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 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: day from one until four o'clock. After four o'clock John 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 1: Cobelt Show on demand, that's the podcast, and you could 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: hear what you missed. Moist line for Friday is eight 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: seven seven Moist eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: six or you usually talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. 8 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: Alex Stone's coming on here in uh, well, Trump is 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: invading Portland. He's got Ice invading Chicago. In fact, Ice 10 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: agents were seen on boats on the Chicago River. I 11 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: saw some photos of that. They already barged into Memphis 12 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:46,239 Speaker 1: to try to stop all the crime there. And you 13 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:51,480 Speaker 1: know that today took over Washington, d C. So Portland's next. 14 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: And Portland has a rich history of violence and protest 15 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: for over five years. Now, let's go to Alex Stone 16 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: and see what this is about here, Alex, what's going on? 17 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 2: Hey? 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 1: They're John? Yeah, Well, and Portland is saying, look, they've 19 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: had their time with Antifa and other things, and they 20 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: feel like right now is relatively common. You know, Memphis 21 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: and Chicago, they've been threatened with troops coming in. But 22 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: Chicago it seems like it's off the table now they've 23 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: had federal agents go in, but of actual troops and 24 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: not so much. And in Memphis they've got agents and 25 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 1: they're waiting to find out. It's been taunted for a 26 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: number of weeks now, and now Oregon looks like that 27 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: it may be go time because Title ten he's now 28 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: been activated for the Oregon National Guard, federalizing them like 29 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: what was done in LA. But a few minutes ago, 30 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: Oregon filed for a temporary injunction to prevent the president 31 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: from federalizing its National Guard and sending in troops, arguing 32 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: that he doesn't have the authority a lot of the 33 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: arguments we heard in LA doesn't have the authority to 34 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: do it without an insurrection being declared, And the state 35 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: is saying, by no means is an insurrection unfolding right now, 36 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: and that the federal agents that have now come in 37 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: over the weekend have actually antagonized and made the crowds 38 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: that were small get bigger according to the state, and 39 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: that arrests at protests have not unfolded for many months, 40 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: and that things have been very quiet. Oregon's Attorney General 41 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: arguing in. 42 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 3: All this, this is a long line in a pattern 43 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 3: of behavior to expand the executive authority, and so I 44 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 3: think you'll continue to see lawsuits be filed as long 45 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 3: as the President wants to press the bounds of our democracy. 46 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: So in their argument that they are focusing in on 47 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: the ruling in California when the federal judge found the 48 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 1: President Trump's deployment of federal troops in La and June 49 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: was illegal. That has been on hold and is going 50 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: back to the appellate court while the appellate court deals 51 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: with it, probably eventually will go to the Supreme Court. 52 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: But Oregon, he is arguing that the military rule is 53 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: what they say, incompatible with liberty and with democracy. That 54 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: the President said over the weekend on truth Social that 55 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 1: it's needed to protect federal agents who are in Portland. 56 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: He said, Portland is war ravaged, as he put it, 57 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: but local leaders are, you know, a lot like what 58 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: we heard in La, claiming everything is stable and that 59 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: the local police can handle it. Tongue In is a 60 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: law professor Lewis and Clark University says, makes sense that 61 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: Oregon is looking to La now and that ruling that 62 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: found the troops to be illegal to say, you know, hey, 63 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: look see what the judge in LA said, and now 64 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: apply that to Oregon. 65 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 4: In this instance, it completely makes sense that the Oregon 66 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 4: AG's office would say, hey, you know that ruling in 67 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 4: LA worked out really well. We want to just show 68 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 4: that we're just like that and hope that the judge 69 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 4: here will agree with the judges reasoning in LA. 70 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: And John there were some marches and protests yesterday after 71 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: the agents began to come in. Portland police say that 72 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: they were mostly common orderly on Sunday. Two people arrested 73 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: pretty late last night when they began to fight outside 74 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: of the Ice building. But but Portland police say they 75 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: handled it and then they didn't need to stay there, 76 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: that they were out of there. So I mean, the 77 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: city's arguing a lot here and the president's arguing the 78 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: other side. But Title ten has been activated. Now two 79 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: under National Guard troops have been notified that they are 80 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: being called up. That is beyond what we have seen 81 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: in Memphis and in Chicago. That is why some people 82 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: are marching now that this woman was out there in 83 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: this instance, well, not that this woman. 