1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 3: Doug McIntyre in for John Cobbolt. Tim Conway will be 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 3: here at four o'clock and of course Moke Kelly after 6 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 3: Timmy's done at seven. And we've got tons to talk 7 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,319 Speaker 3: about this hour, so stick with us, including what's next 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 3: for the airlines in terms of fees. A they're gonna 9 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:27,159 Speaker 3: have coin operated oxygen masks when they deploy. And I 10 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 3: want to actually talk about that story and link it 11 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:35,279 Speaker 3: to the glee that people have greeted the murder of 12 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 3: mister Thompson, the CEO of United Health. Now that well, 13 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 3: even before they caught the suspect, the person of interest 14 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 3: who has been was arrested earlier this morning on gun 15 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 3: charges I now believe is the person who perpetrated that act. 16 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 3: And it's astonishing how many people are openly celebrating the 17 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 3: murder and celebrating the murder. We'll get into that in 18 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 3: greater detail, but in addition to all the other weird 19 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 3: stories we got flying around here, flying being the operative word. 20 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 3: Twenty one mayors in New Jersey of New Jersey towns 21 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 3: are demanding that the FAA do something about the swarm 22 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 3: of drones, some of them as large as small automobiles, 23 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 3: that have been circling over towns and including Bedminster, where, 24 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 3: of course President elect Trump hangs out. To give us 25 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 3: the very latest on this from the ABC Newsroom, Alex Stone, Alex, 26 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 3: how are you hey? 27 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: They're doug doing well yet this is really weird. Nobody 28 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: quite knows what it is. It doesn't seem like these 29 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: are UFOs. They've got the FAA mandated navigational lights on them, 30 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: the green and the red lights and the blinking beacon lights. 31 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: So unless the aliens are really good at knowing FAA law, 32 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: the FAA rules that it's probably somewhere from Earth. And 33 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: but there is some worry because one of the counties 34 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: has a military base where they've been seeing. The other 35 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: one is the county that the President elects golf club 36 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: is in. So there's nothing indicating that they're targeting any 37 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: of those or that they're doing anything that is all 38 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: that dangerous. But they don't know what these are doing. 39 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: So for a bunch of days now, at night, every night, 40 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: these large drones come out in areas above New Jersey, 41 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: bigger than a hobbyist drone. They can be silent when 42 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: they're just kind of idling there, or they can sound 43 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: like an airplane when they're really gunning it and moving forward. 44 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: And it's not just one, it is a bunch of 45 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 1: them in the air at the same time. This guy 46 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: recorded himself watching them as he looked around, and there 47 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 1: were a bunch. 48 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 3: I can see three drones. 49 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: There is another one over here and another one back here. 50 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,399 Speaker 1: And so the mayors, as you mentioned, Doug, twenty one 51 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: mayors have different towns in New Jersey. They have sent 52 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: a letter down to the governor saying that they want 53 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: to know the origin of these drones, and the FAA 54 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,679 Speaker 1: has imposed a drone flight restriction while it investigates where 55 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: they're coming from. Nobody he seems to know. They're too 56 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: wide to really shoot down with a rifle, but they're 57 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: low enough that they're not really a concern for air travel. 58 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 3: Kate Perry has been seeing them every night. 59 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 2: Once you see one, you start seeing a few more 60 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,839 Speaker 2: here and there, and then you can't unsee them. 61 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: Matt Morello is the mayor of Washington Township. 62 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 3: The only information I have from law enforcement is that 63 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 3: they don't appear to preny threat, but we don't know 64 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 3: who's piloting. 65 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: And sometimes they do fly without noise. They're about six 66 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: feet across with all of the navigational lights. They've sparked 67 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: all kinds of wild theories online, Kate Perry saying that 68 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: her neighbors they think that they kind of jokingly but 69 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: also kind of believe maybe it's this. Some people think 70 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: that it's really advanced people looking to steal packages off 71 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: of people's porches for the holidays. 72 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 2: But these drones, they do not look like something you can. 73 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 3: Just buy at a store. 