1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can'f I Am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 2: We're on every day one until four o'clock. After four 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 2: o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 2: and you can hear what you missed. Next hour, Steve 6 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,639 Speaker 2: Hilton coming on, one of the top Republican candidates for 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 2: governor here in California. We do need to change, don't we. 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: He's going to talk about Gavin Newsom because Hilton thinks 9 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 2: that if you look at the fraud we found out 10 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 2: about in Minnesota with the Somali Americans, and now yesterday 11 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 2: another story in Maine, of all places, imagine. 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: What's going on here in California. 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 2: You imagine all that homeless money that's disappeared by the 14 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 2: tens of billions, and high speed rail money that has 15 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: disappeared by the tens of billions, and all the unemployment 16 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 2: money that disappeared by the tens of billions, and no 17 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 2: one can account for it. And when anybody tries to 18 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 2: invest gate, Karen Bass hires fifteen lawyers to protect yourself 19 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 2: here in La Well, Steve Hilton, it's calling it calif fraud. 20 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 2: And he wants whistleblowers to start talking. That's next, let's 21 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 2: get at three o'clock. Alex Stone is now ABC News correspondent. 22 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 2: They're banning social media for anyone under sixteen in Australia. 23 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: Alex, how are they possibly going to enforce this? 24 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 3: Well, that is a good question because Day one we 25 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 3: already know John that because it is tomorrow mid morning 26 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 3: in Australia. We know how Day one, which was today Wednesday, 27 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 3: how it went. And already a lot of kids say 28 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 3: all they had to do is just change their birthdate 29 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 3: on the app, and all of a sudden they had 30 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 3: no problem getting on it if they changed the year. 31 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,839 Speaker 3: And so if that's all it takes, then what's really 32 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 3: the point of it? 33 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 2: Well, that's really that's a really stupid law. If all 34 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 2: you have to do is change your birthday at a form, right, 35 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 2: and then. 36 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 3: You tell kids that don't do it and they go, well, 37 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 3: all I have to do is make it born and 38 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 3: what like two thousand and five, twenty ten, Yeah, and 39 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 3: then they're good to go. But so what the law says, 40 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 3: I guess be like two thousand and nine they would 41 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 3: have had to be. So beginning today it was if 42 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 3: you are sixteen years or under. It is now a 43 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 3: crime in Australia for social media platforms to allow you 44 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 3: to use them. So that is TikTok, Instagram, even YouTube 45 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 3: is on that, and that there are daily fines of 46 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 3: a lot of money if the social media apps don't 47 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 3: take action to try to prevent kids from getting in there. 48 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 3: But understandably, just like we would hear in the US 49 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 3: that Australian kids, they are very angry about all this. 50 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 3: They say, this is not fair. Listen to this kid, 51 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 3: it'll be completely silenced and cut off from our country. 52 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 3: And they're still yeah, but not too cut off because 53 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 3: all you apparently have to do is change the date. 54 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 3: But there are a lot of now American don't doctors 55 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 3: social media safety groups who say, look, it's time for 56 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 3: the US to think about doing something like this, and 57 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 3: yet Florida has been trying. It's been tied up in 58 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 3: the courts for quite a while. They want to go 59 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 3: I believe fourteen and younger where they wouldn't be allowed 60 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 3: to use social media. But this is a topic where 61 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 3: left run states and right run states all are kind 62 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 3: of coming together and saying, you know what, this kind 63 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 3: of makes sense of why the kids need to be 64 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 3: on social media. Sarah Gardner the CEO of the Child 65 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 3: Safety group Heat Initiative, and she's been here in LA 66 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 3: holding protests. She's telling us Jillian's. 67 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 4: Aily taking the lead, and the question is what. 68 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 3: The U that's going to do, and so it's kind 69 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 3: of the will the US counter this and come back. 70 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 3: They've been holding protests outside of an Apple store demanding 71 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 3: that Apple add in safeguards. But she says that the 72 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 3: science is there, the research is there, the keeping kids 73 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 3: off of social media is something that can save their life. 74 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 3: But that yes, the government needs to do, she believed, 75 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 3: but the parents need to do it as well. That 76 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 3: they need to take action and say you know what, 77 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 3: you are not allowed to be on social media. 