1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one to 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: four and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,719 Speaker 1: demand the podcast that you could listen to. What you missed. 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: We've had a lot going on this afternoon, all at 6 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: the same time. Now, one thing, you just heard Debrah's 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: bulletin there in the news. They've caught the guy who 8 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: they say whacked the six year old girl in the 9 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: head and knocked her to the ground Sunday night. She 10 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: was taking a walk with her parents and a family 11 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:33,160 Speaker 1: friend and crazy guy was sitting on a bus bench 12 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: and suddenly turned around and smacked the girl. She was 13 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: not seriously hurt. And it took till today till the 14 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 1: police put out a call for anybody who could track 15 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: down this guy, and I guess they caught him. Now, 16 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: we don't have a whole lot of details, although we 17 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:52,879 Speaker 1: might have what lot more. 18 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 2: In my three cast, okay three from we got a 19 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 2: reporter Michael Monks. 20 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: Michael Monks, who's new here a KFI. All right, he's 21 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: on the case and we'll see what he finds out. 22 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: By three point thirty next is Todd Bensman. Now, last segment, 23 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: we set up an overview of what's going on in Haiti. 24 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: The government has collapsed there. The gangs have united and 25 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: basically over through the government. There are a lot of 26 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: people are going to want to get out of Haiti 27 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: and they're going to be headed here. And Ron DeSantis 28 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: has already set out hundreds of National guardsmen in law 29 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: enforcement and boats and planes to keep them from Florida. 30 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: But if you remember a couple of years ago, thousands 31 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: of Haitians made it over the border from Mexico. Remember 32 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: they were hiding under that highway overpass at the border. Well, 33 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: what's going to happen here? Todd Benjman from the Center 34 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: for Immigration Studies is going to tell us, Todd, how 35 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: are you doing great? 36 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. 37 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: So what's the situation in Haiti right now? Are people 38 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: already fleeing or is this the expectation that it's going 39 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: to happen in a few days or a couple of weeks. 40 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 2: No, it's a fully failed state. Haiti is no more. 41 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 3: It's in a state. 42 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 2: Of total anarchy, like something out of one of those 43 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 2: seventy seventies movies, you know, like the Warriors, you know, 44 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: where gangs just kind of roam the streets and the 45 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 2: strong eat the weak and that sort of thing. All 46 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 2: food distribution systems are collapsed and airports shot and ports closed, 47 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 2: and it's a mess. And so people understandably are boarding 48 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 2: sailing boats and starting to ship out toward the Florida Keys. 49 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 2: And we've seen interdictions of some of these boats in 50 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 2: the Bahamas filled with Haitians and also Cuban waters. And 51 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 2: so the fear, especially in Florida, you know, Governor DeSantis 52 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 2: has deployed, you know, hundreds of law enforcement officers and 53 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 2: boats and planes, and National Guard and Border Patrol is 54 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 2: surging extra personnel down there too, because there's this fear 55 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 2: that you know, the boats are going to show up 56 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 2: filled with hundreds and maybe thousands of Haitians at some point. 57 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: We haven't seen that yet, but remember they're sailing boats, 58 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 2: so it takes takes a few days to you know, 59 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 2: get that far with a good wind. 60 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 3: You know. 61 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 2: So the big question is, you know, what are what 62 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: what's the Biden government going to do about it? Are 63 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 2: they going to send the Coast Guard out there to 64 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:45,119 Speaker 2: interdict and repatriate them back to Haiti. Are they going 65 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 2: to use the navy to pick them up and block 66 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 2: them and you know, push them back somehow, or are 67 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 2: they going to let them land in Florida? And I've 68 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 2: heard that that they're going to let them land in Florida. 69 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 2: And I think today the administration makes a statement to 70 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: the effect that that know, they're going to repatriate them. 71 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: If they repatriate them back to Haiti somehow, then there 72 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,039 Speaker 2: shouldn't be a crisis. 