High Speed Rail Lawsuit Dropped [Best Of] (01/02)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (01/02) - Best Of The John Kobylt Show. Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped his lawsuit against the Trump administration regarding high-speed rail in California. What is worse in California, speeding or vehicular manslaughter? David Goldblum comes on the show to talk about his documentary “Big Rock Burning”. An investigation stated that oil companies are not price gouging consumers at the gas pump but California’s high taxes and regulations are the cause of high gas prices in the state.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | KFI. AM 640. |
| 0:06.4 | You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the IHart Radio app. |
| 0:10.9 | John Cobalt Show, KFI AM 640, live everywhere in the IHart Radio app. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm here to let the world know just what a freaking disaster. |
| 0:19.9 | Gavin Newsom has been to the state and it's been |
| 0:22.1 | destroyed right in front of our eyes. You know, I've been here over 30 years. And when I was a little |
| 0:26.6 | kid, this looked like paradise on TV. I came here and it actually was. And it stayed that way for |
| 0:32.3 | 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 |
| 0:39.8 | bad democratic progressive policies. I am no cheerleader for any political party, but I am telling |
| 0:46.6 | you that this progressive movement over the last 10 years has utterly disemboweled the state. |
| 0:53.3 | It is terrible. And it's heartbreaking. It's very |
| 0:56.0 | sad. And you know, that's funny. I've got, I've got three sons who are in their 20s and they all, |
| 1:01.4 | they all moved out. And none of want to come back to California. And but we visit them around the |
| 1:06.8 | country. And when I go to other states within a few hours, I look around and I go, |
| 1:13.1 | what happened? Like, where are the homeless people? You know, where are all the low-level criminals |
| 1:18.3 | skulking about? Look at that gas price. That's $289? That's $2.69. That's $2.69. I feel like I've broken out of Cuba. |
| 1:25.8 | I mean, or we're communist Russia. |
| 1:28.2 | I really have that feeling. |
| 1:30.1 | 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. |
| 1:40.6 | And the Easter roll their eyes at us until they moved out. |
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