1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 2: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel 3 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app every day from one until four. 4 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 2: You could hear the radio show live and whatever you 5 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: miss you go to the podcast John Cobelt Show on 6 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeart app posted after four o'clock. So 7 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 2: the last few days there's been building drama which is 8 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 2: going to affect California potentially and Texas. The governor Greg 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 2: Abbott wants the congressional districts redrawn. Normally they're redrawn every 10 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 2: ten years after the census, but Abbot wanted to redrawn 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 2: now and after they drew new lines. He hopes it 12 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 2: leads to more Republican congress people coming from Texas next year. 13 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 2: So the Republicans put the crafted together a plan. The 14 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 2: Democrats in the legislature in Texas said no, and they 15 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 2: took off. They took off for Illinois and Deny the 16 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 2: Republicans at Quorn and now Abbott is threatening to have 17 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 2: them all arrested and to kick them all out of office. 18 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 2: Supposedly he's got the power to remove them from office 19 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:23,639 Speaker 2: for abandonment. Now, how this affects California is Newsom wants 20 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 2: to do the same thing in this state to ensure 21 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 2: that there's almost all Democrats from California going to Congress 22 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 2: and a few are no Republicans in retaliation. So let's 23 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 2: get Ben Single on the ABC News deputy director, deputy 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 2: political director in Washington. Ben, how are you. 25 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Thanks for the surprise promotion. 26 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: All right, I'm sorry about that. My apologies to your 27 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 2: political director. Well, Ben, I don't know to the minute 28 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 2: where this story is. They all the Democratic legislators went 29 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 2: to Illinois to seek refuge. Are they coming back? Are 30 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 2: they listening to his threats first? 31 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: Right now? The answer is no. They have made clear 32 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: that they've planned to stay outside of Texas for at 33 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: least two weeks. That's so they can wait out this 34 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: special session of the state legislature that the governor has 35 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: called to pass this new congressional mass that they opposed 36 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: that would give Republicans as many as five new seats. 37 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: So that's the short term strategy. But is it a 38 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: long term plan? The problem here is that Abbott can 39 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: call a new special session after this one expires. So 40 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: you know, our Democrats really willing to spend the next 41 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: year and a half outside their state to prevent this 42 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,119 Speaker 1: new map from getting an active It's hard to see 43 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,679 Speaker 1: that happening. They have been cagy about how long they're 44 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: willing to keep this up. And I think it's also 45 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: worth noting that, unlike in the past when they've done this, 46 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: there's now a five hundred dollars a day fine that 47 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: each of these members incurs. And you know, this is 48 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: part time work they do in the state House. They 49 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: only make about seventy five one hundred dollars a year 50 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: from being state legislators. So those finds can start to 51 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: add up and put some real stress on these members 52 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: and pressure them to return to Austin. 53 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 2: While you were talking, both Fox and CNN are running 54 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 2: graphics saying that Abbott is ordering the arrest of the 55 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 2: Democratic lawmakers who fled, So that work is he going 56 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:39,839 Speaker 2: to send. 57 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: So that's how he's responded today. He you know, they 58 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: officially tried to meet in the gavel in the state House, 59 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: but they lacked the quorum, they didn't have enough members, 60 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: and they authorized, you know, civil arrest warrants for these 61 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: members who were outside of the state. And the governor 62 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: has echoedet the only problem he has is that this 63 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: is why they left the state in the first place, 64 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: because the governor does not have the authority outside of 65 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: state lines to compel them to get law enforcement to 66 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: bring them back to the state house. They are beyond 67 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: his reach right now. Is he did the same thing 68 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one where Democrats left the state to 69 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: stop the Republican from taking up a voting bill, and 70 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: you know, his hands are tied. Now. The question is, 71 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: you know, does he request some sort of federal support, 72 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: federal assistance from the Trump administration. We know President Trump 73 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: is the reason why they're doing all this. He told 74 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: Republicans in Texas to redraw their maps in the middle 75 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: of the decade instead of waiting until you know, every 76 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: ten years as his most states do, as all states do, 77 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: because he wanted more Republican seats. So I think that's 78 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: the big question going forward. How far is Governor Habbitt 79 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: willing to escalate this, and if he does, how far 80 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: is President Trump willing to escalate this? Will there be 81 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: an attempt to bring these Democrats to heal at the 82 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: federal level. I think that's kind of the big question 83 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: at this hour. After this, you. 84 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 2: Know, call for their arrest, trumpet jurisdiction in a state matter, 85 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 2: and what like, what could he do to these democratic legislators. 86 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: Well, we've talked to experts about this and most of 87 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: them say, no, he doesn't. But you remember this as 88 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: a president who sort of defied the conventional wisdom about 89 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: his office and sent the National Guard into Los Angeles 90 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: to deal with immigration, even though judges on several levels 91 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: that he did not have the power to do so. 92 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: So this is a president in an administration that has 93 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: emboldened to expand executive power. And I think there is 94 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 1: a real question here how far are they wanted to 95 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: push it on this issue and what would that look like. 96 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,039 Speaker 1: It's really untested waters if they decide to go that way, 97 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: even if you know lawyers that we spoke to say 98 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: that he does not have the ability to do so. 99 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 2: Does Greg Abbott have the power to have them expelled 100 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 2: from the legislature claiming abandonment? I read that was the 101 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 2: next step. 102 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: Well, that's a good question. He's saying he does, and 103 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 1: he's pointing to a non bind legal opinion that the 104 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: Attorney General issued in twenty twenty one about the responsibilities 105 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: and duties of Republican lawmakers. The Attorney General Ken Paxton 106 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: was asked about this today and he basically said, it's 107 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: a really complicated process. It's a long drawn out thing 108 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: that would be challenged in court, tested legally, and it's 109 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: not as cut and dry as the governor may be 110 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,679 Speaker 1: suggesting it is when he said, you have the power 111 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: to do this. So that's another new frontier of this 112 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: fight here, and it's another untested one. We'll see how 113 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 1: far this goes and if he tries to go to 114 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 1: court to make his case. 115 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 2: So here in California, you have I knew someone's to 116 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 2: retaliate and have the lines redrawn. Now, normally they wouldn't 117 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 2: get redrawn until after the twenty thirty census, in time 118 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 2: for the twenty thirty two elections, and we have a 119 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 2: constitucial amendment that the voters passed years ago saying only 120 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 2: an independent commission can redraw the lines. And he's trying 121 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 2: to get a ballot initiative for us to vote on 122 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 2: soon so that we change the district lines. Now, I 123 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 2: mean that is that legal for him to do this? 124 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: Well, it's a much more onerous process in California because, 125 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: as you mentioned, they have this nonpartisan commission independent commission 126 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: rather that draws up the the congressional districts, so they 127 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: will Basically, they are saying they would have to go 128 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: back to voters, perhaps in a special election, and get 129 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: permission to do this. Now they claim they're on legal 130 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: ground to do that that you know, if they put 131 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: forward some proposal to suspend their independent process until the 132 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: end of the decade, they can do this in the 133 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: interim to respond to Texas. But again, that's another new, 134 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: untested battle. And we've already heard from California Republicans who 135 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: say they will take this to court. So it's another 136 00:07:55,560 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 1: it's another example of how all these unprecedented, extraordinary efforts 137 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: to sort of exercise raw political power are leading to 138 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: these new, unexpected fights in court in all these different states. 