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 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: day from one till four o'clock, and then after four 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: It's same as the radio show, it's the podcast version, 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: and so whatever you miss between one and four you 7 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: could listen later. You could listen this weekend after two 8 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: o'clock in about an hour. That couple from Michigan, they 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: were locked up in a Mexican prison for a month 10 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: because they had a dispute with a timeshare company over 11 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: a billing. You may have heard about this. They've been 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: released from prison. We're gonna have John Manley on their attorney, 13 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: and it looks like Donald Trump himself got involved, so 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: we will see what's up with that story. It's fascinating. 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: They stopped paying their timeshare bill because the timeshare company, 16 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: according to them, kept canceling the weeks they reserved, and 17 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: the timeshare company, well, the couple went to American Express 18 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 1: and issued a complaint and American Express sided with them, 19 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: and then one day when they traveled to Mexico again, 20 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: they had law enforcement waiting outside the plane, took them away, 21 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: through them in prison and didn't feed them properly, and 22 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,919 Speaker 1: they were stuck for a month. It was really one 23 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: of those TV movie nightmares. So anyway, John Manley's going 24 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: to come on after two o'clock. Now, this story just happened, 25 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: broke this morning at about nine point thirty. This is 26 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: so outrageous. I mean, there's nothing anybody can do about 27 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: it now. But when you hear the scope of this story, 28 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: you know, nothing we need gets funded. Right. Fire departments 29 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: aren't funded. Police and sheriff's departments are not funded. The 30 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: schools really suck even though they are funded. They're always claiming, 31 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: we don't have money, we don't have money, we don't 32 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: have money. Well, the County of Los Angeles is going 33 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: to have to find four billion dollars and fast to 34 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: settle sit down, to settle seven thousand claims of childhood 35 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: sex abuse that occurred inside its juvenile facilities and foster homes. 36 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: This is by far the largest sex abuse settlement in 37 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: the history of the United States and probably the world. 38 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: One of the attorneys involved in the case says he 39 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: can't find any other sex abuse settlement anywhere close to 40 00:02:53,360 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 1: it let alone larger. The Boy Scouts of America had 41 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: to pay two and a half billion dollars, the Archdiocese 42 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:10,839 Speaker 1: of La Cardla Mahoney a billion and a half. Those 43 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: are the other candidates for largest settlement ever. Victims of 44 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: the usc gynecologists George Tyndall a little over a billion. 45 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: Michigan State paid five hundred million to victims of the team. 46 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,679 Speaker 1: Doctor Larry Nasser. Listen to what I'm saying is you 47 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: get grown men who either get into the gynecology field 48 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: or they you know, they want to be teachers, they 49 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: want to be Scout leaders, they want to be foster parents. 50 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: How many? How many of these these creeps became foster 51 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: parents just so they could have a free shot at 52 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: the boys or girls that they were fostering. Was that 53 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: the motivation? 54 00:03:58,640 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 2: And maybe money? 55 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, they did. They'd make they'd make some 56 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: good money. Yeah. So you get some money and you 57 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: get pedophile sex on the side. Seven thousand claims thousands 58 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: of women. Well, I should point out that the reason 59 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: there's such an avalanche. They passed a law in twenty 60 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: twenty in Sacramento that gave victims of childhood sex abuse 61 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: a new window to sue even though the statute of 62 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: limitations had expired and so people they had to be 63 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: under the age of forty. People started pouring out. I 64 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: really almost seven thousand claims abuse that happened from the 65 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 1: nineteen eighties through the two thousands, and apparently nobody in 66 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: government ever stopped it. All the people who served in 67 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: La County government, in the bureaucracies, the board of supervisors, 68 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: people in law enforcement, people who ran the juvenile centers, 69 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: people who ran the foster care service in La County. 70 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: This is so disgusting. They actually buggered seven thousand children, 71 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: seven thousand, and there must have been hundreds thousands of 72 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: employees who knew you can't keep seven thousand secrets. Nobody cared. 