1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on the 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 1: radio every day from one until four o'clock and after 4 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: the show, oh maybe about fifteen twenty minutes, we post 5 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: the podcast version John Cobelt Show on demand and you 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: could hear everything that you missed. We in just a moment, 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,639 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about Gavin Newsom. Yesterday he tried 8 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: to distract the world by issuing a press release and 9 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: a draft of a new law that he wants every city, town, 10 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: and county to implement, and he's trying to look like 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: a hero with the answer to all the homelessness in 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,879 Speaker 1: the state. And Michael Selenberger wrote a piece today that 13 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: because every once in a while you need to do 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: like a review of history, what really has gone on 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: the last ten years or so in California and all 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: the bad, disastrous policy is that Gavin Newsom created and 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: pushed to create the hell that we're now living in. 18 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: Everybody forgets human memory is very flawed. So we'll get 19 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: to that in a minute, But first, can you get 20 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: the trumpets out? Eric? Do we have them? Because our 21 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: news anchor Devor mar has won another award, and this 22 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 1: is a big one. Read the whole title of the 23 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: war and so long, I can't even remember it. Well. 24 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 2: This is from the Radio Television Digital News Association. So 25 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 2: it's a regional Edward R. Moreau Award, an Edward R. 26 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: Murrow Award. 27 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 3: Edward R. Moreau. 28 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: He is like the godfather of serious journalism, the CBS 29 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: reporter from going back to the nineteen forties on radias. 30 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. 31 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a pretty prestigious award. I'm really excited. It's 32 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: regional and so I automatically now I am entered into 33 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 2: the national awards and so if if I win that, 34 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 2: that'll be announced in August. 35 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: And it's for the series she did yes on suicide. 36 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 3: News series Suicide. 37 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: Stigma and Shane. Yeah, so congratulations. He won two Golden 38 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 1: Mics for that series. And it was a very personal 39 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: story about what did Debra went through with her mother 40 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: and it was extremely powerful. If you haven't heard it, 41 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: we can go to kf I AM six forty dot 42 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: com the John Cobelt Show page and there'll be links 43 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: so you could hear part one and part two and 44 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: also a short discussion Deborah and I had the day 45 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: that we ran part two. Yeah, and. 46 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 3: Thank you again, John. Again. 47 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 2: I never thought that John would really want such a 48 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 2: series on his show, because it's really not a John 49 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 2: Cobel type of. 50 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 3: Series. 51 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 2: I guess that's the best way of putting it. But 52 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 2: John was amazing and he played both parts two days 53 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 2: and then a whole I think a whole segment. 54 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 3: You and I talked to him, Yeah, back and forth. 55 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 3: It was great. 56 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: It was terrific, and you've won three awards now for it, 57 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: and this Edward Armuro Regional Award is a really big deal. 58 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: We have a shortcut actually, if you go to caf 59 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: I am six forty dot com slash suicide, you can 60 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: go right to the links to Deborah's Part one and 61 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: part two and our little discussion afterwards KFI am six 62 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: forty dot com slash Suicide. Now, Deborah celebrated this earlier 63 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: in the day by nearly getting arrested, and we'll tell 64 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: that story at the end of the hour. Okay, so 65 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: you want to. 66 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a crazy story. 67 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: But well this is one of those only in Deborah 68 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: Land when it happened. 69 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 3: I know. But thank you, John, thank you so much. 70 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 2: I really, I really do appreciate You're always You're always 71 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 2: so great and acknowledging me, and I really. 72 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Well, you do tremendous work. I 73 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: mean it's right in front of me every day. All right. 