May 22, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (05/22) - Josh Lovelace comes on the show to talk about the US Senate blocking CA's proposed ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars that was set to begin in 2035. More on US Senate blocking CA's proposed ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars that was set to begin in 2035. Westwood residents are fed up with squatters in the neighborhood that LAPD seemingly won't do anything about.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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you listen to whatever you missed, right, So there's no
reason to missus segment anymore. You can't do it, do
it live, you do it after four o'clock. And you
could hear that all this weekend as well. We today's
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a big day because today the United States Senate passed
a bill that revokes California's ban on gas powered cars
and the ban on gas powered trucks. And this this
is a huge deal. I'll explain the details coming up
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in just a minute. But it did win fifty to
fifty one to forty four. It already passed the House
with thirty five Democratic votes. Trump is going to sign it.
Newsome is screaming that he's going to sue because this
destroys his stupid climate change program and his his dictate
that we're all supposed to drive electric cars. Well, the
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elect of the truck industry was very worried that uh,
that that a lot of truck owners were supposed to
go electric. Uh and we'd already booked Josh Lovelace on
to talk about it, and then the Senate passed their bill.
Uh and and they passed the bills they passed effect
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trucks and cars. Uh. He's the national director of the
Safe Roads Coalition. So let's go to Josh and see
what's going on here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Thanks for Joe, I know you're doing today.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm fine. Tell me what was the impending law that
California was going to impose on your industry?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, basically, the OEMs, the original equipment manufacturers were required
to sell an increasing number of electric medium heavy uty
truck chassis. We met our toe bodies to those chassis,
and it just it doesn't work. You know, we've tried it.
Just it simply doesn't work. So these manufacturers were trying
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to abide by these regulations. Therefore, they were selling less
and less diesels because they had to mainsane a certain percentage. So,
you know, if if the if their regulations don't work,
then we're hands drung and sales decline and we don't
have trucks to get jobs done.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So the actual mechanics of having an electric truck didn't work.
It didn't operate.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It they didn't operate. I spoke with engineers. I personally
dealt with engineers, going Okay, what's the range on this
proposed electric vehicle. Their answer to me was, we don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, that's not good with the truck.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Now, these trucks were designed for long distance delivery.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Correct. Especially in our industry, the towing and recovery industry,
we get dispatched from everywhere. If you've sat in the
traffic jam on the four or five, you know exactly
what I'm talk about. If you've got a vehicle flipped over, imagine,
you know, waiting two hours, three hours, five hours, ten
hours for a truck because it's charging to come out
and clear that roadway.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I see towing and recovery truck businesses and and it
just flat out didn't work. And I assume that the
News of Administration was informed of this problem and they
didn't care.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
They were very well informed. The California Air Resource Board
was informed not only by myself, but some of the
over forty seven hundred towing and recovery businesses within the
state of California. We went to multiple hearings. We showed
up in mass and I firmly believe that that is
that is what led to where we are today. I'm
really happy about fearing about that ruling that just came
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down a couple hours ago.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Right, But they couldn't be swayed on their.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Own, could not be They could not be swayed on
their own. We brought sensible facts. I mean, we brought facts,
and when you're dealing in facts, it's it's pretty black
and white, and they could not be swayed to answer
your question.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
So when you go into the details of it, and
I imagining it's you know, very technical. You have to
be well versed in the industry to understand what you're
talking about. But the bottom line is like you couldn't
do towing and recovery with these electric trucks. And they
just stare at you and say, well, the regulations are
going into effect anyway, and you guys can go out
of business. We don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
That is exactly it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yes, you're correct, Well, you're really dealing with crazy people.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You are. And like I said, you know, I'd like
to consider myself a fairly sensible guy. And you know,
I make sure I bring solid sensible points that pretty
much anybody can understand and We're looked in the face
and said, yeah, we don't care. We're moving forward with this.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So they don't debate you. They don't say, well, we
think there's a way to do this, why don't you
try this? Have you considered that? They just said we're
moving forward.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
There were a couple of questions asked, and a resource
board will give them a little bit of credit. They
directed their staff after our first initial hearing to go
back and do some more research. Staff came back and said, nope,
everything's fine. We've got credits that we can offer to
help off set some of these regulations, which tells me
that they recognize there's an issue, but they don't know
how to fix it. So, you know, giving them sensible solutions.
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And you know, we're all about trying to find avenues
for cleaner air. Everybody wants cleaner air. It just doesn't
make sense currently.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, I mean that's what we've been talking about, is
this This was not ready for widespread use. Like for
the electric cars, we all know the issues there. Well,
first of all, people didn't want to buy them in
great numbers, especially outside of California. You didn't have the
charging stations, takes too long, at the charging stations. The
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range wasn't good for a lot of the cars, and
we don't have an electrical grid to handle everyone driving
and charging electric cars. There's just no infrastructure set up
to support this idea.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Correct. To put it simply, the cart is well before
the horse of disregard.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Wow. And so what that would have meant for people,
for us is that you wouldn't have functioning tow trucks
and recovery trucks. Correct.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And we're directly responsible for keeping California and your highways
open and moving, which allows commerce to move, goods and services,
people to get where they need to go, whether it's
for work, for medical reasons, or what have you. So
if you hands during that industry, your entire infrastructure infrastructure
excuse me, basically comes to a screeching halt.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Right, So we would have massive traffic jams from a
border to border.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That is correct? Yes, I mean and I both know.
Living in California, we deal with enough traffic as it is.
Can you imagine it tenfold?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And you explain this to the newsome people that we did,
you are correct, and they didn't care.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
They didn't care.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You must find it very hard to believe you're in
these meetings.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I've learned to I've learned to keep the poker face,
if you will, when I'm sitting in some of these hearings,
and you know, just just keep my cool and again
bring up sensible points, because that's all I can do.
