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That is 19 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: a hot evening. Yeah, I'm gonna watch videos of you tonight. Yeah, 20 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: just you know, just get loaded, get stoned and balance. Well, 21 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: don't forget to subscribe Alex, that's true, describing right now, Okay, 22 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: the story that never dies for thirty years. 23 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 2: O J. 24 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: Simpson the estate has made a deal with Fred Goldman 25 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: and the Goldman family. Ron Goldman, the son was killed 26 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: with Nicole Simpson way back in nineteen ninety five. But 27 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 1: I don't think OJ's got this money or his estate 28 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: doesn't have the money. Yeah, no, he was pretty broke, 29 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: it appears when he died. And yeah, even in death 30 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: now the fight continues to go on. So the family 31 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: of Ron Goldman, I mean, they've been fighting for years 32 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: to get this money that the court ordered O. J. 33 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: Simpson to pay them. But and you remember when he 34 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: was alive, he did everything he could, Simpson did to 35 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: avoid having to pay them that money. And it seems 36 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: based on what his estate is said that he also 37 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: had a lot of taxes in California that he didn't pay. 38 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: But after the acquittal, he was found liable, as we 39 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: all remember from for the deaths, and he was ordered 40 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: to pay thirty three million dollars right around that for 41 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: the murders, and he didn't pay. The interest has been 42 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: growing ever since. We went from thirty three million up 43 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: to fifty eight million dollars. The Goldman family claims is 44 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: more like one hundred and seventeen million, but through the 45 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: probate court they've kind of come down to, okay, we'll 46 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: go with fifty eight million. But in the end, it's 47 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: kind of funny money anyway, because it doesn't seem like 48 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: Simpson had the money to pay it when he died 49 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: last year of cancer at seventy six, So the Goldman 50 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,959 Speaker 1: family saying they had received almost nothing through the years. 51 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: Malcolm Laverne is the executor of the estate and he 52 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: told our Vegas affiliate Simpson didn't have any money. They're 53 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: going to try to raise some money by selling memorabilia, 54 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: which remember that's what got him in trouble back years 55 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: ago when he went to prison for trying to steal 56 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: back memorabilia. But it all comes back to memorabilia to 57 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: make money. They're going to try to raise some doing that. 58 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: But Malcolm Laverne saying. 59 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 3: I'm hoping to get in a state that's somewhere in 60 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 3: the neighborhood of close to half a million dollars. 61 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: So half a million dollars, but they are owed fifty 62 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: eight million bucks. So he says maybe by selling memorabilia, 63 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: they can raise the zero amount of money they've got 64 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: to about half a million, and have some money to 65 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: give the Goldman family. 66 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 3: Five hundred thousand compared to seventy million, eighty million million, Yeah. 67 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: Won't be there, but the estate's agreeing to pay the 68 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: Goldman family fifty eight million dollars. And that is kind 69 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: of the big headline in this that after Simpson for 70 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: so long has said that they're not going to get 71 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: any money. Malcolm Laverne himself said before Simpson's death that 72 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: even after death they will get no money. But now 73 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: they are agreeing that yes, the court did order that 74 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: and that the Goldman family is due that money. But 75 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: at auction, simpsons stuff earlier this year raised about three 76 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: hundred grand. The estate thinks that they can make maybe 77 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: another two hundred grand off of selling more stuff. But 78 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: Laverne is very open. He says, the truth is the 79 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: Goldman family is probably never really going to get much money. 80 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 3: It's not realistic to think that that judgment is going 81 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 3: to be satisfied. 82 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: Especially when it's fifty eight million dollars, and they might 83 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: be able to raise half a million, and still the 84 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: interest's growing on that and there is one other problem, 85 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: the taxes that are due in California. 