and your
partner Jeded mcpatter talk about the overall thrust of the book.
If people haven't heard about this, what is the general
idea behind what you wrote.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, we are focused on the leading characters in California
politics that are basically getting a lot of attention on
the national stage. Of course, Skavin Newson is the leading
man in the book. We have Kamala Harris, of course,
and Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. Those are the main figures.
Of course, Willie Brown plays a huge role. But what
(02:32):
we're talking about in California is not just the failed policy,
because many there's been a lot of inks filled on those,
but the corruption. We're trying to reveal the corrupt policies
behind them. And we've uncovered a lot of things about
mister Newsom that you may have heard about, but we
get to the heart of them. From his college admission
(02:56):
that was basically the story around it. Is very deceptive
about his baseball the athletic prowess that got him into
college not exactly true. We break that down to the
launch of his wine business with Getty Oil money. But
he talks about climate change to its political rise based
on his connections with Willie Brown and his father's connections
(03:18):
to the Pelosis and the Browns and the Getties. All
were handed to him on a silver platter, and that's
why he thinks he can run for president via podcast
while leaving his state and shambles and not solving any
of its problems, in fact making them very, very worse.
So it's also one of the reasons why he has
no problem taking money. This is one of my big
(03:41):
things in the book from PG and E which caused
the deadliest fire in California history, to fund his campaigns,
his ballad and niches, his wife's gender justice films, which
she then sells to the whole entire country and makes
a profit from to public schools and across the country.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Then he starts.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Then he acts like he cares about Wilde victims. It's
all performative, and we can go in chapter and verse
two from his his bogus baseball college admission story to
his CCP ties to his letting out prisoners during COVID.
We have so many nuggets in this book.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Give us an overview.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Because I've talked about the pg ande connection frequently. They
donate a tremendous amount of money to him for his
campaigns and to Jennifer Newsom for these I'm sure irritated.
We played actually a couple of clips recently. These these these,
these these feminist movies that she creates about gender justice,
and in return, Newsom made sure that PG and E
(04:43):
was completely bailed out after that fire where they killed
eighty five people and burned an entire city paradise up
in northern California. Talk about the extent of their relationship here.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yes, it's it's quite close. As you described all of
the utilities across California, it's unique to California. Usually people
associate the energy companies utilities mainly with more with Republicans,
but in this state they have bought and paid for
the Democrats. Newsom and his wife as of such close
(05:20):
relationships with PGNY and its top executives that they are
listed as associate producers and at least one of her films,
her gender justice films, and which one of them was
screened at pgn E headquarters in downtown San Francisco, because
they have given her and Gavin Nissam a total of
(05:42):
seven hundred thousand dollars, part of that being for her
gender justice films, and as you mentioned, he played a
key role. He actually used with taxpayer money, the lawyers
that PG and E had on retainer for years O
Melvinie and Myers to craft that's behind the scenes bailout
(06:05):
for PG and E that saved them from bankruptcy and
really limited the amount that the victims of the Paradise
wildfire that killed eighty five people. PG and E was
found guilty of manslaughter, it limited the amount of money
they could receive from that utility. And now we have
other utilities so cal Edison, all of the utilities have
(06:27):
given Democrats in the state two hundred million over the
course of two decades, they've given him two point five million.
And basically this in so cal Edison, as you know,
is now under investigation for causing the eat In fire.
And yet Gavin Newsom is pointing fingers and in trying
to investigate everybody but the lead cause of the utility
(06:51):
of these fires, and that is the utilities.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, the utilities start the fires, they kill the people,
they burned down the towns, and then Newsome blames climate change,
ensues the oil and gas companies.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
That's exactly right, and then he talks about climate chates
contributing to these wildfires. And then he you know, he's
claiming he's sewing the oil and gas companies and they're
heading out of town. More refineries are leaving the.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
State because of those suits.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But yet he keeps blaming climate change the fires themselves
from twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen, just those fires, not
to mention the ones we just had, they erased all
of the crop carbon emissions progress that California's clean air
mandates have that they've said they've had success in his
(07:39):
a rate fellows according to UCLA studies and Stanford studies.