You know, I've been in this industry for a long
time and I really enjoy it. And we're we genuinely
help people people that are broken down on the side
of the road. Grandmother's, uncles, aunts, fathers, daughters. You know,
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that's what we do. When somebody's in trouble in their
vehicle doesn't move, we get called out to go pick
them up.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
All right, Josh, thanks for coming on. Josh Lovelace, National
director of the Safe Roads Coalition, thanks very much for
coming on. It was good talking with you. I I
want to try to like focus on the insanity of
the people, the insanity of the people who work for
the newest and administration. You hurt, Josh. He explained very clearly,
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this electric truck idea for toll trucks just flat out
does not work. We won't be able to function, and
so as the cars and trucks breakdown in California, we
will have massive tie ups on the on all highways,
all freeways, border to border, and nobody is going to
be able to rescue anyone cars, trucks, so you'll just
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have what carnage piling up everywhere. And this has been
explained to these these just vegetables. We'll have more on
this coming up. Fortunately, the US Senate and the US
House has come to the rescue. We'll tell you all
about it. The repeal of the Newsom's ban on gas
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powered cars and trucks.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
There's a big day today. Years. We've been waiting for
this for years. The Newsom administration, through the California Air
Resources Board, past the regulation, past the lag California that
said we have we can't buy gas powered cars by
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twenty thirty five, and in fact, starting next year there
was a quota mandated thirty five percent of all new
vehicles at California dealerships could not be gas powered, either
electric cars or plug in hybrids, and by twenty thirty
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five it would be against the law to sell gas
only cars, against the law. That's what the Polyp Bureau decided. Now,
there are so many things wrong with this, and we
have talked about it many times, but it's because of
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the climate change racket, that whole scam. Number one, people
by and large didn't want electric vehicles. Healthy here in
California did and they were buying a lot of Tesla's
until they were appalled by Musk working in the Trump
administration and suddenly the climate didn't matter much anymore. So,
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obviously a bunch of phonies. But you knew that that
crowd is nothing if not a bunch of phonies. So
we we don't want them. And secondly, if we got
one and wanted to go on a trip outside of
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the immediate local area, there aren't that many places to
charge them. Many of the chargers don't work or they're
very slow. And I always like when I read articles
on this. I think I mentioned this the other day.
Every single article I read about a man or a
woman trying to go on a cross country trip, and
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if they wrote an article about it in an electric vehicle,
every article they described a disaster. You get to charging stations,
you got to drive twenty miles off the freeway. You
get there, there's three of them, two of them don't work.
The third one has a long line or it takes you,
you know, two hours. And I'd read the comments because
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there was a whole network of pro electric vehicle propagandists
and they would say, well, what you have to do
is you go to the rest stop and just you know,
you're going to take an hour off for lunch anyway,
so while you're eating lunch, you know, you charge your car.
It's not that big a deal. You just have to
make the adjustment. It's like, no, I want to eat
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lunch in my car, or I want to have the
option to, and I don't take an hour to eat
lunch anyway. I'm on a long road trip. I want
to get back on the road as quickly as possible.
I can gas up in five to seven minutes, that's
my standard. If your new breakthrough technology can't power me
up in five to seven minutes, the answer is no.
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I mean, of all the reasons to move out of
the state, the one thing that made me think about
it most seriously is banning a gas powered car. I
simply am not going to put up with this nonsense
where I can't get a charge, the station doesn't work,
there's too long a line. It's too slow, and they
don't have an electrical grid anyway, and they know they didn't,
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which takes me to my last guess. My last guest
Josh Lovelace. He is with the Safe Roads Coalition, the
national director, and he represents UH tow trucks and recovery
trucks who are forced to become electric. And he said
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the way the technology worked, there simply was no electric
technology that worked sufficiently for tow trucks. This flat out
didn't work. And they went to the News of Administration
and told them that that you are going to end
up with cars break picking down and there'll be no
tow trucks in the state to clear them off the
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road and take them to get fixed. And they explained,
you know, scientific technical terms, the whole mechanics of it,
why it wasn't working, and the Newsome people didn't care.
And so I realize, I mean, I knew this, but
it really hit home that they just want to remake
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the way we live. They are religious people. It's like certain,
let's say, a hardcore Baptist group offended by the idea
that people have sex before marriage, and so they try
to control their daughters and their sons and try to
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force early marriages, try to shame people who've had sex.
It's that kind of intensity. It's not around as much
as it used to be, but it's still out there
in pockets. And if you look at it as religious intense,
where they you know, the the the the the devout
religious crowd just denies the fact that people have sexual drives,
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and denies the fact that you can have sex now
in the twenty first century and not get pregnant, because
there are just various ways to prevent that from happening,
just but the literal act of sex offends them so
deeply they're apoplectic. Well, the act of us driving on
the road is what makes these people in the new
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submit administration crazy, and it makes people in the California
Air Resources Board crazy. It's like some kind of illegal
sex act, and it enrages them. They're they're there, their
morality is offended. So they don't care. If electric tow
trucks don't work, it doesn't matter to them. They don't care.
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If the electrical grid would black out, they don't care.
They don't care if it takes two hours to charge.
They don't care if half of them are broken. They
don't care if they're forty miles off the freeway and
you end up maroon somewhere in the dark. They don't
care because the act of you driving and burning gas
and oil makes them insane. And finally the Senate said,
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enough of this. It's not whether we should be using
gas powered cars. It's that we don't have a replacement,
and we don't, not one that's practical, not one that
we can all, all of us can afford that allow
us to the freedom, freedom to drive wherever we want,
whenever we want. It simply doesn't exist with electric cars.
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And they know this, but they don't care. They want
to control your life. And you have to reorient your
thinking that this is all about them controlling you you
because remember, if it was up to them, you'd be
living and a thousand square foot condo in a city.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
They have.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Their idea is a fifty minute city, they call it.
