1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 2: If you miss anything after four o'clock John Cobelt's show 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 2: on demand on the iHeart app, you can hear what 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:17,119 Speaker 2: you missed. We have Alex Stone coming on in just 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: a moment to talk about Southwest. Next segment, we're going 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 2: to tell you about this whole, this whole seven hundred 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 2: thousand dollars contract for private security for the idiot Genie 9 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 2: Keinonyez who didn't fill up the reservoir. 10 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: She's the CEO of the DWP. 11 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 2: It's been blocked now by Karen Bass, and everybody's clammed up. 12 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 2: Nobody wants to talk about it. And I wonder if 13 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 2: the threats are even real or is this a way 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 2: to shut down criticism. Get into that coming up in 15 00:00:53,520 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 2: the next segment. All right, yesterday, Southwest Airlines says they're 16 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 2: going to start acting like all the other Harble airlines. 17 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 2: No more free bags and no more pick your own seats. 18 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 2: I've always had a lot of mixed feelings on Southwest 19 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 2: despite those perks. I'll tell you about that in a minute, 20 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: But first, Alex Stone, ABC News gonna give us the 21 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 2: details here, Alex, how are you? But Tom, they're just 22 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 2: so easy at a burbank and at what like John 23 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 2: Wayne you go down there, and so easy to get 24 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 2: on and off of. But uh, yeah, this has been 25 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 2: the big talk travelers in the last twenty four hours 26 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 2: because Southwest is no longer going to be what Southwest 27 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 2: has always been about, and because executives at Southwest have 28 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 2: always said that the bags fly Free, that that program 29 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 2: is core to what they do, and that they always 30 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 2: said they got more money by enticing customers with free 31 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 2: bags then they would make by charging for them. 32 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: Well, that has changed. 33 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 2: It was only a few months ago in the fall 34 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 2: that they were making some changes and they send an 35 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 2: email to cutustomers saying, but bags fly Free remains and 36 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 2: is here to stay. Well a couple months later, no, 37 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 2: it's not so. Southwest they said a few months ago 38 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 2: they're going to go to assigned seating, not quite a 39 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 2: first class but an extra leg room area in the 40 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 2: front of the plane if you want to pay for it. 41 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 2: That they've got to bring in more revenue now the 42 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 2: bag fees as well. And the CEO is talking about 43 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 2: it now. 44 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: He's saying it's about securing our future. 45 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 3: We're announcing changes to our business that will help us 46 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 3: return to the levels of profitability we all expect and 47 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 3: to support our collective long term success. 48 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 2: And they're adding in power outlets to every seat, which 49 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 2: you would say, well, that's great, but that is not 50 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 2: part of the low fare model that they had always 51 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 2: been with where you just get the seat and that's 52 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 2: all you get. Red eye flights that they're adding, that's 53 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 2: something that they in the history of Southwest had not 54 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 2: done true red eyes. Maybe a month or two ago 55 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 2: they added those longer transcon flights and they just announced 56 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 2: as well that flight credits a year and when you 57 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 2: cancel a flight will now only be good for a year, 58 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 2: it won't be in definitely longer. So we've seen it 59 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 2: Spirit as well. Spirit Day announce that they're coming out 60 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 2: of bankruptcy. But the low cost, no frills model really 61 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 2: isn't working any longer. That in the post pandemic world, 62 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 2: people are saying they want a better experience, they want 63 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 2: a club the United Delta American, they want options to upgrade. 64 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: That they've gotten away from the. 65 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 2: Basic fare and just trying to get the basic on 66 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 2: board experience does Spirit have a no Fights club and 67 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 2: they need one these days. 68 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: I've seen quite a few online videos. 