1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 2: app round from one in till four after four o'clock 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:13,159 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show on demand. That's the podcast and that 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 2: gets released just after four o'clock. It's the same as 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: the radio show. You can hear what you missed. Now 7 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 2: we're going to go on to Roger Bailey. He's the 8 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 2: attorney for over three thousand Palisades residents, people who lost 9 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 2: their homes in the Palisades. We played you the news 10 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 2: dation story at the end of last hour. It appears 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 2: that the state lied in court claiming that they didn't 12 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 2: know of the January first fire which led to the 13 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 2: January seventh fire, when the truth is they sent a 14 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 2: rep the night of January first to the state land 15 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: where the fire originated, and then we have photos up 16 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: on all our social media showing firefighters being directed by 17 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 2: a state representative on where they bulldoze. Roger Bailey's going 18 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,119 Speaker 2: to try to make sense of all this. The attorney, Roger, 19 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 2: how are you? 20 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 3: I'm doing good, John, how are you doing? 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: Explain this? 22 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 2: Who is this representative that came down in the middle 23 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 2: of the night after being notified that there was a 24 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,199 Speaker 2: fire on state land on the Palisades on New Year's 25 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 2: Day morning. 26 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 3: Well, I want to give you a little background, because 27 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 3: with that background you truly understand the lengths to which 28 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 3: the state has gone to conceal the identity of the 29 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 3: state rep and the fact that a state rep was 30 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 3: even there. So we sent months ago back in April. 31 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 3: It's called a public records request of the state, and 32 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 3: we asked the state to provide us with a copy 33 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 3: of the incident log for the Lockman fire, which was 34 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 3: the January one fire. They sent us one page and 35 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 3: the page was so heavily redacted it was mostly black. 36 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 3: There was one little section where you could see some reference, 37 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 3: but everything else was blocked out. We said, well, that's peculiar. 38 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 3: One page and all of it blacked out. Well, a 39 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,839 Speaker 3: couple of days ago we got the corresponding report from 40 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 3: la FD for the same date and same time and 41 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 3: lo and to hold in the LAFD report, it confirms 42 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 3: LAFD notified the state at twenty seven minutes after the 43 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 3: hour midnight on January one, and then it confirms that 44 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 3: the State Park Service sent a state representative had one 45 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 3: forty six in the morning. That State park representative arrived 46 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 3: at the Lockman fire at four am, So the state 47 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 3: tried to conceal everything by blacking it all out. We 48 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 3: got the other side of that conversation an incident law 49 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 3: from LAFD which confirms, yes, indeed, the state was there 50 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 3: and was directing the firefighters, you can't buld those here, 51 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 3: you can't touch these plants. We've dubbed it the the 52 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 3: plants over people philosophy. 53 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: You can't touch these plants. 54 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 3: Correct, that's right. State Parks has a protocol where in 55 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 3: the event of a fire, they're supposed to send somebody 56 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 3: there who's going to determine if it's safe not safe, 57 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 3: And while they're there, there's a protocol for them interacting 58 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 3: with the firefighters, and in that manual it says, in 59 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 3: the event you get any pushback, stand your ground. You know, 60 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 3: if you tell them they can't bulldoze the bush over 61 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 3: there that's got smoke coming out of it, then they're told, 62 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 3: you know, stand your ground. It's the plants over people philosophy. 63 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 2: Right. So now that that's when later on that day 64 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 2: LA Fire Department, according to the story, the battalion chief said, okay, 65 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 2: roll up the hoses, let's go home, and the firefighter saying, 66 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 2: let's stay. Everything's still smoldering, everything's still hot here. Did 67 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 2: the state have a role in that decision? 68 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 3: Well, so there's two important dates. One is January one, 69 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 3: so that's the infinite log that we got from the 70 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 3: state that's all blacked out, and we got the LAFD 71 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 3: version that shows who was there. The next day, January two, 72 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 3: is when the firefighters are told roll up your hoses, 73 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 3: were going home. And then you heard about in the 74 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 3: La Times and elsewhere, but these firefighters said, I think 75 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 3: that's a bad idea. There's still smoke coming out of 76 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 3: the ground. We've got video from clients who took video 77 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 3: from from the hills there that shows smoke still coming 78 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 3: out of the ground. That second day, January two, a 79 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 3: state park rep went up and started giving instructions to 80 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 3: the battalion chief who was overseeing the mop up operation. 