1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:01,080 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 2: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel 3 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. So Colorado, the Supreme Court 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 2: there wants to toss Trump off the ballot. And now this, well, 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 2: this has spread for a while. There's a lot of 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: states who've been making noises about doing it. Some tried 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 2: and were squashed by their judges. California, somebody woke up 8 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 2: Elainey Kuna Lockez, the lieutenant governor, and she stuck her 9 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 2: beak into the issue, claiming that she asked the Secretary 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 2: of State Shirley Weber to remove Trump from the California ballot. 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: And Bill Sale, the Assemblyman, is coming on with us 12 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 2: now because he's writing his own letter to Shirley Weber saying, 13 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: don't do this. 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: Bill. 15 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 3: You're there, I'm here too, can play that game. 16 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard today the fact that story. 17 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: I'll get to later. 18 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 2: But in Texas, the lieutenant governor says, you know what, 19 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 2: we got to kick Biden off the ballot because he's 20 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 2: allowed this huge illegal alien invasion to storm into Texas 21 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 2: which has completely disrupted our state. 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 3: So we get this is this is the problem is 23 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 3: they are making up rules as they go to meet 24 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 3: their political means or political ends, you know, and the 25 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 3: means just for the end. So here, what they're doing 26 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 3: is they're taking the fourteenth Amendment, which was written for 27 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 3: the Civil War when people took up arms in a 28 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 3: war against the United States, and they're trying to correlate 29 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 3: it to what President Trump did after the way he 30 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 3: went about challenging the results of the election, which he 31 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 3: tempted to do arguably in a legal way, and on 32 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 3: January sixth, he was advocating that Congress object to some 33 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 3: of the election results, which is there's a procedure for that. 34 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 3: But they're taking that and they're using it to get 35 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 3: him off the ballot. Mean, while Congress has never set 36 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 3: up any rules for determining how anyone would ever be 37 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 3: declared for having committed insurrection. There's no due process, there's 38 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 3: no procedures, there's no trial. It's never been put into effect. 39 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 3: So this whole thing, they're just completely making it up 40 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 3: as they go. 41 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not been used since the Civil War time correct, correct. 42 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 3: And Congress has not implemented it because if you read 43 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 3: the Constitution, it says that by the means set up 44 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 3: by Congress, which they've never set up the means and 45 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 3: how you would ever put it to work. 46 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: So this is just pure partisan nonsense. 47 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 3: It is And let's be honest, Lieutenant governor, which no 48 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 3: one's ever heard of, wants to run for governor, so 49 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 3: this is a great way for her to get her 50 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 3: name out. It's a political stunt, but it's extremely dangerous 51 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 3: and reckless because when they talk about Trump being the 52 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 3: enemy of democracy, no, they are the true threat of 53 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,359 Speaker 3: democracy because what they're trying to do is keep their 54 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 3: political opponents off the ballot so people don't even have 55 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 3: the opportunity to vote for them. Who the hell do 56 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 3: they think they are? 57 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 2: He had six million people vote from in California. That's 58 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 2: more voters than any other state because I mean, he 59 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 2: only got one third of the vote, but it's still 60 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 2: raw numbers. 61 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: It was six million. 62 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 2: I don't understand taking away the right of six million 63 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 2: people to vote for who they want, especially absent any 64 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 2: charge official charge of insurrection. 65 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: This is really nuts. 66 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 3: It's nuts, and they're pandering to the worst elements of 67 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:28,839 Speaker 3: their political base. This is the You have to look. 68 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 3: California's gotten so crazy now I see this with the 69 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 3: Attorney general, I see this with the superintendent of schools. 70 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 3: They're all vying to be the locust of the woke 71 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 3: so they could elevate to the top of their bowl 72 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 3: of their party. So is what she's doing. 73 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: Do you think they believe this stuff? 74 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 3: Well, I don't think they have principles, John, I don't 75 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 3: think they believe in much. I think they believe in power, 76 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 3: is what I think. And whatever way they can get 77 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 3: and accumulate power, they'll take it. 78 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 2: But this is scary when the judges join in, because 79 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 2: the judges are the last especially Supreme Court justices. That's 80 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 2: the last line of defense. You're always going to have 81 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 2: crazy people with crazy political views and movements and wacko theories, 82 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 2: wild lawsuits. That's going to exist as long as humanity exists. 83 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 2: But the judges are supposed to be calm, sober, reasoned people, 84 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 2: and they're we have them there to say stop, you 85 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 2: can't do this. 86 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 3: Well, and I'm confident the US Supreme Court will step 87 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 3: in and fix this because it can't stand Colorado. 