139 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 2: It seems like the laws aren't really written to deal 140 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 2: with this. It's never happened before. 141 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: I think there's a lot. I think we're seeing a 142 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: lot of things that haven't happened before that are getting 143 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: tested in court on all manner of issues. And it's 144 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: happening all across the country. And the challenge here is that, 145 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: you know, Congress has you know, been pushed to do this. 146 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: Democrats have called for this for years, but for a 147 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: number of reasons, they haven't done it when they were 148 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 1: in power, and Republicans have not supported either to standardize 149 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: the process of redistricting and make a one size fits 150 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: all model for every state. Congress has not done that. 151 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: So absolutely federal standard for doing this, I guess they can. 152 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: I mean they can. 153 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 2: Yes, it's a federal election because normally the federal government 154 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 2: can interfere in state elections, but this would be for 155 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 2: federal officials, so they could do that. 156 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think I think the government could 157 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: set forward to stand by which every state conducts it's 158 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: redistricting and drawing of congressional districts. But they have not 159 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: done that, And because in that absence, you've seen the 160 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: states sort of, you know, do their own processes for 161 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: doing this. In Republican states, it's mostly left in the 162 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: hand of the legislature. In democratic states at the mix 163 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: states like Maryland and Illinois, it's done by Democrats in 164 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: the state house. And in states like New York, New Jersey, California, 165 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,199 Speaker 1: there are there have been efforts to set aside and 166 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: have commissions to do this. Ohio is another state within 167 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 1: they've tried to do that and try to take this 168 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: out of the state House to mixed results. 169 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 2: Really, Ben Siegel, thanks for coming on with us ABC 170 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 2: News Deputy political director in Washington. Thank you, all right, 171 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 2: Well we come back. Your brain may be turning to plastic. 172 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 2: There's a new study out and it looks like all 173 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 2: the plastic that you ingest from the moment you're born 174 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:04,319 Speaker 2: till you die is actually changing the inside wiring of 175 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 2: your body. And there's a long list of potential diseases 176 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 2: and medical conditions that you can get now because of 177 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 2: the accumulation of plastic. You may be half plastic by 178 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 2: this I I'm sure I am. 179 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 3: That will explain a lot of things that are going 180 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,439 Speaker 3: on in my life. 181 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 2: Well, we'll get into the details coming up. 182 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six. 183 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 2: Forty moistline is for Friday eight seven seven moist eighty 184 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 2: six eight seven seven moist eighty six. You can't type letters. 185 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 2: It's eight seven seven sixty six four seven eight eighty six, 186 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:52,959 Speaker 2: usually talkback feature on the iHeart Radio app U. There 187 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 2: is a I was gonna be careful because I could 188 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 2: I could read this story two ways, like for for 189 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 2: long time time. You heard them. You heard the media 190 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 2: and the activists pushing the idea that you shouldn't eat 191 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 2: meat and you shouldn't eat me because it's not healthy 192 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 2: for you, it'll give you all kinds of health issues, 193 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 2: and a lot of that turned out to be overblown nonsense. Really, 194 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 2: what's driving a lot of the anti meat activism is 195 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:27,079 Speaker 2: because they claim the cows cause climate change because cows 196 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 2: eat all day and then they pass gas, which a 197 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 2: big portion of cow gas is methane, and the methane 198 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 2: is even worse for the climate, they claim, than than 199 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 2: carbon dioxide, which is the usual villain. And it took 200 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 2: a while, but I read enough articles and I finally thought, oh, 201 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 2: I get it. It's not because you care about my health, 202 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 2: because they don't care about my health, and it's just overblown. 