Santa Monica isn't doing enough to fight the homeless issue (01/21)
The John Kobylt Show
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4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (01/21) -
Dick Lucas joins the show to talk about his viral video where he counted 83 homeless people during his morning Santa Monica jog. He is running for state assembly member and talks about the need for radical change and accountability with government spending. Gov. Newsom makes a fool of himself at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. His comments leave him uninvited from giving his own speech at the conference.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:06.5 | You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the I-Hart Radio app. |
| 0:10.6 | We're on every day, one until 4 o'clock. |
| 0:13.0 | And after 4 o'clock, John Co-Belt's show on demand on the I-Art app. |
| 0:17.7 | A lot of what we did in the first hour was Gavin Newsom, embarrassing himself |
| 0:25.4 | tremendously. We'll go through some of that later in the hour again, but if you want to get the |
| 0:30.3 | full treatment, one o'clock hour on the podcast is what you should listen to later on in the day. |
| 0:35.7 | Right now, Santa Monica in the Venice area has one of the highest density levels of vagrants, |
| 0:48.4 | mental patients and drug addicts. |
| 0:50.8 | And there's one young man, and his name is Dick Lucas, and he's had it. |
| 0:58.1 | And some months ago, he announced that he's running for the California Assembly, the 51st District. |
| 1:03.0 | And the other day, he unleashed, released, rather, a video which got a lot of attention. |
| 1:11.4 | And he went on his morning jog, and he found 83 homeless people, 83 of them on the morning jog, |
| 1:18.7 | looked to be in the Santa Monica Venice area. |
| 1:21.2 | And we're going to talk to Dick Lucas now, running as an independent 51st district in that Santa Monica region. |
| 1:27.3 | Dick, how are you? John, thank you so much for having me on. In fact, it's a pleasure. I grew up listening to your show with my dad. In fact, I just called him to confirm that it was you that we would listen to. You know, KFI, more stimulating talk radio, has been in my brain for years. We also would listen to Handel on the Law. So this is a pleasure. Thank you for having me on. It's great to talk to you. It's great to talk to you from my end as well, because I've been following your campaign for a few months now, and you're saying all the things that, you know, I'd want to say if I was running for office, you're seeing |
| 2:01.7 | all the same things that everybody else is seeing. And talk about what motivated you to get into |
| 2:08.2 | the race and how you're conducting your campaign. I mean, that video was something else. But |
| 2:14.5 | start with the original motivation well the motivation for |
| 2:18.4 | getting in the race two reasons i used to write voter guides i would post them on my blog i had a |
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