1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can I am six forty you're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 1: day one until four. If you miss anything after four 4 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: We are going to talk a lot about the Trump 6 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,639 Speaker 1: administration defunding high speed rail here in California. Says there's 7 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: no viable path for it, pulling away four billion dollars 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,319 Speaker 1: that high speed railer is going to get from the 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: federal government. Earlier in the show, we had Congressman Tom 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: McClintock and State Senator Tony Strickland give their views. So 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: if you want to hear that on the podcast, I'm 12 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: going to give you a rundown coming up in the 13 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: next segment because all kinds of politicians are weighing in. 14 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: You wouldn't believe, Oh yeah, you would. How many supporters 15 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: in politics here in California exist for high speed rail. Still, 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: after seventeen years and seventeen billion wasted dollars and no track, 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 1: there are still politicians cheerleading insisting that we have to 18 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 1: keep going. It makes you wonder if they're if they're 19 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: in on the grift, they must be part of the 20 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: con somehow money's getting back to them. But first, another 21 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: atrocity here. If you live in Southern California, the Southern 22 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: California Air Quality Management District, I'm sorry, it's the South 23 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: Coast Air Quality Management District. Excuse me, I keep doing that. 24 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: South Coast air Quality Management District. They have announced last 25 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: year they tried to ban gas powered water heaters and 26 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: space heaters. They're at it again, but they're coming in 27 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: through a side door this time, but it would lead 28 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: to the same place you wouldn't be able to have 29 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: a gas powered water or space heater. We're going to 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: talk here with Lorie Davies because she's leading a coalition 31 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: opposing the gas appliance ban and have to have to 32 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: work quickly because Friday, at nine in the morning, there's 33 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: going to be a the regulators will be having a 34 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: meeting on this. Let's get Lori Davies on Republican Ada, 35 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: Laguna Neguel. 36 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 2: Hi, Laurie, how are you. 37 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 3: I'm good, John, Thanks so much for letting me talk 38 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 3: on this. It's really important. 39 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: Explain to people who haven't heard about this. What is 40 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,119 Speaker 1: the South Coast Air Quality Management District trying to do here. 41 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 3: What is their goal, Well, the bottom line is their 42 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 3: goal of course is cleaner, which we all certainly know 43 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 3: is worthy. However, their decision that they will vote on 44 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 3: this Friday one pack approximately sixteen million Californians, half of 45 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 3: the state. We have an affordability crisis in southern California. 46 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 3: This will significantly impac renters and homeowners in a time 47 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 3: when our finances are incredibly tough. What this is going 48 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 3: to do is the action that the board will take 49 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 3: will consider is to men rule eleven eleven and eleven 50 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 3: twenty one. This will force consumers to choose a much 51 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 3: more expensive option of all electric space and water heaters. 52 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 3: Electric clients cost more than gas appliances, so you know, 53 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 3: we can't afford to make the switch, and you will 54 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 3: be required to pay a fee to continue using your 55 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 3: natural gas water heater and furnace. So additionally, there will 56 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 3: be a substantial cost to retrofit and upgrade infrastructure on 57 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 3: all their homes. I mean this is a government mandate 58 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 3: and could cost about forty seven thousand dollars for new 59 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 3: appliances and to retrofit and old their home, and about 60 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 3: fifteen hundred fees to keep your gas appliance. 61 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: So this is going to are people to to be 62 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: able to keep their current gas powered water or space 63 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: heater or they're being forced to buy a new one. 64 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 3: No, once it dies, your option is either to pay 65 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 3: fees about fifteen hundred dollars or to retrofit. So sooner 66 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 3: or later it will icy. It will be there. 67 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 2: As soon as you need a new one. 68 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: Then you've got to buy an electric heater, which is 69 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: a lot more expensive. You got to retrofit your heater, 70 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: which is also expensive. And that's how they're going to 71 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,119 Speaker 1: drive out gas powered heaters exactly. 72 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 3: And we already know the cost of electricity is much 73 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 3: higher than the cost of gas. 74 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and it's double the national average the cost 75 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: of electricity in this state. 