81 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 3: And it's that day January two where the state park 82 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 3: rep said, Nope, you can't go here, you can't do that. 83 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 3: And shortly after that, our deduction is when you tell 84 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 3: the firefighters all the things they can't do, then they 85 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 3: just might as well roll it. Up and go home, 86 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 3: and they did. They left, even with smoke coming out 87 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 3: of the ground, and the firefighters telling their superiors is 88 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 3: a bad. 89 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 2: Idea, even with smoke coming out of the ground, even 90 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 2: with the rocks, you're too hot and the tree stumps 91 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 2: are too hot and the smoke, Oh my god. 92 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: And so the state's been covering this up for ten months, yep. 93 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 3: And yesterday this is something that just occurred. 94 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: Yesterday. 95 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 3: We were in court a court hearing on the Palistase 96 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 3: fire yesterday, and we notified the judge yesterday that we 97 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 3: had evidence of the State park going up to the 98 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 3: Lochman fire burnscar and directing firefighters. The state's attorney stood 99 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 3: up and said to the judge, well, this is the 100 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 3: first I'm hearing of that. This is ridiculous. No state 101 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 3: Park rep was up there. It just didn't happen. And then, 102 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 3: of course this morning we located through a client a 103 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 3: photograph taken on the first of January showing a State 104 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 3: Park rep directing the firefight, including a battalion chief. There's 105 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 3: one battalion chief in that photo and three firefighters and 106 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 3: the state Park rep. You can clearly see the State 107 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 3: park logo on the rep's jacket standing there directing them 108 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 3: right in the middle of the Lochman burnscar and. 109 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 2: We posted that photo you can see on our x account, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, 110 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 2: all our social media accounts have that photo. Would say, 111 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 2: it's a very clear photo. So what next here? I mean, 112 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 2: the state has been caught lying. 113 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 3: Yep. So one of the other things that occurred. Yes, 114 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 3: we've been asking the court for permission to take depositions. 115 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 3: In a mass tourt like this, where you have ten 116 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 3: thousand plainness, the court has to exercise care in allowing 117 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 3: what we call discovery. You don't want ten thousand people 118 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 3: all wanting to take depositions at the same time. So 119 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 3: it's a coordination. But yesterday we asked the judge for 120 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 3: permission to begin taking the depositions of the firefighters and 121 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 3: of the State Park reps, and the judge, in our 122 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 3: view correctly said no, it's time we preserve these witnesses, 123 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 3: memories and testimony because the more time that passes, and 124 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 3: these firefighters, they're paniced that if they come forward outside 125 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 3: the scope of a subpoena that they're going to potentially 126 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 3: lose their jobs. And I understand that we don't want 127 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 3: to put them in harm's way. But now we're going 128 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 3: to have the ability to start taking depositions of the firefighters. 129 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 3: This all occur within the next several weeks, and that's 130 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 3: when we're going to get to hear directly from each 131 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 3: of these people that were there, what happened, who did what, 132 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 3: who was there, what instructions were given, what, you know, 133 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 3: what were they prevented from doing. And we're going to 134 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 3: get a lot of answers. 135 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 2: So if the state wasn't preventing LAFD from bulldozing and 136 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 2: from tending to that area the way the fire Department 137 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 2: wanted to, if the state had just let the fire 138 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 2: department do its thing, and we might not have had 139 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 2: this terrible flare up on January seventh. 140 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 3: That's right. I mean, I've had many retired firefighters reach 141 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 3: out to me and say, look, I've seen the videos 142 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 3: and the photographs of the mop up that was being 143 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 3: done at Lockman, and it just looks like they stopped 144 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 3: right in the middle of the process and just picked 145 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 3: up and left. Everything looks incomplete. It looks like they 146 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 3: literally were pulled out out of there right in the 147 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 3: middle of their job. So had the state, from our view, 148 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 3: permitted the firefighters to do proper moth up, to bulldoze 149 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 3: to remove smoldering plants that might be protected. But they're smoldering. 