86 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 3: After he died, there was this California tax line that 87 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 3: brought sight of me. 88 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: So oops. So Jay Simpson also has six hundred and 89 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: thirty five thousand dollars in unpaid taxes to the state 90 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 1: of California. So they got to pay that as well. 91 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: And I want a shock. He was a murderer and 92 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: a tax chief. Yeah, and so they can fight over 93 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 1: who's going to get the If they make half a 94 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: million dollars, will it go all to the state of 95 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 1: California with still more due, or will it go to 96 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: the Goldmans. But in two thousand and seven the Goldmans 97 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: they got the rights to the book if I did 98 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: it Simpson's so called hypothetical description of the murders, But 99 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: that doesn't seem to have paid off much. In a statement, 100 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: the Goldman family is saying that this is positive that 101 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: the estate is acknowledging the debt, but it is not 102 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: a payment and it allows a claim for them to 103 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: move forward in probate. But again they're not getting money 104 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: out of this. But there is something symbolic that in death, 105 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: his estate is now saying, you know what they are 106 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,799 Speaker 1: due money. We will give them money as money is available, 107 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem like there's gonna be a lot 108 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: of money of it. Well, so much time has passed. 109 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: Most people weren't born, weren't alive when he was playing football, yeah, 110 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: or when the crime occurred. Yeah, I bet you most 111 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: people within the KFI confines of the studio right now 112 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 1: or the newsroom that they probably weren't alive at the time. 113 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: So there's a whole generation that has moved on. Yeah. Yeah, 114 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: basically we're old John. The moral of the story is 115 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: there where Roja Simpson. That's right. Yeah. I can't believe 116 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: thirty years have come by and they're still fighting over 117 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: the money. But you know, he didn't make much the 118 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: last thirty years of his life now, and a lot 119 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 1: of it was not charity but fundraising type things of 120 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: signing autographs living in Vegas. But he did play a 121 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: lot of golf and go on Twitter and covered for 122 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: quite some time his trial in Vegas and saw him 123 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: every day and he would come in always, you know, 124 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: very charismatic and say hi to everybody. And but you 125 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: remember that's what sent him to prison, was going back 126 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: to take what he thought was his stolen memorabilia, even 127 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: though there was a backstory to it of really it 128 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: was in a storage locker and it had been sold 129 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: off in different things, but that he went in there 130 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: with a couple of other buddies and they had a 131 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: weapon and they didn't allow people to leave. So he 132 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: went to prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, not for 133 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: the murders. I thought, I actually thought that was hysterical. 134 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,159 Speaker 1: He got what was it, nine years in prison something 135 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, nine years in prison for for stealing 136 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: his own stuff. Yeah, that was that is what That 137 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: is what God, I think we all thought. I remember 138 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 1: Judge Glass in Vegas. We all thought, yeah, she should 139 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: go into the Justice Hall of Fame for what she did. Yeah, 140 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 1: and it seemed like that there may have been a 141 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 1: little bit of getting back at him for the murder 142 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: trial and that was totally separate. But yeah, she sent 143 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: him in prison. All right, Alex, thank you, you got it. 144 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: Thanks John Alex Stone from cam Fine News. Yeah, he didn't. 145 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: He didn't make much money in the last thirty years. 146 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: And you know, even when in his heyday, all players 147 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: weren't paid all that much, you know, back in the 148 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: sixties and seventies. 149 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 4: But his hurts commercials. He probably hurts commercials. 150 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: He probably made more on that than anything else because 151 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: the small roles he had in movies would not have 152 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: played paid a lot of money, because I don't think 153 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: he was like a box office movie star. You know 154 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: he would. He would be in those naked gun movies, right, 155 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: and I just watched all those. Yeah. In fact, the 156 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: new one they put out has a pretty good joke 157 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: and reference to OJ. If you haven't seen it, I 158 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: would spoil it all right when we come back, I 159 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: don't know what I'm gonna do. You know, I have 160 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: a lot of possibilities. 