73 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 3: If they let them land in Florida. 74 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 2: Of course, everybody's going to hear about this back in 75 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 2: Haiti and they're going to all get on. 76 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 3: Boats and head this way. 77 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 2: So whatever the administration does in the next day or 78 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 2: three is going to determine whether we have a big 79 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 2: maritime crisis on our hands. 80 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: Well, DeSantis, how much of an army does he have 81 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 1: to stop the influx? I mean, two hundred and fifty 82 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: people who can only go so far. 83 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 2: I'm unclear what the state government thinks that it can 84 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,559 Speaker 2: do with this, you know, I mean this is really 85 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 2: fundamentally a federal issue. Foreign nationals showing up in our waters, 86 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 2: our territorial waters, you know, I mean, state governments don't 87 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,239 Speaker 2: really have authority to detain that kind. 88 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 3: Of a person. 89 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 2: Federals do, so I'm not really sure what he's thinking yet, but. 90 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 3: We'll see. Why would it happen. 91 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: Why would the Biden administration treat the Haitian refugees any 92 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: different from the other three million they've led across the border. 93 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 2: Well, it's the election season, so for three years he 94 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 2: wasn't so worried about getting re elected, and so we 95 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 2: had this incredible mass migration crisis where we've had ten 96 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 2: million people hit our southern border. Probably most of them 97 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 2: are now living in the United States. So I think 98 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 2: that this is now a concern, a big concern for 99 00:05:59,080 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 2: the Biden administration. 100 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 3: The optics of that. 101 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 2: Could lose him the election because the polls are showing 102 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 2: that the mass migration crisis is an apex political issue. 103 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 3: In this election. You could win or lose on it. 104 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 2: So I wouldn't be surprised if they did do repatriations 105 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 2: out there at sea, but I'm not sure how they're 106 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 2: going to do it because the airports are shut and 107 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 2: the ports are controlled by gangs, So I don't know 108 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 2: how they're going to repatriate. They're not explaining if they 109 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 2: do repatriot, how they're going to repatriate. 110 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: They'd have to send the military there to take. 111 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 2: On the games. I think you're right. I think they 112 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 2: would have to. You can't just walk in there. I 113 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 2: mean you're going to get machine gunned if you try to, 114 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 2: if you try to fly a plane in there, or 115 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 2: if you bring a ship in there or something like that. 116 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: Could you imagine the administration doing that, though. 117 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 2: Not really, so it remains to be seen. All of 118 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 2: this is very interesting to watch. I think the first 119 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 2: boats should if they get through the Bahamas. You know, 120 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 2: the Bahaman Navy is interdicting some of these sailing vessels 121 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 2: and bringing them ashore. But the more sailing vessels filled 122 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 2: with overloaded with Haitians that start to go through, I 123 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 2: mean quite a few of them are going to be 124 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 2: able to get through, and the Bahaman Navy is going 125 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 2: to let some of them through because nobody wants to 126 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 2: have thousands and thousands of Haitians on your little island 127 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 2: where you have to take care of everybody, right, Yeah, 128 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 2: So it's be easier for them to just say, oop, 129 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 2: sorry we miss the we missed those ten boats. You know, 130 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 2: we missed all those boats heading to the US you. 131 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: Wrote about you wrote about in your book Overrun, which 132 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: is about the immigration situation. That the principle is when 133 00:07:54,440 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: people in Haiti see how the first migrants successful they 134 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: are and getting into the country, that's going to determine 135 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: how big a rush we're going to get. It's the 136 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: if the if the early travelers get into America safely, 137 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: then we are going to get overrun. 138 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can. 139 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 2: You can trust that all of Haiti is watching these first. 140 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 3: Boats what happens to them, that. 141 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 2: There's probably a fleet of other vessels that are preparing 142 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 2: themselves for similar voyages depending on what happens to these 143 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 2: first I call them trailblazers. So it's very important what 144 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 2: the administration, how they handle these first boats. 