1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: day from one until four o'clock and then after four 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: o'clock it's John Cobel showing demand on the iHeart app. 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: And we spent much of last hour on Karen Bass. 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 1: There's no there's signs popping up all over the palisades. 7 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 1: Karen Bass to resign. Now, Karen Bass resigned now exactly 8 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: what it says. And we played some clips from her 9 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,959 Speaker 1: appearance on ABC News over the weekend, trying to take 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: control of the Nastal Guard, trying to take control of 11 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: immigration policy. Look, Karen, if you weren't a Castro lover, 12 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: you would have been the vice presidential pick for instead 13 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris. They were going to go for you, 14 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: and then they found your extensive history worshiping Fidel Castro 15 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: and decided, oh, that's no good, and so bubblehead Kamala 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: was picked instead. Imagine as empty headed as Kamala is, 17 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: Karen Bass came in second to that because she was 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: a cashtro lover, and otherwise, you know, she who knows 19 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: she could be president now? Right? Who knows how things 20 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: would have been different. I mean, she's got all these 21 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: winning arguments on immigration. I'm sure she would have rolled 22 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: over Trump in a general election. But here's another facet 23 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: of life in the Los Angeles area. You know, the 24 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 1: city is bankrupt and the county nearly so. And one 25 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: of the reasons is the mind boggling amount of money 26 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: that they pay out in legal settlements. I don't know 27 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: which is crazier in this story. The amount of money 28 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: the city has to pay a man who was hit 29 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: by a sanitation truck and he's been in a coma 30 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: ever since. Is that the craziest part of the story. 31 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: Or the arguments that the city used, that the city 32 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: attorneys used to try to tamp down the cost of 33 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: the settlement. Tell you that in a moment. But here's 34 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 1: the case. First, poor guy named Camraan Hakimi, he's now 35 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: sixty one years old. He was in a crosswalk at 36 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: haven Hurst and Ventura Boulevard. It was last August. He 37 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: had a green light to cross, and a sanitation truck 38 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: driver made an unsafe right turn. According to Aikmi's attorneys, 39 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: And this is the awful part. There was a handlebar 40 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: on the front of the truck hit Hakmi in the head, 41 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: flung him to the asphalt, where he smashed his head 42 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: a second time. So he gets the handlebar in the 43 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: head and then wax his head on the asphalt. He 44 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: actually stood up briefly and flashed the thumbs up I'm okay, 45 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: and then went unconscious, and I guess hit his head 46 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: a third time as he collapsed. So he's been in 47 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: a coma ever since. And it doesn't say what the 48 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: prognosis is, but probably it's very poor, I would guess. 49 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: So they go to court and the city acknowledged that 50 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: the driver failed to yield. But this is how they 51 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: disputed the damages. They said, well, he doesn't deserve that 52 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: much money because his life expectancy was limited. What Yeah, 53 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: that he wasn't going to live along anyway because he's 54 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: sixty one. 55 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 2: Wait a second, so you're sixty one is now ninety 56 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 2: that's the argument from him That is ridiculous. 57 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: These are the attorneys we pay for. This is what 58 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: they told to a jury. They told to a jury. 59 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 2: I would I would I would have been busting up laughing, 60 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 2: and I'm not sixty one. 61 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: Part two is even worse. The value of his damages, 62 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life. 63 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: Well that's minimized because he was in a coma. Anyway, 64 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: when you're in a coma, you don't have any emotional distress. Yeah, but. 65 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 2: He wasn't in a coma before he was hit. 66 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: Well, you see there's two parts there. There's the loss 67 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: of income, right because you were whacked in the head, 68 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: and then there's the suffering you go through the emotional distress. Well, 69 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,799 Speaker 1: maybe if he was conscious, you'd have a case according 70 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: to these attorneys, but there's no emotional distress. He's just 71 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: sitting there. That is. This is these are the attorneys 72 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: we pay for. So loss of enjoyment of life. In 73 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 1: other words, he doesn't know he's not enjoying life. 74 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: His family does. 75 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. The jury, I guess they were so incensed by 76 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: this they ordered to pay ordered the city to pay 77 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: Hakimi forty eight plus million dollars, including twenty five million 78 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: for future paid and suffering. That rejected the argument that 79 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: he's not going to feel the pain in the suffering. 