1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app, 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's Show, and we're out every day from one 4 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 2: until four o'clock and after four o'clock John Cobelt's Show 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 2: on demand on the iHeart app, and you can you 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 2: can hear the podcast and it's the same as the 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 2: radio show, so no different. So if you can't listen 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 2: to partner all the first three hours like a makeup exam, 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:32,959 Speaker 2: after four o'clock you can hear the whole thing. 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: Two thirty, we're gonna Laura Anglan from a news nation. 11 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 2: We're gonna talk with her about the New York City 12 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 2: mayors raise zorn mom Dommy against former Governor Andrew Cuomo 13 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 2: and that odd Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. And mom Dommy 14 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 2: is a full out, unapologetic, unrepented communist or what's the 15 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: new term called the Democratic Socialist of America Party DSA. 16 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 2: We have quite a few of those here in Los Angeles. 17 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 2: It is the new age of communism, new age of 18 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 2: hard socialism's and young people are going for it. And 19 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 2: I was thinking a lot about this today. I was 20 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 2: talking last hour about how people complain about Trump and 21 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 2: people complain about billionaires. They're angry with the billionaires. They 22 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 2: should have their money taken away, you know, with excessive taxation. 23 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 2: And I was thinking, I said before, it's the losers 24 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 2: in life. And there's a lot of young people. This 25 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 2: is a very soft generation. This is not the World 26 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 2: War two generation. Boy, this is the exact opposite. They 27 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 2: are soft, they are afraid of competition, they're not self motivated. 28 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 2: They are whiny, and life is more difficult than they 29 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 2: were promised when mommy and daddy were handing out trophies 30 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 2: to them when they were six years old just for 31 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 2: showing up at soccer practice, and they had no idea 32 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 2: how tough. 33 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: The world is. 34 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 2: And really, I'm kind of disgusted by the whole crowd. 35 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 2: I'm really disgusted about all the complaints I read. 36 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: Well, this is unfair. Capitalism is bad. 37 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 2: First of all, it's clear that they do not teach 38 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 2: civics or history at all at school. They have spent 39 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 2: the last twenty years teaching climate change and alternate genders. 40 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,679 Speaker 2: I know this firsthand. And instead of alternate genders and 41 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 2: climate change, they should have been teaching like the history 42 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 2: of successful economies and the history of failed economies, and 43 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: the history of failed economies starts with socialism and communism. 44 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 2: And that's what these young people want because they can't 45 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 2: compete and they're soft. And it's the coddling which reminds me. 46 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 2: Before the end of the hour, I got to read 47 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 2: you this story. I think this is in the Wall 48 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 2: Street Journal. Helicopter parents have hit the colleges. 49 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: Oh help. They're showing up with their kids and they're 50 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: not leaving. 51 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 3: But I can't. I don't understand how the college kids 52 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 3: would allow that. My kids would never I mean, I 53 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 3: didn't do that, but they would never. Never let me 54 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 3: do that. 55 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: There's one really funny story about what one college student 56 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 2: did when her mother followed her and got an apartment 57 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 2: across the street. But I want to we'll do that 58 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 2: later later in the hour. All right, I was telling 59 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 2: you at the end of the last hour. You may 60 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 2: wonder why the insurance market is so screwed up. It's 61 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 2: because we have an insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, who, as 62 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 2: you know, the kg O up in San Francisco, did 63 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 2: a ten minute report on this. He has spent much 64 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 2: of the last six years flying around the world, spending 65 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 2: tax money on elaborate vacation trips. And it has to 66 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: do with the insurance. 67 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 3: Going on a safari in Africa. 