150 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 3: Let's not allow them to ignite and burn the Palisades down. 151 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 3: And if the state had followed its own protocol, in 152 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 3: its own policy, they would have positioned watch crews up 153 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 3: there for several days when we had a red flag 154 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 3: wind warning. We all remember the days before January seventh, 155 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 3: we were told, you know, big winds are coming, and 156 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 3: that would have been the clue for the state to 157 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 3: go put watch crews up on its own land to 158 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 3: make sure there wasn't a reignition. They didn't do any 159 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 3: of that. 160 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 1: Wow. 161 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 2: I get stunned every day that more and more news 162 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 2: breaks about this story. Roger Bailey, thank you for coming 163 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 2: on with us, and you are welcome on any that 164 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 2: you've got something to share. 165 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 3: I will absolutely keep you guys posted as things developed. 166 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 3: Thank you, John. 167 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 2: Roger Bailey, and he's the attorney representing thousands of Pacific 168 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 2: Palisades residents along with other attorneys as well. 169 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 170 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 4: six forty. 171 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one till four, right, yes, 172 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 2: one till four, and then after four o'clock John Cobelt 173 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 2: Show on demand. It's the podcast always getting more popular 174 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 2: every month. So you go to the iHeart app and 175 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 2: you download that just after four o'clock and you could 176 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 2: hear the whole show. In fact, you could listen to 177 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 2: the whole thing in about half the time. After decades. 178 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 2: I mean we're talking by time the Olympics start in 179 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, it will have been let me, should 180 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 2: I get this right, forty four years since the last Olympics, 181 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 2: and I think forty four years since the last time 182 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 2: they upgraded the airport. Especially what I'm talking about is 183 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 2: the uh, the roadways that lead there. 184 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: Now, in the next. 185 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 2: Six weeks, probably you will be going to the airport 186 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 2: or someone in your family. You're going to be driving 187 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 2: someone to the airport. You're going to be driving yourself. 188 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 2: You're going to be picking up family members taking them 189 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 2: back during Thanksgiving, during Christmas, and for everything else. I mean, 190 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 2: I know I am, I'm going to be making a 191 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 2: lot of trips to the airport and back. And they 192 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 2: are now doing another roadway improvement, and it's to try 193 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 2: to reconfigure how traffic gets into the airport, and they're 194 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 2: they're they're going to be coming up with with a 195 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 2: new reconfiguration to take five hundred cars off of Sepulvil 196 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 2: to Boulevard at any given time. There's going to be 197 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 2: elevated segments. That's a They call it the horseshoe, the 198 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 2: U shaped row way that takes you past all the terminals. 199 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 2: Do you know the way they set it up right now? 200 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 2: Traffic from Lincoln in some pulvit of boulevards squeezes eight 201 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 2: lanes of traffic into one ramp. 202 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 5: Can I tell you how much I hate going to 203 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 5: lax picking someone up at the airport. 204 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 6: I shiver at the thought of having to do that. 205 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 2: I my wife gets agitated hours in advance. Yes, me too, 206 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 2: And that's when I'm going by myself to pick them up. 207 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 2: She gets agitated on my behalf. She always wants me 208 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 2: to leave three hours in advance, Oh my god. In fact, 209 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 2: in fact, it's a problem because traffic's so bad. 210 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: She always wants to leave practically the night before. 211 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 6: Really, my husband, Yeah, no, there's. 212 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 2: A lot of people who and I really enjoy sitting 213 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 2: an airport for three hours. 214 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 5: That I hate that my husband likes to get there 215 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 5: so early. 216 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: Well, why doesn't he go with my wife? 217 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 5: I know, I swear sit there for hours all the seeds. 