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I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,479 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 2: app roun from one until four and after four o'clock 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app Waking 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 2: up this morning, What a sight to watch that bridge 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 2: in Baltimore fall to pieces over and over and over again. 7 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 2: Happened at one thirty in the morning and you probably 8 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 2: heard by now there was this cargo ship, huge cargo ship. 9 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 2: It was almost one thousand feet long, tens of thousands 10 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 2: of pounds I think almost one hundred thousand pounds of 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 2: cargo on it, and it smashed into the support structure 12 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 2: of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which is part of 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 2: Interstate six ninety five, an interstate beltway that goes around Baltimore, 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 2: and it it goes over the let me get the 15 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: name right here, the Potapsco River. The river blends into 16 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,119 Speaker 2: the Chesapeake Bay and then the Atlantic Ocean. So there's 17 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 2: a lot of international cargo ships that use the port 18 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 2: in Baltimore. In fact, it's the seventeenth busiest port in 19 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 2: the country, and it's number one for importing, for importing 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 2: cars and light trucks. Eight hundred and fifty thousand cars 21 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: and light trucks came to the Baltimore port last year. 22 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 2: It's called a roll on roll off port where they 23 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 2: can roll things right off the ships and onto the platforms. 24 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be lifted by crane. So a 25 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 2: lot of car and truck shippers like to use Baltimore, 26 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 2: and Baltimore is very close to tens of millions of 27 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,559 Speaker 2: people on the East Coast short driving distance, So last 28 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 2: year Baltimore transported fifty two million tons of foreign cargo 29 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 2: worth eighty billion dollars. It is a major port, and 30 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: it's going to be closed for weeks because the remnants 31 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 2: of the bridge is just laying there blocking the passageway. 32 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 2: Now there's six people that are still missing somewhere in 33 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 2: the water. The casualties were construction workers. They were filling 34 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 2: potholes in the middle of the night on the bridge 35 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 2: when the cargo ship hit it. Two were rescued. Six 36 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 2: others are missing and presumed dead. They saw cars in 37 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 2: the water early on and they thought maybe people had 38 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 2: been driving across the bridge at that moment, but those 39 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 2: were the parked cars that the construction workers were using. 40 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 2: Because the ship had sent out a may day signal. 41 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 2: They were able to close the roadway. They didn't have 42 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 2: a whole lot of time, but they blocked traffic coming 43 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 2: in over the bridge, and that saved a lot of 44 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 2: lives meantime. Down below, the ship basically was out of control. 45 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 2: It had lost power, it lost its navigation, it's lost 46 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 2: its propulsion. You could see if you watch the video 47 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 2: the lights are going on and off and on and off. 48 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 2: There's smoke coming out the back. They haven't even boarded 49 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 2: the ship yet the investigators because they don't want to 50 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 2: get in the way of the search and rescue. So 51 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 2: there's very little information other than what you could see 52 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: with your own eyes and what little they've gotten from 53 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 2: the crew. The crew is a foreign crew. It's a 54 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 2: foreign ship owned by two singapore two companies from Singapore, 55 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 2: and it's registered in Singapore. It's being leased by a 56 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: Dutch shipping company called Marisk, which is one of the 57 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 2: largest of the largest. 58 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: In the world. 59 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 2: And it's going to take years to rebuild the bridge. 60 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 2: There are three major roadways that cross the water in 61 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 2: the Baltimore metropolitan area, and that Francis Scott Keek Bridge 62 00:03:59,120 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 2: is one of them. 63 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: So it's going to take it's going to take a 64 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: long time. I don't think it. Maybe build a temporary 65 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: bridge quickly. 