73 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,919 Speaker 1: This is just like all the creepy pedophiles in the 74 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: Catholic Church, or the all the weirdos at USC and 75 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: UCLA who knew about the guy tocologists that were diddling 76 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: the college girls. And then we have an La County 77 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: Chief executive officer now and I don't know how to 78 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: pronounce this name, Fesha sounds good to me, Fesha Davenport 79 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 1: and now here in twenty twenty five, she says on 80 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: behalf of the county. I apologize wholeheartedly to everyone who 81 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,559 Speaker 1: was harmed. But what is the point of a woman 82 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five who had nothing to do with 83 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: you almost fifty years worth of sexual crimes, but she apologizes. 84 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: And that's supposed to mean what? 85 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 2: Nothing? It doesn't mean a thing, But it doesn't change 86 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 2: a thing, obviously. 87 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, symbolic nonsense. How about the people who did the 88 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: who committed the sex crimes. Nothing happened to most of them. 89 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: They all got away with it. And how about all 90 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: the people in the county government in knew about what 91 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: is wrong with people in God? This is your government here, 92 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: your people, you paid with your tax money sexually assaulted 93 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: seven thousand children over the last forty five years. Yeah, 94 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: what do we I always make disparaging remarks about government workers. 95 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: How many pedophiles were hired? Where's that story? Who hired 96 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: these pedophiles? This settlement is so big that Patrick McNicholas, 97 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: whose law firm is representing twelve hundred of the plaintiffs, 98 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: said he was mindful to reach for a settlement number 99 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: that would bring some justice to the victims without bankrupting 100 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: the county. Even the plaintiffs attorney said, oh, man, we 101 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: could bring the whole County of Los Angeles down here. 102 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,559 Speaker 1: We can destroy the government. Like, let's go a little 103 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: easy on them. And I'm looking to see who did this. 104 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: Some of the employees accused of being the most prolific abusers. Well, 105 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: let me back up here. According to the La Times, 106 00:07:53,000 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: there had been few criminal prosecutions of county employees. The 107 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: LA County DA's office received evidence against two staff members, 108 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: Thomas Jackson and out of these abnor in December twenty 109 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: twenty three. Thomas Jackson resigned that year. He had a 110 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: thirty three year career in which at least twenty women 111 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: accused him of sexually abusing them when they were girls. 112 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: So we got one guy. Thomas Jackson accused of attacking 113 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,719 Speaker 1: twenty different women, and nobody knew you know where them. 114 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: You may be wondering where's the money gonna come from? 115 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 2: Taxes? 116 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what they they are? 117 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 2: They actually we don't pay enough. 118 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 1: Are we gonna have a pedophile tax? Yeah? Yes. Are 119 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 1: they gonna jack up the sales tax another penny or 120 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: two to pay for the pedophiles? 121 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 2: Would not surprise me. 122 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: Officials say they're gonna drain the rainy day fund. They're 123 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: gonna slash budgets. Now, there's probably a lot of slashing 124 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: that needs to be done. I mean, this place could 125 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: use a dojing, but I wonder they're gonna use it 126 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: in his excuse not to provide any services. And they're 127 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: gonna have to borrow money, take out bonds. They're gonna 128 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: end up owning hundreds of millions of dollars in interest 129 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 1: on the bonds. We're gonna be paying this off until 130 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: the year twenty fifty one. That's insane, long after a 131 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: lot of people are dead. We're gonna be paying for 132 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: sexual attacks from forty five years ago. Who are the people, 133 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 1: I guess the people who have sexual desires. You know what, 134 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: way more people have sexual desires for children and teenagers 135 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: than I ever knew. I had no idea that there 136 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,199 Speaker 1: were so, I mean, you always thought of the pedophiles 137 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: as being you know, one lone wolf, you know, the 138 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: weirdo guy wandering around town in the park. But it 139 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: looks like there were hundreds of these people in government. 140 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's that's some both and so we 141 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: can't get anything. I mean, I mean, I know this 142 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: is the city, but look at the city Fire department 143 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: right it's it's underfunded by fifty percent. But in La 144 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: County we're going to spend four billion dollars on pedophile 145 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: activity that everybody knew about all these decades. We got 146 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: more coming up. 147 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 148 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 3: six forty. 