So if they really claimed it cared about climate chates,
they would hold these utilities feed to the fire and
start doing prescribe burns all of the lifting environmental regulations
that so many people have blamed the fires for, including
Donald Trump. But in California, we know, oh that the
(08:01):
Public Utility Commission in Sacramento does not hold these people's
feet to the fire. And Gavin news Some appoints those
commissioners and they are increasing the rates, the utility rates
on calebni and customers six times last year alone, and
they made two five billion dollars in profits. This is
not really a partisan issue. It's a money in politics issue.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
All right, Can you hang on for another segment because
when we come back, I want to talk about some
of the other things you've discovered, such as Gavin Newso
funding his own Bronze bust, his ties to the Chinese
come and his party, and all the COVID prisoners are
all prisoners he let out during COVID, who went on
to create the Big crime wave that we suffered from
in recent years. That's all in the book. That's all
(08:44):
coming up next, and we're talking with Susan Crabtree. She
has co written a book called Fool's Gold, The radicals,
con artists and traders who killed the California Dream and
now threaten us all.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Susan will continue next.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand kf I AM
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continue with Susan Crabtree. She and Jed mcpatter have co
written a book called Fool's Gold, The Radicals, con artists
and traders who killed the California Dream and now threaten
(09:17):
us all. And we've been focusing on Gavendusom. He's one
of the leading figures in the book, as as as Susan,
as she said, came back from spending some time away
from California and was just horrified at what the state
has become. H let's let's put Susan back on here.
Talk about the Bronze Bus story. We've discussed this on
(09:40):
the air, and I find this classic narcissistic dishonest Newsom,
this this whole thing from beginning to end, and and
and you touched a nerve because I know he's putting
out furious denials to this particular story.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Well, yes, but he can't deny it because we looked
at based on documents their public but nobody bothered, No
other reporters bothered to look at those are documents for
the hestic payments. So everyone knows that Gavin Newsom's, you know,
the self promoting political shape shifter who has run California
into the ground. But the book Fool's Goal that we
(10:18):
wrote reveals for the first time that Newsom solicited the funds,
some of the funds for the Bronze bus, from himself,
and it's a monument to himself. Basically, what we found
was there are that he solicited from others to pay
(10:39):
for the bust And as you know, in California, that's
perfectly legal, not that it's necessarily ethical. I view it
as a pay to play system. So politicians can ask
certain outside companies with business before the state to give
to their fate pet charity. In this case, that pet
(10:59):
charity was asking his own companies. Two of his own
companies a pump Jack winery and a Babelo Cafe restaurant
he owns to pay partially pay for the bust that
a sculptor and the San Francisco Arts Commission was making
of him, and he just wanted to make sure they
got the hair right.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I'm dead serious this is And he's saying that this
is not secret. Well, we didn't say it was secret.
We didn't say it was secret. We said that nobody
looked at this, nobody revealed this until we looked at
the documents. We couldn't believe it ourselves because we thought
maybe it's a bus for Willie Brown, because you know,
he was a mentor and benefactor.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
But no, it was for his own.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Bust, for his own bust.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I mean, it seems he's more of a caricature than
his caricature, Like you could stereotype him as this vain,
greasy narcissist, and he is that, but he is that
exponentially more to the core. I mean, there is no
Gavin Newsom, is there. There's just no he just his
(12:10):
whole life. Is he worshiping himself?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
And he even told the San Francisco at the time
that when they did a story that the bus was
coming out, not that he was helping pay for it,
but he said, oh, you know, he's kind of embarrassed
about it, and he didn't. It's a bit reluctant to
talk about himself, and it's a strange thing that I'm
just awkward about it. Meanwhile, he's paying for it to
his own company. It's not it's hardly full disclosure, to
(12:38):
say the least. But it's very similar to his baseball
story where he talks about how he got this great
partial baseball scholarship and that's what got him into Santa
Clara because he had a nine sixty SAT And actually
what we found out he was only on the JV team.
