1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 2: After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the 5 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 2: iHeart app, and you listen to what you missed. 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: You know, if if you asked me, if. 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 2: There's one thing that I could get regardless of cost, 8 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 2: what would be the one thing I'd love to have 9 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 2: for the rest of my life? 10 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: Possession? 11 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 2: I'd love to have access to a private plane. I 12 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 2: am so disgusted flying and traveling. I'm never going to 13 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 2: get access to a private plane. I'm never going to 14 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 2: have one. I was on one once about ten years ago, 15 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 2: and it was wonderful. But I had to fly a 16 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 2: lot the last month because of a vacation, and we 17 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 2: you know, we went to Iceland and met Cafie listeners there, 18 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 2: and then we had a family wedding and boy, people 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 2: are gross. You're in a confined metal tubety five thousand 20 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 2: feet into the air, and people dress badly, they smell bad, 21 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 2: They've got all their excess weight flop it over into 22 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 2: your seat. I mean, I oh, and I'm lucky. I 23 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 2: was on a civilized plane. I see the videos all 24 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 2: the time. It seems to be spirit in Frontier. There's 25 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 2: constant fistfights, crazy people shouting. 26 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: I'd be well. 27 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 2: Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, wants to bring back the 28 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 2: Golden Age of travel, where people are courteous and clean 29 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 2: and they treat all the workers properly. And they have 30 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 2: videos out now showing what life used to be like 31 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 2: on airplanes and then cut to oh and the dress 32 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 2: and and just the hygiene. Let's get Alex Stone, ABC News. Alex, 33 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 2: are you telling me the KFI jet is not taking 34 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 2: you around? 35 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: No? 36 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 2: No, I didn't know we have one. I don't think 37 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: we have a Cafi wagon. It's not idling over there. 38 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 2: And no, no, nobody gives me anything. So yeah, the 39 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 2: campaign that they are kicking off today, they did it 40 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 2: with a video where the Department of Transportation is and 41 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 2: this is asking to be mocked by SNL. I mean, 42 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 2: the whole thing looks like a big SNL joke, but 43 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 2: it's an interesting campaign that the Secretary Duffy is going for. 44 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 2: It's called the Golden Age of Travel starts with you, 45 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 2: And in the video, they begin with images and sounds 46 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 2: of the fifties and sixties when air travel was luxurious 47 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 2: and people got a fancy to get on airplanes, and 48 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 2: they had lobster and they were cutting off prime rib 49 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 2: and you had leg room for a mile in front 50 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 2: of you, and they show all the great images of 51 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 2: times gone by. 52 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 1: I'm fly with me, fly, Oh my. 53 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 2: Goodness, it looks amazing. And then the video devolves into 54 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 2: fights on board airplanes today and. 55 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: What we're dealing with now. 56 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 2: So they are calling on all of us to restore 57 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 2: courtesy and classed air travel to they say, ensure the 58 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 2: safety of passengers, gate workers, and flight attendants, pilots as well. 59 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 2: The DOT says that this is because of a four 60 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 2: hundred percent increase in in flight outbursts and unruly passengers 61 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: since twenty nineteen. Now, they didn't break that down by 62 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 2: the year. I would guess that a lot of that 63 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: was during COVID. If you remember that all the mask 64 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 2: fights every day that and it was like three or 65 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 2: four a day that we were covering in the federal 66 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 2: charges and everything, and people were going nuts over the 67 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 2: masks and over vaccine rules and all that. But Duffy 68 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 2: in this video, which has this old classic filter over 69 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 2: it says he wants you to ask yourself some questions 70 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 2: the next time you fly. This is where I feel 71 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 2: like SNL has got to be gearing up to do 72 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 2: this right here that John Duffy put out today. Are 73 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 2: you helping a pregnant woman put her bag in the 74 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 2: overhead bin? 75 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: Are you dressing with respect? 76 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 3: Are you keeping control of your children? 77 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: Are you saying thank you to your fight attendants and 78 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: your pilots? Are you saying please and thank you? In general? 