1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on every day 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: from one until four, and then after four o'clock it's 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. You 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: can follow us at John Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt Radio. 6 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: We're trying to get to twenty thousand followers by the 7 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: end of the year, and we're getting close. We are 8 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: going to talk now. I mean there's a lot of 9 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: border news because Tom Homan is going out on a 10 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: full scale publicity tour, is going to various spots at 11 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: the border and making it clear to everyone in this 12 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: country and in all the foreign countries and all the 13 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: politicians that parties over we are going to be deporting 14 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: lots and lots of people, starting with the criminals and 15 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: the gangsters and the terrorists, working our way down to 16 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: the huge numbers that applied for asylum and lost their case. 17 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: Nine out of ten lose their case and they have 18 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: been ordered gone by a judge, and they ignored that order. 19 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: Wes didn't enforce it. So Holman said, we're going after 20 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: those people. Let's talk with Todd Bensman. Now, Todd just 21 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: wrote a column about reviving Trump's Remain in Mexico policy 22 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: and how it really calmed down the border the first 23 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: time the policy was in effect back in twenty nineteen, 24 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: and of course Biden undid that anything successful that Trump had. 25 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: Biden undid it when it came to the border policy. 26 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: Let's get Todd Bensman on Todd. How are you. 27 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Thanks for having me. 28 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: First thing, if you noticed anything different going on now 29 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: that Trump has won, and that there's been a lot 30 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: of tough rhetoric from him and Tom Homan, anything on 31 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: the ground that people could see who've been analyzing this 32 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: situation for years. 33 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 2: Yes, Well, the numbers of illegal crossings are dropping. Whereas 34 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 2: you know, we were in the three thousand and four 35 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 2: thousand a day range for quite a while, are now 36 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 2: at under two thousand, one eight hundred, one thousand, seven 37 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 2: hundred a day, And those numbers are dropping for a 38 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 2: couple of reasons. One is that Homan is out there 39 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 2: on the stump warning everybody, Like you said in the intro, 40 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 2: you can come if you want, but we're going to 41 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,119 Speaker 2: deport you. So if you want to spend the ten 42 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 2: thousand dollars to get here, you're going to lose it. 43 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 2: That's basically how they hear that. And two, Trump himself 44 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 2: has threatened a couple of times now, the Mexican president 45 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 2: that if she lets anybody come through, even during the 46 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 2: transition period here, that it's going to be progressive trade tariffs. Again, 47 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 2: he's already saying, look, it's already going to be twenty 48 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 2: five percent as soon as the day I get into office. 49 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 2: If you want that to go away, you're going to 50 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 2: have to comply with all of our policies. If you 51 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 2: don't comply, it's going to go to fifty percent, then 52 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,119 Speaker 2: seventy five percent, and one hundred percent, which would leave 53 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 2: Mexico's economy in a smoking ruin. So they're paying attention 54 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 2: down there and blocking them up, catching them with their 55 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 2: military and turning them around, breaking up the caravans, all 56 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 2: of that kind of thing. So it already is having 57 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 2: an effect. I call it the Trump effect. We had 58 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 2: Trump effect one point oh back in twenty seventeen, and 59 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,799 Speaker 2: now we've got Trump effect two point oh. In twenty 60 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 2: twenty four. 61 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: You just wrote an article we have it here in 62 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: the Federalist dot com about reviving Trump's Remain in Mexico 63 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: policy first went into effect in twenty nineteen. Can you explain, 64 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: for people who don't keep track of all the details, 65 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: how does it work or how did it work and 66 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: why was it so successful? 