78 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 4: It's not just the addiction, which is enough of the 79 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 4: harming of itself. It's exposure to eating disorder content, to 80 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 4: suicide content, how sexual abuse of thia needs the real 81 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 4: dangerous that keep experience on these platforms. 82 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 3: And that's the argument in Australia as well. They say 83 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 3: social media use, that the research shows it leads to 84 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 3: a spike in serious problems for children. Four years ago, 85 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 3: there were internal documents from Meta the parent company of 86 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 3: Facebook and Instagram that leaked out showing that their social 87 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 3: media platforms at the time contributed to suicidal thoughts and 88 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 3: body image problems in teenagers. Meta says that they have 89 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 3: implemented safety features. That's not the case any longer, but 90 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 3: still there is that concern. Now Malaysia and Denmark they're 91 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 3: looking at bands similar to what Australia is doing. We 92 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,679 Speaker 3: don't know of anything nationally for the US at this point, 93 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 3: but there are groups who are saying, look, Australia is 94 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 3: now going down the right track, and watch what they're 95 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 3: doing and let's see how it goes. 96 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's definitely causing a lot of distress 97 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 2: for teenagers and so people can object all they want, 98 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 2: but at the end of it, we got a whole 99 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 2: generation whose brains have been scrambled in a bad way 100 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 2: by the social media addiction. But really they got to 101 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 2: come up with something better than what they have to 102 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 2: enforce this. 103 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how they're going to enforce it. 104 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 3: Maybe you're gonna have to show an ID at some 105 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:32,600 Speaker 3: point or you know. Now, how kids take tests online, 106 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 3: the remote tests where there's a procter watching them, I 107 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know how you would do it, 108 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 3: but to follow the law right now, it's they're just 109 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 3: going based on birthday, so as we would have done 110 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,559 Speaker 3: if you know, it was getting around getting a copy 111 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 3: of Playboy, you know, online, and they got creative, they 112 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 3: just changed the year they were born. 113 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 2: Do you know how long this law was in the works, 114 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 2: because I wondered if if the if the social media 115 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 2: companies already had some kind of plan, or did this 116 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 2: catch them month short notice or by surprise They've. 117 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 3: Been working on it for a fair amount of time. 118 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 3: It seems like that there was plenty of warning. The 119 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 3: bigger issue would be here in the US where these 120 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 3: platforms were created and it's impacting children here. But the 121 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 3: lobbying effort, and we've seen it in Florida with what 122 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 3: they're trying to do, The lobbying effort would be gigantic 123 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 3: and a lot of money would be put into it 124 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 3: by the social media companies, and so there would be 125 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 3: a fight and it would get tied up in the 126 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 3: courts over freedom of speech and everything else. But there 127 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 3: is a growing chorus of people who are saying, look, 128 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 3: something's got to be done here in the us as well. 129 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 2: All right, Alex Stone, ABC News, thank you for coming 130 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 2: on again. You got to think Sean Jonathan Hate is 131 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 2: a social psychologist, a researcher. If I wanted to cover 132 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 2: this story every day about how social media and the 133 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 2: Internet has rotted out a generation of children's brains, I'd 134 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 2: be talking about Jonathan Hate every single day. Nobody has researched, 135 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 2: more written, more involved in documentaries, books, articles. Really, hardly 136 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 2: a week or two goes by without Jonathan Hat with 137 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 2: another insight into what's going on. He had a piece 138 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 2: that he wrote for The Free Press, which is a 139 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 2: site you have to pay for, the FP dot com, 140 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 2: and the headline is Jonathan Haate says the Devil's plan 141 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 2: to ruin the next generation. And what he did is 142 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 2: he asked chat GPT this question, if you were the devil, 143 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 2: how would you destroy the next generation without them even 144 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 2: knowing it? And I'll tell you what artificial intelligence told 145 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 2: Jonathan Haate and what his conclusion was, because it's been 146 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 2: going on now for about fifteen years. 