203 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 2: We've been eating meat for thousands of years. It actually 204 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 2: keeps most of the world alive. What it was was 205 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 2: part of the climate change religion. Same thing with this 206 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 2: story about plastics. May be true, maybe not, or maybe 207 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:18,559 Speaker 2: another way to scare people into saluting the climate change religion. 208 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 2: So this is in the medical journal Lancing, And I 209 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 2: used to believe medical journals and then they become severely 210 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 2: politicized and woke. They claim in this report there is 211 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 2: a grave, growing underrecognized danger to health. It's costing the 212 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 2: world up one and a half trillion dollars a year. 213 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 2: And apparently this week there's talks in Geneva trying to 214 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 2: get a worldwide treaty on plastic pollution. They have delegates 215 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 2: from one hundred and eighty nations. They've been trying on 216 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 2: trying this treaty repeatedly over the years, that it always 217 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 2: fails because the way you can't really you can't really 218 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 2: live without oil and gas, and you can't live without plastics. 219 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 2: But they claim that plastics cause disease and death from 220 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 2: infancy to old age. How about that no nuance here? 221 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 2: You would think we'd all be dead by now. 222 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 3: Like I was gonna say, what about the people that 223 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 3: are one hundred hundred and five. 224 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 2: Well, maybe their innerds are made of plastic, but maybe 225 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 2: that works. Well, maybe they found evidence for multiple health 226 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 2: effects at all stages of human life. Infants and young 227 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 2: children are at risk. You could end up with polycystic 228 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 2: ovary syndrome, endometriosis, which affects women's reproductive parts. Perinatal effects, miscarriages, 229 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 2: reduced birth weight, malformations of the genital organs. Oh, Harvey 230 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:58,079 Speaker 2: Harvey's mom. Yeah, Harvey's mom got too much plastic. That 231 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 2: was a long time ago. Diminute, diminished. Now we're into 232 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 2: you know what might be ailing you, diminished cognitive function? 233 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 3: Thanks John, true, but. 234 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 2: Thanks including IQ lots. Okay, two, here you are insulin resistance, hypertension, 235 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 2: obesity in children, type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, obesity, 236 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 2: and cancer and adults. Holy mackerel. It's from all the 237 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 2: plastic uh, and they're calling on the world to come 238 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 2: together and find common ground. It's tiny pieces of plastic, 239 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 2: microplastics that UH lives in all our bodies. They just 240 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 2: slash around in our bloodstream. They collect in our brains. 241 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 3: Okay, let me ask you a question. When you heat 242 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 3: up food in the microwave, do you put it in plastic? 243 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 2: Well, I don't. I don't eat up food very much 244 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 2: because I don't like warmed over food. But if we 245 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 2: order out and bring it in and heat it up, 246 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 2: well it's in those plastic like trays. 247 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, you need to take it out. That's one way 248 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 3: of doing something. I mean, I will not eat up 249 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 3: food in plastic. 250 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 2: Well, something would happen to the plastic, right, would it 251 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 2: start to melt at some point? Like I know, not 252 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 2: to put our plastic dishes in the microwave, right because 253 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 2: they would they turn into some kind of plastic good 254 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 2: which is probably not good for you. The amount of 255 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 2: plastic produced by the world, all right in nineteen fifty 256 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 2: two million tons. In twenty twenty two, four hundred and 257 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 2: seventy five million tons, four hundred seventy five million tons 258 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 2: of plastic reproduce, and the number is going to triple 259 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 2: by twenty sixty. Hardly any of it is recycled because 260 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 2: there's nowhere to sell the recycled plastic. Two plastic is 261 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 2: made from fossil fuels. See here we go. The plastic 262 00:15:54,480 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 2: crisis is connected to the climate crisis. There's no understating 263 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 2: the magnitude of the climate crisis and the plastic crisis. 264 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 2: According to one of these officials, Philip Landrigan, a doctor 265 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 2: and researcher at Boston College, they're causing disease, death, and 266 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 2: disability and tens of thousands of people. See, you don't 267 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 2: eat plastic. Plastic is made with the petroleum products the 268 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 2: petroleum products are causing climate change, so we're not only 269 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 2: killing the atmosphere, we're killing ourselves. They're trying every angle possible. 