1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: I Am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Today's a big day. We're 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: on the air from one until four, and then after 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: You could listen to what you missed last hour. We 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: had Todd Spitzer on the Orange County DA. We were 7 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: celebrating the first day that Prop thirty six is the 8 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: law here in California. It passed by about a seventy 9 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: to thirty margin on election day and it goes into 10 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: effect today. And so we talked with Todd Spitzer because 11 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: he was with us way back in February when we 12 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: did our signature gathering show that really really kicked off 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: the whole drive to get this thing on the ballot. 14 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 1: We were down in Anaheim at the Honda Center and 15 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: I think we got over thirteen hundred CANFE listeners to 16 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: come and sign the petition in just three hours. Thirteen 17 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: hundred people. And that was a sign that this thing 18 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: was going to be big. And it has been big. 19 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: And I tell you who's one man who's very pleased 20 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: about it is Matt Cappalaudo. If his name is familiar. 21 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: We've had Matt on many times as he and his 22 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: family suffered the worst tragedy A few days before Christmas 23 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, about five years ago now, his daughter 24 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:23,839 Speaker 1: Alexandra took what she thought was a percocet. It had 25 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: fentanyl in it, and she died from fentanyl poisoning in 26 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,279 Speaker 1: her bedroom shortly after. She was only twenty years old. 27 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: And ever since then, Coppolado went to the Sacramento legislature 28 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: again and again and again to get Alexandra's law passed, 29 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: and finally it became part of Prop. Thirty six, and 30 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: so now Alexandra's law is on the books as part 31 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: of Prop. Thirty six. But the road it took he 32 00:01:54,800 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: got denied. I cannot tell you what terrible awful human beings. 33 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: But the human beings I didn't even know I could 34 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: call them. Some of these people in Sacramento, they're terrible, 35 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: awful people, they really are. I mean, they gave Copilotta 36 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: such a hard time, and they constantly kept blocking Alexandra's law. 37 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: They did not want to put fentinyl dealers in jail 38 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: for any reason, even if they killed people. I mean, 39 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:28,119 Speaker 1: I mean, they we just really have disgusting representatives in Sacramento, 40 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: mostly Democrats. I mean, he he, the Republicans ever blocked 41 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: this stuff. All right, let's get back Copolata on how 42 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: are you. 43 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 2: Matt Hi John? Thank you. It's a good it's a 44 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 2: good day. This was a great Christmas present. 45 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I'm very happy about it. But I 46 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,519 Speaker 1: start to think about the long road that you took 47 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: to get to this point, and it makes me crazy. 48 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: But yeah, let's let let's enjoy this moment because there 49 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: aren't too many days like this. First, explain Alexandra's Law, 50 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: named after your daughter. It's part of Prop. Thirty six. 51 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: What does it do? How does it treat fentanyl dealers? 52 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: So Alexandra's Law it really reframes drug related deaths from 53 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 2: being viewed as accidental overdoses to actually being seen as 54 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 2: prosecutable homicides. Unlike first degree murder, which requires evidence of intent, 55 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 2: second degree murder requires evidence of knowledge, in this case, 56 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,519 Speaker 2: proving the drug dealer was aware of the deadly consequences 57 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 2: of illegally furnishing drugs. So by giving a drug dealer 58 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: in admonishment under Alexandra's Law, this provides that evidence of 59 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 2: knowledge the admonishment is given to someone convicted of a 60 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 2: drug offense. It's read by a judge, recorded in court records, 61 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 2: and provided to the defendant in writing. If the defendant 62 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 2: continues to be involved in the drug trade and a 63 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 2: death can be tied to their actions, then they can 64 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 2: be prosecuted for second degree murder. 65 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: And this is similar to drunken driving laws. Correct. If 66 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: somebody kills someone while under the influence, they're also given 67 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: a warning, and if it happens the next time, then 68 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: they would go to prison. 69 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, we've mirrored this exactly after what's known as the 70 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 2: Watson admonishment, and that's exactly right. It's an admonishment that 71 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 2: is given to somebody convicted of driving under the influence, 72 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 2: and if they continue and somebody dies as a result 73 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 2: of their continued actions, the prosecutors can proceed with a 74 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 2: second degree murder charge there too. 75 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: It's worked. 