84 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 2: I believe in our city leaders and I believe in 85 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 2: our own citizenry to take care of our streets and 86 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 2: to take care of our communities, and it's a beautiful 87 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 2: place to live, so we don't need troops on our streets. 88 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 1: And John the Oregon National Guard, put out a statement saying, quote, 89 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,239 Speaker 1: please remember this is still us, your neighbors and your friends. 90 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 1: Our job is to protect Oregonians and defend national interests 91 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: when directed as we are now and quote different than 92 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: sometimes we hear from the military. You know, under the 93 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: direction of the president, we do as we're told. They're saying, Hey, look, 94 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: we're still your neighbors, your friends. Don't fight us as 95 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: they're going out. But now in Oregon, they're waiting to 96 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: see what's next. Is there going protests against the ice 97 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: raids or not? I mean, are they there or they're not? 98 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, well the president says they are. The 99 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: local government says that they have been thirty people or less, 100 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 1: and that did they feel like that this is theater? 101 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,479 Speaker 1: I mean the argument that we heard in la as well, 102 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 1: when before things really began to take off, once troops 103 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: came in and more agents came in. Last night, it 104 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: was estimated around one hundred people were outside the Ice 105 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: Building protesting. Now again, the argument that the local government 106 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: is making is that the agents that have now flooded 107 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: into the city and they expect the troops to come 108 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: in as they're being activated, that they feel like that 109 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 1: that has amplified everything and pulled people to come out 110 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 1: and fight against And you know, like Seattle or Portland, 111 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: you've always got that you know, antifa antagonist element to 112 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: the crowd dressed all in black. I mean quite honestly, 113 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: we saw in La as well that would come out 114 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: at night time and create problems. So but then that 115 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: that feeds into the argument that they need the truth. Well, 116 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: these groups sending out their their members, you know, to 117 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: protest Trump is proving Trump right though. It's giving him 118 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: ammunition saying well look how look how bad it is. Yeah, 119 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,799 Speaker 1: and maybe it's a response to true and it's also 120 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: making the point for Trump and say, well again, exact 121 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: same thing that happened in La once the crowds grew 122 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: bigger and became more violent. And if you remember, it 123 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 1: was the day that the National Guard arrived that the 124 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: things really took off downtown. And yet a lot of 125 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: the protesters who said, you know that they were here 126 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: to fight back against that, that that amplified thing. You know, 127 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 1: we've talked about it before. There is a current ideology 128 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: and you know thinking in law enforcement that to dampen 129 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: things down, that you put away the riot gear, you 130 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: put away the the camouflage, you put away the things 131 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: that are going to amp up a crowd, and if 132 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,239 Speaker 1: you want to amp them up, you bring all that out. Now. 133 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: The other side of that is you got to be 134 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: ready and you got to be tough. And you know 135 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: you've heard the head of the Border Patrol saying, no, 136 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 1: we go in in full helmets and everything else to 137 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 1: show that we're here and we're going to take a stand. 138 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: Two different sides of you know, of law enforcement philosophy, 139 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: of which works better. The argument being made by East 140 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 1: organ authorities, whether it's accurate or not, is that this 141 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: is amping everybody up. The President says it's already been 142 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: amped up and that they've got to go in now 143 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: and calm it down. All right, Alex Stone, ABC News, 144 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: thank you, you got it. Next night on the Well, 145 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: there's ice agents in Portland and now there're BBB National 146 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: Guard troops to back them up. They say, to protect 147 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: federal buildings and federal agents and battling the protest crowds. 148 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: The people who show up for many of these things 149 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: around the country, and it's been this way for quite 150 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: a number of years, are upper middle class kids, rich kids. 151 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: Antifa is filled with rich kids. I've seen multiple stories 152 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: on this, especially on the West Coast, Seattle and Portland 153 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: and here in Los Angeles, the crazed activists trying to 154 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: defend the rights of the vagrants to live out in 155 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: the street. The The Free Press has a fascinating story 156 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: called the Revolt of the Rich Kids. Why are so 157 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: many of these modern day antifestyle protesters, these social protesters 158 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: who are carrying on against Trump, trying to protect homeless people, 159 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: trying to protect illegal aliens, or at least protesting against 160 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: laws being enforced against the homeless and illegal. Why they 161 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: come from somebody wealthy families? What is the psychological dynamic? 