1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 2: We're on the air every day one to four o'clock. 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 2: If you miss anything, shame but you you can hear 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 2: it again on the iHeartRadio app as well. John Cobelt 6 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 2: Show on Demand posted shortly after four o'clock. All right, Wow, 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 2: Denise Konias has been hiding out in a bunker about 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 2: six miles below the earth ever since she botched up 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 2: the Palisades fire. She never filled the reservoir there still 10 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 2: making her seven hundred and fifty. 11 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: Thousand dollars a year. 12 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 2: And now she has surfaced because there's been another big 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 2: foul up at the DWP. Ninety two hundred customers Granada 14 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 2: Hills and Porter Ranch, no water service, no water and 15 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 2: this is a hot day, and they went in to 16 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 2: fix something and they busted something else. Michael Monks with 17 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: all the details, and you will shortly hear Denise Cononia's 18 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 2: voice for. 19 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: The first time in about six months. You certainly will. 20 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: They had a a news conference. 21 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 3: It's been since yesterday, since last we heard an official 22 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 3: news conference where they give formal updates about this situation. 23 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 3: But as you note, thousands of people without water. No, 24 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 3: this is a big city. Of course, some nine thousand 25 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 3: people a drop in the proverbial bucket, but they would 26 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 3: love to have a drop in any bucket right now 27 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 3: out there, because there's more than nine thousand without water 28 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 3: right now. When you think is you noted hottest days 29 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 3: of the summer so far to not have access to 30 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 3: your own water nine. 31 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 2: Thousand customers, that's probably more like twenty thousand people. 32 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 3: That's a good point, that's right. Something we forget when 33 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 3: power goes out anywhere. It's a one thousand or so, 34 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 3: but there are a lot of people that live in 35 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 3: that affected area, so very good point to raise there. 36 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 3: You also noted what is important here is that this 37 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 3: wasn't an accident. It was an accident, of course, but 38 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 3: this wasn't something involving weather or a driver or something. 39 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 3: This was ledwp going out and doing some repair work 40 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 3: and apparently making the situation worse at What we've learned 41 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 3: is that water crews were conducting repair work two days 42 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 3: ago on Tuesday, at a pump station connecting to a 43 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 3: ten million gallon water tank that serves that area of 44 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 3: Grenada Hills and Porter ranch when a valve that controls 45 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 3: the flow of the water failed to open. Okay, and 46 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 3: so what that has done is the water flowing from 47 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 3: the tank into the pipe serving the area was cut 48 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 3: off completely. Oh and the problem is very difficult to address. 49 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 3: Jennie Connas, the executive director of the General Manager of LADWP, 50 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 3: describes for us the challenges. 51 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 4: At the same time, our crews are working to remove 52 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 4: the valve that fail to restore water flow to the tank. 53 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 4: The location of the abalve is twenty four feet deep 54 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 4: and the repairs are very complex. They have been working 55 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 4: since last night and this morning. They found two oil pipelines, 56 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 4: active pipelines, a gas line and lash boulders that have 57 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 4: complicated our excavation efforts because we cannot use heavy equipment 58 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 4: until those lines are clear. We're working with the owners 59 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 4: of those lines to clear the pipeline so we can 60 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 4: continue the excavation. 61 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: You're going to bring subtitles to the existence. 62 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,839 Speaker 3: She is, I believe from Puerto Rico, so she does 63 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 3: have a Spanish language accent. 64 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: Yes, but basically, if I may translate for you, go ahead. 65 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 3: This is a big mess and it's only gotten messier 66 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 3: as they've tried to fix the problem that they created. 67 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 3: They went in to fix one thing, broke the situation, 68 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 3: and as they have to go deep into the earth 69 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 3: to fix to fix it more, they're finding oil lines, 70 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 3: gas lines, boulders, boulders, boulders, boulders. 71 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: Big rocks, big rock. 72 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 3: Sir, You'll also be happy to know John as you 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 3: are anytime there's a disaster in Los Angeles at the 74 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 3: City of Los Angeles is on it, as detailed by 75 00:03:58,440 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 3: Mayor Bass. 76 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 5: I want Angelino's in Porta Ranch and Granada Hills to 77 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 5: know that city crews are working around the clock on 78 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 5: this issue. That was the bride last night, the councilman 79 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 5: and I made it very clear to our general managers 80 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 5: that this needed to be fixed immediately and that in 81 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 5: the meantime we will do all we can to support 82 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 5: families that are impacted. 