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Speaker 1: bridge story in Baltimore, at some point we're going to

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Speaker 1: find out what's on the data recorders. The investigators have

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Speaker 2: I'm good, John, how are you I'm fine.

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Speaker 1: Have they released any information about what was on the

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Speaker 2: No, not yet. We're hoping to get that information maybe

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Speaker 1: Have you heard if there's any backup systems on a

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Speaker 2: So what it's funny. I've talked to folks, and forgive

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Speaker 1: Right, because the lights were going on and off and

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Speaker 2: Exactly, and you can see it plain as day in

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Speaker 1: We just finished with j O'Brien from ABC News. Well

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Speaker 5: Mark? I can't even believe you're asking me this question.

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Speaker 5: If you watch him every day, if you really pay

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Speaker 1: Look, the President understands.

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Speaker 5: He grew up in a middle class family, working class

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Speaker 1: Stop stop stop what a big fat why? Milk, eggs,

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Speaker 1: grocer all gone down? What store is she going to?

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Speaker 1: Anyone go to the grocery store and notice prices going down.

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Speaker 1: You're not going down anywhere. The increase may have slowed,

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Speaker 1: but it's still an increase. So what she got is

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Speaker 1: like the diarrhea answer. The diarrhea answer, which is very

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Speaker 1: common with spokesholes. He's just my bread blah blah blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And you hope the host is zoning

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Speaker 1: out sometime hosts, so now, if they have a boring caller,

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Speaker 1: a boring guest, try to be polite and let them finish.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you let her finish? Why don't you let

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Speaker 1: her speak? I let her speak, or let her speak,

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Speaker 1: And you don't notice that she just told a big

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Speaker 1: stink and whopper play the end of this now.

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Speaker 2: And they and with that, thank you so much more.

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Speaker 6: Have an amazing, amazing day.

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Speaker 1: Wow wow wow. And she hangs up. I mean all

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Speaker 1: the mark you can turn herund So she tells us

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Speaker 1: she does not deny that Biden has dementia. She just says,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe it. The questions offensive, the questions insulting,

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Speaker 1: and then when asked about prices, well it was Trump's

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Speaker 1: fault or it was the Russian's fault. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: the price and all these food gagic categories have gone down,

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Speaker 1: which is an incredible, incredible lie. So there you go,

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Speaker 1: there's your White House spokesl God. I just hate politics,

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Speaker 1: and I hate politicians, and I hate the most the

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Speaker 1: political lackeys that surround them. And they always think they're

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Speaker 1: fooling us, and maybe they are, or maybe they're fulling

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Speaker 1: half of us.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM six.

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Speaker 1: Forty after two o'clock show. Hey, Otani, what's the one

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Speaker 1: question I've had? How if he didn't know anything about

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Speaker 1: the gambling and was not involved in the gambling, how

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Speaker 1: does somebody his interpreter pill for nine hundred, four hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars out of his bank account with

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Speaker 1: nine wire transfers. How did that possibly happen? Well, it

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Speaker 1: looks like one of the few times. The writers at

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Speaker 1: the El Segunda Times and I have the same interest

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Speaker 1: because they have a long article about this. How could

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Speaker 1: this happen if he didn't know what was going on?

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Speaker 1: Somebody should have known what was going on. Talk about that.

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Speaker 1: After two o'clock. Do you remember that that young girl

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Speaker 1: in Georgia, the nursing student, Lincoln Riley, got murdered by

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Speaker 1: an illegal alien. His name is Jose Antonio Abara from Venezuela,

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Speaker 1: and Biden started talking about Lincoln Riley during the State

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Speaker 1: of the Union speech, called her Lincoln Riley. It's a coach, right,

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Speaker 1: And on top of that, he referred to Abara as

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Speaker 1: an illegal. Well, the woke people got really angry with

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Speaker 1: him and criticized him loudly. And this is a funny.

