1
00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200
Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John

2
00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,120
Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every

3
00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,400
Speaker 1: day from one until four o'clock, and then after four

4
00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:12,400
Speaker 1: we turned into a podcast, John Cobelt Show on Demand,

5
00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:16,560
Speaker 1: and that's where you go to listen to whatever you missed.

6
00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,000
Speaker 1: Now we're going to start this hour. I didn't know

7
00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,759
Speaker 1: if we'd ever get to this point to have a

8
00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,120
Speaker 1: conversation like we're going to have now with Todd Benzman.

9
00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,400
Speaker 1: Todd Bensman is the investigative journalist. He writes for the

10
00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,920
Speaker 1: Center for Immigration Studies and Todd has been covering the

11
00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:41,760
Speaker 1: border for about five years and it is remarkable what

12
00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,400
Speaker 1: he has seen, what he has explained. He wrote a

13
00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:49,199
Speaker 1: book on it called Overrun and now There's suddenly no

14
00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,080
Speaker 1: more problem at the border. And one of the things

15
00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,800
Speaker 1: he's written about this week at CIS dot org. There's

16
00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,840
Speaker 1: also an excerpt of it on the Daily Wire dot

17
00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,880
Speaker 1: com is how it blew to hell all the stupid

18
00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:06,000
Speaker 1: theories that were being pushed at us by politicians and

19
00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:12,679
Speaker 1: bureaucrats and media people and activists and non governmental groups,

20
00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,280
Speaker 1: the idea that well, you know, we have to go

21
00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,360
Speaker 1: look for the root causes of it. Maybe it's our

22
00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,840
Speaker 1: climate policy. It was never any of that. It was

23
00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,559
Speaker 1: just enforced the law and boom encounters. Your down ninety

24
00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,400
Speaker 1: six percent at the border. All the other stuff was

25
00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,039
Speaker 1: a lot of hot gas, and they knew it was

26
00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,760
Speaker 1: hot gas. But we've been hearing about this garbage for

27
00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:40,319
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five years. Let's get Todd. Ben's been on Todd.

28
00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,039
Speaker 2: Yes, hey, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

29
00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:45,720
Speaker 1: Are you going to be out of work? Are you

30
00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:47,400
Speaker 1: gonna have to open up an ice cream shop? Or what?

31
00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,920
Speaker 2: Oh? God? You know, I'm thinking, well, there's a cartel

32
00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,360
Speaker 2: war gearing up down there. Maybe on that list, right,

33
00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,840
Speaker 2: But I mean it's true what you say, the greatest

34
00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,920
Speaker 2: mass migration in crisis in US history ever to have

35
00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,880
Speaker 2: stricken the United States. And I think, really any country

36
00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:12,000
Speaker 2: in the world is over. And I declare that openly

37
00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,920
Speaker 2: and with confidence at CIS dot orgon a big long

38
00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:21,040
Speaker 2: column that published yesterday, and I'd say that it took

39
00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,240
Speaker 2: all of about one hour to shut it down. We

40
00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:29,480
Speaker 2: are now at the lowest numbers that we've seen in

41
00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:34,160
Speaker 2: you know, at least half a century, maybe forever. And

42
00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,959
Speaker 2: we didn't need the big Senate bill that Harris was

43
00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,600
Speaker 2: always campaigning about. Oh, the Senate Bill, the Senate bill.

44
00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,280
Speaker 2: If only I had the Senate bill, we could have

45
00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,000
Speaker 2: stopped this thing. But Trump killed the Senate bill, and

46
00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,919
Speaker 2: we need the Senate bill. No, we didn't. We didn't

47
00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,160
Speaker 2: need the Senate bill. We didn't have to ever fix

48
00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:59,880
Speaker 2: root causes of other costies that right, root causes. That one.

49
00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,800
Speaker 1: It was getting too warm, so they were moving north

50
00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,040
Speaker 1: where the weather is cooler. That's what they were selling.

51
00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,560
Speaker 2: None of that. All of it was bogus. All of

52
00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,200
Speaker 2: it was bogus. We knew it from the start. I

53
00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,760
Speaker 2: think I've been saying that to your audience now for

54
00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,000
Speaker 2: at least a couple of years. That's not what it was.

