August 8, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (08/08) - Significant action is being taken against drug cartels. There is a bounty out for the President of Venezuela. Two men have been arrested in connection with sex toys being thrown on WNBA courts in the middle of games. More on the redistricting drama.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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we're gonna have State Senator Tony stricklandan from Huntington Beach,
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as we delve into Gavin Newsom and his obsession with
ridding the California Delegation, the California Congressional delegation of all Republicans.
There's only nine out of fifty two Republicans serving California
in Congress.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
He has a plan to knock it down to three.
Why stop at that?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Why not eliminate all Republican representation in the state. And
I've got a clip that I heard this morning, made
mean nuts, and it showed what a narcissistic sociopath he is.
He has every trait in the buck for narcissism and sociopathy.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Good lord, he's shameless, and.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I truly feel like, I truly feel like he does
have He has a sociopathic brain, and he doesn't feel
no shame. You can't shave it just bounces right off
him and always always has a comeback. Now, one of
the reasons, one of the big reasons we have so
many people laying in the streets and dying is the
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tremendous amount of drugs that comes over the border, an
enormous amount of penonel and meth, cocaine, heroine, pot you
name it. And people here in California ingested by the
tens of thousands. Some of them end up living on
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the streets and there and their brains get ravaged, they
destroy their brains, and of course Bass and Newsom do
do nothing to help them. There's no mandatory drug treatment.
There is no mandatory mental health treatment. Either their mentally
ill and that leads them to the drugs, or the
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drugs create the mental illness one.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Way or the other.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But there their brains are scrambled and fried. And then
we've gotta we've gotta, we've got to endure their behavior.
As Bass and newsom you know, make excuses for them,
cover for them, but don't actually remove them in any
great numbers. Well, they they one of the original sins
is the drugs. Now, Trump ordered the State Department yesterday
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to drop plans des send in the military into Mexico.
US military would go across the Mexican border and do
whatever they have to do to destroy the drug cartels,
which I thought should have been done, you know, decades ago.
I've never understood why, because they are better financed and
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better armed than the Mexican military. They're the ones that
have created all the death and all the addiction here
in this state. And they're the ones who've created these
disgusting living conditions that we have to put up with.
And just it's not even the Mexican government, it's not
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the Mexican people, it's the drug cartels. Just level them,
do whatever you have to do to wipe them out. Now,
the Mexican government say they were blindsided by Trump's idea yesterday,
and I'm going to talk about that a couple of minutes,
because they feel like they've been doing everything they can,
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but whatever it is, it's not enough. I mean, they
claim that fifty well the Trump administration claims that fentinyl
has dropped by fifty percent. There's fifty percent fentonyl I'm sorry,
fifty percent less fentinyl coming over the border, and partly
that comes from shutting down the border. This would be
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the most aggressive step against the cartels, and they not
only wanted to choke off the migrants, but they wanted
to choke off the whole fentanyl heroin industry. They have
designated these cartels, as well as some of these Venozoelin gangs,
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as foreign terrorist organizations, which gives the rationale for sending
the military to go after these these goons because normally
it was considered a law enforcement issue, but law enforcement
wasn't working for all these decades.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I don't think they ever tried that hard. It got
to the.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Point where I wondered, are people in the American government
getting a kickback?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Wouldn't be shocking.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean, Mexican officials had been found over the years
to be getting a little side money from the cartels,
and they do have a big influence. But now, I mean,
the Trump administration is claiming that they're driving some of
the cartels into bankruptcy. The cartels are feeling so much pressure,
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they're slowing their production or they're trying to find new
ways to avoid detection. There's The US Ambassador to Mexico,
Ronald Johnson, said that the drop in fentanyl seizures again
fifty percent, was due to a secure border increased collaboration
between the US and Mexico. Johnson said, cartels are going
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bankrupt and our countries are safer because Trump and the
President of Mexico, Claudia Shinbaum, have actually been cooperating here.
