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March 31, 2025 34 mins

The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/31) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about the two astronauts who were stranded on the International Space Station giving their first interview since returning to Earth. The CEO of NPR was grilled in a House Oversight Committee hearing. There have been lots of homeless fires in San Diego. SoCal Edison's equipment is notorious for starting fires. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
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astronauts came back two weeks ago, and that's Butch Wilmore

(00:25):
and Sonny Williams.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I've been calling him. I've been calling her Soony for
you know, I did too.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
But you know what if you if you google and
go to YouTube, both of both of.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Them have been used. But I think she calls herself Sonny.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Sonny Sunny Williams. Butch Wilmore. They went on Fox this
morning to talk about their.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
God Him.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's nine months, two hundred and eighty six days, and
it doesn't seem like they're holding grudges, and it seems
like they were happy to be up there, which does
say something about their family life.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Doesn't it.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
No, I mean the astronauts, that's that's what they want
to do. They were probably thrilled to be there longer
than a week.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
But if you're in the guy's wife.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's like, you know this was don't come back, all right,
Let's get Alex Stone ABC News.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
He's got the whole story and you guys aren't alone.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
A lot of people are calling her soon a bit,
she says, no, I'm sunny, but yeah, they spoke to
reporters in a large room, I mean a bigger room
than I think NASA has seen in a very long
time of reporters in person and remotely, everybody wanting to
ask questions, and you're right, just their mental outlook on
it was kind of that they were given the chance
to do this, they were lucky to do it, that

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they were super happy to do it, or they know
politically what the best thing to say here is. But
they were all smiles today and they say they're feeling good.
Do they have thanks for everybody who helped get them home?
And Sonny today saying.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
Feeling good since we've been back almost two weeks now,
actually went out and ran three miles yesterday, So I
will give myself a little pat on the back. Our
trainers are rocking it and getting us ready to get
back to help out with the new astronauts as they're
getting ready for their mission. So the biggest thing I
want to say was.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Thank you three miles better than we're doing it.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
She had to come back and get back into shape.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
But her first homemade meal, says She says it was
a grilled cheese sandwich in honor of her dad, who
was a vegetarian, and that she enjoys a good grilled
cheese sandwich. She says she had big hugs for her
husband and dogs when she got home, in that order
in case her husband heard it. She said it was husband,
then dogs, and then Butch said it was all about
being with his family and that was a big part again.

Speaker 7 (02:29):
In home, embracing the family again. But also the opportunity
I've already said it a couple of times, is just
to say thank you to a nation that got involved
in all of this. It makes it special, not just
for us, but for all I think our nation.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
As a whole.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
So thank you, and so John.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
They were asked who was it fault for the starliner
launching with problems and not being able to get them home, and.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Butch said, everybody, everybody involved.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
And you know, in a way that a leader or
a good boss, he says, it starts with him, and
that it was He doesn't want to use fould or blame,
but it was everybody's responsibility that it went up and
it could not bring them home.

Speaker 7 (03:02):
I'll start and point the finger and I'll blame me.
I could ask some questions and the answers to those
questions could have turned the tide. So blame, that's a term.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
I don't like that term.

Speaker 7 (03:13):
But certainly there's responsibility throughout all the programs, and certainly
you can you can start with me, Responsibility with Boeing, Yes,
responsibility with NASA.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yes, they're saying everybody involved. And then he was asked
a little while ago, would you fly on it again?
And he and Sonny immediately said yes, of course, because
the problems are going to be fixed. That they like
the spacecraft. It just didn't function the way it should
have and took a long time to get them up there,
but they feel like that when Boeing goes back in
and fixes the issues that they had there, that's gonna

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be a great spacecraft.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes, because we're.

Speaker 7 (03:49):
Going to rectify all the issues that we that we encountered. Yeah,
we're going to fix We're going to make it work.
Boeing's completely committed. NASA is completely committed, and with that
I get on a heartbeat.

Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah, I would agree. The spacecraft is really capable.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
And they say they didn't really know of all the
politics of the Biden White House and Trump White House
getting them home while they were up there. That they
integrated into the International Space Station crew and just kind
of did what they had to do while they were
up there. But they said they're happy to be back
on Earth, that now they can help the next astronauts
get ready for their trips to head up. But they
said they like star Liner and maneuvers really well. It

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does things that SpaceX Is capsules can't do and that
other spacecraft can't do, so they do like it.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
It's just got to be fixed. But they're willing to
go back up.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
You just got to be able to fly back. Well,
there is that part get them home. Other than that,
all right, Alex, thanks very much. You got it there, John.
That's Alex Stone for ABC News. I was looking at
some other quote from quotes from Butch Wilmore and he said,
did I think about not being there for my daughter's

(04:57):
high school year? Of course, but we've trained them to
be resilient, my daughters and my family.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
I think you have to if you're an astronaut.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, I know I'm just being an idiot, But but
what I have liked to have be in with my family?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, but you know I was having a good time
up here.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
I could never do it. I mean, for lots of reasons.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
I would not want to be in a spacecraft for
nine months with you not wanting to be there.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
You are very yes, you're right, And I would not
want to got a candy. I couldn't even imagine being
up there with you with all.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
The complaining and the yelling and the shouting and the
exit bag top.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Does NASA even have vegan meals?

Speaker 4 (05:41):
I'm sure I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Maybe vegan powder.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
I would disintegrate.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
You'd be on that that little intercom screaming back at
Michigan Control. You'd be yelling about the food the whole time.
That's what That's what would be going on. Everything would
be about the food.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
There's my hair, my hair?

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh do you see what happened to their hair? Almost
I was going to say.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
My hair looks like that. Sometimes a lot of times.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
You put a lot of electrical static in your head,
I know, yeah, which is a sign of something.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
I don't know what.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
I don't either.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
When when we come back, I want to play for
you. You know, some some people used to wish that KFI
was NPR.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
We're so different. I don't even understand that.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, but that that was.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
That was a feeling, you know, if only we could
remake Kfi's NPR.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
I did fill in anchoring on an NPR station.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Very different, was it?

Speaker 8 (06:45):
How was it?

Speaker 4 (06:47):
It was lovely? But it's very very different.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
It's very different than than this.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, you know, the Republicans in Congress have been going
after NPR since forever, and my to my ear, it
used to be a fairly straightforward news operation, if they're so,
but their subject matter leaned towards liberal, That's what I
would say. The subject matter leans lean toward liberal. But
they were more or less straight shooters. Then they went

(07:16):
ultra woke like everybody else did all the way to
Disney right and now because Musk and Trump want to
cut funding to everything in sight. The Republicans had the
NPR CEO named her name's Catherine Marr, and they had
some pointed questions about things she had said and tweeted
in the past and this I found this very entertaining.

(07:39):
We'll play this next.

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There are still a lot of homeless encampments on Cowtrain's
lands and lots of fires. And you're so Cal Edison, right, Deborah,
And she's always very upset about how high her bill is. Well,
it turns out if you're with so Cal Edison, you're
always paying every month a big surcharge to stop wildfires,

(08:40):
to stop Edison from creating wildfires. Except no matter how
much money they charge, the number of fires they start
keeps going up and up. We'll talk about all that now,
you know, we really have obviously almost nothing in common
with NPR, and we have separate audiences as well. NPR

(09:03):
people are happy with that station, and KFI people are
happy here. There's almost no crossover, but you know, it
doesn't stop people from wanting to make KFI warlike NPR.
I don't think they have any conversations at NPR about
making it more like KFI, even.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
The delivery is different.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
If the delivery is different.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yes, they're all very soft spoken and earnest and serious,
and like I said before, I always thought they were
fairly straightforward. The issues they picked were left wing issues,
but in general their reporting was down the line. And
then suddenly, along with much of the rest of the world,
everybody went off the progressive cliff together. Well, now that

(09:46):
NPR's funding is on the line, PBS's funding is on
the line, there's congressional hearings because if all the American
public are going to pay taxes to fund NPR, and
they don't, you know, most of their money is actually
fundraising same thing PBS. But you know, there's there's a

(10:07):
certain percentage of government money that goes in and if
you're gonna take government money, I don't know it shouldn't
be down the middle entirely, or at least represent everybody
in some way. Well, they got a winner of a
CEO named Catherine Marr, who is an extraordinarily good looking woman.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
By the way, what why does that off?

