1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: 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 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,039 Speaker 2: My finger is trembling, trying to press the trigger. 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 3: You've been gone way too long. 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: John, tell me about it. I know, all right. 6 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 2: Hi, We're back John Cobelt Show, caf I Am six 7 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 2: forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and we are 8 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 2: on again from one until four every day. We disappeared 9 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 2: for two weeks, but we have reappeared and after four 10 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 2: o'clock as always. You can get the podcast if you 11 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 2: missed anything. John Cobelt Show on demand, also on the 12 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: iHeart app. Today is day one for the Moistline eight 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 2: seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven Moist eighty six, 14 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 2: or the talkback feature on the iHeart App. It is 15 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 2: also day one for Gooldpool, Goolpool, and we have a 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 2: set of winners. I'm not gonna are we announcing them 17 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: now we're at three o'clock or should we build up 18 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 2: the excitement three o'clock Okay, three o'clock will announce the winners. 19 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 2: I will say we had three people go three for three, 20 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 2: and we had forty two listeners go two for two. 21 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 2: And I'll give you the list also of the top 22 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,839 Speaker 2: choices that did not result in the death of a celebrity. 23 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: So all that coming up after three o'clock. We actually 24 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: have a lot to do in the show. Gavin Newsom 25 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: is going to play a central role this This is 26 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 2: going to be a really entertaining year. I mean, not 27 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 2: only is Trump and Elon Musk and a bulldoze the 28 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: place in Washington, d C. But Newsom has got to 29 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 2: figure out a way to cling on to relevancy. He's 30 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 2: like the last super woke governor who is not moderating 31 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 2: himself at all. I see that the New York and 32 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: Illinois governors are moderating themselves on crime. The Illinois governor 33 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 2: wants to cooperate some with Trump on immigration. But we 34 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: have Newsom who really his head is stuck. His head 35 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 2: is stuck in a number of places, but one place 36 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 2: has had is stuck is twenty twenty. He doesn't know 37 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: that that era is over, and it came to an 38 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 2: official crashing halt on November fifth. And if he didn't, 39 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 2: I'm sure he's seen between you know, Gascone getting kicked 40 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 2: out and the Alameda County DA and Oakland getting kicked 41 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 2: out and the San Francisco mayor getting kicked out, among 42 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 2: other things. 43 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: That it's a new era down all right. 44 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 2: People are not going to live the way we lived 45 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 2: in the twenty teens and in the early twenty twenties. 46 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 2: That's not going to happen anymore. One thing that people 47 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 2: are set up with is high speed rail funding. I 48 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 2: mean that has wasted so much of our money. It 49 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 2: has been now seventeen years. This thing was passed in 50 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 2: two thousand and eight, it is now twenty twenty five. 51 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 2: And Newsome knows that this is our big albatross around 52 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 2: his neck. He's going to run for president. He's going 53 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 2: to run for president with the worst record of any 54 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 2: state governor, both as a Democrat and overall. There is 55 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 2: nobody that has a worse story to tell, a worst 56 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,239 Speaker 2: set of statistics to back up the story, than Gavin Newsom. 57 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 2: And there's nothing he can do to make it better 58 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 2: in two years, especially since he's refused to let go 59 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 2: of all his woke politics nonsense. Right, we're still on 60 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 2: course to ban gas powered cars. In fact, there's a 61 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 2: lot of gas powered appliances that are are being banned. 62 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: Over the next few years. We'll talk about that. But 63 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 2: today he's going to give some kind of press conference 64 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 2: or an update on California's high speed Rail's supposed to 65 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,119 Speaker 2: be at three o'clock. We are going to maybe run 66 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 2: it or record it and play it back. You know, 67 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 2: we're gonna because I don't know exactly what time it's 68 00:03:58,200 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 2: going to go on, and I don't know how long 69 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 2: it's going to and you know, he's not a riveting speaker, 70 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 2: so I don't want to waste too much time and 71 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 2: force you to listen to him. 72 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: But we will. 73 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 2: We run a little bit of it and get a 74 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 2: handle on what he's announcing. Coming up at one thirty. 75 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 2: In that regard, it's State Senator Susette Martinez Valaderis. It's 76 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: from Santa Clarita, and she is going to talk about 77 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 2: high speed rail as well. Because California high speed rail 78 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 2: officials and California idiot lawmakers are desperate. Trump comes in. 79 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 2: Trump is going to shut down federal funding. Elon Musk 80 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 2: has California high speed rail way high up on his 81 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 2: list that his DOGE Department is going to handle, and 82 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 2: there's like no chance that federal funding for high speed 83 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 2: rail survives over. 84 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: The next few weeks. 