1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,239 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 2: app coming up later this hour. LA Times released some 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 2: fascinating data. Do you know that when Prop forty seven 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 2: passed in twenty fourteen, which legalized theft and legalized public 6 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 2: drug use, ninety percent of the neighborhoods in La County 7 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 2: approved Prop forty seven ninety percent, And when much of 8 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 2: it was repealed by Prop thirty six, eighty seven percent 9 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 2: of neighborhoods supported the repeal. So it is that complete 10 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 2: one to eighty degree flip if you look at the 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 2: neighborhood by neighborhood vote from ninety percent of neighborhoods wanting 12 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: to turn those crimes, well, legalize those crimes. Now nearly 13 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 2: ninety percent changed their mind. I tell you about it 14 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 2: coming up. All right, let's go to a stone now. 15 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 2: Matthew Littlsberger. He's the guy who shot himself in the 16 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 2: head and blew himself up to celebrate the new year. 17 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 2: He's sitting in a cyber truck outside the Trump Hotel. 18 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 2: Everybody thought it was a statement against the Trump and 19 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 2: Elon Musk, but I think it was more of a 20 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 2: statement about his entire mental state and personal life disintegrating. 21 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 2: Let's talk to Alex see what's going on. How are 22 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 2: you hey there, John? 23 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: Yeah? 24 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 2: And in fact, in his writings from his iPhone he 25 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 2: says rally around Trump, Musk and Kennedy that this was 26 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 2: not somebody who was antidem that this was more in 27 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 2: honor of them in some way. But they don't know 28 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 2: why yet that and they may never know why he 29 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: chose to do it there at the Trump hotel and 30 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 2: in a. 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: Cyber truck if he was a supporter of theirs. 32 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: But nonetheless, this is really coming down now to mental 33 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 2: health and the mental health. 34 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: Of our troops. 35 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 2: And you could say of law enforcement and firefighters and 36 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: commercial airline pilots of kind of that fear to really 37 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 2: make it known what they're going through for fear of 38 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 2: losing their job. And there are all kinds of conspiracy 39 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 2: theories that are out there that the people are believing 40 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,239 Speaker 2: in certain circles that because of a letter he sent 41 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 2: to a podcast before he did this about the drones 42 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 2: on the East coast and that he was being tracked 43 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 2: and China and the people were out to get him, 44 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: and the sheriff John in Las Vegas has gone point 45 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 2: by point disproving those like the one that has made 46 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 2: its way in the last couple of days, that it 47 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 2: wasn't Littlsburg in the truck, that it was somebody else 48 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 2: and the sheriff's since the. 49 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 3: Department of Defense provided those dental records to us, we 50 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 3: then forwarded them to the coroner, and the coroner also 51 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 3: provided a positive identification for us. 52 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 2: And for those saying, well, the DoD gave those dental records, 53 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: he says, yeah, but the family also gave them DNA, 54 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: and that DNA from his belongings matched the burned body 55 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: in the truck. 56 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: And to those who still say it was not him. 57 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 3: A military identification. We also felt a passport. We found 58 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 3: a Desert Eagle fifty caliber semi automatic pistol. 59 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 2: That was registered to him. And there had been these 60 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 2: conspiracy theories over will White in the passport and the 61 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 2: military id why did they survive. The sheriff is saying 62 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 2: they were in the back of the truck and they 63 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 2: did have damage, but they were blown out and they 64 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 2: survived that way. And then the claim that he wasn't 65 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 2: that he was murdered, that he didn't do this willingly. 66 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,119 Speaker 2: They've shown numerous videos showing he was the only one 67 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 2: in the cyber truck. There was nobody else that he 68 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 2: was all alone. So based on conspiracy, people are exhausting. Yeah, 69 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 2: they're just playing some kind of stupid games. And the 70 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: sheriff had to come out and go one by one 71 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 2: through them because they've really taken off in certain circles 72 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 2: and you know, in the military, podcast world and other places. 73 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 2: So they know based on his writings that were found 74 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 2: on his phone, it's pretty clear he was suffering from 75 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 2: mental health. He had sought help from the military at 76 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 2: one point, not to an extent where they thought that 77 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 2: he was a danger to himself for anybody else. But 78 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: now we're hearing from his ex girlfriend and she's telling 79 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 2: us was. 80 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 4: Really open about the trauma he faced and the teammates 81 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 4: he lost. He lost a lot of teammates. 82 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 2: Over the years. She's a former Army nurse and they 83 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 2: dated a couple of years ago. She said that before 84 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 2: he left for Vegas, that out of nowhere, he began 85 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 2: texting her. They hadn't talked in years, and that they 86 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: chatted a bit via text that he told her about 87 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 2: this cool cyber truck that he was running, but she 88 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 2: didn't realize there was more to it. It just kind 89 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 2: of seemed like he was saying, Hey, longtime, no talk, 90 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 2: I want to check in with you. 91 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 4: I think he was just reaching out and I just 92 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 4: didn't pick up on it. I don't think he didn't 93 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 4: say anything explicit that would have triggered it. I guess 94 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 4: I just wish I had responded differently. 