1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:02,239 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,479 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: app around from one until four, then after four o'clock 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: John Cobelt on demand on the iHeart app. It's the 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,959 Speaker 2: podcast version. You could hear what you missed. We're going 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 2: to go right to Alex Stone from ABC News here. 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 2: It's just amazing. Over ten thousand illegal aliens a day 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 2: or coming over the border, and the border patrol is overwhelmed. 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 2: I mean, the whole everything's overwhelmed, the detention camps, the 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 2: Biden administration flat out refuses to do anything about it. 11 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: They're true. 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 2: The Congress has tried to issue some kind of relief, 13 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 2: but they're busy fighting and I think now they're going 14 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 2: to be recessing for Christmas. So this is going to 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 2: go on and on. Over ten thousand a day. We 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 2: got Alex here to talk about it. What's the latest hither, Johnny. 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 2: It doesn't look like Congress is gonna be able to 18 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 2: do anything. But the border is overflowing right now, and 19 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 2: this has been growing for the last number of weeks, 20 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 2: but the migrants have just kept coming, and seems that 21 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 2: the smugglers are purposely bringing them to remote ports of 22 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 2: entry where they can easily become overwhelmed. Today it is 23 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 2: Eagle Pass, Texas. In recent weeks has been in Lukeville, Arizona, 24 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 2: where that port of entry has been shut down because 25 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 2: they are and have been so overwhelmed now freight traffic 26 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 2: on trains along the border region around Eagle Pass. They 27 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 2: can't get trains through there, they can't deal with the 28 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 2: immigration requirements, customs requirements of bringing freight in from Mexico. 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: So it is, I. 30 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 2: Mean, they're just completely overwhelmed, and so many are arriving 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 2: to claim asylum that they're now waiting in these makeshift 32 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 2: camps on the US side where they have not officially 33 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 2: turned themselves into border agents. But the border agents are 34 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 2: so overwhelmed that they're saying, you just stay there before 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 2: where you claim asylum, and we'll get to you. They're 36 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 2: now out in the elements in pretty cold weather, wearing 37 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: emergency the tinfoil tye blankets, waiting to make their asylum claim. 38 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 2: Martin Wheeland is a border patrol agent the UMA sector. 39 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 2: He's telling us, we're facing severe challenges right now now, 40 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 2: like so many surges. It's not really clear why right now, 41 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 2: despite both sides have their claims of what it is, 42 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 2: but there has not been a big law change or 43 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,119 Speaker 2: policy change in the last couple of weeks, other than 44 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 2: that the Rio Grande is low right now and it's 45 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 2: easy to cross, so that may come into play. But 46 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,399 Speaker 2: this is a Fidel Bacca an agent Nel Passu. He says, 47 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 2: they don't know. They have a lot of theories what's 48 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 2: going on in the Mexico side, but they don't know. 49 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 3: There's a lot of misinformation going on on the Mexican side, 50 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 3: whether it be misinformation due to misunderstanding or purposely distributed 51 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 3: false information, we don't know. 52 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, but that information going out from the cartels and 53 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:58,399 Speaker 2: the smuggling groups. But John, the agents, they say they're overwhelmed. 54 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 2: They cannot keep up with the influx. Right now, today 55 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 2: we saw Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez. He was on the 56 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 2: border in front of these camps that have been set 57 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 2: up where they're kind of in no man's land on 58 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 2: the US side, but waiting to turn themselves in. He 59 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,959 Speaker 2: is saying, look, the federal government, the Biden administration, needs 60 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 2: to send an influx of immigration judges to the border 61 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 2: to get these asylum claims going because the local communities 62 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,119 Speaker 2: along the border are being ravaged by this. The hospitals 63 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 2: are full, people are getting sick out there, and the 64 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: you know, living in essentially the desert waiting to be heard. 65 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: The congressman today saying this here an Eagle Pass. There, 66 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: there's over ten thousand people in detention. That is an 67 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: historic number. 68 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 4: Yesterday there was over four thousand that came over once again, 69 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 4: another astronomical number. 