1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 3: We're on from one until four, then after four o'clock. 5 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 3: Whatever you miss on the show, you can listen to 6 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 3: it on the John Cobelt Show on demand on the 7 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 3: iHeart app. And I'm going to start with a story 8 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 3: that percolated for some months now and then suddenly exploded 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 3: out of nowhere. And that's how the House has voted 10 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:34,919 Speaker 3: to effectively ban TikTok, which has tens of millions of 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 3: users in this country. And what struck me is you 12 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 3: rarely get overwhelming votes. Almost everything is my side, your side, 13 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 3: Republicans here, Democrats there. Right, irrational, it's not reasonable. That's 14 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 3: what happens. So when things are lopsided in a vote, 15 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 3: take notice. And this vote to UH banned TikTok was 16 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 3: three hundred and fifty two to sixty five in the 17 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 3: House of Representatives. It would require Byte Dance that's the 18 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 3: parent company of TikTok, to either sell the social media 19 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:24,639 Speaker 3: app or have it banned on all US devices. Now 20 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 3: there is no selling TikTok because the Chinese Commonist Party 21 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 3: is behind it and they're never going to sell, and 22 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 3: TikTok has said we're never going to sell, uh, so 23 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 3: that means it would be a complete ban. Now the 24 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 3: Senate is more split on this, but let's just go 25 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 3: with the House three point fifty two to sixty five. 26 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 3: And if you're you're probably wondering what is the danger? 27 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 2: Now? 28 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 3: Many legislators say that TikTok is actually spyware. 29 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 2: What are they spying on? What are they collecting? Now? 30 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 3: Mostly I do not have a TikTok account. I have 31 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 3: zero interest. The few times I've glimpsed at it, it 32 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 3: seems to be a lot of young people just doing 33 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 3: stupid stuff, but their brains have been hacked, and many 34 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 3: are terribly, terribly addicted. 35 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 2: And to me, that is that is. 36 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 3: Just as bad as the spyware, is that so many 37 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 3: people can't function unless they're constantly scrolling and staring at 38 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 3: the screen. And I now see the zombies walker around. 39 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 3: I've talked about this, but I noticed them more. Like yesterday, 40 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 3: I had to drive a lot in the afternoon in 41 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 3: terrible West side traffic, just had a number of errands 42 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 3: to do, and so I'm, you know, I'm going station 43 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 3: to station and all these traffic lights, and I'm watching 44 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 3: people cross and almost all these people are glued to 45 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 3: the screen and they're stepping out in front of traffic 46 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 3: without looking. You know, there's whole this whole thing about 47 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 3: pedestrians have the right of way. Yeah, but that doesn't 48 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 3: mean as you're in the middle of making a left turn, 49 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,399 Speaker 3: they can suddenly walk in front of you. 50 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 2: You've got to stand at the. 51 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 3: Curb and look both ways and anticipate what's going on. 52 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: And people aren't because not because they're being jerks, which 53 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 3: is you know, the first reaction you have, it's like, 54 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,399 Speaker 3: oh what a what a JackAsk? I'm a It's they're 55 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 3: addicted and they can't take their eyes off the screen. 56 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 2: They don't know what's going on around them. 57 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 3: And TikTok tried to fight Congress on this by mobilizing 58 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 3: their customers again mostly young a lot of a lot 59 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 3: of young girls, and asked their customers to flood all 60 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 3: the congressional offices with phone calls. And it started on 61 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 3: Wednesday night because TikTok sent out a notice like a 62 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 3: push notification, warning users of a total band that would 63 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 3: damage millions of businesses, destroy the livelihoods of countless creators 64 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 3: across the country and deny artists and audience. You see 65 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 3: how they play to the egos of people who really 66 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 3: don't have any talent and don't have any purpose. You're 67 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 3: not just wasting your time on social media. You're a 68 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 3: content creator, you're an artist, you know, and it's it's 69 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 3: you know, some some dopey kid wiggling his rear end 70 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 3: and so it there's like all generation of people that 71 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 3: walk around thinking that they've they're in show business. 