But Scheinbaum does not want the military to come into Mexico.
Mexican people are very sensitive about the US is storming in.
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Not a good history, not good memories, cultural memories of this,
and so that's that's too much. We'll talk more about this,
and we'll talk about how they've been cooperating and what
success they have had to achieve at least a fifty
percent drop. Trump's not satisfied. He probably wants the other
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fifty percent to be stopped once and for all. I'm
so much death, I mean, the fentanyl. The deaths have
dropped in the last couple of years, but when it's
height and I was always like just stunned It's like
one hundred thousand people. One hundred thousand people would die
of fentinyl poisoning. And there was one country supplying most
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of it, and that was Mexico, and they were getting
most of their ingredients from China, which is one of
the reasons that Trump slapped all these tariffs on China.
And this is something no other president would do on
either side.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Why.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I mean, he apparently has had success with the tariffs.
China got the message about the fentinyl ingredients, although you know,
I'm sure they're cheating some Mexico certainly got the message.
So I wasn't this done ten to twenty thirty years ago.
I leads me to dark places. We'll talk more when
we come back.
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We're on from one until four, then after four John
Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. Coming up
after three o'clock, We're going to talk with State Senator
Tony Strickland from Huntington Beach and he's going to discuss
Newsom's a stupid redistricting maneuver. He wants to drive all
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the Republicans out of the congressional delegation from California. There's
only nine left out of fifty two. He wants to
cut down to three. You have three Republicans representing you
in Congress. According to do so right, there's democracy for you.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Just to clear up the bobcat mountain lion thing. I
didn't realize this was going to be controversial my memory.
I was under the impression that mountain lions were the
same as bobcasts.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I just got another mess I was wrong. What what
was that? I already said you were right, I was wrong, Eric,
I hope you isolated that.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm editing social media right now. Oh, he has a job.
Mountain lions do have other names, like a cougar.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
What was the other one?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
I said, oh, yeah, you said something else. Somebody just
said a cougar and a mountain lion are the same,
just depending on your part of the country, but not
a bobcat.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Cougar in a mountain lion and the same, right. I
threw bobcat into that.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Yes, And when I saw that picture that you showed us,
I immediately said, that's a bobcat.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, you were correct.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Bobcats are fifteen to thirty five pounds two to three feet,
mountain lions eighty to two hundred pounds five to eight feet,
slightly different coats. They're both wildcats, you know. They're in
the same general category there, Yes, but the mountain lions
are significantly larger.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So I was wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I was mixing up the different names for a mountain lion,
which includes cougar's and something else that I can't find them.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Glad we cleared that, all right, you're happy, Yes, very
you were right.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
You're right, dear, Okay, I was talking about the drug
cartels because Trump wants to send in the military to
wipe them out. They've done a lot of damage to
the fentable flow. We are now going to have tens
of thousands of fewer Americans dying of fentinyl poisoning. Maybe
that might make a dent of the in the number
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of people dyeing on the streets of Los Angeles, the
number of people that Karen Bass lets die on the
streets of Los Angeles, because if they could be effective.
The thing is, the Mexican government really does not want
US military because they had president there. Claudia Shanbaum is
very popular. She has a seventy five percent approval rating,
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and that could go down to zero in a moment
because most Mexicans do not want to see US troops here.
So it might be an effective way to stop the
drug cartels once and for all, but then it's it's
bad politically for the Mexican president. And they have been
cooperating with Trump on the on the border in stopping
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the immigration flow, and they have been helping out with
the drug cartels, and I guess his opinion is, well,
not enough.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Of course, they didn't have.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Much much of a choice because Trump was going to
strangle their trade with his tariffs. That has become an
all purpose club that Trump hits country's over the head
with if he doesn't like anything about the way they
do business in any way, they wake up to a
fifty or one tariff and then they got to go scrambling.
And ultimately, We've got the most power because our market
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is so gigantic that every country that that is worth
its size at all has to do business with us.