Where you work, you play, and you live within fifteen
minutes of your residence, and you don't take any cars,
You take buses, you take bicycles, you walk, that's it,
and you exist just in that little, short, little little
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square in the city, and you don't have a lawn,
you don't have a swimming pool, you don't drive a car,
none of that.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
On from one to four every day and after four
o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand. We have been celebrating
that the Senate and the House have now passed the
law reversing Newsom's ban on gas powered cars, so there
is no more ban on gas powered cars. As soon
as Trump signs it. Newsomb is going to sue, but
he's got a very thin thread and I think he
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knows he's lost this because he's changing the set object.
We've got this interesting press release from Newsom's office. The
whole point of the gas powered ban was it was
over climate change, that we were heating up the atmosphere,
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that the atmosphere and the oceans we're going to boil over.
It's been climate change driving this rationale for banning gas
powered cars. But the thing is, most people, according to
every poll I've seen, either don't believe it or don't care.
They don't care if it's true or not. A lot
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of people don't believe it, and they're sick of hearing
about it. It generally rates among the least of the
public's concerns. You give them twenty issues, climate change is
going to be twentieth, maybe eighteenth if you slant the question.
So nobody cares, nobody believes it, nobody wants to hear
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about it anymore. It's a dead issue. It's over. Trump
is completely dismantling much of the climate change industry because
it's a racket. So Newsome is changing the subject. His headline,
big blue letters, make America smoggie again. He claims, that's
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what the Republicans are going to do. They're going to
make America smoggie again. You get it. See the little
clever play on words there, make America great again? Huh
huh get it? Newsom. Newsom responds to illegal Senate vote.
They're claiming the votes illegal. They claim Congress can't get
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rid of this regulation. Well, when when Trump gets rid
of regulations by executive orders, they say, well, Trump can't
do that, the Congress has to do it. Then when
Congress does it, it's like, well, no, Congress can't do it, Well,
then who can do it? The EPA is part of
the executive branch. And Trump oversees the executive branch. He's
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the boss. Like it or not, he's in charge, so
either he strikes it or Congress strikes it. In this case,
Congress and Trump will all sign off on this bill.
And if they can't do it, then who can. The
people who gave California the waiver for the gas powered
band they've all been voted out of office. They're not
there anymore. So what are they saying is that this
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waiver of a regulation is there permanently. That makes no sense,
and they know it makes no sense, so that's why
they come up with make America SMOGGI again. The smog
has been cut in California dramatically, and everybody knows it.
You go go online and look at pictures of La
in the nineteen seventies. It used to be really disgusting
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and unbreathable. That's all gone. They largely fixed the smog
problem in southern California. It's not gone entirely, but we
have live. What you have is a big environmental industry
that is running out of issues, and they don't know
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what to do because they got to keep coming up
with emotionally manipulative arguments In order to keep the fundraising
coming in. Of course, if they were intelligent, if they
weren't stupid, they would have been all over our lack
of a fire department and our lack of brush clearing,
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because the emissions from the Palisades and Outda Diena fires
far exceeded whatever savings we made. In fact, this press
release by Neussam quotes how much we've improved are emissions
in the atmosphere in recent years, But he doesn't count
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all the fires that his failed policies have led to
or have been exacerbated by. What a loser, What an
incredible nuisance he is? Newsom is a nuisance he is.
He's stupid. He comes up with a policy that people
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don't want, can't afford. He doesn't have an electrical grid,
he doesn't have charging stations, he doesn't have products where
people I mean, I would read stuff all the all
the all the play, all the different reasons you shouldn't
drive an electric car, right, Like can't do it in
the cold because it drains the battery too much. You
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gotta be careful if you're I don't know, driving up hill.
And it was this whole list of it's like you
know what, I don't want to deal with this. I
don't want to deal with long lines to get charged.
I don't want to deal with broken chargers. I don't
want to deal with being thirty miles looking for a
charger and then my, my, my vehicle runs out of juice.
I don't want to do this, not interested, not going
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to live with it. If that was if that was
the rule, if they got to the point where you
couldn't drive an electric Viha, you couldn't drive the gas
powered vehicle at all in California, and then it's like, well,
I'm not driving in California. Now I'm moving out. I'm
taking all my tax money with me. Everybody's got their
breaking point, but I they can't have all our freedoms.
And I wish to God everybody wake up and stop
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electing these religious fanatics to run the state, especially the
California Air Resources Board, that is a group of religious
climate fanatics. And we don't even get to elect them
or remove them. I mean, I mean, it's just unconscionable
what we have here and other states do not have
this nonsense. I don't know why people enjoyed living in
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an oppressive under an oppressive government. I don't understand, because
you know, maybe it was in China. It was difficult.
In Communist Russia, it was difficult because they had the
Middle Terry, they had all the guns. They had law
enforcement that would shoot you to death, make you disappear.
Doesn't have that. He doesn't have an army, He doesn't
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have any kind of massive law enforcement that he could
command to come and make you disappear. Okay, I'll give
up my car. Yeah, I believe him. Yeah, I have
to do my part for the for the climate.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Your part for the climate?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Good lord? Why don't you go read how big the
Earth is? And why don't you look up how small
you are? You have no effect on the climate. It's
all virtue signaling, is all it is. Now.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Coolest video, Yes, I thought you forgot.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I didn't forget. Coolest video. You've probably seen it. If
you haven't, go look for it. It is this dog.
What kind of dog is it? Spla it's a lab mix,
a lab mix. And where was this Orange County?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah? It was an Orange County.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, says lab mix. He's caught on a ring camera.
He's fighting off five coyotes. They didn't really fight, they
didn't really engage physically with each other, but the coyotes
surrounded him, and he kept pretending to charge at them,
and they would back off, and it's like they were
doing a dance, because they would charge towards him, and
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then he charged back, and for somehow he confused them
all and they didn't know what to do. And I
started watching it. I realized, all right, if that's five people,
the five people would have figured out how to take
down the dog, right, the five people would work in concert.