72 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 2: They have followers, right, they're so you're supposed to enter the. 73 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 3: Zip code and then TikTok delivered them to call their 74 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 3: representative in Congress and let them know what TikTok means 75 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 3: to you and to vote no, and and absolutely jammed 76 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 3: the switchboards. Students, young adults, they're all worried about losing 77 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 3: TikTok in their lives now. Some of them are so 78 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 3: emotionally distraught they were threatening to commit suicide, which I 79 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 3: don't know how prevalent that was, but it did happen. 80 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 3: And that might be a reason that you do want 81 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 3: to ban TikTok if they've infiltrated children's brains to the 82 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 3: point that they're going through this severe drug withdrawal, and 83 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 3: they want to kill themselves. I was just reading a 84 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 3: long article today which I can't get into because I 85 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 3: finished it like sixteen pages long in Atlantic magazine, and 86 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 3: it was about how the onset of the smartphone has 87 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 3: really severely impacted childhoods and that children's brains are being 88 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 3: wired in a far different manner and their lives are 89 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:04,239 Speaker 3: far different. Anybody who came of age like after twenty thirteen, 90 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 3: you know, and that generation, some of them are entering adulthood, 91 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 3: and it's actually created like a different human being, a 92 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 3: different person. It's pretty scary to read. And part of 93 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 3: this now is this TikTok thing, and it is a 94 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 3: drug addiction because it is about the chemicals released in 95 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 3: your brain. It's no different than gambling or sex, or 96 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 3: drugs or alcohol. TikTok goes to the pleasure center of 97 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 3: your brain, and you keep needing the hit, and so 98 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 3: you keep staring because you want another hit, and you 99 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 3: want another hit, and there is really no value. I've 100 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 3: read today that teenagers they've done studies, are spending virtually 101 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 3: all all of their free time staring at the screen. 102 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 3: They're not talking to friends, they're not engaged jing relationships, 103 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 3: they're not doing sports, they're having less sex there, I 104 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 3: mean the whole thing. It's only focused on the screen 105 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 3: and every all the adults because you know, they don't 106 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 3: want their child to be left out, stood around and 107 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 3: watched their kid's brain get permanently hijacked. Because this is 108 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 3: when your brain goes through it's its formative years, and 109 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 3: the way it's wired becomes permanent wiring. And so now 110 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 3: it's been permanently distorted by taking in social media input. 111 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 3: It's it's crazy. 112 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 2: Now. 113 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 3: Nobody I'll talk more about this in a minute, but 114 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 3: nobody has explained though, outside of the addiction of the 115 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 3: of the of the young mind, what is the threat 116 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 3: to national security? Talk about it more when. 117 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 2: We come back. 118 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 119 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: M six forty. 120 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 2: If you're interested in the moistline, there's two. 121 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 3: Eight seven seven moist eighty six eight seven seven moist 122 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 3: eighty six. You call in and leave your recording you're 123 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 3: ranting your discomfort with the world. You can use the 124 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 3: talkback feature on the iHeart app as well, and it 125 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 3: works the same way, and the sound quality is even better. 126 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 3: So that's for the moist time, which is coming up 127 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 3: this Friday. The as I mentioned, the House voted three 128 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 3: point fifty two to sixty five in Washington that would 129 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 3: effectively bring TikTok to an end in this country. Officially, 130 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 3: it would demand that TikTok be sold by the Chinese 131 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 3: Communist Party and the parent company of TikTok that they 132 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,439 Speaker 3: created called Bike Dance. Bike Dance owns TikTok bike Dances 133 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 3: run by the Chinese government. Votes three fifty two to 134 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 3: sixty five. So most Republicans and Democrats agree TikTok is 135 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 3: a danger. Now talk first about the danger to young 136 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 3: people's brains. That there's a tremendous amount of addiction. And 137 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 3: they're worried about propaganda because gen Z claims that, according 138 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 3: to studies, the top news source in their life is 139 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 3: TikTok and UH, the US government thinks there's already a 140 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 3: lot of propaganda being fed into TikTok. And because the 141 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 3: reaction from UH, because the reaction from TikTok users was 142 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 3: so over the top in the last couple of days, 143 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 3: them them just delusion Congress with phone calls, hysterical phone 144 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 3: calls threatening suicide, among other things that. 145 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,559 Speaker 2: They said. You know, the congressman said. 146 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 3: See, we're right, look at that one notification, and suddenly 147 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 3: people are calling and threatened threatening suicide. Uh says one 148 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 3: uh publican aid. I guess if you got a bajillion dollars, 149 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,359 Speaker 3: you can come up with some crazy public affairs strategy. 