69 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's either Spirit or Frontier, and they're the two 70 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 2: lowest cost airlines and there's fights every week, it seems. Yeah, 71 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 2: and that those two airlines have been hurting as well, 72 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 2: and they've talked about merging, and the merger that Spirit 73 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 2: was gonna have a Jet Blue and then with Frontier 74 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 2: those fell apart. So all the lower cost carriers are 75 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: trying to figure it out. The other interesting part of 76 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 2: this is that just yesterday, United, Delta, American, all the 77 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 2: legacy carriers came out and said that the domestic bookings 78 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: are no those diving right now because of concerns about 79 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 2: the economy. You know what the economy is going to 80 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 2: do in the next couple of months, in addition to 81 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 2: to recent airline crashes, that some people are afraid to fly, 82 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 2: but generally it's an economic thing. So Southwest is switching 83 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 2: to be more like the legacy carriers. And now as 84 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 2: they're switching, the legacy carriers are saying, oh, no, people 85 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 2: aren't booking flights right now because they don't want to 86 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 2: spend the money. You have to wonder are people going 87 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 2: to be wanting to go back to the low fare 88 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 2: carrier to try to get a better deal, right as 89 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 2: Southwest is switching out of that. Yeah, I wonder when 90 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 2: they Delta plane slipped over upside down, if you could 91 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 2: track purchases, how far down does that go for the 92 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 2: next twenty four hours as long as that that that 93 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 2: video is running on the news. You know where they 94 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 2: felt the most American airlines after the plane and the 95 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 2: helicopter hit in Washington, d C. Yeah, they saw a 96 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 2: big decline after that, and a big decline to go 97 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 2: to Washington, d C. 98 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: To go into to Reagan National. 99 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 2: Mixed with government jobs going away and everything that they've 100 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 2: seen a big decline in the DCA. But they could 101 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: see that, and they can track. When there's an airline incident, 102 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 2: people get scared and they don't do it. But more 103 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 2: longer term, it's more economic. Really, well, I always thought 104 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 2: that the data book of flight is the day after 105 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 2: a plane crash, because you don't get two days in 106 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 2: a row with big plane crashes. That's true. Why that 107 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 2: next day? Yeah, go the next day. Statistically you're in 108 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 2: a much better place. Yeah, Well, you know, we'll see 109 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: over the next few months if people come back to it, 110 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 2: depending on what goes on in the airline industry and 111 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 2: when it comes to the economy as well. But Southwest 112 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 2: they're potentially gambling here. They say that they've got to 113 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 2: to turn things around and bring in more money. But 114 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 2: there are a lot of die hard Southwest customers who 115 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 2: may not be die hard enough to be an Elite 116 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 2: member to get free bags because elite members a list 117 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 2: members will still get them. That the people are saying 118 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 2: Southwest is no longer the cheapest. Sometimes you can find 119 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 2: it cheaper on United or on Delta. Of course you're 120 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 2: going to find it cheaper on Frontier where it's like 121 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: fifteen dollars, but then you pay more by the helmet though. 122 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 2: Well yeah, so some people are saying that they're no 123 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 2: longer going to be stuck on Southwest because of what 124 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 2: they've always been about. But Southwest says that all their 125 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 2: research shows that they have had a small chunk of 126 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 2: the flying public who was okay with and enjoyed the 127 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 2: open seating and all the no frills. Whether there's a 128 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 2: whole bigger part of the pie that's been going elsewhere 129 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 2: that will now come to them, We'll see if that works, 130 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 2: or do they just kind of fade away, is not 131 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 2: that they're going away or but just become another airline 132 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 2: and the people don't then flock to them because they 133 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 2: got rid of the open seating. Alex Stone, ABC News, 134 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 2: thank you for coming. Thanks j Yeah, all right. So 135 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 2: here's the thing with the Southwest from me. Some years ago, 136 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 2: my son was playing high school baseball and club ball, 137 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 2: and there'd be tournaments in Arizona. They'd use the spring 138 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 2: training fields that the Major League clubs had, and so 139 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 2: we were taking