79 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: The golden age of travel begins with you. 80 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 2: So the department says it's committed to ushering in the 81 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 2: golden age of travel again, and they want the excitement 82 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 2: and manners and relaxation to come back. I think you're 83 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 2: gonna have a lot of people who say good luck 84 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 2: to that. The society that we live in now that 85 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 2: that went away a long time ago. The genies out 86 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 2: of the bottle on getting people to dress up when 87 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 2: they go and fly. At least they dress a little 88 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 2: bit nicer and demand the people be nice at the airport. 89 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 2: But I would also argue in all of this that 90 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 2: the airlines have a role to play that as they 91 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 2: are stuffing in more seats and making them as thin 92 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 2: as they possibly can, that they don't break when you 93 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 2: sit in them, but to put in more seats, charging 94 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 2: you for an aisle or a window and no meal service. 95 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 2: And a lot of times on a flight if you're 96 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 2: flying like up to the Bay Area and they say, 97 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it's too short of a flight for drink service, 98 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 2: and you know it's not. 99 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: It didn't used to be too short of a flight 100 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: for that. 101 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 2: And just you know, the overall the boarding style and 102 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: the quick turnaround of the planes and whatnot, that it's 103 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 2: this is a two way street on this thing. But 104 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 2: at least from the passenger side, the campaign is going 105 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 2: to be be nice, dress a little bit nicer, say 106 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 2: please and thank you, and they just want a little civility. 107 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: Buy back an air trap. 108 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 2: I agree with you. The airlines treat people like crap. 109 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 2: And they wouldn't even hand out cookies, not even the 110 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 2: ice cream cart unless you're in Polaris, you're not. Where's 111 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 2: the ice cream cart? Come on through? 112 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: Not even a glass of water. Nothing. 113 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 2: They get rid of the water and they got rid 114 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 2: of the cookies. Yeah, Or when they come on they say, 115 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 2: this is a short flight, we're gonna water and apple juice. 116 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:23,799 Speaker 2: I'm like, who chose apple juice? Apples's a weird second 117 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 2: drink to offer to people. That's gross. But the people 118 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 2: really got it. They not only have to dress better, 119 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 2: they have to shower before they go on board. I mean, 120 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 2: you know, and some people you gotta get an o 121 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 2: zepic prescription. I mean a lot of pajamas on board. 122 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 2: These yeajamas they've been sleeping in for five days. Yeah. 123 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 2: I was on a flight a couple of months ago 124 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: with my family, and as I went to get up, 125 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: one of my pet peeves is how people get off 126 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 2: of an airplane where if you are behind me, you 127 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 2: wait for me to go. 128 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 1: You don't sneak. 129 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 2: Around or go running up the eye or anything that 130 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 2: are pushed your way up there. Right as I got up, 131 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 2: he put his hand on my shoulder and pushed me 132 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 2: back down from behind, and then walked by and went 133 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 2: up the aisle. I looked at my wife and she said, 134 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 2: just let it go, let it go. 135 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 1: I know, but I understand why you want to end up. 136 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 2: I end up feeling like on a punch a few 137 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 2: people out because just because we're crammed into each other 138 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 2: and people are are they're so unpleasant. Their demeanors are unpleasant, 139 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 2: their dress, they're they're they're hygiene. Apparently on the video 140 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 2: there was clips of people without socks and they've got 141 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 2: their feet resting on the back of putting their feet 142 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 2: up on the bullhead. It's like, no, get your feet off. 143 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 2: The other thing is when you land and people start 144 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 2: having phone conversations. Wait five minutes. I don't want to 145 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 2: hear your phone conversation, especially if you put on speakerphone. 146 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 2: But nobody's quiet when they're talking on a phone, so 147 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 2: you know they're talking. And yeah, we just landed. Oh 148 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 2: it was an okay flight. Oh what time is Jenny 149 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 2: getting home tonight? 