1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: We are on the show from one to four every 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 2: day and then after four o'clock. 5 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: Whatever you missed, it's. 6 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 2: The podcast John Cobelt Show on demand also on the 7 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 2: iHeart app, and you can access it all weekend long. 8 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 2: In fact, anything we've done this week or any other day, 9 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 2: and we've got the moistline after three o'clock, two rounds 10 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: of it, three twenty and three point fifty. Also next hour, 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 2: we're gonna have State Senator Tony stricklandan from Huntington Beach, 12 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 2: as we delve into Gavin Newsom and his obsession with 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: ridding the California Delegation, the California Congressional delegation of all Republicans. 14 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: There's only nine out of fifty two Republicans serving California 15 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 2: in Congress. 16 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: He has a plan to knock it down to three. 17 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: Why stop at that? 18 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 2: Why not eliminate all Republican representation in the state. And 19 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: I've got a clip that I heard this morning, made 20 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 2: mean nuts, and it showed what a narcissistic sociopath he is. 21 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 2: He has every trait in the buck for narcissism and sociopathy. 22 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: Good lord, he's shameless, and. 23 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 2: I truly feel like, I truly feel like he does 24 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 2: have He has a sociopathic brain, and he doesn't feel 25 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 2: no shame. You can't shave it just bounces right off 26 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 2: him and always always has a comeback. Now, one of 27 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 2: the reasons, one of the big reasons we have so 28 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: many people laying in the streets and dying is the 29 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 2: tremendous amount of drugs that comes over the border, an 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 2: enormous amount of penonel and meth, cocaine, heroine, pot you 31 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 2: name it. And people here in California ingested by the 32 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 2: tens of thousands. Some of them end up living on 33 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 2: the streets and there and their brains get ravaged, they 34 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 2: destroy their brains, and of course Bass and Newsom do 35 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 2: do nothing to help them. There's no mandatory drug treatment. 36 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 2: There is no mandatory mental health treatment. Either their mentally 37 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 2: ill and that leads them to the drugs, or the 38 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: drugs create the mental illness one. 39 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: Way or the other. 40 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 2: But there their brains are scrambled and fried. And then 41 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 2: we've gotta we've gotta, we've got to endure their behavior. 42 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 2: As Bass and newsom you know, make excuses for them, 43 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 2: cover for them, but don't actually remove them in any 44 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 2: great numbers. Well, they they one of the original sins 45 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 2: is the drugs. Now, Trump ordered the State Department yesterday 46 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 2: to drop plans des send in the military into Mexico. 47 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 2: US military would go across the Mexican border and do 48 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: whatever they have to do to destroy the drug cartels, 49 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 2: which I thought should have been done, you know, decades ago. 50 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 2: I've never understood why, because they are better financed and 51 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 2: better armed than the Mexican military. They're the ones that 52 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 2: have created all the death and all the addiction here 53 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 2: in this state. And they're the ones who've created these 54 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 2: disgusting living conditions that we have to put up with. 55 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 2: And just it's not even the Mexican government, it's not 56 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 2: the Mexican people, it's the drug cartels. Just level them, 57 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 2: do whatever you have to do to wipe them out. Now, 58 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 2: the Mexican government say they were blindsided by Trump's idea yesterday, 59 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 2: and I'm going to talk about that a couple of minutes, 60 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 2: because they feel like they've been doing everything they can, 61 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 2: but whatever it is, it's not enough. I mean, they 62 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 2: claim that fifty well the Trump administration claims that fentinyl 63 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: has dropped by fifty percent. There's fifty percent fentonyl I'm sorry, 64 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 2: fifty percent less fentinyl coming over the border, and partly 65 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 2: that comes from shutting down the border. This would be 66 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 2: the most aggressive step against the cartels, and they not 67 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 2: only wanted to choke off the migrants, but they wanted 68 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 2: to choke off the whole fentanyl heroin industry. They have 69 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 2: designated these cartels, as well as some of these Venozoelin gangs, 70 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 2: as foreign terrorist organizations, which gives the rationale for sending 71 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 2: the military to go after these these goons because normally 72 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 2: it was considered a law enforcement issue, but law enforcement 73 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 2: wasn't working for all these decades. 74 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: I don't think they ever tried that hard. It got 75 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: to the. 76 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 2: Point where I wondered, are people in the American government 77 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 2: getting a kickback? 