67 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 2: I wrote the column because the American people are going 68 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 2: to be hearing a whole lot about this policy very soon. 69 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 2: It'll be implemented again on day one, probably at high 70 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 2: noon or just after high noon January twentieth. Remain in 71 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: Mexico is a very consequential policy and important policy coming 72 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 2: right out of the gate. In this way, what it 73 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 2: attacks is the motivating, the central motivating incentive for illegal crossing, 74 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 2: which is that if I cross and I claim asylum, 75 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 2: they'll let me in to wait for the full backlog 76 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 2: five years toil adjudication, during which time I'm laying down roots, 77 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 2: I'm having children, I'm disappearing, et cetera, and become very 78 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 2: difficult to ever deport. What Remain in Mexico does says 79 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 2: we're going to push you back right away. You can 80 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 2: go through the asylum claim of an asylum claim, but 81 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 2: you're going to wait the whole thing Mexico, not inside 82 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 2: the United States. So you can't just disappear. That just 83 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 2: removes the whole thing. I mean, the whole point of 84 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 2: why they come is to claim bogus asylum and get 85 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 2: in for years at a time. Nobody is coming for 86 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 2: the great Mexican dream, as I write in the column, 87 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 2: and so back in twenty nineteen, when this policy was 88 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 2: in place, I went down to Juarez and interviewed a 89 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 2: whole bunch of expellees. What are you going to do? 90 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 2: How did this affect your thinking? And that's all in 91 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 2: the column. But the bottom line is that they were 92 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 2: all going home. In fact, so many were going home 93 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 2: that the un organized bus rides all the way down 94 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 2: into Central America they were filling up three, five, ten 95 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 2: every day with the expellees who really all of a 96 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 2: sudden didn't care about asylum. They were, you know, all 97 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 2: of a sudden, their home villages were per quickly fine 98 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 2: to return to that death traps. 99 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's the thing. Most of the people who 100 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: apply for asylum get turned down. Could you explain generally, 101 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 1: what are the requirements to get asylum approved. I mean, 102 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: you have to meet a specific definition of. 103 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 2: You have to show a preponderance of evidence that your 104 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 2: home government persecuted you on the basis of race, religion, 105 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 2: sexual orientation, membership and a social class or your political orientation, 106 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 2: party membership or whatever it is, and that you were 107 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 2: being persecuted so you had to flee in order to survive. 108 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 2: And if you can convince a judge in the United 109 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 2: States of that, then you know, will grant you, you know, 110 00:06:54,760 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 2: a residency on a path to citizenship. The problem is 111 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 2: that the vast, vast majority of people that are using 112 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 2: that system are turned down eighty nine because they're just lying. 113 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 2: There's no they can't prove it, and it's just generally 114 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 2: not true. Most American people, you know, think that these 115 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 2: are people who are fleeing certain death and destruction, but 116 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 2: the vast majority of them are lying about that that 117 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 2: is not true. They just know that those are the 118 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 2: magic words that the dumb Americans will accept to let 119 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 2: you in remain in Mexico. Just you know, evisceraates the 120 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 2: whole the whole game, right, That's the power of it, 121 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 2: and that's why they know. 122 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: They know their asylum claims your bogus. But they also 123 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,679 Speaker 1: know that once you get into America, it'll be years 124 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: before there's an asylum hearing, and even if you lose, 125 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: they don't come after you. 126 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 2: Exactly right, I'm after you. There's no point in having 127 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 2: a law like this where you go all the way 128 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 2: through our due processes and then get a decline and 129 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 2: a removal order, and then we don't follow through. You know, 130 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 2: with millions and millions and millions of people, what's the point. 131 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 2: The point is that it's just used to get in 132 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 2: and stay. 133 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: In, all right, I'm the whole thing is one big racket, 134 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: isn't it. 135 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 2: It really is. Listen, if you had to cross you know, five, six, eight, 136 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 2: ten countries that are perfectly safe to find safe haven 137 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 2: only in the United States, ten countries away, you're a liar. 138 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 2: You did not need asylum. You're you're an economic opportunist, 139 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 2: which is something different. Asylum does not cover people who 140 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 2: live in poverty or are victims of you know, regular 141 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 2: street climb or whatever it is. Doesn't cover that. It's 142 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 2: for government persecution. 143 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Biden administration knows this and let it 144 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: all happen anyway. 145 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 2: They know most design But everybody understands. Everybody understands this game. 146 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 2: Everybody understands it except the average American right does not 147 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 2: understand it. 148 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,959 Speaker 1: All right, Very good, Todd Bensman, thank you for coming. 