But the coyotes are kind of stupid, and they didn't.
They couldn't work together, they couldn't communicate together. So each
one of them was acting individually, and so he was
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in a series of like one on one battles. I
guess normally when they go after a small dog or cat,
it's easy to overwhelm the small animal.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Absolutely, but it's very scary. Really really had.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Why did you get a coyote eating a small dog?
I know I've heard that a lot outside.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
But I know I have to and I can't stand
that noise.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Well, then it suddenly comes to an end.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I know, And that's you know what, the only good
thing about that is that you know? The dog, Yeah,
it's being killed, is dead and no longer in pain.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Right, that's the only good thing.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
But you hear the dog crying, you hear the coyotes, Holley, No,
we know, and then it just goes quiet. Just chomp, jump,
chump jump. Never thought i'd hear debver find the good
and the dog dying?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
That is the good.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
When that happens, you probably can't sleep the rest of
the night.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Well, I think most people wouldn't be able to. So
we have good news.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I go down easy. Yeah, yes, we do have good news.
We got off track there, yes we did. So the dog,
the dog that went on for forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yes, and this is a stray. This is a stray animal.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Remember I always say, adopt, don't shop, right, that's my motto. Adopt,
don't shop in the hallways. I do, that's my mantra.
So this dog was adopted.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
That's sweet. I mean I thought about that.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Who wouldn't want this dog that can fight off all
these coyotes is an amazing dog.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I wonder how he got loose. I don't know, because
he was a good looking dog. He didn't look like
a mangy stray living in the woods.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
There's so many good looking dogs in shelters and in
foster families. Seriously, they're overwhelmed with such great, amazing dogs.
People have a bad they they don't have a good
perception of animals that are that are that are not
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the Golden Doodles and the designer dogs, design the French
bull dogs. Nothing against those dogs, but there are some
beautiful dogs.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I'm against those owners people. That's other. That's virtue signaling too.
They're showing off there.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I don't know if it's showing off because I've talked
to people and they say, well, why is it my
fault that people are not being responsible and they're not
getting their dog spade or neutered, and so why do
I have to feel guilty about not getting the exact
dog that I want?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
All right, let him dive in?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
No, No, are we here?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
On the John cobellt Show, most of us.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Say go and rescue. I think even even Ray said, no,
no he has a rescue kind of.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
No he doesn't he got it from No he got
a designer dog.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yes it is, but I thought he rescued it.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No, it's a Pomeranian, not rescued.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
I thought it was all right, rescue Pomeranian.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Okay, Well, then I was right the first when I
said most of us on the John Gobelt Show.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Anyway, the dog is healthy and alive and beautiful.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Dog.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Coyotes are still hungry. They'll eat someone else tonight.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Yeah, it happened in Brea. That's the city in Orange
County that had happened.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Six forty moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six, eight
seven seven Moist eighty six on Friday. There is uh,
there's a report out of Westwood. Yeah, get cut number
one ready if you would, Eric, We're gonna play Channel
five reporter Chris Wolfe. Residents are upset with squatters that
(28:39):
have taken over a neighborhood and it seems like LPD
will not do anything about it. This story is amazing. Listen.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Public profanity, urination, growing piles of garbage and debris, drugs, girls,
squatters and squalor, and an endless stream of troublemakers and
intruders leaping over fences, breaking into the same home coming
and going at all hours of the day and night.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
This is life in an otherwise.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Pleasant, upscale, family filled neighborhood in Westwood, tucked above Santa
Monica Boulevard, across from the Westfield Century City Mall.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
We're told the homeowners.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Are an older brother and sister who are offensive, loud,
and at the very least unconventional.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
They've been a.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Menace to the neighborhood for the whole time that we've
lived here. But in the past ten to twelve months,
they are hoards, and they've hoarded themselves out of their
own home, and they have been living in their cars.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
And everyone else has been living or squatting in their home,
which their neighbors describe as a hell house.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Why are you back there?
Speaker 7 (30:01):
It has completely blown up and disrupted everything, and there's
drug paraphernalia all over the neighborhood. It's across the street
from a school, a family dental building, and I even.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Called Adult Protective Services to try to get them to
help them.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
Sometimes in the winter months their cars running through the
night to provide them heat.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Neighbors are banding together appealing to anyone who will listen,
including police, city leaders, building and fire hazard inspectors, even
the courts. But these homeowners are becoming more hopeless with
the typical our hands are tied responses. And well, we
always knew to them as the creepy neighbors when we
were kids.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Bo's only the past few years when things started getting
really serious.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
What was just the hands are tied. I mean they're
listing crimes here. It seems like they're throwing a garbage
all over the place. There's drug paraphernalia all over the place.
They're making a lot of noise. Uh there, there's there's
alcohol bottles. Uh, there's there's uh the drug paraphernalia I mentioned. Uh,
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there's uh disturbing the peace. I mean, there's all kinds
of crimes being committed, but the police won't do anything.
I don't understand this era of nobody in city government
in La nobody in the bass administration wants to do
anything about anything.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
I I I.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Don't I It's like everything is. I drive by certain neighborhoods,
I'm just like appalled by the amount of garbage that
is laying in the streets, on the sidewalks, blown in
the wind. There's nobody works for the city anymore, nobody
cares anymore. It doesn't matter how loud, everybody else, how
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many calls you make, how many how many emails you
send as it's like they they have they've abandoned the public.
The Bass administration is such a disaster. It's such a
terrible disease. I'm still shocked she gets thirty two percent support.
