1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,720 Speaker 1: Can. 2 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 2: If I am six forty you're listening to the John 3 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 2: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome John Cobelt's show. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 2: We are live on the radio every day from one 5 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 2: till four o'clock and then after the show, whatever you 6 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 2: miss you pick up on the podcast John Cobelt Show 7 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 2: on demand also on the iHeart app, and again that 8 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 2: gets posted as shortly after four o'clock. There's a lot 9 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 2: of big stories competing here, but I want to get 10 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 2: to something that impacts you every day, every week, and 11 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 2: that is the price of gasoline. And we often list 12 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 2: the prices and I'm going to do it again because 13 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 2: I want you to have a baseline as because there's 14 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 2: big news today that's going to send the prices even higher, 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 2: and that is the price of gas for galloner regular 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 2: in California is now four dollars and eighty six sets. 17 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: That is way higher than the national average, way higher. 18 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 2: And a lot of states. Do you know there's twenty 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 2: one states. It's right in front of me. I'm looking 20 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 2: at the screen. You can go to gasprices dot AAA 21 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: dot com look up the state by state gas prices. 22 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: It's going to shock you because Mississippi is at two 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 2: dollars and seventy cents, Tennessee is at two seventy, Oklahoma 24 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 2: two seventy one, Texas two seventy four. In fact, there's 25 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 2: twenty one states, twenty one of them under three dollars 26 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 2: a gallon, and there's forty four states under three dollars 27 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 2: and forty cents a gallon. We're at forty six. We 28 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 2: are more than two bucks ahead of about a dozen 29 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 2: states here. And it's going to get a lot worse. 30 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 2: As I've been telling you, California Air Resources Board issued 31 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 2: a new fuel standard late last year, and sometime this year, 32 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 2: gas prices are going to go up another sixty five cents, 33 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 2: and the Democrats in the legislature refuse to block the 34 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: price increase. So if you're talking about a four dollars 35 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 2: and eighty five cent baseline, you add another fifty five cents. 36 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 2: That's five dollars and forty cents. Also, the gas tax 37 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 2: is going up on July first, a few more cents. 38 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 2: And this news today, and this is really awful. James 39 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 2: Gallagher posted this on X and he wrote, good morning California. 40 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: And Gallagher is an assemblyman. He says another gas refinery 41 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 2: is closing, and I looked it up and Valero has 42 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 2: given notice that it's Benicia Benetia, California refinery is going 43 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 2: to close. It's going to be idled, restructured, or cease 44 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 2: by the end of April twenty twenty six. And that 45 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 2: is going to cut even further. We were down to 46 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 2: about eight refineries. There were two more announced that announced 47 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 2: its closure. Phillips sixty six announced two refineries would close 48 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 2: in the Carson area, and now you have v Laro 49 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 2: closing one in Benetia. I guess that makes it seven 50 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 2: to eight. We used to have not that long ago, 51 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 2: forty three refineries. And that's because of all the terrible, 52 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 2: terrible policy in California. It's caused like three quarters of 53 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 2: the refineries to close. Actually over more like more like 54 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 2: eighty percent of the final of the refineries close, and 55 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 2: so the gas prices are going to further go up 56 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 2: past that. Now tomorrow we're gonna have Brian Jones on, 57 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 2: and Brian Jones is the let me get this right, 58 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 2: the Senate Minority leader, and he sent out a warning 59 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 2: today to brace yourself even higher gas prices and fuel 60 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 2: shortages and rising costs across the board, because if gas 61 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 2: shoots up, that means the cost of transporting goods all 62 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 2: over the state goes up. Also, the Laro, there's gonna 63 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 2: be job losses because now it says Phillip sixty six 64 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 2: that closure affects nine hundred workers. Chevron's laying off six 65 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 2: hundred workers, and there's going to be hundreds of people 66 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 2: laid off because of the the Laro closure. So we're 67 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 2: losing thousands of jobs, good paying jobs in the oil industry. 68 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 2: And I don't know if you noticed, but we still 69 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 2: need oil and gas. You know, it's forty million people 70 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 2: in this state, and this is done on purpose. They 71 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:07,559 Speaker 2: are trying to force everybody to go electric, even though 72 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 2: we don't have an electric grid, and nobody wants the 73 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 2: electric cars other than Tesla's. And the same left wing 74 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 2: crowd is busy fire bombing Teslas and fire bombing Tesla dealerships. 