April 16, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (04/16) - Carl DeMaio comes on the show to talk about the new bill he is pushing called the "Cut the Politicians' Perks Act". More on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. More on the new lawsuit from California challenging Pres. Trump's authority to hand out tariffs to other countries. 73% of American students are not proficient in math for their age group.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Last how we played
you a couple of clips of this Maryland Senator Chris
van Holland who's flown to El Salvador. He wants to
get the release of that illegal alien gang member, kill
Mar Abrego Garcia. And so far he's uh, he's getting
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the locked door from the L Salvadoran officials. They're not
going to let him talk to the prisoner. They don't,
they're they don't, they're not interested. Uh. And of course
news has come out New York Post as an exclusive
saying that Abrego Garcia is actually a wife beater according
to his wife, and there's been a restraining order against him.
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So we'll get to the latest details in that. In meantime,
I want to get Carl Demayo on. He's the Republican Assemblyman.
He's always coming on with us. He has a long
list of great bills that an enormous world would be
passed it about five minutes. The Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara,
we know him as Calfart Lara. He took a free
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trip to Bermuda and spoke for fifteen minutes, one five
fifteen minutes, and it's some kind of an insurance conference
instead of being in Sacramento and talking to lawmakers. We
have a massive insurance crisis in the state, as all
of us know, you know, house home insurance, and fire
insurance and earthquake insurance, all of it. And but look,
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Lara cannot resist all the perks and the invitations and
the travel, and Tomaio wants to stop it with his
bill called cut the Politician's Perks Act. Let's get Carl
Demayo on. How are you hey, John?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And by the way, Carl is going to be a
guest host next week from Tuesday through Friday, So I
thank you it going back on the radio.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's like writing a bicycle. Let's let's see what we
can do.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
That's right. Yeah, Carl was on for years. Actually, he
and I are up against each other. He was on
in San Diego pretty much the same time slot all
these years, and so he's going to take a run
again at radio next week. So I want you to
be listening to him Tuesday through Friday, and we have
a surprise guest host on Monday, I'll tell you about soon. Anyway,
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Carl tell us about the cut Politician Cut, the Politician's
Perks Act.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So here's the deal. I know this is this is
really controversial, but I think public service should be about
serving the public, not enriching yourself or engaging in the
high life, you know, rich and famous lifestyle through special
interest gifts and funds. And that's why we're blowing the
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lid open on all the ways politicians are enriching themselves
at your expense through their office. First things first is
their doing insider trading. They get briefings from industries and
companies on the good, the bad, the ugly about the
company and what they're about to tell the public. But
then boom, they go off and they trade stock and
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they get in on all sorts of insider training information.
My bill would ban politicians in California from having individual stockholdings.
They can do diversified funds, but they're not able to
trade stock. Second, they get all sorts of gifts. Last year,
members of the state legislature got one point four million
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dollars in free gifts. That's what was reported. Your local
officials get gifts. They can get up to six hundred
dollars per person, per company, per year in gifts. The
mayor of San Diego, Todgloria, has more than five hundred
thousand dollars in gifts since he took office in two
thousand and eight. As a city council member. Who in
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the hell gets five hundred thousand dollars in gifts from
special enginerience? So we were banned gifts, Yes, gifts, gifts.
These people are getting buys from special interests five hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Do you know what above? What kind of gifts? What
are they like? Target gift certificates?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
nowI whoever? And of course the trip to Maui was
was for an educational conference, but it's free. It's it's
a gift. They get steak dinners, they get wine, they
get all sorts of tickets to various events. You and
I don't get that stuff, nor should or politicians. We
would ban gifts. Third, they're allowed to use campaign funds,
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like the insurance commissioner you just referenced, flying off to Bermuda,
going to the European capitals Paris using campaign funds. One
state assembly member, so Laura, did thirty thousand dollars just
in the last year of free travel. One state assembly
member did forty nine thousand dollars forty nine thousand dollars
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in various sporting venue tickets. Another assembly member did seventy
five thousand dollars for the Kentucky Derby for eight people
to go five five star VIP service. It's all through
their campaign. Yeah. And then another guy did thirty six
thousand dollars in just a four month period between July
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first of last year and November fifteenth of last year
on a variety of junkets all around the world and
all around the nation. And so they're they're, they're they're
they're using campaign funds to basically finance their travel and
lavish you know, dinners. And then finally, we believe that
we should get rid of pensions for politicians. These these
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politicians are are leaving office with these gold plated pensions.
That Mayor of San Diego, TODG. Lauria, that's getting five
hundred thousand dollars in gifts since two thousand and eight
when he first got sworn in. He's going to retire
at age forty seven with a with an annual pension
of over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year
at age forty seven, and it's indexed for inflation each
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and every year, plus three taxpayer fund and healthcare on
day one. This is griff, this is corrupt. It's no
longer about serving the public. It's about serving yourself. And
that's why we need to get these perks and eliminate them.
