1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 2: Doug McIntyre in for John Cobbolt. 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 3: John'll be back tomorrow election Day, Tim Conway at four o'clock. 5 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: I'm with you until that time. Please stick with us. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 3: Steve Cooley, former La County District Attorney'll be with us 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 3: at the top of the next hour. 8 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: Get into that DA's race. And we got tons of. 9 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 3: Stuff to talk about this hour, including a Tesla story 10 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 3: and how you get manipulated by us creepy media types. 11 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 3: We'll get into all of that this hour. Let me 12 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 3: ask you a question, Debora Mark. Do you have a landline? 13 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 3: I have not had one for years. 14 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 2: How many years would you guess? Ah? Oh my, I 15 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 2: would say maybe ten. 16 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 3: Okay, Eric, have you ever had a landline in your life? 17 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 2: Oh? 18 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, My parents had a landline grown up in my 19 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 4: house up until probably like four or five years ago. 20 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 3: Okay, all right, well then they were hanging on pretty tight. 21 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 3: Two weeks ago, I'll get rid. 22 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: Of the landline. Wow, you hung on there, I know, 23 00:00:59,600 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: I know. 24 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 3: They had to pry it out of my cold dead fingers. No, 25 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 3: not quite, but here's the deal. We finally realized that 26 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 3: the only people who ever called us were Congressman Brad 27 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 3: Sherman asking us if we wanted to attend a town hall. 28 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: Meeting, and it was a robo call. 29 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 3: And then some deep voiced guy was pretending he's from 30 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 3: a police charity because he figures I live in the West. 31 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 3: I'm a white guy living in the west San Finanda Valley, 32 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 3: so I'm a sucker for police charities? 33 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 2: Right? Is this guy? Over and over and over again, 34 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 2: he keep calling. 35 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 3: And anytime the phone rang, my wife would yell, don't 36 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 3: answer it, and I would say, but it could be important, 37 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 3: and she said, if it's important, they'll leave a message, 38 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 3: which of course is true. But I can't remember what 39 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 3: our past number was to get the messages, and I 40 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 3: didn't want to be bothered, so it was easier for 41 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 3: me to just answer the phone. I pick it up. Ohtho, 42 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 3: this is Congressman Brad Sherman inviting you to attend. And 43 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 3: for the eightieth time he has called, and for the 44 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 3: eighty first time, she says, I. 45 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 2: Told you so, doesn't he call you on your cell? 46 00:01:58,480 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 5: Though? 47 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 2: Was no, not yet. Don't tip them off. But here's 48 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 2: the deal. 49 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 3: So we cut the cord with AT and T, and 50 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 3: then right after we did there was that big AT 51 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 3: and T outage. So I actually think that they said, 52 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 3: oh my god, we've lost back attire. 53 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 2: One person we were holding that. 54 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 3: Whole company off. Oh place peeled like a four dollars note. 55 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 6: Thanks to see you, I get a five dollars credit exactly. 56 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 2: So anyway, it's my fault. 57 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 3: This is the pregame show for Super Tuesday. 58 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 2: How exciting. 59 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,959 Speaker 3: Tomorrow's the big Super Tuesday primaries, which means by the 60 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 3: end of tomorrow night, Trump still won't be the nominee 61 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 3: and Biden still won't be the nominee for the Democrats, 62 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 3: but they'll almost be, which they've been from pretty much 63 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 3: day one. So we're going to skip that. Although the 64 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 3: big headline story Debora told you, the Supreme Court did 65 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 3: hand Trump and I think America a victory by ending 66 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 3: this craziness that states we're going to be able to 67 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 3: bounce Donald Trump off the ballot. Now, while I personally 68 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 3: believe he instigated it insurrection, it hasn't been adjudicated, it 69 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 3: hasn't gone to court, they haven't had the trial. You 70 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 3: can't say Colorado Illinois and Maine can't say the Republicans 71 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 3: don't get to put their own person, the person they 72 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 3: want on the ballot because we think he did something, 73 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 3: you've got to prove it in the court of law, right, 74 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,559 Speaker 3: So anyway, that's been settled by the way, it was unanimous. 75 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 3: So let's celebrate a rare bit of unanimity and at 76 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 3: least we dodge the chaos of what that would have 77 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 3: been if the court, if the states had just started bounding, 78 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 3: because if this had been established as a precedent, we 79 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 3: were going to see this happen all over the place. 80 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 3: Next time it would be the Democrat that the Republicans 81 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 3: were kicking off ballots, and it would just be total casts. 