162 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 1: Talk about this when we come back. This is really 163 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: fascinating because these would be the kids if they were 164 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: in your town. It's like, well, they don't have to 165 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: worry about anything. They got it made in life. They're 166 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: going to be taken care of. Well, they're totally upending 167 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: the piece that they could have in their life and 168 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: choosing to embrace anarchy. 169 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 170 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 5: six forty. 171 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: This is a very cool article. It's behind a paywall. 172 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: The Free Press is an increasingly popular media site, the 173 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: FP dot com, which you got to pay for it, 174 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: but I paid for it. And they've got some fascinating 175 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: stories and this one is called the Revolt of the 176 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 1: Rich Kids, and I saw this. Boy, it's got to 177 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: be when did Occupy Wall Street start? Like around twenty eleven. God, 178 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: it's been fourteen years of this nonsense where you have 179 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: these weird progressive demonstrations and the topic constantly changes. You know, 180 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: it went from Occupy Wall Street remember that that was 181 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: like twenty eleven, where people were upset about all the 182 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: money that was being made on Wall Street. You know 183 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: this this got started a few years earlier when we 184 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 1: had the mortgage meltdown and a whole generation of kids 185 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: came out of college and because there was a collapse, 186 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: economic collapse, there were no jobs for them, and they 187 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: had a lot of debt that they piled up in 188 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: college and it derailed their life. It had lingering effects 189 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: maybe until this day. They you know, This was the 190 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: generation that went right out of some good colleges straight 191 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,079 Speaker 1: to Starbucks, and they felt angry and betrayed, and then 192 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: they started rebelling against their parents' wealth. It's a whole 193 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: complex psychology here against mommy and daddy. Mommy and daddy 194 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: who did well, and they've become really progressive, and they 195 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: join every whack job trend and you know whatever we're 196 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: supposed to protest this week. You know, they were there 197 00:10:55,600 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: for Black Lives Matter, you know, pro Palestine, climate change, 198 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: anti Trump. I'm the whole run everything. It's the same people. Oh. 199 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: Here in La we have our own peculiar breed who 200 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: fight to defend the rights of the vagrants. Take a 201 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: crap in the street. I remember this a few years 202 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: ago when it was Echo Park Lake, when that park 203 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: was overrun by hundreds of illegal aliens, and the people 204 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: who lived in the neighborhood were just screaming and pleading 205 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: for somebody to help, and they would get attacked by activists. 206 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: And these activists were the sons and daughters of wealthy 207 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: people like entertainment. I remember the leader of one of 208 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: these vagrant groups. He's a young kid and his dad 209 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: was some you know a whole Hollywood director, producer. He 210 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: had an Academy Award and produced kind of bizarre reaction 211 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: in his son because the sun is out in the streets, 212 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 1: screaming at the homeowners. We're upset with the vagrants living 213 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: in the park and all his friends, you know, and 214 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 1: they drive around an expensive cars and then they go 215 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: back to mommy and Daddy's palatial mansion at the end 216 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 1: of the protest day. And this has repeated itself over 217 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 1: and over to happen in Portland during those Antifa riots. 218 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: A lot of these young rich kids, and they've done 219 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: a study on them. They're whiter and wealthier and more 220 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: highly educated. Three times is likely to have a postgraduate degree. 