And I know that my bill's going nowhere in Sacramento,
but I do believe that we need to introduce the
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bill and force these turkeys to vote against it so
that we know, Okay, you're not in it. Most pass
for your constituents.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, most people don't know this. I didn't even know
all this. I had no idea a mayor of San
Diego would get a half million dollars in gifts and
he could retire at forty seven with one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars pension. Good lord, this should be criminal,
all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Unfortunately, it's perfectly legal. It's not ethical, it's not moral,
it's not right. But the politicians have voted on laws
allowing them to do all this stuff. They're also negotiating
lobbyist jobs for themselves while they're serving in office. Loraena Gonzales,
who was in the Assembly for twelve years, was carrying
all the legislation for the labor unions year after year
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after year. She was their number one bill sponsor, and
at the same time, in her last four or five
months in office, while she was voting on legislation for
the labor unions, she was negotiating a sweetheart salary to
become the Labor Federation's president. Unethical, completely unethical. It's wrong
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and it needs to be stopped.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
This is one party rule, it's just like the Soviet
l But.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
No, no, But let me be very clear. Both Democrats
and Republicans have been engaging in this bad behavior. This
is a corrupt political system for both sides. I'm not
saying all politicians do this. By the way, there are
Democrats that don't do it. There are Republicans don't do that.
Don't do it. I turned down the pension in San Diego,
and of course I have a self imposed gift bad
We don't take gifts, we don't take any lavish travel
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in our campaign. We apply these standards to ourselves that
many other politicians do that. But there are many politicians
who are indeed on the take and we need to
make that illegal.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It's really really awful, everything just detailed. It's like way
worse than I even imagined it really is.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I mean, ask questions of these politicians. I want the
media to look at these gift reports. I want them
to look at the campaign finance reports. I want them
to ask the tough questions. Why did you go to
Las Vegas? Why did you go to the Bahamas? Why
did you go to Paris on your campaign funds? What
was the legitimate purpose for you doing that? Why did
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you spend seventy five thousand dollars for the Kentucky Derby
for eight people? For goodness sakes, If that doesn't tell
you that something is corrupt, I don't know what does.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No that is corrupt all on a it's all criminal.
It all should stop. Carl Demayo, the Republican assemblyman out
of San Diego, and it's called the cut the Politician's
Perks Act. And you know, at this moment, we just
got to keep publicizing all this stuff repeatedly until we
get some critical, massive voters.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Next week from Tuesday to Friday, I've got other little
goodies that I'm going to be revealing on air while
I'm substituting for you, So people need to tune in.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Well, our audience is gonna eat it up. They were,
They're going to look forward to it. So Carl Demayo
guest hosting Tuesday to Friday next week in for me
here on KFI. Carl, good luck. I'll talk to you soon,
all right, Carl demyle when we come back. The latest
on this. Uh's what's his name again, a Brago Garcia,
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kill Mar a Brago Garcia. We're not said we're only
going to give him three names. He's got a fourth name,
but that that's successive.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And because there's there's more news just in the last hour.
He is the guy that Trump sent to El Salvador,
and everyone is screaming and crying that it was unfair,
it was wrong. He should not have been deported that way,
even though he's a violent gang member, illegal alien. Give
you details on the latest.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right, the ongoing saga. Here's the most famous violent
illegal alien in America right now. His name is Kilmar
Abrego Garcia. This guy has been illegally in the country
for years. The Trump administration says he's an MS thirteen
gang member. And in the big deportation a few weeks
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ago where they sent two hundred and sixty eight violent
criminals out of the country just like that, most of
them trend to Aragua, characters from Venezuela, and some were
MS thirteen El Salvadorans, and they were all given a
one way ticket to El Salvador's version of the supermax prison.
It's called Seacott. It's brutal. Trump paid off the president
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of El Salvador. And you might have seen him speaking
in the Oval office with the Trump the other day.
Naib Bukayley, there is one grant standing Jackass, a Democratic
senator from Maryland, a guy I had never heard of,
named Chris van Holland. Now, if I remember correctly, there
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have been brutal murders in Maryland by gang members American citizens.
I think one young woman was especially savaged and murdered
by illegal alien gang members. I don't remember Chris van
Holland saying anything about it. I don't remember him saying
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anything about all the young women who were raped and
murdered by illegal aliens. But now there's a dispute over
whether the proper legal channels were accessed for kilmore Abrego Garcia,
did he get his due process, was all the paperwork
in order. He's definitely illegal, he's definitely violent, and he's
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definitely deportation material. And the Trump administration rounded him up
along with many others and said to Dala Salvador. Now
he's the property of the El Salvador and president, and
he's an original citizen of that country, so it's really
between him and the president. Well, here's this Chris van Holland,
we're going to play this clip again, speaking from the airport.
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This is before he arrived in El Salvador, and then
I'm going to tell you what happened when he got there.
Play clip cut number six.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm here at the airport. I'm about to board my
flight for San Salvador. The goal of this mission is
to let the Trump administration, to let the government of
Al Salvador know that we are going to keep fighting
to bring Albrego Garcia home until he returns to his family.
I hope to meet with representatives of the government. I
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hope to have the chance to actually see kill Mar
and see what his condition is. But We are going
to keep fighting because this is a miscarriage of justice.
The Supreme Court has ruled nine to zero, nine to
zero that he was illegally taken out of the country
and put in a prison in al Savigo. And this
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is about due process, This is about rule of law.
What bullies do is they begin by picking on the
most vulnerable. But if we get rid of the rule
of law, due process the United States, it's a short
road from there to tyranny.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Why this guy's a clown. This guy is a pompous clown.
Abrego Garcia is being bullied. He's the most vulnerable. Well,
New York Post has this story. He was accused of
physically abusing his wife, Jennifer Vasquez. She applied for a
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protective court order of seeing the documents now they're online.
