1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on the radio 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 1: from one until four and after four o'clock John Cobelt's 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: show on demand on the iHeart App. Attention everybody. Starting 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: this minute, There is a poll at John Cobelt Radio 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: on Twitter or x and you can make a choice 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: who you'd like as the next LA County District Attorney. 8 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: We put George Gascon on the list along with his 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 1: eleven opponents. Because the weird thing about doing a radio 10 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: show is you don't really know. We've had a lot 11 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: of the candidates on. I mean a majority of the 12 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: candidates running we've had on, but you don't know who's 13 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: connecting with the public or not. I've met a number 14 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: of the candidates in person. I went to see them, 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: they came in the studio, talked on the phone, and 16 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: I have in my mind a pretty clear idea who 17 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 1: the best of the lot is. Some of the candidates 18 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: are well meaning and they say the right things, but 19 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: they either don't have the name recognition, they don't have 20 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: the money, they don't really have hope of beating out 21 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: ten other people to get one of the top two 22 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: slots on March the fifth, and Gascone is exceptionally weak. 23 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 1: Gascone has only fifteen percent of the vote in whatever 24 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: polls there are and less than a twenty five percent 25 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: approval rating, So clearly he can be beat in November. 26 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: It's possible that he could be in first place after 27 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: the March primary only because there's only two candidates on 28 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: the progressive side, and he's the most well known, and 29 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: there's always going to be a hardcore progressive element in 30 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: Los Angeles County who wants to destroy our life. Clearly. 31 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: You know, we've got several socialist city council people in 32 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: LA We got a city controller who's a socialist, and 33 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: Gascon is part of that crowd. You know, he was 34 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: close friends with Bass up until his brand became real toxic. 35 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 1: So it's it's difficult to tell who's breaking through. It 36 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: seems like everybody I run into in life wants guests 37 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: going out. Two thirds of people polled don't know who 38 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: they want to vote for. And so over the next 39 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 1: three weeks we have twenty two days we're going to 40 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: try to pair down the list. Here there's two slots 41 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: for twelve people and some of the candidates are not 42 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: well funded. If one candidate has over a million dollars 43 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: in donations and another candidate has fifty thousand, well the 44 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: candidate with fifty thousand is just not going to do well. 45 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: You got to be able to buy some media time 46 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: on radio and television. You have to. That's the way 47 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: it goes. Out of the ones we interviewed on the air, 48 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 1: every one of them is saying the right thing. So 49 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: when we get down to saying, okay, here's the top candidates. 50 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: It's not a slight against anybody that we don't put 51 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 1: on the list. It's just simply there's only two slots here. 52 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: I would like the final two slots both to be 53 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: not Gascon. That would be ideal, and then we could 54 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: have two good people fight it out between now November. 55 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: To be honest, if it's just one good guy or 56 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: good woman against gascone makes a lot of people nervous 57 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: because I'm convinced there was enough, there are enough signatures 58 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: to recall Gascon. I'm sorry, I just don't believe the 59 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: number of I just don't believe that that recall signature 60 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: gathering analysis was on the up and up. They throughout 61 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: they threw out thousands of signatures that seemed way over 62 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: the top, really ridiculous. And don't I don't trust the system. 63 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: I don't trust the vote counting system with mail in 64 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: ballots and with ballot harvesting where you can go door 65 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: to door with ballots and cajole people to vote. They 66 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: really do this, especially the Progressives. They go door to door, 67 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: They talk to people who are barely engaged or barely 68 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: speak English, or maybe they don't speak English at all, 69 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: and they give them a ballot and say here's who 70 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: you could vote for. There's a lot of that going on. 71 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: It has gone on for several election styles cycles. It 72 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: has had a material effect on who got voted in, 73 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: especially locally. So it's a real thing. I imagine if 74 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: Gascone gets in, he's gonna fight a very dirty campaign. 