WEBVTT - Speed Limits & Speed Cameras (10/05) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.240 KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Cobell podcast 0:00:04.300 --> 0:00:10.899 on the iHeartRadio app. 0:00:11.060 --> 0:00:11.480 KFI AM 640. 0:00:11.460 --> 0:00:16.360 More stimulating talk radio. It's the John Cobell show. Yay. 0:00:16.450 --> 0:00:19.750 We're on the air until six after six o'clock. If 0:00:19.770 --> 0:00:23.510 you missed anything, you go to John Cobell show on demand, 0:00:23.530 --> 0:00:27.210 the podcast on the iHeart app. And we had Michael 0:00:27.270 --> 0:00:29.650 Gates on in the first half hour, former city attorney 0:00:29.690 --> 0:00:35.269 of Huntington Beach, former federal prosecutor, and he also is 0:00:35.350 --> 0:00:40.360 running for attorney general. Attorney general he's running for against 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:46.580 Rob Bonta, who just had his stupid attempted block of 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.559 the Paramount Warner Brothers merger blow up in his face, 0:00:50.140 --> 0:00:52.620 embarrassing himself and wasting a lot of time and money 0:00:53.100 --> 0:00:57.820 for everybody involved. We talked about that extensively. 0:00:58.900 --> 0:00:59.520 You know what? 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:03.520 The lack of intelligence among everybody running our government from 0:01:03.580 --> 0:01:05.640 top to bottom. I talked a lot last half hour 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.539 about Nithya Raman. Bonta is one of them. These are 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.319 just stupid ideas. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:13.960 Another dumb idea. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:20.280 Was an Assembly Bill No. 43 that passed and now 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.280 gives the city of Los Angeles and all cities– new 0:01:24.310 --> 0:01:29.760 authority to lower speed limits, even when traffic engineering surveys 0:01:30.340 --> 0:01:36.339 support higher limits. There is a natural speed that you 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.539 should be able to drive on a lot of roads 0:01:39.380 --> 0:01:41.720 based on a multitude of factors. 0:01:41.900 --> 0:01:42.600 We'll explain. 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:47.800 And she also wrote a bill that allowed LA to 0:01:47.900 --> 0:01:53.370 use speed cameras to provide automatic tickets. This is just 0:01:53.710 --> 0:01:59.130 harassment of people who are not doing anything wrong. There's 0:01:59.610 --> 0:02:03.190 a natural speed that roads should have. And Jay Bieber 0:02:03.220 --> 0:02:04.860 is going to explain to this. Jay's been on the 0:02:04.900 --> 0:02:07.900 show numerous times over the years with us because he 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.780 knows stuff that nobody else knows. He's chief government affairs 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.620 and policy officer for the National Motorist Association. 0:02:15.740 --> 0:02:17.299 Jay Bieber, welcome again. How are you? 0:02:18.660 --> 0:02:19.060 I'm great. 0:02:19.139 --> 0:02:20.459 Always a pleasure to be with you, John. 0:02:20.930 --> 0:02:23.720 Talk about this concept. So L.A. 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.899 Can decide a road should get lower speed limits, even 0:02:26.940 --> 0:02:30.839 though the natural speed limit should be higher. Explain how 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.410 that works so the average driver can understand that right now. 0:02:35.130 --> 0:02:35.370 Okay. 0:02:35.550 --> 0:02:38.090 So the way that you're supposed to set speed limits, 0:02:38.150 --> 0:02:42.109 the safest way to set speed limits, is you measure 0:02:42.169 --> 0:02:45.290 the speed that people naturally go on the roadway. And 0:02:45.310 --> 0:02:48.180 then you set the speed limit at about the speed 0:02:48.220 --> 0:02:51.340 that 85% of the people don't exceed. So what you're 