83 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,239 Speaker 1: What was its urgency on January seventh. 84 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 3: I think what she has learned from January seventh is 85 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 3: to speak with more urgency. You can see it, whether 86 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 3: it's the immigration situation that's going on or this that 87 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 3: she has learned from just the communication mistakes that we're 88 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 3: taking place back in early January, because it has very 89 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 3: visibly shifted. This happened on Tuesday, it is now Thursday. Originally, 90 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 3: LEDWP thought they might be able to have the situation 91 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 3: resolved by tomorrow Friday. Now it looks like it could 92 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 3: drag on through the weekend, maybe even beyond that. 93 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 2: If they just had stayed home, none of this would 94 00:04:59,279 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 2: have happened. 95 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: I'm sure they feel really bad. 96 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 3: Why you know, you don't You're probably you're doing some 97 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 3: routine well, I mean, the engineers are probably well paid 98 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 3: while they're working on it. 99 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 2: But did they Is there something specific that they did 100 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 2: that led to this situation. 101 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: We don't know. 102 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 3: You know what, what it sounds like is whatever the 103 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 3: routine maintenance work that they were doing in this area, 104 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 3: the equipment down there was apparently so old that this 105 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 3: valve just would not open. I mean it sounds like, 106 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 3: you know, some WD forty might have been useful at 107 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 3: that point. 108 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: Well, this stuff's one hundred years old, exactly. 109 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 3: And this is something that they have said, and the 110 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 3: city has said its own sewer department, for example, we 111 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 3: got to get more money, We got to raise your 112 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,799 Speaker 3: rates because a lot of this infrastructure under the earth 113 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 3: is ancient at this point. 114 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: And that's true in a lot of cities. You know, 115 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: there's these sewers. They're all run badly. 116 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, and then they do not invest in 117 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 3: the infrastructure until it becomes absolutely necessary and a crisis 118 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 3: mode would When you think about water the area around 119 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 3: Los Angeles and the heat, you may also think about 120 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 3: the threat of fire. Right, And we are not just 121 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 3: under the threat of wildfire in southern California or California 122 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 3: in general because of the climate or because of the topography. 123 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 3: We are also under the threat of fires because of 124 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 3: some of the people who live among us. 125 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 1: Right. 126 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 3: This is something we've discussed before. So Counselman John Lee. 127 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 3: You heard the mayor talk about the councilman, and I 128 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 3: talk to so and so. She was talking about Counselman 129 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 3: John Lee, who represents this area, and so. 130 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: He is aware that this could be a problem. Here's 131 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: what he said. 132 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 6: Additionally, I instructed LAPD to increase patrols in the high 133 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 6: fire severity zones throughout the district. So you know, in 134 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 6: light of this incident, it's essential that we stay ahead 135 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 6: of any potential threats. Let me make this perfectly clear, 136 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 6: and the attempt to take advantage of this emergency will 137 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 6: not be tolerated. We are prepared and we will hold 138 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 6: those people accountable. 139 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 3: So please don't start fires. Please don't break into anybody's homes. 140 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 3: If they happen to leave the area, pass pass all 141 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 3: the homeless vagrants. 142 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: They're on they're on notice. 143 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 3: They are indeed, now if you are somebody living in 144 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 3: that area, you are eligible for a lot of free water. 145 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: That they're hanging out. 146 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 3: They've brought in portable bathrooms, portable showers, portable methods to 147 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 3: clean your laundry. I understand. So they they being the government, 148 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 3: they are bringing what what is that exactly? I don't 149 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 3: know if it's a bucket in US. I don't know 150 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 3: if it's an my laundry and a community bucket. 151 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 152 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 3: I live in an apartment where we share, and that's 153 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 3: bad enough. Oh yeah, I know. I don't know. 154 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: I want to get a washboard. That was the thing 155 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: I hated most about the worst apartment, the worst dog hair, 156 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: all that laundry, that laundry room down in the basement. 