149 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 2: On, great to be here, Thank you for having me. 150 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: He explains things very well. Uh yeah, just to amplify that, 151 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: you do know that this is all a big racket 152 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: everybody in the Biden administration, in the Mexican government, this 153 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: is all the drug cartels. It's all play acting these people. 154 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: And he's got examples. If you go to the Federalist 155 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: dot com and the headline is why reviving Trump's remain 156 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: in Mexico policy will slith swiftly reduced border chaos. Todd 157 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,719 Speaker 1: Benzman's his name. Go read this and you'll see all 158 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: these people are coming because they want to get a 159 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: better economic deal. But they're not in any danger at all. 160 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: They're not being persecuted, they're not under the threat of violence, 161 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: no such thing. It's just everybody as you claim asylum 162 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: and that you'll lose, but it doesn't matter because the 163 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: federal government doesn't come and get you anyway, so you 164 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 1: just stay. It's and you know, we have to pay 165 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 1: the tremendous cost of giving benefits to these people one 166 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 1: way or the other. I mean, in California it cost 167 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: tens of billions of dollars to give illegal aliens what 168 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: they need to get by even their better deal doesn't 169 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: mean they can live independently without our help. I mean, 170 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: you know, just just the cost of schooling and medical 171 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 1: care for example. All right, it's billions of dollars, and 172 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: it takes away from American citizens, takes away from poor 173 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: people here, school children here, just crazy. All right, more 174 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 1: coming up. 175 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 176 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 3: six forty. 177 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: Right after four o'clock we post the podcast. It is 178 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: the same as the radio show. It's called John co 179 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: Belt Show on Demand. So whatever you missed, you know 180 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,719 Speaker 1: what you missed if you're just joining us. We did 181 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: an interview with Mark Arragos. It was about fifteen minutes. 182 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: Quite spirited. I think he called it right, some really 183 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 1: good radio. Yeah, yeah, a little contentious. So if you 184 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: want to hear Mark Garrigos, that would be our two 185 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: of the podcast and you could download that. 186 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 4: You raised your voices, well you did, he didn't really no. 187 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: I rate because he never stops talking. He's mister philibuster. 188 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: So I have to play the role of the judge. 189 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: I got to get a gabble next time he comes 190 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: on and just start banging the gavel. That's a really 191 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 1: good idea. Yeah, get me in at least an audio 192 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: gavel and I'll give you a signal and you just 193 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: start out glad. 194 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 4: That he wasn't eating this time. I remember the last. 195 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: Time that that was like handle light. You know, it 196 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: was disgusting. We we we talked about this briefly at 197 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: the end of the show yesterday, and it's just come 198 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: across that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, they 199 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: have released a proposal to radically change how the company, 200 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: how the county. Rather the county spends billions of dollars 201 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: on homelessness because the whole system is busted. They're wasting 202 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,679 Speaker 1: enormous amounts of money. I think a lot of it's 203 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: being stolen by the nonprofits or by the government bureaucrats, 204 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: and obviously the homeless aren't being helped and we're getting 205 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: screwed out of billions in taxes. So Lindsay Horvath, supervisor, 206 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: and Catherine Barger are proposing a new county department that 207 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: would take over hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts 208 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: which are currently overseen by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, 209 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: and that thing is infested with just nothing but incompetence 210 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 1: in boobery. I mean, it is the worst sort of 211 00:12:53,320 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: government just they just have They don't they don't know 212 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: what they're doing, and they don't care, and they're spending 213 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:04,559 Speaker 1: a lot of money. And I don't know how these 214 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: guys get up in the morning and decide to go 215 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: to work and they sit in their stupid cubicles and 216 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: I imagine a lot of them aren't even showing up. 217 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, but it seems like the 218 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: entire agency is at a standstill. It's they're just taking money, 219 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: tax money. They hand out money to these corrupt nonprofits, 220 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,679 Speaker 1: and the corrupt nonprofits, the money evaporates and it doesn't 221 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 1: help the homeless. They keep on dying in the streets 222 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: and we keep on paying for it. I mean, there's 223 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 1: just really no words to describe this. And here are 224 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: the two stories this week. In the past week, there's 225 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: we've got the judge David o'carter. He's a federal district 226 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: judge and he's been investigating the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. 