1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty you're listening to the 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,119 Speaker 1: John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 2: App as we finish out the year on KFI. Lot 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 2: to do this hour. I'm going to get to talk 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 2: of what's happening beach closures and these huge waves, also 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 2: of the Nikki Haley civil war. Continues to her comments 7 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 2: on that the ripple effects, and I'll give you a 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 2: take on that. I mean, I think in a way, 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 2: Nikki Haley was smart, and yet in this new media 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 2: landscape where there's so much social media, etc. Her political 11 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 2: acumen and smartness it comes back to bite her. 12 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 3: But more on that later in the hour. 13 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 2: The worst political predictions of the last year. I will 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: share a few with a very high profile bad political 15 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 2: predictions and economic predictions in the last year. 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 3: Now. 17 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 2: I was talking to Eric Deborah last night. I did 18 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 2: something I've never done before. 19 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 4: You do. 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 2: I sat courtside. I mean, and as Eric says, on 21 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 2: the wood. 22 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,759 Speaker 3: Feet on the wood, feet on the wood at the Lakers. 23 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 5: Game, Oh my gosh, who do you know? 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 3: Unreal? And uh must be nice to be you. 25 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 2: Well it was last night. Anyway, most of the time 26 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 2: it's not a party, but the deal last night is 27 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 2: you walk in, you've got this ticket and pass. They 28 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 2: it's a whole different life for those people who are. 29 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 4: They just renovated the arena too. Oh and they have 30 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 4: this again, a massive buffet. You went to the patio? 31 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 4: Is that is that what they call it? Or I 32 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 4: think it was indoors? 33 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 2: It was a. 34 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 3: God, I thought it was. I called a club three 35 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 3: sixty or something like that. I don't know. 36 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 2: Anyway, Uh, it's you know, all of these different foods 37 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: and there's a full bar and by the way, and 38 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 2: I said, I ordered drinks for the table, et cetera. 39 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 2: And I said, I how much is it? I have 40 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,399 Speaker 2: my CARDI zoner sa No, no, no, don't charge. It's 41 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:12,119 Speaker 2: all included. 42 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 3: Nice. Okay. 43 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 2: So it's that vibe And I'll get to the actual 44 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 2: game itself in a second. 45 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 3: Just you know what my experience was with it. 46 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 2: And then I've got to you know, it's on right 47 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: now if I could just put it on here, But 48 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 2: you've got to be you've got to be like a 49 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: I don't know, Stephen Hawking to change the damn channels 50 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 2: in the. 51 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 3: Studio so hard it's ridiculous. 52 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 2: So that infrared that actually is no good because it 53 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 2: bounces off this thing. And so anyway, Eric, maybe you 54 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 2: can help me. I want to watch this Lakers because 55 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 2: I'd like to see the back of my head there. 56 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 4: I think I actually did see you right after you 57 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 4: walked out of the studio. Were you like two seats 58 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 4: over from a guy with white hair and a ball cap? Yes, okay, yeah, 59 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 4: I know exactly where. 60 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So we're right on the end kind 61 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 2: of right there, and that we're I think there are 62 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 2: only a couple of people to our right as you've 63 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 2: as you have anyway, as we come into the arena, though, 64 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 2: something happened that Lakers fans, I mean, people who've really 65 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,959 Speaker 2: followed the franchise for a while maybe sort of struck 66 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 2: as it struck me anyway, as a little odd. 67 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 3: And here's what it was. 68 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 2: Where coming into the arena and you know this side 69 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 2: entrance where you're then about to do all that stuff 70 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 2: I just mentioned, and in front of us is Diane Cannon. Now, yeah, 71 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 2: thank you. See Eric knows Diane Kennon. She's like one 72 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 2: of the top ten Laker fans of you. 73 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 3: Know, the It's like her and Jack Nicholson like one 74 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 3: a one B type stuff. 75 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 2: Thank you exactly. So I'm thinking, oh, this is unreal. 