70 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 2: So Eagle Pass yesterday it was forty four hundred. The 71 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 2: number that we now have, and that's a record for 72 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 2: one sector of the border patrol. We know that overall 73 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 2: along the border was ten thousand and five hundred yesterday, 74 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 2: eleven thousand on Monday. And those are just numbers who 75 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 2: are apprehended. All of those who are waiting to claim 76 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 2: asylum and to turn themselves in, they are not included 77 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 2: in those numbers because they have not been apprehended yet. 78 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 2: So I mean this is these numbers are just the 79 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 2: number of agents who are there to say, Okay, you're 80 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 2: being processed. You're being processed. If there were more, the 81 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 2: numbers would be a lot higher than they are. Well, yeah, 82 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 2: there's a lot of people just running into the country. Well, yeah, 83 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 2: but all of those who are waiting to make their claim, 84 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 2: they're not tallied in that just because the US doesn't 85 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 2: have the manpower to do it. The New York Post 86 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 2: had a headline today that simply said, surrender with a 87 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 2: huge with the huge crowd massed at the border, and 88 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 2: that's what it seems like, is that our country has 89 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 2: surrendered our sovereignty. At the border. It's anything goes. Anybody 90 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 2: can come and next to nothing's going to happen to you. 91 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. 92 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: Well, and with the these camps that are being set 93 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 2: up or you know, just kind of they're developing that 94 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 2: these are people who want to or at least they 95 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 2: say that they're going to make the asylum claim. 96 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: They are waiting. 97 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 2: They're not running in, you know, like you traditionally would 98 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 2: think of people entering illegally. They are sitting there and 99 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 2: they're waiting. And that you know, I've covered the border 100 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 2: for many years and you'll see that. You go to 101 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 2: breaks in the fence and they will wait in a 102 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 2: single file line and wait for a border patrol van 103 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 2: to pull up and calmly get into that van, knowing 104 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 2: that they are waiting to make that claim, and that's 105 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,359 Speaker 2: what these groups are doing right now. It's a longer 106 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 2: wait than waiting in a single file line and waiting 107 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 2: for another border patrol shuttle to pull up so then 108 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,119 Speaker 2: they can be carried away and make the asylum claim. 109 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 2: Right now, there are days of waiting or even longer, 110 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 2: and then they're camped out and then when their time comes, 111 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 2: they'll go in and they'll make their claim. Very good, Alex, 112 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 2: thank thank you for coming on. Yeah, you got to 113 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 2: explaining all that, Alex Stone, ABC News with the latest 114 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 2: at the border. I've got to believe that. Well, it 115 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 2: does look like surrender. I thought that post headline summed 116 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 2: it up. That's the official policy. Everybody can come in. 117 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 2: And it seems as if the drug and human smuggling 118 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 2: cartels they're in charge, and they have their methods to 119 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 2: gin up business because all these migrants and they're coming 120 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 2: in from all over the world. All these migrants are 121 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 2: many of them are paying customers that they're paying the cartels, 122 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 2: and the cartels are spreading the word all over social 123 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 2: media and all these countries. And whether they're doing it 124 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 2: with correct information or false information, it doesn't matter. Everybody 125 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 2: gets hung up on the specific details. If we had 126 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 2: a wall built and we had strict penalties against people 127 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 2: who are captured by our border patrol, and this problem 128 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 2: would go away. It's not that complicated. It's not hard. 129 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 2: They'll lead you to believe it's hard. 130 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:13,119 Speaker 1: No, it's not. It's like everything else. 131 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 2: If you just enforce the law, if you do what's obvious, 132 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 2: this problem would stop. The cartels have immense power. This 133 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 2: is another area where I'm starting to head to the 134 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 2: fringe here. Why is it that the Biden administration does 135 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 2: not want to confront the cartels and restrict their multi 136 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 2: billion dollar business. Really, there's a reason here. There's a story. 137 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 2: Nobody wants to investigate it. Maybe they don't want to 138 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 2: get shot by the cartels, but clearly the Biden administration, 139 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 2: and I don't include Joe as part of the administration, 140 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 2: the Biden administration decided to surrender. And now you've got ten, twelve, 141 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 2: fourteen thousand a day coming over that we can count, 142 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 2: who knows what the real number is, And. 143 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: We know why they're doing it. 144 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 2: They want to change the makeup of the country, the 145 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 2: demographic makeup. But god, the amount of money that the 146 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 2: cartels are making. The cartels communication system and their transportation 147 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 2: system is really unbelievably efficient. They're really good at spreading 148 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 2: the word and then getting people organized and then getting 149 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 2: over the border. And they're making literally billions of dollars 150 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 2: and we're standing and watching. The public hates this. The 151 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 2: polling is terrible. His approval rating on the borders in 152 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 2: the twenties. But eighty percent of the public thinks it's 153 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 2: a big problem and people will vote. I don't know 154 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 2: why Biden would. 