It's just impossible to be cut out of the American market.
So he uses the UH, he uses the tariffs as
a weapon, and so far it's working, But maybe they've
choked off enough fentinyl, they've choked off all the fentinil
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they can by simply sealing the border, because the cartels
are going to find new ways. So what Trump wants
to do, bluntly is send the military over the border
and kill and bomb every last one of them. Just annihilate,
exterminate the cartels. And you know, there's long articles about
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what the legal procedure is for this, but if he
declares it a national security threat, that gives him some
legal leeway to do.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
It, not not that he particularly cares.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I mean, I don't know if I don't know how
you stop a president from sending the military anywhere. I mean,
GUS Congress could, but then ever do and certainly this
Congress is not going to stop up.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And I'm not suggesting they should.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's it's just I just don't I just think when
when you have a situation where the cartels are leading
to the deaths of one hundred thousand people a year,
it's like, no, they ought to be dealt with in
the harshest manner possible. And I honestly don't understand an
argument otherwise. I don't think we should accept fifty thousand
dying or ten thousand dying or five hundred dying or
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five dying. It should be absolutely let's destroy every member
of the drug card tales, period, period, full stop. To
quote a great wise man. He also, and this is related,
he put out basically a bounty on the president of Venezuela,
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Nicholas Maduro.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Trump did.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
He's offering fifty million dollars if anybody catches Nicholas Maduro
catches I don't know if if if you kill.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Him, I don't know, if you get a bonus or
what happens if you just see him on the street,
you give a tip, Can I get like ten million?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Maybe there's a sliding scale. Yeah, I don't know. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But if you he's unleashed every nut ball in the world, Now,
who's going to try to kidnap Meduro? And Trump has
got has got a bounty on him as well. I mean,
the Iranians have had a have him marked for assassination
for many years now, going back to the first Trump administration.
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So I'll mean that, I mean, he obviously just doesn't
fear anything. I mean, you start, you start putting a
bounty on other foreign leaders, not now they say that
there there's like seventy what is it, seventy million tons
of cocaine that comes out of Venezuela. Uh, and that
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Meduro is personally connected to many millions of tons of
cocaine himself. I gotta, I gotta get the numbers here.
But here it is here, it is, all right, fifty
million dollar reward, all right, thirty tons of cocaine linked
to Meduro self and now thirty tons of cocaine linked
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to Maduro and his associates. Seven tons of cocaine linked
to Maduro himself. So that's millions of dollars. I think
I said millions of tons. It's millions of dollars. And
he says the cocaine linked to Meduro's smuggling is often
laced with fentanyl, and so that's killing Americans as well.
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So they're treating the president of Venezuela like he's a
drug king bin, which he is, as if he's a
cartel king bin, which he is. And this was, Oh,
there was a bounty of twenty five million when Biden
was president. So Trump is just doubling an old bounty.
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Department of Justice has already seized over seven hundred million
of Maduro connected assets, two private jets, nine vehicles and more.
Yet he still continues with this massive cocaine trafficking and
fentanyl trafficking scheme. That's the president of Venezuela, which is
why we ended up with so many Venezuelans coming over
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the border and why we ended up with the trend.
Dear Ragua gang here because they were trying to ruin
America from the inside. We got more coming up. Death
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh, John, one more person sent me a message.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
The other name that you were trying to figure out
is Puma, but we actually talked about that off the air.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Right, Puma, Cougar, Mountain Lion are all the same. Yeah,
Bobcat is different exactly. I put Bobcat into the other gap.
You were incorrect? All right? Is every any satisfied?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I have admitted defeat. Okay, I've confessed to being wrong.