55
00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,839
Speaker 2: It never was. It was that they just simply let

56
00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:26,080
Speaker 2: everybody in. That's it's really quite a simple thing. You

57
00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,840
Speaker 2: if you let everybody in who comes to the border,

58
00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,000
Speaker 2: they'll be happy to drop the five or ten grand

59
00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:38,160
Speaker 2: in smuggling fees to do it. If you close, if

60
00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,520
Speaker 2: you make it, if you expel and deport them, they're

61
00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,680
Speaker 2: not willing to spend five or ten thousand dollars. You wouldn't,

62
00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,720
Speaker 2: I wouldn't, Nobody I knows, nobody I know would do

63
00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,440
Speaker 2: would drop cash like that if you knew you were

64
00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,840
Speaker 2: going to be expelled. And so Trump came in and

65
00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,520
Speaker 2: just did detention, deportation, expulsion. That's all. That's all it took.

66
00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,119
Speaker 2: It was over in an hour to sit within by

67
00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,000
Speaker 2: one o'clock on inauguration day, it was over.

68
00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,640
Speaker 1: And it was always in the laws, in the law, yeah,

69
00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,680
Speaker 1: the Immigration Naturalization Act. All you do is follow what

70
00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,400
Speaker 1: you're permitted to do, and you can drop it down

71
00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:19,119
Speaker 1: to near zero.

72
00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,920
Speaker 2: Right. And so I just published a piece I mean

73
00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,919
Speaker 2: literally fifteen minutes ago on the Daily Wires. Go to

74
00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,680
Speaker 2: the Daily Wires, got that in front of me here, right,

75
00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,480
Speaker 2: And I go into a lot more detail about these

76
00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:39,160
Speaker 2: other theories that the Democrats would put up to the

77
00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:44,240
Speaker 2: American public and sell, relentlessly, sell these theories about how

78
00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:48,080
Speaker 2: complex and long term and really we all just should

79
00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,880
Speaker 2: ball up into a fetal position and take the beating.

80
00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,359
Speaker 2: We just have no choice in any of this. It

81
00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,880
Speaker 2: just is happening to us, and we we just have

82
00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,920
Speaker 2: to manage it in like pain manage or something. Uh.

83
00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,360
Speaker 2: And I go into a lot more detail about the

84
00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,240
Speaker 2: you know why the Lankfort senateville that they that they

85
00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,520
Speaker 2: literally hinge the the Democrats hinge their entire presidential campaign

86
00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:18,800
Speaker 2: on that thing. We need the Senate bill and root

87
00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,000
Speaker 2: causes and climate change and all these other things that

88
00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,120
Speaker 2: we just have no choice but to just take it.

89
00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:30,120
Speaker 2: And all of that is buried now. It's intellectually untenable

90
00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:34,560
Speaker 2: to ever claim those things again, ever again, because there's

91
00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:39,200
Speaker 2: only one theory left standing in its mine and Trump's,

92
00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,719
Speaker 2: which is that if you close the gates, they stop coming.

93
00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, which to me was obvious. You know, if you

94
00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,599
Speaker 1: shut the door, nobody can come through. I I but

95
00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,000
Speaker 1: they always like to prattle on. And God, I must

96
00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,360
Speaker 1: have read this and seen it on television a thousands

97
00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,680
Speaker 1: of times, all the complex root cause it's a men

98
00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,400
Speaker 1: a multiply fascinated issue. It's like, no, it's not. It's

99
00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,520
Speaker 1: like your front door. If you lock it, nobody's getting

100
00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,400
Speaker 1: in the house. I was just baffled by all this.

101
00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:19,839
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I called it like a revolution in common sense,

102
00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,560
Speaker 2: a common sense revolution, and immigration is like a perfect

103
00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,839
Speaker 2: example of that. There's nothing complicated about illegal immigration over

104
00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,880
Speaker 2: the border. There never was. It was always a super

105
00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,360
Speaker 2: It was so simple that nobody could believe that it

106
00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:40,479
Speaker 2: wasn't complex, you know, but there it is. You know, immigrants.

107
00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,479
Speaker 2: You know, I've interviewed thousands of immigrants over the last

108
00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,960
Speaker 2: four or five years on the trail, And where do

109
00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,880
Speaker 2: you think I came up with this crazy idea from them?

110
00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,880
Speaker 2: Why are you coming now? I would always ask them,

111
00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,520
Speaker 2: why are you coming now? Why didn't you come three

112
00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,600
Speaker 2: years ago? When Trump was in office. They're saying, well,

113
00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:03,159
Speaker 2: Biden opened the border, letting us in. That's why. I mean,

114
00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,719
Speaker 2: it's just not complicated.

