1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Doug McIntyre in for John Cobbolt on the John Cobbolt Show. 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 2: Look at that. I got through the title the first 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 2: time without getting it wrong, which is more than John 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 2: has done. Anyway, happy to have you listening on this Friday, 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 2: which is a get away There we go, get away 8 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 2: day for almost everybody, Debora. Have you noticed that the 9 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: studio here has been tagged by graffiti people? Yes, I 10 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 2: have all over this window. 11 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not that pretty, isn't. 12 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 2: Uh No, it's the Conway people. It seems to be anyway, 13 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:36,639 Speaker 2: not that I'm pointing a finger, but. 14 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 4: And you know what, you can't. I think people tried 15 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 4: to rub it off, and it's it's. 16 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 2: Hard'll be there forever. 17 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, something to do with it. 18 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 2: Oh did she? Oh? Good? Well, fortunately you uh Eric, 19 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 2: you didn't throw her under the bus. She won't. I 20 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 2: won't get back to her because we know she's not listening. 21 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 2: Uh So, anyway, we're happy to have you. We're here 22 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 2: till four o'clock and there's tons of stuff to talk about. 23 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: Despite the fact that most of the world is shutting down, 24 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 2: you know, when it gets real quiet in the news 25 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 2: cycle between Christmas and New Year's it actually proves that 26 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: the world could be a much better place if we 27 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 2: choose to make it so, because what happens between, of 28 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 2: course Christmas and New Years is all the troublemakers go 29 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 2: to their docas or their villas or wherever it is 30 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 2: they go, they go skiing, and they just shut down 31 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 2: the trouble for about ten days, and then as soon 32 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 2: as January second rolls run, they go right back into 33 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 2: the marsh pit and start stirring the pot again. But 34 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 2: it really just shows you how much of the outrage 35 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 2: and the controversy and the outright trouble, murder and mayhem 36 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: that we deal with on a daily basis is totally 37 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 2: arbitrary or voluntary. Let's put it that way. The people 38 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 2: choose to be troublemakers because when it's their downtime, they 39 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 2: don't have like a designated assistant who just goes and 40 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 2: keeps stirring the pot for them. It's not raining right 41 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 2: now here in Burbank, but there's lots of clouds floating around. Obviously, 42 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 2: rain that we've had is starting to move away. And 43 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 2: I guess it's supposed to start clearing up by the 44 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 2: end of today and through the Christmas weekend and into 45 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 2: next week. The reason I bring up rain because it's 46 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 2: a pretty boring subject to talk about, but something interesting 47 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: is happening finally, believe it or not. Finally, in California, 48 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 2: a place where we routinely have horrific droughts that cause 49 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 2: all kinds of problems, we're starting to actually collect the water. 50 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, believe it or not. 51 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 2: I saw this in the Los Angeles Daily News this 52 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 2: morning that La County. The headline says it all. La 53 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 2: County captures seven hundred and seventeen million gallons of storm 54 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 2: water this week alone. That's in La County. Now, of course, 55 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 2: the subhead is that George Gascon has let it go. 56 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:58,119 Speaker 2: That's my little George Gascon Joe. I'm by the way, 57 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: that's enough, thank you, Eric. Since October first, the county 58 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 2: has captured roughly five billion gallons of storm water, which 59 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: is enough to meet the needs of one hundred and 60 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 2: twenty one thousand, six hundred people, according to public works officials. 61 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 2: All right, so that's a nice start. But here's the 62 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 2: thing that is really staggering. Even by California goofball standards. 63 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 2: This is hard to believe. Gavin Newsom signed an emergency 64 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 2: fast track declaration to try to get this giant reservoir 65 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 2: about seventy miles north of Sacramento built as fast as possible. 66 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 2: Anybody want to take a guess of when the last 67 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 2: time the state of California built a large reservoir for 68 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 2: rain water? Anybody want to take a stab at that one. No, 69 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: that's not right, Deborrah, It wasn't three weeks ago. 70 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 3: I couldn't even guess. It's been so long. 71 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 2: It's almost fifty years ago. Nineteen seventies was the last 72 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 2: time that the state of California went to the well, 73 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 2: so to speak, to build a large scale reservoir. And 74 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 2: what's happened during the last almost fifty years. The population 75 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 2: has gotten a lot larger, hasn't it, And the weather's 76 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: gotten hotter, and we've expanded the agribusiness enormously. You know, 77 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 2: all of a sudden people started drinking almond milk and almonds. 