157 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 3: I'm waiting for a race so I can get out 158 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 3: of the fashion district to get a get a better laundry. 159 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 2: You got to get out of there. You stay there 160 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 2: much longer. Well, it could be worse in your mental stability. 161 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 2: We do have water today. 162 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: You have water. I have one. 163 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, So our thoughts are with the folks in Grenada 164 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 3: Hills and Porter Ranchts resolved. 165 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 2: But you have Karen Bass and they're on it, so 166 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 2: don't worry. Things will be fine. How about you want 167 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 2: a bit Monday we have the same conversation. 168 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 1: I will look forward to that. 169 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 2: Okay, We've got Michael Monk's KFI News. 170 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 171 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 7: six forty. 172 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show Moistline. We're still taking candidates. It's the 173 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 2: last day before we run it tomorrow in the three 174 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 2: o'clock hour eight seven seven moistdaighty six eight seven seven Moist. 175 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: Dady six er. 176 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 2: Use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app and you 177 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 2: could unleash whatever is burning in your soul. And boy, 178 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 2: wasn't it good to hear Janise Canoniez again. 179 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 8: It was what we're just asking about her. Weren't you 180 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 8: a couple of days ago? 181 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: Yeah? 182 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 2: Periodically, you know, you have your question which which I 183 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 2: share the curiosity? You know what started the fire in 184 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 2: the Palisades? Yeah, they told us the after action report 185 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 2: was coming out this summer. I remember hearing all it 186 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 2: will be out around July. I thought it was going 187 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 2: to come out on July fourth itself, you know, when 188 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 2: the whole world is shut down and there isn't much 189 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 2: news coverage going on. But that came and went. Now 190 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 2: it's it's August, and they still don't know. 191 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 9: They still don't know. 192 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 2: This is what we need the California Post for at 193 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 2: the California Post is going to be an offshoot of 194 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 2: the New York Post. And if they put their time 195 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 2: and resources in attitude like they do in New York, 196 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 2: a lot of these stories will blow sky high a 197 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 2: lot sooner they'll find out. And there's just just too much, 198 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 2: too much comfortable silence about this Palace stage fire. And 199 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 2: I'm thinking there's a bad story that they don't want 200 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 2: to release and they don't know what to do. 201 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 8: All they've said, and I think that the narrative is 202 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 8: the same that there were there was fireworks that happened 203 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 8: on a January first, right, yeah, and that fire was 204 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 8: put out. There was a little fire that was started 205 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 8: by fireworks that was put out, and then it smoldered 206 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 8: and then it happened again. 207 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 9: It broke out January seventh. That's it. That's all I've. 208 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 2: Heard, right, yep, that was a possibility. Of course, they 209 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 2: should have had a strike team standing on the land 210 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 2: that burned back on January first, if it was possible 211 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 2: that a strong wind could whip up the fire again, 212 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 2: because everybody after the fact said, oh, yeah, that could happen. 213 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: Well, then you. 214 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 2: Should have had a crew there, right, yep. You should 215 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 2: have said, hey, what was the last fire we had 216 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 2: in this area? Oh yeah, January first, Yeah, we had 217 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 2: four acres. I think now there's a lot of questions 218 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 2: they still want to answer, and they hope everybody forgets 219 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 2: and losing his interest. 220 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: But we will never know. 221 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 2: But Cheniz Kinonia sounds to me like somebody who's running 222 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 2: to be high school class president. I mean, she just 223 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 2: doesn't sound like she knows anything. She's very tentative and halting, 224 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 2: and I can't believe she's in charge of the entire 225 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 2: water system and power system of Los Angeles. Do we 226 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 2: have that clip again of her? 227 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 4: At the same time, our crews are working to remove 228 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 4: the valve that fail to restore. 