74 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: And Doug police say they are aware of it. They 75 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: have no idea where the drones are coming from. There 76 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: is some chatter now about trying to figure out how 77 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: to scramble the signal, whatever that signal is. If probably 78 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: some great distance of not just a you know, a 79 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: straightforward r C type signal, because they're trying to They're 80 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: able to go quite a distance, but scramble it so 81 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: that the drones would land and they could look at 82 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: them or figure out what they are. 83 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 2: But Chiassa says, I don't feel too safe right now 84 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 2: with these flying overhead every single night, and. 85 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: The FBI says that they are looking into it. They're 86 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: asking people now if they see them, to try to 87 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: get to use a good camera to get a good 88 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: shot of it so they can see exactly how they're 89 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: built and what brand they are, or if somebody is 90 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: building them. Yesterday alone, there were forty nine reported sidings 91 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: of them in New Jersey. The governor said today he's 92 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: quote taking it deadly seriously. Police said they have video 93 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: of one going about seventy miles an hour, so this 94 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: is not just a regular drone. It's seventy mile an 95 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: hour drone. That it was low and fast. They're not 96 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: sure exactly what kind of drone it was. It was 97 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: not an airplane, not a helicopter, not a UFO. But 98 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: who's you know sending these seventy mile an hour drones 99 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: out there? They don't know. 100 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,559 Speaker 3: We're talking with Alex Stone from the ABC Newsroom. Alex, 101 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 3: I've been following this, the phenomenon of drones for a 102 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 3: long time. I guess because I've been called a drone 103 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 3: many times. But for a number of years there were 104 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 3: reports that large drones were shadowing US Navy vessels, and 105 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 3: they have been reported over military installations as well. So 106 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 3: are we you know now that this is you know, 107 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 3: seems to be benign, but it seems like it's just 108 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 3: a matter of time. We've certainly seen in Ukraine the 109 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 3: Ukrainians have used drones, both naval drones as well as 110 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 3: airborne drones as attack weapons against the Russians. It just 111 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 3: seems like it's inevitable that sooner or later someone's going 112 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 3: to figure out how to arm these things and we 113 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 3: may have a serious airborne drone attack in this country. 114 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, this doesn't seem to be that, but that is 115 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: a concern. That's why when we cover the Super Bowl 116 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: or other big events that they now have drown teams 117 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: that it looks like they've got surface to air missiles 118 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 1: that are meant to take out a drone and it 119 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 1: can either be through an actual projectile or through a 120 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: sound wave kind of a shock wave to blow it back. 121 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: But when we've been doing Super Bowls of recent years 122 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: that you've got teams that are on rooftops specifically there 123 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: to take out a drone that might try to come 124 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: in that could be armed or not armed. And sure, 125 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 1: I mean think about what the US military uses. A 126 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: lot of those are armed drones. But something that is 127 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: more of a civilian model. 128 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 2: That is a worry. 129 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: This is in counties that have whether it be the 130 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: Bedminster Golf Club or the military installation, but there's nothing 131 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: indicating that these are going toward those or right over them. 132 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: They're just generally in the same county. They don't think 133 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: that's what this is, but they don't know what this is. 134 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: Is this some obvioust who's building these six foot large 135 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: drones to fly them around and knows that it's freaking 136 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: people out, or is it a company doing something or military? 137 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: They don't know, and right now police indicate they have 138 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: no idea. The mayors don't know, the FAA doesn't know. 139 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: They're investigating, and every night people are looking up and 140 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: seeing them. 141 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 3: Alex, what happens to the good old days when it 142 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 3: was just the creepy guy down the block who wanted 143 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 3: to see the hot chick who lies topless in the backyard. 144 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: Sitting there with his telescope that not looking at the moon. 145 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,239 Speaker 3: I guess that's not the moon. 146 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: I know, all right, Well, you know, I just even locally, 147 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: I know in Santa Clarina, there's been a lot of 148 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: talk recently about drones that have been reported, and people 149 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: are saying, well, are they burglars who are looking to 150 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: scope out home? You know, it all seems very complicated 151 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: for a burglar to do that before they're but maybe 152 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: who knows. But it's not only New Jersey. The ones 153 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: locally aren't the size, and the every night situation is 154 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: New Jersey, but a lot of people are dealing with it. 155 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 3: Well, it's weirdness in three D. Yeah, that's all we know. Alex, 156 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 3: thanks so much, as I always appreciated Alex Stone from 157 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 3: the ABC News Center. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we've 158 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 3: got tons to talk about. You know, it's been a 159 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 3: while since I was sitting here behind this KFI microphone, 160 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 3: and I've got a bur under my saddle on these pardons. 