218 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 2: Well, but get this, they're going to spend a billion 219 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 2: and a half dollars and obviously that choke points got 220 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 2: to be fixed. I didn't even realize it was eight 221 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 2: lanes into one. Now, whose idea was that? 222 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 6: Who's that guy? 223 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 2: I want that guy's name. I want to see his photo, 224 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 2: Where does he live? Who who is the guy? He's 225 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:25,839 Speaker 2: You know, they draw this, they got the blueprint and 226 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 2: it's like, look, here's four lanes here and four lanes here. 227 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 2: That's eight lanes and we're all going to squeeze it 228 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 2: into one lane into the airport. 229 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 5: We had some pretty crappy planners in this city. 230 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 2: They they really just terrible. You see some of the 231 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 2: interchanges in town, some of the freeway on ramps and 232 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 2: off ramps, and you're thinking, were they all drunk? 233 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: Were they all on cocaine? What was going on back then? 234 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 2: All right, so they're gonna they're going to fix that, 235 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 2: and they're going to create new off ramps for airport 236 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 2: access and blah blah, blah blah. But here's the part 237 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,719 Speaker 2: that got to me. So it's a billion and a 238 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 2: half dollars. You know how much money they're going to 239 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 2: spend on the horseshoe itself, the U shaped road. 240 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: That takes you passed on. 241 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 6: I'm trying, Okay, how much? 242 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: Zero? They're not going to touch that at all? 243 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:17,319 Speaker 6: Wait? 244 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: What? Zero? They think it's fine the way it is? 245 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 6: How could you think that's fine? 246 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: I guess they do. 247 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 2: They're putting all the money into the entrances, and they're 248 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 2: putting zero dollars into redesigning that stupid horseshoe. 249 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: Now, they made it much much. 250 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 2: Worse a few years ago because they stripped away two 251 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 2: lanes on the on the departure no, no, the arrival lanes, right, 252 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 2: because they turned it over to buses. And you know 253 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 2: all the buses, the flyaway buses, the ones that take 254 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 2: you to hotels, the ones that take you to rental cars, right, 255 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 2: and mostly there's nobody in those buy because people hate buses. 256 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 2: You know what you find inside of buses, that's where 257 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 2: you meet your maker. That's going to be your last 258 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 2: bus ride. Because of the clientele, and so nobody takes 259 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 2: the buses and so they ended up jamming six lanes 260 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 2: of traffic into four lanes, and the two lanes closest 261 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 2: to the curb are always empty. 262 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 5: I cannot believe that we don't have more accidents than 263 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 5: we do, because I swear every time I go to LAX, 264 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 5: I'm thinking that my car is going to get hit 265 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 5: or I'm going to hit something. 266 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: I think only because everybody's driving so slowly. 267 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 5: Not everybody, though, I mean, there are some people that 268 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 5: are just nuts. 269 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 6: Oh I'm looking at them, going, are you kidding me? 270 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 6: Do you not see what's going on here? 271 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 2: I don't know, there's all I've seen it in the 272 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 2: rain this week. I can't believe how fast and zig 273 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 2: zaggy where people were driving on the freeways over the weekend. 274 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: I know, but you know what, I'm just open. You 275 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: do that long enough and God will take care of it. 276 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 6: Yeah. 277 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 5: I say the same thing when especially some of these 278 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 5: motorcycle riders drivers. 279 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 6: I'm sorry, but some of them are just beyond. 280 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 2: There was a terminal expansion plan that they stopped. They 281 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 2: had projected more than one hundred million visitors a year 282 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 2: coming to LAX. This goes back to about twenty nineteen, 283 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 2: but last year, the airport had only seventy seven million travelers. 284 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 2: Nobody's flying to LA anymore. 285 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 6: I wonder why. 286 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 2: They just have to watch the news and wow, that 287 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 2: is a huge drop. That's twenty three percent lower than 288 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 2: they thought it would be. So they they stopped the 289 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 2: plan to expand the terminal. And because there's not to 290 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 2: get into too much of the detail, but they were 291 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 2: going to remodel a skyway and it's called a zombie 292 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 2: project left over from the terminal expansion because they were 293 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 2: going to redo the skyways because they were going to 294 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 2: expand the terminals and the skyway thing is still moving forward, but. 295 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. Apparently the only. 296 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 2: Hire stupid people to design the infrastructure of LA. Yeah, 297 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 2: for Los Angeles, I have not understood. I've been out 298 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 2: here now over thirty years. There's not one time I 299 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 2: have understood the whole lax layout. 