74 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: Now back to Michael shellon Burger and he's got a 75 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: website called public dot News Public dot News, and he's 76 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: got an extensive article and the title, Gavin Newsom is 77 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: the worst governor in America. Let's start right there. And 78 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: he talks about a book called Fool's Gold. Now, we 79 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: discussed this book some weeks ago. We had one of 80 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: the authors on, Susan Crabtree. Susan and her co author 81 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: Jed McPhatter did an intensive investigation into Gavin Newsom's background, 82 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 1: his time as mayor of San Francisco, and his policies 83 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: and the corruption that is always attached to Gavin Newsom 84 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: all the way along. And these are all things that 85 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,239 Speaker 1: are true, rarely get covered in the media because Gavin 86 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: is a proud, honorable member of the Progressive Church, and 87 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: one of the commandments in the Progressive Church is all 88 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: the progressive welk. Journalists will will not dare write anything 89 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: negative or critical, even if it's truthful, even it's actually 90 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: dangerous to people who live in California. And I could 91 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: go several different directions off Schallenberger's story, but what grabbed 92 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 1: me was the opening part because he went through Gavin 93 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: Newsom's homelessness record since he became governor. Because yesterday he 94 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: tried to be mister superhero. It's like I've got an idea. 95 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: I've got an idea. Look over here, look at this. 96 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: And he had this press release and he had a 97 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: draft piece of legislation, an idea for an ordinance that 98 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: all the cities and towns and counties should pass, and 99 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: that this will have a great impact on homelessness. And 100 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: what got everybody's attention is he wants the homeless moved 101 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 1: every three days and no longer can you cleep a 102 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 1: sleep in the streets or the parking lots or any 103 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: public streets, pathways, sidewalks, and on and on and uh. 104 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: This is actually a warmed over proposal from a few 105 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: months back that he introduced. And most towns and cities 106 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: ignore him because he keeps threatening to withhold money, but 107 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: he doesn't withhold money. See, you could say what you 108 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 1: want about Trump, but when Trump threatens to cut off 109 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: your money. He cuts off your money, even if legally 110 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: he can't do that. Newsom says, well, it makes it 111 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: makes makes a lot of threats, but he doesn't follow through. 112 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: He makes a lot of proclamations, he doesn't follow through. 113 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: But to go to a review here of Newsom's history 114 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: and helping really to create and amplify this this homeless crisis, 115 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: he uh, he has spent, according to Susan Crabtree, an 116 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: astonishing thirty seven billion dollars on homelessness. Thirty seven billion. 117 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: I have seen estimates as h as twenty four that's 118 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: what Newsom admits to. But there is there's a link 119 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: to this study that's been done by the Legislative Office. 120 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: What is this the Legislative Analyst Office, the LAO, and 121 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: their number is thirty seven thirty seven billion dollars, which 122 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: is a mind numbing number. And he said that Newsom 123 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: has actually increased homelessness by twenty four percent, and he's 124 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: also increased violent crime by thirty one percent over the 125 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: national average. He did so by indiscriminately emptying the jails 126 00:07:55,480 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: and prisons during COVID. This allowed outdoor ten to markets 127 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: to flourish, decriminalized hard drug use and shoplifting. He gave 128 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: addicts cash and unconditional free housing, and he opposed demands 129 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: by Republicans and others over the last twenty years that 130 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: knews some reverse course. These are policies. Some of them 131 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: he had in San Francisco, some of them he had 132 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: when he went to Sacramento. All of them failed. Nothing 133 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: has worked, and that's why you end up with homelessness 134 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,559 Speaker 1: up by twenty four percent and violent crime by thirty 135 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: one percent over the national average. And that's thirty seven 136 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: billion dollars spent. And we come back, we're going to 137 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: go through all the things he's done wrong. He is 138 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: such an overwhelming, colossal failure that it's it's mind boggling. 139 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: And he does these things and they're rarely reported on, 140 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: and if they are reported on, it's glossed over and 141 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,239 Speaker 1: forgotten a day later. And then he issues some proclamation 142 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: to make him look like a hero. And again, you 143 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: don't have a middleman to explain what he does, why 144 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 1: he does it, what the effects are, the cumulative effects, 145 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,439 Speaker 1: which is really important. If you have six, eight, ten, 146 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: twelve bad policies over a long period of time, it's 147 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: you don't realize that all these policies end up working 148 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 1: together to destroy a peaceful society. But he's really bad 149 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: and I'll tell you about it when we come back. 150 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 151 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 4: six forty. 