155 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: Do this to himself. 156 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 2: He wasn't that kind of politician for the first fifty years, 157 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 2: and that's why I think he's asleep much of the time. 158 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 2: And these are these radical, progressive, woke extremists that have 159 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 2: come up with this policy. 160 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 1: And I wonder if he even knows what's going on, 161 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: really I do. 162 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 2: I cannot believe that he would allow this to happen. 163 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 2: Never showed a trace of that in the first eighty 164 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 2: years of his life. And why this total surrender to 165 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 2: drug cartels with all the horrible things they do and 166 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 2: all the horrible things the drugs do to people. 167 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: Like why would you do this? Why would you do this. 168 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 2: To people, to kids, to family, what's the point of 169 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 2: this there's nowhere to put them. And now in New York, 170 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 2: Eric Adams he's short changing. He's has to defund the 171 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 2: police and defund the fire department, defund the schools because 172 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 2: there's no money. He's gonna have to jack up taxes. 173 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 2: Chicago the same thing. And that dumb ass bare in 174 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 2: Chicago is blaming Greg Greg Abbot. What the hell are 175 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 2: you talking about? Babbot was in charge of the border 176 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 2: would be closed. You wouldn't have tens of thousands of 177 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 2: people storming your city. 178 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: It's wrong with you. I don't know. 179 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 2: It's like everybody's insane. Really, only insanity could explain this. 180 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 2: All right, more coming up, by the way, we're gonna 181 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 2: we're going I'm gonna play. 182 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: A story from Channel four. 183 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 2: This is from the obvious desk La bus stops being 184 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 2: overrun with homeless people. Apparently a lot of people. You 185 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 2: know how they're constantly preaching to take public transportation, take metro, 186 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 2: take the buses. Well, on the metro trains, you get stabbed. 187 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 2: To go to a bus stop, you got to fight 188 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: off a large crowd at homeless people. 189 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 5: And there's a bus stop right by the gas station 190 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 5: that I use right there, so Every single time that 191 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 5: I go to pump. 192 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 6: My gas, there's always people coming up to me. 193 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 5: They're in the bus stop areas covered and then they 194 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 5: they are constantly coming. 195 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 6: Up to people. 196 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: Yeah. 197 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 2: Can you imagine waiting for a bus for twenty minutes 198 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 2: in that crowd? 199 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: How scary would that be? When was the last time 200 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: you took a public bus? 201 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 6: I couldn't even tell you you. 202 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: Don't look like a bus girl. 203 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 6: I'd be scared. 204 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: All right. 205 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:01,839 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from six forty. 206 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 2: On from one to four after four o'clock, John Cobelt 207 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 2: on demand on the iHeart app. Who's in for a 208 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 2: Conway today? I assume he's not working the rest of 209 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 2: the week. Chris Merril's going to be on at four o'clock. 210 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 2: I'm a little bit nervous because I got lost yesterday 211 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 2: leaving the station in the parking garage. 212 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 6: Twenty minutes of trying to get out for you. 213 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 2: Twenty minutes because they closed the checkpoints at the main entrance. 214 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:32,559 Speaker 2: You know, they have security boosts and you have to 215 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:34,679 Speaker 2: have a key card and the bar goes up and 216 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 2: you're allowed in the parking garage. But we can't use 217 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 2: that one for some reason. So we have to take 218 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 2: a side entrance and I got coming in, I got 219 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 2: found my parking spot, but leaving I couldn't figure it out. 220 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: This is a weird garage. 