80 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 2: That's awesome. 81 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, ten million dollars for medical expenses. But we're paying 82 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: for all this Now, that's not so long in king Well. 83 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 1: Last year, last fiscal year for twenty twenty five, the 84 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: city paid out two hundred and eighty nine million dollars. 85 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:51,239 Speaker 1: It's one of the largest and growing sectors of the budget, 86 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: highest liability costs ever and now now we have this, 87 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: we're we're no. Heidi Feldstein Soto, she's the city attorney 88 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: and one of the Hakemi attorneys. Brian Parrish said that 89 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: Soto should have settled out of court, that she forced 90 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: this case to trial and rejected all reasonable settlement proposals. 91 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: There were many reasonable proposals made by an independent mediator, 92 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 1: but Soto said not to all of them, and then 93 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 1: she ended up getting whacked with a huge settlement. I 94 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: guess that's far beyond any of the suggests. Hey, you 95 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: were going to end up settling this case, right, you 96 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: can't beat a handlebar to the head, smacked to the 97 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: ground by a guy who made an illegal right turn 98 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:40,239 Speaker 1: in the sanitation truck. 99 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 2: And I'm going to just say that I've had to 100 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 2: complain to the sanitation department before because those truck drivers, 101 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 2: I should say, all of them, that's not fair. A 102 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 2: lot of them. They drive like crazy people. I live 103 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 2: up in the hills and narrow roads, and I'm I'm 104 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 2: telling you these sanitation workers, I sit and I yell 105 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 2: at them, and I wave my hands and I do 106 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 2: because I'm walking my dogs. And I can't tell you 107 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 2: how many times I've almost been hit. 108 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: Yeah you got a dodge? 109 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you seriously, I've. 110 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: Done that too on walks. We've had to do that. No, 111 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: they come, they play a game of chicken. They I'm 112 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: barreling at you, and they know you're gonna jump and 113 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: get out of the way. But if you have a dog, 114 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: you don't know what you're dogs exactly. 115 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, how dare they do? 116 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: You spend most of the day yelling and waving your arms. 117 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 2: Well, I'm telling you that there are so many stupid 118 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 2: people out there that I come across, and I just 119 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 2: marvel at it because I don't understand it. You're in 120 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 2: this humongous truck in a neighborhood where you you come 121 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 2: every week. You see people are walking their dogs. You 122 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 2: know how narrow the streets are, and you come barreling 123 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 2: around these blind curves going sixty seventy miles an hour. Yeah, 124 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 2: are you kidding that? 125 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: Fat? 126 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 2: Yes? 127 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: On those hills. Yes, I wouldn't leave the house. 128 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 2: I'm not going to let them win. 129 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: But when they win, they really win. 130 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 2: A pancake. 131 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: But yes, you'll get wiped out. They won't even notice it. 132 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: Anybody hear anything. 133 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 2: You'll know somebody old somebody. There's a lot of John 134 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 2: Cobalt listeners in my neighborhood, so they'll know. 135 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: I'll tell you all right that she's a pancake. Now, yes, okay, 136 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: we'll roll her up and put her in the news. Wow, 137 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: it's a tough neighborhood you're in. 138 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 139 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 3: M six forty. 140 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: I have a story about we're gonna play some Hunter 141 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: Biden clips. I don't know if you've heard this stuff 142 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: next segment, but Hunter Biden has did a podcast. Everybody 143 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: in America is either hosting or guesting on a podcast. 144 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: And he he is really crazy, like he's crazy crazy. 145 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 1: I mean, we all know about his life, right. We 146 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: all know he's crack addict and alcoholic and was living 147 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: in the streets here in Los Angeles and suddenly he 148 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: was partly running the White House. We know that all 149 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: the women he's had and all the babies he's left. 150 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: But you know, we rarely saw him speak publicly by himself. 151 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: And if you listen to these clips we're gonna play 152 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: after two thirty, you'll see why he's such a mess 153 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: in his private life. You know, everybody goes, well, you 154 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: know it's his private life. He struggled. You know, he's 155 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: absolutely crazy, like clinically insane. Get to that coming up. 156 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: All right, Now you have your You have your choice 157 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: of two bad animal stories, potentially bad. You get to choose. 