152 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 1: All right, he's gone through this Michael Schellenberger piece. You 153 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 1: should I subscribe. I don't subscribe to too many things 154 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: on the internet, too many news sites, but his news 155 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:52,079 Speaker 1: site I do. It's called public dot News. And Michael's 156 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: been on our show a number of times and he 157 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: kind of duvetailed off a book written by Susan Crabtree 158 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: and Jet mcfatt called Fool's Gold, And we've had Susan 159 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: on the air, and it was a thorough analysis of 160 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's existence as a politician in our state. And 161 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: it is something that's necessary to go through all the 162 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: stupid ideas that he implemented or amplified that led to 163 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: the massive homelessness which makes life so miserable here in 164 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 1: Los Angeles and throughout California, many many places outside of 165 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: La is. You know, we don't have half of the 166 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: street homeless in America for nothing, and we have a 167 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: third of all the homeless, and a lot of it 168 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 1: has to do with Newsom, with great assistance from idiots 169 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: like Eric Arcetti and Karen Bass and London breed up 170 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: in San Francisco. He couldn't do it alone, but he 171 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: did a lot of it. He really set the tone. 172 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: So here's a rundown of all the things he's done 173 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: since he's become governor, starting with mental health services and 174 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: drug addiction services are inconsistent to non existent around the state, 175 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 1: and all these problems he either made worse or failed 176 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: to fix as they As Schottenberger writes, the governor of 177 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: California has extraordinary powers, including the power to withhold money 178 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: from counties, but he did not. He refused to enforce 179 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: standards or demand outcomes like I was saying, like I 180 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,559 Speaker 1: was saying. Every once in a while he gives out 181 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 1: a threatening press release or shakes his fist at a 182 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: news conference, but in the end, everybody got their money. 183 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: Newsom promised in twenty nineteen to fix the state's broken 184 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: conservatorship laws. That's why there's severely mentally ill people on 185 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: the street, but he hasn't fixed them. They're still there. 186 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: The only way you can take somebody off the street 187 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: if he poses an immediate threat. And I mean, he's 188 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: got to have the acts in mid air about to 189 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: come down on someone's head, and then maybe somebody from 190 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: mental health services will intervene. But the acts has to 191 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: be airborne. It's got to be already in the striking position. 192 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: He Schollenberger says that Newso empowered activist nonprofits that actually 193 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 1: profit from homelessness, and he shielded them from basic transparency requirements. 194 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: This is what I talk about every day. Thirty seven 195 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: billion dollars, a lot of it went to nonprofits funneled 196 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: through various governments, but we don't know what they did 197 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: with the money, and they don't have to show us 198 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: what they did with the money. He pushed laws like Prop. 199 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: Forty seven that decriminalized theft in public drug use. That 200 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: was a disaster. He didn't just fail to fix the system. 201 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,199 Speaker 1: He implemented and entrenched it. Knew some more than any 202 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: other person in the United States, promoted and funded the 203 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: deadly model of addiction enabled called Housing First, which eliminated 204 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: requirements for sobriety work or psychiatric treatment in exchange for housing. Yeah. 205 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: He and Garcetti pushed this for a decade, total failure. 206 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: If you don't demand sobriety or work or psite treatments, 207 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: you shouldn't get housing paid for by state tax payers. 208 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 1: We never demanded it. They got the housing, and they 209 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: continued to be drunk, addicted to drugs, or insane, and 210 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: they never worked. That approach started in San Francisco, untroduced him, 211 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: and then he took it statewide. He made primitive supportive 212 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: housing the only allowable solution for state homelessness funding. Now, 213 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: his idea of permanent supportive housing, according to Schellenberger, was 214 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,839 Speaker 1: rundown motels where addicts and mentally ill people use overdose 215 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:13,559 Speaker 1: and die from fentanyl. And even as costs sword construction lagged, 216 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: tens of thousands of die, ten tens of thousands died, 217 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: he still pushed this total failure, consistent, total, absolute failure 218 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: for ten years, and Newsome mandated that housing first be 219 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: the policy for the cities for using state funds. You 220 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: couldn't use any recovery first strategies or shelter first strategies. 221 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: It had to be you give him a house. And 222 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: now he's blaming the local cities and counties. Now he's 223 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: saying there's no more excuses, but is Schellenberger says it's 224 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: his failure not taking responsibility for the deadly and devastating 225 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: consequences of his policies and seeking to blame others is 226 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: what Newsom has done repeatedly over the last twenty years, 227 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 1: and as a result, open drug scenes run by violent 228 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: foreign drug dealers who prey upon some of the sickest 229 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: people in America remain as rampant as ever across California. 