85 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 2: As soon as they start implementing either what Trump wants 86 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 2: to do already or what Elon Musk is going to recommend, 87 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 2: that money is gone. And so they're having panic attacks 88 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 2: at High speed Rail headquarters because these guys have had 89 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 2: a real grift going for seventeen years. They have scammed, 90 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 2: you know, about thirteen billion dollars from the public, and 91 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 2: they have paid themselves fat salaries and produced nothing. 92 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: We have no rail. You still can't get from anywhere 93 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: anywhere with this thing. 94 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 2: Seventeen efing years and thirteen billion dollars. 95 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: It might even be more than that. 96 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 2: I remember a couple of years ago they did an 97 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 2: audit I think they did more than one audit and 98 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 2: found out that they didn't know where the money went 99 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 2: billions of dollars because nobody kept any records, like they 100 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 2: paid money to crookeet contractors or crooked friends, you know, 101 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 2: engineers and lawyers and environmental people and whatnot, and money 102 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 2: just to spirit and nobody has any record, not the state, 103 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 2: not high speed Rail, not the people who got the money, 104 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 2: the companies who got the money. We've heard this before, right. 105 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 2: Newson announced the same story for homeless funding that he 106 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 2: didn't know where the money went, and he didn't know 107 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 2: if any of it worked. And the same story when 108 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 2: they handed out fifty billion dollars to all the fraudsters 109 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 2: for unemployment during the COVID lockdown. It's the same story. 110 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 2: I mean, between the three high speed rail and homelessness 111 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 2: and COVID, what are we talking about here. We're talking 112 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,679 Speaker 2: close to one hundred billion dollars in your tax money, 113 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 2: federal tax money. 114 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: They have no record. This is like new I'd never 115 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: heard of this before. 116 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 2: Just in the past couple of years, I've heard things 117 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 2: in California that I've never heard in my life. It's like, oh, yeah, 118 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 2: we wasted the money. Yeah the program didn't work, blah 119 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 2: blah blah, we. 120 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: Hired too much. 121 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 2: No, no, this is we don't know where it went. 122 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 2: We have no record of it. All right, So they 123 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 2: have broke new ground. So Newsom has got a lot 124 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 2: of messes. He's got to shovel up because the dope 125 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 2: thinks he's going to be president. He's not going to 126 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 2: be president. But he's the only one who doesn't know it. 127 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 2: And jeez, I don't want to. I don't want the 128 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 2: delusion to break because this is going to be wildly entertaining, 129 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 2: is it not. I mean, he's a complete and utter failure, 130 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 2: and he's the only person who doesn't know it. I 131 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 2: mean his family must know it, right, all his friends 132 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 2: must know it, if he has any friends. 133 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: He's a complete failure. State's a disaster. So we'll see 134 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: what he says. 135 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 2: At three o'clock, we'll talk to the state senators Whusette 136 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 2: Martinez Valaderas give you some detail on the panic among 137 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 2: the high speed rail executives. They are begging the Transportation 138 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 2: Secretary Pete Buddhajeedge to release five hundred and thirty six 139 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 2: million dollars in federal money so they could start digging 140 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 2: tunnels on the rail project. Five representatives from California in Congress, 141 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: including the idiot Adam Schiff. Oh my god, that bozo. 142 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 2: So that bozo becomes senator and the first thing he 143 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 2: does is he asks Pete bodhajeg is another clown, give 144 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 2: us a half a billion dollars so we can dig 145 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,119 Speaker 2: tunnels for a railroad track that's never going to carry 146 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 2: any trains. What they want to do is reward labor 147 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 2: unions here in the state who have donated so much 148 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: money to new Some in the Democrats reward them with 149 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars. They know this is never 150 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 2: going to be built. They know the project will always 151 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,079 Speaker 2: be unfinished, that the tunnels are going to lead to nowhere. 152 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 2: What they want those to be able to give the 153 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 2: money to the union members in the forms of in 154 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 2: the form of I don't even want to call it, 155 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 2: make work jobs. It's no work jobs. They're not going 156 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 2: to do anything. They're not going to do anything useful. 157 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 2: All right, So chapter one of that will be one 158 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 2: thirty with Suzette Martinez Valders. Now, before Biden fades into 159 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 2: history entirely, we've got some audio to play. Next segment, 160 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 2: Trump released during the Christmas break. Maybe you've seen this. 161 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,199 Speaker 2: This is a hoot. This is a two and a 162 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 2: half minute video of a lawmaker's cabinet secretaries, media people 163 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 2: insisting that Joe Biden is mentally sharp as anyone on 164 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 2: the planet. His cognitive powers are unrivaled. When you actually 165 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 2: hear the whole thing, it's a hoot. And we also 166 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 2: got a clip of Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, 167 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 2: for the moment he went on meet the press and 168 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 2: the anchor asked if the American public should think that 169 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 2: Schumer and others lied to them about Biden's sonility. 