frequent flying trips back and forth on 140 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 2: Southwest because it was the cheapest airline and there were 141 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 2: so many delayers. There was one time we were supposed 142 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 2: to get to the We were supposed to get to 143 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 2: Phoenix at eight o'clock. They were having a ceremony at 144 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 2: the start of this tournament, and we wanted to get 145 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 2: there for the ceremony to eight o'clock. And from eight 146 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 2: in the morning, I had already booked a flight, and 147 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 2: it was it had gotten canceled or postponed, and then 148 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 2: it was repostponed and repostponed. I'm sure it went on 149 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 2: all morning, and I spent hours looking at the websites 150 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 2: going from Lax, or maybe we should leave from Burbank, 151 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 2: or maybe we'd go back to Lax. Maybe this will work, 152 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 2: that'll work. We eventually got there a half hour before 153 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 2: before the ceremony at seven thirty at night. Again we 154 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 2: we're gonna leave early in the morning. Then one time 155 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 2: coming back, we're going to the gate. We get right 156 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 2: to the gate, right to the waiting area, and I 157 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 2: get a buzz on my phone. Oh, the flight's been canceled. 158 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 2: And suddenly two hundred people all got up in the 159 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 2: same time and ran to another gate where another flight 160 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 2: was coming out here, and it was chaotic and that 161 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 2: stuff like that kept happening. It's like, hey, you know, 162 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 2: I'm done. I'm done with Southwest. They're on beyond probation. 163 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 2: This is the blacklist now. For a while six years 164 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 2: I didn't fly Southwest and I was going to Phoenix 165 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 2: this weekend I met my friends go to spring training games. 166 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 2: And what happened. I get there. It's supposed to lift 167 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 2: off at eight thirty. 168 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: Boom. 169 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:40,559 Speaker 2: I get there right away. Plane is the lake for 170 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,319 Speaker 2: an hour. It's like, why this is like the old days. 171 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 2: And what they've done is they've built in a lot 172 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 2: of extra fat on their schedule, so they always land 173 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 2: on time, but that's only because they added another half 174 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 2: hour another hour to the flight time. 175 00:08:58,120 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: It's a scam. 176 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 2: Then coming home, everything was good until the landing. And 177 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 2: this is the story I told yesterday where suddenly it 178 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 2: seemed like the plane fell out of the sky really 179 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 2: hard landing. 180 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: Plane is skidding down the runway. 181 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 2: It is veering left, veering right, and it's doing the 182 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 2: seesaw with the wings like it was tip left, tipped right. 183 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 2: It seemed like we were skidding down an icy mountain 184 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 2: road breaks squealing, and I'm thinking, are we going to 185 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 2: crash into the gate here? Hope everybody in the in 186 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 2: the plane is groaning. 187 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: Whoo whoa. 188 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 2: No apology, no explanation from the pilot. I mean, Southwest, 189 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 2: I'm sure has a great safety record and customer approval 190 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 2: and all that, but I've just had the worst luck. 191 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 2: So they're back on probation for me. Interesting thing though, 192 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 2: it's a hedge fund named Elliott Management that bought ten 193 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 2: percent in Southwest and they started agitating for change, and 194 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 2: they got their way, and they they wanted the CEO ousted, 195 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 2: but they settled for the border directors shaking up, and 196 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:11,599 Speaker 2: they're the ones who said, hey, you can make a 197 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 2: lot more money. Stop with this, with this no seat selection, 198 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 2: stop with this free check bags. You're giving away a 199 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 2: lot of profit. All right, well we come back, Oh yeah, 200 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 2: the private security contract for Janice kone. She's making seven 201 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and she can't 202 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 2: hire her own guard. We'll talk about it because something's 203 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 2: going on here. 204 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 205 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 4: six forty. 