149 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: Follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at 150 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,839 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Radio less than six hundred followers away from 151 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand and a get after two o'clock. We're 152 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: gonna have John Manley on, ironically not to talk about 153 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: a massive pedophilia case, which usually what we that's what 154 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: we have them on for. But he took on the 155 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: case of the Michigan couple, Christy and Paul Akio, who 156 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: had a dispute with a Mexican timeshare company, and they 157 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: claimed that the timeshare company was was blocking them from 158 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:22,959 Speaker 1: using their timeshare every time that they tried to every 159 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: time they tried to schedule, you know, a week at 160 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: the timeshare, they were told they can't. And this went 161 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 1: on so often that they said, well, we're not paying. 162 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: And the bill grew to one hundred and seventeen thousand 163 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: dollars and the Akios took it to American Express. American 164 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: Express sided with them. But then the Achios go to 165 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: Mexico on another trip and the company Palace Elite, had 166 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: him arrested and they were thrown into Mexican prison for 167 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: a month. So we will talk to John Manley, who 168 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: got them out of prison, apparently with Donald Trump's help. 169 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: So all that's ahead after two o'clock. I still, I mean, 170 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 1: I just can't get over that first story we did. 171 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:13,319 Speaker 1: I can't believe if you didn't hear, the County of 172 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: Los Angeles taxpayers have to pay four billion dollars because 173 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: it turns out all these county employees who worked for 174 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 1: the juvenile detention centers and who also worked in foster 175 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 1: care or I guess these were parents who had taken 176 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 1: in foster children. They abused almost seven thousand children over 177 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:44,719 Speaker 1: a forty year period, the eighties, the nineties, the two thousands. 178 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 1: I it's just astonishing, and we got to pay four billion, 179 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 1: which the county doesn't have. They're gonna be borrowing money 180 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:54,599 Speaker 1: and they're gonna be paying back the money until the 181 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 1: year twenty fifty one. And if they must have. I mean, 182 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: I'm sure the play of attorneys and I'm sure the 183 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: county they know the names of these people, but hardly 184 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: anybody's been criminally charged. We should know the names of 185 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,439 Speaker 1: these people if we have to pay four billion dollars. 186 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: And I'd like to know the names of all the 187 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: people who hired this crowd and all the people who 188 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: recruited these foster parents, because there just must have been 189 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds untold numbers of county employees who knew 190 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: what was going on. A lot of people are dead. 191 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: Now that's just astonishing. You should be the La Time 192 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: story if you, if you get a chance. It's infuriating. 193 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 1: It's's gonna be like one of those one day stories. 194 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: It's like, oh yeah, y'all owe four billion dollars and 195 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,839 Speaker 1: then that's it. You know, by Monday, it's as if 196 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: it never happened. You know, we will remind you of 197 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: it though every time we're told there's not enough money 198 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: for services that are needed here in La County. Now 199 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: knew some is trying, you know. He he believes that 200 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: California is its own state, and he is now going 201 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: to dip into like diplomatic policy and trade negotiation. Because 202 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: Trump has smacked so many countries with these very high tariffs, 203 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: they are now threatening tariffs against America. China already came 204 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: through with a thirty four percent tariff, So all that 205 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: Chinese junk that people buy could cost you thirty four 206 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: percent more. That's gonna that's gonna be increasingly expensive junk. 207 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: And Newsom says that California has more to lose because 208 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: we have so much manufacturing, high tech agriculture. Yeah, don't we. 209 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: What is the crop that takes up like eleven percent 210 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: of our water? Almonds? I remember this? You remember during 211 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: the water shortages. Yeah, we found out that almonds consume 212 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: eleven percent of our water supply. Yes, and three quarters 213 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: of the almonds go to China. Well, we were being 214 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: told to take five minute showers and we can't order 215 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: our lawns. It turns out there there's this couple in 216 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: Beverly Hills. I forget their name, but they they own 217 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: a company that sends enormous amounts of almonds to China. 218 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: They make a big profit, and our water supply is 219 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: diminished by eleven percent every year just for the almonds. 