1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can. 2 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 2: If I am six forty, you're listening to the John 3 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 2: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app ron from one until 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 2: four and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: and you can listen to whatever you miss And I 6 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 2: did an hour long interview this morning with my wife 7 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 2: on her TV well, her video podcast. It's called Deborah 8 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: Cobelt Live. She's been doing it for years and I 9 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 2: was the honored guest this morning. It's an hour long 10 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 2: interview on the history of the John and Ken Show. 11 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 2: A lot of stuff about the very early days back 12 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 2: in New Jersey. So if you're interested in it, look 13 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 2: for Debora Cobelt Live on YouTube or Facebook and enjoy 14 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 2: it and it'll be up there forever. So I'll watch 15 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 2: it tonight. It was actually fun, well nerve racking for me, 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 2: but kind of held hostage on camera. 17 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 3: I would be nerve racking. I mean, it's your asking 18 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 3: you please, Oh. 19 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 2: No, but you've I thought you might want to make 20 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 2: me feel uncomfortable one just to play around. Towards the end, 21 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: she wanted to me to describe how I would describe 22 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 2: myself at home, and then she described what she thought 23 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 2: I was like at home. 24 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 3: Oh oh, well, just that alone is enough for people. 25 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: To want to watch. 26 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 2: I was going to say, I'm tuning in just for that. Yeah, okay, 27 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: well there was there's a little bit of disagreement on that, 28 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 2: but what am I going to do? Can't walk off? 29 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 3: Uh you could on the couch tonight. 30 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 2: That's right. So I just had to agree with her assessment. Anyway, 31 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 2: you watched it Debracobelt live on YouTube and on Facebook, 32 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: and we are going to talk now with Lewis Shapiro, 33 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 2: the attorney. Right before the news, we played you some 34 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 2: clips of Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Green. These are Republicans 35 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 2: who are on this House Committee Oversight Committee, and Hunter 36 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 2: Biden is under many investigations, not only for his tax 37 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 2: evasion charges and he's facing an an arraignment tomorrow in 38 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 2: Los Angeles here over that, but also what he's been 39 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:11,399 Speaker 2: doing all these years, collecting money from mysterious Ukrainians, mysterious 40 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 2: Chinese businessman, money that's funneled through a myriad of LLC's 41 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: business deals, multiple bidens, getting money from from these these 42 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 2: business businessmen in these countries, selling access to Joe Biden. 43 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 2: You know that, you know the general outlines of the story. 44 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 2: We're gonna talk to Lou Shapiro and he's gonna explain 45 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 2: what was going on today because Hunter Biden showed up 46 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 2: at the committee hearing that he refused to testify at 47 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 2: and it caused some chaos and mayhem, Lou, how are you. 48 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 4: Good to hear from you what you need to tell me? 49 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 4: You're not collecting millions of dollars while sitting on a 50 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 4: foreign company while doing the show. 51 00:02:54,880 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 2: I wish I was nobody'd sell influence for what? Give 52 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 2: us an outline of why did he show up in 53 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 2: front of a committee to sit in the audience when 54 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 2: he won't testify before the committee in private? 55 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 4: Right, So the background is for the listeners quickly, is 56 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 4: that the House Overside Committee is deciding whether or not 57 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 4: to hold him in contempt of Congress because he is 58 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 4: refusing to submit to a private deposition. His demand is 59 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 4: all submit to a deposition, but I want it to 60 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 4: be public. I want everybody to be able to hear it. 61 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 4: I'm not doing anything in private, and there's no meaning 62 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 4: of the minds there. So at that impasse, they have 63 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 4: to decide are we going to hold him in contempt 64 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: or not? And that was what the discussion was for today, 65 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 4: nothing to do with Biden testifying today. So the surprise 66 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 4: element is while they're deciding basically how to we'll call 67 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 4: it punish, somebody punish the student that's misbehaving, incomes into 68 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 4: the room, the students who's misbehaving, and they're just flabbric acid. 69 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 4: And that's why Mace said what she says, like, how 70 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 4: can you on one hand not respond properly to a 71 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 4: deposition that you've been invited to or asked to a 72 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 4: tan subpoena to really and at the same time be 73 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 4: here we we're discussing what to do when you didn't 74 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 4: show up to it, And that's where it all went. 75 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 2: Not so this was a staged stunt that he pulled, 76 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 2: I guess to send the message that hey, I'm willing 77 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 2: to testify, but it has to be in public. 