1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:02,239 Speaker 1: Can't. I Am six forty. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show, John coblt on demand podcast you can 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 2: listen to after four o'clock to what you missed. And yes, 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 2: we're live on Instagram because we're going to talk on 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 2: the phone again, so again you will see me talking 7 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 2: into an empty into an empty room. 8 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 1: Here. 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 2: Mayor Bill Wells is on the phone from El Cahoon. 10 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: He's been popping up in the media because in the 11 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: last seven days, he says, there's been over five thousand 12 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 2: illegal alien encounters in San Diego County. There's been a 13 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 2: shift in drug cartel's smuggling action because there's more resistance 14 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 2: in Texas with the governor there putting up barbed wire 15 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 2: among other impediments, and so you know, the drug cartel's 16 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 2: their prime for efficiency and there's less resistance in California. 17 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 2: There's been eighty five thousand migrants dropped in San Diego 18 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 2: County in just the last four months, and Stanego County 19 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 2: is spending a million dollars a month on them. So 20 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: that's what you're working for in San Diego County. Million 21 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 2: dollars a month for eighty five thousand plus migrants, and 22 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 2: the numbers are increasing. And we're going to talk now 23 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 2: with Bill Bill Wells, the mayor of Elkohola. 24 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 3: How are you, hi, John, I'm good. How are you doing. 25 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: I'm doing good. 26 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 2: Well, describe what you're seeing and hearing down in your 27 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 2: town and your county there in San Diego. 28 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 3: Well, you gave some of the stats already. You know, 29 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 3: since Texas has tightened up and Arizona's tightened up, we're 30 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,479 Speaker 3: seeing more of the cartels bringing people into the San 31 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 3: Diego County area. So we've had almost one hundred thousand 32 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 3: people come over in the past four months that are 33 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 3: basically unvetted. We have no idea who they are, or 34 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 3: what they're doing, what their history is. But I went 35 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 3: down to the border recently and we were just doing 36 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 3: a tour down there. Came across a camp. There's about 37 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 3: two hundred men there, no women, and no children. They 38 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 3: were all Chinese. And statistics tell me that four thousand, 39 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 3: seventy six Chinese migrants have been apprehended since January eighth, 40 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 3: So that's a big change. I'm not sure we know 41 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 3: exactly what that means. But it's it can be fairly ominous. 42 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 2: I'm trying to understand four thousand, mostly young Chinese men, well, 43 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 2: and what's their purpose? I mean, there's not going to 44 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 2: be jobs for you know, almost one hundred thousand people 45 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 2: in San Diego County. Where are they all going to go? 46 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 2: What are they going to do? What is the reason 47 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 2: for them being here? 48 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 3: I think that's one of the most troubling things from 49 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 3: the perspective of being a mayor, is you think that 50 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 3: the federal government would be calling us and say, here's 51 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 3: the plan these this is how many people coming in, 52 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 3: this is what we've put in place for them, this 53 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 3: is where they're going, this is why they're here. As 54 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 3: far as I know, nobody have my office has ever 55 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 3: received a phone call from the federal government or in 56 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 3: the state government say what the plans are for these people? 57 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 3: Because I don't think they have any idea whatsoever. I 58 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 3: don't think anybody knows why they're here, or what they're 59 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 3: doing or where they're going. 60 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 2: Now, I know you're running for Congress out of your district, 61 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 2: and we'll get to that in a couple of minutes, 62 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: but you must have plenty of contacts with people in 63 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 2: Sacramento and in Washington, d C. And there is nobody 64 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 2: who wants to talk about this or help you out. 65 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 2: You're just supposed to absorb one hundred thousand illegal aliens 66 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 2: and they speak various languages from various countries, and you're 67 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 2: just supposed to give them food and shelter and everything else. 68 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: That's what's expected now. 69 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 3: Huh yeah, and absolutely no cooperation from the federal government. 70 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 3: But you know, when I'm talking to people on national 71 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 3: news is I often point out that San Diego or 72 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 3: California is different than the rest of the country because 73 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 3: the rest of the country doesn't have one hundred and 74 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 3: seventy thousand people living on the streets because California is 75 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 3: basically decriminalized crime and made it easy to be homeless. 