158 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: It's either a plan to shoot owls or four hundred 159 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: guinea pigs found abandoned. 160 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 2: I'll do the guinea pigs. 161 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: Guinea pigs first, Okay, animals. This is Karen Bass's Los 162 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: Angeles animal rescue. Volunteers found more than four hundred guinea 163 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:18,559 Speaker 1: pigs living in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions. I think that's 164 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: a given right. If there's four hundred guinea pigs, Yeah, 165 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:26,199 Speaker 1: it's gonna it's by definition overcrowded, yes, and unsanitary. 166 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 2: They were the same cage, were they? 167 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 1: Ah, Well, we're gonna find out. They are asking now, 168 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: the the rescuers are asking the public to try to 169 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 1: foster some of these guinea pigs or adopt them, or 170 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: at least provide donations because they don't know what to 171 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: do with them. You know, I think I had guinea 172 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 1: you probably did when I went to uh Peru. I 173 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: believe they served that. 174 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 2: At one of the rest Oh wait, I thought you 175 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 2: met your kids had them as a peg. 176 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: Well, no, actually had it for dinner. 177 00:10:58,880 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 2: You ate a guinea pig? 178 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah it was. It was on the It 179 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: was on the menu. 180 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 2: A guinea pig. Who eats guinea pigs? 181 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: South America? I'm pretty sure is Peru. I liked it. 182 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 1: Oh your kids had to get No, No, I actually 183 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: ate a guinea pig. In fact, I ate one of 184 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: my kids guinea pigs, all right. I was hungry. I 185 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: grabbed it out of the cage and cooked it up 186 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: in a pot. 187 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 2: Please God, you'd have to say that. 188 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 1: Well, I'd like to really upset you. 189 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 2: You do a very good job, just. 190 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: A little bit too far. Get you to shake your head. 191 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,839 Speaker 1: So anyway, Uh, well, this is this is addressed to you. 192 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: Would you like to foster or adopt a guinea pig 193 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,679 Speaker 1: or at least provide some donations. Uh. It was a 194 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 1: distressing and alarming scene. According to the Southern California Guinea 195 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: Pig Rescue. That is a real organization. Now, they were 196 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: in bad shape. Some of the pigs were dead, some 197 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: had ringworm and open wounds, some were pregnant or the 198 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: new boards didn't have enough water or food the guinea pigs. 199 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:13,079 Speaker 1: Here's what they need. They need grass, hay, vegetables, and pellets. 200 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: And some of the guinea pigs were hiding in beer 201 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: boxes or crowded in a cage without food. It turns 202 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: it turns out the tenant had hoarded two hundred guinea 203 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: pigs and faced eviction if she didn't relocate them. But 204 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: when animal services showed up, they had a lot more 205 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,719 Speaker 1: than two hundred guinea pigs. They think up it was 206 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: over four hundred. They just continued to breed and breed. 207 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 1: The rest of the people in the house were just 208 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: overwhelmed what this woman had roommates. Imagine having a roommate 209 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: whose mass breeding guinea pigs. I guess that's all guinea 210 00:12:58,960 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: pigs do all day, Huh. 211 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 2: I've never owned a guinea pig. 212 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: Are they're cute? Yeah? 213 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 2: They are. I have friends that have had guinea pigs 214 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 2: and they are very cute. 215 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: Animal shelters are running out of space to house animals. 216 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,719 Speaker 1: After the pandemic, people started giving up the pets that 217 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: they got keep them company. 218 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 2: And people are going after those designer dogs instead of 219 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 2: going to shelters or going to a reputable foster pet 220 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 2: foster place. There are so you know what, I'm going 221 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 2: to use my platform for a second here just to 222 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 2: say this. You can get amazing, amazing mutts or kittens, cats, 223 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: guinea pigs from shelters and from animal rescue places. You 224 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 2: can if you want a labradoodle, let me tell you 225 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 2: there are labordoodle. 226 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: Rescues you should on the West side. People don't say, oh, 227 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: nice dog you have. What breed is that? 228 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 4: Yeah? I know? 229 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: And then you if you tell them it's some exotic, 230 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 1: expensive breed, Oh she's beautiful. This is what they do well. 231 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 2: When people ask me, I say, there's some kind of terriers. 232 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 2: They're a West Island Terrier or something, or they're they're rescues. 