145 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 3: If they interdict them. 146 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 2: If they shut them down, if they shut the whole 147 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 2: thing down, if they end up actually repatriating them and 148 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 2: just throwing them onto the beaches or whatever, that's going 149 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 2: to matter greatly. But if they you know, I had 150 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 2: one source I've put this in the piece. It's a 151 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:00,199 Speaker 2: one uncorroborated source saying that the Coastguard is a or 152 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 2: orders to not interdict them, but. 153 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 3: To follow them. 154 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 2: Into the Florida shoreline and just make sure nobody drowns 155 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 2: or capsizes or something, and. 156 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 3: Then what and then let them in, let them into 157 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 3: the US. 158 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: And if they get here, then half a Haiti's going 159 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: to try. 160 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 3: Well, let me just put it this way. There are 161 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 3: eleven million people in Haiti, you know, So you. 162 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 2: Know that's a lot of people. If you want to 163 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 2: empty out, if you want to do a population transfer 164 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 2: of that half of the island over there, then you 165 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 2: know that's going to change America. 166 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 3: I don't think we're going to do that, but you know, we. 167 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 2: We've had we've seen these Haitian boat migrations in the past. 168 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 3: You know, in the nineties there are a couple of them. 169 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 2: George H. Bush interdicted them. He used the Navy and 170 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 2: interdicted them and put them ashore at Guantanamo Bay, at 171 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,559 Speaker 2: our military base there till things calm down, then put 172 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 2: them all back on Haiti. 173 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 3: So you know, maybe something. 174 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 2: Like that is in the offing. Lots of interesting things 175 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 2: could happen here. Maybe nothing will happen at all, that 176 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 2: the Bahama maybe will kind of get everything under control there, 177 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 2: we'll pay them off. 178 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 3: Who knows, All. 179 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: Right, Well, Todd, thanks for coming on and explaining this, 180 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: and we'll watch. Maybe we'll talk with you again real soon, 181 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: see what happens anytime. 182 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 3: Thank you very much. 183 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 1: All right, Todd Bensman from the Center for Immigration Studies. 184 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: We got more coming up. 185 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 186 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 4: six forty. 187 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: Another snapshot of what goes on behind the scenes if 188 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 1: you go to John Cobelt Radio on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. 189 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: Debra barged in without warning and tried to sell me 190 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: on some colorful reusable bags the grocery store. It didn't 191 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 1: go well, and they're they're not to my taste. And 192 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: she wouldn't take no for an answer. Well, it would 193 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: be to your taste. A plastic bag that never decays, 194 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: that sits in a landfill for two thousand years and 195 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: never degrades. That's you are a poor sport. I'm gonna 196 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: say that. Somebody offers you a gift and you decline 197 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: two gifts anyway, if you and she dances too. I'm 198 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: just looking at this again. So he has two colorful bags, 199 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: she dances and uh, no, sale, I look like a 200 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: ding dong. I'm not gonna live. So you want to 201 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: see it. It's on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter, because 202 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: that's we put our best and brightest brains to create 203 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: these come on entertainment channels. Yes, you're in the commercial breaks. 204 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: I didn't know you were coming. 205 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 5: I know. 206 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 1: That's the best part. Yeah, that was the whole point 207 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: I know I got because that's off guard. I would 208 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: have locked the door otherwise. All right, So go watch that. 209 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: It's funny. Oh we got in three thirty new Are 210 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: we gonna have that news update on the Santa Monica 211 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: girl who got whacked by the psychotic guy? Yep, and 212 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: we got a reporter on the scene because they claim 213 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,679 Speaker 1: they have them, so we'll see what the details are about. 