150 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: You know what? 151 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 2: Five minutes? Do that in the terminal stop and they're 152 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 2: people using their feet to select their entertainment options on 153 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 2: the screen. I haven't seen that. That's really disgusting. Yeah, 154 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 2: it's not a flight about a week ago where there 155 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 2: was a guy just going to town picking his nose 156 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 2: in the middle seat in front of me. 157 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: And then his wife or girlfriend was. 158 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 2: Just coughing and sneezing, and I thought, I don't know 159 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 2: how I'm gonna and I didn't get sick, but and 160 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 2: then I'll always blow the air out of the vent, 161 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 2: like right on me, thinking if she's coughing, it's got 162 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 2: to blow that out of the way, right. 163 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: But you're just looking going, dude, stop picking your nose. 164 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 2: We we were changing planes. We were on the East Coast, 165 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 2: so we and we're I forget this is Washington. We 166 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 2: were in or New York. We're changing planes, and the 167 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 2: plane was three hours late lifting off. We were stuck 168 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 2: on the plane for three hours. 169 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: Everybody was in a great mood. 170 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there was another six hours to go 171 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 2: in the flight nine hours. I was next to this guy. 172 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 2: He had tuberculosius. Oh, I swear he was coughing up 173 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:55,679 Speaker 2: his lungs and mucus and fluid violently for nine hours. 174 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 2: I was trapped next to the guy nine hours. And 175 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: you know, in about five days you're gonna be really 176 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 2: Oh god, that was one of the most horrible experiences. 177 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 2: I'd rather deal with turbulence. I'd rather have the plane 178 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 2: drop like five thousand feet without warning that have to 179 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 2: deal with a guy with some horrible lung infection. And 180 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 2: at what point can you hit the flight attendant call 181 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 2: button and be like, I don't want them on the 182 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 2: plane here because they're really sick. 183 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: There's nowhere to go. They book every single seat, so 184 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: it's not you. It's like put me in the back, 185 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: put me in a toilet seat. I don't care. Oh yeah, 186 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Thank you for coming on. You got it, 187 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: so please and thank you, yes, please, thank you for 188 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: the report. Please thank you John. 189 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's just an uncivilized, savage society, it 190 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 2: really is, and that there are people who should never 191 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 2: go out in public, let alone go on a plane 192 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 2: and subject the rest of us to your presence. 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There's one thing about 228 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 2: a stupid progressive idea, and stupid progressives when the idea 229 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 2: is proven not to work, they push to do more 230 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 2: of it. One idea that has proven not to work 231 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 2: is a minimum wage that's much higher than the market rate. 232 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 2: We have a recent example. This is all true. I 233 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 2: just checked all the numbers again. I guess it was 234 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 2: a year ago. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that requires 235 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 2: a twenty dollars minimum wage at restaurants fast food restaurants 236 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 2: except the restaurant chain that his buddy owns, but everybody 237 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 2: else has to pay twenty And as soon as he 238 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 2: did that, restaurant chains started firing workers, and as of 239 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 2: this date, over nineteen thousand fast food workers were fired 240 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 2: after Newsom signed the minimum wage law nineteen thousand because 241 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 2: twenty bucks is too much for a fast food restaurant 242 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 2: can't afford it. Nineteen thousand jobs lost. So what do 243 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 2: labor groups want? They are trying to browbeat the county 244 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 2: Board of Supervisors to agree to it. To their thirty by 245 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 2: thirty demand thirty dollars an hour minimum wage by the 246 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 2: year twenty thirty. They want this in La, in the 247 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 2: county and in the city. The La County minimum wage 248 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 2: is seventeen dollars and twenty eight cents. You go from 249 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 2: seventeen bucks to thirty bucks. And I told you before 250 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 2: that one out of eight students, freshman students that you 251 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 2: see San Diego, they do not even meet sixth grade 252 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 2: math proficiency. And you know what the damage of that is, Well, 253 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 2: because most people cannot do math. They don't know why 254 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 2: mandatory twenty or thirty dollars an hour minimum wages are 255 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 2: so destructive because they can't run a business. 256 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 1: I mean that San Diego story. There's a fair. 257 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 2: Number of kids who cannot do simple addition and subtraction. 258 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 2: So Upholster Works for Democrats survey at LA voters and 259 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 2: found that two thirds of them said the minimum wage 260 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 2: was a medium to high priority. From fifty eight percent 261 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 2: favorite a thirty dollars wage. That's why, Well, that's because 262 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 2: they're either stupid or ignorant. It is impossible for businesses, 263 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 2: a lot of them, to pay a thirty dollars wage 264 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 2: without firing people or going got a business. 