170 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: That's a good one. We'll get to that next. 171 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 172 00:09:59,200 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 4: six forty. 173 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 2: We're back from one until four every day, and then 174 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 2: after four o'clock if you miss something John Cabelt Show 175 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 2: on demand on the iHeart app. 176 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: How are you doing. 177 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 3: I am great. I feel like I haven't seen you 178 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 3: in forever. 179 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 1: It's been over over two weeks, I know. 180 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 3: And we're sort of matching today. 181 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know how that happens. 182 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 3: Weird. 183 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 2: It's like the third time in the last few months. Yeah, 184 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 2: we have exactly the same color. And it's not a 185 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 2: regular color too. It's a bold green. 186 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 3: Well, actually mine is more of a turquoise turl. 187 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: Yes, it is turquoise. Yes, No, that's a forest green. 188 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 3: No it's not. 189 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 2: You know, I always wondered if people see colors the same, 190 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 2: and I guess. 191 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 3: This is turquoise. 192 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,319 Speaker 1: Well not to my eyes. Let's'll break the tie. 193 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 2: Levra's jacket is definitely more blue than green, and your 194 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 2: shirt is definitely more green. 195 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: So wow, and. 196 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 3: Mine is a velvet jacket, and I thought yours was 197 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 3: a velvet shirt. But it's Quarteriz. 198 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: We sound like the golden glow red carpets. 199 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 3: What are you wearing? We actually we're not really matchy matches. 200 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:04,959 Speaker 5: All right? 201 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 2: Well, you know what, Actually, in person, you look dark green. 202 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 2: On the video screen it looks blue. I don't see 203 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:14,439 Speaker 2: colors like everyone else. I must be well, there's a 204 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 2: lot of things are maree, But I think I got 205 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 2: some kind of color blindness or a color shift situation. 206 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 2: All right, let's get on to Joe Biden, because you're 207 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 2: not going to have him. You can't kick his dead 208 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 2: body around for much longer. 209 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: What is today? 210 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 2: January sixth, So we've got two weeks, right, January twentieth, 211 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 2: that's right, two weeks to the day Trump posted this. 212 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 2: And I was looking for a montage like this, because 213 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 2: you know, we all got lied to like crazy. Now 214 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 2: we here on the program never fell for the lies. 215 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 2: We As I've told you, we called out Joe being 216 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 2: senile way back when he was running. We had our 217 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 2: little Biden Biden what we call it Biden Bidenville, Bidenville, right, 218 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 2: I was gonna call it Biden World. Biden Land Bidenville, 219 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 2: I'm having the same problem he is. And we had 220 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,719 Speaker 2: that playing the first week that he after he got inaugurated. 221 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 2: All right, as soon as he got elected, biden World 222 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 2: was commissioned, so it was clearly senile. He was senile 223 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 2: when he was running in twenty twenty and I marveled 224 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 2: about how the whole world pretended that he wasn't in 225 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 2: advanced dementia by twenty twenty four, and then the debate happened. Well, 226 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 2: Trump decided to post him on tige. Of all the 227 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 2: people in public, I guess this is a collection of 228 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:40,079 Speaker 2: anchors or commentators or lawmakers all assuring the world that 229 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,439 Speaker 2: Biden is the sharpest guy on the planet. 230 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: So roll this. 231 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 5: Does the president have the stamina physically and mentally? Do 232 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,079 Speaker 5: you think to continue on even after twenty twenty four? 233 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 3: You're asking me this question. 234 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, he's the president of the United States, 235 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:58,599 Speaker 1: you know. I can't even keep up with it. 236 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 6: The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden 237 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 6: is preparing for it, because he is sharp, intensely probing, 238 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 6: and detail oriented and focused. 239 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 7: I can testify because I've been working very closely with 240 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:15,559 Speaker 7: this president for the past few years. I've been knowing 241 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 7: it for thirty years, and I'm telling you, this guy's tough. 242 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 7: He's smart, he's on his game. 243 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 8: Joe Biden has a vision, he has knowledge, he has 244 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 8: a strategic thinker. 245 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 2: The President is focused, he's detail oriented, he's always thinking 246 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 2: about the big picture. 247 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: Is engaging. He is capable. He has an incredible record 248 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: as president, and I'm often with him on foreign trips. 249 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: He's at the top of his game. 250 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 6: So he has a vision, he has knowledge, he has judgment, 251 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 6: he has a strategic thinking. 252 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 7: I met with the President I don't know, five or 253 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 7: six weeks ago at the same find to make. 254 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 9: Have complete confidence in the president. I have watched him 255 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 9: expertly guide meetings of staff and cabinet members. I could 256 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 9: not have more confidence than the president. 