66 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 2: It was the third longest what they call a continuous 67 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 2: trust bridge, third longest in the world, and the way 68 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 2: it's built gives a lot of room for ships to 69 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: sail under it. 70 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: But if. 71 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 2: One part of the bridge is damaged, then the whole 72 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 2: bridge is going to go. And that's what happened here 73 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 2: because whoever was piloting the boat could not miss the 74 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 2: support structure. There is a lot of space between the 75 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 2: two main support structures in the water, and somehow this 76 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,919 Speaker 2: guy hit one of the two dead on because he 77 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 2: had a lot. But you know, he says he couldn't 78 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 2: control it, and you could see with the power going off. 79 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 2: I just I don't know anything about shipping and boats 80 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: and any of that stuff, but it seems like there 81 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 2: would be a backup system that would go into. 82 00:04:58,360 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 1: That would kick in. 83 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 2: I mean, how could there not be a backup system 84 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 2: in the event of a power failure. That's just my uneducated, 85 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 2: uninformed opinion. I think it's reasonable. You would think ships 86 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 2: of that they had tons of cargo. It was really heavy, 87 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 2: and when it hit that that bridge. Why did it 88 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 2: come down fast? I mean, it was kind of slow motion, 89 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 2: and that was one chunk at a time. But if 90 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 2: you timed all that out, considering how long and how 91 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 2: heavy the bridge was, relatively quickly uh and uh. But 92 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 2: you know, Pete boy Buddha judges on the scene. It 93 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 2: says it's not gonna be quick, it's not gonna be inexpensive, 94 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 2: Thanks Bete. So the big the industries that are gonna 95 00:05:54,480 --> 00:06:00,080 Speaker 2: hit the hardest, automakers and cold producers, because that was 96 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 2: the best destination in the United States for those particular 97 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 2: industries because of the location and the type and the 98 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 2: type of the type of port Baltimore is. There have 99 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 2: been some stories about gas prices again, and I am 100 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 2: going to call up to just bear with me a second. 101 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 2: I'm going to go to tripil A here to give 102 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 2: you the latest gas prices around the country. 103 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: I filled up yesterday. I was so angry at the 104 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: gas station. I couldn't believe it. 105 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 2: I read a Los Angeles Times editorial and maybe I'll 106 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 2: read it in the next segment, and it was the 107 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 2: most enraging and disgusting piece of trash you could imagine. 108 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 2: And I have tried to wean all myself off reading 109 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 2: this stuff or talking about on the air, because I 110 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 2: think we all realized that those are crazy people. However, 111 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 2: the policy in californ Warnia is the same as what 112 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 2: these crazy people at the Times believes in. So to 113 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 2: read the thoughts of an insane editorial writer is to 114 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 2: read Gavin Newsom's thoughts, uh, you know, assuming that he 115 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 2: has thoughts. But they are still blaming the price of gas, 116 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 2: which in my neighborhood is five dollars and nine cents 117 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 2: a gallon, just you know, for the basic gas. They're 118 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 2: still blaming it on the oil company's price gouging. They 119 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 2: won't let that go. They've been doing this for years. 120 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 2: And I'm calling up the uh yeah, here's the here's 121 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 2: the I've paid for eighty nine this morning. 122 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: All right. 123 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 2: The current average is three point fifty three in the country, 124 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 2: So you're paying for eighty nine. I'm five oh nine, Deborah, 125 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 2: What are you mine? 126 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: Was? It was just about five? It was just about 127 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: five four ninety seven. 128 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, all right, across the country it's three point 129 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 2: fifty three. So we're talking rounded off about a dollar 130 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 2: fifty difference. And the idiots at the Los Angeles Times 131 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 2: editorial board are lying to people, are lying to people 132 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: and telling you it's the oil companies, and they never 133 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 2: explain why is it that the oil companies only want 134 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 2: to gouge people in California? And the Times actually let 135 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 2: their readers comment. They rarely do anymore, but there was 136 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 2: a comment section for this story, and that's what some 137 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 2: people are asking that why let's see if a story 138 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 2: is done on this, why the other forty nine states 139 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 2: are not getting gouged by the oil companies. 140 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: How could that possibly be. 141 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 2: If they are so evil, if they are so grievy, greedy, 142 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 2: if they're so psychotic about making money. 143 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,719 Speaker 1: That why only in California do they abuse this? 144 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 2: And the answer to that is is because it's the 145 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 2: state's fault. We've got a dollar twenty five worth of 146 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 2: taxes in this state and no other state has that. 147 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: That's simple. End of story. 148 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 2: Let me see if I get to this, I'll get 149 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 2: to the state prices in the next segment. But Richard 150 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 2: Lapsley wrote a rebuttal to the LA Times editorial and 151 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:29,199 Speaker 2: I want to read part of it. And state and 152 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 2: local governments collected a dollar twenty four in taxes twenty 153 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 2: seven percent of the total cost of a gallon of 154 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 2: gas goes to state and local taxes twenty seven percent. 