88 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 2: What you have. 89 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 3: You had all the judges, I think all seven were 90 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:37,919 Speaker 3: Democrat appointees. 91 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's divers even out of that. 92 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, out of that, three of them still said no, 93 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 3: we shouldn't do this. So it just shows you off 94 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 3: the rails. This is But you're right, the last defenders 95 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 3: of our republic right now, of our democracy is the 96 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 3: Supreme Court. Congress has gone nuts. Biden is nuts. The 97 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 3: only adults in the room right now are the Supreme 98 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 3: Court justices. And let's hope they act. They ask quickly, 99 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 3: this is a really dangerous president. This is what they 100 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 3: do in Venezuela. This is what they do in Russia. 101 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 3: They neutralize their political opponents. They don't have fair and 102 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 3: free election. I know this is what they're trying to. 103 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 2: If you heard Russia was trying to knock the opposing 104 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 2: candidate off the ballot and put them in jail, you 105 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 2: wouldn't even plink. It's like, well, yeah, that's Russia. 106 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, I guess that would be a good day 107 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 3: because they didn't do them. 108 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I. 109 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 2: Mean the only thing. Let me ask you this, what 110 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 2: do you think happens if they actually kicked them off 111 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 2: the ballot? People really are going to riot, All the 112 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: lunatics are going to come out with their weapons. 113 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: You really are going to have a civil war. 114 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 3: Then I think it's really dangerous. 115 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 4: You know. 116 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 3: I heard Bill Barr say this on CNN before the election, 117 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 3: when they were messing with the election. He said, you 118 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 3: guys are all playing with fire. You are playing with fire. 119 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 3: You are set. I agree with you, John, it is 120 00:05:57,760 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 3: going to be a recipe for disaster. They are really 121 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 3: going to people over the edge. It's extremely reckless and 122 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 3: it's unnecessary. If you really don't like Trump that much. 123 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 3: She's not gonna win. He's not like gonna win California. 124 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 3: So what are you worried about? That's what are they 125 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 3: worried about. 126 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 2: There's zero chance of him winning California. Biden could be 127 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 2: dead and he'll win. I don't understand why risk the 128 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 2: kind of crazies that will come out and cause a 129 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 2: lot of violence. If they were successful in keeping them 130 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 2: off the ballot, that would that would just be unbelievably 131 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 2: or responsible. 132 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 3: I call it political arsonism. She's a political arsonist. The 133 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 3: lieutenant governor is trying to get her name out. Like 134 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 3: I said, she plans to run for governor. No one's 135 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,479 Speaker 3: heard of her, and now we've been talking about nothing 136 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 3: but her for the last twenty four hours. It's been effective, 137 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 3: I think for her campaign. 138 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: Did you say the letter. Yes, yes, that's what I 139 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 1: was going to get into talk about that. 140 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. 141 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 3: So she says, you know, the Constitution requires that you 142 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 3: be forty and not an insurrectionist. She didn't even get 143 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 3: that part right. I mean, you have to be thirty 144 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 3: five to run for president, not forty. Yes, and you 145 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 3: try to quickly scrub it but too late. 146 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 2: And you have to be a natural born citizen. That's 147 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 2: the only other requirement. There's just two. 148 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 3: There's two. I don't know if you heard this, but 149 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 3: just today Senator Dave min who got a DUI earlier 150 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 3: this year, when he was drinking in Sacramento in a 151 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 3: state car, he just said he's going to put something 152 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 3: on the ballot to give the state the power to 153 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 3: remove Trump. So they're not they're not going to stop 154 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 3: with this. They're going to keep going. They tried to 155 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 3: do this in twenty twenty. They said, oh, if you 156 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 3: don't submit your taxes, you're off the ballot, and the 157 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 3: court struck that down quickly. So these guys they just 158 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 3: don't care about the Constitution. No, they don't care about democracy, 159 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 3: its political points. 160 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 2: It's really anything goes. I've never seen an eerror like this. 161 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 2: There's no rules anymore. 162 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 3: Well, this is what happens when you have a supermajority. 163 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 3: You know, power is very corrupted, right and until the 164 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 3: voters start balancing out the legislature and we don't need 165 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 3: to have all look at majority, but at least get 166 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 3: us out of the super minority and we can be 167 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 3: a check on some of the overreaches that are going 168 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 3: on in Sacramento. 