68 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, going to a gay pride parade in New 69 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 2: York for a week. 70 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: What was the name at DJ he was he was visiting. Uh, 71 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: it was something with. 72 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 2: A cat kiddie, I eric, probably not, Yeah, but it's 73 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 2: spending our money. Spending there weren't Some of them were conferences, 74 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 2: like for a day or two, and then he'd spend 75 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 2: a week, spent tens of thousands of dollars, brought a 76 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 2: whole security honorage with him. And you know, it's the 77 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 2: only time I heard about Ricardo Lara. And again we 78 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 2: call him cal fart Lara because he he wrote legislation 79 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 2: when he was in the legislature that would have mandated 80 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 2: every cow where this bulky device on their back and 81 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 2: it would have a hose attached to their anus, and 82 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 2: when the cow farted, they would capture the methane out 83 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 2: of the cow's anus and keep it from entering the atmosphere. 84 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. That's how he got cal 85 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 1: Fart Lara. 86 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 2: And then, astonishingly, instead of being taken and locked up 87 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 2: in a mena the institution. 88 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: He was given the role of insurance commissioner. 89 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 2: All right, this guy's got the IQ of a vegetable 90 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: and not a ripe vegetable either, And so he's had 91 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 2: this job for six years and the insurance industry is 92 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 2: completely god to hell. Thousands of people in the public 93 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 2: are getting screwed. You might have gotten screwed. And then 94 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 2: New York Times finally did a story on this. California 95 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 2: promised insurance relief but delivered loopholes. 96 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: Well, there was a massive rewrite. 97 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 2: Of insurance regulations last year, of course, was not covered. 98 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: And who oversaw the rewrite cal fart Lara and Gavin Newsom. 99 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 2: Now you rubbed those two brains together, and I don't 100 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 2: think you're topping more than one twenty five in IQ. 101 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: And what they did backfired. 102 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 2: It was supposed to guarantee that insurers were going to 103 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 2: write a high percentage of policies in a fire strict area, 104 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 2: and instead the opposite happened. There were so many loopholes 105 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 2: written into it that the insurers were able to drop 106 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of policies. And that's why all the 107 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 2: people in the Palisades who got their policies canceled right 108 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 2: before the new year, had nothing, had nothing covering them, 109 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 2: or had to go to the Fair Plan, which covers 110 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,799 Speaker 2: a fraction of their housework. This is why it happened. 111 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 2: It was Newsom and Lara, all right, So I explain this, 112 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 2: I can't. I am going to boil this down to 113 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 2: this simplistic, as simplistic as possible, so it sounds good 114 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,039 Speaker 2: on the radio and so that you understand it. But 115 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 2: this thing was how many pages? This thing was twelve 116 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 2: pages long. But I'll tell you in a nutshell what 117 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 2: they did, and then you should go to the New 118 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 2: York Times and read it yourself. And then after two 119 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 2: thirty we're gonna have Lori Angelot. 120 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 121 00:06:58,080 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 4: six forty. 122 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 2: Okay, So let's get to it. Ricardo Lara and Gavin 123 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 2: Newsom had a plan started in twenty twenty three, two 124 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 2: years ago, and by twenty twenty four they wanted to 125 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 2: restructure all the rules and regulations for the insurance industry. 126 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 2: It backfired. It was supposed to require the insurance industry 127 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 2: to buy a very high percentage to supply insurance to 128 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 2: a very high percentage of homes in fire prone areas. 129 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 2: Complicated formula, not worth getting into. But they blew it. 130 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 2: Cal Fart Lara and Gavin Newsom blew it, and their plan, 131 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 2: which was supposed to increase coverage for more people, especially 132 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 2: in fire prone areas, backfired, and instead the insurance companies 133 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 2: cut tens of thousands of policies, and cal Fart Lara 134 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 2: is now admitting that they failed, that it backfired, and 135 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 2: now he's whining that he got bullied. He and Newsom 136 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 2: got bullied by the insurance companies. You could look this 137 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 2: up in the New York Times. California promised insurance relief 138 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 2: but delivered loopholes. The central promise was that insurers would 139 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: have to write policies in fire prone areas at a 140 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 2: high rate. But the designated areas where the insurers must 141 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 2: write the policies turned out not to overlap with the 142 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 2: high risk fire areas. It was supposed to overlap with 143 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 2: the map of the high risk fire areas. It didn't, 144 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:45,119 Speaker 2: and so insurers were allowed to load up on coverage 145 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 2: in safe areas and qualify to charge higher rates. So 146 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 2: the deal was that if you're going to charge higher rates. 