155 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 2: Then there's another eighteen cents that goes to federal taxes. 156 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 2: So out of the price that you pay, a dollar 157 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 2: forty two is taxes. And by the way, as he 158 00:09:54,679 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 2: points out, these aren't industry talking points. This is not 159 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 2: from an oil company propaganda commission. These are the facts 160 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 2: from the California Energy Commission. They have tracked and monitored 161 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 2: for twenty plus years gas prices in California. 162 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: So this is the government. 163 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 2: This is Newsom's government telling us that it's a dollar 164 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 2: twenty four in state and local taxes, a fifty eight 165 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 2: cents excise tax, twelve cents for a low carbon fuel 166 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 2: standard tax, fifty four cents for that cap and trade tax, 167 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 2: and some of that money is going for high speed rail, 168 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 2: ten cents for state local sales taxes, two cents for 169 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 2: underground storage fee. And again, no other states have this stuff. Now, 170 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:49,359 Speaker 2: I guess we could spend many hours with Newsom justifying 171 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 2: why these taxes are necessary. But the liars at the 172 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 2: Elsagunda Times editorial board deny that it's the taxes that 173 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:02,959 Speaker 2: create the price differential, Well, it has to be if 174 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 2: you have a dollar twenty four a gallon in taxes 175 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 2: and no other state is even close. Plus, we have 176 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 2: a ridiculously low number of refineries in California and we 177 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 2: have to import all our gas from somewhere else. It's 178 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 2: just I'll give you more from Lapsley's column, and I'm 179 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 2: going to find that at La Times editorial too. But 180 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 2: I you know, I was just absolutely infuriated. But we'll 181 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 2: go through the state by state averages too. 182 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six. 183 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: Forty round from one ton till four. 184 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 2: Nothing gets me boiling more than that propaganda rag, the 185 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 2: El Segundo Times and the relentless lies lies that they 186 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,319 Speaker 2: put out. Let's start and I'm talking about the gas 187 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 2: price stories. Let's start with facts here California and I 188 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 2: have the right page. This is is every state gas 189 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 2: prices for regular California number one at five dollars a 190 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 2: gallon or actually four dollars ninety nine and nine tenths cents. 191 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: Can we route it up to five? Yes, let's do it. 192 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 2: Route it up to five. Next closest state is Hawaii. 193 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 2: Thirty cents behind at four dollars and seventy cents. Now 194 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 2: let's go to the top of the list. The cheapest 195 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 2: gas is in Colorado three dollars and six cents, almost 196 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 2: two full dollars less than California, Mississippi three dollars and nine. 197 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 2: Texas three seventeen, as is Kansas and Louisiana and Arkansas 198 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 2: is three eighteen, in Alabama ten and Tennessee, South Carolina, 199 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 2: Oklahoma three nineteen, and then New Mexico three twenty four 200 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 2: and Wyoming three twenty five. In New Hampshire three twenty six. 201 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 2: You get the idea, nobody's close to us, nobody's within 202 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 2: thirty cents. Why is at four sixty nine? But Hawaii's 203 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 2: thousands of miles out in the ocean. There's probably a 204 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 2: transportation surcharge, all right. So the La Times runs a 205 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 2: story ready for spring break travel. LA County gas prices 206 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 2: top five dollars a gallon. What's contributing to these higher prices? Well, 207 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 2: crude oil prices typically rise at this time of year 208 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 2: and have reached more than eighty dollars per barrel, which 209 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 2: filters down to the retail level will drive wear drivers 210 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 2: by their gas. There's also increased demand from drivers. And 211 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 2: I'm looking at this saying, wait a second. All the 212 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 2: states are enjoying spring break. All the states are affected 213 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 2: by the worldwide crude oil price market. All the states 214 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 2: are dealing with increased demand from drivers. It's getting warmer 215 00:13:55,160 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 2: all over. But this is what this is what they 216 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:05,439 Speaker 2: do here? Why is the price going up in califun 217 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:14,319 Speaker 2: Now here's this infamous editorial. And I'm telling you, if 218 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 2: there wasn't a first Amendment, the La Time should be 219 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 2: padlocked and sold for scrapped, because yes, you're allowed to 220 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 2: print anything you want and say anything you want, but 221 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 2: the rest of us have to point out the big 222 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 2: stinking lies that the La Time sells. And I don't 223 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 2: know who wrote this editorial because it's always written by 224 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 2: the Times