1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:02,199 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,439 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 2: app on from one till four, then download the podcast 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 2: after four o'clock listening to what you missed A lot 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:16,159 Speaker 2: of good stuff in the first hour, so if you 6 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: missed it, download the podcast on the iHeartRadio app John 7 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 2: Cobelt Show. John Cobelt Show on Demand is the full title. 8 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 2: I mean you'll figure it out. 9 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 1: Googlepool. 10 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 2: Twenty twenty three winners will be announced in an hour, 11 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 2: so be here right at three o'clock and we'll go 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 2: through the list of winners. We're also set up for 13 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. You'll be a few of you will 14 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 2: be able to call in and we'll put you on 15 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 2: the air and you give us your nominations. Steve Gregory 16 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 2: in the studio. Happy New Year, John, Happy New Year. 17 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 2: Are you going to be a happier guy this year? 18 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,879 Speaker 2: Are you gonna be in a better mood? Screw up 19 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 2: my success? What do you think they pay me for? 20 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: I just thought it. 21 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: I mean, come on, dude, do happy stuff. You wouldn't 22 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: listen to that? 23 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: You know what? 24 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 2: I would love for you to fill in for Nil 25 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 2: Savadra's show for a couple of weeks and do food. 26 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 2: Oh I thought maybe for Jesus, oh God, I could 27 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 2: do the Satan show. There you go, there you go. 28 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 2: I think he is Satan needs equal time here. Yeah, 29 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 2: the food show. How much do people want to hear 30 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 2: about cheeseburgers. It'll be ground b for three hours, all right. 31 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 2: At the border, they cracked three hundred thousand illegal immigrants 32 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 2: for the month of December. 33 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: That is a new monthly record. Yeah. 34 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 2: In fact, my sources are saying three hundred and two thousand, 35 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 2: three hundred and two thousand. Yeah, Now that is they've 36 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 2: actually stopped three hundred and two thousand people and gotten 37 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 2: their names. And yes, they have processed three hundred two 38 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 2: thousand people between the ports of entry going from San 39 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 2: Diego sector to the west all the way out to 40 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 2: the Rio Grand sector in Texas. 41 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: That's a hell of a database, huh. Yeah. 42 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 2: And it's millions of people for the year, right, they 43 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 2: must be over two million, close to three million, by Yeah, 44 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 2: it's an astronomical and of that one hundred and twenty 45 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 2: seven thousand just and we're talking the first twenty eight 46 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 2: days of December, not even the full month, because they 47 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 2: were averaging a little over nine thousand a day. So 48 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 2: the first twenty eight days of December they processed one 49 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 2: hundred twenty seven thousand single adult migrants, twelve thousand unaccompanied children, 50 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: twelve twelve thousand. So families are just sending their kids 51 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 2: out by themselves, and these mostly teenagers or there's some 52 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 2: little kids. 53 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: They're all juveniles. It's a mix, it's all juveniles. 54 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 2: And then we can get a little deep dive in 55 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 2: the second there and then another ninety six thousand were 56 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 2: actually family units, parents and their children together. So process 57 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: means they've they've they said the out of form. Yeah, 58 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 2: they've just been documented. Doesn't mean they've got ID because 59 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 2: remember that's been one of the biggest problems all along here, 60 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 2: especially with the unccompanied minors. There's no identification, there's no 61 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 2: database that they're coming from, and there's no sharing of 62 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 2: databases between the United States and Venezuela and Nicaragua and 63 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 2: other central and southern you know, parts of our South 64 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: America and Central America, the sharing of data. The form 65 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 2: gets filled out, then what well, it depends if they 66 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 2: for some reason pop up on some sort of a 67 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 2: criminal database, then they would be treated as a criminal 68 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 2: alien and they would be remanded into some sort of custody, 69 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:32,959 Speaker 2: whether it's a you know, a murder charge or rape 70 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 2: charge or. 71 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: A criminals give their real names. 72 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing, so that they also process by fingerprint. 