82 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 3: And we've got enough chaos without that, so I think 83 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 3: the right decision was made. Meanwhile, we've got the Senate race, which, 84 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 3: of course, as you know, seems to be a race 85 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 3: between Steve Garvey, who's got the unified anti Democrat vote. 86 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 3: It's no surprise Steve Garvey's polling well, because you know, 87 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 3: there's three Democrats of Barbara Lee, Adam Schiff, and Katie 88 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 3: Porter who are splitting up the vote there, whereas all 89 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 3: of the anti Democratic vote is coalesced around Steve Garvey. 90 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 3: I think this could be beneficial for the state of California. 91 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 3: Not that Garvey has a chance of winning. I think 92 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 3: I could be Senator before he could. But the bottom 93 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 3: line is is that at least during the campaign between 94 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 3: now and November, we could actually have an exchange of 95 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 3: ideas because there's not really a spitzworth a difference between 96 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 3: Katie Porter and Adam Schiff. You flip a coin, it's 97 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 3: his preference, which one do you prefer? Do you like 98 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 3: her whiteboard? You like I don't know what you like, 99 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 3: but you like something. I guess you're voting for him, right. 100 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 3: So the bottom line is is that the net outcome 101 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 3: for America will be the same. At least in California. 102 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 3: We could have a discussion if Garvy is able to 103 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: articulate what a conservative position is. So far, he's basically 104 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 3: just tried to get out of telling anybody whether or 105 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 3: not he's going to vote for Trump. That seems to 106 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 3: be how he spent the bulk of his time during 107 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 3: the debates. But we'll see how that plays out. Meanwhile, 108 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 3: we've got these other issues like prop one and h LA, 109 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 3: which is that transportation thing that's basically taking more lanes 110 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 3: away from cars. 111 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 2: Let's start with Prop one. 112 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 3: It's a tough one for me because, like everybody else, 113 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 3: every time there's one of these mass shootings, whether it's 114 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 3: at a workplace or a school, or we see some 115 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 3: kind of crazy slaughter, we talk about we need more 116 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 3: help for mental health. And you drive down almost any 117 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 3: major street in La or in southern California and increasingly 118 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 3: across America, and you're going to see homeless people pretty 119 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 3: much everywhere, and you know that these people are in 120 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 3: desperate need of psychiatric care, alcohol and drug rehabilitation. And 121 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 3: there's a lot of other factors involved in this, but 122 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 3: low on the list is quote unquote affordable housing. And 123 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 3: this a Prop one alleges to solve all of these 124 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 3: problems at a huge price tag. 125 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 2: And that's my problem with it. 126 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 3: If they were putting together a ballot measure that would 127 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 3: deal with, for instance, mental health, I'd sign on for it. 128 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 3: I'd gamble the tax money. But the track record of 129 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 3: these giant omnibus bills that's got all kinds of things, 130 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 3: especially when you see to me it's a trigger word 131 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 3: affordable housing. I don't know how and no one has 132 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 3: explained to me yet how you can build affordable housing 133 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 3: on expensive land. And that's the problem here, especially when 134 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 3: and I'm going to be partisan here, when the Democrats 135 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 3: write these laws, they bake in protections or perks for 136 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 3: their base, which includes the trade unions. I'm all for 137 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 3: people getting paid well. I'd like to be paid well 138 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,679 Speaker 3: or at all, but I'm certainly in favor of people 139 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 3: being paid well. A rising tide lifts all boats. But 140 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 3: you jack up the price with public funds when you 141 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 3: bake in that all this work has to be done 142 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 3: by union people who are contributing to the Democrats, and 143 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 3: blah blah blah. And that's a wink at a nod 144 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 3: perk that's baked into these bills. But what happens is 145 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,239 Speaker 3: the cost per bed of Prop one is one point 146 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 3: two million dollars per bed. That's their numbers. Now, when 147 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 3: you get to the measure hl nonsense. The traffic remediation thing, whew. 148 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 3: There there's a huge fight, an enormous fight over what 149 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 3: this is gonna cost, because Matt Sabo from the City 150 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 3: actually said this thing is like three and a half 151 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 3: billion dollars and there's no money baked into this for 152 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 3: how it gets paid for. Well, the sponsors of HL 153 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 3: and now saying, oh, come on, it doesn't cost that much. 154 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 3: When is anything anything any of these people have ever 155 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 3: put forward ever costs less than that much? If or 156 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 3: I remember, you know, those of us who supported Measure 157 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 3: H and Triple H fell for the same argument. We've 158 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 3: got to do something about the homeless. Okay, so we'll 159 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 3: tax ourselves so that we can build housing for the homeless. 