78 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: Wouldn't be shocking. 79 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 2: I mean, Mexican officials had been found over the years 80 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 2: to be getting a little side money from the cartels, 81 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 2: and they do have a big influence. But now, I mean, 82 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 2: the Trump administration is claiming that they're driving some of 83 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 2: the cartels into bankruptcy. The cartels are feeling so much pressure, 84 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 2: they're slowing their production or they're trying to find new 85 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 2: ways to avoid detection. There's The US Ambassador to Mexico, 86 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 2: Ronald Johnson, said that the drop in fentanyl seizures again 87 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 2: fifty percent, was due to a secure border increased collaboration 88 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 2: between the US and Mexico. Johnson said, cartels are going 89 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 2: bankrupt and our countries are safer because Trump and the 90 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 2: President of Mexico, Claudia Shinbaum, have actually been cooperating here. 91 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 2: But Scheinbaum does not want the military to come into Mexico. 92 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 2: Mexican people are very sensitive about the US is storming in. 93 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 2: Not a good history, not good memories, cultural memories of this, 94 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 2: and so that's that's too much. We'll talk more about this, 95 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 2: and we'll talk about how they've been cooperating and what 96 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 2: success they have had to achieve at least a fifty 97 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 2: percent drop. Trump's not satisfied. He probably wants the other 98 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 2: fifty percent to be stopped once and for all. I'm 99 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 2: so much death, I mean, the fentanyl. The deaths have 100 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 2: dropped in the last couple of years, but when it's 101 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 2: height and I was always like just stunned It's like 102 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 2: one hundred thousand people. One hundred thousand people would die 103 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 2: of fentinyl poisoning. And there was one country supplying most 104 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 2: of it, and that was Mexico, and they were getting 105 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 2: most of their ingredients from China, which is one of 106 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 2: the reasons that Trump slapped all these tariffs on China. 107 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 2: And this is something no other president would do on 108 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 2: either side. 109 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: Why. 110 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 2: I mean, he apparently has had success with the tariffs. 111 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 2: China got the message about the fentinyl ingredients, although you know, 112 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 2: I'm sure they're cheating some Mexico certainly got the message. 113 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 2: So I wasn't this done ten to twenty thirty years ago. 114 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: I leads me to dark places. We'll talk more when 115 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 2: we come back. 116 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six. 117 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: Forty every day. 118 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four, then after four John 119 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 2: Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. Coming up 120 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 2: after three o'clock, We're going to talk with State Senator 121 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 2: Tony Strickland from Huntington Beach and he's going to discuss 122 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 2: Newsom's a stupid redistricting maneuver. He wants to drive all 123 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 2: the Republicans out of the congressional delegation from California. There's 124 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 2: only nine left out of fifty two. He wants to 125 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 2: cut down to three. You have three Republicans representing you 126 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 2: in Congress. According to do so right, there's democracy for you. 127 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: All right. 128 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 2: Just to clear up the bobcat mountain lion thing. I 129 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 2: didn't realize this was going to be controversial my memory. 130 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 2: I was under the impression that mountain lions were the 131 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 2: same as bobcasts. 132 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: I just got another mess I was wrong. What what 133 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: was that? I already said you were right, I was wrong, Eric, 134 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 1: I hope you isolated that. 135 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 4: I'm editing social media right now. Oh, he has a job. 136 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 4: Mountain lions do have other names, like a cougar. 137 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 1: What was the other one? 138 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 5: I said, oh, yeah, you said something else. Somebody just 139 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 5: said a cougar and a mountain lion are the same, 140 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 5: just depending on your part of the country, but not 141 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 5: a bobcat. 142 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 2: Cougar in a mountain lion and the same, right. I 143 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 2: threw bobcat into that. 144 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 5: Yes, And when I saw that picture that you showed us, 145 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 5: I immediately said, that's a bobcat. 146 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, you were correct. 147 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 2: Bobcats are fifteen to thirty five pounds two to three feet, 148 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 2: mountain lions eighty to two hundred pounds five to eight feet, 149 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 2: slightly different coats. They're both wildcats, you know. They're in 150 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 2: the same general category there, Yes, but the mountain lions 151 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 2: are significantly larger. 