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When we'll we'll see what happens this weekend in the
Palisades and Malibu because they're supposed to be opening up
Pacific Coast Highway. We'll see it. Tomor Conway's next, and
Michael Krazer is live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
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and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app after four o'clock John
Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. That's where
you listen to whatever you missed, right, So there's no
reason to missus segment anymore. You can't do it, do
it live, you do it after four o'clock. And you
could hear that all this weekend as well. We today's
(00:24):
a big day because today the United States Senate passed
a bill that revokes California's ban on gas powered cars
and the ban on gas powered trucks. And this this
is a huge deal. I'll explain the details coming up
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in just a minute. But it did win fifty to
fifty one to forty four. It already passed the House
with thirty five Democratic votes. Trump is going to sign it.
Newsome is screaming that he's going to sue because this
destroys his stupid climate change program and his his dictate
that we're all supposed to drive electric cars. Well, the
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elect of the truck industry was very worried that uh,
that that a lot of truck owners were supposed to
go electric. Uh and we'd already booked Josh Lovelace on
to talk about it, and then the Senate passed their bill.
Uh and and they passed the bills they passed effect
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trucks and cars. Uh. He's the national director of the
Safe Roads Coalition. So let's go to Josh and see
what's going on here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Thanks for Joe, I know you're doing today.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm fine. Tell me what was the impending law that
California was going to impose on your industry?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, basically, the OEMs, the original equipment manufacturers were required
to sell an increasing number of electric medium heavy uty
truck chassis. We met our toe bodies to those chassis,
and it just it doesn't work. You know, we've tried it.
Just it simply doesn't work. So these manufacturers were trying
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to abide by these regulations. Therefore, they were selling less
and less diesels because they had to mainsane a certain percentage. So,
you know, if if the if their regulations don't work,
then we're hands drung and sales decline and we don't
have trucks to get jobs done.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So the actual mechanics of having an electric truck didn't work.
It didn't operate.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It they didn't operate. I spoke with engineers. I personally
dealt with engineers, going Okay, what's the range on this
proposed electric vehicle. Their answer to me was, we don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, that's not good with the truck.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Now, these trucks were designed for long distance delivery.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Correct. Especially in our industry, the towing and recovery industry,
we get dispatched from everywhere. If you've sat in the
traffic jam on the four or five, you know exactly
what I'm talk about. If you've got a vehicle flipped over, imagine,
you know, waiting two hours, three hours, five hours, ten
hours for a truck because it's charging to come out
and clear that roadway.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I see towing and recovery truck businesses and and it
just flat out didn't work. And I assume that the
News of Administration was informed of this problem and they
didn't care.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
They were very well informed. The California Air Resource Board
was informed not only by myself, but some of the
over forty seven hundred towing and recovery businesses within the
state of California. We went to multiple hearings. We showed
up in mass and I firmly believe that that is
that is what led to where we are today. I'm
really happy about fearing about that ruling that just came
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down a couple hours ago.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Right, But they couldn't be swayed on their.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Own, could not be They could not be swayed on
their own. We brought sensible facts. I mean, we brought facts,
and when you're dealing in facts, it's it's pretty black
and white, and they could not be swayed to answer
your question.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
So when you go into the details of it, and
I imagining it's you know, very technical. You have to
be well versed in the industry to understand what you're
talking about. But the bottom line is like you couldn't
do towing and recovery with these electric trucks. And they
just stare at you and say, well, the regulations are
going into effect anyway, and you guys can go out
of business. We don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
That is exactly it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yes, you're correct, Well, you're really dealing with crazy people.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You are. And like I said, you know, I'd like
to consider myself a fairly sensible guy. And you know,
I make sure I bring solid sensible points that pretty
much anybody can understand and We're looked in the face
and said, yeah, we don't care. We're moving forward with this.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So they don't debate you. They don't say, well, we
think there's a way to do this, why don't you
try this? Have you considered that? They just said we're
moving forward.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
There were a couple of questions asked, and a resource
board will give them a little bit of credit. They
directed their staff after our first initial hearing to go
back and do some more research. Staff came back and said, nope,
everything's fine. We've got credits that we can offer to
help off set some of these regulations, which tells me
that they recognize there's an issue, but they don't know
how to fix it. So, you know, giving them sensible solutions.
(05:17):
And you know, we're all about trying to find avenues
for cleaner air. Everybody wants cleaner air. It just doesn't
make sense currently.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, I mean that's what we've been talking about, is
this This was not ready for widespread use. Like for
the electric cars, we all know the issues there. Well,
first of all, people didn't want to buy them in
great numbers, especially outside of California. You didn't have the
charging stations, takes too long, at the charging stations. The
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range wasn't good for a lot of the cars, and
we don't have an electrical grid to handle everyone driving
and charging electric cars. There's just no infrastructure set up
to support this idea.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Correct. To put it simply, the cart is well before
the horse of disregard.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Wow. And so what that would have meant for people,
for us is that you wouldn't have functioning tow trucks
and recovery trucks. Correct.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And we're directly responsible for keeping California and your highways
open and moving, which allows commerce to move, goods and services,
people to get where they need to go, whether it's
for work, for medical reasons, or what have you. So
if you hands during that industry, your entire infrastructure infrastructure
excuse me, basically comes to a screeching halt.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Right, So we would have massive traffic jams from a
border to border.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That is correct? Yes, I mean and I both know.
Living in California, we deal with enough traffic as it is.
Can you imagine it tenfold?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And you explain this to the newsome people that we did,
you are correct, and they didn't care.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
They didn't care.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You must find it very hard to believe you're in
these meetings.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I've learned to I've learned to keep the poker face,
if you will, when I'm sitting in some of these hearings,
and you know, just just keep my cool and again
bring up sensible points, because that's all I can do.