233 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 2: So I don't know exactly, but aren't they cute? They're 234 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 2: great dogs. 235 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: You know how often male and female guinea pigs have sex? 236 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 2: I know, John, I didn't, well, I don't. 237 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: The four hundred guinea pigs now will reach one thousand 238 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: by November. They're very frisky. I don't know how how 239 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: quickly the gestation period is, but I guess as soon 240 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: as the new piggies are born, there the guys jump 241 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: right in. 242 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 2: We have a big problem, we really do with the shelters, 243 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 2: and I don't know what the solution is, except first thing, 244 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 2: you got to. 245 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: Hose down these guinea pigs. Well that they need a cold, shallow. 246 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 2: Well, people need to go, you know, go and adopt 247 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 2: a guinea pig. 248 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: But not too or not a male in. 249 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 2: At reading them. 250 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, just get two guys or two girls. 251 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 2: Just get one. 252 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: All right, here's this other disturbing animal story. 253 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 2: I forgot we have another one. 254 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: Yes. Last August, the US Fish and Wildlife Service approved 255 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: a plan to shoot to death four hundred and fifty 256 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: thousand owls in California. 257 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 2: Why what do owls do? 258 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: They didn't just sit there and. 259 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 2: Hoot, right, And they're supposed to be good luck four. 260 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: Times four hundred and fifty thousand in California, Oregon, and 261 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: Washington over the next thirty years. This is going to 262 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: be a thirty year project to annihilate these owls. They're 263 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: called the barred owl b a r D. The barred owl. 264 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: It looks like too many barred owls have been out 265 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: competing the northern spotted owls, and so they're driving the 266 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: northern spotted owls out of business. And so this is 267 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: a mass murder of one owl species in order to 268 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: save a second owl species. Is this an owl gang 269 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: territory war or something? Well, you know, it all goes 270 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: back to those slave owning Europeans, because when the Europeans 271 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: settled on federal land, as they moved from east to west, 272 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: they caused a disruption in the in the distribution of owls, 273 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: and the bard owl kept moving farther and farther to 274 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: the west. And apparently the northern spotted owl just can't compete. Okay, 275 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: so for nesting sites and food. 276 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 2: Again, I've said this when we've had other stories like this, 277 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 2: I'm sure that we can come up with a better 278 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 2: solution than murder. Move them. You know, why do we 279 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:07,959 Speaker 2: have to kill them? 280 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:10,400 Speaker 1: But if you move them, you cause the same problem 281 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 1: for another species of owl. 282 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 2: Can't they all just get along? 283 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: Clearly? No, because the barn owls are much stronger and smarter, 284 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:22,400 Speaker 1: and they stay win all the good all the nesting spots. 285 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 2: Okay, well again I do. I can't do it at 286 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 2: this moment because I'm going to go on the air 287 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 2: put their house. 288 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: You have a lot of good wishes, you have got 289 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 1: a lot of good intentions, but you have no practical 290 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: plan to solve this problem here. 291 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 2: I am not a scientist, but I am an animal lever, 292 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 2: and I do feel that so many times people the 293 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 2: first inclination is let's kill them, let's get. 294 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 1: Rid of a I've given you opportunity to foster four 295 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 1: hundred guinea pigs. 296 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 2: I have two dogs. 297 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 1: I can't and four hundred and fifty thousand owls. 298 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 2: I am not. 299 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: You have not picked one of the owls. 300 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 2: I'll take an owl. 301 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: You'll take an owl. 302 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 2: But wait, okay, so but I have to have where's 303 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 2: it gonna live? Owls are outdoors? I mean I can 304 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 2: try and build a bird sanctuary. 305 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:09,959 Speaker 1: Well, there you do. I we're coming here. Now, you're 306 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,400 Speaker 1: gonna do something useful. 307 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 2: I can't take a guinea pig because I would make 308 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 2: me very sad for that guinea pig to be in 309 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 2: a cage all day long, every day. And I have 310 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 2: two dogs, and my dogs would go after the guinea pigs. 311 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: So so then let the circle of life play itself out. 312 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 2: Then I'm not watching a murder. 