76 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 2: It's almost like it's like going into the arena with 77 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 2: Laker fan royalty, almost And the dude who was checking 78 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 2: tickets didn't know who she was. 79 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 3: He was probably some twenty one year old working at 80 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 3: the arena. 81 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,839 Speaker 2: He's the only reason I know it is because she's 82 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 2: on the phone. 83 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 3: She's got somebody on the speaker. Okay, so there's a 84 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 3: call going on between Diane Cannon and. 85 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 2: Somebody else is on the speaker, and she's going, yeah, Marianne, 86 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 2: I'm going into the I'm going to the arena, hallam, 87 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 2: and said I don't have my I don't have my 88 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: And she's talking to the ticket guy and he goes, yeah, well, 89 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 2: I can't let you in without the end. I say, hey, 90 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: she is a legend, she is Laker legend. 91 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 3: You should let her in. 92 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 2: And she looks behind her, but she never and then 93 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 2: he does let her in, and then she said to 94 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 2: her phone, Marianne, tell them I'm somebody. Will you tell 95 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 2: them I'm somebody? And ultimately he did let her in. 96 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 2: She never acknowledged us behind her, the people that were yelling, 97 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 2: you know, let her in. 98 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 3: What a typical LA moment. 99 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 4: It was. 100 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 3: It was terrific. It was. It was so terrific. 101 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 2: It's a perfect way to start off the Laker's experience, 102 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 2: you know. And then as I say, walked in to 103 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 2: that huge area where there's just you know, hot and cold, 104 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 2: running everything, food, beverages, et cetera, and you walk out 105 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 2: onto the court. Man, I mean, if you've never done 106 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 2: it before, which I hadn't, it's it's spectacular. 107 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:06,799 Speaker 3: You feel like a player. 108 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 2: You know, there's the energy of the arena and the 109 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 2: colors and the sounds and it's just and it's so 110 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,359 Speaker 2: bright and the players it was so cool. I felt 111 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 2: like a make a Wish kid. 112 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 4: How much bigger in person did everybody look than they 113 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 4: do on TV? 114 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 2: You're right about I mean the implication is you know, 115 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 2: is correct. They they look so much stronger. 116 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, you know, these guys are professional athletes 117 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 4: and they're big people, but seeing them in person, it's 118 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 4: a whole nother thing. 119 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. 120 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 2: And it wasn't even just a height. It's just that 121 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 2: they look like really powerful dudes. And I mean, like 122 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: just real as you say, athletes, you know. Starting The 123 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 2: other thing that they do is they see the court 124 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 2: so well, they you get a little bit of that. 125 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 2: I remember when Kobe was around going to a Lakers game, 126 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 2: and that was nowhere near the court, but I was 127 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 2: still able to see that Kobe he saw the game 128 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 2: and saw plays unfold in a way that others on 129 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 2: the court who were playing with the Lakers just didn't. 130 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 2: You could see that guy's better than the other guys. 131 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 2: And here, I would say, you could just see how 132 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 2: everybody on the court was had tremendous peripheral framework in 133 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 2: taking in what was happening. The passing. They threw the 134 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 2: ball so hard and they still just yanked it down. 135 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 2: It was spectacular. I mean, they're just so immensely talented, obviously, 136 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 2: but when you're that close, you really do get another 137 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 2: sense of it. 138 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 3: And then the court the Lakers crushed. 139 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 4: So how was it getting to hear what was happening 140 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 4: on the Yeah, you can see everything happening on the court, 141 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 4: But when you actually get to hear it without the 142 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 4: mics and you hear it in real time, what was 143 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 4: that like? 144 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 3: Yeah? 145 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 2: I think that's a really great points. It just comes 146 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 2: to life. You hear them shouting or calling or over 147 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 2: communication there and there's so many ways they communicate, and 148 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 2: they communicate by shouting, or they just communicate with sort 149 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 2: of subtlety, you know, as they bring the ball down 150 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 2: the court, for example, it was it was the coolest 151 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 2: so and again, I feel like maybe that was a 152 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 2: one off. 153 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 3: Don't think it's ever gonna happen again. 