230 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: And the next part of the article talks about fools Gold, 231 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: which we have discussed with one of the authors, Susan Crabtree, 232 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: in the past. But I'm so sick of seeing his 233 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: mug on television every day and hearing the same tired 234 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: feature stories on him and the coverage that he gets. 235 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: And it's all because of his looks. He's not bright. 236 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: With his SAT scores, I think we're nine to sixty, 237 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: they're below average. He's not bright. He used to be 238 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: good looking, now he's aging. He's always been a dope, 239 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: and his policies have all been wrong, they've all been 240 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: a failure, and now he's panicking and he's trying almost 241 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: anything to get some positive publicity. So he could run 242 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: for president. He has slid to fifth place in national polls, 243 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: fifth place because he's a joke. He's a gagline, and 244 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of fun to watch him 245 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: squir hm and embarrass himself over the last year and 246 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: a half of his term. And it's a sad, sad 247 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: thing that a guy can become the governor, as he 248 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: likes to call it, the fourth largest economy in the world, 249 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: the largest state, and do an incredibly destructive job, incredibly 250 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: incredible failure, incredible incompetence, and the only reason he did 251 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: it was his hair and his jaw line. That's it. 252 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: He's got hair, he's got a jaw line, and he 253 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: doesn't have a brain in his head, and he doesn't 254 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: have any shame either, because he's a complete sociopath and 255 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: a complete narcissist. 256 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Kobe Else on demand from KFI 257 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 4: A sixty. 258 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 1: We'ren every day from one until four and then after 259 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 1: four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. 260 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: Coming up. In the next segment, we're gonna go through 261 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 1: Debra's morning. Deborah was so thrilled because she got a 262 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 1: major award, an Edward R. Murrow Regional Award for her 263 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: suicide series. That's three awards she got, and of course 264 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: she had to start texting the world about it and 265 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: accepting all the congratulations, and then the police intervened. 266 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 3: Only happens to me, So we'll. 267 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:41,439 Speaker 1: We'll talk about that next Yesterday we told you, and 268 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: you know I was, I was a little bit skeptical. 269 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,360 Speaker 1: You when you get exclusives to the New York Post. Yeah, 270 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: I don't know what the percentage is, but I you know, 271 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: I never have one hundred percent trust because occasionally somebody 272 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 1: will asked me, well, how many news sites do you 273 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 1: go to? And I got to go to at least thirty, 274 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: if not more. And then you know, Ray and Eric 275 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: also go through a lot of news sites, and it's 276 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: hard to trust the specifics of anyone news site. It's 277 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,239 Speaker 1: almost you have to read the story several times from 278 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 1: several different sources and try to come to a consensus 279 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: and separate all the bias and all the nonsense. So 280 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: when I saw this story yesterday that Newark Airport was 281 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: down to one traffic controller at one point, and you've 282 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: heard how many times they've had outages, at Newark Airport 283 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks, and that it's chaos. 284 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 1: Flower of flights are many hours late, and the equipment 285 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 1: goes back to the nineteen eighties, and you've got these 286 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: blackouts on the radar that lasted for a minute or two, 287 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: and five air traffic controllers took trauma leave, which further 288 00:18:53,560 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: depleted an already low staff. And I'm thinking when, wait, 289 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: when police and firefighters have to do their job, imagine 290 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:08,120 Speaker 1: what they see in experience. Imagine what military people see 291 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: in experience. They're not going on trauma leave. For God's sakes, 292 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 1: you're sitting at I mean, pilots have, you know, hairy 293 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,479 Speaker 1: situations all the time. You're trained to handle them and 294 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 1: you move on. And the reason you don't have a 295 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: trauma is you're trained to expect that these things can occur. 