206 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: Now. Yesterday we told you that. 207 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 2: Janie z seven hundred thousand dollars private security contract to 208 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 2: protect her was blocked. The board decided not to move 209 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 2: on it yet. Wait at least two weeks. Karen Bass 210 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 2: called the DWP board president, Richard Katz, and according to 211 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 2: what he said, we had a discussion about this, and 212 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 2: the mayor made it very clear she would like to 213 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 2: see a much, much less expensive contract than the one 214 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 2: we have before us. Now, Kenoniez is claiming she's getting 215 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 2: a lot of death threats. But the board came up 216 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 2: with a seven hundred thousand dollars security arrangement. And I 217 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 2: don't know how much time that covers or how many 218 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 2: people are going to surround her? She was going to 219 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 2: get a driver. And I find it rich because we 220 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 2: had twelve people die in that palis Ades fire, and 221 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 2: it's because Cononia is in part because Cononias didn't bother 222 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 2: to get a garden hose out and fill up the reservoir. 223 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 2: The San di Inez Reservoir one hundred and seventeen million 224 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 2: gallons bone dry. You've heard the story, the cover torn 225 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 2: and they never fixed it. Would it taken a month, 226 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 2: would have taken one hundred and thirty grand Obviously a 227 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 2: lot of people angry. Thousands of people lost their homes, 228 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 2: thousands of families displaced, and some of the homes would 229 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 2: have been saved some of them. Would no way to 230 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 2: prove how many. But if you have one hundred and 231 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 2: seventeen million gallons, there was no water pressure, it was 232 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 2: very low. A lot of hydrants were busted. This is 233 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 2: all on her. And instead of her being fired, I 234 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 2: mean it makes me want to smack myself in the head. 235 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 2: Instead of being fired, instead of instead of the board 236 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 2: holding a public here, they should hold a public trial 237 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 2: and explain to everyone why they never filled the reservoir. 238 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 2: All these weeks later, two months later, more than two 239 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 2: months later, still nobody says a peep about this. So, 240 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 2: instead of being kicked on her ass to the curb, 241 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 2: she says, well, I'm getting I'm getting death threats. Wow, 242 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 2: it looks like you're gonna have to protect yourself. Oh no, no, no, 243 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 2: I can't afford that. Oh sure, let the rate payers 244 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 2: pay for it, right, the rate payers who over time 245 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 2: paid for the reservoir, paid for the fire hydrants, paid 246 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 2: for all the piping. Well, you didn't maintain the piping. 247 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 2: You didn't maintain the hydrants, you didn't fill the reservoir. 248 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 2: Now you you wouldn't spend money on all that. Now 249 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 2: you want to spend money because you're you're getting bad emails. 250 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 2: Uh huh, you don't want to pay that for yourself. 251 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 2: And then they're trying to find out details about the 252 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 2: nature of the threats. 253 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: And this is where my radar is going up. 254 00:13:55,920 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 2: Uh, this is a city news story, city news service story. 255 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 2: And they called the DWP, and the DWP said, well, 256 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 2: you have to call LA Police. Well, LA Police, the 257 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 2: Media Relations Division said, well, contact the public Information officer 258 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 2: for the DWP. We don't have the information. See I 259 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 2: follow that DWP says call the police. Police say, call 260 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 2: the DWP. So nobody knows the nature of the threats, 261 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: how many of them, how serious do they really seem? 262 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 2: Is it some jackal jes trolling on the internet? Is 263 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 2: she getting tailed? You know what's going on? She wout 264 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 2: seven hundred thousand dollars. She doesn't want to pay for 265 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 2: her own security, and the security would cost five times 266 00:14:54,360 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 2: as much as the as the reservoir cover. So I'm 267 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 2: now why and why is bass saying, uh no, way 268 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 2: got to be much less, much smaller? Are there really threats? 