154 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 6: But you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI 155 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 6: AM six forty. 156 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about what's happening at the southern California 157 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 2: beaches and all along the California coast. In a second. 158 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 2: We are the John Coblt Show. John returns next week. 159 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 2: Mark Thompson sitting in I was just mentioning the Lakers thing, 160 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 2: and just to round it out, I didn't look. I mean, 161 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 2: I feel like, Eric, you might know, how much are 162 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 2: those seats where you're right. 163 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 3: On the floor. 164 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 2: I'm gonna I just don't going to remind everybody you 165 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: pay for, you pay for in addition to sitting right 166 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 2: there on the floor, you pay for nothing. They're giving 167 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 2: you drinks, food, anything on tree. They're coming around, They're 168 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 2: coming around. Literally, there's a waitress coming around saying can 169 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 2: we get you anything? 170 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna ballpark it a against the 171 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,239 Speaker 4: Charlotte Hornets last night, probably anywhere between seventy five hundred 172 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 4: and ten thousand dollars a seat. 173 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 3: Yeah wow, I. 174 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 4: Mean Shannon Sharp, he's he's a host on ESPN. Sure, 175 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 4: he said earlier this year he spent three hundred thousand 176 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 4: dollars for the season for courtside tickets for the Lakers. 177 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 4: So that's three hundred thousand for the season. So divide 178 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 4: that up between forty one home games and you. 179 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 2: Say you're right. So yeah, so your numbers actually penciled out? 180 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: Did you look, Richie? Can you see? Yeah, let me 181 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 2: check the I'm just curious if you wanted to. You know, again, 182 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 2: I think these were you know, this came through media 183 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 2: or something, you know what I mean, But it didn't 184 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 2: hit me until the day, Like how. 185 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 3: Much are these? Anyway? 186 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's insane experience and was pretty cool. So when Richie, 187 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 2: when you find out lot so. 188 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 4: Court side for the Heat game coming up on the third, 189 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 4: I bet that's really interesting. On seat geek, the most 190 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 4: expensive is sixteen thousand. 191 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 3: The least expensive is sixty four hundred for court side. Crazy, 192 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 3: So if you. 193 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 2: Wanted a sixty four hundred. Where does that put you 194 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 2: on the floor? Like, is one end worth? It doesn't 195 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 2: matter or not? 196 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:18,559 Speaker 3: That's row one like court side. 197 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 2: I get it, but I mean, like, why would one 198 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 2: be sixty four hundred and the other be ten thousand? 199 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 2: I mean within the floor seats, is there one better 200 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 2: than another? I guess what I'm asking. I don't think so. 201 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 2: I don't think he's either. 202 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 4: This is also a secondary site, so it's not this 203 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 4: is someone else selling it, selling it right, so it's 204 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 4: what they want to get for it. Okay, Yeah, interesting anyway, 205 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 4: wild wild, we are getting a huge. 206 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 2: Rogue waves hitting Ventura and Orange County. In fact, a 207 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 2: high surf and there are high surf warnings. You heard 208 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 2: Debra mention it inner newscast. Massive surf at southern California beaches. 209 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 2: There have been pure closures as a result. You've probably 210 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:02,560 Speaker 2: seen that rogue wave hit Ventura County because it's all 211 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 2: over social media if you have Instagram or TikTok or 212 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:09,199 Speaker 2: whatever they're like. That's the viral video of the moment 213 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 2: lifeguards and first responders out at Seal Beach early this morning. 214 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 2: Large waves are spectacular to see, like so many things 215 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: in nature, it's in a weird way. It's wondrous, it's awesome, 216 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 2: it's powerful, but you don't want to go anywhere near 217 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 2: them because of these rogue waves, and they can all 218 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 2: of a sudden, some situation that seems controllable is no 219 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 2: longer controlled. So they tell you stay on the berm, 220 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 2: stay away from the water. When the waves are this size, 221 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 2: it only takes a split second for you to get 222 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 2: sucked out and then it is trouble. The rogue wave 223 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 2: video from Ventura. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it. 224 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 2: You see people running into and into town if you will, 225 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 2: I mean a way from the beach, and you know 226 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 2: hermosis shut down. Manhattan Beach is shut down because of 227 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 2: when I say shut down, I'm talking about the peers 228 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 2: because of these waves. 229 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,679 Speaker 3: So a lot of lifeguard activity. 230 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 2: They've increased staffing and such, but still it's very tricky 231 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 2: and coastal flood advisories well me in effect through Monday. Meantime, 232 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 2: Nikki Haley is trying to clarify the civil war comments 233 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,319 Speaker 2: because she's getting a lot of backlash. Social media has 234 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 2: hurt what would be normally I would say almost a 235 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 2: kind of and you'll Pardon me for saying this. I'm 236 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 2: not saying I endorse it, but I'm saying it's smart 237 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 2: what she said. She didn't want to talk about the 238 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 2: Civil War being related to slavery. Now you can say, well, 239 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 2: how can you leave slavery out? It was clearly the 240 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 2: centerpiece of the entire Okay, the reason you do is 241 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 2: because you're a South Carolinian former governor of that state 242 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 2: and your constituency still thinks that the war is on. Right, 243 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 2: there's the entire backlash about Civil War memorials and the 244 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 2: You'll remember the controversy was punctuated by Nicky Haley herself, 245 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 2: as I recall not wanting to take down the Civil 246 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 2: War monuments, and then later she did. So now you 247 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: hear about how I was out in front taking down 248 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 2: the Civil War monuments. But the truth is it's a 249 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:40,199 Speaker 2: confused picture for her politically. I'm talking about so you're running, 250 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 2: if you're Niki Haley in the GOP primary, and so 251 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 2: you're trying to handle GOP cons constituencies, many of which 252 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 2: are in states where this isn't such a open and 253 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 2: shut case when it comes to the Civil War, they 254 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 2: still call it the war between the States. They don't 255 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 2: even want to call it the civil war down there. 256 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 2: If anybody knows anybody in any of these states, you 257 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 2: know that it can be a They call it states rights, 258 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 2: they call it a lot of things, but it's really 259 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:14,359 Speaker 2: code for slavery. So she's doing that, which again politically 260 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 2: is smart. But because social media and the media landscape 261 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 2: is what it is, she really has a lot of 262 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 2: questions to speak to. And so now you get to 263 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 2: the role of government and rights and freedoms. That's code 264 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 2: for the rights and freedoms to keep slaves in the South. 265 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 3: So and that was that's the shorthand on Nicki Haley. 266 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 2: And why I say, as a politician, I mean, you 267 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 2: may not like it, but that's sort of the reality. 268 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 2: And that's why it's sort of smart. And so she 269 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 2: bites back on the slavery questions. You know, what do 270 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 2: you want me to say about slavery? So and the 271 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 2: other thing I would say it really they talk about 272 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 2: it being a plant or whatever. It's not that tough 273 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 2: a question to do a dance on, you know, but 274 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 2: she had to do a political dance. And the rest 275 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 2: of these guys who are sitting there sort of watching 276 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 2: this happen and watching her sync, they don't. And so 277 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 2: for that reason you have a lot of people piling on. 278 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 2: And that's why Nikki Haley is in the barrel for 279 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 2: the moment. Will it affect her No, not in the 280 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 2: GOP primary, it won't. I mean, this again, is a 281 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 2: truly one week story. I don't think that Nikki Haley's 282 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 2: going to have to own this in any kind of 283 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 2: enduring way in the days ahead. And as I say, 284 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 2: if you just play the pure politics of it, I 285 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 2: kind of understand it. The worst political predictions of the 286 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 2: last year, we'll review a few of those, and the 287 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 2: worst economic predictions, they are wild. I'll share some of 288 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 2: those with you as well. When we come back. We'll 289 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 2: get into that. And we still have as we continue, 290 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 2: we have no guests, but Jason Nathanson, isn't that. 291 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 3: Right, Richie? That is right. 