76 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 3: And then you and I both know that the grid 77 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 3: can't handle this. I mean, the grid is not reliable 78 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 3: on you know, it needs to have sources such as 79 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 3: natural gas generate power, and once again we'll end up 80 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 3: with blackouts and we're not going to have enough electricity 81 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 3: out there. So they're always putting the cart before the horse. 82 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: The public responded strongly against this just last year, right 83 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: there was like thirteen thousand messages sent to the air 84 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: quality management district saying don't do this. We don't want 85 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: it get out of our lives. 86 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 3: Absolutely, So when we saw this was coming up, and 87 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 3: again it's one of those things that you don't hear 88 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 3: about until so as soon as we got hold of this, 89 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 3: we started having community outreach meetings. I was able to 90 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 3: get fifteen legislators signing a letter sending it to them. 91 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 3: And this board, this board is ben up of twelve 92 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 3: members and three of them are appointed by the governor. 93 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 3: This governor, the Speaker, and the Senate rules. But the 94 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 3: others are actually elected officials that are appointed, such as 95 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 3: supervisors in the district and city council members. So it's 96 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 3: really important that we get the message to them. And 97 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 3: I can tell you right now what we have is 98 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 3: we have a site you can go to it. We 99 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 3: can't afford this dot com and we have to do 100 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 3: this before June six because that's when they're going to 101 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 3: be having the hearing. And this is a direct link 102 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 3: to fill in comments and opposition. And it's also filled 103 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 3: a lot of great deal of economic impact information on 104 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 3: the website, so have more understanding to it. But it 105 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 3: is so important that we stop this. 106 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 2: We can't afford this. Dot com. 107 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 3: No, we can't. Exactly, we can't afford it. Dot com 108 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 3: is right. 109 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 1: So that's where you go to fill out the form 110 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 1: to let the South Coast Air Quality Management District know 111 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: that you can't afford this new requirement that leads to 112 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: electric water heaters and electric space heaters. 113 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 3: That's exactly right. And I think it's important that you know, 114 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 3: two thirds of the sport are electric electro officials, so 115 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 3: we need to make sure they understand that the people's 116 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 3: voice is important. 117 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: It is so expensive obviously that live in California, and 118 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: this week it's one thing after another. I mean, we're 119 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 1: talking about the sixty five cent gasoline increase that is 120 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: coming maybe July first, and then on top of that, 121 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 1: we're going to have this water heater increase and the 122 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: space heater increase here in southern California. 123 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 3: Right and right now we are voting on the floor 124 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 3: with all these bills, and you know, trying to stop 125 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 3: the bills that are just going to keep raising the 126 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 3: cost of living here. It is so. 127 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: We I mean, it's the number one thing that is 128 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: driving people out of California. And then we have a 129 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: legislature and a governor that that that piles on the costs, 130 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: five piles on the penalties just to live. 131 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 3: Absolutely, you tend to wonder what the agenda is. 132 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 2: I don't know. 133 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: I don't know what is the upside of driving out 134 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: you know, the middle class and the working class. It's 135 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: gonna leave nothing but wealthy people and illegal aliens. 136 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 2: There's not going to be anything else. 137 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 4: No, there's not. 138 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 3: We're not going to have businesses and we're not going 139 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 3: to have you know, we're not going to have the 140 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 3: funding that we're going to need, the revenue that we 141 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 3: need right now. We are the most tax states and 142 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 3: so we don't have a revenue problem here. We have 143 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 3: a problem with managing the revenue. And they keep putting 144 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 3: out bills and we're just up here fighting. But I'm 145 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 3: telling you what, California is really starting to get informed 146 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 3: and their voice makes a difference. So when they call 147 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 3: in we can't afford this dot com or any other issue, 148 00:07:57,920 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 3: it does make a difference. 