169 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 2: All right, thanks for coming on, Bill Sale, assemblyman, talking to. 170 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 3: You, Thanks for having me, and we wish Ken the best. 171 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 3: I've been listening to you guys since the recall day 172 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 3: is a great days, Yes, the end of an era. 173 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: Yes. 174 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 2: Well, and he's sitting in his house now, so probably 175 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 2: got a blanket on his lap and they get they 176 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 2: give him, they give him a ride in his chair 177 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 2: every once in a while. 178 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 3: It's some joe. 179 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 4: All right. 180 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 3: Well, we wish him the best. 181 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, see you later. Bill, Thanks for coming 182 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,119 Speaker 1: on with us. Bill A. Saley and the assemblyman. 183 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:38,719 Speaker 5: Um. 184 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the other story I mentioned. 185 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 2: The Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said that Biden should 186 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 2: be taken off the twenty twenty four ballot. 187 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: What's with the lieutenant governors? 188 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 2: And he goes seeing what happened in Colorado makes me think, uh, 189 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 2: maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot for 190 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 2: allowing eight million people to cross the border since he's 191 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 2: been president, disrupting our state for more than anyone else 192 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 2: has done in recent history. Yeah, I mean, everybody can 193 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 2: play this game, right. What's caused more damage? Was it 194 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 2: that revolt on January sixth? They're millions and millions of 195 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 2: people storming through Texas and now invading all these cities 196 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 2: and breaking their budgets. I mean, the New York mayor 197 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 2: is beside himself, is approval ratings at twenty eight percent. 198 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 2: He's going to have to cut funding for the police, 199 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 2: cut funding for fire, cut funding for the schools. They 200 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:38,959 Speaker 2: got one of the highest tax burdens in the country. 201 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 2: The taxes are going to go up further with fewer police, 202 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 2: fewer firefighters, and less funding for the schools. Yeah, why 203 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 2: is he at twenty eight percent? But of course that's 204 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 2: left wing, wacko progressive New York City. And it turns 205 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 2: out they've had more people leave New York City now 206 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 2: than any other place in the It's all you can 207 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 2: do now, I guess up and get out. 208 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: We'll continue untry. Why do you think that's happening. 209 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Coebelts on demand from KFI AM 210 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 4: six forty. 211 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 2: The Gold Pool is returning for twenty twenty four. We'll 212 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 2: start taking entries online at midnight January first, and you'll 213 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 2: have that whole week, one full week, and our first 214 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 2: live show of the new year is going to be 215 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 2: January second, and we'll reveal the winner of the twenty 216 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 2: twenty three contest, and then we'll start publicizing your chance 217 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 2: to vote. All right, so it's going to be on 218 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 2: January first, which is a Monday, and you got seven 219 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 2: full days to vote. And again, you pick young celebrities 220 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 2: and they die, you get more points. You pick old 221 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 2: celebrities than they die, you get fewer points. You know, 222 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 2: if you've got Norman Lear on your list this year out, 223 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 2: you're right, but that's not much of a score. 224 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: That's not gonna do any good. 225 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 2: I'm trying to think who's the youngest celebrity that died, 226 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 2: and people picked probably Aaron Carter, Yes, I think that was. 227 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: That was early in the year. 228 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 2: So we'll see who the winners are, who got the 229 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 2: most points, who went three for three it's three celebrities 230 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 2: you think are going to die in the calendar year 231 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Of course, any celebrity that dies during 232 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:25,719 Speaker 2: the first week is not counted because some of our 233 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 2: listeners used to cheat. 234 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. It's just came up the other night. 235 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 2: I was driving home the other night with my Sun 236 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 2: was in the car and we noticed how dark the 237 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 2: four or five is going over the Supulvita Pass and 238 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 2: why is it so dark? And I said, well, it's 239 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 2: because thieves steal the copper wire that leads to the 240 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 2: overhead lights. Have you seen how dark it is on 241 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 2: the many of the freeways. 242 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: I haven't noticed, but I know that that's what's been happening. 243 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 2: Four or five pitch black, the ten Freeway, same thing 244 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 2: from downtown going west, and the four or five going 245 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 2: from the valley at least, you know, to the west side. 246 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 2: I don't know how much farther down. 247 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 5: Coming from the west side into the valley too, is 248 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 5: always dark. 249 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's lots of there's lots of light pulbs. 250 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 2: I've been light poles and light bulbs, but there are 251 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 2: no copper wires. And the La Times did a story 252 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 2: on this because it's funny. When the freeways on the 253 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 2: west side went dark, there was no story. But when 254 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 2: the sixth Street Bridge got unplugged on the east side, Wow, 255 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 2: now this matters. The sixth Street Bridge a large section 256 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 2: of it. It's known as the Ribbon of Light because 257 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 2: they have these lighted arches, beautiful colors. Lots of people 258 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 2: like taking photos and posting them online. It's gone dark 259 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 2: there too. Copper wire thieves. Now, I remember David Goldstein 260 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 2: who just recently retired at Channel two and nine, this 261 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 2: story within the last few years on the copper thieves. 