78 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 4: Yes, And he did this also the previous time not 79 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 4: too long ago, also where he instead of entering into 80 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 4: the room when he was subpoena to be there, he 81 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 4: actually did a speech outside the area explaining how he 82 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 4: is being wrongfully treated and so forth. 83 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 2: And they want to question him about his business dealings 84 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 2: and possibly selling access to his father. 85 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 4: Right, there is idea that potentially this leads all the 86 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 4: way up to when his father was vice president and 87 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 4: had the ear of the president during that time, did 88 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 4: Hunter Biden basically tell people around the world, Hey, if 89 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 4: you want access to the president through my father helped 90 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 4: me out and I'll help you out. Well. 91 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 2: The whole story seems obvious to me because it wasn't 92 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 2: too long ago. He was a crack addict living in 93 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 2: a tent on skid row here in Los Angeles and 94 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 2: some suddenly he arises from the dead and he's pulling 95 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 2: in millions of dollars from from countries that you know, 96 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 2: we're doing a high end business, political business with and 97 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 2: his dad's the vice president. I mean, and you look 98 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 2: at all those LLCs, and you look at all the 99 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 2: checks distributed to so many family members. Obviously there was 100 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 2: something dirty going on. I don't think that's going out 101 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 2: in a limb. 102 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 4: And just to take what you're saying one step further, 103 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 4: if you remember at that time the famous Trump phone 104 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,479 Speaker 4: call for to the Ukrainian president, right, can you do 105 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 4: me a favor? And that led to a whole impiachment uproar. 106 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 4: At the same time when Hunter Biden is sly created 107 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 4: company collecting millions of dollars. I don't even know if 108 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 4: the guy can speak the language. 109 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 2: So I mean, is this going to go anywhere? I mean, 110 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 2: the case can get incredibly complicated. I mean, they had 111 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 2: so much money moving around in so many different directions, 112 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 2: with all these fake shell corporations and LLCs and distributing 113 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 2: checks to like nine different family members. Is there any 114 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 2: way to pull it together so the average person would 115 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 2: understand it. 116 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 4: Look, at the end of the day, the president himself 117 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 4: is in charge. They'll say he's not, but he is 118 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 4: in charge of the DJ. The DJ, the president has 119 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 4: the pardoning power at the end of the day, right, 120 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 4: so the DOJ or Congress, the House, they can do 121 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 4: whatever they want to say, We're gonna hold Hunter binding 122 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 4: contempt and issue some sort of a punishment, but it's 123 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 4: gonna go nowhere because his father is the President of 124 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 4: the United States and he can parton him. And of 125 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 4: course he said I'm not going to pardon my son. 126 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 4: But there's a big difference between what he said he's 127 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 4: gonna do what he actually does. He could always say, well, 128 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 4: I said I wasn't going to partner him under those conditions, 129 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 4: but then it turned into a political witch hunt, got 130 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 4: out of control, and I had to step in for 131 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 4: the benefit of the country and put this to bet 132 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 4: some kind of speech like that could Yeah. 133 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 2: Now, now the tax charges he's getting arraigned here in 134 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 2: Los Angeles tomorrow, is that right? 135 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 4: Right, he's getting arraigned on the tax charges. And this 136 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 4: kind of thing cuts both ways, because you're not going 137 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 4: to make anybody happy. One side's going to say the 138 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 4: only reason these tax charges and other more severe charges 139 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,679 Speaker 4: have come up was because the sweetheart deal was aired 140 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 4: out in the last court date. That made everybody unhappy. 