78 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 2: It takes like twenty gallons of water per almond. I mean, 79 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 2: it's some staggering. It's a really water inefficient crop to 80 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 2: grow in a dry place. So we've had a big, huge, 81 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 2: mushrooming population, which, by the way, over the last three 82 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 2: years has gotten smaller. We'll get to that later on 83 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 2: in the broadcast. But the population California has gone up 84 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 2: enormously since the nineteen seventies, but our water storage capacity 85 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 2: has not. And it's been this crazy cycle over and 86 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 2: over and over again where we go through a terrible drought. 87 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 2: It shuts down, you know, car washes. They tell you 88 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 2: to tear up your lawn, to put in ei of 89 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 2: the fake plastic grass, and to put in cactuses, all 90 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 2: the stuff that comes with dry right, and then it 91 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 2: rains and we totally forget about it. It's like the 92 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 2: rain washes away our collective memory of what the actual 93 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: impact of the drought has been. For once we seem 94 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 2: to be on top of it, and they're trying to 95 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 2: build this massive reservoir. It's a four point five billion 96 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 2: dollar project. But here's the deal. We're getting sued. Of course, 97 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 2: we're getting sued because the environmental people they don't want 98 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 2: you know, they're always looking for the delta smelts quote. 99 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 2: It's not a negligible amount of water storage that is provided, 100 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 2: but it comes with a big costs. As John buse 101 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 2: or Bucy uh, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, 102 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 2: one of the organizations behind the suit, I over pronounced organizations, 103 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 2: didn't I I noticed that I called it an organization. 104 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all right, Well say. 105 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 2: Okay, I wanted to get all the syllables in there. 106 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 3: We'll hear over pronounced or under Well. 107 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 2: That's why I can't listen to a podcast if any 108 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 2: show them on. All I hear is the mistakes. There 109 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 2: are other alternatives that we were really not considering that 110 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 2: might achieve some of the same benefits. Now, under the 111 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 2: new California Environmental Quality Act, within two hundred and seventy days, 112 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 2: it calls for the courts to alleviate disputes newsom signists 113 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 2: and by the way, we get to give them props 114 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 2: for this because the litigation that ties up projects first 115 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 2: of all, makes California a hostile place to do business. 116 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 2: It also makes some civic projects impossible to build, and 117 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 2: water storage is one of them. The facility, if it 118 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 2: gets built, will capture water from the Sacramento River during 119 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 2: wet years and store up to one point five million 120 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 2: acre feet during dry years. Enough to meet the annual 121 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 2: needs more than three million households. Traditional reservoir sites are 122 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 2: planned as an off stream facility, meeting that water wouldn't 123 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 2: be stored directly on the river, thus avoiding having to 124 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 2: dam the waterway and disturb the flows of fish and 125 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah. Anyway, it's been since the 126 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 2: nineteen seventies since we actually built a large capacity reservoir 127 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 2: in the state of California. If this does go through 128 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 2: and passes the legal challenges, it's not expected to be 129 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 2: completed until twenty thirty two, which means maybe you'll be 130 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 2: able to take the bullet train to go see it. No, 131 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 2: that won't happen, but I mean that's some progress. At 132 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 2: least we're waking up a little bit, I guess, to 133 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 2: that reality that we live in a place where it 134 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 2: gets real dry for long periods of time. We have 135 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 2: to have reservoirs so that we don't see all that 136 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 2: water rush of the sea. So we're getting a little better. 137 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 2: What's also happening is the Dodgers have gotten significantly better, 138 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 2: and we'll be talking about the Yamamodos signing as well 139 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 2: as the state of Texas stepping up to the plate 140 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 2: and saying, Okay, you're not going to enforce the border. 141 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 2: We're going to enforce the border, and all the usual 142 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 2: suspects are unhappy about that. We'll get into that as well. 143 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 2: So we got lots to get into. 144 00:07:55,760 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A six. 145 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 2: Doug mcatar in for John Cobbolt here on the John 146 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 2: Cobbolt Show until four o'clock. Later on this hour, Donald 147 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 2: Trump was captured on tape, apparently along with the chairwoman 148 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 2: of the GOP, pressuring Michigan election officials will to make 149 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: any difference. Probably not. We'll get into that. And are 150 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 2: you gate lice? Have you ever heard the phrase, Deborah 151 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 2: gate lice? 152 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 3: I have not. 153 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 2: It is a reference to those people who start lining 154 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 2: up early at the airport to get on their flight. 