265 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: It's math. 266 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 2: But if people are coming out of high school with 267 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 2: great inflation, they're not required to take SAT or ACT 268 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 2: tests to get into college. Nobody teaches the information you 269 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 2: need on those tests anymore. The teachers apparently relaxed their 270 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 2: grading during COVID. Everybody was pushed through and graduated. So 271 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 2: you graduate, you have a certificate of a diploma. You 272 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 2: know nothing. Your brain is empty, your Kamala Harris, nothing 273 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 2: going on in there. So then you get this proposition. 274 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 2: It's like, wow, we should have thirty dollars an hour, right, 275 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 2: don't you think? 276 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: Although yes, on that I support that. No, I'm gonna 277 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: tell you again. 278 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 2: Nineteen thousand people in California lost their jobs once Newsom 279 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 2: signed a twenty dollars an hour minimum wage for fast 280 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 2: food workers. What do you think thirty bucks an hour 281 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 2: is going to do it? I haven't quite figured out 282 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 2: why the unions pushed so hard for this, but I 283 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 2: know they don't care about their workers. I don't know 284 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 2: what the scam is. I don't know what the kickback 285 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 2: situation is. I'm only me here. I don't know. But 286 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 2: you know, there's a corrupt story. You know what they're 287 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 2: doing in New York City. New York City, I think 288 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 2: they passed some kind of you know, mandatory minimum wage. 289 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 2: You walk into certain fast food restaurants, and you walk 290 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 2: up to a kiosk, now, and you get a worker 291 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 2: on a video screen who takes your order. The worker 292 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 2: is in the Philippines. Yes, you'll meet a woman on 293 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 2: a video screen from the Philippines. You tell her the order, 294 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 2: and she takes it and then sends it over to 295 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 2: the back kitchen, you know, thirty feet from where you're standing, 296 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 2: and then they bring out the food. But now they're 297 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 2: not playing. They're not paying somebody to work the register anymore. 298 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 2: You work the kiosk, and a lady in the Philippines 299 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 2: processes the order, and somebody in New York City lost 300 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 2: their job. 301 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: And that's what's going to happen here. 302 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 2: They're not going to pay twenty and thirty dollars an 303 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 2: hour these companies, they simply won't. Otherwise they have to 304 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 2: raise prices, and I'm not paying any more for food 305 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 2: that I'm already paying if I go to a restaurant. 306 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 2: There's a restaurant, and I don't go to anymore. They 307 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 2: have gone too many years. Prices are too high and 308 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 2: everybody's doing that. 309 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 310 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 4: six forty or on. 311 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: Every day from one until four o'clock. 312 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 2: Moistline is eighty seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven 313 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 2: seven Moist eighty six or usually talkback feature on the 314 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. Also, the podcast will be released shortly after 315 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 2: four o'clock. 316 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: You listen to. 317 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 2: Our number one and we have a lot on Well 318 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 2: this this new fire chief that hell's his name? I 319 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 2: forgot already me more Hi Memore, Yes, three days on 320 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 2: the job, Hi me Moore. He should be unforgettable because 321 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 2: who's he angry with. He's angry at the media for 322 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 2: reporting number one that LA firefighters leaked out their own 323 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 2: text messages about how they were ordered to flee the 324 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 2: hot spot in the Palisades that led to the big fire. 325 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,399 Speaker 2: And he's also upset with a public letter that Channel 326 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,400 Speaker 2: seven ran as a news story. A public letter by 327 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 2: other fire officials who are deeply ashamed over the way 328 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 2: the fire management not only handled the fire, but their 329 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 2: responses since the LA Fire Department is in deep, deep 330 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 2: trouble and it looks like we're gonna have our third 331 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,679 Speaker 2: bad fire chief in a row who's more interested in 332 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 2: yelling at the media than finding out why there were 333 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 2: so many screw ups that have on all year long. 334 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 2: So that's in the first hour. You should listen to that. 335 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: I get so fed up, but I don't want to 336 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: get fed up. 337 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 2: You know, the the vagrants are still around, the mental 338 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 2: patients of the drug addicts still rule the streets. Karen 339 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 2: Bass lies about the homeless numbers. The La Times still 340 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 2: run sob stories. The latest is written by James Rainey, 341 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 2: and we had running runnings with him years ago. He 342 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,360 Speaker 2: did a profile on a homeless encampment along the edge 343 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 2: of the Pasadena Freeway, along the edge of the one 344 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 2: ten freeway, which is just above Arroyo Seco, and there's 345 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 2: one hundred people have made their homes inches away from 346 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 2: the freeway. One hundred thousand vehicles a day go by, 347 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 2: and there's one hundred people living there in this massive encampment. 