161 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 3: When old Joe Biden decided to give the get out 162 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 3: of jail free card to Hunter and President elect Trump 163 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 3: is got a long list apparently of people that he 164 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 3: wants to give a pardon to, and Joe Biden may 165 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 3: even give preemptive pardons to some of the January sixth 166 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 3: committee members and General Milly. We'll get into that when 167 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 3: we come back, and later on we're going to tie 168 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 3: the airline fees story to the assassination of that United 169 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 3: Health executive, and maybe Conway will grace us with his 170 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 3: appearance for a little cross talk later on. 171 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 172 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 4: six forty. 173 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 3: So I wanted to talk about the pardons. I know 174 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:52,199 Speaker 3: that that's a couple of weeks ago now and everybody's 175 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 3: over it, right, I'm not over it. I'm just not. 176 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 3: And what's the point of being in talk radio if 177 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 3: you can't occasionally take the old spleen out invented. But 178 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 3: when Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter for all crimes 179 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:14,439 Speaker 3: real and imagined, or investigated and uninvestigated, he reversed himself 180 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,559 Speaker 3: after having multiple times publicly pledged that he would not 181 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 3: pardon his kid, he was going to let the judicial 182 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 3: system do its thing, and then of course he backtracked 183 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:26,839 Speaker 3: on that after losing the election. He's on his way 184 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 3: out the door right before Thanksgiving, he drops the bomb 185 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 3: that he's going to pardon Hunter Biden, and not just 186 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 3: for the tax charges and the gun charges that he 187 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 3: was facing, but anything that might come up in the 188 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 3: future related to essentially everything on the laptop that the 189 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 3: media and his people were saying wasn't Hunters or was real? 190 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 3: Wasn't real? Was a Russian psyops plant, et cetera, et cetera, 191 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 3: et cetera. So they wanted to make sure that nothing 192 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 3: related to burn energy or any of the other, you know, 193 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 3: questionable business entanglements that Hunter Biden may have been involved 194 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 3: in would become a matter of law. So now most 195 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 3: of us looking at that story would say, well, what 196 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 3: would you do if it was your kid? And I'm 197 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 3: not going to be, you know, sanctum moodious about to say, 198 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 3: I wouldn't consider it if it were my kids. Let's 199 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 3: face it. You know, blood is thicker than water, and 200 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 3: when it's your own kids and you have the power 201 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 3: to absolve them of wrongdoing, especially by the way, if 202 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 3: the implication is that could sully your reputation. And certainly 203 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 3: there's a lot of suspicion that Hunter Biden was the 204 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 3: bagman for the Biden family, that his job was to 205 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 3: go get the money, and Joe Biden and Bo Biden, 206 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 3: his late son, Hunter's brother who died of cancer, their 207 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 3: job was to be the political power, and Hunter was 208 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 3: going to be the one who went and got the money. 209 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 3: All right, Certainly a lot of evidence to suggest that 210 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 3: a lot of smoke around that fire. Well, whatever the 211 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 3: issue is, lots and lots and lots of fathers or 212 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 3: mothers would use the pardon power to get their kid 213 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:18,559 Speaker 3: off the hook. But the problem with this is that somewhere, 214 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 3: somewhere in leadership we have to re establish accountability because 215 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 3: I really believe, having done the talk radio racket for 216 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 3: off and on for thirty years the better part of 217 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 3: the last thirty years, that one of the diseases that 218 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 3: has led to so much anger, so much disenchantment, is 219 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 3: the sense that there's rules for thee, are rules for me, 220 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 3: but not for thee. That the elites can essentially do 221 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 3: what they want and they're not held accountable. Occasionally there's 222 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 3: a tap on the wrist, Occasionally their lives are made complicated, 223 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 3: but ultimately we the people, are held accountable for everything 224 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 3: and they're not held accountable for anything. And you know, 225 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,079 Speaker 3: the other shoe is gonna drop him. When Donald Trump 226 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 3: was president the last time, he pardoned a whole bunch 227 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 3: of people, including Roger Stone, who's just like he's like 228 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,319 Speaker 3: something you'd step into the sidewalk, you'd have to take 229 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 3: your shoe and scrape your shoe on the bottom of 230 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 3: the concrete to get it off. I mean that's what 231 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 3: he is as a person, as a lobbyist representing EDI. 232 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 3: A mean with Paul Manniford another guy. Jeez, I mean, 233 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 3: they're just awful people and they get pardons. You know 234 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 3: who didn't get a parton? By the way, remember Scooter Libby, 235 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 3: who was an aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, and 236 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 3: he was involved in a whole valerie play thing. Dick 237 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 3: Cheney lobbied George W. Bush for a pardon for Scooter 238 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 3: Libby and Bush wouldn't give it to him, would not 239 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 3: pardon him, and that caused a real rift between Dick Cheney, 240 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 3: a real drop in the old temperature. When George w 241 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 3: whatever you want to say about him, he had enough 242 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 3: integrity to say no, he broke the law. He didn't 243 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 3: earn a pardon. Well, Donald Trump is pledging to pardon 244 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 3: the January sixth people, And to me, that's a deal breaker. 