161 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 4: What about that. 162 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: Later this hour we'll do We're down to the Parakeet 163 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: in the pants or the gay sheep? Because we did 164 00:07:58,560 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: the micro penis story last hour. 165 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 4: I enjoyed that one. 166 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: Are you okay? 167 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 168 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 2: six forty. 169 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: Well coming up, oh three o'clock. Carl Demayo has another 170 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: good reason to investigate Gavin Newsom. He has sent a 171 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: letter to the Trump Department of Justice says Gavin Newsom 172 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: should be investigated for criminal activity three billion dollars of 173 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: taxpayer money missing. This is new This is money that 174 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: that Kalpers, which manages the pension fund for state workers. 175 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: They took three billion dollars of our money meant for pensions, 176 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,959 Speaker 1: put it in some Green New Deal fund and they 177 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: lost over seventy percent of the money. And we'll talk 178 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:57,719 Speaker 1: about that coming up now. Newsom I because we are 179 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: forced to. He knew him closely. I understand his patterns. 180 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,719 Speaker 1: I understand you're obsessed with him. I am. I know, 181 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: I can't. 182 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 4: It's the hair, John, I get it. 183 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: He is so dishonest and manipulative. He's such a psychopathic, 184 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: compulsive liar that I'm fascinated by his hold over in 185 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: ordinary people. Nothing I dislike more than the politician that 186 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: sits there and lies to you, and the way he 187 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 1: finds an issue and then postures. You know, he gets 188 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: all outraged and angry and he's waving his arms. He 189 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: likes to wave his arms and his hands. He always 190 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: looks like he's landing airplanes when he talks and express 191 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 1: my relationship to my truth. So two years ago, when 192 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: Biden was still president and the Green New Deal was 193 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 1: a big thing, and they were blowing literally hundreds of 194 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:07,199 Speaker 1: billions of dollars on green nonsense. Gavin said, Okay, that's 195 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: the way the wind is blowing. And for most of 196 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four he was on 197 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: a crusade against high gas prices, which I was found 198 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: fascinating because he's the reason we have them. A dollar 199 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: fifty of the gas price is taxes and regulatory fees 200 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: imposed by the state, so it's him. But he was 201 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: pounding his fist that the oil companies, the energy companies 202 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: were gouging us, and they had to be investigated, and 203 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: they had to be further regulated, and there had to 204 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: be commissions and investigations. So today, and I just looked 205 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: at this minutes ago, you now you know what the 206 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:56,959 Speaker 1: lowest price in America for gases. It is Oklahoma at 207 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: two dollars and forty nine cents two forty nine. There 208 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 1: are twenty nine states at three bucks a gallon or less. 209 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 1: There are forty four states under three forty forty four. 210 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,439 Speaker 1: And then if you scroll away to the bottom of 211 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: the list, the most expensive state, it's California four sixty 212 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 1: six a gallon, twenty cents more than Hawaii, twenty cents 213 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: more than Hawaii, almost almost fifty cents more than the 214 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 1: state of Washington, which is third most expensive. So we 215 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: are far and away the most expensive. I mean, we're 216 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: getting close to double Oklahoma again. Walters for cal Matters 217 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: wrote this piece on now and we've talked about this. 218 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: Now you have refineries closing, you have the pipe is 219 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: going to shut itself down because we produce so little 220 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: oil that the pipeline mechanics are going to seize up, 221 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: and the price of gas is out of sight and 222 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 1: new some like the rest of these idiots, now, Babbel, 223 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,199 Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate it when everybody in politics 224 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: and the media sees on a word or a phrase, 225 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:23,319 Speaker 1: it's like, oh, it's affordability. It's all about affordabil I'm 226 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: looking at you know, I'm looking at the price of 227 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: gas here and it's four sixty six a gallon. And 228 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: I don't know where that four sixty six is. It's 229 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: not in my neighborhood. A lot of neighborhoods. It's closer 230 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: to five dollars a gallon. But fine, and that adds 231 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 1: up to uh. I don't know if if you get 232 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: a tank full of gas a week, you know twenty 233 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: you know, twenty