214 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 1: National Review did a story on something that you think 215 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: every media outlet would do, but nobody did. Did you 216 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: know that there was a hearing this week the California 217 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: Senate the Transportation Committee on the newest high speed rail 218 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 1: business plan. We are now in year what is it, 219 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: year sixteen? Since people stupidly passed the high speed rail 220 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: initiative so we could borrow billions of dollars, and now 221 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: in year sixteen, they have spent almost ten billion and 222 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: there's not one foot not one inch of track laid down, 223 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 1: yet not one CNBC made that claim. That's not just me. 224 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 1: They say the project has spent almost ten billion, fifteen 225 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: years later, not a single mile of track, and executives 226 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: say there's not enough money to finish the project. So 227 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: they went to Sacramento to beg for more money and 228 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: the CEO, boy, this guy has got a good racket 229 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: running hot Brian Kelly. He said the program was all 230 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 1: but broke because they need at least thirty five billion 231 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: just to build a rail between Mercette and Bakersfield, and 232 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,559 Speaker 1: they only have twenty eight billion left in the bank 233 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: because they've stolen some money out of the legislature. They 234 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: got some federal money. They never got private money, which 235 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: they claimed they would get. So they have costs now 236 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: which significantly exceed what they have to spend. And even 237 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: if they got the money, it could be nine years 238 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: before anybody would get a ride on this stupid thing. 239 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: And even then you'd only go from merced to Bakersfield. Now, 240 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: if they need thirty five billion and we already spent 241 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: ten that's forty five billion, if you remember, and everybody's forgotten. 242 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, they promised that they would 243 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: build the whole train system from Sacramento to San Francisco 244 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: to Los Angeles to Anaheim to San Diego, the whole 245 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: thing for thirty three billion. Now they claim it's were 246 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: said to Bakersfield for thirty five billion. They think they'd 247 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: need one hundred billion to finish what was promised to 248 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: the voters sixteen years ago. Their total cost, they claim, 249 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: is going to be one hundred and twenty eight billion. 250 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: It went from thirty three billion to one hundred and 251 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: twenty eight billion. And as they write in the National Review, 252 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: the more money that's appropriated, the more money it needs. 253 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: In fact, this business plan says that the price is 254 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: going to up twenty two percent from the last business plan. 255 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: Now one twenty eight over thirty three What is that 256 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: one two three foot's almost four times as much. And 257 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: you know that's a fake number anyway, because they always 258 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: downplay the numbers. Why don't they stop. They have wasted 259 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: ten billion dollars. It's gone in the pockets of these 260 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: bureaucrats and the unions who pushed for this. A lot 261 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: of union members have gotten paid building nothing. And then 262 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: it goes to various lawyers and consultants and engineering firms, 263 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: and you know all these organizations that spend a lot 264 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: of money bribing public officials and Sacramento we come back. Well, 265 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: we'll see what this report has. 266 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 267 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 4: six forty. 268 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: So glad everyone's enjoying me. Deborah's uh, Debor's break into 269 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: the studio with those reusable days. There is going to 270 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: be a pad lock and a security guard. Anyway. You 271 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: can go see it at Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. 272 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: John coblt Radio and I got ambushed by by Deborah 273 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: and it was it was recorded trying to sell me 274 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: on these really cute, colorful reusables. They were very, very cute. 275 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: I thought maybe you would take me up on its 276 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: not going to go out in public with that. Fun 277 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: was by all. Yeah, we had a good time, So 278 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: go watch that. In Calabasas. 279 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: Uh. 280 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: Second story in the last couple of weeks, remember in 281 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, the boys were passing around doctor nude photos 282 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: of the girls because there's what they're doing is there's 283 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: a new app where you can take a girl's photo 284 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: and undress her and uh you get a naked body 285 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: that's similar to the girl's real body, or they're taking uh, 286 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: the girl's head and attaching it to another nude body 287 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: that they have found online from one of the porn sites. Anyway, 288 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: there's a sixteen year old girl in Calabasas now getting 289 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 1: tortured because somebody that she used to know is spreading 290 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: these doctored images. Here's a KTLA Channel five report. 