Back in twenty twenty one, Jennifer said that Brigo Garcia punched, scratched,
grabbed and bruised her, basically beat her up. Department of
Homeland Security put Vasquez's story on x Now. Vasquez is
still supporting his return to America. I think they have
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three kids. But the Homeland Security says Garcia has a
history of violence, So there you have Van Holland, who
was absolutely silent when American women were being brutally raped
and murdered, speaking out for a guy whose own wife
charged him with physical abuse with wife beating. Then we
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find out, and this is came through a short time ago,
the Maryland Senator Chris Van Holland met with the Vice
president in San Salvador, Felix Ulloa. Felix Ulloa, and Uloa said, hey,
we can't send him to the United States. And then
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Holland got angry, saying, why is the government of Al
Salvador continuing to imprison a man when they have no
evidence he's committed any crime and they have not been
provided any evidence from the US that he's committed any crime.
They should just let him go, That's what he told reporters. Well,
it's not your business. He's not an American citizen, he's
not a Green card holder, he's an illegal alien. And
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if the Al Salvadoran government wants to keep him in prison,
that's their business. If they're doing something wrong, then the
El Salvador and people can rise up. But this is
this crazy. This buffoon is trying to order a foreign
president and vice president to comply with his demands. Van
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Holland wants this guy released and said taken back to America.
Taken back to America where he was an MS thirteen
gang member according to the Homeland Security where according to
his wife, he beat her up. How crazy is this?
(16:27):
But then it seems like everything's crazy, including Gavin Newsom,
who decided, with all the troubles here in California, he
was going to sue Donald Trump for the fourteenth time.
We're going to play some clips of that coming up.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
We are on every day one until four o'clock and
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want the moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight
seven seven Moist eighty six. He's the talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app. Well, just one more bit about this
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Senator Chris van Holland from Maryland who put himself on
display by flying Tel Salvador, demanding from the Salvador and
Vice President that this violent illegal alien gang member be
returned to the United States. This is the one guy.
They're squealing about no applause for the two hundred and
sixty seven other illegal alien gang members who were sent out.
(17:29):
You could see what a biased leftist media we have.
They're focusing on this one case, and he still is
an illegal alien, he still has no right to be here,
but they're claiming Trump didn't follow proper procedure, and Van Holland,
the idiot senator, went on this grand standing mission. And
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since he left, we found out that this kilmar Abrego
Garcia beat up his wife. His wife had a restraining
order against him. Now, the mother of another murdered Maryland
woman named Rachel Marin condemned Van Holland for traveling to
El Salvador to try to get Albrego Garcia returned. Patty
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Marin was at a White House press briefing and she
described emotionally the twenty twenty three murder of her daughter
by Victor Martinez Hernandez, another El Salvadoran illegal alien, who
was convicted on Monday, and she says, I don't understand this.
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She says, Holland Van Holland didn't even acknowledge or barely
acknowledged my daughter. And the brutal death that she endured,
leaving her five children without a mother, and then used
my tax money to fly to Del Salvador to bring
back a person who isn't even an American citizen. Isn't
that crazy? I knew there was a big case in
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Maryland and this was one of them. So Marin's daughter
was brutally killed by an illegal island from l Salvador,
and then Holland had virtually nothing to say about it.
But he can't stop flapping his jaws over a Brago
Garcia who has no right to be here. It's just appalling,
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appalling and galling. Now onto another grand standing performer, Gavin Newsom,
who thinks he can overrule Trump's tariffs. He and his
little buddy Rob Bonta, they held a big press conference
today to say they're suing Trump. Now, these two preside
over a state that has the worst unemployment, the highest
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gas prices, the worst homeless situation by far, a economy
that works only for the wealthy tech guys. We have
very one of the highest poverty rates in the nation.
And I mean we're just overtaxed. Too much crime, too
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much homeless, gas prices at nearly five dollars a gallon
in back eastern Tennessee. It's two seventy one, and they
were holding a parade for themselves because they're suing Trump
over the tariffs. Now, I have looked a quick look
(20:36):
online about the tariffs. Well, Congress has the primary right
to invoke tariffs the president. There's a lot of complicated
law on this, and there are cases where the president
can issue tariffs, and the general legal consensus is, eh,
probably a gray area. But nobody's going to tell them.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Knewsomerobably knows this and doesn't care. He's famous for the
grand standing press conference and then nothing comes of it.
Let's play a clip here. Cut number four, his response
to being asked if he's angry about the tariffs and
how does it impact him?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Well, how can he not be. I've got four kids.
Eighty percent of their toys under their Christmas tree come
from China. I've got family members living paycheck to paycheck,
many family members. My mom had passed away years and
years ago was one of them.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I mean, no rush, wait wait, wait, hold hold on,
hold on, hold on. He's got many family members. This
guy was entirely financed by the Getty Oil family. His
dad worked as an attorney for the Getties. He was
set up by the Gettiest. He's got relatives who married
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into the Pelosi family and they're worth hundreds of millions
of dollars. Who in his family is living paycheck to paycheck?
And we're going to cry because the newsome kids Chinese
imported toys are going to be a little more expensive
this year. Seriously, I keep playing.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
No rationale, no plan, no conscience to what it's doing
to real people, no consideration of congressional responsibility. Where the
hell is Congress? Where the hell is Speaker Johnson?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Do your job.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
They're sitting there passively as this guy wrecks the economy
in the United States of America, which has dominated the
global economy. Don't take my word for at the Wall
Street Journal, we are the envy to the world and
overnight a wrecking ball to America's reputation, our role, and
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our relationship.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And so I yeah, I'm angry as a parent, as
a tax rich kid's toys are gonna cost me more.