152 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: So I was wrong. 153 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 2: I was mixing up the different names for a mountain lion, 154 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 2: which includes cougar's and something else that I can't find them. 155 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: Glad we cleared that, all right, you're happy, Yes, very 156 00:09:57,920 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: you were right. 157 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 2: You're right, dear, Okay, I was talking about the drug 158 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 2: cartels because Trump wants to send in the military to 159 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 2: wipe them out. They've done a lot of damage to 160 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 2: the fentable flow. We are now going to have tens 161 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 2: of thousands of fewer Americans dying of fentinyl poisoning. Maybe 162 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 2: that might make a dent of the in the number 163 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 2: of people dyeing on the streets of Los Angeles, the 164 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 2: number of people that Karen Bass lets die on the 165 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 2: streets of Los Angeles, because if they could be effective. 166 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 2: The thing is, the Mexican government really does not want 167 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 2: US military because they had president there. Claudia Shanbaum is 168 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 2: very popular. She has a seventy five percent approval rating, 169 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 2: and that could go down to zero in a moment 170 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 2: because most Mexicans do not want to see US troops here. 171 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 2: So it might be an effective way to stop the 172 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 2: drug cartels once and for all, but then it's it's 173 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 2: bad politically for the Mexican president. And they have been 174 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 2: cooperating with Trump on the on the border in stopping 175 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 2: the immigration flow, and they have been helping out with 176 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 2: the drug cartels, and I guess his opinion is, well, 177 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 2: not enough. 178 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: Of course, they didn't have. 179 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 2: Much much of a choice because Trump was going to 180 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,199 Speaker 2: strangle their trade with his tariffs. That has become an 181 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 2: all purpose club that Trump hits country's over the head 182 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 2: with if he doesn't like anything about the way they 183 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 2: do business in any way, they wake up to a 184 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 2: fifty or one tariff and then they got to go scrambling. 185 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,679 Speaker 2: And ultimately, We've got the most power because our market 186 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 2: is so gigantic that every country that that is worth 187 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 2: its size at all has to do business with us. 188 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 2: It's just impossible to be cut out of the American market. 189 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 2: So he uses the UH, he uses the tariffs as 190 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 2: a weapon, and so far it's working, But maybe they've 191 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 2: choked off enough fentinyl, they've choked off all the fentinil 192 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 2: they can by simply sealing the border, because the cartels 193 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 2: are going to find new ways. So what Trump wants 194 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 2: to do, bluntly is send the military over the border 195 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 2: and kill and bomb every last one of them. Just annihilate, 196 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 2: exterminate the cartels. And you know, there's long articles about 197 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 2: what the legal procedure is for this, but if he 198 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 2: declares it a national security threat, that gives him some 199 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:29,839 Speaker 2: legal leeway to do. 200 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: It, not not that he particularly cares. 201 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if I don't know how 202 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 2: you stop a president from sending the military anywhere. I mean, 203 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,839 Speaker 2: GUS Congress could, but then ever do and certainly this 204 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 2: Congress is not going to stop up. 205 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: And I'm not suggesting they should. 206 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 2: It's it's just I just don't I just think when 207 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 2: when you have a situation where the cartels are leading 208 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 2: to the deaths of one hundred thousand people a year, 209 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 2: it's like, no, they ought to be dealt with in 210 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 2: the harshest manner possible. And I honestly don't understand an 211 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 2: argument otherwise. I don't think we should accept fifty thousand 212 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 2: dying or ten thousand dying or five hundred dying or 213 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 2: five dying. It should be absolutely let's destroy every member 214 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 2: of the drug card tales, period, period, full stop. To 215 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 2: quote a great wise man. He also, and this is related, 216 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 2: he put out basically a bounty on the president of Venezuela, 217 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 2: Nicholas Maduro. 218 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: Trump did. 219 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 2: He's offering fifty million dollars if anybody catches Nicholas Maduro 220 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 2: catches I don't know if if if you kill. 221 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 4: Him, I don't know, if you get a bonus or 222 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 4: what happens if you just see him on the street, 223 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 4: you give a tip, Can I get like ten million? 