150 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 3: The Democrats said, we turned the phones off so we 151 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 3: can miss calls from constituents who actually need urgent help 152 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 3: with something. They shut down Washington. The TikTok kids now 153 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 3: to be that emotionally involved. Can you remember in your life, 154 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 3: at that age, whether you're ten, fifteen, twenty twenty five, 155 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 3: anywhere in there, that you would get so emotionally involved 156 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 3: in something you're calling Congress that your generation is calling 157 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 3: Congress by the millions. Now there's that angle, and then 158 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 3: there's the other angle. Is the Chinese Communist Party using 159 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 3: it for surveillance and propaganda. The FBI director Christopher Ray 160 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 3: he testified this week. Last week at a Senate hearing, 161 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 3: they were going through threats to US security, and he 162 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 3: said that the Chinese government could use the apps to 163 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 3: control software on millions of devices, and we don't even 164 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 3: know if we'd be able to detect that they're doing it. 165 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 3: And Mike Gallagher, who's on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, 166 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 3: said that the lobbying campaign that TikTok launched using these 167 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 3: kids proves why the bill is needed. You had members 168 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 3: they losed with calls, teenagers crying, one threatening suicide, one 169 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 3: impersonating one of my colleague sons, and this demonstrates how 170 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,199 Speaker 3: the platform could be weaponized in the future. Now there 171 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 3: are those who say that this is a violation of 172 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 3: First Amendment rights. This is where people are expressing ideas, 173 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 3: and one illaboid Democrat Rajah Krishta Morphy said, there's no 174 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 3: First Amendment right to espionage. There's no First Amendment right 175 00:11:54,160 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 3: to harm our national security. There's a hundred and seventy 176 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 3: million people on TikTok and it's a Chinese government surveillance device. 177 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 3: But they don't tell specifically what they're doing currently. And 178 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 3: that's why I open by saying there's a secret out 179 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 3: there and and they're not explaining it. What would get 180 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 3: them also spooked to vote three point fifty two to 181 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,439 Speaker 3: sixty five. 182 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 2: They what have they seen? What do they know? Now? 183 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 3: Trump a while back wanted to shut TikTok down he 184 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 3: said if he became president, he'd shut it down, and 185 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 3: now he's kind of changed his mind because he doesn't 186 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 3: want to make Facebook more popular. He considers Facebook to 187 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 3: be an enemy of the people, along with the lot 188 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 3: of the media. Now Biden's Biden said he'll sign a 189 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 3: bill banning TikTok, but in the meantime, his campaign has 190 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 3: begun posting regularly there and there are a lot of 191 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 3: businesses that use TikTok to make money. It is embedded 192 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,839 Speaker 3: part of the economy. Anything that one hundred and seventy 193 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 3: million people use is going to be tightly woven into 194 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 3: the economy. So again, to take on all the people 195 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 3: who fight for free speech, especially all the young people 196 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 3: that the political parties are fighting for, and all the 197 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 3: people who do have businesses, what is the threat that's 198 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 3: so big that they're willing to and TikTok entirely, Because again, 199 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 3: the Chinese government said they're never going to sell, and 200 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 3: they never do sell in these situations. They are not 201 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 3: going to have the US government tell them that one 202 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 3: of their companies should be sold and spun off. They say, 203 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 3: that's simply not going to happen. When we come back, 204 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 3: believe it or not, there's even more frightening news. 205 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 2: Said, see you tilting your head in the. 206 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 3: More frightening news about Boeing and Alaska Airlines, both of them. 207 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 2: Let's just not fly anymore. Every day new stuff comes out. 208 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 3: And there's been five United incidents in seven days, five 209 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 3: and seven days, and we're going to talk first about Alaska. 