75 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: I think they're gonna dig things up, going back to 76 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: opponents kindergartens and uh and lie about it. A Gascone 77 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: has no trouble lying. I'm sure the sociopaths he hires 78 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: to run his campaign will have no trouble lying. And 79 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: you know, we have a situation where the electorate that 80 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: created Gascone, the electorate that that created gave us George Gascone, 81 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: Eric Garcetti, that goes for Gavin Newsom. Heavy that that 82 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: put Mike Bonden into office on the West Side twice. 83 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: Just think of this. Okay, Gascone got in, Garcetti got 84 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: in twice, Bonding got in twice, Heavy for Newsom twice. 85 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: We still have that same electorate. It it took people dying, 86 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: It took people being terrified of going out, shopping, going 87 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: to dinner. You have a smash and grab robbery featured 88 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,919 Speaker 1: on the news most nights. Now, you needed tens of 89 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: thousands of drug addicts, mental patients and vagrants piled up 90 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 1: on the streets before people would even consider, hey, hey, 91 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: maybe the DA is part of the problem. I mean, 92 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: he's got the original sin hanging around his neck. George Gascon. 93 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: He wrote Prop forty seven, which is the root of 94 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: all the decay and the crime wave that we're all 95 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: dealing with the quality of life issues here. So under 96 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: those circumstances, should anyone unless you want to destroy the 97 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: city in the county. Nobody should vote for Gascing? But 98 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: who to replace? So I want to get a handle 99 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: on what our audience is thinking I mean our audience, 100 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: of course, is only a portion of the grand voter 101 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: group out there, but just want to see you. Go 102 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 1: to at John Cobelt Radio, at Twitter X if you 103 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: prefer and place your vote. This is a twenty four 104 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: hour poll and at one o'clock tomorrow will close the 105 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: poll and issue the results. Just going to read them. 106 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: This is not scientific, obviously, This is just to get 107 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: a sense of the listenership. So if you have a 108 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: Twitter or x account, or you want to set one 109 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: up and then vote, it's at John Cobelt Radio and 110 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: tomorrow twenty four hours will tell you what the verdict is. 111 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: Now today at four o'clock a lot of the candidates 112 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: are getting together for a debate put on by LA 113 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: City College, the La City Attorney Coalition, League of Women Voters, 114 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: the ACLU and other organizations and many of the top 115 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: candidates will be there. But I mean just to review. 116 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: No guests going, and by the way, no Jeff Schimerinsky. 117 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: He has been accurately described as a mini Guess going. 118 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: He's got the same polity policies. He's just more soft spoken, 119 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: somewhat friendlier than Gas going. But really there's maybe only 120 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: a ten percent difference in their policies. So if you 121 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: see that named Schimerinsky, that's definitely a no. Avoid those two. 122 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: And if somehow people could coalesce around two candidates and 123 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: they finish one two, then life will get better in 124 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. So I don't know, you know what, we've 125 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: We've done the best we can with all the interviews 126 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: we've had. It's been hard to find the candidates on television. 127 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: There have been a couple of debate debates you can 128 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: access either on TV or streaming. Uh, there's very little 129 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,199 Speaker 1: coverage since we don't have a daily newspaper that covers 130 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: LA anymore. It's really, it's really, it's a tough go oh. 131 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of newspapers, the LA Times hit 132 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: an all time bottom this morning. On their front page. 133 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: I'm scrolling and I see they have a super Bowl 134 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: story and the headline set has a super Bowl ever 135 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: gone into overtime before? Right? I hit the story and 136 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: was posted at six fifty seven yesterday and it says, well, 137 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl right now between the forty nine Ers 138 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: and the Chiefs is tied at sixteen sixteen and could 139 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: go into overtime. I'm looking at this. This was eighteen 140 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: hours ago. Eighteen hours ago, they still had the story 141 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: on the front page that it was tied at sixteen sixteen. 