270 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 2: They're so crazed about this. That's one of the things 271 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 2: I'm enjoying about Trump. He's dismantling the entire climate change industry. 272 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 2: I mean, the whole thing is getting bulldozed. The other day, 273 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 2: the EPA announced that within a matter of months they 274 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 2: are going to just shut down their whole climate change department, 275 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 2: and anything that's been put out out about climate change 276 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 2: being this existential threat no longer, no longer their policy. 277 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 2: Everything's being canceled, not their policy, no longer. They're finding 278 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 2: nothing they believed it, and nothing they're going to ever 279 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 2: talk about again. So this is like the last gasp 280 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 2: here this this plastic conference in Geneva. Well, look, the 281 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 2: IQ is pretty low as it is in this country. 282 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 2: I don't think losing a couple of points going to 283 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 2: make a difference, like it's already too low. 284 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 3: But the cancer possibilities and all, you know, cognitive decline, diabetes, 285 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 3: you know. 286 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 2: I'm kind of rooting for cognitive decline. I want to 287 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 2: get to a day where I don't notice as much. 288 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 3: Oh, that'll happen. 289 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,199 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not bothered as much by everything. I 290 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 2: want to just be one of those guys that sits 291 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 2: and just watches the birds and just have like a 292 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 2: silly smile on my face. Then you won't be doing 293 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 2: this show and not irritated by the word I don't 294 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 2: that's thing. So you want to go to Bidenville, I 295 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:05,880 Speaker 2: want to go to Bidenville. That's right. There was part 296 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,120 Speaker 2: of me watching Biden's jealous. That's not a bad state 297 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 2: to the end. You know, he doesn't look with all 298 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 2: the all the crap that was going on in the world. 299 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 2: He didn't seem bothered at the end. In the last 300 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 2: few months, he's wandering around get lost. Well that would 301 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 2: be scary, but not not to the person with the 302 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:27,719 Speaker 2: with the dimension. 303 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 3: You don't you. 304 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 2: Don't know, you're lost. I remember he got he got 305 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 2: lost at one of those European conferences and they were 306 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 2: trying to arrange everybody for a group picture. 307 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember seeing that. 308 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 2: He and they ran some video and people start going, 309 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 2: where where's Joe, Where's Joe? And a voice said, he's 310 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 2: over there behind the tree, and he was. 311 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,120 Speaker 3: He was standing by I remember I'm thinking when somebody 312 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 3: is lost, though, if they really they have that cognitive 313 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 3: decline and they know that they're lost, but they don't 314 00:18:58,680 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 3: know where they're going. 315 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 2: Scar probably a transition period where you know you're lost 316 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 2: and you can't panic, and then there's a period where 317 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 2: you don't know you're lost and it doesn't really matter 318 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,439 Speaker 2: and you're blissfully again. That's right. You just you know, 319 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 2: you see a squirrel, you follow the squirrel. See a bird, 320 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,880 Speaker 2: you follow the bird. That's where I'm going. 321 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 4: Okay, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI 322 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 4: AM six forty. 323 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 2: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We are going 324 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 2: to talk to Michael Monks after three o'clock because the 325 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:41,199 Speaker 2: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Trump administration. Remember, 326 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 2: there was a restraining order against the immigration raids that 327 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 2: were going on in the streets of Los Angeles and elsewhere, 328 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 2: and a US District judge and now the Ninth Circuit 329 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 2: Court of Appeals panel both said that you were rounding 330 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 2: up people without reasonable suspicion that they were here illegal. 331 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 2: And today the ACLU and others who had filed a suit, 332 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 2: we're going to have a news conference. Michael Monks has 333 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 2: talk all about this issue coming up after three o'clock. 