95 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 2: And he was married and had a wife and they 96 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 2: had a young baby, and the wife told investigators that 97 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 2: he left the house around Christmas after claims of cheating 98 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 2: in the marriage, and so that may have played a 99 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 2: role as well, on top of everything else. 100 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,679 Speaker 1: He was cheating on the wife. 101 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: Allegedly one partner was cheating. It sounded like it was 102 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 2: probably him, but that what she told police, and that 103 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 2: he left around Christmas time and didn't come back, and 104 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 2: that they were having marital problems as well. But the 105 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 2: ex agat they're out his life. 106 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 4: The most important thing for him was being there for 107 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 4: his teammates, and he gave everything he had to them 108 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 4: in the army. 109 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 2: And she says she feels like she let him down, 110 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 2: that everybody let him down, that the mental illness overtook him, 111 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 2: and police said this was a case of a decorated 112 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 2: soldier clearly suffering from PTSD. It was suicide, It was 113 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 2: not terrorism, it was not anything connected isis But this 114 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 2: was the way that he decided to go out. And 115 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 2: he says in these writings that we have that it 116 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 2: was a stunt that he did with fireworks and explosives 117 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 2: because he knew Americans would pay attention to it that way. 118 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,799 Speaker 2: And he has a number of political statements as well, 119 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: but that he said, why did I do it? 120 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: Personally? 121 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 2: Now? He said, I needed to cleanse my mind of 122 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 2: the brothers I've lost. So where was she stationed in Germany? 123 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: So he was on leave for Germany and the military 124 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 2: and where did he suffer the losses? Which war was 125 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 2: he in? In Afghanistan? Afghanistan? Yeah, But but the military 126 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 2: is saying they let him. They gave him leave to 127 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 2: go home to Colorado Springs, probably for the birth of 128 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 2: the baby, but we don't know why, but that they 129 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 2: didn't see anything at that time that that indicated he 130 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 2: was a danger at anybody. 131 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: So he was allowed to go on leave and go 132 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: back into society. 133 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 2: All right, uh I, I is this the new way 134 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 2: is that. You know, sheriffs and law enforcement have got 135 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 2: to address every crackpot conspiracy idea that these online idiots 136 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 2: come up with, because I think they're just playing it. 137 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 2: They're just playing a game. But kudos to Kevin mcmahill, 138 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 2: the sheriff in Las Vegas. Instead of letting them fester, 139 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 2: he came out and said, look, I'm going to run 140 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 2: down all of these and here's how we know it 141 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 2: is him. We've got the DNA, we've got the dental records. 142 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 2: Here's why we know he was in there. To all 143 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 2: those who are claiming, well, the passport and the military 144 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 2: id were planted, here's what it was not. You can't 145 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 2: win with these people. They always got another one and 146 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 2: another one and another one. Right, And you know they'll say, well, 147 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 2: don't you know the police are covering up for the 148 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 2: Department of Defense. 149 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: Yeah. 150 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 2: I mean, there's always going to be something else. But 151 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 2: the sheriff said, hey, he wanted to put it out there. 152 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 2: All right, very good, All right, Alex Stone, thank you. 153 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 2: You got to thank John Alex Stone from ABC News. Now, 154 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 2: so this guy just had a complete mental breakdown, the 155 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 2: one of New Orleans. That's the real deal. I mean 156 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 2: that is an isis convert. I don't know how this 157 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 2: process works that you sit in your run down Audrey's 158 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 2: trailer because he was living in Squalor. This guy and 159 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 2: gets radicalized, I guess online the one in New Orleans. 160 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 2: But the weirdest thing about that story was that he 161 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 2: jumped his vehicle up on the sidewalk and ran down 162 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 2: all those people. He killed one about fifteen of them. 163 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 2: And I saw this quote from one of the police officials. 164 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 2: It's like, well, why didn't you have barricades on the sidewalk? 165 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 2: And the response pretty much was, well, we didn't think 166 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 2: of it. It's like they didn't think of putting barricades 167 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 2: on the sidewalk. And I this was like one of 168 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 2: those head slapping moments, like what do you mean you 169 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 2: didn't think of it? Because they did go through the 170 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 2: trouble of blocking the roadways with ballards, and they were 171 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 2: in the process of adding more ballards in the process. Now, 172 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 2: the Sugar Bowl was that day. I mean, that's what 173 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 2: was drawing the big crowds on top of it being 174 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 2: New Year's weekend, but there were a lot of people 175 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 2: from out of town to go to the Sugar Bowl. 176 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 2: And if you're going to put a ballards to protect 177 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 2: pedestrians on Bourbon Street, then that the ballards have to 178 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 2: be installed in advance. I mean New Orleans. I mean 179 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 2: we saw about the government competence during Katrina. I mean 180 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 2: much much of the problem with Katrina. And that's now 181 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 2: what seventeen years ago? 182 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 4: Uh? 183 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 2: What was the local government? Bush was a boob too, 184 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 2: they all were. It was a complete failure top to bottom. 