1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't I am six forty you're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 2: Yes, we are back all together here. 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four and then 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the 6 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: iart iHeart app. Moistline is back this week on Friday 7 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven moist 8 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: eighty six. 9 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 2: Money has happened just in the last hour. 10 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: To get you going, or use the talkback feature on 11 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: the iHeart app as well. The biggest story nationally, most 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: tragic story, has been what's going on Hurrville, Texas. 13 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 2: Massive flooding. 14 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: The Guadalupe River flooded after getting an enormous amount of 15 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: rainfall in a very short time, and the death toll 16 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: keeps rising and rising, a lot of it little girls 17 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: at summer camp. Jim Ryan, ABC News has got a 18 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: report for us, Jim, how are you hey? 19 00:00:59,560 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 2: John? 20 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 3: The death count now stands at ninety four and it's 21 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 3: almost inconceivable that in twenty twenty five you could have 22 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 3: one hundred people die in a natural disaster in the 23 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 3: United States. But that is what is going to happen here. 24 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 3: You're right. It was just it was the convergence of 25 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 3: a lot of different factors that all came together on 26 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 3: Friday morning before dawn. The moisture coming up from the 27 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 3: Gulf combined with moisture coming over from the Pacific across Mexico, 28 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 3: combining with moisture that came down from the South Plains. 29 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 3: All of it dumped right onto the hill country called 30 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 3: the hill country because it is very hilly here. The 31 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 3: drought has made the ground very hard to throw. It's 32 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 3: a concrete essentially. So all that rain came down ten 33 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 3: to twelve inches per hour right into the tributaries that 34 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 3: feed the Guadalupe and a wall of water was built 35 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 3: that came crashing about fifteen seventeen miles downstream. 36 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: And this they'd had a big flood I think about 37 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: almost forty years ago. 38 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty seven, another flood. Yes, it killed ten kids 39 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 3: who were in a bus. And it does occasionally have 40 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 3: not to this degree certainly, but this area does see 41 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 3: flash floods. It's known colloquially here as flash flood Alley 42 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 3: because this does occasionally happen the topography where it sits 43 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 3: within the weather pattern, and the effect is that we 44 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 3: get these flash floods occasionally. 45 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: What happened with the warnings I've heard constant debate over 46 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:24,519 Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours. 47 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 3: Well, there is a lar of debate about that. The 48 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 3: Weather Service actually put out advisories starting on Wednesday, two 49 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 3: days before the flood came. They staffed up, they added 50 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 3: some staffing to the National Weather Service office at New 51 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 3: bron Fuls, which covers this area. But in terms of 52 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,959 Speaker 3: issuing warnings in an area where cell service is spotty 53 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 3: at best, where nobody's watching TVs or really listening to 54 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 3: the radio, they're out there to get away from all 55 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 3: that stuff. And in fact, the seven hundred and fifty 56 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 3: girls at Camp Mysstic, this girls camp, they are not 57 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 3: allowed to have their phones with them, right, so in 58 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 3: an emergency situation like this, suddenly these kids don't have 59 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 3: their cell phones and aren't getting those alerts. The counselors 60 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 3: had them, and they know they were caught off guard 61 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 3: at three thirty in the morning when the water started 62 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 3: to rise and trying to hustle all these people out. 63 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: Right, whoever had a phone was asleep at three thirty 64 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: in the warning exactly so that they did they couldn't 65 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: hear the warning, and I have heard there's a controversy 66 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: that they had no air raid sirens. 67 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 2: There no sirens. 68 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 3: You're right, there are tornado warnings that happened, you know, 69 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 3: sirens system apparently was not in place to warn people 70 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 3: about the flash flooding that was about to happen here, 71 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 3: and that's a problem. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has been 72 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 3: talking about that today and saying that there needs to 73 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 3: be a push to install some sort of warning system 74 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 3: like that that doesn't rely on cells, doesn't rely on broadcasts, 75 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 3: something that can just literally wake people up in the 76 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 3: middle of the night to tell them the danger is coming. 77 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 2: John, how many more people do they think they're going 78 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 2: to find. 79 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 3: It's just impossible to say. We know how many kids 80 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 3: were registered at those day camps, and I think ten 81 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 3: girls from that camp Mystic are still missing now. But 82 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 3: beyond that, you also had people who were just camping. 