160 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 3: And what did they turn around and do They started 161 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 3: building units that cost seven hundred thousand dollars apiece. Now 162 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 3: you know sometimes people they hear that number and it 163 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 3: slides past because it's so incomprehensible. You think, oh, seven 164 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars a building, right, No, we're talking about 165 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 3: per unit, per apartment, seven hundred thousand dollars. If you 166 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 3: ever googled what you can get for seven hundred thousand 167 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 3: dollars outside of California, you can get a five bedroom 168 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 3: house on a golf course for seven hundred thousand dollars 169 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 3: in Ohio. I mean, I know this, I've done it. 170 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 3: I wrote that column five years ago. I started looking 171 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 3: around on a Zillo and other places. These are you 172 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 3: know real estate websites. Man, you can live like a 173 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 3: king in other places. For seven hundred thousand dollars, you 174 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 3: get a low cost apartment, low income housing apartments that 175 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 3: were building with taxpayers money. And as a result, it 176 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 3: doesn't inspire confidence to trust them with another couple of 177 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,479 Speaker 3: billion dollars worth of And that's the problem. There's consequences 178 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 3: for squandering people's money because the need is real. 179 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 2: The need is as real as a heart attack. 180 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 3: I mean, the people who are living on the streets 181 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 3: are desperately in need of help. Unfortunately, with the help 182 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 3: of people like George Gascon, we took a lot of 183 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 3: the tools out of the toolbox in terms of forcing 184 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 3: them to get that help. That's one of the things 185 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 3: we'll be voting on tomorrow. But I remember years ago, 186 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 3: I mean a long time ago, probably twenty years ago. 187 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 3: I was in Santa Monica. I was stuck in a 188 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,680 Speaker 3: traffic light and there was a woman lying on the 189 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 3: sidewalk and she's staring right at me with yellowish eyes, 190 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 3: or she had jaundiced eyes, and her skin was baked 191 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 3: as red as the skin of a rupturing tomato from 192 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 3: from being in the sun so much. Just completely chapped 193 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 3: and weather beaten, and she's staring at me, and she's 194 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 3: drinking out of a fifth bottle of something brown in 195 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 3: total squalor. And by the way, I'm not a hero 196 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 3: in this story at all. Because the light changed, I 197 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 3: drove on, but I looked her square in the eye. 198 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 3: She caught my gaze. I caught her gaze, and I 199 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 3: swear to God, for fifteen eighteen years this has been 200 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 3: the caption to that picture that I've carried in my head. 201 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 2: And again I'm not proud of it. 202 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 3: But to me, the caption was shoot me her saying like, 203 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 3: just put me out of my misery, because that's what 204 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 3: it was. It was just the absolute picture of despair, 205 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,959 Speaker 3: of real pain, and it was uncomfortable to look at. 206 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 2: And I did nothing. So I'm not proud of any 207 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 2: aspect of this. 208 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 3: But what I'm saying to reinforce is is that we 209 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 3: desperately need to get these people off the streets, and 210 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 3: if they are not psychologically competent to make decisions in 211 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 3: their own interest, certainly a ripple effect. Society has an 212 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 3: interest to protect its streets from being public toilets from 213 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 3: being repositories of people who are out of their minds 214 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 3: and frequently violent. They have killed people, and by the 215 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 3: grace of God, not killed people, and by the way, 216 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 3: most likely. 217 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 2: To kill each other. 218 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 3: So this is just an insane situation where we don't 219 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 3: have the ability the tools in the toolbox to protect 220 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 3: ourselves from this. But I don't see anything in Prop 221 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 3: one that's going to change the script except indebt us 222 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 3: more and. 223 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 2: Feed this. 224 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:41,839 Speaker 3: Program of this well intentioned, well titled you know, sympathetic 225 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 3: empathy causing ballot measures that create huge bureaucracies and put 226 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 3: money in some people's pockets. But there's no demonstrable success 227 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 3: from it. And at some point you have to say, 228 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,439 Speaker 3: prove it to us, prove us that any of these 229 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 3: things work, and then come back and make it specific, 230 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 3: make it specific to mental health, and then I can 231 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 3: pony up. 232 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 2: But I don't know. 233 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 3: I just uh, we've been burned too many times before. Well, 234 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 3: let's get into the rest of his stuff when we 235 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 3: come back, because there's a lot of things on the 236 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 3: Bello measure, the DA's race HLA, which we discussed briefly. 