185 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 2: But on this one, when I read that the police 186 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 2: were surprised, I think one of one of the officials said, well, 187 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,439 Speaker 2: it's just not something that we, you know, had considered. 188 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: You know, we we put up the best, we put. 189 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 2: Up our defense, and the terrorists just got the better 190 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 2: of us, just worked around it. Yeah, he drove the 191 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 2: vehicle up on the sidewalk. Wow, that's genius planning. So 192 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 2: I don't know for all the money we pour in 193 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 2: collectively pour into uh, you know, homeland security and security 194 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 2: issues locally. Uh, you have to execute and you have 195 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 2: to have a guy who says, hey, let's put another 196 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 2: half a dozen bollards on the sidewalk here. What do 197 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 2: you say, all right, we come back La County, specifically 198 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 2: in California, we know how the state as a voted 199 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 2: for Prop thirty six by almost well almost seventy thirty 200 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 2: and in LA County voted for Nathan Hockman over Gascon 201 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 2: by about sixty forty. What's interesting is the La Times 202 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 2: broke it down by neighborhoods and an overwhelming number of 203 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 2: neighborhoods voted against voted for Prop thirty six to make 204 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 2: theft a crime again in public drug use of crime again. 205 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 2: We'll talk about it and we come back. 206 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 207 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:37,199 Speaker 5: six forty. 208 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 2: Next hour, Gavin Newsom has got some speech he's going 209 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 2: to give. He's got a budget, but there's also going 210 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 2: to be some kind of announcement high speed rail. As 211 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 2: I told you before, they're absolutely panicking because Trump's coming 212 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 2: in is going to shut off the federal money, which 213 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 2: isn't a lot. Most of the money is the borrowed money. 214 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 2: The federal money small amounts, it's still a few billion 215 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 2: dollars and the state has not given much money because 216 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 2: they can't. They steal some money out of those climate 217 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 2: change taxes. But as far as having a dedicated tax, 218 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 2: a dedicated income stream, they can't do it because of 219 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 2: the way the proposition was written. They don't have any 220 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 2: private money coming in after seventeen years. They haven't sold 221 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 2: any private company to help with the funding because there 222 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 2: isn't a company on the planet, and they have high 223 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 2: speed rail in so many countries, and it's subsidized in 224 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 2: a lot of countries. I don't know if there's anybody 225 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 2: turning a profit, but it's effective in a lot of 226 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 2: other countries. Here seventeen years, and as I said, they 227 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 2: don't know where the money went. And we're going to see. 228 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 2: They're begging the Biden administration to approve some funding before 229 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 2: the Biden's go out of business on January twentieth. 230 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: So I'll do all that. Coming up in the. 231 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 2: Three o'clock hour. Oh, goop pool forgot Google Pool. The 232 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four winners. We're going to announce at three 233 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 2: o'clock and we will give you the instructions on twenty 234 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 2: twenty five. In fact, Eric, you can give the instructions 235 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 2: to those who listen this hour. They can go to 236 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 2: all the social media sites, right, Yes, that would be 237 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 2: Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. Anything else, Nope, that's it 238 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 2: all right, go to those three and put in the 239 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 2: three celebrities that you think will drop dead. Sometime in 240 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, we had three people go three for 241 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 2: three on their three celebrities. They picked three celebrities and 242 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 2: all three were dead, and forty two people picked two. 243 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 2: And how many people did that seven? 244 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: Seven. 245 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 2: So we'll get into all that next hour. So that's 246 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. And things are much different than they 247 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 2: were even six weeks ago because Prop thirty six is 248 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 2: now the law in California. So stealing, shoplifting, theft, it's 249 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 2: illegal again. Third time you get caught, it's a felony. 250 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 2: You go to prison. And now public drug use. Third 251 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 2: time you get caught, you get a choice between prison 252 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 2: or rehab, and you have to go to extensive rehab 253 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 2: or you go to prison. 254 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: And that's the way life used to be. 255 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 2: And I told you that high speed rail is the 256 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 2: biggest boom dooggle in American history for a public works project, 257 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 2: the biggest failure in the history of propositions, and it's 258 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 2: probably Prop forty seven. I don't think anything has been 259 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 2: worse than Prop forty seven in what it did to 260 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 2: your daily life in California by legalizing theft. It caused 261 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 2: a huge increase in theft. By legalizing public drug addiction, 262 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 2: it created a thousands and thousands of public drug addicts 263 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 2: who then had to steal in order. 