editorial board, so it makes us mix it 225 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 2: anonymous and you don't know which weasel has written it. 226 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 2: I mean, it looks like there's about a dozen weasels 227 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 2: on the editorial board. And so they hide behind that. 228 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 2: They say that there's a lot of advertising going on 229 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 2: that the oil company is paying for this campaign about 230 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 2: why is our gas expensive? And it directs you the 231 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 2: oil companies are directing you to a website that complains 232 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 2: about government taxes and fees. The oil industry says it's 233 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 2: unfairly blamed for high gas prices. Its ads are an 234 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 2: effort to get the facts out, but the facts are 235 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 2: curated to mislead and exploit cash strapped Californian's economic anxieties 236 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 2: and to undermine environment and consumer friendly policies. The facts 237 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 2: are that the gas is two dollars more expensive here 238 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 2: than other states. The oil companies sell gas in all 239 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 2: fifty states. How could they be gouging only California and 240 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 2: they won't gouge the rest of the country. Even the 241 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 2: second highest state is only gouged, is gouged thirty cents less. 242 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 2: And that's where you go to Robert Lapsley's rebuttal column 243 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 2: in the LA Daily News. According to the Energy Commission, 244 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 2: because we have a special gas every year that adds 245 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 2: fifteen cents to the gallon sold in California, CARB is 246 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 2: also going to make demands that will increase the price 247 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 2: another forty seven cents. This program could eventually cost you 248 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 2: an extra dollar eighty three a gallon on top of 249 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 2: what it's already going for. These are all environmental search charges, 250 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 2: not accounting for inflation, not accounting for all the taxes 251 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 2: and fees that are already the highest in the nation. 252 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 2: And by the remember, we're paying double for electricity than 253 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 2: anyone else in the country. So we're paying double for electricity. 254 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 2: We're paying two dollars a gallon more for gas than Colorado. 255 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 2: And according to the latest study that I saw that 256 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 2: was published, our greenhouse gas emissions went up in the 257 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 2: most recent year they studied, it actually went up. So 258 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 2: all this money and they're not even lowering the greenhouse gases. 259 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 2: Robert Lapsley writes, after he goes through all the taxes, 260 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 2: how do the governor and editorial writers at the Times 261 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 2: justify this? Gasoline taxes are one of the most regressive 262 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 2: taxes in the state. That means it affects the poor 263 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 2: and middle class much much more than the wealthy. To 264 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 2: offset this fact, the governor of the legislature argued that 265 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:39,959 Speaker 2: the money goes to pay for environmental programs. What environmental programs, 266 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 2: and if you're actually increasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, 267 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 2: then maybe all your programs are fake or they failed. 268 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 2: What's the daily benefit here? You're asking people to pay 269 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 2: two dollars a gallon. You have a twenty gallon tank. 270 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 2: That's forty dollars a week. That's dollars a year. What 271 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 2: are they getting out of this? No, it's just it's 272 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 2: a ripoff. Anyway, The Times is claiming that the gas 273 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 2: prices are high because the oil companies are gouging. 274 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: You well, which is it? 275 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 2: Is it for the environmental programs or because the oil 276 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 2: companies are gouging. They led with oil companies gouging, but 277 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 2: the oil companies are not gouging the other forty United States. 278 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: I don't know. 279 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 2: That that that that newspaper. 280 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: It's not a newspaper. It's just an absolute disaster. 281 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 2: It's a public relations propaganda rag for progressive insanity. 282 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 283 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 3: six forty. 284 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four after four o'clock John 285 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 2: cobelt Show on demand. It's the podcast and you could 286 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,400 Speaker 2: listen to whatever you miss. Conway coming up here after 287 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 2: his condic i'ment on today. I was fooled yesterday. Mark 288 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 2: Thompson walked in, Well somebody will come. Somebody better come, 289 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 2: because I'm not sticking around. So uh, a diddy. There's 290 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 2: some people like wors, some guys like this. But when 291 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 2: he first became popular, I thought puff Daddy was like 292 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 2: the stupidest name I'd ever heard in my life. It's 293 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 2: like a grown man calling himself puff daddy. And then 294 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 2: there's like great meaning when he changed it to to 295 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 2: puff No, it was p Diddy, yeah right, and then 296 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 2: he dropped the pen and he became ditty, right, you know, 297 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 2: and you'd see like eleven million entertainment Tonight's style reports 298 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 2: about puff Daddy is now pee Diddy. P Diddy is 299 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:55,439 Speaker 2: now Diddy? Okay? Did he how about Dooty? He's in 300 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 2: a lot of duty and now he's I saw a 301 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 2: headline it was like Diddy breaks his silence. 