237 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 3: We'll talk about that and more, and coming up, how 238 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 3: the media plays you. You gotta read this stuff you 239 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 3: got to consume news carefully, Lily. 240 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 241 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:28,319 Speaker 5: six forty. 242 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 3: Doug Mcatarrey in for John Cobbolt. John, I'll be back tomorrow, 243 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 3: don't panic. He'll be here for election Day and Conway 244 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 3: at four o'clock and uh, Steve Cooley at the top 245 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 3: of the three o'clock hour. We're gonna dig deep into 246 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 3: the DA's race. He's a Nathan Hackman guy, but I'm 247 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 3: pretty much in anybody not named George Gascone guy. 248 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 2: So we'll get into all of that later on in 249 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 2: a little bit. 250 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 3: In this hour, I'm going to talk about, well, just 251 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 3: two examples of media manipulation, and one of them is 252 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 3: just weird, just weird, So we'll get into all of 253 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 3: that in a bit. I saw this story that I 254 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 3: wanted to talk to you about today and I grabbed 255 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,559 Speaker 3: it out of the printer. Why do we procrastinate? Researchers 256 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 3: finally did their homework to find out here's the problem. 257 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 3: Though I didn't have time to read the article, so 258 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 3: we'll have to do that some other time. All right, 259 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. So we kind of touched on the 260 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 3: Senate race for tomorrow. This is the pregame show for 261 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 3: Super Tuesday, right woo and the big California races. Steve 262 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 3: Garvey race against Adam Scheff and Katie Porter and Barbara Lee. 263 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 3: And we talked a little bit about Prop one and 264 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,439 Speaker 3: I want to get into this HLA, which is this 265 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 3: thing that would include taking away more traffic lanes from cars, 266 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,959 Speaker 3: all under the guise of public safety. 267 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 2: Now here's the thing we've gone through. 268 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 3: We've done a lot of things to try to address 269 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 3: the fact that this is the hit and run capital 270 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 3: of the world. You know, remember when we wanted to 271 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 3: give drivers licenses to illegal immigrants, and this was sold 272 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 3: to Californians as necessary because you know, when people were 273 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 3: in the country illegally, they didn't have driver's licenses, they. 274 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:12,839 Speaker 2: Would they you know, we didn't. 275 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 3: We didn't examine them to see what their driving skills were, 276 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 3: and if they hit somebody, they were afraid of being deported, 277 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 3: so they take off. So we started giving drivers licenses 278 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 3: to people in the country illegally, which produced, by the way, 279 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 3: the need for the Real ID Act at the federal level. 280 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 3: This is why you had to go back to the 281 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 3: DMV and people all over the country had to do 282 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 3: this because California standing started handing out millions of drivers 283 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 3: licenses to people who. 284 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 2: They really weren't sure who they were. That's that's exactly 285 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 2: what it came down to. 286 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 3: So all of a sudden, you're bringing your you know, 287 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 3: your Edison bill and you're bringing your you know, some 288 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 3: kind of paperwork down to the DMV to prove who 289 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 3: you are to get a driver's license renewal. And now 290 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 3: here's the irony to show how that story has come 291 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 3: full circle because when all of the the illegals started 292 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 3: being sent to New York, into Northeastern cities, to Washington, 293 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 3: d C. In Chicago, places like that, well they started 294 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 3: flying them to other cities, and they were waving any 295 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 3: form of ID to get on the planes. In other words, 296 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 3: the people in the country illegally will be given flights 297 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 3: to other places. We're clearing the airports with no form 298 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 3: of ID. So we've got the real life. It's just 299 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 3: totally crazy. It'll make your head explode. So meanwhile, we 300 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 3: tried that, it didn't work. We're still averaging eleven hundred 301 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 3: people mowed down a year in pedestrian accidents in the 302 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 3: most car centric city in the world. So it's back again, 303 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 3: another attempt to take lanes away to make the road safer. 304 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 3: Now in San Francisco, in Valencia Street, they put a 305 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 3: bike lane in the middle of the business district, and 306 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 3: the business owners there, of course, is saying it's been 307 00:15:55,480 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 3: a catastrophe. Two claims filed by the Yasmin Restaurant on 308 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 3: Valencia Street and Rossy Mission, San Francisco and Art Gallery. 309 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 3: In the claims, the merchant's alleged that the bike lane 310 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 3: quote continues to have a negative economic impact on their 311 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 3: businesses due to related traffic restrictions. We've seen this happen 312 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 3: over in mar Vista. They're proposing this for Olive Avenue. 313 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 3: Right here in Burbank we take a lane away, and 314 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 3: in the west San Fernando Valley on Ventura Boulevard. I 315 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 3: don't know how to drive in my own neighborhood anymore. 