257 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 7: I would just tell you that I meet frequently with 258 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 7: the President, and every single time I meet him, he 259 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 7: is just fine. 260 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 8: But he is again, knowledgeable, wise. 261 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 6: Incredibly sharp, incredibly probing, incredible command of the details. 262 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: He is sharp, he is on top of things. 263 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 2: There is nothing to these challenges, these suggestions that somehow 264 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 2: he's not sharp and he's not capable. 265 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 8: We see Joe Biden. 266 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 10: Of course, we know how attuned to oughts to the issue, 267 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 10: and you're going to see how smart he is and 268 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 10: the experience he has. 269 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 3: I say his age is an asset. 270 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 9: Hu he's wise. 271 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 3: Yes, he's wise. He has wisdom, he has experiences. 272 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 4: And his experience because of his age and his wisdom, 273 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 4: has been invaluable to this country. 274 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 5: A lot of countries, people who've been in office a 275 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 5: longer period of time are praised for their wisdom. I 276 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 5: have seen a lot of seventy two year olds not 277 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 5: as capable as this eighty year old. 278 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: It is hard for us to keep up with this president. 279 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 5: His mental acuity is great. It's fine. It's as good 280 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 5: as it's been over the years i've been. He's fine. 281 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 5: All this right wing propaganda that he mental acuity has 282 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 5: declined is wrong. 283 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 7: And this kind of sense that he's not ready for 284 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 7: this job is just a bucket of bs that's so 285 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 7: deep your boots will get stuck at it. 286 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 2: I counted twenty four liars there. I think a few 287 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 2: of them will repeat liars. They got two clips, but 288 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 2: that was twenty four separate clips of prominent Washington officials lying, 289 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 2: just absolutely lying. A couple of them I noticed were 290 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 2: less confident in the lie. Like their voice quavered a 291 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 2: little quavered a little bit at the end, and they 292 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 2: would kind of hesitate and just say he's just fine. 293 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 2: But most of them were full throated. Yes, he's sharp, 294 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 2: and people much younger have trouble keeping up with him, 295 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 2: and his cognitive abilities are my got twenty four life. 296 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 2: This is what propaganda is. This is about everybody getting 297 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 2: talking points in order and repeating the same lie over 298 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 2: and over again. None of these people should be allowed 299 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 2: in public life ever, none of them, none of them 300 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: should ever be believed, nor any of the media people 301 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 2: who covered this administration for the last four years and 302 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 2: didn't see the obvious, didn't report on the obvious. Here's 303 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 2: another clip. This is Chuck Schumer on Meet the Press. 304 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 2: He was questioned over the weekend by Kristen Welker on 305 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 2: NBC being asked whether Schumer and everybody else was lying 306 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 2: all this time. 307 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 8: I want to play you a little bit of something 308 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 8: you said last year. 309 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: Take a look. 310 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 5: I talked to President Biden, you know, regularly or sometimes 311 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 5: several times in a week, or musually saideveral times in 312 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 5: a week. His mental acuity is great, It's fine. It's 313 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 5: as good as it's been over the years. All this 314 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 5: right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is 315 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 5: wrong literature. 316 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 8: Well, what do you say to Americans who feel as 317 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 8: though you and other top Democrats misled them about President 318 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 8: Biden's mental acuity? 319 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 5: Look, we didn't, and let's let's look at President Biden. 320 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 5: He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed, one 321 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 5: of the most significant groups of legislation since the New 322 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 5: Deal since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, putting in two hundred 323 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 5: and thirty five judges a record, And he's a patriot, 324 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 5: he's a great guy. And when he stepped down, he 325 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 5: did it on his own because he thought it was 326 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 5: better not only for the Democratic Party, for the America. 327 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 1: We should all salute him. We should all salute him. 328 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 8: Do you feel, as we have this conversation today, that 329 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 8: President Biden could serve another four years had he stayed 330 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 8: in the race, and potentially one. 331 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:04,719 Speaker 5: Well, I'm not going to speculate, As I said, I 332 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 5: think his record is a stellar one and he'll go 333 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 5: down in history as a really outstanding president. 334 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, sack of crap. 335 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 2: He is what a line bag of feces, honest to God, Well, 336 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 2: he's just He's an absurd buffoon, a clown. Chuck Schumer, 337 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 2: Senate minority leader. This is what we have in the country. 