147 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 2: You've got to at least provide insurance to people living 148 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 2: in fire prone regions. They didn't too many loopholes, So 149 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 2: insurance companies are going to raise rates, and they're going 150 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 2: to offload billions of dollars in costs and liabilities on ratepayers, 151 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 2: and they are taking on almost no new customers in 152 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 2: the high fire risk areas. That's why you can't get insurance, 153 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 2: and you might end up in the fair plan, which 154 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:30,839 Speaker 2: pays you a fraction of what your house is worth. 155 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,559 Speaker 2: The regulations were billed as an attempt to get homeowners 156 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 2: off the fair Plan Instead, the number of people on 157 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 2: the Fair Plan has doubled since the insurance deal was announced, 158 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 2: from three hundred and twenty thousand to six hundred and 159 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 2: twenty five thousand. Some insurers began dumping people even before 160 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 2: the regulations were finalized. 161 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: The it was announced but not finalized. 162 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 2: California's three largest insurance groups dumped fifty thousand existing policies, 163 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:14,679 Speaker 2: five times the number that the companies had had canceled 164 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 2: in the twenty months before the deal. Some massive cancelations 165 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 2: by the tens of thousands, more than twenty percent of 166 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 2: the non renewals were in zip codes within or adjacent 167 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 2: to areas that would burn in the January fires. The 168 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 2: vast majority was aided around Pacific Palisades, where fire destroyed 169 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,239 Speaker 2: sixty eight hundred structures. So you people in the Palisades 170 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 2: who had your insurance canceled, and some didn't even know 171 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 2: this was happening. You had your insurance canceled right before 172 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 2: the fires hit. That was Ricardo Lara and Gavin Newsom's 173 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 2: new plan backfiring on them. This is not a wild charge. 174 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 2: Lara is admitting it. Here's Lara quoted. He led the 175 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 2: drafting of the new rules. He said the state was 176 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 2: in crisis mode when it negotiated the new regulations, and 177 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 2: when confronted with the Times findings about how many people 178 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 2: had their insurance canceled, Ricardo Lara conceded that the rules 179 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 2: might not deliver the. 180 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: Hope for outcomes insurers. 181 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 2: He said, get this quote had bullied the state as 182 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 2: it drafted the new rules. Early twenty twenty three, Newsom 183 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 2: began meeting with industry lobbyists because state farm and farmers 184 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 2: had started cutting policies in May and in June twenty twenty three, 185 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 2: they're the largest insurers in the state. They comprised one 186 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 2: third of the market, and the insurance said that they 187 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 2: needed big regulatory changes because of the high costs, and 188 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 2: Laris said, well, after they did the negotiations, the insurance 189 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:26,079 Speaker 2: company absolutely steamrolled them. Laris said he was angry. I 190 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 2: was livid. I did feel like we were being bullied. 191 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 2: Like he's twelve years old in middle school and the 192 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 2: football players are ganging up. Ontom, you have an insurance 193 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 2: industry bullying you, and so you came in. He advertised 194 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:54,599 Speaker 2: that this was gonna lower insurance rates and there was 195 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 2: going to be more coverage guaranteed. He missed on everything, 196 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 2: and then he said, I was bullied. 197 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: I was bullied. Newsom was frustrated too. 198 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 2: Insurers canceled policies in large numbers, and this wave cave 199 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 2: came after the insurance industry in the state had struck 200 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 2: their deal. 201 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: So Newsom and Larry negotiated a deal. 202 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 2: Which allowed the insurers to cut a record number of policies, 203 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 2: including thousands of policies in the areas that burned last January. 