296 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,360 Speaker 1: And here's what you do. If they do occur, and 297 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 1: you get out of trouble, you solve the problem, and 298 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,919 Speaker 1: then you continue on. So I don't undert this sounds 299 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: like some union perk said a bunch of deadbeat air 300 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: traffic controllers decided to take advantage of but anyway, The 301 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 1: New York Post said they were down to one controller, 302 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: and I think we both thought, could this possibly be true? 303 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,360 Speaker 1: Is this a real story? Well, the New York Times 304 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: has a similar story. It is true. This was Monday 305 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 1: evening last night. They had as few as three traffic 306 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: air traffic controllers scheduled at Newark Airport, far below the 307 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: target of fourteen. So their target is fourteen, and the 308 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,159 Speaker 1: fourteen comes from an agreement between the controllers union and 309 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 1: air traffic control officials. They signed this deal in January, 310 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: so they're supposed to be fourteen guys. They only had three, 311 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: except they didn't have three all the time. They expected 312 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:44,360 Speaker 1: to have at least three scheduled every hour Monday evening. Now, 313 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: remember Newark Airport is North Jersey, but the traffic control 314 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: is based in Philly, ninety miles away. It's in Philadelphia. 315 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,400 Speaker 1: But according to four sources, they told The New York 316 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: Times that the number of fully certed fight controllers on 317 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: duty was at times one or two, so they didn't 318 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: have three. Sometimes they didn't have two, they had one. 319 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: They may have had a trainee or two around, but 320 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: a fully qualified air traffic controller. Not fourteen one. And 321 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: I believe they were expecting about one hundred and sixty 322 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 1: eight flights to either take off or land between six 323 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: thirty and nine thirty last night. Again, this is the 324 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: New York Times. Staffing shortages affected flights for much of 325 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,360 Speaker 1: the day, and that led to an average of more 326 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: than an hour and forty minutes of delays, some flights 327 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 1: almost seven hours delayed. And on Monday, on the three 328 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: to ten pm shift, they were operating with one or 329 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: two fully certified controllers. I guess maybe they'd have two, 330 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: and then a guy would go on break. Is it 331 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: time for my break? It's time for my break, isn't it. 332 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: You ever go to a grocery store. That's all the 333 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: cashiers do. It's time for my break. Can I go 334 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: on my break? Apparently they're doing that in Jay air 335 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 1: traffic Control too. Can I go on my break? Yeah? 336 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: Well you got three seven forty sevens to land? Yeah, 337 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: but I have to go on my break. They had 338 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: moved Newark's air traffic control to Philadelphia from Long Island, 339 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: hoping that moving the team there to a more affordable 340 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:41,880 Speaker 1: area would allow the agency to hire more controllers. Now, normally, 341 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 1: when you're not paying enough money, you have to raise 342 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: the wages. If you can't attract candidates. It means you 343 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: have to up the salaries. That but relocating to Philly 344 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: angered some conrollers because they had to uproot their families. 345 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 1: You know, it's a couple hours to go from Long 346 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: Island to Philadelphia. And even if the move had gone well, 347 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: recruiting and training new controllers takes years. I guess some 348 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: of them quit and then you have all the traumatized 349 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:24,919 Speaker 1: controllers and there's nobody left working. As a March of 350 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: last year, only fifty nine percent of controller roles were 351 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: filled at Long Island, which handled flights at Newark, LaGuardia, 352 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: and Kennedy and other smaller New York airports. That is 353 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: a complete disaster. And then on top of it, you 354 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 1: have the radar outages and Sean Duffy, who's Trump's Transportation secretary, 355 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:52,640 Speaker 1: and they better get it together because this is outrageous. 356 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 1: There's no excuse for this, and you can't just blame 357 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: it on Biden because Trump was president for four years 358 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: before that. And Duffy said, they have an antiquated backup 359 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 1: telecommunications line that was overwhelmed when a primary line failed. 360 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: So the primary communication line fails, the second one gets overwhelmed. 361 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: That fails, and he said, we're trying to slow speeds 362 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: down to nineteen ninety speeds for nineteen eighty equipment. And 363 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: I guess he's talking about the flow of information along 364 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: these cables, saying they're now going to spend money on 365 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: new fiber optic cables. That's just I mean, how many 366 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: tens of trillions of dollars we have spent in taxes. 367 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: I just heard today they were talking about, you know, 368 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: the deals that we're doing in the Middle East, that 369 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia, and how we spent to modernize one 370 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: of the airports in the Middle East. And I heard 371 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: that It's like you're modernizing an airport in the Middle East, 372 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 1: but the one in Newark is a complete disaster. We 373 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: are run by absolute morons. And then if there's a 374 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 1: plane crash, you just blame it on the last administration. 375 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: That's all they do. Well, what happens when you were 376 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: one of the last administrations? More coming out, Oh, we 377 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: come back, we'll find out how Debah almost ended up 378 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: in custody this morning. 