1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. You know I hate 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:13,159 Speaker 1: environmental packaging. I mean I can't stand it, especially when 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: it comes to water bottles. You ever drink out of 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: Arrowhead water bottles? Yes, a few years ago they change 6 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: the plastic and it's really really thin plastic and I 7 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: don't know this is more environmentally sensitive. It used to 8 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: be hard plastic, right, so when you grabbed it, you 9 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: got a good grip on it and you could drink 10 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: it easily. Then they thinned out the plastic. So when 11 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: I grab it, unscrew the cot the cap and I 12 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: squeeze it just slightly to take a drink, it shoots 13 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: into my face all over my clothes. Oh no, because 14 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: it takes the slightest bit of pressure to shoot the 15 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: water out, whereas the hard plastic used to used to 16 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: not do that. Secondly, is the cap never fits right, 17 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: So I put the cap on, I've got some mortar left. 18 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: I put it in my work bag right, which has 19 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: got a lot of paper in it. Like, no where 20 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 1: this is going? Oh but just well, this happens like 21 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 1: every week now. I never put it on right, or 22 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: it can't be put on right and it floods my bag. 23 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 2: You know what, can I tell you? I have that 24 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 2: exact problem. And I have a bag where I keep 25 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 2: my headphones. So I just had to buy a new pair. Yeah, 26 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 2: because same thing. It didn't it didn't screw on correctly 27 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:30,279 Speaker 2: and it was a flood in my bag. 28 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,839 Speaker 1: And it's always the water bottle yep. And its specifically 29 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: the Arrowhead water bottles. And I know they have I 30 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: think their headquarters here in southern California, and they put 31 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: all these incomprehensible symbols on the bottle to try to 32 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: show off. Who are they showing off to? Are these 33 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: government mandated or activist group pressure or some Waco environmental 34 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: gurus on the board Because they got one symbol that 35 00:01:54,600 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: says made better helping to conserve springs? Well, I don't 36 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: I don't understand that they're using. They're bottling water, So 37 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: how do you avoid how do you conserve the water 38 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: in a spring if you're if you're bottling the water, 39 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: And then it's got another weird set of arrows with 40 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: directions on how to use the bottle, empty and replace cap. 41 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 2: Thanks, Okay, that's helpful. 42 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: Is that a violation? If I empty it and I 43 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 1: don't replace the cap, does that affect the way it 44 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: degrades to the land of fill? Then it informs me 45 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: that it's a plastic bottle. Oh, you didn't know that 46 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: they have a special sign there. And what does that 47 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: conformed to? Is that some legal requirement? And again the 48 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: plastic is so thin and it it's just a complete 49 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: fail for me. But they're all like that now, all 50 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: the bottles are like that. 51 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 2: And are you sure you're putting the cap on correctly? 52 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 2: Because I don't think I did a couple of times 53 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 2: and mine is not arrowhead. 54 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: Well, the cap is a lot thinner, so it's I 55 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: think the old cap it was bigger and thicker and 56 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: a couple of twists and would work. 57 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 2: I know you have you have a hard time with those. 58 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, well all motor skills, I know. Yeh, small, there's 59 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: I'm small. Motor disabled actually is what it is? There is? Oh, 60 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: you know who we're going to have on one thirty 61 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: because I read his column. He's on the San Diego 62 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: Union Tribune editorial board. His name is Chris Reid, and 63 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: he wrote, this is not a funny subject, but I'm 64 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: amused by odd things. Uh, it's about all the wasted 65 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: money California High Speed Rail. And how back when this 66 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: went on the ballot in two thousand and eight, the government, 67 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: Schwarzenegger's government and all the backers of this stupid boondoggle 68 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: knew that this thing was going to be a failure 69 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: and knew they were never going to have enough enough money. 70 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: They knew it in black and white and writing in 71 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: a special report, and they never disclosed the report to 72 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: the public, as the sheep dutifully went on election day 73 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: to vote to approve this massive fraud. Anyway, he wrote 74 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: a column detailing the history of that so you can 75 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: know where the original sin is from. And then also 76 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: we're gonna have Todd Spitzer on next hour because in 77 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: Orange County they cracked down a successful crackdown in a 78 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 1: home burglary ring tied to thirty four breakings. They arrested 79 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: twenty people and what do you know, tied to LA gangs. 