229 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: Water stuff the valve. That's what she said. 230 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 4: At the same time, our crews are working to remove 231 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 4: the valve that fail to restore water flow to the tank. 232 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 4: The location of the valve is twenty four feet deep 233 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 4: and the repairs are very complex. They have been working 234 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 4: since last night and this morning. They found two oil pipelines, 235 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 4: active pipelines, a gas line, and lash boulders that have 236 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:47,439 Speaker 4: complicated our excavation efforts because we can't heavy equipment until 237 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 4: those lines are clear. We're working with the owners of 238 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 4: those lines to clear the pipeline so we can continue 239 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:54,239 Speaker 4: the excavation. 240 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 2: I don't know how anybody could have confidence in her. 241 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: I want I want some detail, like what did they 242 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: do wrong? 243 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 9: We're not going to find that out. 244 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 2: And there's no remote way to turn off or turn 245 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,839 Speaker 2: a valve on that's twenty four feet underground. 246 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: There should be so that understand a valve. I guess. 247 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 2: I guess they have the original infrastructure from nineteen twenty 248 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 2: four and we. 249 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 8: Have nine thousand more than nine thousand people now are. 250 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 2: Affected, and they have they have oil pipelines and large boulders. 251 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:29,559 Speaker 1: Whatever the hell she said. 252 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 2: And I've read fiber optic lines, gas lines, I mean everything. 253 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 2: It's like, did they do they have a map of 254 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 2: this stuff. When they were putting in all these extra lines, 255 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 2: did anybody say, well, what happens if the valve locks 256 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 2: up down there? 257 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: How we're going to get to it? 258 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 2: Shouldn't there become some kind of pathway, a shaft, you know, 259 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:50,439 Speaker 2: an underground tunnel. 260 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: What are they digging with my hand with a shovel? 261 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: I don't know the uh? 262 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 2: But she gets seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. 263 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 2: I don't know what you get paid at home. She 264 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 2: gets seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 265 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 9: I'll take over the DWP so I can make that. 266 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 1: You can't do any worse. 267 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 9: I can't. 268 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: You'll make more sense when you talk. Well, that's need 269 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: a book. 270 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, I have to I have to 271 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 2: unleash some This is going to sound really petty, but 272 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 2: this is what I do. You ever walk into a 273 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 2: store and you see somebody's face and you immediately don't 274 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 2: like them, and he size up there their personality? 275 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 9: Yeah, we all do. 276 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 2: Okay, So I went to a pet store yesterday in 277 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 2: Santa Monica. I'm sure you've gotten many times to a 278 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 2: pet store. Right, pet store in Santa Monica is weird, okay. 279 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 2: All the employees have nose rings, covered wall to wall 280 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 2: with tattoos, bizarre hair colors. There's like nobody normal looking 281 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 2: in there, and the customers customers a lot of batty, 282 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 2: older ladies. So I walk in there and all I'm 283 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 2: wanted to get is a bag of crickets and two 284 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 2: small tubs of worms to the two lizards we have, right, 285 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 2: the gecko eats worms, bearded dragon eats eats the crickets, 286 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 2: and really that should take about a minute. And I 287 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 2: saw there was a couple of people on line. I 288 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 2: run down to the refrigerator, get the little toups of money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 289 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 2: because you know that I I would have lost the 290 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 2: worms or the crickets. So I'm standing the line and 291 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: I just want to get the worms in the crickets. 292 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 2: And this woman that I had eyed as soon as 293 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 2: I walked in later middle age. I could tell she 294 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 2: was rich just by the way she dressed. She's got 295 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 2: a fashionable top on, and she's kind of. 296 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 9: A fashion expert. 297 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: No, I could tell. 298 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 2: I could tell us about that by the shoes, by 299 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 2: the by the top, by the kind of pants she 300 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 2: was wearing, by the way her hair is pulled back. 301 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 2: It's like she's got money. And I, after I got 302 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 2: the worms, I come back and she's still there. And 303 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 2: she was buying about a dozen cans of cat food. 304 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 2: And buying a dozen cancer cat food took fifteen minutes 305 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 2: because she wanted to take advantage of the price matching policy, 306 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 2: and she had an app and for each can of food, oh, 307 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: she had to find it on the app. 308 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: Then she would hold the phone in. 309 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 2: Front of in front of the bewildered, baffled clerk, who 310 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 2: then would scan the cat food somehow, and then she'd 311 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 2: put the can down, go back to the phone, back 312 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 2: to the air. And they were, they were, they were 313 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 2: debating this whole process the whole time. 314 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 9: And you kept your mouth shut. 315 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: It was really close. 