141 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 4: There's an election year, so obviously the DOJ has to 142 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 4: appear to be more tough on things. And the other 143 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 4: side we'll say, you know, he's being targeted just because 144 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 4: his father that normally you never see a prosecution like 145 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 4: this on somebody like a Hunter Biden. The government would 146 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 4: never put so many resource into it. And it's just 147 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 4: one crazy story after another in the news. 148 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: It was. 149 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 2: A lot of tax money he didn't pay though, right, 150 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 2: it was a significant amount. This wasn't one hundred bucks. 151 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 4: Right, It's a significant amount of money. But at the 152 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 4: same time, most people, if you speak to I are 153 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 4: a specialist. They'll try to negotiate first with the irs, 154 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 4: oftentimes to work out some kind of you know, payment 155 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 4: plan going back over a few years and see if 156 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 4: they can be rectified that way. Administratively, we don't see 157 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 4: in the criminal context many tax cases being filed just 158 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 4: solely on a tax issue. Often we'll see it as 159 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 4: a part of another bigger scheme, like a drug trafficking 160 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 4: scheme or something like that. 161 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,839 Speaker 2: All right, because according to CNN, and this story is 162 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 2: from July, prosecutors said in court that Hunter Biden didn't 163 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 2: pay between a million one and a million five in taxes. 164 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 2: To a normal person, that seems like a huge amount 165 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 2: of money. That is that I think the average person 166 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 2: would say, Hey, if I didn't pay a million and 167 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 2: a half dollars in taxes, I think, yeah, I would 168 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 2: be going to jail. 169 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 4: But you think that again, if you speak to people 170 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 4: who play in that sandbox, there's a lot of people 171 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 4: who have unpaid taxes. It may not be on that 172 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 4: high of an amount, but nevertheless, face irs still will 173 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 4: want to work out payment plans. At the end of 174 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 4: the day, they want the money back. That's what they 175 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 4: really want. And if they can get the money back 176 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 4: without having to spend criminal resources on it, that's usually 177 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 4: going to be the first attempt. 178 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 2: This is the money funneled from these mysterious companies that 179 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 2: he was connected to in China and Ukraine. 180 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 4: Well, see that's the bigger story. That's where you would 181 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 4: think you would see the real prosecution. Right, what is 182 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 4: there money laundering here? That's where you that's where we 183 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 4: in as criminal lawyers, that's where we play in, and 184 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 4: that's what we see in the federal core context. If 185 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,199 Speaker 4: that was brought on a who his evidence of that 186 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 4: and they were charging him, that would seem more Okay, 187 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 4: this is normal stuff to see. So we're seeing our 188 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 4: nowplay out is not normal from either angle. 189 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, because just the general overviews I've read about the case, 190 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,839 Speaker 2: it was a maze of payments going in all these 191 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:58,079 Speaker 2: different directions to all these different bidens from these mystery companies, 192 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 2: and nobody that could even pinpoint what hunt Biden exactly does. 193 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 2: Like if he's not selling access and basically taking bribes, 194 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 2: then what is he doing with all these companies? Again, 195 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,199 Speaker 2: he was a crack addict in a skid row tent 196 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 2: a few years ago. 197 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 4: And That's exactly why the House Overside Committee wants to 198 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 4: sit down with him in a deposition and ask him 199 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 4: these very questions, take us through these trails, what would 200 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 4: this company form for? And so forth? 201 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 2: All Right, well, Louke, thanks very much for coming on. 202 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 2: You got it all right. Lou Shapiro attorney, trying to 203 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 2: explain the Hunter Biden circus this morning in the House 204 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 2: of Representatives where there was a Senate to Oversight committee. 205 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 2: We had a little cut to play. Just play this 206 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 2: cut number two. This is just the audio of the 207 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 2: media surrounding Hunter Biden. He had shown up at this 208 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 2: oversight committee, which he will not submit a deposition, submit 209 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 2: to deposition for us in private. Play the clip cut 210 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 2: number two. 211 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 4: Why did you. 212 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 2: Did you show up? 213 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 3: Why did you show Why did you do on speaker phone? 214 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 3: If he had nothing to do with your business? 