You know, I've been in this industry for a long
time and I really enjoy it. And we're we genuinely
help people people that are broken down on the side
of the road. Grandmother's, uncles, aunts, fathers, daughters. You know,
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that's what we do. When somebody's in trouble in their
vehicle doesn't move, we get called out to go pick
them up.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
All right, Josh, thanks for coming on. Josh Lovelace, National
director of the Safe Roads Coalition, thanks very much for
coming on. It was good talking with you. I I
want to try to like focus on the insanity of
the people, the insanity of the people who work for
the newest and administration. You hurt, Josh. He explained very clearly,
(07:49):
this electric truck idea for toll trucks just flat out
does not work. We won't be able to function, and
so as the cars and trucks breakdown in California, we
will have massive tie ups on the on all highways,
all freeways, border to border, and nobody is going to
be able to rescue anyone cars, trucks, so you'll just
(08:15):
have what carnage piling up everywhere. And this has been
explained to these these just vegetables. We'll have more on
this coming up. Fortunately, the US Senate and the US
House has come to the rescue. We'll tell you all
about it. The repeal of the Newsom's ban on gas
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powered cars and trucks.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
There's a big day today. Years. We've been waiting for
this for years. The Newsom administration, through the California Air
Resources Board, past the regulation, past the lag California that
said we have we can't buy gas powered cars by
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twenty thirty five, and in fact, starting next year there
was a quota mandated thirty five percent of all new
vehicles at California dealerships could not be gas powered, either
electric cars or plug in hybrids, and by twenty thirty
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five it would be against the law to sell gas
only cars, against the law. That's what the Polyp Bureau decided. Now,
there are so many things wrong with this, and we
have talked about it many times, but it's because of
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the climate change racket, that whole scam. Number one, people
by and large didn't want electric vehicles. Healthy here in
California did and they were buying a lot of Tesla's
until they were appalled by Musk working in the Trump
administration and suddenly the climate didn't matter much anymore. So,
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obviously a bunch of phonies. But you knew that that
crowd is nothing if not a bunch of phonies. So
we we don't want them. And secondly, if we got
one and wanted to go on a trip outside of
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the immediate local area, there aren't that many places to
charge them. Many of the chargers don't work or they're
very slow. And I always like when I read articles
on this. I think I mentioned this the other day.
Every single article I read about a man or a
woman trying to go on a cross country trip, and
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if they wrote an article about it in an electric vehicle,
every article they described a disaster. You get to charging stations,
you got to drive twenty miles off the freeway. You
get there, there's three of them, two of them don't work.
The third one has a long line or it takes you,
you know, two hours. And I'd read the comments because
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there was a whole network of pro electric vehicle propagandists
and they would say, well, what you have to do
is you go to the rest stop and just you know,
you're going to take an hour off for lunch anyway,
so while you're eating lunch, you know, you charge your car.
It's not that big a deal. You just have to
make the adjustment. It's like, no, I want to eat
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lunch in my car, or I want to have the
option to, and I don't take an hour to eat
lunch anyway. I'm on a long road trip. I want
to get back on the road as quickly as possible.
I can gas up in five to seven minutes, that's
my standard. If your new breakthrough technology can't power me
up in five to seven minutes, the answer is no.
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I mean, of all the reasons to move out of
the state, the one thing that made me think about
it most seriously is banning a gas powered car. I
simply am not going to put up with this nonsense
where I can't get a charge, the station doesn't work,
there's too long a line. It's too slow, and they
don't have an electrical grid anyway, and they know they didn't,
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which takes me to my last guess. My last guest
Josh Lovelace. He is with the Safe Roads Coalition, the
national director, and he represents UH tow trucks and recovery
trucks who are forced to become electric. And he said
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the way the technology worked, there simply was no electric
technology that worked sufficiently for tow trucks. This flat out
didn't work. And they went to the News of Administration
and told them that that you are going to end
up with cars break picking down and there'll be no
tow trucks in the state to clear them off the
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road and take them to get fixed. And they explained,
you know, scientific technical terms, the whole mechanics of it,
why it wasn't working, and the Newsome people didn't care.
And so I realize, I mean, I knew this, but
it really hit home that they just want to remake
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the way we live. They are religious people. It's like certain,
let's say, a hardcore Baptist group offended by the idea
that people have sex before marriage, and so they try
to control their daughters and their sons and try to
(13:48):
force early marriages, try to shame people who've had sex.
It's that kind of intensity. It's not around as much
as it used to be, but it's still out there
in pockets. And if you look at it as religious intense,
where they you know, the the the the the devout
religious crowd just denies the fact that people have sexual drives,
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and denies the fact that you can have sex now
in the twenty first century and not get pregnant, because
there are just various ways to prevent that from happening,
just but the literal act of sex offends them so
deeply they're apoplectic. Well, the act of us driving on
the road is what makes these people in the new
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submit administration crazy, and it makes people in the California
Air Resources Board crazy. It's like some kind of illegal
sex act, and it enrages them. They're they're there, their
morality is offended. So they don't care. If electric tow
trucks don't work, it doesn't matter to them. They don't care.
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If the electrical grid would black out, they don't care.
They don't care if it takes two hours to charge.
They don't care if half of them are broken. They
don't care if they're forty miles off the freeway and
you end up maroon somewhere in the dark. They don't
care because the act of you driving and burning gas
and oil makes them insane. And finally the Senate said,
(15:14):
enough of this. It's not whether we should be using
gas powered cars. It's that we don't have a replacement,
and we don't, not one that's practical, not one that
we can all, all of us can afford that allow
us to the freedom, freedom to drive wherever we want,
whenever we want. It simply doesn't exist with electric cars.
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And they know this, but they don't care. They want
to control your life. And you have to reorient your
thinking that this is all about them controlling you you
because remember, if it was up to them, you'd be
living and a thousand square foot condo in a city.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
They have.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Their idea is a fifty minute city, they call it.