149 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: Okay, we can't for this dot com. Fill out the 150 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: forum that will get sent to the South Coast air 151 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: Quality Management District. They're meeting Friday morning at nine o'clock 152 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: and this if they get their way, you're going to 153 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: be spending thousands of dollars on electric heaters and uh 154 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: electric space heaters because gas space heaters and gas uh 155 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: and gas water heaters are going to be phased out 156 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: and then well we'll. 157 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 3: Be mixed gas, you know. So it's just getting the 158 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 3: foot into the door. 159 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 2: Right, all right, Laurie, we'll talk again. Thank you for 160 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 2: coming on my pleasure. 161 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 3: Thanks again, John Bye. 162 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 2: It's stupid. 163 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: Why can't you be left alone if you want a 164 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: gas water heater? What's at their business? God, it's just 165 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: like a bunch of communists, a bunch of Soviets thought 166 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: your business if I have a gas water heater or 167 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: a gas space heater, get out of my life. Said, 168 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: they're going to make you pay thousands of dollars extra. Well, 169 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 1: we can't afford this dot com. You better go sign 170 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 1: it up. Don't go complaining afterwards, because they're meeting Friday, 171 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: June sixth, at nine o'clock in the morning when we 172 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: come back, Yai. It is it is the biggest news 173 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: of the day. The Trump administration said no more high 174 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: speed rail federal funding. 175 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 2: Done gone enough of this. 176 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 1: We'll tell you what The Trump officials said, and we'll 177 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: tell you now what these Democratic politicians in California are saying. 178 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: Trying to defend high speed rails. Still after seventeen years 179 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,719 Speaker 1: of failure, Still. 180 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 181 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:48,319 Speaker 5: six forty. 182 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: We are on every day from one until four, the 183 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: Moistline eight seven seven, mois Steady six eight seven seven 184 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: moist Steady six and the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. 185 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: High speed rail four billion dollars has been pulled by 186 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: the Trump administration. Federal money pulled from California and the 187 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: Trump administration through there well, a couple of spokespeople the 188 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,479 Speaker 1: Transportation Department, the Federal Railroad Administration. 189 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 2: They said there's no viable path. That's that's the word 190 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 2: they use. 191 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: And California has thirty seven days to write a response 192 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: and the Trump administration will go and then the money 193 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: gets pulled. 194 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 2: Now, the Feds have so far. 195 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: Paid eighteen percent of the cost, so this is a 196 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: big hole blown in the budget eighteen percent. There's a 197 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 1: three hundred and ten page compliance review that they released. 198 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: The Department of Transportation said there's a lot of budget shortfalls, 199 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: a lot of deadlines, missed, and a lot of this 200 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: is polite, misleading projected ridership. In other words, they'd lied 201 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: their asses off about how many people would use this thing. 202 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: And they were still analyzing the San Francisco to La Idea, 203 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: the high speed you know, two hour and twenty minute, 204 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty mile an hour train that's never 205 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: going to happen. But the review for federal money targets 206 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: the construction just in the central Valley. This is the 207 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: Bakersfield to Merced wing of this high speed rail. Now, 208 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: I'm going to read your quote from the Federal Railroad 209 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: Administration's acting administrator, Drew Feey. He wrote, California High Speed 210 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 1: Rail Authority relied on the false hope of an unending 211 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 1: spigot of federal tax dollars. In essence, California high Speed 212 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: Rail conned the taxpayer out of its four billion dollar investment, 213 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: with no viable plan to deliver even the partial segment 214 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: on time. The High Speed Rail Authority disagree with the findings, 215 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, what do you disagree with? 216 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 2: Go look out the window. 217 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: There's no rail there is there, There are no trains, 218 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: and there are no rail stations. A spokes hole for 219 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: high speed rail. Boy, this is the job you want. 220 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: This is the job you want, Debora high speed Rail 221 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: spokes hole. 222 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 6: Why would I want that? 223 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 2: Let's see how convincing you can say this? 224 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: Okay, the authority will fully address and correct the record 225 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: in our formal response. 