215 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 5: You're on speaker phone both times to talk to your 216 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 5: business partners. 217 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: Why did he Why did. 218 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 3: You do that? 219 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 2: You know, this is another one of those great stupid 220 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 2: media rituals. You have a guy who's uh, under indictments, 221 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 2: maybe in contempt of Congress. He slick clearly is not talking, 222 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 2: and then the reporters chase him yelling all their inane questions, 223 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 2: knowing he's not going to answer. It's what what it's 224 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 2: like a religious ritual that go through all the time. 225 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 1: Someone asked him what his favorite kind of crackers and 226 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 1: if he was smoking crack today. 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Just keeping track on TV, 246 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 2: Chris Christie's walking into a big room where he's going 247 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 2: to drop out of the presidential race. Momentarily. The New 248 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:19,319 Speaker 2: Hampshire primary is coming up shortly after the Iowa caucuses, 249 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:20,559 Speaker 2: which I think are on Monday. 250 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 3: Then we have a debate tonight. 251 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 2: And there's a debate between this. 252 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 3: Santis and Haley Haley tonight. 253 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think Donald Trump has a town hall 254 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 2: tonight as well on Fox, and DeSantis and Haley are 255 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 2: debating on CNN. So we're getting into the heat of 256 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 2: the season. Not that any of this matters, I mean, 257 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 2: it's impossible to believe. It really is impossible to believe, 258 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 2: considering how many people don't like Biden and Trump combined. 259 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 2: But Biden doesn't seem to be dropping out, and Trump 260 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 2: seems to be surviving all his messes, and this is 261 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 2: what we get to vote on, and it's this. Chris 262 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 2: Christie dropping out is important only in that Nicky Haley 263 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 2: is her polling A New Hampshire is getting closer to Trump. 264 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 2: She's within about seven points, and some of Christie's following 265 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,439 Speaker 2: may go to Nicky Haley. He had a double digit 266 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 2: following a New Hampshire. New Hampshire is a much more 267 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 2: moderate state. So that's uh, He's decided that he doesn't 268 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 2: want to be he so hates Trump that he doesn't 269 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 2: want to have Trump win just because the anti Trump 270 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 2: vote was divided among too many candidates. So that's where 271 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 2: that is going. 272 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: Now. 273 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 2: We were talking about about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden 274 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 2: all that all their corruption. The Biden White House is 275 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 2: under assault from the inside. Did you hear what Joey 276 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 2: Foster said the other day? 277 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: No? 278 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 3: What did she say? 279 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 2: Jodie Foster was giving an interview and almost as an 280 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 2: side she said she's having trouble with younger workers that 281 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 2: she's hired with her production company because they're basically their 282 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 2: work ethics sucks. 283 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 3: Well, we even know that, right, We talk about that 284 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 3: all the time. 285 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 2: Oh, I know, No, I hate to stereotype generations, but 286 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 2: there is some kind of generational malfunction going on because 287 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 2: everyone I know who is aware of the hiring practices 288 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 2: in a workplace and has to deal with recently hired 289 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 2: workers said that you're getting a lot of bizarre attitudes 290 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 2: coming out of college. Now. 291 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 3: Do you think that the pandemic brought this on or 292 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,479 Speaker 3: was this happening before the pandemic. 293 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 2: I think both of it. I think during the pandemic 294 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 2: people got used to sitting in their pajamas and fuzzy 295 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 2: slippers and having to go into work and dealing with 296 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 2: people every day is just overloaded their system. 297 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 3: And when they were told to go back, they're saying. 298 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 2: No, and I should go back. And I think people 299 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 2: have absorbed TikTok culture to a large extent. You have 300 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 2: all these weird, trendy influencers. I see these stories. I 301 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 2: don't go on social media to watch this stuff. That 302 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 2: would be an incredible waste of your life. But apparently 303 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 2: there are influencers who promote lazy girl jobs where you're 304 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 2: just supposed to do the absolute minimum, do it, do 305 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 2: it from home, so nobody really notices that you're not 306 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 2: working and spend the rest of the time pampering yourself. 