1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to the program. 4 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 2: We've got many things to cover today where we're on 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 2: every day from one until four o'clock. And if you 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 2: missed any part of the show, or god forbid, the 7 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 2: whole show, that's what the podcast is for. Right after 8 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 2: four o'clock, it gets posts on the iHeartRadio app. It's 9 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 2: called John Cobelt's Show on Demand podcast, same as the 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 2: radio show. So that's what you could do if you 11 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 2: need to after four o'clock. Nancy Pelosi is retiring at 12 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,639 Speaker 2: the age of eighty five. And if you saw her 13 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 2: interviewed with Alex Michaelson a few nights ago, the same 14 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: show that. 15 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 1: I was on, that was what Monday night. 16 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, I sat there in the green room waiting to 17 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 2: go on. I was looking at the Pelosi interview and 18 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 2: I thought, Wow, she's just about as far gone as 19 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 2: Biden was. She was senile, she was just drifting off 20 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 2: and fading away, And of course the predictable left wing 21 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 2: progressive media is gushing over her. She was speaker for 22 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 2: two rounds over the last twenty years or so, but Trump, 23 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 2: Trump's not gonna miss her. 24 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: Good Lord, listen to this. 25 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 2: Going away from Trump, he went on Fox News and 26 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 2: he said, the retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great 27 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: thing for America. She was evil, corrupt, and only focused 28 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 2: on bad things for our country. I'm very honored. She 29 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 2: impeached me twice and failed miserably twice. She's a highly 30 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 2: overrated politician. And then he reiterated later she's an evil woman. 31 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 2: I'm glad she's retired, and. 32 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: She went on and on. Let's talk to Richie. 33 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 2: Greenberg, who's a writer and a commentator journalist up in 34 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 2: northern California. He had a piece in californiaglobe dot com today. 35 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 2: Richie wrote, well, was a legacy of elitism, hypocrisy, and 36 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: partisan power. 37 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: Let's talk to Richie Greenberg. How are you? 38 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 3: I'm doing really great, happy days. How are ahead of us? John? 39 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 2: I definitely understood why people got were so enamored with her. 40 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's incredible that it's not just 41 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 3: in Washington, DC, but even the local San Francisco politicians. 42 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 3: They all are fawning over her. They are brown nosing. 43 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 3: I'm looking online on social media this morning as soon 44 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 3: as an announcement came out, everyone is just clamoring to 45 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 3: give her praise, the local newspapers, TV stations, and especially, 46 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 3: and this is what's really important, the candidates that are 47 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 3: running for office, especially Scott Wiener, who announced last week 48 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 3: that he is now running for her seat. 49 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 2: Oh my god. You know, he is like a political 50 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 2: infection guy. He's been behind so many bad, destructive bills 51 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 2: in California. I do maybe it's a good thing if 52 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 2: he goes to Washington, because his power will be much 53 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 2: more diluted there. 54 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 3: Correct, That is actually a very strong argument for why 55 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 3: we would want to support him. But I don't think 56 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 3: myself or any of my colleagues, and a very large 57 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 3: swath of San Francisco cannot stomach that idea of pressing 58 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 3: the button to vote for him, even if it meant 59 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 3: diluting his power in Washington. 60 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: Well, you had a good piece today in californiaglobe dot 61 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 2: Com going through some of the highlights of her career 62 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 2: that's not being covered in all the gushing praise, all 63 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 2: the gushing media praise that we've been enduring the last 64 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 2: couple of days. 65 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: Why don't you talk about some of the stuff you 66 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: wrote about, right. 