gallons of gas. Well, that's thirty dollars 234 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: more than a lot of states every week. That's fifteen 235 00:12:55,120 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: hundred dollars more a year. Affordability my ass. Now part 236 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: of his crusade, he created the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight. 237 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: This is new. This is supposed to track how the 238 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: California oil companies are gouging you because a year ago 239 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: this week he said, they continue to lie, they continue 240 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: to manipulate. They've been raking an unprecedented profits because they can. 241 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: Now nobody who's making record profits closes their business and 242 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: moves out of the state. Somehow, the oil companies in 243 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: California are the first companies in the history of the 244 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: state who are making so much money they've decided to 245 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: go out of business and leave. But he's such a 246 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: narcissistic psychopath, compulsive liar. So anyway, last month, the Division 247 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: of Petroleum Market Oversight released its first annual report. It's like, ah, 248 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 1: now we're going to find out how much gouging is 249 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: going on. Well, they didn't find any gouging. They according 250 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: to Dan Walters, the report confirmed what was already known 251 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: that the price is here are much higher than other states, 252 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: and most of the price differential is due to taxes 253 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: and regulatory costs. So all all that bloviating, all that 254 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: preening and primping before the cameras, the fake outrage. Oil 255 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: companies are gouging us, and stupid asses in this stay going. Yeah, yeah, 256 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: all companies are gouging us. They're gouging us. And apparently 257 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: people in California never traveled to the other forty nine states. 258 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: I guess maybe everybody's so broke they can't they don't 259 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: travel anymore, because there isn't a state I've traveled to 260 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: in the last year or two where I haven't been 261 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: at first stunned by the price, because you just get 262 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: used to seeing, you know, four eighty nine a gallon 263 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. And I know Eric runs into this 264 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: all the time, and you travel and he sends back 265 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: photos and it's you know, it's like two eighty nine 266 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: in Arizona or something like that. And they're growing out 267 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: of business because of the high costs and high taxes, 268 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: high regulatory burden because all those regulations add more cost 269 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: There's taxes on the energy companies that are passed to us. 270 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: There's taxes directly at the pump and it's all from 271 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom. It's entirely. He created a commission to find 272 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: out that he's the cause of the high gas prices. 273 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: I mean, what a bozoe. And this is going to 274 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: be so entertaining because I bet you there's gonna be 275 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 1: ten Democrats running for president. Let's say there's ten, right, 276 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: and they're going to have a debate, and they're all 277 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: going to be arrayed across and the other nine are 278 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: going to hammer on his head because of his hair 279 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: and his jaw. He'll be at or near the top 280 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: of the poles. And you always go after the front runner, 281 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: and you are going to see nine people. The only 282 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: thing they're going to debate in the first time they 283 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: get together is Gavin Newsom's disastrous reign as governor. Here 284 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: that is, I'm gonna take I'm gonna talk you off, 285 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: take off work that day and just get drunk and 286 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: enjoy this thing all right now? Coming up next, Oh 287 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: you want to hear a Gavin Newsom tongue bath? Oh yeah, 288 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: this is from a guy. This is a male reporter, 289 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: and he worked out his tongue. 290 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 4: I mean he was Oh god, that sounds so bad. 291 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: He might have sprained it. Uh, he was in Politico 292 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: off the weekend. You ever end up in a spring tongue? No, 293 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: I have not. 294 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM. 295 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: Six forty moistline is eighty seven seven moist eighty six 296 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: for Friday, Let's get going eight seven seven moist eighty six, 297 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. This 298 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: is one of the great tongue baths in political journalism history, 299 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:17,360 Speaker 1: Jonathan Martin writes for Politico, and I don't think Jonathan's 300 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: tongue missed a single square inch of Gavin Newsom's body, 301 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:27,719 Speaker 1: and he must have one exhausted tongue. I imagine, you know, 302 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: if you if you make out too long, you know, 303 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: your your tongue get really, really tired. You can imagine 304 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 1: I could imagine this. Yeah, you're not going to set 305 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: up a trap for me. I know you. Well, you start, 306 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: I'll start. But Jonathan Martin's tongue is probably an intensive 307 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,679 Speaker 1: care right now. It's so exhausted. It starts out with 308 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 1: one of the with the most obnoxious headline I've seen 309 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: in a while. Admit it. Gavin Newsom is the twenty 310 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: twenty eight front runner. Wow, admit it now. First of all, 311 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: No Newsom is the only one who's obviously running, so 312 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,919 Speaker 1: you can't. You can't look at at name recognition, polling. 