Further than that, I have agreed that you were right.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I know.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
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Bob bobcat of the same. You missed some good stuff
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or to runs the moistline next hour and now it's
time to talk about sex toys. You know, there's never
enough sex toy news, but this w n b A
situation has given everybody a chance to go on radio
and television and to make to make the merits of
sex toys. Uh, you know, hardly anybody this is actually
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great publicity. I was thinking about this. You know, hardly
anybody watches the w n b A. Not too many
people go to their games. But this has given them
headline coverage for several days now. So I think the
controversy is is an upside.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
For the w n b A because I'll be out.
I didn't know there was a season going on.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Until I saw these clips every night of these green
sex toys. And if you're not familiar, I guess it
happened again. Yeah last night, last night, there's a there's
been four incidents of these green objects flying through the air,
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and some a nine year old got actually hit by
one of these things. You know, if they're not thrown well,
I mean it could hit players or gets somebody in
the stand used.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
There was actually betting lines on an offshore betting site
for which color would be the next adult toy to
get thrown.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Onto the court.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I hope they're not, but you are just out of
control today. Well, now this is strange. The New York Times,
you know, they they Operatethathletic dot com, that's a big
daily sports magazine, and they think it is connected to
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a cryptocurrency scheme. Does this sound crazy when when at
the Crypto Arena Tuesday night, it was an La Sparks,
Indiana Fever game and a neon green sex toy flew
from the stands and landed right at the feet of
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the Indiana Guard Sophie Cunningham. At the same time, a
group of people during an audio livestream on x they
started celebrating because this would boost the value of a
mean coin that's a cryptocurrency, you know, like Bitcoin or ethereum.
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But they the cryptocurrency is created from an Internet meme
and these these guys are on the Internet and they
start publicizing and hyping a meme that is represented by
the coin.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
See.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I don't do any of this stuff, Eric, do you
do any of this stuff? Absolutely not. Okay, do you
know anybody who does this stuff?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yes, I have a lot of friends that are into
meme coins and okay, in the still currency and all
of this.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And everybody decides at the same time they'll get behind
the sexy cryptocurrency and they start trading it back and forth, yeah,
and pumping up its expectations.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Well, you remember a couple of years ago when that
game stock game stock stock took a huge rise.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yet, that's essentially the same thing.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But it's nothing but the same people selling it back
and forth drive up the price.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Yeah, yeah, I'm all this stuff is legal. I Sam
Bankman Friedman is sitting in the Yeah. Yeah, it's it's
really gambled.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It's casino And I guess it's not hard to start
a cryptocurrency. So they started the Green Sex Toy cryptocurrency.
And these are real markets online and the coin was
created July twenty eighth, a day before the first sex
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toy flew through the air at a WNBA game. By Thursday,
the coin's worth had tripled in the first week, So
somebody tripled their investment in a week because seeing all
these green sex toys flying through the air got so
many other quote investors excited that they just started to
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buy and sell this mean coin.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I might makeing sense.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I mean this sounds the whole world is nuts, but
it's a way to make money. One of the people
online said, uh oh, someone is tweeting that they're is
one at the Sparks game. This is literally the best
case scenario that we could possibly imagine. So it looks
like these sex toys flying through the air are part
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of a coordinated effort to publicize and boost the price
of the meme coin coming out of conversations on the
Internet and social media. Everybody hides their identities, they use pseudonyms,
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and the meme cooin is part of a long line
of novelty digital assets which start as jokes or gags
and they turn into people creating these coins and making money,
and then there's a whole art to it. You get
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creative and you do something. According to one of these investors,
you do something to make people actually laugh. Mean cooin
should make you laugh. The whole mission was on making
an impact in crypto culture to give a hook for
people to buy and sell, because the more these sex
toys flew through the air, the more people became aware
of it, and then more would then buy and sell
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the mean coin.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I think that's that's how this works.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, And it's really crazy because at first, when all
of this was happening, a lot of people that honestly
including myself, were assuming that people were throwing these sex
toys onto the WNBA courts for LGBTQ reasons because the
athletes a lot of them identify as that, and so
people were making that correlation. But now it's for cryptocurrency
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and a mean coin. That's we're living in a simulation
that was a way to insult and embarrass some of
the players. Yeah, exactly, and then it's connected to a
meme coin.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I looks like the Times in the Athletic have done
a lot of research in this, and it looks like
that is the story. So we're gonna see more of this.