245 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 3: It's just to have sat and watched the capital of 246 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 3: the United States be stormed by a mob of people, 247 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 3: some of whom took a dump in the hallways of 248 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,959 Speaker 3: the Capitol. Now I'm gonna get real ugly and personally 249 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 3: there for a second. I've got a bad diet, all right, 250 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,199 Speaker 3: I have enough trouble going at home, all right. I 251 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 3: don't know how all of a sudden you drop trial 252 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 3: and you're able to take a dump in the Nancy 253 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 3: Pelosi's office door or wherever it was in the halls. 254 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 3: But I mean, you know, waving the stars and bars 255 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 3: the Confederate flag, which didn't happen between eighteen sixty one 256 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 3: and eighteen sixty five. They got close, but they never 257 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 3: got the Confederate flag inside the United States Capital. They 258 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 3: did on January sixth, Ashley Babbitt got killed as police 259 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 3: officers are fighting for their lives being sprayed with bear 260 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 3: spray and having an American flag jabbed the flagpole of 261 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 3: the American flag jabbed into their stomachs, and some of 262 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 3: those guys died of heart attacks right after. Is an 263 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 3: incredibly violent and incredibly dangerous moments in American history that 264 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 3: had it not been for Mike Pence, of all people 265 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 3: standing strong and refusing to go along with this, we 266 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 3: would have a major, major crisis on our hands. But 267 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 3: we still do because they're gonna get pardoned, they're gonna 268 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 3: get pardoned. There's no accountability that you can call a 269 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 3: crowd to DC on the day of the electoral College 270 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 3: count and now the people who he wants to send 271 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 3: to prison are the people who investigated and made the 272 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 3: evidence the evidentiary case. Liz Cheney and others who sat 273 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 3: in the january. They're the villains. I don't recognize the world. 274 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 3: I don't recognize the world. Now. I understand people voted 275 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 3: the way they voted for a lot of reasons. Kamala 276 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 3: Harris was an awful candidate. The world has got all 277 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 3: kinds of problems. Inflation was bad, the immigration system is crazy, 278 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 3: and they were just lying to us over and oh yeah, 279 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 3: we got the border secure. You got to be kidding me. 280 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 3: Who are you talking to You can't be talking to 281 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 3: the American people because we clearly see it and live 282 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 3: with the results of this, even in cities like Boston 283 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 3: and New York and DC. When Greg Abbott and Dessanta 284 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 3: started flying, illing and busting illegal immigrants into Northeast cities, 285 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 3: all of a sudden, it wasn't just a Southwest problem anymore, 286 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 3: was it. It wasn't just the Texas problem. But whatever 287 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 3: you think of the issues, I want to talk about 288 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 3: the basic accountability of people in elite positions of power, 289 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 3: and it's so difficult. Whether it's Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, 290 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 3: or it's any of the Trump scandals that we've had 291 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 3: so many of, or any of the scandals that we've had, 292 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 3: it's very difficult to hold these people accountable because they 293 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 3: are the custodians of the evidence. They keep the paperwork, 294 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 3: they have the documents. They have the power to crush 295 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 3: their opponents in ways that Joe Blow the average person 296 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 3: stuck in traffic on the seven to ten freeway could 297 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 3: only dream of. But at some point we have to 298 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 3: stop looking at this stuff as a partisan issue. We 299 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 3: have to stop circling the wagon around our team. I'll 300 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 3: never forget when there was a ballplayer and blanket on 301 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 3: his name right now, who spit in an umpire's face, 302 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 3: and he played for the Baltimore Oils at the time, 303 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 3: and he got booed every place he went in twenty 304 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 3: nine ballparks. He'd get booed every place he went. Robbie Alamar, 305 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 3: he got booed in twenty nine ballparks, went home to Baltimore, 306 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 3: got a standing ovation. They have to wonder, now, do 307 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 3: people in Baltimore support spitting an umpire's faces? No, but 308 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 3: his uniform said Baltimore. And it became this gross tribalism 309 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 3: where we'll forgive anything if he helps us win. And 310 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 3: that's what we got. That's what we've got in the 311 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 3: political arena. And I understand there's all kinds of people 312 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 3: have all kinds of opinions, political opinions, and different perspectives, 313 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 3: and they want different things from governments. And there's people 314 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 3: they like, and there's people say, hey, I get it. 315 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 3: But when your team is breaking the law and then 316 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 3: handing out get out of jail free cards to the perpetrators, 317 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 3: we have to stand up as a people because ultimately 318 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 3: we are the government. It's we the people, and we're 319 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 3: letting them get away with it, and it sucks. 