67 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, remember that famous live incident with 68 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 3: Trump in his first first term. He did the State 69 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 3: of the Union address back in twenty twenty, and standing 70 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 3: behind him was Pelosi and she tore up his State 71 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 3: of the Union address a copy that she had, calling 72 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 3: it lies, you know, and that was just really appalling 73 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 3: to see. 74 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: That. 75 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 3: Also, the COVID hypocrisy when we had the really strong 76 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 3: lockdowns here in twenty twenty, we had she was going 77 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 3: to a hairdresser to get a blowout, right, and that 78 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 3: she blamed. She says, no, it was a setup. That's 79 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 3: set got set up. 80 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 2: She I remember she wandered in there and no mask on, 81 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 2: she's indoors and she was getting her hair done. And 82 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 2: that's when hairdressers were being forced out of business because 83 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 2: they weren't allowed to open. And then she says something 84 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 2: a preposterous lie. It was a setup. No, it was 85 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 2: your appointment that you made that you thought you were 86 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 2: entitled to. 87 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: And that's that's right. And her her legacy is that. 88 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 2: Of entitlement of doing, of not breaking all the rules, 89 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 2: feeling that the rules didn't apply to her, and the 90 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,919 Speaker 2: amount of money that she and her husband made in 91 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 2: the stock market with insider information that she was privy 92 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 2: to in Congress was astounding. 93 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 3: Exactly right now, I just checked. I think it says 94 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 3: her net worth is about two hundred and fifty six 95 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 3: million networth as of now as of the last teck 96 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 3: two one hundred. 97 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: And fifty six million dollars. 98 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 3: Two hundred and fifty six point six point six more. 99 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 1: Don't forget the last six hundred thousand there. 100 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right now. Now we know, of course she 101 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 3: had a hand along with others, in doing what she 102 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 3: could do to help direct pack money to support a 103 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 3: yes on Prop fifty. Right, so we know about that. 104 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 3: We don't have to too much about that. But we 105 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 3: know about Prop fifty an her involvement. But here in 106 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 3: San Francisco she also on a local level. Now, of 107 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 3: course she's in Washington, d C. She deals with federal 108 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 3: issues issues like you know, anything that is affecting the 109 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 3: United States and overseas, right, But here in San Francisco 110 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 3: she doesn't have that kind of local power, but she 111 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 3: has the influence, and so she was one. 112 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 2: Oh it broke down, can we reconnect? I think what 113 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 2: he was This is a big issue in San Francisco. 114 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 2: There was a proposition called Proposition K, and they closed 115 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 2: a big highway. 116 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, so so Ritchie. 117 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 2: Proposition K was permanently closing the Great Highway. 118 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: Talk about this. 119 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 3: So that was one of the important north south highways 120 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 3: that is used by up to almost twenty thousand in 121 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 3: people cars a day. I've used it many times. It's 122 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 3: part of the West side of San Francisco. There was 123 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 3: a ballot measure a year ago, and she was one 124 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 3: that helped to push that over the top to get 125 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 3: it passed against the will of the West side of 126 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 3: San Francisco. Very controversial. And then what happened is the 127 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 3: people on the west side decided to go for a 128 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 3: recall of the mint sponser, one of the supervisors, one 129 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 3: of the city hall, the city councilmen, who put that 130 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 3: to the vote of the voters. He was going to 131 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 3: be recalled. And then she came out against his recall. 132 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 3: So there's double whammy. 133 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: Let me just explain. 134 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 2: When they closed the highway, they replaced it with a park, 135 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 2: and nobody on the West side of San Francisco wanted 136 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 2: the park. 137 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: They wanted the highway. 138 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 2: Back because now all the traffic went off into congested 139 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 2: side streets, into the local. 140 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: Neighborhoods, exactly. 141 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 3: And it's not really a park because it's asphalt. They 142 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 3: can't tear up an important road that's needed for emergencies. 143 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: It's asking people are walking. 144 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the roadway. It's the roadway for emergency vehicles 145 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 3: in case there has to be an evacuation. People are 146 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 3: going to drive on that. 147 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: Oh, that's really stupid. 148 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 3: So this park is really just the existing roadway and 149 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 3: you'll walk on it. 150 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 2: And she was not even campaigning to recall CHESSA. Bodine 151 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 2: after he ruined San Francisco by embracing all the shoplifters 152 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 2: and the criminals and the drug addicts. 