83 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 3: They were in their RVs or on their you know, 84 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 3: they had pitched tents alongside the river. We're just there 85 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 3: to enjoy the Fourth of July holiday. Nobody knows how 86 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 3: many people that might encompass because they didn't register, they 87 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 3: didn't check in anywhere, they pitched their tents to a 88 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 3: part their RVs. Now they're gone, all. 89 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 1: Right, Jim, thanks for coming on. Thanks John, Jim Ryan, 90 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 1: ABC News. Eight years ago, there was a reather. This 91 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: is called Texas Hill Country and they had a river 92 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: flood and people in current in Kerk County Kerr They 93 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: had a big debate whether to build a warning system 94 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: along the Guadalupe River because they've had summer camps for 95 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: decades and decades, filled with hundreds of children, and they 96 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: had a word of mouth system. When the floodwaters started 97 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: to rise up river, camp leaders warned those downriver of 98 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 1: the water surge coming their way. But obviously, when you 99 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,239 Speaker 1: have that much rain falling, I mean they were getting 100 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,119 Speaker 1: twelve to eighteen inches in an hour, in the middle 101 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: of the night, it seems so archaic to rely on 102 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: a word of mouth system. 103 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 4: Can you imagine how those parents feel. They send their kids, 104 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 4: just summer camp kids, all excited or maybe scared to 105 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 4: go away for the first time, and this happens. 106 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: Oh, I heard a heartbreaking story just when I was 107 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: driving in. There was one mother, I think it was 108 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: a mother, It might have been a camp counselor who 109 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: said buses filled with the surviving kids showed up at 110 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,239 Speaker 1: a staging area and parents are all lined up, and 111 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: the kids come pouring out of the buses, a lot 112 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: of them girls, and ran up to their parents. 113 00:05:58,520 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 2: Some parents are standing there. 114 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: Nobody came out of the bus, and nobody ran into them, 115 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: and they were the last bus. 116 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 2: And I just had that was just it was just terrible. 117 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: It's known as flash flood Alley. They contemplated installing a 118 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: flood warning system, according to The New York Times in 119 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, but officials decided was too expensive. The county 120 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: has an annual budget of sixty seven million. They tried 121 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: to get a million dollar grant to fund the project, 122 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: but they lost out on that bid. As recently as May, 123 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: they talked about a flood warning system. This is classic 124 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: political nonsense. Everybody knows. 125 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 2: I've read that. 126 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: Since nineteen sixty nine in Texas they've had a thousand 127 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: people die of floods. And this is called what was 128 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 1: that name? He came up with flash flood alley. All right, 129 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: So this happens regularly, not to this extent, obviously, but 130 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: the Guadalupe River frequently overflows, and like Jim Ryan explained, 131 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: you had a system coming out of the Gulf. You 132 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: had the remnants of a tropical storm that was passing 133 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: from the Pacific Ocean, because you know, the Pacific and 134 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: the Atlantic come close together. Once you get south of 135 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: Texas into Mexico and say had a storm from one side, 136 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: storm from another side, more moisture coming from the north, 137 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: and then the system stalled. However, they converged over Texas. 138 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: It stalled out and just sat there, no movement in 139 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: any direction, and so the rain kept coming down and 140 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: coming down and coming down for hours and hours. So 141 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: the river surged, I think in a matter of forty 142 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: five minutes, up over twenty feet. But everybody's asleep and 143 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: there's no sirens. Nobody wanted to pay for the sirens. 144 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 2: You know a lot. It's like the Palisades situation. 145 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 4: We have to have such a tragedy for something to change. 146 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 2: They yeah, they always wait. 147 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: They always wait until you have a ninety five people dead, 148 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: dozens of them children. Now they're going to find the funding. 149 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: Now they're going to have the meeting. All of a sudden, 150 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: it'll be in the budget to have a siren system. 151 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: Can't possibly cost that much when you know there are 152 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: storms in the area. And the Weather Service had given 153 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: out several warnings that there could be flooding. Nobody knew 154 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: it would be there. And that's the thing. There's no 155 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: forecast in the world that's going to tell you, you know, 156 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:51,839 Speaker 1: oh hey, you know in six hours it's going to 157 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: stall out and dump eighteen inches of rain. It's just 158 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: you become alert and you have a siren system, and 159 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: then you could pack everybody up in a matter of 160 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: minutes and get out. Just all you have to do 161 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: is go to higher ground. Obviously, you don't have to 162 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: evacuate one hundred miles. I all got more coming up. 163 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 164 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 5: six forty. 