204 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 2: Whatever Lara said privately, he was angry, livid, felt bullied, 205 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 2: but he didn't say it in public because he thought 206 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 2: it would be counterproductive to bate the companies he was 207 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 2: trying to woo back, so he didn't tell the public 208 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 2: that Newsom and Lara's plan had backfired. 209 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: He didn't tell the public. 210 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 2: But that's why their policies were canceled, and people either 211 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 2: didn't know their policies were canceled, or they were thrown 212 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 2: into the fair plan and they got no insurance money 213 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 2: orally a fraction of what they should have. And ten 214 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 2: months later, when there are still few homes were built anywhere, 215 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 2: much of the problem is people don't have the money 216 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 2: because the insurance payout was so cheap or there was 217 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 2: no insurance. 218 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: And I. 219 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 2: This is a massive failure, real world failure on the 220 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 2: part of Lara and Newsom. And this is what makes 221 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 2: me crazy, because we're going to spend all week debating 222 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 2: Prop fifty. Newsom is going to be preening tonight that 223 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 2: he beat Donald Trump, puffet himself up for a presidential run. 224 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 2: And look what he did when he had the responsibility 225 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 2: of fixing a real world problem of excessive insurance premiums 226 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 2: and companies canceling policies by the tens of thousands. He 227 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 2: negotiates a deal that failed, backfired, and now his insurance 228 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 2: commissioner is claiming he was bullied. This is so disgusting, 229 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 2: and this. 230 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: Is not covered to the media. The New York Times thing. 231 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 2: This story's been going on for a year, year and 232 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 2: a half. 233 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: First first coverage. I saw last time I heard about Ricardo. 234 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 2: Leira, and the only time I heard about him was 235 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 2: when KGOTV up in San Francisco caught him cavorting around 236 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 2: the world on his African safari and going to gay 237 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 2: pride parades and going away for weeks at a time 238 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 2: and charging us for all the expensive hotel rooms and 239 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 2: expensive meals and expensive security that he dragged around. 240 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: I want my money back, don't you. Yeah, I do. 241 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 2: I mean, this is one of the biggest problems in 242 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 2: the state, and these guys had the responsibility to fix it. 243 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 3: My insurance was canceled. I can't even tell you all 244 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 3: the issues we're having with insurance right now. 245 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: Oh ours. 246 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 2: It costs skyrocket, ridiculous, absolutely skyrocket, and. 247 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 3: Every company finds every reason not to cover you, and 248 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 3: then you have to find someplace. It's just it's unaffordable, 249 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 3: it's crazy. 250 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 2: Well, they got they got a system rigged in their favor. 251 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 2: In favor and Newsom and Roulara said, oh, I realized 252 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 2: that we didn't fix it. They thought I was just 253 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 2: gonna have the opposite effect because they're stupid or maybe 254 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 2: the corrupt. Somebody needs to do a readout how much 255 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,479 Speaker 2: insurance money and how much insurance contributions. 256 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: From the industry that Newsoman and Lara got. 257 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 2: For their campaigns, and maybe they were just paid off 258 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 2: to say, oh, I didn't know this was going to happen. 259 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: Honestly, this is the governor. 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So New York City 267 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 2: they have a mayoral election between zoron Mom, Donnie the 268 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 2: Communist running as a Democrat, Andrew Cuobo, the former governor, 269 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 2: and the odd ball Curtis Sliwah, who's the Republican candidate. 270 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 2: And we have Laura Engel from news Nation and she's 271 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 2: traveling from a polling place to Mom donnie headquarters tonight. 