262 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 2: And this is another Coltran's debacle. And you have these 263 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 2: electrical boxes that are mounted on the ground below the lights, 264 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 2: and that's where the light cables come from, and that's 265 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 2: where you can get at the copper and for some 266 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 2: stupid reason, but again this is more stupid government employees unnamed. 267 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 2: They got nice salaries, nice pensions. 268 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: They don't do their jobs. 269 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 2: Why have they not been able to lock up the 270 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 2: wires and make it nearly impossible to break in and 271 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:39,359 Speaker 2: steal them. 272 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: Surely they could if they wanted to, But they've. 273 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 2: Allowed just dozens and dozens of the electrical boxes to 274 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 2: be broken into, and nobody puts up a fight anymore. 275 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 2: And once they're broken into, they never replaced the wires. 276 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: I guess they decided, well, it's just going to happen again. 277 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 1: They're just going to break in again. 278 00:13:55,640 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 2: And copper is very valuable and you can melt it 279 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 2: down and make some money. That's the reason they steal 280 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 2: catalytic converters too. In fact, I saw a story I 281 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 2: think it was on sixty Minutes where they you know, 282 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 2: there's just some guy New Jersey runs a huge copper 283 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 2: melting business. He'll take your copper, doesn't ask where you got. 284 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: It from, although you could tell it. 285 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 2: Somebody brings up a catalytic converter or ten catalytic converters 286 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 2: or long strands of copper wire. You know you're dealing 287 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 2: with thieves, but God doesn't care and he pays out 288 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 2: the money. So anyway, they six Street bridge, which I 289 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 2: have not seen since they lit it up this way, 290 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 2: and it's become a destination. They have ten arches and 291 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 2: the city can change the colors of the light depending 292 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 2: on the occasion, and it's attracted a lot of good people, 293 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 2: families going out on walks during to the times. But 294 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 2: also you get the go uns and the gang members 295 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 2: doing street takeovers, and then you have the whack jobs 296 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 2: who climb the arches trying to take a social media 297 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 2: selfie and one genius fell off and that was the 298 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 2: end of him. Now a third of the bridge's lights 299 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 2: don't work and this is spoke someone for the DWP, 300 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 2: Tanya Shelton. They force open the utility boxes and wires 301 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 2: are now poking out of the ground and about a 302 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 2: third of the bridge is dark. This is Kevin de 303 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 2: Leon's district and he noticed the wire thefts about two 304 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 2: weeks ago. They reported it to the Bureau of Street 305 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 2: Lighting and now they've done an inspection. Oh, an official inspection. 306 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 2: Hey hey ah look it's dark. Must have ripped out 307 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 2: the waters. Very good end of inspection. They're presuming it aggressively. 308 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 2: We think it's a ring or network of people going 309 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 2: around doing this. Yeah, okay, uh, have you caught anybody? 310 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 2: And more importantly, if you catch them, are they going 311 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 2: to go into prison? And even more importantly, are you 312 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 2: going to buy new copper wires and install them in 313 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 2: a box that can't be easily ripped out of the 314 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 2: ground and busted open? Count Trance has refused to do 315 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 2: the work on the freeways for years. 316 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: For years, it's been dark. They just won't do it. 317 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 2: In fact, I remember David Goldstein's report, they didn't even answer. 318 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 2: He tried to contact them, no response, no return call. 319 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: They don't care. 320 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 2: Like that story we did yesterday about the PCH and Malibu, 321 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 2: they've they've been sitting on projects for years, refusing to 322 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 2: do them, even after they got the money. There is 323 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 2: a thirty four million dollar local project in Malibu, thirty 324 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 2: four million dollars, we found out yesterday to try to 325 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 2: upgrade the safety on PCH. It has been sitting before 326 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 2: the state agencies for seven freaking years, since twenty sixteen. 327 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 2: The plans were submitted, the money is allocated. What do 328 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 2: they do all day? What does anybody do all day anymore? 329 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:18,479 Speaker 2: So we're slowly going dark all over town. This also, 330 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 2: the copper thieves have attacked the Metro rail system. They 331 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 2: tear out the copper wires which power the system, so 332 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 2: the rail cars. 333 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: Stop. Oh, another reason to take Metro right. 334 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 2: Not only are you risking getting stabbed, you could be 335 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 2: trapped with a lunatic for god knows how long because 336 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:43,439 Speaker 2: the rail cars lose power once the once the wires 337 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 2: are ripped out. They claim there's half million dollars that's 338 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 2: been used to fix the lighting. Well, we'll fix it 339 00:17:54,080 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 2: for good. Can't be that difficult. More coming up on, oh, 340 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 2: after three o'clock. 