73 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so they'll do biometrics as well, especially with 74 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: the single men. You know, I was going to say, 75 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 2: you got a zone so single young adult men, because 76 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 2: you're gonna get a bigger hit rate. But here's the 77 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 2: problem that's been going on over these last few years, 78 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 2: and that's the the unusually high number of what they 79 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 2: call ot other than Mexican. These are people coming in 80 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: from other countries, and the number of migrants coming in 81 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 2: from Asia and the Middle East has grown exponentially over 82 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 2: just the last three years. And that's the thing that 83 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 2: everyone's really cognizant about. We're not talking about. I mean, 84 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 2: we get very few people from Mexico anymore. Yeah, I know, 85 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 2: it's overwhelmingly I think, like read one hundred and sixty 86 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 2: countries roughly. All right, So let's say you have a 87 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 2: real terrorist guy, real bad guy, and he gives a 88 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 2: fake name, his fingerprints not in the database. He's been 89 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 2: doing his bad stuff out in the Middle East somewhere. 90 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 2: I mean, is anybody else trying to do any kind 91 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 2: of a How do you do a background check on 92 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 2: thousands of the only crime that was committed is that 93 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 2: you crossed into the United States illegally. 94 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: That's a misdemeanor. Yeah, so nothing. 95 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 2: All you're going to get is a site and release 96 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 2: and a court date, and then you don't show up 97 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 2: for the court date anyway, and then we don't have 98 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 2: enough agents for Interior enforcement to begin with. So I 99 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 2: wonder why they even bother, why do they even process? 100 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 2: It's amazing they go through all this paperwork and all 101 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 2: this processing when these people, most of them, are never 102 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 2: gonna never gonna formally apply for asylum. The criminals are 103 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 2: going to disappear into their criminal syndicates. What I can't 104 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 2: imagine how frustrated the border patrol agents, so, I mean, 105 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 2: their morale continues to be at an all time low. 106 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 2: I mean, and the sources I have in Border Patrol 107 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 2: just I mean, you talk to them and they sound tired, 108 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 2: They sound frustrated, overworked, understaffed. Here's the number four. If 109 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 2: you want to do the math right now, there are 110 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: just under eight hundred immigration judges in the United States 111 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 2: trying to process over three million pending cases. 112 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: That's impossible. All this is impossible, so enormous. The whole 113 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: thing is feutile. 114 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 2: That's why they say that the average weight to get 115 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 2: in front of an immigration judge is five years. And 116 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 2: most people vast majority fail their asylum test. 117 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: Right. 118 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he judge says, no, no asylum because 119 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 2: you can't come here for economic reasons. That's not Poverty 120 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 2: is not an asylum criteria. Yeah, most people don't understand that. 121 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 2: I hear people say all the time. Oh, you know, 122 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 2: they're just poor looking for work. It's like, that's not 123 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 2: a legal criteria for asylum. You have to really be 124 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 2: persecuted by the government or really be living under the 125 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,799 Speaker 2: threat of violence. It's got to be something. So last 126 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 2: time that I was down at the border, I was 127 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 2: covering that. Well, I was down there covering the COVID 128 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 2: restrictions at that time, and then the people from Russia 129 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 2: and Ukraine trying to get in from you know, the 130 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 2: Santa Sedu Report of entry. But if you remember correctly, 131 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 2: one of the last times I went down there is 132 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 2: when that caravan came up. Remember a big caravan. By 133 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 2: the way, there is a caravan en route. It's not 134 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 2: estimated when it'll be here yet, but it left on 135 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 2: New Year's or excuse me, Christmas Eve departed with tens 136 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 2: tens of thousands. 137 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard about it. 138 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's on its way, so we will probably be 139 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 2: down there when they get there again. And the cartels 140 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 2: organize a caravan like that. The cartels are a travel agency. Yeah, 141 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 2: they're the travel agency. And here's the thing. We could 142 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 2: get in a deep dive on the kids, just what 143 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 2: the kids go through alone, and how some of those 144 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 2: kids are brought in here. Their parents pay the money 145 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 2: for the kid to come in, and the a lot 146 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 2: of these kids are turned into sex slaves and turned 147 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 2: into work slaves, and then they notify the families like, well, 148 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 2: you know you're not going to get your kid back 149 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 2: now they got to work off an additional fee. So 150 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 2: then those juveniles, a lot of young girls for instance, 151 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 2: are put into the sex trade almost immediately. 152 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: And everybody knows this is happening. 153 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 2: Everybody who's responsible for this in government knows this is happening. 154 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 2: That we're aiding the drug cartels into providing young girls 155 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 2: sex slaves. 