March 31, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (03/31) - Debra Mark won 3 Golden Mike Awards® at the RTNA SoCal 75th Golden Mike Awards® ceremony on Saturday night. The sales tax is going up in Los Angeles on April 1st. Gov. Newsom was on Real Time with Bill Maher and was flip-flopping again. John was surprisingly amused by a comment about Newsom by a reader in the LA Times.
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Do we have trumpets? Eric?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We should get trumpets because Gabra Mark Saturday Night won
three Golden Mike Awards.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
For Excellent in Radio Newscasting, including.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
If You won two awards for that wonderful series you
did on Suicide Yes, that we played on the show
Yes and got a lot of acclaim and I think
you helped a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Of people at that I hope.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So you know it came out of your own family
experience and it was about the most moving, heart raching
thing I've ever heard on the radio. And I'm serious
about that. You did a terrific job. And Steve Gregory
was your producer. He won one as well. In fact,
he won five yes and you won three Yes also
for Best newscast.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
On your show one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's right, that's why it was the best newscastway. Congratulations,
you deserve it. Thank you so much, and that is
that is great. And there's photos online and for posing
with you. There's also photos of you posing alone. Yes,
I saw them yesterday. Yes, well I must have thought
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really good though it did.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
But thank you, I know, I think I thank you,
you know when we first aired these, but thank you
so much for your support and for letting me broadcast
the two part series on your show, and then we
did that whole Q and A after the second part
of the series, Mental lot.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, I mean that that stands on its own as
just a brilliant series, and I know it's helped people
because they write to you and tell you that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, and that makes it all worth it. That part.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I mean, yes, it's great that I want awards because
I know, you know, I worked really hard. Steve Gregory
worked really hard on it as well, and so that
part is obviously it's awesome. But to know that it
helped other people and maybe even prevented some people from
taking their own life is wow.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I mean, that's that's incredible. They do any better than that.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, congratulations again, John, you'll still let me talk to you?
Oh yes, okay, Lot, she has a guarden now outside
her booth. You know, I don't want to talk to anybody. Yeah,
all right, So now to uh, what's going on in
the world. You probably don't know this. Tomorrow is April first.
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You may know that, But did you know that La
County is going to increase the sales tax to nine
and three quarter percent tomorrow nine point seven five percent.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The tax is going up.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And because a majority of people who live in this county,
who are so so stupid and ignorant, they've voted for
an increase in the homeless sales tax in November. So
now we're going to pay nine point seven five percent.
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There was a quarter cent tax that was expiring soon.
This now turns it into a half cent tax. We
could have had the sales tax dropped by a quarter percent.
Instead it's going up by a half percent. And this
is going to affect everything that you purchase here the
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in La Canty and in some towns it's even worse.
In Palmdale and Lancaster, your rate is going to be
eleven point two five percent, which is the highest in
the county and the entire southern California region. You know,
Riverside and Orange Counties are at seven point seventy five percent,
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Ventura is at seven point twenty five. But now Palmdale
Lancaster is going to be at eleven and a quarter
because voters there also also voted in favor of these
tax increases. Let me go back to the La County
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tax increase. It's it's to give more money to the
homelessness monster. And we told you last week that there's
two and a half billion dollars missing, unaccounted for. There's
a federal judge who seems to be doing his own
investigat His name is David O. Carter, and Judge Carter
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demanded an audit done be done from the outside. The
city had done one and found the same story, but
he wanted his own. Two and a half billion dollars
is missing, and he ordered city leaders to show up
in his chambers to explain themselves, and most of them
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didn't show, including Karen Bass, the mayor. Karen Bass was
asked by a judge to come and discuss matters. This
isn't a formal trial. She wasn't getting subpoened. She didn't
have to give testimony formal testimony. This was Hey, I'm
trying to figure out what's going wrong. I need you
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in the courtroom so we can talk. She wouldn't show
until Carter scolded one of her administrative aids, and suddenly
Karen Bass was available. Other people who didn't show up
included Lindsay Horvath, who's the chief of the La County
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Board of Supervisors, the woman who runs LASA, the LA
Housing Authority, which is hugely corrupt.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
She was in Boston.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Last we heard of her, and her name is Valicia
Adams Kellum VA Lysia Adams Kellum.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She's got four names.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Last we heard of her, she'd given away over two
million dollars to her husband's nonprofit. Her husband's in the
homeless industry as well, and so he reeled in two
million dollars from his wife, which of course violates all
sorts of ethics rules, but nobody cares. As you know,
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we spend about a billion four in La County on homelessness.
No in the city. In the city, we spend a
billion four. Then you add the county spending, and much
of it has disappeared and there's been no reduction in homelessness.
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So there's people stealing money throughout the whole system, and
everybody knows that they're stealing money. Carter was upset about this,
but he's not in on the grift. The people in
on it. They don't even show up for a court hearing.
I've never heard a federal judge invites a political official
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to try to explain what's going on.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm not coming, I'm busy. Nobody's upset. The audit story
came out weeks ago. Everybody just shrugs like, yeah, two
and a half billion is missing. Oh well, so doesn't
matter because the stupid people of La County voted for
another tax increase. Why do you even work, people who
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vote for these tax increases, Why do you go to work?
Why don't you just set your money, cast your check
and set your money on fire. That would be a
better use than giving it to the homeless monster. This
incredibly corrupt system, filled with thieves, filled with corruption. On
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nine point seventy five percent the sales tax in La County,
and that that is now two and a half per
two and a half percent higher than Ventura County. Boy,
if I lived on the border. What are people who
live in northern La County on the border if they
cross the border to save two and a half percent,
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especially on big ticket items. I mean, they divert so
much of the money. They don't divert it for fire
protection obviously that they don't do nine points stept by
that Really that really struck me. You know, maybe maybe
someday they people can do, maybe anthropologists can do an
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investigation is to why people, after they've been told that
all their tax money is getting stolen, they still offer
more tax money to the government gods. It is almost
like a religious thing, right, These are almost like religious donations,
sacrifices to the gods of government. It's stunning. Now another
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place that another place where the money goes down a
rat hole is the state government. And Gavin Newsom right
now is running the most curious public relations campaign I've
ever seen in my life. He's going on anybody who
has a podcast. He has his own podcast, as you know,
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He's going on everybody else's talk shows, whatnot, and everybody's
given a hard time all across the political spectrum.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And he is.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Saying things that renounce his old positions. But he's doing
things in line with his old positions, and everybody's confused.