76 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 2: It showed to be very effective and dramatically reducing dui fatalities, 77 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 2: and we think the same thing will happen here. We 78 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 2: still need law enforcement to do their part because Alexandra's 79 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 2: law only works if we start arresting these people who 80 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 2: are involved in drugs. They need to get admonished. And 81 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 2: that'll be my focus in twenty twenty five, working with 82 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 2: law enforcement agencies to make sure they're aware of this 83 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 2: this tool that they have and to be out there 84 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 2: arresting these people involved in drugs, not to in their lives, 85 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 2: but so they get admonished. We want to have that 86 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 2: admonishment on records. 87 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 3: Right. 88 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 1: Well, we talked about this with Todd Spitzer last hour that 89 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: the next step here now that Prop. Thirty six is 90 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: on the books, is it has to be implemented. It 91 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: has to be enforced in order to actually send the 92 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: right people to jail or the right people to rehab 93 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: or warrn these fentanel dealers that you're not getting another chance. 94 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: Everybody's got to do their job in government. And he fears, 95 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: I fear. I'm sure you're worried about this too. It 96 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: being undermined because there's such resistance to being harsher on criminals. 97 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 2: Well, we still have a battle ahead of us. There 98 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 2: are certainly members of our legislature that want to see 99 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 2: this fail. But we are making progress here in my 100 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 2: county of Riverside County, Orange County under Todd Spitzer, Los 101 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 2: Angeles County under the new District Attorney of Nathan Hawkman, 102 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 2: I think we are going to see a shift. We 103 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 2: are finally going to see people being held accountable and 104 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 2: arrest being made. 105 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: Talk about you took three runs at Sacramento to get 106 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: this passed through the legislature, and you were blocked all 107 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: three times. Talk about that journey. What were what in 108 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: God's name were the objections from you know, the vast 109 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: majority of the Democrats. 110 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then and this turned out to be a 111 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 2: blessing in disguise because every year as we reintroduced it, 112 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 2: we we watered it down more and more just to 113 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 2: try to get something to pass. And uh, you know, 114 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 2: the the objections were really you know, you're all arguments 115 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 2: that don't hold water. This is a part of the 116 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 2: failed war on drugs. You know, this is going to 117 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 2: lock up minorities at higher rates than other people. You know, 118 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,919 Speaker 2: all the typical blah blah blah. You know, there's there's 119 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 2: no evidence, certainly that the loss of the manishment given 120 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 2: for d UIs has locked for incarcerated more people of color. 121 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 2: And uh, you know it's. 122 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: Meant loss is to lock up fentinyl dealers. It doesn't 123 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: say anything about the color of the fentinel dealer. It's 124 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: that you're dealing sentinel. 125 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 2: Right, But those were the arguments that were given. They 126 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 2: purported it as this is going to you know, charge 127 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 2: people with murder on their first you know, drug dealing offense. 128 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 2: It doesn't do that. They completely exploited this and misrepresented it. 129 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 2: But but what's great about it passing now through through 130 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 2: the ballot measure is this admonishment will be given to 131 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,679 Speaker 2: anybody convicted of any hard drug offenses. So that's involving heroin, 132 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 2: that's antetamine, cocaine. We had narrowed it down to just 133 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 2: sentinel specific to in an effort to try to get 134 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 2: it passed, So this brings it back to its original context. 135 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 2: The other thing I want to point out real fast, 136 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 2: where we kind of drew the line and said no 137 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 2: more negotiating. They wanted us, They said they would pass 138 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 2: it through committee if if we made it where law 139 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 2: enforcement would have to prove that the victim was not 140 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 2: seeking fentanyl in order to receive the admonishment. And that's 141 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 2: where we put our foot down and said no more negotiating, 142 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 2: because you know, how do you prove that the victim's 143 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 2: dead and whether or not, well, that's whether or not. 144 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: That's the purpose of those poisoned bills. It's something unprovable. 145 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 2: Correct, And whether they were seeking it or not, that 146 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 2: does not justify somebody providing this poison. 