300 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: I just they must have been stoned. 301 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: And apparently they're still stone and you know, pot's a 302 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 2: lot stark naw than it used to. 303 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. 304 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, you're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI 305 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 4: AM six forty. 306 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 2: You can listen to the podcast after the show in 307 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 2: case you missed part of this thing. It's John Cobelt 308 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 2: Show on demand after four o'clock on the iHeart app. 309 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 2: And also you can follow us at John Cobelt Radio 310 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 2: on social media at John Cobelt Radio. And finally you 311 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 2: can subscribe on YouTube and we put out video clip. 312 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 2: In fact, we put out a long form video clip 313 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 2: the other day YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt's 314 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 2: show to subscribe. So do that and then watch the 315 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 2: thing YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt Show. 316 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: So you got to. 317 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 2: Now you listen to the live radio show. Whatever you missed, 318 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 2: you go to the podcast, and then you go when 319 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 2: you look at the video clips on social media and 320 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,199 Speaker 2: on YouTube. See and that's your evening, all right, that 321 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:31,160 Speaker 2: is a great evening. You spend the whole day now 322 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:40,120 Speaker 2: Newsome because we are forced to study Newsome closely. 323 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: I understand his patterns. 324 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 6: I understand you're obsessed with him. 325 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: I am. I know, I can't. 326 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 6: It's the hair, John, I get it. 327 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 2: He is so dishonest and manipulative. He's such a psychopathic, 328 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 2: compulsive liar that I'm fascinated by his hold over in 329 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 2: ordinary people. 330 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 3: Nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits there 331 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 3: and lies to you. 332 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 2: And the way he finds an issue and then postures, 333 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 2: you know, he gets all outraged and angry and he's 334 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 2: waving his arms. He likes to wave his arms and 335 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 2: his hands. He always looks like he's landing airplanes. 336 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,199 Speaker 1: When he talked, I'm going to express my relationship to 337 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: my truth. 338 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 2: So two years ago, when Biden was still president and 339 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,479 Speaker 2: the Green New Deal was a big thing and they 340 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 2: were blowing literally hundreds of billions of dollars on green nonsense, 341 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 2: Gavin said, Okay, that's the way the wind is blowing. 342 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 2: And for most of twenty twenty three and twenty twenty 343 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:55,120 Speaker 2: four he was on a crusade against high gas prices, 344 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 2: which I was found fascinating because he's the reason, and 345 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 2: we have them. A dollar fifty of the gas price 346 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 2: is taxes and regulatory fees imposed by the state, so 347 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 2: it's him. But he was pounding his fist that the 348 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 2: oil companies, the energy companies were gouging us and they 349 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 2: had to be investigated, and they had to be further regulated, 350 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 2: and there had to be commissions and investigations. 351 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: So today, and I just looked at this minutes ago. 352 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 2: You now you know what the lowest price in America 353 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 2: for gases, It is Oklahoma at two dollars and forty 354 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 2: nine cents two forty nine. There are twenty nine states 355 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 2: at three bucks a gallon or less. There are forty 356 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 2: four states under three forty forty four. And then if 357 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 2: you scroll away to the bottom of the list, the 358 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 2: most expensive state eight, it's California for sixty six a gallon, 359 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 2: twenty cents more than Hawaii, twenty cents more than Hawaii, 360 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 2: almost almost fifty cents more than the state of Washington, 361 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,679 Speaker 2: which is third most expensive. So we are far and 362 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 2: away the most expensive. I mean, we're getting close to 363 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 2: double Oklahoma. And Dan Walters for cal Matters wrote this 364 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 2: piece on now and we've talked about this. Now you 365 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 2: have refineries closing, you have the pipeline is going to 366 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 2: shut itself down because we produce so little oil that 367 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 2: the pipeline mechanics. 368 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 1: Are going to seize up. 369 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 2: And the price of gas is out of sight and 370 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 2: new some like the rest of these idiots, now Babbel, 371 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 2: I hate it. I hate it when everybody in politics 372 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 2: and the media sees on a word or a phrase. 