226 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 6: The authority will fully address, address and correct the record 227 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 6: and correct the record. 228 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 2: In our formal response. 229 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 6: In our formal response. 230 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 2: It sounds convincing, convincing. You sound like you mean it. 231 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: We remain firmly committed to completing the nation's first true 232 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:00,959 Speaker 1: high speed rail system. 233 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 6: Can we remain fully committed? Yeah? 234 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 2: No, go ahead, Well, we remain fully committed. 235 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 6: We remain fully committed. 236 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 1: To completing the nation's first true high speed rail system. 237 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 6: To you know what you're reading, So that's not there. 238 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 6: I can't memorize. You can read it off a screen. 239 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:17,719 Speaker 6: You can send it to me. 240 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 2: Bring in the next candidate. 241 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 6: I didn't get the job. Clearly. 242 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I set you up. 243 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: Here's some responses from the politicians. Let me let me 244 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 1: get to the democratic politicians here. This just came over 245 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: from the Los Angeles Times. Oh, here's one from Andy Kunns. 246 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: That's an unfortunate name. Andy Kunns, President and chief executive 247 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: of US High Speed Rail Association. California voters are tired 248 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:58,559 Speaker 1: of traffic jams and airport delays. If you build high 249 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: speed rail from Bakersfield to Merced, how does that relieve 250 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,719 Speaker 1: traffic jams and airport delays here in Los Angeles and 251 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: the guns? 252 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 2: Yeah? 253 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: He Actually people say these things and they put their 254 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: names to it. Support for the California High speed Rail 255 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: project is growing as the state's transportation system continues to 256 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: grind to a halt. What kind of mushrooms are these 257 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: guys smoking? Support it's growing. Here's another guy. Rick Harnish, 258 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: the executive director for the High Speed Rail Alliance, called 259 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: the review angering. Oh his paycheck must depend on this angering, 260 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: and said it would only create further roadblocks for the 261 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: project that he believes is critical for the state. This 262 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: isn't just about the Bay area of the La Basin. Well, 263 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: they're not building it from the Bay area to the 264 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: La Basin. They're trying to get funding for Bakersfield and Merced, 265 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: about transportation for the whole state. And it would be 266 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: the catalyst for truly making financially viable communities, for making families, 267 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: for making families. 268 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 2: Is it going to help people make families? 269 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 6: Maybe? 270 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 2: Is there a sex component? 271 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 6: There might be maybe a trains make people. 272 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 2: Horny, and maybe a special sex car on the train. 273 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, giving the more economic opportunity, it would just be huge. 274 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 2: Well, you want where Rick Harness's smoking? 275 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 4: There? 276 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi? 277 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 7: What is she? 278 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: One hundred and four? She's very upset. This announcement is 279 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: the rejection of the future. California has been a leader 280 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: in realizing the vision of high speed rail to meet 281 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: the needs of working families. 282 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 2: What do you meet the needs of working families? 283 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: There's no track at seventeen years, there's no track, there's 284 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: no trains, there's no stations. 285 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 6: John, these things take time. You're so impatient. 286 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 2: I'm just being negative. 287 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: It's just it is unfortunate that the Secretary, Sean Duffy, 288 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: has misrepresented the facts. 289 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 2: Well, are there trains and we just can't see them? 290 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 4: Are is there? 291 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 7: Raal? 292 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 2: She sees them? I guess. 293 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: It promotes commerce and proves the quality of life for Californians, 294 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: creates good paying jobs. Oh, they're good paying jobs, but 295 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: they don't produce anything. I mean, these people are insane. 296 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: It lowers the cost of housing by shortening the distance 297 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: to commute from home to work. 298 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 2: But there's no train. 