291 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,679 Speaker 6: I didn't want to go to school, didn't want to 292 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 6: leave my room. I was scared, I was embarrassed. Monthally, 293 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 6: I was humiliated. 294 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 5: A sixteen year old sophomore at Calabasas High School shares 295 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 5: her humiliation after a former friend, also a minor, allegedly 296 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 5: sent images around that she says were manipulated to show 297 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 5: her in nude, compromising even pornographic positions. 298 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 6: To my understanding, she manipulated my face onto another image 299 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,879 Speaker 6: taken from pornhub of a girl who had you know 300 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 6: who could have a similar body. 301 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: Type to mine. 302 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 5: Jacqueline Smith is the girl's mother. She says the photos 303 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 5: were sent via Snapchat and air drop and spread like wildfire. 304 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,159 Speaker 5: Her daughter says she and the other student got in 305 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 5: a fight over a boy and a concert, then chose 306 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 5: to share images as revenge. 307 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 6: We have now moved on to the handed to the 308 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 6: DA and so our court day is April ninth, Possession 309 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 6: and Distribution of child pornography. 310 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,959 Speaker 5: Smith says she wants the district to take action. District 311 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 5: Superintendent doctor Dan Stepanovski sent us this statement during our 312 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 5: interview with Smith, quote, we take our students' safety very seriously, 313 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 5: and we're in the middle of investigating claims from both 314 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 5: students and parents against each other. We have also shared 315 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 5: all the information we have with Lost Hills Sheriff's office, 316 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 5: but they don't seem to be pressing any charges at 317 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 5: this point and don't believe any images were altered if. 318 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 6: That information is inaccurate, because it is no longer being 319 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 6: handled by Lost Hills. This is handled by La County 320 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 6: and the juvenile system, which is. 321 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,679 Speaker 5: In Silmar KTLA Legal analyst Alison Triesil says, let this 322 00:18:58,840 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 5: be a warning. 323 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 7: Although you may think that this is your very best 324 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 7: friend and that you take these photos either consensually or 325 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 7: you're horse playing and you're having a really good time 326 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 7: and you think it's funny, if that friendship goes south 327 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 7: and for whatever reason, they post those pictures of you. 328 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 7: It can have very long lasting, harmful effects on your 329 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 7: reputation and your high school experience, and so I really 330 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 7: want parents to have that discussion with their students. Please 331 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 7: do not fall pray, or be the victim, or be 332 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 7: the person that's disseminating those photos, because it really can 333 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 7: have not just severe legal consequences, but it can be 334 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 7: damaging for the rest of your life. 335 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 5: Katla cannot independently verify the charges because the case involves 336 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 5: two minors. 337 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:56,880 Speaker 1: It's interesting that the lost Hails Sheriff's office. They don't 338 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: think the images were altered. They don't think it was 339 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: doc which implies that these are real dude pictures of 340 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: the girl. Yeah, you can't let anybody ever take nude 341 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: photos of you. I don't know why that isn't obvious. 342 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: I mean, I it's just it just stuns me that 343 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: I don't care what everybody else is doing. Nude photos 344 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 1: of you. That's that is not going to end well 345 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: one way or the other. And don't trust anybody in 346 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: high school. Teenagers brains are crazy, they don't have good 347 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: impulse control. You let your nude photos of yourself out there, 348 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,479 Speaker 1: I don't Alison treesel Is right, It doesn't matter if 349 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 1: it's your best friend, best friends turn on you fast 350 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: and just or I mean, you know, the mother and 351 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: the daughter are saying no, no, these are manipulated photos. 