156 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: That's why it's just. 157 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 2: Astonishing that nobody in government wants to stop any of this. 158 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 2: That's why some of the politicians in the GOP were 159 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 2: accusing the Biden administration of being human traffickers, sex traffickers, 160 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 2: because they were allowing this to happen. I wanted to 161 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 2: give back to the other thing too, on the asylum thing. 162 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 2: When I was down there at the caravan the last time, 163 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 2: I had met a group of about two hundred LGBTQ 164 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 2: people that all claimed they were being persecuted because of 165 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 2: their sexuality. So now that's become a faction of these 166 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 2: caravans now of great many of them are starting to 167 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: claim that they're in the LGBTQ and they may not be, 168 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 2: but it gives them some kind of special protection. Yeah, 169 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 2: so because they've realized now, because what happens is the 170 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 2: cartail is very smart about this. They know exactly how 171 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 2: to counsel these people to spend the money to come up, 172 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 2: and they know now because of the way policies are 173 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 2: that when they reach the border, a lot of them 174 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 2: don't try to run anymore. They just show up and 175 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 2: they actually wave down the border agents because they know 176 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: the treatment they're about to receive. Why do you think, 177 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 2: and it is not a political question, why is the 178 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 2: government in bed with the drug cartels? Why are they 179 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,559 Speaker 2: helping enable the drug cartels to make billions of dollars 180 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 2: and engaging in all sorts of all sorts of the 181 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 2: worst trafficking crimes. It seems like there have no interest 182 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 2: in taking on the cartels and no way slowing them down. 183 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 2: And after a while you start thinking really dark thoughts 184 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,719 Speaker 2: about what's really going on here. Well, it's funny you 185 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:28,079 Speaker 2: say that, because you know when I sat down with 186 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,439 Speaker 2: the head of the DEA here in Los Angeles and 187 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 2: Bill Bodner, and we talked to him, and when you 188 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 2: talk to someone like that, he is absolutely one hundred 189 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 2: and ten percent focused on putting a stop to this 190 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 2: because just of the fentanyl crisis alone. But politically, we 191 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 2: don't put the money and resources into fighting that drug, 192 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 2: that that artery that comes up. 193 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: But that's a choice. 194 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 2: We choose not to take on the drug cartels. Why 195 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 2: are we making that choice as a government? Why are 196 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,079 Speaker 2: they in bed and enabling drug cartails. Well, first of all, 197 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 2: is evil cartels operate here in the United States, especially 198 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 2: here in the LA area, So our local jurisdiction fights 199 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 2: it head on when they when they can. But the 200 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 2: cartels and their route organizations are in a foreign country. 201 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 2: We have no rights or jurisdiction to go down there 202 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 2: and fight the cartel's head on. We have to work 203 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 2: with the government down there, and that government down there 204 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 2: doesn't really want to go after them. Yeah, but we've 205 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 2: done all kinds of dirty under operations around the world. 206 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: That's what the CIA is for. Yeah. 207 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 2: Well, I don't know what to tell you about that. 208 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 2: I mean, because I'm with you. I mean, we have 209 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 2: some of them as we have some of the most 210 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 2: sophisticated minds and law enforcement strategy, military strategy on the 211 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 2: face of the earth, and we can't for some reason, 212 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 2: we can't take out this these operations like this, you know, 213 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 2: any of these major mob organizations. 214 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 1: I don't Sometimes I wonder are. 215 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 2: US officials getting a cut of the proceeds? Are really 216 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 2: are US officials getting paid off by the drug cartels 217 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 2: not to engage. No, We've got ways of punishing Mexico 218 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 2: if we want to. Economically, Yeah, but politically that's not favorable. Politically, 219 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 2: it's not favorable to to punish Mexico for anything. Remember, 220 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 2: we can't do anything with commerce down there at the border. 221 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 2: We can't do anything to halt commerce down there or 222 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 2: any sanctions of whatsoever because they're one of our allies. 223 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 2: And threatening sanctions against them for drug cartels that ain't 224 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 2: gonna work, I know, but I mean the Fenton al 225 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 2: alone is killing well like seventy thousand people a year. 226 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 2: I will only tell you this because you know I 227 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 2: don't talk politics, but I will tell you that the 228 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 2: current climate in the administration is a hands off approach 229 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 2: with that with the government of Mexico. All right, very good, Steve, 230 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 2: Thank you, you got very much. We'll talk more coming up. 231 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am six. 232 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 2: Forty on the radio one till four after four o'clock. 