76 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 3: So basically thrown out the welcome that. Oh, by the way, 77 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 3: we should talk about the welcome mat that we're throwing 78 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 3: out for migrants so they get free health care, free 79 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 3: sex change operations. In San Diego County, we're paying for 80 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 3: their attorney seat and. 81 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, free sex change operations. 82 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 3: Oh you didn't know about that. 83 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: No, wait, wait, wait for Fred. 84 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 2: Like if all these guys coming over the border if 85 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 2: somebody one of them wants to switch, we pay for it. 86 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 3: Absolutely. It's part of the rights under medical and everybody's 87 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 3: granted medical, you know. And you know, in a way 88 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 3: that kind of makes California a magnet for people who 89 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 3: having basically the psychiatric disorder that they that they feel 90 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 3: they have to have a sex change operation, and so 91 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 3: they say, oh, let's just go to America. We'll get 92 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 3: it for free, and there won't be it won't be 93 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 3: hard to get to get in and get it done. 94 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 3: So so it just goes to show you the mindset 95 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 3: of both California and the federal government. 96 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 1: So you're at the mercy. 97 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 2: I mean, you've got to give them free healthcare on 98 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 2: top of the free food and the shelter and everything else. 99 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's, there's there, and there's no funding 100 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 2: mechanism for this. 101 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 3: No no. I remember back when it started about four 102 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 3: months ago, and my city was one of the drop 103 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 3: off cities, so we had no idea how many people 104 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 3: would be being dropped off on our streets. And my 105 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 3: first reaction was, well, you know, let's get hold of 106 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 3: the federal government and get a FEMA truck down here. 107 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 3: And you know, see what we could do to get 108 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 3: some funding to help deal with this humanitarian crisis. Because 109 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 3: I'm not uncompassity. I know a lot of these people 110 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 3: are gonna need help, but we don't have a budget 111 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 3: to you know, our budget stressed them already paying for 112 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 3: the homeless problems that the state of California caused, which 113 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 3: was an unfunded man. Now now the federal government wants 114 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 3: us to pick up the tab for the migrants. 115 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 4: Yeah. 116 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,799 Speaker 2: The Biden administration calls it a humanitarian crisis, which means 117 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 2: they should be sending FEMA and all the other agencies 118 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 2: that attend to, you know, disaster situations. 119 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking one hundred thousand people. 120 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 2: That's more than you'd ever have to service during a 121 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 2: real natural disaster. 122 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 3: Oh oh yeah, absolutely. And you know that's not a 123 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 3: finite number. It just keeps going on and on. Every 124 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 3: day we're having thousands of more people come in. Now 125 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 3: with the rains that we're having flooding, you have all 126 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 3: these people that are really taking all the emergency services 127 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 3: to their very limits. I used to work in an 128 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 3: emergency room psychiatric evaluations, and every night I'd go in 129 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 3: and there'd be thirty or forty people deep in the 130 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 3: emergency room waiting to get in to see a doctor. Now, 131 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 3: with the homeless crisis and the migro crisis, the hospitals 132 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 3: are just at their capacity. You know, good luck if 133 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 3: you got a kid with any airs, susher or you know, 134 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 3: a broken finger or something. 135 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 2: This is intolerable for all the legal American citizens that 136 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 2: they're having so much money siphoned off and they're having 137 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 2: their services interfered with, because, like you said, if you've 138 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 2: got a long line of the immigrants waiting to get 139 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 2: medical care, then you can't get medical care and you're 140 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,239 Speaker 2: the one paying the bills. 141 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. 142 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,239 Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'm I'm just you know, I what I'm hearing 143 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 3: out there on the campaign trail is that people have 144 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 3: had enough. I have people Democrats coming up to me 145 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 3: all the time and say, I've never voted Republican in 146 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 3: my life, but I'm going to vote for you this 147 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 3: time because you know, our leadership has lost. 148 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: Their minds and something's got to change. 149 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 2: We were talking about this last hour with the repealing 150 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: Prop forty seven. This is not Republican Democrat. This is 151 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 2: this is a quality of life, and nobody wants to 152 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 2: live the way we're living. Nobody does. 153 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 3: And that's what I'm hearing from everyone I am talking to. 154 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 3: I just it's I and I know a lot of 155 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 3: elected officials on both sides of l and the elected 156 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 3: officials have not quite grasped the concept that people will 157 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 3: reach a point where they've have enough, they can't take it anymore, 158 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 3: and they're going to vote their way out of this problem. 