348 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 2: And on the other side is the cement channel which 349 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 2: he's all the disgusting runoff after a rainstorm Los Angeles. 350 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,479 Speaker 2: You imagine what's in that Oh, what it is is 351 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 2: probably a lot of their their feces and urine getting 352 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 2: washed off. 353 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: And we'll be taken to the ocean. 354 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 2: Last month, the city of La Oh, this is this 355 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 2: is another one of Bass's success stories. Started to move 356 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 2: them from the edge of the one ten freeway into 357 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 2: more permanent housing. And Rainy said, nowhere drove the enormity 358 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 2: of this homeless problem home for me quite like this outpost. 359 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 2: And he says, clothes hanged to dry in a chain 360 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 2: link fence next to heaps of rusting bicycles and garbage. 361 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 2: I see forgotten women and men splashing themselves as clean 362 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 2: as possible with the soapy runoff from the yards of neighbors, 363 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 2: of more fortunate neighbors. Will you stop blaming fortune and misfortune. 364 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 2: People create the circumstances they end up in life. People 365 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 2: make choices as to where they end up, apart from 366 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 2: those who have some kind of organic mental illness, a 367 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 2: brain disease, And we should scoop them up immediately and 368 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 2: put put them into a mental health institution. But everybody else, 369 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 2: it's not that they're more fortunate and less fortunate. You 370 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 2: and I made decisions going back to when we were 371 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 2: in school, so that we could end up with jobs, 372 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:44,880 Speaker 2: so that we have shelter and food, and we could 373 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 2: have families who could enjoy the shelter and food. We 374 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 2: made those decisions, and we worked and executed. I'm not fortunate. 375 00:20:54,720 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 2: You're not fortunate. You created your own reality by getting 376 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 2: up and going to work. Really, you don't have to 377 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 2: do much else. You get up and you go to work. 378 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 2: You exchange your work and time for money, and then 379 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 2: the money gives you shelter and food. These are people 380 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:13,479 Speaker 2: who refuse to do that. 381 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 1: It's not that hard. 382 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 2: And then he's writing about how at this Arroyo Seco 383 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: encampment off the one ten he's seen over the years, 384 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 2: how authorities try and fail to rouse the squatters more 385 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 2: than once they build those tents and makeshift homes in 386 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, they did it again earlier this year. Well, 387 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 2: you should never fail. You make the area off limits, 388 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 2: you put up razor wire if you have to, you 389 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 2: have constant police patrols, and every time you find more 390 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 2: mental patients and drug addicts and vagrants. You chase them out, 391 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,360 Speaker 2: you arrest them if they won't go. 392 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: That's what you do. 393 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 2: That's why these people are in every city in America. 394 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 2: They're here because Karen Bass does nothing. She fakes it. 395 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 2: She smiles when she fakes it, and that's how she 396 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 2: gets away with all this. And then, of course you 397 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 2: have somebody here, you know, from the La Times, to 398 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 2: write about how terrible it is where he should be 399 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 2: writing as if there's any failure, it's the fault of 400 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 2: the mayor and her staff for not executing an obvious solution. 