316 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 2: I really don't. I know, Debra, you've been out there 317 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 2: as well. It's maddening. It looks like remember. 318 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 3: When they used to have those many go kart tracks 319 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 3: or something like that, and they'd have everything painted on 320 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 3: the road. I have no idea where I'm supposed to go, 321 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 3: you're backing in to diagonal par I'll not do that. 322 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 3: I'm not doing it either. Unfortunately, I have a friend 323 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 3: of mine who owns a store there, David k Books, 324 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 3: right on Ventura Boulevard, and he just sits in that 325 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 3: picture window and watches people try to back into those 326 00:16:55,720 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 3: things all day long. Meanwhile, they've put berms up in 327 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 3: the middle of Ventura Boulevard because people at that in 328 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 3: traffic is light, you could whip around and make a 329 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 3: U turn and get back going where civilization is right. 330 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 2: Not anymore. 331 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 3: They might as well dig up the pavement and put 332 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 3: in sandtraps, and we'll just make it a pitch and 333 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:17,959 Speaker 3: pud golf course. That would certainly be effective for slowing 334 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 3: people down if you just plow up the roads altogether. 335 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 3: But meanwhile, in Hopboken, New Jersey, I want to give 336 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 3: the other side of the equation. Here in Hopboken, New Jersey, 337 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 3: they are now seven years without a single pedestrian death, 338 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 3: seven years now Hoboken. I was in Hoboken last year, 339 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 3: home of Frank Sinatra, so I went over there to 340 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 3: see the Frank Sinatra park in the statue. And I'm 341 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 3: in Hoboken and we walked around downtown. It's a tiny 342 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 3: little city. It's a city of about sixty thousand people. 343 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 3: You can walk, it's about one square mile of downtown 344 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 3: and it's, by the way, one of the most densely 345 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 3: packed cities in America. It's more densely packed in Manhattan 346 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:04,679 Speaker 3: than York City. But seven years no pedestrian accidents. And 347 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 3: they did this what they call daylighting, where they backed 348 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 3: up parking spots, they took parking spots away from intersections, 349 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 3: and they redrew the crosswalks. Okay, that makes sense. I 350 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 3: get that there's stuff we have learned over time that 351 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 3: can make it better. But pulling away entire lanes of 352 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 3: traffic from a city where it gets to be one 353 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 3: hundred and fourteen degrees in the summer and these streets 354 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 3: are a mile long before you can get to a 355 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 3: crosswalk is crazy. And what do we do in California? 356 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 3: We legalize jaywalking. Remember that's the thing that Gavin Newsom 357 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 3: signed it a law. It is now legal in California 358 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 3: to cross in the middle of the street. No more 359 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 3: jaywalking tickets for that. Because the streets are so long, 360 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 3: and I know people are dropping dead from heat exhaustion, 361 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,959 Speaker 3: get to the crosswalk, so they just legalized it. 362 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 6: You know what doesn't make sense though, back to in 363 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 6: the West and Fernando Valley, we have to back into 364 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 6: those diagonal spots. How many people are going to get 365 00:18:58,440 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 6: hurt doing that? 366 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 1: That's not nat well. 367 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 3: Plus it just creates a traffic jam because no one 368 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 3: knows how to do. 369 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 6: It exactly, So people are gonna get hurt and people 370 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 6: are gonna get pissed because there's so much traffic. 371 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,479 Speaker 2: It's or let me just demonstrate it this way. It's 372 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 2: real simple. 373 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 3: Have you ever broken your hand, your dominant hand, and 374 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:15,919 Speaker 3: then had to eat with your left hand and you 375 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,640 Speaker 3: stab yourself in the eye with a fork. Exactly, That's 376 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,399 Speaker 3: what happens when you've got it back into one of 377 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 3: those backwards drawn diagonal parking spots. 378 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM six. 379 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 3: Forty McIntyre Infan John Cobot. We're here till four Tim 380 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 3: Conway Junior at that time. My website, by the way, 381 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 3: is Doug McIntyre dot com. And I spell it the 382 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 3: real way, not like Reba McIntyre, TIMC I N T 383 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 3: y R dot com. So go check that out if 384 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 3: you got absolutely nothing else to do. Tomorrow with Super Tuesday, 385 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 3: we got all these election things to get into. 386 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 2: John will be. 387 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 3: Back by the way for the big day, and as 388 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 3: Steve Cooley will be here at the top of the 389 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 3: next hour. You know, I watched I watch the news 390 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 3: a lot, and I yell at the television all the time. 391 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 3: The wife doesn't like it, but I can't help. But 392 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 3: it's a reflex. I just start yelling, that's not what happened, 393 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 3: that's not true. It's like the annotated news. I always 394 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 3: wish that sometime. I would love one of these network 395 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 3: news people to actually have a real focus group and 396 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 3: watch the way we watch the news. You bring people 397 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 3: into a hotel function room and you'll wire them up 398 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:28,439 Speaker 3: and give them meters. 