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 Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: How are you welcome? We are rolling. 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock and 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 2: then after four o'clock. If you miss something, you can 6 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: listen to us on the podcast John Cobelt Show on 7 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeart app. And we're to start off 8 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 2: with something that was a big deal late last week 9 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 2: because you were going to have the state track and 10 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 2: Field championships, and the big controversy was Gavin Newsom was 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 2: all tied up in knots because a guy who claims 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 2: he's now a girl named ab Hernandez from Harupa Valley 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 2: was had won a sectional, a series of sectional competitions 14 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 2: in track and field and in the triple jump and 15 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 2: the high jump and was now going to go on 16 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 2: to the finals. Trump got involved and issued a proclamation 17 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 2: on his Truth social site saying, you know, if this 18 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 2: goes on, I'm pulling funding for California Athletics, all the 19 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 2: federal funding. And the Newsom is caught in a box 20 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 2: because he went on his id idiotic podcast. 21 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: This is Gavin Newsom is the name? I think. 22 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 2: This is an idiot, and he said it's deeply unfair 23 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: for men to compete in girls' sports, deeply unfair. But 24 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 2: Trump just said it was ordinarily unfair. But newsom deeply unfair. 25 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 2: But he did not He did not change this policy. 26 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 2: This policy, you may not know, this has been around 27 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 2: since twenty thirteen. Any guy in high school or college 28 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 2: can suddenly identify as a girl, and that's all you 29 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: have to do. You just say I identify as a girl. 30 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 2: You don't have to do the big chop. If you're 31 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: a guy. You don't have to follow through it anyway. 32 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 2: You don't have to prove it in any way. You 33 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 2: don't have to be on any kind of hormone regiment. 34 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 2: You have gone through puberty as a guy, and under 35 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 2: California law, after puberty or in the midst of puberty, 36 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 2: you can now compete in a high school girls sport 37 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 2: or a college women sport, in this case high school girls. 38 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: Now by the time you're sixteen years old, most guys 39 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 2: have gone through a fair amount of puberty. He would 40 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 2: go nowhere if he had to compete with other guys. 41 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 2: But he competes in girls races, not races, but events, 42 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 2: and he wins, he wins state titles. And that's what 43 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 2: happened over the weekend. He won the state title in 44 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 2: the girls triple jump. He won the state title in 45 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 2: the girl's high jump, and took second place in the 46 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 2: girl's lawn jump. 47 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: He competes in the male events. 48 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 2: He'd go nowhere, but because he says he's a girl. Now, okay, 49 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 2: here's the medal. Stand on the podium. Hey, here's the medal. 50 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 2: Here's another medal. How many medals do you want? 51 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: Wow? 52 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 2: They did this in Clovis. Now what I have to 53 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 2: do here is read to you how the La Times 54 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 2: covered him, Kevin Rector. They wrote about this as if 55 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 2: the guy ab Hernandez was an American folk hera. This 56 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 2: is Kevin Rector. Now remember, actual girls also competed, and 57 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 2: they under Newsom's compromise, they were awarded medals or trophies 58 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 2: as well. But the and we know the name of 59 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 2: the transgender ab Hernandez. But listen to this, Kevin Erector wrote, 60 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 2: Overcoming intense pressure to quit from President Trump, dozens of 61 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 2: local protesters and other prominent critics of transgender athletes and 62 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,119 Speaker 2: girls sports, sixteen year old ab Hernandez bounded past many 63 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 2: of her peers to win multiple gold medals at California's 64 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 2: high school Track and Field Championship Saturday. They're not her peers, 65 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 2: They're not his peers. This, this is like, this is the problem. 66 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 2: That is a male body, that is a one hundred 67 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 2: percent male body. Ab Hernandez was not competing against peers. 68 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 2: Second paragraph, the transgender junior from Harupa Valley High School 69 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 2: who competed despite a directive from Trump that she'd be 70 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 2: barred from doing so. Once state titles in the girl's 71 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 2: triple jump, in the girl's high jump, it took second 72 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 2: place in the girl's long jump. Just listing all those accomplishments, 73 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 2: that doesn't tell you that this is wrong, this is unfair. 