320 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 321 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 4: six forty. 322 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 3: So I saw this story on the NBC Nightly News 323 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 3: couple days back, and I flagged the story down because 324 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 3: it was really eye opening. If you've done any traveling 325 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 3: at all and you are cheap like me, you look 326 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 3: for the cheapest possible fare, which is basic economy, and 327 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 3: then you find out that they charged you for a 328 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 3: carry on bag. I mean to throw that roller bag 329 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 3: in the overhand bin. They're gonna nab you for that. 330 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 3: And some of the airlines are really tight with this, 331 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 3: like Spirit, the Airline of Shame, the Yellow Peril, and 332 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 3: Frontier no surprise there, right, But American Airlines does it 333 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 3: and Solo a bunch of the others. Well, the Senate 334 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 3: had a hearing. They dragged a bunch of these CEOs 335 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 3: of these airline companies in to explain this. Richard Blumenthal, 336 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 3: Connecticut Democrat and Josh Hawley of Missouri really grilled these guys. 337 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 3: And I have to say, I'm not a Josh Holly fan. 338 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 3: I was just talking about January sixth, and he knew 339 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 3: exactly what was going on in January sixth and went 340 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 3: back in and then voted for the guy who made 341 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 3: it happen. But he was great yelling at the Frontier 342 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 3: Airlines and the Spirit Airlines people. And this is what 343 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 3: the scheme appears to be. You know, they got that 344 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 3: little box and your carry on bag, the thing that's 345 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 3: post to fit underneath the seat in front of you 346 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,479 Speaker 3: or underneath your seat. And if he's that box and 347 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 3: if it doesn't, then they can charge you. Well, this 348 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 3: one guy had his cell phone video on as a 349 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 3: Frontier Airlines employee was rejecting his bag because it was 350 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 3: two centimeters two centimeters Those of you who sell drugs 351 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 3: know what that is. Two centimeters larger than the thing. 352 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 3: And they were going to charge them like seventy dollars 353 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,400 Speaker 3: to bring the bag on board. And Josh Hawley had 354 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 3: the CEO of the airline there and said, how much 355 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 3: do you pay your employees to kick people's bags off 356 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:48,360 Speaker 3: the plane. And it turns out that they paid employees 357 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 3: twenty six million dollars in bonuses. They put a bounty, 358 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 3: they pay their employees bounties for not letting your bag 359 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 3: go as carry on luggage. So essentially, you've bought a 360 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 3: plane ticket and now the airline that you've paid for 361 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 3: the transportation is paying their employees to say you're not 362 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 3: tall enough to ride this ride, you know, like like 363 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 3: the rides at Disneyland or something. You got to be 364 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 3: so tall, or if you're fat enough, you're too wide 365 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 3: for the ride. And how much did they make? They 366 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 3: made seven billion dollars a year from fees on check bags. 367 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 3: Last year seven billion dollars a year. Now. The reason 368 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 3: I'm bringing this up today, I have other examples of 369 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 3: this stuff. I just had to renew my car registration 370 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 3: and I decided, all right, I'm going to be a 371 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 3: big boy and I'm going to do this online. I'm 372 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 3: not going to write a check like Gladys at Ralph's, 373 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 3: you know, holding up the line and putting a stamp 374 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 3: in the whole nine yards. So I went online, I 375 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 3: did it, and then found out I got charged like 376 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 3: ten dollars for a quote unquote convenience fee. That's why 377 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 3: I mailed mine in. I mailed that check in convenient 378 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,919 Speaker 3: for Oh. It's so stupid because because it's really to 379 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 3: their convenience, it's much more their convenience to my convenience. 380 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 3: And it cost way to realize I got dinged for 381 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 3: using their stupid website. And then if you go to 382 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 3: a hotel that happens to have a gym or a 383 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 3: swimming pool, they'll hit you with a resort fee, even 384 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 3: if you don't use anything in the resort. It's absolutely outrageous. 385 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 3: And I brought this up, both the airline fees and 386 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 3: these other stupid fees, and there's thousands of them. They're 387 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 3: all over the place. You used to have this phrase 388 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 3: nickeled and dime to death. It's not nickels and dimes. 