75 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 2: Newsom is completely out of his mind. But it's all 76 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 2: part of the plan. And this is really abusive. I mean, 77 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 2: you look at these gas prices around the country and 78 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 2: I just I go get crazy pissed off. I mean, 79 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 2: you know one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 80 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 2: States in the two dollars in the two seventies, and 81 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 2: then you have a set of states in the two 82 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 2: d's and the two nineties, and you scroll all the 83 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 2: way to the bottom, and California is at four eighty six, 84 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 2: creating is at diesel fuel is at five dollars and 85 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 2: a penny. 86 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 3: And and what you. 87 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 2: Don't see is how the regulations in this state force 88 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 2: the oil refineries out of business that they can't survive. 89 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 2: This isn't cool. There is no replacement. There is no 90 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 2: electric power grid that's been built there. 91 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 3: There is not a practical grid of. 92 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 2: Electric fueling stations, charging stations that's been built. I mean, 93 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 2: it is so nuts and so wrong. And nobody, nobody, 94 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 2: the voters aren't paying attention. Normal people are not paying attention. 95 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 2: They're just you know, nodding along. They pay their five 96 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 2: bucks a gallon, and they pay one hundred dollars for 97 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:04,919 Speaker 2: a tank every week. Meantime, you know, we're getting close. 98 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 2: By time we're done with that sixty five cent increase 99 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 2: next year and the extra tax we are going to 100 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 2: be paying almost double what other states pay, almost double. 101 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 2: He never answers to this, and a big key and 102 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 2: we talked about this last week was USC came out 103 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 2: and said that, And this is Michael mcchey. 104 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 3: We had him on the show. 105 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 2: He's with the professor at the USC Marshall School of Business, 106 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 2: and he did a study. He looked at fifty years 107 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 2: at California data and he said, flat out, California's high 108 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 2: gas prices and supplied dilemmas are by design largely self inflicted, 109 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 2: the result of directed policies and the litany of regulations, taxes, fees, 110 00:07:55,720 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 2: and costs. That was the study. Michael mcche, the USC professor, Sir, 111 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 2: he told the truth. Nobody has asked Newsome about this. 112 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 2: Newsom did a big dance a few weeks ago, a 113 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 2: few months ago too, you know, holding a special session 114 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 2: they were going to have a Blue Ribbon commission look 115 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 2: into price gouging with the oil companies. Well, miche found 116 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 2: that there is no price gouging, there's no price manipulation, 117 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 2: there's none of that. It's entirely the governor and the 118 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 2: legislature one hundred percent. So now we're looking, you know, 119 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 2: five point fifty a gallon in gas, and the price 120 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 2: of oil recently has dropped considerably. I'm just I'm just shocked. 121 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 2: No coverage of this, no sustained coverage of it in 122 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 2: any meaningful way outside of a few Republicans. Because there 123 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 2: are only few Republicans, there's no pushback in the legislature. 124 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 2: The Democrats are all going along with this. You are 125 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 2: going to be paying probably five point fifty six bucks 126 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 2: a gallon. And I told you I was in North 127 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 2: Carolina over the weekend. There's two dollars and eighty seven 128 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 2: cents there too, eighty seven. I'm giving you the real numbers. 129 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 2: And now you we were three refineries of are announced 130 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 2: their closing in the last few months, and there's only 131 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 2: maybe seven left, and there used to be forty three. 132 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 2: They're trying to force us to be all electric all 133 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 2: the time, except there is no supply of electricity, and 134 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 2: nobody wants those stupid electric cars outside the teslas, and 135 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 2: the Teslas are now politically incorrect to drive. I don't 136 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 2: know what's what's going to happen here. Something's got to 137 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 2: give when we come back. Newsom and the idiot Attorney 138 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 2: General Rob Bonta spent the day suing Donald Trump over 139 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 2: the tariffs. We'll talk about that coming up after one thirty. 140 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 2: We are going to have Alex Stone from ABC News 141 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 2: to talk about the revelations regarding Gene Hackman and his wife. 142 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 3: That's all I had. 143 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 144 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: six forty. 