292 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 2: We'll finish the show with some movie talk. So that's 293 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 2: still way ahead. Just to give you a sense of 294 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 2: the you know, that's the that's the plan on down 295 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 2: the way. 296 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 3: It's the co Belt Show. 297 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 2: Mark Thompson sitting in for John on KFI AM six forty. 298 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 2: We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. 299 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 6: You're listening to John coebelts on demand from KFI AM 300 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 6: six forty. 301 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 3: Mark Thompson here for John Cobelt. 302 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 2: John returns Tuesday watching these huge waves that have already 303 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 2: hospitalized thirty people. 304 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 3: Is that it? Or eight people? Eight people? Thirty foot waves? Yeah? 305 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 3: Now you see why I'm not doing the news breaks 306 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 3: because it would be a little. 307 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 5: Longit people in critical condition, jeez. 308 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 2: And these people who are they were just there along 309 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 2: the coast observing the waves and they were sucked out. 310 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 4: Is that? Yeah? 311 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 5: And you know I have had nightmares of tsunamis. And 312 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 5: this one guy who was there said that he thought 313 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 5: that it was good to be a tsunami. I mean, 314 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 5: that's how crazy it was. 315 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 3: Wow. 316 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 2: Well that you know when you see those tsunami videos 317 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 2: from that enclave, I mean that was. 318 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 3: It's incredible, terrifying. 319 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 2: Nature is so powerful, gosh, and it is almost it 320 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 2: is a sight to behold, and yet if you're beholding 321 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 2: it too much, you know you're gonna end up paying 322 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 2: a huge price. So there is a another storm coming. 323 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 2: Is that what's happening? I know it's hitting northern California. 324 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, tomorrow, tomorrow, so late tonight we'll probably see rain, 325 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 5: see rain tomorrow, and then maybe Sunday, not really for 326 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 5: New Year's Eve, and then another storm or rain I 327 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 5: should say, is going to come next week Wednesday, Thursday. 328 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 2: And the rain is great because of what we you know, 329 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 2: what we need in all these different ways. But man, 330 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 2: the attendant problems. 331 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 4: Uh. 332 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 2: The world of politics and economics is filled with predictions. 333 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 2: The world of everything is filled with predictions. We love predictions. 334 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 2: But the absolute worst political predictions of the last year. 335 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 2: You may remember the well, I'll give you one very 336 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 2: high profile one. You remember the guy Larry Cudlow. He 337 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 2: served in the Trump administration. He was his director of Economics. 338 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 2: Is he wasn't his Commerce secretary, that was Wilburt Ross, 339 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 2: but he was his economic advisor. Cudlow was well known 340 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 2: to Trump because he was on CNBC a lot. You know, 341 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 2: he really was a television Personnelity was on Fox News Channel, 342 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 2: I think right before he moved into the Trump administration. Anyway, 343 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 2: he predicted last year at the end of March. He 344 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 2: predicted March thirtieth of this year, I should say, these 345 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 2: are all the worst predictions of this past year. He 346 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 2: speculated about the legal jeopardy involving former President Donald Trump, 347 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 2: Larry Cudlow said, with utter certainty, it looks like Trump 348 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 2: will not be indicted. He said this on Fox Business Channel. 349 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 2: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg cannot indict a ham Sandwich. 350 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 2: The case against Trump is so thin. Within an hour 351 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,479 Speaker 2: of Cutlow's proclamation, reports broke that a grand jury had 352 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 2: indeed voted to indict the former president and there were, 353 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 2: as you know, in that indictment, thirty four counts. There 354 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 2: will be a recession in twenty twenty three, predicted by 355 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,919 Speaker 2: a whole lot of people. CNBC on October tenth of 356 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 2: twenty twenty two said JP Morgan's Jamie Dinemond warrens the 357 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 2: US is likely to tip into recession in the next 358 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 2: six to nine months. Bloomberg October of that same year 359 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 2: forecast for US recession within year hits one hundred percent. 