74 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: Her Nand is a success at. 75 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 2: The twenty twenty five CIF State Track and Field Championships 76 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 2: in Clovis. Came amid high heat, with temperatures above one 77 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: hundred degrees for much of the day and under an 78 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 2: intense spotlight. And it goes through all the things Trump 79 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 2: says and what the protesters were doing. And despite all that, 80 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 2: hernand has appeared calm and focused as she competed. Her 81 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 2: Nand has beat out all other competitors, though the runner 82 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 2: up was also awarded first place under new rules established 83 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 2: by the CIF. What I noticed in this is the 84 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 2: girls who actually won the championships, their names are not 85 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 2: mentioned in this first page. I'm looking at seven paragraphs 86 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:16,919 Speaker 2: the first page, no mention of their names. It didn't 87 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:22,840 Speaker 2: lead off. They were an asterisk, they were oh well yeah, 88 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 2: Newsom said that they could win two. 89 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: But they're not really the winners. 90 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 2: So it's gonna be Ab Hernandez, transgender track athlete. In 91 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 2: the headline, she overcame intense pressure, she was calm and focused. 92 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 2: Wave to the girl, all about ab Hernandez, Well, what 93 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 2: that's a ele of an advantage if you were born 94 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 2: a guy, that's an incredible physiological advantage, and then quote 95 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 2: her mother, Nobridia Hernandez, heaped praise on her after the events. 96 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,840 Speaker 2: I cannot fully express how proud I am of you 97 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 2: watching you ride by rise above. Months of being targeted, 98 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 2: misunderstood and judge. Those girls were robbed of their moment. 99 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 2: They're not seeing their names in the La Times today. 100 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 2: In fact, the La Times would not have even covered this. 101 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 2: You wouldn't have been able to find it in the 102 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 2: La Times. To praise the girl's achievements, and the girls 103 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 2: can't overcome a guy who enters their race. Once the 104 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 2: guy enters their race, they're screwed. They can't compete. He's 105 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 2: a male who went through puberty. They didn't. They can't. 106 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 2: This was Newsom's compromise. Was it a compromise? Aby Hernanda 107 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 2: is being celebrated as the champion, all the stories about 108 00:07:54,440 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 2: Aby Hernandez. Now this is something that eighty percent of 109 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 2: the country opposes, and I am still trying to find 110 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 2: It's a very long story. I mean, didn't they give 111 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: didn't the La Times give any any credit to the 112 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 2: girls who really won any By the way, this is 113 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 2: federal law that we're talking about here, Title nine. It's 114 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 2: a nineteen seventy two civil rights law passed by Congress 115 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 2: signed by the President. Prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs 116 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 2: and other activities that receive federal funding. That's why Gavin 117 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 2: Newsom says it's deeply unfair to have guys compete as girls. 118 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 2: That's why Trump says it's unfair. 119 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: Everybody. 120 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: Everybody's in agreement here. And then the guy runs, the 121 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 2: one who claims he's a girl, and the LA Times 122 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 2: runs paragraph after paragraph and eventually, let's see, did they 123 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 2: trying to find the name they gave? They gave credit 124 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 2: to Lauren Webster who beat her Nandez in the long jump. 125 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 2: I don't know if their names are in this long, 126 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 2: long story. I can't find them. Apparently the Times doesn't 127 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 2: want to highlight the girls who were competing in the 128 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 2: girls event. Just the guy who competed in the girls event, 129 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 2: Kevin Rector here you go, who is credited with leading 130 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 2: the Papers our Queerest Century project in twenty twenty four. 131 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 2: That's the writer on this. Well, it shows you what 132 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 2: a coward Newsom is and it's really hurtful to the girls. 133 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 2: They don't get an article written about them. They don't 134 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 2: get their struggles rewarded. The end of the day, it 135 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 2: was all about the guy who says he's a girl. 136 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 2: That's who's applauded, and who's applauded by the politicians, that 137 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 2: who's applauded by the schools. That's who's applauded by the 138 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 2: la Times. And if you can't see that's wrong, I 139 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 2: don't know what to tell you. It's also illegal. But hey, 140 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 2: Newsome for president, right. 