272 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: Hi, Laura, Hey John. 273 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 5: Yes, we are on the move. We're in Brooklyn right now. 274 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 5: We have spent the day at Brooklyn Borough Hall where 275 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 5: we were monitoring the voting that has been The polls 276 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 5: there opened at six am for that location, so it 277 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 5: was a very busy day and we've been talking. One 278 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 5: of the big storylines of the night, other than the 279 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 5: top highlights you just mentioned of the three that are running, 280 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 5: is the voter turnout. I mean, the voter turnout has 281 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 5: been huge. In fact, there have been more people that 282 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 5: have showed up to vote before twelve noon than in 283 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 5: each of the last four mayoral elections, so the numbers 284 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:18,199 Speaker 5: are huge. We're now approaching over two million. I was 285 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 5: just as I mentioned at Brooklyn Borough Hall, they said, 286 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 5: on average on election night, because there's so much early voting, 287 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 5: they see about six to eight hundred. After about three 288 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 5: o'clock they were over one thousand, and they're staying open 289 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 5: until nine pm Eastern. So there's a lot of passion, 290 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 5: a lot of fire. This is a hotly contested mayoral's race. 291 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 5: You mentioned the three, and we're heading over to Zoran. 292 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:44,879 Speaker 5: Mom Donnie's headquarters in Brooklyn for his campaign headquarters tonight 293 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 5: to find out how this all plays out. He has 294 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 5: been what many people have called the projected winner, but 295 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 5: Cuomo's coming in with some more numbers. And you saw 296 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 5: that President Trump made a rare move endorsing him, saying 297 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 5: he would rather have a bat what he called a 298 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 5: bad Democrat than a socialist running New York City. 299 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 2: Is there any sense all this energy from these voters 300 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 2: showing up like they have it in years. Who are 301 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 2: they showing up for? Is it everybody? Is it Mom Donnie? 302 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,719 Speaker 2: Is it a rebellion against Mom Dommi? And these are 303 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 2: Cuomo voters? Is there any way to get a sense 304 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 2: of that. 305 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 5: Well, I went out and I spoke to a couple 306 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 5: of them as I was doing my reporting in the 307 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 5: last two hours. I can send you guys this sound. 308 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 5: I'll post it on my ex But let's just take 309 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 5: for an example, this one young man I spoke to told me, 310 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 5: and I'm just going to read his quote. He said, 311 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 5: I'm a registered Democrat. I'm going to vote for Mom Dommi. 312 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,199 Speaker 5: I said, tell me why. He said, I think everything 313 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 5: going on right now in the world and the country, 314 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 5: you need radical change to fight radical bad things. 315 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 1: That are going on. 316 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 5: Then I spoke to a woman who told me she 317 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,880 Speaker 5: voted for Cuomo, and she said, and I know, yes, 318 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,360 Speaker 5: there's the whole sexual abuse thing, but I can look 319 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 5: past that. And when I asked her what she thought 320 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 5: about President Trump backing Cuomo, she said, I could care 321 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 5: less what Trump has to say. I really have no 322 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 5: respect for his opinion, and I don't think Clomo does either. 323 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 5: I don't care. I voted Clomo. So that's just a 324 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 5: little sample of what I got on the streets here 325 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 5: in Brooklyn. But most everybody I pulled over so to 326 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 5: speak on the sidewalk to talk to, almost all of 327 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 5: them told me that they were voting for Mom Dami 328 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 5: because they wanted to see changed. They wanted to see 329 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 5: something different, something different. 330 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 1: At Gracey mentioned, well, communism is different. I'll give him that. 331 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. Right. They didn't express any trepidation about his plans 332 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 2: either being potentially very damaging or that he just simply 333 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 2: can't pull him off because he doesn't have the power to. 334 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 2: There are many other factions of government that actually control taxation, 335 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 2: for example, or free buses. 