221 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: They're angry because they're only in the ninetieth percent tile 222 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: rather than the ninety ninth percentile. Their lives are not 223 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: in the top one percent, it's the top ten percent, 224 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: and they don't know how to go any higher because 225 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: they bought into this myth that every generation is going 226 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,839 Speaker 1: to do better than their parents. Well, at some point 227 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: obviously that's not true. Now it can be true for 228 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:09,079 Speaker 1: any individual. But what they have found is there is 229 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: too many people who graduated with advanced college degrees and 230 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: not enough job openings for those people. So it's like 231 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: a game of musical chairs. If you're late, you're working 232 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: at Starbucks. And so they get really angry and full 233 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: of rage. According to this story, and it's called well, 234 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: they're called downwardly mobile instead of upwardly mobile. It's called 235 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:43,959 Speaker 1: elite over production. It describes what happens when there are 236 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: more ambitious strivers than high status positions. And history, according 237 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: to the Free Press, shows that the people who lead 238 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: revolutions like Lenin, Stalin, mal Mussolini, Shea Gevera in Cuba 239 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: were all well educated and ambitious. They were close enough 240 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: to the ruling class to see its flaws, but excluded 241 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: enough to seethe with resentment. And those are the kids 242 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:17,559 Speaker 1: who join Antifa. Those are the kids who are screaming 243 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: in the streets about ice and about the vagrants. People 244 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: who are in a higher socioeconomic status are more likely 245 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: to crave wealth, status, and prestige than those with less, 246 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: So it's the ones who are right at the cusp 247 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: who get the angriest if they don't get to the top, 248 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: Whereas the people in the middle class and below are 249 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: relatively content with what they have. A twenty twenty Berkeley 250 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: Cornell study said the affluent we're most likely to agree 251 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: with statements like I on a position of prestige. See, 252 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: even the money wasn't enough, you have to have a 253 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: prestigious position, you know, a big degree, a certain job 254 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: to lord over other people. Another study at the University 255 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: of Edinburgh found I'd never heard this phrase before, but 256 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: this really sums it up. Malicious envy, resentment at other 257 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: people's successes. That was the strongest predictor of support for 258 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: forcing redistribution of wealth, for being in favor of an 259 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: aggressive socialism or communism. Is if you made some money 260 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: but not enough money, you have some prestige but not enough, 261 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: you get this terrible resentment. So you think the people 262 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: who have the prestige and the money ought to have 263 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: some of it taken away and are to be given 264 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: away redistribution. I've got more on this when we come back, 265 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: because the when reality disappoints people with privilege, that's when 266 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: the rage boils over. And that's what you see acting 267 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: out in the streets. Because I've told you it's the 268 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: same people who show up at these protests over and 269 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 1: over again. They've created their own industry, and even the 270 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 1: police recognize these people. And it's generally young, wealthier white 271 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: guys and some white girls. It's not the poor, it's 272 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: not the lower middle class, the upper middle class and 273 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: the rich. More coming up. 274 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 275 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 5: six forty. 276 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,239 Speaker 1: Right every day one until four o'clock, and the podcast 277 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: is posted after for it's the same as the radio show. 278 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: Whatever you missed, you can hear it, and that's at John. 279 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:05,440 Speaker 1: It's called what's it called. What's the name of the podcast? Oh, 280 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: John Cobalts Show on demand? That's right. Well, I was. 281 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 6: Gonna give out social media. 282 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: I'm laughing with you. 283 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 6: I'm not laughing. 284 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: Yes, you're laughing at you. 285 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 6: No, I'm not because I do that too. 286 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 1: When I go to the home your next. 287 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 6: Okay, trust me, I'll probably be there before you. 288 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 1: You're you're in the room down the hall. So we're 289 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: talking about the Free Press has this fascinating story on 290 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: the revolt of the rich kids. And I'm telling you, 291 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: this has been baffling me for like fifteen years. I've 292 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: talked about it from time to time, but I didn't 293 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: know the why. Necessarily it wasn't really explained. Now there's 294 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 1: been a lot of research papers on it. And the 295 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: baffling thing is, why is it so many white, wealthy, 296 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 1: white kids who do all this protesting, right, you see 297 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: protests about climate change. Actually, this is funny is you 298 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 1: don't see black, Hispanic Asian protesters for the most part, 299 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: any of these things. It's always white guys and some 300 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 1: white women almost always. Now they claim to be defending 301 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: minorities and the oppressed, but you don't see the minorities 302 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: and impressed very often in the protests, you know, starting 303 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 1: with Occupy Wall Street and uh, you know these these 304 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: these these homeless protests were all white people. A lot 305 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,360 Speaker 1: of these immigration protests are white people. I always see 306 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: the video coverage, and why I don't think, you know, 307 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 1: they ought to get any coverage, because they're just representing 308 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 1: their own mental illness. They're representing their own weird issues 309 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: with their parents and their parents succeeding. I guess if 310 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: you have really successful parents, it's easy to fall short 311 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: and think you're a loser, and so these are this 312 00:18:55,119 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: is the rage of the losers who show up. Now, 313 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: this has been very common. They talk about Eleanor Roosevelt. 