399 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 2: That's not how people watch. 400 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 3: They're cooking dinner, they're trying to get the cat to 401 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 3: stop scratching the sofa, they're yelling at the neighbor's kid 402 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 3: who keeps throwing a ball against the wall of your house. 403 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 2: Whatever. 404 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 3: And through this the news is coming in and with 405 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 3: sort of truths, and you know, even when they're trying 406 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 3: really really hard to get it exactly right, you know, 407 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 3: life is so much more complicated than they'd give you 408 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 3: in a twenty second story. So it's up to us 409 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 3: to be savvy consumers of news, all of us. And 410 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 3: I got two examples of how it is so easy 411 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 3: to be manipulated. One of them is pretty overt and 412 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 3: the other one is just weird. Let's start with the 413 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 3: overt one. I saw this on the Fox News website 414 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 3: from February twenty fifth. Here's the headline on the story. 415 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 3: Sylvester Stallone permanently in quotes leaving California for in quotes 416 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 3: free state of Florida as Casey DeSantis Welcome Superstar. 417 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 2: That's the headline. I'll read it all at one. 418 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 3: Sylvester Salone permanently leaving California for free state of Florida 419 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 3: as Casey DeSantis Welcome Superstar. Okay, so it's another celebrity 420 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 3: who's saying, screw this. I'm sick of Gavin Newsom and 421 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 3: the crime and all the problems in California. I'm out 422 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 3: of here High Texas. I'm going to Florida. Then I 423 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 3: read the article and this was apparently an announcement that 424 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 3: he made on the family Stallone, which is some reality 425 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 3: thing that slashed have you watched it? Okay, So he 426 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 3: and Jennifer Flavin, the wife, and the daughters run this 427 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 3: and at some point he announce that they're permanently moving 428 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 3: from California to Florida, even though they bought a house 429 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,719 Speaker 3: in Florida three years ago for thirty five million dollars. 430 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 3: By the way, so they got the new spread in Florida. 431 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 3: They announced they're permanently leaving, and Casey DeSantis, the wife 432 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 3: of Ron de Santis, she tweets out or exes out, 433 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 3: if we want to use that term, welcome to the 434 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 3: Free State of Florida. In addition to respecting and protecting 435 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,360 Speaker 3: your God given constitutional right to be free, you can 436 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 3: also buy toothpaste without having an armed guard in CBS 437 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,879 Speaker 3: unlock it for you. Okay, Now here's what's wrong with this. 438 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 3: He didn't say any of that. The headline says Sylvester 439 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 3: Stallone in quotes permanently leaving California for in quotes free 440 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 3: State of Florida. Casey Desanta said all of that. The 441 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 3: other thing too, by the way, is Casey, I hate 442 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 3: to break this to you, but sliced the loaning by 443 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,919 Speaker 3: in his toothpaste. I don't think you're gonna see sized 444 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 3: loan in a paw On Beach CVS shopping for Florida, 445 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 3: you know, looking for Tom's or you know, for any 446 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 3: kind of toothpaste. But nonetheless, the thing is the headline 447 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 3: makes it look like cy staalone has said he's moving 448 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 3: to the Free State of Florida. It's in quotes, but 449 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 3: none of that is. What did Sylvester Stallone say? 450 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 2: Well, he said I. 451 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 3: Wasn't moving because, oh wow, I wanted another beautiful view anytime, 452 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 3: changing that paradigm which you become used to. It's literally 453 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 3: to jumpstart that creative process. And then what did his 454 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 3: wife say? I think California is probably the most beautiful 455 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 3: state in the United States. I absolutely love it, but 456 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 3: I just needed a change. I felt like I've been 457 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 3: here long enough and life is short, so I wanted 458 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 3: to make a change and not just sitting in one 459 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 3: house the rest of my life. That's a far cry 460 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 3: from moving California to be in the Free State of Florida. 461 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 2: But that's the headline. And if you only see the headline, if. 462 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 3: That's all you see, you no, onally didn't get the story. 463 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 3: You actually got the exact wrong impression from the store. 