401 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 2: You tell them to go, you put up the razor wire, 402 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 2: you put up the patrols, and if they don't go, 403 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 2: you put them in jail and then offer them either 404 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 2: drug treatment or mental health treatment to get out of jail. 405 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: There's no other solution and there never will be. And 406 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: then you know the all the. 407 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,199 Speaker 2: SOB story is about why they're homeless. And then you 408 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 2: have this blithering idiot who's their counselwoman and unses her 409 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 2: Nandez one of the dumbest people on the planet. She 410 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 2: got six million dollars, she got sick million dollars from 411 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 2: the state uh for on some social services program here 412 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 2: spending months building trust with unhoused people. Why don't we 413 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 2: have to spend millions of dollars to build trust with 414 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 2: unhoused people. Just say you're breaking the law, you're not 415 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 2: permitted to live here. 416 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: Would trust? This is what that's what, this is. 417 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 2: What we're doing. They go and they talk to these 418 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 2: vagrants over and over and over again for months and 419 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 2: months and months. Vagrants don't want to move. One of 420 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 2: them says, I don't want to go to a shelter. 421 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 2: They find them unsafe and too restrictive. Yeah, you can't 422 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 2: use do booze and drugs often in these shelters or 423 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 2: there it's too far from home home. 424 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: You're living on a patch of dirt next to a 425 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 1: freeway stop. It was too too far from my home. 426 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 2: Others wanted to make sure there'd be rooms for their pets. Great, 427 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 2: you're negotiating with a crazy, drugged out, whacked out mental 428 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 2: patient who has has some poor dog with him, and 429 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 2: so he will, he will, he will get off the streets, 430 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 2: he will get off the public property. This, this is absurd. 431 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 2: This problem should have been over years ago. Eventually, this 432 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 2: is what's going to happen. You're going to be telling 433 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 2: these people you're under arrest if you don't leave, and 434 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 2: if we arrest you, the only way you get out 435 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 2: is choosing a mental health treatment or drug treatment. By 436 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 2: the way, they're going to be arresting people in San 437 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 2: Jose and in San Francisco. The mayor announced, okay, so 438 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 2: you have two mayors, Matt Mahan and San Jose, and 439 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 2: you have Dan Lurie in San Francisco, and they said 440 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 2: this is over. Okay, We've got bill millions of dollars 441 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 2: in help for you take the help or you get arrested. 442 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 1: No more. That's what's got to be done here. 443 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 4: One day, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from 444 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,120 Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty. 445 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 2: One of the things you want to listen to on 446 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 2: the podcast two o'clock hour. He at Katie Grimes ont and 447 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:26,480 Speaker 2: we talked about Gavin Newsom's administration. Dozens of people from 448 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:31,400 Speaker 2: his administration and other Sacramento political insiders got a letter 449 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 2: from the FBI in the last few days saying their 450 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 2: phone calls, texts, and other electronic communications have been intercepted 451 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 2: part of the federal corruption case. To Newsom's chief of 452 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 2: Staff Data Williamson. But it seems like the FBI is 453 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 2: looking for other things as well. This happened for several 454 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 2: months last year. I told you a few days ago. 455 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 2: It's starting to crumble. And now Rob Bonto looks like 456 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 2: he and his staff was misleading the press this week 457 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 2: because it was learned that he had spent almost a 458 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 2: half million dollars of campaign money to a private law firm. 459 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 2: This private law firm was involved had to was supposed 460 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 2: to investigate for Banta a case which involved the indictment 461 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 2: of the former mayor of Oakland, the former recalled mayor 462 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 2: of Oakland, and the Dweng family. It was a federal 463 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 2: bribery case. Banta had gotten a lot of money from 464 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 2: this Dwang family, and he spent almost a half million 465 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 2: dollars of campaign funds. And at first the campaign lied 466 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 2: and said, well, they just wanted to assist the investigation. No, 467 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 2: now he's admitting that the half million dollars he spent 468 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 2: were for Bonta's benefit to have legal counsel because he 469 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 2: was being asked about this federal bribery case by investigators. 470 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 2: Let's play Ashley's a ball again, KCIA Channel three and Sacramento. 