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that it sits there and lies to you. And we all just sit there rolling our eyes going, give me a break. So as it relates to that, there's nothing on the right. I'm focused on Prop 50. I'm focusing on fair and free elections. And to the extent, fate, the future, there's an alignment. You have a big enough why. You have a what and a how. You meet a moment. And that moment presents itself in a year, year and a half. We'll see what happens. What the hell did that mean at the end there? He says that he hates a politician sitting there and lying to you, and we roll our eyes while he's lying to you. And we're rolling our eyes. And then he goes into this incomprehensible word salad that would put Kamala Harris to shame. Aye, aye, aye. Well, here's a woman who's got a lot of stamina because she's been covering Gavin Newsom. for many years, Katie Grimes, and she writes for California globe.com. California globe.com. And if you want to know what's going on in California news and politics, this is where to go. Believe me, you may not have heard about this particular website, but for me, it's replaced most of the regular media out here, which simply doesn't cover anything. I don't think there is one local reporter in Sacramento that covers state politics, and there's nobody else in all of California. Nobody. Nobody from the LA Times, nobody from the San Francisco Chronicle, nobody from all the network affiliates, ABC, NBC, CBS, all the affiliates in all these cities, nobody covers Sacramento. It's astonishing, but Katie does. Katie, how are you? Welcome. Doing well, John. Good to be with you. Good to have you on. Well, why don't you give, because we're broadcast across the country this time. What would you tell people about covering Gavin Newsom for all these years? Well, it's a distasteful job, I must admit. If anybody kind of is trying to understand who Gavin Newsom is, which is difficult because every interview he gives, he's playing to whatever audience he thinks he's performing for. But you have to think of like the worst of Tim Walz and the worst of Gretchen Whitmer, but just in a nice Italian suit. That's kind of Gavin Newsom. The suits are nice. They are nice. I think he's, you know, that's how he gets by in life. He's got nice suits, nice hair, and a strong jawline. Yeah, and he travels with his own personal hairstylist. Yeah. And, and, I mean, you know, some people swoon. I mean, I see him referred to as Governor McDreamy. Yeah, it's gross. And they don't connect him to everything that's falling apart in the state.

Yeah, it's, I believe it was Michael Savage who said liberalism is a mental disorder. And I think we're seeing the fruition of that today after so many years of Democrat supermajority rule in California. And it got really ugly during when Jerry Brown came back as governor's second time around, which, you know, so unfortunate for all of us who've lived here for decades. But it was made worse by Gavin Newsom. I recently did an update to my top 50 disasters. Governor Gavin Newsom has ushered into California. Top 50. I got to just stop you a second. Top 50 disasters. Right. And there's more. I have people telling me, you know, people are writing me saying, but you forgot this and you forgot this. And it's like we could have top 500. It would take, you know, a 20,000 word essay. Let's talk about some of the biggest ones because, you know, all the news is raging about Tim Walz and the $9 billion Somali scandal for the empty daycare centers and the children's feeding programs that don't exist. But he's got several here that add up to about $80 billion worth of fraud. Let's talk about the homelessness because he has admitted that $24 billion in homeless money. over the years has disappeared and is it was spent but nobody knows what it was spent on and what if it did any good and that's what this one fascinated me because he actually admitted it Yeah, well, he only admitted to $24 billion. The state legislative analyst upped it to $37 billion. And that money disappeared into the black hole of newly created nonprofits and NGOs, non-governmental organizations. And those people hired, you know, friends and family and the CEO was making $2.50 a year. And they just would spend the money as fast as humanly possible. I did an article that posted today just highlighting one of these organizations in San Francisco, which is supposed to be providing free shots of alcohol to homeless alcoholics. And in five years, at $16 million a year, they've served 55 clients. No, you're making that up. This is tax money, and it buys free shots of booze. The street trunks. Yes, yes. And it's been going on for a number of years. It was an organization that already existed, but they beefed it up during COVID ostensibly to keep these homeless alcoholics out of emergency rooms. And, you know, it's under the, you know, we're kind of trying to reduce harm to these people. And, you know, as I said, I'm sorry, giving alcohol to. alcoholics is like giving crack to crackheads and heroin to heroin addicts. It doesn't end it. It makes it worse. Well, they're close to doing that, too. Because I know in L.A. I just saw a program that UCLA is involved with where they hand out needles. Yeah. And they hand out, they hand out like meth pipes.