141 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 142 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:52,439 Speaker 3: six forty. 143 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social 144 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 2: media at John Cobert Radio. We are headed towards thirty 145 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 2: thousand followers. Be one of them. I just you know, 146 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 2: I'm always looking to make sure that I'm getting everything 147 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 2: accurate and everything fair and didn't miss anything. No, I 148 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 2: cannot find the names of the girls who actually won 149 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 2: the triple jump and the high jump in the state 150 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 2: track and high school track and field championships on Saturday. 151 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: I can't that. 152 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 2: The La Times printed five if you printed out, it's 153 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 2: five pages. And the girls who the girls who did 154 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 2: not have the benefit of male puberty, who were the 155 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 2: real winners of the triple jump and high jump, they 156 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:46,679 Speaker 2: did not get their names mentioned. Just Aby Hernandez, the transgender, 157 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 2: the guy who identifies as a. 158 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: Girl, and how can he? How did you possibly win? 159 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 2: I mean overcoming overcoming that that body that's infused with 160 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:06,959 Speaker 2: male hormones and testosterone and all those male muscles. How 161 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 2: did you overcome all that and win and beat all 162 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 2: the other girls who don't have didn't go through mail puberty. 163 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 2: I well, that's a new that is a new low 164 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 2: for the La Times and a new low for Newsom. 165 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 2: He is a coward and he's a phony. He's an appy. 166 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: I mean he actually went pet. 167 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 2: Public and said it was deeply unfair, and then he 168 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 2: came up with a phony blowney bogus compromise because they 169 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 2: were all gonna get medals. That's just classic classic Newsom. 170 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 2: All right, gonna move on now to a to Newsom's predecessor, 171 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 2: another colossal bozo, Jerry Brown. Yeah, no, Jerry Brown is 172 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 2: now eighty nine. That's close. He's eighty seven. So let 173 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 2: me let me see, is he born what nineteen thirty eight? Yes, 174 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,199 Speaker 2: nineteen thirty eight, because I'm trying to figure out we're 175 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 2: going to play a clip here, and he's still he's 176 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 2: still getting aroused over high speed red. 177 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 1: And if you've ever seen an eighty seven year old 178 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: get aroused, it's John. Really you have to mind have 179 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 1: But I'm trying to think, Okay, he's a child. 180 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 2: You know, when you really start noticing the world hw 181 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 2: you're four or five, six years old. So we're talking 182 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 2: about mid nineteen forties, World War Two. There's no interstate 183 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 2: highway system, the California Freeway system. I think was just 184 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 2: being built in the forties, and there was no way 185 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 2: to travel from city to city efficiently unless you got 186 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 2: on a train. Right this was before commercial jet travel. 187 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 2: I started realizing just how old Jerry Brown is and 188 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 2: if this might explain his fixation on trains. In that era, 189 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 2: trains were the only way to get to the big 190 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 2: city or to get to another big city. Couldn't drive, 191 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 2: couldn't fly. He could drive. It is really slow, as arduous. 192 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 2: There weren't many roads, you know, just two lane rural roads, 193 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 2: and so he latched on. I didn't realize he was 194 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 2: pushing high speed rail during his first term as governor, 195 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 2: going way back to the mid nineteen seventies. So he 196 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 2: has been flogging this for fifty years. Fifty years now, 197 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 2: he's eighty seven. He's about to wheeze out, and he's 198 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 2: upset that they haven't built it yet, and he's still 199 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 2: insisting this is the way of the future. So he 200 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 2: went on Inside California Politics with a host named Nicki Lorenzo, 201 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 2: who asked Jerry Brown if he still believed in high 202 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 2: speed rail. 203 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 4: As you're seeing things play out over the years. 204 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 2: Here we're fifty years later, project's not built, it's over budget. 205 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: Do you think it's time to bail on this? 206 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 5: No, No more than other projects that get over a budget. 207 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 5: It's a fact. I mean the Congress now, I was 208 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 5: talking about a intercontinental ballistic missile system that's hugely over budget, 209 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 5: but nobody says to stop him because. 210 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: They think it's important. 