313 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,199 Speaker 1: Well, you know what's temporarily saving the owls? What is that? 314 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 1: Trump's got the funded to shoot all the owls. 315 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 2: Oh okay, good, okay, But then we need to make 316 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:42,879 Speaker 2: it illegal for those poachers that are going to do it. 317 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 1: Anyway, there's a resolution, and if it's introduced past and 318 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: signed by Trump, the plan will be over. And apparently 319 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: they've already defunded it. The federal officials canceled three owl 320 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,679 Speaker 1: grants to the California Department of Fishing. Wildlife is a 321 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 1: million dollars. There was one study that would remove barn 322 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: owls from one hundred and ninety two thousand acres. 323 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 2: Problem solved next. 324 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:08,959 Speaker 1: There that No, those are all the animal tragedy stories. 325 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 2: I have you waited until the end to tell me 326 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 2: that it's not gonna happen anyway. You got me all 327 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:15,439 Speaker 2: riled up. 328 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: That was the purpose. Purpose is to rile you up. 329 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 2: I like owls. 330 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: You're the comedy portion of the program. 331 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,919 Speaker 2: Oh that's sad if I'm the comedy yeah. 332 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: Right know, Well you take what you can get. 333 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. 334 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: You use whatever you have, right, Okay, we come back. 335 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden clearly is insane. How many times does Hunter 336 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: Biden curse in these clips? I heard one clip on 337 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: the radio coming in and it was a bleepfest. Well, 338 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 1: we'll play. He went on Channel five with Andrew Callahan, 339 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: some YouTube show. He's angry with He's angry with Trump, 340 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 1: he's angry with the El Salvadoran president. With George Clooney. 341 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: He's well, you'll hear it. These are gold. 342 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am 343 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 3: six forty. 344 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: We are Right every day from one until four o'clock. 345 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: After four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand on the 346 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: iHeart app moistline is eight seven seven Moist st eaighty 347 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 1: six eight seven seven Moist eighty six, talkback feature on 348 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 1: the iHeart app. Everything's on the I heart app. Your 349 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: dinner is on the iHeart app. And you know the 350 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: the the whole world is a podcast now and you 351 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: know the thing is on podcasts. I because you know, 352 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: people will get nervous being on a regular television show 353 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 1: if they know they're they're live. There's cameras pointed at 354 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:53,880 Speaker 1: them something about podcasts where people are sitting in ordinary circumstances. 355 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: They all look like they're sitting in somebody's living room 356 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: or in their backyard. Obviously a lot of them have cameras, 357 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: but the cameras are not intrusive. It's not like going 358 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: into a television studio where the cameras are huge and 359 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: there's intense lighting and there's lots of wires. It's just people, 360 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 1: and they're just more honest, and they have endless time 361 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 1: to fill. The podcasts are running like five hours now. 362 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: I was just reading, and people are willing to have 363 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: what used to be private conversations publicly, and there are 364 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: no restrictions from the FCC on language or content. Anything goes, 365 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 1: and we've got a prime example of that. Hunter Biden 366 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 1: appeared on something called Channel five with Andrew Callahan. I 367 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: don't know why it's called Channel five, but it's a 368 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,919 Speaker 1: YouTube show. I don't know who Andrew Callahan is. But 369 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden went on the show. And as much as 370 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden has been in the news over the last 371 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: ten plus years, you rarely see him speak, or you 372 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: don't see him speak unscript. You know he's God done 373 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: a couple of canned announcements, and the guys had had 374 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: just the worst mess of a life. He should be 375 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: in a federal prison, but his dad gave him my pardon. 376 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 1: But between the tax evation charges and the gun charges 377 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: and having an affair with his his dead brother's wife, 378 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: and that that stripper in Arkansas that he had a 379 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,360 Speaker 1: child with, and all the crack cocaine he did, and 380 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,439 Speaker 1: the booze and the videos and the laptop, it's like, 381 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: really a disgusting, filthy, foul mess of a person. But 382 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: rarely has he spoken publicly. Well, now you got a 383 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: little peek inside Hunter Biden's head, and it doesn't take 384 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: long to realize that he really is his nuts. There's 385 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: like a serious mental disorder going on. Here is a 386 00:22:55,400 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 1: little clip about well he's on with Andrew Callahan about 387 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: Trump and illegal immigrants. 388 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 4: All these Democrats say, you have to talk about and 389 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 4: realize that people are really upset about illegal immigration. You, 390 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 4: how do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How 391 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 4: do you think you got food on your table? 