313 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,920 Speaker 1: That's that's always a loser. Otherwise, full stop, Jef Bush 314 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: would be president. All right. But here's how he starts. 315 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: He Jonathan Martin is Politico's senior political columnist and politics 316 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 1: bureau chief, so he's the top guy at Politico. He writes, 317 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 1: this is the opening paragraph. No Democrat has had a 318 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: better two years than Gavin Newsom? 319 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 5: But wait a second, does he understand what is going 320 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 5: on in California? 321 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: I guess not. It doesn't factor in. I'll repeat that 322 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: no Democrat has had a better two years than Gavin Newsom, 323 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: and because of it, the California govern a national figure 324 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 1: since he was a thirty six year old boy mayor 325 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: has claimed a new title, boy mayor. Yeah thirty six? 326 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, okay, sorry to interrupt a fact. 327 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I I it's refreshing to hear 328 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: your skepticism a better two years. Ask me, pick pick 329 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: any issue. Ask me, if uh pick pick three issues, 330 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 1: list them and I'll tell you if any of those 331 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: issues were in. 332 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 4: The story gas prices. No homelessness in California. 333 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: No, the fires, okay, only glancingly and only with Newsom 334 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: saying that Trump weaponized the fires against him. No, none 335 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: of that was discussed. It was uh, I'll read on here. 336 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: By the old rules of Democratic nominations, Newsom fits in 337 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: neatly in the tradition of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and 338 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:06,439 Speaker 1: Barack Obama, younger outsider candidates who could credibly run fresh 339 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: campaigns against the Washington status quo while retaining enough insider 340 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: credentials to reassure party leaders who care about such things. 341 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: The San Franciscan has never lived a day outside of California. 342 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: He presents younger than fifty eight because of his hair 343 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: and jeans jeans but jeans with a jay or jeans 344 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: with a gen Sidney Sweeney's jeans, and has endeared himself 345 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: to endeared himself to the party rank and file that 346 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: would be ordinary voters tivity too, tivity two because he 347 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: went after Trump. Newsom is also the best position Democrat 348 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: according to the new rules of politics, namely, whether or 349 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: not you can become famous by breaking through on social media. 350 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,400 Speaker 1: Notice so far, not only nothing about the high taxes, 351 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 1: highest income tax, sales, not Cod's gas tax. Oh yeah, 352 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 1: that he absolutely destroyed French laundry. French yes, the massive homelessness, 353 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: the billions of dollars blown on high speed rail, the 354 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 1: billions of dollars lost in unemployment money during. 355 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 5: COVID, California's gas has never I mean what it's been 356 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 5: years since it's gone to some normal level. 357 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: He was asked are you a progressive? And Newsom said, 358 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: I'm a hard headed pragmatist, So he's not a progressive. 359 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: Now get this, and this may may you know. I'm 360 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: in the middle leading lunch here and I shouldn't have 361 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: done this. I must never eat lunch during the show, 362 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: so my lunch may come up. He's the son of 363 00:21:55,840 --> 00:22:01,160 Speaker 1: a mother who worked multiple jobs and who whose straits 364 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 1: made Newsom acquainted with wonderbread. This guy, Jonathan Martin, actually 365 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: bought the wonderbread story that Newsom told on that podcast 366 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: with the NBA players. Jonathan Martin is the only living 367 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: human who believed that story. And may I remind you 368 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 1: he is the senior political columnist and politics bureau chief 369 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: for Politico. He's also the son of a prominent of 370 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: a prominent judge whose friends, the Getty family groomed him 371 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: for his greatness. No mention that the Getty family worth 372 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: billions of dollars, and his father managed the trust of 373 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 1: one of the Getty sons, so it's billions of dollars. 