269 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 2: What's the proof of that? And when you do something 270 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 2: as stupid and boneheaded as not fillip reservoir that was 271 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 2: designed to put out the fire when you have like 272 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 2: thirteen hundred fire hydrants busted in the city, when you 273 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 2: have minuscule water pressure. Because nobody ever did an analysis, 274 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 2: I mean, I saw, I got time. No, all right, 275 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 2: I'll pick it up when we come back. Because they 276 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 2: had they had a poll today on how people are 277 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 2: feeling in Los Angeles about the fire, and most people 278 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 2: in the city would actually pay more taxes if the 279 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 2: fire department was fully funded. So they should have told 280 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 2: us years ago, that only half the fire department was 281 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 2: funded and the reservoir, well, the reservoir was empty for 282 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 2: a year. They'd never told us that the fire hydrants 283 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 2: were broken. They never told us the water pressure was 284 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 2: going to be low, not enough for a major fire, 285 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 2: a fire, a wildfire. Nobody told us. But the Pole 286 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 2: says there would have been a receptive audience. We'll continue 287 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 2: with this when we come back. 288 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 289 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 4: six forty Iheartradios. 290 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 2: Wango Tango's returning to Southern California. It's headed to the 291 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 2: Beach Saturday, May tenth, Huntington's City Beach. Wango Tango's all 292 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 2: star lineup will feature performances by Doja, Cat Megan Trainer, 293 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 2: David Getta, Kat's Eye and Mix psichers A, two Oh May, 294 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 2: Heart to Hearts, Oops, Hearts to Hearts Plus performing at Sunset, 295 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 2: Orange County's own Gwen Stefani. Tickets go on sale March 296 00:16:53,680 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 2: fourteenth at ten am at AXS dot com a XS 297 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 2: dot Com. 298 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: I was telling you that. 299 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 2: Something, something smells with this Jense Kennonia situation. It is 300 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 2: it is absolutely shocking, even by Los Angeles corrupt stupidity standards. 301 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 2: Uh that Genez Kennonia still has a job as the 302 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 2: CEO of the l A d WP, it's just so outrageous. 303 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 2: She gets six seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, 304 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 2: and then she wanted another seven hundred grand for private security, 305 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 2: including a driver, claiming she's getting death threats. But when 306 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 2: the city news service started calling around, well what's what's 307 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 2: exactly the severity of the threats? The DWP said, why 308 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 2: didn't you call LAPD, And then l A p D said, well, 309 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,360 Speaker 2: why don't you call the public. 310 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:49,919 Speaker 1: Information officer for the DWP. 311 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 2: We don't know, So the lap doesn't know what the 312 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 2: threats are, and the DWP is referring everybody back to 313 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 2: the police or whatever. Threats justify this seven hundred thousand dollars? 314 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 2: I mean, she's obviously one of these entitled professionals because 315 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 2: her only public statements at the DWP meetings is to 316 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 2: carry on about all the degrees she has. Apparently she 317 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 2: has an engineering degree and to other graduate degrees, and 318 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 2: all that education didn't add up to having the common 319 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,199 Speaker 2: sense to fill up the reservoir at to start a 320 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 2: fire season and then not to talk about it. Ever since, 321 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 2: nobody talks about it. No nobody at the DWP talks 322 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 2: about it, Karen Bass doesn't talk about it, Nobody at 323 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 2: fire department talks about it. 324 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: And now Bass says. 325 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 2: Well, no way, we're paying seven hundred thousand dollars, it's 326 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,640 Speaker 2: got to be a lot lot less. So the president 327 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 2: of the DWP, Richardkat said, Okay, we're gonna put this 328 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 2: off for two weeks. Something doesn't add up, something kind 329 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 2: of stinks. I don't believe it. I just don't believe 330 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 2: she's getting threats that justify seven hundred thousand dollars. And 331 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 2: I guess Karen Bass doesn't believe it either. Karen Bass 332 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 2: doesn't believe it. Well, you got you got a credibility problem, 333 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 2: and she should have a credibility problem. Why would anybody 334 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 2: trust her running anything? There has to be such a 335 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 2: huge rebuild of the water system, not only in the 336 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 2: Palisades but all over the place, and the. 337 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: Fire department. 338 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 2: Where it's only been fifty percent funded, and this is 339 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 2: not civilization. Here in twenty twenty five, we have half 340 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 2: a fire department and a nineteen forty style water system. 341 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 1: And the thing is the La Times. This morning. 