1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: Can't f I Am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show every day one until four every day 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 2: after four o'clock. Whatever you missed you go to the 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 2: iHeart Am John Colbelt on demand the podcast same as 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 2: the radio show you I've been playing around with artificial 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 2: intelligence sites, just asking questions do I no, No, I do? 8 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 2: Oh I do? Because they work pretty well. It's like 9 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 2: super Google. Instead of going through twenty two Google sites 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 2: looking for what you want, you ask a question of 11 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 2: you know any one of the big sites, chat, GPT 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 2: or groc which you feel it is pretty So sometimes 13 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 2: I just type random things, so I wrote, who is 14 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 2: Deborah Mark? 15 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: Yeah? 16 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure that all that stuff's not true, and 17 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 2: don't worry. I don't believe it. I don't have time. 18 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: Alex Stone's coming on. Yeah, it's probably not true. 19 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: I heard it is. 20 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 2: Oh have you seen on that groc one where you 21 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 2: can take old photos and tell it to animate it 22 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 2: and it just animates it. No, yeah, it brings it 23 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 2: to life. And I had one from when I was 24 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 2: a little boy with my grandpa. I didn't quite like 25 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 2: the way it animated it, it looked like we were 26 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 2: doing weird stuff. 27 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: Together, but it does bring it to life. Oh I 28 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: have seen that. 29 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, why are we dancing like that? 30 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 2: And he's holding my hands? But and then I told 31 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: it to reanimate. Well, I guess you could do that 32 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 2: with anyf photo. 33 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,559 Speaker 1: Huh. Yeah, yeah, you're crazy. 34 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 2: Have a picture of you and your old prom day 35 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 2: and animate this all right, Alex ABC News, and he 36 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 2: has been covering the FAA Air Traffic Controller flight reduction 37 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 2: situations since the government was shut down. Still is shut 38 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 2: down because they haven't completely passed the reopening bill and 39 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: it's gonna get worse this week before it gets better. Yeah, 40 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: well it's getting worse today because ultimately, if the shutdown 41 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 2: goes on long enough, they plan to get to ten 42 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 2: percent of flights being canceled, if they've got to get 43 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 2: to that point. Sean Duffy today said that they may 44 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 2: not institute ten percent unless they feel like they've got to. 45 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: But they began with four. 46 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 2: Percent of flights canceled last week. Today they went to 47 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 2: six percent. And even though this deal may be coming 48 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 2: for now that they are moving forward like it's not 49 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 2: coming and the impacts are ramping up because they've got 50 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 2: to be ready in case the deal falls apart. So 51 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: today around eighteen hundred flights have been canceled in the 52 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: US that went up over the last couple of hours. 53 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 2: The regional carriers sky West and they fly so many 54 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 2: of the flights for Alaska and United and Delta and 55 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 2: others that are flying out of LA and Ontario and 56 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 2: Burbank and John Wayne and Republic Airways. Republic they are 57 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 2: the most heavily impacted today, followed by Southwest, Delta, and United. 58 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 2: This lady says she was trying to go from San 59 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 2: Francisco to the East Coast ended up in Ohio because 60 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 2: of all, I. 61 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 3: Was in San Francisco and when I got to the airport, 62 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 3: my connecting flight when Charlotte, was canceled. So I went 63 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 3: to Charlotte and then they rebooted me to. 64 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,679 Speaker 1: Ohio and then he ended up in Ohio and go, 65 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: now what do I do it? 66 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 2: So the with the Senate approving the deal and looks 67 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 2: like it being hands the House tomorrow even if there 68 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 2: is a deal. Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, is warning 69 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 2: that when the shutdown ends, it's gonna take a while 70 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 2: to get everybody back in. There are systems that have 71 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 2: been neglected over these last number of weeks. They've got 72 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 2: to get those recalibrated. So the clock is ticking to 73 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 2: getting a deal done, getting everybody back in, and with Thanksgiving, 74 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: with the big travel rush coming up, so they're kind 75 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 2: of running out of time and they got to get 76 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 2: it done soon. But he a few minutes ago, he 77 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 2: was in Chicago Hare and he talked about all this. 78 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: He says, oh, numbers of staffing for air traffic control 79 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 2: today look really good, at least compared to the last 80 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 2: couple of weeks. And they think that that is because 81 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 2: air traffic controllers are incentivized. It looks like an end 82 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 2: is coming, and that they think that this is about 83 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 2: a controllers saying okay, like it may be over this 84 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 2: week and then they're gonna get paid so they have 85 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 2: a reason to come back in. But he says that 86 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 2: there are minimal staffing problems today for air traffic control 87 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 2: just based on the rosy picture. 88 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: Maybe this thing's gonna end. He said this a minute 89 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 1: of air. 90 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 2: Traffic controllers are seeing and end to the shutdown and 91 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 2: feel more hopeful and they're coming in to their facilities, 92 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 2: So we're grateful to them for all that they're doing here. Now, 93 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 2: that is the optimistic, the sunny way of looking at it. 94 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 2: I could also see the argument here that after the 95 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 2: President said over the weekend and today that he's going 96 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 2: to penalize those who haven't been coming in and for 97 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 2: those who have worked every day, he's going to give 98 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 2: them full pay and ten thousand dollars bonuses, that may 99 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 2: be a reason why magically they began showing up today, 100 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 2: But either way, they are coming to work today. And 101 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 2: Duffy is san John that if a deal gets done 102 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 2: with air winn it gets done within twenty four to 103 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 2: forty eight hours of the government reopening, the controllers will 104 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 2: get seventy percent of their back pay over the last month, 105 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 2: so there is a potential to buy the end of 106 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 2: this week, they're gonna see a lot of money in 107 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 2: their direct deposit, and then to get the rest of 108 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 2: their money beyond that seventy percent, that'll take a little 109 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 2: bit more time and then they're their current pay, but 110 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 2: after not getting paid for a number of weeks, that 111 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 2: they could get a lot of money by the end. 112 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: Of the week. 113 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw today that we're still three thousand air 114 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 2: traffic controllers short, Well that's just a normal done when 115 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 2: everything's running normally. Yeah, they're way behind God, but everybody's 116 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 2: got to be perpetually exhausted and overworked. It's the same 117 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 2: thing at the LAPD and the fire department at LAFD. 118 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 2: I mean, that is why it is mandatory overtime, whether 119 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 2: it be air traffic controllers or the LAPD or firefighters. 120 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 2: That this is kind of a general thing that the 121 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 2: public sector is dealing with. But these air traffic controllers, 122 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 2: they are they're working six days a week right now, 123 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 2: continually long shifts, mandatory over time to what is legally allowed. 124 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 2: And yeah, they say that they are exhausted and that 125 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 2: they're you know, sleeping. However they can for a number 126 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 2: of hours and then right back in and doing it again. 127 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 2: So air traffic controllers, yeah, that's not what you want. 128 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: But I mean again, same thing LAPD is or the 129 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 2: LA Sheriff's Department. There are stories of LA deputies who 130 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 2: crash for a couple of hours at the station and 131 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 2: then get up and go and do it again. I mean, 132 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 2: it's the same thing in all the public sectors. I 133 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 2: don't know why we torture the people we need the most, 134 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 2: why we unfund them, defund them? We have such an 135 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 2: idiotic political culture. It's it's just for teachers, all of them. Yeah, 136 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 2: they're the ones not getting paid enough. All right, Alex Stone, 137 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 2: ABC News, thank you, you got it, Thanks John. Why 138 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 2: can't there's no reason that we can't have police fully funded, 139 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 2: fire department fully funded. And by the way, the LA 140 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 2: Fire Department needs to clean house of management. Who made 141 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 2: all those deadly, horrific decisions. I mean, everybody's gone radio silence. 