155 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 2: Not the people who jump up the second lands to 156 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 2: get off, but the people who are queuing up to 157 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 2: get on the plane before their section is called. The airline. 158 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 2: People call them gate lice. 159 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 3: Because we're just we're so anxious. 160 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 4: We just want to make sure, especially if you don't 161 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 4: have a seat rite a seat assigned to you, and 162 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 4: you want to make sure your luggage gets on there. 163 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 2: Oh you're talking about the Southwest people. 164 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't want to. 165 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 2: I don't know who's in a hurry to get into 166 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 2: thirty four B in that middle seat. Way. We'll get 167 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 2: into that later on. I wanted to go back to 168 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 2: a topic that I dined out on for many, many years, 169 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 2: which is the broken border situation, the whole illegal immigration issue, 170 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 2: and I have stayed away from it for about seven 171 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 2: years because nobody cared. I mean, the bottom line is 172 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 2: those of us who cared were working ourselves up into 173 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 2: a lather with you know, veins bulging on our next 174 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 2: and it just the problem got worse and worse and 175 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 2: worse and worse and worse, and neither party was serious 176 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 2: about doing anything about it. Now we saw illegal border 177 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 2: crossings plunged during the Trump administration. There was lots of 178 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 2: coverage about the cages that were keeping the families all right, 179 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 2: But the bottom line, the reason that the border crossings 180 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 2: plunged during the Trump years was mostly due to the pandemic. 181 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 2: Because when the US economy shut down, there was really 182 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 2: not a great incentive to come to the US because 183 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 2: the money valve was largely being turned off. But obviously 184 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,719 Speaker 2: as soon as the pandemic subsided enough so that the 185 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 2: economy opened up again, two things happened. Gas prices went 186 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 2: through the roof because people started driving again all over 187 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 2: the world, by the way, and people started crossing borders 188 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 2: again profoundly in this time, with massive waves of people 189 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 2: coming from as far away as Venezuela. And it's a 190 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 2: horrific journey to walk through Central America into Texas or 191 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 2: Arizona or California presumably and have to deal with drug 192 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 2: cartels and human smugglers and all the crime and the 193 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 2: disasters that that represents. But we have done everything humanly 194 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 2: possible except for mail engraved invitations to the poorest portions 195 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 2: of our hemisphere, and anybody else who can get to 196 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 2: Central or South America can certainly come into the country 197 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 2: that way as well. Homeland Security and ICE has referred 198 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 2: to those people as otms other than Mexican. That's what 199 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 2: they officially document when they catch people coming in from 200 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 2: Tunisia or coming in from China or wherever they come from, 201 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: even Italy in some cases, they designate them as otms 202 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 2: other than Mexican. And the vast waves of illegal immigration 203 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 2: now numbers that we have never seen before are largely 204 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 2: coming from Venezuela, which is a country in great crisis. 205 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 2: Now for the ten billionth time, we're going to have 206 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 2: this conversation about the border. There might be an actual 207 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 2: opportunity to broker a deal on it because the Democrats 208 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 2: and the Republicans are actually talking about this in the 209 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 2: House and the Senate, with the Biden administration for once 210 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 2: facing reality, which is they're going to lose the twenty 211 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 2: twenty four election largely because of this issue. It's not 212 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 2: the only reason, but it's a major contributing factor. Inflation 213 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 2: is another big one, the disastrous exit from Afghanistan. There's 214 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 2: a lot of reasons Joe Biden's sort of roombah like 215 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 2: exits from the stage when he shuffles off. There's a 216 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 2: lot of reasons why President Biden is struggling in the polls, 217 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 2: but the border is certainly one of the issues, and 218 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 2: it's an issue that has blown up in the Democrats face. 219 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 2: For years. They were able to play the sympathy card 220 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 2: because many, many millions of people have