220 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: And I guess there's gonna be a tax in those 221 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 1: almonds down there, tariff yep, oh, that'd be terrible. Maybe 222 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: we'll get our water back, right, they're gonna eat a 223 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: fewer almonds in China. Maybe we'll have more water and 224 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: we could take a six minute shower the next time 225 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: we have a drought. 226 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 2: How long is your shower? By the way, you. 227 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: Know, I actually know that because I'm in such a 228 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: tight schedule. Twelve minutes? 229 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah, I think I'm five. Really, when I 230 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 2: don't wash my hair. 231 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: And then if you wash your hair, that's probably double right. Yeah, yeah, 232 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: now I've been totally hair washing consumes a lot. Well, 233 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: I know hair washing consumes a lot of time because 234 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: I've sat downstairs waiting. Yeah. 235 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 2: We digress of the blood. 236 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: Drying too, Yes, yeah, uh no, I've That's why I 237 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: do a lot of relaxing and thinking. It's like the 238 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: only quiet time of my day that I know I have. 239 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: I just well, I've got the right to waste water. See, 240 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: that's the thing. I'm paying for the water, and I 241 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: want to waste it. Why should this couple of Beverly Hills. 242 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: It's my water as long as I pay for it. Anyway, 243 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: Newsom says he's going to fight back against Trump's tariffs. 244 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: He's going to try to create strategic alliances so that 245 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: California made products are not subject to the Chinese tariffs 246 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: or any other country's tariffs. So the tariffs will be 247 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 1: on companies outside of California. But he's trying to make 248 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: it so California based companies don't have to be affected. 249 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: Can he even do that? Can he undermine a federal 250 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: tariff policy? Don't? 251 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 2: I don't know. 252 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: Actually, something seems funky about it. He's always announcing that 253 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: it's the fifth largest economy in the world, as if 254 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 1: he has something to do with it. We have the 255 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: highest poverty rate in the country. Most of the wealth 256 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: is tilted, obviously, very very heavily into the tech companies. 257 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 1: I mean that's California's wealth is in the tech companies, 258 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: and it's relatively few companies with a staggering amount of value. 259 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: The Neustims had nothing to do with that. What he's 260 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: had to do with is a lot of the poverty 261 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,959 Speaker 1: and a lot of the struggle for ordinary tax payers 262 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,479 Speaker 1: who have to deal with five dollars a gallon gas. 263 00:17:57,359 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: In fact, I was going to check and see if 264 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: we had five dollars as an AVERG today. 265 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 2: I got gas today, I paid for eighty seven. 266 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, although the gas prices should be going down probably 267 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: the rest of the country because oil dropped to sixty 268 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 1: dollars a gallon. Oh but that won't sixty dollars a 269 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: barrel run. 270 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 2: It's not going to affect it never does. It won't 271 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,160 Speaker 2: affect our gas prices. I think one time it did. 272 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: When we come back, I'm going to get John Manley on. 273 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: No it's two o'clock. John Manley's coming on about the 274 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: Kio couple in Mexico. 275 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am. 276 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: Six forty run from one until four o'clock and then 277 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: after four o'clock John cobelt Show on demand on the 278 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: iHeart app. And you know, we have millions of downloads 279 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,919 Speaker 1: already this year for the show on the iHeart app 280 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: the podcast, and Eric has showed me a website where 281 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: you could see the breakouts in what the states and 282 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 1: countries people are listening. We've had three podcast downloads in Syria. 283 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: Now who's that who's that guy? Why is he listening? 284 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: Say some of these countries I don't trust if we 285 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,239 Speaker 1: have to listen. But we got seven in Iran. Uh 286 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: oh great, got the iotol all pissed off. You're gonna 287 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 1: have to start my car. I'm saying I'm eighteen in Cuba. 288 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 2: Better be careful what you say, John, don't bring me 289 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 2: in on those conversations, please. 290 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: Well, you know, all these countries have a steak in 291 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: listening because you might be vacationing in any one of 292 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: these places. They want to know where you're going. I'm 293 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: going to give you. 294 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you this. I'm not going to be 295 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 2: going to those places. 296 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: You're not going to guitar. You meet some rich men there. 297 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:53,360 Speaker 2: I am married. 298 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:58,360 Speaker 1: What about a Retria? A Retrea? I forgot? Where is that? 299 00:19:58,359 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 1: That's an Africa. That's an Africa. 