159 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: That's the only choice. 160 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 2: We can't do anything else except vote our way out. 161 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 2: That's the only the only non violent solution that's out there. 162 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,959 Speaker 2: And so people have to vote based on the situation, 163 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 2: not based on political parties. You look at the situation. 164 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 2: This is intolerable here. 165 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. 166 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 3: I'm just hoping it's enough in this next election and 167 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 3: we still have a chance to turn it all around. 168 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well, well, what towns are you going to 169 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 2: represent in Congress if you win, so that people listening, 170 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 2: if they live in these towns, they can look for 171 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 2: your name on the ballot. 172 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 3: Well, it's Alcohola, Mesa, most of San Diego Mission Valley 173 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 3: up through Mira Maar, Mirror Mesa, and Gretro Penis Guidas. 174 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 3: But you know the person I'm running against this part 175 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 3: of the qualcom fortune. She's a thirty five year old 176 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 3: billionaire who's never had a job. She bought herself a 177 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 3: seat in Congress, and she's as far left as you 178 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 3: could possibly image. She vosted the squad. And you know 179 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 3: when we just set out today that her parents company 180 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 3: or her family's company is called out by that by 181 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 3: the House Committee to say that they're giving billions of 182 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 3: dollars to the Chinese communist Military Industrial Complex, and you 183 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 3: know they're associated with the AI that that China is 184 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 3: getting into and the persecution of groups like the Wakers. 185 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 3: So you know, if if I can't beat her, I 186 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 3: don't know that anybody can't. 187 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 2: Right, And is this a November voter? Is there a 188 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 2: primary situation coming up for you? 189 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 3: It is primary. I have March fifth and then then 190 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 3: November thirty. 191 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 2: Okay, Bill Wells, Mayory olkohoone running for Congress down in 192 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 2: the San Diego County area. Thank you for coming on. 193 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks thanks for having me and I listen. I 194 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 3: want to make a plug if anybody wants to get 195 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 3: hold of me as well for Congress twenty twenty four 196 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 3: dot com. 197 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 2: All right, Bill, thanks for coming on, Thanks for telling 198 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 2: us what's going on with one hundred thousand unwanted visitors 199 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 2: coming over the border. Okay, million dollars a month in 200 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 2: your tax money. If you live down in San Diego County. 201 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 202 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 4: six forty. 203 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: Oh. Where do we begin. 204 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 2: Well, first, the big news today is that Joe Biden 205 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,719 Speaker 2: will not be charged with any crimes for hiding classified 206 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 2: documents in some cases up to fifty years. He is 207 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 2: not going to face any charges. And a large part 208 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 2: of that is the Special Council basically think he's too senile. 209 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 2: His memory is shot. He doesn't remember the years he 210 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 2: was vice president, he doesn't remember the exact year that 211 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 2: his son Bo died, among other things. We'll get to 212 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 2: more of that later. However, he's it is a campaign, 213 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 2: and he's got to raise money. He's got to make 214 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:22,839 Speaker 2: some appearances. And he gave a speech at the House 215 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 2: Democratic Caucus Policy Retreat in Leesburg, Virginia. And here is Biden. 216 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 5: When I said, when I pushed all these programs, I said, 217 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 5: I'm going to be a president of everybody who was 218 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 5: living a red state or a green state. 219 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 6: They're green states now, apparently unless they do a lot 220 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 6: of recycling. 221 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 2: How do you get promoted from being a blue or 222 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 2: red state into becoming a green state? 223 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: Like I said, recycling, recycling. 224 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 2: And the one that got a lot of attention in 225 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 2: the last twenty four hours. Well, to set this up, 226 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 2: let's let's play what he said a few days ago Sunday. 