307 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 2: You don't marry a rich guy, right, It's not like 308 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 2: you take that route or you marry a rich guy 309 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 2: and use his money to pappy yourself. This is you 310 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 2: earning a minimum amount of money, doing a minimum amount 311 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 2: of work, and just lasing around until life passes and 312 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 2: your egg's rot. 313 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 3: It's just just so crazy. I mean, I remember when 314 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 3: I was in college and I had five internships. I mean, 315 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 3: I worked my butt off, right, I wanted I mean, 316 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 3: I was very driven and I wanted the job. I 317 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 3: worked weekends. I were Saturday and Sunday mornings at a 318 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 3: radio station. While I was in college. I had to 319 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 3: get up at three o'clock in the morning, right in college. 320 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 3: People these days, they would never do it. Well, I 321 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 3: shouldn't say people these days. So many people that I 322 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 3: talk to like, no way would I do that. Yeah, 323 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 3: And people just want things just handed to them. 324 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 2: It seems like, well, Jody Foster said, you know, she 325 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 2: gets she gets a young woman calling up and saying, 326 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 2: I'm not going to be in until about ten thirty today. 327 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 2: I'm just not feeling it. I'm just not feeling it. 328 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 2: What the hell does that mean? I'm not feeling it? 329 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 2: They don't want to come in because I just want 330 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 2: to lay in the house for all. 331 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 3: Why you need to get fired and find somebody else. 332 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 3: If there is somebody else that does feel like coming in. 333 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,360 Speaker 2: Because I'm like you. I was very driven too since 334 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 2: I was about fourteen, and I can't stand being around 335 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 2: people who want to lay around because they're not feeling it. Yeah, 336 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 2: oh my god, I want to smack them. So it's like, 337 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 2: so go home, get out of here. And they talk 338 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:06,880 Speaker 2: about wanting work life balance. You're twenty four. You've got 339 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 2: nothing to balance and you haven't accomplished anything. You need 340 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 2: to prove yourself, yes, And that's going to lead into 341 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,439 Speaker 2: what I wanted to talk about, because apparently even the 342 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 2: president is dealing with this where all these low level 343 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 2: young staff members are upset over his decisions and they 344 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:31,119 Speaker 2: are writing anonymous letters and publicizing them. And whether you 345 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:35,160 Speaker 2: agree or disagree with his decision, he's the president. You're 346 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 2: twenty five years old and your resume is a one 347 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 2: twelfth of an inch thick. You haven't done anything yet, 348 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 2: nobody's going to sit and listen to your opinion. Nobody 349 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,439 Speaker 2: gives a crap what you think. And I you know, 350 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 2: we were there. Nobody gave a crap what we thought, and 351 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 2: they shouldn't. We didn't know anything. Hardest thing when you're 352 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 2: a younger age is to realize you don't you think 353 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 2: you know stuff, but then years later you look back 354 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 2: into realize you didn't know much. But you do the work. 355 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 2: You do the work, and you earn your right to 356 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 2: tell the president off. I'll get into this because this 357 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 2: is actually broader than just Joe Biden, Jodi Foster. This 358 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 2: seems to be spread as spread through throughout society, and 359 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:20,439 Speaker 2: I think a lot of these people grew up in 360 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 2: such a closed TikTok social media environment, exacerbated by the 361 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 2: COVID lockdown, that a very strange culture has crawled out 362 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 2: from out of the cave and it's really difficult to 363 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 2: deal with if you are driven and focused. 364 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 5: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am 365 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 5: six forty. 366 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,479 Speaker 2: If you want to see me interviewed by my wife, 367 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 2: Deborah Coblt. She's got a video podcast called Debora cobelt Live. 368 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 2: You can get it on YouTube or Facebook. We recorded 369 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,919 Speaker 2: it to ten this morning. You should go watch it. 370 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 2: She interviewed me for an hour on the history of 371 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 2: the John and kenshow So that's Depa Cobet Live on YouTube, 372 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,439 Speaker 2: Facebook and other audio places as well, and enjoy it. 373 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 2: If you're going to find out a lot of stuff 374 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 2: about our early days that you might have never heard before. 