392 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 2: Who do you think washes your dishes? 393 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: Who do you think does your garden? 394 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 4: Who do you think is here by the sheer? Just 395 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 4: grit and will that they figured out a way to 396 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 4: get here because they thought that they could give theirselves 397 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 4: in their family a better chance. And he's somehow convinced 398 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 4: all of us that these people are the criminals. 399 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: Eric had to do some emergency surgery on some of 400 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 1: these clips because he laced so many f bombs into 401 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: the audio that is easy to miss. One or two 402 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 1: surgery was complete, by the way, Well you can play 403 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 1: that one, okay, all right, Now here's another one. He 404 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: imagines he was president. You can imagine Hunter Biden as president, 405 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: and what do you would do with sending illegal immigrants 406 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: to El Salvador. 407 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 4: These guys think that we need to run away from 408 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 4: all values in. 409 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 1: Order for us to lead. 410 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 4: I say you, how are we getting those people back 411 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 4: from in El Salvador? Because I'll tell you what, if 412 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 4: I became president in two years from now, or four 413 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 4: years from now or three years from now, I would 414 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 4: pick up the phone and call the president of El 415 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 4: Salvador and say, you either send them back or I'm 416 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 4: going to invade. It's a crime what they're doing. 417 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: He's a dictator, thug Kelly or Trump both. He's going 418 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: to invade El Salvador. If they don't release the criminal 419 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 1: aliens back into the US. Well, he's perfect, he's perfect 420 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: to lead the Democratic Party. That pretty much is their philosophy. 421 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: And that's Karen Bass's philosophy. I say, Hunter Biden Karen 422 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: Bass should be the next Democratic ticket. They're right online there. 423 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: He didn't know when the election was either. Notice that 424 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:07,400 Speaker 1: years four years, three years. Wow, he needs another hit, 425 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: all right, now, he's going to go off about white 426 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: people angry about white people. 427 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 4: White men in America are forty five more times likely 428 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 4: to commit a violent crime than an immigrant. And the 429 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 4: media says, well, you got David Axelrod, and you know 430 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 4: rom manual or so smart ram Emmanual is that we 431 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 4: got to understand that these people are really mad, and 432 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 4: these we got to appeal to these white voters. The 433 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 4: only people that appealed to those voters was Joe Biden 434 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 4: eighty one years old, and he got eighty one million votes. 435 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 4: And he did because not because he appeased their Trumpian sense, 436 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 4: but because he challenged it. And he said, you can 437 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 4: be an eighty one year old Catholic and Scranton that 438 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 4: doesn't understand it but still has empathy for transgender people 439 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 4: and immigrants, and nobody said, oh, Joe Biden's going to 440 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 4: turn this into a social estate, no matter how much 441 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,880 Speaker 4: they said it. But these guys think that we need 442 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 4: to run away from all values in. 443 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: Order for us to lead. Yes, we're running away from 444 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 1: all values by enforcing the law. That's a good one, 445 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: all right. Now here's one more hunter. Biden very angry 446 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: with the George Clooney. If you remember, Clooney turned on 447 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: Biden and wrote a piece in The New York Times 448 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: last year urging Joe to drop out because he was senile. 449 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 4: Him, him, him and everybody around him. 450 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 1: I don't have to be. 451 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 4: Nice Number one. I agree with Quentin Tarantino. George Clooney 452 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 4: is not an actor. He is a like I don't 453 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 4: know what he is. He's a brand. And by the way, 454 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 4: and God bless him, you know what. He sunsly, treats 455 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 4: his friends really well, you know what I mean, buys 456 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 4: them things, and he's got a really great place in 457 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,679 Speaker 4: Lake Como, and he's great friends with Barack Obama. You 458 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 4: what do you have to do with and anything? Why 459 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,919 Speaker 4: do I have to listen to you? What right do 460 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 4: you have to step on a man who's given fifty 461 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 4: two years of his life to the service of this 462 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 4: country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to 463 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 4: take out basically a full page Adams New York Times. 