family connections and 221 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 2: or just basic empathy for immigrants in general. But it's 222 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 2: gotten to the point where it's just insane, and it's 223 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 2: a direct contributor to homelessness because when people come into 224 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 2: the country illegally, they're not moving to bel air, they're 225 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 2: not moving to hidden hills. They're moving to the most 226 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 2: affordable units of housing, and they get jobs, and they 227 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:56,559 Speaker 2: price the people currently living in those bear subsidence units 228 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 2: to the streets. In many cases, it's not the only 229 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 2: reason and for homelessness, but it's a major contributing factor 230 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 2: in an urban center like southern California that nobody wants 231 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 2: to talk about. But meanwhile, Greg Abbott and Ronda Stantis 232 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 2: started to ship illegal immigrants into Northeastern and Midwestern cities 233 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 2: like Chicago. Obviously New York infamously that little flight that 234 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 2: went to Martha's Vineyard, just a small handful of people, 235 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 2: and it made a big, big splash in the papers. 236 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 2: But now New York City is an open rebellion and 237 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 2: Democrats are feeling the heat for the first time. And 238 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 2: that's why the negotiation is okay. The administration wants aid 239 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 2: for Ukraine to continue, and the Republicans are saying, then 240 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 2: we want something done about the border. So for once 241 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 2: there's an actual window where it might be politically possible 242 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:56,079 Speaker 2: to broker a deal, which is the humanitarian thing to do, 243 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: because making our poor people, including recently arrived immigrants, compete 244 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 2: for housing and jobs and medical services with even poorer 245 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 2: people is not a humanitarian position. It is making life 246 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 2: harder for the people who are most vulnerable in America 247 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 2: and encouraging people to make a perilous journey from their 248 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 2: homeland into a place where there is frankly not the 249 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 2: resources to take care of them. 250 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM. 251 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 5: Six forty. 252 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 2: Doug macatyre in for John Cobbolt here on the John 253 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 2: Cobbolt Show, and lots to talk about, including gate liights. 254 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 2: We'll get into that this hour. And we're also later 255 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 2: on this afternoon going to talk with Fred Rogan about 256 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 2: the Yamamoto signing for the Dodgers and that Colorado case, 257 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 2: the Colorado Supreme Court kicking President Trump off the ballot. 258 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 2: We'll get into that issue as well, which is a 259 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 2: big mis By the way. Meanwhile, I driving over here today. 260 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 2: I was stuck in traffic, as one normally is driving 261 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 2: anywhere in southern California, and there's a van in front 262 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 2: of me that had a bumper sticker, and I could 263 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 2: make out that it was worth reading, but I couldn't 264 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 2: quite see it. So I kept trying to dodge, you know, 265 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 2: in and out of cars that would cut in front 266 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 2: of me so I could get a good look at it. 267 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 2: And then I was tailgating for a couple of miles 268 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 2: to try to read this, and the guys bumper sticker 269 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 2: just a black bumper sticker, white letters that said everyone 270 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 2: I don't like drives at Tesla. I do like the fact. 271 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 2: You know, this is just the latest version of this, 272 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 2: because we go through phases for some reason where there 273 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 2: are different cars that we absolutely judge the people who 274 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 2: buy those cars. Like there was a time when it 275 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 2: was the Prius where you couldn't find a Prius that 276 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 2: did not have an Obama stick around. It's like they 277 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 2: made them at the factory with the Obama sticker on 278 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 2: the prays. So of course that became a political you know, 279 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 2: hot point, flashpoint. Certainly, I have to admit, and if 280 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 2: you're driving a Lincoln Navigator, just dip the rate, don't 281 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 2: change the station, but just turn it down a little 282 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 2: bit because I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings here, 283 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 2: lose a listener, God forbid, Like that's ever happened to. 284 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 5: Me in my life. 285 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 2: But I've got a gripe about Lincoln Navigators. 286 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 5: I just do. 287 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 2: It's they're gargantuan, and it's like it's a luxury. You know, 288 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 2: they make pickup truck versions of these things. It's the 289 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 2: silliest vehicle I've ever seen. And I've never seen one 290 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 2: that's ever had a single tool in the back of 291 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 2: it ever, you know, if there was like a toolbox, okay, whatever, 292 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 2: but that never happens. And one time I remember seeing 293 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 2: the first time that hummers hum v's became a thing. 