334 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 2: All right, you may have heard these headlines, and there 335 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 2: is one headline in the La Times that's really simple 336 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 2: and it's true. The Altadena fire. This fire could have 337 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 2: been prevented. If you haven't heard by now, it's almost 338 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 2: certain that the Altadena fire was started by an abandoned 339 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 2: power line that somehow got re energized. That's a bit 340 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,880 Speaker 2: of a mystery. They think something similar may have happened 341 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 2: in the middle of the Palisades fire as well. And 342 00:20:52,480 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 2: there's these old transmission lines that chriss crossed the whole state. Now, 343 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 2: the last time this Alta Dino line was used was 344 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy one. Seriously, that's the last time it transported electricity. 345 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 2: It's called the Mesas Silmour Transmission Line. And the bad 346 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 2: guys here is Edison. It was Edison's line and they 347 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 2: hadn't used it in fifty four years, but they kept 348 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 2: it around because hey, maybe we'll need it someday. Now. 349 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 2: For twenty five years, the state government has tried to 350 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 2: force these power companies to shut down these lines and 351 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 2: tear them down rather than let it sit there for 352 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 2: fifty years and take a risk, just get rid of them. 353 00:21:54,880 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 2: Because these lines are not getting maintained, and if there's 354 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 2: some kind of fluke or some kind of storm, they'll 355 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 2: fall to the ground, and if they somehow get energized, 356 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 2: they start a massive wilefire. That's what wiped out a 357 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 2: big chunk of Altadena. It was nine thousand, four hundred homes, 358 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 2: killed nineteen people, ninety four hundred homes and other structures. 359 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 2: So get this. This is how corrupt the government is. 360 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 2: If only people knew. If you listen to this show, 361 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:36,360 Speaker 2: you know that Sacramento, La is thick with political corruption. 362 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 2: Everything is payoffs. Well, state regulators knew in two thousand 363 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 2: and one that old transmission lines could set off wildfires, 364 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 2: and they proposed a safety rule that would have forced 365 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 2: Edison to remove the lines unless they could prove they 366 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 2: would use them in the future. And the electrical utilities 367 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 2: fought this like crazy. And the polite term is lobbying, 368 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 2: but really what it is is bribery. Because really a 369 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 2: grown man, a politician, he could withstand an angry phone call. 370 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 2: It's not that big a deal. But if somebody's bringing 371 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 2: a big check, or they're offering a big wire deposit 372 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 2: to your campaign or maybe some other mysterious bank account 373 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 2: that you'd like them to fill. That's not lobbying, this bribery, 374 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 2: and you're not being persuaded by their arguments. You're saying, Wow, 375 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 2: that's a lot of money there, I'd like that. So 376 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 2: by two thousand and five they were supposed to have 377 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 2: this new law, and then the legislature caved in and 378 00:23:55,160 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 2: they did whatever the utility companies wanted. When the revised 379 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 2: rule was finally agreed on, it allowed utilities to keep 380 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 2: the abandoned lines in place until the executives, not the government, 381 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 2: till the executives decided they were permanently abandoned. And one 382 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,640 Speaker 2: of those lines affected by this ruling, nineteen seventy one 383 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 2: MESA Silmar line, was the line that started the Altadena fire. 384 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 2: There was a they tried again a year ago. State 385 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 2: Public Utilities Commission wrote a rule that would have put 386 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,400 Speaker 2: this line permanently out of service, but they weakened that regulation. 387 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 2: So cal Edison once again protested nineteen seventy one. Now 388 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 2: there's dozens of lawsuits and so cal Edison probably will 389 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,440 Speaker 2: be bailed out. The way PGME was bailed out after 390 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 2: they started Paradise fire, which killed eighty five people. They 391 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 2: talked to an electrical engineer connected to this case, Raffi Stepenion, 392 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 2: and he was part of the Public Utilities Commissioned safety 393 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 2: team that proposed the rule twenty five years ago. Said 394 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 2: the commission members dialed back the regulation because of fierce 395 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 2: lobbying by the utilities. There was a lot of pressure 396 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 2: on us to agree with the utilities on everything. The 397 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 2: utilities pretty much wrote those rules. And again everybody's dancing around. Well, 398 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 2: you could just say no pressure, right guys, some slee's 399 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 2: bag executive or lawyer lobbyist is yelling at you. It's like, 400 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 2: go pound sand buddy, get out of my office. You're 401 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 2: going to kill people. And still Edison is claiming that 402 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 2: some of these lines there's a reasonable chance we're going 403 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 2: to use them in the future. In the case of 404 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 2: the silmar MESA line, it's twenty five years. It was no, 405 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 2: it's fifty fifty five years and used it. This goes 406 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 2: back to two thousand and one, like I said. The 407 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 2: president of the Public Utilities Commission was a woman named 408 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:21,360 Speaker 2: Loretta Lynch, and she remembers stiff resistance from the utility executives. 