211 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 5: I think high speed rail is important, and the costs 212 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 5: are what they are given our system of law and 213 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 5: government and the ability of people to protest and throw 214 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 5: roadblocks in the way. 215 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 2: But the reason I started stop stopping at a second. 216 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 2: First of it hit me. He's six years older than 217 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 2: even Joe Biden. He's got that sound, and he when 218 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 2: he talks, he slurps. I don't know if he's spitting 219 00:15:55,640 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 2: at you. Notice that he's I'm really taking the exit bag. 220 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 3: Is that? 221 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 2: Is that the only path to hold You start slurping 222 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 2: and drooling and you start sucking in your saliva to 223 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 2: keep talking. And he said on internet, intercontinental ballistic missile 224 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 2: system that's hugely over budget, but nobody says to stop 225 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,359 Speaker 2: it because they think it's important. Yeah, it's really important 226 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 2: to have a missile system, maybe to intercept other countries missiles. 227 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 2: You know, other countries who want to kill us like 228 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 2: China or Russia. High speed rail is not the same 229 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 2: as an ICBM. Right now, they want to get us 230 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 2: high speed rail to take a take a fast ride 231 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 2: from Bakersfield to Merced. That's not the same as stopping 232 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 2: a Russian missile. And the costs or what they are 233 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 2: giving stem of law and government and the ability of 234 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 2: people to protest and throw roadblocks in the way. All 235 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 2: the roadblocks are from government and competence, corruption, making billions 236 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 2: of dollars disappear. They've done several audits of high speed 237 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,120 Speaker 2: rail and all a lot of the money, billions disappeared, 238 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 2: there's no record of it. That's not roadblocks. That's not 239 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 2: a protest. In fact, there hasn't been much protest. Unfortunately, 240 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 2: there should have been because it's a seventeen billion dollars 241 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 2: suck right now. 242 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: That's how much money's been lost. Play some more. 243 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 5: But the reason I started talking about high speed rail 244 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,120 Speaker 5: way back in the seventies was I wrote on high 245 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 5: speed rail in Japan. I was very impressed, and more lately, 246 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 5: well recently, I've written on the Chinese and the French, 247 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 5: and it seems like a good part of the advanced 248 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 5: world as able to use high speed rail. And I 249 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 5: have to say, when I get on our freeways, bigger. 250 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 5: I drive from Sacramento down to San Francisco. You see 251 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 5: the hundreds of thousands of cars, all that steel, all 252 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 5: that rubber, all that energy. 253 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: There's no doubt. 254 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 2: That stop a second. What's wrong with all the steel 255 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 2: and rubber. He really got offended by the twentieth century. 256 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 2: The golden days were the ninth were the eighteen hundreds. 257 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,439 Speaker 2: For Jerry Brown, he wasn't even around then, although he 258 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 2: sounds like it. Apparently modern life hit sometime, you know, 259 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 2: while he was growing up, and it's oh, that's steel rubber. 260 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, so. 261 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 2: There's no better way to get around than a car. Obviously, 262 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 2: it's still number that's why, that's why everybody has one. 263 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 2: You're not going to find too many people without a car. 264 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 2: I mean, we gave it over to the state government. 265 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 2: In fact, you know, this project started at the tail 266 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 2: end of the Schwartzegre administration through eight years of Jerry Brown. 267 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,160 Speaker 2: So Jerry Brown was running the government while they were 268 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 2: blowing billions of dollars and not building anything. So it's 269 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 2: his incompetence, his boobery. He didn't get it done and 270 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 2: then knew some followed up. Now with seven more years 271 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:24,879 Speaker 2: of incompetence of Boobery. These two guys have been running 272 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 2: the show now fifteen years, and he's claiming protests and 273 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 2: roadblocks and it's our no do stunk at your job, 274 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 2: both of you. 275 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 1: You're no good. Couldn't build a railroad. 276 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 2: How come they built it in Spain and Japan and 277 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 2: China they built it. You were in charge. You're not 278 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 2: a drunk guy at the end of the bar, although 279 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 2: you sound like it. You were running things so your 280 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 2: buddy knew someone was too. More coming up. 281 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM 282 00:19:59,480 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 3: six forty. 