352 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: So who knows. Well, you know what, there's there's zero 353 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: way to stop this because the app you're out there now, 354 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 1: you put them on Snapchat, and the whole idea of 355 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: Snapchat is they disintegrate, they disappear. How long does it 356 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: they last on Snapchat? Twenty four hours? Twenty four hours? Oh, 357 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 1: I thought it was an instant thing. I thought it 358 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: was like ten seconds. 359 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 8: Well, it depends if you send a Snapchat to someone directly, Yes, 360 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 8: that goes away pretty instantly. There's a there's a certain 361 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 8: timer of how long, right you click it, like you 362 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 8: click open the picture, there's a timer of how long 363 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 8: someone can view that picture if you send it to 364 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 8: someone directly. But if you post, like let's say, to 365 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 8: your story on Snapchat or like your story on Instagram, 366 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 8: that stays up for twenty four hours. 367 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 5: Well, Aaron in the newsroom just said that you can 368 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 5: you can take a picture of it. 369 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 8: Yeah, you can take Yeah, you can take a screenshot 370 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 8: of it, and then it lives forever. 371 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, so this is all bad and air drop 372 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: you can't really trace that well. 373 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 8: Air drops just iPhone to iPhone, right, sending a camera 374 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 8: a picture. 375 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,360 Speaker 1: But it's not like posting it on Instagram. No, that's 376 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: that's just putting it directly into someone's camera role. So 377 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: it's easy to get away with doing in this, and 378 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: uh it'd be difficult to catch you. Yeah, that's that's great. 379 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 8: This is crazy because I went to Colbasas High School. 380 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 8: So when I saw the story when you emailed it, 381 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 8: I was like, whoa, this is pretty heavy. 382 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 1: Were there were there a lot of nude photos going 383 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 1: around back then? Because that would have been I mean 384 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: but twelve thirteen years ago. I mean, I mean yeah, 385 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 1: I mean, guys are guys are guys. Guys are guys, guys, 386 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 1: but they weren't AI generated. Yeah. Were they trading photos though? 387 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 3: Oh yeah? 388 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: Girls? Oh yeah. Do girls not understand this or they 389 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: just don't care? I think it's both. 390 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 3: Oh yeah. 391 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 8: They they get told one thing by a guy they 392 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 8: like when they're that age, they take it as uh law. 393 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 1: Basically, guys always lie and guys are all predators. They 394 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: can never be trusted. Okay, So anything that you say 395 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: to any of us. It's a lie. I'm sure I flied. 396 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 1: Yeah really really? Oh yeah guy. No, guys can't be 397 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 1: trusted in the context of wooing women. I'm not even 398 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: talking about wooing women what I was talking about. No, 399 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: that's the context we're talking about it. I just thought, No, 400 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: I was just playing with you there yet. No, it 401 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,239 Speaker 1: got no. In the context of trying to get a 402 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,959 Speaker 1: girl to take off her pants so you can take 403 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: dude photos, do not believe any of the promises. So 404 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,400 Speaker 1: you don't always lie about everything, just that in some 405 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: cases it depends. It depends how stimulated you are in 406 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 1: any given day. You know that you sit there going no, 407 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: they'd really do that? Did boys? Wi to me? More? 408 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: Coming up? 409 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 410 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 4: six forty. 411 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: Another news story about Boeing. We told you before that 412 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: there was there was playing yesterday that had an emergency 413 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,120 Speaker 1: landing at lax It was a seven seventy seven seven 414 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,159 Speaker 1: seven and it was coming from Texas and apparently it 415 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: had either a blown wheel or a low pressure wheel, 416 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 1: and they decided to do the emergency landing here. And 417 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:17,360 Speaker 1: then there was a story that online people are finally 418 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: saying if it's Boweing, I'm not going no. I don't 419 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: know how widespread that is, or it was just a 420 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,360 Speaker 1: catchy line from one poster. But New York Post has 421 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 1: something that's truly interesting. John Barnett is the whistleblower who 422 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: is in the middle of lawsuits with Boeing for telling 423 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: the truth on the lack of quality control on the 424 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,919 Speaker 1: production line. And he was found dead in his vehicle 425 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: on Saturday. He was filing a retaliation lawsuit against Boeing, 426 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: and he had depositions, and he had done some depositions 427 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,399 Speaker 1: last week, and he'd had another round on Saturday, and 428 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: his lawyer was waiting for him. Barnett ever showed up, 429 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: and so the lawyers went to the hotel and they 430 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 1: found Barnett in his vehicle and self inflicted gunshot wound. 