227 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: There's been an audit and he's looking through the audit, 228 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: and he says, there's a lot of money missing here. 229 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: Apparently LASA, the acronym for that authority, has given the 230 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: following agencies millions of dollars in an advance and they're 231 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 1: supposed to pay it back. So there's this organization called 232 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: PATH People Assisting the Homeless. They were given eight million 233 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,479 Speaker 1: dollars and they only paid forty thousand back. Special Services 234 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: for Groups Incorporated they got almost six million, only eight 235 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen thousand paid back. Again, these are advances. 236 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: I don't know how this whole system works. Volunteers of 237 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 1: America of Los Angeles got five million dollars, only paid 238 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: back one hundred and thirty five grand Saint Joseph Center 239 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: got almost three million, only paid back one hundred and 240 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: twenty thousand. He's going to what the hell here? What's 241 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: going on? And it looks like a lot of these 242 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: homeless nonprofits didn't set any standards on how they were 243 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: going to help the homeless or measure any outcomes. And 244 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: Carter says, I'm starting to believe, and I hope I'm wrong, 245 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: that this is the tip of the iceberg. Now, pair 246 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: that with this other story that came out in the 247 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: last week, So they're paying money out to these homeless 248 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: nonprofits and nobody knows where the money went, and the 249 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: advances aren't being paid back. Then, in the City of 250 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Karen Bass has a one point three billion 251 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: dollar homelessness budget. Two on that one point three billion 252 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: dollars and they found half of it, well, actually less 253 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: than half of it has been spent. They've only spent 254 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: six hundred million, So where's the other seven hundred million? 255 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: And the controller of Kenneth Maheas says, there's a sluggish, 256 00:15:55,240 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: inefficient approach. What if the hell that means? And there's 257 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 1: so much money unspent, and there's so much spent money 258 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: on the part of the county that disappeared that it's 259 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: obviously the whole system is in a complete collapse. And 260 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: I have to keep stressing that stupid voters in La 261 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: County agreed to double the homeless sales tax and make 262 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: it permanent. And it's because all these reports didn't come 263 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 1: out until after election day, like the California Air Resources 264 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: Board raising gas prices, that meeting happened after election day. 265 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: Looking for follow ups, not finding any today except that 266 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: Catherine Barger and Lindsay Horvath wants to bulldoze the old 267 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: department and come up with a new one. But aren't 268 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: they going to use the same people. That's what I'm saying. 269 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: You can move to a new building and come up 270 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: with the new letterhead, but who are you going to 271 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: staff it with? Are there intelligent bureaucrats who are hardworking 272 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 1: in the care By the way, I gotta tell you 273 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 1: along this line, I gotta tell you I listened to 274 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 1: a portion of an interview with Elon Musk's mother today. 275 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: She was on Fox Business. I'll talk about that when 276 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: we come back, because she was asked about how Elon 277 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: is going to be able to strip all that savings 278 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:39,199 Speaker 1: out of the federal government, and she immediately brought up 279 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: a topic that you and I discuss all the time. 280 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 1: So I'll tell you about we come back. 281 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:48,719 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 282 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 3: six forty. 283 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: We were hoping to talk with Shiera Astrof, the founder 284 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: of the Animal Rescue Mission, but she's in court and 285 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: the hearing was supposed to be at one thirty, but 286 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:02,959 Speaker 1: either it was late or it's still going on and 287 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: it's over. Conan the dog, Conan, is owned by a 288 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: couple from Burbank, Nelson Grande and Sylvia Franco. He's an 289 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: eight year old pit bull and Conan a bit the 290 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: bit a neighbor, and Nelson and Sylvia say the neighbor 291 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: has been harassing the dog for months. So I don't 292 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 1: know if we're going to get to be able to 293 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: talk to Shirah Astrov today or not, but you should 294 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: hear the story from KTLA reporter Rachel Mentov. 