360 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 2: In blow to Biden, this is October of twenty twenty two. 361 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 2: The economist wrote in November of twenty twenty two, why 362 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 2: a global recession is inevitable in twenty twenty three, Wall 363 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 2: Street Chorus grows louder, warning the twenty twenty three will 364 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 2: be ugly big banks predict recession. FED pivot in twenty 365 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 2: twenty three, Jamie Diamond warns of new economic storms ahead 366 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 2: at so On. I mean there are lots of them, 367 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,359 Speaker 2: and there was no recession in twenty twenty three. I 368 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 2: mean far from it. The economy's booming in a lot 369 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,719 Speaker 2: of measures. When third quarter GDP growth is above five percent, 370 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 2: the Fed, who I think, endured a lot of what 371 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 2: I thought at the time was appropriate criticism about how 372 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 2: they were raising rates so quickly. They seem to have 373 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 2: engineered this soft landing. Inflation has dropped by roughly six 374 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 2: percentage points since June of last year. Job growth is good, 375 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 2: unemployment rate you know, three in change. Joe Biden will 376 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 2: face a serious primary challenger was a prediction made by 377 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 2: Carl Rove. He made it January fourth of this year. 378 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 2: They talk about rampant inflation. He's overmatched on the international stage. 379 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 2: His presidency will end after one term. It's malaise. This 380 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 2: is you heard a lot of it. But Carl Rove 381 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 2: was leading that parade. Here was his quote. Mister Biden 382 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 2: declares that he's running for reelection. A significant Democrat realizes 383 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 2: the danger this represents. Allah Ted Kennedy nineteen eighty runs. 384 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 2: Not to say that's not an awful prediction, but it's wrong. 385 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 2: Biden's poll numbers are anemic, right, He's in bad shape 386 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 2: in terms of popularity polls. But there's no significant Democrat 387 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 2: that's going to challenge him. He's not going to face 388 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 2: anything like, for example, Jimmy Carter did in nineteen eighty 389 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 2: So that goes in the incorrect column. 390 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 3: In the world of media, the. 391 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 2: CEO of CNN, the chairman and CEO, this guy Chris Licked. 392 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 2: It was predicted Chris Licked ain't even close to done yet. 393 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 2: As they changed everything at CNN. You remember they went digital. 394 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 2: They got Chris Wallace from Fox News Channel. They moved 395 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 2: him to his own digital platform that collapsed quickly. Chris 396 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 2: Licked ain't even done yet. He was out two days 397 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 2: after that prediction was made. Kevin McCarthy won't be elected speaker. 398 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 2: He'll drop out, predicted by Donna Edwards. So January of 399 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 2: this year, and it took a while, fifteen rounds of vovoting, 400 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 2: but Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker. Now McCarthy will last 401 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 2: a full two year term as speaker. Was a prediction 402 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 2: from Kevin McCarthy. Of course, after being elected, Kevin McCarthy 403 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 2: was asked how confident he was that he'd have the 404 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 2: job for a full two year term, and he said 405 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 2: one thousand percent sure, it'll be a two year term. 406 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 2: And as you know, he was ousted less than ten 407 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 2: months later, when Tucker Carlson was fired. It was predicted 408 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 2: by Glenn Beck that that will be the end of 409 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 2: Fox News, and the network continues to thrive after Tucker's firing, 410 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 2: and they paid their seven hundred and eighty seven million too, dominion, 411 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 2: but they are still going strong. And so it is 412 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 2: these predictions come and go. You heard about housing and 413 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 2: rental prices and how they were going to come down 414 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 2: this year, and that was wrong. I mean, inflation has 415 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 2: come down a lot, but the price we're paying for 416 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:17,719 Speaker 2: housing and rent has not come down. And as you know, 417 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,159 Speaker 2: one of the reasons is there's just not a lot 418 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,440 Speaker 2: of inventory. So when you have limited inventory, it keeps 419 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 2: prices high. Anthony Scaramucci predicted Trump will run, but he 420 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 2: will drop out. Here's the quote. I know President Trump's 421 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 2: personality reasonably well. He was the White House Communications director 422 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 2: for a while for under Trump. As I mean it 423 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 2: was a short while. I think it was there ten 424 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 2: days or something like that. But he said, quote, he 425 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 2: does not like this, He's stressed about it, and I'm 426 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 2: going to say something contrariant on your show. I think 427 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 2: he ends up eventually dropping out of the race. Scaramucci 428 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 2: said Trump is not only not dropping out of the race, 429 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 2: he is the leading candidate to take the GOP nomination. 