316 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 8: I would have said, hey, I only have this can 317 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 8: I go in front of you please. 318 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 2: The reason I talked about her clothes is this woman 319 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 2: is not on food stamps. She's not eating the cat food, 320 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: but she's even expensive cat food. 321 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: Food is cheap, right, yes, but she's trying. 322 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 9: Yes, I don't know, because I don't have a cat. 323 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: It is. The most expensive cat food is cheap cap food. 324 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 2: So she's spending fifteen minutes to get I don't know, 325 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 2: thirty nine cents or eighty nine cents whatever it is. 326 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: So many people do that. 327 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 9: John's so frustrated. 328 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 2: So they can't have this system, especially when it's tied 329 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 2: to an app and a scan and you know, the 330 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 2: woman had to get the supervisor over. 331 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 9: They need another line. 332 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 2: Who whoa whoa fifteen minutes and I was just boiling 333 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 2: and I'm going, don't do it, don't do it, and 334 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 2: it's like it's like, just. 335 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: You know what. In fact, what I want to do 336 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: is say I'll pay the bill. 337 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 2: Okay, I'll pay the pill if you leave now, Okay, 338 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 2: I'll pay full bright. 339 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: It's just about a minute away. It is so aggravating. 340 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 2: Plus, this particular store has one of these things where 341 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: you have to type in your phone number to see 342 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 2: if you're a member of the club I know, you know, 343 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 2: you know I'm talking about, and then it wants you 344 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:10,640 Speaker 2: to round up your purchase, so you go homeless ninth 345 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 2: sense to homeless cats, oh god, And and and one 346 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 2: of the drugstore changes like that too. There's all these 347 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 2: questions just pumping gas, there's all these questions you know 348 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 2: you a member of the club, would you like a 349 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 2: car wash, you know? Would you like to join the 350 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 2: club and get five cents off a Allen for sixty days? 351 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: You know? Would you type in your zip call? Would 352 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: you just. 353 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 2: Let me pump the gas and then buy the cat food, 354 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 2: buy the worms. 355 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 9: It's okay, you got it out. You feel better. 356 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. 357 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 2: I can't stand going to the store. I can't stand 358 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 2: being in line. I can't stand the way the stores have. 359 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 2: I remember as a as a little kid, I'd go 360 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 2: with my mother to the grocery store. This is pre 361 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 2: technology days, and the woman at the cash register who 362 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 2: actually hit the keys on the cash register got it 363 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 2: done in seconds. 364 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 8: But did you ever in line in a grocery store 365 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 8: with somebody in front of you with like fifty of 366 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 8: those paper coupons? 367 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 9: Oh that was the worst. 368 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 2: Oh it's always batty old ladies. Oh, and they fight 369 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 2: over every coupon because you know half of them are 370 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 2: expired yep, or they get them for the wrong product, 371 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 2: and it's like, oh, chess, just stop it. Stop it 372 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,959 Speaker 2: with the coupons. Go out and make more money, all right. 373 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 2: Get a part time job so you can afford the 374 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 2: cheap cat food. So you're wasting your time that fifteen minutes, 375 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 2: she could have been working somewhere. 376 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 9: She didn't need to work. 377 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 2: No, I don't think she needed to work. That made 378 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 2: it more infuriating, you know, if it was obviously somebody 379 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 2: in need. 380 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 8: Right next time that happens, John, just do me a favor, 381 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:42,239 Speaker 8: just say excuse me. 382 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 9: I just have these crickets and what else? 383 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: Worms? Crickets, mag No, no, maggets, crickets and worms. 384 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 9: Can I just go in front of you, please? 385 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 2: And she had this pressy look on her face, like 386 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 2: we shoes sucking on a lemon all day or a prune. 387 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 388 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 7: six forty. 