336 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 5: Right, And you know what we talked, We've been talking 337 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 5: about that because there's been so many critics to say, 338 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 5: it all sounds great, but who's really going to pay 339 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 5: for it? How's this really going to work? And one 340 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 5: of the voters that I spoke to, who was voting 341 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 5: for the first time in a mayoral election, said, I 342 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 5: know that it's going to be a tall ask. He said, 343 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 5: but I think that the governor of New York, Kathy Hochel, 344 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 5: is going to help out mom Domi with the tax 345 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 5: breaks and get him the financial help that he needs 346 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 5: to pull this off. But that lady I told you 347 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 5: about who said that she was voting for Cuomo just 348 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 5: she kind of scoffed at it. She said, New York 349 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 5: has always been an expensive city. You either make it 350 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 5: here or you don't, and you know, too bad. So 351 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 5: sad rent freezes. Sure, that sounds great, but how realistic 352 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 5: is that going to be free buses? She said? Good luck? 353 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 5: And as far as you know, the public grocery store 354 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 5: is also good luck. That's kind of the settiment you get. 355 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 5: On the other side. Other people are just hopeful. But well, 356 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 5: when you're looking at a city that is you know, 357 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 5: there's a lot of people who rent here, right and 358 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 5: if things don't work out with Mom DOMMI. If he wins, 359 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 5: they can always leave. What about the people who bought here, 360 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 5: who live here. That's the other side of the point 361 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 5: you've got to look at when it comes to these promises. 362 00:21:58,480 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a. 363 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 2: Lot of financial people on Wall Street threatening to move out. 364 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 2: Not only there moved to another home like in New 365 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 2: Jersey or upstate New York. But they want to get 366 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 2: their company out of there and maybe go down to 367 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 2: Miami or Dallas where there's a huge financial industry down 368 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 2: both those cities. 369 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, not only that, and in that social that true 370 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 5: social post from Trump earlier today when he was talking 371 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 5: about back in Cuomo, he said, and if Mom Donnie wins, 372 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 5: you know, forget not forget sedtal funding. But he said 373 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,439 Speaker 5: that he would be limiting sedtle funding coming into a 374 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 5: city that he loves, obviously that has been his home. 375 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 5: He said, I'll just do the bare minimum of what 376 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 5: I'm legally required to do, but I'm not going to 377 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 5: be sending subtle funds to a city that's run by 378 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 5: what he is called a socialist. 379 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 1: All right, Laura, thank you. Enjoy the excited distry. 380 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 2: It happens, all right, Laura, angel News Nation going to 381 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 2: mom donnie headquarters. 382 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: God, people are so stupid. 383 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 2: What you can't offer free bus rides, It's impossible. You 384 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 2: can't text billy and there's there leave a lot of 385 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,199 Speaker 2: them did already. I'm shocked. But like, do you know, 386 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 2: like Texas, Dallas they have more financial employees than New 387 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 2: York City does. Now Miami has a tremendous amount of 388 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 2: financial companies down there, along with tech companies. You know, 389 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 2: fifty years from now, when a lot of us might 390 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:27,400 Speaker 2: be dead and gone, the big metropolitan areas, the powerful 391 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 2: economic engines are going to be places like Dallas, Miami. 392 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 2: It might be over for New York City. Look, it 393 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 2: looks like it's over for Los Angeles as an entertainment center. 394 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 2: There's like a huge shift going on right in front 395 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 2: of our eyes. And there's too many people in denial 396 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 2: now know, I know New York City's expensive. I read 397 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 2: that some people have their rents are fifty percent of 398 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 2: their income. Again, this is the cries of people who 399 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 2: can't cut it. These are the cries of the losers, 400 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 2: and they want mommy daddy government to somehow fix things. 401 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 2: Mom Donnie can't raise taxes by himself. He needs the 402 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 2: governor and the legislature. They said they're not going to 403 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 2: do this because they'll get kicked. 404 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: Out and the rich people are gonna move. 405 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 2: You absolutely do not need to be in Manhattan or 406 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 2: Los Angeles for that matter, to run your business anymore. 407 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 2: Not with the internet. Those days are over. They've been 408 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 2: over for many years now. And it's shocking that Mom, 409 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 2: Donnie thinks he can control all that he can't. And 410 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 2: you know, he's not only a danger if he gets 411 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 2: any of this accomplished, I think there's a greater possibility 412 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 2: he's going to be a huge disappoyment. These people don't 413 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 2: know they've been conned, all his voters because they're young, 414 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 2: they're ignorant, they were not educated properly in how economics works. 