And I think a reasonable person would think he's crazy.
And I'll explain this. I got some clips of him
appearing on with Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher,
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which which is a which is a great show. And
we'll play some clips and Newsom and and he doesn't
know which way to go. He wants to be president badly,
and he doesn't He wants to change as many views
as he needs to change without losing too much support
from the other end. And he's really confused. Play some
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of the clips you'll see.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Forty all right on to Newsome. He uh and I
do I do think uh. I do think that Kamala
Harris has stone much of the time. I'm going to
stand by them.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And Newsom is going on this bizarre tour.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And I've been trying to follow what he's doing, because
you know, he has a set of woke, progressive issues
that he's governed California with, and then he is suddenly
denouncing those issues, such as men and boys playing women
in girls sports in school.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But he's not changing the law.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Uh, and so you have to look at what he's
what he does, the laws he's he's passed, and the
laws he still supports, because what he's saying on these
podcasts is completely contradictory. They start with Real Time with
Bill Maher It's a good show on HBO, and he
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and Newsom start talking about the state of the Democratic
Party because the Democrats approval rating in this country is
twenty seven percent. And Newsom says, yeah, yeah, we're toxic.
But play this clip.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
So John Fetterman was in the news today. He said,
if you term of the Democratic Party, he said, if
we don't get our together, we're going to be a
permanent minority.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I agree, and I see you're.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Doing something about it, and I applaud it. I think
it's great you've got this podcast, You're talking to people.
You know. It's amazing to me that even that is
controversial to some people. They call it platforming if you
talk to someone you don't agree with it. I feel
like this country is divided into owners and healers. People
think who can own the other side.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Gavin Newsom own dissentist descents destroyed. Gavin Newssom or people
who want to talk and heal. And I feel like
the next president is going to be, at least if
it comes from this party, the Democratic Party, someone who
wants to talk and heal, and I feel like you're
doing it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It's really been interesting in the reaction to the podcast.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I mean, we had some controversial figures on I'll acknowledge that,
and Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk and.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Some others, but you're right. I mean this idea that
we can't even have a conversation with the other side.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You have to They won, thank you, and then it's
the bottom line and by the way, or the notion,
we just have to continue to talk to ourselves or
win the same damn echo chamber. These guys are crushing us.
The Democratic brand is toxic right now. We had a
high water mark two weeks ago, and that was a
CNN pull at twenty nine percent favorability. It's dropped when
the NBC pulled down to twenty seven percent. It's one
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thing to make noise, but you also have to make sense.
And I think with this podcast and having the opportunity
to dialogue with people I disagree with, it's an opportunity
to try to find common ground and not take cheap shots.
I'm not looking to put a spoke in the wheel
of their or at least a crowbar and the spokes
of their wheel to trip theme to your point. And
I think it's important Democrats, we tend to be a
little more judgmental than we should be. This notion of
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cancel culture, you've been living, You've been on the receiving
end of it for years and years and years. That's
real and Democrats need to own up to that. They've
got to mature.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Through about this.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Well, gee, that's all warm and fuzzy and great, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
But the truth is.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
He he passed, he signed a law, and he backs
a law that allows boys and men to compete in
girls and women's sports from kindergarten through college.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He signed the law, He praised the law.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
The law is one of those eighty twenty issues where
eighty percent of the country is against that stuff. He
goes on a podcast, well, he was on his own
podcast right with Charlie Kirk, and he said it was
deeply unfair play that clip.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
What do you do, seriously, Charlie Kirk, give us some of.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
The better ideas governor, Like for example, I mean like
if you want to, like you have an opportunity to like,
you know, run to the middle and see this man's office.
You're talking to me of all people, it's like you
right now should come out and be like, you know what,
the young man who's about to win the state championship
in the long jump in female sports, that's that that
shouldn't happen. You as the governor should step out and
say no, no, And I appreciate and like, would you
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do something like that? Would you say no men in
female sports?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely
agree with you on that. It is an issue affair.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
So it's deeply would you speak out against this young man,
baby Hernandez, who right now is going to win the
state championship in the long time?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
See you wrestling with it?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
No, I'm not wrestling. I'm not realizing with the fairness issue,
I totally agree with you. By the way, as someone
with four kids, you got two daughters, right, two daughters.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Had a daughter and.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
A wife that went god forbid to Stanford and played
on the junior national soccer team, and a guy who
got into college only because.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
There was left hand. That's a lie you did get
in college for baseball. So he says it's deeply unfair.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
But ever since this podcast run, which was this podcast ran,
which was several weeks ago, the law hasn't changed. He
didn't announce to the legislature that he wants a new
law repealing the old one. The law still stands that
boys and men can compete in girls and women's sports
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from kindergarten through college. So he endorses He originally endorsed
and signed a deeply unfair law. When he signed it,
he did not say I'm signing a deeply unfair law.
He signed it, and it becomes law. People hate it.
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It's clearly wrong. It's not even worth debating anymore. Now
he agrees, oh, deeply unfair. Well change it. Well he doesn't.
And when we come back, Marr asked. Newsome says, you're
the poster boy for progressive stuff, and they start talking
about transgender athletes.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And then I want to tell you I.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Was inspired by an actual comment from an La Times reader.