409 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 2: The folks who were trying to improve safety got pulled 410 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 2: into a back room with a bunch of industry participants, 411 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 2: and what happened there was a final decision that rolled 412 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 2: back safety regulations or they should record all these conversations. 413 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: Huh. 414 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 2: Now we've had twenty years where utilities have repeatedly started 415 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 2: these massive fires over and over and over again, and 416 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 2: you hear squawks about climate change. Oh, fire season is 417 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 2: a year round now. Maybe it's year round now, and 418 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 2: maybe it seems to be almost every year because these 419 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 2: lines weren't maintained, they were neglected, and the whole system's 420 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 2: falling apart. Maybe that's what's happening. And the cover story was, Oh, 421 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 2: and I really believe this. It's not climate change. It's 422 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 2: not a year round fire season. It's that after one 423 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 2: hundred years with no maintenance, now everything's falling apart. Yeah. 424 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 2: You notice the roads are falling apart. You notice the 425 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,360 Speaker 2: source systems or the water main breaks that. 426 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:32,640 Speaker 1: We have. 427 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 2: Because nothing's been maintained, you knowice the sidewalks in LA. 428 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 2: A couple of commissioners who approved the rule included the 429 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 2: chief of staff for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Susan Kennedy, she had 430 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 2: no comment. And another guy, Jeffrey Brown, who was an attorney. 431 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 2: He was on the commission, a cousin of Jerry Brown. 432 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 2: He said he couldn't recall the details. YEA would call 433 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 2: the details, all right, more coming up. Oh, there might 434 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 2: be a new major media outlet in southern California very soon, 435 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,679 Speaker 2: could shake things up. Are the AI. I don't know. 436 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 2: I'll tell you about it though. Coming up. 437 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 438 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 4: six forty. 439 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 2: John coblt moistline for Friday eight seven seven Moist steady 440 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 2: six eight seven seven mois steady six. So you usually 441 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,679 Speaker 2: talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app, and you could follow 442 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 2: us at John Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt Radio. All right, 443 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 2: this could be this could be a big deal. We'll 444 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 2: see you know, we have and I talk about this 445 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 2: almost every day. We have an incredible lack of basic 446 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 2: news coverage in the state and in the city. There's 447 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 2: almost nobody who covers Sacramento here in southern California. There's 448 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 2: hardly anybody that covers Los Angeles. Here in Los Angeles. 449 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 2: You've got I guess what, five news stations on television, 450 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 2: and they have limited staffs and they're mainly interested in 451 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 2: car chases and crime stories, so nobody really covers the 452 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 2: daily government doings, which is why all these a holes 453 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 2: that run our government from canadass on down could do 454 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 2: whatever they want because nobody knows what they're doing and 455 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 2: nobody's paying attention. And if you want to pay attention, 456 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 2: there's very limited places to go. You can come here, 457 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 2: but for those people who don't come here, they don't 458 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 2: know at all. And the La Times, honest to God, 459 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 2: is a bunch of college kids, left wing, progressive college kids. 460 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 2: I look at a lot of their bios. All the 461 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 2: good journalists th had, you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, 462 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 2: were gone. We're dead and they weren't replaced. So there's 463 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 2: a huge gap. There's a huge gap on television, there's 464 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 2: a huge gap in on news sites, newspapers, huge gap 465 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 2: on the radio too outside of US. But the New 466 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 2: York Post is going to try to fill this chasm. 