224 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: Maybe there's a sliding scale. Yeah, I don't know. I 225 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 1: don't know. 226 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 2: But if you he's unleashed every nut ball in the world, Now, 227 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 2: who's going to try to kidnap Meduro? And Trump has 228 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 2: got has got a bounty on him as well. I mean, 229 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 2: the Iranians have had a have him marked for assassination 230 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 2: for many years now, going back to the first Trump administration. 231 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 2: So I'll mean that, I mean, he obviously just doesn't 232 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 2: fear anything. I mean, you start, you start putting a 233 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 2: bounty on other foreign leaders, not now they say that 234 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 2: there there's like seventy what is it, seventy million tons 235 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 2: of cocaine that comes out of Venezuela. Uh, and that 236 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 2: Meduro is personally connected to many millions of tons of 237 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: cocaine himself. I gotta, I gotta get the numbers here. 238 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 2: But here it is here, it is, all right, fifty 239 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 2: million dollar reward, all right, thirty tons of cocaine linked 240 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 2: to Meduro self and now thirty tons of cocaine linked 241 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 2: to Maduro and his associates. Seven tons of cocaine linked 242 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 2: to Maduro himself. So that's millions of dollars. I think 243 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 2: I said millions of tons. It's millions of dollars. And 244 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 2: he says the cocaine linked to Meduro's smuggling is often 245 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 2: laced with fentanyl, and so that's killing Americans as well. 246 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 2: So they're treating the president of Venezuela like he's a 247 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: drug king bin, which he is, as if he's a 248 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 2: cartel king bin, which he is. And this was, Oh, 249 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 2: there was a bounty of twenty five million when Biden 250 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 2: was president. So Trump is just doubling an old bounty. 251 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 2: Department of Justice has already seized over seven hundred million 252 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 2: of Maduro connected assets, two private jets, nine vehicles and more. 253 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 2: Yet he still continues with this massive cocaine trafficking and 254 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 2: fentanyl trafficking scheme. That's the president of Venezuela, which is 255 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 2: why we ended up with so many Venezuelans coming over 256 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 2: the border and why we ended up with the trend. 257 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 2: Dear Ragua gang here because they were trying to ruin 258 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 2: America from the inside. We got more coming up. Death 259 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 2: Remark Live MCFI twenty four hour News. 260 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: Oh, John, one more person sent me a message. 261 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 5: The other name that you were trying to figure out 262 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 5: is Puma, but we actually talked about that off the air. 263 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: Right, Puma, Cougar, Mountain Lion are all the same. Yeah, 264 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: Bobcat is different exactly. I put Bobcat into the other gap. 265 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: You were incorrect? All right? Is every any satisfied? 266 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 4: Now? 267 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 2: I have admitted defeat. Okay, I've confessed to being wrong. 268 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 2: Further than that, I have agreed that you were right. 269 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 6: I know. 270 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: I love it. 271 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobbel's on demand from KFI Am sixtyn. 272 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 2: Every day from one to four o'clock and then after 273 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 2: four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the Eye 274 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 2: Heart app and uh, you know, well, effect you know 275 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 2: you you missed part of the show today and ongoing 276 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 2: to date about the whether a mountain lion and a 277 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 2: Bob bobcat of the same. You missed some good stuff 278 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 2: or to runs the moistline next hour and now it's 279 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:22,120 Speaker 2: time to talk about sex toys. You know, there's never 280 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 2: enough sex toy news, but this w n b A 281 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 2: situation has given everybody a chance to go on radio 282 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 2: and television and to make to make the merits of 283 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 2: sex toys. Uh, you know, hardly anybody this is actually 284 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 2: great publicity. I was thinking about this. You know, hardly 285 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 2: anybody watches the w n b A. Not too many 286 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 2: people go to their games. But this has given them 287 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 2: headline coverage for several days now. So I think the 288 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,479 Speaker 2: controversy is is an upside. 289 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,959 Speaker 1: For the w n b A because I'll be out. 290 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: I didn't know there was a season going on. 291 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 2: Until I saw these clips every night of these green 292 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,439 Speaker 2: sex toys. And if you're not familiar, I guess it 293 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 2: happened again. Yeah last night, last night, there's a there's 294 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 2: been four incidents of these green objects flying through the air, 295 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 2: and some a nine year old got actually hit by 296 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 2: one of these things. You know, if they're not thrown well, 297 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:34,919 Speaker 2: I mean it could hit players or gets somebody in 298 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 2: the stand used. 299 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 4: There was actually betting lines on an offshore betting site 300 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 4: for which color would be the next adult toy to 301 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 4: get thrown. 