115
00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,320
Speaker 1: Now that that's all there is to it. And I

116
00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,040
Speaker 1: think for the rest of our lives, no president's going

117
00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:12,920
Speaker 1: to try this again.

118
00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,280
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I don't know about that. You know.

119
00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:21,120
Speaker 2: What I'm what I'm arguing for is a deep burial

120
00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:28,240
Speaker 2: in the dung heap of bad, debunked ideas, policy ideas,

121
00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,560
Speaker 2: and you know, to salt the earth on top of

122
00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,320
Speaker 2: it so that they can never get out again, To

123
00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,840
Speaker 2: lock the crypt doors, you know, forever, and weld them

124
00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:43,080
Speaker 2: shut so that these these crazy ideas can never ever

125
00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:48,120
Speaker 2: get out into the public again. Uh, this is the

126
00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,640
Speaker 2: only theory that matters. It's not a theory now, it's

127
00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:56,360
Speaker 2: a proven fact on the ground. What how to how

128
00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:01,040
Speaker 2: to stop mass migration. That's it. And also oh yeah, no.

129
00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,920
Speaker 1: No, no, go ahead, go ahead, finish.

130
00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,760
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I was going to mention that, you know,

131
00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,160
Speaker 2: we spent on these other crazy theories, you know, billions

132
00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:13,440
Speaker 2: and billions of dollars. I mean, we gave Central America

133
00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:18,600
Speaker 2: I don't know, six or seven billion dollars to rebuild

134
00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,840
Speaker 2: their countries so that you know, people wouldn't want to leave.

135
00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,600
Speaker 2: And the entire time that we were giving them all

136
00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,800
Speaker 2: these billions of dollars, they were all leaving. And they're

137
00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,840
Speaker 2: still leaving, well not now, but you know, they all

138
00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,400
Speaker 2: the way up until Inauguration Day, they were leaving. And

139
00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:42,480
Speaker 2: one other thing is, you know, there are compliments to expulsion, deportation,

140
00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:47,920
Speaker 2: and detention, and one of them is a threat of

141
00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000
Speaker 2: tariffs on Mexico to get their military out there and

142
00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,360
Speaker 2: give us a second layer of cordon, a second you know,

143
00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,880
Speaker 2: fence on their side where And they've been doing that

144
00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,120
Speaker 2: for a while now, rounding up immigrants on their side

145
00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,680
Speaker 2: of the border and shifting them back down to their

146
00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:10,160
Speaker 2: south and making them self deport what's happening now is

147
00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,920
Speaker 2: in addition to just there being you know, eight thousand

148
00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,240
Speaker 2: for the month of February eighty three hundred, which sounds

149
00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,280
Speaker 2: like a lot maybe, but compared to three hundred and

150
00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,680
Speaker 2: fifty thousand a month, eight thousand is a is a dream.

151
00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,760
Speaker 2: We haven't seen anything like that in many, many decades.

152
00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:30,440
Speaker 1: So that's the.

153
00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:36,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're reverse migration now, they're actually going the other

154
00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,000
Speaker 2: way through the Darien Gap to get away from our border.

155
00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,319
Speaker 1: Before you go, I just kind of mention one thing

156
00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:48,200
Speaker 1: you wrote actually made me laugh because you wrote about

157
00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,760
Speaker 1: the so called root causes strategy when Biden sent Kamala

158
00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,840
Speaker 1: Harris to the border with the theory that the well

159
00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:02,080
Speaker 1: what she said that the re and for all the

160
00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,800
Speaker 1: illegal crossings was because of extensive storm damage to do

161
00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,560
Speaker 1: due to extreme climate. We're looking at drought in a

162
00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,280
Speaker 1: region where agriculture is one of the most traditionally important

163
00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,000
Speaker 1: basis for their economy, and we're looking at what happens

164
00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,240
Speaker 1: in terms of food scarcity as a result of that.

165
00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,880
Speaker 1: So is climate change and drought and storm damage. I

166
00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:23,920
Speaker 1: don't know how you have storm damage and drought at

167
00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,679
Speaker 1: the same time, but you know it's those kind of

168
00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:32,599
Speaker 1: misdirection plays. And who looks up the climate of guatemale

169
00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,880
Speaker 1: El Salvador who pays attention to the weather down there.