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Because that shouldn't Because I hear her talk and I,
without looking at her, I'd say, boy, I'd really dislike
this person just because of her.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Oh, but now you now you like her because.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
She's you give a look at her. It's like maybe
I couldn't look at it. It's like Newsome. It's like,
that's right, it's like Newsom. John doesn't like Newsome, but
women do. Women do? Yeah, But I understand why they
find him attracted.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
I say, he's, yes, he's attractive.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
But if you don't like how attractive?

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Is he?

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Like one to ten scale? What would you give him?

Speaker 4 (10:54):
I would give him a nine, a nine. I think
he's he's a good looking good is he?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Is he better looking now with the gray hair or
is he better now?

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (11:04):
So he might have been a ten two years ago.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Oh he'd still be about a nine and maybe eight
or nine. I mean, he's a good looking guy, but
that doesn't that's not going to sway how I feel about.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
His politics right by this woman.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
But she obviously yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Mean she's in her forties. She's definitely a nine. Well,
I haven't seen I'd give her a nine. Yeah, what
does she look like? I'm hot, blonde, hot blonde, Yeah,
of course she looks like of course. However, she was
getting grilled. You'll hear Congressman Brandon Gill. They dug up

(11:41):
old quotes, old tweets from the past few years when
she was in her woke progressive glory. Let's play this cut.

Speaker 9 (11:49):
Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?

Speaker 10 (11:53):
I believe that I tweeted that, and as I've said earlier,
I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the
last half decade.

Speaker 5 (12:00):
It has evolved. Why did you tweet that?

Speaker 10 (12:03):
I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't
be able to say, Okay.

Speaker 9 (12:07):
Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and
white democracy?

Speaker 10 (12:12):
I don't believe that, sir.

Speaker 9 (12:15):
You don't read it, sad It's reference to a book
you were reading at the time, apparently, the Case for Reparations.

Speaker 10 (12:21):
I don't think I've ever read that.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Book, Sir, you tweeted about it.

Speaker 9 (12:25):
You said you took a day off to fully read
the Case for Reparations. You put that on Twitter in
January twenty twenty.

Speaker 10 (12:32):
I apologies, I don't recall that I did. Okay, no
doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Okay, you know she's very much.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Like Newsome, but she's hot, so it's okay.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
They both are nines and they like hell even when
they're quite red handed.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
That.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
I love that last part about reading the book. Oh
could you play that again? That is classic.

Speaker 9 (13:05):
You said you took a day off to fully read
the Case for Reparations.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
You put that on Twitter in January twenty twenty.

Speaker 10 (13:12):
Apologies, I don't recall that I did. I'm ok no
doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don't
recall that.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
She writes on Twitter that she took a day off
and then claims she never read the book and doesn't
remember writing that.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
The Case for Reparations was the name of the book,
and obviously lawyers told her to say that. That is
the outclause. Whenever you have to give testimony, you're under
oath you're testified before Congress, you have a subpoena, you're
in front of a judge.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
I don't know, I don't really remember.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
But is it not lying?

Speaker 6 (13:51):
Though?

Speaker 3 (13:52):
If you say you don't remember, of course you remember something,
so then that's lying.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
She's I just think she's lying. I'm just saying, yeah, I'm.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Saying that I think she's lying. Yeah, No, I think
she's lying. But that's what the lawyers tell you to
do because it's an unimprovable lie. You can't prove it
true what your memory is.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
But you're taking an oath you shouldn't lie.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, but there's no risk of being charged with perjury.
See that's what that's what they're worried about.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
They don't care.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
She has no problem lying. It's like Losman has no
problem li but's it going to get me into some
kind of legal problem?

Speaker 4 (14:23):
Got it?

Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'm not going to end up in jail.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's like when Roger Clemens lied to Congress and said
he misremembered and made that word up out of complete
thin air.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
I'd never heard that word before, and then everybody started
using it. It was about about taking steroids.