375 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 2: All Right, Chris Christie is in the middle of dropping 376 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 2: out of the race. He had some percentage of the 377 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,679 Speaker 2: vote in New Hampshire, but nothing that was going to 378 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 2: get him ahead of Donald Trump. So he's dropping out 379 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,919 Speaker 2: and maybe his vote merges with Rod DeSantis or Nicki Haley. 380 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 2: There is a significant anti Trump vote in the Republican 381 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 2: Party in New Hampshire. Not much anywhere else, but in 382 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 2: New Hampshire somebody could squeeze out a surprise. I was 383 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 2: probably going to go to Trump big time on Monday. 384 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 2: Now we were talking before the news. Well, first, Jodi 385 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 2: Foster came out with a comment in an interview about 386 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 2: how she's kind of headed up to here with the 387 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 2: Generation Z and hiring them because they just don't want 388 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 2: to work. And she talked about one woman who who 389 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:02,880 Speaker 2: called in and said, I'm not going to be in 390 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 2: till about ten thirty because I'm just not feeling it. 391 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 2: And then she also corrected somebody's spelling or grammar in 392 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 2: an email. Apparently a sloppy email was sent to Jody Foster, 393 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,120 Speaker 2: and she said, you got to get this together, and 394 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 2: that person protested the girl said, Oh, but that is 395 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 2: so limiting, like she wants the right to express herself. 396 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 3: Wait, it's limiting to. 397 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 2: Follow spelling and grammar traditions. 398 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: She's limiting herself by misspelling stuff and having bad grammar. 399 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, you look uneducated. It's stupid. See, nobody wants to 400 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 2: use those words and tell these people that know. Really, 401 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 2: you come across as stupid. Nobody's interested in your reasoning here. 402 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:47,880 Speaker 3: Don't make an excuse. 403 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 2: Just do better. Yeah, spell better with spellcheck. 404 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, that's great. 405 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 2: Spell Check undoes correct spelling often. That happens to me 406 00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 2: all the time. When I text, they come up with 407 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 2: other words. It's like no, no, no, I wanted this word, 408 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,919 Speaker 2: you turned it into a different word. Anyway, this idea, 409 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 2: this is happening in a lot of newsrooms because the 410 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 2: reason a lot of the news coverage has gone awry 411 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 2: places like the New York Times and the Elsegundo Times 412 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 2: is that there's a lot a lot of the staff 413 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 2: members revolt if they don't like the way stories are 414 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,679 Speaker 2: being covered. And they're literally in their mid twenties, just 415 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 2: out of college, and they have been indoctrinated in this 416 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 2: progressive ideology. Their editors even if they're liberal, are normal 417 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 2: and adhere to old journalistic tenets. Well, these new twenty 418 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,679 Speaker 2: somethings don't want to hear about it. They believe in 419 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 2: advocacy opinion coverage, not necessarily factual coverage or balanced coverage. 420 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 2: And it's made it a real headache to try to 421 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 2: go through the news every morning, trust me, right, and 422 00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 2: now it's infected the Biden administration was in Politico that 423 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 2: protest culture is exposed a generation gap between young staffers 424 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:12,479 Speaker 2: and their older bosses. Once Biden decided to back Israel 425 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 2: against Tamas, well all the progressives who were taught in 426 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 2: college just a few years ago that Israel is committing 427 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 2: apartheide is a racist oppressor of the Palatini at Palestinians 428 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 2: evert all that nonsense, right, Well, they started writing letters, 429 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 2: anonymous letters. That's that's what's funny is they're cowardly. They 430 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 2: don't put their names to the letters, but they released 431 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 2: them publicly. The news media gets a hold of them 432 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 2: and it becomes a cheap news story. It's like, wow, 433 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 2: there's a revolt growing about between young progressive staff members 434 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 2: and the Biden administration. And one of Clinton's old campaign 435 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 2: strategist James Carville said, there's this whole you're not the 436 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 2: boss of me attitude. Now I might work for you, 437 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 2: but I have my own views. Carvil said, when he 438 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 2: worked for Clinton, if you didn't like his policies, the 439 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 2: idea that you go public with that would be insane. 