314 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: She was a very wealthy woman, an aristocrat, Franklin Delana, 315 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: Roosevelt's wife, and she spoke very warmly of communism, according 316 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: to the Free Press, calling the Soviets a positive force 317 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 1: in world affairs. During the Great Depression, a lot of 318 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: Ivy League graduates were into socialism and communism. These are 319 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: the people who got caught up in the Red Scare 320 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: of the nineteen fifties and they were streamed into Washington. 321 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 1: They were part of government, they were part of Hollywood. 322 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: Part of the appeal was guilt, but part was anxiety. 323 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: They felt that that their position in life was weakening, 324 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 1: and it made them angry. I'm not sure I follow 325 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: all this, but something this has gone on for decades 326 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: and decades. It says when reaction disappoints those raised in privilege, 327 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: the gap between their expectations and the outcome produces rage. 328 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 1: There's a type of study called behavioral economics. They has 329 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: long recognized this dynamic. Dynamic satisfaction depends less on how 330 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:27,679 Speaker 1: much you have than on whether the outcome exceeded your expectations, 331 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: the outcome of what your life, the money, your prestige. 332 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: So if you were expected yes, if you were expecting 333 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: a lot of money, and you were going to live 334 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: in a fancy neighborhood and you're going to have a 335 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: nice title, and you didn't get it. You might still 336 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 1: have a lot of money and a good life, but 337 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: you didn't get what you thought you were entitled to. 338 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: And it makes you angry, and it's like you want 339 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: to burn the whole thing down, and you want to 340 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 1: take away the earnings of those who beat you to 341 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 1: it and start giving it away, giving it away to 342 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 1: poor people, the homeless, immigrants, whoever, as long as you're 343 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: punishing the successful. Much of the rhetoric of the last 344 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: fifteen years is punishing people who succeed, and it's often 345 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 1: the protests are driven by the children of successful people 346 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: who didn't quite make it themselves in the way they expected. 347 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: So they feel like a big loser and they're taking 348 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: out their psychological issues on everybody else. You know. So 349 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: they burned down Portland, you know, they shut down Seattle. 350 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: They cause all kinds of havoc here in Los Angeles, 351 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: and it's because they never processed that they didn't do 352 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: as well as mommy and daddy. I show me one 353 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 1: of these protests where it wasn't rich white kids, or 354 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: at least upper middle class rich white kids, almost all 355 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: of them. The higher the expectation, the sharper the disappointment. 356 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: They did a study. Sociologist Learn Rivera wrote a book 357 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: on this called Pedigree, and found that if you graduated 358 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,640 Speaker 1: from a lesser ranked college but you got a job 359 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 1: at an elite firm, you're far happier than somebody from 360 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,479 Speaker 1: Harvard or Stanford who landed the same jobs, because if 361 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 1: you came from a lesser college, it's like, whoo oo, 362 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: I beat the odds, I got my dream. But if 363 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: you got the job you were supposed to have, or 364 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: maybe a little less and you're from Harvard, it's like, 365 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 1: oh my god, what the hell happened? Who screwed me over? 366 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: And so you want to take their money and give 367 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: it away. If you're born to overachievers your parents, and 368 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: you're surrounded by overachievers, even if you do respectively respectably 369 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 1: in life and feel second rate, text somebody a sociologists 370 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 1: at Duke wrote a book or an investigation into why 371 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: many middle class kids who are fairly comfortable they eventually 372 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: falter in school and work. Entitlement drags them down because 373 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: they thought life was going to be easy, and then 374 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: they get to work, and you got to do projects 375 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: on time, and you got to put up with criticism, 376 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 1: you got to cooperate with other people. And they didn't 377 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: know that to be successful you have to work really 378 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: hard and put up with a lot of crap. They 379 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: didn't realize that's what their parents went through. But they 380 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: had such a gilded childhood where everything was taken because 381 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: they were pampered and taken care of. When they finally 382 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: get there, they're crazy with rage. They drop out in 383 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,439 Speaker 1: some way. They drop out of school, they drop out 384 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 1: of their profession, they drop out of their parents' lifestyle, 385 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: and they join the Antifa style groups or occupied Wall Street, 386 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: and you know, then they're sitting in tents and they're 387 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,719 Speaker 1: they're laying in their own feces in their tents. And 388 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: then they say, well, I'm just protecting the rights of 389 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 1: the homeless. I'm protecting the rights of the illegal immigrants. 