KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the IHeart Radio app.

John Cobalt Show on demand is going to be posted after 4 o'clock.

And it's a podcast version.

It's the radio show all over again.

So if you miss stuff, and we've had some good stuff today.

We had Daniel Gus on, the journalist covering City Hall.

We had Michael Monks on, cover City Hall for KFI, among other things.

And they gave extensive reports about the council meeting today where Kristen Crowley got axed again.

She got fired by Bass, as you know, appealed, and she lost 13 to 2.

One of the things I'm trying to give an airing to is really the central issue is that we're

governed by people.

I don't know when I was a kid growing up in my naive, like tiny little brain, which really hasn't developed

all that much since, but it retains this idea that a government, and the government is us,

right?

We all pitch in our tax money, and there's certain things that we must have, that you have to

have for a civilization.

You have to account for human nature, so there's certain things that we must have, that you have to have for a civilization. You have to account for human nature. So there's certain things you need in a civilization. And to me, there's only

a handful of things that are absolute musts, and that you have to have a police department.

You have to have a fire department. You have to have somebody building and maintaining the roads. You have to have a school

system. You have to have electricity and water. And then the list gets more optional. Not one minute

in my life growing up did I ever encounter a place where I lived where their priorities were not police,

fire, schools, roads, et cetera?

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