431 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: He killed himself. Now, according to a New York Post exclusive, 432 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: his friends are saying Barnett did not seem depressed at 433 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: dinner at all the night before he was found dead 434 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 1: in his car. Lawyers, family, friends, and witnesses all say 435 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: that Barnett was upbeat about finishing off his testimony against Boeing. 436 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: This is happening in Charleston, South Carolina, and because it 437 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: is kind of suspicious in the midst of all this 438 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: Boeing bad news, and suddenly he was getting highlighted again. 439 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 1: Program stations were replaying his interviews from the last few 440 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,959 Speaker 1: years where he had given warnings that the Boeing production 441 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: line was a mess. And an employee works at the 442 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 1: Holiday Inn where Barnett was found dead, told the Post 443 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: that Barnett had a case of dead drank a coke 444 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: scrolled on his phone and seemed fine. I didn't think 445 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: of him at all until I heard the news the 446 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: next day. He didn't seem upset at all. He was 447 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: going to give a third day of testimony in the lawsuit. 448 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: The lawyers Paul the hotel asked them to check on 449 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: Barnett because he didn't answer his phone, and then they 450 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: discovered his body slumped over in his orange pickup truck 451 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: with a silver gun steal in his hand. Now, the 452 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 1: Charleston County carner said the death was self inflicted, but 453 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 1: said more tests are being done before there's a final determination, 454 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: and they're actively investigating. They have dusted his car insiding 455 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: out for prints, which normally you wouldn't do in a 456 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: suicide case. Family friend Bob Emery said he spoke to 457 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: Barnett around two weeks before he died and said he 458 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: seemed to be focused on what he was doing, didn't 459 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: seem depressed. In fact, both Emery and Barnett had lost 460 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: their wives recently, and Barnett was making calls to Emory 461 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 1: all the time to check up on him and make 462 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: sure he was okay. Checked up on me a lot. 463 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: He said he had a good life going for him, 464 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: even with the problems at Boeing, Barnett's new wife. Barnett's 465 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: wife had died in twenty twenty two, so that's two 466 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: years ago. It's unlikely that that would have caused the 467 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: suicide over the weekend. But he, you know, he told 468 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: the truth and Boeing tried to ruin his career, and 469 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: then Barnett filed a retaliation lawsuit because it's against the 470 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: wall to ruin a whistleblower's career. Ends up dead in 471 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: the car and the first thing I thought of, no, 472 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: I don't think so, thats just my conspiracy suspicion software 473 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: that I had installed. Said that doesn't seem right, and 474 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: all his friends and people at the hotel said, no, 475 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: he was fine, no sign that he was going to 476 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: kill himself. Conway's here, Hey, you know. 477 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 9: What you never hear is when a guy kills himself 478 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:05,919 Speaker 9: and all of his good friends and his family go. 479 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, he was ready. He talked about it all the time. 480 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. 481 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: I couldn't believe the last of this. Look. 482 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 9: Yeah, the only thing he talked about it at a 483 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 9: RAM game is how he's gonna kill himself. 484 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he said, cool. 485 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 3: Bye. 486 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 9: Guy to be around a little down, a little downer 487 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 9: sometimes because at weddings he talked about killing himself and 488 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 9: birthdays and never heard that. 489 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: Christmas, Oh Christmas. 490 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,959 Speaker 9: He was great because we always thought he's gonna hang 491 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,719 Speaker 9: himself at Christmas. They never did, and it was kind 492 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 9: of a joke he did one year. You never heard that. 493 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 9: You never hear guys go on and on about how 494 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 9: you know he's committed to it, Just never hear it. 495 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 9: All Right, Alex Stone is coming on with us, he's 496 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 9: cooy's with ABC, and he said schools should be banned 497 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 9: from selling hot, flaming Cheetos. That's the big project, right, Yeah, 498 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 9: that's a big deal going on. And then Jim Taykoor. 