373 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,919 Speaker 1: It's like, oh, it's affordability. It's all other forded bill. 374 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 2: I'm looking at you know, I'm looking at the price 375 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:08,199 Speaker 2: of gas here and it's fourth sixty six a gallon. 376 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 2: And I don't know where that four sixty six is. 377 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 2: It's not in my neighborhood. A lot of neighborhoods. It's 378 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 2: closer to five dollars a gallon. But fine, and that 379 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 2: adds up to uh. I don't know if you if 380 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 2: you get a tank full of gas a week, you 381 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 2: know twenty you know, twenty gallons of gas, Well, that's 382 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 2: thirty dollars more than a lot of states every week. 383 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 2: That's fifteen hundred dollars more a year. Affordability my ass Now, 384 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 2: part of his crusade, he created the Division of Petroleum 385 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 2: Market Oversight. 386 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 1: This is new. 387 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 2: This is supposed to track how the California oil companies 388 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 2: are gouging you because a year ago this week, he said, 389 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 2: they continue to they continue to manipulate. They've been raking 390 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 2: in unprecedented profits because they can now nobody who's making 391 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 2: record profits closes. 392 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: Their business and moves out of the state. Somehow. 393 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 2: The oil companies in California are the first companies in 394 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 2: the history of the state, who are making so much 395 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 2: money they've decided to go out of business and leave. 396 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 2: But he's such a narcissistic psychopath, compulsive wire. So anyway, 397 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 2: last month, the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight released its 398 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 2: first annual report. It's like, ah, now we're going to 399 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 2: find out how much gouging is going on. Well, they 400 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 2: didn't find any gouge they According to Dan Walters, the 401 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 2: report confirmed what was already known that the price is 402 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 2: here are much higher than other states, and most of 403 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 2: the price differential is due to taxes and regulatory costs. 404 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 2: So all all that bloviating, all that preening and primping 405 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 2: before the cameras, the fake outrage oil companies are gouging us, 406 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,120 Speaker 2: and stupid asses in the stay gone. 407 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all companies are gouging us. They're gouging us. 408 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 2: And apparently people in California never travel to the other 409 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 2: forty nine states. 410 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: I guess maybe. 411 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 2: Everybody's so broke they can't they don't travel anymore, because 412 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 2: there isn't a state I've traveled to in the last 413 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 2: year or two where I haven't been at first stunned 414 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 2: by the price because you just get used to seeing, 415 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 2: you know, four eighty nine a gallon in the neighborhood. 416 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 2: And I know Eric runs into this all the time, 417 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 2: and you travel and he sends back photos and it's 418 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 2: you know, it's like two eighty nine in Arizona or 419 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 2: something like that. And they're growing out of business because 420 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 2: of the high costs and high taxes, high regulatory burden, 421 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 2: because all those regulations add more costs. There's taxes on 422 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 2: the energy companies that are passed to us, there's taxes 423 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 2: directly at the pump, and it's all from Gavin Newsomb. 424 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 2: It's entirely He created a commission to find out that 425 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 2: he's the. 426 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:23,360 Speaker 1: Cause of the high gas prices. I mean, what a bozo. 427 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 2: And this is going to be so entertaining because I 428 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 2: bet you there's going to be ten Democrats running for president. 429 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 2: Let's say there's ten, right, and they're going to have 430 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 2: a debate and they're all going to be arrayed across 431 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,199 Speaker 2: and the other nine are going to hammer on his 432 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 2: head because of his hair and his jaw. He'll be 433 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 2: at or near the top of the poles. And you 434 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 2: always go after the front runner, and you are going 435 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 2: to see nine people. The only thing they're going to 436 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 2: debate in the first time they get together is Gavin 437 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 2: Newsom's disastrous reign as governor. Here that is, I'm going 438 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 2: to take I'm going to talk you off, take off 439 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 2: work that day and just get drunk and enjoy this thing. 440 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 441 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 4: six forty. 442 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 2: You can listen to the podcast after the show in 443 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 2: case you missed part of this thing. It's John Cobelt 444 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 2: Show on demand after four o'clock on the iHeart app. 445 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 2: And also you can follow us at John Cobelt Radio 446 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 2: on social media at John Cobelt Radio. And finally, you 447 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 2: can subscribe on YouTube and we put out video clips. 