142 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 2: You know, we found out today that there was at 143 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 2: least another fire battalion chief who knew that there was 144 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 2: a hot spot that wasn't taken care of, and they 145 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 2: kept that information secret. Those guys gotta go. And then 146 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 2: we've got to fund these things and stop funding homeless 147 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 2: people and mental patients and drug addicts and criminals and 148 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 2: illegal aliens. Stop it. Air traffic controllers, give them the money. 149 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 2: Give the cops in the fire department money. I don't, 150 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 2: I don't. This is ridiculous. Let that guy do the show. 151 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 2: He's much more succinct. So you're going to sue about 152 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 2: that artificial intelligence thinger. 153 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 4: Well, I'm thinking about it. I yeah, it's not true, 154 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 4: is it? 155 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: Okay? I didn't think you'd do that. I don't do that. Okay. 156 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 4: Now I'm going to go in and ask about you. 157 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: Well, those are true. 158 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 159 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 5: six forty. 160 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: All right. 161 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 2: We have mentioned periodically today that the La Times has 162 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 2: this blockbuster where there was another guy in fire department 163 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 2: management who knew that the firefighters at the hot spot 164 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 2: were told to leave and they didn't want to leave, 165 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 2: and that hotspot became the Palisades Fire. Remember there's an 166 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 2: original fire on the first of January. There was a 167 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 2: hot spot on the second of January, smoldering tree stumps, 168 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 2: hot smoke coming out of him, hot rocks, the ground 169 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 2: was smoldering as well, and they wanted to stay, and 170 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 2: the battalion chief, Mario Garcia, said no, let's go home. Well, 171 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,239 Speaker 2: another battalion chief apparently knew about it, told a outside 172 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,959 Speaker 2: fire official who wrote some notes and made the. 173 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: La Times aware of it. I guess. 174 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 2: And now it's pretty clear that there must have been 175 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 2: a lot of people at the fire department who knew 176 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 2: of this story, and they all covered it. Up for 177 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 2: the last ten months. 178 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: Now. 179 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 2: The Times has a similar story that broke this weekend 180 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 2: Inventora County. It's almost the same thing the Mountain fire. 181 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 2: The Mountain fire was November sixth of last year, and 182 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 2: there were in this case two fires. There was a 183 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 2: tractor that had caught fire, and the fire department showed 184 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 2: up one hundred firefighters hoses and they put a wet 185 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 2: line around the fire perimeter. Remember this is one tractor 186 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 2: on fire. Bulldozers cut away the vegetation. Aircraft sprayed retardant. 187 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,839 Speaker 2: The firefighters used hand tools infrared technology to check for heat. 188 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 2: What they decided to leave behind was one of the 189 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 2: tractor tires that was registering heat at three hundred degrees. 190 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: So what happened. 191 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 2: High winds started blowing a Santa Ana event again. This 192 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 2: was November twenty twenty four, and it whipped up the 193 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 2: fire and it burned like crazy, and it had burned 194 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty homes in Ventura County. It rekindled 195 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 2: the old blaze. It was the three hundred degree tire 196 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 2: that the firefighters decided not to spend any more time on. 197 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 2: I don't know why they didn't just get rid of 198 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:48,479 Speaker 2: it everything else they did. I told you infrared technology. 199 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 2: They flew a drone that could see the hotspots, and 200 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 2: they dug out smoldering material so it could cool. They 201 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 2: did a lot more up in Ventura County than they 202 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,559 Speaker 2: did at the Palisades fire. But they left the wheels 203 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 2: at three hundred degrees. And you know, one of the 204 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 2: fire officials, the Ventura County Fire Chief, Dustin Gardner, says, well, 205 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 2: heat and a burnt out tractor, a burnt out carcass 206 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 2: of steel. That's not alarming, that's not out of the ordinary. 207 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 2: But a week later, Santa Ana wins arrived November sixth 208 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 2: of last year, single digit humidity and red flag warnings, 209 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 2: and suddenly we got a new fire where the tractor 210 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 2: burned and it started from the overheated tire. I I'm 211 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 2: baffled by this. I have no experience fighting fires, but 212 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 2: three hundred degree, you know, rubber tired with high fire warnings, 213 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 2: that seems like a risk. I and it's weird that 214 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 2: we had this happen in November in Ventora County and 215 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 2: the same thing happens in Palisades. And clearly, whatever their 216 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 2: policy is or maybe desire to save money, because fire 217 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 2: departments are routinely unfunded or defunded, that this is like 218 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 2: standard operating procedure. The attitude is what now close enough? 