283 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 2: We're on from one to four every day, and after 284 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 2: four o'clock it's John Cobelt Show on demand on the 285 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 2: iHeart app. That's the podcast version. We've been covering hardly 286 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 2: anybody's covering, but we've been covering along with the West 287 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 2: Side current, this lawsuit against the City and County of 288 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 2: Los Angeles over the billions of dollars of homeless money 289 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 2: that's disappeared, leaving behind tens of thousands of homeless people 290 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 2: to die in the streets. This massive scam that's run 291 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 2: by Karen Bass among other people. And there's this big 292 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 2: lawsuit that's gone on the LA Alliance for Human Rights, 293 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:45,120 Speaker 2: which is a collection of taxpayers and business owners, and 294 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 2: they want to know where the money went and why 295 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 2: is everything worse simple? And it's being held heard in 296 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 2: federal court US District Judge David Carter because originally the 297 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 2: case was filed in twenty twenty by downtown businesses and residents, 298 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 2: and the accusation was that the city and county obviously 299 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 2: failed to provide shelter and services for the vagrants and 300 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,719 Speaker 2: the mental patients. Two years later, both sides reached a 301 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 2: federal settlement that outlined specific benchmarks and obligations. According to 302 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:25,880 Speaker 2: the West Side Current, but this new lawsuit says that 303 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 2: the city failed, and they're asking the judge to maybe 304 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,120 Speaker 2: turn control over to the whole racket, the whole scam 305 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 2: over to an outside receiver, some person or entity that 306 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 2: will govern the spending and we'll look to see what 307 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 2: succeeds and what fails and how much money is stolen. Now, 308 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 2: this is two point three billion dollars that's missing, and 309 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 2: this is our tax that's missing. And I really mean missing, 310 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 2: it's unaccounted for or mismanaged. Between twenty twenty and twenty 311 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 2: twenty four, the lawsuit led to an audit by Alvarez 312 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 2: and Marsal and they found the two point three billion 313 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 2: missing or unexplained, and they said there was widespread failure 314 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 2: and financial oversight, transparency and service delivery. So they failed 315 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 2: at tracking where the money went, they failed at actually 316 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 2: getting the homeless services and getting them off the street, 317 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 2: and they failed at being open to the world as 318 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 2: to what they're doing and how they're doing it. So 319 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 2: clearly it looks like some kind of crime syndicate here. 320 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 2: I don't know how you could come up with any other, 321 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 2: any other conclusion that this is a massive theft in 322 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 2: money laundering operation being operated by elected officials and bureaucrats 323 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 2: within the city. And you know, you know, one of 324 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 2: the things I noticed because I grew up in the 325 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 2: New York, New Jersey area and there were a lot 326 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 2: of mob stories on the news. Well, I mean, you know, 327 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 2: the five families in New York City who were mobsters. 328 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 2: And I don't know, maybe if you were alive back then, 329 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 2: you might remember the news stories and it would show 330 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 2: guys getting shot at restaurants and their head would fall 331 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 2: into their play apasta. They'd end up leaving the right exactly. 332 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 2: That was real life in Jersey, New York. My dad, 333 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 2: when I was a kid, he used toill work at 334 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 2: a factory, and he used to come home at the 335 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,479 Speaker 2: end of the day, and I was like seven eight 336 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 2: years old, right, and I'd run to the door every day, 337 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 2: not to say hi to them, but to grab the 338 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 2: newspaper from them because I wanted to see the baseball scores, 339 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 2: and I wanted to see the photos on the front 340 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 2: page of the New York Daily News or the Post 341 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 2: because invariably they'd have photos of mobsters who'd just been 342 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 2: shot up, and I thought that was cool. So you'd 343 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,360 Speaker 2: see the guy with his head in the plate apasta. 