390 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 1: It's like, no, you're not. You're having a massive temper 391 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: tantrum because life didn't turn out the way you thought 392 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: it would. And by the way, these people are in 393 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,199 Speaker 1: their twenties, they don't want to work to get to 394 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: that top level. They thought it was going to be 395 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: handed to them when they were twenty five, and now 396 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: they're twenty nine or thirty, it's like, what the hell, 397 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: And they're all pissed with rages, so go back, go 398 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: back out there and work some more. And so I'm 399 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 1: so tired of seeing these people and their protests and 400 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: the media time they get, and the trouble they cause 401 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: they're always protesting, they're always tying up traffic, they're always 402 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: you know, like shooting at police. And it's just really 403 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: a bunch of spoiled babies, a bunch of spoiled rich 404 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: white kids who had every advantage in the world but 405 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: wasn't quite enough. And then we got to hear them 406 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: bitch and complain, We got to deal with all their 407 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: protest movements, and all their issue of the week is 408 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 1: like what is it now? Is it Occupy Wall Street? 409 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: Is it Trump? Is it police violence? Is it George Floyd? 410 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: Is it climate change? Is it Palestine? Is it illegal 411 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: aliens and honor? It's always something new. They never shut 412 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: the f up. Do they remember that? When you see 413 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: these groups and you see them lionized in the media, 414 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: and go look at them if you see one of 415 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,400 Speaker 1: these protesters or on television, look at their faces. It's 416 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 1: coddled rich kids. 417 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 5: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI A sixty. 418 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: Run every day from one until four o'clock and then 419 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand coming up 420 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 1: after three o'clock news. Less than ten percent of the 421 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: homes that were destroyed in the Palisades and eaten flyers 422 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: have gotten permits to rebuild. That's those are the statistics. 423 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: You might hear a lot of propaganda, but right now 424 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,919 Speaker 1: ninety percent of the people got burned out, and it's 425 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: we're almost nine months later, no permit yet. We'll tell 426 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: you more about it coming up. All right, I've made 427 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 1: clear I hate the Waymo cars, the driverless cars. 428 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 6: I have seen so many. Remember I told you I 429 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,880 Speaker 6: never really saw any. Well, I've been going to Century 430 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,160 Speaker 6: City almost every night of the week. 431 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: They're all over the West Side. 432 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 6: Yes, every single day, at. 433 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 1: Least two oh way Mo's owned by Google, and they 434 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: got they got some Some of their processing has gone 435 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: haywire because San Francisco Chronicle haze a story that in 436 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 1: San bru No up in the Bay Area. They were 437 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 1: doing dui enforcement looking for drunk drivers, and the officers 438 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: saw that one of Waymo's autonomous taxis made an illegal 439 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: U turn at a traffic light. Now the cops didn't 440 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: know it was a driverless car, so they went and 441 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: they stopped the car. I don't know how they got 442 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:30,200 Speaker 1: it to stop, but they pulled it over and empty 443 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 1: driver's seat. 444 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 6: That's so creepy. 445 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:38,919 Speaker 1: And there's nobody to give the ticket to because California 446 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: law does not allow moving violations to be written against 447 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 1: driverless cars, so if there's a faw in the coding, 448 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 1: Google doesn't have to pay the penalty. Did I tell 449 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: you about the driverless car that was blocking me in 450 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,640 Speaker 1: a parking lot recently? 