467 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 2: They are coming up with a sister publication called the 468 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 2: California Post, and they have published a mock up and 469 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 2: it would look like the New York Post, except it 470 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 2: would be about California, about Los Angeles. And if you 471 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,959 Speaker 2: follow the New York Post, and ninety percent of their 472 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 2: following is outside the New York area, you know, they 473 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 2: really smack politicians over the head when they do buy four. 474 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 2: They like to expose and highlight their stupidity and corruption. 475 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 2: And I grew up on that. I grew up on. 476 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 2: You know, my dad would bring home the New York 477 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 2: Daily News. I grew up in Jersey and that was 478 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 2: another tabloid, slightly more upscale than the Post. But he'd 479 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 2: bring the Daily News and I would get the New 480 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 2: York Post. And there were local television stations that had 481 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 2: large teams of reporters that chased politicians around and yelled 482 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 2: at them and did all kinds of investigative stories. And 483 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,719 Speaker 2: maybe there was a lot of corruption going on. Well, 484 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 2: there was a lot of corruption going on, but at least, 485 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 2: you know, we knew about it. And it wasn't filled 486 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 2: with silly progressives. The reporters were more feisty, blue collar guys, 487 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 2: and it was mostly guys. The California Post. They are 488 00:31:53,640 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 2: looking for reporters, editors or audience development professionals, so they're 489 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 2: trying they want to process their LA based operations. So 490 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 2: if you want to work for a media outlet that's 491 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 2: going to be based here in Los Angeles and is 492 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 2: actually going to go after the bad guys in government, 493 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 2: this this would be for you. Now. The New York 494 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 2: Post has been in business for over two hundred years. 495 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 2: You know, it's founded by Alexander Hamilton, and uh, they're 496 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,240 Speaker 2: trying to put together a national brand, and they want 497 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 2: to get together to deal with the elections, the governor, 498 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 2: the governor's election in California, mayor's election next year. We 499 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 2: got the you know, the World Cup and the Olympics 500 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 2: and all that, and uh, you know, they already get 501 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 2: millions of people following the New York Post and there'll 502 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 2: be a daily print edition and there's gonna be video 503 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 2: and audio on social media. If they are as aggressive 504 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:58,959 Speaker 2: here in LA as they are in New York, if 505 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 2: they can afford to pay for of that, then that 506 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 2: could really shake up the media environment. Because the LA 507 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 2: Times already seems like something that's antique and obsolete. There's 508 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 2: just it's flaccid and feeble. It's about as flaccid as 509 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 2: Harvey Weinstein. The La Times is just, you know, a sad, 510 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,920 Speaker 2: rotted remnant of what it used to be. And I 511 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 2: opened the paper. I want to look on the website 512 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 2: every day, not expecting to get anything useful, and then 513 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 2: when I find stuff, it's just like propaganda. It's like 514 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,520 Speaker 2: I told you the propaganda today about you know, the 515 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 2: fourth largest economy. You know, when we got when we 516 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 2: got over a third of the state can't decide between 517 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 2: whether they're going to pay for food or their rent 518 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 2: on any given day, and they're telling us about the 519 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:58,440 Speaker 2: fourth largest economy. So anyway, I hope that comes to be. 520 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,760 Speaker 2: I've always wondered why there couldn't. There's got to be 521 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 2: room for an aggressive tabloidy style publication, and maybe it'll 522 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 2: provide a lot of material for us here, all right, 523 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:16,760 Speaker 2: when we come back. Michael Monks from KFI News. Ruling 524 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,400 Speaker 2: came against the Trump administration late last week. Ninth Circuit 525 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 2: Court of Appeal said the Trump's raids on illegal aliens 526 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,279 Speaker 2: they were unconstitutional because they're going after people when they 527 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 2: don't have reasonable suspicion. Aco. You had a press conference today, 528 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,040 Speaker 2: Michael Monks has the story coming up. Denbormark Live in 529 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 2: the CAFI twenty four Hour Newsroom. 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