302 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 1: Onto the court. 303 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 4: Yeah. 304 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 2: I hope they're not, but you are just out of 305 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:02,920 Speaker 2: control today. Well, now this is strange. The New York Times, 306 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 2: you know, they they Operatethathletic dot com, that's a big 307 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 2: daily sports magazine, and they think it is connected to 308 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 2: a cryptocurrency scheme. Does this sound crazy when when at 309 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 2: the Crypto Arena Tuesday night, it was an La Sparks, 310 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 2: Indiana Fever game and a neon green sex toy flew 311 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 2: from the stands and landed right at the feet of 312 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:43,439 Speaker 2: the Indiana Guard Sophie Cunningham. At the same time, a 313 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 2: group of people during an audio livestream on x they 314 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 2: started celebrating because this would boost the value of a 315 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 2: mean coin that's a cryptocurrency, you know, like Bitcoin or ethereum. 316 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 2: But they the cryptocurrency is created from an Internet meme 317 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 2: and these these guys are on the Internet and they 318 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 2: start publicizing and hyping a meme that is represented by 319 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 2: the coin. 320 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 1: See. 321 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 2: I don't do any of this stuff, Eric, do you 322 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 2: do any of this stuff? Absolutely not. Okay, do you 323 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:24,439 Speaker 2: know anybody who does this stuff? 324 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 4: Yes, I have a lot of friends that are into 325 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 4: meme coins and okay, in the still currency and all 326 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 4: of this. 327 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,479 Speaker 2: And everybody decides at the same time they'll get behind 328 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 2: the sexy cryptocurrency and they start trading it back and forth, yeah, 329 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 2: and pumping up its expectations. 330 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,199 Speaker 4: Well, you remember a couple of years ago when that 331 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 4: game stock game stock stock took a huge rise. 332 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:46,640 Speaker 1: Yet, that's essentially the same thing. 333 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 2: But it's nothing but the same people selling it back 334 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 2: and forth drive up the price. 335 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:55,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm all this stuff is legal. I Sam 336 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:59,400 Speaker 4: Bankman Friedman is sitting in the Yeah. Yeah, it's it's 337 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 4: really gambled. 338 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 2: It's casino And I guess it's not hard to start 339 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 2: a cryptocurrency. So they started the Green Sex Toy cryptocurrency. 340 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:16,159 Speaker 2: And these are real markets online and the coin was 341 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 2: created July twenty eighth, a day before the first sex 342 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 2: toy flew through the air at a WNBA game. By Thursday, 343 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 2: the coin's worth had tripled in the first week, So 344 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 2: somebody tripled their investment in a week because seeing all 345 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,199 Speaker 2: these green sex toys flying through the air got so 346 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 2: many other quote investors excited that they just started to 347 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 2: buy and sell this mean coin. 348 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: I might makeing sense. 349 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:51,880 Speaker 2: I mean this sounds the whole world is nuts, but 350 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 2: it's a way to make money. One of the people 351 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 2: online said, uh oh, someone is tweeting that they're is 352 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 2: one at the Sparks game. This is literally the best 353 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 2: case scenario that we could possibly imagine. So it looks 354 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 2: like these sex toys flying through the air are part 355 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 2: of a coordinated effort to publicize and boost the price 356 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:22,239 Speaker 2: of the meme coin coming out of conversations on the 357 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 2: Internet and social media. Everybody hides their identities, they use pseudonyms, 358 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 2: and the meme cooin is part of a long line 359 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:41,120 Speaker 2: of novelty digital assets which start as jokes or gags 360 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 2: and they turn into people creating these coins and making money, 361 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 2: and then there's a whole art to it. You get 362 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 2: creative and you do something. According to one of these investors, 363 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 2: you do something to make people actually laugh. Mean cooin 364 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 2: should make you laugh. The whole mission was on making 365 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 2: an impact in crypto culture to give a hook for 366 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 2: people to buy and sell, because the more these sex 367 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 2: toys flew through the air, the more people became aware 368 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 2: of it, and then more would then buy and sell 369 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:15,120 Speaker 2: the mean coin. 370 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: I think that's that's how this works. 