299 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: This is what they keep talking like, you know, the 300 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: project just started, and this is what it's gonna do 301 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: if you just give it five years. It's they've been 302 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: doing it for seventeen, all right. But these people, but 303 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: you know, this is what criminals do. This is what 304 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: con artists do. Lobbyists, lobbyists. Yeah, I mean these people 305 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: must be making so much money. 306 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 6: Hey, if I'm gonna be making millions, I'll say the 307 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 6: same thing. 308 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 2: You could be bought. 309 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 3: I can. 310 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 2: Eric clip that little quote there. 311 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: I have no morals, no problem. 312 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 2: We'll get you real popular. 313 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am 314 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 5: sixty every day. 315 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: We're on from one until four o'clock. You miss stuff. 316 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 1: After four o'clock, we post John cobelt Show on demand 317 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,199 Speaker 1: the podcast and you can cover whatever you missed. 318 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 7: The uh. 319 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,880 Speaker 1: The big news of the day is the Trump administration 320 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: has defunded California High Speed Rail. Yes, four billion dollars 321 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: was on the table and future funding and the Trump 322 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 1: people pulled it and said there is no viable path 323 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: for this project. They have missed too many deadlines, They've 324 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: blown too many budgets. Their claims are really not to 325 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 1: be believed. The projected ridership was just fantasy. I've seen now, 326 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:19,360 Speaker 1: as arkone California Globe, the new total cost of high 327 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: speed rail to do La to San Francisco one hundred 328 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: and thirty five billion dollars. One hundred thirty five billion. 329 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: We've already spent seventeen billion, so we need we need 330 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: like nine times as much money as we have, and 331 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: they need another fourteen billion soon. Otherwise the project is 332 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: going to grind to a halt. And according to the 333 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: California Globe, the answer for this past month has been, well, 334 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 1: let's get private funding. But they haven't had private funding. 335 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 1: They've been trying for twenty five years. That's not possible. 336 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: Or California might take out more loans. I mean, they 337 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: had us vote on the original ten billion dollars in loans. 338 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: Are they going to put that back on the ballot 339 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 1: and try to convince us people got scammed once? Could 340 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: you scam them a second time? 341 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 3: Oh? 342 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 6: Yeah? People are going to vote for more taxes, are 343 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 6: you kidding? 344 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 3: Yeah? 345 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 1: I guess it's automatic in this state, right, there's no 346 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,360 Speaker 1: tax that doesn't. 347 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 2: Win on the ballot. We just had the homeless tax measures. 348 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: The thing is, it's not even gray zone where the 349 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: money ends up, right, it's clearly getting stolen. We clearly 350 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: are not removing the homeless, and we are not building 351 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: high speed rail. And everybody says, oh, fine, more money. Hey, 352 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,919 Speaker 1: you didn't clear out any homeless. How about another few billion. 353 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:02,120 Speaker 1: It's same thing with high speed rail. No, they don't 354 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: do this in other states. 355 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 2: I don't understand. Maybe it's drugs. Maybe it is drugs. 356 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 6: Maybe we need to be on drugs so that we 357 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 6: don't get so upset. 358 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I wouldn't notice all this if we were 359 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:28,360 Speaker 1: on drugs. So one hundred and thirty five billion, that's 360 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 1: that's San Francisco to Los Angeles. You know what which 361 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: just kills me is all these bastards. No, it's never 362 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: going to be built, but they keep begging for more 363 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: money anyway, and now they're really they're out of They 364 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: have no private sources. 365 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 2: They never did. 366 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: They stole They stole some of the uh, some of 367 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: the tax money that the oil companies have been paying, 368 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: which is really ends up being gas tax money for us. 369 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: They can't get federal money anymore. I you know, all 370 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: they got left is if they borrowed. But I would 371 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 1: think if they're going to borrow that much, that's going 372 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: to have to go on the ballot. What I mean it, 373 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: you know, when you steal billions of dollars, though, that's 374 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: a lot of people that get a pretty cool salary 375 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: for a long time, like it's worth it to them. 376 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: And most of these guys are anonymous, Like the first 377 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: first couple of rounds of executives have come and gone 378 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: since two thousand and eight. It's like they took their 379 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,199 Speaker 1: money and they left, and you know they stole it, 380 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: but hey, nobody ever called them on it. And even 381 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: if you bring up their name on the air, nobody 382 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,159 Speaker 1: knows who they are. They're not going to face any embarrassment. 