389 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 3: It's a lot of money. It's billions of dollars that 390 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 3: are being the customers, consumers in America being soaked by 391 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 3: these corporations. And here's why it's relevant today on the 392 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 3: day that the alleged suspect in the UH, well, he's 393 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 3: not an alleged suspect. He's absolutely a suspect in the 394 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 3: murder of mister Thompson, the CEO of United Health. The 395 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:07,679 Speaker 3: reason that I'm bringing this up is because these kinds 396 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 3: of decisions that infuriate people and grind people down are 397 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:17,160 Speaker 3: made in boardrooms. There are meetings and somebody says, how 398 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 3: can we maximize our profits. We're not doing as well, 399 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 3: And because it's all about the shareholders, and what it's 400 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 3: really about is the executives' bonuses. The executives get bonused 401 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 3: on the share prices, so if the shareholders are happy, 402 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 3: then they can justify their enormous bonuses at the end 403 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,640 Speaker 3: of the year on top of the gazillion dollar salaries 404 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 3: they get. So they have meetings and they think tank 405 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 3: it and somebody says, what if we charge people for 406 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 3: carry on luggage? What if we have we have basic economy, 407 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 3: and then there's economy plus economy plus you pay a 408 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 3: little bit more. But you can bring your roller bag 409 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 3: on board. But basic economy, you could bring your purse, 410 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 3: you could bring your heart medicine. That's pretty much what 411 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 3: you can bring. You're not bringing your comfort peacock, and 412 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 3: you're not bringing your skis and your deboggin. You're not 413 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 3: bringing your roller bag with clean underwear. We're going to 414 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 3: charge you for that. And someone says, that's a great idea, 415 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 3: and you know how we'll enforce it. We'll pay our 416 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 3: employees to make sure that no bags fit on the 417 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 3: under the seat, that if anything even looks suspiciously close 418 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 3: to it will bonus. We'll give him twenty five bucks 419 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 3: each or whatever they pay them. By the way, they 420 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 3: couldn't answer that question, which infuriated the senators. So the 421 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 3: reason that you see so many people, shockingly, so many 422 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 3: people posting online under their own names on their own 423 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 3: social media cancers are exing out, tweeting out on Instagram, whatever, 424 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 3: on Facebook, posting the jubilation that Thompson was murdered in 425 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 3: broad Daylight in New York City because they hate the 426 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 3: healthcare industry, because you know, he was signing off on 427 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 3: meetings just like I described it, the airlines or other 428 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 3: places where they sit down and say, well, we can 429 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 3: figure out how not to pay for somebody's kidney transplant, 430 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 3: we can figure out how not to pay for somebody's 431 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 3: diabetes medicine. And is that loadsome? Surets loadsome? It's absolutely loathsome. 432 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 3: Does it justify gunning down a father of two at 433 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,160 Speaker 3: fifty years of age and broad daylight? No? And it's 434 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 3: really scary that so many people feel that it is 435 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 3: because sooner or later someone's going to come for the 436 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 3: people that you love, and they'll justify it in their heads. 437 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,919 Speaker 3: I mentioned earlier in the show that this is what was. 438 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 3: You know, the people who were blowing up and shooting 439 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 3: up abortion clinics, they were justifying as saying, well, we're 440 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 3: going to stop, you know, people from killing the unborn. 441 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 3: You know, if that if we human beings have an 442 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 3: infinite capacity to justify whatever they like, you know, we 443 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 3: really do we Well, how many times have you had 444 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 3: knocked back a double cheeseburger with a diet coke? Can 445 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 3: you figure, well, you see, I balanced it out. We 446 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 3: can construct all kinds of ration l's in our brains, 447 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 3: but this kind of behavior where it is it is 448 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 3: profits uber Alas of course I want companies. If companies 449 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 3: don't make money, no one's gonna pay me if they're 450 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,719 Speaker 3: losing money. That I know. And when I had no money, 451 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 3: I know this. I never hired anybody when I am broke. 452 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 3: I don't spend money because I don't have any to spend. 453 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 3: So there has to be a profit. There has to 454 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 3: be a healthy profit in order for businesses to grow. 455 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 3: I get all that, not really because I got a 456 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 3: degree in English, but I theoretically get it. But when 457 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 3: you start to grind people down, you have made us 458 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 3: use your portals. You can't talk to a human being. 459 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 3: You have to pay to have somebody come on and 460 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 3: actually help you with tech support. Otherwise you're talking to 461 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 3: all bot and you got to find out which pictures 462 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 3: have a bicycle in it or which ones included traffic 463 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 3: light to prove you're a human. So you can talk 464 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 3: to a robot, all right, and all of this stuff. 465 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 3: The speed at which we are required to live modern 466 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,880 Speaker 3: life in the digital age is a speed at which 467 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 3: human beings are not biologically biochemically acclimated to live. 468 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 2: We live. 469 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 3: We are wired by the way to live from local 470 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 3: sunrise to local sunset. And then life used to get 471 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 3: real quiet. And then Edison comes along and gives us night. 472 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 3: He gives us light bulbs, and incomes you know, a 473 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 3: network radio, and we're listening to Bing Crosby at eleven 474 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 3: o'clock at night instead of sleeping. And now we've got 475 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 3: the interweb and we can download Korean porn at three 476 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 3: in the morning, you know, and buy shoes at Zappos 477 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 3: dot com. And you can buy Frank Shadow at Amazon 478 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,199 Speaker 3: dot com. I like that. Yeah, that was good. Thank you. 479 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 3: It's my book, Frank Shadow. Buy a bunch of copies. 