440 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 2: You just wouldn't do. That wouldn't cross your mind. In fact, 441 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 2: another Clinton campaign strategist, Paul Begala, said, the bargain that 442 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,959 Speaker 2: a staffer strikes has always been this, you get to 443 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,119 Speaker 2: influence the decisions of the most powerful government in the 444 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 2: history of the world. In exchange for that influence, you 445 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,400 Speaker 2: agree to back the final decision, even if it goes 446 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 2: against your advice. If confronted with a decision that crosses 447 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 2: your ethical, moral, social, political line, the choice is clear, 448 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 2: shut up and support it or resign. And instead, now 449 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 2: they leak it to the media and the Biden administration 450 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 2: officials don't want to hear about it. And the one 451 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 2: thing is the only the big insult is is when 452 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 2: you fight back on this stuff, it's like, well you're old. 453 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 2: It's like, no, I'm right. You know. They they're the 454 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 2: ones who are anti racist, anti sexist, anti xenophobe transfer 455 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 2: of all that. But they're only comeback when you tell 456 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,880 Speaker 2: them that they're wrong. Is you're old, So being agist 457 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 2: is okay. You can mock somebody's opinion because they're older 458 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 2: than you. But all the other isms and fobe behavior 459 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 2: that's off limits. And the truth is they can't back 460 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 2: up their claims very often because they're not educated. Well, 461 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 2: they're not knowledgeable. They don't know what they don't know. 462 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 2: They've got so much one sided progressive indoctrination in school. 463 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 2: They don't know what the real world is about. And 464 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 2: they do not handle the real world. And you combine 465 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 2: that with their lack of drive because they want their 466 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 2: work life balance. And these are people that are just toxic. 467 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 2: You don't want them in the building, you don't want 468 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 2: them in your office. One senior White House official said, 469 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 2: what they don't know is Joe Biden, and that doesn't 470 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 2: work on him. This is not an effective way to 471 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 2: get at ten the staffers who think that writing letters 472 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 2: or resigning is going to put pressure on the White House. 473 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 2: That makes the president more reticent to engage, and his 474 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 2: advisor is more reticent to engage and says for a 475 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 2: younger generation, of activists. These type of analysis seemed painfully 476 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 2: outdated in college, and afterward they marched in rallies and 477 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 2: eras of mass protests against against the police. For example. 478 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, that worked out your great idea about 479 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 2: defunding the police. Go to Portland, go to Seattle, go 480 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 2: to Minneapolis, go talk to the people. To live with 481 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,880 Speaker 2: the results of your protests. Because some of these protests 482 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 2: had an influence on the cowardly progressive politicians in these cities, 483 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 2: so they pulled the police out and there's all kinds 484 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 2: of mayhem and bloodshed. The thing is they're fighting for 485 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 2: ideas that are stupid, just flat out stupid, that you 486 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 2: can't build the civilization around, and so many people in 487 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 2: government are so scared and so cowed them. That was 488 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 2: what was wrong with Garcetti and a lot of the 489 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 2: city council members. They caved into these homeless advocates. They 490 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 2: were afraid of them. I were told, I was told 491 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 2: by several people the homeless advocates would bang on the 492 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 2: doors of city hall officials and scare everybody in their offices, 493 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 2: and so everybody caved in, and that's what, in part 494 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,679 Speaker 2: led to the homelessness run rampant. That's why the city 495 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 2: would not police the streets anymore and get the homeless 496 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 2: off the sidewalks, out of the parks, out of the tents, 497 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 2: because they were afraid of these crazy activists, who in 498 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,959 Speaker 2: turn are financed by a lot of silly rich boys. 499 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 2: But you can never you can never cower, you can 500 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 2: never be afraid of these people. You can never be 501 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:52,400 Speaker 2: afraid of being called names, being insulted, being stereotyped in somebody. 502 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 2: You've got to fight back immediately. They've gained too much 503 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 2: ground and they're stupid and their policies are stupid, and 504 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 2: they can't back them up. They really can't. All right, 505 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 2: more coming up, John Cobelt showed. 506 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 507 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 5: six forty. 508 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 2: Debra's got the News at three and then we're going 509 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 2: to talk to La County Deputy DA Todd Hicks. He 510 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 2: is suing George Gascone for retaliation. There are many many 511 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:28,400 Speaker 2: deputy das who are suing George Gascon for retaliation because 512 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 2: that's what Gascone does to try to shut up his critics. 