165 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: Over the last week, Gavin Newsom sued Fox News for 166 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars. Probably heard that 167 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: that number matters because that is the number that Fox 168 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: had to pay the Dominion Voting System company because so 169 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: many people went on Fox after the twenty twenty election 170 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 1: and claimed that Dominion's machines were all rigged and cost 171 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: Trump the election. There was guests who said that members 172 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 1: of the Trump administration or campaign. Some of the anchors 173 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,959 Speaker 1: agreed with it, went along with it, promoted and publicized it, 174 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: and there were a lo lot of it. There were 175 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: a lot of background texts being sent among Fox employees 176 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: that made it clear that they knew the story was nonsense, 177 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: but this was this was good for business because some 178 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: of the Fox viewers were upset because Fox had called 179 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: Arizona for Joe Biden pretty early, and they stopped watching. 180 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: Fox, some of them for a little while. 181 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: And so Fox jumped on the bandwagon that the election 182 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: was rigged and dominion was bad and they should have 183 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: known better, and they had to pay seven hundred and 184 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: eighty seven million dollars in a settlement. So now Gavin Newsom, 185 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: who is like a child, has decided he's going to 186 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: sue Fox for exactly that same amount. And you may 187 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: have heard. The crime is that Trump was giving an 188 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: interview on the fly and at about the time that 189 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: the National Guard was being sent to Los Angeles, and 190 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: a reporter asked if he talked to Newsom, and Trump said, yeah, yesterday, 191 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: a day ago, and implying that the conversation took place 192 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: the same day the Marines were being deployed. Apparently, one 193 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: of the Fox hosts then took that and said well, 194 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: why is Newsome lying? Trump even had a phone log 195 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: that he printed out. Well, it turned out Trump didn't 196 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,559 Speaker 1: speak to Newsom a day ago. It was maybe two 197 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: days ago, three days ago, and Newsom felt he was defamed. 198 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: Now he wasn't defamed. But okay, we get it. You 199 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: want some cheap publicity, you're suing Fox. Trump lied because 200 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: he didn't remember the exact day. But I'm listening to 201 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: him carry on all week about the phone call and 202 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: the lie and Fox and Tromp, and I'm thinking, wait 203 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: a second, does anybody remember during the fire when Newsom 204 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: was found in a neighborhood near the Palisades and a 205 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: woman came running up to him. Why don't we play 206 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: that clip? Eric, we want to talk about somebody lying 207 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: about a phone call. 208 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 4: Governor, you got a second. 209 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 2: Governor, Governor, I live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school. 210 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 3: Governor, Please tell me what you're going to do. 211 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 2: I'm of my promise. 212 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 3: I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically 213 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 3: answer the question of what we can do for you 214 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 3: and your daughter. 215 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:54,679 Speaker 5: Can I hear it? 216 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 2: Can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it. 217 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,680 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, there's literally I've tried five times. 218 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:02,679 Speaker 3: That's why I'm walking. 219 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 2: Around to make Why is the president not taking your 220 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 2: call because it's not going through. Why I have to 221 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 2: get cell service? Let's get it, Let's get it. 222 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: I want to be here when you call the President. 223 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 2: I appreciate it. 224 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 3: I'm doing that right now, and to immediately get reimbursements, 225 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 3: individual assistance and. 226 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 2: To help you'd death is looking for. I'm so sorry, 227 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 2: especially for your daughter. 228 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 4: I have the four kids, everyone who went to school there, 229 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 4: They lost their homes. They lost two homes because they 230 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 4: were living in one and building another. 231 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 2: Kevin, please tell me, tell. 232 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: Me what are you going to do with the president. 233 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 3: Right now we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild. 234 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 2: Why is there no water in the hydrants? Govenor? That's all? Literally? 235 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 5: Is it going to be different next time? 236 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 2: It has to be. 237 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 3: It has to be. 238 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 2: Of course, What are you going to do to fill 239 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 2: the hydrants? I would fill them. 240 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 6: Up personally, you know that. 241 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:52,439 Speaker 2: I literally I. 242 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 4: Would fill off the hydrants myself, I dare But would. 