142 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: I and actually it was at nineteen nineteen when it 143 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: went into overtime. I was gonna say, so, they don't 144 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: have a guy at the LA Time to even watch 145 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: television and update the score. Well, they laid off the 146 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: entire sports staff. Apparently they did what I noticed. Yeah, 147 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:11,719 Speaker 1: the whole staff is gone, right, they don't have a 148 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: sports question now. They got rid of the entire sports section. Yeah, 149 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: so they didn't have one guy. I don't know, somebody's kid, 150 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: just hey, watch the game and when the score gets 151 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: updated posted on the And I noticed last week with Biden, 152 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: after that report came out that he's senile, and after 153 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: Biden came out and proved it to the world, they 154 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: didn't have a story on that till the next morning 155 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: or in the New York Times had five stories on 156 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,959 Speaker 1: it right away at the top of the page. LA 157 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: Times had nothing. They are no, they're like a weekly. 158 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: They they don't do breaking news anymore. They don't even 159 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,959 Speaker 1: do news that's eighteen hours old. So that's what we're 160 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: dealing with here. Getting coverage of the Das race. 161 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 2: All right, you're listening to John Coebelt on demand from 162 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty. 163 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: Once again, if you're just joining us. We have a 164 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: poll going on at John coblt Radio on Twitter at 165 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Radio on Twitter or x and we have 166 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: all twelve candidates for LA County District Attorney. We listed 167 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: Gascon and everybody else. Just curious among the kind of 168 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: people who are engaged enough to follow what we've done 169 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: here with the candidates, and you want to vote online. 170 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: You got a Twitter account vote and we got a 171 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: twenty four hour poll. Just see. What's not a scientific 172 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: poll obviously, but just for fun. 173 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 3: Really, would you like an early return? Yes, I would 174 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 3: like an early return. Well, gascone has the lowest amount 175 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 3: of votes. It's a shock and John Hatammi right now 176 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 3: is the leading vote getner. 177 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not surprising either. You know, I wish we'd 178 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: broadcast to the people who would vote for Gascon, but 179 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: most Gascon people don't listen to us. I'll tell you 180 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: what we're going to do later in the show, though, 181 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: is we're going to spend a segment or two taking calls. 182 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: You can call in and tell us who you're going 183 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: to vote for and why, And we will welcome pro 184 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: Gaestcone calls along with everybody else. Now, last Thursday will 185 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 1: go down as a day of infamy in the Biden 186 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: White House. And we all know the story by now. 187 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: The special counsel investigating why he had those classified documents 188 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: scattered about his properties. The special Council said, you know, 189 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 1: we might try the president for holding onto the classified documents, 190 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: which is a violation of the law, but we don't 191 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: think he's mentally competent to stay in trial. That's what 192 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: he That's basically what he wrote. You know, we might 193 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:59,319 Speaker 1: have prosecuted him here because clearly he willfully took the documents. 194 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: No jury's gonna convict a man that's soft in the head. 195 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,719 Speaker 1: And this sent everybody in politics and media, all the apologists, 196 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: all the boot liquors, butt kissers, knob slabberers, all the 197 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: people who specialize in the media of giving tongue baths 198 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 1: to idiot politicians. Well they didn't know what to do. 199 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: And for a while everybody went into dial No, he's not, no, 200 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: he's not. That's unfair, that's wrong, that's gratuitous. And then Biden, 201 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: the genius he is, goes out and proves the Special 202 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: Council right, gives that ridiculous press conference, yells at everybody, 203 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: mistakes the name of the president of Egypt for the 204 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: president of Mexico, and also forgets where he got his 205 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: son Bow's rosary while he was denying that he'd forgotten 206 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: what year his son died. Look, he doesn't remember what 207 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: years he was vice president. And if the White House 208 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:06,319 Speaker 1: wants to release videotape or audio tape to prove otherwise, 209 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: have at it. You know, they have a recording of this. 210 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: If he wasn't completely snile, they would have released it 211 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: by now, but they never will. Boy, I wish somebody 212 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: would leak that. But you know what, Thankfully we've come 213 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: to a day where most of America doesn't give a 214 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: crap what political people think, whether it's politicians or staff members, 215 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: or it's all the liars and frauds on television and 216 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: who write for news sites. Because according to ABC News IPSOS, 217 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: they had a poll and eighty six percent of Americans 218 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: think Biden is too old to serve another term as president. 