Speaker 8 (14:37):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
I misremembered that first question Brandon Gill asked about she
thought America was addicted to white supremacy. Now, how big
of a whack job do you have to be to
actually say that out loud or put it in a
tweet and believe it that America as a nation, like

(15:00):
much of the nation, is addicted to white supremacy. How
do you even think of that concept? And then she's
running in pr and she doesn't understand why everyone's accusing
NBR of being like a progressive looney bin. And that's
what's great about this is she had to answer for

(15:20):
it because she's taking all of our tax money. She's
not just taking left wing tax money. She takes everyway.
You know, if you're driving a truck right now, you know,
up up the ninety nine freeway and you're going you're
going back to your conservative little hamlet after putting it
in twelve hours of sweat and hard work. She's got

(15:43):
a little bit of your money there. And that's that's
what's wrong. You take, you take public money, and then
you provide programming for a narrow a narrow niche a
narrow slice, and that programming disrespects and in sults all
these other people who are also paying your bills and

(16:05):
paying your salary. I'm sure she's making hundreds of thousands
of dollars. That's what you can have. All the opinions
you want, doesn't matter to me, But you're taking my
tax money and then insulting me, and then you run
all this biased programming. Yikes, now they should they should

(16:26):
cut off funding. You know what do like we do? Yeah,
you're on a commercial station. You have to draw an
audience and then the advertisers want to sell their products
and services to that audience.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
This is not easy. This is hard work. Okay.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
It is really easy to sit in your office and
just have the government send you a chat.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
But you go go out on the real mark.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
You go and try to engage an audience that an
advertised that advertisers want, and that the audience wants to
buy their products and their services. All Right, it's a
it's a difficult business, and it's gotten more and more
difficult as the years go by. But she's had it easy. Yeah,
they hold they hold the little fundraisers, you know, they

(17:09):
did do the begathons, and then the money comes in
and they they get their government grants their government subsidies.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
That's what pisses me off.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
You know, if if you're competing in the marketplace and
your programming wins and your opinions win, well, then they
win and you make profits.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
But wow, to get to get a big safety net
from the government and then soak the hell out of
all the taxpayers that are paying for this. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
we're all addicted to white supremacy. But however, she is
very good looking. Uh, when we come back, Well, you
get news some of nine again, you get new some

(17:53):
on nine.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
I said eight nine. Well I back traced or backtracked
a little bit.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Like eight point six maybe, But.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Again I could say somebody is attractive. That doesn't mean
I'm gonna excuse them for things.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh no, I'm not excusing her.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Oh, when we come back, Gavin Newsom had ordered Caltrans
to get the homeless encampments off state land. Well, then
in San Diego they haven't done that, and the crazy
vagrants and mental patients keep setting fires, lots and lots
of fires. Not as many fires as so cal Edison
starts every year, but and so col Edison charges its

(18:34):
customers a lot of money every month.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
I don't know. You're so cal Edison, right you're not?

Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (18:40):
I am yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yes, stay with me here. You're dreaming.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
I'm DWP, right you are.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
I thought you were so cowed.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
No, I'm DWP. That's why you caught me off guard.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Okay, well, we'll sort all this out in a few minutes.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
Uh de Marcus, I am DWP for sure, all right.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Okay, I believe you as you're in LA.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Well, and I complain all the time about my DWP bills.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
I know. I just got confused.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Okay, I'm glad you're confused.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
I'm not, but you tried confusing me and then we
were both confused again.

Speaker 8 (19:12):
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Speaker 2 (19:18):
We are on every day one until four o'clock and
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and Facebook today because there's photos of the Deborah and
Old Glory. She won three Golden Micha Awards on Saturday Night,

(19:42):
and she let me hold one of them and they
took a picture of that. And she got two awards
for the series she did on suicide. If you remember
when we played that, it was very powerful and moving.
And she also won for Best Newscast on Our sh show,
specifically at one o'clock Newscasters, three Golden Mics, lifetime total

(20:08):
of seven. Yes, you have seven times as many awards
as I've ever gotten.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
Oh and I don't want to disappoint.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
And in case you have never looked on social media,
I'm not a nine as that woman that John is
talking about.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
But you know you can still you can still look.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Have some self confidence.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
I'm just saying, I don't know, hot blood, I'm going
to give you that.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Okay, Well, then I think people should go online and
give a rate.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Do you want that?

Speaker 10 (20:41):
Can you imagine?