415 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 2: They don't see that the slightest idea how economics works. 416 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,640 Speaker 2: Socialism is a failure. Communism is a failure period. Capitalism 417 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 2: works the best, not perfect, argue all day about its flaws, 418 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:57,880 Speaker 2: works the best. 419 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: By far. 420 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 2: Communism is a complete failure. Capitalism has brought more people 421 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 2: out of poverty by the billions than anything else, and 422 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 2: that's simply not taught. Because they're teaching about climate change 423 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 2: and alternate genders. 424 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI A 425 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 4: six forty. 426 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,479 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show coming up after three o'clock, We're going 427 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,479 Speaker 2: to talk with Royal Oaks. The Supreme Court is going 428 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 2: to be deciding whether Trump had the legal power to 429 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 2: impose many of the tariffs that he instituted earlier this year. 430 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,360 Speaker 2: It has resulted in a lot of money coming into 431 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 2: the treasury by the hundreds of billions, and it's also 432 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,199 Speaker 2: reoriented the economies of a lot of companies, some of 433 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 2: whom are moving their manufacturing on shore here to the 434 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 2: US as a response. We'll talk about it with Royal Oaks. 435 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 2: Coming up on how legal is helicopter parents term that's 436 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 2: I'd never heard of when I. 437 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: Was a kid, But you heard of it when you're kids. 438 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but by then the helicopters are in the 439 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 2: air by then, Oh yeah. And these are the overbearing, obsessed, 440 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 2: hyper involved parents who will not let their kids become 441 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 2: independent and grow up. It's seeing it up close is 442 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 2: actually terrifying. A watch breaks my heart. Really, did you 443 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 2: get to run around as a kid? 444 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I went skateboarding, bike riding, yeah, whatever 445 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 3: in this plate in the street. 446 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 2: A gone out of the house eight to ten hours 447 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 2: a day, no parental involvement, wondered where we wanted to, wonder, 448 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 2: played whatever we were Well, but I didn't. 449 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: Let my kids. 450 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 3: I mean my kids were not that free, not because 451 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 3: I was a helicopter parent, but because it just wasn't 452 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 3: It wasn't safe. 453 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,640 Speaker 1: Well, it was, it wasn't. You just wasn't. Now statistically 454 00:26:59,640 --> 00:26:59,919 Speaker 1: it was. 455 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 3: Well, I didn't want to take chances. 456 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: It's because you watch too much TV news. 457 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 3: Well, and then I report on radio news. 458 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the TV news directors figured out if they 459 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 2: do the extremely rare story of a child in peril 460 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 2: and then repeat it over and over again, they get 461 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 2: the highest ratings. 462 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: Weren't you afraid your kids are going to be kidnapped? No, never, 463 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: not for a second. 464 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,639 Speaker 2: Your wife, yes, and we constantly had discussions about that 465 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 2: because I showed her the statistics. It was extremely rare. 466 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 2: It was just way that show America's most wanted. Yes, 467 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 2: that was extremely damaging. There was one kid who got kidnapped, Yes, 468 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 2: and it turned an entire generation of parents, I would say, 469 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 2: mothers primarily uh inside out. I mean they no moms 470 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 2: couldn't think straight after that show went on the air. 471 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 2: I don't know if any dads were like that, but. 472 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 1: You know that that's why you women want to live. 473 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to take any chances. Well that's different 474 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 3: than well, yeah. 475 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:05,360 Speaker 1: This is what it's evolved into. 476 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 2: College administrators now have a term called the trailing parents. 