219 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:27,199 Speaker 1: I uh? I mean, I mean, I mean heat. 220 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 2: The intense heat from the winds and the intense wins 221 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 2: themselves dry out the atmosphere to single digit humidity humidity, 222 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 2: and it just seems to be It seems obvious, and 223 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 2: it seems like the whole, this whole system is broken, 224 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 2: and it probably starts with with not enough money. I'm 225 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 2: guessing it's pretty clear. I think in the Palisade situation, 226 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 2: they didn't want to spend the overtime on the extra 227 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 2: power to keep watch. I can't imagine why they didn't 228 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 2: send firefighters up on the night of January sixth, when 229 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 2: they knew the extreme winds were going to hit the 230 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 2: next morning the next day. I don't understand, and I 231 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 2: don't understand this where they do everything they can, it seems, 232 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 2: but they leave the three hundred degree fire and it's 233 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 2: a big miss. It's two hundred and fifty homes. 234 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: I don't know. 235 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 2: Seems to be a lot wrong here in California, a 236 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 2: lot wrong. 237 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 1: But we have what was the story yesterday? We told 238 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: you about. 239 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 2: They had tens of millions of dollars to give to 240 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 2: these crooked homeless nonprofits who are busy building building residences 241 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 2: for drug addicts and mental patients and putting them into 242 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 2: quiet residential areas. Right, they've got tens of millions dollars 243 00:13:58,960 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 2: for that. 244 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: They gave the. 245 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 2: Money to two different fraudulent companies in Chevy at Hills, 246 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 2: and now they're opening up this seventy bed monstrosity. Everybody's 247 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,439 Speaker 2: got money for that. Nobody's got money for the fire departments. 248 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 2: I don't know what's wrong. I don't know what's wrong 249 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 2: with people who vote. I don't know what's wrong with anybody. 250 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 2: All Right, when we come back. This may surprise you, 251 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 2: but I was. I was a fan of the Sierra 252 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 2: Club because I really loved nature. 253 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 1: Were you laughing at me? I knew you were gonna 254 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: laugh at me. Hikes, and no, I'm not. I could. 255 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 2: All my vacations would be driving around you know, National 256 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 2: parks are out in the wilderness out. Yeah. So I 257 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 2: enjoyed Iceland so much because Iceland was glaciers and volcanoes 258 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 2: and lava were cute miscondescension. 259 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: I am, I'm like a little kid, I know. So 260 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: you know, my wife. 261 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 2: Used to give money to the Sierra Club and I thought, 262 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 2: all right, it seems like a good operation. And then 263 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 2: and then the Biona Wetlands situation happened. Biona Wetlands is 264 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 2: down near Plai del Rey, and they allow hundreds of 265 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 2: disgusting vagrants started living there, and the Sierra Club sent 266 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 2: us one of those letters wanting more money, and it's. 267 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: Like, I'll read you what I wrote. 268 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 2: There was a story today that the Sierra Club has 269 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 2: lost about sixty percent of its donors because they went 270 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 2: ultra woke. They started focusing on all sorts of woke 271 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 2: issues and neglected environmental issues. And everybody figured it out, 272 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 2: including me and my wife, and I went checking my 273 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 2: emails and I'm going to read you the email they 274 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 2: sent me and what I sent them, because I figured 275 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 2: this out like three years ago. And it seems like 276 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 2: everybody in the country has and the Sierra Club is 277 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 2: collapsing because they got more interest in all kinds of 278 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 2: social justice non sense. And this this is actually a 279 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 2: good indication of what's going on in this wacko nonprofit world. 280 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 5: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from kf I 281 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 5: am six forty. 282 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social 283 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 2: media at John Cobelt Radio and subscribe to the video 284 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 2: segments we're putting on YouTube. 