219 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: Eighty six percent. That is an astonishing number to get 220 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: most people to agree on a political issue. Like that 221 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: eighty six percent. And by the way, too old is 222 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: being used as a catchphrase, the actual age is not 223 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: the point. I hear frequently on a television and radio 224 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: people in their eighties who are quite coherent and sharp. 225 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: Biden just doesn't happen to be one of them. It's 226 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: not that he's eighty one, it's that he's got dementia 227 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: and it's progressing noticeably from month to month. Also, fifty 228 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: nine percent think both he and Trump are too old, 229 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: And in fact, if you take Trump by himself, sixty 230 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: two percent think Trump's too old. So yet eighty percent 231 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: we think Biden's too old, sixty two percent we think 232 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: Trump is too old, and fifty nine percent who thinks 233 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: they're both too old. Seventy three percent of Democrats think 234 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: Biden is too old. Now, when you have seventy three 235 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: percent of your own party, roughly three quarters of your 236 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: own part are saying we don't want to vote for 237 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: this guy. Are they actually going to put him up 238 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: on the put him up to run in November and 239 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: think something good is going to happen for Biden? What 240 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: a what a sorry, stupid system. You have a candidate 241 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: that the whole world knows is senile, and it's like wow, 242 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: you know, according to the rule or rules of convention 243 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: in our primary deadlines, it's like, stop it, stop it. 244 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: His brain is shot. You think he's making it to 245 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: age eighty six? Like this eighty six, he'd still be president. 246 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: You think he's going to be alive in twenty twenty nine? Really, 247 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: and then you have another one with mush for brains 248 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: as vice president. But I was just stunned. Eighty six 249 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: percent of Americans think he's too ill, so he needs 250 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: he needs to go. God knows what's going to happen 251 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: this year around the world. We've got nobody. We've got 252 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: nobody driving the car anymore. There's nobody home. All right, 253 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: when we come back, I've got somebody coming on, right, 254 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: don't Oh, yes, yes. Speaking of what's going on in 255 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 1: the world, we're gonna talk to Jordana Miller from ABC News. 256 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: We've had herround frequently. She's gonna be reporting from Israel. 257 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: Israel rescued two hostages today and killed sixty seven Palestinians 258 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 1: in the process. There's also reports about how they found 259 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: a lot of Hamas terrorists underneath the UN agency headquarters 260 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: in Gaza. So we'll talk about all this coming up 261 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: after the news. 262 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 2: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI A 263 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 2: M six forty. 264 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,400 Speaker 1: Were on the radio from one until four and after 265 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. Now, we were 266 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: telling you we've got a poll on Twitter x at 267 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,400 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show, at John Cobelt Show, and you could 268 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: pick at John Cobelt Radio. Sorry, oh god, I'm not 269 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: made for this world. I am not made for the 270 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: modern world. At John Cobelt Radio. All right, and you 271 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 1: go to at John co Belt Radio and you'll see 272 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 1: at the top there are choices for district Attorney. Now, 273 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,199 Speaker 1: the way Twitter works is we had to break up 274 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: the twelve candidates into three divisions of four each, so 275 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: you can choose whoever you want out of the twelve. 276 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:27,160 Speaker 1: The way it divided, though, it adds it creates percentages 277 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: depending on what group your candidate is running in. So 278 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: ignore the percentages on the far right. We will calculate 279 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: everything for tomorrow at one o'clock and give you the result. 280 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: So just vote for the person you want out of 281 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: the twelve listed. Ignore those percentages on the right. It's 282 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 1: just a quirk of the way Twitter does these things, 283 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: all right, they're not accurate. Let's talk now to Jordana 284 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: Miller with ABC News and Big News. Today is a 285 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 1: number of things going on. Israeli forces rescued two hostages today. 