383 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: They're probably on the Cayman Islands. 384 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 6: And the language on these ballot measures very confusing. I 385 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 6: think a lot of people are confused when they do 386 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 6: vote to raise taxes. Seriously, I mean they I've talked 387 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 6: to people and you know, again, the narrative is, well, 388 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 6: but we're gonna if for instance, the gas tax right right, 389 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 6: wasn't that, Oh, well, they're gonna be less police on 390 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 6: the streets, right, crime. 391 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 2: I mean, I mean there were so many. 392 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 6: Different ways that that was fun. 393 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 2: I know. 394 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,239 Speaker 6: The roads they won't get fixed, well, they didn't get 395 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 6: fixed exactly, and we still had crime. 396 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 1: The homeless doesn't they don't get cleaned up, the roads 397 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 1: don't get fixed, the high speed rail isn't built. 398 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 2: But when you but they. 399 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 1: Offer another tax increase, if you say no, it's like, oh, 400 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: you don't want a world where there's no high speed 401 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: rail and there's no police and the roads aren't fixed 402 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: and the homeless or wandering around. 403 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, that's what we have. 404 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 6: We need more money, another tax, another tax increase to 405 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 6: help with the homeless situation. Because the money was stolen. 406 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 6: That's not our fault. 407 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 2: You see it clearly. I see it clearly. 408 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 6: What goes on out there, I don't know. 409 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 1: I can't let the show go without mentioning this lunatic cringe. 410 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 2: Jean Pierre. She was that strange bird with the crazy hair. 411 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:10,959 Speaker 6: Oh she's very pretty. 412 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 2: Oh lie, if that's your type, she's. 413 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 6: Not my type. I'm just saying. 414 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,159 Speaker 2: I mean she I found her to be weird. 415 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 6: I thought I thought she had a nice fashion sense. 416 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 6: You know, her makeup was nice. 417 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 2: Oi, What do you mean. 418 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: You know she's into women? She married a CNN reporter, Yeah, okay, 419 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 1: cring John Pierre. Uh two years of eight months. She 420 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: was the lying spoke soul for Joe Biden. I was 421 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: looking at some clips today and they're excruciating to listen 422 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: to because she's babbles endlessly. But she was really passionate 423 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: lecturing the reporters on how sharp and energetic. 424 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 6: Okay, John, let me ask you this. I mean, because 425 00:23:58,480 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 6: you know, you and I are on the same page 426 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 6: on a lot of things. But she is paid, that's 427 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 6: her job. She is the press secretary for the White House. 428 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 6: So what is she supposed to say? Hey, you guys, 429 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 6: you're right, he has this cognitive disorder and he shouldn't 430 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 6: be running. But you didn't hear that from me. 431 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: Well, we're paying her, We're paying our tax money, so 432 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 1: she could lie back to us. 433 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 6: I know, But I'm just saying, what do we expect 434 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 6: her to do? 435 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 2: And nobody believes her, although the reporters. 436 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: I was looking at some of these montages and the 437 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: reporter has hardly ever challenged her. 438 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 2: I don't understand that. 439 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,199 Speaker 6: Well, yeah, but now everybody is is you know, that 440 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 6: book is out and everybody is upset. You know, they 441 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 6: didn't know. 442 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: One guy said, he goes, why is there controversy that 443 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: the press covered it up? It was out there for 444 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: you to see. You didn't need the press to tell 445 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: you what was happening. You saw it with your own eyes. 446 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:50,120 Speaker 4: Yeah. 447 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 6: But you know what again, the narrative was, oh, those 448 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 6: clips were edited to show that President Biden was walking 449 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 6: slow or falling down the stairs, or whatever it's to 450 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 6: suit your purpose, John. 451 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: I just we're in an age of unreality. We're no 452 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: matter what happens, they tell you the opposite. I'm reading 453 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: all these outraged politicians over cutting off the high speed 454 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: rail funding as if we were this close, you know, 455 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,360 Speaker 1: as if we were just like, I don't know, ten 456 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: feet away from reaching the train station. An now we're 457 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:29,439 Speaker 1: out of money. Everybody lies, it's all they do. 458 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 6: Did you say what she's doing or did I interest? 