264 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: To feed their addiction. 265 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 2: And if all day they're taking drugs and then stealing 266 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 2: to take more drugs, they're not working, which means they 267 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 2: can't live in a house or an apartment, so they're 268 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 2: living in the street. And most of the modern problem 269 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 2: in California, when in regards to homelessness, public drug addiction, 270 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 2: untreated mental illness, all of that of the crime. 271 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: Think about think about all the things. 272 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 2: We've endured for the last ten years, the public drug use, 273 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 2: the untreated mental illness, the crime, the homelessness. It was 274 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 2: all a vicious circle. And it was all created by 275 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 2: Prop forty seven. And I've never seen people vote for 276 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 2: something and then ten years later almost everybody changed their minds. 277 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 2: In fact, there's some statistical proof of that now. Los 278 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 2: Angeles Times did an analysis and said when Prop forty 279 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 2: seven passed back in twenty fourteen, it was approved by 280 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 2: ninety percent of the neighborhoods in La County ninety percent. 281 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 2: And when Prop thirty six came along, to repeal much 282 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 2: of that law. Eighty seven percent of the neighborhoods supported 283 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 2: the repeal, ninety percent approved of Prop forty seven. Eighty 284 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 2: seven percent approved a repeal. 285 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: That is I always used to say, we always used. 286 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 2: To tell you that the number of people who are 287 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 2: truly full blown progressives is a small minority. They got 288 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 2: very loud, but they got into media, they got into politics, 289 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 2: and they amplified these progressive obsessions and made you think 290 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 2: that the whole world was changing. I don't know how 291 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 2: many times I heard somebody say that, well, you know 292 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 2: the world is changing, John, I said, no, it's not. 293 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 2: Nobody normal wants to put up with all this crime 294 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 2: and all this homelessness and all this mental illness and 295 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 2: drug addiction. No, world's not changing. The world got bamboozled. 296 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 2: Remember the Safe Neighborhood and Schools Act. Is what Kamala 297 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 2: Harris wrote as the title in summary for Prop. Forty seven. 298 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 2: It was a big lie. We're in the age of 299 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 2: the big lie, repeated over and over. But I knew 300 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 2: people suddenly, But people didn't wake up suddenly and say, oh, 301 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 2: homelessness is so wonderful. These people are so noble. We 302 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 2: have to be so understanding of the drug addiction and 303 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 2: the mental illness. 304 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: We have to tolerate the theft. 305 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 2: We're rich enough to tolerate the theft that these poor 306 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 2: people they need to steal in order to satisfy their 307 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 2: terrible addiction. 308 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: Nobody was for that. 309 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 2: Nobody told us well, Ken and I did, but all 310 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 2: the other public officials and media didn't tell you what 311 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 2: was coming. I thought it was pretty clear that if 312 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 2: you were going to legalize theft and legalized public drug addiction, 313 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 2: that what do you think you were going to get 314 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 2: a massive amount of theft and drug addiction? How could 315 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 2: you not? And then the drug addicts wouldn't be able 316 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 2: to live normally. What drug addict lives normally? I thought 317 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 2: it was obvious, But they saturated, they saturated the message 318 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 2: throughout California that Prop forty seven was going to be 319 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 2: wonderful and it was horrible. Do you know what percentage 320 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 2: of Lli County voters supported gascone and voted No One 321 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 2: Prop thirty six. Now that would be real progressive, a 322 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 2: real progressive belief system. Only fourteen percent, a fringe fourteen 323 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 2: percent voted four gascone and voted against Prop thirty six. 324 00:17:58,560 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's. 325 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 2: That fourteen percent what was ruling La County all this time. 326 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,360 Speaker 2: They're the true believers, even after it was proven that 327 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 2: Gascone was a dangerous disaster and that Prop forty seven 328 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 2: was a massive failure. 329 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: They're the hardcore. They're the ones who. 330 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 2: Think, yeah, Gascon's policies should continue, and we should continue 331 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,919 Speaker 2: legalizing theft in public drug addiction. Okay, fourteen percent. A 332 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 2: lot of them located in Echo in Echo Park and 333 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 2: Los Felis that area, you know, that's that's that's where 334 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 2: they had all the crazy homelessness going on in Echo Park. 335 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 2: What's the other town there where they're crazy? In any event, 336 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 2: it's it's that particular region, just solid nuts, so progressive, 337 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 2: and some of the poor neighborhoods too. 338 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 5: More coming up listening to John Cobels on demand from 339 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty. 340 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock. We may run a little 341 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 2: bit of Avenuwsom speech. He's got a new budget, but 342 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 2: there's also he's going to take some kind of stand 343 