300 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 2: I don't really have a plan to go there right now. 301 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: You probably want to go to Sink Sink to Saint 302 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: kits right. Yes, that's beautiful. You got twenty downloads there, 303 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: Al Salvador, we got thirty. Oh maybe some of the 304 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,239 Speaker 1: prisoners in that supermans on their way up there. 305 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 2: You're not going to be fans of yours, John. 306 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be. It could be some of the 307 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: local Maris Latricia gang members and they're hearing us laugh 308 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: at them. 309 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 3: Not me. 310 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 2: I'm not laughing at them. 311 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: We've got fifty one people in Ukraine that trying to 312 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: see is Russia listed here, We're probably blocked in. Oh no, 313 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: Russia's got fifty five fifty five, five fifty five downloads. 314 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 2: Let's definitely not talk about Russia. 315 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: Yeah please. You know, actually remember when we rent to Russia, 316 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: you know, not that I'm this international media figure, but 317 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: I remember feeling a little nervous because I figured the 318 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: KGB probably flags anybody in American media, yeah, not knowing 319 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: what it is they do, or what influence they have, 320 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: or what their opinions are. And so I was nervous 321 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: when I was there, and it was on a cruise ship. 322 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: We actually took listeners and one night we got tickets 323 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: to the Russian Ballet, which was gorgeous, and the cruise 324 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: ship set up like a taxi to pick us up 325 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: or you know, a car service, and I remem there 326 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: was a black car and then I noticed that there 327 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: was no signage on it and the driver didn't have 328 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: you know, a license posted on the dashboard, and he 329 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,199 Speaker 1: starts driving us through Moscow, and I thought, I have 330 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: no idea where he's going. And outside of the three 331 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,919 Speaker 1: kids who we left on the ship with a babysitter, 332 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: nobody knows where we are. Like if they decide like 333 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: I was a bad guy, right, like a dangerous media 334 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: host from America, they could just drive me and my 335 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: wife off to you know, some gulag in Siberia and 336 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 1: nobody would ever hear from me again. And this is 337 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: what was going through my mind as I'm sitting in 338 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: the back seat. This is not me looking back. While 339 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 1: I was sitting in the car, I'm thinking we could 340 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,959 Speaker 1: end up in a deadly present. Yes, I don't know 341 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: this guy. He's got no idea on him. There's no 342 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: idea on the car. 343 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 2: Did you ask him? Excuse me, sir, but are you 344 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 2: for real? 345 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: I'm not you. And this was before smartphones too, huh, yeah, 346 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: this would have been two thousand and six. No, there 347 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: was absolutely no way to track us. I think I 348 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 1: had a flip phone, which didn't work anyway in Russia. 349 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 2: Well, the good thing is you survived. 350 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: I did survive. But I see that and see fifty 351 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 1: five people listening in Russia, I'm thinking, oh they might 352 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,199 Speaker 1: they not like I mean, it could be people in 353 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: the Kremlin. You don't know. They could be tracking all 354 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: kinds of US media. Kamala Harris was in Orange County 355 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: this week. Apparently she's not going to go away, and 356 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 1: in fact, she said that explicitly, I'm not going anywhere. 357 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: There was a national conference of Black women, business owners 358 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: and politic minitions at an ocean front resort in Dana Point, 359 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: and there was one hundred women attending this gathering and 360 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: she entered the room and it was a surprise, and 361 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 1: all these women leaped to their feet, whooped, cheered, and 362 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: waved napkins in the air. Wow for Kamala Harrits, they're 363 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: whooping and waving napkins in the air. I'm not going 364 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: to ask why. And then she started spewing cliches and platitudes. 