338 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 2: He's the Senate manar leader. He lies for years, and 339 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 2: then he lies about lying, and then when he was 340 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 2: cornered to tell a super duper whopper lie that Biden 341 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 2: could serve another four years, he finally had to back down. 342 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: I don't want to speculator, I red God, what. 343 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 2: A bunch of coloss of morons. They're so dishonest. And 344 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 2: here in California we got our own specific set, starting 345 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 2: with Gavin News absolute dishonesty. Well, we're going to delve 346 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 2: into the seventeen year boondoggle. Now, seventeen years of waiting 347 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 2: for high speed rail to get built, billions and billions 348 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 2: have been spent. Nobody knows where the money is. There's 349 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 2: there's there's there's no railroad track leading from anywhere to anywhere. 350 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 2: Right now, we're gonna we're News. I'm supposed to speak 351 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 2: on the matter. Coming up at three three o'clock. Next, 352 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 2: we're going to talk to State Senator Susette Martinez. Valaderis 353 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,879 Speaker 2: from Santa Clarita, she is going to talk to us 354 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,959 Speaker 2: about the high speed rail funding. 355 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: When when's it? Finally they're gonna pull the plug and 356 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 1: give up on this nonsense. 357 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am. 358 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: Six forty on every day from one until four. 359 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 2: Miss anything after four o'clock John Cobelts show on demand 360 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 2: on the iHeart app. Coming up after two o'clock, We're 361 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 2: gonna talk with Alex Stone from ABC News. He's got 362 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 2: more information on Matthew Livelsberger and his life. He's the 363 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 2: guy who shot himself and blew up his cyber truck 364 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 2: in front of that Trump hotel in Las Vegas. There 365 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 2: is more information coming out. Is just a really sad case. 366 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 2: Looks like both guys, both guys, the one of New 367 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 2: Orleans who did that mass killing, and then this character 368 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 2: in Las Vegas, former military who lost their minds. We'll 369 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 2: get to that now. High speed Rail Newsom has decided 370 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 2: to open twenty twenty five by highlighting the biggest boom 371 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 2: dooggle I think in California public works history, probably in 372 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 2: the nation's public works history, and that is the many 373 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 2: multi billions that have been blown on high speed rail 374 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 2: with nothing to show for it. He's gonna has an 375 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 2: announcement to make after three o'clock. Where it is they're 376 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 2: betting begging the federal government to send them some money 377 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 2: before Biden Lee's office because Trump and Musk are likely 378 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 2: to shut down the high speed rail spigott in terms 379 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 2: of federal dollars. Let's talk with Schuseette Martinez Valadarius. She's 380 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 2: a Republican from Santa Clarita State senator. He's got some 381 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 2: information on all this, Suzan, how are you hi? 382 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 10: Hello John, Happy New Year to you and thanks for 383 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 10: having me on Happy New Year. 384 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 2: What's going on three o'clock news? I'm supposed to give 385 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 2: some public statement. Do you know what this is about? 386 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 5: Now? 387 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 10: Well, your guess is as good as mine. But what 388 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 10: I can probably guess here is that he is going 389 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 10: to be yes begging the Feds for money as well 390 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 10: as trying to allocate more of our hard earned tax 391 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 10: dollars to this high speed ripoff. It really has been 392 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 10: a ripoff to the voters of California. 393 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: Whatever he is. 394 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 10: Going to propose, we know it's going to be a 395 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 10: waste of resources when Californians need him to be focusing 396 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 10: on the issues the mandate they just gave us this 397 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,959 Speaker 10: past November on affordability. He's going to be squandering more 398 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 10: of our money. 399 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 2: We could go through like a top twenty list of 400 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 2: issues in California that normal people care about. High speed 401 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 2: rail is not on the list, except for all the 402 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 2: billions that have been wasted. But there's nobody crying after 403 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 2: this thing. This doesn't have a constituency, so. 404 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 10: No, I mean, is the governor's pet project. He is 405 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 10: obsessed with this. And I'm sure you know this, John, 406 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 10: When the voters originally approved this, we approved a bond 407 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 10: for over nine billion dollars. Now then they came back 408 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 10: and said it was going to cost thirty three billion dollars, 409 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 10: and now we're at one hundred and twenty eight billion dollars. 410 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 11: And not one writer has ridden this high speed ripoff 411 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 11: because it's not even done, and it's still the first 412 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 11: piece of it isn't going to be done until twenty 413 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 11: thirty at. 414 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 10: Best, and we know we will see them push that 415 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 10: back further and further as they always do. 416 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: Well they don't. 417 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 10: It's a complete riplof They don't have. 418 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 2: Funding for this, there's no funding in sight. There's no 419 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 2: private money, there's very little federal government money, and even 420 00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 2: that is going to get cut off certainly by Jay 421 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 2: Uary twentieth. 422 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 10: Yeah, there's no money, not even to finish the first 423 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 10: phase you know of this yet alone. The second phase 424 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 10: and the phase that they may end up completing one 425 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 10: hundred and thirty billion dollars later, is going to be 426 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,120 Speaker 10: a rail from Bigger's Field to were said, Well, I'm 427 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 10: in Santa clearly that I'm never going to go drive 428 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 10: to Bakersfield to get to Mersaid for a train ride. 429 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 10: It's just not going to happen. 