374 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 1: So he got a cut, right, He got a fee 375 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 1: for doing all that money managing. And the Getty family 376 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: financed ten of Gavin Newsom's first eleven businesses. But that's 377 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,959 Speaker 1: not in this article. Instead, he's the mother. He's the 378 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: son of a mother who said Newsom wonderbread. He's the 379 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: proud bearer of a three digit SAT score. He'll tell 380 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 1: you the exact number, which was nine sixty, which we 381 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: calculated equals in ninety three IQ, which is at the 382 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: low average end of the scale. If you closed your 383 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 1: eyes and change the accent from California cool to Arkansas rasp, 384 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: you could also hear the Bill Clinton in him. I mean, 385 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 1: I could see that. 386 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 4: That's the one thing I could see. 387 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: Newsom would be thrilled at the comparison. He makes no 388 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: secret of his admiration for the former president and the Californians. 389 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: Newsom's oratory and mannerisms, consciously or not echo Clinton. 390 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 5: No that I don't remember Clinton saying some of those 391 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 5: weird things. 392 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't remember. 393 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: Clayt Equity is the call of this moment. But even 394 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,880 Speaker 1: Clinton our way towards where the puck is going. There's 395 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 1: just so many I know, I know, well, it's gonna 396 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 1: be a long campaign. But even Clinton didn't have that hair. 397 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 4: That's true, but he did have nice hair, but not 398 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 4: Gavin hair. 399 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: No, No, and they start They talked to Willie Brown 400 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,400 Speaker 1: and Willy Brown is over ninety years old, former boyfriend 401 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris Kamala god Her start in Willie Brown's bed, 402 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 1: and Willie appointed Newsom to the San Francisco's Parking and 403 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 1: Traffic Commission, and Willie said that Willie said that Newsom 404 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: has the ability to be elected president big time. Why 405 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 1: is he so formidable? Jonathan Martin asked, he's the movie star. 406 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: Brown explained, simple as that. And is it clear what 407 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: Newsom actually believes? I don't know, said Brown. I've never 408 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:10,919 Speaker 1: asked him. Why, for fear he doesn't know. I'm going 409 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 1: to express my relationship to my truth. 410 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,879 Speaker 4: Ignorance is bliss. Yeah, so is this guy? Is he 411 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 4: an opinion editor? 412 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 3: He is? 413 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 1: Uh? This is one of those tongue bath profiles that 414 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: the media always does remember better, or work better, or 415 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: work at this treatment. A few years ago. He's the 416 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: senior political columnist in Politics Biro Chief. I'm gonna say 417 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 1: that one nothing about the gas prices being over two 418 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: bucks more. 419 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,439 Speaker 5: That's a very bad article. That is, I know, very unbad. 420 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: It's it's unbelievable. But it around the rest of the country, 421 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:57,360 Speaker 1: everybody's gonna go. 422 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 4: Oh, wow, you governor so handsome. 423 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, the hare all right, when we come back, you've 424 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 1: got to pick one. 425 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 4: We got two left, all right. 426 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 1: We're gonna do the uh the gay sheet or the 427 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:12,439 Speaker 1: what was the other one? 428 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 4: Uh, the parakeet in. 429 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: The pocket or some parakeets yees pants. Yes, we always 430 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,879 Speaker 1: did the micro we did the micro penis story. So 431 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 1: now it's parakeets in his pants or gay sheet, Debora Mark, 432 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: that's next. 433 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 4: Wow. 434 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 435 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: Starting today, you can go to any Wendy's location in 436 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 1: southern California and donate five dollars or more than the 437 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,199 Speaker 1: KFI pasta thon for Katerina's Club and you'll get a 438 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: coupon book for free Wendy's goodies. A big thank you 439 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: to Wendy's. They stopped by today and they dropped off 440 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,479 Speaker 1: some burgers, potatoes and their new chicken tenders with a 441 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: bunch of dipping sauces and snicker Doodle Frosty's. So thanks 442 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: to Wendy's caf I am six forty more stimulating to 443 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: Radio John Cobelt Show. After three o'clock, we're gonna have 444 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: our friend Carl Demio come on. He's the Republican assemblyman 445 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 1: in the San Diego area and he has sent the 446 