0:02:51.380 --> 0:02:54.600 doing is you're setting the speed limit around the speed 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:59.380 that most people cluster around. So you get everybody going 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.600 about the same speed, that's the safest way to set 0:03:02.620 --> 0:03:05.180 the speed limit. If you set the speed limit much higher, 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.340 much lower than that, then you get a lot of 0:03:07.380 --> 0:03:10.780 what they call speed variation. That's much more dangerous than 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.160 everybody going the same speed, but maybe a little higher than, 0:03:14.500 --> 0:03:16.570 you know, that person standing on the side of the 0:03:16.630 --> 0:03:20.170 road might feel like. And so this is an engineering 0:03:20.230 --> 0:03:23.630 protocol that has been used for decades. And California had 0:03:23.690 --> 0:03:27.910 a very, very good and very strong rules about this. 0:03:28.260 --> 0:03:31.340 They couldn't issue tickets if they didn't set the speed 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:37.680 limit this way. The police could not enforce a ticket. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.420 If you showed up in court and they actually gave 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.580 you the ticket, throw it out. If they didn't have 0:03:41.620 --> 0:03:45.360 a proper service, it wasn't done properly. So along comes 0:03:45.460 --> 0:03:49.480 Laura Friedman. Other people before her tried this, but she's 0:03:49.500 --> 0:03:53.020 an assembly member. She's now in Congress, but she was 0:03:53.060 --> 0:03:57.880 an assembly member from Glendale. And she decided that Speed 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:03.040 limits were just too high overall. And she decided that 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:07.530 cities needed what she called more flexibility for setting speed limits. 0:04:07.590 --> 0:04:11.010 That is, they should throw out the engineering protocols and 0:04:11.050 --> 0:04:14.170 they should set speed limits more in line with just 0:04:14.210 --> 0:04:15.150 how you feel about. 0:04:16.350 --> 0:04:22.490 Because you're saying up till now, there was a logical formula. 0:04:23.070 --> 0:04:26.400 Based on science and human behavior and. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.120 The way the road is laid out, that led to 0:04:29.140 --> 0:04:30.740 the speed limits we all lived under. 0:04:32.140 --> 0:04:32.599 Exactly. 0:04:32.700 --> 0:04:37.159 And again, for decades and decades and decades. And what 0:04:37.180 --> 0:04:40.380 they claimed was, well, you're just letting the fastest speeders 0:04:40.850 --> 0:04:43.420 You know, decide what the speed limit is. That's not true. 0:04:43.500 --> 0:04:46.700 That's completely illogical because you knock off the top 15%. 0:04:46.700 --> 0:04:50.180 So it doesn't matter how fast the fastest people are going. 0:04:50.420 --> 0:04:52.260 They're not setting the speed limit. It's the people that 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:57.450 are clustered around the speed that the roadway makes you 0:04:57.510 --> 0:05:01.370 feel comfortable driving at. And this is, to some extent, 0:05:01.650 --> 0:05:05.980 an involuntary reaction. Most people experience this themselves. They just 0:05:06.020 --> 0:05:08.020 don't think about it. If you're on a big, wide 0:05:08.100 --> 0:05:10.540 road and you're having to drive really, really slow on 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.330 that road, you understand, I feel like I'm going really, 0:05:13.370 --> 0:05:18.120 really slow. This doesn't feel comfortable. You get... Your heart 0:05:18.140 --> 0:05:21.840 starts racing. You feel really uncomfortable. You have to do 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.859 something to relieve that uncomfortable feeling so you speed up. 0:05:26.100 --> 0:05:27.840 Can I just break in a second? 