389 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,479 Speaker 2: You could follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social 390 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,199 Speaker 2: media at John Cobelt Radio. And we're on from one 391 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 2: untill four and then after four o'clock the podcast John 392 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:20,239 Speaker 2: Cobey'll show on demand also on the iHeart app. This 393 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 2: if you work for a living, this is probably going 394 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 2: to make you crazy. 395 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: Do you know that. 396 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 2: One third of the state is on Medicaid, which is 397 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 2: which is the federal program for poor people healthcare one 398 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 2: third and there's a lot of people in California who 399 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 2: are getting free healthcare, and all they have they don't 400 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:54,879 Speaker 2: have to do anything. 401 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: They don't have to work. 402 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 2: I think I told you there's probably seven to eight 403 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 2: million men in America who don't work, but they are 404 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 2: of working age between let's say eighteen and fifty four 405 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 2: prime working years. They don't work, and they get free healthcare. Well, 406 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 2: in Trump's big bill that they passed, there's a new requirement. 407 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 1: You have to prove that. 408 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,919 Speaker 2: You're working at least twenty hours a week, and if 409 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 2: you can't get a job, you can do volunteer work, 410 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 2: but you have to have proof. 411 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: Now, this polls very well. 412 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 2: One health research group found that sixty two percent of 413 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 2: Americans support tying Medicaid eligibility to work requirements. So they 414 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:52,120 Speaker 2: shouldn't be controversial. If you want free healthcare, just make 415 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 2: a minimal effort twenty hours and you can do volunteer work. 416 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: Well, Gavin and. 417 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 2: The rest of the progressives are screaming, Holy hell, they 418 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 2: think this is wildly unfair. 419 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 1: Newsom. 420 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 2: Now, because you have to fill out paperwork to get Medicaid, 421 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 2: and you've got to fill out paperwork to prove that 422 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 2: you're you're working, Newsom is calling it a labyrinth of 423 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 2: manual verification. 424 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: You only have to prove every six months. 425 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 2: That you're working, going to school or volunteering eighty hours 426 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 2: a month, twenty hours a week every six months. That's unreasonable. 427 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 2: And for Newsom to complain about the labyrinth, well, when 428 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:50,360 Speaker 2: you do verification, it cuts the fraudway down. If you remember, 429 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 2: he gave away thirty billion dollars to fraudsters during the 430 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 2: COVID unemployment emergency, thirty billion dollars they blew because they 431 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 2: had no verification program. That's how Scott Peterson ended up 432 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 2: getting unemployment money while on death row. 433 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: That's what happens eighty five countries. 434 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 2: Eighty five countries had citizens who were ripping off the 435 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 2: state of California with false unemployment claims. So, of course, 436 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 2: in Gavin Newsom's empty mind, oh, it just sounds really onerous. 437 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 2: And they always assume that people who are getting benefits 438 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 2: are stupid. They can't fill out forms. The rest of 439 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 2: us we have to fill out forms all day and night. 440 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 2: But if you're getting public welfare benefits or free healthcare, well, 441 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 2: obviously these people aren't very bright. Obviously they're too stupid forms, 442 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 2: which means, of course they can defraud us. Democrats argue 443 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 2: that work requirements. Work requirements lead to eligible people losing 444 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 2: their health insurance because of bureaucratic hurdles. 445 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: The hell, if you don't work, then you're not eligible. 446 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: And if you can't work, why can't you work twenty 447 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: hours a week? I don't understand. 448 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 2: What it's going to do is get these eight million 449 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 2: able body workers, get them off their rear ends because 450 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 2: they're healthcare coverage is tied to it. In fact, for 451 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 2: the rest of us, normal people, is in our healthcare 452 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 2: coverage tied to our work right. Most of us have 453 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 2: to show up for work otherwise we lose health benefits. 454 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 2: A lot of people keep working even after they wish 455 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 2: they could retire, because they don't want to lose the benefits. 456 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 2: The number one thing I've heard people say over the years, 457 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,479 Speaker 2: it's like, I really don't like my job, but you know, 458 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 2: I can't afford to lose the benefits. Which is a 459 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 2: tough situation, but that's that's the sacrifice you make in 460 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 2: order not to be sunk with enormous medical bills or worse, 461 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 2: get medical care denied entirely, and then you die. So 462 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 2: this Georgetown University professor has studied Medicaid people can lose 463 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 2: coverage a variety of ways, said Joan Alker, Georgetown University. 