170
00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:36,559
Speaker 1: You know, people go, oh, I guess, so I got

171
00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,599
Speaker 1: And it was all scammers. It was a racket. It

172
00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:40,480
Speaker 1: was a lot of crap.

173
00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:46,720
Speaker 2: It was I mean, it stands exposed as you know,

174
00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,679
Speaker 2: a mass fraud. I mean, it really was like a

175
00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,520
Speaker 2: gigantic Ponzi scheme. And the way they use these theories,

176
00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:59,840
Speaker 2: these debunk theories, these disgraced theories, is that they wait

177
00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,880
Speaker 2: them around over here on the left so that your attention,

178
00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,640
Speaker 2: they draw your attention like a shiny babble over here

179
00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,160
Speaker 2: while they're opening the gate over there. That's where the

180
00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:12,440
Speaker 2: action is. But they're telling you we're doing something over here,

181
00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,080
Speaker 2: we're doing something over here that that's meaningful, and while

182
00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,480
Speaker 2: we're doing it, we're just going to keep this gate open.

183
00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,440
Speaker 2: That's how they used these theories. And I hope I

184
00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,640
Speaker 2: wrote this piece in the Daily Wire because I mean,

185
00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:29,760
Speaker 2: I hope it just absorbs that these these are discredited

186
00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:36,319
Speaker 2: constructs now and they need to just be completely exposed

187
00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,839
Speaker 2: lest they ever be resurrected. Somehow. Somebody could come back with, oh,

188
00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:44,120
Speaker 2: we've got to adjust root causes again. And by the way.

189
00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,080
Speaker 2: I point out at length in the in the Daily

190
00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:51,680
Speaker 2: Wire piece that we borrowed this crazy theory from the

191
00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:55,040
Speaker 2: progressive liberals in Europe who came up with it in

192
00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,720
Speaker 2: the eighties in the nineties, and they tried it. And

193
00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:02,079
Speaker 2: there are all these stuff budies all over the Internet

194
00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,880
Speaker 2: that the that the Europeans did that showed that it

195
00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,520
Speaker 2: never ever worked no for them. Every time they tried it,

196
00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,559
Speaker 2: it never worked. And these are like long term clinical

197
00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,760
Speaker 2: trials right that they had over there, and still we

198
00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,040
Speaker 2: stole it so it can be resurrected. These they can

199
00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,520
Speaker 2: rise from the grave. They can be stitched back together

200
00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:25,400
Speaker 2: like Frankenstein and brought back.

201
00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,160
Speaker 1: Todd, I gotta go, I gotta do news. But thank

202
00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:30,160
Speaker 1: you for coming on again.

203
00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:32,440
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for having me.

204
00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,240
Speaker 1: Todd Ben's been Senior National Security Fellows Center for Immigration

205
00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,240
Speaker 1: Studies and read his stuff at CIS dot Oregon, the

206
00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,080
Speaker 1: Daily Wire dot com New Stuff.

207
00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,800
Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A

208
00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:45,640
Speaker 3: M six forty.

209
00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,679
Speaker 1: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on all

210
00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:55,560
Speaker 1: the social media platforms at John coblt Radio. The New

211
00:12:55,640 --> 00:13:01,080
Speaker 1: York Post has some uh has a story on more

212
00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,080
Speaker 1: of the waste that they're finding in Washington, d C.

213
00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:10,480
Speaker 1: Trump and Musk And they have discovered that the Biden

214
00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:17,160
Speaker 1: administration funneled at least twenty billion dollars into environmental groups,

215
00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:23,800
Speaker 1: most of which had only recently been founded, recently been invented,

216
00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,760
Speaker 1: like these were not existing, long running environmental groups doing

217
00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:32,120
Speaker 1: good works. I'll give you an example. In one case,

218
00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:38,160
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris handed over a check of almost seven billion

219
00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:45,560
Speaker 1: dollars to something called Climate United Fund tim Bethesda, Maryland.

220
00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:48,480
Speaker 1: It is so new it does not appear in the

221
00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:53,960
Speaker 1: IRS Charities database. There are no federal filings for this group.

222
00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:59,079
Speaker 1: They got seven billion dollars. This is what was going

223
00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:07,920
Speaker 1: on the world of criminals. They could sniff it. A

224
00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,760
Speaker 1: lot of money is being handed out time to create

225
00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:16,600
Speaker 1: the fake charity, the fake nonprofit, the fake environmental climate group.