147 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: How did you end up getting these provisions part of 148 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: Prop thirty six? What was that process? 149 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 2: Well? Those behind Prop thirty six, and I commend them, 150 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 2: Greg Totten and Maurice. 151 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: Schubert dead right, those are district attorneys passed around the state. 152 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, they were watching this the whole time. They saw 153 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 2: our struggles with this, they saw how how much of 154 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 2: a of a common sense law this was, and they 155 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 2: brought it in under under their fold. 156 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 1: Well, I'm I'm sure Alexandra, your daughter would have been 157 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: very proud of you for all the work that you 158 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: did for five years and to have this finally pass 159 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: in her honor and and will it will prevent a 160 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: lot of other young people from inadvertently getting poisoned with 161 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: fanil and all the other drugs that you mentioned. I mean, 162 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: you've really done a great thing here that everybody would 163 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: stick it out for as long as you have and 164 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 1: go through all the agony and the frustration because of 165 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 1: the way our legislature is, but really it's something else. 166 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: Not very few people would go through it. Matt. 167 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 2: I want to give credit to the numerous parents that 168 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 2: stood by us, the fellow brief parents who've also lost 169 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 2: a child in this fashion. We had a number of 170 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 2: parents and are you know there was an element, mostly 171 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 2: in law enforcement that heard our voices and they they 172 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 2: helped us, you know, get this on Prop. Thirty six. Fortunately, 173 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 2: and if anybody wants to read the exact wording of 174 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 2: the admonishment, they can go on our charitable organization website 175 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 2: Stop Drug Homicide dot org and they can read it 176 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 2: exactly how it's written. 177 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: All Right, thank you Matt for coming on. We'll talk again. 178 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 2: Great work. Thank you, Johnathan, all right, thank you. 179 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: She would be very proud. And you did you did 180 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: your daughter's memory very well there. And also Terry Sworzer 181 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 1: wrote a great article in the Southern California News Group 182 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: about all this this week and this is this is this, 183 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: you know, it's terrible that, Matt, how about don't have 184 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: to go through all this for the last five years 185 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 1: and god knows how many other people died because this 186 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: law wasn't in effect in twenty nineteen. I mean, after 187 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,599 Speaker 1: her his daughter died, he started on this mission, and 188 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 1: year after year he kept bringing it through and watering 189 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: it down. But I'm telling you, we've got such awful, 190 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: awful people in the legislature, and still it's a super 191 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: majority of awful people. You would think if you had 192 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: any kind of decency and you heard Matt's story and 193 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: the story of so many other parents, you would say, absolutely, 194 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: we are going to put these guys in jail. After 195 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: they kill their first victim, they don't get a second one. 196 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: They're going to prison. This is bad. This is no 197 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: difference than shooting people in the head. It's like a 198 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: Russian Roulette game they were playing. I'm just totally flabbergasted 199 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: at the idiocy that we have among legislators and Governor 200 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: Newsom too. Speaking of the governor, when we come back, 201 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: he's declared a state of emergency. What do you think 202 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: the state of emergency is over all the crazed crime, 203 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: out of control, homelessness, the millions of dollars that he 204 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: has blown in various fraudulent schemes. What do you think 205 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: the state of emergency is excessive taxes? I'll tell you 206 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: we come back. 207 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KF I 208 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 4: am six forty ladies and gentlemen, Please welcome mar Antonio 209 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 4: via Ragosa. 210 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:35,599 Speaker 5: Oh, come on, come on, let's go. H You know, 211 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 5: I want fantastic, but I want it, you know, but 212 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 5: I'll tell you can you there? 213 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: You know? Uh? You know, I like, Hey, Tony Lallar, 214 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: it's just the season it is. Doesn't give you like 215 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: a little tingo a little chill to hear that again. 