302 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: I just found it in the Daily Mail. It's the lawyer. 303 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the lawyer. So it's not Diddy breaking the silence. 304 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 2: Like you imagine if you were accused of the things 305 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 2: he's being accused of, and you were completely innocent, it 306 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 2: was entirely made up, would you send your lawyer out there. 307 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,399 Speaker 2: This is always a great test when you're accused of 308 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 2: something and your first reaction is to get a lawyer 309 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 2: to act indignant. 310 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: Odds are you're really guilty. 311 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 2: That's just a rule of life, because if I'm completely innocent, 312 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 2: why am I going to waste money on an attorney. 313 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 1: I haven't even been charged yet. Well, it's not worried 314 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 1: about money, that's true. 315 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 2: But why not why not lay it straight? You know, 316 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 2: it's like the Otani situation. Just lay it out straight. 317 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 2: How did your interpreter find four and a half million 318 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 2: dollars in your account and you didn't notice? That's a 319 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 2: great story, I mean, and that's the most benign story 320 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 2: from Otani's point of view, is that he did He 321 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 2: didn't gamble, he didn't pay off the debt. He just 322 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 2: didn't know what was going on. You could admit to that, right, 323 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 2: that's that's not a crime. But uh that that and 324 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 2: when you don't admit to that makes me think, well, 325 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 2: maybe there's something more to the story. 326 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: Anyway. Back to Didny. 327 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 2: Well, through his attorney Aaron Dyer, did he and dire uh? 328 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 2: Didn He says he's the victim of a witch hunt, 329 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 2: and he's angry about the cops cuffing his son. He's 330 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 2: angry about the military level force used against him. That 331 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 2: did look like a military base. Yeah, It makes me 332 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 2: wonder what were they expecting in return? Right, you don't 333 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 2: go in they were They were dressed in their camouflage uniforms. 334 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 2: They looked exactly like the US Army, you know, storming, 335 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:59,919 Speaker 2: storming Bagdad in the Iraq War. All right, here's Dire's 336 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 2: speaking yesterday. There was a gross overuse of military level 337 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 2: force as search warrants were executed at mister Combs's residences. 338 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,199 Speaker 2: There's no excuse for the excessive show of force and 339 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 2: hostility exhibited by authorities, or the way his children and 340 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 2: employees were treated. Well, you know, that's interesting. I always 341 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 2: read these things very carefully. The Bill Clinton era taught 342 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 2: me that the parsing of words by attorneys, and what 343 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 2: it doesn't say here is that there was no reason 344 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:34,400 Speaker 2: for the search warrants. 345 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: Because when you're from Homeland. 346 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 2: Security and you go to a judge, you have to 347 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 2: have probable cause, and even more so when your target 348 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,479 Speaker 2: is really famous and you're going to be using it 349 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 2: looked like an entire battalion of military personnel. I know 350 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 2: they were Homeland Security investigated agents and law enforcement, but 351 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 2: it looked like it looked like it had half the 352 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 2: US Army showed up. I mean, they had three bearcats. 353 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 2: What were they expecting? Were they expecting that did he 354 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 2: was going to be hiding inside his house and he had, 355 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 2: you know, one hundred members of his homorage, and they 356 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 2: all had machine guns and they were all going to 357 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 2: be firing their machine guns. And uh, his son's being handcuffed. 358 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: That's that's what they do. 359 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 2: When when Homeland Security or the FBI, whoever in the Feds, 360 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 2: they come over the house, everybody is going to be 361 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,360 Speaker 2: neutralized for a while. All Right, Combs was never detained, 362 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 2: but smoked to and cooperated with authorities, and they they 363 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 2: he was he was seen speaking to custom agents and 364 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 2: an airport in Miami. Uh uh and and he was 365 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 2: seen pacing around. Now, the attorney went on to say, 366 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 2: this unprecedented ambush, paired with an advanced coordinated media presence, 367 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 2: leads to a premature rush to judgment of mister Combs. 368 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: Rush to judgment, it's. 369 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:13,159 Speaker 2: Probable cause to get a search warrant and execute the 370 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 2: search warrant. 