147 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 5: Almost next you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from 148 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty. 149 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 2: Steve Hilton running for governor. One of the leading Republican candidates. 150 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 2: He'll be on with us after three o'clock. He has seen, 151 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 2: like we all have, the tremendous amount of fraud in 152 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 2: Minnesota with the Somali Americans and those nonprofits, nonprofits, they 153 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 2: are going to be the death of us. It's killing California, 154 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 2: it's sucking out so much money. And the same thing 155 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 2: in Maine. Yesterday we got a story from Rich McHugh 156 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 2: of Newstation again, another solid Somali American community that was 157 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:44,319 Speaker 2: funneling welfare money, medicaid money back. 158 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: To the home country. 159 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 2: And that's the thing with the fraud, and it happened 160 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 2: here in California when Gavin Newsom let thirty two billion 161 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 2: dollars in unemployment COVID money go out the window. 162 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: It went to foreign countries. 163 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 2: Most of the money wast by people out outside the 164 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:06,199 Speaker 2: United States. So they're stealing our tax money in all 165 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:14,439 Speaker 2: these instances, and it's not even being recycled in our economy. Outsiders, 166 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 2: foreigners are enjoying our wealth. He's trying to get California 167 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 2: whistleblowers to speak up about what's going on inside our state. 168 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 2: And we'll talk to him after three o'clock, all right, 169 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 2: So we just Adlex Stone on from ABC News about 170 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 2: the social media ban. This is day one in Australia. 171 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 2: But they have no enforcement mechanism. Really the social media 172 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 2: companies and it's the same social media companies that we 173 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 2: have here, you know, Facebook and Instagram and Snapchat. 174 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: And all the rest. 175 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 2: Social media companies really don't have anything implemented to. 176 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: Test to see how old you are. 177 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 2: So kids are just changing the day on their birth 178 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 2: date form whatever you use to register to get on 179 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 2: these things, and you know, they're continuing to enjoy life 180 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 2: on social media, continuing to rot their brain. So I 181 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 2: mentioned Jonathan Hate. He's a social psychologist and he's written 182 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 2: more and researched more than any other person in the 183 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 2: United States on what happened to the mental health of 184 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 2: gen z. These are the people born between nineteen ninety 185 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 2: six and twenty twelve. And what he found is that 186 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 2: their mental health plummeted not only here in the US 187 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 2: but in many countries starting in the early twenty tens. 188 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: And he was baffled by this. 189 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 2: And we're talking about serious mental health issues right up 190 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 2: to suicide. And at first he focused on overprotection, coddling 191 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,599 Speaker 2: kids and they don't really build up the toughness and 192 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 2: the resilience they need to deal with life. But he says, 193 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 2: since then, there's been a growing body of evidence that 194 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 2: it's the technology smartphones and social media which has done 195 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 2: more damage to teenagers' mental health than anything, really, anything 196 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 2: in the history of humanity. So he wrote a piece 197 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 2: for the Free Press, and it's the FP dot com. 198 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 2: But you have to pay. He asked chet Gpt, if 199 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 2: you were the devil. Actually they started a few months ago. 200 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 2: Somebody asked, if you were the devil, how would you 201 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 2: destroy the next generation without them even knowing it? Artificial intelligence, 202 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 2: which is a whole, separate, potential evil. But chet Gpt said, 203 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 2: I wouldn't come with violence to destroy the next generation. 204 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 2: I'd come with convenience. I'd keep them busy, always distracted, 205 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: watched their minds rot slowly, sweetly, silently, And the best 206 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 2: part is they'd never know it was me. They would 207 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 2: call it freedom. Now, it's pretty chilling, first of all, 208 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 2: that you have artificial intelligence thinking in such a sophisticated manner, 209 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 2: and that their message is so ominous and frightening. Really, 210 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 2: I mean, again, this is not a person. But how 211 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 2: did you destroy the next generation. I wouldn't come with violence. 