Where you work, you play, and you live within fifteen
minutes of your residence, and you don't take any cars,
You take buses, you take bicycles, you walk, that's it,
and you exist just in that little, short, little little
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square in the city, and you don't have a lawn,
you don't have a swimming pool, you don't drive a car,
none of that.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
On from one to four every day and after four
o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand. We have been celebrating
that the Senate and the House have now passed the
law reversing Newsom's ban on gas powered cars, so there
is no more ban on gas powered cars. As soon
as Trump signs it. Newsomb is going to sue, but
he's got a very thin thread and I think he
(16:56):
knows he's lost this because he's changing the set object.
We've got this interesting press release from Newsom's office. The
whole point of the gas powered ban was it was
over climate change, that we were heating up the atmosphere,
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that the atmosphere and the oceans we're going to boil over.
It's been climate change driving this rationale for banning gas
powered cars. But the thing is, most people, according to
every poll I've seen, either don't believe it or don't care.
They don't care if it's true or not. A lot
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of people don't believe it, and they're sick of hearing
about it. It generally rates among the least of the
public's concerns. You give them twenty issues, climate change is
going to be twentieth, maybe eighteenth if you slant the question.
So nobody cares, nobody believes it, nobody wants to hear
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about it anymore. It's a dead issue. It's over. Trump
is completely dismantling much of the climate change industry because
it's a racket. So Newsome is changing the subject. His headline,
big blue letters, make America smoggie again. He claims, that's
(18:19):
what the Republicans are going to do. They're going to
make America smoggie again. You get it. See the little
clever play on words there, make America great again? Huh
huh get it? Newsom. Newsom responds to illegal Senate vote.
They're claiming the votes illegal. They claim Congress can't get
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rid of this regulation. Well, when when Trump gets rid
of regulations by executive orders, they say, well, Trump can't
do that, the Congress has to do it. Then when
Congress does it, it's like, well, no, Congress can't do it, Well,
then who can do it? The EPA is part of
the executive branch. And Trump oversees the executive branch. He's
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the boss. Like it or not, he's in charge, so
either he strikes it or Congress strikes it. In this case,
Congress and Trump will all sign off on this bill.
And if they can't do it, then who can. The
people who gave California the waiver for the gas powered
band they've all been voted out of office. They're not
there anymore. So what are they saying is that this
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waiver of a regulation is there permanently. That makes no sense,
and they know it makes no sense, so that's why
they come up with make America SMOGGI again. The smog
has been cut in California dramatically, and everybody knows it.
You go go online and look at pictures of La
in the nineteen seventies. It used to be really disgusting
(19:49):
and unbreathable. That's all gone. They largely fixed the smog
problem in southern California. It's not gone entirely, but we
have live. What you have is a big environmental industry
that is running out of issues, and they don't know
(20:10):
what to do because they got to keep coming up
with emotionally manipulative arguments In order to keep the fundraising
coming in. Of course, if they were intelligent, if they
weren't stupid, they would have been all over our lack
of a fire department and our lack of brush clearing,
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because the emissions from the Palisades and Outda Diena fires
far exceeded whatever savings we made. In fact, this press
release by Neussam quotes how much we've improved are emissions
in the atmosphere in recent years, But he doesn't count
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all the fires that his failed policies have led to
or have been exacerbated by. What a loser, What an
incredible nuisance he is? Newsom is a nuisance he is.
He's stupid. He comes up with a policy that people
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don't want, can't afford. He doesn't have an electrical grid,
he doesn't have charging stations, he doesn't have products where
people I mean, I would read stuff all the all
the all the play, all the different reasons you shouldn't
drive an electric car, right, Like can't do it in
the cold because it drains the battery too much. You
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gotta be careful if you're I don't know, driving up hill.
And it was this whole list of it's like you
know what, I don't want to deal with this. I
don't want to deal with long lines to get charged.
I don't want to deal with broken chargers. I don't
want to deal with being thirty miles looking for a
charger and then my, my, my vehicle runs out of juice.
I don't want to do this, not interested, not going
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to live with it. If that was if that was
the rule, if they got to the point where you
couldn't drive an electric Viha, you couldn't drive the gas
powered vehicle at all in California, and then it's like, well,
I'm not driving in California. Now I'm moving out. I'm
taking all my tax money with me. Everybody's got their
breaking point, but I they can't have all our freedoms.
And I wish to God everybody wake up and stop
(22:22):
electing these religious fanatics to run the state, especially the
California Air Resources Board, that is a group of religious
climate fanatics. And we don't even get to elect them
or remove them. I mean, I mean, it's just unconscionable
what we have here and other states do not have
this nonsense. I don't know why people enjoyed living in
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an oppressive under an oppressive government. I don't understand, because
you know, maybe it was in China. It was difficult.
In Communist Russia, it was difficult because they had the
Middle Terry, they had all the guns. They had law
enforcement that would shoot you to death, make you disappear.
Doesn't have that. He doesn't have an army, He doesn't
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have any kind of massive law enforcement that he could
command to come and make you disappear. Okay, I'll give
up my car. Yeah, I believe him. Yeah, I have
to do my part for the for the climate.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Your part for the climate?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Good lord? Why don't you go read how big the
Earth is? And why don't you look up how small
you are? You have no effect on the climate. It's
all virtue signaling, is all it is. Now.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Coolest video, Yes, I thought you forgot.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I didn't forget. Coolest video. You've probably seen it. If
you haven't, go look for it. It is this dog.
What kind of dog is it? Spla it's a lab mix,
a lab mix. And where was this Orange County?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah? It was an Orange County.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, says lab mix. He's caught on a ring camera.
He's fighting off five coyotes. They didn't really fight, they
didn't really engage physically with each other, but the coyotes
surrounded him, and he kept pretending to charge at them,
and they would back off, and it's like they were
doing a dance, because they would charge towards him, and
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then he charged back, and for somehow he confused them
all and they didn't know what to do. And I
started watching it. I realized, all right, if that's five people,
the five people would have figured out how to take
down the dog, right, the five people would work in concert.