145 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 2: Coming up at two thirty, Alex Stone from ABC News. 146 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the new revelations and the 147 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 2: deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife. 148 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 3: Now. 149 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 2: Today first segment, we talked about how there's another major 150 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 2: refinery closing. Valero is closing one in northern California, which 151 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 2: is going to drive up the price of gasoline. You 152 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 2: got the California Aresa's Resources Board sixty five cent increase coming. 153 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 2: You've got another gas tax that's going to happen on 154 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 2: July the first. So we're talking about five point fifty 155 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 2: a gallon at least for regulars. And as we're going 156 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 2: to keep telling you, USC Professor says, these massive gas 157 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 2: price increase are entirely the fault of government. This is 158 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 2: Newsom and this is the Democratic legislature. But instead Newsom 159 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 2: and his sidekick Rob Bunt of the Attorney General, they 160 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 2: spent the morning filing lawsuits against Donald Trump over Trump's 161 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 2: tariffs because he Newsom and bonts is California is going 162 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 2: to lose a lot of money. And they say that 163 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 2: Trump has no legal right to impose the tariffs, that 164 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 2: if he declares a national emergency, there are other acts 165 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 2: he can take, but raising tariffs isn't one of them. 166 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 2: They say Congress is the body that can raise the tariffs. 167 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,319 Speaker 2: Let's just start with Rob Banta's argument. You're at a 168 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 2: press conference they had this morning, cut. 169 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 4: Together with Governor Newsom. I'm filing our fourteenth lawsuit against 170 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:11,439 Speaker 4: the President in less than fourteen weeks, this one challenging 171 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 4: the tariffs he unlawfully imposed under the International Emergency Economic 172 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 4: Powers Act. We're asking the court to reign in the president, 173 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 4: restore to our economy, and uphold the Constitution. The President 174 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 4: is yet again acting as if he's above the law. 175 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,719 Speaker 4: He isn't. He is yet again violating the US Constitution, 176 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 4: overriding Congress's authority, and breaching the separation of powers. It's simple. 177 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 4: Trump does not have the authority to impose these tariffs. 178 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 3: He must be stopped. 179 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 4: The gravity and instability of the situation at hand cannot 180 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 4: be overstated. The risk of California to our businesses, our workers, 181 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 4: our families cannot be overstated. Trump's tariffs are already hampering 182 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 4: the states ability as a major purchaser of goods ourselves 183 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 4: to contract for, purchase and sell goods. Already, vendors have 184 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 4: warned us that they're going to pass the cost of 185 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 4: Trump's tariffs onto the state of California. Trump may claim 186 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 4: he's a great businessman, but Trump's tariffs are truly terrible 187 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 4: for business, and they're breaking the law. The reality is, 188 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 4: the US Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse. 189 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 4: It's Congress's responsibility to set and collect taxes, duties, and excises, 190 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 4: including yes, tariffs, not the presidents. Congress hasn't authorized these tariffs, 191 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 4: much less authorized imposing tariffs, only to increase them, then 192 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 4: pause them, then imminently reinstate them on a whim, causing 193 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 4: our nation and the global economy whiplash. 194 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,680 Speaker 2: Trump is right right there, all right, stop stop, that's 195 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 2: Rob Bonta. Yeah, it is a ten percent tariff on 196 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 2: all goods, and there's extra tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. 197 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 2: And he was going to have further tariffs, which he rescinded. China's, 198 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 2: you know, is like one hundred and forty five percent. 199 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 2: You've heard this story going on for weeks here. One 200 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 2: of the aspects is the stock market took a big dump, 201 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 2: and Newsom relies on stock winnings for his budget. I mean, 202 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 2: he relies a lot on people cashing in their tech 203 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 2: stock increases. And the tech sector has been written hit 204 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 2: harder than most because of these declines, and he's looking 205 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 2: at a huge budget hole already. 206 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 3: And if. 207 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 2: Tax revenues come in short of expectations because people's tech 208 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 2: stocks dropped so dramatically, then he's got a load of 209 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 2: trouble because just this week he had to get an 210 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 2: extra three billion dollars to pay for illegal alien healthcare. 