You know, if you scroll to the bottom of La
Times stories. Now they allow readers to comment, and most
of it's nuts, but there's one guy who went through
Newsom's record and he was right on every count. And
I'm thinking, how how about all this being discussed out
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loud and debated.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We'll we'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI A.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Six forty round from one until four every day, and
after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the
iHeart app. We're playing clips from Bill Maher's Real Time
Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. He had Gavin
Newsom as a guest, and Newsom is continuing this curious
media tour where he renounces some of the some of
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the progressive positions that he had that the Democrats have
and says, well, we've got to change. We're toxic. But
he keeps all those toxic policies in place. He's such
a lying hypocrite. They caught him the other day on
his podcast. He had said, where did LATINX come from?
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I never heard of LATINX. Nobody in my office he
was LATINX. And then one of the stations played a
montage where he used it in public speeches six times.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I mean, he's just.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He's just bad he's such a public, compulsive, pathological liar,
and he's bad at hiding it.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
But he thinks he's slick. He looks slick.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
MA asked Newsome about what he says to people who
say that, hey, Gavin, you're the poster boy for all
this progressive nonsense.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Play cut three.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
So what do you say to people who say, well,
this sounds all very good, but Governor and you were
the poster boy for a lot of this stuff I
see today the Trump administration is they talked about I
know if this is true, but they talked about the
fact that California had a rule that schools cannot be
wired to notify parents if their kids in school have
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changed their gender, their pronouns. That's the kind of thing,
even though it doesn't affect a lot of people, that
makes a lot of people go, well, you know what,
that's the Party without common sense. Now, if that's your state,
how are you are you?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I just disagree with that.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I mean, the law was you would be fired, a
teacher would be fired if a teacher did not report
or snitch on a kid talking about their gender identity.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I just think that was wrong. I think teachers should teach.
I don't think they should be required to turn in kids.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
And by the way, turn.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
In that we're talking about their parents.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
How can I snitch?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
The idea of a.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Snitch and a parent to me doesn't combine.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Well, I just I don't.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
But what is the job of a teacher.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's to teach.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
If Johnny's talking about some identity issue or.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Some way, would stop stop stop?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Do you know how much progressive sexual ideology is being
taught in all the schools, now.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Public, private?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You know what was that story we had about ten
year olds who were being taught about the use of
sex toys.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Oh y, on Friday? You are talking on Friday?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yes, ten year olds being being instructed on how to
use sex toys. What the hell is he talking about?
They were very proud of this. They don't want the
parents to know. I don't know a single parent who
if their son or daughter is switching section And it's
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not that they're attracted to girls or boys, that a
boy wants to become a girl, a girl wants to
become a boy, because you know what the next step
is is then it's it's puberty blockers and hormones and
eventually surgery. Well, if you're a parent, you want to
be there on day one as soon as you know
about it. He did this whole ideology, This progressive ideology
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is so destructive. It has always been hateful of parents,
dismissive of parents, and he is the post boy for
this garbage. California is the most progressive, toxic state in
the country, the most intrusive, and he's signed every one
of these freaking bills. He's been there for six years,
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he signed them all. We didn't have a lot of
this crap six years ago. It's him because it was cool,
it was in fashion, it was really cool to be progressive,
and so he wanted to be part of that train.
And now it's not cool anymore in the other forty
nine states. Oh well, looks like I'm really not for
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that stuff anymore. Will you gonna repeal it?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
No, play somewhere this teach.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
If Johnny's talking about some identity issue or some issue
about liking someone of the same sex, is that the
teacher's job to then reward that. By the way, in
this law, the teacher can still do that, but they
can't be fired if that's what it can't be fired if.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
That's not what they do, because.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
That's something I think is I just think that was fair,
and I don't think that's inapprop.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Seen a lot of people lately talking about this eighty
twenty issue, and I think you are on the other
side of this now, the side with the eighty eighty
being eighty percent of the people in this country. Again,
this is the issue of should biologically born men be
able to compete in women's sport?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That's tough.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
And you know, each time I saw the polling here
in California, they think you're a trader for saying this.
You know, when those kind of people call you a trader,
there's a word for that, electable.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Get on.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
If the Democrats and eighty percent of the people are
with you on this now, if the Democrats can't get
with eighty how are they going to do something when
it's a fifty one to forty nine.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
No, Look, I get it, and that's it. Look, and
the other side weaponizes these issues.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
They do.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It's just new term, but weaponize the issue. Well, what
does that mean? You emphasize it? You pointing out so
everybody understands just how nuts you are. And but the
I'm still waiting for him to say, yeah, it's deeply
unfair for guys to play in women's sports, and I'm
going to get that law repealed. You notice he doesn't
say that mar does him a favor, saying hey, that
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makes you electable.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
In the crowd cheers.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
It's like, uh uh, he's not repealing the law. So
it's cheap to go on a talk show and say
I'm against men playing in women's sports. That costs nothing.
Get the law repealed and sign it. Continue with this.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
The other side weaponizes these issues. They dehumanize, they attack,
they demean.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Look, it's eighty percent of the country. It isn't the
other side. It's eighty percent of the country you boso,
including a majority of your side.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Boso played more.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
They demean and they've weaponized this issue extraordinarily. Well, that said,
the fundamental question is it fair? And I can give
you example after example. Just in my home state, there
was someone that won a triple jump by eight feet.
All right, it's just, but it's serious, and we had
two people in the state champion.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
This broke my heart. Two years ago, I'll never forget.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Eighteen months ago, we had two extraordinary athletes that got
into the final state finals.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Trans athletes got in the state finals. The backlash was
so bad they.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Didn't even compete, and the other two people that were
kicked out.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Weren't able to compete.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
It was fundamentally unfair.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Wait wait, wait, stopped stop.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
He said it was fundamentally unfair before for guys to
compete in women's sports. Now we're saying it's fundamentally unfair
for two trends people to be to be blocked from competing.