499 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 9: He's in charge of the San Juan Coppastrano Swallows Parade, 500 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 9: and for some reason back in November, I said I'd 501 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,239 Speaker 9: do that, and now it's around the corner. So I 502 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 9: regret that Dean Sharp is coming on with us as well. 503 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: So if you really don't want to go, they can 504 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: find someone else. 505 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 9: I think they do it, and look, I don't blame them. 506 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 9: I would do the same thing. They do it to 507 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 9: get mentioned on KFI. Sure, right, and then when I 508 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 9: show up, they're like, oh, you didn't really have to 509 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 9: show up, buddy, And I always feel like I should 510 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 9: show up, and then when I show up, they're not 511 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 9: really enthusiastic about. 512 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: You know, we did a parade once when we first 513 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: got to LA and there was literally no one watching it. 514 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 1: Oh that's great, it was. That's great. A pretty major charity, okay, 515 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: very well known charity, and they held a parade and 516 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: it was a Marina del Rey and nobody showed up 517 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: to watch. I had part of it. We weren't just 518 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: the main draw or anything, but nobody. 519 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 9: I did the Huntington Beach parade and the car broke 520 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 9: down and I said to the guy, I said, hey, 521 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 9: you know, the car caught on fire well at the 522 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 9: beginning of the parade, and so it had to be towed. 523 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 9: But they couldn't get around the the you know, the 524 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 9: marching band and the other floats and everything. So they 525 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 9: towed it down the parade route with me behind it, 526 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 9: and it's just said Conway KFI. And then you know, 527 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 9: Larry's toewing on it. And I said to the guy 528 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 9: there runs the parade, I said, hey, has this ever 529 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 9: happened before? A car ever breakdown like this? He goes, No, 530 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 9: the first cars ever broken down. But about five years 531 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 9: ago there was a float that broke down and they 532 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 9: had to push it the whole way. 533 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: Guess his float? 534 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 9: That was mine and the only two I'm the only 535 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 9: float and the only car that's ever broken down that parade. 536 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 9: It must be sabotaged. 537 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: That just kidds. That's great. I love these parades. You 538 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: were in that Pacific Palisades parade. Yeah, we did that 539 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: a lot. Is that a big deal? Yeah, it is 540 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: really is. People showed up at that one, a lot 541 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: of my big trumpers out in that area. You're not 542 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: really back then, nobody paid attention to that stuff. We 543 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: just had a parade. That's great, man's really great. We 544 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 1: did the Glendale Christmas Parade a lot. Oh that's a 545 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: cool one. One of the councilmen got really mad at me. 546 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 1: Why is that? Well it was over a tree story, 547 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: he was, yeah, some guy was being forced to cut 548 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: down a tree. Oh property, and he felt bullied, and 549 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: I went after the councilman, and the councilman held a 550 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: grudge and no more parade. 551 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 9: I did the Norco Parade and I get in the car. 552 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 9: We're the first car, so go down. It's a three 553 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 9: mile you know, waving everybody, Hey, how you doing. Nobody 554 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 9: has any idea who the hell I am. And we 555 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 9: get to the end of the parade. I'm like, oh, 556 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 9: that was great, and I turn around. There's nobody behind me. 557 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 9: The second float broke down, and so I'd go three 558 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 9: miles by myself, and it was like, who the hell 559 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 9: is that? It says Conwy then doesn't look like dwarf. 560 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: He must go on with it must be important. It's 561 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: the only guy in the parade. But it's this the 562 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: twenty third. It's not this weekend, it's next weekend. When 563 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: San Juan Coppas drawna all right. 564 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 9: All right, Well, come out where the swallows come home, 565 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 9: because it's really sad to be. 566 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: In a parade where nobody watches. 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