1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: day from one to four o'clock. After four o'clock it's 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app, so 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: you can listen to what you missed. One thing you 6 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 1: should hear when we run it. At two o'clock, we 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: are going to talk to the Oklahoma Governor, Kevin Stitt. 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: And you're probably saying, why is this. Well, Kevin Stitt 9 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: is coming to Los Angeles and he and others in 10 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: his party are going to be giving a presentation at 11 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: to Los Angeles Athletic Club on Friday morning, and it's 12 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: about luring California businesses to Oklahoma. And this is a 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: big deal. This is happening all over the state, not 14 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: just Oklahoma obviously, but to Texas and Florida and Arizona, 15 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: Nevada and Oklahoma wants in on it. Already been getting 16 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: contacted by California businesses for quite some time. We lose 17 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: we have lost thousands and thousands of businesses here in 18 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: California over the last ten years. The business situation in 19 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,639 Speaker 1: this state outside of the mega tech companies is dire 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: and they are leaving. And we're going to talk to 21 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: Kevin Stitt coming up after two o'clock, and so you 22 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: could see what Oklahoma is offering and compare it to 23 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: what the back of the hand that businesses get from 24 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: the news of administration, and which state do you think 25 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: is going to be in a better place in the 26 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 1: next five to ten years. But first, Alex Stone government shutdown, 27 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: and there is a whole lot that affects us know 28 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: on the first day of a shutdown. Although Deborah when 29 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: yesterday when she heard the story, the first thing that 30 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: Debora wanted to know is what about the airline? What 31 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: about the TSA? And that's what Alex Stone is going 32 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: to tell us. Now, how is this going to affect 33 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: air travel? Well, yeah, so basically in the short term, 34 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 1: nothing when it comes to flying, But it depends on 35 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: how long this goes on. The TSA and FAA employees 36 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: are told that they still have jobs, and they have 37 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: that job, they've got to show up for work, but 38 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: they're not going to get paid when the I guess 39 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: it would be this Friday and around the fifteenth when 40 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: their paydays would come. If the shutdown is still underway, 41 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: and we know in the last hour so there's been 42 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: some cracks among Democrats that maybe they're a little bit 43 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: closer to a deal, but but they've still failed on one. 44 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: So the TSA says they've got fifty eight thousand of 45 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: their sixty one thousand workers who are considered to be 46 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: essential and they've got to come to work. But the 47 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: problem is if the shutdown drags on, people stop showing up, 48 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: they start calling in sick because they can't pay their 49 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: bills and they've got to have childcare and everything else. 50 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: So on day one, the TSA officers and the air 51 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: traffic controllers are on the job. By day thirty, that 52 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: would be a totally different thing. Johnny Jones, he's a 53 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: TSA officer. He says, you can only go so long 54 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: without a paycheck that they want to work, but their 55 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: mind is somewhere else dealing with paying bills, and they 56 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: just can't pay the bills. Childcare does not take IOUs, 57 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: Gasoline does not take IOUs. 58 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:24,679 Speaker 2: Your house payments do not take IOUs. 59 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: And sometimes it becomes very difficult to maintain focused on 60 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: the mission whenever you're trying to figure out how you're 61 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: going to get to it. From work, and so that's 62 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: the thing John. In the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen shutdown 63 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: went on for thirty five days, longest in history, and 64 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: TSA officers began as the days went on. First couple 65 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: of days, no problem, but then they began calling out 66 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: sick and that led to long security checkpoint lines. Air 67 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: traffic controllers they began calling out sick at the big 68 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: ATC centers that then created ground stops. In fact, the 69 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: air traffic controllers were credited with ending that shutdown because 70 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: once flights in New York and Florida were grounded because 71 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: they didn't have enough controllers. President Trump essentially ordered that 72 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: it be over and a deal was made and the 73 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: shutdown ended. This woman flying out of Columbus, Ohio today, 74 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: she says that's what she worries about. 