286 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: Let's talk about it with Jordana. How are you. 287 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 3: Hi? 288 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 4: I am good. It seems fitting because the rescue mission 289 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 4: could have been right out of a Hollywood film, you know. 290 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,360 Speaker 4: Just before two am, is Reeli special forces and commandos 291 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 4: encircled a residential building in the heart of Rafa, that's 292 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 4: the large city that sits in southern Gaza, right near 293 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 4: the border with Egypt. They blew through the entrance of 294 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 4: the building, went up to the second floor. Based on intelligence, 295 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 4: rated an apartment. We understand within a minute they could 296 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 4: identify the hamas captors who weren't you know, who didn't 297 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 4: have their arms on them, physically on them. They killed 298 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:55,479 Speaker 4: three guys and they freed the two Israeli hostages, who 299 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,640 Speaker 4: are not young, one sixty years old, one seventy years old. 300 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 4: They threw vests on them and repelled them off the 301 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:07,239 Speaker 4: balcony of this apartment from the second floor, which they 302 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 4: had studied, down to an alley where other Israeli soldiers 303 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 4: were waiting for them, and within about ten minutes from 304 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 4: there they were whisked into a helicopter and sloan to 305 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 4: northern Gaza, and just about an hour later, a little 306 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 4: bit more than an hour later, they were already safely 307 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 4: back in Israel and they saw their families in the 308 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 4: next half an hour. They are in good condition according 309 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,880 Speaker 4: to the doctors after initial tests. You know, they are 310 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 4: very thin and weak, but they're not their lives are 311 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 4: not under duress or in threat, under threat. And you know, 312 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,199 Speaker 4: Israel learned about this, we all did very early this morning. 313 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 4: And you know, it's been a little bit of light 314 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 4: in a very dark story here since October seventh. Operation 315 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 4: was a success. No Israelis were injured, but the intensive 316 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 4: air strikes that provided cover for the commandos who had 317 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 4: those hostages, and the air strikes to divert and prevent 318 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 4: Hamas from coming to the area. Those air strikes that 319 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 4: were that targeted HAMAS facilities killed seventy gossens. 320 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 1: That is about as dramatic a rescue as I've ever heard. 321 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really out of the movies. And I'm 322 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 4: from La so yeah, I know, a good I know, 323 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 4: I know a good film or too. 324 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh so they ended up killing what you said, 325 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: seventy Palestinians. 326 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 4: Any air strikes, yeah. 327 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, and these seventy rowle near where the hostages were 328 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 1: held in custody. 329 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 4: That's right, right, they were not. I mean, we specifically 330 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 4: asked the Israelian Army about this, you know, we're the 331 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 4: these strikes were not indiscriminate fire around. They were hitting 332 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 4: based on intelligence. They were hitting Hamas targets are in 333 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 4: and around this residential building and in some areas where 334 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 4: the Israeli forces had entered Rafa. 335 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: And Rafa is the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza, Is 336 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: that right? 337 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 4: That's right, that's what right, That's what the Israeli Army 338 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 4: and the Prime Minister call it. And we can understand 339 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 4: why because in Rafa there are still intact Hamas battalions 340 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 4: that have not yet been in combat with Israeli soldiers, 341 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 4: so it is the last stronghold. Also not mentioned, maybe enough, 342 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 4: is the fact that Raffa also because it is on 343 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 4: the border, there's an area of I mean, it is 344 00:22:54,440 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 4: rife with cross border tunnels which Israel Is eager to 345 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 4: destroy control. They don't want any more arms or militants 346 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 4: getting into the Gaza strip. Egypt destroyed some of them. 347 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 4: Israel wants to get there and see what is there. 