80 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: Pretty shocking, huh. You see these videos, you know, the 81 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: smash and grabs of the stores at they don't look 82 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: like gang members to me. I kind of surprised, Yeah, 83 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: they really are gang members. And then later on the show. 84 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: We're going to have Jim desbonon San Diego County Supervisor 85 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: because the the Joe Biden administration is separating families at 86 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: the border in San Diego, over one thousand families separated. Huh, 87 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: don't see any outrage over that, but maybe we can 88 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: start some. We've also got two runs of the Moistline 89 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: and two hacks in the dumpster at Dumpster to end 90 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: the year. Unrelated hacks. But you know, we're in our 91 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: final days of twenty twenty three, so we had to 92 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: clear the shelf and we've got two guys that are 93 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: going to get tossed coming up now when we come back. 94 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: The story on well, two stories related to the vagrants. 95 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: First one is there is a new set of statistics 96 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: out that's going to well. I think Channel five used 97 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: the term staggering. They have an official United States homeless 98 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: count highest level ever. California numbers staggering. We have a 99 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: huge percentage of the homeless in this country, and we'll 100 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: tell you exactly how, and we really have a ratio 101 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: to population the highest by far in the nation. And 102 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: also how the affordable housing program that we have in 103 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: Los Angeles is actually tearing down other housing. You read 104 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: this thing and I can't figure out what the upside is. 105 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: So in order to create affordable housing, they have to 106 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: destroy affordable housing only in Los Angele. And this is 107 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: supposed to end homelessness. So all that is ahead on 108 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: the John Coblt Show. 109 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 110 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 3: six forty. 111 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 1: So this story came from the federal government and they 112 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: have counted all the vagrants in America, and the US 113 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: had a twelve percent increase in homelessness and they're blaming 114 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: it on soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance. 115 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: Can you believe this? First of all, the rents in 116 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: a lot of places were frozen a lot of cities, 117 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: and you didn't have to pay rent in a lot 118 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: of cities. It's interesting that it was soaring because that 119 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: wasn't the state of things during the pandemic. And then 120 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: coronavirus pandemic assistance that was a one time deal. It 121 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: went on way too long, which is what led to 122 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: inflation because Trump and then Biden blew out billions and 123 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,239 Speaker 1: billions and billions of dollars and it was all about 124 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: the pandemic. They had different names for different bills that 125 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: they passed, but it was all the same thing. They 126 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: overjuiced the economy and that's why every thing you buy 127 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: in a grocery store costs twenty or twenty five percent 128 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: more than it did three years ago. So the claim 129 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: here is that the lack of the government writing out checks, 130 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: pandemic checks that creates inflation puts housing out of reach 131 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: for more Americans. This is according to the Associated Press. 132 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: This is allegedly their reason reasoning of the federal government's 133 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: reasoning that we need the federal government to continue printing money, 134 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 1: sending unneeded checks to people, driving up inflation, or rents 135 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:44,719 Speaker 1: are going to go up. Well, none of that sounds right, 136 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 1: does it. It sounds nuts. So in January, on whatever 137 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: day or days they did the count, six hundred and 138 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: fifty three thousand people where squatting in the streets somewhere. 139 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,239 Speaker 1: I am not going to use that phrase experiencing homelessness. 140 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: I will not do that. I'm not using their stupid euphemisms. 141 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: Let the sheep and all the news departments use that 142 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: the bonus ding. Now the breakdown for California, Channel five 143 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: calls it's staggering. Seventy one thousand people in Los Angeles 144 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 1: County seventy one, three hundred and twenty minus the ones 145 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:36,679 Speaker 1: that died of fentanyl overdoses. I suppose since then New 146 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: York City numerically had more at eighty eight thousand and 147 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: twenty five. But I think we have we have a 148 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: higher ratio, and the rest of the cities in metropolitan 149 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: areas in America just have far fewer in numbers fourteen 150 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: thousand in Seattle and King County ten thousand, San Diego County, 151 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: Denver ten thousand. I mean, we are we are it. 152 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: We are the center of all vagrancy because it's obvious 153 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: we allow it. During the Garcetti years, there were no rules. 