464 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 2: Now listen, listen to these categories of woe. Some people 465 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 2: hear that the rules have changed and assume they're no 466 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:54,400 Speaker 2: longer eligible. Well, I don't know. Maybe Newsom is right. 467 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 2: These people are too stupid. Maybe they're too stupid to live. 468 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 2: What do you mean You heard the rules change and 469 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 2: you assume you're no longer eligible. How about this, Go 470 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 2: and read the rules, or you call one of those 471 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 2: eight hundred numbers and sit on hold for six and 472 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,719 Speaker 2: a half hours. It's tough, but again, it's better than 473 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 2: losing your coverage and dying early. Others struggle to prove 474 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 2: their eligibility because their income fluctuates. Well, again, if you 475 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 2: just proved that you did the twenty hours of volunteer work, 476 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 2: doesn't matter what your income is, you'll get the You'll 477 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 2: get the money anyway, or you get the coverage anyway. 478 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 2: Some of them say, well, I'm paid in cash. Well, 479 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 2: if you're being paid in cash, it looks like what 480 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 2: we have is tax evasion on both ends. Or their 481 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 2: jobs don't keep good payroll records. Well, go to a 482 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,199 Speaker 2: job where they have payroll records, and they pay you 483 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 2: with a. 484 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 1: Check or a direct deposit. 485 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 2: Now, these people in medical in California, and medical is 486 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 2: California's version of Medicaid. These people are very little, less 487 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 2: than twenty one thousand for a single person, less than 488 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 2: forty three thousand for a household of four. So they're 489 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 2: short of money. And by the way, you're making, if 490 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 2: you're making like under forty thousand dollars, why don't you 491 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 2: stop having children for a few minutes. Seriously, it's not 492 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 2: gonna end up well if you keep reproducer and they 493 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 2: say it says Californians Might Newsom is trying to warn 494 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 2: people that you're going to have to fill out thirty 495 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 2: six pages of paperwork. That's what he was showing reporters, 496 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 2: thirty six pages. Well, the thing is, in California, the 497 00:26:57,920 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 2: rest of us are already required to fill out their 498 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 2: six pages to get in medical and covered California, which 499 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 2: is California's version of Obamacare. So the rest of us, 500 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 2: people who show up for work, we're filling out the 501 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 2: thirty six page form. But for some reason, the people 502 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 2: who don't work that thirty six page form is onerous. 503 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,879 Speaker 1: This is like the voter ID argument. 504 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 2: It's like, we can't have voter idea ID because you know, 505 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 2: some people are too stupid to go to the DMV 506 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 2: and get ID. And it always, this always comes from 507 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 2: progressive Democrats like Newsom. The people are too stupid to 508 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 2: get voter ideas, the people are too stupid to fill 509 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 2: out an an online form. What they're not motivated by 510 00:27:55,119 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 2: preserving their free healthcare astonishing more coming up. 511 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 512 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 7: M six forty. 513 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 2: We have the Moist line coming up tomorrow eight seven seven, 514 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 2: Moist eighty six, eight seven seven, Moist eighty six, eight 515 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 2: seven seven sixty six four seven eight eighty six, and 516 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 2: we we could have some openings if you're good enough. 517 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 2: Often I describe Gavin Newsom and many politicians as being 518 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 2: a sociopathic or psychopathic and they're they're different flavors of 519 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 2: this of the same problem. Uh, you don't you don't 520 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 2: have a conscience, and uh they call it the dark 521 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 2: triad of traits. It's narcissism, psychopathy or psychopathy, and another 522 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 2: one they call machiavelianism, which is manipulation. So if you 523 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 2: have no conscience, and you're narcissistic and you like to 524 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 2: manipulate people. Those are the three traits that create the 525 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 2: dark triad. And there's a new study in the Journal 526 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 2: of Personality and Individual Differences and I said, start reading 527 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 2: the story, and I immediately thought a Newsome. I mean 528 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 2: he should He's the classic case. And the answer is 529 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 2: their looks. People with these traits tend to be perceived 530 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 2: as more physically attractive, and this perception of attractiveness strongly 531 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 2: influences how trustworthy people believe them to be. Like, you 532 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 2: could be a narcissistic psychopath, but if you're short, fat 533 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 2: and ugly, you don't get away with much. 534 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: But if you have slick, thick hair. 535 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 2: And you're tall, and you got a jawline and you're handsome, 536 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 2: cheerleaders cheered for cheerleaders exactly. People with these traits are 537 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 2: perceived as more physically attractive, and because they're that attractive 538 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 2: strongly influences how trustworthy. They did an experiment involving six 539 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 2: hundred participants. This is why people vote for Gavin Newsom. 