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 2: on the future of high speed rail, and the assumption 344 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 2: is as he's going to continue to demand funding for it, 345 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:27,360 Speaker 2: even though after seventeen years, almost nothing's been done. It's 346 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 2: it's such a failure, it's such a waste. Kevin Kighleie, 347 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 2: who is a Congressman from northern California, Republican, we've had 348 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 2: him on the show a number of times. In fact, 349 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 2: he's going to be with us on Wednesday. See this 350 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 2: is this week. Everybody is back to work, back in business, right, 351 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 2: and so Congress is getting back in session, and he 352 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 2: has is going to introduce a bill I haven't written 353 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 2: up in front of me that would absolutely cut off 354 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 2: federal funding for the California High Speed Rail disaster. Kylie 355 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 2: says California's high speed rail project has failed because of 356 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 2: political incompetence. There is no plausible scenario where the cost 357 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 2: to federal or state taxpayers can be justified. 358 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: That's all you need to say. That's perfect, that's absolutely true. 359 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 2: Our share of federal transportation funding should go towards real 360 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:30,719 Speaker 2: infrastructure needs, such as improving roads that rank among the 361 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 2: worst in the country. We have some of the worst 362 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 2: roads in the nation. And you remember when they scammed 363 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 2: us with a gas tax a few years ago, and 364 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 2: we got to repeal on the ballot. We worked with 365 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 2: Carl Demio got it on the ballot, and Newsom's crowd 366 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 2: lied about no, no, the money is necessary for the 367 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 2: repair of the roads, and they started putting up signs. 368 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: I think the. 369 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 2: Bill was called AB one and you suddenly saw these 370 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 2: road signs another AB one project or a Senate Bill 371 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 2: one SB one, I think it was. 372 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 1: And they. 373 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 2: Totally lied. They haven't improved the roads. As you know, 374 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,880 Speaker 2: the roads are in horrendous condition. I tell you, La 375 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 2: City Roads. Oh my god, what an embarrassment. 376 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: Jesus. 377 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 2: It's smooth a right running along the bottom of the 378 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:31,719 Speaker 2: Grand Canyon than it is riding Sunset Boulevard. So Kylie 379 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 2: just has a bill, and I got the bill in 380 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 2: front of me, a bill to prohibit the use of 381 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 2: federal financial assistance for certain high speed rail development projects 382 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 2: in the state of California. No federal financial assistance may 383 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 2: be provided to the State of California for a high 384 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 2: speed rail corridor. 385 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: And that's it. 386 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 2: And they have a code, a special number which signifies 387 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 2: this specific project. Now I didn't know this, but according 388 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 2: to Kylie's press release, he quotes the DOGE Commission, the 389 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 2: Department of Government Efficiency. This is the Elon musk the 390 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 2: they Ramaswami Department. That's going to highlight uh wasted wasted funding, 391 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:30,120 Speaker 2: wasted spending. Now people are confused. They most because it's 392 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 2: not an onolcted official. He has no right to be all. 393 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 2: He's not setting law, he's not issuing executive orders, he's 394 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 2: not voting on anything. He leads a group of outside 395 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 2: American citizens who are going to make recommendations to Trump. 396 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 2: That that's not that is not unprecedented. You've had these 397 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 2: kind of commissions before. You have you have people from 398 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 2: outside active government and they put together an investigation and 399 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 2: a report and make recommendations. The nine to eleven commission 400 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 2: was like that, I think Department of Government Efficiency and 401 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 2: they they say, now, I thought it was in the 402 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 2: three billion range. They claim that six point eight billion 403 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 2: dollars in federal funding has been already sent. 404 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: Six point eight billion. 405 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 2: They Biden must have shoveled out some money when nobody 406 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 2: was looking last year, and Newsom is requesting another eight billion. 407 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 2: So we borrowed about nine billion nine to ten, and 408 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 2: then the government, federal government spent almost seven So that's 409 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 2: seventeen billion dollars either down the toilet or swirling the bowl. 410 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 2: Seventeen billion dollars and you go find me where the 411 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:03,160 Speaker 2: high speed rail exists, and they want they want eight 412 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 2: billion more. What it's absolute theft, complete theft. I'm telling you, 413 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 2: If Newsom stands up in about twenty minutes, they want 414 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 2: to slap handcuffs on him if he's pushing to steal 415 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 2: more federal tax money on top of all that borrowed 416 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 2: money that's already been stolen and laundered through high speed rail. 417 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 2: When is this going to be treated as a crime. 418 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 2: I mean, well, how about a you know, maybe maybe 419 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 2: we need is a US attorney investigation, We need an 420 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 2: FBI investigation. That's something that Trump ought to do. Do 421 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 2: do a federal investigation on the seventeen billion dollars that's 422 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 2: been blown in what line of work? All right, we 423 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 2: all will work, most of us work for some company. 