Right. Exactly. They claim that this is a harm reduction program when all you're doing is it's the classic codependent concept. But they know this, don't they? Yes. And it's really about funneling the money to friends and family. So everybody has their own multimillion dollar empire. And everybody knows that all this nutty stuff doesn't work. Yes, and in California with 40 million residents and a legislature the same size as New Jersey, it's very easy to hide this. And that's 37 billion right there. Yep. The high-speed rail, that's a $17 billion disaster, and that's over an 18-year period now. Yes. And there is not one inch of track laid down after $17 billion in 18 years, not an inch of track. Talk about that. No, and that's exactly it. It's consultants that are getting paid. It's union employees. This was supposed to be a big boondoggle for the labor unions in the state, particularly the SEIU, which is public employees. And all they're doing is spending money, as I said, on consultants, on, you know, architects, on – it's a lot of make work, and it's, you know, multi-billion dollars of money just being funneled down the drain. And as you say – There's no track. There's no trains. There's no high speed. There's no nothing. It's unbelievable that this is going on. And I think it's even more unbelievable to you and to me, John, that we have, you know, the Los Angeles Times, which hasn't done a massive investigation on this because they have the resources to do it and expose where the money's actually going. Then another one. And this may be the biggest one of them all. During COVID. The state started handing out unemployment money to anybody who claimed they were unemployed. And they blew about at least $32 billion, and much of it went overseas. Yes. And at a state. Talk about that. This was the most unbelievable scam I think our state has ever seen. And unfortunately, the perpetrators failed up into the Biden administration. So what they did during COVID was took off all of the security measures that are normally in place when people apply for unemployment benefits in California. And somehow the word got out pretty fast to every prisoner in every state prison in our state and other states that there was this free money to be had. We had prisoners on death row getting unemployment benefits fraudulently. Scott Peterson, who killed his wife, Lazy Peterson, was getting unemployment benefits while sitting on death row. Yep.

Yeah, Russians were, Ukrainians were, you know, people from all over the world were applying and receiving California unemployment benefits. And the head of the agency who should not only have been fired but prosecuted was hired by the Biden administration. She became the acting labor secretary, Julie Sue, right? Yes, she did. She never got confirmed, but yeah. And then she forgave some of the debt California had to the federal government. She created the debt while running the California Labor Department and then forgave her own debt when she took over Biden's labor department. Correct. And the remaining debt is now being paid by California's business owners because Gavin Newsom will not repay the debt to the federal government. That's crazy. Can you hang on? Yes. We'll talk a few more minutes here with Katie Grimes from California Globe.com. So, I mean, you add all those three scandals up and you get near $80 billion. I mean, I mean, Tim Walz is as a rookie compared to what Gavin Newsom has done to the state. And by the way, this is going on in a lot of states. It's not just Minnesota and California. I mean, this, it is a free for all now with local governments. We'll talk more about this. John Cobalt from KFI filling in today on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Summer is here, which means we all want to look and feel our best. A GLP1 may be right for you. Visit orderly meds.com to learn more about which GLP1 you could be eligible for. Getting started is fast, easy, and happens virtually through telemedicine from licensed professionals. Check it out for yourself. Go to orderly meds.com slash podcast. That's orderly meds.com. Taking care of yourself feels great. Compat of medications are not FDA-approved eligibility required and determined by a licensed provider. Individual results may vary. See website. for details. This is Tony A.O. from The Real Report with Tony A.O. and Uncle Murder. You ever notice how everything keeps going up, rents going up, streaming services are going up? Even your favorite burrito spot suddenly thinks salsa should cost extra. But with Boost Mobile, you and your phone bill don't have to play the Willis Go Up Soon game because Boost Mobile has an unlimited talk, text, and data plan at a price that'll never go up. It's the same price you'll pay for life, meaning you're said to never worry about your bill increasing again for as long as you're on the plan. While the world keeps finding new ways, to nickel and dime you, Boost Mobile gives you unlimited wireless at one set price for life. Imagine something in your budget actually staying the same. You'll pay the same for unlimited wireless when you're posting mirror selfies in your 20s and when you're posting mirror selfies in retirement. Some things never change. Switch now for unlimited wireless at a price that will never go up, only at Boost Mobile. After 30 gigabytes, customers may experience slower speeds. Customers will pay $25 a month as long as they remain active on a boost.