341 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: What are we doing? 342 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 2: After three o'clock We are going to have Stephen Camarada 343 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 2: from the Center for Immigration Studies. But they got to 344 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 2: study out now a majority of immigrant households use welfare. 345 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 2: Fifty percent of illegal households get welfare. I thought we're 346 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 2: told that can't be, but it is obviously. Wow, wow, 347 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 2: come here and we just give you all the money 348 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 2: and he fit. That's coming up after three o'clock. 349 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 4: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM 350 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 4: six forty. 351 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 2: Around the radio from one Soil four after four o'clock 352 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 2: John cobelt on Demand the podcast coming up after three o'clock. 353 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: Every time. 354 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 2: An honest person brings up how much illegal aliens cost us, 355 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 2: somebody says, well, they're not entitled to welfare. 356 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: You're wrong. 357 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:58,160 Speaker 2: They legally they can't. They can't get wealth. No, you're wrong. 358 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 2: Stephen Camarata. He is the lead author of a special 359 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 2: report done by the Center for Immigration Studies. He's their 360 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 2: director of research, and his report says, fifty nine percent 361 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 2: of illegal households get welfare and fifty two percent of 362 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 2: legal immigrant households get welfare. We are importing millions of 363 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 2: poor people and then we have to pay for them. 364 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: No, they're just coming here to work. Okay. 365 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 2: You know, every once in a while, I see a piece. 366 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 2: You know, we've tried to. 367 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 1: Keep a laser focus on reality. It's very difficult. 368 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 2: It's extremely difficult in this media culture to keep your 369 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 2: eye on what's in front of your eyes, what you 370 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,239 Speaker 2: can see with your eyes, because everybody is lying to you. 371 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 2: Everybody is trying to b su with nonsense. And one 372 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 2: of the things that's been excruciating for this year is 373 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 2: the inflation rate has been crazy. And then you turn 374 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 2: on the television and you see all these partisan lying 375 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 2: reporters and anchors and partisan lying economists and partisan lying politicians. 376 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 2: I'm gonna sneeze, bless you. 377 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 1: Sometimes when I get mad, I start sneezing. Oh, that's 378 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: very strange. 379 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 2: So you get all these guys lying and saying, well, 380 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 2: and actually the inflation rate is not that bad. The 381 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 2: inflation rate is coming down. I really don't understand why 382 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 2: the public thinks the economy is so terrible. We have 383 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 2: some statistics here, yeah, I know, you have some statistics. Yeah, 384 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 2: you have a lot of You have a lot of 385 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 2: lying statistics, misleading statistics. So you're intentionally cherry picking lying, 386 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 2: misleading statistics. 387 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: You know the game. 388 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 2: It's everybody knows that the game is played, and nobody 389 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:43,399 Speaker 2: believes you anymore. And there's a guy though for Atlantic magazine, 390 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 2: and I don't have his name on this well anyway, Uh, 391 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 2: he's written a piece. He calls it the English muffin Test. 392 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 2: And this is what we've been talking about out for months. 393 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 2: Prices in the grocery stores have gone way up, far 394 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 2: more than the inflation rate you hear all the time, 395 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 2: because the inflation rate is made up of many, many factors, 396 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 2: some of which you rarely encounter. For example, it includes 397 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 2: the rising price of housing or the rising price of rents. 398 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 2: But none of us buy a new apartment every day 399 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 2: or rent a new apartment every day. We're locked into 400 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 2: our mortgage payment or our lease payment, and so that 401 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 2: stay static for the length of the mortgage of the lease, 402 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 2: and that if you're buying something new compared to five 403 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 2: years ago. Yeah, way up, and that would signal a 404 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 2: big inflation increase. But it's the day to day stuff 405 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 2: such as food in the grocery store, you know, in 406 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 2: the g the groceries in twenty twenty two went up 407 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 2: twelve The inflation rate wasn't six percent, it's twelve percent 408 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 2: for groceries and a lot of categories, it's even bigger 409 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 2: than that. So this guy was writing and he's looking 410 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,679 Speaker 2: at a poll and he said, only twenty percent of 411 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 2: the people think the economy has gotten better over the 412 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 2: last year. And it's like, why is this. 413 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 1: You know, the the. 414 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 2: The gross domestic product is up, you know, you know, 415 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 2: four to five percent on an annual basis. Unemployment is 416 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 2: that near record lows. Incomes are rising, they were at 417 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,360 Speaker 2: least for a little while. Why why are people so unhappy? 