344 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: And you thought that was cool. 345 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 2: I did because I knew there were bad guys, and 346 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 2: it's like, look, the good guys got the bad guys. 347 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 1: This is what formed my sense of justice. Or the 348 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 1: bad guys got the bag. Well, yes, that's right, I 349 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 1: was just going to say that. 350 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 2: But the one set of bad guys must have done 351 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 2: something really bad to have the other bad guys to 352 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 2: kill them, so that you know this was some guys 353 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 2: were into you know, Batman or Superman. I was into 354 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 2: the mob, and I can identify mob like activities because 355 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 2: there was always what I knew what they were involved in. 356 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 2: They were involved in in they would takeover businesses where 357 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,719 Speaker 2: they could skim off the money, where they could steal 358 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 2: the money. And so that's what's happened here is you 359 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 2: have the bureaucrats, you know Lasa like Valicy Adams callum right, 360 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 2: what did she do? She skimmed off two million dollars 361 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 2: and gave it to her husband's nonprofit. You have Karen 362 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 2: Bass who her song and dance is inside Safe, right, 363 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 2: And look at all the people we got off the 364 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 2: streets until somebody last week pointed out that the number 365 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 2: of people that she got off the streets almost exactly 366 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 2: matches the number of people who died on the streets. 367 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 2: So she didn't get any living people off the streets. 368 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 2: She got dead people off the streets. And with the mob, 369 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 2: you also end up with a lot of dead people 370 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 2: as well. And you know what the mob where In 371 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 2: the neighborhoods where the mob lived and was prevalent, most 372 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 2: locals didn't have a problem. And the reason it didn't 373 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 2: have problem is the mob took care of the neighborhoods. 374 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 1: You got to pay for that, right exactly, And they. 375 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 2: Didn't care if the guys you know, took ten percent 376 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 2: off the top, but you know they got they got services. 377 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 2: The mob provided services. 378 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,880 Speaker 1: You didn't have a choice, No, you didn't. 379 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 2: Have a choice, but you did get your share of services, 380 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 2: you see. So you didn't really build up all that 381 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 2: much animosity towards the mob, and if you did, they'd 382 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 2: kill you. So here, all we're doing is getting the 383 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 2: money stolen from us. You know, we don't even get 384 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 2: a little bit of benefit. We don't get any services. 385 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 2: You know, if they took the homeless off the streets, 386 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 2: and you wouldn't be scared any more to go downtown. 387 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 2: And my wife wouldn't be scared anymore to go downtown. 388 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 2: If I found out they took ten percent off the top, 389 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 2: it's like, well, all right, that's the way it's been. 390 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 2: But they steal the money and they don't take ten percent. 391 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 2: I mean, they take everything two point three billion. Another 392 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 2: thing I noticed when I was a kid, when there 393 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 2: were mob trials, they would have a lot of lawyers. 394 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 2: I mean, I remember seeing when I was a kid. 395 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 2: There was a local newscast and some mobster had gotten nailed, 396 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 2: right and he got convicted, and he had they had 397 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 2: a prosecutor on and there was there was like the 398 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,439 Speaker 2: video of the mob legal team, and they were like 399 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 2: eight guys. Eight guys were defending this one mobster. And 400 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:25,239 Speaker 2: in this case, with this lawsuit, Karen Bass and the 401 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 2: County Thieves hired eleven attorneys. Actually Bass hired eleven attorneys. 402 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 2: There were two city lawyers. And then they hired Gibson Dunn. 403 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 2: That's a law firm that's getting paid nine hundred thousand 404 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:49,160 Speaker 2: dollars and it's nine attorneys, two city lawyers. They entered 405 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 2: the case two weeks before the hearings started. They have 406 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 2: ad entrary hearings on May twenty seven. So the only 407 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 2: other time I've seen a legal crew that large were 408 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 2: the mobsters in New York City, you know, like the 409 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 2: Gambino family, the Colombo family, Lukeesy family. There were five 410 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 2: families and I used to remember all of them, Genevie's. 411 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 2: Genevie's family is one, and you know, John Gotti took 412 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,479 Speaker 2: over one of those families, and and and so I mean, 413 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 2: I'm sure in some neighborhoods, a baseball cards with all 414 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 2: the mobsters on the cards, big part of the culture 415 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 2: back east. Well, that's what we have here. This is 416 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 2: the city