295 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 5: Nelson Grande and Sylvia Franco consider their eight year old 296 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 5: pitbull Conan more like a grandchild than anything else. 297 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 6: Yeah, our son moved away, so he basically occupy that 298 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 6: little space in the heart that you know when you 299 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 6: when your children move away leave behind, you feel it up. 300 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 5: It was Nelson's late mother who incourage them to adopt Conan, 301 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 5: who was part of a large litter and at risk 302 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 5: of being put to sleep. 303 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 4: It was a gear from his mom before she passed away. 304 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 7: So that's why he's more dear to us because it's 305 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 7: a gear. 306 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 5: Their family spokesperson, Shira Scott Astrof explains that in January, 307 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 5: Conan was walking. 308 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 4: With his mom in the alleyway next to. 309 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 5: Their Burbank home when their neighbor approached God in Sylvia's 310 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 5: face and the pup gave a warning bite out of 311 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 5: a sense of protection. She goes on to say that 312 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 5: this woman had been tormenting the dog for some time 313 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 5: before this, yelling, screaming, and cursing at him through the gate. 314 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 8: If a dog is provoked, they have every right to 315 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 8: defend themselves or their owner. You can't punish them for that. 316 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 5: In July, the city deemed Conan dangerous and called for 317 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 5: him to be euthanized. Ever since the family has been 318 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 5: fighting for his life and vehemently counter the city's claim. 319 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 5: Their story has garnered a large social media following and 320 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 5: amassed supporters and experts from around the LA area and beyond. 321 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 8: He represents every dog because this could be any of 322 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 8: our dogs that did absolutely nothing wrong. If anything did 323 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 8: something really right, and all of a sudden, he could 324 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 8: lose his life for it. 325 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 5: According to the Burbank bylaws, no animals should be declared 326 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 5: dangerous or vicious if it's protecting a person from an 327 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 5: unjustified attack, or if there was teasing, tormenting, abusing, or 328 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 5: assaulting of the animal. Conan has his last appeal in 329 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 5: a downtown La Superior courthouse on Tuesday. His family says 330 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 5: life without him is unimaginable. 331 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 6: I couldn't live without him, really hard one. I don't 332 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 6: want to think about being without him. 333 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 5: The hearing is at one thirty tomorrow afternoon. Conan's owner 334 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 5: will testify along with a dog behaviorist from Florida. I 335 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 5: did reach out to the city of Burbank as well 336 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 5: as the city attorney, who told me they cannot comment 337 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:51,880 Speaker 5: on pending litigation. 338 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: Well, if you're screaming and yelling and cursing in the 339 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: face of a pit bull, you kind of get what's 340 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: coming in there. 341 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 4: Absolutely. 342 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,360 Speaker 7: You know they're animals and if you're threatening them, if 343 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 7: you're teasing them, if you're abusing them, then they have 344 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 7: a right to respond. I say, justice for Conan, and 345 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 7: they better not put this dog down. 346 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 1: Well, it's up to the judge. 347 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 7: I guess, okay, Well, I wish we could talk to 348 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 7: the judge too. But where's Mark Arragos? Maybe he should 349 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 7: be representing Conan. 350 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: Dog doesn't make enough money for Mark. 351 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 7: Garrigos, Well, maybe he could do a pro bonus. 352 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: Besides Garrigos's record, the dog is likely to get euthanized. Well, 353 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: you know you have to be careful, really sad, what 354 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,120 Speaker 1: corner are you going to be protesting on this weekend? 355 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 1: Justice for Conan? Come on? 356 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 4: Absolutely? 357 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: So that's two attacks of militancy today so far. Yes, yeah, 358 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: I thought you had a good weekend. It was your birthday? 359 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 4: Did I actually did. But this story is very upsetting. 360 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 7: You can't torment a dog and expect a dog to 361 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 7: just go look your face. 362 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: I don't like pitbulls. I'm scared of them. 363 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 7: I am too, but this one doesn't sound like it's 364 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 7: a vicious And again, you know, I'm not a fan 365 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 7: of pit bulls because of a lot of the people 366 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 7: who own pit bulls. 