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You're listening to John Cobalt on demand from KFI AM 640. Thank you, John Cobalt, for hosting Clay and Buck. And you and Katie Grimes are letting the world know that California has gone from the land of milk and honey to fruits and nuts, now to doom and gloom. I'm a 77-year-old native, and I'm just terribly depressed. So please, we cannot let Gavin Newsom ruin our country. Well, thank you very much. And this is the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. I'm John Cobalt from KFI in Los Angeles on every afternoon on the radio here in Southern California. And yes, I'm here to let the world know just what a freaking disaster. Gavin Newsom has been to the state. And it's been destroyed right in front of our eyes. As I said in the opening of the show, you know, I've been here over 30 years. And when I was a little kid, this looked like paradise on TV. I came here and it actually was. And it stayed that way for the first, you know, 20 plus years or so. And then it's gone really downhill. And it's almost entirely due to self-inflicted bad... Democratic progressive policies. I am no cheerleader for any political party, but I am telling you that this progressive movement over the last 10 years has utterly disemboweled the state. It is terrible, and it's heartbreaking. It's very sad. And you know, that's funny. I've got three sons who are in their 20s, and they all moved out. None of want to come back to California. But we visit them around the country. And when I go to other states within a few hours, I look around and I go, what happened? Like, where are the homeless people? You know, where are all the low-level criminals skulking about? Look at that gas price. That's $2.89? That's $2.69 a gallon? It's, I feel like I've broken out of Cuba. I mean, or we're communist Russia. I really have that feeling. And my sons used to hear my wife and I complain and grumble all the time about various policies and taxes and just everything, quality of life issues. And the Easter roll their eyes at us until they moved out. And so now they go out, and I have one son of Wyoming, one in North Carolina, one in Louisiana, going to school or various early parts of their career. And they come back and they go, they're shocked. Now they're shocked by L.A. because they spend, you know, three, six months in peace before they return for a visit. And they go, you know, now I know what you're talking about because they get so used to normal life, pleasant life. I visited one of my sons in North Carolina over the summer. And then we took a road trip. We went through Savannah, Georgia. We went to Charleston, South Carolina. We ended up in Sarasota, where my wife grew up, a part of her childhood as a teenager and beyond because her parents had moved. And so just seeing those four cities, seeing Charlotte, Charleston, Savannah, Sarasota.