285 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: Now. 286 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 2: You get subscribe by going to YouTube dot com, slash 287 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 2: at John Cobelt Show at John Cobelt Show at YouTube 288 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 2: dot com. That's to subscribe, And we're on TikTok too, 289 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 2: and we'll come over your house and do the show live. 290 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: If you Oh really, I need to get paid a 291 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: lot to do that. Look, look, you slip, who makes 292 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: the first demand? All right? 293 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 2: So all right, now, I actually, you know, I think 294 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 2: I think I'm a normal person, right, and normal people 295 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 2: most want to protect the environment, right. We love the 296 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 2: beaches and the national parks, and I can't stand garbage 297 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 2: all over the place. I don't want every square inch 298 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: of the world to be paved over. I'm just not 299 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 2: a fanatic. And I know we have to drill for 300 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 2: oil and gas because we don't have a modern prosperous 301 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 2: society without the oil and gas, and the two should 302 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,959 Speaker 2: not be at odds with each other. But there are 303 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 2: fanatics now. Years ago there was the Sierra Club, and 304 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 2: it was normal it fought too for environmental projects, and 305 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 2: my wife used to send money and I used to 306 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 2: get email requests to send money. And then came the 307 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 2: Biona Wetlands back in the twenty tents, which is this 308 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 2: beautiful preserve, natural preserve near Plia del Rey and they 309 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 2: have bike paths. It's near the beach and it used 310 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 2: to be a wonderful place for my wife and I 311 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 2: had to go biking. And then the mental patients and 312 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 2: the drug addicts took over by the dozens, and then 313 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 2: it was like there was one hundred of them, and 314 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 2: they started parking RVs on the streets all around the 315 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 2: Bayona Wetlands. That we destroyed a lot of the wetlands 316 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 2: in southern California, but here was a place that was 317 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 2: still preserved and still beautiful. And then because they lived 318 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 2: in the RVs, they started dumping their waste out of 319 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 2: the RVs, so you had all this human waste, fecal waste, urine, garbage, 320 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 2: everything going into the wetlands. And then the homeless were 321 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 2: living there and we I remember this. We drove down 322 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,120 Speaker 2: the path and there would be guys like jumping out 323 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 2: at you and yelling, and they were living in tents 324 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 2: and in sleeping bags, and they were sprawl and we called, 325 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 2: you know, called everybody in the world. Nobody would do 326 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 2: anything about it. Eventually, because this was during the Mike 327 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 2: Bond and arrow. He was the councilman on the West 328 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 2: side of LA and he was an atrocious human being 329 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 2: still is. And when he finally got replaced, he was 330 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 2: revolted against buy for many reasons. 331 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: Tracy Park came in place, got cleaned up. It was him. 332 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: It was him. It was him who allowed the filth. 333 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 2: But what I noticed is not one environmental group was 334 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 2: complaining about it. And that's when I'd learned that, oh 335 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 2: there's a hierarchy here and the mental patients and the 336 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 2: drug addicts were considered on a higher realm. 337 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 1: Than the environment. 338 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 2: Well, one day I got an email from a woman 339 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 2: named Michelle Epstein at the Sierra Club to me and 340 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 2: my wife, and she was whining that they fell short 341 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 2: of their fundraising goal. And you know, they had some 342 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,119 Speaker 2: matching money, a matching donor, and they were given an 343 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 2: extra twenty four hours to hit their goal. Then the 344 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 2: matching do owner would come through and so they you know, 345 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 2: it's all the raw ross stuff that you get for 346 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 2: a fundraising letter, and I want to stress that the 347 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 2: only way we can accomplish everything we have planned is 348 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 2: making our campaign goal before midnight, asking for anything ten 349 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 2: twenty five to fifty dollars. It really pissed me off 350 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,879 Speaker 2: because by this time we've been fighting this by on 351 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 2: a wetlands thing for a while. So I wrote back, 352 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 2: and I almost never do this, Michelle, this is John 353 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 2: Debor's husband. 354 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: We've given money in the past. We used to bike 355 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: through the wetlands. 