424 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 2: Can your company blow through seventeen billion dollars from out 425 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,440 Speaker 2: there being an investigation, some kind of a lawsuit, imagine 426 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 2: a publicly traded company. 427 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:02,479 Speaker 1: This is fraud. 428 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 2: This is absolutely fraud. And Newsome is at the top 429 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 2: of the pyramid here. They're committing fraud with this. People 430 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 2: should go to prison and then they claim we have 431 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 2: no financial records. They did in audit a couple of 432 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 2: years ago, and oh, I don't know where the money went. 433 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 2: There's no No records were made by the government, by 434 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 2: the contractors, by the high speed Rail authority. But you know, 435 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 2: by all the contractors that took the money and run, 436 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 2: whether it was construction people, engineering people, environmental people, attorneys, 437 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 2: you know, whatever parasites attached themselves to a project. Come on, 438 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 2: seventeen billion in seventeen years. And there's no track. I 439 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 2: read somewhere where there's supposedly sixteen hundred feet a track. 440 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,199 Speaker 2: Sixteen hundred feet do you know how long that is? 441 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 2: That's like a quarter of a mile. 442 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: The hell. 443 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 2: Meantime, there is a report see News addresses this in 444 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,439 Speaker 2: his stupid speech. U haul has a report out for 445 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 2: the fifth year in a row, California finished on top 446 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 2: of the U Haul index, meaning more Californians rented one 447 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,919 Speaker 2: way U haul trucks to leave the state than residents 448 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,199 Speaker 2: of any other state. And I've got the chart in 449 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 2: front of me here, and yeah, California rented the most 450 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:39,640 Speaker 2: trucks to leave and and California had the least amount 451 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 2: of U haul growth In other words, if you added 452 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 2: up all the people who moved out and all that 453 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 2: moved in using U haul, California was last. South Carolina 454 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 2: was first, Texas, second, North Carolina, third Florida, fourth, Tennessee fifth. 455 00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 2: People are moving south where they don't have these massive, woke, 456 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 2: wasteful governments with their stupid ass ideas. 457 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 1: Then it comes to. 458 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 2: Arizona, Washington, Indiana, Utah, and Idaho. But the high tax 459 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:19,360 Speaker 2: states with the worst left wing governments are at the bottom. 460 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 2: Here's the five states that had the biggest gap between 461 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 2: outflow and inflow. California is number fifty, Massachusetts forty nine, 462 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 2: New Jersey forty seven, New York forty three, Pennsylvania is 463 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 2: forty sixth Illinois is forty eight. These are all high 464 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 2: tax states, democratic governments, COVID, lockdown policies, woke DEI policies, 465 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 2: and everybody's sick of it, and so they're simply leaving. 466 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 2: And these are people who are making decent money. These 467 00:27:53,720 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 2: are middle class and upper middle class people. California Globe 468 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,879 Speaker 2: Katie Grimes added this to the U haul story. We 469 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,880 Speaker 2: have the highest homelessness in the country. We have one 470 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 2: third of all the poverty in the country. We've got 471 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 2: a huge budget EPISOD of fifty five billion dollars. We 472 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 2: have the lowest public reading and math scores kindergarten through 473 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 2: grade twelve, on top of the three year COVID lockdown. 474 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 2: The top U haul growth Metros, Dallas, Charlotte, Phoenix, Lakeland, Florida, Austin, Texas, Nashville, 475 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 2: rawleyg Palm Beach or Palm Bay it says here Florida, 476 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 2: I don't know, Palm Bay, Houston, Greenville, South Carolina. California 477 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 2: is not listed. They're not listed in any of the 478 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 2: lists of growth. The only one where it makes the 479 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 2: top of the. 480 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: List is most. 481 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 2: U hauls leaving and biggest, biggest differential between outgoing U 482 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 2: hauls and incoming U halls, And so they're they're losing 483 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 2: tax revenue, which will exacerbate the deficy. I do not 484 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 2: understand the California is going to be the last state 485 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 2: in the Union that changes its voting patterns. I just 486 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 2: read a story today how in New York State, even 487 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 2: New York City, voting patterns changed abruptly two months ago, 488 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 2: that the Democrats lost a lot of ground, the Republicans 489 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 2: gained a lot of ground even in New York. Looks 490 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 2: like the two hundred thousand illegal aliens in New York 491 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 2: City really created a political movement, but not here. One 492 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 2: of the great puzzles of all time, are we come back? 493 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 2: We have on the the usual amount of vegan news. 494 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 6: Oh that's great. 495 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: None of it's flattering for vegans, Debor Mark. 496 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 6: Would you ever do a flattering vegan story? 497 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 1: There's no story. 498 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 499 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock. We have the winners in 500 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 2: Goolepool twenty twenty four. We had three listeners go three 501 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 2: for three in their picks for three dead celebrities celebrities 502 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 2: that died in twenty twenty four. You can vote for 503 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five by going to our social media sites, 504 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 2: either on Instagram or x Twitter Facebook. The voting will 505 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 2: go on until midnight Friday, so you have five days, 506 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 2: including today, to vote for the three celebrities you think 507 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 2: will drop off. 508 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: We will tell you. 509 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 2: We'll read you the list of celebrities who got the 510 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 2: most votes last year but did not did not kick off, 511 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 2: and we'll tell you about the people who went three 512 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 2: for three did not kick off did not kick off. 513 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 2: I'm trying to find it. 514 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 6: You know, they're still breathing. 