Because the example he's using is two guys who said
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they were girls and their entry in that particular event
caught such a storm of protest they decided not to compete,
And he says it's fundamentally unfair.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Does anybody track him or am I insane?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
He says it's unfair if two guys like that compete,
and then he says it's fundamentally unfair if.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
These two were were.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Shamed out of competing, were coerced out of competing.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, which is it?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
He's actually on both sides at the same time, in
the same sentence.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Practically play some more. We weren't able to compete.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
It was fundamentally unfair. We haven't been able to figure
that out, So I expressed that as a fierce champion
of lgbt Q rights.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yes, and with a record that I don't have with anyone,
you have the credit. I feel like I'm insane. And
even bellmar who was pretty SUREP didn't catch on to this.
He's on both sides at the same time. Let me,
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I gotta take a break. We come back. I want
to read you this clip. I found this highly entertaining.
I don't know if I've ever read a comment at
the end of an LA Times story, because most of
that stuff is just the same crazy people over and
over again. But this guy encapsulated newsome and this is
what should be discussed. Because I've kind of had it
up to here with transgender debates. I don't really care
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about the issue very much, except when it's fundamentally unfair
and if you have a daughter and she's losing out
to guys who claim their women. But as far as
whether as far as the issue of transitor people, it's
like nobody really cares. It's just everybody's got to stay
in their lane competing athletically. Among a few other things.
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I'll tell you about this particular comment when we come back.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFII.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
We've got Alex Stone from ABC News coming on right
after Debra's two o'clock report. They're back on Earth, Butch
and Sonny, those are the two astronauts and they spent
nine months in space because Boeing's spaceship didn't work properly,
and Elon MUCKs Elon Musk's spaceship rescued them and they
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have been talking to the media, and Alex has a
report on that. All right, I wanted to read what
was I going to read? I don't know. Comment from
the La Times. Thank you, and I hope it's still here.
Let's see, okay, good.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So we've been.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Playing clips from Newsom on Bill Maher, who and Newsom
is tangling himself up into a pretzel, contradicting himself about
transgender athletes to the point where he doesn't know that
he's taken both sides of the issue at the same time.
And Bill Maher didn't even realize it. But you got
to listen closely. And I don't know if Newsom does
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this on I assume he does this on purpose, or
maybe he truly is confused. This guy is a commentor
on the La Times news stories about Newsom in his podcasts,
calls his name, calls himself closeter, cologhstr He's got this perfect,
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he writes. Who cares what Newsom says? Here's a picture
of California under Newsom. Schools ranked forty fourth in the nation,
ninth highest tax burden, worst poverty rate in the nation,
bullet train, highest unemployment rate, mismanaged water conservation and delivery,
mismanaged forestry and wildfire suppression, mismanaged response to the COVID virus,
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sanctuary cities, twenty one billion dollars in annual subsidies to
illegal immigrants, Unemployment fraud, you know, the thirty billion that
went out the door, largest home population, soaring, crime, businesses
fleeing the state, uses skin color and Genitalia to pick
a US senator, proposed reparations, spent a million to purchase
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masks from the Chinese. Remember that scandal. Gross mismanagement of
the state budget, home insurance crisis. I think we all
get the picture picture. What would Newsom say about all
of this? Now, that was at least a dozen, maybe
fifteen issues that Newsom has legitimately failed on. I don't
think there's a debate about this. I think if you
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looked at I mean, our school's really on the whole stink.
We do have a high tax burden, we do have
the worst poverty. The bullet train's a disaster, The unemployment
rate is the highest, The water situation is terrible, the
wildfire situation is dangerous. What he did during COVID was unconscionable.
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Sanctuary cities twenty one billion dollars to illegal alien, unemployment, fraud,
homelessness soaring, crime, business is fleeing, the state uses skin
color and Genitalia to pick a US senator, reparations mask
purchases from the Chinese, gross mismanagement of the budget, home
in Church.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
That's eighteen issues.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
That's eighteen issues he's failed on that he's made worse.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Eighteen for eighteen. None of this.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Ever comes up in any interviews. You just have to
print out this guy's comment and then start reading, Gavin,
I have eighteen issues. You have screwed up badly on
Let's go. There's a podcast for you, Gavin's eighteen failures.
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That would be the title. And I have never seen
a single. He has been around for twenty years, from
San Francisco to the lieutenant governor. He was the mayor,
lieutenant governor, the governor, right national figure now wants to
be president desperately. He has eighteen failures, and because of
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the extreme progressive bias in the media and his hair
and his chin, he never has to account for any
of this. Can you imagine if you failed at eighteen
on eighteen different projects on your job. What happens to
a pitcher who loses eighteen straight baseball games?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
He gets cut?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, how many times can a batter go oh for eighteen?
Because he's got oh for eighteen for six years now.
So imagine there's a series of oh for eighteen.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Streaks.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Imagine you're a quarterback, you're OH for eighteen passing, you're
not making it to the second half. He is considered
presidential material after going oh for eight I'm a what
the hell? Are all of you crazy?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Somebody?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Either everybody is crazy or I'm crazy one of the two.
Maybe I am.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I think it's a little of both. That's kind of
what I'm thinking. Is that what you're thinking? Thank you? Yeah,
I'm so nice to you. I doubt about all your
words I don't deserve. Minutes later, I'm getting it we're both.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Crazy because I agree with a lot of what you say,
which is, you know where does that put me?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Well, when it comes to crazy, I'm always looking up
to you. That's why you get your little box. That's right,
that's right. They put you in that pattern room. Okay,
when we come back, Alex Stone from ABC News, how
about the two astronauts. They're finally speaking out on what
it's like being in space nine months and they're not
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holding any grudges. See, I'd be holding grudges.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I would too.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, although I think you know when you when you're
in that position, you have to know that you know,
anything can happen. You just have to.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
You have to go with the flow.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
John, you think they want to fly again? Yes see,
I'm not a flow goer.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
I know that. That's my that's my issue in life.
I tried.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, now if there's if there's if I see a flow,
just instinctively, I go the other way. Then I drowned.