Of course, I've been affected my kids who went to
private school and were never affected by the COVID lockdowns
that he imposed on all the public schools. His kids
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went to private school the whole time. But now it
looks like I'm gonna have to pay eighty percent more
or eighty percent of the kid's toys on Christmas are
going to be more expensive, and I'm gonna have to
pay for that. Of course, I'm oh, for God, let
me go out and vomit. Aye. Yeah, yai? What a
cartoon character? What a nut. Meantime, in other news, another
(23:41):
refinery Valero announced it's going to be closing in uh
Venetia in early twenty twenty six. We're gonna be down
to about seven refineries. We used to have forty three.
The price of gas is almost five bucks. Another refineries closing.
There's another gas taxt coming in the first of July,
(24:02):
and there's that sixty five cent gas increase coming from
the carb board. That news some almost entirely a points
gas is going to cost no kidding, between five point
fifty and six dollars sometime this year, way more than
his kid's Christmas toys. I gotta get the hammer. I'm
(24:29):
getting the hammer, all right. Well, it's been nice knowing you,
and you know, I don't know if you hear it right,
It makes sure if you do it wrong, I think
your wife won't be too happy. You know, you may
want to think about that. She might do it first.
I was gonna say, if anybody's gonna hit me in
(24:50):
the head with a hammer, it's more likely going to
be her than me.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI am.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
SI Way will be here in minutes. If you're one
of those who clutches your pearls because you hear Trump
is defunding the Education Department, listen to this one. What
just came out was the twenty twenty four National Assessment
of Educational Progress the Math Exam. They tested eighth graders
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across the country to see if they're proficient at math.
Proficient just means hey, you're good enough. Seventy three percent
were not proficient. They failed to reach that level. Seventy
three percent. Yikes. It is so bad that Harvard University
(25:52):
is now offering remedial math classes to its incoming freshmen,
which either says that the demise of our education system
is total that Harvard can't find people who just meet
the basic math requirements proficient. You know, they're not asking
(26:15):
you to do calculus here, or Harvard's standards have dropped dramatically.
Maybe they went overboard on their diversity. Maybe it's both
and that all this according to one Harvard official, this
(26:37):
sets everybody up to fail. If you're coming into Harvard
with poor math skills, odds are you're not coming out
of Harvard with a degree. You imagine that. So we
have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and on that
(26:57):
federal education bureaucracy and it's produced nothing but failure. It's incredible.
What do they do all day? It then't used to
be like this. We are first in the world when
it comes to funding education. We're about fortieth when it
comes to results. I've looked this up. You wouldn't believe
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the countries that are ahead of us. It's embarrassing. And
now you have seventy three percent of eighth graders failing
to reach proficiency. Seventy three percent. The hell's happened? What
do they do all day in the classroom? What's wrong
(27:38):
with the teachers? They used to be able to teach
kids math under a tree out in the field. Wow, hey,
locking the kids out for a year and a half,
that was a good idea. That's what Newsom did. Nobody
(27:58):
ever suffers any consequences for this stuff. Hey, tomorrow, we're
gonna have Brian Jones on. He's the sentiment and already leader.
There's another refinery that's closing in California. I think we're
down to seven now, and gas is already at five bucks,
and with all the taxes coming in the next few months,
it's probably gonna get close to six bucks. And that's
(28:19):
what's collapsing. You didn't hear Newsom discussed that today? Did
you know? Soon? Trump again? So Brian Jones will be
on with us. I think that's to one o'clock tomorrow.
Conray's here. Hey, now, hey, now, we've got a lot
going on today.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
We've got Alex Stone coming on today from ABC News
about the body worn cameras and videos from the sheriff's
deputy who responded to that home of Gene Hackman, and
so we got some wild pictures coming out of there. Also,
if the Menendez brothers get out tomorrow, they're coming straight
here to kill me and you.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Why wouldn't they Well, that's my argument for keeping them
in prison, because.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
We over at kalis X we beat him up every day.
And you guys beat him up every day.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah, that's right, and still do. And right there, they're psychopaths, right,
they murdered their parents and Hawkman's the problem.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Yeah, they're going after him for showing a photo of
the two people that those idiots killed. Got a photo
of the murder has outraged the family of the people
who were murdered, right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
But you know, that's a weird ass family.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
That's a real I mean, everybody in that family is crazy,
from the ant to the to the cousins.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
They're all nuts. I think the Menendez boys inherited the insanity.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Yeah, I think so absolute, one hundred percent. Everybody in
that family who is at the courthouse is certified. It's
just crazy and their lawyers crazy. Everybody's crazy. But it
seems like, you know, there are a lot of people
are supporting this. You know, the criminals nowadays. You know,
the guy that killed Brian Thompson.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
You know that it's incredible, but passionately too, I mean
crazy passionate. Conway's coming up, Thank you man, thank big
All right, Conway's coming up, and we got Michael Krozer
live with the news in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Last how we played
you a couple of clips of this Maryland Senator Chris
van Holland who's flown to El Salvador. He wants to
get the release of that illegal alien gang member, kill
Mar Abrego Garcia. And so far he's uh, he's getting
(00:25):
the locked door from the L Salvadoran officials. They're not
going to let him talk to the prisoner. They don't,
they're they don't, they're not interested. Uh. And of course
news has come out New York Post as an exclusive
saying that Abrego Garcia is actually a wife beater according
to his wife, and there's been a restraining order against him.