477 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 2: These are mothers and fathers. I would say mostly mothers 478 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 2: who follow their kids to campus literally not just texting 479 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 2: right back and forth about how is your day, what 480 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 2: are your grades? But they rent an apartment. They have 481 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,439 Speaker 2: examples of people at Atlanta, Austin, Boston. They rent an 482 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 2: apartment for four years, or they buy a condo. They 483 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 2: found some parents in Washington and here in LA so 484 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 2: that their kids could have a place to sleep and 485 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 2: so that they can drop by their kids. 486 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: Place to see what's going on. 487 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 2: Some parents, even if their kids study abroad for a semester, 488 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 2: they move too, places like Florence, Barcelona. Oh my god, 489 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 2: I would have my mother to if she had done that. Oh, 490 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 2: I would have faked a crime. 491 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 5: The people. 492 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 3: But I know I know of parents that go visit 493 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 3: their kids when they do the study abroad programs. 494 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, you get three. 495 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 2: Days, maybe a week, and then go tour and go home, 496 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 2: Get out, get out. One that said a mother of 497 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 2: a Mississippi student stayed in the family's apartment, which was 498 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 2: next door to campus, to provide support during sorority rush, 499 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 2: helping her daughter fix her hair or nurse a hangover. 500 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 1: Oh my god. 501 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 2: A Colorado couple their daughter had a rough freshman year. 502 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 2: They bought an apartment in Portland and moved there to 503 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 2: live with their daughter while she attended college. One mom 504 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 2: rented a condo in Washington, d c. Deliver with their 505 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 2: daughter and walked her to class every day. 506 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 1: I believe that. 507 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 2: One administrator said they had to tell the mom she 508 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 2: was not permitted to sit next to her kid in class. 509 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 1: Oh come on, not making this up. People really do this. 510 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, wow mother. 511 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 3: No, I was not like that, and my kids would 512 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 3: never stand for anything like that. My kids are very, 513 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 3: very independent. 514 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 2: That's what I wanted. That has been the running debate 515 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 2: in my ass. They have to be independent, Yes, they 516 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 2: have to make mistakes, they have to screw up, Yes 517 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 2: they should. 518 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 1: They should get to screw up at least half as 519 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: many times as I did. 520 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 3: Look, my daughter gets mad when I asked her to 521 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 3: text me home when she drives home at night, she 522 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 3: gets annoyed. 523 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 5: That's it. 524 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: But that's all I that's all I ask. 525 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 2: That's it. This mother, who wasn't allowed to sit next 526 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 2: to her kid would sit outside the classroom and then 527 00:30:54,840 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 2: they'd walk back to the apartment together. There was one 528 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 2: One student went to France and the mother followed and 529 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 2: kept calling the office in France to arrange a visit. 530 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 2: The daughter refused, and the mother gave up and flew 531 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 2: home to the United States. She was actually sitting in 532 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 2: France and her daughter would not take calls, and mom 533 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 2: had to go back alone. One kid transferred colleges to 534 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 2: get away from his parents. They bought a home next 535 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 2: to his campus. He saw that transferred out. All right, 536 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 2: that's crazy, Yeah, it is really crazy. Good Lord, deborahm 537 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 2: you wonder why these losers are crying in one and. 538 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: It's too hard to make a living, it's too competitive. 539 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: Capitalism is bad. I'm a communist to take care of 540 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: me and then just say this. 541 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 3: I know we're running very late, but as a mom, 542 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 3: it is hard to let go. You spend you know, 543 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 3: eighteen years nurturing your kids, doing the best you can. 544 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 3: It's hard, did it. 545 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 2: That's the purpose part of dad's because dads need to 546 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 2: be there and say, go, don't listen to your mom, 547 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,959 Speaker 2: Go have a good time. Deborah Marcus Live, You Can't Fight, 548 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 2: twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The 549 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 2: John Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show 550 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 2: live on KFI AM six forty from one to four 551 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 2: pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on 552 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeartRadio app.