348 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 4: So strategically we can understand why Israel wants to reach 349 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,360 Speaker 4: the Rafa area. The problem, of course, is that there's 350 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,439 Speaker 4: over a million goss there that have fled other parts 351 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 4: of the strip. They are sheltering there. There's ten cities 352 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 4: that have basically gone up, and you know, the Israeli 353 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 4: Prime Minister has now been very clear that Israel is 354 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 4: going to you know, evacuate and put into put into 355 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 4: a plan. They are going to put a plan on 356 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 4: the table to give one hundreds of thousands of gods 357 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 4: and safe passage north. We don't know exactly where yet 358 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 4: and exactly how they're going to do that, but there 359 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 4: will be no massive military operation in Rafa before the 360 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 4: majority of the one point two million gosens have left 361 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 4: the area. So that means not for several weeks where 362 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 4: we see a major operation in the go in Rafa. 363 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: Jordana, thanks very much. I know you were on a 364 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: hard time limit here, so we thank you for giving 365 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: us a few minutes and coming on here at KFI 366 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 1: Jordana Miller, ABC News correspondent reporting out of Jerusalem, and 367 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 1: if you just tuned in the middle, Israeli forces rescued 368 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 1: two hostages today, really dramatic rescue from an apartment that 369 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: was heavily guarded a densely packed neighborhood on the Gaza 370 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 1: Strip and grabbed them and had them repelled down the 371 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 1: side of the building while being fired on. Seventy Palestinians 372 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 1: killed airstrikes all over the neighborhood. It was a quite 373 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: a Hamas stronghold in that neighborhood. Now, the second part 374 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 1: of the story that she mentioned, there's over a million 375 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 1: Palestinians living in the town of Rafa, and that's where 376 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 1: this rescue happened, and it's where a lot of Palestinians fled. 377 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: It's down on the south end towards Egypt. And they 378 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 1: already many of these people fled their towns in the north, 379 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: and now they're going to have to flee the south. 380 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 1: I don't know where they're going to go because their 381 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: old hometowns are mostly brubbled now. But as you heard 382 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: Jordana say, Israel has said they're going to give these 383 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: people safe passage somewhere and before they try to destroy 384 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: what's left of Hamas in Rafa. Of course, you know, 385 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: Hamas could just surrender already, have all the terrorists come out. 386 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: But I guess they're not going to do that. By 387 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: the way, if you ever had any doubt the United 388 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: Nations is one of the most disgusting corrupt agencies in 389 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 1: the history of mankind, here was more proof. One of 390 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 1: the United Nations related agencies is called UNRWA. It stands 391 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: for United Nations Relief and Works Agencies. They have buildings 392 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 1: in Gaza City and they found tunnels and subterranean chambers 393 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: beneath the un RWA buildings in Gaza City. Yes, the 394 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: Hamas military had a extensive compound beneath the UN agency headquarters, 395 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: rows of computer services servers, and Israel says these computer 396 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: servers were an important communications center and intelligence hub for Hamas. 397 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: So Hamas had a major military operation right underneath the 398 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: UN agency. They even were using electricity from UN's power supply. 399 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:09,679 Speaker 1: And you know, they found that a certain percentage of 400 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 1: employees but the UN r WA were actually Hamas terrorists. 401 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 1: Now there, it is impossible to believe that the people 402 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,959 Speaker 1: who run the UN didn't know that Hamas had an 403 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: extensive tunnel and communications center underneath their agency building in 404 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: Gaza City. That's just not possible because they were using 405 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:37,360 Speaker 1: a lot of electricity. And this is why Israel uh 406 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 1: is going to continue attacking here. You n RWA, their 407 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: job is to look after displaced Palestinians, and some of 408 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,400 Speaker 1: these Raeli leaders say that UNRWA ought to be abolished 409 00:27:53,160 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 1: because they're affront for the terrorists. So the I think 410 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: it's pretty clear that there's nothing that's going to get 411 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 1: Israel to stop destroying Hamas. And I don't think they're 412 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: listening to old Joe criticizing them either, because Joe probably 413 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 1: doesn't even remember from day to day whether there is 414 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 1: a war going on in Israel. All right, we'll have 415 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: more when we come back. At two o'clock. Last week, 416 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 1: there was a debate between Gascone and many of his competitors, 417 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: and a woman spoke and challenged Gascone. Her name is 418 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: Emma Reves. Her son was murdered in twenty sixteen and 419 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: Gascone refused to prosecute the killer by using gang enhancements, 420 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: and Emma was really upset and it led to quite 421 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: a moment. In fact, Eric, get that moment because I 422 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: want to play that too when she comes on. If 423 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: you go to our Twitter page, our ex page at 424 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Radio, we have a poll and we have 425 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: all twelve candidates. Vote for one of the twelve for 426 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: district attorney. Ignore the percentages on the right side of 427 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: the screen. Those are not accurate. It's just Twitter forces 428 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: up forces us to break up twelve candidates into three groups, 429 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: and that's just the best we could do in short notice. 