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Let's let's see what it averages out to.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Some of these.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Listeners are pretty mean, some of them, most of them.
Most of them are very nice, but there are some
that are pretty harsh, and I would God, I would
love for those people to put themselves out.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Sure we could rate the listeners too.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
I love.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
So much.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Let them rate you and you can rate them asthon idea. Yeah,
all right, to go to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, whatever, you
and you'll see the photos.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
All right, Newsom, this is classic. This is what I'm
talking about.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
If anybody, if there were any journalists who really wanted
to dig their teeth into Newsom's record, what he is
great at is he'll hold a press conference and make
a proclamation, an executive order, and he'll form a commission
or a blue ribbon panel or some kind of investigation
he calls for, and then nothing ever happens. Last summer,

(21:43):
Gavin Newsom issued an executive order demanding that state agencies
quickly clear all the homeless encampments that are on state land,
for example Caltrans land that surrounds freeways and freeway ramps.
It's time to move with urgency, he said in a video.
There are no longer any excuses. Well, according to Blake Nelson,

(22:06):
he writes for the San Diego Union Tribune, in the
San Diego area, there now seems to be more tense
than ever near San Diego's highway on and off ramps,
which are in general managed by Coltrans. And this happened
after local governments banned camping on city sidewalks. The Supreme

(22:31):
Court said, you, mister vagrant, mister drug addict, mental patient,
you have no right to sleep on public land. So
the cities in many cases enforced this law, not Karen Bass,
and they.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Kicked them off. So they went to state land.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
But wait, Gavin Newsom says, move with urgency, no excuses,
all tent encampments gone. But Gavin Newsom doesn't enforce his proclamations,
and it's an executive order with no follow through. A
spokesperson for the San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria is named
Rachel Ling, and she said since the start of last year,

(23:13):
more than sixty local fires had begun by encampments next
to roadways, but the total went up dramatically if you
looked at all the fires within one hundred streets, within
one hundred feet of streets that caltrans monitors. San Diego

(23:33):
is negotiating with the state about giving city crews authority
more authority to clear the encampments on state property. But
a sticking point maybe who pays for what because collecting
debris could be expensive. Now, if Newsome didn't blow twelve

(23:55):
billion dollars on illegal alien healthcare, and seventeen billion dollars
on high speed rail, and thirty billion dollars giving away
a legal alien, giving away unemployment money to fraudsters, and
then twenty four billion dollars lost on homelessness unaccounted for.
Maybe he'd have a few bucks to give to the

(24:16):
city of San Diego to clean up the homeless on
state land, but he's blown so much money that he's
they're now nitpicking, penny pinching on who's going to clean
up the tents and the broken bicycles and all the
filthy garbage. The state has given the region millions of

(24:37):
dollars for the vagrants, and the agency removed nine hundred
and forty three encampments, but homelessness continues to grow. Wait
a second, They removed nine hundred and forty three encampments
in San Diego just last year, hundred and forty three.

(25:01):
But homelessness is growing. There are nowhere near enough beds
for everybody. Well, maybe you then put them in jail
or force them into rehab. How about that. That's what
gonna That's what they're gonna do. In San Jose, we

(25:21):
had the mayor on Matt Mayhem. That's what that's what
they they want to do. And uh, there's lots and
lots of fires all over the place. They talk about
one woman, she's forty seven years old, and she wakes
up at a tent and she starts slapping at her
head and she scrambles from the tent. Her hair was

(25:43):
on fire. You've heard that saying my hair was on fire.
Her hair actually was on fire, and uh, she and
her dog made it out. Her name is La. She
goes by her middle day.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
What's the middle name.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Middle name is Law.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
Oh, the middle name is law.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
First name is Tralla.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
So the side of priment record show that her tent
went on fire on March twenty first, before sunrise. Well,
what was going on in her tent that her tent
and her hair went on fire. What was she smoking
in there? Two days later, a tree ignited near another

(26:31):
camp site. They're on Coltrans land, and the fires highlight
the difficulties of keeping Caltrans property free of encampments. When
there are a few places for homeless people to go,
it's like no, no, no, They're not allowed on the
city streets or city parks or sidewalks or cowtransland. You

(26:51):
just keep shoving them along. No, no, not here, not here,
not here. Go get a job. Hello, go get a job.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
You're gonna have to work.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
No more mainlining heroin and fentonyl no more snorting Math's
that's over. If you're with so Cal Edison, twenty six
dollars every month goes for fire prevention, wildfire related spending.

(27:21):
It's supposed to reduce the number of wildfires. It's about
three hundred dollars a year. They're supposed to spend it
on insulated wires, tree trimming, weather stations, inspections.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
We come back.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
I'll tell you how much fires started by Edison have increased.
You see a theme here. Newsom, when he's lying, insists
that all these fires are from climate change and global warming.
Looks like they're from homeless and the electric utility companies.