(00:46):
So we'll get to the latest details in that. In meantime,
I want to get Carl Demayo on. He's the Republican Assemblyman.
He's always coming on with us. He has a long
list of great bills that an enormous world would be
passed it about five minutes. The Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara,
we know him as Calfart Lara. He took a free
(01:09):
trip to Bermuda and spoke for fifteen minutes, one five
fifteen minutes, and it's some kind of an insurance conference
instead of being in Sacramento and talking to lawmakers. We
have a massive insurance crisis in the state, as all
of us know, you know, house home insurance, and fire
insurance and earthquake insurance, all of it. And but look,
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Lara cannot resist all the perks and the invitations and
the travel, and Tomaio wants to stop it with his
bill called cut the Politician's Perks Act. Let's get Carl
Demayo on. How are you hey, John?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And by the way, Carl is going to be a
guest host next week from Tuesday through Friday, So I
thank you it going back on the radio.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's like writing a bicycle. Let's let's see what we
can do.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
That's right. Yeah, Carl was on for years. Actually, he
and I are up against each other. He was on
in San Diego pretty much the same time slot all
these years, and so he's going to take a run
again at radio next week. So I want you to
be listening to him Tuesday through Friday, and we have
a surprise guest host on Monday, I'll tell you about soon. Anyway,
(02:22):
Carl tell us about the cut Politician Cut, the Politician's
Perks Act.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So here's the deal. I know this is this is
really controversial, but I think public service should be about
serving the public, not enriching yourself or engaging in the
high life, you know, rich and famous lifestyle through special
interest gifts and funds. And that's why we're blowing the
(02:52):
lid open on all the ways politicians are enriching themselves
at your expense through their office. First things first is
their doing insider trading. They get briefings from industries and
companies on the good, the bad, the ugly about the
company and what they're about to tell the public. But
then boom, they go off and they trade stock and
(03:12):
they get in on all sorts of insider training information.
My bill would ban politicians in California from having individual stockholdings.
They can do diversified funds, but they're not able to
trade stock. Second, they get all sorts of gifts. Last year,
members of the state legislature got one point four million
(03:34):
dollars in free gifts. That's what was reported. Your local
officials get gifts. They can get up to six hundred
dollars per person, per company, per year in gifts. The
mayor of San Diego, Todgloria, has more than five hundred
thousand dollars in gifts since he took office in two
thousand and eight. As a city council member. Who in
(03:55):
the hell gets five hundred thousand dollars in gifts from
special enginerience? So we were banned gifts, Yes, gifts, gifts.
These people are getting buys from special interests five hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Do you know what above? What kind of gifts? What
are they like? Target gift certificates?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
nowI whoever? And of course the trip to Maui was
was for an educational conference, but it's free. It's it's
a gift. They get steak dinners, they get wine, they
get all sorts of tickets to various events. You and
I don't get that stuff, nor should or politicians. We
would ban gifts. Third, they're allowed to use campaign funds,
(04:35):
like the insurance commissioner you just referenced, flying off to Bermuda,
going to the European capitals Paris using campaign funds. One
state assembly member, so Laura, did thirty thousand dollars just
in the last year of free travel. One state assembly
member did forty nine thousand dollars forty nine thousand dollars
(05:00):
in various sporting venue tickets. Another assembly member did seventy
five thousand dollars for the Kentucky Derby for eight people
to go five five star VIP service. It's all through
their campaign. Yeah. And then another guy did thirty six
thousand dollars in just a four month period between July
(05:20):
first of last year and November fifteenth of last year
on a variety of junkets all around the world and
all around the nation. And so they're they're, they're they're
they're using campaign funds to basically finance their travel and
lavish you know, dinners. And then finally, we believe that
we should get rid of pensions for politicians. These these
(05:43):
politicians are are leaving office with these gold plated pensions.
That Mayor of San Diego, TODG. Lauria, that's getting five
hundred thousand dollars in gifts since two thousand and eight
when he first got sworn in. He's going to retire
at age forty seven with a with an annual pension
of over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year
at age forty seven, and it's indexed for inflation each
(06:04):
and every year, plus three taxpayer fund and healthcare on
day one. This is griff, this is corrupt. It's no
longer about serving the public. It's about serving yourself. And
that's why we need to get these perks and eliminate them.
And I know that my bill's going nowhere in Sacramento,
but I do believe that we need to introduce the
(06:25):
bill and force these turkeys to vote against it so
that we know, Okay, you're not in it. Most pass
for your constituents.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, most people don't know this. I didn't even know
all this. I had no idea a mayor of San
Diego would get a half million dollars in gifts and
he could retire at forty seven with one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars pension. Good lord, this should be criminal,
all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Unfortunately, it's perfectly legal. It's not ethical, it's not moral,
it's not right. But the politicians have voted on laws
allowing them to do all this stuff. They're also negotiating
lobbyist jobs for themselves while they're serving in office. Loraena Gonzales,
who was in the Assembly for twelve years, was carrying
all the legislation for the labor unions year after year
(07:11):
after year. She was their number one bill sponsor, and
at the same time, in her last four or five
months in office, while she was voting on legislation for
the labor unions, she was negotiating a sweetheart salary to
become the Labor Federation's president. Unethical, completely unethical. It's wrong
(07:33):
and it needs to be stopped.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
This is one party rule, it's just like the Soviet
l But.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
No, no, But let me be very clear. Both Democrats
and Republicans have been engaging in this bad behavior. This
is a corrupt political system for both sides. I'm not
saying all politicians do this. By the way, there are
Democrats that don't do it. There are Republicans don't do that.