342 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 2: They've been running a number of polls that they've done 343 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,479 Speaker 2: with Berkeley. You see Berkeley and the La Times. One 344 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 2: of the questions was, do you support greater funding for 345 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 2: city and county fire departments even if it means increasing taxes. 346 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 2: This tax increase got sixty sixty five percent support, sixty 347 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 2: five to twenty nine, and it looks like only about 348 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 2: fifteen percent opposed it strongly. So that's about as good 349 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 2: as you could ever get for a tax increase. Because 350 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 2: everybody saw what's going on here, So why didn't they 351 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 2: tell us all these years? 352 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: The appetite was there. 353 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 2: If they had gone out and said, wow, you know 354 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,439 Speaker 2: the fire department, we only have half as many firefighters 355 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 2: and half as many fire trucks, and a lot of 356 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 2: those fire trucks are up on blocks because we don't 357 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:46,919 Speaker 2: have mechanics, people would have supported it. I remember in 358 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 2: past years there'd be these state initiatives for one thing 359 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 2: or another, and they would usually put a few bucks 360 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 2: in for the state Fire Department cal Fire, and the 361 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 2: commercials would not be about the main thrust of the initiative. 362 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 2: It would be about the little bitty amount they were 363 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 2: given to cal Fire. And the commercials would just show 364 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 2: neighborhoods ablaze or forests ablaze, right, wildfires, And it was 365 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 2: supposed to get you all emotional and scared, to manipulate 366 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 2: you into voting for whatever the proposition was about. They 367 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 2: led with, oh, look at all the bad fires. We 368 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,120 Speaker 2: need the firefighters supported, we need money, and people go, okay, yeah, 369 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 2: you're right, But most of the money didn't go to 370 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 2: the firefighters. That happened a couple of times. It's a 371 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 2: scam they do because you know, they're all dishonest. And 372 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,159 Speaker 2: all this time, nobody ever put a ballot measure. I mean, 373 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 2: there's so many ballot measures for bonds, for tax increases. 374 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 2: I mean, we have another homeless tax increase hitting April, 375 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,120 Speaker 2: the first nobody ever did it for the fire department. 376 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 2: Nobody told us we only had half a fire department. 377 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 2: Nobody told us we had half the firefighters, half the engines, 378 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 2: a lot of the engines were busted, that we had 379 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 2: thirteen hundred fire hydrants broken, that we had a reservoir 380 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 2: that was empty until thousands of people suffered this terrible 381 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 2: tragedy and twelve people died. And then the woman behind 382 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 2: all this for the last year or two. Genie Quinonez, 383 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,879 Speaker 2: she's upset that everybody's mad at her. She wants private security. 384 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 2: And I don't know if she's exaggerating or is hysterical 385 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 2: or what. But Karen Bass said no, and the board said, okay, no, no. 386 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 2: I don't know what they're going to work out in 387 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 2: a couple of weeks. But there's something funky there. Why 388 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 2: isn't she work? Where is an investigation? There should be 389 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 2: a hearing immediately. Of course, we're run by a bunch 390 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 2: of criminals in Sacramento, the one party criminal rule. They're 391 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 2: not going to interview Jennie Kinonyez and have her testify 392 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 2: under oath and explain everything. 393 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: No water in the. 394 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: Reservoir, busted fire, hydrants, lack of water pressure, all of it. 395 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 2: The only public comments that she would make was about 396 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 2: diversity inequity. Swear to god, we played some of it. 397 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 2: That's all she cared about was diversity in equity, actually 398 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 2: using the water supply to mitigate a horrific wildfire. There 399 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 2: can't be anything easier than filling a hole. 400 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:36,400 Speaker 1: Right. 401 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 2: A reservoir is just a big hole, and all you 402 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 2: gotta do is pump in the water and fill it up, 403 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 2: so different than filling your kid's waiting pool right and 404 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,120 Speaker 2: put in the hose and fill it up will take 405 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 2: a month. 406 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:55,199 Speaker 1: She never did. 407 00:23:55,240 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 2: It wouldn't fix what amounted to the pool cover on 408 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 2: a reservoir that was designed and built to fight fires. 