430 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: So vote for one of the candidates. Ignore the percentages 431 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: on the right, and we are going to give you 432 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: the real final totals tomorrowt one o'clock. It's a twenty 433 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: four hour poll. 434 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 435 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 2: six forty. 436 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: We'll keep telling you about this all afternoon. Want to 437 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: get a sense of how you all feel about the 438 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: LA County District Attorney race George Gascon against eleven others. 439 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: So we have a poll at John Cobelt Radio on 440 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 1: Twitter x and if you have an account, you could vote. 441 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 1: All twelve candidates are listed. We had to because of 442 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: Twitter's format break them up into three divisions. So ignore 443 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: the percentages on the right hand of the screen. They 444 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: don't mean anything. So just do your vote and we're 445 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: going to total everything up and give you the outcome 446 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 1: tomorrow at one o'clock. So do the vote, ignore the 447 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: percentages on the right side, and let's see what the 448 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: CAFI audience thinks about this race. We're also going to 449 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: try to get some calls in later in the show 450 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: where you could tell us who you're voting for and why, 451 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: because it's only twenty two days to go, And then 452 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: again after two o'clock. Emma Reeves is going to be 453 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 1: on her son murdered in twenty sixteen. She confronted Gascon 454 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: at a debate last week in Beverly Hills because her 455 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: son was killed by a gang member and Gascon refused 456 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: to prosecute the killer with gang enhancements. And that is 457 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: one of the big issues in this race. Now there 458 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: is a new pox on the scene. Have you heard 459 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 1: how many poxes do we have? We have chicken pox, 460 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: we have monkey. 461 00:30:58,280 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 5: Pops, although that's called mpox. 462 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, because we don't want to offend monkeys, right, is 463 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: that the reason? Apparently the Monkey's Defamation Union I was 464 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 1: going to file in a lawsuit. Well, Alaska pox only 465 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 1: the seventh person in history reported a case, and it 466 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: comes from Alaska. Cany peninsula is the location. And in 467 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,719 Speaker 1: September this man noticed a tender red bump in his 468 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 1: right armpit. So everybody check your right armpit and if 469 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: you have a tender red bump, it could be Alaska pox. 470 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: He then started. Then it was fatigued pain in the 471 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: armpit and the shoulder. Finally hospitalized him on November seventeenth. 472 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: They had to transfer him to a second hospital. He 473 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: complained of burning pain, like what they described as neuropathic 474 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 1: nerve burning pain, and they had to get the CDC 475 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: involved determined it was Alaska pox, only the seventh person. 476 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: And then this poor guy died from malnutrition, kidney and 477 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: respiratory failure. So this this, uh, this, this Alaska pox 478 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 1: is usually mild, but not this case. Now how did 479 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: he get it? Well, they don't know for sure. They 480 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: think it could have been from a stray cat that 481 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: he had taken into his house. Yeah, yes, cats. The 482 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: cat was known to hunt other small mammals like he'd 483 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: run around I guess and grab rats or mice. And 484 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: it tested negative, but it could have carried the virus 485 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: in its claws. All these weird viruses, like the AIDS 486 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: virus and obviously the pandemic virus, they all come from animals. 487 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: Originally that that was a bat. Even though it was 488 00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: likely a lab leak that created allowed COVID to spread. 489 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 1: It came originally from a bat. That's where they got 490 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: the virus to test at the Wulan lab. You never 491 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: know what your dogs are going. 