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.590 You brought this up years ago, and I'd never thought 0:05:30.610 --> 0:05:32.529 of it, never heard of it. And then I started 0:05:32.570 --> 0:05:35.989 paying attention when I'm driving. And that's absolutely right, that concept. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.859 is that when you are going at an artificially slow speed, 0:05:40.500 --> 0:05:43.740 then you do start to tense up and you get 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:48.070 impatient and it seems like something's wrong until you get 0:05:48.170 --> 0:05:51.549 not to a speed that's too fast or too unsafe, 0:05:51.830 --> 0:05:54.270 but something that feels normal for the way the road 0:05:54.330 --> 0:05:58.450 is laid out. And that is a concept apparently the 0:05:58.490 --> 0:06:02.830 likes of Laura Friedman doesn't understand or refuses to understand. 0:06:02.410 --> 0:06:03.120 Because this is a. 0:06:03.110 --> 0:06:04.169 She refuses to understand. 0:06:04.250 --> 0:06:05.490 Refuses to understand. 0:06:05.550 --> 0:06:07.640 I sat with her for an hour explaining this to her. 0:06:08.140 --> 0:06:11.460 How did she respond? Because you're real good at explaining things. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:12.480 What did she do? 0:06:13.140 --> 0:06:15.480 So her response was, she was very nice about it. 0:06:15.500 --> 0:06:19.260 Her response was, I understand what you're saying. I understand 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.560 that lowering the speed limit may not actually make people 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.750 go slower, but I think cities need more flexibility. That 0:06:26.029 --> 0:06:28.430 was her answer. I don't know how you argue with 0:06:28.470 --> 0:06:32.890 that sort of But that was her answer. No matter 0:06:32.950 --> 0:06:36.920 what anybody said, it didn't matter to her because there's 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.200 this concept that we have to set speeds so low 0:06:40.260 --> 0:06:42.919 that if anybody ever gets hit by a car or 0:06:42.940 --> 0:06:47.580 a motorized vehicle, nothing bad will ever happen. This is 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.409 that Vision Zero concept that we've talked about. 0:06:50.430 --> 0:06:51.650 Vision Zero, yes. 0:06:51.670 --> 0:06:55.250 Nobody should ever die in a traffic accident ever again, 0:06:55.890 --> 0:06:59.810 that kind of stuff. And so this is, again– It's this. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.680 I don't know how exactly to explain it in terms 0:07:03.700 --> 0:07:07.400 of the ideology, but it's this ideology that they can 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.120 control the world and nothing bad will ever happen if 0:07:10.140 --> 0:07:11.370 you just give them enough power. 0:07:11.390 --> 0:07:15.070 Yeah, that's part of their ideological system. Jay, can you 0:07:15.090 --> 0:07:17.470 hang on? You got time to do another segment because 0:07:17.510 --> 0:07:19.170 I want to talk about the speed cameras too. 0:07:19.550 --> 0:07:22.790 Jay Bieber, he's with the National Motorist Association, the chief 0:07:22.830 --> 0:07:24.530 government affairs and policy officer. 0:07:24.590 --> 0:07:29.760 And yes, L.A. is artificially lowering speed limits. 0:07:29.780 --> 0:07:29.860 Yes. 0:07:30.770 --> 0:07:34.570 And this means money. And Jay explained the whole theory 0:07:34.610 --> 0:07:38.800 behind it. We have $ 1, 000 we're giving away in minutes. Debra, Mark, 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:39.940 you chewing gum? 0:07:40.700 --> 0:07:45.480 No, I'm eating some quinoa and some farro and some 0:07:45.540 --> 0:07:47.100 lentils and some avocado. 0:07:47.140 --> 0:07:48.100 That was farro. It's a grain. 0:07:49.260 --> 0:07:49.740 It's a grain. 0:07:50.100 --> 0:07:52.760 You go out and you buy like a packet of farro? 0:07:53.150 --> 0:07:55.070 I went to the grocery store and they had some 0:07:55.110 --> 0:07:58.390 pre-made salads, if you will. 0:07:58.890 --> 0:08:01.150 Oh, man, you eat weird foods. 