153 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: Talk about that. 154 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 2: The da who at San Francisco recalled and she didn't 155 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 2: lift a finger to help them. 156 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: Help them. 157 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 3: That's that's right. So as many of you know, and 158 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 3: you yourself, myself and a few other coalition of committees 159 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 3: and influential people here worked together to throw Bodine out 160 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 3: and recall him. That succeeded. Back in twenty twenty two. 161 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 3: Pelosi did not take a stance in any case. Why 162 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 3: she did not as Yeah, exactly exactly, And what's really 163 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 3: interesting then if you look at some of the other 164 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 3: things that she's done, is you know, she's she very 165 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 3: much talks about her strong Catholic faith and the Catholic 166 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 3: Church and her church here in San Francisco. She upset 167 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 3: them because she has been championing abortion, which we know 168 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 3: is really a no no for the Catholic Church given 169 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 3: the local archiasis. The archbishop refused to give her a 170 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 3: communion and put out a a like his ruling, sent 171 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 3: it to her and sent it out to all the 172 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 3: local church leaders around the area here to refuse her communion. 173 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. 174 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 2: Well, much like Newsom, she's been an elitist, phony hypocrite 175 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 2: most of her life and has been very very destructive 176 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 2: for California as he has. 177 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 1: In fact, they're related through marriage, aren't they. 178 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a connection there. That's why there was such 179 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 3: a tight, tight relationship between the two. And it's going 180 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 3: to be interesting to see what happens now that she 181 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 3: is out of the race next year. It's going to 182 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 3: start pretty quickly. We already have two prominent local candidates here, 183 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 3: Scott Wiener is one. Another was his tech millionaire who 184 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 3: is worth one hundred and something million dollars who previously 185 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 3: worked on Alexandria Cassio Cortez Cortex AOC's campaign, and Bernie Sanders. 186 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 3: So this guy is actually like a minim of Donnie. 187 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 3: He's even further left than Scott Wiener on many issues. 188 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 2: That's you know, that's the wave to come. Now, there's 189 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 2: going to be many Mom, Dommi's running. I can't say 190 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 2: his name. Mom, Donnie's running all over out of these 191 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 2: big cities, Scott. I'm sorry, Richie, I gotta go. Thank 192 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:02,719 Speaker 2: you very much for coming on. 193 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:05,439 Speaker 3: My pleasure, My pleasure, Richie. 194 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:09,359 Speaker 2: Richie Greenberger is a writer and commentator up in San Francisco, 195 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 2: and he wrote a piece for californiaglobe dot com all 196 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 2: the stuff that you didn't see in all the glowing 197 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,959 Speaker 2: eulogies for Nancy Pelosi's political career as she retires, because 198 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 2: she's half in the bag. 199 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: She is going to be sharing space with Joe Biden 200 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: at the rest home. 201 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 4: Next you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI 202 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 4: AM six forty. 203 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 2: One of the stupidest things that the federal government has 204 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 2: done recently is this air traffic controller situation where the 205 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 2: air traffic controllers aren't getting paid and it's all their fault. 206 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 2: This is something that Trump ought to do. This is 207 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 2: something Trump ought to take care of immediately. And this 208 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 2: is something that the Republicans and Democrats ought to take 209 00:11:59,000 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 2: care of immediately. 210 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: And they got to fund the air traffic controllers. 211 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 5: And you know, John, a travel industry analyst, went on 212 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 5: to say that if you're planning on traveling Friday. 213 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 2: Don't thanks for that from the cheery news there you 214 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 2: got a big smile and now you're laughing. 215 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: You think this is funny. 216 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 6: No, I don't. 217 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 2: When everything goes to hell for me tomorrow, I'm calling you. 218 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 5: Okay, who laughs hysterically when I'm on vacation and everything 219 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 5: goes bring down. 220 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 1: That, bring down entire nations. 221 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 2: Well, there the royal families, and you killed the queen, 222 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 2: you started the Uh. 223 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 6: It's not about me, John, I'm not going anywhere tomorrow. 