418 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 2: And I kept saying, because you go to the grocery store, 419 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 2: you go to the gas station, and the prices are 420 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 2: out of control. And even if inflation slows down, or 421 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 2: even if it stops, you still have the same price 422 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 2: increase staring at you, and that people have not adjusted 423 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 2: to twenty twenty three pricing in their heads. They have 424 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 2: twenty nineteen pricing, and for this guy, he said it was. 425 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 2: It came to the English muffins. He writes, early in 426 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 2: the pandemic, I got in the habit of making an 427 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,880 Speaker 2: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast pretty much every day. 428 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 2: I remember a six pack of Thomas's English muffins costing 429 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 2: about three to fifty at the time. Today he went 430 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 2: to his nearby Wegmans grocery store and it was five 431 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:30,439 Speaker 2: point fifty nine. He went to the Safeway, it was 432 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 2: five twenty nine, and he said, an economist would tell 433 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 2: me that I shouldn't worry about it because I changed 434 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 2: jobs during the pandemic and my income has risen more 435 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 2: than enough to easily cover the extra two dollars a 436 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 2: week on English muffins. But he said, still, I can't 437 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 2: bring myself to buy them the price. A higher price 438 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 2: of English muffins just feels wrong, So I settle for 439 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 2: cheaper inferior brands. While waiting in Vain for the Thomas 440 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 2: Muffins go back under five dollars, or he goes to 441 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 2: Target for some reason, there's still only three forty nine there. 442 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 2: And so he was thinking, maybe this is why people 443 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 2: are so pissed off about the economy and pissed off 444 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 2: with Biden. It's not about these arcane unemployment numbers GDP percentages. 445 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 2: It's say you go to the grocery store. I mean, 446 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,160 Speaker 2: you know, one bag of groceries, it's like fifty bucks. 447 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 2: Have you noticed that? 448 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: Oh my god? And I just get vegetables. 449 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 2: Gee lott Edelman's the name of the author, Gee lott Edelman. 450 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 2: I'm reading him this morning. I'm thinking, okay, good. There's 451 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 2: two guys, me and Geelot. We both figured this out. 452 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 2: It's going to the grocery store and seeing the prices. 453 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,640 Speaker 2: Vegetables went way up. Oh my god, yeah, it's terrible. 454 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 2: No meat went way up. 455 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. 456 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,640 Speaker 2: And the thing is, so I go on, I buy 457 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 2: a steak at the grocery store. I can afford to 458 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 2: buy a steak, but after the price went way up, 459 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 2: I just wouldn't do it. I started buying smaller steaks, 460 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 2: really I did. I bought a steak like half the 461 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 2: size of the one I would normally get, which is 462 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 2: enough for me. 463 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 1: Anyway, I was gonna say, it's probably better for you. 464 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 2: But the point is is like even when you have 465 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 2: the money, when you have a quick price increase that 466 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 2: doesn't go back down. I guess it depends how you 467 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 2: grew up, and I grew up lower middle class, and 468 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,439 Speaker 2: I see prices on things that I just can't do it. 469 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 5: There's been a recent trend on Twitter where people will 470 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 5: take pictures of their groceries and they're saying, this is 471 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,120 Speaker 5: one hundred dollars worth of groceries and it's like six 472 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 5: seven items. 473 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's how I feel. I see the price 474 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 2: because I don't always look at the prices as I'm 475 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 2: buying them off the rack, be off the shelf, because 476 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 2: I just want to go quickly. But I get get 477 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,360 Speaker 2: to the register, I see the price and they hand 478 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,959 Speaker 2: me one bag and that's like what, that's eighty two 479 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 2: dollars in one bag. 480 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: And I didn't get anything exotic. And so that's why 481 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: the thing is, I don't know how, you know. 482 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 2: I drive around and I listen to the cable news 483 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 2: channels and I hear all these debates and arguments about 484 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 2: the economy. Droe, Biden's economy. Actually he's not getting enough 485 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 2: credit for Biden nomics. It's like, you Morod, it's about 486 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 2: the price of the English muffins. And you're not going 487 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 2: to change people's minds. You know, you unleashed a massive 488 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,959 Speaker 2: amount of massive amount of government spending. You're giving them 489 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 2: money away for free. So what happens if people have 490 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 2: lots of extra money that bids up the price of 491 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 2: ordinary goods and it's not going back down. Have you 492 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,919 Speaker 2: ever heard of deflation? I don't think we've never had 493 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 2: a sustained period of deflation. Once prices go up, that's it. 494 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 2: You know, the price English muffins is going to be 495 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 2: five fifty nine for the rest of our lives. It's 496 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 2: not going to go back to three fifty. And then 497 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 2: I hear economy school, well you really don't want deflation. 498 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 2: It's like, all right, you got an answer for everything. 