Debor Mark led in the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
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Do we have trumpets? Eric?
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We should get trumpets because Gabra Mark Saturday Night won
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
For Excellent in Radio Newscasting, including.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
If You won two awards for that wonderful series you
did on Suicide Yes, that we played on the show
Yes and got a lot of acclaim and I think
you helped a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Of people at that I hope.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So you know it came out of your own family
experience and it was about the most moving, heart raching
thing I've ever heard on the radio. And I'm serious
about that. You did a terrific job. And Steve Gregory
was your producer. He won one as well. In fact,
he won five yes and you won three Yes also
for Best newscast.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
On your show one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's right, that's why it was the best newscastway. Congratulations,
you deserve it. Thank you so much, and that is
that is great. And there's photos online and for posing
with you. There's also photos of you posing alone. Yes,
I saw them yesterday. Yes, well I must have thought
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really good though it did.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
But thank you, I know, I think I thank you,
you know when we first aired these, but thank you
so much for your support and for letting me broadcast
the two part series on your show, and then we
did that whole Q and A after the second part
of the series, Mental lot.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, I mean that that stands on its own as
just a brilliant series, and I know it's helped people
because they write to you and tell you that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, and that makes it all worth it. That part.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I mean, yes, it's great that I want awards because
I know, you know, I worked really hard. Steve Gregory
worked really hard on it as well, and so that
part is obviously it's awesome. But to know that it
helped other people and maybe even prevented some people from
taking their own life is wow.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I mean, that's that's incredible. They do any better than that.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, congratulations again, John, you'll still let me talk to you?
Oh yes, okay, Lot, she has a guarden now outside
her booth. You know, I don't want to talk to anybody. Yeah,
all right, So now to uh, what's going on in
the world. You probably don't know this. Tomorrow is April first.
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You may know that, But did you know that La
County is going to increase the sales tax to nine
and three quarter percent tomorrow nine point seven five percent.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The tax is going up.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And because a majority of people who live in this county,
who are so so stupid and ignorant, they've voted for
an increase in the homeless sales tax in November. So
now we're going to pay nine point seven five percent.
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There was a quarter cent tax that was expiring soon.
This now turns it into a half cent tax. We
could have had the sales tax dropped by a quarter percent.
Instead it's going up by a half percent. And this
is going to affect everything that you purchase here the
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in La Canty and in some towns it's even worse.
In Palmdale and Lancaster, your rate is going to be
eleven point two five percent, which is the highest in
the county and the entire southern California region. You know,
Riverside and Orange Counties are at seven point seventy five percent,
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Ventura is at seven point twenty five. But now Palmdale
Lancaster is going to be at eleven and a quarter
because voters there also also voted in favor of these
tax increases. Let me go back to the La County
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tax increase. It's it's to give more money to the
homelessness monster. And we told you last week that there's
two and a half billion dollars missing, unaccounted for. There's
a federal judge who seems to be doing his own
investigat His name is David O. Carter, and Judge Carter
(05:05):
demanded an audit done be done from the outside. The
city had done one and found the same story, but
he wanted his own. Two and a half billion dollars
is missing, and he ordered city leaders to show up
in his chambers to explain themselves, and most of them
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didn't show, including Karen Bass, the mayor. Karen Bass was
asked by a judge to come and discuss matters. This
isn't a formal trial. She wasn't getting subpoened. She didn't
have to give testimony formal testimony. This was Hey, I'm
trying to figure out what's going wrong. I need you
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in the courtroom so we can talk. She wouldn't show
until Carter scolded one of her administrative aids, and suddenly
Karen Bass was available. Other people who didn't show up
included Lindsay Horvath, who's the chief of the La County
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Board of Supervisors, the woman who runs LASA, the LA
Housing Authority, which is hugely corrupt.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
She was in Boston.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Last we heard of her, and her name is Valicia
Adams Kellum VA Lysia Adams Kellum.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She's got four names.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Last we heard of her, she'd given away over two
million dollars to her husband's nonprofit. Her husband's in the
homeless industry as well, and so he reeled in two
million dollars from his wife, which of course violates all
sorts of ethics rules, but nobody cares. As you know,
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we spend about a billion four in La County on homelessness.
No in the city. In the city, we spend a
billion four. Then you add the county spending, and much
of it has disappeared and there's been no reduction in homelessness.
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So there's people stealing money throughout the whole system, and
everybody knows that they're stealing money. Carter was upset about this,
but he's not in on the grift. The people in
on it. They don't even show up for a court hearing.
I've never heard a federal judge invites a political official
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to try to explain what's going on.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm not coming, I'm busy. Nobody's upset. The audit story
came out weeks ago. Everybody just shrugs like, yeah, two
and a half billion is missing. Oh well, so doesn't
matter because the stupid people of La County voted for
another tax increase. Why do you even work, people who
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vote for these tax increases, Why do you go to work?
Why don't you just set your money, cast your check
and set your money on fire. That would be a
better use than giving it to the homeless monster. This
incredibly corrupt system, filled with thieves, filled with corruption. On
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nine point seventy five percent the sales tax in La County,
and that that is now two and a half per
two and a half percent higher than Ventura County. Boy,
if I lived on the border. What are people who
live in northern La County on the border if they
cross the border to save two and a half percent,
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especially on big ticket items. I mean, they divert so
much of the money. They don't divert it for fire
protection obviously that they don't do nine points stept by
that Really that really struck me. You know, maybe maybe
someday they people can do, maybe anthropologists can do an
(09:04):
investigation is to why people, after they've been told that
all their tax money is getting stolen, they still offer
more tax money to the government gods. It is almost
like a religious thing, right, These are almost like religious donations,
sacrifices to the gods of government. It's stunning. Now another
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place that another place where the money goes down a
rat hole is the state government. And Gavin Newsom right
now is running the most curious public relations campaign I've
ever seen in my life. He's going on anybody who
has a podcast. He has his own podcast, as you know,
(09:54):
He's going on everybody else's talk shows, whatnot, and everybody's
given a hard time all across the political spectrum.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And he is.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Saying things that renounce his old positions. But he's doing
things in line with his old positions, and everybody's confused.