409 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 2: And she still doesn't. And Bass doesn't explain whether she 410 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 2: knew this was going on. I think Michael played a 411 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 2: clip of Bass or had a quote of Bass saying 412 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 2: that she's not quitting on the city. She's not resigning charity, 413 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 2: quit on the city. When you go to Africa, when 414 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 2: you've been told for two days that the worst fire 415 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 2: in history may be coming, the worst winds in history 416 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 2: may be coming, and you leave anyway, you've already quit. 417 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 2: And you could tell from that tape we played yesterday 418 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,439 Speaker 2: she didn't think Saturday and Sunday were workdays. She was 419 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 2: insisting on this tape that I'm only taking two work 420 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 2: days off, which was a lie because of a five 421 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 2: day trip, so it was three work days and Saturday 422 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 2: and Sunday or workdays for mayors. And if you don't 423 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 2: like that, then don't run for mayor. 424 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. 425 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 2: And it turns out if you just had told everybody. 426 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 2: Sixty five percent of the. 427 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 3: Of the citizens in the city of Los Angeles would 428 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 3: would vote for the tax. All you had to do 429 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 3: was tell us instead of cover it up and hide. 430 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,120 Speaker 3: All right, more coming up a good news we'll talk 431 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 3: about it next. Apparently Scott Peterson got beat up in prison. 432 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,640 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI. 433 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: Six John Corbelt's show Conway. In minutes. Here's the good news, 434 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: feel good story of the day. 435 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 2: Scott Peterson got a real ass whooping, it says according 436 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 2: to TMZ at a California state prison. 437 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: He got beat up pounded playing pickleball. 438 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 2: Really, he got into a fight in the exercise yard 439 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 2: at Mill Creek State Prison that's forty miles outside of Sacramento. 440 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 2: That's where they transferred him to and acording to TMZ, 441 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 2: Peterson hit whacked the pickleball directly at another inmate, and 442 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 2: the inmate got pissed off and beat up Peterson. Unfortunately, 443 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 2: his injuries were not serious. He didn't have to go 444 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 2: to the hospital. But Peterson getting a beating. Life's getting better. Conway. 445 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 2: What an introduction? What he was playing pickleball? 446 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 3: Pickleball? I thought pickleball is a very low speed game. 447 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 3: Uh have you ever played it? 448 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,399 Speaker 2: No? I played paddle tennis, which is similar. But what 449 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 2: do you mean love speed? 450 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 3: I mean you could hit a ball really hard if 451 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 3: you're not supposed to it, you're supposed to hit up 452 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 3: on it. 453 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: There's no slamming the. 454 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 3: Ball in pickleball. Well he did, he did, I mean 455 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 3: like he killed his wife. So I wonder who's you're 456 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 3: going to follow pickleball etiquette. I wonder who looks down 457 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 3: on the other group to paddable paddle old tennis guys 458 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 3: look down on pickleball or pickleball looks down on paddle tennis. 459 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 1: Who's the who's the higher eschel on that? I don't know. 460 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 2: But pickleball exploded a few years ago, right, and everybody's 461 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 2: and they're taking over the paddle tennis courts and there's 462 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 2: a whole thing. 463 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 3: They say ninety three percent of pickleball rackets that were 464 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,439 Speaker 3: sold three years ago or not being used to them. 465 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 3: They say that, or they it was a fad. You know, 466 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 3: people got into it for eight seconds. Everything's like that. 467 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,439 Speaker 3: And because you know they have a term like in 468 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,120 Speaker 3: the kitchen and dink, you know, it's not it's. 469 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 2: Not a real it's odd. It's not a real masculine sport. 470 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 2: Is that what you're saying? 471 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: Well, not even that it's not even real sport, the 472 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: real sport. Yeah, I mean it's it hit a dink. 473 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 3: I mean that doesn't right, Like here's here's the proof 474 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 3: that it's not a real sport. I can go out 475 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 3: today and be pretty good at and I've never played. 476 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: Were you good at any sports? 477 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 2: I was? 478 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: That was a good picture in baseball? 