216 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,679 Speaker 1: And he's running for governor, and boy, if it's him 217 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,319 Speaker 1: and Kamala, I'm going with I'm going with Tony Vallar 218 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 1: because he's not nearly as empty headed as she is. 219 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't have a whole lot going on, 220 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: but at least he's got a couple of hamsters spinning 221 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: on a wheel inside that head of his. All Right, 222 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: so here's the big state of emergency. And I mean 223 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: I could waste a minute going through all the terrible 224 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: calamities going on in California that require a state of 225 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: emergency declaration. But which one did Gavin Newsom pick. He's 226 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 1: declared a state of emergency over bird flu. Well, bird 227 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 1: flu it can be dangerous so don't get intimate with 228 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: a bird. 229 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 6: Don't kiss your birds, John. 230 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: I do not kiss my birds. 231 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 6: I know, Well, they must be so lonely. 232 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: What do you do with your pets? 233 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 6: I kiss them. 234 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: They're dogs. 235 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 6: Yeah, kiss Okay, do you kiss your dog? 236 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,839 Speaker 1: No? I don't kiss animals. Do you know what's on 237 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: them that you're in German photos? 238 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 4: I know? 239 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 7: No. 240 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 3: Explain this now, no, because I have to hear my 241 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 3: husband ask the same question, and I'm over. 242 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: Well, maybe I'm rational and your husband's rational. No, you're 243 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: afraid of germs on a doorknot. Yes, but you're not 244 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: afraid of germs when you when you kiss. No, I 245 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: don't kiss them. 246 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 3: I don't kiss them on the mouth. I kissed them 247 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 3: on the side of the face. I give them little 248 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 3: kisses because they're so cute. 249 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: Do you know where dogs have been all day? 250 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 2: Yeah? 251 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 6: In my house. 252 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: No, I hate to break it to you, there's germs 253 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: in your house. Well, this is this is about bird flu. 254 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: Apparently the bird flu is on the move from the 255 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: Central Valley to southern California, and there is one patient 256 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: Louisiana who's severely ill and in the hospital. This is 257 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: the first case of severe bird flu and a human 258 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 1: in the United States, and so now they're worried? Is 259 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: that patient zero? Is that the beginning of this year's 260 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: pandemic fear mongering? So this state of emergency allows for 261 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: a more streamlined approach among state and local officials to 262 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: tackle the virus, flexibility around staffing, contracting, and other rules 263 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: to support California's evolving response. What the hell does that mean? 264 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: That's gibberish. But look, look look what they did with 265 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: the homeless situation. They blew twenty four billion dollars and 266 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: nothing worked. How do we know they can handle a 267 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: bird flu outbreak? I mean they botched the whole COVID thing. 268 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: The only thing they accomplished with their COVID response is 269 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: to shut down the entire economy and ruin all the 270 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: kids lives for a year and a half. Apparently, we 271 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: have the largest bird monitoring bird flu monitoring apparatus in 272 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: the whole nation. While the risk to the public remains low, 273 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: we will take all steps necessary to stop the spread 274 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: of this virus. Six and forty five dairy herds have 275 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: been infected. So this infects, this infects cows. 276 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 6: Your steak, your burger, and milk I don't drink milk. 277 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 1: Well, I know, gotcha. Let me see. Sixty one people 278 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: have gotten the virus. Most suffered from mild illnesses. You 279 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: get pink eye or upper respiratory inform irritation. Thirty four 280 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 1: people in California have gotten the bird flu H five 281 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: and one it's called. All of them except one got 282 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: it from infected dairy. Are these people who drinking raw milk? 283 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 2: Heard this? Christ I have? 284 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: This is Robert Kennedy's new obsession drinking raw milk. I 285 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: don't understand with him specifically, but there are a lot 286 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: of people like this. Everybody wants to undo all the 287 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,719 Speaker 1: all the scientific advancement advances that we made over one 288 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 1: hundred years ago that worked out really well. Like I 289 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: heard the other day, he was against the polio vaccine 290 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 1: and that wiped out polio correct. 