227 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 2: He claimed he was speaking with Francois Mitterrand, a French 228 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 2: president who died in nineteen ninety six, and this is 229 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:14,319 Speaker 2: what he said. 230 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 5: And right right right after I was elected, I went 231 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 5: to what they call a G seven meeting all the 232 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 5: NATO theaters I was. I was in the south of England, 233 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 5: and I sat down and I said, America is back. 234 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 5: And Naterran from Germany, I mean from France, looked at 235 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 5: me and said, I said, you know what, why how 236 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:45,599 Speaker 5: long a you back for? And I looked at him 237 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 5: and and the Chancellor of Germany said, what would you say, 238 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 5: mister President, if you picked up the paper tomorrow in 239 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 5: the London Times, and the London Times said a thousand 240 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 5: people break through the House of Commons, break down the doors, 241 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 5: two bobbies are killed in order to stop the election 242 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 5: of the Prime Minister. 243 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: What would you say? 244 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 5: I never thought about it from that perspective, what would 245 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 5: we say if that happened in another democracy around the world. 246 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 2: All right, So he's at this G seven meeting and 247 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 2: it had to be twenty twenty one, because that's when 248 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:24,199 Speaker 2: the January sixth incident happened, and he claims he's talking 249 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 2: to Francois Mitterran, a French president, although at first he 250 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 2: said Miran's from Germany. But he's from France and he 251 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 2: died in nineteen ninety six, so there was no chance 252 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 2: that he's talking to Midran in twenty twenty one. Well, 253 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 2: now he's given he's given another speech and this happened yesterday, 254 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 2: and he's telling the same story, but now he's changed 255 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 2: the names again, he says, and the President of France 256 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 2: looked at me and said, for how long are you 257 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 2: going to be back? 258 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,839 Speaker 1: I never thought of it this way. Then Helmet Cohle 259 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 1: of Germany looked at. 260 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 2: Me and said, what would you say, mister president, if 261 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 2: you picked up the London Times tomorrow and learned that 262 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 2: a thousand people had broken down the doors? Same story, right, 263 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 2: but this is from Helmut Cohle of Germany. Well, there's 264 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 2: a problem here because Helmut Cole was the chancel of 265 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 2: Germany from nineteen eighty two to nineteen eighty eight, and 266 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 2: he died in twenty seventeen. So on Sunday he claimed 267 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 2: to speak with Francois Mitteran in twenty twenty one, and 268 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 2: yesterday was Helmut Cole. Both of those people were dead. 269 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 2: And so now there's so many of these that White 270 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 2: House reporters, principally Peter Doocey from Fox, are peppering that worthless. 271 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 2: White House Press Secretary Karinne Jean Pierre let's play cut 272 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 2: number one, and multiple times. 273 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 7: This week the Patinas public remarks were talked about having 274 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 7: Congress in twenty twenty one with European leaders who were 275 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 7: deceased at that time. So can you give us an 276 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 7: explanation into why the president was referring to those people 277 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 7: in those conversations and what exactly happened there. 278 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 8: So I know there's been a lot of focus on this, 279 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 8: I want to just step back for a second and 280 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 8: just kind of think, really kind of top level what 281 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 8: the President was talking about when he was having as 282 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 8: he tells a story about having these conversations with world leaders, 283 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 8: which are obviously important conversations, he was underlying the January sixth. 284 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 9: Events in twenty twenty one. 285 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 8: What happened the message that it's sent. 286 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 1: Around the globe, around the straw to. 287 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 8: Our leaders, to world leaders, how dangerous it is our democracy, 288 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 8: how important democracy was? 289 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 2: Cut her off, Cut her off. Another reporter takes another shot. 290 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 2: She's asked a second time about Biden talking to the dead. 291 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 7: What do you say then to Americans who have that concern? 292 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 7: And they see three times in just a couple of days, 293 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 7: the President getting the name of the leader and referencing 294 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 7: somebody who is deceased. 295 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 8: So look again, as you just stated in your question 296 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 8: to me, I just laid out other leaders in their 297 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 8: community or elected officials who have done the same. So 298 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 8: it is not uncommon. 299 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: Look as it relates to what. 300 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 8: The American people feel or what the American people think. 301 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 8: I want to be really careful because you did ask 302 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 8: me that question in a context of the election, So 303 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 8: I can't really speak to the election any upcoming election, 304 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 8: but I can say this, this is a president that 305 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 8: has had a very successful three years. When we look 306 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 8: at the economy, when you look at climate change, when 307 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 8: you look at COVID, it's all the crises that he 308 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 8: had to deal with when he. 309 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: Walked into this administration. 310 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 6: That okay, okay, all right, that was quite the vocabulary 311 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 6: cardio exercise. 