I mean that now that it's become like a national story,
I imagine I don't know what the price of it is.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I don't even know how to look this up.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
How would I buy one, gotta go to the dark web?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Is that where they Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
So they don't have like an organized the New York
Stock Exchange for this, No, I didn't think so.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Well, it's an organized stock exchange. It's just not the
New York Stock it's New York Stock Exchange. It's not NASDAC.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
No, I don't believe it's regulated.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, all right, here's what you were talking about. The
the trading price of one of these, I'll spell it
is dollar sign dld O. That that that is the
code if you want to buy or sell. It had
a training volume of more than a million and a
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half dollars between Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. Polymarket is a
cryptocurrency based prediction site and took bets on whether the
disrupt would occur, and they got one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars worth of bets on that if a if
a sex toy would be thrown at a game by
August tenth, and you could speculate on when the next
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sex toy might hit the court.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I found the price of it on Forbes. What is it?
Zero point zero zero zero nine cents? So you got
to buy what a billion?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
And hope somebody else is going to buy a billion
of them. Yes, this is nuts.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, all all these bright young minds, this is what
they do with their days.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Well did you see the guy that got arrested? What
he look like?
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
That that chubby little uh good lord, what a freak
that guy is.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, you sent a picture of that guy. That's right.
I wanted to talk about that guy. Where is he?
You sent it on our text threat, right, yeah, it
was a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Caden Lopez. Boy, this guy
hasn't missed a meal and he's got food stains on
his sweatshirt, and he's got shaggy, curly hair, and it
looks like a dumb cluck.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
He's eighteen. He's eighteen.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh, he got arrested because he hits somebody with the
sex toy at the Phoenix game. So he's charged with
assault and disorderly conduct. Yeah, good, good, use of your life.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
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Speaker 1 (26:29):
KFI A six.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Coming up next hour, two rounds of the Moist Line,
and we're gonna have State Senator Tony Strickland on right
after Debor's newscast. He is coming out against Gavin Newsom's
special election scheme so that the public could vote on
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redrawing the congressional districts and strick and this is going
to cost us two hundred million dollars. Newsom the guy
who blows thirty five billion on illegal alien healthcare and
has blown twenty five billion on the homeless with no
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accounting for it, and seventeen billion on high speed rail
and nobody knows where that money went, and thirty billion
on fraudulent unemployment claims during COVID. Now he's got another
two hundred million to blow on this redistricting idea. And again,
the purpose is to almost eliminate Republican representation in Congress
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from California. Right now, the Democrats among the fifty two
congress people, Democrats are have forty three, yes, forty three,
Republicans nine. He wants to make it so it's Democrats
forty nine and Republicans three. Now, there is a commission
that's supposed to redraw the districts every ten years after
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the census. Well, he wants to overturn that commission. But
he needs the legislature to approve the idea by two
thirds vote. And then you the public to approve it
by two thirds vote in November, and they want to
rush this for November and spend the two hundred million
because he wants to get.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Back at Texas because Texas is.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Trying to get Democrats Democratic congress people out of office.
But that's their issue, that's their problem in Texas that
they have to police and vote on. It's not our issue.
It's not our business. But here's what he said. He
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actually blames Trump for this when Newsom is solely behind
this redistricting scheme here in California. Listen to what a
narcissistic sociopath does.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It's mister at number one.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
We want to encourage national redistricting, which is critical of
long supported national redistricting. I appreciate Common Cause and their
work in this space. Should be done in Ohio, it
should be done in Florida, it should be done elsewhere.