356 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 2: Why with all the money and power your organization has, 357 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 2: do you allow all those drug addicted, mentally ill vagrants 358 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 2: to dump all their human waste, needles and garbage into 359 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:50,360 Speaker 2: the wetlands. I'll await the woke, politically correct public relations 360 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 2: words salad that questions like this usually generate. It's disgusting. 361 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 2: You have no excuse, and you feel no shame. I 362 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 2: wrote back to Michelle, and then I waited. That was 363 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 2: on April twenty third of twenty twenty two. Six days later, 364 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:11,439 Speaker 2: I wrote again, no answer. They never did answer. 365 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 1: They never answered you. 366 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 4: No, no, You needed to add one more line, right, Sorry, 367 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 4: but I would have said if you ever expect me 368 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 4: to donate money again, this is what you need to do. 369 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,239 Speaker 4: How dare you ask me for money when you're not 370 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 4: even You don't even answer my eight letter. 371 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 2: And it wouldn't be controversial to keep the wetlands clean 372 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 2: except the Sierra Club when Ultra woke, and I didn't 373 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 2: know the details of it, I just judged by their behavior. 374 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 2: And then the New York Times had a long piece 375 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 2: today and it's called the Sierra Club embraced social justice. 376 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 2: Then it tore itself apart. They've lost sixty percent of 377 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 2: their members. They used to have four million, now they 378 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 2: have less than two million. They've laid off three rounds 379 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 2: of employees. They have a forty million budget forty million 380 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 2: dollar budget deficit. And what happened during Trump's first term. 381 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 2: They had a lot of donations and they wanted to 382 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 2: expand far beyond the environment. Suddenly they wanted to fight 383 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 2: for racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights. A 384 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 2: lot of the volunteers said, well wait wait, we signed 385 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 2: up for to protect the environment. They didn't want to 386 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 2: fight all these other issues. The Sierra Club leaders say no. 387 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 2: In fact, those who protested the change of mission ended 388 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 2: up getting that investigated by the Sierra Club. The Sierra 389 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 2: Club hired investigators and sick demon their own volunteers, their 390 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 2: own workers who wanted to continue protecting the environment. And 391 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,719 Speaker 2: I'll give you an example of that in a moment. Well, 392 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 2: i'll give you an example of They issued an equity 393 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 2: language guide. An equity language guide. You should not use 394 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 2: the words vibrant and hardworking because they reinforced racist stereotypes. 395 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: Vibrant, hardworking was racist. 396 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 2: Lame duck session was out, lame was offensive. You shouldn't 397 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 2: even use the word Americans because it excluded non US citizens. 398 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 2: This was the height of woke in the late teens. 399 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 2: In the early twenty twenties, after George Floyd, they wanted 400 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 2: to defund the police. Well who do you call to 401 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 2: protect the environment when something really bad happens. They wanted 402 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 2: reparations for slavery. They even turned on their its own founder, 403 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 2: John Muir, because he had used some racist stereotypes in 404 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 2: his ratings in the eighteen sixties. They surveyed their members, 405 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 2: the DU's paying members, that's the most hardcore supporters, and 406 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:15,199 Speaker 2: the members said they ranked climate change as their top worry. 407 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,400 Speaker 1: Racism tied for last. 408 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 2: Yet, the Sierra Club's whole mission became pointed towards racism, 409 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 2: and anybody who disagreed was accused of bullying or toxic behavior. 410 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 2: And here's one example. As a woman named Deliah Malone 411 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 2: and a cologist and a volunteer in Colorado, she heard 412 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 2: from attorneys hired by the Sierra Club. They wanted to 413 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 2: interview her, and she said, well, what's the claim? Who 414 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 2: made the claim? And they said, well, we can't tell you. 415 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: Well, you know what had happened. 416 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 2: She had gotten scolded because she suggested at a meeting 417 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 2: that the club should lobby Colorado's legislature to protect wolves. 