154 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 1: You could lay out in the streets, commit all kinds 155 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: of crimes, emit all the bodily fluids and all the 156 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 1: things a body can produce out in the streets, inject 157 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 1: yourself or snore any drug that made it over the border, 158 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: and nobody was gonna bother you. And now we ended 159 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: up with with with a really overwhelming, ridiculous problem. And 160 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: the uh, the answer to them is the answer by 161 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: you know, the Karen Basskrad and everybody in the city 162 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: council is we've got to build more affordable housing. Yes, 163 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: we do more affordable housing. They it's the drugs, it's 164 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: the mental illness, it's the lack of police enforcement. 165 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 4: Uh. 166 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: That has discussed very little, if at all. And most 167 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: cities in America don't tolerate the nonsense in the streets, 168 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: and you don't find them on this list. They don't 169 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: make the list. It doesn't really exist for all practical purposes. 170 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: Most cities don't have this. We do because of this 171 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: bizarre progressive philosophy that says anything goes in the streets. 172 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: These people are noble. Now, as far as affordable housing, 173 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: we know that whole concept is a bust. I mean, 174 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: even Karen Bess admits they only permanently housed two hundred 175 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: and sixty one people this year, two hundred and sixty 176 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: one out of the forty five thousand in La City. 177 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: So I don't know how many years would that take. 178 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: That would take what one hundred and sixty years, assuming 179 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: there wasn't a single new homeless person coming off the 180 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: train of the bus. At the rate she's talking, it 181 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: would take what about one hundred and sixty years. The 182 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: El Segundo Times had a story and this makes no sense, 183 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: except it makes perfect sense when it comes to Los Angeles. 184 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: They are they are destroying a lot of housing in 185 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: order to build affordable housing. They're destroying some low income 186 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 1: affordable housing. They talk to Blanca Ruiz. She lives on 187 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: Figuero Street in South LA She's got her husband, a son, 188 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: four dogs, two tropical birds. And then she was notified 189 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: by the city that her home is going to get 190 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: demolished so that other people who are struggling can live there. 191 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: They're going to give her twenty five thousand dollars to 192 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: relocate only because she's seventy five years old and low income. 193 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,439 Speaker 1: But the rents are so high she has thinks she's 194 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: going to be able to find a place that they 195 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: can afford. Everything she looks at too expensive or don't 196 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: allow dogs. I don't sleep at night. I stay up 197 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: thinking what am I going to do? Where do I go? 198 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: And there's apparently dozens and dozens of residents who have 199 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: to relocate because Karen Bass is evicting them. She wrote 200 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:25,719 Speaker 1: something called the Executive Directive Number one, and it's to 201 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: speed up construction of affordable housing. So Ruiz's apartment, along 202 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: with two others, is going to be replaced by a 203 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty seven unit affordable housing project to 204 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: combat homelessness, as if all those people in the street 205 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: can be trusted with a brand new apartment. We've seen 206 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: them destroy apartments by the hundreds thousands in the last 207 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: few years. We are now going to build the homeless 208 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: new apartments for them to destroy. You know, they're going 209 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: to put in all these drug addicted horse and somebody 210 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: like Blanca Ruiz who's been living peacefully and paying her bills, 211 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: she's getting kicked out. They want to make this emergency 212 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: order permanent so there'd be no more public hearings and 213 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 1: no more reviews because, as you know, it takes many, 214 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: many years to build anything in Los Angeles. But the 215 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: current tenets in these neighborhoods are getting screwed over, and 216 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: they have nine thousand units they've been proposed to be affordable, 217 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: but they're going to have to demolish hundreds of rent 218 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: stabilized units. Then they're going to try to coax the 219 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: vagrants off the street. The vagrants will go inside these 220 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: new apartments and rude them and hopefully by then Blanco 221 00:14:55,880 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: Ruiz will find a new place to live. Now. The 222 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: alternative is to for the vagrants to assume responsibility and 223 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: go out and get jobs. There's plenty of them available 224 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: earn money, so they could afford their own apartment. But 225 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: I don't know how they're going to live in affordable 226 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: housing if they don't want to go to work and 227 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: earn a paycheck, if they would rather snort meth and 228 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: inject heroin and fentidel i. But you never hear that 229 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: discuss publicly, did you just here? And we're supposed to 230 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: be mean for doing so. Chris Reid is coming up 231 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: right after Deborah's news on why the bullet the Bullet 232 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: Trained project flopped. They knew in two thousand and eight, 233 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: before we voted on this that it was going to flop. 234 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: It was guaranteed and there's one specific reason. And Chris 235 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: Reid is one of the editorial writers for the San 236 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: Diego Union Tribute, and he wrote a piece on this 237 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: just to remind everybody that this was poisoned from the start. 