226
00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:23,400
Speaker 1: They were incorporated in Delaware on November thirtieth, twenty twenty three.

227
00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:29,720
Speaker 1: Five months later, Kamala Harris gives them gives seven billion

228
00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:34,360
Speaker 1: dollars in April of twenty twenty four. Then they whipped

229
00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,360
Speaker 1: up a press release announcing that the Climate United Fund

230
00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:42,239
Speaker 1: announced the historic investment, noting the group's work delivers benefits

231
00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,840
Speaker 1: like cleaner air and increased energy security. Cleaner air and

232
00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:52,160
Speaker 1: increased energy security, they didn't even exist seven months earlier. No,

233
00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,880
Speaker 1: five months earlier, they didn't even exist. How much clean

234
00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,760
Speaker 1: air could they have have produced? How much energy security?

235
00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:04,920
Speaker 1: Five months earlier? There was no such thing. There's also

236
00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,680
Speaker 1: no public accounting of how plans to spend the seven

237
00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:13,000
Speaker 1: billion dollars. I don't know what Kamala Harris's involvement there is.

238
00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:20,280
Speaker 1: They use the phrase handed over the cash. Some projects

239
00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,240
Speaker 1: they have announced included an eleven million dollar pre development loan,

240
00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:29,160
Speaker 1: a solar project on tribal lands at eastern Oregon and Idaho. Well,

241
00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,640
Speaker 1: that sounds like a racket. A thirty two million dollar

242
00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,520
Speaker 1: energy project at the University of Arkansas. But that's just

243
00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:44,240
Speaker 1: a small piece of the seven billion. The cash came

244
00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:48,160
Speaker 1: from a three hundred and seventy billion dollar climate such

245
00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:53,760
Speaker 1: slush fund overseen by John Podesta. Is the name sound familiar.

246
00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,640
Speaker 1: Podesta is now a political consultant who is the chairman

247
00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:04,840
Speaker 1: of Hillary Clinton's using presidential run, and he was once

248
00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:09,640
Speaker 1: White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton. Joe Biden

249
00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,960
Speaker 1: named Podesta ahead the climate fund. The money came from

250
00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,480
Speaker 1: the Inflation Reduction Act. It was three hundred and seventy

251
00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:23,080
Speaker 1: billion dollars and Podesta gets to decide who gets the cash.

252
00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,440
Speaker 1: So these grifters, these these frauds and criminals started creating

253
00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:34,760
Speaker 1: fake climate nonprofits and next thing you know, Karen Kamala

254
00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,000
Speaker 1: Harris has given seven billion dollars to Climate United Fund.

255
00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:47,640
Speaker 1: Nobody knows who works there. They just say they're for

256
00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:52,200
Speaker 1: cleaner air. Well, I guess so. And now you know,

257
00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,400
Speaker 1: you got to go back to that, to that video

258
00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,360
Speaker 1: that we played. We played the audio of one of

259
00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,040
Speaker 1: the EPA employees, Brent Front. He was the young guy

260
00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:05,040
Speaker 1: drinking and he was caught on video by Project Veritas.

261
00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:10,240
Speaker 1: He was caught on video saying, yeah, we dumped out

262
00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:14,360
Speaker 1: twenty billion dollars at the end of the Biden administration.

263
00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,199
Speaker 1: It was like the Titanic and we're throwing gold bars

264
00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:24,119
Speaker 1: off the edge. He now has an attorney representing him

265
00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:28,840
Speaker 1: and he's claiming he expressed his personal views and he

266
00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:30,800
Speaker 1: claimed the comments had nothing to do with all this

267
00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,240
Speaker 1: money that's being shoveled out. But he does have a

268
00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,880
Speaker 1: lawyer because they're they're trying, they're trying to clawback all

269
00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:43,960
Speaker 1: this all this funding the Climate United Fund. A spokesperson

270
00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,560
Speaker 1: said to the New York Post that the EPA encouraged

271
00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:50,480
Speaker 1: groups to work with coalitions to receive the money. What

272
00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:57,320
Speaker 1: does that mean, the money sent to Climate United Fund,

273
00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:05,080
Speaker 1: he's being parked with another nonprofit called Calvert Impact. Well,

274
00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,720
Speaker 1: the New York Post found that there are three three

275
00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,960
Speaker 1: entities called Calvert Impact, all of them in Bethesda, Maryland,

276
00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:19,080
Speaker 1: So it's hard to track the flow of money. Got

277
00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:22,800
Speaker 1: more coming up on this when we come back. And

278
00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,720
Speaker 1: there's one government agency that has been cut to one

279
00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,600
Speaker 1: staff member because the law requires at least one staff member,

280
00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,120
Speaker 1: so everybody else was sent home. There's one guy left

281
00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:32,920
Speaker 1: all by himself.