371 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's really crazy because at first, when all 372 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 4: of this was happening, a lot of people that honestly 373 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 4: including myself, were assuming that people were throwing these sex 374 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 4: toys onto the WNBA courts for LGBTQ reasons because the 375 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 4: athletes a lot of them identify as that, and so 376 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 4: people were making that correlation. But now it's for cryptocurrency 377 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 4: and a mean coin. That's we're living in a simulation 378 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 4: that was a way to insult and embarrass some of 379 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 4: the players. Yeah, exactly, and then it's connected to a 380 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 4: meme coin. 381 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 2: I looks like the Times in the Athletic have done 382 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 2: a lot of research in this, and it looks like 383 00:23:54,359 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 2: that is the story. So we're gonna see more of this. 384 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 2: I mean that now that it's become like a national story, 385 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 2: I imagine I don't know what the price of it is. 386 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: I don't even know how to look this up. 387 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 4: How would I buy one, gotta go to the dark web? 388 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: Is that where they Yeah? 389 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 2: So they don't have like an organized the New York 390 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 2: Stock Exchange for this, No, I didn't think so. 391 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 4: Well, it's an organized stock exchange. It's just not the 392 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 4: New York Stock it's New York Stock Exchange. It's not NASDAC. 393 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: No, I don't believe it's regulated. 394 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, here's what you were talking about. The 395 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 2: the trading price of one of these, I'll spell it 396 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 2: is dollar sign dld O. That that that is the 397 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 2: code if you want to buy or sell. It had 398 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 2: a training volume of more than a million and a 399 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 2: half dollars between Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. Polymarket is a 400 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 2: cryptocurrency based prediction site and took bets on whether the 401 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 2: disrupt would occur, and they got one hundred and eighty 402 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 2: thousand dollars worth of bets on that if a if 403 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,199 Speaker 2: a sex toy would be thrown at a game by 404 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 2: August tenth, and you could speculate on when the next 405 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 2: sex toy might hit the court. 406 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: I found the price of it on Forbes. What is it? 407 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: Zero point zero zero zero nine cents? So you got 408 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: to buy what a billion? 409 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 3: Yeah? 410 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: And hope somebody else is going to buy a billion 411 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: of them. Yes, this is nuts. 412 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 2: Well, all all these bright young minds, this is what 413 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 2: they do with their days. 414 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: Well did you see the guy that got arrested? What 415 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 1: he look like? 416 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 6: Oh? 417 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 2: That that chubby little uh good lord, what a freak 418 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 2: that guy is. 419 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, you sent a picture of that guy. That's right. 420 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about that guy. Where is he? 421 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: You sent it on our text threat, right, yeah, it 422 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: was a couple of days ago. 423 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Caden Lopez. Boy, this guy 424 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 2: hasn't missed a meal and he's got food stains on 425 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 2: his sweatshirt, and he's got shaggy, curly hair, and it 426 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 2: looks like a dumb cluck. 427 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 1: He's eighteen. He's eighteen. 428 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 2: Oh, he got arrested because he hits somebody with the 429 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 2: sex toy at the Phoenix game. So he's charged with 430 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 2: assault and disorderly conduct. Yeah, good, good, use of your life. 431 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from. 432 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: KFI A six. 433 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 2: Coming up next hour, two rounds of the Moist Line, 434 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 2: and we're gonna have State Senator Tony Strickland on right 435 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 2: after Debor's newscast. He is coming out against Gavin Newsom's 436 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:53,719 Speaker 2: special election scheme so that the public could vote on 437 00:26:54,200 --> 00:27:00,439 Speaker 2: redrawing the congressional districts and strick and this is going 438 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 2: to cost us two hundred million dollars. Newsom the guy 439 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 2: who blows thirty five billion on illegal alien healthcare and 440 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 2: has blown twenty five billion on the homeless with no 441 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 2: accounting for it, and seventeen billion on high speed rail 442 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 2: and nobody knows where that money went, and thirty billion 443 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 2: on fraudulent unemployment claims during COVID. Now he's got another 444 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 2: two hundred million to blow on this redistricting idea. And again, 445 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 2: the purpose is to almost eliminate Republican representation in Congress 446 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 2: from California. Right now, the Democrats among the fifty two 447 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 2: congress people, Democrats are have forty three, yes, forty three, 448 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 2: Republicans nine. He wants to make it so it's Democrats 449 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,919 Speaker 2: forty nine and Republicans three. Now, there is a commission 450 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 2: that's supposed to redraw the districts every ten years after 451 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 2: the census. Well, he wants to overturn that commission. But 452 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 2: he needs the legislature to approve the idea by two 453 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 2: thirds vote. And then you the public to approve it 454 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 2: by two thirds vote in November, and they want to 455 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,919 Speaker 2: rush this for November and spend the two hundred million 456 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 2: because he wants to get. 457 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: Back at Texas because Texas is. 458 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 2: Trying to get Democrats Democratic congress people out of office. 