75 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 3: You can only ask people to do so much genuinely, 76 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 3: even if a service is very important. People are only 77 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 3: going to do things out of the goodness of their 78 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 3: heart for so long. And I'm, you know, genuinely worried 79 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 3: about what's going to happen in the future when air 80 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 3: traffic controllers decide like, no, I can't do this anymore, 81 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 3: when you know, even the TSA agents decide like, hey, 82 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 3: I need to be paid, so yeah, I am pretty 83 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 3: worried about like flying in and out for now. 84 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: And this guy also flying today, has a message for 85 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: lawmakers to get it over with. At the lowest level, 86 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: we know what to do. We know our job, We 87 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 1: do our job every day. Please do your job, so 88 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: you know everything today is going to be normal at airports. 89 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: But the longer it goes on, little by little, they 90 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: should declare air traffic controllers and TSA agents as essential. Well, 91 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: they owe them, but well yeah, then yeah, yeah, they're 92 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: essential in the in the sense that they're being told 93 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: they got to come to work, but they're not getting paid. Yeah, 94 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: but you don't want grumpy, antagonized air traffic controllers or 95 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: no or distracted where they're thinking, how are you know 96 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: their child is at home alone right now, and how 97 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: are they gonna or they're hung gas And these aren't workers, 98 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: especially the TSA officers. They're not making a ton of money, 99 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: so it's not like they have a lot of money 100 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: to live off of when they're not getting paid. So 101 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: very quickly you've got people who can't pay for gas, 102 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: who can't pay for food, and then they got to 103 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: go find another job or stay home with the kids. 104 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: They're hungry, they're distracted, they don't notice the guns or 105 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: the bombs being smuggled onto the planes anymore, or they 106 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: just don't care in general. You know, at the point 107 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: where you're not getting paid, you're like, you're not not 108 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: like you're going to let a bomb go through. But still, 109 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: if you're not paying as much attention, well then yeah. 110 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: And then the air traffic controllers, a lot of them 111 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: seem to be having enough trouble these days. Well yeah, 112 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: you're reported on a lot of that. Yeah, so all right, 113 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: very good, thank you, you got it. Thanks John. All right, 114 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: that they should be paying the air traffic. 115 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 4: I told you that the other day, John, I warned you, 116 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 4: and you pooh poohed it. 117 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: You were okay, you were right. I was wrong? 118 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. Yes, yes, dear, Yeah, well that's youruth. 119 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: It didn't occur to me that they wouldn't be Oh, 120 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: it's truth. It didn't occur to me that that they 121 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: wouldn't be essential enough to pay during a shutdown. 122 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 2: Yes, can you believe that? 123 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 4: I think we went through that the last government shutdown, 124 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 4: and everybody's worried because everybody. 125 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 2: Look, we're coming. 126 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,239 Speaker 4: We're it's the holidays are right around the corner. Lots 127 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 4: of people are going to be traveling. 128 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: This isn't good because you know those those you've seen 129 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: some of the some of them. 130 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 2: There is not a government shutdown. 131 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: This isn't good. You you tapped into one of your 132 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: great one of your great fears. 133 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah. I see some of these people and I 134 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 2: just really really. 135 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 5: There. 136 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: Those people are keeping us from getting blown up. 137 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of them aren't even paying attention. 138 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: No, when we come back, why is the government shut down? 139 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: I'll explain this to you. It's actually more trivial than 140 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: you can imagine. 141 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 142 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 6: six forty. 143 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: We just had Alex Stone on because there seems to 144 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: be one thing that jumps to mind, well to Debor's 145 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: mind immediately in yours, Yes, the government shut down? Is 146 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: that going to shut down the airports or is that gonna? 147 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 2: I think that seriously should get a pass. 148 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 4: Most people should be paid because we're putting way too 149 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 4: many people at risk. 150 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: TSA workers have to show up, but they're not getting paid. 151 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to show up if I'm not 152 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 2: going to get paid. 153 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: And air traffic controllers have to show up, but they're 154 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: not getting paid. Yeah, and we've got fifty eight thousand 155 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: TSA employees, thirteen thousand air traffic controllers, and you know, 156 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: as Alex was saying, not everybody's got a month's worth 157 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: of savings. Not to mention, you have to deal with 158 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: the childcare issues for example. It's it's this is because 159 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: cause you know, people are going to stop showing up 160 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: for work and there's not going to be a backup 161 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: staff to They're already way short on the night. This 162 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: happened back twenty seven years ago, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, 163 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: thirty five days and TSA officers started calling out because 164 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:46,559 Speaker 1: of financial problems. TSA lines closed, longer lines, air traffic 165 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: controllers started calling out sick, New York, Washington, Jacksonville. There 166 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: was a ground stop at LaGuardia Airport. That means all 167 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: the planes were not allowed to land or or or leave. 