0:08:01.590 --> 0:08:02.490 It's delicious. 0:08:03.530 --> 0:08:08.400 You're listening to John Kobelt on Demand from KFI AM640. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:14.180 John Kobelt Show. And we're live streaming on YouTube and X. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.340 Live on YouTube and X. If you want to go 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.820 watch the video, you can subscribe, become a member at 0:08:18.860 --> 0:08:24.050 YouTube.com slash at John Kobelt Show. We're continuing with Jay Bieber. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.640 Jay is the Chief Government Affairs and Policy Officer with 0:08:27.660 --> 0:08:31.740 the National Motorist Association. He is always on the lookout 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:36.140 for abuses by government against drivers who are just trying 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.300 to get to work and back. And Laura Friedman, who 0:08:39.380 --> 0:08:41.900 is one headache of a representative, when she was in 0:08:41.940 --> 0:08:46.060 the Assembly, she offered a bill that artificially gives the 0:08:46.220 --> 0:08:50.140 power to cities to reduce speed limits. There's a natural 0:08:50.230 --> 0:08:54.130 speed limit that works on streets. depending on the way 0:08:54.170 --> 0:09:02.800 it's laid out. And she also allowed more speed cameras 0:09:02.940 --> 0:09:04.730 in cities. I want to talk about the speed camera 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.150 aspect of this, Jay. What's that about? 0:09:08.170 --> 0:09:12.250 Okay, well, so after she got past the lowering of 0:09:12.309 --> 0:09:18.209 speed limits, she introduced the bill and in speed cameras 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.870 with their pilot program. But, you know, government is never 0:09:20.890 --> 0:09:23.189 really a pilot program. It's just a way to get 0:09:23.250 --> 0:09:31.150 it started. And so L.A. got 125 speed camera locations 0:09:31.790 --> 0:09:34.490 in this pilot program, and that's going to be starting 0:09:34.570 --> 0:09:38.980 up sometime this month. And what that allows them to 0:09:39.020 --> 0:09:41.920 do is to ticket people who are going 11 miles 0:09:41.940 --> 0:09:47.290 an hour or more over the posted speed limit. But again, 0:09:47.350 --> 0:09:49.589 as we just said, the posted speed limit in many 0:09:49.630 --> 0:09:53.290 cases can be lowered, so it's unnaturally low. So when 0:09:53.309 --> 0:09:57.310 people get that, they are actually only just going the 0:09:57.370 --> 0:09:59.390 nature of the roadway, what the natural speed of the 0:09:59.410 --> 0:10:01.520 roadway is, and then they're getting a ticket for that. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:03.000 Okay. 0:10:03.020 --> 0:10:05.720 So if they lower the speed by five miles an hour, 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.760 you now could get a ticket if you're going six 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.500 miles an hour over the old natural limit. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:18.390 Right, exactly. That's exactly right. So just as a particular example, 0:10:18.750 --> 0:10:22.990 Winnetka Avenue in the Valley is a location where they 0:10:23.090 --> 0:10:25.650 did a speed survey, and it came out that the 0:10:25.790 --> 0:10:30.070 85th percentile that we talked about earlier was 43.5 miles 0:10:30.130 --> 0:10:32.750 per hour. So they said the safe speed to set 0:10:32.770 --> 0:10:35.500 the speed limit at is 40 miles per hour, and 0:10:35.530 --> 0:10:37.980 that's what the speed limit was justified for. 0:10:37.980 --> 0:10:41.339 85% of the public is going at 43 miles an hour, 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.770 so they're going to set the limit to 40. 0:10:44.770 --> 0:10:47.170 Right, exactly. So, I mean, they and they can, you know, 0:10:47.210 --> 0:10:49.430 within a couple of, you know, usually it's supposed to 0:10:49.450 --> 0:10:53.250 be in five miles an hour of the of the 0:10:53.510 --> 0:10:56.720 85th percentile. Now, really, they should set it at 45. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.120 But of course, you know, they set it at 40. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.160 And but what the worst part of the story is 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:07.939 that under under under the AB 40, AB 43, they. 0:11:11.390 --> 0:11:15.050 they allowed cities to lower it another five miles per 0:11:15.090 --> 0:11:19.660 hour from there. So what they had said was that 0:11:20.860 --> 0:11:25.280 if you kept it at 35, which is what the 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.880 speed survey said you should not do, that you were 0:11:27.900 --> 0:11:32.520 going to have a significant number of people who were 0:11:32.540 --> 0:11:36.360 going to be 91% of people would be exceeding the 0:11:36.380 --> 0:11:37.750 posted speed limit if you set it at 35. 0:11:37.740 --> 0:11:39.839 And again, they're going to have a natural reaction to 0:11:39.860 --> 0:11:42.620 the sensation that they're going too slow, that they should 0:11:42.660 --> 0:11:45.500 be going faster than they're being allowed to on the road, 0:11:45.740 --> 0:11:47.960 which seems to me creates a lot of tension in 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.620 a lot of drivers, and that could lead to accidents. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.300 Because when people get tense and frustrated when they drive, 0:11:53.580 --> 0:11:56.590 they do impulsive things. I know I get an impulsive 0:11:57.150 --> 0:12:00.910 urge when I'm sick and tired of being slowed down 0:12:00.970 --> 0:12:01.590 against my will. 0:12:06.030 --> 0:12:07.290 Not you, Tom. 0:12:07.309 --> 0:12:07.790 Not you. 0:12:09.730 --> 0:12:14.459 Believe me, I'm a wired ball ready to explode. 0:12:13.940 --> 0:12:14.500 At any point. 0:12:15.059 --> 0:12:17.719 I can't believe it. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:18.950 I'm not a patient driver. 0:12:19.380 --> 0:12:20.950 I've known you for a lot of years. That doesn't 0:12:20.970 --> 0:12:25.970 sound like you at all. But anyway, so here's what happens. 0:12:25.990 --> 0:12:28.770 So they lower it to 35 miles an hour, right? Yeah. 0:12:28.809 --> 0:12:31.670 And so at 40 miles an hour, they put in 0:12:31.690 --> 0:12:35.030 the speed cameras. The people who would be getting tickets 0:12:35.110 --> 0:12:37.380 are people that would be going 51 miles an hour, 0:12:37.420 --> 0:12:39.880 which is relatively fast, okay? I'm not saying they deserve 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.459 a ticket, but that's relatively fast. Now, under the 35-mile-an-hour 0:12:43.500 --> 0:12:46.340 speed limit, people who are going 46– which is just 0:12:46.380 --> 0:12:51.970 two miles an hour above what the 85th percentile speed is, 0:12:51.990 --> 0:12:54.530 those people are now subject to the ticket. So this 0:12:54.870 --> 0:12:56.309 is a giant scam. 0:12:56.650 --> 0:12:57.790 It is a giant scam. 0:12:58.250 --> 0:13:01.219 And are they– now, have all these new laws been 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:05.120 in effect for any amount of time here? 0:13:05.820 --> 0:13:07.400 Right, right. So Amy 43 was passed in 21. It 0:13:07.420 --> 0:13:13.550 took effect, I think, in 22, 23. 22, 23, somewhere 0:13:13.650 --> 0:13:18.600 around there. And then the speed camera was approved two 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.660 years later, and now it's just coming to fruition. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:27.660 And have they raked in significantly more money out of this? 0:13:28.820 --> 0:13:33.709 Oh, yes. $ 18 million in tickets so far. And I'll 0:13:33.730 --> 0:13:40.449 tell you what I can calculate for L.A., potentially, is 0:13:40.670 --> 0:13:46.809 that that they have calculated that the number of people 0:13:47.309 --> 0:13:53.170 who are potentially going to be going over the speed 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.440 limit is a significant number. And we can't calculate that 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:04.420 the potential for ticketing is going to be somewhere in the, 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.400 not millions, in the billions of dollars potentially. 