243 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 2: You do that? I would do whatever I can do. 244 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 1: Not I see the do you know there's water dripping 245 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: over there? 246 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 3: Governor? 247 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 2: There's water coming out there. You can use it. I 248 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 2: appreciate it. 249 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 3: I'm going to make the call to address everything I 250 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 3: can right now, including making sure people to make sure. 251 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: Can I have an opportunity to at least tell people 252 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:16,839 Speaker 1: you're doing what you're saying you're doing. 253 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 2: Can somebody have a contact? Can I have your contact 254 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 2: right now? Yeah? 255 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm talking to to Joe Biden right now. Literally 256 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: he actually emphasized with the word literally, he was talking 257 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: right now. And she goes, well, let me get on 258 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: the phone. Well, I'm trying to get through. I've tried. 259 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 2: Oh I thought you. 260 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: Were literally talking to him right now, as if Joe 261 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: Biden was taking phone calls from anybody, right. Joe Biden 262 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: wasn't answering the phone. Joe Biden was asleep with a 263 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: sheet over his head. He wasn't coordinating rescue missions from 264 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: Washington or the Delaware beachever the hell. He was in 265 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: the midst of his dementia. Oh I called him five times? 266 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: Oh oh, so now you've called him five times. Joe's 267 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: not picking up for you. Oh, I don't have a 268 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: signal here. Well, why don't you get in your taxpayer 269 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: paid uh state car and go to where there's a 270 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: phone signal. What the hell are you doing here? You 271 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: say he was lying? He was lying lying? Why can 272 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: she sue him for defamation? The shameless phoniness of Newsoman 273 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: Bass just makes me want to vomit sometimes. 274 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 2: So then he sues Fox. 275 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: Because Trump said I talked to him a day ago, 276 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: when it was uh two days ago or three days ago, 277 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: and one of the talk hosts went on a spree, Oh, 278 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: I've been defamed. No, nobody can defer fame him worse 279 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: than he defames himself pretending to talk to the President 280 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: of the United States while a mother is begging for help, 281 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: and then when she calls him on it because she 282 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: knew her instinct was correct, then he starts changing his story. 283 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: And by the way, six months later, did they explain 284 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: what the cause of the fire is yet? Did they 285 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: explain why they didn't fill up the reservoir? 286 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 2: Yet? 287 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: Apparently they filled it last week? A year and a 288 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: half later, the reservoirs filled. Did they explain why so 289 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: many fire hydrants hundreds of fire hydrants didn't work. There's 290 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: virtually no water pressure that had this sixth month anniversary 291 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: celebration that Bass and Knewsom were holding a press conference 292 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: over I watched it briefly. It was Newsom droning on 293 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: with slides. Did they explain any of those questions? What 294 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: started the fire? Why didn't they have the reservoir filled? 295 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: Why were all the hydrants broken? Why wasn't the fire 296 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: department pre deployed in that region? Why didn't Newsom have 297 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: the brush cut on the state land that fed the fire? 298 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: Why didn't they turn off Why didn't the DWP turn 299 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: off the electricity to the Palisades? Twelve hours later and 300 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 1: there were still electricity going through the power lines, and 301 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 1: then those power lines collapsed and started a second round 302 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 1: of fires because the lines were energized and then they 303 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 1: collapsed on the dry brush. There was really two rounds 304 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: of fire, one at ten thirty in the morning, which 305 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: they kind of said maybe fireworks, which as time goes on, 306 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: I believe less and less, because God, that was a 307 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: whole week. 308 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 2: That was a whole week since the fireworks. 309 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,360 Speaker 1: They sure it wasn't a bunch of bums, wasn't any 310 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: homeless people? 311 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 2: Really? Sure? How come it's? 312 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 1: How come it's taken six months and you still don't know? 313 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: Why are they hiding it? Why is Karen Bass and 314 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom hiding the cause of the fire. Why are 315 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: they not explaining why the reservoir wasn't filled for a 316 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: year and a half. Why were hundreds of fire drants 317 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: not working? Why did they cut the fire budget. Why 318 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: was the fire department not fully deployed in that area. 319 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: Why did Karen Bass not act on the extreme fire 320 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: warnings some of the National service. Why did she go 321 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: to Africa and ignore? And now she's grand standing over 322 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: the immigration exercise this morning? 