And I think a reasonable person would think he's crazy.
And I'll explain this. I got some clips of him
appearing on with Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher,
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which which is a which is a great show. And
we'll play some clips and Newsom and and he doesn't
know which way to go. He wants to be president badly,
and he doesn't He wants to change as many views
as he needs to change without losing too much support
from the other end. And he's really confused. Play some
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of the clips you'll see.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Forty all right on to Newsome. He uh and I
do I do think uh. I do think that Kamala
Harris has stone much of the time. I'm going to
stand by them.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And Newsom is going on this bizarre tour.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And I've been trying to follow what he's doing, because
you know, he has a set of woke, progressive issues
that he's governed California with, and then he is suddenly
denouncing those issues, such as men and boys playing women
in girls sports in school.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But he's not changing the law.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Uh, and so you have to look at what he's
what he does, the laws he's he's passed, and the
laws he still supports, because what he's saying on these
podcasts is completely contradictory. They start with Real Time with
Bill Maher It's a good show on HBO, and he
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and Newsom start talking about the state of the Democratic
Party because the Democrats approval rating in this country is
twenty seven percent. And Newsom says, yeah, yeah, we're toxic.
But play this clip.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
So John Fetterman was in the news today. He said,
if you term of the Democratic Party, he said, if
we don't get our together, we're going to be a
permanent minority.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I agree, and I see you're.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Doing something about it, and I applaud it. I think
it's great you've got this podcast, You're talking to people.
You know. It's amazing to me that even that is
controversial to some people. They call it platforming if you
talk to someone you don't agree with it. I feel
like this country is divided into owners and healers. People
think who can own the other side.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Gavin Newsom own dissentist descents destroyed. Gavin Newssom or people
who want to talk and heal. And I feel like
the next president is going to be, at least if
it comes from this party, the Democratic Party, someone who
wants to talk and heal, and I feel like you're
doing it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It's really been interesting in the reaction to the podcast.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I mean, we had some controversial figures on I'll acknowledge that,
and Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk and.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Some others, but you're right. I mean this idea that
we can't even have a conversation with the other side.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You have to They won, thank you, and then it's
the bottom line and by the way, or the notion,
we just have to continue to talk to ourselves or
win the same damn echo chamber. These guys are crushing us.
The Democratic brand is toxic right now. We had a
high water mark two weeks ago, and that was a
CNN pull at twenty nine percent favorability. It's dropped when
the NBC pulled down to twenty seven percent. It's one
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thing to make noise, but you also have to make sense.
And I think with this podcast and having the opportunity
to dialogue with people I disagree with, it's an opportunity
to try to find common ground and not take cheap shots.
I'm not looking to put a spoke in the wheel
of their or at least a crowbar and the spokes
of their wheel to trip theme to your point. And
I think it's important Democrats, we tend to be a
little more judgmental than we should be. This notion of
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cancel culture, you've been living, You've been on the receiving
end of it for years and years and years. That's
real and Democrats need to own up to that. They've
got to mature.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Through about this.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Well, gee, that's all warm and fuzzy and great, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
But the truth is.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
He he passed, he signed a law, and he backs
a law that allows boys and men to compete in
girls and women's sports from kindergarten through college.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He signed the law, He praised the law.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
The law is one of those eighty twenty issues where
eighty percent of the country is against that stuff. He
goes on a podcast, well, he was on his own
podcast right with Charlie Kirk, and he said it was
deeply unfair play that clip.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
What do you do, seriously, Charlie Kirk, give us some of.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
The better ideas governor, Like for example, I mean like
if you want to, like you have an opportunity to like,
you know, run to the middle and see this man's office.
You're talking to me of all people, it's like you
right now should come out and be like, you know what,
the young man who's about to win the state championship
in the long jump in female sports, that's that that
shouldn't happen. You as the governor should step out and
say no, no, And I appreciate and like, would you
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do something like that? Would you say no men in
female sports?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely
agree with you on that. It is an issue affair.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
So it's deeply would you speak out against this young man,
baby Hernandez, who right now is going to win the
state championship in the long time?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
See you wrestling with it?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
No, I'm not wrestling. I'm not realizing with the fairness issue,
I totally agree with you. By the way, as someone
with four kids, you got two daughters, right, two daughters.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Had a daughter and.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
A wife that went god forbid to Stanford and played
on the junior national soccer team, and a guy who
got into college only because.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
There was left hand. That's a lie you did get
in college for baseball. So he says it's deeply unfair.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
But ever since this podcast run, which was this podcast ran,
which was several weeks ago, the law hasn't changed. He
didn't announce to the legislature that he wants a new
law repealing the old one. The law still stands that
boys and men can compete in girls and women's sports
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from kindergarten through college. So he endorses He originally endorsed
and signed a deeply unfair law. When he signed it,
he did not say I'm signing a deeply unfair law.
He signed it, and it becomes law. People hate it.
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It's clearly wrong. It's not even worth debating anymore. Now
he agrees, oh, deeply unfair. Well change it. Well he doesn't.
And when we come back, Marr asked. Newsome says, you're
the poster boy for progressive stuff, and they start talking
about transgender athletes.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And then I want to tell you I.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Was inspired by an actual comment from an La Times reader.
You know, if you scroll to the bottom of La
Times stories. Now they allow readers to comment, and most
of it's nuts, but there's one guy who went through
Newsom's record and he was right on every count. And
I'm thinking, how how about all this being discussed out
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loud and debated.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We'll we'll talk about it when we come back.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI A.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Six forty round from one until four every day, and
after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the
iHeart app. We're playing clips from Bill Maher's Real Time
Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. He had Gavin
Newsom as a guest, and Newsom is continuing this curious
media tour where he renounces some of the some of
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the progressive positions that he had that the Democrats have
and says, well, we've got to change. We're toxic. But
he keeps all those toxic policies in place. He's such
a lying hypocrite. They caught him the other day on
his podcast. He had said, where did LATINX come from?