430 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: Seriously. 431 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 10: Just today earlier, no go ahead. Sorry, as I say, 432 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 10: just today earlier, Kevin Kylie announced that he is has 433 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 10: introduced the no more funds for the California High Speed 434 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 10: Rail because our California delegation of Congress representative, including Kevin Carlei, No, 435 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 10: this is a waste of talks, pay dollars, and the 436 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 10: federal governvation not be bailing this project out by any means. 437 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: What's the motivation for blowing this money? 438 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 2: Is it just to give unions a free pay day? 439 00:23:58,840 --> 00:23:59,239 Speaker 4: You know what? 440 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 10: That is a million That is a billion dollar question there? 441 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,439 Speaker 10: Who's making you know who's making money off of this? 442 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 10: Why have we not seen any meaningful progress since they started? 443 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 10: And you know, there needs to be an intense audit 444 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 10: invest and an investigation and transparency on where these dollars 445 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 10: are being spent. And I have a feeling if we 446 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 10: do that, we're gonna, you know, uncover some pretty nasty 447 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 10: and and uh spending here. 448 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: It's got to be corruption. Now. 449 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 2: They did an audit a few years ago and they said, well, 450 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 2: we couldn't find any records. 451 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: But like the money just evaporated. 452 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 2: It's not even like wasted or stolen, it's it doesn't 453 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 2: exist anymore. 454 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 10: That's the m of how they operate with our finances 455 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 10: here in California. We've seen that with the homeless, the 456 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 10: billions we've spent on homeless, no accountability, no transparency, no 457 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 10: no political will at all from those controlling Sacramento to 458 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,400 Speaker 10: actually look at and and and follow the money at all. 459 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 2: It's astonishing just how much money they've blown over such 460 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 2: a long period of time and and and nobody, nobody 461 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:11,719 Speaker 2: can stop them. 462 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 10: I mean, and you know what, I'm hopeful, John, though, 463 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 10: because it is a little daunting when you see, you know, 464 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 10: projects like this that are just you know, wasting money 465 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 10: while voters are hurting, while voters are worried about paying 466 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 10: Californians are worried about paying their utilities, you know, putting 467 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 10: gas in their car, and to have have a project 468 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 10: that even if the first phase is done is completed, 469 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 10: which I highly doubt that will happen, that'll be you know, 470 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 10: we won't be selling any gas powered vehicles in California anymore. 471 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 10: So what what CO two emissions need to be reduced 472 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 10: with the high speed rail if we're not going to 473 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 10: have any gas powered vehicles. It just it makes no 474 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 10: sense to me. It's a complete waste of money. It's 475 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 10: somebody getting rich here, and we're going to get to 476 00:25:59,160 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 10: the bottom of it. 477 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 2: All right, Suzette, thanks very much for coming on. Maybe 478 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 2: this is the year finally gets God. All right, Suzette 479 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 2: Martinez valaderis from Santa Clarita State Senator. On this never 480 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 2: ending waste of billions and billions of your tax dollars. 481 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: Outside of bribing. 482 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 2: Some of the unions that support Newsom and the Democrats, 483 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 2: there's no reason for this thing still to live. Nobody 484 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 2: wants it, there's no need for it, and the price 485 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 2: tag really she was right. 486 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: And the price tag. They asked the state. 487 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 2: To borrow nine billion dollars and this thing is going 488 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 2: to cost one hundred and twenty eight billion minimum. It's 489 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 2: going to be a lot more than that. And I 490 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 2: don't think there's a market for Bakersfield to Mercete. 491 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 1: I'm going out on a limb. There is no market. 492 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 2: There's nobody standing in line to catch a train from 493 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 2: Bakersfield to Mercette. All right, two o'clock Alex Stone on 494 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 2: the lunatic who shot himself and then blew up his 495 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 2: cyber truck in front of Trump's hotel. 496 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 497 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 4: six forty. 498 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four. You could follow us 499 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,679 Speaker 2: at John Cobelt Radio on social media. Do you have 500 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 2: wamos where you are? They're all over Santa Monica and 501 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 2: West LA. 502 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: Do you know? 503 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 3: I was just thinking about that this morning because I 504 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 3: saw that news story. I have not seen one. 505 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:28,479 Speaker 1: Really No. 506 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 2: I'm seeing them almost every day, and they freaked me 507 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 2: out every time when I when they're on the road 508 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:38,959 Speaker 2: in front of me, I try to pass them as 509 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 2: quickly as possible. I just don't trust them, and I'm 510 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:49,160 Speaker 2: waiting for the bad guys to hack these weymos. That's 511 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 2: got to happen. And you know, some poor person is 512 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 2: going to be in the backseat trying to get trying 513 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 2: to get home, and a hacker as a prank is 514 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 2: going to hijack and next thing you know, she's going 515 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 2: to be in a high speed a high speed chase. 