Don't do it. I turned down the pension in San Diego,
and of course I have a self imposed gift bad
We don't take gifts, we don't take any lavish travel
(08:03):
in our campaign. We apply these standards to ourselves that
many other politicians do that. But there are many politicians
who are indeed on the take and we need to
make that illegal.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It's really really awful, everything just detailed. It's like way
worse than I even imagined it really is.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I mean, ask questions of these politicians. I want the
media to look at these gift reports. I want them
to look at the campaign finance reports. I want them
to ask the tough questions. Why did you go to
Las Vegas? Why did you go to the Bahamas? Why
did you go to Paris on your campaign funds? What
was the legitimate purpose for you doing that? Why did
(08:45):
you spend seventy five thousand dollars for the Kentucky Derby
for eight people? For goodness sakes, If that doesn't tell
you that something is corrupt, I don't know what does.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No that is corrupt all on a it's all criminal.
It all should stop. Carl Demayo, the Republican assemblyman out
of San Diego, and it's called the cut the Politician's
Perks Act. And you know, at this moment, we just
got to keep publicizing all this stuff repeatedly until we
get some critical, massive voters.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Next week from Tuesday to Friday, I've got other little
goodies that I'm going to be revealing on air while
I'm substituting for you, So people need to tune in.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Well, our audience is gonna eat it up. They were,
They're going to look forward to it. So Carl Demayo
guest hosting Tuesday to Friday next week in for me
here on KFI. Carl, good luck. I'll talk to you soon,
all right, Carl demyle when we come back. The latest
on this. Uh's what's his name again, a Brago Garcia,
(09:50):
kill Mar a Brago Garcia. We're not said we're only
going to give him three names. He's got a fourth name,
but that that's successive.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And because there's there's more news just in the last hour.
He is the guy that Trump sent to El Salvador,
and everyone is screaming and crying that it was unfair,
it was wrong. He should not have been deported that way,
even though he's a violent gang member, illegal alien. Give
you details on the latest.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right, the ongoing saga. Here's the most famous violent
illegal alien in America right now. His name is Kilmar
Abrego Garcia. This guy has been illegally in the country
for years. The Trump administration says he's an MS thirteen
gang member. And in the big deportation a few weeks
(10:48):
ago where they sent two hundred and sixty eight violent
criminals out of the country just like that, most of
them trend to Aragua, characters from Venezuela, and some were
MS thirteen El Salvadorans, and they were all given a
one way ticket to El Salvador's version of the supermax prison.
It's called Seacott. It's brutal. Trump paid off the president
(11:11):
of El Salvador. And you might have seen him speaking
in the Oval office with the Trump the other day.
Naib Bukayley, there is one grant standing Jackass, a Democratic
senator from Maryland, a guy I had never heard of,
named Chris van Holland. Now, if I remember correctly, there
(11:35):
have been brutal murders in Maryland by gang members American citizens.
I think one young woman was especially savaged and murdered
by illegal alien gang members. I don't remember Chris van
Holland saying anything about it. I don't remember him saying
(11:55):
anything about all the young women who were raped and
murdered by illegal aliens. But now there's a dispute over
whether the proper legal channels were accessed for kilmore Abrego Garcia,
did he get his due process, was all the paperwork
in order. He's definitely illegal, he's definitely violent, and he's
(12:19):
definitely deportation material. And the Trump administration rounded him up
along with many others and said to Dala Salvador. Now
he's the property of the El Salvador and president, and
he's an original citizen of that country, so it's really
between him and the president. Well, here's this Chris van Holland,
we're going to play this clip again, speaking from the airport.
(12:42):
This is before he arrived in El Salvador, and then
I'm going to tell you what happened when he got there.
Play clip cut number six.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm here at the airport. I'm about to board my
flight for San Salvador. The goal of this mission is
to let the Trump administration, to let the government of
Al Salvador know that we are going to keep fighting
to bring Albrego Garcia home until he returns to his family.
I hope to meet with representatives of the government. I
(13:10):
hope to have the chance to actually see kill Mar
and see what his condition is. But We are going
to keep fighting because this is a miscarriage of justice.
The Supreme Court has ruled nine to zero, nine to
zero that he was illegally taken out of the country
and put in a prison in al Savigo. And this
(13:33):
is about due process, This is about rule of law.
What bullies do is they begin by picking on the
most vulnerable. But if we get rid of the rule
of law, due process the United States, it's a short
road from there to tyranny.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Why this guy's a clown. This guy is a pompous clown.
Abrego Garcia is being bullied. He's the most vulnerable. Well,
New York Post has this story. He was accused of
physically abusing his wife, Jennifer Vasquez. She applied for a
(14:08):
protective court order of seeing the documents now they're online.