371 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: That's not a run. 372 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:19,919 Speaker 2: See, I mean that's the Johnny cockman phrase. Rush to judgment. No, no, 373 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 2: rush to judgment is if somehow they had a quickie trial. 374 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 2: You know, uh, by tomorrow afternoon and he got convicted. 375 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 2: That's a rush to judgment. But what happens if you 376 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,640 Speaker 2: don't storm the premises. First of all, you're either expecting 377 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 2: a lot of blowback, which I think is not unreasonable 378 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 2: to expect. And secondly, you have to grab the evidence 379 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 2: before everything's deleted, flush down the toilet got to you 380 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 2: gotta get it by surprise. And because it's a huge mansion, 381 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 2: you need a. 382 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 1: Lot of personnel. 383 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 2: They've got to search every room, every computer, every phone, 384 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 2: every drawer, every you know, cross spaces in the attic, closets, 385 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 2: fake doors, go through clothing. Who knows where you're going 386 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,640 Speaker 2: to find stuff. I mean when they stormed Bob Menendez's home, 387 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 2: the senator in New Jersey, the corrupt senator. You know, 388 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 2: they found gold bars in his suit jackets. Anyway, Dyer 389 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 2: says it's nothing more than a witch hunt based on 390 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 2: meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits. Well, those civil lawsuits, 391 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 2: there's a whopper of charges. And by the way, Ditties 392 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 2: paid off. He paid off his longtime girlfriend within twenty 393 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 2: four hours. So again, if it was nothing, what do 394 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 2: you think would they would have found a discovery of 395 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 2: that case. Yeah, what makes you settle in twenty four hours? 396 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 2: Oh my god? Hey, hey you got that clip of 397 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 2: the neighbor? 398 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 1: Yeah? 399 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, play cut number three. This guy lives five minutes 400 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 2: from Ditty's home. 401 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 4: I've seen black suburban trouper drivers and fiber drivers, which 402 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 4: I mean they just I mean from the times on 403 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 4: one to three a m. Times flavor bit later and 404 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 4: early in the morning. It carries over. But I've seen 405 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:07,439 Speaker 4: girls down to the car swimsuits somewimwhere, bathing suits, sometimes 406 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 4: after the club. 407 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: They could they could have been at the club. 408 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 4: I thought, maybe cold, after the after party or whatever, 409 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 4: And I never thought anything of it. But now obviously 410 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 4: it's alligations are happening that if Diddy was doing this 411 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 4: trafficking thing, now I know what was happening in the house. 412 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: But have you yourself seen Ditty with these girls. 413 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 4: I've never seen Diddy. I've seen other men outside. I've 414 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,719 Speaker 4: seen other I seen a lot of probably eighty ten 415 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,120 Speaker 4: girls outside before, but never actually him. 416 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: So during the weekends, what does the like the party seem. 417 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 2: Like it sounds. 418 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 4: I've been here one Saturday or a month ago, and 419 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 4: it's been suburban up and down the street dropping off people, 420 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 4: So I didn't think it could have been normal party. 421 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 4: So yeah, these are obviously very nice, huge fancy homes. 422 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: Typically, what is it like here as parties? 423 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 4: I mean people throw parties all the time Saturday Sunday, 424 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 4: when I just thought the whole week to be honest, 425 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 4: I'm come here and darkly over on Tuesday night, I'm 426 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 4: gonna be a two am part to go on until 427 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 4: five am. So it's not really unexpected. It's just this 428 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 4: outcome of this party had turned out for the worst. 429 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 2: The fact that there were several raids going on at 430 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 2: the same time, and his other properties. 431 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: What do you think about that? 432 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's that big deal. He sued all 433 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,120 Speaker 4: of the departments everywhere in the world, and I don't 434 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 4: blame him, and it's prey. I'm not respectul towards women. 435 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 4: And it's good that there's raising awareness for this cause. 436 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 2: All right, here's just a little taste of these civil 437 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 2: lawsuits against him which may have triggered the searches. There 438 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,439 Speaker 2: is one involving an unnamed woman who says she and 439 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 2: her two friends were sexually assaulted when she was seventeen. 