459 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 3: You know? 460 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, you interrupted me. 461 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: Sorry, she is leaving the Democratic Party, she's becoming an independent. 462 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:46,120 Speaker 6: And why is she doing that? Because you know what 463 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 6: ignorance is bliss. She didn't know. She thought everything was okay, 464 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 6: and when she left the job, and she has found 465 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:58,119 Speaker 6: out that oh, isn't If Biden did have some issues, 466 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,120 Speaker 6: she felt very upset if she was in the dark. 467 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know how somebody who could get 468 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: paid that much money to lie for two and a 469 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: half years, I don't know how they would feel after 470 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: it all gets blown up in their face. But you know, 471 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: she's writing a book. 472 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,719 Speaker 6: She's going to deny it. She's going to say that 473 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 6: she didn't know, and she was just saying what she 474 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 6: was told, and she didn't have any alone time with 475 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 6: the president. And I don't know. 476 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 2: Do you remember my favorite one? Real quickly? 477 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,400 Speaker 1: A congresswoman named Jackie will Orski died and that's when 478 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: Biden went out and he knew he would just she 479 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: had just died a short time before, and she went 480 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: out to an event and called out, hey, where's Jackie? 481 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: And so they went to Karine Jean Pierre, and Karine 482 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: Jean Pierre said, well, he did that because because she 483 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: was top of mind. 484 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 6: Well maybe she was top of mine. She wasn't really lying. 485 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 2: You're you're auditioning, aren't you. 486 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 6: No, I'm just I'm just saying, I look, I try 487 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 6: not to be a hypocrite, right, And I get this 488 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 6: sometimes in certain jobs. You you and you're getting paid 489 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 6: a lot of money. What are you supposed to do? 490 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 2: Let's go to Debora Mark. 491 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 6: Hey, look, you know I am your spokesperson, all right, 492 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 6: and I never lie. 493 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,360 Speaker 2: I don't want you to. There's nothing to lie about exactly. 494 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 2: We're not hiding here. 495 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 6: No hard to hide on, right, We're always telling the truth. 496 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 497 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 1: Six forty more stimulating talk radio moistline eight seven seven, 498 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: Moist eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or 499 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: use the talk back feature on the iHeartRadio app. And 500 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: we're going to do that on Friday twice in the 501 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:01,120 Speaker 1: three o'clock hour. One of the disturbing to this high 502 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 1: speed rail story today the Trump administration announced that they're 503 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: pulling four billion dollars in federal funding, cutting off this crooked, 504 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 1: corrupt high speed rail criminal enterprise, is that Newsome wants 505 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: to spend a billion dollars a year for the next 506 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: twenty years on high speed rail. That's their response to 507 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: Trump pulling four billion, wasting a billion dollars of a 508 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: tax money every year until what the year twenty forty five. 509 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,479 Speaker 4: Well, how do you want to waste it? John? If 510 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 4: we don't waste it that way, I. 511 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 2: Have other ideas on how to waste money. 512 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 4: Well, what should happen with the high speed rail? What 513 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 4: do you think? 514 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 2: Stop? 515 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 7: Just stop, just stop. They can't do it, So do 516 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 7: you what do you dismantle the project? That's I mean, 517 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 7: it's crazy. 518 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: There's nothing to dismantle. They didn't build anything. 519 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 7: Well, I know they've got short They've got a short 520 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 7: span built, don't they. They've got a little bit of 521 00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 7: construction done. 522 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: Now they've got some of the Buya ducts. 523 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 2: They look like stonehengeboard, right. 524 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 4: Right, right right, yeah, yeah, those are the support. 