210 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 3: None of this will please you, all of this will 211 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 3: upset you. 212 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM six. 213 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 2: Forty John Cobelt Show. 214 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 3: I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 215 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 3: And I was going to tell you terrible things about 216 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 3: Alaska Airlines and Boeing. But you've been spared for a 217 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 3: few minutes, Deborah, because we just got a hold of 218 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 3: the woman who witnessed that six year old girl getting 219 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 3: attacked as she was walking in Santa Monica by a 220 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 3: crazy homeless man. The woman's name is Christina Tullock. He's 221 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 3: a friend of the girl's family and she'd been showing 222 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 3: them around town and she was there when it happened. 223 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 3: So let's get Christina on to talk about it. Hi Christina, Hi, 224 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 3: hi er, thanks for coming on. All right, set the scene. 225 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 3: This happened Main Street, and it happened about what three 226 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 3: days ago. 227 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 4: Yes, Sunday night, at seven o'clock, and we were headed 228 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 4: south on Maine, just on the border of Santa Monica 229 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 4: and Venice, and we were on the east side of 230 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 4: the street and as we crossed Marine, there's a bus 231 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 4: stop there and we were walking by the bench at 232 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 4: the bus stop and a man was sitting and he 233 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 4: turned and swung and hit my friend's daughter and doctor to. 234 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 2: The ground while sitting on the bench. 235 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, he swung to the left and caught her. We 236 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 4: think he caught her on the face. 237 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 2: Oh, it's happened so quickly, and so she's she hits 238 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 2: the ground. 239 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, And I looked up at him and I grabbed 240 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 4: because I thought I didn't know what was going to happen. 241 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 4: And I grabbed her and he screamed something like you don't. 242 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 2: Know who I am. 243 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 4: And we ran in the other direction and I turned. 244 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 4: I handed her off to her family, and I turned 245 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 4: around and I called nine one one, and I tried 246 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 4: to walk behind him for about a block and a 247 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 4: half as I was talking to the nine one one operator, 248 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 4: and he just kept moving along. So I went back 249 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 4: to the family and SMPB showed right up and it 250 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 4: went from there, and it was awful. 251 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 2: Do you know if they ever caught him, I don't know. 252 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 4: I know that they're working actively on the case. I 253 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 4: do know they're taking it very seriously. I think they 254 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 4: consider it a child abuse, which it is. 255 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 256 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a lot of charges you could 257 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 3: to draw out of this. 258 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 2: How is the girl? 259 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 4: She's okay, she shook up, she has a wonderful family 260 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 4: and they're visiting from the East Coast, and you know, 261 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 4: it's it was awful. I don't want to talk too 262 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 4: much about them because they really want to for you know, 263 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 4: they want to cocoon her from any of this. 264 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I understand. 265 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 3: I just wanted to know, if you know, in the 266 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 3: following days, there were no further signs of injury or 267 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 3: a concussion or anything. 268 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 2: I don't know anything about that. 269 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 4: I don't know anything about that. I've been trying to 270 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 4: work with the cops and then contacting county, the county 271 00:17:53,880 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 4: boarder supervisors, asking for more patrols, asking for you know, 272 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 4: a mental health They keep talking about mental health, but 273 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 4: they won't even. 274 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 3: You know, no, they don't actually seem to set up, 275 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 3: you know, mental health treatment centers. 276 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 2: They just talk about there's Alto County. 277 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 4: Everyone thinks it's the mayor, but that's under the purview 278 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 4: of the county boarder supervisors. 279 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 3: So the mental health treatment. 280 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's services as far as I understand. 281 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think you're right, although I mean, you know, 282 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,439 Speaker 3: I don't live far from Santa Monica. I'm in Santa 283 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 3: Monica almost every day, and I've seen what's happened over 284 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 3: the last few years, and it's astonishing. 285 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 2: It's done. 286 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 4: It pretty bad. 287 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, they, the city government, the mayor 288 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 3: and the city council bear a lot of responsibility for 289 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 3: creating this environment, and certainly the county has responsibility for 290 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 3: not having a mental health services that people have to 291 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 3: be put into. 292 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 2: Period. 