168 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: Flight delays, especially in New York and Florida, and that 169 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: is what triggered the end of the shutdown. Trump finally 170 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: insisted that a deal be made, and a deal was made, 171 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: and Bernie Sanders credited the air traffic controllers with ending it. Now, 172 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: why they're at it, impass this is this is not 173 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: this is not the biggest issue in the world. They 174 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: passed a bill that both sides agreed on, and the 175 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: Republicans want that deal to be extended for seven more weeks, 176 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: right with the country's obviously obviously been operating on a 177 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: specific budget for the last I don't know how many 178 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: months because of this deal. And the Republicans say, you 179 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: know what, we need seven weeks more of negotiating time 180 00:09:53,600 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: to create the new deal. And it's apparently twelve separate 181 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: bills that can prize the budget. And because they're always 182 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: slow and because they're always inefficient, they couldn't get the 183 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: twelve bills done for the deadline yesterday, September thirtieth, which 184 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 1: is the end of the fiscal year. So the Republican said, 185 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: let's extend the current terms seven more weeks, no increases, 186 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: no cuts. Democrats said, no, that's a simple way to 187 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: explain it. The Democrats then said, well, yes, maybe if 188 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: and they had some demands, and the main demand centers 189 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: around benefits that were dramatically increased during COVID. You probably 190 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: don't know this, but COVID, well you probably know that 191 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: COVID unleashed trillions of dollars of extra spending, right, I mean, 192 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: they went crazy, supposedly to prop up the economy. They 193 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: poured extra money into healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, all that stuff. 194 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: They never they never ended those programs. Spending went from 195 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: four trillion to seven trillion like that. And so the 196 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,319 Speaker 1: Republican said, it's like, okay, how about we put an 197 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: end to these COVID spending programs. And the Democrats said no, 198 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: and Republicans said, well, you got to be kidding. No, 199 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: they're serious. They want some of the programs extended. And 200 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: it's complicated, stuff like Obamacare subsidies. Obamacare, whether you liked 201 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: it or not, has a lot of problems when it 202 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 1: comes to financing it because it's just so freaking expensive. 203 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: And so the Democrats like overloaded the system the under 204 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: the cover of COVID. And now the Republicans say, we 205 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: got to cut back on this too much. Thirty seven 206 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: trillion in debt. It's not worth getting into the into 207 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: into the weeds on this, but that's that's the root 208 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: of the problem. The Republicans also say that the Democrats 209 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: have snuck money in there for illegal alien healthcare, which 210 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me. And now they've all said it. To see. 211 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: The House passed this thing, but the Senate needs sixty 212 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: votes because of the filibuster rule. They got three Democrats, 213 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: they lost one Republican. So they're they're what are I 214 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: think they're fifty three plus three fifty they're five votes short. 215 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: They need five more Democrats. Well they don't have it, 216 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: So Senate, all those guys are on planes. Uh you 217 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 1: know they're they're getting on the planes before the air 218 00:12:55,200 --> 00:13:01,079 Speaker 1: traffic controllers get tired and ordery and hungry. The rest 219 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: of us, we you know, those of you trying to 220 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,559 Speaker 1: go somewhere this weekend Friday and Saturday. I'll be very hungry, 221 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: in ornery by then. Should I be worried about my 222 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: flight to Phoenix next week? Yeah? I would drive. I 223 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: might have to. At this point. I don't know what 224 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: they and the TSA lines. I mean, some of those 225 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: guys look like they failed out of the McDonald's fry 226 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: basket school. So hag Seth wouldn't be happy with them. No, no, 227 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 1: they dad, Dad, I'd come up with a if there's 228 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: a weight limit on TSA agents. We're gonna have nobody 229 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:42,599 Speaker 1: at the airports. 230 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 4: I think that we need to postpone all this until 231 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 4: after the holidays. 232 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: Well why didn't you submit that, Senator. 