499 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:00,919 Speaker 1: Goat you. 500 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,959 Speaker 2: And by the way, all those economists, none of them, 501 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 2: None of them predicted that the inflation rate was gonna 502 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 2: shoot up. 503 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 1: As high as it did. 504 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 2: I didn't hear any of these geniuses predict that English 505 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 2: muffins were going to go to five poin fifty nine 506 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 2: to six back. 507 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: None of them. It's amazing how many people. 508 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,919 Speaker 2: They have advanced degrees, they have masters, they have doctorates, 509 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 2: they're on television, they write in prestigious journals, they're quoted 510 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 2: by politicians, they're testifying at Congress, and they. 511 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: Are full of crap. I mean, just universally full of crap. 512 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:38,199 Speaker 2: But the TV stations need guests, and the newspapers and 513 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,679 Speaker 2: magazines and news sites need somebody to write columns to 514 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 2: fill their stuff, and the Congress needs witnesses. So everybody 515 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 2: just keeps talking, talking, talking, and they have no idea 516 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 2: what they're saying, and they're wrong. They're always wrong. Nobody 517 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 2: predicted this mark coming up. John Cobelt Show. 518 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on Demand from KFI A 519 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 4: M six forty. 520 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 2: On the radio from one to four after four, John 521 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:13,120 Speaker 2: and Ken John Cobalt on Demand. Okay, all right, one 522 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,880 Speaker 2: one mistake. That's your second one, actually is my second one. 523 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, I let the other one go. 524 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 2: You're so kind. I want to play this because the 525 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,920 Speaker 2: war in play. We're gonna play cut one. The war 526 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 2: in Israel has faded from the news a bit, but 527 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 2: Israel has really been doing a number on flattening Hamas 528 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 2: to the point where they're discussing publicly about maybe transitioning 529 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,479 Speaker 2: to a second phase. I guess that means they bombed 530 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 2: everything they could bomb. But this is an interesting audio 531 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 2: and I imagine video about what life is like because 532 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 2: they're still firing rockets from the northern side. They say, 533 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 2: oh no, they're shot from Gaza, right from Gaza. So 534 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 2: these rockets are going from Gaza all the way to 535 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 2: Tel Aviv. So Hamas is still in the fight and 536 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 2: it's still not fun living in Israel. Listen to Trey 537 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 2: yinst doing a live report on all these rockets getting in. 538 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 6: Except his name is Akhmed Kollute, the manager of there guys. 539 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 6: So just Brian, I'm going to interrupt you here. You 540 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 6: can hear their siren sounding now in Tel Aviv. So 541 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 6: we're just gonna take a little bit of cover here 542 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,719 Speaker 6: and we can keep talking. 543 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: I mean, this is just the reality of right now. 544 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 6: And just just so you know, the rockets that are 545 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 6: coming in right now, they don't have the text and 546 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 6: they don't know where they're going. 547 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 1: They have no clue where they're aiming at. 548 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 6: Out of the street. 549 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 7: People are coming off the beach right now. They're coming 550 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 7: away from the Mediterranean Sea, trying to take cover. This 551 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 7: is a city of more than three hundred thousand people 552 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 7: and despite the heavy air and ground campaign against Thomas 553 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 7: and Gaza. They have maintained their ability to fire on 554 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 7: major cities like Tel Aviv. 555 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, and you see the construction of a leader that 556 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 4: was captured, was on television. 557 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 6: Saying that Iron Dome coming up here. Guys, just if 558 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 6: you focus here, you're gonna be able to see there's 559 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 6: gonna be a bunch of interceptions right overhead. 560 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 7: Hand up to the sky, here, duty. 561 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 6: Up to the sky. 562 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 7: You're going to see all of this smoke. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. 563 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 7: This is a massive barrage toward Tel Aviv, and you're 564 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 7: gonna continue to hear these explosions overhead. Each time one 565 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 7: of these rockets is intercepted, you have shrapnel raining down 566 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 7: into the city below. 567 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 6: But again, this is one of the largest rocket barrages 568 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 6: against Tel Aviv that we have seen in quite some time. 569 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 7: Trey will hear those explosions. 570 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 2: So eleven rockets in those few seconds, we're all flying 571 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 2: over at the same time, all intercepted by what they 572 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 2: call the Iron Dome, which is Israel's defense system, and 573 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 2: they send up a missile to intercept the incoming rocket. 574 00:30:59,200 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: Right, That's how it works. 575 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, so that just gives you a little bit of 576 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 2: life in the Tel Aviv. Still you imagine that after 577 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 2: all these months they're dealing with this day after day, 578 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 2: night after night. 579 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 5: Well and yesterday Israel offered a ceasefire agreement to Hamas 580 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 5: and Hamas denied it. 581 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because the the Hamas leaders don't care. No, no, 582 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 2: they don't care. They I mean they they're hiding somewhere. 