459 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 2: But that's their issue, that's their problem in Texas that 460 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 2: they have to police and vote on. It's not our issue. 461 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,719 Speaker 2: It's not our business. But here's what he said. He 462 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 2: actually blames Trump for this when Newsom is solely behind 463 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 2: this redistricting scheme here in California. Listen to what a 464 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 2: narcissistic sociopath does. 465 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: It's mister at number one. 466 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 6: We want to encourage national redistricting, which is critical of 467 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 6: long supported national redistricting. I appreciate Common Cause and their 468 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 6: work in this space. Should be done in Ohio, it 469 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 6: should be done in Florida, it should be done elsewhere. 470 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 6: I appreciate Governor Schwarzeneger's leadership in this space. I was 471 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 6: proud to support those efforts in the past as a 472 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 6: mayor at the time lieutenant governor, working against the repeal 473 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 6: of some of those independent redistricting efforts. That's why we 474 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 6: want to continue to keep the Independent Redistricting Commission, but 475 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 6: recognizing that we cannot unilatterally disarm at this existential moment 476 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 6: in terms of these congressional maps in twenty six, twenty eight, 477 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 6: and thirty but to maintain its status beyond thirty into 478 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 6: thirty thirty two, and to codify our intent to continue 479 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 6: to promote a national independent redistricting model. 480 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 1: The idea of the United States as he's. 481 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 6: Entitled to five seats should sicken everybody. There's nothing normal 482 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 6: about that, and anyone who says it's not surprising. 483 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: Is normalizing it. That's shocking. So it's sickening and shocking. 484 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: But it's exactly what Newsom is doing. 485 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 2: Newsom wants to eliminate five to six Republican seats out 486 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 2: of Congress in California. So there's forty nine Democrats and 487 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 2: three Republicans. So it's impossible for anybody to elect Republicans 488 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 2: in these in these districts because the Republicans are going 489 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 2: to be drawn out of the districts. 490 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: They're just going to squiggle lines. 491 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 2: Street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood to encircle registered Democrats 492 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 2: or people they think will vote Democrat, and then he says, 493 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 2: Trump says he's entitled to five seats, and that's shocking 494 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 2: and sickening. Trump has no direct power over this. The 495 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 2: Texas legislation and governor has the direct power. Trump could 496 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 2: could stomp his feet and fume and fuss about it, 497 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 2: but he doesn't have any direct power. Newsom, though, wants 498 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 2: to use this election in November to get direct power. 499 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: He wants to. 500 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 2: Destroy a commission that Schwarzenegger created and got passed, an 501 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 2: independent commission which still gives you forty three Democrat seats. 502 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 2: And Newsom wants to spend two hundred million dollars of 503 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 2: tax money to overrule the commission. And then he blames Trump. 504 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 2: This is sociopathic behavior. It's about deflecting and blaming someone else. 505 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 2: It's not taking responsible And he talks fast enough and 506 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 2: so much confusing jargon that most people don't even. 507 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: Notice to go, oh, yeah, Trump sucks. No, no, no, no. 508 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 2: We've got forty percent of the population in California that 509 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 2: vote Republican. 510 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: They're entitled to Congress people. Two. Who's a threat to democracy? Well, 511 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: what's this. 512 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 2: Kicking off five to six Republican congress people at office 513 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 2: just because you feel like it, and it's only to 514 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 2: boost his boost his political career so he could be 515 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 2: a leader running for the presidential nomination. This is disgusting 516 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 2: Newsome is disgusting, and he thinks he can just double 517 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 2: talk his way. Well, we're going to talk to Tony 518 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 2: Strickland because this is two hundred million dollars of your 519 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 2: tax money. Deborah Mark Live, CAFI twenty four, our newsroom. 520 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. 521 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 522 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 523 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.