525 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 7: It's crazy to think about all the money spent and 526 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 7: that's always and all they built it. 527 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 2: Thegant it's like what he didn't do anything? 528 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 7: Yeah, well half of it is the you know, removing 529 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 7: people from their homes, buying the real estate clearing. It's 530 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 7: so you say, let's full stop, just stop, Yeah. 531 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 2: Come up, let's go. 532 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 4: Yeah. 533 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: Well Tomic Clintock said, why don't we widen some of 534 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: the freeways. Sure that would releave the traffic. 535 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 7: All right, problem solved, next issue, Yes, Sir Alex Stone 536 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 7: joins us off the Top, always like It with Alex 537 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 7: Stone from ABC joins off the Top of the Conway 538 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 7: Show Conway of course, still ailing Mohammed Soloman or do 539 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 7: you say solo Man? 540 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: Oh? 541 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 2: I've heard it both ways, I think. 542 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 7: Anyway, he told the cops that he tried to make 543 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 7: this attack an active shooter situation, but they wouldn't sell 544 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 7: him a gun. 545 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 4: Just so, what an odd admission to make. 546 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 7: Yeah, I really wanted to wipe out some more people 547 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 7: with a gun, but couldn't get it because I'm in 548 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 7: the country illegally. 549 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 3: Uh. 550 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 7: And I just saw a documentary. I don't know if 551 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 7: I think you know, you're actually got a pretty broad 552 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 7: area of interest. You might like it. It's the new 553 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 7: Pee Wee Herman Doctors. 554 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 2: Oh, I already watched it. 555 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 4: Didn't you find it? Fella? 556 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 2: It was great, Yeah, it was. It was fascinating. I 557 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 2: think he got a really really raw deal. 558 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 4: Oh my god. 559 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,240 Speaker 2: He got just the destroyed his life, I know. 560 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: And he was just sitting at the back of the 561 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: theater minding his own business. 562 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 7: And it wasn't even that I mean even here LAPD 563 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 7: with that investigation. They didn't even charge him with anything, 564 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 7: did they say he was being investigated. 565 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 4: For child child pornography. He didn't have any. 566 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 7: He didn't have any, but but you know, once you 567 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,719 Speaker 7: smeared his name that way, it really destroyed him. 568 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 4: The poor man had his life destroyed. 569 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: I felt so bad for him watching it, and he 570 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: did people were out to get him. 571 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 7: Yeah, people set him up. That's exactly right. Courtney was 572 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 7: in tears. She was like really inconsolable for like five 573 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 7: or six minutes. 574 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 4: She was so moved by it. 575 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 2: I didn't go that far, but I wouldn't felt sad. 576 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 7: I'm not looking for tears review, but I found that 577 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 7: you even anyway. 578 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: Make me cry one of those a game show, remember 579 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: the game show? 580 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 2: Make me laugh? Yeah, made me cry. 581 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 4: You go anyway. 582 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 7: Someone from that documentary was actually featured in the documentary 583 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 7: and in another documentary Prudence Fenton, who had a lot 584 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 7: to do with Pee Wee Herman and the creative on 585 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 7: Pee Wee, and also another film about Ali Willis, who's 586 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 7: a film a songwriter wrote the theme to Friends. Right anyway, 587 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 7: she's going to stop through and we're gonna talk about 588 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 7: that and Mark it's a big show John. 589 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 1: It really was a terrific documentary on Pee weeh, absolutely, 590 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: and I really I really felt bad for him. 591 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no question. And you saw at the very end. 592 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 7: I mean, I want to give away any spoilers, but 593 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 7: his last remarks I thought made it clear that it 594 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 7: was ruinous to him. 595 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it really was. 596 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 7: He was an outcast as a result of it, and 597 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 7: it was incredibly unfair. 598 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 4: It was. 599 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,000 Speaker 2: But I didn't cry. Did you cry? 600 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 7: I felt that of sadness, Yeah, that I felt. I understood. 601 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 7: I had a melancholy, Yeah, but I didn't. I didn't cry. No, 602 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 7: I didn't had a melancholy. A melancholia as that's. 603 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 2: A good drink. 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