212 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 2: I'd come with convenience. Keep them busy, always distracted. I'd 213 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 2: watch their minds rot slowly, sweetly, silently, And the best 214 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 2: part is they would never know. They call it freedom. Well, 215 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 2: what's the complaint from the Australian teenagers right now that 216 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 2: Alex just told us about day one? You can't go 217 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 2: on social media? That's our freedom you're taking away. What 218 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 2: would be the biggest obstacle to doing that here in America? 219 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 2: People going to court and saying, hey, freedom, freedom of speech. 220 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 2: It's like, okay, you're right, freedom of speech. Freedom to 221 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 2: rot out your mind until you're emotionally damaged and useless 222 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,239 Speaker 2: and possibly suicidal. 223 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: Excellent, so he said. 224 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 2: He said. He talked to chat GPT himself how it 225 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 2: would stunt adolescent development in the digital age. The most 226 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 2: effective way, said chat GPT, was through slow, invisible corrosions 227 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 2: of the human spirit rather than obvious attacks, which is 228 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 2: something that Jonathan Hate wrote about in a book called 229 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 2: The Anxious Generation Spiritual Degradation. See he writes, so much 230 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 2: of life online pulls people downward. Growing up, kids learned 231 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 2: to live in ways that contradict the vice given to 232 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 2: us by all the world's great spiritual traditions. Kids get 233 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 2: constant stimulation, pressure to judge others, instantly, videos showing violations 234 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 2: of every conceivable taboo. And he said, you could see 235 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 2: a sudden change in the spiritual health of young Americans. 236 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 2: In a long running national survey high school seniors, they 237 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 2: were asked whether life often feels meaningless. The numbers were 238 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 2: always low and even declining back when other generations were 239 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 2: in high school. But when gen Z entered the database 240 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 2: around twenty thirteen, meaninglessness surged. Kids say they agree or 241 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 2: strongly agree that life feels meaningless because they were, especially 242 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 2: with girls, their attention was eroded. They were no longer 243 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 2: present in conversation and in relationships. And then there's other 244 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 2: aspects here that he writes about. It's a great story, 245 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 2: but he noticed that if you drew charts, starting in 246 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, teenagers' mental health declined sharply. But all the 247 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 2: different ways you can measure that, and he wondered, well, 248 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 2: what was twenty thirteen. Well, the social media had been 249 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 2: around for a few years, not many, but that's when 250 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 2: the smartphone hit in twenty thirteen, so they carried it 251 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 2: around the device all day and did nothing but read posts, 252 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 2: look at photos, start comparing one another their looks, start 253 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 2: seeing all kinds of terrible things online, all kinds of 254 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 2: terrible ideas. That sapped a teenager spirit, sapped their purpose, 255 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 2: huge distraction. They were no longer having normal relationships and 256 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 2: friendships or connections with their family, normal romances, normal adventures 257 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 2: because it was all staring at the screen, locked in 258 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 2: their room. So Australia's going to ban it. We should too, 259 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 2: but might not be legal. They're entitled to their freedom. 260 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 2: You're entitled to ruin your life. I mean, you know, 261 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 2: we just got to accept that. 262 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 5: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM 263 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 5: six forty. 264 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio, on social 265 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 2: media at John Cobelt Radio, or subscribe on YouTube YouTube 266 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 2: dot com, slash at Johncobelt Show YouTube dot com slash 267 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 2: at John Cobelt Show if you want to see longer 268 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 2: segments that we post on YouTube frequently, and you can 269 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 2: subscribe and then get notifications right away. 270 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: All right, coming up after three o'clock. 271 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 2: Steve Hilton, who's running from governor, is a Republican one 272 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 2: of the candidates, and he wants state workers to start 273 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 2: acting as whistle blowers. You people who work for the 274 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 2: state government, you know how much money is being stolen. 