And I'm looking around and it's like, look at this. Nobody's on the sidewalks. We're not looking over our shoulder. We're not afraid. And that is the single thing that makes you crazy in L.A. You never know when somebody's going to come flying at you. Because it happens. People get punched in the face. They get stabbed. There is a girl that my sons went to school with from the local school. And she'd gone to college and she was taking a job to earn money, I believe, at a furniture store. Homeless guy who'd been arrested, you know, many, many, many times, walked in one day and stabbed her to death right in the furniture store. It's like, oh, my God, you know, my son's knew that girl. I used to see her. She used to work out at a park that I worked out at. And I remembered her. And it really hits home to a lot of people. I mean, we know dozens and dozens of people who lost their homes in the fire because many of the people in the Palisades went to the same school as my children. And so the pain is intense. The pain is personal. You go from paradise to what we have now. And a lot of people have packed up and left. And I understand. And people always say, well, why are you staying? I do have a good job. And we do have a lot of friends. You know, you do spread roots, and I don't really want to go to another state and not know anybody. That just doesn't sound appealing. Let me tell you about some of the fraud. We went over with Katie Grimes from California Globe.com. We're going to have, oh, next hour we're going to have. from News Nation. Let me see. We're going to have Joe Khalil from News Nation, and he's going to talk about the Minnesota case with Tim Walz. And so I keep saying, if you think Waltz is something else with the fraud, just listen to these Gavin Newsom's stories. And this week, California dropped its lawsuit. $4 billion in federal money was supposed to come for high-speed rail, and Trump pulled it. And Trump has done a lot of damage to Gavin Newsom. This is one example. $4 billion of federal money. Obama had originally appropriated some of it. And the first thing that Gavin Newsom and the Attorney General in California does, Rob Bonta, is they hold a press conference. We're suing Trump. Big headlines in all the left-wing papers. Gavin Newsom sues Trump. Banta sues Trump. Well, the follow-up to that is that Gavin Newsom and Rob Bonta dropped their $4 billion lawsuit. They're not even going to try to get the $4 billion back because guess what? They did violate the loan agreement or the grant agreement. They dismissed their own lawsuits. Trump's Transportation Department said they did a compliance review and found that California didn't meet federal grant requirements. There were too many costly changes to the contracts. The ridership forecasts were bogus and on and on. Let me tell you when this thing passed in 2008, what the voters were told. I think it passed 52 to 48. It was a statewide referendum. Do you want high-speed rail? Here is what they sold the public. I voted no. I knew it was a bunch of lies. A lot of people went for it, and I understand why.

Because at the time, and this was a remnant of like the Schwarzenegger administration, they said you were going to have 220 mile an hour trains. Yeah, really, 220 mile an hour trains. And they were going to run from, get this, it was going to run from Sacramento to San Francisco. Then to Los Angeles, then to Anahe, then to San Diego. The whole state, all the major cities from north to south would be connected by a single track. And we were going to build that in about, I think it was going to be within 15 years, by 2020. And the total price was going to be $33 billion. $33 billion for the whole thing. Sacramento, San Francisco, L.A., Anaheim, San Diego. And the trains would go 220 miles an hour. And you'd be able to go from San Francisco to Los Angeles in like, I don't know, two and a half hours. And people got excited, right? People love... It's science fiction, right? shiny bullet trains speeding, you know, through the California farm regions, connecting the cities. Everyone bought into it. So now what do we got 18 years later? We have no track. What we have is scattered out in the California, the Central Valleys, they call it. That's a lot of farmland, right? Well, they tore up a lot of farmland, and they have left these pillars. And someday someone's going to come back to California and wonder what these pillars are for. Because they're really high. I don't know. They're like 20, 30 feet high. They're supposed to hold up the railroad track, the overhead railroad track. Except the railroad track was never built. So you have these things, and it looks like Stonehenge out there. Like if you had... I know people from a foreign country come, they'd be looking around as like this, this is an ancient civilization that left behind, you know, were they tracking the sun here? Were they plotting the stars? Do these cast shadows? That's all we have. Are these stone hedge pillars to hold up track that's never been built? They have reduced the train. To Bakersfield to Merced. Bakersfield is an oil town. Merced has a university of California campus there. Well, Bakersfield's industrial. It kind of looks like an oil town would. Merced is just, you know, a little suburb. You can't run a train back and forth. There's no market there. There are no commuters wanting to go from Bakersfield to Merced. And even then, the train stops are outside Bakersfield and Merced. And that's the extent of the train they're trying to build. It's going to be 171 miles. There is no Sacramento. There's no San Francisco. There's no Los Angeles, no Anaheim, no San Diego. There's nothing. There's Bakersfield to Merced. And now they're estimating it's like, well, if we ever built the whole thing, which we're not going to, it would cost, you know, $130 million.