312 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: Wow. 313 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 2: You know a lot of a lot of media reporters 314 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 2: move on to jobs being press spokesman for various candidates. Deborah, 315 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 2: don't ever take a job like that. Okay, this is 316 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 2: what you have to do for a living. They ask 317 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 2: you why your boss is talking to dead people? 318 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 10: Well, you gotta give it to her, right, I mean, 319 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 10: she is a spin in spinin spinnin. 320 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,439 Speaker 1: All she has to say is, look, you, senile, what 321 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: do you want me to do about it? 322 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 10: She's gonna say that that would be the truths, that 323 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 10: would be the reality. 324 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 6: Well, she is right about one thing. It is common 325 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 6: for people with the men shaw to talk to dead people. 326 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 6: And I think they're talking to dead people. That's true. 327 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 6: I'm sure that's what she meant. All Right, we're coming up. 328 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 2: There's another there's another Biden thing today, except I have 329 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 2: I have the same problem. 330 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 8: I was going to say, how old are you? 331 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 1: Mine? 332 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 2: Mine comes out of disorganization, That's what I keep telling myself. 333 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 334 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,880 Speaker 2: If you miss anything, We're on from one to four, 335 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 2: and then after four o'clock you could listen to what 336 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 2: you missed on the John Cobelt on demand podcast, also 337 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 2: on the iHeart app. 338 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: And at three o'clock we're. 339 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 2: Going to talk about the other candidate, Donald Trump, whose 340 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 2: case was up before the Supreme Court as to whether 341 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 2: Colorado can legally keep him off the presidential ballot, which 342 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 2: is what they wanted to do. Most of the justices, 343 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 2: eight out of nine were skeptical, even two of the 344 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 2: liberal justices were skeptical that Colorado could do that. So 345 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 2: we are going to talk with an expert in these matters, 346 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 2: Stephen Portnit, and he's going to explain the nuances of it. 347 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 2: Just in the last eight minutes. Daily Mail has a 348 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 2: story updated. 349 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: Now that now that. 350 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 2: Robert Hurr, the special counsel from Biden's own Department of Justice, 351 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 2: has described Biden as an elderly man with a poor 352 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 2: memory who doesn't remember the exactly what years he was 353 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:12,400 Speaker 2: vice president or the year of his son's death. Republicans 354 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 2: Rick Scott Senator Rick Scott from Florida is calling for 355 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 2: the twenty fifth Amendment to be invoked that is a 356 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 2: process where the cabinet could vote and remove a president 357 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:28,959 Speaker 2: from office if they find him to be incapacitated. Of 358 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,360 Speaker 2: course you hear that, and the first thought is, oh, 359 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 2: my god, than Kamala Harris would become president. Yeah, there 360 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 2: you go, because Her, in his classified documentary report, said 361 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:54,880 Speaker 2: that Biden already had diminished faculties eight years ago. See 362 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 2: this report is very long, and now more and more 363 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 2: excerpts from the report are being made public by various 364 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 2: news entities. And I guess her said he he had 365 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 2: diminished faculties going back to twenty sixteen. 366 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: Not a joke. 367 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is really going to be something. Is 368 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 2: Newsom already packing this was already on the campaign trail? 369 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: Isn't he tifvity too, tivity too? He love you? How 370 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: happy is he? And you know who's really happy is 371 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: the first lady, first partner, the. 372 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 2: First partner excuse me Newsome's wife or Joe. Uh. You 373 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 2: think Jill would be relieved if finally Joe packed it in, right? 374 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: I would think, how stressful can that be? 375 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 2: Because she is on the front lines trying to keep 376 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,399 Speaker 2: him from literally falling on his face or getting involved 377 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 2: in a really embarrassing situation that would define his whole life, 378 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 2: his whole the memory of what Joe Biden was about. 379 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 2: At any second, he could say or do something, and 380 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 2: that's all anybody's going to remember of them. All Right, Well, 381 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 2: well we've got more coming up on that, because now 382 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 2: the whole world is reacting to Biden basically being declared 383 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 2: senile by the Special Counsel. I wanted to spend just 384 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 2: a few minutes because you know, I was telling you 385 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 2: Deby the other day that I was this odd little 386 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 2: child who was obsessed with weather. 