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Speaker 1: This whole episode is funny because I've always been amazed

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Speaker 1: how cowed people are by the woke. Most people don't

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Speaker 1: speak woke, Most people speak normally, and yet constantly hear

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Speaker 1: people go, well, you can't say that these days, well,

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Speaker 1: you can't say well, it turns out two thirds, three

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Speaker 1: quarters eighty percent plus speak like we always spoke. There's

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Speaker 1: just a narrow sliver who finds it offensive, and all

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Speaker 1: the normal people are cowed by those who go, well,

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Speaker 1: you just can't say that that's offensive, that's raises, that's insulting,

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Speaker 1: that's zerophobe. It's just very small number of people who

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Speaker 1: really believe that, and everybody else tling me, oh, I

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Speaker 1: hope I didn't offend. So anyway, Biden called the guy

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Speaker 1: an illegal, and he got crap from the woke people.

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Speaker 1: So Harvard Harris did a poll and found out that

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Speaker 1: that most people don't think that Biden said anything wrong,

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Speaker 1: like huge majorities. In fact, Hispanics very high percentage, very

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Speaker 1: upset with what's going on at the border. Sixty three

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Speaker 1: percent of Hispanics agreed that it is appropriate to refer

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Speaker 1: to people as illegal immigrants, as do sixty seven percent

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Speaker 1: of blacks and seventy seven percent of whites. Regarding Biden

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Speaker 1: using the term during the State of the Union, seventy

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Speaker 1: four percent of Hispanics said it was appropriate to describe

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Speaker 1: a bara as an illegal seventy four percent, seventy four

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Speaker 1: percent of blacks said yes, eighty one percent of whites

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Speaker 1: said yes. Huge super majorities agree. You can call the

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Speaker 1: murderer of Lac n'reilly eagle. And see the thing is,

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Speaker 1: his advisors are super wokes, so they convinced him to

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Speaker 1: go back out there and kind of apologize for it.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it came across. It came across as he

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Speaker 1: was apologizing to a Barra. A Barra savagely brutalizes this

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Speaker 1: figures and kills this college student, and then Biden apologizes

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Speaker 1: for calling him an illegal. Here's what Hispanics think about

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Speaker 1: the immigration issue. Sixty three percent agree that immigration is

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Speaker 1: a problem with the border and getting worse. Sixty percent

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Speaker 1: of whites, forty two percent of blacks, seventy one percent

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Speaker 1: of Hispanics say the Biden administration should make it tougher

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Speaker 1: to enter the country illegally seventy one percent, seventy seven

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Speaker 1: percent of whites, fifty four percent of blacks. Sixty nine

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Speaker 1: percent of Hispanics agree that Riley's killing show the country

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Speaker 1: needs stricter immigration. Sixty nine percent and fifty six of

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Speaker 1: percent of Hispanics agreed that it was fair criticism to

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Speaker 1: say that it look like Biden was apologizing to the

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Speaker 1: murderer of Lake and Ryland. So in all these questions,

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Speaker 1: Hispanics are very close to the same opinion as white

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Speaker 1: citizens and often black citizens. This is universal that the

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Speaker 1: border is completely out of control. These people are coming

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Speaker 1: here illegally, that they are illegals. It's just the super woke.

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Speaker 1: And of course the super woken habit most of the

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Speaker 1: newsrooms in this country and most and they overwhelmed the

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Speaker 1: political debate in this country, and everybody feels frightened of them.

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Speaker 1: They coward, they're so scared. Oh, you know, you can't

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Speaker 1: say that anyone. You know. When I hear somebody saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: you can't say that anymore, I want to hit them.

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Speaker 1: I really do want to. Yes, you can just say it.

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Speaker 1: Most of the world talks like that and agrees with you.

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Speaker 1: Why would we let these super woke weasels dictate how

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Speaker 1: we're going to have normal conversation. It's crazy to me.

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Speaker 1: All right, we come back, show hey Otani else A

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Speaker 1: gunder Times is interested in this story one particular aspect.

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Speaker 1: As I am, he really didn't know anything about it.

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Speaker 1: And with all the maybe money managers he's got and

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Speaker 1: lawyers and agents, I mean, somebody should have noticed four

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Speaker 1: and a half million dollars was getting sucked out of

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Speaker 1: his account to cover the interpreter's gambling issues. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about it we come back. Hey, you've been listening to

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Speaker 1: The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the

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