464 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: You think he's on or off crack right now? On? 465 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: I can't tell if he's honitor he needs some Wow, 466 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 1: there you go. And he was in the end one 467 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 1: of the final advisors for Joe when when everybody else 468 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 1: had fled, it was him and uh and Jill. That 469 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,640 Speaker 1: was it. So hey, g remember that bag of cocaine 470 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: they found found in the White House a couple of 471 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: years ago. Do you think it was hunters? That's another 472 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: thing they never investigated. You know, we don't have we 473 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 1: don't have an answer to that mystery. Wow, we come back. 474 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: We are losing all kinds of businesses here in California, 475 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: including one of the most beloved businesses, very close to 476 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: my heart, is at least partially leaving the state. Oh yeah, 477 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: this is really sad, and this really has me angry, 478 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: and now I really want to take to the streets 479 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 1: tell you about it. Coming up. 480 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 481 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 3: six forty. 482 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: You can follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio. 483 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 1: Oh we're early. We're less than two hundred followers away 484 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: from thirty thousand. Wow, less than two hundred away from 485 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 1: thirty thousand, So get to it. Follow us at John 486 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: Cobelt Radio. Now Chief Executive magazine has an annual story 487 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: annual survey Best and Worst States for Business, and this 488 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: is the twenty twenty five edition. Tennessee is the best 489 00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 1: state for business. California is dead last, number fifty, worst 490 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 1: state in the Union to run a business, start a business. 491 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: And this leads to this very sad story. After seventy 492 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: seven years, In and Out is moving to Tennessee. All 493 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: of the restaurants are being towed to Tennessee. No, it 494 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: looks like Lindsey Snyder, the president, is moving her family 495 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: to Tennessee, and also some of the operations are moving 496 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: there as well. And looks like eventually all the operations 497 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: are going there. 498 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 2: What are you going to do? 499 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: Well? I was kidding, I don't. I think some of 500 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: the restaurants will be left behind here. But the corporate 501 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 1: the corporate wing is getting out. They're going to be 502 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 1: opening up Tennessee In and Out restaurants in by twenty 503 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: twenty six. It's I mean, that was a huge business 504 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: in California, obviously one of the signature businesses. But the 505 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 1: taxes are too high, the regulations. I have read that 506 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: it's nearly impossible to start a fast food business here 507 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:28,959 Speaker 1: in California because of the excessive regulations, and so they 508 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: want out. Lindsey Snyder said, there's a lot of great 509 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: things about California, but raising a family is not easy here. 510 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: Doing business is not easy here. A significant portion of 511 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,239 Speaker 1: the company will move as well. Some corporate employees will 512 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: move to Tennessee. Others will remain in southern California. But 513 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: they have a long term plan to give employees time, 514 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: you know, to leave, to kind of leave, yes, I guess, 515 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 1: time to sell their homes and find kids new schools 516 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: and all that. She's had it with the crime. I'm 517 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: in San Francisco and Oakland. It's affecting their restaurants. And 518 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: she said, all started Nooseoman, COVID. So many pressures, so 519 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: many hoops, we had to jump through masks, plastic shields, 520 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 1: checking vaccine cards. Is that right? You had to check 521 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: vaccine cards. 522 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 2: Ready for the employee. The employee to get. 523 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 1: Into the in and out. No, that's what it says. 524 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 2: I'm okay, I'm thinking that she had to check the employees. 525 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't remember the restaurants having to check vaccine 526 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 1: cards when you were going into it? 527 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 2: I never, well, yeah, I never. 528 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 1: Never. A couple of times I did. 529 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh I never did, unless I can't. 530 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: She said, the state made restaurants check vaccine cards. No, 531 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: I do remember that happening. I don't know how extensive 532 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: it was. I don't remember going into an in and 533 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: out in that happening. 534 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 2: I just remember getting on a plane. You had to 535 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 2: show that you were vaccinated. 536 00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 1: You've got to do this, you got to wear a mask. 537 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,719 Speaker 1: Get at this plasting thing up between us and our 538 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: customers is really terrible, And I said, maybe we should 539 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: have pushed even harder on some of that stuff and 540 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: dealt with the legal backlash. Yeah, everybody should have. Everybody 541 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,479 Speaker 1: absolutely should have. Because that smug bastard. Now he's laughing 542 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 1: about it on podcasts, he's lying about it. He's pretending 543 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 1: he said, oh, yeah, yeah, California, we had the restrictions. 