387 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 1: When I was a kid. 388 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 10: You were a weather man. 389 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,120 Speaker 2: I was a weatherman as a little kid. I used 390 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 2: to put I meant to bring that in one day. 391 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,239 Speaker 2: I used to draw weather maps in the house and 392 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 2: clip them, clip them to the wall so everybody in 393 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,120 Speaker 2: my family could see them. Wow. 394 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, you could look at it. It's cute, or you 395 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: can cute, or you could look at it as a 396 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: very disturbed. I would say both. 397 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 2: In fact, I would have my mother call me in. 398 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 2: We'd be outside playing wiffleball or kickball, and she would 399 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 2: call me in so I could run in and watch 400 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 2: the weather and quickly draw my own map. So my 401 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 2: friends thought I was odd. Anyway, There's a guy named 402 00:21:55,359 --> 00:22:00,040 Speaker 2: Edward Ring who we've had on the show, and he 403 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:04,679 Speaker 2: he looked into the history of California weather because one 404 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 2: of the most aggravating things about modern life is everybody 405 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 2: acts as if what's happening now is something new and 406 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 2: an unprecedented and a sign that this is going to 407 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 2: continue forever. And if we had one bad rainstorm, that 408 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 2: means we're going to have decades of bad rainstorms and 409 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 2: we're all going to drown and we're all going to die. 410 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 2: Of course, a few years ago, we were supposed to 411 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 2: have record droughts that were going to last forever. So 412 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 2: he looks into history, and you go back to eighteen 413 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 2: sixty one. Do you know, one storm after another pounded 414 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 2: California for forty three straight days without a break. Forty 415 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 2: three days. This was over one hundred and fifty years ago, 416 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 2: and this was before the Industrial Revolution. And a guy 417 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 2: I know sent me a link to a Wikipedia page 418 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 2: entitled the California Flood of sixteen oh five, a massive 419 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 2: flood that submerged large portions of what is present day California. 420 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,639 Speaker 2: This megaflood of sixteen oh five was the result of 421 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 2: sustained major rainstorms. Again, sixteen oh five is long before 422 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 2: the Industrial Revolution and factories and smoke stacks and SUVs, 423 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:34,400 Speaker 2: gigantic storms that would dwarf whatever little puddles we had 424 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 2: to hop over this week. Geologic evidence, according to Wikipedia, 425 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 2: indicates that other megafloods occurred in the California region in 426 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 2: the following years two twelve, four forty, the year six 427 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:55,360 Speaker 2: oh three, the year ten twenty nine, about thirteen hundred, fourteen, 428 00:23:55,440 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 2: eighteen seventeen fifty eighteen ten, and the eighteen sixty one 429 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 2: eighteen sixty two megaflood. The US Geological Survey sediment research 430 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 2: revealed that the sixteen oh five flood deposited a layer 431 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 2: of silt two inches thick in the Santa Barbara Basin. 432 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 2: It was the worst flood event of the past two 433 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 2: thousand years, at least fifty percent more powerful than any 434 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 2: of the others recorded based on geological evidence. Yes, again, 435 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 2: all before there was one tailpipe, one smokestack, before there 436 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 2: was any fossil fuels being burned, before any of the 437 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 2: alleged modern day global warming and climate change. This stuff's 438 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 2: been happening forever, and that's what got the United States 439 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 2: Geological Survey to develop a hypothetical scenario known as the 440 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 2: Arc Storm. This was a computer modeling to see what 441 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 2: would it take for it to happen in California today 442 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 2: and what would the effects be. And of course somebody 443 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 2: found this research, this computer modeling, and put it on 444 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,880 Speaker 2: the internet and it became screaming headlines for a few 445 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 2: days that the storm we had this past week might 446 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 2: be the Arc Storm and we're all going to drown 447 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 2: and die because the climate change. 448 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 3: No. 449 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 2: In eighteen sixty one and eighteen sixty two, it was 450 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 2: an atmospheric river that created the Great Flood. It submerged 451 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 2: most of the Central Valley parts of southern California. In fact, 452 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 2: it was so bad that they temporarily moved the state 453 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 2: capital from Sacramento because it was flooded out and they 454 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 2: moved it to Sacramento. 455 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: And also all the. 456 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,959 Speaker 2: Adjacent western states were flooded as well. 457 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: So this is nothing unusual. 458 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 2: It happened quite a few times, long before the Industrial Revolution, 459 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 2: before fossil fuels were burnt. This is part of the 460 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 2: natural California climate, as the droughts are as well. We 461 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,199 Speaker 2: had droughts that lasted for up to one hundred and 462 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 2: eighty years within the last millennium. So what you see 463 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 2: as media hysteria, and you see a lot of people 464 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 2: who can manipulate public emotion and then profit off the manipulation. 