583 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 2: They left Katar. They were living in the Four Seasons hotel, 584 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 2: and they have stolen just untold millions of dollars and 585 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 2: so they're on the run. They're safe, they're going to live, 586 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 2: their families are taken care of. They don't care if 587 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,959 Speaker 2: the Palestini residents get all gets slaughtered in the World War, 588 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 2: it doesn't matter to them. So of course they're not 589 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 2: going to accept a ceasefire. You know, there's a there's 590 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 2: an unusual supporter of Israel, John Fetterman. He's that senator 591 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania, the the tall guy, bald guy. 592 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: Six foot eight. 593 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 2: You've seen him, and he's the one who had the 594 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 2: stroke and was making no sense. But they elected him 595 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 2: anyway because the alternative was doctor Oz. That was one 596 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 2: of the most bizarre matchups in the last election cycle. 597 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 2: John Fetterman suffering clearly stroke from a stroke and doctor. 598 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: Oz, who is just nuts. 599 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 2: And they expected Fetterman to be a loyal progressive. Well 600 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 2: he's broken apart from the progressive movement because he's increasingly 601 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 2: thinking they're nuts. 602 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 1: Is he Jewish by the way himself, I don't know. 603 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 2: Well, he says, whenever I'm in a situation to be 604 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 2: called on to take up the cause of strengthening and 605 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 2: enhancing the security of Israel or deepening the relationship between 606 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 2: the US and Israel, I'm going to lean in. He 607 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 2: told this to Jewish Insider. I guess that's an online 608 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 2: news site. And when it comes to far left democrats 609 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 2: who harshly criticize Israel, I would also respectfully say, I'm 610 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 2: not really a progressive in that sense. And so they're 611 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 2: they're smearing them online. They've given him his own hashtag, 612 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 2: he's left wing hateful activists. They call him genocide John 613 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 2: for his unequivocal support of Israel. He used to be 614 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 2: a progressive star. He used to brag about his connections 615 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 2: to Bernie Sanders, and Fetterman said, what I have found 616 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 2: out over the last couple of years is that the 617 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 2: right wing and now the left are both hoping I die. 618 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,959 Speaker 2: They're the ones who are rooting for another blood clot. 619 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 2: They are both now wishing that I die. This is 620 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 2: the treatment you get if you have the wrong opinion, 621 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 2: You get bombarded with the social media. If you don't 622 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,320 Speaker 2: get death, you don't get death threats, you get death wishes. 623 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,680 Speaker 2: He's also come out saying that the progress are wrong 624 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 2: in not wanting to do something at the border, which 625 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 2: has pissed them off. He said, I don't think it's 626 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 2: unreasonable to have a secured border. I would never put 627 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 2: the Dreamers in harm's way or support any cruelty or 628 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 2: mass expulsion. But it's a reasonable conversation to talk about 629 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 2: the border. So when he when he was running, he 630 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 2: had the full port of support of the progressive crowd. 631 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:32,400 Speaker 2: And now he's he's saying these guys are nuts. He 632 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,040 Speaker 2: says he doesn't he doesn't relate to the label, and 633 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:41,120 Speaker 2: he's he's tired of the purity tests. Now his critics 634 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,879 Speaker 2: have called him a vegetable, and that's what the right 635 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 2: wing used to call him. They used to call him 636 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,400 Speaker 2: a vegetable. They used to accuse him of a radical 637 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:56,240 Speaker 2: socialist agenda, and and now that Fetterman is going against 638 00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:01,239 Speaker 2: the left wing whack jobs. But I don't know what's 639 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 2: unreasonable for everyone to agree on securing the border. What's 640 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:11,880 Speaker 2: unreasonable to support Israel to protect their existence? Why is 641 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,720 Speaker 2: this such a vicious issue? Why are we being driven 642 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 2: by all the lunatics in our society. 643 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,800 Speaker 1: I don't know why anybody reads social media. 644 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,320 Speaker 2: There's no reason to who wants to read death threats 645 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,920 Speaker 2: and death smears all day long. We come back, we're 646 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 2: going to talk about the border issue. Stephen Camarade is 647 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,439 Speaker 2: coming on. He's the director of research for the Center 648 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,359 Speaker 2: of Immigration Studies. We've talked to him a lot over 649 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,240 Speaker 2: the years, and he's got a new study. They analyzed 650 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,279 Speaker 2: government welfare programs and found fifty nine percent of all 651 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 2: illegal alien households are getting some kind of welfare benefit, 652 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 2: including fifty two percent of legal households. That is, that 653 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,879 Speaker 2: is a lot of households, and that is a lot 654 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,799 Speaker 2: of money. And we're always told that no, no, they 655 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,760 Speaker 2: come here to work and they're they're not a burden 656 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,400 Speaker 2: on us, and they're taxpayers and they're not getting welfare. 657 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:10,240 Speaker 2: The illegal households. Well, well that's not true, and that's next, 658 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,719 Speaker 2: and we're going to have Deborah Mark now live in 659 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,640 Speaker 2: the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening 660 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 2: to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear 661 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,919 Speaker 2: the show live on KFI AM six forty from one 662 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,480 Speaker 2: to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course 663 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,200 Speaker 2: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app