275 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,640 Speaker 2: We get a good idea of how much is stolen 276 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 2: when we see twenty four billion in state homeless money disappear, 277 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 2: about two three billion dollars in LA City and County 278 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 2: homeless money disappear, High speed rail money seventeen billion, much 279 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:34,719 Speaker 2: of that disappeared, thirty three billion dollars in COVID money, 280 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 2: COVID pandemic unemployment benefits disappear off of the foreign countries. Well, 281 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 2: you know what's going on, Steve Hilton wants to hear 282 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 2: from you. Let's get the California whistleblowers in the game, 283 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 2: like they've done in Minnesota and in Maine just in 284 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 2: the past week. All right, boy, imagine the whistleblowers here 285 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 2: in LA could describe what's really going on with Bass's 286 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 2: homeless agencies. Every few months, she waddles off to MacArthur 287 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 2: Park to claim that something has to be done about 288 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 2: all the disgusting things that are going on there. You 289 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 2: got the homeless people, you know, which is primarily mental 290 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 2: patients and drug addicts. You've got criminals, You've got gangs, 291 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 2: You've got their openly selling drugs and weapons in the park. 292 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 2: You have all sorts of crazy behavior, not to mention 293 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 2: all the illegal alien businesses. New York Post did their 294 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 2: own walk through investigation of MacArthur Park and they watched 295 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 2: the LA Fire Department Station eleven what they have to 296 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 2: do all day and really all year. And I found this, 297 00:18:55,200 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 2: I found this fascinating. They wrote, a cramped age fire 298 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 2: station jammed up against MacArthur Park has been dragged into 299 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 2: a street war. 300 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: It never asked for. 301 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 2: That fire station, they say, is now a triage unit. 302 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 2: Because MacArthur Park is one of the nastiest fentanyl zones 303 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. And you see them the fentyl addics, 304 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 2: some of them on xylazine because the dealers started cunning 305 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 2: fentanyl with xylazine, which I believe is some kind of 306 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 2: horse tranquilizer and whatever. The effect of the drug is 307 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 2: a more powerful impact on your brain, but it causes 308 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 2: your skin to rot. You end up with these gaping, open, 309 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 2: rotting wounds. And that's what wanders around MacArthur Park, these 310 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 2: these zombies with their gaping wounds. Post says LA Fire Department. 311 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 2: Station eleven has fourteen firefighters on daily duty, sometimes sixteen. 312 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:02,120 Speaker 2: They have an ambulance, a fast response truck, and the 313 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 2: pace at which the firehouse must keep up with calls 314 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 2: is almost incomprehensible. 315 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: Listen to this. 316 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 2: Station eleven had eight thousand, five hundred and sixty eight 317 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 2: ambulance runs in the first eight months of twenty twenty five. 318 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 2: Eight five hundred and sixty eight ambulance runs in eight months. 319 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 2: That's over a thousand ambulance runs a month, and there's 320 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 2: only thirty days in a month. They only had fifty 321 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 2: five structure fires. So most of what they do is 322 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:43,920 Speaker 2: they deal with fires started by the bums, the bumfires, 323 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 2: rubbish fires, garbage fires. That's what the homeless do all day. 324 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,400 Speaker 2: The firehouse is one of the busiest in the country 325 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 2: primarily putting out homeless fires. How insane is that that? 326 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,959 Speaker 2: Karen Bass and now she's been at this for three years, 327 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 2: runs the city where we're at the top of the 328 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 2: charts for homeless fires. 329 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: In just in this one district, MacArthur Park. You can't stop. 330 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 2: That's arson, right, that's like eight thousand cases of arson 331 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 2: now compared to other stations. Right, they looked at Venice 332 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:34,360 Speaker 2: fire Station sixty three. They had twenty five hundred ambulance 333 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 2: calls over the same period, less than a third nineteen 334 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 2: fires MacArthur Park. They have to put out the rubbish 335 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 2: fires at a breakneck pace, forcing crews to douse one 336 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 2: fire and race straight and race straight to the next one. 337 00:21:55,320 --> 00:22:00,160 Speaker 2: And that's what one of the firemen told the Posts. 338 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: Exhausting. 