516 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 1: On the four h five. 517 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 3: That's terrifying. 518 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's two way most stories, there's the one 519 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 2: that you just mentioned and then there's a second one. 520 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 2: Let's play the first one. This is I mean, this 521 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 2: is funny. There's a there's a guy who was from Arizona. Oh, 522 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 2: he's in Arizona in Scottsdale and he wanted to go 523 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 2: to the airport to fly back to LA. So he's 524 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,359 Speaker 2: an LA guy in Scottsdale, Arizona listening to this report 525 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 2: from KTLA. 526 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 10: Self driving cars promise convenience, right and innovation. But for 527 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 10: one LA man, a recent ride in a way More 528 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 10: vehicle turned into a bizarre and really frustrating ordeal. 529 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 3: It happened this week in Arizona. 530 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 8: Instead of a smooth trip back. 531 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 10: To the airport, the car glitches driving in circles for minutes, 532 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,719 Speaker 10: leaving him stranded and dizzy. 533 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 8: Passenger Mike Johns says. 534 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 10: The company's customer service only made things worse, and. 535 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 12: It was just going in the circles, like around the 536 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 12: fifth or sixth times. That feeling was very uncomfortable where 537 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 12: you're strapped in, you can't open the door, and this 538 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 12: vehicle is just going in circles. So somebody obviously at 539 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 12: the control tower realized that there's a malfunction, and then 540 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 12: they're trying to fix it. But the kicker is they're 541 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 12: trying to fix it and they're trying to use my 542 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 12: phone to fix the problem. 543 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: So it wasn't simple. 544 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 6: John says the experience raises concerns about safety. 545 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,959 Speaker 8: And nation and autonomous vehicles. Waimo has yet to respond 546 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 8: to John's complaint. 547 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 6: Ktola also reached out to the company, but we have 548 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 6: not heard back. 549 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 2: How many times do reporters every day type the phrase 550 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 2: raises concerns? I read that all day in the headlines, 551 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 2: raises concerns. Well, now you're trapped in a car, it's 552 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 2: spinning around and around and around ten times you call 553 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 2: their customer service and they need to use your phone 554 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 2: to fix the problem. So they don't have any control 555 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 2: over one of their cars. They can't send a sit 556 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 2: a little to stop it. To break it, you have 557 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 2: to with your phone. 558 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: How does that work? He said he was getting dizzy. 559 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 3: I'd be getting dizzy too. 560 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 2: You imagine around and around and around and and he 561 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 2: could have get could. 562 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 3: Have gotten killed, got to jump out of the car. 563 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 2: If there were other cars on the roadway. I don't 564 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 2: know exactly where this thing started spinning around. But the 565 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 2: irony is he's the guy who got trapped. Is the 566 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 2: founder of an AI strategy company. Well, this is a 567 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 2: little AI that went haywire. The other story is there's 568 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 2: a way mo and some criminal jumped behind the wheel 569 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 2: and tried to steal it and drive off with it. 570 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 2: Uh Thursday, this happened in downtown LA. Guy breaks into 571 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 2: a Waymo and drive away. The police showed up and 572 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 2: got the man out of the car. 573 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: And what happened? 574 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 2: And when there's a passenger inside and somebody wants to 575 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 2: carjack the thing, Now, I guess he wasn't going anywhere 576 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 2: or he wasn't able to go anywhere with it. And 577 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 2: and Waimo claims only a handful of people have tried 578 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 2: to take over the vehicles. Well, it's only a handful 579 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 2: until these news stories hit, and then all kinds of 580 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 2: goons and pranksters are going to want to want to 581 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 2: copy the h copy the attempt. The cars are equipped 582 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 2: to move evasively, honk, or make other sounds, including telling 583 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 2: people outside the vehicle that nine one one is being called. 584 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 2: So that's their protection. When you have crazy guy trying 585 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 2: to jump in the car and take it over, they'll 586 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 2: play a recording telling you that nine one one is 587 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 2: being called. Oh, like, somebody's gonna answer nine one one 588 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 2: here in LA like the police. Yeah, like the police 589 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 2: are going to show up. I called nine a couple 590 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 2: of weeks ago, Yeah, and I got it. 591 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: Well, what was it? What was it? 592 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 9: Oh? 593 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 594 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 2: I was in a bagel shop in Santa Monica. Crazy 595 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 2: guy comes in. Crazy guy and he's he's he's jerking 596 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 2: his body left and right like he was having some 597 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,960 Speaker 2: kind of spasm, like like some kind of drug induced fit. 598 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 2: He looked like he had he was having an epileptic fit. 599 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 2: And he's he's shouting stuff incoherent stuff. 