293 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 3: You just can't have psychotics walk in the street. Just 294 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 3: can't be well. 295 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 4: I just found out that they had promised a twenty 296 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 4: four to seven mental health care van for the city 297 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 4: of Santa Monica, and they promised it a couple of 298 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 4: years ago, and it sounds like it just went livee 299 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 4: thirty days ago and it's not twenty four to seven, 300 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 4: it's from nine to five. Mondays to Friday nine. 301 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 3: To five, but I can't because people only have psychotic 302 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 3: breaks nine to five. 303 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, that appears to be there's no reasoning for this. Honestly, 304 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 4: it's they need to do better. They need to do better, 305 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 4: and they don't approach it with the urgency that it 306 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 4: needs to be addressed. 307 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 3: Reck Why do you think they don't do better? Because 308 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 3: this issue is now around for many years? Why is 309 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 3: it so hard to do? I mean they talk a 310 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 3: good game. 311 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 4: No, I mean the governor gave them the care courts 312 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 4: and they decided to vote against them, and they said 313 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 4: they don't have the beds. But they've had time to 314 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 4: build beds. They certainly have money to build, so they 315 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 4: need to answer for that. I can't answer that because 316 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 4: it doesn't make it doesn't compute to me. But I'm 317 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 4: just a you know, I'm just someone trying to live 318 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 4: in this county. 319 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 2: I know. 320 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 3: I mean Santa Monica is sales tax is over ten percent. 321 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 3: That they should have the money. 322 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 4: Are you know the city? I believe that the county 323 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 4: is funding the mental health care bran for Santamadka. 324 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean we passed multiple propositions. We're just 325 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 3: passing another one. A few days ago, and all that's 326 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 3: supposed to go for homeless and treatment and mental health 327 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 3: and drug addiction in the whole. I mean, every few 328 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 3: years it's another proposition, another few billion dollars, and it 329 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 3: gets worse. And I don't understand. 330 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 4: I don't either. I don't either, but I know the 331 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 4: money is there. I don't see the programs rolling out, 332 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 4: and yeah, that's the first step, you know. Yeah, I'm 333 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:54,360 Speaker 4: not saying we're not expecting perfection, trust me, it's just 334 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,400 Speaker 4: just something we can't send for ourselves all the time. No, 335 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 4: you just can't. 336 00:20:58,359 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 2: No. 337 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 3: And if a portion year old girls getting whacked, I. 338 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:06,439 Speaker 4: Mean, well, a young boy was a hit in the 339 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 4: head on Rose I think last year by a homeless 340 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 4: woman who I think is still living on the beach. 341 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 4: So this is not isolated. That's the other problem. This 342 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 4: is not an isolated incident. People get hurt all the time, 343 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 4: and we're not protecting the people who need to be 344 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 4: protected the most, and that's you know, kids, elderly people 345 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,719 Speaker 4: and frankly, the people who are doing this. You know, 346 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 4: they need to be protected from themselves. 347 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 348 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody knows what should be done, but the government 349 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 3: doesn't do it the county supervisors, the Santa Monica City 350 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,679 Speaker 3: councilor La City Council, because you know, there's a lot 351 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 3: of cross border traffic between Santa Monica and Venice, and 352 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 3: both cities are held responsible for this, but there's no execution. 353 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 2: They just take the money and that. 354 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 4: They have could do a better job of communicating with 355 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 4: each other. 356 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 3: I think personally, Yeah, are both Christina Tallick, thank you 357 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 3: for coming on, Thank you, sir, and I hope the 358 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:04,919 Speaker 3: girl's okay. 359 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 2: Uh. 360 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 3: Christina Tullock her friend uh and their friends, her friend's family. 361 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 3: She Christine was giving a tour uh from the East 362 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 3: Coast and showing showing them California and Santa Monica. 