464 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 3: And that's why you gotta, you gotta really check out 465 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 3: these news stories. Like I said, I talked before about 466 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 3: the news coverage of that UC Berkeley protests. Some Jewish 467 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 3: student groups invited a speaker who was a you know, 468 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 3: a conservative Jewish think tank guy, and a mob broke 469 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 3: in and shut down the speech, and none of the 470 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 3: coverage talked about the protesters. The pro Palestinian protests are 471 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 3: shouting dirty jew and one of choking a girl. So 472 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 3: you know, you, as consumers of news, don't buy just 473 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 3: the easy headline because a lot of times it's marketed 474 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:48,479 Speaker 3: for an ideological reason. Now here's the story that's just weird. 475 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,640 Speaker 3: I have long No, I don't care what you drive. 476 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 3: I don't have a Tesla. I drive a Chevy Impalla, 477 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 3: the most boring car on the planet. I could be 478 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,439 Speaker 3: going backwards at ninety the one thirty four fire in 479 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,439 Speaker 3: a glock out the windows, smoking a blunt, and the 480 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 3: Coppages drive by and give. 481 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 2: You a little wave. 482 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 3: I mean, it is an invisible automobile. But for some 483 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 3: reason people hate Tesla's and every time at Tesla catches 484 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 3: on fire, they love to post pictures as if gasoline 485 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 3: powered autobiles never burn as if it's only electric. 486 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 2: Now, granted, they are hard to put out. 487 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 3: Those batteries burn, they really do, but all the hybrid 488 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 3: that would be true of everything. That's true of your 489 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 3: e bikes and your hoverboards, and occasionally your cell phones 490 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 3: and laptops will burst into flames. 491 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 2: So that's a problem. But this story was this morning. 492 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,719 Speaker 3: I guess it happened late last night at eleven o'clock 493 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 3: last night or something like that. A tesla. This is 494 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 3: the story. The headline says, tesla plunges off overpass, catches 495 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 3: fire after landing. 496 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 2: On the one thirty four freeway. 497 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,199 Speaker 3: Two men were left in serious condition after the Tesla 498 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 3: they were driving in went off an overpass on burst 499 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 3: into flames on the one thirty four freeway in the 500 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 3: Griffith Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The crash was reported 501 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 3: just before eleven PM, when the car drove through a 502 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 3: barrier on the Riverside Drive overpass and landed on the 503 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,199 Speaker 3: center divider of the freeway below. This is just you know, 504 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 3: right over there, right out the window. We could practically 505 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,199 Speaker 3: see this from here. The men sixty five and sixty 506 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,199 Speaker 3: managed to exit the vehicle before it eventually burst into flames. Okay, 507 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 3: Now what's weird about this is that if any other 508 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 3: car like it didn't plunge through the overpass, off the 509 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 3: overpass because it's a Tesla, it burst into flames because 510 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 3: it fell off the overpass and landed on the one 511 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 3: thirty four. But I can't think of another car. Maybe 512 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 3: if it had been a Rolls Royce, that would have 513 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 3: made the headline, but they wouldn't say Toyota Celica plunges 514 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 3: off of overpass. You know, Ford f one fifty pick 515 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,360 Speaker 3: them up truck. But it's Tesla plunges off over its 516 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 3: not just in the headline, but repeatedly in the story. 517 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 2: And it's just weird to me. 518 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 3: It's like, you know, I guess when Tesla's first rolled out, 519 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 3: anything that happened with the Tesla was interesting, But now 520 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 3: it just seems like, are they just in the habit 521 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 3: of reporting bad news for Teslas? 522 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 2: I don't know. Did I do the news? I don't 523 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 2: think so. Well, maybe we should do that. Huh. She's 524 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 2: in there, we're paying her. We might as well get something. Well, 525 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,160 Speaker 2: we'll get some value for the money. 526 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 5: Right, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI 527 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 528 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 3: Doug mcatarre in for John Cobalt. John, I'll be back 529 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 3: tomorrow Conway at four at the top of the next hour. 530 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 3: In just a few minutes, former La County just attorney 531 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 3: Steve Cooley will join me. We're going to get into 532 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 3: the DA's race. He's a Nathan Hockman supporter. But there's 533 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 3: a whole bunch of people running, so we'll kick that around. 534 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 3: Of course, all the Super Tuesday stuff in the meantime, 535 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 3: just to lighten things a bit. I effectively stopped watching 536 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 3: professional basketball when the merger took place, like almost fifty 537 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 3: years ago, when the ABA merged into the NBA. I 538 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 3: was a huge ABA fan. With Doctor j in the Red, 539 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 3: White and Blue Ball, I went to a million games 540 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 3: and I kind of lost interest in it. But of 541 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 3: course I watched Magic, and I watched Bird, and I 542 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 3: watched Michael Jordan, et cetera. How could you not because 543 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 3: it was so fantastic to watch. And there's a young 544 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 3: woman named Caitlin Clark. You may have heard the name 545 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 3: lately because she is now the all time leading scorer 546 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 3: in the history of Division one college basketball men or 547 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 3: women and I've watched Caitlin Clark play for Iowa, and 548 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, the WNBA is about to have 549 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,959 Speaker 3: a real draw. I mean, they could have maybe three 550 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 3: four hundred people a game now. But I mean, she 551 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 3: is a I know, I know, Eric is a total 552 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 3: chief shot. It was a total it was a total gratuity. 