294 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 2: I'm at the b of a in the parking lot 295 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 2: and there's a this enormous thing with a ladder that 296 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 2: comes out of it, and as a woman who came 297 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 2: looked like my mom when my mom was about fifty. 298 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 2: And she comes out of the bank and she opens 299 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 2: up the hatch and grabs onto a handle and she 300 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 2: hurls her handbag into the thing like she was tossing 301 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 2: a grenade over a you know, outside of a trench 302 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 2: or you know, and for done in World War One. 303 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 2: And then she hauls herself into. 304 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 3: That would be me because I'm so sure. 305 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 2: What in the world is this behemoth vehicle doing it 306 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 2: anywhere in civilian life anyway. So, anyway, this guy clearly 307 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 2: doesn't like the Tesla people. Quickly, by the way, Ritchie 308 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 2: is producing this show today. Eric, is there any chance 309 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 2: he's actually sick? 310 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 5: Yes, you think so? Yeah, I know that for a fact. 311 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'm just a little skeptical that. Uh yeah, 312 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 2: and me and I was just thinking, okay, he's not 313 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 2: feeling good. Then you know what that means. It's a 314 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 2: it's a real big for porn hub. Oh working remotely, 315 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 2: but Mondo is here also, so I am overproduced. I 316 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 2: have double the staff working today and I thank both 317 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 2: of them. So, as you've heard, because DeBras had the story, 318 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 2: it's been everywhere. The Detroit News reports that they have 319 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 2: a copy of an audio tape. They don't say where 320 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 2: they got it or how it was recorded, or whether 321 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 2: it was recorded legally, but it was a phone call 322 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 2: on November seventeenth, twenty twenty, to the Wayne County Board 323 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 2: of canvassers Monica Palmer and William Hartman, two Republicans. Wayne 324 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 2: County is the biggest county in Michigan, it includes the 325 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 2: city of Detroit. Right after the election, apparently Rona McDaniel, 326 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,880 Speaker 2: who is the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, and 327 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 2: the President of the United States at that time, Donald 328 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 2: Trump are on a call to these two people, telling them, 329 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 2: don't certify the results of your county. Apparently the President 330 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 2: told the canvassers they would look terrible if they signed 331 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 2: the papers to certify the election. The Detroit News again 332 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 2: goes on to quote them as saying the President is saying, 333 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 2: we've got to fight for our country. We can't let 334 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 2: these people take our country away from us. And McDaniel 335 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,959 Speaker 2: is quoted as saying, we will get you attorneys, and 336 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 2: then Donald Trump adds will take care of that. So 337 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 2: if this is true, and we have to, especially in 338 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 2: the age of CHET, GPT and AI, I mean, you 339 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 2: have to. Who knows what kind of shenanigans go on 340 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 2: in life. It certainly fits the pattern of behavior that 341 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 2: we know has been happening, whether it's Georgia or wherever. 342 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 2: But this is not going to look good in court. 343 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 2: When we get to the issue of election tampering and 344 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 2: trying to subvert democracy. The question is not the guilt 345 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 2: or innocence of former President Trump on trying to steal 346 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 2: the twenty twenty election. The question is whether it will 347 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,880 Speaker 2: impact the twenty twenty four election, and I'm not sure 348 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 2: it will because of the many things that Donald Trump 349 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 2: has said since his political career started in twenty fifteen, 350 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 2: when he came down the escalator, the truest thing the 351 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 2: president ever said was he could fire a gun on 352 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 2: Fifth Avenue and it wouldn't cost him a vote. And 353 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 2: I think that that's absolutely true, because I think people 354 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 2: have just hardened their views left and right to the 355 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 2: point where the facts really don't matter anymore. And it's 356 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 2: sad because I don't know how we're going to hold together. 357 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 2: I really don't know how we're supposed to govern a 358 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 2: country of a third of a billion people across multiple 359 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 2: time zones if we can't reach consensus on pretty much anything. 360 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 2: And you know, consensus is hard to reach under normal circumstances. 361 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 2: Try you know, going around the office and say you 362 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,400 Speaker 2: want to get Panda Express or should we go somewhere else, 363 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 2: and then it's a fight that goes on till the 364 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 2: next day. Well, you're trying to set public policy and 365 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,880 Speaker 2: make big decisions on things like how you spend money 366 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 2: and whether you ship money to Israeli just ship money 367 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 2: to Ukraine or whatever. We're talking about abortion, all these things. 