465 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:19,640 Speaker 2: That's what's going on here. Having said that, these are 466 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 2: I've got a list of all the five day rain totals. 467 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 2: Bell Air had thirteen point six inches. 468 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 1: It's crazy. 469 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 2: Woodland Hills, Oh your second place, second place, Yeah, bell 470 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 2: Air beat you twelve point eight eight inches. Bell Air 471 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 2: thirteen point six side, Beverly Hills nine point eight, Downtown 472 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 2: La nine, Van Night's airport was nine, Agora Hill's nine 473 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 2: point six y nine, Pasadena nine point three four, and 474 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 2: all the other cities they have listed here were in 475 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 2: the eighth a couple of sevens, but it was a 476 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 2: pretty uniform. And then in the mountains, just because that's 477 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 2: the way the physics of weather work, and the air rises, 478 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 2: it cools as it rises because the mountains are higher, right, 479 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 2: so it's cooler air, and that causes the air to 480 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 2: condense and it squeezes out the moisture. Cold air can't 481 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,679 Speaker 2: hold as much moisture as warm air, and if it 482 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 2: can't hold it. If it can't hold it, it comes 483 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 2: down in your head. 484 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 1: Mister weatherman. 485 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 10: Why do we have so many mud slides though? How 486 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 10: come we're just not prepared for that kind of weather 487 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 10: and all the potholes. 488 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 2: Well, if you have mountain regions, you're automatically gonna have 489 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 2: mud slides. 490 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: Oh, we had so many. You've been up to Yosemite, right, Yes, 491 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 1: isn't it beautiful air? 492 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 2: Yes, huge valleys and gorges, all carved down that was 493 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,199 Speaker 2: carved out by the glaciers from the last Ice Age. 494 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 2: You mentioned the power of those glaciers. Now, what caused 495 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 2: them to reach all the way down to northern California. 496 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 2: Nobody knows what caused them to melt because they moved out, 497 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 2: you know, thousands millions of years ago and retreat back 498 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 2: up to Alaska. This is again, long before the Industrial 499 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 2: Revolution and fossil fuels. 500 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 1: Nobody knows why. 501 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 2: Nobody knows any of this stuff, but it's very fashionable 502 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:14,199 Speaker 2: to try to profit by making people frightened. Do you 503 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 2: have any flooding in your house? 504 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 10: No, we did have a leak the last time, but 505 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 10: we got that fixed and so thank goodness. 506 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,919 Speaker 1: No, no, nothing, it's because of all those sandbags. I 507 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: lift it with my. 508 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 10: Bare hands, right, the forty sandbags. People didn't believe you, Shannon, 509 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 10: didn't believe you. 510 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: I know, I know. That's that's on our permanent record. 511 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 512 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 4: six forty. 513 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: Eric Cut number four red. 514 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 2: First thing I want to tell you is that probably 515 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 2: tomorrow we got a major announcement to make because, as 516 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 2: you may have heard, yesterday, we had Greg tatten On, 517 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 2: the campaign chairman for a proposition. 518 00:28:58,120 --> 00:28:58,239 Speaker 1: Uh. 519 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 2: It is called the Homeless Drug Retail Theft Reduction Act. 520 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 2: It is a major rewrite of Prop. Forty seven, and 521 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 2: they are gathering signatures rapidly. In fact, they have three 522 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:15,479 Speaker 2: hundred and sixty thousand already in five weeks and they 523 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 2: need five hundred and forty six ballid signatures. They want 524 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 2: to collect eight hundred thousand overall. This gets on the ballot. 525 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 2: This is going to do three things. It's going to 526 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 2: prosecute repeat thieves and put them in prison. It's going 527 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 2: to prosecute drug criminals and give them a choice either 528 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 2: they got a drug treatment or prison. Thirdly, fentanyl traffickers 529 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 2: are going to go to prison. And it looks like 530 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 2: the response has been huge. Polling shows up to ninety 531 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 2: five percent support eighty nine to ninety five percent depending 532 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,479 Speaker 2: on which provision is pulled. 533 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 1: So it'll pass. 534 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 2: And we'll get rid of Prop forty seven in its 535 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 2: current form, which was written by Gascon. And here's this 536 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 2: is very significant. The San Francisco Mayor London Breed has 537 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 2: endorsed this act, and so as the Santose Mayor Matt Mahon, 538 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 2: both far left progressives and both have said we've got 539 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 2: to rewrite California law. Tomorrow, we'll let you know where 540 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,479 Speaker 2: you're going to be able to come and see us, 541 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 2: do the show, and drive up and sign this prop 542 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 2: this referendum and be a part of changing California. It 543 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 2: will be done, all right. I want to play. We 544 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,239 Speaker 2: were talking about the history of rainstorms in California. This 545 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 2: current rainstorm has created a lot of potholes. If you 546 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 2: fall into a pothole with your car, can you get 547 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 2: money from the city. Well, the I team for NBC 548 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 2: four anchor Carolyn Johnson has this report. 