Back in twenty twenty one, Jennifer said that Brigo Garcia punched, scratched,
grabbed and bruised her, basically beat her up. Department of
Homeland Security put Vasquez's story on x Now. Vasquez is
still supporting his return to America. I think they have
(14:31):
three kids. But the Homeland Security says Garcia has a
history of violence, So there you have Van Holland, who
was absolutely silent when American women were being brutally raped
and murdered, speaking out for a guy whose own wife
charged him with physical abuse with wife beating. Then we
(14:58):
find out, and this is came through a short time ago,
the Maryland Senator Chris Van Holland met with the Vice
president in San Salvador, Felix Ulloa. Felix Ulloa, and Uloa said, hey,
we can't send him to the United States. And then
(15:21):
Holland got angry, saying, why is the government of Al
Salvador continuing to imprison a man when they have no
evidence he's committed any crime and they have not been
provided any evidence from the US that he's committed any crime.
They should just let him go, That's what he told reporters. Well,
it's not your business. He's not an American citizen, he's
not a Green card holder, he's an illegal alien. And
(15:43):
if the Al Salvadoran government wants to keep him in prison,
that's their business. If they're doing something wrong, then the
El Salvador and people can rise up. But this is
this crazy. This buffoon is trying to order a foreign
president and vice president to comply with his demands. Van
(16:06):
Holland wants this guy released and said taken back to America.
Taken back to America where he was an MS thirteen
gang member according to the Homeland Security where according to
his wife, he beat her up. How crazy is this?
(16:27):
But then it seems like everything's crazy, including Gavin Newsom,
who decided, with all the troubles here in California, he
was going to sue Donald Trump for the fourteenth time.
We're going to play some clips of that coming up.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
We are on every day one until four o'clock and
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart app. You listen to what you missed if you
want the moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight
seven seven Moist eighty six. He's the talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app. Well, just one more bit about this
(17:07):
Senator Chris van Holland from Maryland who put himself on
display by flying Tel Salvador, demanding from the Salvador and
Vice President that this violent illegal alien gang member be
returned to the United States. This is the one guy.
They're squealing about no applause for the two hundred and
sixty seven other illegal alien gang members who were sent out.
(17:29):
You could see what a biased leftist media we have.
They're focusing on this one case, and he still is
an illegal alien, he still has no right to be here,
but they're claiming Trump didn't follow proper procedure, and Van Holland,
the idiot senator, went on this grand standing mission. And
(17:52):
since he left, we found out that this kilmar Abrego
Garcia beat up his wife. His wife had a restraining
order against him. Now, the mother of another murdered Maryland
woman named Rachel Marin condemned Van Holland for traveling to
El Salvador to try to get Albrego Garcia returned. Patty
(18:18):
Marin was at a White House press briefing and she
described emotionally the twenty twenty three murder of her daughter
by Victor Martinez Hernandez, another El Salvadoran illegal alien, who
was convicted on Monday, and she says, I don't understand this.
(18:42):
She says, Holland Van Holland didn't even acknowledge or barely
acknowledged my daughter. And the brutal death that she endured,
leaving her five children without a mother, and then used
my tax money to fly to Del Salvador to bring
back a person who isn't even an American citizen. Isn't
that crazy? I knew there was a big case in
(19:04):
Maryland and this was one of them. So Marin's daughter
was brutally killed by an illegal island from l Salvador,
and then Holland had virtually nothing to say about it.
But he can't stop flapping his jaws over a Brago
Garcia who has no right to be here. It's just appalling,
(19:28):
appalling and galling. Now onto another grand standing performer, Gavin Newsom,
who thinks he can overrule Trump's tariffs. He and his
little buddy Rob Bonta, they held a big press conference
today to say they're suing Trump. Now, these two preside
over a state that has the worst unemployment, the highest
(19:53):
gas prices, the worst homeless situation by far, a economy
that works only for the wealthy tech guys. We have
very one of the highest poverty rates in the nation.
And I mean we're just overtaxed. Too much crime, too
(20:14):
much homeless, gas prices at nearly five dollars a gallon
in back eastern Tennessee. It's two seventy one, and they
were holding a parade for themselves because they're suing Trump
over the tariffs. Now, I have looked a quick look
(20:36):
online about the tariffs. Well, Congress has the primary right
to invoke tariffs the president. There's a lot of complicated
law on this, and there are cases where the president
can issue tariffs, and the general legal consensus is, eh,
probably a gray area. But nobody's going to tell them.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Knewsomerobably knows this and doesn't care. He's famous for the
grand standing press conference and then nothing comes of it.
Let's play a clip here. Cut number four, his response
to being asked if he's angry about the tariffs and
how does it impact him?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Well, how can he not be. I've got four kids.
Eighty percent of their toys under their Christmas tree come
from China. I've got family members living paycheck to paycheck,
many family members. My mom had passed away years and
years ago was one of them.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I mean, no rush, wait wait, wait, hold hold on,
hold on, hold on. He's got many family members. This
guy was entirely financed by the Getty Oil family. His
dad worked as an attorney for the Getties. He was
set up by the Gettiest. He's got relatives who married
(21:52):
into the Pelosi family and they're worth hundreds of millions
of dollars. Who in his family is living paycheck to paycheck?