479 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I'll tell you a quick story. I told 480 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 3: the story in the every four or so if you 481 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 3: heard a cigarette and beer time. When I was in 482 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 3: I think fourth or fourth grade, I pitched a no 483 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 3: hitter in West Valley Little League. Six innings, no runs, 484 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 3: no hits, no airs, nothing. I struck most of those 485 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,919 Speaker 3: kids out. They grabbed me, put me on their shoulders, 486 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 3: took me off the field. The audience was applauding. Everybody's 487 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 3: going crazy. And my dad wasn't there. He was working. 488 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 3: She had six kids, a wife that liked loved Bullocks 489 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 3: and Macy's and you know, and Shamanda Fair and ditto. 490 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: And so he had to work. I get that. 491 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 3: So I get home. He comes home around seven o'clock 492 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 3: at night. I'm still in my Boston Red Sox uniform 493 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 3: and I said, hey, Dad, I said, I pitched a 494 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 3: no hitter today. No runs, no hits, no airs, nothing, 495 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 3: a perfect game. He goes, hey, that's so great, man. 496 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 3: I wish I was there. Hope there's pictures of it. 497 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 3: That's fantastic. I knew it, man, I knew you're going 498 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 3: to get these guys. And I said, yeah, I said, 499 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 3: I think I got something here. And he goes, you're 500 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 3: not that good. 501 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: Not great? 502 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 3: Is that you sit down? You're not that great? A 503 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 3: different time, different time. You know, if your kid pitches 504 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 3: a no hitter nowadays, you know you ship him off 505 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 3: to you know, to Varo Beach, I know, to a 506 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 3: baseball training camp. Right, he goes and loses some family somewhere. 507 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 3: You know, he's great, But that in the old days. 508 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 3: My dad's like, you're not that great. Sit down because 509 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 3: he had six kids. He wasn't gonna get up at 510 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 3: four a m. You know, to throw the ball around 511 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 3: with me. 512 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: He's tired. 513 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, travel with those club teams, right, yeah, traveling team 514 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 3: he like on the track, not the you know, the 515 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 3: West Vallet Little League but that was a real defining moment. 516 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 3: I remember where I was sitting in his office when 517 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 3: he told me, hey, you're not that great. He said, 518 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 3: you're pitching to kids who will never make a junior, high, 519 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 3: high school, or college team. 520 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 4: You and. 521 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 3: I look back at the photos the kids that I 522 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 3: was pitching to. Out of the nine kids on the 523 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 3: other team, seven of them were wearing glasses. 524 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: Well that was me. 525 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 3: Yeah right, The seven of them couldn't even see the ball, right, 526 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 3: So I get it. 527 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: Anyway, we got Alex Stone coming on tonight. 528 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 3: He's great. Bags don't fly for free anymore. You're probably 529 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 3: not a Southwest guy. You've made well, I know. I 530 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 3: actually this weekend I took it twice. 531 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: Well he did. Yeah, neither neither trip was was good. 532 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. 533 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 3: I imagine irritation is pretty quick to you when on Southwest. 534 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah. Because you're an organized guy. You need 535 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 3: a seat. You need to know where you're gonna be. 536 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 3: You didn't know he's gonna sit. 537 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: Next to you. I don't want And that's what I'd forgotten. 538 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 2: It's like, if you want to get the good seat, 539 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 2: you have to check in at the exact minute, right, Yeah, 540 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 2: twenty four hours before you got to sit near the phone. 541 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 2: It's eight twenty five am on Thursday and I'm My 542 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 2: wife is going, what are you doing? And I said, 543 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 2: like twenty five I want to get the good seat 544 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 2: of Southwest And then I realized, opid, this is it 545 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 2: is horrible. 546 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 3: Then we got to Jojo Wright coming on tonight talk 547 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 3: about the Oango Tango Festival. 548 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 1: So Dink doing all right? Conway is next. 549 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 2: Michael Krezer with the news live in the CAFI twenty 550 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 2: four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John 551 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 2: Cobalt Show podcast. 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