368 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 2: Good luck get an agreement on these issues. But it's 369 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 2: so much harder when you can't get agreement on basic 370 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 2: facts like I wouldn't have hesitated to say, well, this 371 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 2: is clearly a smoking gun. That's damning of the former president. 372 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 2: He's on tape pressuring a county election committee to not 373 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 2: certify the results and saying we'll get lawyers for you, 374 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, right after an election. 375 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 2: I mean, it's unbelievable, but now it's totally believable because 376 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 2: people don't believe in anything. People just don't trust information 377 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 2: that is unpleasing to their ears. It's why I think 378 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 2: that a lot of the Biden people have to be 379 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,479 Speaker 2: in total shock that they're hearing things like Mayor Adams 380 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 2: of New York City slam them for not controlling the border, 381 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 2: because they've just been told over and over and over 382 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 2: again that they were on the right page on that issue, 383 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,159 Speaker 2: and now all of a sudden they're getting this blowback, 384 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 2: and they didn't expect it at all. They just thought 385 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 2: that they could keep, you know, keep waving people in 386 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 2: and eventually those people would be amnetized and those people 387 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 2: would vote for them. So it's you know, but there 388 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 2: are real consequences to the death of truth. 389 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 5: Now. 390 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 2: A lot of things are subjective, a lot of things 391 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 2: are just a matter of where you stand and personal preference. 392 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 2: For instance, it's the classic car crash analogy. If there's 393 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 2: a little fender bender and cop shows up to take 394 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 2: a police report, and there's a witness on the northeast 395 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 2: corner and that person tells the cop what he saw, 396 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 2: and there's a person on the southwest corner and that 397 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 2: person tells the cop what they saw, and the details 398 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 2: are different, the perspective is different. Are they liars or 399 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 2: did they just simply see it from a different place? 400 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 2: And that's most of politics. But now there's no way 401 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 2: of arbitrating it. If we blow up each other's facts, 402 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 2: if we literally repudiate any sense of objective truths from 403 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 2: our political discourse, that everything is just a matter of opinion, 404 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 2: then we're really in trouble. And we are in trouble 405 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 2: for exactly that reason. Steve Benning, one of the architects 406 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 2: of the Trump administration. He famously told Bloomberg News, and 407 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 2: this is years ago, he said, we're not running against 408 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 2: the Democrats. We're running against the media, and the way 409 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 2: we will defeat them is to flood the zone with bs. 410 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 2: Only he didn't say bs. He said bovine feces. How 411 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,919 Speaker 2: about that. I classed it up, but that's what he said. 412 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 2: And if you think about it, that's part of the 413 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 2: problem is because you can put stuff out and the 414 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 2: media in the modern age just snaps it up right away. 415 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 2: They just snap it up and they and they run 416 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 2: with it, and then it turns out not to be true. 417 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:07,360 Speaker 2: So besides perceived and actual biases, then you have constant mistakes, 418 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 2: a flood of mistakes that bombard the public and they 419 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 2: lose faith in it. You know who did this brilliantly, 420 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,880 Speaker 2: Bill Clinton. Back in the Monica Lewinsky hearings. Remember when 421 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 2: he had the big deposition. There was a big deposition, 422 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 2: and that's where the famous quote it depends on what 423 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 2: the meaning of is is that came out. If you 424 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 2: remember that far back well, the deposition was going to 425 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 2: be released to the public, the tape of it on 426 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 2: a Monday. But on Friday the news broke that oh oh, 427 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 2: Bill Clinton lost his temper, he stormed out of the room, 428 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,199 Speaker 2: shouting expletives. Google it, you'll find the story. And you 429 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 2: know what, on Monday, none of that happened. That didn't 430 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 2: happen at all. And you know who leaked that story. 431 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 2: The Clinton people did. They raised their own negative expectations, 432 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 2: so that on Monday, when it didn't happen, everybody said, 433 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 2: what was that about? He was in to loose control. 