224 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 5: The Israel Palestine war we're I'm talking about flooded out 225 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 5: to buy. 226 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: You started a COVID epidemic in Mexico. 227 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 2: I mean that that's five countries right there. With your vacations. 228 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 2: Nobody can do the damage that you've done internationally. Thank you, John, 229 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 2: for all that am I wrong? So this this is 230 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 2: just this is just such nonsense. I don't care if 231 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,599 Speaker 2: the government shut down. For the most part, I have 232 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 2: very little pleasant interaction with the government, except you know, 233 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 2: paying taxes. The federal government doesn't do anything for me. 234 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 2: I do think it's not outrageous to ask that they 235 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 2: keep you know, I think there's forty thousand airplanes in 236 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 2: the sky every day. Maybe you could make sure that 237 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 2: they stay up in the sky so we can all 238 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:41,679 Speaker 2: travel to where we need to, where we want to 239 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 2: and not compromise the safety. What they're doing the air 240 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 2: traffic controllers is terrible. Forty four three hundred and sixty 241 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 2: flights a day. Tomorrow they're going to cut four percent 242 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 2: of the daily total. They're going to add a percentage 243 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 2: points chage point every day, So a week from now, 244 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 2: ten percent, four thousand flights a day will be canceled. 245 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 2: And that's four thousand, you know, on a Wednesday, on 246 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,719 Speaker 2: a Thursday, on a Friday, it'll quickly be tens of 247 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 2: thousands of flights over the course of a week. They 248 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 2: have the money shutting down the government. They didn't shut 249 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 2: down tax collection. All the money is still being transferred 250 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 2: to government. 251 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: Accounts. 252 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 2: You know, everything that comes out of your paycheck that's 253 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 2: still going there. So they have the money and they 254 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 2: have the personnel that want to work, except they're not 255 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 2: getting paid. And it is very common that if you 256 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 2: don't have a paycheck for a month, you don't have 257 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 2: the money to pay all your bills, like your mortgage. 258 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: What are you supposed to get foreclosed on? 259 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 2: You're not going to pay your electric bill, your water bill, 260 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 2: you got a food bill, ill for your kids. 261 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: What are you supposed to do? 262 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 2: So these guys and women are pissed off and calling 263 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 2: and sick because if they're not if you're not getting paid, 264 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 2: they're thinking, I'm not going to work. 265 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: Some of them are. 266 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 2: Not showing up for work because they got a second 267 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 2: job because amazingly other companies in the private sector they 268 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 2: pay for work. 269 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: You'll get a check. 270 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 2: Every week or every two weeks. By working in the 271 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 2: private sector. You work for the government. And everybody's having 272 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 2: a hissy fit now and there's no check. 273 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: And you got forty four thousand flights a day. This 274 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 1: is stupid. 275 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 2: They should have funded the FAA, and it should have 276 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 2: been funded from day one. Air traffic controllers should have 277 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 2: been funded from day one. They should not have been 278 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 2: part of the shutdown. It's stupid and wrong. And Trump 279 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 2: ought to fix this, and the Republicans and Democrats ought 280 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 2: to fix this, or really. 281 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: A war on all of them. 282 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 2: The hell with all of them. This is a basic service. 283 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 2: And I don't care about their internal politics. I know 284 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 2: it's the Democrat's fault for not signing on to a 285 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 2: two month budget extension, and they're a budget ninnies. And 286 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 2: I know the Republicans could have set this up differently 287 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 2: to make sure that an air traffic control situation is 288 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 2: never affected by a shutdown. And Trump could do this too, 289 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 2: and it's time they do this. There is no argument 290 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 2: for not paying the air traffic controllers. 291 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: None. None. 292 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 2: I don't care about the partisanship. I don't care about 293 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 2: who started it. I don't care about whose side you're on. 294 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 2: They should keep the airports running. 