282
00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:34,040
Speaker 4: That's lonely.

283
00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:39,480
Speaker 1: That is very long. It's probably going to fire a

284
00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:40,960
Speaker 1: file of mental health claim.

285
00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:46,639
Speaker 3: Really, you're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI

286
00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,520
Speaker 3: A sixty oh.

287
00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,480
Speaker 1: Trump's speech was rough last night. The Speaker of the House,

288
00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,359
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, his chief of staff, got arrested for DUI

289
00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:56,920
Speaker 1: on the way home.

290
00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just had that in my newscast. Yes, you

291
00:18:59,200 --> 00:18:59,760
Speaker 4: weren't listening.

292
00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,200
Speaker 1: No, I wasn't listening. But there was also a Democratic

293
00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,960
Speaker 1: congressman who was there at the speech from Texas and

294
00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,480
Speaker 1: he went, how many died? I know, there's no reason

295
00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,040
Speaker 1: to get that upset over the speech. Jeez, So one

296
00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:18,560
Speaker 1: dou wine, one death. Trump makes people go crazy.

297
00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:20,679
Speaker 4: Very divisive, very divisive.

298
00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,520
Speaker 1: All right. I was talking about this, this three one

299
00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:29,679
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five billion dollar slush fund that the

300
00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:36,920
Speaker 1: EPA had from Joe Biden. And if you hear any propaganda,

301
00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,640
Speaker 1: any media liars trying to tell you, oh, I haven't

302
00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,800
Speaker 1: really found real money, was no substantiated. Yeah it has.

303
00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,000
Speaker 1: I just told you. Kamala Harris, I was in charge

304
00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,360
Speaker 1: of giving seven billion dollars to something called the Climate

305
00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:59,040
Speaker 1: United Fund seven billion, but the company was just invented

306
00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:06,080
Speaker 1: five month before it got the check. And it turns

307
00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:11,200
Speaker 1: out the seven billion was parked in another bank account.

308
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:17,159
Speaker 1: And this bank account what was in the name of,

309
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:25,840
Speaker 1: let me get this right, Calvert Impact. So the money

310
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,920
Speaker 1: didn't go to Climate United Fund, it went to Calvert Impact.

311
00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,200
Speaker 1: And there's three of them, and there are all these

312
00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,359
Speaker 1: companies are in Bethesda, Maryland, so it's hard to track

313
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:39,359
Speaker 1: the flow of money. Then there's another group called Justice

314
00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,520
Speaker 1: Climate Fund that was just invented in twenty twenty three,

315
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,720
Speaker 1: it's never submitted a tax filing. There's no information about

316
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,160
Speaker 1: who runs it on the website. But they got almost

317
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 1: a billion dollars from the EPA. A billion dollars for

318
00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:59,040
Speaker 1: a company that didn't exist on paper until twenty twenty three,

319
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 1: exist with the IRS, and does not seem to have

320
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,920
Speaker 1: anyone working for it if you go to the website.

321
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,240
Speaker 1: But it drives transformative investments. We're focused on reducing pollution

322
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,159
Speaker 1: nine hundred and forty million. See, they handed out the

323
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:20,280
Speaker 1: money and then the criminals in Washington created a fake nonprofit.

324
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,000
Speaker 1: This is what they do in Los Angeles with the

325
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 1: homeless money. It's the same thing. I guarantee you every

326
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,280
Speaker 1: time they find out there's new homeless tax money coming in,

327
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 1: like we passed another homeless tax in November, more fake

328
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 1: nonprofits connected to all the criminals on the city council

329
00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,640
Speaker 1: start filing paperwork and they're going to get money. Here's

330
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:47,199
Speaker 1: another group that the EPA shoveled money at, Power Forward

331
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 1: Communities registered in twenty twenty three. They got two billion dollars.