233 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 2: John Cobelts Show on demand on the iHeart app. Moistline. 234 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 2: We got to do a rush on the moist line 235 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 2: short week. It's already two Tuesday eight seven seven moist 236 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 2: eighty six, eight seven seven moist eighty six. Leave your 237 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:09,839 Speaker 2: thoughts if you can't follow the letters on a phone. 238 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 2: It's eight seven seven sixty six four seventy eight eighty 239 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 2: six eight seven seven sixty six, four seventy eight eighty 240 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 2: six just had Steve Gregorn to talk about the border. 241 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 2: You know, this is just absolutely shocking because you have 242 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 2: politicians in both parties now screaming of this administration to 243 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 2: close the border. And they know how to close the border. 244 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 2: We already have. You don't have to write a single 245 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 2: new law. They know how to close the border. It's 246 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 2: obvious common sense. This is all done on purpose. It's 247 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 2: kind of a waste of time for politicians to say 248 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 2: that Biden is incompetent, that they're failing at their duty. 249 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah. No, this is their decision. They 250 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 2: want to flood the nation with illegal immigrants. And this 251 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 2: is this is an executive decision by the remnants of Joe, 252 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 2: powered mainly by powered mainly by these these left wing 253 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:15,359 Speaker 2: progressive fanatic cult members who think it's their moral duty 254 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 2: to bring in millions of poor people in a very 255 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:24,959 Speaker 2: short time. There's nowhere to put them. You see, in 256 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 2: New York City, they're spending about four hundred dollars a 257 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 2: day per illegal alien, and and they've got I don't know, 258 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 2: well over one hundred thousand, maybe closer to two hundred 259 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 2: thousand by now, there's no rooms for them, there's no 260 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 2: room in the schools for the kids, there's no housing 261 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:49,319 Speaker 2: for them. Unaccompanied miners. You heard Steve talk about the 262 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 2: huge number of unaccompanied miners. They they there's there's eight 263 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 2: hundred judges, as he said, and there's a backlog of 264 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 2: three million pending cases. Each judge would have to go 265 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 2: through four thousand, five hundred cases. And then you know 266 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 2: by next year, you know Biden's going to be around 267 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 2: at least end of the year, that could be another 268 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 2: three million people, So that'll be another forty five hundred 269 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 2: cases per judge. That this is all intentional, and both 270 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 2: parties are screaming at him. The mayors are beside themselves. 271 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 2: Of course, the mayors are so full of it because 272 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 2: they declared themselves sanctuary cities. The mayor of New York 273 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 2: is Boob Eric Adams. He's trying to ban the buses 274 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 2: from Texas from entering New York City. So now the 275 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 2: Texas buses are stopping in New Jersey and dumping the 276 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 2: illegals out there because New Jersey is sanctuary state as well, 277 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 2: and all this is going to hurt the people who 278 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 2: live in the poor neighborhoods the most. It shows you that, 279 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 2: you know, the Democratic leaders in these cities and states, 280 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 2: they don't care about what happens in poor neighborhoods. You're 281 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 2: going to get a flood of illegal immigrant children who 282 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 2: can't speak English, who are going to be in all 283 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 2: the classrooms now, not to mention, I mean the criminals 284 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 2: that I don't know, so many different categories, are so outrageous. 285 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 2: The girls who are getting sold into sex slavery. Why 286 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 2: is the US government partnering with the Mexican drug cartels 287 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 2: to bring in young girls from all over the world. 288 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 2: What everyone knows they're going to be sold into sex slavery. 289 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 2: What nobody objects, you know, for all the moral scolding 290 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 2: that goes on in this country, in our culture over 291 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 2: any number of things, here you have a huge whopper, 292 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 2: literally thousands of girls sold into sex slavery with the 293 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 2: cooperation of our government and the Mexican drug cartels and 294 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 2: the Mexican government. And everybody knows what's going on. Nothing 295 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 2: is stopped. What's the real story behind this? There's got 296 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 2: to be another story behind this. And no matter how 297 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 2: many politicians scream from both parties at the Biden administration. 298 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 2: They just keep going on and on, letting this occur 299 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 2: like it's never occurred in the history of the nation. 300 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 2: It's just, uh, it's just astonishing. Most of these people 301 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 2: don't qualify for asylum. So I'm sticking here in the 302 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 2: boohoo stories. Oh they're poor, they just want to work. Eventually, 303 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 2: there's nowhere for them to work. We don't have that 304 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: many open jobs in the country. 305 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: Where are they going to work? The unemployment rates are 306 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: three percent? 