221 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 2: Most garages have ramps that take you up in the 222 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 2: ramp that takes you down right, or one ramp where 223 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 2: you could go both ways. 224 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: This doesn't. This garage is a complete maze. 225 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 2: It is a maze, and you have to go up 226 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,959 Speaker 2: to go down. You have to go down to go up. 227 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 2: And I've always thought that. I always thought that I 228 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 2: had to go down to get to the alternate entrance. 229 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 2: And yesterday, from four thirty nine to like five oh one, 230 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 2: I am lost in the garage here, okay, And I 231 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 2: was asking people. I'd stop and ask and people who 232 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 2: work in the building, and they go, I don't know. 233 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 2: Nobody knew, nobody could give me directions. One woman said, no, no, 234 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 2: just go right and right and right. No, it should 235 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 2: have been left and left and left. 236 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 6: Okay, so now you know what to do. 237 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 5: Today I got lost as well, although it took me 238 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 5: about five minutes to figure it out. 239 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 6: But I understand it is very stressful. 240 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 5: We're not used to that. And as Eric said, it's amazed. 241 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: This is the benefits of working on the street team 242 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: at one time in my career. And I know this 243 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: garage like the back of my hand. 244 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 6: Now you need to take John. You need to go 245 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 6: down with John, then me out. 246 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll gladly drive you out. 247 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 2: God And it turned out everybody, all right, what are 248 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 2: the odds of this? 249 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: It's it's four point thirty, it's almost five o'clock. What 250 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: are the odds? 251 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 2: I follow three cars, figuring i'd follow them out. All 252 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 2: three cars were coming in to park. I kept following 253 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 2: people in their parking spaces. It's like, what, nobody shows 254 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 2: up for work at five o'clock? 255 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: What is this? 256 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 2: There's hardly anybody working here to begin with anymore, because 257 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 2: we got a six story building and there's four there's 258 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 2: four layers of four levels of parking downstairs, and then 259 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 2: you know what, it's really scary. You go down to 260 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 2: the level three and four where it's really dark and 261 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 2: there's no exits and there's one lone. 262 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: Car park to park on park on P three. 263 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 6: Oh you do, yeah, Oh maybe that's who it was. 264 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm wondering, well, what's this? Is this the drug 265 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 2: selling corner or is this No. 266 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 4: I just park on P three because that's where the 267 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 4: promotions team keeps all of their stuff, and that's just 268 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 4: habit for me. 269 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 2: Is this where people entertain their escorts? I mean, what's 270 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 2: going on about that? 271 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: You have them? Of course not. 272 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 2: I just by by five o'clock, though, I was starting 273 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 2: to panic because I felt like I was in a 274 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 2: twilight zone. I got like a bad dream thing and 275 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 2: going around, I'm driving into some met walls. I felt 276 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 2: like such an idiot. And so that's all I can 277 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 2: think about now, is what's it going to be like 278 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 2: getting now? 279 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 5: Well, I just came and said goodbye to you because 280 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 5: I need to be somewhere after work, and I'm anticipating 281 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 5: that I'm going to get lost again. 282 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: Well maybe I'll find you down there. 283 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 6: I'll be so mad if I'm still there. 284 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: You can you can follow me or I can follow you. 285 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 2: We're going to just spend the night here, Yeah, just 286 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 2: going round and round a couple of ding dongs. All right, 287 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 2: I want to play this, play this clip from Ted 288 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 2: chin Over at NBC four. 289 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: This is uh, this is entertaining. Uh. 290 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 2: They tell you to take the metro train, but of 291 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 2: course you'll get stabbed. They tell you to take a 292 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 2: bus in LA but you got to fight off the 293 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 2: homeless people at the bus stop. 294 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: Here's Ted Chin. 295 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 8: The Mayor's office says it is approaching a homelessness crisis 296 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 8: with unprecedented urgency, and advoc could say as you said, 297 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 8: it is a crisis that keeps getting worse, with some 298 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:02,479 Speaker 8: people having no choice but to find shelter at bus shelters. 299 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 9: We need immediate triage shelter, followed by innovative housing. 300 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 8: Union Rescue Mission CEO Andy Bayle says the homeless encampments 301 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 8: at bus shelters is part of a bigger problem that's 302 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 8: getting worse. 303 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 9: It's been here the entire time that I've been at 304 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 9: Union Rescue Mission. I've seen and checked on and prayed 305 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 9: for people living under bus shelters, for ages to bails. 