0:14:09.140 --> 0:14:12.570 All right, Jay Bieber, thank you very much for coming on. Yeah, 0:14:12.670 --> 0:14:16.950 billions of dollars stolen from people for going a natural 0:14:17.130 --> 0:14:23.050 speed limit and going to the big money-sucking machine that 0:14:23.090 --> 0:14:38.400 the criminals in the California and L.A. governments run. KFI 0:14:38.540 --> 0:14:41.230 AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. 0:14:41.310 --> 0:14:43.710 John Kobelt's show rolls on here. 0:14:44.790 --> 0:14:47.710 After 6 o'clock, you can listen to the podcast, John 0:14:47.750 --> 0:14:50.390 Kobelt's show on demand. The podcast is on the iHeart app. 0:14:50.850 --> 0:14:53.850 First hour, we had Michael Gates on, who's running against 0:14:53.870 --> 0:14:58.300 the incompetent boob Rob Bonta for Attorney General. Michael Gates 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.520 had a good conversation with him in the 3 o'clock hour. 0:15:01.620 --> 0:15:05.030 So you listen for that right now. Woke up this morning. 0:15:05.230 --> 0:15:08.250 There's always usually one story that just jumps out at you. 0:15:08.290 --> 0:15:16.140 And today it was the plague. You're going to hear 0:15:16.380 --> 0:15:21.040 echoes of the COVID story again here. Yes, it's very similar. 0:15:21.060 --> 0:15:25.280 By the way, this is not bubonic plague. This is 0:15:25.300 --> 0:15:30.110 pneumonic plague. You get a very severe pneumonia and then 0:15:30.150 --> 0:15:30.510 you die. 0:15:30.930 --> 0:15:33.070 I just had a pneumonia vaccine, so I think I 0:15:33.110 --> 0:15:33.710 might be okay. 0:15:34.730 --> 0:15:36.070 Does that work on mnemonic? 0:15:36.590 --> 0:15:37.050 I think so. 0:15:37.150 --> 0:15:37.470 Plague? 0:15:37.930 --> 0:15:40.290 I don't know. But it's better than nothing. 0:15:40.350 --> 0:15:44.610 Maybe we're going to find out. And it starts off 0:15:44.650 --> 0:15:45.550 the same way. 0:15:45.830 --> 0:15:49.370 You know that COVID virus was released in the Wuhan 0:15:49.410 --> 0:15:54.130 lab when there was some kind of mishap among the researchers, 0:15:54.150 --> 0:15:56.790 you know, a broken test tube or beaker or something, 0:15:57.330 --> 0:16:00.090 and the bacteria got out, and we know the rest 0:16:00.130 --> 0:16:00.610 of the story. 0:16:00.650 --> 0:16:03.640 Well, same thing here. Daria.... 0:16:05.290 --> 0:16:10.260 She was 28. She was a researcher at the Anti-Plague 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:17.980 Research Institute in a town called Irkutsk. I-R-K-U-T-S-K. 0:16:18.500 --> 0:16:19.340 Irkutsk. 0:16:20.790 --> 0:16:23.570 She broke a test tube that had the plague in it, 0:16:24.470 --> 0:16:29.890 and she died. Now, the Russians won't admit that this 0:16:29.970 --> 0:16:32.410 is what happened, but these are the reports that are 0:16:32.460 --> 0:16:37.090 bubbling up. In fact, the Russians have changed their report 0:16:37.150 --> 0:16:42.130 several times, which this is just like China. It's the 0:16:42.170 --> 0:16:45.290 same idea. The Russians and the Chinese admit to nothing. 0:16:45.330 --> 0:16:47.230 They cover things up and they lie. Of course, we 0:16:47.270 --> 0:16:49.730 do a lot of that, too, as we found out. 0:16:50.070 --> 0:16:56.110 I've never seen the government lie in more ways, more 0:16:56.170 --> 0:17:00.860 extensively than with COVID. Well, Russia does it. China does it. 0:17:02.030 --> 0:17:02.630 Here's a clue. 0:17:03.180 --> 0:17:09.369 They quarantined an entire hospital. They quarantined 200 people who'd 0:17:09.590 --> 0:17:15.510 come into contact with her and put them under medical observation. Now, allegedly, 0:17:17.350 --> 0:17:21.080 nobody else has gotten it. But if they did, the 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:26.900 Russians might not admit it. And how would we know? Sheplova, 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.360 after she caught it, didn't know she had it, she 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:34.209 went on an expedition with other researchers near the Russian 0:17:34.270 --> 0:17:38.170 border with Mongolia. And she told the medical staff she 0:17:38.310 --> 0:17:41.310 accidentally broke a test tube that had the live virus. 