471 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 3: After pushing for answers, we're getting a little more clarity 472 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 3: when it comes to the four hundred and sixty eight 473 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 3: thousand dollars that Attorney General Rob Bonta spent from his 474 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:27,400 Speaker 3: reelection campaign on legal services and fees. His campaign clarifying 475 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,359 Speaker 3: tonight that this money was used for him to lawyer 476 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 3: up as he faced questions from federal authorities. We're also 477 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 3: learning tonight this is a historic amount of money spent 478 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 3: on legal services by a candidate in California, not just 479 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 3: for Attorney General, but for any statewide constitutional office here 480 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 3: in the state. Bonta's campaign told us at first the 481 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,959 Speaker 3: money was to help federal authorities in their bribery investigation 482 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 3: in the East Bay, which involved Oakland's ex mayor and 483 00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 3: the Duong family, which were also Bonta's donors. Lied up 484 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 3: with this campaign today with several questions, including confirmation that 485 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 3: the law firm he paid was representing him as he 486 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 3: answered questions from federal investigators. His campaign has confirmed his advisor, 487 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 3: Dan Newman, said he was not a target in the investigation, 488 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 3: that he was just providing information and that's what the 489 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 3: attorneys were for. Newman keeps saying that the ongoing investigation, 490 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 3: they can't say much because again it is ongoing. But 491 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 3: at the same time he told me today that Bont's 492 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 3: role in that investigation is over. 493 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: Another question in all. 494 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 3: Of this is is it legal? Is this a permissible 495 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 3: use of campaign funds in California? Bont's advisor said this 496 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 3: was absolutely proper and necessary to use the funds because 497 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 3: of the nature of the charges against the people implicated 498 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 3: in that Oakland bribery probe. I checked in with Loyal 499 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 3: LA Law School professor Jessica Levinson, who noted campaign legal 500 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 3: expenses are meant to be related directly to the campaign itself. 501 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 3: Typically that money is used, for example, to request a 502 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 3: recount in an election, or to litigate how a candidate's 503 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 3: name or title is seen on the ballot. Here's what 504 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 3: she had to say when it comes to bonta situation. 505 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 5: In this case, the only connection that I can see 506 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 5: right now between the AG's election and the legal investigation 507 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 5: and proceedings would be whether or not the investigation initially 508 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 5: began with questions about the don's donations to the AG account. 509 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 5: What you would need in order to be able to 510 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 5: draw that legal line between the political account, the committee 511 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 5: to run to be AG, and these big legal expenses. 512 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 5: Is some connection between that account, the reason that Bonta 513 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 5: is running to be AG, and the legal expenses in 514 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 5: this case. 515 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 6: I think the best argument that Bonta could make for 516 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 6: how these expenses would be permissible is to say that 517 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 6: the investigation annger questions originally began based on the Dong's 518 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 6: campaign donations to that age account. 519 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 3: So on that note, David and Andy Dong were indicted 520 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 3: during that federal probe. Together they donated twenty four three 521 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 3: hundred dollars to Just Bonce's re election campaign for twenty 522 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 3: twenty six. The Dong family donated one hundred and fifty 523 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 3: five thousand dollars total to him throughout his political career. 524 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 3: Bonce's campaign noting all of that money was returned after 525 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 3: the investigation was made public in Oakland. 526 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: Earlier this year. 527 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 6: But just talking about the half a million dollars in 528 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 6: legal fees. 529 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 3: That's a lot of money, all of it just to 530 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 3: have attorneys by your. 531 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: Side as you're answering questions. I would think that would 532 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: be what it would cost me maybe to do a 533 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,479 Speaker 1: whole trial. But that's a lot of money. Right, it is, 534 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: and that's. 535 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 3: At the center of why we're asking so many questions 536 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 3: and we keep following up with this campaign and I 537 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 3: really cannot get a straight answer here behind that dollar amount. 538 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 3: What Bonce's campaign did confirm is that the are not 539 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 3: related to anything else or any other issues. His advisor 540 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 3: said this was not settlement money or anything like that. 541 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 3: But again, we still have a lot of questions just 542 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 3: related to this whole situation. How they went from saying 543 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 3: this was to help the investigation in his capacity, but 544 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 3: then now they're changing their story essentially today to say 545 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 3: that this was for him. 546 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 1: To lawyer up. 547 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 2: All right, We're done, Conway Next, Michael Kurzer is the 548 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 2: news live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 549 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 550 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 551 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,479 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 552 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.