233 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:55,079 Speaker 2: Mark that's my recommendation. Yes, the. 234 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: I mean, these things have happened many times. Uh, it's 235 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: it's really stupid. They've got one job, they should they 236 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: get they get paid enough money. They have enough crooked 237 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: money coming in under the table. This is not that difficult. 238 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: And and you know, ultimately the Democrats have have caused 239 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: this shutdown because they had agree the budget that the 240 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: Republicans want to impose for seven more weeks is the 241 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: same budget the Democrats already approved of that that governed 242 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: much of this year. So it's a seven a seven 243 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 1: week extension. So I I don't know how this how 244 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: this helps them, And I don't think giving away the 245 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: store with billions and billions of more healthcare dollars and 246 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: legal alien healthcare dollars. I mean, every time they have 247 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: a little bit of leverage, they want to loude us 248 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: for more money. When we're thirty seven in trillion thirty 249 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: seven trillion debt, you can't ever say no. They never 250 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: say no because by time the whole mess falls apart, 251 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: by the time we've borrowed too much money for the 252 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: economy to handle, they'll all be dead and gone. So 253 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 1: they don't care. All right, we come back. One of 254 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: those fascinating stories, doctor Ian Roberts, and I put the 255 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: word doctor in quotes. He was the des Moines superintendent 256 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: to schools who was caught as an illegal alien. Remember 257 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: we talked about this earlier this week. It's been all 258 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: over the news. So much new crazy stuff has come 259 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: out about this character. It is astounding. This wasn't the 260 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: first school district he was running. Des Moines is you know, 261 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: a city of over two hundred thousand people. It's the 262 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: largest city in Iowa. It's the state capital, and this 263 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: was running the place and nobody ever really did a 264 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: check on him. Wait till you find out all the 265 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: new stuff in his background. And this encompasses everything that 266 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: is wrong with public education, even in a relatively sane 267 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: place like des Moines. But this is the DII monster. 268 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: Run a book. We'll talk about it. 269 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 270 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 6: six forty. 271 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: I'm not getting a commission for this, but if you're 272 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: running a business and you want to get out of 273 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: the state. We're going to talk with Governor Kevin Stitt 274 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: of Oklahoma because he's coming here to Los Angeles on 275 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: Friday at the Los Angeles Athletic Club and they are 276 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: going to be presenting and pitching to California businesses that 277 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: if you want to move, you can come to Oklahoma. 278 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: You know what personal income tax rate is in Oklahoma? 279 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:04,880 Speaker 1: Four percent, top the top rank. Four percent. Uh, that's 280 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: that's just the beginning. I'm not going to I'm not 281 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: going to do Governor Stitz pitch, but you want to 282 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: be listening top of the two o'clock hour Oklahoma Governor 283 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: Kevin Stitt, because there is apparently a lot of interest 284 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,400 Speaker 1: in people moving to Oklahoma as there is to Texas 285 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: and Florida. I don't know if I mentioned this thing 286 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 1: here yesterday, but Texas now has more financial people than 287 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: New York City. The financial industry part of it is 288 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 1: relocated to Texas. And I listened to some discussion on 289 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: the business channels this morning and major companies. Financial companies 290 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: has moved to Florida and Miami West, Palm Beach and 291 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: Saint Petersburg because New York City is going through the 292 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,199 Speaker 1: same garbage that California is. They're about to elect a 293 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,719 Speaker 1: communist there. And so now all the major financial companies 294 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: are looking around saying, oh, parties really over now. Because 295 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: you work, you live and work in New York City, 296 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,959 Speaker 1: your your tax rates are almost as high as California 297 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: because they have they have a state income tax and 298 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:21,119 Speaker 1: a city income tax, and so so these these communist 299 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: governments that we have in New York City and here 300 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: in California. Yeah, the business, uh, the businesses are getting 301 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: out of here as fast as they can. And uh, 302 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: Oklahoma is standing ready. So you're gonna want to hear 303 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: because this is because every time you know, you talk 304 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: about this stuff, and you always hear these idiots in 305 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: government Newsom's crowd going, oh now, that's ridiculous. You know, 306 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: we've got the best weather, We've got the best climate here. 307 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 1: People aren't going to leave that, They're not going to 308 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: go to Oklahoma. Well, yeah, they are in Texas and 309 00:18:55,320 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 1: Arizona and uh the Nevada and Tennessee and North Carolina 310 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: and South Carolina and Florida and Georgia. I mean they've 311 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: got their heads so far up their rear ends in Sacramento. 