434 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 2: So you see how manipulative this process can get. You 435 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 2: can actually leak your own dirt and it rebounds to 436 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 2: your favor. So it's tough being a citizen in modern 437 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 2: America because you have to sift through all the stuff 438 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 2: that bombards us and decide what's fake and what's real, 439 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 2: or what's a perspective and what's an opinion versus what's propaganda. 440 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 441 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 6: six forty. 442 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 2: Mcentary in for John Cobolt on the John Cobbolt Show. 443 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 2: Next hour, We're going to get into that Colorado decision, 444 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 2: the Colorado Supreme Court kicking Donald Trump off the ballot 445 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 2: because of his organizing insurrection. And also now the threats 446 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 2: that the Republicans will kick Joe Biden off the ball. 447 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 2: You know, actually, now that I think about it, this 448 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 2: is a knee jerk reaction, but that could be the 449 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,440 Speaker 2: best thing for the country. Just kick both of them 450 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 2: off the bowe will start over again. We'll flip the 451 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 2: old the old civic, etch a sketch and give it 452 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 2: a shake, and we'll start over. Anyway, we'll get into 453 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 2: that next hour, and later on the show we'll talk 454 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 2: of Fred Rogan about the Dodgers signing the highly coveted 455 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 2: free agent picture from Japanyama Moto. Meanwhile, let me remind 456 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 2: you if you are looking for a last second Christmas 457 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 2: gift for the reader in your life, may I point 458 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 2: you in the direction of my novel Frank Shadow. And 459 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos promised me and asked me to tell you 460 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 2: that he will personally deliver the book to your house 461 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,719 Speaker 2: in time for Christmas. If you order today, just go 462 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 2: to the Amazon and it's also with some good bookstores 463 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 2: like Romans and Pasadena and Bookstar and Studio City Pages 464 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 2: in Manhattan Beach, etc. David Kate Books and Woodland Hills. 465 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 2: But you go to Amazon and get Frankshadow dot com 466 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 2: and please buy in bulk, because I got bills to 467 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 2: pay till ladies and gentlemen. I did not know that 468 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 2: the airline people refer to those of you who line 469 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 2: up early to get on the plane as gate lice. 470 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:06,159 Speaker 5: I love that. 471 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:12,199 Speaker 2: I love that sort of professional insight gate lice. And 472 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 2: they've actually started to study why do people insist on 473 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,680 Speaker 2: standing in the line when they're in group six and 474 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 2: they're still inviting veterans of the military to join at 475 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 2: their leisure in the first class passengers. But apparently it's 476 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 2: because we've all been burned so many times because they 477 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 2: run out of overhead baggage space that nobody wants to 478 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,159 Speaker 2: get stuck with their carry on bag being taken away 479 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 2: from them and then they have to, you know, end 480 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 2: up at the horseshoe down there at the luggage belt, 481 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 2: hoping their bag made the flight and possibly missing their 482 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 2: connecting flights if they have one. This is all self 483 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 2: inflicted wounds, because you know, when they started charging twenty 484 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 2: five or more bucks a bag, then everybody's dragging everything 485 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 2: they own, including kayaks, bows and arrows, and you know, 486 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 2: a comfort pheasants. Wasn't that It wasn't that somebody tried 487 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 2: to bring a pheasant on as a service animal. Yeah, 488 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,400 Speaker 2: it was like basically a flying Noah's Ark. 489 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 5: But so. 490 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 2: You now, this is different from the phenomenon of the 491 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 2: people who spring out of their seats before the plane 492 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 2: jerks to a halt at the jetway. I've never understood that. 493 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 2: I understand it. If you're in one A in one B, 494 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 2: but you're in first class, you're in the front of 495 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 2: the plane. They're taking care of you anyway. But if 496 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 2: you're in thirty four B, all right, you're in a 497 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 2: middle seat in the back by the poop, you know, 498 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 2: where you can smell the stuff coming out of the 499 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 2: blue stuff coming out of the door, despite the fact 500 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 2: that it's closed. You're not getting off that plane for 501 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 2: forty minutes. And unless your name is wilber or Orville, right, 502 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 2: and like you've only flown one hundred and twenty feet 503 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 2: in your life, all right, you should know by now 504 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 2: that you're not getting off the plane. And the only 505 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 2: thing you're gonna do is stand and hit your head 506 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 2: on the overhead bin while waiting for enough butt room 507 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 2: to wiggle into the aisle. And now, by the way, 508 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 2: I just this is nasty, but you know it must 509 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 2: be said. When you're sitting on the aisle and the 510 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 2: aisle fills up with the people who are the ones 511 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 2: who want to get off, even though it's going to 512 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 2: take them forty minutes, do you know what you smell 513 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 2: like to the people who are still seated. You've been 514 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 2: in the center seat on an Allegiant air flight or 515 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 2: Spirit Airlines for five and a half hours, and now 516 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 2: you're sprung sprung up, and now your butt is at 517 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 2: nose level to everybody sitting around you. It's not pretty. 