211 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 2: And he already borrowed three and a half billion dollars 212 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 2: for illegal alien healthcare. So on one end, this idiot 213 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 2: is spending over twelve and a half billion in total 214 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: on illegal alien healthcare. And he's looking at one of 215 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 2: his main sources of revenue, the stock sales that wealthy 216 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 2: people makes as a main driver of the state's income, 217 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 2: the state government's income. And so he's panicking here, and 218 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 2: so he's he and Bonte are more interested in bragging 219 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 2: about the lawsuits they file against Trump, and not about 220 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 2: gas that's going to go for five fifty or six 221 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 2: dollars a gallon, Not about the highest unemployment rate in 222 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 2: the country, not about the highest homeless rate by far 223 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 2: in the country. You know, this is all the stuff 224 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 2: that affects us. We're affected by the homelessness, the crime, 225 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 2: the high unemployment rate, the high gas prices. He doesn't 226 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 2: address any of that. Instead, fourteen lawsuits against Trump. It's 227 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 2: just astonishing how he thinks that's the basis of a governorship. 228 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 2: Screw screw the voters, Screw the taxpayers, as long as 229 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 2: he can beat his chest that he's suing Trump fourteen times. 230 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, we're going to talk 231 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 2: to Alex Stone form ABC News, Gene Hackman and his wife. 232 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 2: More details coming up coming out on why they died 233 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 2: in New Mexico. 234 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 235 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: six forty. 236 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 2: We are on every day one until four and then 237 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 2: after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the 238 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 2: iHeart app. That's the podcast version of the radio show. 239 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 2: And again we post that shortly after four o'clock Gene 240 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 2: Hackman is still dead and so is his wife, and 241 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 2: they had been dead for weeks. 242 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 3: Their bodies weren't claimed. 243 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 2: For quite a while, and it was so mysterious the 244 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 2: way they died. Not only the husband and the wife, 245 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 2: but one of the dogs was found dead. And we've 246 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 2: got new information. Alex Stone from ABC News is here 247 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 2: to explain. Hey there, John, Yeah, So, we've been given many, 248 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,479 Speaker 2: many hours body worn camera video and almost eight hundred 249 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 2: investigative photos from the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department. It 250 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 2: was ordered the release by the court in Santa Fe County, 251 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 2: and with it came a whole bunch of police reports 252 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:00,400 Speaker 2: and surveillance videos of Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy ra out 253 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 2: shopping before her death. She was picking up things like 254 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 2: respiratory medication and because she apparently thought she had COVID, 255 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 2: but all painting this picture of their final days when 256 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:13,400 Speaker 2: they died, and play some of it for you here. 257 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 2: In this audio from the body cam, you hear the 258 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 2: deputies arriving. They had gotten the call that a worker 259 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 2: had found what he thought was somebody down inside the 260 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 2: home could only see through a window, and the Santa 261 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 2: Fe County Sheriff's deputies arrived to make entry. 262 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 3: There's not another door, might be able to go around 263 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 3: this through or so they find their way in. 264 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 2: As they go in, there is a dog, a German 265 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 2: shepherd that is one of the living dogs. One died 266 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,679 Speaker 2: and two survived, but the German shepherdho's alive, protecting the 267 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 2: body of Betsy Arakawa, who is down in the bathroom 268 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 2: with thyroid pills strewn about on the countertop, and the 269 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 2: dog is sitting there protecting the body, and the deputies 270 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 2: as they go in, they're talking to the dog. Way 271 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,959 Speaker 2: we know from evidence photos of Betsy Rakawa's emails and 272 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 2: the trash can that was there in the bathroom, that 273 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 2: she thought she had COVID. She took a COVID test. 274 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 2: She canceled an appointment she had, telling the person an 275 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 2: email that she had the flu and cold like symptoms 276 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,919 Speaker 2: and that she had tested negative for COVID. Now we 277 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 2: know she had hauntavirus, the rare disease spread through rodent droppings, 278 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 2: more common in New Mexico than elsewhere, but still rare, 279 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 2: can mimic the flu and then in this case and 280 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 2: in many others, be deadly, and that she had been 281 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 2: dead for about a week before Gene Hackman died of 282 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 2: heart failure. He may have never, they believed mentally been 283 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 2: aware enough to have known, at ninety five years old 284 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 2: with Alzheimer's that his wife was dead. So they kept 285 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 2: clearing the home. They had not found him yet. They 286 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 2: had guns out because they didn't know what this was. 287 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 2: They had their guns drawn, and they continued to look 288 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 2: through the home. We see feet over here, saying that 289 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 2: they saw feet, and they go in with their guns 290 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,479 Speaker 2: out to look at what's around the corner, and they 291 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 2: find Hackman dead, just off the kitchen. 292 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 3: He's been down for a while. 