(18:07):
I never heard of LATINX. Nobody in my office he
was LATINX. And then one of the stations played a
montage where he used it in public speeches six times.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I mean, he's just.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He's just bad he's such a public, compulsive, pathological liar,
and he's bad at hiding it.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
But he thinks he's slick. He looks slick.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
MA asked Newsome about what he says to people who
say that, hey, Gavin, you're the poster boy for all
this progressive nonsense.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Play cut three.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
So what do you say to people who say, well,
this sounds all very good, but Governor and you were
the poster boy for a lot of this stuff I
see today the Trump administration is they talked about I
know if this is true, but they talked about the
fact that California had a rule that schools cannot be
wired to notify parents if their kids in school have
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changed their gender, their pronouns. That's the kind of thing,
even though it doesn't affect a lot of people, that
makes a lot of people go, well, you know what,
that's the Party without common sense. Now, if that's your state,
how are you are you?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I just disagree with that.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I mean, the law was you would be fired, a
teacher would be fired if a teacher did not report
or snitch on a kid talking about their gender identity.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I just think that was wrong. I think teachers should teach.
I don't think they should be required to turn in kids.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
And by the way, turn.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
In that we're talking about their parents.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
How can I snitch?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
The idea of a.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Snitch and a parent to me doesn't combine.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Well, I just I don't.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
But what is the job of a teacher.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's to teach.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
If Johnny's talking about some identity issue or.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Some way, would stop stop stop?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Do you know how much progressive sexual ideology is being
taught in all the schools, now.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Public, private?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You know what was that story we had about ten
year olds who were being taught about the use of
sex toys.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Oh y, on Friday? You are talking on Friday?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yes, ten year olds being being instructed on how to
use sex toys. What the hell is he talking about?
They were very proud of this. They don't want the
parents to know. I don't know a single parent who
if their son or daughter is switching section And it's
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not that they're attracted to girls or boys, that a
boy wants to become a girl, a girl wants to
become a boy, because you know what the next step
is is then it's it's puberty blockers and hormones and
eventually surgery. Well, if you're a parent, you want to
be there on day one as soon as you know
about it. He did this whole ideology, This progressive ideology
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is so destructive. It has always been hateful of parents,
dismissive of parents, and he is the post boy for
this garbage. California is the most progressive, toxic state in
the country, the most intrusive, and he's signed every one
of these freaking bills. He's been there for six years,
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he signed them all. We didn't have a lot of
this crap six years ago. It's him because it was cool,
it was in fashion, it was really cool to be progressive,
and so he wanted to be part of that train.
And now it's not cool anymore in the other forty
nine states. Oh well, looks like I'm really not for
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that stuff anymore. Will you gonna repeal it?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
No, play somewhere this teach.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
If Johnny's talking about some identity issue or some issue
about liking someone of the same sex, is that the
teacher's job to then reward that. By the way, in
this law, the teacher can still do that, but they
can't be fired if that's what it can't be fired if.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
That's not what they do, because.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
That's something I think is I just think that was fair,
and I don't think that's inapprop.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Seen a lot of people lately talking about this eighty
twenty issue, and I think you are on the other
side of this now, the side with the eighty eighty
being eighty percent of the people in this country. Again,
this is the issue of should biologically born men be
able to compete in women's sport?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That's tough.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
And you know, each time I saw the polling here
in California, they think you're a trader for saying this.
You know, when those kind of people call you a trader,
there's a word for that, electable.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Get on.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
If the Democrats and eighty percent of the people are
with you on this now, if the Democrats can't get
with eighty how are they going to do something when
it's a fifty one to forty nine.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
No, Look, I get it, and that's it. Look, and
the other side weaponizes these issues.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
They do.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It's just new term, but weaponize the issue. Well, what
does that mean? You emphasize it? You pointing out so
everybody understands just how nuts you are. And but the
I'm still waiting for him to say, yeah, it's deeply
unfair for guys to play in women's sports, and I'm
going to get that law repealed. You notice he doesn't
say that mar does him a favor, saying hey, that
(23:19):
makes you electable.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
In the crowd cheers.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
It's like, uh uh, he's not repealing the law. So
it's cheap to go on a talk show and say
I'm against men playing in women's sports. That costs nothing.
Get the law repealed and sign it. Continue with this.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
The other side weaponizes these issues. They dehumanize, they attack,
they demean.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Look, it's eighty percent of the country. It isn't the
other side. It's eighty percent of the country you boso,
including a majority of your side.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Boso played more.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
They demean and they've weaponized this issue extraordinarily. Well, that said,
the fundamental question is it fair? And I can give
you example after example. Just in my home state, there
was someone that won a triple jump by eight feet.
All right, it's just, but it's serious, and we had
two people in the state champion.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
This broke my heart. Two years ago, I'll never forget.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Eighteen months ago, we had two extraordinary athletes that got
into the final state finals.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Trans athletes got in the state finals. The backlash was
so bad they.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Didn't even compete, and the other two people that were
kicked out.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Weren't able to compete.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
It was fundamentally unfair.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Wait wait, wait, stopped stop.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
He said it was fundamentally unfair before for guys to
compete in women's sports. Now we're saying it's fundamentally unfair
for two trends people to be to be blocked from competing.