367 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 4: They train them to be to fight. 368 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: And oh yeah, the gang the gang bangers exactly. 369 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 4: And the drug dealers that have them out there. 370 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: They're used as guard dogs to kill. Yes, so, but 371 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: this the way this family and they sound like really nice, 372 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: decent people. It doesn't sound like they're making up a story. 373 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: So you know, I'm for Conan too. 374 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 4: Let's save Conan. 375 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: Well, well, let's tied up in the legal system. Now. 376 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: I want to tell you about Elon Musk's mom because 377 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: Debora and I have great fun with the people who 378 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: don't show up for work anymore. And so Elon Musk's mom, 379 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 1: h what's her name May was on this morning on 380 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: Fox Business. She's got an autobiography that she's promoting, and 381 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: so the host is asking her about what Elon is 382 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: trying to do, you know, and she said, well, you know, 383 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: he's trying to cut a lot of money out of 384 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: the government. Well, how's he going to do that? Well, 385 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: she said, there's a large percentage of government workers who 386 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 1: haven't shown up for work. I guess going on almost 387 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: five years now. And so Elon says, you have to 388 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 1: show up for work. That's going to be the new 389 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: rule as soon as Trump takes over it. You have 390 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: to show up for work. And a big percentage don't 391 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 1: want to. They think twenty five percent of the federal 392 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: workforce is going to refuse to show up because they've 393 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: moved way out into the suburbs in Maryland and Virginia 394 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: and they don't want to deal with the traffic and 395 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: they don't want to deal with Washington d C. 396 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 7: Okay, so then what are they going to do. They're 397 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 7: going to be out out of a job. They're gonna 398 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 7: have to work somewhere. 399 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 1: So we're going to we're going to cut off twenty 400 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,719 Speaker 1: five percent of the workforce right off the bat. And 401 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: then she said, the other criteria is going to be 402 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: what do you do? I guess she's getting this from Elon, 403 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: but it's his opinion that there are a lot of 404 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: government workers who sit around and don't do anything all day, 405 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 1: and so that's going to be another big, big chunk 406 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: of the workforce carved out. And she said, well, look 407 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: what he did at Twitter. And we've talked about this 408 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: at Twitter. He fired eighty percent of the workforce, you know, 409 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: and I see Twitter every day. It seems to be running. 410 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: And apparently there were a lot of people on Twitter 411 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: didn't do anything. And so this is this is like 412 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: hollowing out fake office culture. And I've always thought this. 413 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 1: I mean, I never I worked at an office, like 414 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: a real office, you know, not not a newspaper or 415 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: a radio station. 416 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 4: Right now, are you going to slam cubicle people, Well. 417 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 1: That's where I was headed. Yeah, sure, I mean, but 418 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,959 Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about, there's nothing going on 419 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: there much of the time, I mean, eaves drop on 420 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: their conversations. I'd look at their screens. 421 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 4: Well maybe they're not break when you're dreaming that. 422 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're always on an eBay or Amazon break and 423 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: they're buying stuff. Or back when everybody used to watch 424 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,439 Speaker 1: the same television shows and I was really amazing by this. 425 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: You walked through cubicles and everybody had seen the same 426 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: show the night before. And now it's comparing all these 427 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: obscure streaming series. But when when there were massive peal 428 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 1: TV shows, that's all they talk about, and they would 429 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: get emotionally involved with the characters as they talk. 430 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean, look I do that too. 431 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: Yeah. 432 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 7: I don't talk about it at work though, because really 433 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 7: there's not very many people, and there hasn't been since 434 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 7: the pandemic. 435 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: Right, I know, right, I have this vague memory of 436 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: being a very crowded, busy place. 437 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 7: But we're a little bitter here because we showed up 438 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 7: every day during the pandemic, didn't take a day off. 439 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 4: I know, I know, right, and we're still here. 440 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,439 Speaker 1: I know we risked risk disease. 