515 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 2: That's right, they are they as far as we know. Oh, 516 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 2: by the way, any celebrities that die in the coming 517 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 2: week doesn't count, right because people people have tried to 518 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 2: gain the system in the past. So we had to 519 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 2: have an absolute rule that anybody who dies up until 520 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 2: midnight Friday, you cannot be included as one of your selections. 521 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 2: All right, here is it by tell you vegans are 522 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 2: just nuts? 523 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: Nothing personal. 524 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 2: Have you gone to the Sage Plant Bistro and brewery. 525 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 6: The Stage Plan Bistro and I've been to Sage Sage, 526 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 6: but maybe it's a different restaurant. 527 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 2: No, it's all the same. They seem to call themselves 528 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 2: different things. It was Sage, then it was the Sage 529 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 2: Plant Bistro, and then they started Then they called themselves 530 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 2: Sage Regenerative Kitchen. 531 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 6: Oh I haven't heard that, Okay, Then I guess I 532 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 6: have been there. 533 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 2: Okay, So that last iteration is what drove meta business. 534 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,719 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what it means. So Sage has been 535 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 2: around for fourteen years in Echo Park and Pasadena. 536 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 6: I've been to the one in Pasadena, okay. 537 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 2: It's opening Echo Park in twenty eleven and it grew 538 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 2: into one of southern California's most famous vegan restaurants. 539 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 6: It's quite delicious. 540 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 2: Molly Engelhart operates or operated the restaurant with her husband, Elias, 541 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 2: and it was struggling though. You Vegans stopped showing up 542 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 2: as frequently, and in late twenty twenty three the business 543 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 2: was behind on its rent and taxes and they closed 544 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 2: the location in Agora, and they closed their kitchen in 545 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 2: Culver City. They sold their home to give the restaurant 546 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 2: more money. They were really trying hard to service the vegan. 547 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 6: Well, that was very nice of them and recommend. 548 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 2: It and this vegan community. First they just stopped showing up. 549 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 2: Business was dropping, so in order to try to keep 550 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 2: the restaurant opened, they decided they would sell animal meat. 551 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 2: They wouldn't call it like beef or chicken or fish 552 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 2: or anything. They just called it regenerative animal meat. 553 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 6: Oh I know another animal vegan restaurant that did that 554 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 6: as well. 555 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 1: So this really pissed off. 556 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:39,320 Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yes, absolutely, Well, you don't call yourself a 557 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 6: vegan restaurant and you've been a vegan restaurant for how 558 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,240 Speaker 6: many years. Well, and then you change and you start 559 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 6: selling animal products, and. 560 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 2: Then they well they called themselves a regenerative kitchen. I 561 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 2: guess that's code for meat. This is what's funny is 562 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 2: they wouldn't use the word meat, so it was regenerative 563 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 2: animal products. And she said, I thought maybe we could 564 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 2: merge to things my restaurants and my passion for regenerative agriculture. 565 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: I'll explain what that is in the moment. I have 566 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 1: to look it up. 567 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:11,320 Speaker 2: However, the vegans responded with so much anger and so 568 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 2: much fury. 569 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,359 Speaker 1: Now stage is closing for good. 570 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 6: Well, if you're going to be a vegan restaurant, that 571 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,280 Speaker 6: that's your brand. You really should not deviate. 572 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 2: But in my opinion, if you want vegans to show 573 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,439 Speaker 2: up at a restaurant, you have to go there. 574 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 1: Otherwise there are no vegan restaurant. 575 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,520 Speaker 6: There are a ton of vegan restaurants, I think, so, 576 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 6: I think, seriously, there are so many. 577 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: They're all going to go out of business. 578 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 6: No, they're not. 579 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:35,920 Speaker 1: No, the vegans are not loyal. 580 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 6: I'm loyal. If I like something, I will go. But 581 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 6: I've tried numerous I haven't really I don't really go 582 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 6: to the same ones over and over again, I try 583 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:44,759 Speaker 6: different ones. 584 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,920 Speaker 2: Regenerative meat refers to meat that is produced using regenerative 585 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:56,239 Speaker 2: agriculture practices that aim to rebuild soil health, reduce carbon emissions, 586 00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:02,280 Speaker 2: and promote biodiversity. The animal's great and open pastures practice 587 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:03,280 Speaker 2: natural mating. 588 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 6: Well, they're not being set up, they're not being forced 589 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 6: to have sex. 590 00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 2: Well, so they let the male romance. The female bring 591 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,800 Speaker 2: some roses, a little perfume, yeah, little chocolate, little soft music, 592 00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:27,280 Speaker 2: and they just sit there and watch until the grunting starts. 