I appreciate Governor Schwarzeneger's leadership in this space. I was
proud to support those efforts in the past as a
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mayor at the time lieutenant governor, working against the repeal
of some of those independent redistricting efforts. That's why we
want to continue to keep the Independent Redistricting Commission, but
recognizing that we cannot unilatterally disarm at this existential moment
in terms of these congressional maps in twenty six, twenty eight,
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and thirty but to maintain its status beyond thirty into
thirty thirty two, and to codify our intent to continue
to promote a national independent redistricting model.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
The idea of the United States as he's.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Entitled to five seats should sicken everybody. There's nothing normal
about that, and anyone who says it's not surprising.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Is normalizing it. That's shocking. So it's sickening and shocking.
But it's exactly what Newsom is doing.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Newsom wants to eliminate five to six Republican seats out
of Congress in California. So there's forty nine Democrats and
three Republicans. So it's impossible for anybody to elect Republicans
in these in these districts because the Republicans are going
to be drawn out of the districts.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
They're just going to squiggle lines.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood to encircle registered Democrats
or people they think will vote Democrat, and then he says,
Trump says he's entitled to five seats, and that's shocking
and sickening. Trump has no direct power over this. The
Texas legislation and governor has the direct power. Trump could
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could stomp his feet and fume and fuss about it,
but he doesn't have any direct power. Newsom, though, wants
to use this election in November to get direct power.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
He wants to.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Destroy a commission that Schwarzenegger created and got passed, an
independent commission which still gives you forty three Democrat seats.
And Newsom wants to spend two hundred million dollars of
tax money to overrule the commission. And then he blames Trump.
(31:38):
This is sociopathic behavior. It's about deflecting and blaming someone else.
It's not taking responsible And he talks fast enough and
so much confusing jargon that most people don't even.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Notice to go, oh, yeah, Trump sucks. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
We've got forty percent of the population in California that
vote Republican.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
They're entitled to Congress people. Two. Who's a threat to democracy? Well,
what's this.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Kicking off five to six Republican congress people at office
just because you feel like it, and it's only to
boost his boost his political career so he could be
a leader running for the presidential nomination. This is disgusting
Newsome is disgusting, and he thinks he can just double
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talk his way. Well, we're going to talk to Tony
Strickland because this is two hundred million dollars of your
tax money. Deborah Mark Live, CAFI twenty four, our newsroom.
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we're gonna have State Senator Tony stricklandan from Huntington Beach,
(00:33):
as we delve into Gavin Newsom and his obsession with
ridding the California Delegation, the California Congressional delegation of all Republicans.
There's only nine out of fifty two Republicans serving California
in Congress.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
He has a plan to knock it down to three.
Why stop at that?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Why not eliminate all Republican representation in the state. And
I've got a clip that I heard this morning, made
mean nuts, and it showed what a narcissistic sociopath he is.
He has every trait in the buck for narcissism and sociopathy.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Good lord, he's shameless, and.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I truly feel like, I truly feel like he does
have He has a sociopathic brain, and he doesn't feel
no shame. You can't shave it just bounces right off
him and always always has a comeback. Now, one of
the reasons, one of the big reasons we have so
many people laying in the streets and dying is the
(01:45):
tremendous amount of drugs that comes over the border, an
enormous amount of penonel and meth, cocaine, heroine, pot you
name it. And people here in California ingested by the
tens of thousands. Some of them end up living on
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the streets and there and their brains get ravaged, they
destroy their brains, and of course Bass and Newsom do
do nothing to help them. There's no mandatory drug treatment.
There is no mandatory mental health treatment. Either their mentally
ill and that leads them to the drugs, or the
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drugs create the mental illness one.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Way or the other.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But there their brains are scrambled and fried. And then
we've gotta we've gotta, we've got to endure their behavior.
As Bass and newsom you know, make excuses for them,
cover for them, but don't actually remove them in any
great numbers. Well, they they one of the original sins
is the drugs. Now, Trump ordered the State Department yesterday
(02:59):
to drop plans des send in the military into Mexico.