238 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 239 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 3: six forty. 240 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock. We're gonna have Todd Spitzer 241 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: on the DA of Orange County, an actual district attorney 242 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: that prosecutes people. He is a curiosity. They charged twenty 243 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: people for a burglary ring, thirty four breakings across Orange County, 244 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars worth of cash, valuables and weapons stolen, 245 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: and shockingly, they were tied to a Los Angeles gang. Wow, 246 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: I didn't think gang members do that. They do bad 247 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: things like that, right, So they ran into Orange County 248 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: the pillaging and thieving. We'll get to Todd coming up 249 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: after two o'clock and explore this shocking, this shocking concept 250 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 1: of prosecuting criminals. It's a fascinating idea. We are now 251 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: going to talk to Chris Reid. Chris Reid is one 252 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: of the editorial writers for the San Diego Union Tribune, 253 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: and he had a column that contained something that most 254 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: people probably don't know that when the high speed rail 255 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: bond went on the ballot in two thousand and eight 256 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: and a majority of you voted for it, they never 257 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: told you that they knew they were never going to 258 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: get the financing for this thing and that the whole 259 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: plan was going to flop. Remember, they claimed that thirty 260 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 1: three billion dollars, would build high speed rail from Sacramento 261 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: to San Francisco to Los Angeles to Anaheim, all the 262 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: way to San Diego for thirty three billion, and it 263 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 1: would be done by now. And of course nothing's done. 264 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: They're way short of money. They've lopped off Anaheim, San Diego, Sacramento, 265 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: and apparently Los Angeles. Right now, it looks like it's 266 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: more set to Bakersfield at best. So let's get Chris 267 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: read on and find out what they knew way back 268 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. Now, Chris, how are you great? 269 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,640 Speaker 4: Good to be back? John? Yeah. The story starts in 270 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,880 Speaker 4: the spring of two thousand and eight when Arnold and 271 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 4: a bunch of Democrats in the legislature got all excited 272 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:27,479 Speaker 4: about the high speed rail project, and so they thought that, Okay, 273 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 4: what's a good way to win public support for this. 274 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 4: We'll have the rail Authority's business team put out a 275 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:37,880 Speaker 4: plan by October first, explaining just how the finances would work. 276 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 4: And at the time, it didn't seem like this was 277 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 4: any big deal. Bullet trains were working well in Europe, 278 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 4: and so people were skeptical about the state's ability to 279 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 4: pull off any big project. But the fact that Bullet 280 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 4: Trains drew private investors in Europe made it seem like 281 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 4: it was plausible it could happen in California. But about 282 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 4: the middle of about the middle of September, there began 283 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 4: to be rumbles that they couldn't finish the planet the 284 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 4: analysis in time October first because of the furloughs remember 285 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 4: back then, Oh yeah, the furloughs dreams. So anyway, they knew, however, 286 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 4: according to what was later disclosed, that private investors wanted 287 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 4: nothing to do with the project in which there's no 288 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 4: case that taxpayers could provide subsidies if revenues were not 289 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,919 Speaker 4: enough to cover expenses. And that's like the one saving 290 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 4: grace of Proposition one A in two thousand and eight 291 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 4: was that it contained a specific provision that says you 292 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 4: cannot have taxpayers provide operating subsidies to the project. And 293 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 4: so they knew that they weren't going to get the 294 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 4: private investment that was supposed to be key to completing 295 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 4: the project, and they didn't tell anybody until literally the 296 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 4: monday after the election they released the report. Their staffing 297 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 4: needs had somehow disappeared, and then the monday after the election, 298 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 4: six days later, they put out a report saying it's 299 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 4: going to be tough to get any investor without subsidies, 300 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 4: and oh, subsidies are illegal. 301 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: Why why would the private investors not invest without public 302 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 1: tax money. 303 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 4: Well, because bullet trains around the world, and this is 304 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 4: one of the great facts that nobody seems to realize. 305 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 4: They are almost always subsidized. They almost never pay for themselves. 