440 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 2: Diddy and his two friends supplied the woman with a 441 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 2: lot of drugs and alcohol, and Ditty and his two 442 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 2: pals are accused of taking turns violently raping the teenager 443 00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 2: as she drifted in and out of the out of content, 444 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,679 Speaker 2: leaving her in so much pain that she'd barely stand 445 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 2: or remember how she got home, and she put this 446 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 2: in her legal complaint. She suffered in silence for twenty 447 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 2: years until Combs's former girlfriend, an R and B singer 448 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:21,920 Speaker 2: named Cassie, and Combs was her mentor and boyfriend, and 449 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,919 Speaker 2: she had sued claiming comb subjected her to savage beatings, 450 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 2: drug addled hotel orgies, and rape. Combs denied the claims, 451 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 2: but that was the twenty four hour settlement. So if 452 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 2: there weren't savage beatings, and there weren't drug addled hotel orgies, 453 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 2: and there wasn't rape, how can you settle that in 454 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 2: twenty four hours? And then this other girl comes forward 455 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 2: and there's actually a number of these lawsuits. We'll talk 456 00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 2: more and when we come back. 457 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 3: To John Cobel on demand from KFI AM six forty. 458 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 2: You may have heard in the news all afternoon that 459 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 2: Robert F. Kennedy Junior announced his vice presidential running mate, 460 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 2: and odds are, unless you're in the tech industry or 461 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 2: hyper involved in politics, you've never. 462 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: Heard of her. 463 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 2: She's a tech entrepreneur and an attorney Nicole Shanahan. She's 464 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 2: thirty eight years old, very attractive woman, very smart. Kennedy, 465 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 2: in introducing her, praised her insight into how big tech 466 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 2: uses AI to manipulate the public, and that she's going 467 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 2: to be a partner on a number of policy areas, 468 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 2: including on securing the border. Well, if they pushed that, 469 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 2: they're gonna they're gonna get some they're gonna get some votes. 470 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: Now. 471 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 2: She used to be married to one of the Google 472 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 2: co founders, s A. Brinn, and the story is that 473 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 2: that marriage ended after there were reports that she had 474 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 2: an affair with Elon Musk. Now, Shanahan and Musk deny 475 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 2: that she has a daughter from her marriage with Brynn. 476 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 2: But if she's able to entertain Sergei, Brynn and Elon Musk, 477 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 2: she must be extremely smart. After she got divorced, she 478 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 2: met another another tech entrepreneur named Jacob Strumwasser, who works 479 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 2: for a bitcoin software company. They hadn't gotten married, but 480 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 2: they participated in a love ceremony last year. I've never 481 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 2: heard of that. What do you do at a love ceremony? Well, 482 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 2: maybe you don't want to see that. She well, like 483 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 2: I said, she's really wealthy and she grew up in Oakland. 484 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 2: She's been lifelong Democrat. She's always donated money to left 485 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 2: wing causes. But Kennedy is obviously normally a left wing 486 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 2: Kennedy right, but he's picked some issues that carved down 487 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 2: the middle, like you know, doing something about the border. 488 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 2: He's a big vaccine skeptic. In fact, if there's only 489 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 2: one thing you know about Kennedy, it's probably that he's 490 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 2: been very critical and skeptical the vaccines, and that's attracted 491 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 2: a lot of support. He gets in double digits in 492 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 2: most polls, both in state by state polling and also 493 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 2: national polls and generally, and you know, polls are often inaccurate. 494 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 2: They think he takes more from Biden than Trump. He 495 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,800 Speaker 2: gets some Trump people, but he gets more Biden people 496 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 2: Democrats who are traditionally attracted to that Kennedy name. In fact, 497 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 2: whenever I see polling done, and let's say, you know, 498 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 2: Biden and Trump are dead even or within a point 499 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,239 Speaker 2: or two of each other, Let's say Trump's up by 500 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 2: two in a poll, He'll be up by five if 501 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 2: you put Robert Kennedy in there. And then there's a 502 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,959 Speaker 2: couple of other independent candidates or third party candidates who 503 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 2: will take votes from Biden. Jill Stein from the Green Party. 504 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 2: There's also a black professor named Cornell West. He gets 505 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 2: a percenter too, and it mostly it mostly takes away 506 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 2: from Biden. So Biden's team has a whole unit devoted 507 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 2: towards smearing Robert Kennedy and the others. In fact, you're 508 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 2: going to probably see a lot of negative press on 509 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 2: Robert Kennedy. He is either going to run as an 510 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 2: independent and get on the ballot in most, if not 511 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 2: all states, or he might they given they've given him 512 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 2: an invitation to be on the libertarian ballot, and the 513 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 2: libertarian ballot. Libertarian Party has almost automatic access to all 514 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 2: fifty states to get on the ballot everywhere. So if 515 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 2: he decides to go with the Libertarians, and he can 516 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 2: if he