293 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 2: You hear them putting their guns away there. They think 294 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 2: they smell gas. They open up windows and check appliance. 295 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,199 Speaker 2: His turns out, the gas company comes and except for 296 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 2: a very very minor, non lethal amount of gas and 297 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 2: that that was leaking out of a stove, that it 298 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 2: wasn't gas. It was just all the smells of everything 299 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 2: going on in there. But a firefighter asked them, Yeah, 300 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 2: I mean, they've been dead for quite a while. Firefighter 301 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 2: asked them, that was the gas leaking out of their bodies. Yeah, 302 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 2: I mean in a way and in food rotting and 303 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 2: that sort of thing. But there was a firefighter there 304 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 2: who asked you if they had heard whose house it 305 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 2: was people. 306 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: On Gene Hatchet. 307 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 4: That's what you. 308 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,199 Speaker 2: Yeah, So he explains to the deputies Gene Hackman he 309 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,959 Speaker 2: was an actor, and they kind of very interested in 310 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 2: that moment of learning who it was. There was another 311 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 2: report that we separately obtained that it's from the health 312 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 2: department that says there were quite a few signs of 313 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 2: rodent droppings and rodent nests and alive rodent on the 314 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 2: property in the garage. They had three in their garages 315 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 2: and in one of their cars. None of it was 316 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 2: in the house. The house came back clean for rodents, 317 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 2: but around the property where they were living there was 318 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 2: definitely roadent activity. And now we know with hantavirus you 319 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 2: can just sweep up rodent rat droppings and just when 320 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 2: it becomes airborne and gets up in the air and 321 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 2: you breathe in that dust, that that can be enough 322 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 2: if they're infected to get haunted virus from that. Because 323 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 2: I was wondering the wife, Betsy Arakawa, like she wasn't 324 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 2: alarmed by all the roading droppings. I thought they were 325 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 2: in the house, but I guess not. Yeah, they weren't 326 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 2: in the house. That house came back clean in the garages, 327 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 2: and it's not that uncommon anywhere, let alone in the 328 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 2: mountains of New Mexico on this huge property to find 329 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,439 Speaker 2: some roadent droppings and to probably clean them up and 330 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 2: not think much about it, and not knowing that you 331 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,719 Speaker 2: just breathed then a disease and she thought they were 332 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 2: the symptoms. They can mimic having a cold, And she 333 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,400 Speaker 2: thought she had a cold, and took that COVID test, 334 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,199 Speaker 2: went out and respiratory and we can tell from her 335 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,199 Speaker 2: Amazon history that is in the evidence that she was 336 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 2: buying really herbal type pills for respiratory health, trying anything 337 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 2: she could because clearly that's gonna work. Yeah, but that 338 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,719 Speaker 2: she had been out hot virus from roading droppings and 339 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 2: you're gonna take herbal pills. Yeah, But she didn't know 340 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 2: in that moment, there was no way to know. She 341 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 2: thought she had a cold and you know, or the flu, 342 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 2: and and was just trying to take care of it. Oh, 343 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 2: herbal pills aren't going to cure anything. So I'm just 344 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 2: amazed how people believe in all kinds of hocus pocus nonsense. 345 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 3: Uh so uh and he didn't know what was going 346 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 3: on at all. No, and no. 347 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 2: You see some from the evidence photos that there was 348 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 2: one open package of bagels there, there were some other 349 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 2: food items that were around, but there's no evidence that 350 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 2: he was eating during this time, that that he was 351 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 2: able to care for himself in that way. That there 352 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 2: was no food during the autopsy found in his stomach. 353 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 2: He clearly must have been drinking water at some point 354 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 2: or some kind of fluid because he did live for 355 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 2: about a week week and a half after she died, 356 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 2: but there's no indication. Maybe had a bite of something 357 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 2: here and there, but no indication that he was eating anything. 358 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 2: By the way, they call the deputies in the body cam, 359 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 2: they call his daughters in la in southern California, and 360 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 2: the daughters say that they hadn't talked to them in months, 361 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 2: that had been quite a while, that they were very private, 362 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 2: and that they had not chatted with them in months, 363 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 2: So it doesn't seem that they were super close. 364 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 3: And then nobody Yet nobody picked up the bodies for weeks. 