295 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 5: In fact, they should go into their own accounts and 296 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 5: write checks to all these air traffic controllers to keep 297 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 5: them on the jobs that they don't have to drive 298 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 5: for uber or Lyft until this government shutdown is over. 299 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 2: Well, all these congress people have rich dotors who can 300 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 2: give them private plane rides so it's not going to 301 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 2: affect their lives. 302 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 5: No, it's not going to affect their lives. But that's 303 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 5: why I'm saying they need to pay up. 304 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 2: That we all will do more on this. Later in 305 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 2: the show, we're going to have a report from ABC News. 306 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,199 Speaker 1: Old what's his name? What we got Alex Stone? Oh, 307 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: Alex Stone, Right, Alex is going to be doing that report. 308 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:35,439 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am 309 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 4: six forty. 310 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 2: On every day from one until four o'clock, podcast after 311 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,479 Speaker 2: four on the iHeart app and uh. 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Have you ever seen me dance? 328 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:36,679 Speaker 1: Postathon's coming up? 329 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 2: I got about a month away, not a postapon dance, 330 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 2: my my my ballroom dancing. It's it's it's me with 331 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 2: my my just rocking from left to right. That's all 332 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 2: I can do. I can sway, Okay. My wife has 333 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 2: been mocking that for many years. The this is this 334 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 2: is good news. There's a there. Federal prosecutors have submitted 335 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 2: a subpoena to get the LA firefighters text messages from 336 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 2: the Palisades fire. It's a grand jury subpoenas, so we 337 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 2: have a grand jury now investigating. The specific messages are 338 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:24,119 Speaker 2: the ones we talked about a few days ago. January 339 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:28,159 Speaker 2: first was the New Year's Day fire in Palisades Lachman fire. 340 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:32,919 Speaker 2: January second. By then it was put out, except it 341 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 2: wasn't put out. It was a major hot spot. The 342 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 2: ground was smoldering, wisps of smoke in the air, tree 343 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 2: stumps were hot, rocks were hot to the to to 344 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 2: the touch. It needed a lot more treatment from the 345 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 2: fire department, but the battalion chief, Mario Garcia, told the 346 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:05,360 Speaker 2: firefighters we're going home, We're done here, and the firefighters protested, 347 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 2: saying no, we really ought to stay, mister battalion chief. 348 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 2: And there was a flurry of text messages, which nobody 349 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 2: knew about publicly until a few days ago when the 350 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 2: La Times published some of the text messages. Here's if 351 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 2: you haven't heard the story. This crew is mopping up 352 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 2: the Lockman fire the next day, and they warned Mary 353 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 2: Garcia that we have a lot of smoldering here. In 354 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 2: one text message, he wrote, the battalion chief was told 355 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 2: it was a bad idea quote unquote bad idea to 356 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 2: leave because of the visible signs of smoking terrain, which 357 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 2: Cruise feared could start a new fire if left unprotected. 358 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 2: And the rest is history. A second firefighter was told 359 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 2: that the tree stumps were still hot at the location 360 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,400 Speaker 2: when the crew packed up and left, according to the texts. 361 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 2: A third firefighter said this month that crew members were 362 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 2: upset when told to pack up and leave, but they 363 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 2: could not ignore orders. That's right. You then have a 364 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 2: choice between ignoring orders and waiting till a fire consumed 365 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 2: sixty eight hundred homes. You follow the orders, right, You 366 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 2: don't want to ignore the orders. Orders are more important 367 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 2: than keeping sixty eight hundred homes from burning and keeping 368 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 2: twelve people from dying in a fire. I love this 369 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 2: orders thing. So if you have, like a really stupid 370 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 2: decision by a battalion chief, I guess the protocol is, 371 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 2: everybody's got a salute and say yes chief. But don't 372 00:21:54,280 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 2: you think, uh, don't contradict the chief. Don't contradict. It's 373 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 2: the supervisor. You know, people in management, they're the smartest ones, supervisors, 374 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 2: they're the best and brightest. So he told them to 375 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 2: roll up the hoses. So they followed orders and rolled 376 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:17,160 Speaker 2: up the hoses. And now that Palisades is a wasteland, 377 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 2: and it still is largely a wasteland. There is some 378 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 2: construction being done, mostly by developers who bought up a 379 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 2: bunch of lots, and they're they're quickly putting up you know, 380 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 2: the wooden the wooden infrastructure. 