363 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 4: Uh. 364 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 3: They walked past a a bus bench and this guy 365 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 3: sitting on the bench whacked the six year old girl 366 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 3: in the head, knocked her to the ground and started 367 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:35,160 Speaker 3: shouting nonsense and he's psychotic, and uh, let's see who 368 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 3: called up? I guess it was Channel five called up 369 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 3: Lindsay Horvath. Lindsay Horvath is the county supervisor and she's 370 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:42,400 Speaker 3: another one. 371 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 2: She's new. 372 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,239 Speaker 3: They're all talked. They don't do anything. They don't want 373 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 3: to take the homeless off the street, and they don't 374 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 3: want to get them forced into a drug and mental 375 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 3: health treatment. 376 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 2: It's terrible. 377 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 3: How could you be representing that either La Santa Monica 378 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 3: of the county and live with six year olds tourists 379 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 3: visiting from another state. How would you lise six year 380 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 3: olds being smacked in the head by some crazy psychotic guy, 381 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 3: and then you go on TV and babble about your programs. 382 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 3: In fact, what did Horrvaz say? She responded, saying, they 383 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 3: become a They have a pilot program. This is the 384 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 3: therapeutic transport van that Christina mentioned. The team will focus 385 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 3: on supporting people experiencing a mental health crisis. Experiencing that's 386 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 3: the new buzzword. Like you experience homelessness. You're not a vagrant, 387 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 3: and you're not psychotic. You're experiencing a mental health crisis. 388 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 3: Psychotics experience those things many times a day. It's not fixable. 389 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 3: How come the van only works nine to five? How 390 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 3: come they're not actively picking these people up? 391 00:23:59,440 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 2: You see them. 392 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 3: I walk through Santamonica all the time, walk along the beach, 393 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 3: walk in the park. You see and hear them screaming, waiting, 394 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 3: their arms in the air, acting threateningly. Horvath says, they've 395 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 3: become a they've begun another homeless operation that has housed 396 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 3: twenty five people in Santa Monica. 397 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 2: Twenty five people. 398 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 3: There's seventy thousand in the county. She's terrible and she's new. 399 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 3: She replaced the idiot. Oh what's her name? I wiped 400 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 3: her out of my mind. It's one idiot for another. 401 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 3: It's the same person, over and over again. 402 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 403 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 3: Hey, you know, since the TikTok people caused such a 404 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 3: sensation flooding Congress with calls they had to shut down, 405 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 3: maybe we should like pick out one of these supervisors 406 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 3: like Lindsay Horvath and say, why the hell aren't you 407 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 3: picking up the psychotics off the street once and for all? 408 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 2: Just would you just do it? Don't say you don't 409 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 2: have the money. You have the money. 410 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 3: We've given you billions, Because you know, we just talked 411 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 3: with a woman who's given her out of town friends 412 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 3: a tour of Los Angeles Santa Monica. They're walking from 413 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:27,120 Speaker 3: Santa Monica. They're on the border of Venice, just there 414 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 3: for the weekend. They have a six year old girl, 415 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 3: and a six year old girl gets smacked in the head, 416 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 3: knocked to the ground by some psychotic who's sitting on 417 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 3: a bus bench. And I see the psychotics all over 418 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 3: Santa Monica, so nobody can tell me that, yes, it 419 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 3: is that bad. Okay, you would believe how many storefronts 420 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,160 Speaker 3: are closed in Santa Monica, how many are empty, how 421 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,360 Speaker 3: many businesses closed. 422 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 2: I mean just whole swaths. 423 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 3: Combination of COVID rampant homelessness and crime. And it looks 424 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 3: like nobody cares. They're all still liberally, you know, they're 425 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 3: all so progressive. And I'm looking at this and it's like, 426 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 3: you guys are proud of this. This is your progressive philosophy. 427 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 3: We're walking in Santa Monica the other day. 428 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 2: This is real. 429 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 3: Sometimes we walk in the park along the edge of 430 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 3: Ocean Avenue that overlooks the beach. My wife and I 431 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 3: we walk, and sometimes if we see a psychotic wandering around, 432 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 3: we decide to walk across the street on the sidewalk. 433 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 3: You walk across the street on the sidewalk, and this 434 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 3: is my wife and I walking. Actually happened. She's going 435 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 3: watch that there, watch over there, over there. She's pointing 436 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 3: out the poop, and I'm kind of oblivious, and she 437 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 3: knows that. So she's always going look over there, over there, 438 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 3: and some of its human poop, some of it's dog poop, 439 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 3: but really it's anything goes, and so you end up 440 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 3: doing these hops and these dances because it's constant. 