291 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 5: I mean, I. 292 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: Understand people nobody should be forced to take a vaccine, 293 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: but the thinking that the polio vaccine was a bad 294 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: idea is really stupid. And now this, this this raw 295 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 1: milk thing. I get. You want to drink raw milk, 296 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 1: go ahead, But I don't get it. There's a reason 297 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: they came up with pasteurization because people would die from 298 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: a lot of funky uh infections, because who knows what's 299 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:01,919 Speaker 1: going on in cows. 300 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, there's a lot of ye oh, go ahead, no, no, yes, yes, 301 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 3: I was going to say that. 302 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: You had been you've been telling me about puss and milk. 303 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 6: For because it's true. 304 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: Well, I mean there's yeah, and there are there are 305 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: bugs in every box of cereal and cookies. Did you 306 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 1: know that I saw I saw a This was something 307 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: online the other day. I think my wife sent this 308 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: to me. She sends me all kinds of odd stuff too, 309 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: And it's it. It was like an X ray of 310 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: a box of cereal, and the X ray was magnified 311 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: like a thousand times or ten thousand times, and you 312 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: could see these little tiny bugs walking around in the cereal. 313 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 6: Well, I don't eat cereal, like. 314 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I know, I have heard of that. 315 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 5: Yes, I know. 316 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: You have millions of little tiny mites living on your skins. 317 00:18:58,960 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 1: I know. 318 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 3: And now I'm going to start scratchings. Let's not talk 319 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 3: about that. You know, sometimes it's just very hard to 320 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 3: be alive. 321 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: It's you're you're sharing your existence with I know, all 322 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: kinds of little creature, you know, what that are living 323 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 1: off you. 324 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,479 Speaker 3: There's nothing I can do about that except die, right, 325 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 3: But I don't have to drink milk so I can 326 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 3: eliminate puss. 327 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: They're fishing, they're feasting on your skin. What all these 328 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: mites are doing? 329 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 6: What it's discussed. 330 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: I got to hear about your puss and the milk, 331 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: so i'd figure out match you with the mites on 332 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: your skin. 333 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am. 334 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: Sixty continuing our celebration. Today is the day of Prop. 335 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: Thirty six becomes law in the state of California. Beaves 336 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: are going to go to prison. Drug addicts are either 337 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: going to rehab or prison. Fentanyl dealers are going to 338 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 1: go to prison. Yes, because you all finally woke up 339 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: and repealed Prop. Forty seven and repealed George Gascon and 340 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,119 Speaker 1: now we're going to have some more sanity back in 341 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: the state of California. But boy, we got a long 342 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: way to go. We have talked about in the show 343 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: today a lot of the wasted money in homelessness. We've 344 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: had several audits. Gavin, which is established at Gavin Newsom 345 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 1: Beyond a shadow of a Doubt, has blown twenty four 346 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: billion dollars on homelessness and has zero to show for it. 347 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: And here locally, the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, I 348 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: think that's what it is. LASA. They have nearly a 349 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: billion dollars a year for a budget and they have 350 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: blown all of it. Every year They've done nothing good. Well, 351 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: we've got another long running absolute fiasco. And I'm actually 352 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: just fascinated how this thing never dies. And this is 353 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: more of the corruption in California, the corruption of Gavin Newsom. 354 00:20:55,440 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 1: And maybe Trump is going to finally put a stake 355 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:06,120 Speaker 1: through the heart of this beast. High speed rail. What's 356 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: left of the LA Times. They did an article on it. 357 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 1: They used to have a great writer at the LA 358 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 1: Times who chronicled the high speed rail fiasco honestly, accurately 359 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: and in great detail. And I could never detect anything 360 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 1: but accurate truth. I never found anything that he withheld. 361 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: His name was Ralph Vardibidian, and Ralph Ardibidian really was 362 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: one of the last great writers. He was an older guy, 363 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 1: and he has since gone on to another news website 364 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: here in California. But man, he was the only one. 365 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: Even in one of the LA Times, thebes On the 366 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: editorial board constantly did cheerleading editorials insisting that we're supposed 367 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 1: to blow billions of dollars on high speed rail. He 368 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: kept putting out articles, front page articles saying that this 369 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: whole this whole operation is a disaster, and now we're 370 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: in our seventeenth year of that being a disaster. It 371 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 1: was passed in November of two thousand and eight while 372 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzeninger was governor. Now the La Times got a 373 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: woman named Colleen Shlby who wrote this story, and the 374 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: headline is completely distorted. I mean this is you know, 375 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: somebody tell Patrick soon s Young to go after the 376 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: headline writer here and also the writer high speed rail 377 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 1: financial crisis could get worse under Trump, implying that Trump 378 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: is going to do something terrible to ruin high speed rail. 379 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: He's not going to fund it anymore because we have 380 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 1: blown billions and billions of dollars and we got nothing 381 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: for it. That we've got no usable track. After you know, 382 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: when you're in year seventeen and you don't have any 383 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: usable track out in the whole state of California, it's 384 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 1: time to end it. And so Trump is saying we'll 385 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 1: no more money. Well, the crisis could get worse under Trump. Yeah, 386 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 1: I got technically that's true, but that is a biased headline. 387 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: You ought to talk about who made this crisis so bad, 388 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: and it's Gavin Newsom and the Democratic legislature. They should 389 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 1: have pulled the plug on financing years ago. But Gavin 390 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:25,399 Speaker 1: Newsom is corrupted by all the construction unions who have 391 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: thousands of make work, fake work jobs that they have 392 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: been doing for years and producing nothing useful. There's a 393 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 1: state senator named David Cortes from San Jose, chair of 394 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: the Senate Transportation Committee, and he says one of the 395 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: keys to keeping the project going is private developer investments. 396 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 1: Do you know I've heard that since two thousand and 397 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: eight there is no private developer invest There is not 398 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: a single company, a single investor who wants to spend 399 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,880 Speaker 1: a dime on this. Nobody. This has been a turkey 400 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 1: before day one because normally you line up your investors, 401 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 1: you line up your partners, before you even launch the 402 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: initiative on the ballot. You get everything together saying okay, 403 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 1: here's what we're going to do, and here are the 404 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: people that are going to finance it. Because it was 405 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: supposed to be a combination of public and private financing. Instead, 406 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 1: they conned us into borrowing ten billion dollars here in 407 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: California paid by state taxpayers. They never got a They 408 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: never got a dollar. Now, if you have had this 409 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: on the open market seventeen years worldwide and nobody has 410 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: contributed to dime, what does that tell you? We've got 411 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: so many huge companympanies, multi billionaires. I mean I read 412 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: the other day. You know how much Elon Musk is 413 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 1: worth right now on paper? Four hundred and seventy four 414 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: billion dollars, four hundred and seventy four billion dollars. And 415 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: anybody who bitches about him, I asked you, what did 416 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: you do? 417 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 2: Huh? 418 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: What did you do? Did you create Tesla? Did you 419 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: create SpaceX? You sending rocket ships up there? You got 420 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: the only successful electric car in the country. What did 421 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: you do? Are you providing? 422 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 7: Well? 423 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:35,160 Speaker 1: What's his other companies? 424 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 4: X X? 425 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 7: Right? 426 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 1: He finally took over that social media platform and made 427 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: it honest. Now everybody can participate instead of having so 428 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: many people censored. He's got Neurlink, which is going to 429 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 1: eventually make paralyzed people walk. How about that. He's got Starlink, 430 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: which provides internet satellite connection to people in war zones, 431 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: to people in hurricane zones like in North Carolina, among 432 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 1: among other people. I mean, what did you do today? Huh? 433 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 5: You know this? 434 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: All the criticism comes from the fuzzy slipper and robe crowd. 435 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,479 Speaker 1: These are the people who can't get out of their 436 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: underwear in the morning and drive to work. But they're 437 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,719 Speaker 1: the first ones to bitch about Elon Musk. I mean, 438 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: he's got he's got brain power like probably a ten 439 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: thousand times what you have. So you just sit at 440 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,919 Speaker 1: home with your bureaucratic government job and bitch about Elon Musk. 441 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: I can't stand those people. 