council, This is the bast administration. These are 417 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 2: the county supervisors and all the nonprofits. The nonprofits are 418 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 2: the whare the money is stolen because the officials give 419 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 2: out the contracts to their to their family members, to 420 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 2: their friends, and to political associates. And that's what the 421 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 2: mob does too, the mobs. If you're in the mob, 422 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 2: your kids are in the mob, your brother's in the mob, 423 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 2: your neighbors are in the mob. And make sure that 424 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 2: if you're running a gambling operation, or you're involved in 425 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 2: the trucking business or the cement business or whatever it is, 426 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,959 Speaker 2: you make sure your friends and relatives are taken care of. 427 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 2: They all get a peace, they all get a taste. 428 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 2: And that's what this mob here in La has done. 429 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 2: They took in billions of dollars. The homeless situation got worse, 430 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 2: but everybody got a piece. Everybody got a taste. 431 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: All of you. 432 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 2: Know, Karen Basses connections, all of the connections of the 433 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 2: city council members, the families, all of it supervisors. Everybody 434 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 2: got a piece of the action, and no almost were helped, 435 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 2: and none of them are taken off the street. And 436 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 2: look at the legal team eleven eleven lawyers. What does 437 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 2: that tell you? If you have eleven lawyers, you are 438 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 2: so guilty, you have committed so many felonies. Nobody hires 439 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 2: eleven lawyers unless you're guilty of a lot of horrible things. Well, 440 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 2: Karen Bass in the city has eleven lawyers. 441 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 4: John, you need to be careful because you know what 442 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 4: happens right when you talk out or you speak out 443 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 4: against the mob, right, and you're one of the few people. 444 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: I just you know, watch your back. 445 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 2: What I'm saying Banana was the other crime family, Bananoah Banano, Colombo, 446 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 2: Lukezy Genoviez and Colombo. 447 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: That those are the five crime families. You can draw. 448 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 2: You can draw like charts. You know of all the 449 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 2: hierarchy charts. Now you could do that now with the 450 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 2: with the homeless agencies and the people who run the 451 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 2: various departments and the and the nonprofits that are connected. 452 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 2: Like if somebody, if the All Times is a real newspaper, 453 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 2: they would publish a huge graphic and show all the 454 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 2: families and friends, for all the nonprofits and all the agencies, 455 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 2: and all the politicians and city council members, and show 456 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 2: the money flow that's enriching all these people. I guarantee 457 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 2: you one thousand percent that's what's going on now because 458 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 2: it's pattern recognition. This is the exact pattern of the 459 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 2: mob being involved in the garbage industry and the cement 460 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 2: in the trucking industry. You know, back when I was 461 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 2: a kid. Uh, And I am not afraid, Deborah, You're 462 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 2: not no, okay, because they're so incompetent. 463 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 1: They're not even good mobsters. Yeah, they would miss, they'd miss. Yeah. 464 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM. 465 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 2: Six forty moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six 466 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 2: eight seven seven Moist staighty six for Friday or the 467 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 2: talkback feature. I'm reading that Jake Tapper book that he 468 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 2: wrote with Alex Thompson. Tapper, the CNN anchor who was 469 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 2: U had his had his head up Biden's rear end 470 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 2: for four years and now suddenly discovered that Biden's was 471 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 2: senile the whole time. But the book is really really good. 472 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 2: Whatever your whatever you think Biden was in office privately, 473 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,000 Speaker 2: you're right, and then multiply it by ten and I 474 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 2: could just read the whole book out loud, very entertaining. 475 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 2: But there was one thing that jumped out, not about Biden, 476 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 2: but about Kamala Harris. Turns out the whole Biden's staff 477 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 2: thought Kamala was a dud. They really did, and they 478 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 2: kept her away on purpose, and that was one of 479 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 2: the reasons that he never did resign. They never pushed 480 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 2: him to because they thought she was such an empty 481 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 2: an empty can. I mean, they didn't trust her to 482 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 2: do anything. So you imagine that all those political professionals 483 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 2: surrounding Biden, Biden is literally losing his mind, and none 484 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 2: of them wanted to go near the idea of having 485 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 2: him retire or even not even run for it, because 486 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 2: they were afraid that if he retired, you know, she 487 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 2: would get the nomination right next in the line. 488 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: But that happened anyway. 