448 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,119 Speaker 2: In fact, we put out a long form video clip 449 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 2: the other day YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt's 450 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 2: show to subscribe, So do that and then watch the 451 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 2: thing YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt Show. 452 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: So you got it. 453 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 2: Now you listen to the live radio show. Whatever you missed, 454 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,360 Speaker 2: you go to the podcast, and then you go when 455 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 2: you look at the video clips on social media and 456 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 2: on YouTube. See and that's your evening, all right, that 457 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 2: is a great evening. He spent the whole day, Okay, 458 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 2: let's see the choices. Are parakeets in his pants or 459 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 2: gay sheep. 460 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 5: Parakeets in his pants? Of course, this is what happens 461 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:14,719 Speaker 5: when you give me choices. 462 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 2: All right, Guys trying to cross the border. His name 463 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 2: is Jesse Agus Martinez. Has happened just a couple of 464 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 2: weeks ago, and when he was questioned, he said he 465 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 2: had nothing on him. Then a Customs and Border Protection 466 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 2: officer noticed a bulge in mister Martinez's pants. 467 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: Maybe the bulge was tweeting. 468 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 2: It turned out it was too heavily sedated orange fronted parakeets. 469 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 6: Poor birds. 470 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 2: They were living in his crouch there, and he's been 471 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 2: indicted on federal smuggling charges. If convicted, the fine could 472 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,679 Speaker 2: be two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a maximum of 473 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:08,679 Speaker 2: twenty years in prison. 474 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 5: Too bad they were sedated. It could have pecked him 475 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 5: where it hurts the most. 476 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: Yes, a pecking attack. 477 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:23,360 Speaker 2: Yes, the birds are a protected species native to Mexico. 478 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 2: And they were found unconscious but breathing in two sacks 479 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 2: stuffed into his. 480 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 6: That's just wrong. 481 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 2: Martinez is a US citizen who lives in Mexico, and 482 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 2: in September he was caught trying to bring a parrot 483 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 2: into the country, and he had apparently an extensive conversation 484 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 2: with the border patrol agents because he claimed several times 485 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 2: that the bulge was his penis. 486 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: What is that. 487 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 2: It's definitely not a micro No, apparently it's a macro penis. 488 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 6: It was excited about something. 489 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 2: It was the size of two birds, and I guess 490 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 2: the officer said, nobody has yeah, right, prove it. So 491 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 2: they patted him down, which was a risk, and finally 492 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 2: admitted that he had stored the two birds and is growin. 493 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 6: That's uh, that is really cruel to animals. 494 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if you could see this. They 495 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 2: have photos of the two paracakes. They pulled them out. Yeah, 496 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 2: they laid him out on a table and took a 497 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 2: photo of them. 498 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 6: I could say something, I'm just not going to. 499 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 2: One of them is laid out one way, one of 500 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 2: them is laid out the other way. And that's what 501 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 2: That's what it's life like. When you spent a few 502 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 2: hours inside somebody's parents, you know you you can't breathe. 503 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 2: Orange fronted parakeets are listed as vulnerable on the Threatened 504 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 2: Species lists. More than eight thousand birds were legally captured 505 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 2: in Mexico between nineteen ninety eight and two thousand and eight, 506 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 2: and that's when Mexico banned the parrot trade, although people 507 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 2: still do it. 508 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: So I'm just now. 509 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 2: You see, you look at the parrots and go, oh, 510 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 2: I do. I look at the two parrots lay there, 511 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 2: and it cracks me up for parakeets. 512 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: Parakeets. 513 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 6: Wait, why does that crack you up? 514 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 4: I don't know. 515 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. It's because I knew where 516 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 2: they were. It's like, just what you know, ninety nine 517 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 2: point ninety nine nine percent of parakeets get to fly 518 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 2: around and enjoy their life, and these two ended up 519 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 2: in somebody's pants and passed out. 520 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: It's just life, isn't fair. 521 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 2: Now here's an update from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 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