307 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 2: What are they going to take away jobs from other 308 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 2: legal immigrants at at the at the minimum wage level, 309 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 2: I mean most of the people work in the minimum 310 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 2: wage jobs in the service industry. There there are no 311 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 2: job openings there. You're going to take in these people 312 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 2: and pay them even less money cash under the table. 313 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: I don't this. 314 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: This doesn't help anybody. This is a disaster for everybody. 315 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 2: And and yet it goes on. We get the same 316 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 2: report every days. It's a groundhog day situation. 317 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,119 Speaker 1: One day the story, oh and the terrorists. 318 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 2: How could you not end up with some tragic terrorist 319 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,919 Speaker 2: attack when you're letting in terrorists from I mean Russians, 320 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 2: Middle Easterners, everybody's coming in. They're coming here to do 321 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,199 Speaker 2: damage on purpose because you don't have to come with 322 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 2: id they If you come with that idea. 323 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:29,919 Speaker 1: It's no issue. 324 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what this is about. 325 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 2: There's there's something else going on. We come back. This 326 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 2: is one of my favorite recurring segments to do. Increasingly, writers, 327 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 2: even pro electric car writers, are writing about what it's 328 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 2: like to take a long drive with an electric car 329 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:59,360 Speaker 2: and are unable to find anywhere to charge it. And 330 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 2: this was by a guy in Motor Trend magazine. All right, 331 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 2: Motor Trend this this is a car geek. This is 332 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,479 Speaker 2: a guy who does pomp pomps for electric vehicles, and 333 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 2: we've got a story from him. His name is Christian 334 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 2: Seabaw and he had to go on an emergency trip 335 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 2: with his wife to Sacramento. He's got to drive six 336 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 2: hundred miles I guess, from down here in southern California 337 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 2: to Sacramento. And you wouldn't believe how difficult it was 338 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 2: to get there because he had an electric Ford f 339 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 2: one point fifty lightning pickup truck. The headline has the 340 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 2: word nightmare in it. And I don't know how long 341 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:43,120 Speaker 2: this scam is going to go on. This electric car 342 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 2: scam because there's nowhere to charge these things. 343 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: And wait till you hear this story. It's it's it's 344 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 1: actually hysterical. 345 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 346 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 3: six forty. 347 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,199 Speaker 2: On the radio one to four after four o'clock. You 348 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 2: go that Get in a Habit John Cobelt show on 349 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeart app. All right, this is a 350 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 2: oh after three o'clock Ray lit Pezz will be in here. Googlepool. 351 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 2: Who are the winners in Googlepool twenty twenty three? How 352 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 2: many went three for three? How many went two for three? 353 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 2: Who were the leading selections? Who did not die? If 354 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,119 Speaker 2: you don't know Googpool, we're going to explain it all 355 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 2: and you could enter. Maybe it's your first time, maybe 356 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 2: you've been doing it for many years. That's coming up 357 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:33,199 Speaker 2: after three o'clock, almost like a national holiday. This I 358 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,199 Speaker 2: love this story. Motor Trend magazine. Obviously if you're a 359 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 2: car geek, this this is a big publication. And you 360 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 2: know they've been pushing and testing and promoting all the 361 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 2: electric vehicles. And one of the writers, Christian sea Ball, 362 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 2: big big fan of electric vehicles, and he's got a 363 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 2: Ford F one fifty lightning pickup truck. Okay, and we 364 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 2: did a story by another rider about the lightning pickup truck. 365 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 2: You'd probably seen the commercials for it, and you know 366 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 2: it shows the car. These cars, yeah, the commercials. They 367 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 2: go speeding along, handling all kinds of mountain roads or 368 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 2: rough roads, or flying down the highway at all looks glorious. 369 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 2: They know it doesn't make any noise and just looks 370 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 2: so glamorous. Boy, you're not going to believe this story. 371 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 2: Christian Seabaw has a family emergency. He's got to drive 372 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 2: from southern California to Sacramento. This happened on a Labor 373 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 2: Day afternoon. Family emergency six hundred miles away. He and 374 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 2: his wife grabbed their suitcases, stuffed them with clothes, and 375 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 2: then jumped into the forward lightning ev pickup. Imagine it 376 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,120 Speaker 2: was some kind of health emergency, although he doesn't say 377 00:20:55,119 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 2: specifically in the story. Now, this is how frustrating. I'm 378 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 2: beginning to end in this article, and I will not 379 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 2: read the whole thing, but it's all good from beginning 380 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 2: to end. Everything looks irritating about this because I sit 381 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 2: here and I try, Okay, for the purpose of reading 382 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 2: this story. I'm going to have an open mind. Maybe 383 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 2: these things are really fun, really cool, and maybe I 384 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 2: too can help save the planet. Well, first, he says, 385 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 2: you got to take twenty minutes route planning for it 386 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 2: has an app, and there are independent apps like plug share, 387 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 2: and you have to spend twenty minutes plotting your route 388 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 2: so you find the proper charging stations, and that if 389 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 2: you don't do that, you'll probably lose forty. 