600 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 3: Big guy, did he threaten you? 601 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. When I got on with nine 602 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 1: one one. 603 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 2: The woman was interrogating me, like she wasn't gonna automatically 604 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 2: send a cop there to get the crazy guy out. Well, well, 605 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 2: what's he doing, sir, Well tell me what's he doing. 606 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 2: She wanted to know that this was a threat by 607 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 2: her standards, or by the standard she has in her manual. 608 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 1: And and it's. 609 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 2: Like, well, he's jerking from side to side, and he's 610 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 2: shouting all kinds of craz nonsense. 611 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: But that's at the moment, in about ten seconds. 612 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 2: Who knows what he's gonna do because he's unpredictable and erratic. 613 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 3: So what were you told? 614 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 2: Well, she says, well, hold on, and then she sends 615 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 2: me another person. 616 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: So I got questioned again, and I said. 617 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 2: You know, by time you people get your act together, 618 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 2: we could all be stabbed. 619 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 3: I hope you really said that I did good for you, I. 620 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 2: Said, I said, this is well to tell me the story, 621 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 2: I said, I just told the story. 622 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 1: Well, you didn't tell it to me. 623 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 3: That's infuriating when they do that. 624 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: Well, I told it to the other woman. And by 625 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 1: now we could all be dead. 626 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 2: What a bunch of stupid asses running run in this city, 627 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 2: in this county in Santa Monica, what's wrong with you? 628 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 3: So did they end up sending anybody? 629 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 2: They sent me a text later saying that they sent 630 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 2: someone but they couldn't find anything because he'd wandered out. 631 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, they weren't asking you so many questions and got 632 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 3: there earlier. They could have all with the situation. 633 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, they only I guess what they need is some 634 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 2: kind of proof so that they could arrest him. 635 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 1: It's like, no, no, what you have to do is 636 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,399 Speaker 1: break up the moment here. 637 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 3: They rather you have been shot in the leg. 638 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 2: Right right, And that's what I guess I have to say. 639 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 2: And then you know they charged me with calling it 640 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 2: a false crime. Yeah, I mean that's abominable. If I 641 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 2: say there's something frightening going on, there's something frightening going on, 642 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,799 Speaker 2: all right. Most people don't spend their day calling nine 643 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 2: one one with nonsense. Oh God, that pissed me off. 644 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 2: But that's that's Santa Monica for you. So I'm never 645 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:45,880 Speaker 2: getting it away now when we come back, all right, 646 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Alex Stone. On New Year's Day, 647 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 2: you had the New Orleans situation we all know about. 648 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 2: There there also was the cyber truck exploding in front 649 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 2: of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. I thought it 650 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,840 Speaker 2: was I guess everybody thought it was a statement against 651 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 2: Trump and Elon Musk, right, that would be the obvious, 652 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 2: except this guy was a Trump fan and he was 653 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,880 Speaker 2: driving a cyber truck. But I think it was a 654 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,640 Speaker 2: statement that you know, he's well, he's got He may 655 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 2: have PTSD military guy. The one in New Orleans is 656 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:23,480 Speaker 2: a military guy as well, and this guy probably heard. 657 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 1: Broke up with his wife. She left him. 658 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 2: He was running around on her and looks like he 659 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 2: was crazy. In any event, the investigators of more information, 660 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 2: Alex Stone from ABC News is going to come on 661 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,200 Speaker 2: and talk about it after three o'clock. We are going 662 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 2: to see what Gavin Newsom has to announce about high 663 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 2: speed rail. I think this should be the year in 664 00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 2: California we stopped putting up with all nonsense like this 665 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 2: is it. The rest of the country has moved on 666 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,160 Speaker 2: to a saner way of life, and a lot of 667 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 2: stuff is coming to an end. The corporations, they're getting 668 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 2: out of wool politics, they're getting out. 669 00:35:58,840 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 1: Of DEI nine. 670 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 2: Since Trump is going to clean out a lot of 671 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 2: the idiocy. Oh, we got to talk about Biden on 672 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,840 Speaker 2: the way out shutting down all the oil natural gas 673 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,839 Speaker 2: drilling in the future along the entire United States coast. 674 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,319 Speaker 1: But I mean, all this stuff has to end. 675 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,759 Speaker 2: This entire era, this progressive era, totally a failure, totally discredited, 676 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,200 Speaker 2: totally a pain in the ass, and only here in 677 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,879 Speaker 2: California is going to keep rolling on. So we got 678 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 2: to get to all that as well. Deborah Mark Live 679 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 2: in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been 680 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,480 Speaker 2: listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always 681 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,160 Speaker 2: hear the show live on KFI Am six forty from 682 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,920 Speaker 2: one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, 683 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 2: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.