312 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 1: I know we have a lot of listeners in Sacramento. 313 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 1: I assume they're government people. Why are you so stupid? 314 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: There's no no way, there are other way to describe. Oh. 315 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 1: In fact, next time we're gonna talk to Kevin Stanton, 316 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,120 Speaker 1: I'm also going to go through the bed Bath Beyond story, 317 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 1: because more has come out on that where Beth bad 318 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: bed Beth and Beyond said, you know, we're going to 319 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 1: open up three hundred stories. We're going to recreate the 320 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: chain here in America except California. They're willing to open 321 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 1: up in forty nine out of the fifty states and 322 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:48,359 Speaker 1: Newso his his press office responded with the nastiest, narkiest reply, Well, 323 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: there's some pushback coming from at least one Democrat here 324 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:56,479 Speaker 1: in the state who is saying enough is enough. All 325 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: right now, I want to get onto this story. You 326 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: may have heard about it, Des Moines, Iowa. The school superintendent. 327 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: His name is doctor Ian Roberts. He is a black 328 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: man from Guyana, which I think we said was in 329 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: South America, right next to Venezuela. And they busted him 330 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: last week. He was an illegal alien and he was 331 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 1: on the run and they had to chase him into 332 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: the woods. He was hiding. He had weapons on him, 333 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: and then all you know, all the people, the parents 334 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,239 Speaker 1: of the administrators and the teachers in Des Moines came 335 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: out and supported him and thought this was horrible and ugly, 336 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: and you know the whole routine. Well, now Morris coming 337 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: out about this nut bag, it is going to shock you. 338 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 1: How he ever got hired. All right, let me go 339 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: through the timeline. Here. May sixteenth, twenty twenty three. Doctor 340 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: Ian Roberts is the new super intended of the DesMoines 341 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 1: Public School District. He got the job. He started the 342 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: job on July first. By the end of the by 343 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: the end of July of twenty twenty three, the board 344 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: got some surprising news. He was named in a two 345 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars settlement with an ex employee. 346 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 1: At his old job, he was the head of the 347 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: Mill Creek Township School District in Pennsylvania. Melody Ellington was 348 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 1: the human resource director under doctor Ian Roberts, said she'd 349 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: been subjected to unlawful treatment. The nature of the treatment 350 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: was not revealed. We don't know if he was spanking her. 351 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: We don't know what the issue is. Roberts wouldn't comment. 352 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: The officials at the Des Moines School Board said, oh, 353 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: we didn't know anything about this. It was a confidential settlement. 354 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: There's nothing we could have known. Well, there was more. 355 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: Turns out, there was a second settlement, one for eighty 356 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: seven five hundred dollars, and then a third settlement for 357 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: sixty six thousand, two other school officials who were demoted 358 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 1: by doctor Ian Roberts. So he left the Mill Creek 359 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 1: system on the hook for four hundred thousand dollars plus 360 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 1: in legal settlements, and the school board in Des Moines 361 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: knew nothing about it. Now Quickie on his background. He 362 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: came to the US from Guyana sometime in the nineteen nineties, 363 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: entered the US on a student visa in ninety nine. 364 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: He had a weapons possession charge against him in February 365 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. Never became a permanent legal resident, never 366 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:54,479 Speaker 1: became a citizen, He never left. Even after having the 367 00:22:54,520 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 1: weapons charge, his illegal status did not come to light, 368 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: at least not that the Des Moines Public School system noticed. 369 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: He was ordered deported in maya, twenty twenty four, during 370 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: the Biden administration not part of the Trump action this year. 371 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: This was the Biden administration told him to get out. 372 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: He didn't. He still hadn't spent a year as the 373 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 1: Des Moines superintendent at this point. Then last week, des 374 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 1: Moines ice agents arrested doctor Ian Roberts, criminal illegal alien 375 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: from Guyana. He was in possession of a loaded handgun 376 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: at the time that they arrested him, three thousand dollars 377 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 1: in cash, and a fixed blade hunting knife. There was 378 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: a final order of removal and there was no work authorization. 379 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: But he was the superintendent of the Des Moines Public 380 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: School District. Now I keep mocking that he's called doctor. Well, 381 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: he got a bachelor's from Compon State University in ninety eight. 382 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: He had a master's degree from Saint John's in two thousand. 