390 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: Minutes looking for them. 391 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 2: So that's your choice, waste forty minutes looking for a 392 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 2: charging station or twenty minutes planning to find the charging station. 393 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 2: This is a simple trip, mostly up Interstate five from 394 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 2: here to Sacramento. Now, he says, one annoying thing is 395 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,880 Speaker 2: you have to go about seventy miles an hour. That's 396 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 2: the sweet spot, and that's that's the fastest you can 397 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 2: go and still get a good range to go more 398 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 2: or less than seven. Seventy's not that fast. Oh I 399 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 2: just went up the up, the up the fifteen driving 400 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 2: to Utah over the weekend, and you know everybody's going 401 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 2: eighty ninety miles an hour. You go seventy, you're gonna 402 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 2: be run off the road into a ditch. But that's 403 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 2: the best you can do if you want to keep 404 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 2: maximum range. So he started with a ninety three percent charge, 405 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 2: and he's got a range of two hundred and eighty 406 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 2: seven miles, and he was gonna stop twice up Interstate five. 407 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 2: Each stop was expected to be forty five minutes. Now 408 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 2: right there, I'm thinking, Okay, you have to waste twenty 409 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 2: minutes on your app plotting where you're gonna stop. You 410 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 2: then make two stops at two charging stations forty five 411 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 2: minutes each. That's ninety minutes for the stops plus the 412 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 2: twenty minutes staring at the apps. Now you're looking at 413 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 2: two extra hours added to your trip. Two Because when 414 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,400 Speaker 2: we were driving to Utah, I timed it I could 415 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 2: fill up a sixteen gallon tank at about five minutes. 416 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 2: He says that he's never only twice has his pickup 417 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 2: gotten more than two hundred miles on a charge. It 418 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 2: says on the screen that you're gonna get two hundred 419 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 2: and eighty seven miles. In reality, that never happens. You 420 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 2: rarely get over two hundred. So he locked in cris 421 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 2: control at seventy miles hour and finally gets to Harris 422 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 2: Ranch in Coalinga. That's where the first charging station is. 423 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 2: There are six chargers. When he gets to Harris Ranch, 424 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 2: two of the chargers were occupied, a third one was offline, 425 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 2: a fourth one said charger unavailable. The final two chargers, 426 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 2: number five and six, appeared to be online, but neither 427 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 2: one worked. Now he's down to thirty seven miles of range. 428 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 2: He's down to a fourteen percent charge. He's got six 429 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 2: chargers in front of him. Four are broken, the other 430 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:52,679 Speaker 2: two are occupied. And these people need an hour to 431 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 2: charge their cars. 432 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: And there's no other option. What are you going to do? 433 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 2: So he calls the company who runs the charging station. 434 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 2: They call themselves Electrify America. He just gets put on 435 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 2: hold for ten minutes. He gets an agent on the line, 436 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 2: explains the issue, and she says, oh, the Harris Ranch chargers, 437 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 2: they're tagged for maintenance. Tagged for maintenance. That means they're broken, 438 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 2: they don't work. She apologized for the trouble. Don't you 439 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 2: love that when customer service reps profusely apologize repeatedly or 440 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 2: do they care? You know, they're sitting in an office 441 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 2: in the Philippines getting paid some kind of slave wage 442 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 2: to say I apologize. 443 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: I understand. I hear you. That's what they say. I 444 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: hear you. 445 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 2: I understand your frustration. I'm really sorry this app No, 446 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 2: they're not sorry. The company was sorry. They would they 447 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 2: wouldn't have broken charges everywhere. Suddenly he goes back to 448 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 2: the charging app map and he finds that there's another 449 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 2: charging station on the other side of the freeway, but 450 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 2: these are slow chargers. There's one tower open there. That 451 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 2: charger was down too, So he goes back to the 452 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 2: first set of six chargers and got in line behind 453 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 2: a BMW. Had to wait another twenty minutes. Then he 454 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 2: plugs in. It's a really low rate, and it looks 455 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 2: like he's not going to get to Sacramento till two 456 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 2: in the morning. He's on this charger for an hour. 457 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 2: He's only got two thirds of a charge and about 458 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty miles of range. He decides to 459 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 2: get back on the road and he'll stop at another 460 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 2: charging station one hundred miles away, and there they found 461 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 2: a working one, but they realized they were going to 462 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 2: be in so late they're going to have to stop 463 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 2: at a hotel. Now, remember this is an emergency, it's 464 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 2: like a health emergency situation. 