306 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 4: It's just a really costly thing to pull off. Having 307 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 4: high speed rail in California. It's it's quadruple are exacerbated 308 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,880 Speaker 4: by the fact that they wanted to build through really 309 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 4: densely populated areas, which was never going to happen. That 310 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,640 Speaker 4: California has all these wild environmental rules that make it 311 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 4: close to impossible to pull off a big project, a 312 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 4: small project, a medium sized project, any project in which 313 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,199 Speaker 4: people can say their interests are affected, you know. 314 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: And so just interrupt you a second. Because these political 315 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: leaders and these bureaucrats always talk about the wonders of 316 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: high speed rail in Europe and in China and Japan, 317 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: and how they all do it and it's affordable for 318 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: the public. They never talk about how different California is 319 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,479 Speaker 1: and all those things. You just touched on well. For example, 320 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 1: they'd have to drill through the attached to thee Mountains. 321 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, there was an amazing story in twenty thirteen that 322 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 4: says they needed they need drills as long as a 323 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 4: football field, drilling truck as long as a football field, 324 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 4: one hundred yard long drill to do this. I wonder 325 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 4: how many billions it would cost just to develop such 326 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 4: a drill. 327 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: There is no such thing. 328 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 4: No, they'd have to invent it. They head to have 329 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 4: whole new technology. There was a two thousand article in 330 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 4: the La Times in which they quoted experts from cal 331 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 4: Tech saying like this is going to be kind of, 332 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 4: you know, close to impossible. And so that's what makes 333 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 4: it all the incredible more incredible that we just keep 334 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 4: peering over the years that though this project would have 335 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 4: worked if it wasn't marred by politics, if there weren't 336 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 4: all these dupious compromises made ass that's. 337 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: What's stunning and really angering is they never discussed how 338 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 1: it was going to be nearly impossible to get through 339 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 1: the to happen to Hatchepee Mountains, the San Gabriel Mountains, 340 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 1: all these densely populated areas, that it was enormously difficult 341 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 1: and maybe impossible to do extremely costly. There was going 342 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: to be no private investing coming because we weren't putting 343 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,640 Speaker 1: up any public tax money. They knew all this in advance. 344 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:21,959 Speaker 1: They do it anyway. Who's benefiting from blowing these tens 345 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: of billions of dollars over the last fifteen years? Who 346 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: did they want to please by trying to do this 347 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: half asked one hundred and nineteen mile train. 348 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,400 Speaker 4: Well, the only people who clearly benefit from it are 349 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 4: the building construction unions and the contractors who are hired 350 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 4: to do this project out in the middle of nowhere. 351 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 4: And that's another thing that's absolutely mind bogging about this 352 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 4: is I have directly asked Governor Newsom, just like I 353 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 4: directly asked Jerry Brown and Schortzak before them, like is 354 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 4: this project worth doing if it doesn't connect population centers? 355 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 4: And nobody will ever acknowledge that because answering that question 356 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,439 Speaker 4: requires the acknowledgment that no, it's never going to connect 357 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,440 Speaker 4: the two big population senators. Many years ago, I talked 358 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 4: to a state senator from San Jose whose name I 359 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 4: won't reveal because it was off the record, and he 360 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 4: said the idea that they were going to build a 361 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 4: bullet train between San Jose and San Francisco through the 362 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 4: richest county in America was absurd on its face, and 363 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 4: that's why it was honestly not really even taken seriously 364 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 4: by like Maris and Atherton and lose Gattus. They knew 365 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 4: it was never going to happen. And the same thing 366 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 4: holds from Silmar to downtown Los Angeles. Now that's not 367 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 4: nearly as rich as Silicon Valley, but it's densely populated. 368 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 4: And one of the more interesting studies I read about 369 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 4: the bullet trains in urban areas was they cut through 370 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 4: an urban area and they're like a fence. They segregate 371 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 4: communities by making it so difficult to get from one 372 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 4: side to the other. So we were really going to 373 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 4: build a bullet train from Silmar to downtown Los Angeles 374 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 4: and create this partition in the middle of the valley? 375 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: Yes, sure, no, because they they bitch and moan over 376 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: the idea that freeways have divided communities and separated communities. 377 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,199 Speaker 4: But and it's a lot of yeah, it's a lot 378 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 4: of as you coul build a bridge over or under 379 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 4: a freeway than a bullet train that's already super environmentally sensitive, 380 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 4: and also it's dangerous to undermine its base according to 381 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 4: what we were told ten years ago. 382 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,640 Speaker 1: So so many politicians, bureaucrats, leaders, they all knew this 383 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 1: was bogus. They knew this was a scam before day one, 384 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: before we even voted, and they all went along with it. Anyway, Well, 385 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: it's not clear. 