518 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 2: And this is probably why you're seeing so much violence 519 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 2: on planes. But they're gonna keep doing it as long 520 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 2: as they have the really crazy system of putting people 521 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 2: on these planes, which now United Airlines. It's United, isn't it. 522 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 2: I believe it's United. They've come up with a new 523 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 2: system where they're going to let Delta Airlines. Excuse me, 524 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 2: I was giving credit to the wrong people. They are 525 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 2: letting the people who have no I was right, it's 526 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 2: United Airlines. I apologize. United Airlines. People have a new 527 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 2: boarding process where the people in the windows seats go 528 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 2: in first, which makes a world of sense, doesn't it. Yes, 529 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 2: because they're the people that have to get out of 530 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 2: the aisle the most. So get those people out of 531 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 2: the aisle so that you don't put the middle seat 532 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 2: and then the aisle seat people, and then the guy 533 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 2: in the window seat, which is always me, the guy 534 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 2: in the window seat. And the reason I sit in 535 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 2: the window seat is because it's one less person to 536 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 2: irritate me, unless as a man on the wing, but 537 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 2: as a general role there isn't. But it really does 538 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 2: make sense. And why has it taken them this long 539 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 2: to figure this out? I mean, seriously, they've been doing 540 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,719 Speaker 2: this for fifty years anyway, small incremental changes, but we're 541 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 2: still going to do it on this incredibly busy travel 542 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 2: cycle between now and New Year's between now and January second, 543 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 2: when zillions of people are going to be stuffed onto planes, 544 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 2: spreading COVID right and left. Nobody's wearing the masks anymore. 545 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 2: They've given up, and we're going to come back from 546 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 2: Uncle Carl and Ann Helen's place with a virus, a 547 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 2: cramp and stuff we don't want, and we have to 548 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 2: lug back with us from the other side of the country, 549 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 2: all right, ladies and gentlemen. In the next hour, we 550 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 2: are going to talk about the Colorado Supreme Court decision 551 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 2: that would bounce Donald Trump from the ballot in the 552 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 2: Republican primer in Colorado, and this is going to end 553 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 2: up at the US Supreme Court, and the various issues 554 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 2: that this raises, and also hopefully we'll get to talk 555 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,560 Speaker 2: about a bunch of other things, including maybe more about 556 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 2: the Texas Border enforcement and the signing of they highly 557 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 2: coveted Japanese pitcher Yamamoto, who will be joining the highly 558 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 2: coveted pitcher who came over from Tampa Bay. And also 559 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 2: the obviously the big Fish, which was you know, show 560 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 2: hey Otani. What a team the Dodgers have. I don't 561 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 2: know that I've ever seen a team as loaded going 562 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 2: into spring training as this one. I mean, we don't 563 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 2: even talk about Will Smith and h and some of 564 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 2: the other players who are tremendously talented on that team. 565 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 5: They've spent over a billion dollars on. 566 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 2: Three players, three players Tyler glasnow and and Otani and 567 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 2: now Yamamoto, three players one point one billion dollars tied 568 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 2: up in those three players. 569 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 5: Wow. 570 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 2: Any parent who tells their kid they're playing too much 571 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 2: baseball and I got to come home and hit the 572 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 2: math textbook is out of their mind. 573 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:51,719 Speaker 5: I hope my kids are lefty. 574 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 2: Oh baby, that is That is the dream. Is a 575 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 2: left handed pitcher who can throw a strike. You play forever. 576 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 2: Number one. Jesse Rosco proved that it was like sixty 577 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 2: eight he was still playing. 578 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 5: I think. 579 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 2: All right, let's go get the very latest headlines from 580 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 2: the twenty four hour KFI newsroom, and here is Debor Mark. 581 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 582 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 1: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am 583 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 1: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 584 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app