442 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 5: You know what. 443 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 1: This is the guy who's like the Thomas Edison of 444 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 1: our times, like the the the uh were some of 445 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: the other great inventors, or like Albert Einstein. I mean he, 446 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 1: I don't understand you're you're complaining about him. How about 447 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: the thousands, millillions of parasites that work in government? How 448 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: about Gavin Newsom? You got a bitch about somebody? How 449 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: about a loser like him who's blown billions of dollars 450 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 1: twelve different ways? You complained to Elon Musk? Why Because 451 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: he creates jobs, he invents products that are wildly popular 452 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: that transform our way of life. He's the guy you're 453 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: mad at stupid, stupid world. Oh you know what Musk 454 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 1: says about this, well, Musk and Vivic Ramaswami has targeted 455 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: high speed rail in California as an area to cut spending. 456 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 1: Musk said billions of dollars has been spent on high 457 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: speed rail for practically nothing. US Congressman Kevin Kylie from 458 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 1: northern California is introducing legislation that would cut the federal 459 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: dollars to the project. Here's one guy named Andy Cunns. 460 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: That's an unfortunate name. He is president, chief of executive 461 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: of the US High Speed Rail Association, and he is bitching. 462 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: More than twenty five countries, most of them smaller than California, 463 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: have been operating clean, safe and fast high speed rail 464 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 1: systems for years. We should be leading, not following the 465 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: rest of the world. Yes, but we're corrupt and incompetent. 466 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: The other twenty five countries apparently aren't. That's the thing. 467 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: We gave them the billions of dollars. They're in year 468 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 1: seventeen and we've got nothing. That's why you cut it 469 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: off by the way in here? You know how I 470 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: told you they want to build. They might just settle 471 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: for one hundred and nineteen miles from baker to Merced, 472 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: which of course is a ridiculous route. It's not even 473 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: Bakersfield in Merced, it's actually a Shafter Toco. Those are 474 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: the towns. Wassco is outside of Bakersfield. I think Shafter 475 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: is outside of Merced, or maybe it's the other way around. 476 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: I don't know because there's hardly any people that in 477 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: those towns. I don't know exactly where they are. But 478 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: the train stations are going to be Shafter to Wasco. Well, 479 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: who's going to get there to take the train to what? 480 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: In a normal world, this entire project would be canceled. 481 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: But Newsom is corrupt and stupid. But who are people 482 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: angry at? Elon Musk? That tells you everything you want 483 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: to know about humanity. 484 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 485 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock in studio. Bill A. Saley, 486 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,959 Speaker 1: who is the legislator from Inland Empire. We've had him 487 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: on the show many times, and he's gonna come in 488 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 1: here and talk about a number of things. Today is 489 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: the day that Prop. Thirty six becomes law in the 490 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: state of California, So thieves, drug addicts, and sentinel dealers 491 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: will go to prison again, although the drug addicts will 492 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 1: get a shot at rehabilitation first. And Bill is not 493 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: afraid to describe exactly what goes on in this cesspool 494 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: and Sacramento. So we're going to talk with him next hour. 495 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: This story I want to play Eric if you get 496 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 1: clip number five ready. Yeah, you go on cruises. I 497 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: go on cruises, and I'm always worried what if you 498 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: accidentally get on the cruise filled with just not the 499 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: right demographic or you've got a lunatic on board, right, 500 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: because it could be several thousand people on the cruise 501 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: and somebody is going to have mental disorder or some 502 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: kind of alcohol or drug addiction, or some bad relationship 503 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: sorts itself out. This is from Fox eleven and it's 504 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: about a Royal Caribbean cruise ship which sailed for sailed 505 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: to Ensnata an hour after it left San Pedro. Listen 506 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: to what happened. 507 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:57,959 Speaker 7: I spoke to a family member of the man who 508 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 7: died on the cruise ship he was a bored with 509 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 7: his little son and his wife some other family members. 510 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 7: They say his enraged behavior was completely uncharacteristic of him, 511 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 7: that he's a very nice person, and they're trying to 512 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 7: get to the bottom of exactly what happened. But they 513 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 7: are absolutely devastated, as is the man we introduced you 514 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 7: to yesterday video. 515 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: I should set this up. This passenger went nuts on 516 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: the ship and they had to detain him, and then 517 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: he died while in detainment. Yeah, so that's who the 518 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: reporter's talking about there right continue. 