386 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,400 Speaker 4: It's not crystal clear that Arnold knew about this beforehand, 387 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 4: but he was in Legacy Watch at that point, and 388 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 4: I don't think even if he knew, he would change anything. 389 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 4: But it is clear that this was known within the 390 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 4: Bullet Train Agency to California High Speed Rail Authority that 391 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 4: this that this was not going to work. And the 392 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 4: excuse is, well, we had staffing problems because of those 393 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,679 Speaker 4: darn furloughs. But come on, this is not like a 394 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:03,640 Speaker 4: This was not like a con troversial conclusion. Of course, 395 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,959 Speaker 4: they're going to want subsidies, because they've got subsidies every 396 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 4: around the world where they have built these projects. Of Course, 397 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 4: it's going to be incredibly difficult to build something in 398 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 4: a place in California, or environmentals are so strong and 399 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 4: land is so expensive, and you know, people are so powerful, 400 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 4: which people are powerful, and they don't like having their 401 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 4: homes so worked with. 402 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,919 Speaker 1: So for fifteen years, everybody in this construction industry and 403 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:30,439 Speaker 1: in the consulting industry, all the other parasites that have 404 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: attached themselves to this bullet train, they all get up 405 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: every day knowing that this is ultimately a waste of time, 406 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: that they're going to be at best if everything goes right, 407 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: maybe decades down the road, you're going to get a 408 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: train taking five people up from Bakersfield and her set 409 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,640 Speaker 1: every day. Well. 410 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 4: And the thing is is that in January twenty nineteen, 411 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember this hilarious early Newsome escapade, 412 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,199 Speaker 4: he gave a press conference in what she said, we 413 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,919 Speaker 4: need to be honest and realistic about the future of 414 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 4: the bullet train, and so ap and others immediately wrote 415 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 4: a story saying, the new governor of California raises questions 416 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 4: about the viability of the bullet train and knew some 417 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 4: walked it back within an hour and a half. She 418 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,880 Speaker 4: said right away, No, no, no, that's not what I said. 419 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 4: I just said we had to take a hard look 420 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 4: at it, not meaning we had to hard a hard 421 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 4: look and stop this Fiasca. 422 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: No, did he get a bad phone call from a 423 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: union leader? 424 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 4: I don't know. I have no idea because I don't 425 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 4: understand the upside of this. At this point. Everybody now 426 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,679 Speaker 4: knows that it's a fiasco. You know, everyone who's sentient 427 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 4: knows it's a fiasco. So why continue with it? That's 428 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 4: the thing that I don't get. But you know, John, 429 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 4: you're right about the dishonesty of of everyone involved to 430 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 4: benefits from this in their failure to be honest about it. 431 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 4: But I got to say, where's the media on this? 432 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 4: I swapped an email the fifteenth anniversary of when the 433 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 4: business plan was supposed to be released this October first, 434 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 4: and I wrote about it back then, and there was 435 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 4: like the fifteenth anniversary of the deceit that launched this tobacco. 436 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,400 Speaker 4: And I swapped emails with Dan Walters because he and 437 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 4: I appear to be the only people in the California 438 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 4: media who ever bring this angle up. And this is 439 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 4: not like a small angle, This is not a crucial angle. 440 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, this cost us tens of billions of dollars. Yeah, 441 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: I know. Well there, it's not really a news industry anymore. 442 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what to call it, But it's not 443 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: a news industry. Well, I mean, they just their public 444 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: relations agencies for the government. Whoever's in Bower. 445 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 4: Well, I don't know. I just find the whole thing 446 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 4: kind of juicy and strange, the whole question of why 447 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 4: the media can't say this, because when the stuff comes 448 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:44,360 Speaker 4: up about the project Winky Ranchakukamonga across desert with Vegas, 449 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,880 Speaker 4: and the LA Times reported that people were much more 450 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 4: optimistic about this because there won't be any dubious compromises 451 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 4: and there won't be politics involved. I just felt like 452 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 4: groaning because it's the same Los Angeles Times that had 453 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,119 Speaker 4: that incredible story about the difficulty of getting through the 454 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,719 Speaker 4: Tahatchbee Mountains, about the new need to build trains that are, 455 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 4: you know, a football field long or drills or drills. 456 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. All right, Chris gotta go, Thank you 457 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: for coming on. 458 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 4: Thanks all right. 459 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: Chris Reid from the San Diego Union Tribune. It's the 460 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: John Coblt Show KFI AM six forty. 461 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 462 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 3: six forty. 