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 1: letter to the Trump Department of Justice. He's got an 447 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: investigation idea, a criminal investigation of Gavin Newsom because three 448 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: billion dollars of taxpayer money has disappeared. This was money 449 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: that the California well Capper CalPERS is the name of 450 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 1: the agency, and they invest pension money for state workers. Well, 451 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 1: they blew a lot of money on. They blew a 452 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 1: lot of money on a Green New Deal investment fund. 453 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: They lost over seventy percent three billion dollars and Tomaio 454 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: thinks Newsom ought to be held accountable for this. So 455 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,920 Speaker 1: we'll talk to Carl coming up. Okay, let's see the 456 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 1: choices left. Are parakeets in his pants or gay sheep? 457 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 4: Parakeets in his pants? 458 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 1: Of course we're gonna do the gay sheep story. 459 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 4: I know this is what happens when you give me choices. 460 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: All right, guys trying to cross the border. His name 461 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 1: is Jesse Agus Martinez. This happened just a couple of 462 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: weeks ago, and when he was questioned, he said he 463 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: had nothing on him. Then a Customs and Border Protection 464 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: officer noticed a bulge in mister martinez his pants, and 465 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: maybe the bulge was tweeting. It turned out it was 466 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: too heavily sedated orange fronted parakeets. They were living in 467 00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: his in his crouch there, and he's been indicted on 468 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:06,479 Speaker 1: federal smuggling charges. If convicted, the fine could be two 469 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars a maximum of twenty years 470 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: in prison. 471 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 4: Too bad they were sedated? Could him where it hurts 472 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 4: the most? 473 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: Yes, a pecking attack. The birds are a protected species 474 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: native to Mexico, and they were found unconscious but breathing 475 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: in two sacks stuffed into his. 476 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 4: Uh, that's just wrong. 477 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: Martinez is a US citizen who lives in Mexico and uh. 478 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: In September, he was caught trying to bring a parrot 479 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: into the country and he had apparently an extensive conversation 480 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: with the border patrol agents because he claimed several times 481 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: that the bulge was his penis. What is that. It's 482 00:29:55,400 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: definitely not a micro No, apparently it's a macro penis. 483 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 4: It was excited about something. 484 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 1: It was the size of two birds, and I guess 485 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: the officer said, nobody has yeah, right, prove it. Uh. 486 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,479 Speaker 1: So they patted him down, which was a risk, and 487 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: finally admitted that he had stored the two birds and 488 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 1: it's groin. 489 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 4: That's uh, that is really cruel to animals. 490 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: Now, I don't know if you could see this. They 491 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: have photos of the two paracakes unconscious after they pulled 492 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: them out. Yeah, they laid him out on a table 493 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 1: and took a photo of them. 494 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 4: I could say something, I'm just not going to. 495 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: One of them is laid out one way, one of 496 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,479 Speaker 1: them is laid out the other way. And that's what 497 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 1: That's what it's life like. When you spent a few 498 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: hours inside somebody's parents, you know you you can't breathe. 499 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: Orange fronted parakeets are listed as vulnerable on the Threatened 500 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: Species lists. More than eight thousand birds were legally captured 501 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: in Mexico between nineteen ninety eight and two thousand and eight, 502 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: and that's when Mexico banned the parrot trade, although people 503 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: still do it. So I've just you see, you look 504 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: at the parrots and go, oh, I do. I look 505 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 1: at the two parrots laying there, and it cracks me up. 506 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 4: For parakeets. 507 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: Parakeets? 508 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 4: Why does that crack you up? 509 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I don't know. It's because 510 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: I knew where they were. It's like, just what you know, 511 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of parakeets get 512 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 1: to fly around and enjoy their life, and these two 513 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 1: ended up in somebody's pants and passed out. It's just 514 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 1: life isn't fair. We come back, What do we got 515 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: coming up? Oh? Carl myle on, why knew someon how 516 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 1: to be investigated? Three billion dollars of tax moneys disappear? 517 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: You're Debor Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 518 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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