306 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 8: That taking over a bus shelters are but one example 307 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 8: of the failure to build more emergency shelters and immediate 308 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 8: housing for the growing number of homeless in the city 309 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 8: and the County of Los Angeles. 310 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 9: We're in bigger trouble than we've ever been, more people 311 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 9: on the streets than we've ever had. Everybody who wants 312 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 9: to come in, should be able to come in. They 313 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 9: should have a right to shelter, followed by innovative, imaginative, 314 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 9: immediate housing. 315 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 8: Bail, says La Mayor Caaren Basses in side Safe program 316 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 8: moving people off the streets into hotels and motels has helped, 317 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,119 Speaker 8: but he says it and similar programs have been too expensive. 318 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 8: The Mayor's office issued a statement saying, quote, the City 319 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 8: of Los Angeles is implementing a proactive approach to urgently 320 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 8: bring unsheltered angelinos all over the city inside. More than 321 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 8: twenty one thousand angelinos were brought inside over the last year. 322 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 8: There is more work to be done, and we will 323 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 8: continue to approach this crisis with unprecedented urgency, says its 324 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 8: priority is the safety of its passengerority of the safe's 325 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 8: encounter an obstacle at it bus shelter, it will stop 326 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 8: either immediately before. 327 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 2: Or after that shelter. So the bus will stop down 328 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 2: the block. They will get the homeless people out from 329 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 2: under the bus shelter. They'll just stop the bus down 330 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 2: the road. 331 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: And make you walk to it. 332 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 2: Oh, for goodness sakes, yeah, safety is your highest priority. 333 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: Why my god. 334 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 2: They just say the same nonsense every day, over and 335 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 2: over again, because they don't care. Nobody in the city cares, 336 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 2: Nobody at Metro cares. But you get scolded constantly while 337 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 2: you're driving your car. You should be taking mass transit. God, 338 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 2: they're always trying to make you feel guilty. Yesterday we 339 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 2: told you about the bikes. You know, the idiots drive 340 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 2: their bikes past parked cars and then they get whacked 341 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 2: by drivers opening their doors. 342 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: Well, the drivers have to be more aware. 343 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,919 Speaker 2: It's like, no, the bicyclists have to go driving a 344 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 2: park get off the roads. 345 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: I'm declaring war on all this stuff. Can't take it anymore. 346 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,439 Speaker 2: Oh and here's another thing we'll get into coming up 347 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:47,199 Speaker 2: after after three point thirty, another impediment to our driving 348 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 2: speed cameras. They're officially going to be coming to Los 349 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 2: Angeles and Glendale and Long Beach speed cameras. And I 350 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:00,479 Speaker 2: will remind you during the era of the red light camera, 351 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 2: how the local government's screwed with the red light cameras 352 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 2: in order to illegally cost you millions of dollars. Because 353 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 2: they're going to do it again here you'll see. This 354 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 2: is one of my great predictions for the next year. 355 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI AM 356 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 7: six forty. 357 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 1: We're on until four o'clock. 358 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,479 Speaker 2: Chris Merrill's going to be in for Conway later on 359 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 2: after four o'clock. It's John Cobelt on Demand, the podcast version, 360 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 2: and we had a lot of good stuff on it today. 361 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 2: Steve Gregory talking about that four year old getting shot 362 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 2: to death by a road warrage maniac, that Gascone should 363 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 2: have kept in prison and should put in prison for life. 364 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 2: And we also had a constitutional law professor on to explain, 365 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 2: try to explain how Trump could be kicked off the 366 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 2: ballot in Colorado for insurrection when he's never been charged 367 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 2: with insurrection, let alone conviction. 368 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: And that story is going to be the entertainment over 369 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: the holidays. 370 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 2: All right, I've got stupid California government news from stupid 371 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 2: politicians and the consequences from their actions. Gavin Newsoman signed 372 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 2: a law six cities in California and twenty twenty four 373 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 2: is going to have speed cameras trial basis trial basis 374 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, Glendale, Long Beach, down here, San Francisco, San Jose, 375 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 2: and Oakland up in the north. The cameras will issue 376 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 2: tickets if you're going at least eleven miles an hour 377 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 2: over the speed limit. Priorities around schools, high injury intersections 378 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 2: known street racing carridors to try to reduce speeding and 379 00:19:52,359 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 2: traffic fatalities. Ticket prices will go from fifty to one hundred, 380 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 2: to two hundred, even five hundred, depends how fast you're going. 