519 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 7: Yesterday who videotaped the incident. 520 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 8: I just want to give my condolences to the family, 521 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 8: and I'm really sorry. Nobody deserves to die, especially like that. 522 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 7: Shocked and saddened Christopher McHale says he's heartbroken no to 523 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 7: learn an unruly cruise ship passenger has died. The Coroner's 524 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 7: office confirms thirty five year old Michael Virgil died aboard 525 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 7: Royal Caribbean's navigator of the seas. 526 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: Hest in Peace. 527 00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 5: We just needed some hell. 528 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 7: It was supposed to be a fun cruise to Mexico, 529 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 7: water slides, hot tubs, even an escape room on board, 530 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 7: but an hour after departing the port out of San Pedro. 531 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 7: Michael says Virgil gone off the elevator on the wrong 532 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 7: floor and started making threats, screaming profanity and rachel slurs. 533 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 8: The gentleman that was drunk said that he was going 534 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 8: to kill us, and then he started chasing us down 535 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 8: the hallway. The crew member that I was running with 536 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 8: was able to lock himself in one of the towel rooms. 537 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 7: Michael says Virgil injured two crew members and then captured 538 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 7: video of him trying to get to that crew member 539 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 7: by kicking the door to the towel room with his 540 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 7: steel toed boots. 541 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 8: And he was asking for God to forgive him. So 542 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 8: I mean, I forgive him, you know, but I forgive him. 543 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 8: He's it's awkwod. 544 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 7: Shirtless and exhausted. Virgil is surrounded by security. Michael says 545 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 7: they used bear or pepper spray, towels, zip ties, and 546 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 7: eventually handcuffs to detain Virgil, but one of his family 547 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 7: members says security injected Virgil with. 548 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: Some sort of sedative. 549 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 6: Within an hour, he died. 550 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 7: The family member says Virgil's enraged behavior is completely uncharacteristic 551 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,479 Speaker 7: of it sure that he was a good man who 552 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 7: leaves behind a white stock and seven year old son 553 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 7: also aboard the cruise. 554 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: You know what, you can stop it, you know, I 555 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 1: your last moments in life. You shouldn't be described as 556 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 1: shirtless and exhausted. 557 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 6: I feel really sorry for that seven year old son. 558 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 6: I hope he wasn't watching all. 559 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 4: This go down. 560 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's all of the television now I know. 561 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: But I mean he sounded like a wild animal screaming. 562 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: I don't know he was. They said he was drunk. 563 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: It's gotta be more than an alcohol Yeah, yeah, I 564 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: mean he's trying to kick the door down, terrorizing the 565 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: poor guy in the other side of the door, locked 566 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: in a towel closet. What set him off exactly? And 567 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 1: he's he's screaming profanity. Of course, that game a sedative. 568 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: It's like like, give him a bear tranquilizer. 569 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 6: That is can you I can't even imagine. 570 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: I'm amazed it wasn't on a ship. You were you 571 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: were ticking. 572 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 6: I don't go on those big cruise lines anymore. 573 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 1: There are certain cruise lines and certain runs where you 574 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 1: know that it's going to be riff rashed. 575 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just that well, it's just I don't like 576 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 6: to be with thousands of people. 577 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, but confined, Yeah, a lot of drunks and lunatics. Yeah. Uh, 578 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 1: all right, we come back. Bill Shaley's going to come in. 579 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: He's the state senator, Republican in the Inland Empire, and 580 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 1: uh we're talk him an upgrade. He's an assemblyman. Sorry, 581 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,280 Speaker 1: he should be actually he should be governors. 582 00:34:59,320 --> 00:34:59,680 Speaker 2: What it is. 583 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: Bill A. Saley ought to be governor and he was 584 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:05,840 Speaker 1: going to tell the truth about what's going on on 585 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,719 Speaker 1: the inside because as Sacramento is an absolute disaster and 586 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 1: it's going to remain a disaster because the idiot voters 587 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 1: sent another Democratic supermajority to Sacramento. Like the life hasn't 588 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,959 Speaker 1: been bad enough the last ten years, you want another 589 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 1: two years like this? Debor Mark Live in the KFI 590 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the 591 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,399 Speaker 1: John Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show 592 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: live on KFI AM six forty from one to four 593 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,040 Speaker 1: pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on 594 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app.