489 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 2: It ended up happening anyway. That's the thing. They tried 490 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 2: so hard to prevent the worst, the worst thing to happen. 491 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 2: They were protecting him from having to be in the 492 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 2: public eye or be exposed, so. 493 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 4: They kept that from the public. And now it's out, 494 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 4: and we also had Kamala Harris running. 495 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the other thing they kept from the 496 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 2: public that they all thought she was a complete dug 497 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 2: And just remember that in case she runs for governor. 498 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 2: The entire Biden White House thought she was a complete dut. 499 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 2: Here's how bad it was. Even Kamala Harris's own staff 500 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 2: thought she was a dud. This is an exact quote 501 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 2: from the book. In April twenty two, Harris attended a 502 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 2: dinner with journalists and other socialites at the home of 503 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 2: David Bradley, an influential Washington d. 504 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: C news mogul. 505 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 2: Harris aids were always anxious about an event going poorly. 506 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 2: This is a dinner And before the dinner, they held 507 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 2: a mock party with staff acting the part of guests. 508 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 2: Now this woman is in her fifties and they're so 509 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 2: worried that she can't go to a dinner party. They 510 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 2: had a fake dinner party where they pretended to be guests. 511 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,880 Speaker 2: You know how they had to rehearse Biden before he 512 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,839 Speaker 2: walked into a room, and they get Middex cards and 513 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,360 Speaker 2: on a map and photos of the journalists we were 514 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,120 Speaker 2: going to question him. Well, they had to do a 515 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,280 Speaker 2: run through dinner before she would go to a regular dinner. 516 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 2: Aids actually debated whether they should have wine served at 517 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 2: the fake dinner so Harris could practice with a glass 518 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:43,720 Speaker 2: or two. Now, I guess you could take that two ways, 519 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 2: like she didn't know how to drink wine and she 520 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,759 Speaker 2: had to practice holding the glass, or they wanted to 521 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 2: teach her only to drink a glass or two because 522 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,479 Speaker 2: after that, because she does sound drunk much of the time, 523 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 2: and maybe she's used to swinging the chardonnay straight from 524 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 2: the bottle. But what were they what would she be practicing. 525 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 2: I mean, she's in her fifties. How would you have 526 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 2: to what were you practicing your grip on the glass 527 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,719 Speaker 2: or controlling yourself so you don't end. 528 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:24,880 Speaker 4: Up blotted, having a higher tolerance, get her tolerance up 529 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 4: a bit. 530 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, they ultimately decided not to do it. 531 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:30,720 Speaker 1: How strange. 532 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:35,320 Speaker 2: I have never heard of somebody you'd have to prepare 533 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 2: to go to a dinner party. You know, she was 534 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 2: in politics, She's been a fundraiser right for all her 535 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 2: political runs for decades. She didn't know how to act 536 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:47,399 Speaker 2: at a party. I didn't get that. 537 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 4: Well, we all well not we you always make fun 538 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,960 Speaker 4: of her words solid, So I think that that was 539 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,720 Speaker 4: what they were concerned about. You throw in some cocktails 540 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,440 Speaker 4: and it's it's more than a salid. 541 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, the short name would be like the salad dressing. Yes, 542 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 2: you don't want to put too much dressing. Not healthy. Yeah, 543 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 2: maybe that's it all right. When we come back. Among 544 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:19,759 Speaker 2: the things we're gonna do next hour is we're going 545 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 2: to have a Don Mahalik on ABC News Law Enforcement contributor. 546 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,239 Speaker 2: It used to be a Secret Service agent. You're gonna 547 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:31,800 Speaker 2: talk about what happened Boulder, Colorado with that crazy illegal 548 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 2: immigrant who is throwing flame throwers at Jewish people. Deborah 549 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 2: Mark live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. 550 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,640 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 551 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:45,200 Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am 552 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,240 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 553 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app