381 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 2: First violation will be a warning in most cases. Here's 382 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 2: what's going to happen. Here's what they did with red 383 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 2: light cameras. And this is true because you remember they 384 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 2: were all the rage for a while, and then the 385 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 2: operators of the red light cameras and the government figured 386 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 2: they can make more money if they tweaked the yellow light. 387 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 2: The yellow light was supposed to be I don't know, 388 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 2: two seconds, three seconds whatever. They shortened the yellow light 389 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:43,199 Speaker 2: to half a second, three quarters of a second, so 390 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 2: there was no way that you could make it through 391 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 2: an intersection on a yellow light. If the light was 392 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 2: green as you were entering the intersection, it would turn 393 00:20:54,920 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 2: yellow and red before you left, which means technically you 394 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 2: went through a red light, even though it didn't turn 395 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 2: red until the very end. In fact, you didn't even 396 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 2: see it go yellow. That's how fast the light's changed. 397 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 2: And then somebody figured it out and there was a 398 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 2: big ruckus about it, and it turned out the company 399 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 2: that installed the red light cameras was cheating, and of 400 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 2: course the governments were thrilled to have the extra money. Anyway, 401 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 2: with all things fell apart, but that's what they do, 402 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 2: and that's what they're gonna do here. They're gonna tell 403 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 2: you that you're eleven miles over the limit? 404 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: Are you? 405 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 2: Who knows right? What do you think is going to happen? 406 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 2: There are a bunch of greed bags. These are not 407 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 2: being installed for safety reasons. They're being installed for money reasons. 408 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 2: It always is. I can't stand their safety arguments. That 409 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 2: was another thing about the red light cameras. They increased accidents. 410 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 2: Why should have been obvious? You know, there's a red 411 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 2: light camera in an intersection, the thing is going red. 412 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 2: You slam the brakes on really hard. Not to get 413 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 2: the two hundred dollars ticket. You slam the brakes on hard. 414 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 2: Then it's boom behind you, and then another boom behind 415 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 2: the next car, and suddenly you have a chain reaction accident. 416 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 2: They had more accidents, They had more crashes after they 417 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 2: put in those stupid red light cameras. 418 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 1: Same thing's gonna happen here. 419 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 2: People are gonna realize they're speeding, They're gonna notice there's 420 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 2: there's a camera. They're gonna suddenly slow down dramatically. You're 421 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 2: gonna have more accidents. I saw a story. I don't 422 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 2: have it in front of me, but I will get 423 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 2: to it one day. They're looking at pedestrian deaths around 424 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 2: the nation. Why they're going up in certain places, Guess what. 425 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 2: One of the big reasons is homeless people stumbling around. 426 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 2: There's certain times of the day where there's more people 427 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:49,880 Speaker 2: getting run over, and it correlates when homeless people are active. Yes, 428 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 2: bums are getting run over. And then we're told it's like, well, 429 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 2: driving is more dangerous than ever. It's really out of 430 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 2: control the pedestrian fatalities. 431 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: No, you're letting people live in the eight. 432 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 2: And they're whacked out on drugs and booze, so of 433 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 2: course they're going to get run over more. Here's a 434 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 2: here's another government stupidity story. When when panic hit the 435 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 2: governments over over the pandemic, they started buying, They started 436 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:28,360 Speaker 2: spending millions. In some cases billions of dollars on stockpiles 437 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:34,359 Speaker 2: of masks and gloves and gowns, gowns, and you know 438 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 2: remember the phrase, ppe am I bringing that bad memories? Well, 439 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 2: it's like when news remember new some panicked and and 440 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,919 Speaker 2: spent a billion dollars on some fake Chinese company. I 441 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 2: think it was an electric car company that was suddenly 442 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 2: in the mask business. Well, this just happened all over 443 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,120 Speaker 2: the place, and they ended up buying way too much 444 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 2: of everything. And there's an expiration date on a lot 445 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 2: of these supplies. So now, for example, Ohio auctioned off 446 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 2: three hundred and ninety three thousand gowns. I guess this 447 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 2: is hospital gowns. You know how much they got for 448 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 2: three hundred and ninety three thousand gowns