323 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 2: She Bass and Newsom. 324 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: They are so full of crap, absolutely shameful, and damn 325 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: the idiots in this city and state who vote for 326 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: these two. 327 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 2: God, why do we have to live with these peopleeople? 328 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: Why don't all the Bass and Newsom voters deport themselves? 329 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: In fact, here's a deal. How about everybody who voted 330 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: for Karen Bass and everybody who voted for Gavin Newsom 331 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: get deported in exchange for the immigrants who want to 332 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: stay here. How about that deal? Okay out, I will 333 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: take like twenty million Central American immigrants in exchange for 334 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: the millions of voters who put Bass and Newsom in office. 335 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: I was running things, I'd do that in five. If 336 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,360 Speaker 1: I was the president, that's what I would do. I'd say, 337 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: everybody gets to stay. If the following people leave, every 338 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: bass and newsom voter out. 339 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 340 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 5: six forty. 341 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: We are on every day from one until four o'clock 342 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: and then after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand 343 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: on the iHeart app. 344 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 2: So go back, get back into the habit. 345 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,439 Speaker 1: Download the podcast coming up after four o'clock because we 346 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: had an energetic first hour and a half of the 347 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: show and we're going to we're gonna keep this going. 348 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: But if you miss anything, that's what the podcast is 349 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 1: for on the iHeart app. 350 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:08,400 Speaker 2: All right, The. 351 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:15,360 Speaker 1: Gas price is I went to Colorado during the vacation. 352 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: It was a family wedding in the Denver area. I 353 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: sent everybody the gas price in Colorado that we paid 354 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: was two dollars and eighty seven cents a gallon two 355 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 1: dollars and eighty seven cents a gallon, a full two 356 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: bucks lower than the gas in my neighborhood. Bought nine 357 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: and a half gallons, almost half a tank, and the 358 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: total price and I didn't believe it. It looked so 359 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: weird to me. It was twenty seven dollars and twenty 360 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: seven cents. I got nine and a half gallons of 361 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:57,360 Speaker 1: gas for twenty seven dollars and twenty seven cents. It's 362 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: almost like it's another currency outside of California. So I 363 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: looked today at the gas price averages, and you idiots 364 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: who vote for Gavin Newsom. Uh, gas prices around the 365 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: country averaged three dollars and fourteen cents three fourteen, and 366 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: in California it's four fifty six. But there's twenty one 367 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: states under three dollars under. Oklahoma is at two sixty nine, 368 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: Mississippi's two sixty nine, Texas is two seventy Tennessee is 369 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:42,120 Speaker 1: two seventy five. Colorado, where I was well, I got 370 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: a cheap it was three dollars average in Colorado. 371 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 2: I got it for two eighty seven. But that was 372 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 2: over a week ago. 373 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: And uh, New Jersey's three eleven. New York is three eighteen. 374 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: These are high tax democratic states. Their gas is nowhere 375 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: year we're paying. Massachusetts so famous for their taxes, A 376 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: lot of people call it Taxachusetts. Their gas is only 377 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 1: three oh six. So I noticed, and we're going to 378 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: try to get them on as soon as we can. 379 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: Michael MChE has another piece that The La Times published 380 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:25,919 Speaker 1: this morning. Michael mcche is the USC professor, and he 381 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: had two big studies that he discussed at length publicly 382 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,199 Speaker 1: in recent months, and one of them was he did 383 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: a fifty year examination of gas prices in California and 384 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: found that they're almost always much higher than the rest 385 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:46,120 Speaker 1: of the country, and it's almost always self inflicted by 386 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: state taxes and state regulations. And secondly, hey things, gas 387 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: is going to go to at least eight to fifty 388 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 1: a gallon because two refineries are going to shut down, 389 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: and we're getting a massive price hike because of a 390 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: new low carbon fuel standard from the California Air Resources Board. 391 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 2: All that's still hanging in the air. 392 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: And I've now seen multiple stories in multiple left wing 393 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: news outlets that confirm the basics of Michael machet's research 394 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: and claims. And he wrote this piece in the La 395 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: Times trying to explain to the dents, to the stupid, 396 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: to the religious fanatics how important gas and oil is 397 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: to California. He writes that fossil fuels account for about 398 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: eight percent of California's three trillion dollar economy. But that's 399 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: the first eight percent, And I thought this was such 400 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 1: an important point. This is what he tells his students. 