But the coyotes are kind of stupid, and they didn't.
They couldn't work together, they couldn't communicate together. So each
one of them was acting individually, and so he was
(24:47):
in a series of like one on one battles. I
guess normally when they go after a small dog or cat,
it's easy to overwhelm the small animal.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Absolutely, but it's very scary. Really really had.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Why did you get a coyote eating a small dog?
I know I've heard that a lot outside.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
But I know I have to and I can't stand
that noise.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Well, then it suddenly comes to an end.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I know, And that's you know what, the only good
thing about that is that you know? The dog, Yeah,
it's being killed, is dead and no longer in pain.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Right, that's the only good thing.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
But you hear the dog crying, you hear the coyotes, Holley, No,
we know, and then it just goes quiet. Just chomp, jump,
chump jump. Never thought i'd hear debver find the good
and the dog dying?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
That is the good.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
When that happens, you probably can't sleep the rest of
the night.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Well, I think most people wouldn't be able to. So
we have good news.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I go down easy. Yeah, yes, we do have good news.
We got off track there, yes we did. So the dog,
the dog that went on for forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yes, and this is a stray. This is a stray animal.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Remember I always say, adopt, don't shop, right, that's my motto. Adopt,
don't shop in the hallways. I do, that's my mantra.
So this dog was adopted.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
That's sweet. I mean I thought about that.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Who wouldn't want this dog that can fight off all
these coyotes is an amazing dog.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I wonder how he got loose. I don't know, because
he was a good looking dog. He didn't look like
a mangy stray living in the woods.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
There's so many good looking dogs in shelters and in
foster families. Seriously, they're overwhelmed with such great, amazing dogs.
People have a bad they they don't have a good
perception of animals that are that are that are not
(26:52):
the Golden Doodles and the designer dogs, design the French
bull dogs. Nothing against those dogs, but there are some
beautiful dogs.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I'm against those owners people. That's other. That's virtue signaling too.
They're showing off there.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I don't know if it's showing off because I've talked
to people and they say, well, why is it my
fault that people are not being responsible and they're not
getting their dog spade or neutered, and so why do
I have to feel guilty about not getting the exact
dog that I want?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
All right, let him dive in?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
No, No, are we here?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
On the John cobellt Show, most of us.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Say go and rescue. I think even even Ray said, no,
no he has a rescue kind of.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
No he doesn't he got it from No he got
a designer dog.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yes it is, but I thought he rescued it.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No, it's a Pomeranian, not rescued.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
I thought it was all right, rescue Pomeranian.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Okay, Well, then I was right the first when I
said most of us on the John Gobelt Show.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Anyway, the dog is healthy and alive and beautiful.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Dog.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Coyotes are still hungry. They'll eat someone else tonight.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Yeah, it happened in Brea. That's the city in Orange
County that had happened.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Six forty moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six, eight
seven seven Moist eighty six on Friday. There is uh,
there's a report out of Westwood. Yeah, get cut number
one ready if you would, Eric, We're gonna play Channel
five reporter Chris Wolfe. Residents are upset with squatters that
(28:39):
have taken over a neighborhood and it seems like LPD
will not do anything about it. This story is amazing. Listen.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Public profanity, urination, growing piles of garbage and debris, drugs, girls,
squatters and squalor, and an endless stream of troublemakers and
intruders leaping over fences, breaking into the same home coming
and going at all hours of the day and night.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
This is life in an otherwise.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Pleasant, upscale, family filled neighborhood in Westwood, tucked above Santa
Monica Boulevard, across from the Westfield Century City Mall.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
We're told the homeowners.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Are an older brother and sister who are offensive, loud,
and at the very least unconventional.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
They've been a.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Menace to the neighborhood for the whole time that we've
lived here. But in the past ten to twelve months,
they are hoards, and they've hoarded themselves out of their
own home, and they have been living in their cars.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
And everyone else has been living or squatting in their home,
which their neighbors describe as a hell house.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Why are you back there?
Speaker 7 (30:01):
It has completely blown up and disrupted everything, and there's
drug paraphernalia all over the neighborhood. It's across the street
from a school, a family dental building, and I even.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Called Adult Protective Services to try to get them to
help them.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
Sometimes in the winter months their cars running through the
night to provide them heat.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Neighbors are banding together appealing to anyone who will listen,
including police, city leaders, building and fire hazard inspectors, even
the courts. But these homeowners are becoming more hopeless with
the typical our hands are tied responses. And well, we
always knew to them as the creepy neighbors when we
were kids.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Bo's only the past few years when things started getting
really serious.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
What was just the hands are tied. I mean they're
listing crimes here. It seems like they're throwing a garbage
all over the place. There's drug paraphernalia all over the place.
They're making a lot of noise. Uh there, there's there's
alcohol bottles. Uh, there's there's uh the drug paraphernalia I mentioned. Uh,
(31:07):
there's uh disturbing the peace. I mean, there's all kinds
of crimes being committed, but the police won't do anything.
I don't understand this era of nobody in city government
in La nobody in the bass administration wants to do
anything about anything.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
I I I.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Don't I It's like everything is. I drive by certain neighborhoods,
I'm just like appalled by the amount of garbage that
is laying in the streets, on the sidewalks, blown in
the wind. There's nobody works for the city anymore, nobody
cares anymore. It doesn't matter how loud, everybody else, how
(31:45):
many calls you make, how many how many emails you
send as it's like they they have they've abandoned the public.
The Bass administration is such a disaster. It's such a
terrible disease. I'm still shocked she gets thirty two percent support.
(32:06):
When we'll we'll see what happens this weekend in the
Palisades and Malibu because they're supposed to be opening up
Pacific Coast Highway. We'll see it. Tomor Conway's next, and
Michael Krazer is live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
(32:27):
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