418 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,479 Speaker 2: And one of the staff said, well that's fine, Delia, 419 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 2: but what do wolves have to do with equity, justice 420 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 2: and inclusion? And she protested and they sick lawyers on 421 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 2: her to do an investigation. What do wolves have to 422 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 2: do with equity, justice, and inclusion. There's a lot more 423 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 2: to this story. You ought to read it. I mean, 424 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 2: this was one of the great environmental organizations and they 425 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 2: lost their freaking minds and they're wasting everybody's money. And no, 426 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 2: they're never ever ever going to get another dollar from me, obviously, 427 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 2: and they shouldn't get your dollar because they're not spending 428 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 2: it on protecting the environment, and that's why they had 429 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 2: nothing to say about the Biona Wetlands being taken over 430 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 2: by an army of mental patients and drug addicts and vagrants. 431 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 2: And I picked it up, but I had no idea 432 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 2: it ran this deep. I should write them again. I 433 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 2: should have follow up to this letter. 434 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI A 435 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 5: six forty. 436 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 2: John Cobalt Show, and then four o'clock our podcast will 437 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 2: be released John Covelt's Show on demand, So if you 438 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 2: missed stuff today, we had a rundown right at the 439 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 2: start of the show with Joe Khalil from A News Nation, 440 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 2: and he told us what's been going on in Washington 441 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 2: behind the scenes that led to the shutdown, the end 442 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,120 Speaker 2: of the shutdown, the vote today in the Senate, it's 443 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 2: going to the House tomorrow, then Trump's going to sign it. 444 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 2: And we also had Alex Stone on to talk about 445 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 2: how long it's going to take to get the airlines 446 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 2: and the airports back in order. So you can hear 447 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,640 Speaker 2: that and many other things on the John Cobelt Show 448 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 2: on demand, the podcast on the iHeart app. You know 449 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 2: what we're gonna have on tomorrow. And you know, for 450 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 2: years this idea like this would pop up, and usually 451 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 2: it would be a crazy person and we have them 452 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 2: on the show for entertainment, and they had some unworkable 453 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 2: idea of splitting California up into two parts, or three parts, 454 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 2: or six parts, and for different reasons. The reasons would 455 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 2: change time, but it's been going on for decades. I'm 456 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 2: thinking now probably time to do the big split. And 457 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 2: we're going to talk to James Gallagher. He's a state assemblyman. 458 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 2: He represents some counties north of Sacramento and northern and 459 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 2: eastern California, from the Oregon border down the length of 460 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 2: the Nevada Arizona border right up to Mexico. There's a 461 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 2: lot of counties there, and they're much more sparsely populated, 462 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 2: they're much more Republican, and Gavin Newsom has ripped their 463 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:37,719 Speaker 2: congressperson away from many of them. You know, there's only 464 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,679 Speaker 2: nine Republicans in Congress from California. After Newsom's Prop fifty, 465 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 2: there could be only four. And so you have these 466 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 2: longtime Republican voters in longtime Republican districts with longtime Republican 467 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: Congress people, and they're now going to get left wing 468 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 2: lunatics because the way they drew the districts, one of 469 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 2: them goes from the eastern part of California the way 470 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 2: to Marine County, so you're gonna get you know, left 471 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 2: wing Bay Area whack jobs and that, you know, I've 472 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,640 Speaker 2: already carried on enough how wrong that is. And Gallagher 473 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 2: has said, well, fine, that's it. Time for a divorce, 474 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 2: and let's have the coast left coast of California. It'll 475 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 2: run along a narrow but heavily populated strip along the 476 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 2: coast and a wider, far less populated Eastern California or 477 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 2: whatever they're going to call it. Let's separate, so at 478 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,880 Speaker 2: least we get proper representation in Washington because Newsome and 479 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 2: a weirdo like Scott Wiener, they don't care, They have 480 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 2: no interest in these people, and it's completely wrong. I 481 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 2: think what Newsom did was destructive and unforgivable. I'm hoping 482 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 2: the Supreme Court will invalidate the whole thing, but if 483 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 2: they don't, then I think James Gallagher is right, you know, 484 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 2: And I think all a lot of the progressives on 485 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 2: the coast, in the Bay Area here in LA they 486 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 2: would want all the people from me's California to disappear 487 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 2: and be separated from the state. I don't think anybody 488 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 2: would contest this divorce. So we'll talk to him about 489 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 2: it tomorrow and Conway's next, and we'll be back tomorrow one. 490 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 2: Michael Krozer has the news live in the KFI twenty 491 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 2: four hour newsroom. 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