401 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 1: If you don't get that first eight percent, you don't 402 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: get the rest of the economy. Oil powers everything trucks 403 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 1: to tractors to construction equipment. He writes. Without it, you 404 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: cannot build roads or bridges. You cannot get goods to 405 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 1: grocery stores. Without gas or oil, you cannot make cement, steel, plastics, 406 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: or even the lithium ion batteries in electric vehicles. And 407 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: despite these realities, California energy policy is leading to the 408 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: dismantling of the critical infrastructure that supports this essential system. 409 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: Our state has lost more than thirty refineries in the 410 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 1: last few decades. It's true, we used to have over forty. 411 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: We're now down just to nine major refineries, and two 412 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: more are closing Phillip sixty six here at La and 413 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: Valero in the Bay Area. That's two hundred and eighty 414 00:24:53,119 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 1: four thousand barrels of daily production eighteen percent the state's 415 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: refining capacity. Eighteen percent are going to be taken off 416 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,639 Speaker 1: the moor, off the market because of excessive taxes and 417 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: regulations that these companies can't pay anymore. Now get this again. 418 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:19,879 Speaker 1: I'm trying to address the religious fanatics. California sits atop 419 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: one of the largest untapped reserves in the world. Untapped oil. 420 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,400 Speaker 1: One of the largest in the world is under our feet. 421 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: It's called the Monterey Shale. But because of policies and regulations, 422 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: he says, we import most of our oil from Iraq, 423 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:45,479 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Guyana, and Ecuador. We've also imported from 424 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: Russia and Venezuela. We have the world's cleanest refining standards, 425 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 1: but we import fuel from places with lower environmental and 426 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: labor protections. So we don't produce oil in California. Because 427 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: of the climate, the emissions into the air, well, we 428 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: all have the same atmosphere, so nothing has changed where 429 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 1: it's just Saudi Arabia is producing the emissions, and so's 430 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: a rock. In Brazil and Russia and Venezuela, we haven't 431 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 1: saved anything. We're still burning the oil in the gas 432 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: because there's no civilization without it. We have no major 433 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 1: pipelines bringing oil to California. We rely on ships, he writes, 434 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: many many from Asia that take thirty to forty days 435 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:45,879 Speaker 1: to deliver fuel. These foreign tankers pollute at staggering rates. 436 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,679 Speaker 1: Can you imagine a stupider system than this? Can you 437 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: imagine a stupider system, especially if you're worried about the environment, 438 00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: the air quality, and the climate. Stunningly, all this pollution 439 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 1: happens over international waters, so it doesn't get counted by 440 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: the vegetables on the California. 441 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 2: Air Resources Board. 442 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: This is what's crazy about those cultists, those fanatics on carbon. 443 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: They don't count all the pollution that the tankers make 444 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: over the Pacific Ocean. They only want to stop emissions 445 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 1: here in the state of California, as if the air 446 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: stops at the coastline or the western border. Those carbon 447 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: people are morons, brainstems vegetables. Close a refinery in California 448 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: and importing more fuel, he says, causes an increase in pollution. 449 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: You got that by forcing California refineries to close the 450 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 1: name of air quality and climate change and whatever religious nonsense, 451 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 1: actually increases emissions because we now have countries with very 452 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,439 Speaker 1: low environmental standards producing lots of oil and gas and 453 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: shipping it by tankers for forty days across the Pacific. 454 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:33,920 Speaker 1: You couldn't do it more inefficiently, more expensively, more stupidly. 455 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,880 Speaker 1: You couldn't come up with a system that pollutes more 456 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: than the system we're forced into. 457 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 2: But more coming up. 458 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 459 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 5: six forty. 460 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: John Cobelt here moistline is eighty seven seven Moist daty 461 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: six eight seven seven moist eighty six are usually talkback 462 00:28:54,600 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: feature on the iHeartRadio app. The idiocy of Americans is astounding. 463 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: This came out over the weekend. They pulled over one 464 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 1: thousand people and found that only fifty seven percent of 465 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: Americans knew which country we gained our independence from on 466 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: July fourth, seventeen seventy six. 467 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 2: Do you remember do you know which country? Eric Britain? 468 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 4: Very good, Deborah, Well, he just took my answer. 469 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 2: Are you sure? Are you just copying? No? 470 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 4: No, no, no, I swear, I swear. 