430 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 2: A lot of that Trump will run but drop out 431 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 2: for a plea deal. Scott Galloway said that Barbie will 432 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 2: flop because it's two woke, said Ben Shapiro in July, 433 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 2: and I don't need to tell you what happened with Barbie. 434 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 2: He said, it's going to fall off a cliff. The 435 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 2: repeat business on this movie is going to be non existent. 436 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 2: Ben Shapiro said it became the highest grossing film of 437 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 2: this past year, six and thirty six million. 438 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 3: It was a global phenomenon. So hey, I get these. 439 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 2: People, all of them credit for getting out there with 440 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 2: some bold predictions. But you know, ultimately predictions are right 441 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 2: or wrong, and a lot of these bold predictions were 442 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 2: not rewarded by being right. That's the story on the 443 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 2: worst economic and political predictions of the last year with 444 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 2: a dash of show business at the end for Barbie. 445 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 2: When we come back, a quick update on what's happening 446 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 2: with the Maine in Colorado and Trump on the ballot, 447 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 2: and then we will button out politics for the day. 448 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 3: Pierce Brosnan is in the news and we had a 449 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,360 Speaker 3: little bit of a. 450 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 2: Question around Pierce Brosnan here at KFI. I will share 451 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 2: that with you as well. And nurses in a new 452 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 2: kind of pay agreement that is bringing on the lawsuits. 453 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 2: All of that still to come. So John Coblt Show, 454 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 2: Mark Thompson sitting in on KFI AM six forty Live 455 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 2: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 456 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 457 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 6: six forty. 458 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 2: Mark Thompson here for John Cobelt. John gets back on Tuesday. 459 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 2: I don't think I don't think he went out of town. 460 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 2: I think he kind of just hung out, you know, 461 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:57,959 Speaker 2: knocking around. 462 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 4: He can bounce between his estate here in town and 463 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 4: there's a state up in the mountains. 464 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 2: They live the good life, they do. John's not a 465 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 2: He's not a showy guy, which I like about him. 466 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,400 Speaker 2: And his wife also not showy, but she dictates the agenda. 467 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 2: You know, she she'll have him going to all these 468 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 2: different places, and she's very generous, always opens the doors 469 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 2: to us. 470 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 3: You know, I hear. 471 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:30,400 Speaker 5: About your your dinners at that fancy schmancy restaurants. 472 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 2: I'm very I put the schmancy in fancy schmancy. But 473 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 2: she's always very nice, trying to get us to go 474 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 2: to the up to the to the lake, you know, 475 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 2: to the which would really be something I would like 476 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 2: to do. 477 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 3: Is the weather gets better. 478 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 2: Now, of course, if you're going up to the mountains, 479 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 2: it's going to get tricky, according to Deborah, beginning tomorrow night. 480 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 2: So yeah, snow, snow, snow for the new year. Well, 481 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 2: those of you who wanted to see it, you'll be happy. 482 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 2: The former president is back on the ballot in Colorado, 483 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 2: Donald Trump. He was removed from the ballot and then 484 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 2: what happened, Well, there's sort of an appeal, and the 485 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 2: appeal is to sort of there's been a stay on 486 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 2: this removal and essentially to until this is totally resolved. 487 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,959 Speaker 2: The appeal is he'll go back on the ballot. So 488 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 2: the Supreme Court will likely overturn taking him off the ballot. Anyway, 489 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 2: So this is all interesting, and it's not Believe me, 490 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 2: it's not an unimportant exercise. But I'm just saying, at 491 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 2: the end of it all, it's likely that Donald Trump 492 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 2: will be on the ballot in all fifty states. So 493 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:46,400 Speaker 2: the removal even from Maine, which made news yesterday, by 494 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 2: the Secretary of State, and that's the difference. You know, 495 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 2: in Colorado, there was actually a court process, there was 496 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 2: due process, there was evidence, there were arguments, there were 497 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 2: lawyers involved. In the case of Maine, it was just 498 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 2: the Secretary of State, which I think is dangerous. I'm 499 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 2: not necessarily a fan. Again, it's not as though I'm 500 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 2: out there with a magat sign at all, but I 501 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 2: do feel as though you can't just have one person, 502 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 2: the Secretary of State, sort of by a personal fiat, 503 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 2: take somebody off the ballot. Anyway, So they barred Donald 504 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,880 Speaker 2: Trump from the ballot. This just happened yesterday. Mayne did, 505 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 2: being the second state to block the former president from 506 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 2: running again because of his actions before and during the 507 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 2: January sixth attack on the Capitol. But now they have 508 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 2: stayed that and so it'll all get kicked to the 509 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 2: Supreme Court, and ultimately again I think he'll be back 510 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 2: on the ballots, regardless of what decisions were made prior. 