(27:55):
Because the number of fires that the vagrant start is
in the seventeen thousand range here in LA, and the
number of fires that Edison starts, just as one example
increased has increased dramatically. So I don't think it's climate change.
I think it's vagrant and the utilities because there's no

(28:16):
consequences for either group. We'll give you more.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
We come back.

Speaker 8 (28:20):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
John Cobelt after three o'clock Karl Demayo the Republican Assemblement
from San Diego. Boy, he seems like every week he's
hitting the news, shaking things up, pissing people off. We're
going to play you right before Carl comes on. Carl

(28:46):
was speaking during the Assembly hearing about Caesar Chavez because
it was it today or yesterday? Was Caesar Chavez Dad,
Today's Caesar Chavez Day. He was the Mexican Union leader.
And I guess he organized so well they named a
holiday after him, so government workers don't have to work.

(29:08):
Don't really get it, but that's what they do. Uh
So Caesar Shaves Day. And Carlo Mayo said publicly that, hey,
you know, Caesar Shav has opposed to legal immigration, and
uh well that caused that caused some other assemblymen to
lunge at him.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
There's some kind of physical activity there.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
We got violence.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Well I don't know. It says he loved the guy
lunged because he was so angry.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
He said Chavez to stood for secure borders and against
the legal immigration. And some other Democrat went nut. So
we'll play with some audio from it, and then we're
gonna have carl On and he's also got another issue
to talk about it as well. All right, So the
last segment we talked about how there's so many fires
starting in San Diego on State coltrans land near the highways,

(30:06):
even though Newsom had an executive order last summer saying
this has got to stop. Well, it hasn't stopped because
Newsom hasn't hired the cruise, isn't paying the cruise to
clean out the homeless encampments. So there's more homeless than
ever before and more fires than ever before. Now, another
big cause of these fires is electrical lines, whether it's

(30:31):
PG and E, DWP, so Cal Edison in this case.
The Time says a story that so Cal Edison charges
customers on average twenty six dollars a month three hundred
dollars a year, and it goes to prevent wildfires, insulating wires,

(30:55):
trimming trees, building weather stations, more inspections of their failing equipment.
So on average you're spending three hundred dollars extra a year.
And what's happened, Well, the number of fires sparked by
Edison equipment hit one hundred and seventy eight last year,
one hundred and seventy eight ten years ago, it's only

(31:17):
one hundred and seven. They have spent billions of dollars
over the last ten years on fire prevention. They spent
almost two billion last year, and the number of fires
are up by about two thirds. They're spending accounts for

(31:42):
fifteen percent of the average electrical bill two years ago
it was nine percent. So they keep jacking up the fee,
jacking up the fee. They're taking billions and billions of dollars.
They're allegedly spending it on these fire prevention projects, and
it's not working.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
They're getting more and more fires.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
And then you have the idiot governor saying it's the
climate change. No, it's the climate change. But it's not
the climate change. It's the electric companies. It's the vagrants,
the drug addicts, and the mental patients. Do you know
that Edison equipment has sparked eight hundred and forty one

(32:21):
vegetation fires in the last ten years. Eight hundred and
forty one. The lines, the electrical lines fall, they ignite
the dried out vegetation. If they buried the lines, which
they should have done decades ago, then you wouldn't have
You'd have eight hundred and forty one fewer fires. If

(32:47):
all the vagrants were kicked off the streets of Los
Angeles and told to go to UH drug treatment or jail,
you'd have seventeen thousand fewer fires. So climate change isn't
causing the fires. Drill that into some of these idiots heads.
It's the mental patient vagrants, and it's the electric companies.

(33:11):
They're causing the fires by the thousands. But that's all right.
Government officials, utility officials are going to keep lying. The
UH people who run those criminal nonprofits are going to
keep lying, and the media will keep amplifying the lies

(33:32):
until everybody leaves the propaganda, because that's the way it works.
All right, We come back. So Carl Demyo, the Republican assemblyman,
was trying to point out since today Caesar Chavez Day,
that Caesar Chavez stood for secure borders and against illegal immigration,

(33:53):
and that pissed off at least one Democrat so much
that he physically lunged at the Mayo while at an
assembly hearing. I guess I find out all the details,
Carl will be in minutes Debora Mark is live in
the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear

(34:14):
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