379 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 3: So stupid of me. 380 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: She mut won a big award and. 381 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 3: My day was almost ruined. 382 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:42,400 Speaker 1: It was supposed to be your best day. 383 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, you're listening to John Cobbel on demand from. 384 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 1: KFI A six. So I got a message from Debora 385 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 1: this morning. She had won another award for her series 386 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: that ran last year on KFI. We played it and 387 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 1: it was called I'm going to get the exact. 388 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 3: Title, Suicide Stigma Shame. 389 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: Suicide Stigma Shame. It's two part series and it centered 390 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: around what Debra went through with her mom over twenty 391 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,159 Speaker 1: years ago, and it was you can access it you 392 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:23,120 Speaker 1: go to Kfiamsixporty dot com slash suicide and you could 393 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,399 Speaker 1: hear both parts of the series and you can also 394 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: hear us discuss it a few months back when it 395 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: first aired. And she got this a regional award and 396 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: it's the Radio Television Digital News Association. Is that it Yes, okay, 397 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: And it's the Edward R. Murrow Awards. And a lot 398 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: of people old enough to remember Edward R. Murrow is 399 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 1: the premier newsman for CBS radio and television going back 400 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 1: to the nineteen forties and fifties and sixties, and he's 401 00:26:55,920 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: considered like the godfather of modern radio television journalism. And 402 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: so it's a huge, huge honor to Debragatt Now she 403 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: goes into the national competition. So she got that word 404 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: when she was home this morning and then hits the 405 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 1: one on one to come here to work. And apparently 406 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: he was getting a lot of congratulatory messages, which she 407 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 1: decided she had to reply to. So what happened. 408 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,439 Speaker 2: So Michelle Cube was very sweet and she posted a 409 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 2: picture and a congratulations on the KFI social media. And 410 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 2: so I was getting I was getting a lot of messages. 411 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 2: And Chris Berry, who is the interim program director, many 412 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 2: months ago, he sent out something. 413 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 3: So I was getting kind of inundated with messages. 414 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,439 Speaker 2: And traffic was really a nightmare on the one on 415 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 2: one freeway. So you know, I was looking at my phone, 416 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 2: kind of staring at my phone. You're looking at my legs, 417 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 2: getting all excited, you know, the endorphins are going. 418 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, I hear there's woo woo R. 419 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,919 Speaker 3: And I look and I see these flashing lights and 420 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,120 Speaker 3: this police officer and. 421 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 2: I point to myself like, who me? 422 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 1: Me? 423 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 4: Me? 424 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: You couldn't mean me, And he looks at me. 425 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 2: And he shakes his head, yes, yes you, and then 426 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 2: he points over for me to pull. 427 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: Over another ditch. Driving on the freeway while counting her 428 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: likes and setting out messages. 429 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 3: I was mortified. 430 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 2: So I'm thinking, okay, First of all, traffic was so 431 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 2: bad that I was probably gonna be late to get 432 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 2: to work. So I'm thinking, oh great, now I'm going 433 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 2: to be pulling over. First of all, I don't even 434 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,479 Speaker 2: know how I'm gonna pull over, because traffic was pretty 435 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 2: much a standstill. 436 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: Well, the copp will wait for you, no matter how 437 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: long it takes, I. 438 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 2: Know, and he did. So I thought, I'm just gonna 439 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 2: be honest. I'm just going to tell him what happened. 440 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 2: So I rolled down my window and I had my phone, 441 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 2: and I had the picture of the Michelle had posted 442 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 2: on the KFI sits said officer. 443 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 3: I know, I know, I'm not supposed to be looking 444 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 3: at my phone, but let me just explain something. 445 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 2: I'm a news anchor, and uh, I won this really 446 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 2: prestigious award and. 447 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 3: The station I did. 448 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 2: I said, the station posted my picture and I was 449 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 2: looking at it and it just happened. And I'm getting 450 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 2: all these accolades and and and and he looks. 451 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 3: At me, and he smiles, and he says, oh, let 452 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 3: me sure. He takes my phone and. 453 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 2: He's looking and he's reading, goes, you know I would 454 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 2: do the same, and I said, yeah, I normally don't 455 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 2: do this. 456 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: You showed him your award to get out of a ticket. 457 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 2: No, I showed him the picture that Michelle posted saying congratulations. 458 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 3: To deb remark winning this editored armor. 