451 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 6: I don't think so. 452 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: So I Saturday afternoon, a couple of weeks ago, I'm 453 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 1: going for a Hamburger and there's a parking lot behind 454 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: the behind the restaurant. So I pull out of the 455 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,200 Speaker 1: parking lot, and they've always had a couple of attendants 456 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 1: there because it's a parking lot used by about a 457 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: half a dozen businesses. And you got to get a ticket, 458 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,920 Speaker 1: and if you get the ticket stamped, you get to 459 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: park there for a dollar. So I pull in and 460 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: there's a weymouth thing in front of me and it's 461 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: blocking my path. So the parking attendant, and it was 462 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 1: a young Asian woman. She stood in front of the 463 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: Waimo and she started waving it to come forward, come forward, 464 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: come forward, right, and weimo doesn't move. She then walks 465 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: over to the driver's side and looks in, peers in 466 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: to the window, walks back to the front and starts 467 00:28:53,480 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: waving again to get the Waimo to move. And I 468 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: finally got out of the car and I said, you know, 469 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: that's a driverless car. She goes, yeah, I know that, 470 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: but sometimes they have driver assists. Well, for driver assists, 471 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: you need a driver, right. She wasn't getting it, you know, 472 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: I understand the first time maybe she wasn't familiar with it, 473 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: But it was the second time after she looked inside 474 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: and she saw there was no There was no passenger, 475 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: there was no driver, there was nothing. 476 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 6: So what does she think was gonna happen? 477 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: I don't know, but she kept waving at it. 478 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 6: Did it finally move? 479 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 1: After a little while, it suddenly did a U turn 480 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,959 Speaker 1: and went off. I guess it got a new customer. Oh, 481 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: it probably got a new fair and so it went 482 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: out to pick up the next person. But no, I've 483 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: seen this a couple of times when it's in between fairs. 484 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: It stops dead, and sometimes in inconvenient places. Now, my 485 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: wife and I I was gonna kill me for tell us. 486 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: We pulled into a parking lot near the beach on Saturday, 487 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 1: a public lot, and uh, it had a you know, 488 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: I had a parking booth, but nobody was manning the booth. 489 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: I guess the parking was free or you're you're on 490 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: the honor system. And this weymo stopped at the parking 491 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: booth entrance and just sat there blocking our entrance. Like 492 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: the Waymo didn't know what to do. It had nobody 493 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: in the car. Again, maybe it was programmed to stop 494 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: and pay. I don't know. I don't know how they 495 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: pay tolls. But anyway, we're blocked and my wife starts 496 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: honking at it. 497 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 6: Does she know that it was triverless? I mean, those 498 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 6: Waymo cars are pretty obvious. 499 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got that stupid thing on the top of it, right, 500 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: you know, this was this was as funny as the 501 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: woman who was waving it forward the underway. But you 502 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:56,959 Speaker 1: think it hears. 503 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 6: Maybe maybe I can understand that impulse because maybe the 504 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 6: way that it's been programmed that if somebody does honk 505 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 6: at it, it will make it move. 506 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: Well, she just kept edging closer and closer to see 507 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: if she could scare. It's never a dull moment. We 508 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: had another Weimo on Sunset Boulevard in the left lane 509 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: and it was going twenty five miles an hour the 510 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: speed limit, and everybody else is going forty five point fifty. 511 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 1: And it created a hazard because suddenly, you know, all 512 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: these west side people they started zigging and zagging and 513 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: cutting each other off to pass up this weymo that 514 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: was jugging along at twenty five. And eventually the weimo 515 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: pulled over to the to the to the to the 516 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: right lane, and I thought, oh wow, how did did 517 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: it detect this? Or? And so we passed it. I 518 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 1: looked in it had a drive. It did this one 519 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 1: had a driver and he was going at twenty five 520 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: and causing a swarm of cars trying to pass him. 521 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 6: Did you give him the finger? 522 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 1: No, he'd looked really seedy. Maybe he stole it, I 523 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: mean maybe because he did not look like he should 524 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: be driving. 525 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 6: The thing, and you don't. 526 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: I mean, there aren't drivers. 527 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 6: They're driverless cars, so why would somebody be. 528 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: You can have a driver, but they've. 529 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 6: Never gone in one, so. 530 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 1: I'm never going in one. The thing. You can't have 531 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: a driver. But if he's not there, then he's not there. 532 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 5: I get that. 533 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: I understand. Well, the lady at the parking lot didn't 534 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 1: get it. My wife didn't get it either. All Right, 535 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,239 Speaker 1: we come back. Ten percent of the people who had 536 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: their homes burned down in the Palisades and Altadena, ten 537 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: percent have gotten pyramids to rebuild it. Ninety percent of not. 538 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 1: We'll talk about that coming up. Debor Mark live in 539 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening 540 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear 541 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 1: the show live on KFI AM six forty from one 542 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, 543 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 1: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.