441 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 2: People just take craps. 442 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 3: In the middle of the sidewalk, in the middle of 443 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 3: the street, or they take their dogs and the dogs 444 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 3: are taking craps, or maybe the dogs and the owners 445 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 3: are taking craps at the same time. 446 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 2: This is Santa Monica. 447 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 3: And then you get psycho people and they'll be walking 448 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 3: very fast, right, and they got their heads raised and 449 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 3: they're shouting in the air and they're shaking their fists. 450 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 3: We're right, we've run behind trees. I don't even know 451 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,120 Speaker 3: where we go there anymore. The view is beautiful looking 452 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 3: at the ocean of the beach, but it's always something. 453 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 3: It's always something, and you know. 454 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 2: The stores are empty and. 455 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 3: Everything, everything's closed, and whole shopping districts that we used 456 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 3: to go to are gone. We went one night. I 457 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 3: forgot what we did. We had, she had, she had, 458 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 3: she had to pick something up or turned something, and 459 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 3: we parked on one of the city streets it might 460 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 3: have been Fourth Street something like that, in downtown and 461 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 3: parked the car and we had to walk a few 462 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 3: blocks to the store. Oh my god, you wouldn't believe 463 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 3: how many I felt like we were in a movie. 464 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 3: It started to rain, it was dark and cold, and 465 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,959 Speaker 3: there's all these monsters. They look like monsters coming out 466 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 3: of the alleyways. It's like, who wants to live like this? 467 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 3: But you're all so progressive, aren't you. Santa Monica City 468 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 3: Council must be the dumbest bunch of clucks ever. And 469 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 3: this Lindsey Horvath and the mayor of Santa Monica is 470 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 3: like nobody cares at all. And the stupid citizens there 471 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 3: they pay I don't know, ten and a quarter percent 472 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 3: sales tax. The property taxes are high because the homes 473 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 3: are worth so much. 474 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 2: Is that how to understand? 475 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 3: They're parts of Santa Monica, they're so nice, So they've 476 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 3: got these people, they're wealthy. Parts of Santa Monica obviously 477 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 3: are very wealthy. And nobody says we don't want to 478 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 3: live like this. Nobody ever says that. Nobody ever, and 479 00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 3: nobody gets replaced. We've got the same morons that just 480 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 3: got re elected in the past week in La, same supervisors, 481 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 3: same city council people, And there's feasties all over the sidewalk, 482 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 3: and a six year old is getting whacked in the head. 483 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 3: That's the family's memory of La. I'm sure they'll be 484 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 3: coming back soon, whacked in the head by a psycho 485 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 3: that the city in the county refuses to get off 486 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 3: the street and lock up in a room, which is 487 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 3: where psychos always used to go. There'd be a room, 488 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 3: they'd be locked up, you'd give them food, you tie 489 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 3: them up. If you had to, you shot them up 490 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 3: with some kind of drug to sedate them. That's what 491 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 3: you do with psychos. You don't leave them out on 492 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 3: a bus bench so they could smack. What if the 493 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 3: kid had hit his head, had hit her head, it 494 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 3: hit the ground, and she died, they probably wouldn't have 495 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 3: been much more of a reaction than there was. Probably 496 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 3: would have been the same whether she hit her head 497 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 3: and lived or hit her head and died. Because some reason, 498 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 3: in Santa Monica, nobody cares much of La. Nobody cares. 499 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 3: Why how do I get They're just as long as 500 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 3: they have their screens scrolling. All right, all right, right 501 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,479 Speaker 3: after two o'clock, we're going to go back to TikTok 502 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 3: because we're gonna talk to Micah Dubuski. He's the ABC 503 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 3: News Technology reporter, and he's going to tell us why 504 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 3: the House to represent Its voted overwhelmingly three point fifty 505 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 3: two to sixty five that would effectively ban TikTok in 506 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 3: this country, and is it going to pass the Senate? 507 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 3: And what is the danger that you get most of 508 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 3: both parties agreeing that either TikTok has to be sold 509 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 3: by the parent company, which basically is the Chinese government, 510 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 3: or nobody in America can use. Hey, you've been listening 511 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 3: to the John Covelt Show podcast. 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