They were really only doing Scrimma James playing community call.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
He had ninety sixty total on the SAT.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yes, he talked about that with Charlie Kirk. He keeps
talking about that only because of the baseball scholarship was
he able to go to a four year college.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That's really low for a governor. Nine sixty. That doesn't
surprise me.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yes, he talks about being dyslexic and that's the reason
for it. But what he doesn't disclose is that Jerry Brown,
the previous governor and who was tight with his father,
gave him a letter of recommendation to Santa Clara University,
so he didn't bother to disclose it. In the same time,
he's talking that the baseball his athletic prowess that he
(13:42):
you know, he was getting, he was dragging himself up
from his cleat straps. And that's not the truth. He
had a letter of recommendation that Jerry Brown wrote for him.
And also I talked to his assistant coach at the time,
Mike Comings, who said a former powerful alarm tight with
(14:04):
his father, who played on the baseball team in the
nineteen sixties, also recommended him and pushed them to get.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Him on the team.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, but the no All star baseball player, that's not
really why he got in.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
No, he's even said that the the New York the
Texas Rangers had scouted him.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, I've seen and that turned into.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
An urban myth. Yeah, in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Do you think he believes in anything in particular or
he believes in whatever the fashion is of the moment,
Like if for some reason conservatism was a winning strategy
in California, would he be just as conservative as the
next guy.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I truly feel like he's very similar to Joe Biden
in that way. I covered Joe item for decades, and
he was whatever they wanted him to be, mister backslapping
friendly guy, but an empty vessel in terms of ideology. Yeah,
he plays to the crowd. Of course in San Francisco.
He was an early pioneer with a marrying gays, so
(15:19):
that played very well in the in the day community
in San Francisco. So then you know he tries to
be very progressive on LGBTQ issues, and now you know
he's trying to move back to the middle without even
changing his policies. As you know, while his own wife
is doing gender justice films and with LGBTQ plus themes,
(15:42):
the genderbred person is part of the curriculum that she
sells in these films. Two schools five thousand schools across
the country, and they make make a profit at least
one point four million dollars they've made on screening her
gender justice films in public schools across the country. But
he's not changing his policies. He says it's not fair
(16:04):
to have trans athletes in women's sports, but when you
ask his office, as I did, so you're going to
rule back the policies in California that allows that. And
they said they don't respond to that question.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
They just point to his comments respond to the question,
all right, And we got a couple of minutes. Tell
me about him letting all those prisoners out during the
COVID lockdown and how that affected the crime rate in California.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
That's the most egregious things that I've found. And this
is very serious. So a Whizzard lawyer came forward to us,
and a top official in the in the prison system,
then we name him. He told me that Gavin Newsom,
he tried to warn Gavin Newsom that what he was
telling in the public wasn't really true about releasing prisoners.
(16:53):
He thought there would be He was saying to California
citizens that he was releasing the prisoners because he thought
there would be a desk viral in the prison system.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
But really the.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
COVID rates and the infection death rates were higher in
the community. But they he the person in charge of
keeping track of those rates in the prison system told
Gavin Newson's office.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Hey, what you're saying isn't true, and you know, we
can't rationalize it that way, and they continue to do so,
and then of course crime skyrocketed across the state and.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
And then you head smashing grabs and we can't even
go get our conditioner without having to ask for it
to get unlocked at the CBS. And this is this
is the direct result, according to this top prison official
who is now retired, and from these release, the releases
of these prisoners, some of them were very hard in
(17:47):
personal prisoners, violence prisoners, prisons.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It makes sense, that's what that's what criminals do. If
you give them freedom, they're going to start committing crimes.
And if you're in state prison, you're often in state
prison because you committed violent crimes. It's not because you
shoplifted at target. It's because you're a really bad guy.