513 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 2: We will explain his situation. He'll be on the air 514 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 2: with us coming up right after three o'clock. Oh live 515 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 2: on Instagram too. There you go, All right, we were 516 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 2: talking about just the only irritating, woke progressive people in 517 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 2: the world who's making life miserable. They're back in action 518 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 2: in San Francisco. The delusion of local politicians who want 519 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 2: to announce their opposition to wars eight thousand miles away 520 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 2: the Border Supervisors. Now the Border Supervisors rule over San Francisco, 521 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 2: which is the most one of the most probably the 522 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 2: most dysfunctional large city in the country. There are even 523 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 2: worse cities to live in, but they're smaller like Oakland, 524 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 2: And you know, they have what amounts to a war 525 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 2: zone in some neighborhoods. They had time Tuesday to vote 526 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 2: for a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and was 527 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 2: approved on an eight to three vote. And they have 528 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 2: demanded a ceasefire, a release of hostages, humanitarian aid, and 529 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 2: they want to condemn everything anti Semitic, anti Palestinian behavior, 530 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 2: islamophobic rhetoric. Why why don't you vote for a ceasefire 531 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 2: in the Tenderloin district. How about you vote for a 532 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 2: no drug zone in the Tenderloin district. How about a 533 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 2: car theft ceasepire I I don't. I don't understand how 534 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 2: they think it would seem so foolish to to me 535 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 2: be making demands for something that you know you have 536 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 2: zero control over. When your own neighborhood, your own city 537 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 2: is a national joke and a disaster, it's one of 538 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 2: the most dangerous places in the entire country, and you're 539 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 2: pretending to understand the the Israeli Gaza situation. I don't. 540 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 2: It's just it's just wacko ego behavior. I guess right. 541 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 2: They're just big ego bags that they think what they 542 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 2: say matter, you know, if people listen to you, if 543 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 2: you weren't so incompetent with your own neighborhood districts. And 544 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,479 Speaker 2: also this question has to be asked. We mentioned this 545 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 2: earlier this week. What does what does Gavin Newsom do 546 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 2: with Bill Clinton? When Clinton vacations with him in New Mexico, 547 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,959 Speaker 2: which he's been doing this week. Clinton, while all the 548 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 2: revelations came out about his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein and 549 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 2: the teenage girls and there might be videotapes of having 550 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 2: of Clinton having sex with teenage girls and all that 551 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 2: all that dirtyiness that's been swirling around him. He's next 552 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 2: seen in Mexico in a golf cart with Gavin Newsom 553 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 2: and Newsom's wife, Jennifer, and you have to wonder, what 554 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 2: the what the hell are they talking about? I mean, 555 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 2: I mean, why would Newsom take a guy who clearly 556 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 2: has some connection to this massive pedophilia sex scandal. At 557 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 2: least at least Prince Andrew has a good sense to 558 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 2: hide inside his house. But Clinton flaunts all this stuff. 559 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 2: And now it's really getting gross. Now now this teenage 560 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 2: stuff in Epstein's it's really getting disgusting. I mean, that 561 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 2: hole Monica Lewinsky situation was not an aberration. Well, why 562 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,840 Speaker 2: would Newsom want to be pictured with him? Well, you 563 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 2: know Newsom has his own sexual baggage in his past. 564 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 2: What did he do? He went after his he had 565 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 2: an affair with his uh I think his chief of 566 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 2: staff's wife was that it, yeah, and then blamed it 567 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 2: on his alcohol problem. Well that's who you want to 568 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 2: spend time with. Jesus. All right, we come back LA 569 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 2: Deputy District Attorney Todd Hicks. He is now susing suing 570 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 2: George Gascone for retaliation. There's just an endless list, and 571 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 2: we are getting close. We're going to go into overdrive 572 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 2: very soon because we're just what maybe, oh, I don't know, 573 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 2: seven weeks away from the primary day where Gascone could 574 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 2: be toppled by I don't know, nine, ten eleven candidates 575 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 2: running against him. We'll talk about that coming up, Debora 576 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 2: Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, 577 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 578 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 579 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 580 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app