twenty four hundred 449 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 2: and fifty dollars. I don't know what the buyer is 450 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 2: going to do with them. They also threw away seven million, 451 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 2: Oh god, they threw away seven million, and they sold 452 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 2: three hundred and ninety three thousand, and they made less 453 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 2: than twenty five hundred dollars seven million, twenty nine million 454 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 2: in federal money. All the stuff they threw out and 455 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 2: cleaning the masks and the gloves and other things. At 456 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 2: least fifteen states have tossed all their personal protection equipment 457 00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 2: because of expiration. Million masks, twenty two million gowns, five 458 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 2: hundred thousand gloves. Of course, more than half the states 459 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 2: didn't even respond. They don't admit to it. And because 460 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 2: Newsome and Jerry Brown before him never planned for a 461 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 2: possible pandemic, so when it happened, it caught him by surprise. 462 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 2: So they spent billions of dollars because it was a 463 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 2: seller's market, and then they panicked and bought too much 464 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 2: because they had no way of gauging how long they 465 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 2: would need them, and so it ended up being tens 466 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 2: of millions of dollars of waste. This went along to 467 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 2: the US government too. They had something called the Strategic 468 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 2: National Stockpile. Didn't have enough stuff there, so all the 469 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 2: states plunged into global bidding wars. In twenty twenty, states 470 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 2: spent over seven billion dollars in a few months. Oh 471 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 2: ventilators too. 472 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: Remember that. 473 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 2: Ohio distributed two hundred and twenty seven million pieces of 474 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 2: protective equipment. In Vermont, they sold one hundred and five 475 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 2: thousand boot covers for eighty two dollars. They sold safety 476 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 2: goggles for twenty nine cents apiece. Wisconsin has thrown out 477 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 2: almost two million, two million masks and a million gowns, 478 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 2: just huge amounts of wasistmeme. But of course they were 479 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 2: spending tax money in any cases, federal tax money, and 480 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 2: that that's not real money, right they I mean, that 481 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 2: used to be our money, but they took it from us. 482 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 2: Then they spent it on panicking nonsense were coming up. 483 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 2: John Cobalt showed. 484 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cope else on demand from KFI 485 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 7: AM six forty. 486 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 2: One of the stupid things California governments have done is 487 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 2: they destroyed the city of San Francisco. And we've chronicled 488 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 2: that for years now, but here's here's a something that 489 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 2: hit me. The office vacancy rate in San Francisco is 490 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 2: at about thirty six percent right now in the fourth quarter, 491 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 2: and it's going up now. Before the pandemic, San Francisco 492 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 2: had nearly one hundred office occupation rate. There was almost 493 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 2: no office space that you could rent. And but then 494 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,120 Speaker 2: the pandemic hit and at the same time, they let 495 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 2: the city go to hell and let the drug addicts 496 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 2: and the mental patients take over, and you had all 497 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 2: these methed out homeless people storming the streets and turned 498 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 2: it into, you know, a zombie apocalypse. 499 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: And then a lot of people. 500 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 2: Realized, why do I have to drive in traffic to 501 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,359 Speaker 2: dodge piles of human feces and needles and deal with 502 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 2: crazy people who might kill me just to sit in 503 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 2: a boring office. 504 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: There's got to be a better life. See. 505 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 2: It kind of broke the magic of high tech office 506 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 2: life in San Francisco. And so this has caused local 507 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 2: businesses to close, restaurants, to close the whole thing, and 508 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 2: it's a spiral downward, and companies stopped begging their employees 509 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 2: to come in. So now you have all these empty 510 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 2: buildings and most people I talk to, the first thing 511 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 2: they say is, well, why can't they turn them into apartments, 512 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,479 Speaker 2: you know, affordable housing. Well, it turns out it's you 513 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 2: can't retrofit buildings like that easily and then have the 514 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:54,719 Speaker 2: new apartments be affordable. 515 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: It's impossible. 516 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 2: And then again, who wants to live there because a 517 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 2: lot of the jobs are gone, The companies have moved out, 518 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 2: and like I said, the retail and the restaurants have 519 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 2: closed down. 520 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: So who's going to go first. 