365 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: Our commitment to lifting each other up, lifting up our community, 366 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: lifting up our country has not changed. There's a sense 367 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 1: of fear taking hold in the country, and I understand it. 368 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: There are things we're witnessing each day in the last 369 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: few months in our country, and it creates a great 370 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: sense of fear because you know, there were many things 371 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: that we knew would happened, many things things well there's 372 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 1: a lot of specifics in there. In fact, her speech 373 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: was so vague that this La Times writer Sima Mata, 374 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: spent a paragraph trying to explain what she the writer, 375 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: thought Harris was talking about. Harris didn't mention Trump by dame, 376 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: but she was clearly referring to rollbacks of protections for minorities, 377 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 1: women in the LGBT goop plus community, among others. It's 378 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: like she didn't say any of that, but the writer 379 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: didn't know what she was talking about. So she offered 380 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: a possible explanation in case the reader was wondering, what 381 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: the hell does that mean? Well, here's the writer's See. 382 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: The writer is supposed to tell you what she said, 383 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: but because Harris doesn't say anything, the writer tells you 384 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: takes a guess at what she might be referring to. Now, 385 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: another commalist story this week, and it makes you wonder why, 386 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: but it would whoop and wave Napkins. That book I mentioned, Well, 387 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,439 Speaker 1: there's a couple of books out and this is called 388 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: Fight Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, and 389 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: the reporters for this book interviewed Harris's senior campaign advisor, 390 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 1: Stephanie Cutter, and We've mentioned this moment many times. When 391 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: she went on the view and when she asked to 392 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 1: name something she would have done differently than Joe Biden, 393 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: she said, nothing comes to mind. Well, you know who 394 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: smacked herself in the head the campaign. The senior campaign 395 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:33,159 Speaker 1: advisor Stephanie Cutter was floored at her response. What the 396 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: hell was that? Cutter recalled, thinking to herself, that's not 397 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: what we practiced. I thought that line was a hoot. 398 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: That's not what we practiced. You have to practice and 399 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: answer what would you do differently? Makes me want to 400 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: whoop and wave a napkin. And one of Harris's people 401 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: said that that clip provided the money shot for Trump's ads. 402 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: It was her own bad moment when she gave us 403 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: the gift of the view interview, said a Trump advisor. 404 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 1: We were able to anchor her to the Biden administration 405 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: in her own words, which is something we were trying 406 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 1: to do anyway. And ahead of her first interview, remember 407 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: I think she went on CNN with Tim Walls, Harris 408 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,719 Speaker 1: was prepped by AIDS with a list of items that 409 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 1: she could name that made her proud of her work 410 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,439 Speaker 1: with Joe Biden. She needed a list. She was prepped 411 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 1: with a list. Now, most of us, if we were 412 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,360 Speaker 1: suddenly asking what are you most proud of in your career? Right, 413 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: or what are you most proud of in your life, 414 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: we would be able just to, off the top of 415 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: our heads, you know, have a small list, have a 416 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: discussion of the things we're most proud of, right, our 417 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: own accomplishments. But she they have to give her a script, 418 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 1: all right, if they ask you, what, uh, what what 419 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 1: you're most proud of your work with Biden? Here's what 420 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 1: you're going to tell them. But when it got to 421 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: what would you do differently? She forgot the script. That's 422 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 1: not what we practiced. It's not the answer was not 423 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: nothing comes to mind. Yeah, God to help. She runs 424 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: for governor, and you know what, the elector the whole whooping, 425 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: napkin waving crowd will elect her like it doesn't matter 426 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: how dumb she is. I realize now, if you've if 427 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: you've got the uh you've got, if you have certain 428 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,360 Speaker 1: attributes and you belong to the right party, you could 429 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: be as dumb as a box of rocks, and people 430 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 1: will whoop and wave napkins. All right, when we come 431 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: back off, let me tell you after two o'clock, we 432 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: are going to have John Manley, the attorney for the 433 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 1: couple who from Michigan who was thrown in a Mexican 434 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 1: prison after a dispute with a time share company in Mexico. 435 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 436 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 3: six forty. 437 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: We're on from one until four. After two o'clock, we're 438 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: going to talk with John Manley, the attorney for Christy 439 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,199 Speaker 1: and Paul Ako. They were thrown in a Mexican prison 440 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: for a month because they ran a foul of the 441 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: Palace Company, which is a time share company, and Palace 442 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: Company said the Aquio has offered them owed them one 443 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. The I Kio said, well, 444 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: we didn't pay. An American Express backed us up because 445 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,719 Speaker 1: they kept canceling our reservations at the time share. They 446 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: were in there for a month. They just got out. 447 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: John Manley is going to explain how that came to be. 448 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: Apparently Trump was involved. Now I mentioned before, I've been 449 00:28:54,720 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 1: looking through some software here that tells us about podcast 450 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: downloads for our show in various countries, and we have 451 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty six downloads in the month of 452 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: March from Indonesia. Oh are you traveling to Indonesia? I 453 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: am okay, here's a tourist warning for you. Really, authorities 454 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: in Bali, Indonesia have a new policy banning menstruating tourists 455 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: from entering the temples. 