Which means it would probably cost $130 billion, which means it would probably cost $250 billion. Remember what I said at the beginning. It's going to be $33 billion, all five major cities. It's going to be done about 12 to 15 years. Now, but end when they did several audits. And when the auditors went in, because somebody else says, why don't they do an audit? Why don't do the forensic audit and track down every penny? Well, when they do the audits, they find out the money evaporated. It's not written down. There's no paperwork. There's literally no paperwork. The money was withdrawn. Tax money was withdrawn from accounts. And then it was gone. We agreed to borrow $10 billion that we're now paying back. They also said, well, we're going to get private investors way back when. Well, an Gavin Newsom and Banta dropped this lawsuit this past week. Somebody said, well, where are you going to get the money? Oh, we're going to get private investors. There are no private investors in the world. They've been trying for 25 years to get private investors. But it's a boondoggle. You know, when the private sector says this thing is a scam, it's a scam. But it keeps the unions employed who are busy building these Stonehenge pillars for no reason. It's astonishing. And that other thing that we talked about with Katie, yeah, death row inmates really got unemployment money. Scott Peterson really got an unemployment check while sitting on death row. You just can't make this stuff up. All right. We've got more coming up on. This is John Cobalt from KFI Radio on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Summer is here. At orderly meds, we know this time is a reminder that life is full of new beginnings. Whether you're celebrating the nice weather, starting a new chapter, planning a vacation, or simply looking ahead to what's next. This season can be the perfect time to invest in yourself and your health. If you've struggled with weight loss and are curious about GLP1 medications, orderly meds can help you learn about your options. Through a simple virtual process, you can connect with licensed medical professionals who can determine whether treatment may be appropriate for you. Getting started is fast, convenient, and happens online from the comfort of home. This summer, consider a new approach to feeling your best. Visit orderlymeds.com slash podcast to learn more. That's orderlymeds.com slash podcast. Orderlymeds.com slash podcast. Because every new season is an opportunity to take the next step forward. Compounded medications are not FDA-approved. Eligibility required and determined by a licensed provider. Individual results may vary. See website for details.

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I mentioned the other day how Trump has done a lot of damage, earlier in the show, how Trump's done a lot of damage to Gavin Newsom, for example, by withdrawing the billions of dollars in high-speed rail. He also got rid of Gavin Newsom's electric car mandate. Starting next week, next week, 35% of the cars in California were supposed to be electric. 35% of the cars sold. And it was going to ramp up from there. And in less than 10 years, 100% of the cars sold were supposed to be electric. Now, a lot of the electric cars are difficult to deal with, as you know, which is why this has been a bus. Teslas are great. I see Tesla's on the west side. There's a lot of rich people on the west side. There's a lot of guys. It's their third car. It's their weekend car. And they could pay 75 or 100,000 or whatever those things cost. But again, for the working class, for the middle class, electric cars, not feasible. For one thing, we don't have any charging stations. I mean, we really don't. And we don't have an electric grid to support the charging. If we all switch to electric like Gavin Newsom was mandating, there's absolutely no power source to provide the electricity. And for years and years, we've been talking about this. It's like, well, if we're going to do this, we need more power. Instead, they were closing natural gas plants. They were closing a nuclear plant and then changed their mind at the last minute and then changed their minds on the gas plant. They were going to go all wind and solar. They didn't build charging stations. They don't have a grid, but we were mandated to buy electric cars. That's part of the insanity that we have. All right, we come back, Joe Khalil, and Joe is with News Nation, and we're going to switch to the Minnesota insanity, very similar. And all the fraud with the Somali community there, there's a new video out that has shocked the country, 100 million views. And that's coming up next on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 640 from 1 to 4 p.m. every Monday through Friday. And of course, anytime on demand on the IHeart Radio app. Summer is here, which means we all want to look and feel our best. A gLP1 may be right for you. Visit orderly meds.com to learn more about which gLP1 you could be eligible for. Getting started is fast, easy, and happens virtually through telemedicine from licensed professionals. Check it out for yourself. Go to orderly meds.com slash podcast. That's orderly meds. Taking care of yourself feels great. Compat of medications are not FDA-approved eligibility required and determined by a licensed provider. Individual results may vary. for details.

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