521 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 2: But I was reading a story about the costs of 522 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 2: retro fitting these these office buildings, and I was wondering, what, so, 523 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 2: we're just going to have these things, you know, like 524 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 2: like massive Stonehenge monuments into the sky empty. I mean 525 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 2: thirty six percent vacan see rate and that's really high. 526 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 2: Like la is only at fifteen and New York seventeen. 527 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 2: It's still high by historic standards those numbers. Chicago's at 528 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 2: twenty three, Austin twenty two. But San Francisco and they 529 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 2: think it's going to hit forty percent. So a lot 530 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,959 Speaker 2: of people are a lot of companies are just they 531 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 2: stop paying their rent stop, you know, just broke their lease. 532 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 2: The banks are going to lose a ton of money. 533 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,719 Speaker 2: They're going to have to write off all these buildings 534 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 2: that they loaned money to, that they financed, and they're 535 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:02,479 Speaker 2: going to take big hits and the city dies. They 536 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 2: actually killed San Francisco. When I came to California, we 537 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 2: drove up the coast. We had a few weeks before 538 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 2: we started working. Drove up the coast, saw San Francisco 539 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 2: for the first time with my own eyes. I'd only 540 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 2: seen it on television back East, whenever there'd be a 541 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 2: sporting event and they'd have a blimp or a helicopter 542 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 2: shot or something. It's like, wow, that looks beautiful. And 543 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 2: then I went there and I said, wow, this is magic. Absolutely, 544 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 2: But the politics aside this thing. It's just the city 545 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 2: itself was just terrific. And now I've gone back there 546 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 2: within the last year, I was like, oh, this is 547 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 2: so tragic. 548 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: And I can't. I can't. 549 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 2: I mean, this has happened to Detroit, but Detroit wasn't 550 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 2: beautiful like San Francisco. It's fascinating how people will let 551 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 2: a beautiful city die right in front of their eyes 552 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 2: when everybody knows what's killing it. Everybody knew that the 553 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 2: crime was killing it, and that the politician's bad policies, 554 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 2: this weird religious cult of progressive ideology that took over. 555 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 2: The results were bad. They all see it happen. They 556 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 2: saw it happen every day. Didn't make a difference. They 557 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 2: just still to this day, doesn't make a difference. They're 558 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 2: not really cleaning up San Francisco, and they're not really 559 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 2: getting the vagrance and the drug addicts off the streets. 560 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 2: They're not cleaning up the garbage. They're just watching it 561 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 2: rot another day. I did you think everybody in San 562 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 2: Francisco would want to preserve the unique beauty that they 563 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 2: had there? 564 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: But no, no, they just destroyed it. Chris Merrill, what's up, hey, buddy? 565 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 4: What a show? Huh? 566 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 1: Yes, it's a show, very good. 567 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 4: So I was just talking with the Crozier hair off 568 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 4: the air and come to find out wet, very wet, damp, moist, soupy, 569 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 4: all of the above. 570 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: So we'll talk about how wet is going to be. 571 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 4: And then I've got a big question that is on 572 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 4: the minds of so many people today. 573 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 1: What is due process? 574 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 4: There's some confusion about what due process is, and frankly 575 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 4: that confusion falls on all of us. 576 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 1: I'm confused about it too. I don't think due process 577 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 1: matters anymore. 578 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 4: How do you define due process? You know, it's funny 579 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 4: it's not defined. So kind of a trippy deal here. 580 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: I don't know. 581 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 2: I think if you're going to ban somebody from the 582 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 2: ballot over a crime, at least they have to be 583 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 2: charged with the crime. 584 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 1: Wow. Maybe that's a. 585 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 4: Trial court judge that hurt the whole deal. It's the 586 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 4: same judge that heels. Here's the other stuff regarding any 587 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 4: other election challenges. So why is it if I'm running 588 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 4: for the school board, there's a different due process for 589 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 4: me than there is for somebody who's on the ballot 590 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,720 Speaker 4: for president. I don't know why is there a different 591 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 4: due process for the sheriff. 592 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: That there was for the president. We know why we did, 593 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: but why. 594 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 7: Do you know why? 595 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: Chris Merrill is coming up. 596 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 2: He's in for Conway and he'll be on in a 597 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 2: few minutes John COBALT's Show, and we got Michael Krozer 598 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 2: with the news live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 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