381 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,440 Speaker 1: But you call the fire department, say, hey, what about 382 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,360 Speaker 1: these text messages? Why did the battalion chief tell everybody 383 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: to go home? 384 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 2: Fire departments not answering questions, Mary Garcia, not answering questions. 385 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 2: The Times says that Karen Bass has now told the 386 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 2: interim fire chief not to be confused with the incoming 387 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 2: fire chief or the fireired fire chief. But this interim guy, 388 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 2: Ronnie Vena, wava to launch an investigation. We don't need 389 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 2: an investigation. 390 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:07,640 Speaker 1: We know. 391 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:13,439 Speaker 2: The firefighters say let's stay and put out the smoldering 392 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 2: and the hot rocks and the. 393 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: Hot tree stumps. 394 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 2: And the battalion chief said, no, roll up the hoses 395 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 2: and let's go home. What do you need to investigate here? 396 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 2: Investigations are a way of avoiding the news, of dodging it. 397 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 2: She deflects, dodges and avoids and doesn't speak directly. I 398 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 2: noticed yesterday what was she speaking out on. She was 399 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 2: upset about some federal things, something to do with oh oh, 400 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 2: she was. She was happy about the uh, the way 401 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 2: the elections went, and that it was a warning to Trump. 402 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 2: We got animated Karen Bass again, the way you get. 403 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 2: She gets animated about illegal aliens. She was animated about 404 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 2: Trump getting a kick. Yesterday you ask her about the palisades, like, well, 405 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 2: I've asked for another investigator. You've had a god, how 406 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 2: many investigations are going on or went on? 407 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 1: And what are they produced, They're all white watches. 408 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:18,640 Speaker 2: Everybody says, ah, we did fine. Oh yeah, we had 409 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 2: some organizational problems, some communication problems, some resourceation. 410 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: All you imagine. 411 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,919 Speaker 2: I know this is very painful if you suffered the 412 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 2: loss of your home and the fire, your your neighborhood, 413 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 2: your kids, school, a relative. But imagine if this battalion 414 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 2: chief had looked around and said to those firefighters, you 415 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 2: guys are right, let's keep wading this down here. Let's 416 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:51,439 Speaker 2: keep treating it with whatever magical firefoam we have or 417 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 2: whatever they use to cool it down and keep because 418 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 2: already the warnings were out for sant Ana Wins. 419 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 1: They were already there. They were already red flash warnings. 420 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,159 Speaker 2: So why didn't he and that crew and other crews 421 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 2: stay there for the next five days. Imagine if they 422 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 2: had done that, they were there, they identified the problem. 423 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 2: We spend an enormous amount of money on homeless fires, 424 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 2: but we had no money to give these guys over 425 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 2: time to put this hot spot out. People should go 426 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 2: to prison. They should go to prison. And I'm glad 427 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 2: that there's a federal investigation, there's a grand jury subpoena, 428 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 2: and I hope people get indicted and put away. And 429 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 2: I'm talking fire officials should be put away. Bass should 430 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 2: be put away. There should be prison terms for this 431 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 2: kind of gross criminal negligence that allows an entire town 432 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,679 Speaker 2: to burn when they could have put out the hotspot. 433 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 2: Wasn't an act of God, it wasn't climate change, it 434 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,919 Speaker 2: wasn't winds like we'd never seen before. Nature's fury like 435 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 2: no one's ever experienced. That's all bs. They just didn't 436 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 2: do their job, and they knew what it was that 437 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 2: they had to do. More coming up. 438 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 439 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 4: six forty. 440 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 2: Coming up after two o'clock. Todd Spencer, Orange County, DA. Well, 441 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 2: this is a really bad story. You know, we haven't 442 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 2: had too much bad news coming out of Orange County recently, 443 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 2: but here we go. There's twelve mentally ill offenders, including 444 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 2: a murder defendant, that are going to be released, maybe 445 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 2: into your community in Orange County unsupervised, because the County 446 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 2: of Orange doesn't have treatment beds for its dangerous mental patients. 447 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 2: Two of these offenders, two of these mental patients, could 448 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 2: be released as early as Friday, that's tomorrow. Why can't 449 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 2: they keep the mental patients, the criminal mental patients indoor. 