339 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 2: That's going to be infuriating, running around putting homeless garbage, 340 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 2: putting out fires set by homeless fires of trash where 341 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 2: their stupid encampments or their propane tanks. MacArthur Park has 342 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 2: established himself as a destination for LA's hardest hit hardest 343 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 2: drug addicts, a chaos soaked corridor or overdoses. Hit by 344 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 2: the hour, criminal crews muscle in on the trade. This 345 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:42,400 Speaker 2: is the largest park in the district. It's a sprawling encampment, 346 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 2: hundreds of people in and around the park on any 347 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 2: given day, many of them young drug users in their twenties, 348 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 2: shooting up with needles or smoking from glass pipes, some 349 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 2: pipes for fashioned to look like shotguns. Other atticts passed 350 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 2: out or waiting on their next free meal. The post 351 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,959 Speaker 2: also saw straight barrel versions of crack pipes getting handed 352 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 2: out by city and county employees. They're called safe smoking kids. 353 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 1: You believe this. 354 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 2: So you got these vaguarant drug addicts smoking crack. It's 355 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 2: starting fires, and we're paying our taxes for county employees 356 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 2: to hand out the crack pipes, and then we have 357 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 2: to pay for the firefighters to put out the fires 358 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 2: started by the people who are smoking from the taxpayer 359 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 2: paid crack pipes. I wonder what started the fire yesterday 360 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 2: that my sister saw. Yeah, I don't know. I mean 361 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 2: sometimes it's propane tanks or grills that they have, or 362 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,880 Speaker 2: sometimes they just start acting crazy and they set fires. 363 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 2: I mean, when you're talking about when you're talking about, 364 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 2: you know, eight thousand ambulance calls, it's all overdoses and. 365 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: Garbage fires. 366 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 2: Some people told the posts they have rooms or apartments elsewhere, 367 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,959 Speaker 2: but they come to MacArthur Park every day because this 368 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 2: is where the handouts are that we're paying for. 369 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 1: Post visited twice. 370 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 2: Lines formed for food, medical vans and safe use supplies. 371 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 2: Look at the terminology, it's always it's always BS terminology 372 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 2: safe use. It's an assembly line of AID twenty seven 373 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 2: million dollars has been poured into revitalizing MacArthur Park, paying 374 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:54,159 Speaker 2: for overdose response teams. Peace ambassadors, Peace ambassadors. How do 375 00:24:54,200 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 2: you bring peace to crack addicts? USC and L street 376 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:07,880 Speaker 2: medicine teams and the overdoses keep coming. They called unicus Hernandez, 377 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 2: who is just a human vegetable. He's she's a councilwoman 378 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 2: called multiple times. Don't she doesn't call back, she doesn't respond. 379 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 2: Los Angeles has has saved. Has A says he're a master. 380 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 2: Twenty two million dollar o BID Opioide Settlement Trust Fund. 381 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 2: I guess this is from lawsuits of the drug companies 382 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 2: and a big part of that money goes to MacArthur 383 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 2: Park in the Westlake area. In fact, the city council 384 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 2: set aside three million dollars to build a Westlake area 385 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 2: harm reduction service. 386 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, they call it harm reduction. 387 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 2: They're giving them crack pipes so they can keep frying 388 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 2: their brains and they call it harm reduction. So this 389 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 2: Westlake Area Harm Reduction drop in center is going to 390 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 2: offer the lock zone distribution wound care. Remember I told 391 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 2: you the xylazine that makes it the fentdel causes your 392 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 2: causes open wounds to form test strips for fentanyl and xylazine, 393 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 2: mental health assessments, referrals and treatment. They spend more and 394 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 2: more money on contracts for syringe exchanges, so handing out 395 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 2: free syringes, safe smoking kits, which is they're double talk 396 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 2: for crack pipes, overdose education. Yeah, that's working wound care kits. That. 397 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 2: This is the Department on Disability that spends this money. 398 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: This is insanity. What how could how could you? How 399 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 1: could how could we pay. 400 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 2: For a government that hands out the crack pipes, hands 401 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 2: out the syringes, then watches people die of fenton ill 402 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 2: and xylism poisoning, watches the wounds start opening up on 403 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 2: their skin and get infected. And we've got county workers 404 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:24,360 Speaker 2: who're paying their paying for standing there. This is Karen Bassis, 405 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, and all these progressives think this is entirely 406 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 2: normal and proper. They're really really crazy. This is insane 407 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 2: and I don't have a word for it. All right, 408 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 2: We've got more coming up. Steve Hilton after three o'clock 409 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 2: running for governor. He's looking for California whistleblowers. Why don't 410 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,399 Speaker 2: you start telling us what's going on with all the 411 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 2: money being stolen in the state and in the city. 412 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 413 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,120 Speaker 2: Moistline for Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty six, eight 414 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,719 Speaker 2: seven seven Moist eighty six, or use the talkback feature 415 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app eight seven seven sixty six four 416 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 2: seven eight eighty six. So let it rip anything that's 417 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 2: making you crazy, pissed you off. After three o'clock we're 418 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 2: going to have Steve Hilton on one of the Republican 419 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 2: the leading Republican candidate for governor. God, we need to 420 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 2: change badly. In fact, you want you have the podcast. 