In fact, I've heard somebody say to get in state prison,
you've got to be a really bad guy. And he
(18:13):
let a lot of them out, and so look what
happened next in California, and.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
He got none, none of the blame for that. Huh.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It's amazing how little he's covered critically, It's just shocking.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
That's the problem that we saw. This is the reason
for this book because he is skating in California, and
nobody has taken a look at his connections to the
CCC CCP in China, even though he's over there show
voting with our taxpayer money, taking photo photos on the
(18:48):
Great Wall of China with a photographer that costs the
taxpayers one hundred thousand dollars a year, and taking pictures
shaking hands with prison g but nobody knows that he
was had started this nonprofit called China SS and brought
in a hundred, more than one hundred companies in from
China into California, and they were found guilty of Some
(19:12):
of these officials from these companies were found convicted of bribery.
The companies went bus they undercut They were dumping solar
panels onto our markets and cutting undercutting our companies, including
Cilindra that been was had to sue the Chinese company
Suntech All this was its occurring and nobody's held an
(19:34):
account and nobody really even knows that he trademarked his wines,
his Plump Chalk wines into China at the same time
and had a tasting that included CCP officials at a
very Sheishi restaurant in Shanghai. So what do you think
was the motivation there? Do you think it had anything
(19:54):
to do with getting his wines into China into top
CCP officials of Seal of the.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Pref I never knew about his ties to the Chinese
Communist Party. Listen, Susan, I could go on forever, but
you know what people should read your book, and it's
Susan Crabtree and Jed mcfatter. They've written a book called
Fool's Gold. The radical con artists, the radicals con artists
and traders who killed the California dream and now threaten
us all a lot of it. Obviously on Gavin Newsom,
(20:20):
we just gave you some some of the highlights right
off the top. You really should get on Amazon and
order the book immediately or go to a bookstore. Thank
you for coming on, Susan. Best of luck with this.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
So thankful to your time and your your attention to this.
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
John All right, Susan Crabtree, you're listening to John Cobels
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(21:00):
two of them returning after being stranded for nine months,
Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore. And they've taken the capsule
out of the ocean. It's up on a ship and
now there's two crew members crying open the hatch door,
and the astronauts are supposed to emerge any moment now.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And I don't know if it's jammed.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Well, they have it sealed pretty well.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, right, well, I guess they need that. But yeah, boy,
i'd be so anxious. How anxious you are when you're
on a plane, Yes, you know. And there's a long
delay and everybody's pulling out their bags and lined up
slowly to get out. Well, the two astronauts from June
must be. I would want a big, greasy cheeseburger waiting
for me. I'd want somebody to hand me that on
(21:48):
a plate.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I'd want some quene wah with some rice and some avocado.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Nine months in space and they come back to a
bowl of keen.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yes, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
All right, so if they come out, we'll let you know. Oh,
just one more thing. We just had Susan Crabtree on
and she's written this co written this great book called
Fool's Gold about California going to Hell and Gavin Newsom's role.
She mentioned that Gavin Newsom admitted on one of his
podcast episodes and I don't know how he can find this, Eric.
(22:20):
I don't want to make it go through hours of
Gavin Newsom, but if we could get him actually saying
that his SAT score was nine to sixty, which is
below average. I looked up the national average for an
SAT score is ten to twenty eight. Nine sixty. Not
good for a governor, but that's not surprising. I mean
(22:41):
I always thought he was below average diligence and he's
just gotten away with his looks and he knows it.
That's why when he had that bust, the bust commissioned
in San Francisco, his main interest was that they get
the hair right. He knew that was his ticket, his hair,
not his intellect.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Nine.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
If I got nine sixty, I would have I would
have taken the test over and over and over. Oh
my god, but he got it. He got into Uh,
he got into college because Jerry Brown and his family
wrote a letter and then he passed it off as
as as a baseball admission that he was so good
(23:22):
at baseball. What a phony. All right, onto the animal stories. Yes,
we'll start with the turtle smuggler. There's a man named
cy Kung Tin Chinese citizen Uh. They found packages at
a California mail facility. They were labeled as almonds and
(23:43):
chocolate cookies. Inside though, were dozens of turtles wrapped in socks.