456 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 3: Okay? 457 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 2: How did they know? First of all, it doesn't say okay, 458 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 2: So that's ridiculous. 459 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: They are concerned that dirty period blood will contaminate their 460 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: holy sites. 461 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 2: Oh my god, I am not making this. 462 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: The governor of the island, Weighan Costor, on March twenty fourth, 463 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: said they're going to clamp down on misbehaving tourists overrunning 464 00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: the country. I'm implementing this as an immediate mesas to 465 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: regulate foreign tourists. Under new rules, women would be prohibited 466 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: from entering temples in Bali while on their period because 467 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 1: they fear the menstrual plasma is dirty and would make 468 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: the temple become impure. According to stories passed down from 469 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: generation to generation, there are negative effects if you are 470 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: determined to enter the temple during menstruation. Many women experience 471 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: pain and faint well in the temple, and there's also 472 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: reportedly mystical events that can befall menstruating women in temples, 473 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: such as possession. I guess possession by the devil. Oh, okay, 474 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: I'd go with that. It wasn't just the mentuating women 475 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: who were affected. Residents around the temple could be affected 476 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: by natural disasters and diseases prompted by a period. So 477 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 1: a woman has a period and that could cause an earthquake. 478 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 2: Oh my god, are you kidding this? 479 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: This is the Indonesian government. This is you know. If 480 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: you're mentioning while on holiday and BALI, don't worry. There 481 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: are many other entertainment spots around the temple. You can 482 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: watch traditional dance performances. It did not specify how they 483 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 1: plan to check dress appropriately when visiting the temples. Pay 484 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: attention to this or any tourist attractions. Do not enter 485 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: sacred temple areas unless you are a worshiper wearing traditional 486 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 1: Bolanese attire, so you better find out what the Bolanese 487 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 1: women wear. And also prohibited are single use plastics like 488 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: plastic bags and straws. 489 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 2: I may have to rethink this. 490 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: You cannot be rude to locals, okay, don't get any 491 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: arguments with you know, a clerk. 492 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 2: I can't make any promises. 493 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: Okay, no littering. 494 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 2: I don't litter. 495 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: M Bali has a special task force whose job it 496 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: is to monitor visitors and punish naughty violators with penalties 497 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: ranging from fines to jail time. An Indonesian jail. 498 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 2: Is that worse than a Mexican jail? 499 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: They want you to I don't know. Could we could 500 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: hear the story from the Mexican from the couple in 501 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: the Mexican jail compared to your story in a few months. 502 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: This ensures that Bali's tourism remains respectful, sustainable and in 503 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 1: harmony with our local values. And they're going to be 504 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: charging you ten dollars as a tourist just to enter 505 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: the island. Wow, ten dollars. 506 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 2: Every single place that I want to go to, or 507 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,479 Speaker 2: I have gone to, or I'm going to. There's always 508 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 2: something I don't get it. 509 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 1: You keep pillick picking places where you're likely to be arrested. 510 00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: I don't The rest of the world world doesn't put 511 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: up with the likes of you. I know, you know, 512 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 1: that's that's why you're always in danger, all right, John 513 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: Manley coming up next. Christy and paul A Keio were 514 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: released from the Mexican prison after they had a dispute 515 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 1: with a Mexican timeshare company one hundred and seventeen thousand 516 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: dollars they wouldn't pay because they say the timeshare company 517 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 1: kept canceling their reservations and they appeal to American Express, 518 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: and American Express sided with them, but then they went 519 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: to Mexico and the Mexican government did not side with them, 520 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: so they ended up in prison for a month. John 521 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,239 Speaker 1: Manley the attorney next Debor Mark Live CAFI twenty four 522 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: hour Newsroom. 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