471 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: Would you believe that only fifty eight percent of Americans 472 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 1: knew it was great Britain? Eleven percent thought we declared 473 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: our independence from Native Americans, eight percent thought we declared 474 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: independence from s South America, seven percent from Europe, two 475 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: percent from French Canada, one percent from Spain, twelve percent 476 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: said none of the above, But it's the incoming generation 477 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: that's really scary. H Two out of three young adults 478 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: in Generation Z don't know who America declared its independence from. 479 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: A third of gen Zers think it was Native Americans. 480 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: Is this what they're This must be what they're teaching 481 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: in school. I think, by I don't know first grade, 482 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 1: we knew that America was declaring its independence from Great Britain. 483 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 1: How is it that a third of gen Zers think 484 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: we're declaring independence from Native Americans? It's just a gain, yes, 485 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: so it doesn't even come up anymore. They don't They 486 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: don't even bother to raise the issue. Or there asleep, 487 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: Well they're asleep that day. 488 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 4: Yeah. 489 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 6: Did you see the video a few weeks ago of 490 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 6: the UCLA student at graduation that flashed his laptop with 491 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 6: chat GPT doing all of his finals on the JumboTron 492 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 6: at UCLA's graduation. 493 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 5: Uh huh? 494 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 2: How did he get on the JumboTron? 495 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 6: He had his laptop with him at the graduation ceremony 496 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 6: and the camera was panning to him in his seat 497 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 6: at the graduation and he flipped his laptop and showed 498 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 6: it off. 499 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 2: Yeah. 500 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 1: I read that almost one hundred percent of students used 501 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 1: chet GPT to. 502 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 2: Do all their work. 503 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 6: Wouldn't surprise me? 504 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean, I'll show it to you during 505 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 2: the show it to me. 506 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, and and and they've discovered that this might surprise you. 507 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: Like most people who use chet GPT do not remember 508 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 1: any of the information now because they didn't research it 509 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 1: and collect it and write it themselves. They have no 510 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: idea what it is. They submitted to a teacher or 511 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: a professor, so literally they learn nothing because they just 512 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 1: asked a question to check GPT and then print it 513 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 1: out the answer. They probably didn't even read it. They 514 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: have found that when you research things yourself and you 515 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,719 Speaker 1: write it yourself, you'll remember it more likely to remember it. 516 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: But now you have an entire generation. I mean, how 517 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 1: long does that go on? Well, schools don't care anymore. 518 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: We come back. There's a story today I found. It's 519 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 1: in a magazine called Futurism dot com. People are now 520 00:32:53,680 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: being involuntarily committed and they're ending up in jail. Suffer 521 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: from chet GPT psychosis. They get so heavily involved with 522 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: their bot, with their chet GPT friend that they have 523 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: a psychotic break with reality. 524 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 2: And family. 525 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: Members have to commit them to mental institutions. This is 526 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 1: for real. They get off on whatever crazy philosophical tangents 527 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 1: with the chet GPT bot and they can't come back, 528 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 1: and the family loses the guy, and next thing you know, 529 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: he's in a mental institution. 530 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 2: And I just read a few days. 531 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:44,720 Speaker 1: Before this article that people are getting romantically involved with 532 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: their AI robot friends, and that guys are staying up 533 00:33:52,360 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: late at night talking romantically, confiding, creating deep friendships with 534 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: the AI bot. They're give them little names, and that's 535 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,239 Speaker 1: their life. They talk to the bot, and the bot 536 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: knows exactly what to say. The bot listens to them, 537 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,360 Speaker 1: understands them. I guess you can talk dirty to the 538 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 1: bot and the bot talks dirty back. What a what 539 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:28,439 Speaker 1: a sad species? I mean, what men have become. It's 540 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:32,560 Speaker 1: so embarrassing. You're sitting at home talking to a bot, 541 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:42,360 Speaker 1: sitting in your underwear or less to say yeah, city, yeah, 542 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:47,320 Speaker 1: and every night all right, see see see how difficult 543 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 1: women are? You know, no guys are giving up. 544 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:55,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's our fault. It's our fault that you guys 545 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 4: are creepy and slimy. 546 00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,080 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so we'll talk about check gp T 547 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,239 Speaker 1: Psychosis coming up. 548 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,280 Speaker 2: Oh that's exciting. 549 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, Debor Mark Live CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 550 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 1: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You 551 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,399 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 552 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,200 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 553 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app