463 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock. The Orange County District Attorney 464 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: Todd Spitzer. They charged twenty people, thirty four break ins 465 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: across the county, all tied to Los Angeles gangs, all 466 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: kinds of burglaries and thefts, and half million dollars in 467 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 1: cash and weapons and valuables. And look at that. Look 468 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 1: what and these people are going to go to jail 469 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: in Orange County. You may have heard it happen just 470 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: in the last half hour. Rudy Giuliani. Oh my god, 471 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: did he get whacked. There was a civil trial. Two 472 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: Atlanta election workers charge him with defamation and he lost. 473 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: It was ordered by a federal jury to pay one 474 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight million dollars to two election workers. 475 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, he was ordered. Well, the two women 476 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 1: involved me get their names here, Shaye Moss and her mother, 477 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: Ruby Freeman. And this this, this federal jury awarded seventy 478 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: five million dollars in punitive damages and twenty million to 479 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: each woman for emotional distress. Doesn't yeah, So that's that's 480 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 1: nine to five. And then they were also awarded Moss 481 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: got seventeen million for defamation, Freeman received sixteen point two million. 482 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: Now how do you determine that? Why? Why would one 483 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 1: woman be defamed eight hundred thousand dollars less than the 484 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 1: other one. Does he even have that kind of money. No, 485 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 1: now he's near broke. He's blown all his money. Last 486 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: I heard, he was selling his six million dollar condo 487 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: in New York City. And I think he used to 488 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: be very wealthy because after he was done as mayor, 489 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: he went into private security. You know, he lived off 490 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: the fame of his performance during nine to eleven, and 491 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: he had a security company, and he had high end 492 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 1: clients all over the world. And he's blown a lot 493 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: of it in legal fees. He certainly doesn't have one 494 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight million dollars, although I imagine there'll 495 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: be appeals and maybe the award gets knocked out. But 496 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: what he did, and this is all in service of 497 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He mentioned them by name, accusing them of 498 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: pulling fraudulent ballots out of suitcases and then adding them 499 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: to the totals as they were counting at State Farm 500 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: Arena in Atlanta. So he said specifically, these two women 501 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 1: had extra ballots in suitcases and it was to screw 502 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,719 Speaker 1: Donald Trump out of the election. In Georgia, they started 503 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: getting death threats from all the lunatics out there and 504 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: they had to flee their home for two months. And 505 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: these these were Trump supporters who drove them, drove them 506 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: out of their home. And and of course Trump, in 507 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: turn Giuliani was begging him to do some kind of 508 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 1: fundraisers or to give him some money so he could 509 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: defend himself in court. And Trump did a couple of fundraisers, 510 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: but in general just left left him, just hung them 511 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: out to dry. So Giuliani is now left with me. 512 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 1: He did a stupid, stupid thing. And the thing is 513 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: he was a brilliant, brilliant attorney. He was. He was 514 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: a a US attorney in New York. He busted up 515 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: the mafia back in the nineteen eighties, He busted up 516 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: a lot of Wall Street crooks in the nineties, went after, 517 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 1: he went after criminal politicians. I mean, he took care 518 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: of everybody. 519 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 2: And then nine to eleven is a great mayor. 520 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: Fantastic mayor in New York City, best mayor I ever 521 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 1: saw in my life. Totally turned because the city was 522 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: the way LA is now ridden with homeless people, criminals, 523 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: all sorts of creeps on the streets, massive prostitution. He 524 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 1: and I went back a couple of years after I 525 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: moved out of there and I turned into Disneyland. I've shocked, 526 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: absolutely shocked. I've never seen anything like it. And then 527 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 1: he's lost his mind. He's drunk much of the time. Now. 528 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: He has a radio show in New York late at 529 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 1: night that he does out of his house. 530 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 2: And is he doing it drunk? 531 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: Yeah? Wow, Yeah, and he just rambles on while I've 532 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,160 Speaker 1: read some articles on it, and he's he's just he's 533 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: loaded most of the time now, and he's going to 534 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 1: be broke if he hasn't broke already, I don't know. 535 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,080 Speaker 1: I think he's suffered from some kind of dementia and alcoholism, 536 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: the combination. When we come back, we're going to talk 537 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 1: to Todd Spitzer, Orange County District Attorney, and twenty people 538 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: have been charged thirty four break ins, half million dollars 539 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 1: in prizes that they stole related to LA gangs, and 540 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 1: Todd Spitzer is going to prosecute these people. 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