332
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 1: This is the one Stacy Abrams is involved in, the

333
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,680
Speaker 1: former Democrat who ran for governor. She was a hot

334
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 1: thing for a five minute's power Forward Communities has one

335
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 1: hundred dollars in revenue according to its tax filing for

336
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Another fake company Rewiring America. Another one

337
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 1: registered in December of twenty twenty four, and they're getting

338
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 1: a big load of money. This is massive, overwhelming corruption

339
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 1: by the billions. Then you had this announcement from DOGE.

340
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: There was something called the inter American Foundation. Everybody's getting

341
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:51,879
Speaker 1: fired except for one guy they're keeping, the director of

342
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: the Office of Foreign Assistance. His name is Peter Morocco,

343
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:03,879
Speaker 1: and that's it. Everybody else is gone.

344
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 4: Does he have to work in person?

345
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,200
Speaker 1: Actually he's got another job. He's been put in charge

346
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: of cutting fore and spending. So really they got rid

347
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 1: of everybody, and then Musk and Trump put one of

348
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,160
Speaker 1: their own guys in because according to law, there has

349
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: to be at least one employee. This agency had forty

350
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 1: eight people, average salary one hundred and thirty one thousand

351
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 1: dollars a year, and all they seemed to do was

352
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: send out checks to foreign entities. Morocco and DOJ officials

353
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 1: marched into the agency's headquarters on Monday and declared Morocco

354
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 1: to be in charge and demanded access to all the data.

355
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 1: It's supposed to issue grants to countries in Latin America

356
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 1: and the Caribbean for localized community led development. What communities

357
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 1: have they developed? In fact, that's the question I have

358
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: about the whole You always hear about developing countries, and

359
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: ever since I was a kid, it's been the same

360
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 1: list of developing countries. When do they get developed? They've

361
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: gotten hundreds of billions, maybe trillions of dollars from US,

362
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: and they never got developed. Why is that? Where'd the

363
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: money go? When you send money for development? What do

364
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: they spend it on? This inter American Foundation was created

365
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty nine. It's awarded almost six thousand grants,

366
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: almost a billion dollars, and it uh, oh, here's some

367
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: of the here's some of their grants. Oh you'll like

368
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: this nine hundred thousand dollars for alpaca farming and.

369
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 4: Oh that's okay.

370
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 1: How packers are cute? They kind of look like lamas, right, yes, yeah,

371
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five thousand dollars to reduce social

372
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: discrimination of recyclers in Bolivia.

373
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 4: I don't understand that exactly.

374
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: You're not supuzzed. So in Bolivia. Recyclers are socially discriminated.

375
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 4: Against because they recycle.

376
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 1: Because they recycle, I guess people they go into.

377
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 4: People's trash, and so people they don't. They make fun

378
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 4: of them from putting into trash cards.

379
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a dumpster. These are dumpster divers, yes, And

380
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 1: they get mocked. And now they're getting three hundred and

381
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: sixty five thousand dollars to lessen the pain.

382
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 4: The people are still going to mock them, right.

383
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: I would think, yeah, but at least they're a little richer.

384
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:51,920
Speaker 4: Yeah.

385
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 1: Eight hundred thousand dollars for vegetable gardens and L Salvador.

386
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 4: Oh lovely.

387
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: I think the L. Salvadorans know how to plant vegetables.

388
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 4: Maybe they don't. They need some help.

389
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: No wonder, people are hungry down there. They don't know

390
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: how to plant a seed. Three hundred thousand dollars to

391
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: promote cultural understanding of Venezuelan migrants in Brazil. Seven hundred

392
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to improve the marketability of mushrooms and peas

393
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: in Guatemala.

394
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll do it for.

395
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 1: A lot less. Well, people don't like mushrooms and peas,

396
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 1: so this is like an.

397
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 4: I'll promote it for like I said, a lot less.

398
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 1: Here's seven hundred thousand dollars to expand fruit and jam

399
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 1: sales in Honduras. Wow, here's a half million dollars to

400
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 1: improve artisanal salt production in Ecuador. Forty thousand dollars for

401
00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: bee keeping in Brazil. So I think they're cutting about

402
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of all the programs for this agency.

403
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: And Musk stuck in one of his own guys there

404
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: just to meet the requirements of the law. So I

405
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: don't think this guy's going to show up.

406
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I was gonna say if he does,

407
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 4: if he's lonely, maybe he'll bring his dog.