Because the example he's using is two guys who said
(24:55):
they were girls and their entry in that particular event
caught such a storm of protest they decided not to compete,
And he says it's fundamentally unfair.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Does anybody track him or am I insane?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
He says it's unfair if two guys like that compete,
and then he says it's fundamentally unfair if.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
These two were were.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Shamed out of competing, were coerced out of competing.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, which is it?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
He's actually on both sides at the same time, in
the same sentence.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Practically play some more. We weren't able to compete.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
It was fundamentally unfair. We haven't been able to figure
that out, So I expressed that as a fierce champion
of lgbt Q rights.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yes, and with a record that I don't have with anyone,
you have the credit. I feel like I'm insane. And
even bellmar who was pretty SUREP didn't catch on to this.
He's on both sides at the same time. Let me,
(26:01):
I gotta take a break. We come back. I want
to read you this clip. I found this highly entertaining.
I don't know if I've ever read a comment at
the end of an LA Times story, because most of
that stuff is just the same crazy people over and
over again. But this guy encapsulated newsome and this is
what should be discussed. Because I've kind of had it
up to here with transgender debates. I don't really care
(26:23):
about the issue very much, except when it's fundamentally unfair
and if you have a daughter and she's losing out
to guys who claim their women. But as far as
whether as far as the issue of transitor people, it's
like nobody really cares. It's just everybody's got to stay
in their lane competing athletically. Among a few other things.
(26:44):
I'll tell you about this particular comment when we come back.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFII.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
We've got Alex Stone from ABC News coming on right
after Debra's two o'clock report. They're back on Earth, Butch
and Sonny, those are the two astronauts and they spent
nine months in space because Boeing's spaceship didn't work properly,
and Elon MUCKs Elon Musk's spaceship rescued them and they
(27:21):
have been talking to the media, and Alex has a
report on that. All right, I wanted to read what
was I going to read? I don't know. Comment from
the La Times. Thank you, and I hope it's still here.
Let's see, okay, good.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So we've been.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Playing clips from Newsom on Bill Maher, who and Newsom
is tangling himself up into a pretzel, contradicting himself about
transgender athletes to the point where he doesn't know that
he's taken both sides of the issue at the same time.
And Bill Maher didn't even realize it. But you got
to listen closely. And I don't know if Newsom does
(27:57):
this on I assume he does this on purpose, or
maybe he truly is confused. This guy is a commentor
on the La Times news stories about Newsom in his podcasts,
calls his name, calls himself closeter, cologhstr He's got this perfect,
(28:22):
he writes. Who cares what Newsom says? Here's a picture
of California under Newsom. Schools ranked forty fourth in the nation,
ninth highest tax burden, worst poverty rate in the nation,
bullet train, highest unemployment rate, mismanaged water conservation and delivery,
mismanaged forestry and wildfire suppression, mismanaged response to the COVID virus,
(28:48):
sanctuary cities, twenty one billion dollars in annual subsidies to
illegal immigrants, Unemployment fraud, you know, the thirty billion that
went out the door, largest home population, soaring, crime, businesses
fleeing the state, uses skin color and Genitalia to pick
a US senator, proposed reparations, spent a million to purchase
(29:13):
masks from the Chinese. Remember that scandal. Gross mismanagement of
the state budget, home insurance crisis. I think we all
get the picture picture. What would Newsom say about all
of this? Now, that was at least a dozen, maybe
fifteen issues that Newsom has legitimately failed on. I don't
think there's a debate about this. I think if you
(29:34):
looked at I mean, our school's really on the whole stink.
We do have a high tax burden, we do have
the worst poverty. The bullet train's a disaster, The unemployment
rate is the highest, The water situation is terrible, the
wildfire situation is dangerous. What he did during COVID was unconscionable.
(29:56):
Sanctuary cities twenty one billion dollars to illegal alien, unemployment, fraud,
homelessness soaring, crime, business is fleeing, the state uses skin
color and Genitalia to pick a US senator, reparations mask
purchases from the Chinese, gross mismanagement of the budget, home
in Church.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
That's eighteen issues.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
That's eighteen issues he's failed on that he's made worse.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Eighteen for eighteen. None of this.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Ever comes up in any interviews. You just have to
print out this guy's comment and then start reading, Gavin,
I have eighteen issues. You have screwed up badly on
Let's go. There's a podcast for you, Gavin's eighteen failures.
(30:45):
That would be the title. And I have never seen
a single. He has been around for twenty years, from
San Francisco to the lieutenant governor. He was the mayor,
lieutenant governor, the governor, right national figure now wants to
be president desperately. He has eighteen failures, and because of
(31:10):
the extreme progressive bias in the media and his hair
and his chin, he never has to account for any
of this. Can you imagine if you failed at eighteen
on eighteen different projects on your job. What happens to
a pitcher who loses eighteen straight baseball games?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
He gets cut?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, how many times can a batter go oh for eighteen?
Because he's got oh for eighteen for six years now.
So imagine there's a series of oh for eighteen.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Streaks.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Imagine you're a quarterback, you're OH for eighteen passing, you're
not making it to the second half. He is considered
presidential material after going oh for eight I'm a what
the hell? Are all of you crazy?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Somebody?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Either everybody is crazy or I'm crazy one of the two.
Maybe I am.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I think it's a little of both. That's kind of
what I'm thinking. Is that what you're thinking? Thank you? Yeah,
I'm so nice to you. I doubt about all your
words I don't deserve. Minutes later, I'm getting it we're both.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Crazy because I agree with a lot of what you say,
which is, you know where does that put me?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Well, when it comes to crazy, I'm always looking up
to you. That's why you get your little box. That's right,
that's right. They put you in that pattern room. Okay,
when we come back, Alex Stone from ABC News, how
about the two astronauts. They're finally speaking out on what
it's like being in space nine months and they're not
(32:53):
holding any grudges. See, I'd be holding grudges.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I would too.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, although I think you know when you when you're
in that position, you have to know that you know,
anything can happen. You just have to.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
You have to go with the flow.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
John, you think they want to fly again? Yes see,
I'm not a flow goer.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
I know that. That's my that's my issue in life.
I tried.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, now if there's if there's if I see a flow,
just instinctively, I go the other way. Then I drowned.
Debor Mark led in the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
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