And we're going to cry because the newsome kids Chinese
imported toys are going to be a little more expensive
this year. Seriously, I keep playing.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
No rationale, no plan, no conscience to what it's doing
to real people, no consideration of congressional responsibility. Where the
hell is Congress? Where the hell is Speaker Johnson?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Do your job.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
They're sitting there passively as this guy wrecks the economy
in the United States of America, which has dominated the
global economy. Don't take my word for at the Wall
Street Journal, we are the envy to the world and
overnight a wrecking ball to America's reputation, our role, and
(22:48):
our relationship.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And so I yeah, I'm angry as a parent, as
a tax rich kid's toys are gonna cost me more.
Of course, I've been affected my kids who went to
private school and were never affected by the COVID lockdowns
that he imposed on all the public schools. His kids
(23:13):
went to private school the whole time. But now it
looks like I'm gonna have to pay eighty percent more
or eighty percent of the kid's toys on Christmas are
going to be more expensive, and I'm gonna have to
pay for that. Of course, I'm oh, for God, let
me go out and vomit. Aye. Yeah, yai? What a
cartoon character? What a nut. Meantime, in other news, another
(23:41):
refinery Valero announced it's going to be closing in uh
Venetia in early twenty twenty six. We're gonna be down
to about seven refineries. We used to have forty three.
The price of gas is almost five bucks. Another refineries closing.
There's another gas taxt coming in the first of July,
(24:02):
and there's that sixty five cent gas increase coming from
the carb board. That news some almost entirely a points
gas is going to cost no kidding, between five point
fifty and six dollars sometime this year, way more than
his kid's Christmas toys. I gotta get the hammer. I'm
(24:29):
getting the hammer, all right. Well, it's been nice knowing you,
and you know, I don't know if you hear it right,
It makes sure if you do it wrong, I think
your wife won't be too happy. You know, you may
want to think about that. She might do it first.
I was gonna say, if anybody's gonna hit me in
(24:50):
the head with a hammer, it's more likely going to
be her than me.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI am.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
SI Way will be here in minutes. If you're one
of those who clutches your pearls because you hear Trump
is defunding the Education Department, listen to this one. What
just came out was the twenty twenty four National Assessment
of Educational Progress the Math Exam. They tested eighth graders
(25:22):
across the country to see if they're proficient at math.
Proficient just means hey, you're good enough. Seventy three percent
were not proficient. They failed to reach that level. Seventy
three percent. Yikes. It is so bad that Harvard University
(25:52):
is now offering remedial math classes to its incoming freshmen,
which either says that the demise of our education system
is total that Harvard can't find people who just meet
the basic math requirements proficient. You know, they're not asking
(26:15):
you to do calculus here, or Harvard's standards have dropped dramatically.
Maybe they went overboard on their diversity. Maybe it's both
and that all this according to one Harvard official, this
(26:37):
sets everybody up to fail. If you're coming into Harvard
with poor math skills, odds are you're not coming out
of Harvard with a degree. You imagine that. So we
have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and on that
(26:57):
federal education bureaucracy and it's produced nothing but failure. It's incredible.
What do they do all day? It then't used to
be like this. We are first in the world when
it comes to funding education. We're about fortieth when it
comes to results. I've looked this up. You wouldn't believe
(27:17):
the countries that are ahead of us. It's embarrassing. And
now you have seventy three percent of eighth graders failing
to reach proficiency. Seventy three percent. The hell's happened? What
do they do all day in the classroom? What's wrong
(27:38):
with the teachers? They used to be able to teach
kids math under a tree out in the field. Wow, hey,
locking the kids out for a year and a half,
that was a good idea. That's what Newsom did. Nobody
(27:58):
ever suffers any consequences for this stuff. Hey, tomorrow, we're
gonna have Brian Jones on. He's the sentiment and already leader.
There's another refinery that's closing in California. I think we're
down to seven now, and gas is already at five bucks,
and with all the taxes coming in the next few months,
it's probably gonna get close to six bucks. And that's
(28:19):
what's collapsing. You didn't hear Newsom discussed that today? Did
you know? Soon? Trump again? So Brian Jones will be
on with us. I think that's to one o'clock tomorrow.
Conray's here. Hey, now, hey, now, we've got a lot
going on today.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
We've got Alex Stone coming on today from ABC News
about the body worn cameras and videos from the sheriff's
deputy who responded to that home of Gene Hackman, and
so we got some wild pictures coming out of there. Also,
if the Menendez brothers get out tomorrow, they're coming straight
here to kill me and you.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Why wouldn't they Well, that's my argument for keeping them
in prison, because.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
We over at kalis X we beat him up every day.
And you guys beat him up every day.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah, that's right, and still do. And right there, they're psychopaths, right,
they murdered their parents and Hawkman's the problem.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Yeah, they're going after him for showing a photo of
the two people that those idiots killed. Got a photo
of the murder has outraged the family of the people
who were murdered, right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
But you know, that's a weird ass family.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
That's a real I mean, everybody in that family is crazy,
from the ant to the to the cousins.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
They're all nuts. I think the Menendez boys inherited the insanity.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Yeah, I think so absolute, one hundred percent. Everybody in
that family who is at the courthouse is certified. It's
just crazy and their lawyers crazy. Everybody's crazy. But it
seems like, you know, there are a lot of people
are supporting this. You know, the criminals nowadays. You know,
the guy that killed Brian Thompson.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
You know that it's incredible, but passionately too, I mean
crazy passionate. Conway's coming up, Thank you man, thank big
All right, Conway's coming up, and we got Michael Krozer
live with the news in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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