408
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: More coming up.

409
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

410
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 3: six forty.

411
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: We are never going to let that incompetent idiot Los

412
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: Angeles mayor Karen Bass rest anything I can find. And

413
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: Daniel Gus says something today. We've we had him on yesterday,

414
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: Daniel Guss at substack dot substack dot com and he

415
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: covers city Hall and he found another name who's been

416
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: keeping her head down in this fire scandal. Where were

417
00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: where was Carolyn Webb de Messias? You ever hear that name.

418
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: She is Bass's chief of staff. And why this matters

419
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: is Bass is claiming that nobody told her about the

420
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:15,199
Speaker 1: fire warnings. And we found out yesterday that one hundred

421
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: people in LA government got an email on January second,

422
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:26,479
Speaker 1: the Thursday before the Tuesday fire, including about fifteen Bass

423
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: staff members and chief of staff would be at the top.

424
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: Carolyn Webb de Massias. Gus writes there's well over two

425
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: hundred people on that staff, twenty five million dollars in salaries.

426
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: Carolyn Webb d Massias takes in three hundred and fifty

427
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year in salary and benefits. That's a

428
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: little bit more than Bass. And whatever happened to Brian K. Williams,

429
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: Bass's deputy in charge of public's Safety, who oversees as

430
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: deputy mayor the police and fire departments. Remember he was

431
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: the guy that the FBI did a raid on investigating

432
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: whether he called in a bomb threat to city Hall.

433
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: So what happened to him and who took over his work?

434
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: And what did Carolyn Webb de Messias do? Did she

435
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: not call Karen Bass? And remember yesterday with the names

436
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: of two other people who got the email on January two,

437
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: Christopher Anyaquo, whose Basses executive officer for emergency Operations. They

438
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: got an email from the emergency let's see the Emergency

439
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: Management Department, one hundred officials, including at least fifteen BASS aides.

440
00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: And then another person. Let me see here, there's one

441
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: more woman named sand of Aal and she also got

442
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: the email. So who are all these people? They all

443
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: got the emails, they all had jobs regarding emergencies, and

444
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: they're all mentioned in these news stories and then there's

445
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: no no further, no further news on them. I don't understand.

446
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: So we're going to keep bringing up their names and

447
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: bringing up their salaries, and keep pointing out that they

448
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: got the warning email. And it's hard to believe that

449
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: nobody called. Nobody called Bass after all that. Ah, we

450
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: got Conway.

451
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 5: Hey know, we have LAPD Chief Jim McDonald's coming on

452
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 5: with us at the top of the hour, So in

453
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 5: about ten minutes from now, you want to stick around

454
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 5: for that. And then your favorite meteorologist, Fritz Coleman. Ah

455
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 5: at six oh five. He does a comedy show that's

456
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 5: pretty hot.

457
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: I saw it. You went to see him? Yeah, a

458
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: couple of months ago. Yeah, he's great in North Hollywood. Yeah,

459
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: it's exactly right.

460
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, once a month he does a unbelievable and then

461
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 5: we'll obviously talk about the rain. You know, if we

462
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 5: lived in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Saint Louis, New York, you

463
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 5: wouldn't mention the rain.

464
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: No, no, it was just it.

465
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 5: It's rain, But nobody would even on the air talk

466
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 5: about it. No, But here it's it's wall to wall.

467
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 5: I've always thought it was silly.

468
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: I think it. I think the first day I got here,

469
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: I think.

470
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 5: I think the only reason people like to hear about

471
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 5: it is we all get excited when it rains. There's

472
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 5: much to say though. It rains, you get wet, you

473
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 5: dry out. You're right, there's not much to say yet.

474
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 5: But maybe next week when a lot of rain comes in,

475
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 5: there might be floods and stuff, Oh floods or something.

476
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 5: But I think we all get excited that. You know,

477
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 5: this reminds us of whatever state we came from, you know,

478
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 5: New Jersey, New York, Trio. Whatever it looks like home

479
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 5: right now for a little while, and then it goes

480
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 5: back to you know s I I yeah, it's nostalgia,

481
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 5: that's right.

482
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: That's exactly all right. All right, So let's say we

483
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: got a lot going on today, all right, Conway's coming

484
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: up thing tool with you. Michael Kurzer is the news

485
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've

486
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can

487
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: always hear the show live on KFI Am six forty

488
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and

489
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app