0:17:41.850 --> 0:17:48.930 She was collecting samples for testing. They should invent unbreakable 0:17:48.970 --> 0:17:49.530 test tubes. 0:17:49.550 --> 0:17:52.080 Don't we have some safeguards in place? 0:17:52.380 --> 0:17:56.580 It's 2026. Those big white hazmat suits? 0:17:56.700 --> 0:17:56.840 Yes. 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:57.500 I thought they do. 0:17:58.810 --> 0:18:02.129 Well, remember what happened in Wuhan is it was supposed 0:18:02.150 --> 0:18:07.359 to be the highest level of security, and it wasn't. 0:18:07.619 --> 0:18:11.859 It was a mid-level security when it came to the pathogens, 0:18:11.940 --> 0:18:18.880 controlling the pathogens. Yeah, so the Russians are saying that 0:18:19.180 --> 0:18:24.010 no big deal, but she had severe pneumonia. Now, pneumonic 0:18:24.030 --> 0:18:27.129 plague is caused by the same bacteria as the bubonic plague. 0:18:28.490 --> 0:18:32.770 Listen to two contradicting statements. And I'm getting this from NBC. 0:18:33.770 --> 0:18:38.550 It can spread from person to person through airborne respiratory droplets. 0:18:38.830 --> 0:18:41.369 That's when you sneeze and you don't cover your mouth. 0:18:41.850 --> 0:18:46.560 Sneezing and coughing, correct. Very good. That was hard. 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:54.660 But there is the former White House COVID response coordinator, Dr. 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:59.459 Ashish Jha. He claims it's very hard for pneumonic plague 0:18:59.500 --> 0:19:01.000 to spread from person to person. 0:19:01.810 --> 0:19:02.540 Well, which is it? 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:08.449 NBC prints both interpretations almost side by side in their story. 0:19:09.730 --> 0:19:11.609 So you got the White House, and I don't know 0:19:11.650 --> 0:19:16.070 who Ashish Jha worked for, but he's claiming, nah, you 0:19:16.390 --> 0:19:20.070 can't really spread it easily. And then a couple of 0:19:20.090 --> 0:19:24.750 paragraphs later, well, it can spread through sneezing and coughing, 0:19:24.830 --> 0:19:26.429 which would make it easy to do. 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:29.480 There were. 0:19:30.740 --> 0:19:33.990 There's no transition in there, but according to this. 0:19:35.250 --> 0:19:41.949 No, no. It's just two separate paragraphs saying the opposite. I, 0:19:42.030 --> 0:19:45.930 by the way, saw a an increase in masks among 0:19:45.950 --> 0:19:48.669 the crazy people in the grocery store that I go to. 0:19:48.670 --> 0:19:54.400 There are a lot of people have. COVID. And it's 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:55.840 not so fun from what I hear. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.000 There is one grocery store not far from my house, 0:19:59.580 --> 0:20:01.879 which is the epicenter of masking at all times. 0:20:01.940 --> 0:20:02.760 Well, that's your crazy. 0:20:03.500 --> 0:20:03.800 It is. 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:05.820 It is the crazy west side. You go deeper in 0:20:05.859 --> 0:20:09.000 Santa Monica and more masks. And you can see them 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.440 12 months a year, day and night, no matter what 0:20:12.460 --> 0:20:14.760 the weather, no matter what the COVID conditions are. 0:20:16.260 --> 0:20:17.680 People just wear it. Young people, too. 0:20:17.740 --> 0:20:19.210 But can I just tell you something real quick? I 0:20:19.250 --> 0:20:21.469 had to go to the doctor for some health reasons, 0:20:21.750 --> 0:20:24.169 I think, last week. And I told him that I 0:20:24.210 --> 0:20:26.330 don't touch anything. You know, I know you love that, 0:20:26.350 --> 0:20:28.770 that I use a paper towel. I don't touch door handles, blah, blah, blah. 0:20:28.790 --> 0:20:29.649 Because you're nuts about it. 0:20:29.650 --> 0:20:29.930 Yes. 0:20:29.950 --> 0:20:30.130 Yes. 