549 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 11: I went through the intersection and felt a huge thump. 550 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 12: That huge thump was this giant pothole off in Trouble 551 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 12: of our in Sherman Oaks. Caleb Collins hit it during 552 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 12: a storm last winter. 553 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 11: I thought the tire exploded, like I didn't know what happened. 554 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 11: I thought didn't know of the axle like split in half, 555 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 11: or like the wheel fell off or something, because it 556 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 11: was pretty significant impact. 557 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 12: In fact, it blew two tires on Calyb's car. He 558 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 12: thought the city should reimburse him the three hundred and 559 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 12: forty dollars it cost to replace them. 560 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 11: I believe that they should be financially responsible for the 561 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 11: damage because we are taxpayers and we're paying for the 562 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 11: maintenance of the roads. 563 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 9: But that's not how it works. 564 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 12: According to state law, the city has to know about 565 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 12: the pothole, and then it's allowed sufficient time to fix it. 566 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 9: The definition of sufficient is unclear. 567 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 12: But the city did tell us it tries to repair 568 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 12: potholes within three days. The city eventually reimbursed Caleb for 569 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 12: his tires, but he's one of the lucky few. 570 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 1: Oh not a plot fire. 571 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 9: The Iteam learned chances are slim. 572 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 12: The city accepts responsibility and pays a pothole claim. Last year, 573 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 12: nearly six thousand drivers filed one. The city paid just 574 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 12: one hundred and thirty of them or two percent. The 575 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 12: year before, the city paid twenty two percent of pothole claims. 576 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 12: We asked the city attorney why it paid so few 577 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 12: claims last year. A spokesperson told us claims aren't always 578 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 12: paid or denied in the same year they're filed. 579 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 11: It was a very significant annoyance, I guess. 580 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 12: So the best advice for now try to avoid any 581 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 12: bumps in the road now. If you want to file 582 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 12: a claim for pothole damage, be sure to document everything. 583 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 12: Take pictures, keep all your receipts for repairs for the 584 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 12: City of la you'll fire your claim with the City 585 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 12: Attorney's office. We have a link for that for you 586 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 12: on our website. Just go to nbcla dot com. 587 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 2: But the first line in that story says they have 588 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 2: to know about it. You have to somebody has to complain, 589 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 2: and then they get sufficient time to repair the pothole. 590 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 2: But there is no definition of sufficient, which is a 591 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 2: nice loophole, so nobody gets paid. 592 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 1: For the damage. 593 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 2: There's a lot of potholes out there, a lot of them. 594 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 2: If you're driving in the dark, you're screwed. I mean, 595 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 2: Sunset Boulevard is a mess on the west side and 596 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 2: they have some cones up. But you know, at any moment, 597 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 2: you can destroy your front end, your front axle. 598 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: All right, we come back. 599 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 2: We're going to talk with Stephen Portnoyth and he is 600 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 2: going to explain. 601 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 1: The fourteenth Amendment. This should be fascinating. 602 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, really, the Supreme Court heard arguments today today whether 603 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,320 Speaker 2: Trump can be taken off the ballot in Colorado because 604 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 2: the fourteenth Amendment said, if you've committed insurrection, you're not 605 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 2: eligible to be president. 606 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 1: Men. 607 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 2: Many of the justices, nearly all of them, were skeptical 608 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 2: in this, and it's a bit confusing. So we have 609 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 2: Stephen portnoy on because he knows this stuff, and he's 610 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 2: going to explain, and then we'll have more about Biden's 611 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 2: of reaction. Although interestingly, even though the Special Council basically 612 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 2: called Biden to senile to charge with any crimes in 613 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,320 Speaker 2: the document case, ally. 614 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: Times I can't find the story. Don't say anything on it. 615 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 2: Wow, debor Mark Lyden the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, 616 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,880 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 617 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 618 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,280 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 619 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.