383 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: He claimed for many years that he had a doctoral 384 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: degree from Morgan State. But if you called Morgan State said, 385 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: uh no, he can't. He attended here, but no doctorate. 386 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: He may have gone to something called Trident University, which 387 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 1: is one of those private, for profit online schools that 388 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: come on. That's not a doctorate online. Now, why was 389 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: he hired? Well, it's obviously a DEI hire. And one 390 00:24:55,359 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 1: of the odd side stories involves the Obama because the 391 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: chairwoman at the time he was hired of the Des 392 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:11,680 Speaker 1: Moines Public School System was Jackie Norris. Jackie Norris was 393 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:21,360 Speaker 1: a top staffer to Michelle Obama. Jackie Norris is now 394 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: running for the Democratic nomination for Senator, and somewhere along 395 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 1: the line, she was asked to explain how did Ian 396 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,360 Speaker 1: Roberts become the superintendent with all that we know about 397 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 1: him now? Well, she said, he sparked joy in our 398 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: kids and excitement in our kids. He brought in a 399 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: lot of enthusiasm and vibrancy in our community. He was 400 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 1: described in one story he walked around in a maroon 401 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: three piece suit, a candy cane striped bow tie, and 402 00:25:55,160 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: matching Nike Air Force one sneakers. And they say just 403 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: simply bowled people over with his personality and his style. 404 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: Except he was a total fraud. He was a con man, 405 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:15,360 Speaker 1: He had a dubious doctorate. He left behind three lawsuits 406 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: in the last school district that he lived in that 407 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: he ran. He was an illegal alien, he never became 408 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:31,479 Speaker 1: a resident. He had a gun charge, and when they 409 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 1: finally had a deportation order, that he ignored, and they 410 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: found him with a loaded handgun and a hunting knife 411 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 1: hiding after he ditched his car. Nobody ever questioned him. 412 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,120 Speaker 1: It was just an automatic hire. He was from Guyana 413 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 1: and he was kind of cool. And that was the 414 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 1: standard for hiring superintendents in Des Moines, Iowa that day. 415 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: All right, we're coming up. Oh, I got to do 416 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: the dinosaur story. 417 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 2: I just put that in my newscast. It's so funny. 418 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: You mind if I no, no, no. 419 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 2: I think it's a great story. That's why I put 420 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 2: it in. 421 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: That dinosaur is close to where I live and I 422 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 1: go to that gas station frequently, and I was very upset. 423 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: And the original video was posted a couple of nights ago, 424 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: and wait tell you who posted the video? And I 425 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,160 Speaker 1: think we also have a piece from what Channel five 426 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:34,439 Speaker 1: on this. 427 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 4: I'm going to take it out of my newscast, John, 428 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 4: so you I didn't mean to know. I'm moving it 429 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,679 Speaker 4: to a different, different time just so you can do that. 430 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 1: Well, it deserves like a full length treatment. 431 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know it does, because it's in your Because 432 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 4: it happened. 433 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 2: In my neighborhood exactly your That. 434 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 1: Makes it more important. 435 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 2: Neighborhood. Yeah, please, oh please, don't get me started. 436 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: Live because you'll never end. 437 00:27:59,240 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 2: That's right. 438 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 439 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 6: six forty. 440 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:10,640 Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock, the Governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, 441 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,400 Speaker 1: is coming on the show. He's making a pitch in 442 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: person this week in Los Angeles to business owners to 443 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 1: come to Oklahoma. It's a much much better place to 444 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,400 Speaker 1: run a business. We'll hear from the Governor of Oklahoma 445 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: coming up in minutes. So yesterday morning, I wake up 446 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: and my wife doesn't sleep all night, and she sends 447 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: me news stories and I can tell by the time 448 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,959 Speaker 1: stamps how the night's sleep went. And she sent me 449 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 1: an Instagram video and it's of the gas station that 450 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 1: we sometimes go to about a mile and a half 451 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: from our house. It's on twenty sixth Street on the 452 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 1: border of Brentwood in Santa Monica. It's a Sinclair station. 453 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: Sinclair has the dinosaur as it's icon, it's logo, right, 454 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: it's mascot. And the video is of a guy shambling 455 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: down the sidewalk in a hoodie of course, with a 456 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: blanket or some kind of claw, big cloth covering on 457 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: his shoulder, and he walks up to the Sinclair Dinosaur 458 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: because they have one. You know. It's you know, just 459 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: maybe out of three feet high. I don't know what 460 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 1: it's made of, but it's the little welcome mascot. As 461 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: you pull up to the station, right, it's a happy 462 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: little dinosaur. 