365 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a little while on that as well 366 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 2: for the family to not just claim the bodies but 367 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 2: to actually pick them up. But the workers and we've 368 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 2: heard from them over and over again in these different 369 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 2: police documents and videos. They say that they were a 370 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 2: private couple as he got older, as Gene Hackman got older, 371 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 2: that he really withdrew from society. She would go out 372 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 2: and she seemed very healthy and fitness minded, but that 373 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 2: they didn't see much of him as as many people 374 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 2: do as they become get into their nineties where they 375 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 2: pretty much stay at home. 376 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, really looking forward to the nineties. Good luck on that. 377 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 3: You got a while? 378 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't. But that's exit bag time, all right, 379 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Alex. You got to thank you Alex Stone, 380 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 2: ABC News. 381 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, you got a while, not that long. 382 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 2: No, And I'm telling you I'm maybe on my uh 383 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 2: the day before I turn ninety. 384 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 3: I think that that'll be exit bad time. 385 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 2: I do not want to end up go ahead, because 386 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 2: I well, walking around in rodent droppings and it doesn't 387 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 2: bother me. You wouldn't wife sat on the floor that 388 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 2: I don't want to end up like that. 389 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 5: No, I don't blame you. I feel the same. Yeah, 390 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 5: you're going to go too, I am, yes, probably way 391 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 5: before that. I don't think I'll make in one of 392 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 5: those texts suicide back. 393 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, when we come back, have you this so 394 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:13,679 Speaker 2: offends me. I you know, I never go on like 395 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 2: TikTok and most of the social media nonsense. But there's 396 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 2: so much, so many disturbing trends there are now guys, 397 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 2: they're influencers. If you're a man and you're an influencer 398 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 2: on TikTok. 399 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 5: Hey. 400 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 3: Boy, did your dad failure? 401 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 2: And he's going on TikTok and part of the looks 402 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 2: maxing movement where men try to change the uh shape 403 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 2: of their face of their bones by using hammers. Oh, 404 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 2: they actually hammer their face in order to make themselves 405 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 2: more good looking. 406 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 3: I'm not making this up. 407 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 2: This was in Baron's magazine, which is a big financial magazine. 408 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 2: I'll tell you about it when we come back. Is 409 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 2: that going to be a trend now? 410 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 3: No, I doubt. It's a very painful. 411 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 2: One, whacking yourself with a hammer so you get a 412 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 2: better draw line. 413 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 1: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM. 414 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 3: Six forty coming up after two o'clock. 415 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 2: You know that MS thirteen member that Trump said to 416 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 2: the l Salvadoran supermax prison and all these wieners in 417 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 2: the media and in Washington are whining that he didn't 418 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 2: get due process. Well, they found a pretty awful crime 419 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 2: that he committed in his past. And this is the 420 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 2: guy that all the journalists and politicians and judges are 421 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 2: fighting to have him return to the US. Well, tell 422 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 2: you about it coming up now. Just absolutely low social media, 423 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 2: I really do. And there's nothing worse than all these idiotic, 424 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 2: stupid trends and fads and nonsense. And then everybody starts 425 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 2: reading about it and talking about it, and I try 426 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 2: to ignore most of it, but this one is just 427 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 2: like so stupid. There is something called looks sing. It's 428 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 2: one word double x l o O K s m 429 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 2: A x x I n G. It is an online 430 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 2: trend that pushes to young men all kinds of crazy 431 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 2: techniques to boost their looks and sex appeal. And for example, 432 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 2: and this is this is all real stuff. This is 433 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 2: in Baron's magazine, which is a serious financial magazine. A 434 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 2: male TikTok influencer strikes his cheekbones with a hammer. 435 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 3: That's terrible. 436 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 2: Try what a what a stupid species as we are huh. Now, 437 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,199 Speaker 2: The thing is he's using the sharp edge of the hammer. 438 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 2: He's hitting himself in his cheeks. 439 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 3: With the sharp edge. 440 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 5: It's cheaper than plastic surgery. 441 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:29,120 Speaker 2: John he calls it his skincare routine. It's also known 442 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 2: as bone smashing. And people online, I don't know if 443 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 2: they believe this or you know, they're just trolling people. 