593 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 2: They're raised in conditions that prioritize their comfort and health. 594 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,239 Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't matter, they're gonna end up dead. 595 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,839 Speaker 6: Well no, but I still like that. We've we've had 596 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 6: these conversations for years about the chickens smoshed in the cages. 597 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's funny because in the end, 598 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,480 Speaker 2: it's you know, it's fed into the grinder. 599 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,399 Speaker 6: They deserve a happy like. 600 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,799 Speaker 2: Well, sure they should have, you know, some dating in 601 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:54,719 Speaker 2: the open pasture, some some romantic times instead of being 602 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 2: you know, a forced mating process. How do they force 603 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:02,920 Speaker 2: them to make? Boy, wouldn't want that job. You got 604 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 2: you got a bull, and you got a cow. It's like, 605 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 2: all right, you two are getting together, all right, whether 606 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,719 Speaker 2: you like it or not. Right, if I got to 607 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:14,160 Speaker 2: move in there and help you myself. So the uh 608 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 2: it says here that Las vegan and vegetarian scene is changing. 609 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 6: How's it changing? 610 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,560 Speaker 2: That's what I said. The vegans are not shown up anymore. 611 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 2: Here's some other restaurants, a plant based pizza spot named 612 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:29,960 Speaker 2: Hot Tongue. 613 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,120 Speaker 6: I've never been there Hot Tongue, and that's not the 614 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:34,880 Speaker 6: greatest name for a restaurant. 615 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:35,120 Speaker 5: No. 616 00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 2: There there was a there was a deli near my 617 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,879 Speaker 2: house growing up, and they would sell tongue. They would 618 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 2: have a big slab of tongue in the display. Okay, 619 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,759 Speaker 2: that's worse than yeah, yeah, I draw the line of 620 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 2: tongue that it was right next to the liverwurst and 621 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 2: the bologna and the tongue, and it's like he uh 622 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:01,200 Speaker 2: So anyway, Hot Tongue added animal products to its animal products. 623 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: They wouldn't sing meat. 624 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:07,759 Speaker 2: Then there was this restaurant show Jin in downtown nix On, Beverly. 625 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,640 Speaker 2: They closed Cafe Gratitude, a chain of restaurants. 626 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,520 Speaker 6: Yes, and I have been there. That was the one 627 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 6: I was referring to when I said another restaurant sort 628 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,320 Speaker 6: of changed, but I think that one is okay. 629 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 2: Well, they've closed a few of their locations and it's 630 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,720 Speaker 2: run by the woman's father. The woman I mentioned Molly 631 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,880 Speaker 2: Engelhart the owner of a sage, while our father owned 632 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,200 Speaker 2: Cafe Gratitude and remember those. It seems like it seems 633 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,200 Speaker 2: like the vegans are getting tired of being vegan. 634 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,080 Speaker 6: No, I don't think so. I think the vegans are 635 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,480 Speaker 6: being tired of wanting to go to a restaurant and 636 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,440 Speaker 6: are hearing about a restaurant, and then all of a sudden, 637 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 6: the restaurant decides to add meat. 638 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,080 Speaker 1: They got to make money. Then you know what here, 639 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 1: the sales are not there. 640 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,520 Speaker 6: I even though I'm a vegan, I don't necessarily love 641 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 6: vegan restaurants because, as I've said before, I don't like 642 00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,560 Speaker 6: to I'm a weird vegan. I don't like tofu, I 643 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:04,320 Speaker 6: don't like meat, cheese, any of that, So that's not vegan. 644 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,279 Speaker 6: But I mean what I do is I like to 645 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,920 Speaker 6: go to restaurants that have what I call vegan options, 646 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,640 Speaker 6: meaning stuff that doesn't have meat, dairy and all that 647 00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:19,279 Speaker 6: it doesn't actually have to be you know some strange. 648 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,960 Speaker 1: Concoctions, so fake fake food? 649 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 6: Right, no fake food? 650 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,960 Speaker 2: We come back, do we know if there's some Starting 651 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,480 Speaker 2: at three, I don't want to play the whole speech, 652 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,920 Speaker 2: but I just want to hear him. I need I 653 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,760 Speaker 2: need his ambiance here, just to bring him on, listen 654 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,120 Speaker 2: to him. 655 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,200 Speaker 6: I want to say what his hair looks like. 656 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:38,480 Speaker 1: You see what his hair looks like. 657 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:39,440 Speaker 6: He's wearing. 658 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,960 Speaker 2: I want to I want to see if he's going 659 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,440 Speaker 2: to talk about high speed rail at all, because because 660 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,520 Speaker 2: this is a big moment, it looks like Trump is 661 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 2: going to cut off funding very quickly. Elon Musk's Department 662 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,840 Speaker 2: of Government Efficiency has it targeted Kevin Kylie. As I 663 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,200 Speaker 2: mentioned a few minutes ago, the Republican congressman has a 664 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,640 Speaker 2: bill to cut off funding. And they've spent billions of 665 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,640 Speaker 2: dollars in the federal government on this nonsense. And this 666 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,840 Speaker 2: is like news could be Newsom's last stand here. We'll 667 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,040 Speaker 2: talk about it coming up until three o'clock and the 668 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,760 Speaker 2: goold pool All ahead, Debora Mark Live in the CAFI 669 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:13,840 Speaker 2: twenty four hour Newsroom. 670 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,759 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 671 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,279 Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am 672 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,320 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 673 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,640 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.