463 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 2: It's happy, it's happy. 464 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: And up comes a white pickup truck and this guy 465 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: picks up. He kidnaps the dinosaur. It throws it into 466 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: the back of the white pickup truck. 467 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 2: That is just terrible. 468 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: And then and it drives off. And you know who 469 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: posted this? Who Jamie Lee Curtis. I don't know if 470 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: she lives nearby, but she was angry with this guy. 471 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: Listen to this report from a KTL Channel five reporter 472 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: Sandra Mitchell. 473 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 5: From his Bunny Ears to his Dodger Blue, the Sinclair 474 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 5: Dinosaur was a Brentwood favorite, so beloved. 475 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: Dinosaur from Brentwood. All the kids loved it. And here 476 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: it is come Saturday. Dinosaur's gone for six years. 477 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 5: The four foot fiberglass dino stood at the Sinclair station 478 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 5: on San Vicente at twenty sixth Street, but now he's extinct. 479 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 5: This prehistoric prankster and a hoodie crept across the parking 480 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 5: lot with a power tool early Saturday morning. 481 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: That's insane. I would have. That's commitment. Though. 482 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 5: The thief cuts the bolts from the ground, wraps the 483 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 5: fifty pound brontosaurus in a blanket, and then loads it 484 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 5: into a pickup truck and pulls away. 485 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: We get in phone calls. 486 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 4: We're getting people coming over here and asking about it. 487 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 2: It's being a whole deal. 488 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 5: The service station has been flooded with phone calls and flowers. 489 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 5: Actress Jamie Lee Curtis and others posting about it on 490 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 5: social media. 491 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: We loved it. 492 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 4: We walked past it every day and every season he 493 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 4: would decorate to the owner would decorate it in different ways. 494 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 2: It was so oh fine. I was so sad. 495 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 5: Keith Simon had the dinosaur in his office for thirty years. 496 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 5: It was read back then, but me wanted to share 497 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 5: the smiles, so he sold it to the gas station owner, 498 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,959 Speaker 5: who painted a green and put it right out front. 499 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: There's a big long red light there and I can 500 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: shoot a picture coming off Sandercente at the people. They're 501 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: always stopping there. 502 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 5: And now LAPD has launched an investigation to find this 503 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 5: very long necked victim the. 504 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 1: Person who took it. 505 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 4: If you see my message, just bring the dinosaur back 506 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 4: at two thirty in the morning and just leave it 507 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 4: there and walk away. 508 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 5: This dino napping seems to be a trend across the nation. 509 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 5: Similar dinosaurs stole them from service stations in Utah, Texas, 510 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 5: and Colorado, and we checked. Some of them are on 511 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 5: sale on eBay for up to six thousand dollars. 512 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 4: Oh god, you know, John, I think you need to 513 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 4: offer an award for ten thousand. 514 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 2: Then they won't put it on eBay. 515 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: I want to start a petition to get this guy 516 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: at the death penalty. 517 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 2: Death penalty. 518 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a little less forgiving than the guy who said, well, 519 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 1: just bring it back in the middle of the night 520 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 1: and no questions asked. I got questions, So I want 521 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: a trial. So no GoFundMe for one of these eBay dino's. 522 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: You can get a replacement for the community. John, I 523 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: just said, to be the hero. 524 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 4: I said, John, you need to just that's a reward, 525 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 4: so then the guy will come to you. 526 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 2: I won't bother putting it on eBay. 527 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, I should give him a reward to protest. 528 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 4: I should drop it off outside the station at two 529 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 4: thirty in the morning, no questions asked, and I'll give 530 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 4: you a po box and you'll send it. 531 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: Jack. I have an idea. You're usually probably a two 532 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 1: in the morning, and so is my wife. You can 533 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: give her a call and try to sell her on 534 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: this idea. She says, yes, I hope she's not listening 535 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: every day. I hope she's not listening. And then there 536 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: are days she does listen and it's not good. When 537 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 1: we come back the governor of Oklahoma, he's given a 538 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: major speech at the downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles Athletic 539 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: Club on Friday morning to entice more Oklahoma, more California 540 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: businesses to come to Oklahoma. That's next. Deborah Mark live 541 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 1: in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. 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