540 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 2: This is the reason throw out anything you've heard about 541 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 2: politics and political strategy and this and that. 542 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: It's this. 543 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 2: There were people six hundred individuals were asked to judge 544 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 2: strangers faces in rating tasks, and they played these trust games, 545 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 2: and those with high scores in narcissism, psychopathic behavior, and 546 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 2: manipulation we're seen as more trustworthy from their image alone. 547 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 2: So the people with the worst scores, the darkest personality 548 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 2: and psychopathic behavior here was characterized by lack of empathy 549 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 2: and impulsivity, and normally that would repel trust, but in practice, 550 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 2: people with these with this trade can be highly charming 551 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 2: and socially strategic. Now, I remember when years ago, years ago, 552 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 2: when Newsom was the mayor and he'd just gotten married 553 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 2: to this to this actress, Bimbo Jennifer Sybell. Of course 554 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 2: she got entangled in Harvey Weinstein's sweaty body. And there 555 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 2: was a terrible murder up in San Francisco. There was 556 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 2: a father and I think two of two sons, and 557 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 2: they were all murdered by an illegal alien gang member. 558 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 2: And this guy had been on the loose in San 559 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 2: Francisco because San Francisco was a sanctuary city. It basically 560 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,719 Speaker 2: was Newsom's policies allowed this guy to run free and 561 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 2: led to the killing of the family. I remember we 562 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 2: had we had the wife on the air and it 563 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 2: was it's just a brutal, awful story. And she waited, 564 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 2: still is waiting forever. Newsome never called, never called to 565 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 2: comfort her, to apologize to her, to explain it anything. 566 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 2: Her husband and her two sons would be alive except 567 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 2: for his sanctuary city policy that allowed this criminal he 568 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 2: had a record to keep spinning through the system. Never 569 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 2: get reported, never get deported, never get imprisoned for any 570 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 2: reasonable length of time. Narcissists exhibit confidence, charm, polished self presentation. 571 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 2: The manipulators excel at reading social cues, social cues, and 572 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 2: manipulating perceptions. So you imagine haf somebody without a conscience, 573 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 2: without a lack of empathy. Right, if they have all 574 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 2: three chaits traits, no empathy, no conscience, they project confidence 575 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 2: and charm, They present themselves well. They're great at reading 576 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 2: social cues and manipulating a people. You've got a deadly combination, 577 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 2: and you become a governor. 578 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: UH. 579 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:13,120 Speaker 2: In short term cooperative settings, individuals with these traits tend 580 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 2: to inspire more trust, partly due to being seen as 581 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 2: more attractive based on their facial features. 582 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: So it is Newsome's. 583 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 2: Delicately carved face, and is the I always I always 584 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 2: use this as a test. Right when when when somebody 585 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,720 Speaker 2: who seemingly does not have the talent or the brains 586 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 2: to be worthy of the job they have or the 587 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 2: influence they have, I thought, not this guy short and fat, short, fat, fat, 588 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 2: and bald? 589 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 1: Is he here? Answers almost always? No. 590 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 2: I mean, I mean most of the people you know 591 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 2: in powerful positions that you question if they're if they're 592 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 2: if they're attractive, any questions like what's this guy doing here? 593 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 2: Just apply the short, fat and ball test. Does he 594 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 2: have so much intelligent and talents that it doesn't matter 595 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 2: what he looks like? 596 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: No, and newsome the most politicians have these traits. I 597 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: mean book Clinton had. 598 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 2: Them, Trump obviously has them. Better partisan thing, this is 599 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 2: just what do you need to make it to the top. 600 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 2: A lot of CEOs have this, a lot of celebrities 601 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:33,800 Speaker 2: have it. 602 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:34,880 Speaker 1: It's about four percent of. 603 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 2: The population, but they're overrepresented in certain lines of work, 604 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 2: in certain fields, a certain positions. 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