444 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 2: See some of these influencers put this outrageous stuff on 445 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 2: their site. They get so many followers, then they can 446 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 2: start selling all kinds of products. And I guess video 447 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 2: of a guy whacking himself in the face with the 448 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 2: sharp end of a hammer, Oh, that's gonna get your hits. 449 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 5: You know, people are under a lot of pressure to 450 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 5: look good, and this is next level. 451 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 3: I thought this was women suffered from that. 452 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 5: I think I think mostly women, but I think men. 453 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 5: I mean, don't you care about how you look? 454 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 2: John? 455 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I guess I do. 456 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 5: But you get your haircut, you go when you buy clothes. 457 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 5: You know you you play tennis, right, you obviously care. 458 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 2: Some of that is influenced by my wife. Okay, you 459 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 2: gotta see before and after pictures. 460 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 3: Show you sometimes and you can see why I wasn't 461 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 3: married earlier. Then I'll get some hits on social media. 462 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, before and after, Yeah, before and after meeting your 463 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 2: future wife. In fact, the first thing she did is 464 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 2: she dragged me to a store and insisted I buy 465 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 2: four shirts, and she took my old shirts and through 466 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 2: them all out. 467 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 3: I love that. 468 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 2: I didn't even have money for the shirt. Yeah, no, 469 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 2: it's I mean she she threw out gifts my mother 470 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 2: had given me. She was so appalled by my wardrobe. 471 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 3: That's funny. 472 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 2: It's bone smashing and it's a way to get an 473 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 2: angular jawline. Now, this apparently started among the in cells. 474 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 2: Do you remember the in cell movement? Yes, involuntary celibate men, 475 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 2: and they blame their lack of sexual activity on women. 476 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 2: That women are mean, and that women just want money 477 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 2: and status, and so guys that don't have the right look, 478 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 2: so the right job, they're always out of the running. 479 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 5: Okay, you can so turn that around, John and say, 480 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 5: guys just want younger women, blonde women, skinny women, tan women. Yeah, okay, 481 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 5: welcomes both. 482 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 3: You say, you can keep going. What else does she have? 483 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 3: Who is this woman? 484 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 2: You get there? Yes, there's a British influencer named Oscar Patel. 485 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 2: He promotes a concept called mewing. It involves pressing the 486 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 2: tongue into the roof of the mouth, and that's supposed 487 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 2: to improve your jaw and facial structure. You walk around 488 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 2: all dar coug press to the roof of your mouth. 489 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 2: They did a study at Dublin City University. They created 490 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 2: fake accounts registered as teenage boys, and their TikTok and 491 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 2: YouTube feeds were bombarded with male supremacy and miss misogynistic 492 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 2: content because all this, all this stuff comes out of 493 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 2: the idea that that women are are rejecting men, and 494 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,000 Speaker 2: it's led to these toxic beauty standards. If you don't 495 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 2: look like a Hollywood star, you might as well give up. 496 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,840 Speaker 5: It's the women's fault. Okay, I get. 497 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 2: It, it's the women's fault. In the end, yeah it's not. 498 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, well, no, we're telling you to do something so 499 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 5: stupid like hammer your face. 500 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 2: No, go hammer, go hammer your fish. I do want 501 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 2: to know. I'm not going to feed into it. I no, 502 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 2: I don't want to hammer my face. I'd like to 503 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 2: see the video of the guy hammering his face, though, 504 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 2: of course you would. I mean, how many times can 505 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 2: you whack yourself in the face with the sharp end 506 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 2: of a hammer. There's got to be a limit to that. 507 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 2: And how does the healing process make you look like 508 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 2: a movie star. 509 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 3: I don't know. 510 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 2: Nonsense, all right, I'll just have to live not knowing 511 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 2: when we come back. This illegal alien that Trump deported 512 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 2: without filling out the proper paperwork, and I'm talking about 513 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 2: Trump didn't fill out the paperwork, not the illegal alien. 514 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 2: And Trump's been whacked every day for it by the 515 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 2: media and judges and advocates and politicians. Well, it turns 516 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 2: out he's a real bad guy. Uh, just take it 517 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 2: from his wife. We'll tell you more. Debra mark Led 518 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 2: in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been 519 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 2: listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always 520 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 2: hear the show live on KFI AM six forty from 521 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 2: one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, 522 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 2: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.