US military would go across the Mexican border and do
whatever they have to do to destroy the drug cartels,
which I thought should have been done, you know, decades ago.
I've never understood why, because they are better financed and
(03:23):
better armed than the Mexican military. They're the ones that
have created all the death and all the addiction here
in this state. And they're the ones who've created these
disgusting living conditions that we have to put up with.
And just it's not even the Mexican government, it's not
(03:44):
the Mexican people, it's the drug cartels. Just level them,
do whatever you have to do to wipe them out. Now,
the Mexican government say they were blindsided by Trump's idea yesterday,
and I'm going to talk about that a couple of minutes,
because they feel like they've been doing everything they can,
(04:05):
but whatever it is, it's not enough. I mean, they
claim that fifty well the Trump administration claims that fentinyl
has dropped by fifty percent. There's fifty percent fentonyl I'm sorry,
fifty percent less fentinyl coming over the border, and partly
that comes from shutting down the border. This would be
(04:28):
the most aggressive step against the cartels, and they not
only wanted to choke off the migrants, but they wanted
to choke off the whole fentanyl heroin industry. They have
designated these cartels, as well as some of these Venozoelin gangs,
(04:50):
as foreign terrorist organizations, which gives the rationale for sending
the military to go after these these goons because normally
it was considered a law enforcement issue, but law enforcement
wasn't working for all these decades.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I don't think they ever tried that hard. It got
to the.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Point where I wondered, are people in the American government
getting a kickback?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Wouldn't be shocking.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I mean, Mexican officials had been found over the years
to be getting a little side money from the cartels,
and they do have a big influence. But now, I mean,
the Trump administration is claiming that they're driving some of
the cartels into bankruptcy. The cartels are feeling so much pressure,
(05:44):
they're slowing their production or they're trying to find new
ways to avoid detection. There's The US Ambassador to Mexico,
Ronald Johnson, said that the drop in fentanyl seizures again
fifty percent, was due to a secure border increased collaboration
between the US and Mexico. Johnson said, cartels are going
(06:08):
bankrupt and our countries are safer because Trump and the
President of Mexico, Claudia Shinbaum, have actually been cooperating here.
But Scheinbaum does not want the military to come into Mexico.
Mexican people are very sensitive about the US is storming in.
(06:28):
Not a good history, not good memories, cultural memories of this,
and so that's that's too much. We'll talk more about this,
and we'll talk about how they've been cooperating and what
success they have had to achieve at least a fifty
percent drop. Trump's not satisfied. He probably wants the other
(06:50):
fifty percent to be stopped once and for all. I'm
so much death, I mean, the fentanyl. The deaths have
dropped in the last couple of years, but when it's
height and I was always like just stunned It's like
one hundred thousand people. One hundred thousand people would die
of fentinyl poisoning. And there was one country supplying most
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of it, and that was Mexico, and they were getting
most of their ingredients from China, which is one of
the reasons that Trump slapped all these tariffs on China.
And this is something no other president would do on
either side.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Why.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I mean, he apparently has had success with the tariffs.
China got the message about the fentinyl ingredients, although you know,
I'm sure they're cheating some Mexico certainly got the message.
So I wasn't this done ten to twenty thirty years ago.
I leads me to dark places. We'll talk more when
we come back.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
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Speaker 2 (07:57):
We're on from one until four, then after four John
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Tony Strickland from Huntington Beach and he's going to discuss
Newsom's a stupid redistricting maneuver. He wants to drive all
(08:18):
the Republicans out of the congressional delegation from California. There's
only nine left out of fifty two. He wants to
cut down to three. You have three Republicans representing you
in Congress. According to do so right, there's democracy for you.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Just to clear up the bobcat mountain lion thing. I
didn't realize this was going to be controversial my memory.