They were wrapped up so that authorities wouldn't notice them moving,
that nobody would notice them moving. And this guy, cy
Kung Tin uh has has transported over two thousand turtles
(24:10):
over five years.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Illegal turtle trafficking. You know why he uh.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I was going to say why.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Because in China, middle class families buy them and raise
them as pets.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
They're a status symbol.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
According to Ryan Connors, an attorney with the Department of Justice,
some people prize wine, fancy cars, artwork, but with the
rise of the middle class, it is turtles. If you
have a pet turtle, that's a sign you made it
in China. Although in China they are all kinds of
they you know, the reason that the the ivory trade
(24:48):
is so popular in Africa, and they kill elephants and
rip the tusks out of the elephants. Is because all
these guys believe it'll give them an erection.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Yeah, well you get an erection in some other way city.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Do you have any alternative ideas there?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I do, but I'm not going to say them on
the air. But leave the elephants alone.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
No need for ivory dust.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
He he smuggled turtles worth over four million dollars and
over a five year period, and they're supposed to be
family pets. But now he's going to prison.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Another story involving a turtle is the Peruvian fisherman that
I was telling you about ninety five days. He had
a ten day fishing trip. He left his town of Marcona, Peru,
December seventh, enough food to last him two weeks, but
ten days bad weather and his boat went off course,
drifted aimlessly, and for ninety five days he was drinking
(25:56):
rain water. And he tried, well here's what he e.
He ate roaches, god roaches, floating in the water, birds,
and the last thing I ate was turtles. I did
not want to die, so you'd have to grab the
turtle out of the water, and I guess rip.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Its shell off unless he ate it with the shell.
Oh god, that'd be too tough, right, I don't know.
I have never had turtle.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Well he paid, I guess he had to bite right
into the turtle meat. There.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
The turtle would suffer.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Can you imagine, Yeah, because the turtle would I don't
know if.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
He No, we don't need to go into that. That's
really awful.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
He was found heavily dehydrated and in critical condition. He
was down, it was down to it was just emaciated. Yeah,
which is why I'm telling you there's no need to
carry on about about all these dieting fads and crazes.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Okay, you want to be in critical condition and on
your deathbed.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Just just control the intake.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
He went to fifteen days without eating. Fifteen days, Yeah,
that'll do it. Then he started eating the turtles and
the birds and the roaches. Yeah all right, But you
know what.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
You can lose weight. You lost weight, Yeah, I know,
you can do it a much healthier way.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Whenever I hear people complain, I say, stop eating. Why
just stop eating? Stop complaining and bitching. It's like, you know,
all right, here's another one, another animal story. A woman
named sam Jones. I guess Samantha Jones. She there's a
video of this. She picked up a baby wombat and
stole it from its mother.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I saw that video. I was screaming, how do you
do that?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
A wombat is like as a marsupial as a pouch.
She has one hundred thousand Instagram followers, idiots, and she
grabbed the baby wombat away from the mother.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's trying going after them.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Who does that? She picked up the baby wombat and
ran away from the mother. Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
The cameraman laughs, and the mother ran away out of
fear and then comes back to retrieve her baby. And
the baby is dangling in Samantha Jones's hands. The cameraman
is still yucking it up. Look at the mother. It's
like chasing after us, you know. Jones goes, I got
(28:30):
the baby wombat. Okay, mom is right here and she
is pissed.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
John, one of the astronauts is merged.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Look at him. There he is. They have him in
a wo and then and then some kind of they're
giving him a ride.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, yeah, well he just gave the thumbs up. He's happy.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, he's in a wheelchair with his legs stretched out
looking forward. Now the woman's coming out. But I tell you,
when I saw a video of her, she always looked
really unhealthy. I mean no, just really emaciated and sunk
in eyes and nothing like she did when she boarded.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I mean she haven't seen her yet.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Looked like that Peruvian fisherman.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Oh no, she didn't.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
The baby wombat was so distressed, and now she's getting
pilloried on social media. Suddenly her crowd has turned on her.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Good, good, you know what. Nobody should be following her.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
And she said, I've done a great deal of reflection
on this, and I've realized I did not handle the
situation as best as I shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
You should have left the animal alone. You don't take
it away from its mother.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
My only intent was to prevent these amazing animals from being.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
Hit from what you know, I'm so sick of people
spinning things so ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I have learned from this situation. I'm truly sorry for
the distress I've caused. It was never about social media
for getting like.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Come on, yes, it was. It was about getting light.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And you know, I know, and I would never do that?
Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You can testify to that condition. Yeah, Oh, we got
to take a break. Wait a minute, too many animal
stories never Mark Live CANFI twenty four hour news. You're
listening to John Cobbel on demand from KFI A sixty.
Sunny Williams came out of the capsule and they put
her on a on a wheelchair stretcher set up and
(30:40):
rolled her out.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
She looked really happy.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
So both well, four astronauts came off the SpaceX capsule,
the two that were making their ordinary return to Earth
and then the two that were left over from June.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
And that was Sunny Williams. What's the other guy's name?
I forgot that's right? And uh, Conway's here dang dong
with Mark Thompson. Yeah, Conway loves the space shout stuff.
Don't you tell me?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Am I getting two stories confused here? Or did one
of the astronauts die? You're getting something confused?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Was that the eglids?
Speaker 7 (31:17):
That was that was the Yeah, the egli Yeah, I
got I get my stories mixed up. One of the eglids.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Died, right, Yeah, And they didn't carry any eglids out
of the space cap center, right, and there's no astronaut
living in a nest and big Bear.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
Okay, but don't you think those two are gonna get married.
They're supposed to be up there eight days. They were
up there nine months.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Gon'd be greater. She walked out with a little baby
in the movie.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
They did think she was six days in the movie.
It's Scarlett Johansson up there. And then they get married.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh yeah, well they're back.
Speaker 7 (31:49):
You know you you you get taller in space, so
he's probably about an inch taller you.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Get Oh yeah, because you're not checked too much of gravity. Yeah,
they say you grow by an inch or two in space.
That's true. Something something to look forward to night. Not
worth it, but it's a true story.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Alex Stone's coming on with us and uh, and then
you're not going to believe this.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
We have Rick D's at five o'clock. That's very cool.
Rick D Wow. And the Weekly Top forty.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
Tim Tim Yeah, Rick D's not the money, it's the
amount that's right.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
And then we have Valentine in the Morning or somebody
from the oh the co hosts from Valentine.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
You got a lot of big broadcast people coming through here.
That's right, very cool.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
John is come on with us.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
It just says, uh, coz, John Kuch is great, He's
coming on with us. And then I was on with
Booker and Striker about ten minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
We'll play that. Gosh, this is on love I love radio.
I know you guys, don't I do. I enjoy.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
So you just wander into the studio and walk.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Around until people invite me on their show. That's great,
all right, yeah, well that's the way to kill an afternoon.
I'm a the world can't get enough of you.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
I don't off and say this, but I that that
woman guest you had on just before I came in
with terrific Susan Crabtree.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
She's great.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
She wrote a book. She wrote a book. Yeah, a
lot of it undewsome she is going to get whacked.
What's the name of the book though, fools Gold. Okay,
that's why I wanted to make a note of it.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Also, But it's amazing how much of that information is
out there, and she's the first one to report all that.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
A lot of it was sitting there, right. You have
to want to report it, you have, You've got to
go look for things. And it's it's out there.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Yes, and not enough people are looking for Nobody's really interested,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
LA is so corrupt?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Conway Thompson and Rick D's and Rick d d and
Crozier is the news for our newsroom.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
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