We Need To Fix The 9-1-1 System (02/12)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/12) - CA State Senator Tony Strickland comes on the show to talk about his plan to fix the state's 9-1-1 system after Gov. Newsom's plan to fix the system failed. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison had a heated exchange over fraud in Minnesota. John is victorious in his customer service debacle and more on Gov. Newsom's wife scolding reporters yesterday.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | KFI AM 640. |
| 0:06.5 | You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the IHart Radio app. |
| 0:10.7 | We are going to be moving to a new neighborhood. |
| 0:15.1 | 3 to 6 o'clock on Tuesday, February 17th, our show, everything in our show, packed up, moved to three to six, |
| 0:24.2 | Conwell will be on from six to ten, and there's going to be a new program on the year, Michael Monks |
| 0:28.6 | and Chris Merrill, and they are going to team up and do the show from noon to three. |
| 0:33.8 | All right, and we're going to have Mike and Chris on with us at 3.30 today after Debra's news. |
| 0:39.7 | Let's now go to Tony Strickland. |
| 0:42.4 | Tony is a state senator at a Huntington Beach, a Republican, and we have told you over the last couple of months on how Gavin Newsom blew almost a half a billion dollars on a new 9-1-1 system. |
| 0:57.0 | And they've been working on this thing for like six, seven years, ever since he became governor. |
| 1:01.4 | And it was a complete bust. |
| 1:03.2 | Absolutely nothing worked. |
| 1:05.3 | And now Tony Strickland has got a bill to try to address the mess. |
| 1:09.7 | Tony, how are you? |
| 1:11.4 | I'm good, John. How are you? |
| 1:13.2 | I am good. Tell people, if they haven't heard, how much money was spent, and what went wrong with the 911 system? |
| 1:22.4 | So, Governor Newsom promised Californians a modern 911 system, and his administration spent $500 million. |
| 1:30.3 | They charged a surcharge to all of our constituents and all the people's phone charge to fund it. |
| 1:37.3 | So they spent $500 million. |
| 1:38.3 | They missed every major deadline, and then they scrap the plan. |
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