450 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:06,639 Speaker 2: They can't do that. Everybody's failing at every level. We'll 451 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 2: get into that at two o'clock with Todd. Here's a 452 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 2: miscarriage of justice. 453 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 1: This is terrible. 454 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 2: Do you remember the guy he used to work for 455 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 2: the Department of Justice of all places. His name is 456 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 2: Sean Dunn, and he threw a subway sandwich at a 457 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 2: Customs and Border Patrol agent back in August, and it 458 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 2: was on video. He flung the sandwich and the whole 459 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,439 Speaker 2: thing exploded on impact because he was angry that border 460 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 2: patrol was enforcing immigration law. This guy's thirty seven years old. 461 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 2: Thirty seven years old, and he's throwing food. 462 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 6: Some people can't control their impulses. 463 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 2: And it was all on video, and defence lawyers for 464 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 2: Done said that the whole thing was blown out of proportion. 465 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 2: His defense attorney, Julia Gaddo said it was a harmless 466 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 2: gesture at the end of him exercising his right to 467 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 2: speak out. No, no, no, there's no Scotts Tos or 468 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 2: protection for whipping a sandwich at somebody. She goes he 469 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:28,400 Speaker 2: is overwhelmingly not guilty. Now, the border patrol agent who 470 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 2: was on the other end of the sandwich, said he 471 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 2: could feel it through his ballistic vest. That's our heart. 472 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 2: How hard it was thrown. It kind of exploded all 473 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 2: over You could smell the onions in the mustard. The 474 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 2: agent also found onions on his police radio and his 475 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 2: shirt was stained yellow from the mustard. 476 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: And let me. 477 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 2: See what the agent's name is here, Laarirmore, Gregory Lairmore. 478 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 2: Okay had had had had mustard and onions exploded all 479 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 2: over him in his equipment. Guess what the jury did 480 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 2: what it's und him not guilty. They found done not guilty. 481 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 6: So we're allowed to We're allowed to do that now. 482 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,239 Speaker 2: Wow, I mean clearly a video you could see him 483 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 2: launching the sandwich. You know, there's evidence of the mustard 484 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 2: and the onions splattered on the guy's vest and on 485 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 2: his radio. There were witnesses, there was testimony. 486 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 5: So if I have a keen wah bowl and I 487 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 5: throw it all over you and it gets all over 488 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 5: the place. 489 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 6: And up the clothes in your iPad, I'm not going 490 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 6: to get. 491 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 2: In trouble a keen wahbule. I don't think anybody's ever done. 492 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 2: Maybe that's legal, I don't know. 493 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 3: Uh. 494 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 2: This guy done was an international affairs specialist in the 495 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 2: Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, and he lost 496 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 2: his mind. He's watching federal agents and forced federal law. 497 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 2: This is what he does. He just does his part 498 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 2: in the office. And he got so enraged and he 499 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 2: threw the sandwich and he got away with it. This 500 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 2: was like the OJ jury, except he had videotape here 501 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 2: the night had happened. He walked up to a group 502 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 2: of Border Patrol agents and called them fascists, racists and 503 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 2: chanted shame at them before he launched the sandwich. 504 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: Why are you here? 505 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 2: I don't want you in my city. And then he 506 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 2: tried to run, but they caught him and he was arrested. 507 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 2: What guy at thirty seven years old is screaming at 508 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 2: Border patrol agents? That guy, yep, that guy. I mean, 509 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 2: at least he was fired. No way he gets to 510 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 2: work in the Department of Justice. This is why the 511 00:30:55,960 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 2: jury system, it's terrible that you got to knowj jury 512 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 2: don't believe what you could see with your own two eyes. 513 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 2: We've got Todd Spitzer coming up in Orange County. They're 514 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 2: releasing mental patients, mental patients who have been charged with crimes, 515 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 2: one of them charged with murder, and they're going to 516 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 2: be released unsupervised over the next two months because they 517 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:27,479 Speaker 2: don't have beds. Then they can't buy twelve beds and 518 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 2: put them in a room somewhere. 519 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: I don't understand. 520 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 2: I don't understand any of this debor Mark Live in 521 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 2: the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening 522 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,479 Speaker 2: to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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