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.030 But he did say, if somebody sneezes by you, if 0:20:33.070 --> 0:20:36.210 somebody coughs by you, you're going to get sick through 0:20:36.230 --> 0:20:39.170 the air, not necessarily what you're touching. But I'm still 0:20:39.190 --> 0:20:40.550 going to continue doing what I'm doing. 0:20:41.430 --> 0:20:45.250 So, my point is. 0:20:45.470 --> 0:20:50.090 She just reports that her doctor contradicts her habits. 0:20:50.190 --> 0:20:50.770 For COVID. 0:20:51.350 --> 0:20:57.330 For COVID. But, if you sneeze on your hand, and 0:20:57.369 --> 0:21:00.159 then you don't Right. You don't clean your hand and 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.940 you touch the door handle and then I touch it 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.800 and then I touch my eyes. That's another way of 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.130 getting ill. I don't know if you would necessarily get COVID, 0:21:09.430 --> 0:21:12.310 but you can get something. And I find that disgusting. 0:21:13.730 --> 0:21:16.480 Now we're now we're into the mental illness portion of 0:21:16.500 --> 0:21:17.080 the analysis. 0:21:18.130 --> 0:21:21.490 You know you have millions of germs and mites and 0:21:21.530 --> 0:21:22.590 things crawling on you right now. 0:21:22.690 --> 0:21:22.830 I know. 0:21:22.850 --> 0:21:24.030 Now I'm itching or scratching. 0:21:24.070 --> 0:21:24.649 No, stop. 0:21:24.790 --> 0:21:24.990 Yes. 0:21:25.030 --> 0:21:25.850 We don't need to go there. 0:21:26.109 --> 0:21:28.390 They're everywhere. They're in your nose. They're in your mouth. 0:21:28.410 --> 0:21:29.430 They're in your hair. Okay. 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:30.359 I'm just leaving. 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:32.660 Why am I alive? 0:21:34.180 --> 0:21:37.580 You share the planet with billions and trillions of little 0:21:37.619 --> 0:21:38.560 creatures you can't see. 0:21:38.580 --> 0:21:39.340 I don't want them. 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:40.820 They're living off your skin. 0:21:40.900 --> 0:21:41.500 Go away. 0:21:43.550 --> 0:21:50.770 Now, there have been almost 4,000... human plague cases just 0:21:50.810 --> 0:21:56.570 in the last six years. Most of them in the 0:21:56.609 --> 0:22:00.830 Congo and Madagascar. Madagascar, they've had 423 deaths. 0:22:02.050 --> 0:22:03.930 I'm not planning on going there anytime soon. 0:22:04.510 --> 0:22:06.690 You know, if I was running things, I'd shut down 0:22:06.750 --> 0:22:08.630 all air traffic from Russia, which is what they should 0:22:08.670 --> 0:22:11.390 have done with China. And who cares if people start 0:22:11.450 --> 0:22:15.330 screaming about racism? Although I think if you shut down 0:22:15.390 --> 0:22:17.850 Russian air travel, nobody will get upset about it. But 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:19.290 for some reason, shutting down. 0:22:19.190 --> 0:22:22.090 China, it's racist. No, it's not. 0:22:22.310 --> 0:22:24.750 It would have saved, oh, I don't know, a million lives. 0:22:25.050 --> 0:22:27.010 I mean, the day they found out. And you can't 0:22:27.030 --> 0:22:30.340 go by the World Health Organization. World Health Organization says 0:22:30.690 --> 0:22:33.980 it's aware that a lab worker died of severe pneumonia, 0:22:34.020 --> 0:22:36.200 but no cause of death has been confirmed. But if 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:39.159 you remember, they flat out lied about the threat of 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.400 COVID coming out of China because China. 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:44.469 Supplied them with a lot of the money. They were 0:22:44.490 --> 0:22:47.880 a big contributor to their budget. So anyway, there's your 0:22:48.700 --> 0:22:50.419