465 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: They have to go and see family. They can't get there. 466 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 2: They can't get there because all the chargers are broken, 467 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,959 Speaker 2: and if they're not broken, they're really really slow. Finally, 468 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 2: they surrendered, went to a hotel, plugged into a hotel 469 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,919 Speaker 2: charger so they could sleep for a few hours and 470 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 2: then wake up with a full charge. Now, who in 471 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 2: their right minds would go on a truck like this? 472 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,159 Speaker 2: This is just to get the sacramento. I'm reading this 473 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 2: and I'm saying, if I hear one more electric vehicle commercial, 474 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 2: one more activist, one more politician, one more anybody say, 475 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 2: burp out one more word about electric vehicles? F and 476 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 2: U the hell wants to go through this? This is nonsense. 477 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 2: This is complete nonsense. How did they forget the charging stations? 478 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 2: How did they forget the fast charging stations? And this 479 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 2: is in Motor Trend magazine, which has been a leading 480 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 2: cheerleader for this ev revolution. This is all a load 481 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 2: of crap. And now it's twenty twenty four. We are 482 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 2: eleven years away from a governor knew some mandate that 483 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 2: every car sold the electric Well, they better have a 484 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 2: really good eleven years developing the developing the technology, because 485 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 2: you remember what we told you a couple of weeks ago. 486 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 2: Joe Biden two years ago gave out two billion dollars 487 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,640 Speaker 2: for electric electric charging network across the country. Not one 488 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 2: has been built in two years, not one, So eleven 489 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 2: years isn't that long? And right now they are at 490 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 2: a pace of building zero a year for the federal network. 491 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 2: We're coming up and John Cobelt Show and we're going 492 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 2: to do a Goople twenty twenty three after Deverish three 493 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 2: o'clock news, and she's got news. 494 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 3: Right now, you're listening to John Belt on demand from 495 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 3: KFI Am six forty. 496 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 2: On from one until four after four o'clock John Cobelt 497 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 2: Show on demand. 498 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: We've got uh, We've got Goodpool twenty twenty three. 499 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 2: The results coming up in just minutes, and Ray Lopez 500 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 2: is going to be here. We're gonna tell you who won. 501 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 2: Some people picked three for three, a lot of people 502 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 2: picked two out of three, and it looked like it 503 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 2: was just a bumper crop of people in their nineties 504 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 2: dying and that provided more winners than I can remember 505 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 2: in a while. For those of you who just pick 506 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 2: who pick the the the oldest on the list, we'll 507 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 2: give you all the details coming up. This this is 508 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 2: hard to this is hard to believe, but we've got 509 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 2: some audio that proves it's true. You know, probably one 510 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 2: of the worst mayors. You think, if you think Karon 511 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 2: vass is bad, one of the worst mayors in the 512 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 2: country is Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago. He's the one 513 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 2: who declared the Chicago sanctuary city and now he's squealing 514 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 2: like a pig ever since because so many illegal aliens 515 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 2: have migrated to Chicago, either through Texas buses or otherwise. 516 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 2: And he's whining and complaining, and of course crime is 517 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 2: really really bad. You think crime is bad here, Oh 518 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 2: my god, Chicago's an absolute war zone. It's like being 519 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 2: in Gaza. It's just crazy bad. And there's a lot 520 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 2: of poverty. And he's decided that the reason for the 521 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 2: poverty is that he is admitting that in Chicago, a 522 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 2: lot of the crime is being committed by young black men, 523 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 2: but what they. 524 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 1: Need is reparations. 525 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 2: And he actually went on national television to make his case, 526 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 2: saying that paying reparations will reduce the crime rate. Here 527 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 2: he is Brandon Johnson, Chicago mayor, on CNN. 528 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 4: We have stood up in an entire office dedicated to 529 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 4: re entry, So individuals who are returning to our communities 530 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 4: who have been incarcerated because of fil policies, we'll have 531 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 4: a welcoming space for them. I've added a half a 532 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 4: million dollars for restoration and reparations to address again the 533 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 4: cycle of violence, which looks like school closing's closing of 534 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 4: mental health facilities, of which I've invested in. 535 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 2: Now ye know, he's saying that if you pay criminals money, 536 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 2: they'll stop committing crimes. They've done research on this. It 537 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 2: doesn't work. You commit crimes because you're a bad person. 