553 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 2: She her a real call. No, but I mean it. 554 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 3: I mean she is an amazing She's an amazing athlete. 555 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 3: She's an incredible athlete. It's worth watching Iowa basketball. She'll 556 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 3: be in the NCAA Women's Tournament and she will be 557 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 3: in the WNBA next year, and she's well worth watching. 558 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 3: She's just an amazing athlete. Now, look Pete Maravich, who 559 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 3: had the all time scoring record. You know there's big differences. 560 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 3: They didn't have the three point shot at the time. 561 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 3: At that time, freshman couldn't be on the varsity team. 562 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 3: So he did it in three years. She had four year. 563 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 3: He did it in what I think eighty three games. 564 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 3: She did it in one hundred and thirty games. None 565 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 3: of that is relevant. This is like the argument between 566 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 3: Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris breaking the Babe Ruth home 567 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 3: run record that Maris had a few more games because 568 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 3: with expansion they went from one hundred and fifty four 569 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 3: game schedule to one hundred and sixty two game. Right, 570 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 3: there's no asterisk attached. This is the she's playing in 571 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 3: the epic of history. She plays in and she's extraordinary 572 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 3: both as a passer an incredible pass She's just a 573 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 3: great show to watch. And I congratulate her, and I 574 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 3: will be watching. And if she's in the WMB next year, 575 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 3: I'll find out what channel it's on. 576 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 2: Now I won't, but he's going to be on the 577 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 2: Indiana Fever next year. They got the number one overall, 578 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 2: they get to pick. 579 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 3: Well, it's a star, a star is born, to say 580 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 3: the least. She's really quite quite a show. And here's 581 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 3: a story with that writes its own punchline. Survey of 582 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 3: wallet Hub reporting which is the hardest working city in America? 583 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,720 Speaker 3: And let me tell you what number two is. Number 584 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 3: two is Irving, Texas, where residents have much lower amount 585 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 3: of downtime compared to people in most cities. Cheyenne, won 586 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 3: Wyoming is third. Now, I don't know if you know, 587 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 3: riding a cow to work accounts for part of what 588 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 3: may not it's another cheap shot Virginia Beach, Virginia and Anchorage, Alaska. 589 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 3: But what's the number one hardest working city in America? 590 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 2: Washington, d C. They put that out on a straight face. 591 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 4: I'm honestly in shock that they actually have an actual 592 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 4: article saying DC works the hardest. 593 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 3: Notable not only for its long work hours, but also 594 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,479 Speaker 3: for the high percentage of workers sixty four percent who 595 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 3: leave some of their vacation time unused. Capital's residents also 596 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 3: commit to lengthy commutes an active participation of volunteer work, 597 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 3: adding layers to their already pack schedules. I wonder how 598 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 3: quick I can tell a story decades ago, I mean 599 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 3: forty years ago. I worked for a Japanese ad agency 600 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 3: in New York and we worked endless hours Japanese hour, 601 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 3: thirty seven straight days, at one point without a day off. 602 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 3: My brother was messegering clean underwear to my office because 603 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 3: I couldn't go home. They were put us up at 604 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 3: a hotel and every day I thought I could go home, 605 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 3: so I couldn't send the laundry out. So with that 606 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 3: as a background, I saw this story decades ago. It 607 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 3: said that because of the Japanese work ethic, the long hours. 608 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 3: They're having a huge spike in divorce, alcoholism, cancer, debts 609 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 3: from stress, all kinds of things. So they started a 610 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 3: government commission encouraging people to take their vacation days, take 611 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 3: sick days. The committee was averaging seventeen hours a day. 612 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 3: The committee to tell Japanese workers to kick back and 613 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 3: relax was averaging seventeen hours a day to get the 614 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 3: message out. I don't know, Washington, DC. It doesn't say 615 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 3: they're working well. It just says they're working long. All right, 616 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 3: let's be another hour. Steve Cooley kicking it off the 617 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 3: top of the next hour. The latest from that twenty 618 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 3: four hour KFI newsroom, coming up with Deborah Mark. 619 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 620 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 1: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am 621 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 622 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.