441 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 4: We did we we risked. 442 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: Death and extinction. 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In fact, 477 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,439 Speaker 1: it is so bad you're not going to believe this. 478 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: Ninety six and a half percent of all the new 479 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 1: jobs in California made in the last year, well actually 480 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: in the last two years, ninety six and a half 481 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: percent were government jobs. You believe that private sector businesses 482 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 1: increased by only fifty four hundred jobs in the whole 483 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: state of California. Fifty four hundred, representing zero point zero 484 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: seven percent of the US jobs increase. Nearly all the 485 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: job increases in California are in government ninety six and 486 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: a half percent. That is fifty four hundred private sector 487 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: jobs created in a state of thirty nine million people. 488 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: At the same time, hundreds of thousands of people have 489 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: left the state, replaced by illegal aliens. We got a 490 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: lot of these statistics from California Globe and Katie Grimes. 491 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 1: That's the state of our economy. It's the economy has 492 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 1: stalled out to nothing. I think California is in a 493 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: recession because if you're down to making only seven thousand jobs. 494 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: The Chief Executive magazine annually has a list on the 495 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 1: best and worst states for business, and California is ranked 496 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: number fifty. Again. Every year gets ranked number fifty. And 497 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: they never change anything. And I mean we really have. 498 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: They really turned it into a totally social estate. In 499 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: two full years, only fifty four hundred jobs created and 500 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: the other ninety six percent created in government. If there 501 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: is such a thing. 502 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 9: It's nice to know Radio is doing our part, though. 503 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: We're shrinking as fast as any industry out there. Now, 504 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 1: let me ask you. 505 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 9: I want to ask you something. 506 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 10: So the winner at the pastathon gets to co host 507 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 10: an hour week yes, and the loser gets to do 508 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 10: two hours. 509 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: That's the old they get the co host with you. 510 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 10: Nobody loses that bad in life when you're co hosting 511 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 10: with a fill in guy that's really going to seek 512 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 10: for professional counseling. 513 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: What are you not going on today? 514 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 9: If anything, I actually I planned stuff. I don't know 515 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 9: if anything's. 516 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: Gonna Expectations are low, so don't worry. 517 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 9: We'll keep lowering the bar. Please make it as easy 518 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 9: to step over as possible. 519 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: But one thing. 520 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 10: I saw this thing in the New York Times about 521 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 10: the average price of a New York City hotel room 522 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 10: in the month of September. Uh and then I thought, 523 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 10: there's a bunch of things that used to be common 524 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 10: experiences for the middle class. Poor have always struggled, poor 525 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 10: are always going to struggle, but the middle class do. 526 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 10: Thinks there's a whole bunch of stuff that is now 527 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 10: off the table for the middle class, And apparently travel 528 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 10: is one of them. If these prices are real, nobody's 529 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 10: going anywhere. 530 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: There's just normal hotels. 531 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 10: You can go, you can go and stay, you visit 532 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 10: New York you'll just stay in Pennsylvania. 533 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 9: Unbelievable. Yeah, it's really and we got all kinds of 534 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 9: stuff to talk about. 535 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 10: And believe it or not, somebody took time to write 536 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 10: a biography of Zeppo. He's going to be in studiopo. 537 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 10: Yeah no, well for all I know, for all we 538 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 10: know about Zeppo. Yeah, all right, but I thought it's 539 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 10: Conway's show if I ruin it. 540 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, there's a big market out there. I don't 541 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 1: want to know what Zeppo's life was. 542 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 9: And you know something I read, the damn thing is 543 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 9: pretty fascinating. 544 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: No, that's the kind of thing i'd read too. I'll 545 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: definitely all right. We got got Doug McIntyre in for 546 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: Conway coming up next and Brginia Dagostino live in the 547 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: Cafe twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to 548 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the 549 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: show live on KFI Am six forty from one to 550 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime 551 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app