459 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 1: That's basically showing the trope okay award. 460 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 2: I was explaining why I was looking at my phone 461 00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 2: and he said, okay, I'm going to give you a warning. 462 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you. 463 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 2: He said, I need to get your and I have 464 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 2: your driver's license. He said, I only need that because 465 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 2: I need to have a record of you know that 466 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 2: I'm giving you a warning. And I said sure, So 467 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 2: I give him my driver's license and he goes, okay, 468 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 2: hang on, I need to give you a pamphlet about distracted. 469 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: Which I have. Oh and then you and then you 470 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: pulled the do you know who I worked for? Card? 471 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 2: Well, then I said, hey, I'm on the John Cobelt Show. 472 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 2: I don't know if you listened to the show, but 473 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 2: we're huge police, we're huge police advocates. And he just 474 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 2: kind of smiles, So I don't know if he's ever 475 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 2: heard of the show. Or the radio station. 476 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 3: But he was kind of you. 477 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 2: I mean, look, there is a CHP officer I told 478 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 2: you that helped my daughter who knew just by listening 479 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 2: to my voice, knew who I was because he's a 480 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 2: huge Don Cobalt listener and he was awesome. 481 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 3: Right, So, uh, he. 482 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 2: Does know me, This guy, I don't think did, but 483 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 2: he felt sorry for me, and he and he understood 484 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 2: how excited I. 485 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: I'm surprising you even call for psychiatric backup. I know, 486 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 1: I really. 487 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 2: Didn't know how this was going to work, so I 488 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 2: just thought I would just be honest. 489 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: I want to read the little placard he gave you. 490 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: It was quite funny, it says California Highway Patrol Distracted 491 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: driving facts. Distractions are not just cell phones. Increased risk 492 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: of causing a crash. If you're eating, it's double, if 493 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 1: you're grooming, it's triple. Reading four times the risk of 494 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 1: a crash, reaching for something nine times the risk, texting 495 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: twenty three times the risk twenty three times. Approximately fifteen 496 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: percent of injury crashes are the direct result of distracted driving. 497 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 1: Distracted driving crashes injured four hundred and twenty four thousand 498 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: people had killed thirty one hundred and forty two in 499 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. 500 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. 501 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 1: Here are the tips. Number one, focus on driving. Number 502 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 1: two put your away. 503 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:01,959 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he did tell me. 504 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 2: He said, why don't you get one of those things 505 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 2: that you could put in your car that you could put. 506 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 3: Your phone in. 507 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: Reading or sending a text takes four point six seconds. 508 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: A crash occurs in three seconds. Do the math. I 509 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: see your kind all the time, my kind, you're kind? Yes, 510 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: what do you mean? 511 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 2: No, Look, this was a little okay, I'm going to 512 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 2: tell you honestly, I was not expecting to win this. 513 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 2: My husband could attest to that because we were walking 514 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 2: this morning and I said, look, most of the time, 515 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 2: public radio stations are the ones that win this award. 516 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 4: They do. 517 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 3: So I was shocked that I won, and. 518 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 2: It was so kind that I was getting all these 519 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 2: congratulatory messages. 520 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 3: Yes you did, And so I kind of got. 521 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: At the moment that you pulled that he pulled you over. 522 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 2: I know, I got caught up in that moment, and 523 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 2: which was bad because I was distracted. 524 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: You were a danger to everyone around you in the 525 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 1: one on one. 526 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 2: Except let me tell you, the one on one is 527 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 2: at a standstill so come on on. 528 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: This little car here traffic still you get. 529 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 2: He was very nice and he smiled and he said 530 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 2: he would have done the same thing. 531 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 3: So he got it. He understood. 532 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 1: John. If you're on the one on one this afternoon 533 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,960 Speaker 1: after four o'clock you see her car veer away, She'll 534 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 1: be getting more congratulations this afternoon. He died down anyway. 535 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 1: Great work on the series, not so good work on 536 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: the driving Devor Mark is lied in the CAFI twenty 537 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,840 Speaker 1: four our newsroom. Hey you've been listening to the John 538 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 539 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: on KFI Am six forty from one to four pm 540 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 1: every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand 541 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app.