wants, then he doesn't have to go through 517 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 2: the trouble of individually qualifying in each state, which is 518 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 2: tedious and also costs a lot of money. Yeah, so, 519 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 2: and he wanted to get a head start and announce 520 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 2: his vice presidential candidate. And she's extremely articulate, she's very smart, 521 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 2: and I think Robert Kennedy is going to put her 522 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 2: front and center during the campaign because he's still sending 523 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 2: Billy go. Whatever voice problem he has, that's not he's 524 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 2: gotten some treatment for it. He's got some kind of 525 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 2: spasming of his vocal cords. Oh tonways here, hey, now, hey, now, 526 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 2: lot's going on. You know, a buddy of mine sent 527 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 2: me that collapse last night. You got named a David Mosekin. 528 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 2: So we're on top of that. And you know, when 529 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 2: you see news like that nowadays, your your first instinct 530 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 2: is it's fake. You know, like, oh, how could have 531 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 2: bridge that big collapse like that being hit by a ship. 532 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 2: And so now you know, in the old days, when 533 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 2: you'd see a video, you're like, Okay, that's true, that's 534 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 2: had to happen. Now when you see something, you do 535 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,319 Speaker 2: your own research to find out if it's true. Could 536 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 2: be artificial intelligence, that's right, And so you got to 537 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:26,959 Speaker 2: go you know, through Twitter, you got to go through 538 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 2: Facebook or Instagram and find. 539 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: Out there is nothing I trust at first. 540 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,240 Speaker 2: I'm the same way, No article, no picture, no news everything. 541 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 1: I go to multiple sources. 542 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 2: You know, there's a pole an international poll, not not 543 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,720 Speaker 2: just a national poll international And they said the only 544 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 2: trusted news source on a on a three hundred and 545 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 2: sixty five day basis, every single day kfive four to 546 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 2: seven pm. 547 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:51,840 Speaker 1: Is that wild? 548 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 4: Oh? 549 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:53,880 Speaker 1: Really? Yeah? 550 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,360 Speaker 2: I was gonna say. I always said check on anything 551 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,319 Speaker 2: you do. Isn't that crazy though, that they would have 552 00:34:58,360 --> 00:34:58,799 Speaker 2: all that that? 553 00:34:58,880 --> 00:34:59,439 Speaker 1: That is great? 554 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 2: I opinion, you know what, I've got to double check that. 555 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 2: I don't trust that story. Just trust me on this, 556 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 2: all right, trust me on this. We have fine, We 557 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 2: have a pretty good show. We got the Andy Field 558 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 2: coming on, he's an ABC correspondent about the container ship. 559 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,279 Speaker 2: And then Steve Gregory with the P Diddy Combs. Is 560 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 2: it Diddy Combs or P Diddy? I think they are 561 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 2: officially going with Diddy? Did he over time? You had 562 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 2: your choice of puff Daddy, P Diddy, Diddy or you 563 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 2: could call him Sean Combs. Yeah, but he is the 564 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 2: benefactor of this bridge going down, because this Diddy story 565 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,840 Speaker 2: would have been the lead story all day long if 566 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 2: it wasn't for that bridge collapsing. I think did He's 567 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 2: going to make a comeback though. There's a lot there, 568 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 2: all right, all right, but I think where he made 569 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 2: his mistake. Obviously, you know, if he's done anything wrong, 570 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,760 Speaker 2: that's horrible. But he was a big Joe Biden supporter 571 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 2: back in twenty sixteen, and he was a big Obama 572 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 2: supporter after that or before that. But then recently he 573 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,040 Speaker 2: came out out and said he doesn't necessarily support the Democrats. 574 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,280 Speaker 2: They got to earn his vote, and man, three weeks 575 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 2: later they jump on it. Is that right, Yeah, that's 576 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,399 Speaker 2: a true story. I gotta check out check on that. Yeah, 577 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 2: he was within he was with Charlemagne the God, and 578 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,359 Speaker 2: he said, I'm putting together a network and we're not 579 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 2: going to vote for Republicans or Democrats unless they can 580 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,879 Speaker 2: do something for us. And then bang, three weeks later, 581 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 2: they arrest him and they and they his kids in 582 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:29,600 Speaker 2: the house and everything. Gotta be careful going after the government. 583 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 2: All right, Conway, that's fine, dig do I cro as 584 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,799 Speaker 2: you're with the news live in the CAFI twenty four 585 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,720 Speaker 2: hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt 586 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 2: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on 587 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,239 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty from one to four pm every 588 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,200 Speaker 2: Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand on 589 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:47,439 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app.