480 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 3: But the point is is that we adopted this technology 481 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 3: whether we wanted to or not. It was imposed on us. 482 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 3: It was imposed on us because that's the tool, that's 483 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 3: the tool of the time it was. Look, if I 484 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,199 Speaker 3: go back to the eighteen nineties, I don't know what 485 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 3: I'm gonna do because I don't know how to shoe 486 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 3: a horse. I can't saddle a horse if that's my 487 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 3: mode of transportation. I don't know much about cars either, 488 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 3: but I could at least put gas in it or 489 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 3: plug it in if you got one of them. But 490 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 3: so we are all trapped in the epic of history 491 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 3: in which we live, and we are in the digital age, 492 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 3: and corporations have found out that if you can get 493 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 3: customers to use the web for everything, they don't have 494 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 3: to hire anybody, they don't have to pay anybody, they 495 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 3: don't have to have any human beings working at their places. 496 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 3: So they're jettising human beings and replacing it with this 497 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,159 Speaker 3: digital reality. And that's not going to change. It's not. 498 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 3: But what's so frustrating is when you do have a problem, 499 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 3: you're on the hook for everything. Good luck getting a 500 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,399 Speaker 3: human being to solve the problem. Good luck getting a 501 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 3: person on the phone. And when they have meetings and 502 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 3: they sit in conference rooms and they figure out how 503 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 3: to grind you down, and they are doing that, it 504 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 3: creates this rage in people that is now evident everywhere. 505 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 3: And it's tragic because I don't think we can live 506 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 3: at this level of rage. It's not a health it's 507 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 3: not healthy. You wonder why so many people are snapping 508 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 3: and shooting up their workplace where these kids come back 509 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 3: to the kindergarten they went to and shoot up to 510 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 3: school filled with children. I can't explain that sickness except 511 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 3: there's some kind of cultural imbalance here. You know, when 512 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 3: we have these school shootings, people want to blame the 513 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 3: video games, but they have the same video games in Denmark. 514 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 3: You know, they're not shooting up the schools. Somehow, it's 515 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 3: over my pay grade. But we really need to think 516 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 3: about these things. People are enraged, and that rage is 517 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 3: now justifying in this case murder. So let's let's just 518 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 3: think about that for a little bit. I don't know 519 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 3: what the answer is, but I don't want to go 520 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 3: down that road anymore. 521 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 522 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 3: MA guitar in for John coblet Chen will be back 523 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 3: tomorrow and in just a few minutes, John Junior will 524 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 3: be here. Guess yay, not even a few minutes. He's 525 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 3: here now. 526 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 2: Beig trong with you, buddy, Look at you? 527 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 3: Look that. 528 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 2: Hey we've got Paul Riser coming on. 529 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 3: Well that's good man about you? 530 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 2: Mad about you? 531 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 3: You're We're fan of that right. 532 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 2: Back when p I loved it. Peep back when people watch. 533 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 3: TV yeah, I don't watch TV. 534 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 2: Now, there's nine hundred shows on that nobody watches. 535 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, even people in LA who make TV have no 536 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 3: idea what's on TV. 537 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 2: Well, NBC hosted the Emmys last year and they won zero. Yeah, 538 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 2: it's all streaming. Yeah, because networks can't compete with it. 539 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 3: No, nobody can compete. Nobody knows what to do because 540 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 3: there's eight billion things, and then you know what people 541 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 3: end up watching. I love Lucy watching a seventy year 542 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 3: old black and white show because at least they know 543 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 3: what it is. 544 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 2: But you made a good point off the air, and 545 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 2: that's usually when I met I recommend you do him 546 00:29:58,880 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 2: on the air. 547 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 3: That's where I went wrong. 548 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 2: But you know, you're right. It was like rock groups 549 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 2: in the seventies. You know, you gotta go see the 550 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 2: who they're coming into, you know, into the stadium. They 551 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 2: gotta go see the rolling Stones. You gotta see you know, 552 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 2: whoever it was. And they talk about these TV shows 553 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 2: that gotta you gotta see it. The only one that 554 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 2: that ever worked for me on is The Office. I 555 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 2: watched three episodes because my daughter asked me to and 556 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 2: I got hooked. 