544 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: We got it up to scale, which which is his 545 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: term for excessive. They took away rights from us like 546 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: had never been done before in history, and everybody here goes, 547 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: you don't want to kill your grandmother. Three months, within 548 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 1: three months, they knew who was going to kill. They 549 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: knew the kids weren't affected. They knew it was mostly 550 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: the elderly, and almost entirely the elderly, and people who 551 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 1: had pre existing conditions immunal, they were immunal compromised, or 552 00:32:55,240 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 1: they had, you know, terrible health conditions. In and Out 553 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: was shut down by the state briefly in San Francisco 554 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty one. In and Out told the city, Oh, yes, 555 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: I guess this is the vaccine mandate maybe in San Francisco. Yeah, 556 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: we refuse to become the vaccination police. Yes, San Francisco 557 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: city government. This is why we don't remember it. They 558 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 1: temporarily closed an in and Out over the company's refusal 559 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: to force customers to prove they're vaccinated. You had to 560 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 1: get vaccinated in San Francisco to buy a cheeseburger. What 561 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: a horrific, horrific time that was. Katie Grimes wrote about 562 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: this in California Globe. San Francisco the city where open 563 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 1: meth and heroin purchases on city streets homeless, vagrants poop 564 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 1: on the sidewalks. Thieves rip off Walgreens daily. But if 565 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,840 Speaker 1: you want to double double in a chocolate shake, you 566 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 1: have to prove you've been vaccinated. That's right. People would 567 00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 1: pull down their pants and leave a pile of hepatitis 568 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: on the sidewalk, and that was okay. They didn't violate 569 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 1: any ELF codes. And who used to run San Francisco? 570 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 1: Do you know that Newsom to this day denies that 571 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 1: Californians and others are fleeing to other states. And they are, 572 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,840 Speaker 1: but by the hundreds of thousands, it's over a million 573 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,879 Speaker 1: people that bolted out of here. 574 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 2: And Tennessee is one of those hot spots. 575 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got a very well I got they got 576 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,439 Speaker 1: a much very nice climate, and they have a low 577 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: tax rate. I don't know if it's zero tax rate, 578 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,280 Speaker 1: but it's much lower. Business taxes are lower. 579 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 2: I've never been. Nashville is on my list of places 580 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 2: I want to go to. 581 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,319 Speaker 1: I drove through it once a long time ago, but 582 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:58,240 Speaker 1: I never really spent time there. Chevron has left Elon, 583 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 1: Musk move X and Twitter, BaseX, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Charles Schwab, 584 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: Toyota or some of the big businesses, but then there's 585 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:14,320 Speaker 1: there's small businesses that have moved. I got a minute. Here, 586 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: there's a there's a guy who, uh, what's his name? Here? 587 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,799 Speaker 1: A guy named oh, Barry Brucker. Barry Brucker has an 588 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 1: ink manufacturing business in La County on Avalon Boulevard near 589 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:40,880 Speaker 1: Rosecrans and Compton. Channel seven did a story. This is 590 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 1: the district run by Holly Mitchell that has an enormous 591 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 1: amount of r v's where homeless people and the insane live, 592 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:55,359 Speaker 1: the drug addicts live these massive RV encampments, and it's 593 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 1: so bad that Barry Brucker is closing his business and 594 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 1: moving out. He keeps calling Holly Mitchell, but everything keeps 595 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: getting worse. She doesn't do a damn thing because he's 596 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 1: an idiot. La County Sheriff's Department won't do anything about it. 597 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,880 Speaker 1: He's had one hundred thousand dollars worth of copper stolen 598 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,319 Speaker 1: piping tubes. All of his electrical was stripped, no water, 599 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 1: no electric. They cut it at the power pole and 600 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,880 Speaker 1: they trashed the inside over the weekend. Copper theft is 601 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:28,920 Speaker 1: a massive problem, and nobody wants to do anything about it. 602 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:33,880 Speaker 1: So he's moving, he's getting out because it's uninhabitable, because 603 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:40,800 Speaker 1: people like Holly Mitchell are morons, vegetables, brainstems. She doesn't 604 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,479 Speaker 1: have a brain in her head. And so this poor 605 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,359 Speaker 1: guy who's had a business for years has been overrun 606 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:52,560 Speaker 1: with these with these crazy people, these thieves who still 607 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:57,400 Speaker 1: copper and you could tell you drive through Los Angeles 608 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 1: City and County, all the lights are out. I can't 609 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,799 Speaker 1: believe months and months go by, all the overhead lights 610 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,879 Speaker 1: are out. Nobody does it eything? All right, more coming 611 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,359 Speaker 1: up Debora Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour News. Hey, 612 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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