538 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 2: Because some criminals make a lot of money stealing, and 539 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 2: they keep on stealing. 540 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: It's never they're as greedy as anybody else. 541 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 2: And in Chicago you can steal and get away with it, 542 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 2: just like in Los Angeles you can steal and get 543 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:04,760 Speaker 2: away with it. You get away committing an act with profits, 544 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 2: You're gonna keep committing those acts. 545 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: Say it's simple. 546 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 2: George Leaf wrote a piece about this in the National Review. 547 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 2: And there's another writer named Hans Bader, And here are 548 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 2: things that are just absolutely true. There's no connection between 549 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 2: poverty and crime. You give people money lots of money 550 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 2: like that has no effect on their behavior because they're 551 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 2: bad people. Finally, paying money based on race is unconstitutional, 552 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 2: So if he actually implements this program, it'll get thrown out. 553 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 2: Somebody will soon will get thrown out in court because 554 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 2: you can't give money just because somebody's skin color is 555 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 2: one hue or another. 556 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: It's just not legal. 557 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 2: But Hans Bader points out in his writing, you should 558 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 2: write this down anytime the subject ever comes up. There 559 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 2: is one roadmap out of poverty or one roadmap to 560 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 2: not fall into poverty. 561 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: This works. 562 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 2: For people of any race, Okay, white, Black, Asian, any ethnicity, Hispanic, 563 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 2: your name, This is one hundred percent will work. You 564 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 2: will avoid poverty if you do the following things. And 565 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 2: this is from a black economist named Walter Williams. Simple 566 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 2: number one, complete high school. Number two, get a job, 567 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:52,239 Speaker 2: any kind of job. Number three, Get married before you 568 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 2: have children. Number four. Don't break any laws. Be a 569 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 2: law abiding citizens. 570 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 1: You got that. 571 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 2: So you complete high school, you get any kind of 572 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 2: a job, you get married before having kids, and you 573 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,919 Speaker 2: don't break any laws. Do those four things. Among both 574 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,840 Speaker 2: Black Americans and white Americans, the poverty rate for people 575 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 2: who check those four boxes in the single digits. If 576 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 2: you don't do those four things, you're much more likely 577 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,839 Speaker 2: to become poor, whether you're black or white, and you're 578 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 2: much more likely to turn to a life of crime. 579 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 2: Whether you're black or white. Your color has nothing to 580 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:38,200 Speaker 2: do with it. Reparations has nothing to do with it. It 581 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 2: has to do whether you complete high school, you get 582 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 2: a job, get married before kids, don't break any loss, 583 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 2: doesn't the only four things you have to teach your 584 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 2: kid if the only thing you want to do is 585 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 2: keep your kid from being in poverty. Like, do you 586 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,799 Speaker 2: know anybody who's checked those four boxes who's in poverty? No, 587 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 2: look at the people in poverty. Odds are they didn't 588 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 2: check those four boxes. 589 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 1: This is the key to life. 590 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 2: It's not that complicated. It really isn't. But there's so 591 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 2: many hucksters. We'll tell you otherwise. All Right, the excitement 592 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 2: builds Coople pulled twenty twenty three. We've got a list 593 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,840 Speaker 2: of people who went three for three on their celebrity 594 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,439 Speaker 2: death picks. I don't think we've ever had so many 595 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 2: correct answers. I mean many years we'd no one picked 596 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,279 Speaker 2: three for three, But this year we had a lot, 597 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:40,719 Speaker 2: and we also have some of the top choices for 598 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,279 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four based on how often they were picked 599 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,880 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three and they did not die. So 600 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,880 Speaker 2: we'll give you a list of top prospects too, and 601 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,719 Speaker 2: we'll take some of your calls as well, and you 602 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 2: could give us your predictions live on the air, although 603 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,200 Speaker 2: you know most everybody's going to go to Kfiamsixporty dot 604 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:03,239 Speaker 2: com to John Cobell page and enter there. That's where 605 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 2: you could get the ballot online. Debra Mark has the 606 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 2: news live in the KFI twenty four hour News. Hey, 607 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 608 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 609 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,880 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 610 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.