511 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 2: So these are unique challenges and truly unique. And this 512 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 2: has never been used, this constitutional pushback on a candidate's 513 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 2: appearance on the ballot. But in this case, the way 514 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 2: we worked elections in this country essentially state by state, 515 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 2: and because all the states have control in different sorts 516 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 2: of controls over who is on the ballot, how they're 517 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 2: on the ballot, how the ballot is presented, how the 518 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 2: election goes down. That's why the processors were different in 519 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 2: Colorado and Maine. So it'll all go to the Supreme Court. 520 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 2: As I say, now in this state, I think this 521 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 2: is smart. The Secretary of State is including President Donald Trump, 522 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 2: the former president, on the certified list of candidates, Shirley 523 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 2: Weber getting a lot of political pressure to reject Trump's candidacy. 524 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 2: We are, after all a largely democratic state, right But 525 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 2: and you know you certainly had a I suppose a 526 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 2: template for it in Maine and Colorado. But no, Trump 527 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 2: will remain on the ballot here. And the idea is, hey, 528 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 2: you don't like the guy, then vote against him. And 529 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 2: the quotes around it were essentially not speaking to whether 530 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 2: or not he was engaged in insurrection. 531 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 3: It was more that this is. 532 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 2: This is not the way that California wants to proceed, 533 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 2: and so the Secretary of State will not remove Donald 534 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 2: Trump from the primary ballot. You'll be able to vote 535 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 2: for him here in California. It's remarkable how how politics 536 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 2: has been transformed because of everything going on in a 537 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 2: fight for sort of what you would consider and is 538 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 2: being pitched as you know, the soul of America, and 539 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 2: both sides feel as though GOP and Democrats as though 540 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 2: they are in a fight for that soul. And so 541 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 2: I think in that service, you know, trying to make 542 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 2: that happen, they very much concerned themselves with you know, 543 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 2: almost the ends justify the means in a way, and 544 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 2: I hate that. You know, you'd like the system to 545 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 2: decide who holds office. You'd like the people's voice to 546 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 2: be heard, and so to whatever extent that's possible, it 547 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 2: would be nice to see everyone who can qualify for 548 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 2: candidacy actually appear on the ballot. Now there are those 549 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 2: who would say, hey, you know, this guy was behind 550 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 2: this insurrection. He literally tried every means possible to overturn 551 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 2: the results of the last election. And for that reason, 552 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 2: he doesn't deserve to be on a ballot. I mean, 553 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 2: that was the argument, but the other argument is, okay, 554 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 2: well then vote against him. But the ex's and o's 555 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 2: of it, I think are indisputable, and I think the 556 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 2: Supreme Court will ultimately make it very clear that Donald 557 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 2: Trump will appear on the ballots in all fifty states. 558 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 2: There is a new fee for Santa Anna renters, and 559 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 2: this statistic about homeless encampments and communities in California blows 560 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 2: me away in a way, and in another way, I 561 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,719 Speaker 2: kind of understand it because I think if I were 562 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 2: homeless or unhoused, I would maybe cheat toward California as 563 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 2: a place to be. Between the new ordinance for Santa 564 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 2: Ana renters and the nation's homeless, there is a nexus, 565 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 2: There is a place where they overlap. We'll tell you 566 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 2: about that next John Corvelt Show, Mark Thompson sitting in. 567 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 2: I'm KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 568 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 569 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 570 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 571 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,