492 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 3: To bring in. 493 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 5: Let's not go there. You have a dog too, I 494 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 5: have a dog too. I mean you have a cat. 495 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: I could get the monkey pox, the Alaska pock, the 496 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:17,560 Speaker 1: dog pos. 497 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 4: Uh. 498 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 1: Most most infections are supposed to be mild, now, this 499 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: guy said he was. This is why probably is the cat. 500 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 1: He was scratched in the armpit by his cat about 501 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: a month before the rash began. So that's why they 502 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 1: think the virus was so weird after you know, consuming 503 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:42,880 Speaker 1: some disgusting animal. Feed your cats at home, don't let 504 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:47,239 Speaker 1: them roam the alleys. Also, oh man, this guy just 505 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: some people just have bad luck in life. This guy 506 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 1: was undergoing cancer treatments, so his immune system was depressed. 507 00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: He was taking special cancer drugs. What are the odds? Huh, 508 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 1: so he takes in a cat. Cat likes to run 509 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: around killing little animals, and the cat brings home this 510 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: terrible virus that this guy's system couldn't fight. 511 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,879 Speaker 5: Life is so unfair, really. 512 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 1: I mean, hadn't you had enough? He had the cat. 513 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 5: It's not fair. 514 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 1: He didn't need the Alaska pox only seven cases ever. 515 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,440 Speaker 1: But you know, see, most people don't don't get into 516 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:32,719 Speaker 1: contact with small animals or large animals. Nothing good happens 517 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 1: from getting in contact with just wild animals that have 518 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:35,879 Speaker 1: been out there. 519 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 5: A wild animals, a stray cat. 520 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: Yeah see, I'm I'm wary of stray cats. I'm wary 521 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,880 Speaker 1: of anything that's living out there because who they interact with. 522 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 1: All right, well, it's not like you're not bringing mice 523 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 1: and rats into your house, are you. 524 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,479 Speaker 5: No, I'm not right. You don't want your you don't, 525 00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 5: I don't, But you know, there are some strays. 526 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,560 Speaker 6: I don't want people to never you know, if they 527 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 6: see a stray cat or a stray dog. 528 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 5: I don't want people to. 529 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,839 Speaker 1: Oh, I see, that's why you're upset. I was trying 530 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,799 Speaker 1: to figure out why we have to say it when 531 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,320 Speaker 1: something upsets you, just let it out. 532 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,360 Speaker 6: That's upsetting to me because I don't want people not 533 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:20,120 Speaker 6: to take in animals like dogs and cats that need 534 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,440 Speaker 6: a good home because they're going to be afraid that 535 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:24,839 Speaker 6: there's they're gonna get a lost. 536 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,400 Speaker 1: So you don't want stray cats stigmatized exactly, right, like 537 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 1: the research didn't. They didn't want monkeys stigmatized, right, So 538 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,240 Speaker 1: they came up with impocs. 539 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 5: Although I think there's another reason. 540 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:46,799 Speaker 1: Well everything, everything has to have a euphemism. Now, now 541 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,839 Speaker 1: when we come back at two o'clock, it's gonna we're 542 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,840 Speaker 1: gonna have on Emma Reevis his son. Her son was 543 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 1: murdered in twenty sixteen, and George Gascone by time the 544 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 1: case went to trial, would not have the killer tried 545 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 1: with gang enhancements, which of course would greatly lengthen the sentence. 546 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,879 Speaker 1: And Emma Revis got into it with Gascon at last 547 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:20,360 Speaker 1: week's debate between Gascon and other deputy das. Also, you 548 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:25,479 Speaker 1: go to our Twitter page at John Cobelt Radio and 549 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:30,240 Speaker 1: there's the twelve people running for La County District Attorney. 550 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 1: Because we're only three weeks in a day away, so 551 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,600 Speaker 1: choose vote there. We're doing a online poll, not scientific. 552 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 1: Ignore the percentages on the right hand of the screen. 553 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,319 Speaker 1: Those are not accurate, just a quirk of Twitter, but 554 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,320 Speaker 1: we will give you the results tomorrow. So vote at 555 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Radio on Twitter or x. Debora Mark is 556 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 1: live in THEFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been 557 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,640 Speaker 1: listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You can always 558 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,359 Speaker 1: hear the show live on KFI AM six Sport from 559 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,799 Speaker 1: one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of 560 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,840 Speaker 1: course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.