557 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,719 Speaker 3: No, I know, I'm just out here's rule one. You 558 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 3: don't need to see anything that says episode of season eight. Okay, 559 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 3: season eight of anything? All right, there's no reason to 560 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 3: watch it. 561 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 2: Right they've burned out by that. 562 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 3: Ohay, speaking of burned out, by the way, there's a 563 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 3: big fire at a southern California Amazon warehouse in Almonte. 564 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 3: Oh no, so Santa may not be coming. 565 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 2: Is that a current going on right now? 566 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 3: Know this happened yesterday. I guess not. A package is 567 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 3: not coming. Co pirates are gonna have a bad month. 568 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, they gotta pay. I think they're going to join 569 00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 2: a union. I think they're going to try to unionize. 570 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 2: This is going to be another one of these Santa Anna. 571 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 2: You know, a fire hopegut a fire doesn't break out, 572 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 2: but it could be horrible. 573 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like it. Is it windy? 574 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 2: Because yet not yet it's supposed to be. 575 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 3: It's supposed to be really bad. 576 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 2: David Vassy is coming on with let's talk about the 577 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 2: Dodgers at four thirty five. 578 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,280 Speaker 3: They saved three quarters of a billion dollars by letting 579 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 3: the Mets take one Sodo. 580 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 2: But how is one guy going to turn that team around? 581 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 3: It's not I mean they were. I mean, one guy won't. 582 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 3: But it was a team that was two wins away 583 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 3: from the World Series. But you know, it's not a 584 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 3: it's a good team and they've added a really great player. 585 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 2: But thirty years ago the team would sell for seven 586 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 2: hundred and sixty million dollars. 587 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 3: Look, the money is so ridiculous. I was when I 588 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 3: was in for you. Actually a couple right around Thanksgiving, 589 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 3: I was talking about the Lakers are putting up a 590 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 3: statue of Patilly outside of Crypto And now it's not 591 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 3: enough to have your number retired. Now you've got to 592 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 3: have a statue. It's like the Terra Cotta Warriors in China. 593 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 3: We're just gonna have We're gonna have nineteen thousand people 594 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 3: at the Laker game and twenty thousand statues out in 595 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 3: front of the stadium. 596 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 2: Look, I understand one statue. You know there's gonna be 597 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 2: four Kobe statue. I know it's it's it's for fak 598 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 2: totally out of I think three. 599 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 3: But the Eric in there, No, they're not. Yeah, I'm here. 600 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 2: How many statues the Kobe they're putting up? 601 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 3: Three? Three? 602 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,280 Speaker 2: How many they have up now too? Two one of 603 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 2: just him and then one of him and his daughter Gianna. Oh, 604 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 2: that's cool. 605 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 3: And what's the third one going to be? 606 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 2: The third one is a dictionary with the correct because 607 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 2: the first one was in his number eight years. 608 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 3: Oh, I see, say you got to change the number. 609 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 3: So he's got to have two numbers retired to statues, 610 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 3: one for each number. 611 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then one of him and his daughter. How 612 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 2: many words were misspelled on the first statue? Uh, there's 613 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 2: quite a few. 614 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. So this is how ball players end up getting 615 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,720 Speaker 3: seven hundred and sixty five million dollars. Is that we've 616 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 3: turned them into God's. 617 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 2: You know, I I the show that comes on after 618 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 2: us mooe Kelly and Mark Ronnerd. They're big fans of WKRP. 619 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 2: They didn't know that you wrote on that show. It 620 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 2: was a lot of people didn't know that, but you 621 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 2: you were. You worked on the show with the Turkeys. 622 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 3: No, that was Bill Dile wrote that episode. That was okay, 623 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 3: Bill Diles no longer with us. 624 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:10,760 Speaker 2: Well, in the past one you used to drink. You 625 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 2: told us you wrote that. 626 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 3: Oh, well, listen, I could tell you anything. 627 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 2: How long has it been since you had a drink? 628 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 3: Well, let's see the first couple hours. What do we do? 629 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 3: The first second we did, we talked about Syria and 630 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 3: then Luigi Luigi got caught shooting the house here. 631 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 2: Oh you didn't talk about it? 632 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 3: Are you surprised at? How are you surprised at? How 633 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,959 Speaker 3: many people are happy that that guy got murdered. 634 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 2: It's unbelievable and it's not you know, this is gonna 635 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 2: set a whole new trend. This is gonna set a 636 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 2: brand new trend. It's gonna be horrible because this guy 637 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 2: was a smart dude and and this. 638 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 3: Is going to be a disaster for this speaking a 639 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 3: horrible Yeah, I'm mcatyre, John, Buddy Conway coming up. Let's 640 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 3: get into Crozier, get the headlines of the CAFI newsroom. 641 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 642 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 1: You can always hear the show live on CAF i 643 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,959 Speaker 1: AM from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 644 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.