421 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 2: Listen to the first hour went through the list of 422 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:33,360 Speaker 2: all the things. California is first in the nation at 423 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 2: and it's all bad stuff. And all the things were 424 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 2: last in and it's all bad stuff. And it's like, 425 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 2: how did anybody look at him as presidential material with 426 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 2: the disastrous record he has again, take his name and 427 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 2: the party off. 428 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: Just look at what's happened here. 429 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 2: You would think that the Democratic voters would want somebody 430 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 2: better who does not have such a disaster US record. Uh, well, 431 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 2: you can hear that. It's the first hour of the podcast. 432 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 2: Uh waimo. All right, So the other day there was 433 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 2: like a three car waymo jam up in San Francisco. 434 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 2: One car was trying to do a three point turn. 435 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 2: I think they pulled into a driveway and then and 436 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 2: then stopped and had a second car trying to get 437 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 2: through was blocked and the third second WAYMO, third weamo 438 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 2: and all three waymos were all facing each other in 439 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 2: the middle of the road and none of them could move. 440 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: Uh, because. 441 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 2: You can't wave at somebody, hey, back up, turn right, 442 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 2: move along, can't do that. The wamos were just frozen. 443 00:29:52,640 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 2: Now today's Weimo story. Yeah, if you're pregnant, like real pregnant, 444 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 2: like about to give birth, pregnant, do you go in 445 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 2: a weymo. Well, this woman did, and she was riding 446 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,479 Speaker 2: in one of the Weimo cars. She was on her 447 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 2: way to u SEE San Francisco, one of their medical facilities. 448 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: I guess she was. 449 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 2: Going because she felt some movement some I don't know 450 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 2: for water broke ers. You start to feel labor pains. 451 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 2: But if you think the birth process is starting, you 452 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 2: go into an unmanned car. Well, she did, and she 453 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 2: gave birth in the back of the Weymo Monday night. 454 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 2: WEIMO said that their systems and processes were effective in 455 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 2: managing the situation. Our remote writer support team detected unusual activity. 456 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 2: I guess some sensors were going off in the back seat. 457 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 2: So they called to check the writer and she said, 458 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 2: I'm giving birth. So they called nine to one one 459 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 2: and emergency services took her to the hospital and she 460 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 2: gave birth. Now, you don't want to be the next 461 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 2: passenger to the back of a weymou after a I mean, 462 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 2: actually I should be clarified. She birth inside the weymouth. 463 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 2: By by time the emergency showed up, baby was out 464 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 2: on WEIMO said they immediately removed the car from service 465 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 2: for cleaning because birthing process can be can be very 466 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 2: very messing, and no word on the identity of the 467 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 2: woman or how she and the baby are doing. I 468 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 2: that that that that is baffling that because I mean, 469 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 2: most women I know are ultra careful, especially in the 470 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 2: final days and minutes that you don't want to be alone. 471 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 2: You don't want to jump into a Waimo by yourself. 472 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 2: We come back, We're gonna talk to Steve Hilton. He 473 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 2: is running for California governor. Former Fox News host, former 474 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 2: advisor to the British Prime Minister, Steve Cameron, tech businessman 475 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 2: and entrepreneur, and he's running a very strong campaign. And 476 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 2: Steve Hilton is calling for a complete public audit of 477 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 2: all of California's programs and he wants whistleblowers to start 478 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 2: talking like they did in Minnesota and Maine in the 479 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 2: past week. 480 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: So Steve Hilton coming on next. 481 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. 482 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 483 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 484 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.