I was under the impression that mountain lions were the
same as bobcasts.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I just got another mess I was wrong. What what
was that? I already said you were right, I was wrong, Eric,
I hope you isolated that.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm editing social media right now. Oh, he has a job.
Mountain lions do have other names, like a cougar.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
What was the other one?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
I said, oh, yeah, you said something else. Somebody just
said a cougar and a mountain lion are the same,
just depending on your part of the country, but not
a bobcat.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Cougar in a mountain lion and the same, right. I
threw bobcat into that.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Yes, And when I saw that picture that you showed us,
I immediately said, that's a bobcat.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, you were correct.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Bobcats are fifteen to thirty five pounds two to three feet,
mountain lions eighty to two hundred pounds five to eight feet,
slightly different coats. They're both wildcats, you know. They're in
the same general category there, Yes, but the mountain lions
are significantly larger.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So I was wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I was mixing up the different names for a mountain lion,
which includes cougar's and something else that I can't find them.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Glad we cleared that, all right, you're happy, Yes, very
you were right.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
You're right, dear, Okay, I was talking about the drug
cartels because Trump wants to send in the military to
wipe them out. They've done a lot of damage to
the fentable flow. We are now going to have tens
of thousands of fewer Americans dying of fentinyl poisoning. Maybe
that might make a dent of the in the number
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of people dyeing on the streets of Los Angeles, the
number of people that Karen Bass lets die on the
streets of Los Angeles, because if they could be effective.
The thing is, the Mexican government really does not want
US military because they had president there. Claudia Shanbaum is
very popular. She has a seventy five percent approval rating,
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and that could go down to zero in a moment
because most Mexicans do not want to see US troops here.
So it might be an effective way to stop the
drug cartels once and for all, but then it's it's
bad politically for the Mexican president. And they have been
cooperating with Trump on the on the border in stopping
(11:05):
the immigration flow, and they have been helping out with
the drug cartels, and I guess his opinion is, well,
not enough.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Of course, they didn't have.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Much much of a choice because Trump was going to
strangle their trade with his tariffs. That has become an
all purpose club that Trump hits country's over the head
with if he doesn't like anything about the way they
do business in any way, they wake up to a
fifty or one tariff and then they got to go scrambling.
And ultimately, We've got the most power because our market
(11:34):
is so gigantic that every country that that is worth
its size at all has to do business with us.
It's just impossible to be cut out of the American market.
So he uses the UH, he uses the tariffs as
a weapon, and so far it's working, But maybe they've
choked off enough fentinyl, they've choked off all the fentinil
(11:57):
they can by simply sealing the border, because the cartels
are going to find new ways. So what Trump wants
to do, bluntly is send the military over the border
and kill and bomb every last one of them. Just annihilate,
exterminate the cartels. And you know, there's long articles about
(12:20):
what the legal procedure is for this, but if he
declares it a national security threat, that gives him some
legal leeway to do.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
It, not not that he particularly cares.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I mean, I don't know if I don't know how
you stop a president from sending the military anywhere. I mean,
GUS Congress could, but then ever do and certainly this
Congress is not going to stop up.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And I'm not suggesting they should.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's it's just I just don't I just think when
when you have a situation where the cartels are leading
to the deaths of one hundred thousand people a year,
it's like, no, they ought to be dealt with in
the harshest manner possible. And I honestly don't understand an
argument otherwise. I don't think we should accept fifty thousand
dying or ten thousand dying or five hundred dying or
(13:08):
five dying. It should be absolutely let's destroy every member
of the drug card tales, period, period, full stop. To
quote a great wise man. He also, and this is related,
he put out basically a bounty on the president of Venezuela,
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Nicholas Maduro.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Trump did.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
He's offering fifty million dollars if anybody catches Nicholas Maduro
catches I don't know if if if you kill.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Him, I don't know, if you get a bonus or
what happens if you just see him on the street,
you give a tip, Can I get like ten million?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Maybe there's a sliding scale. Yeah, I don't know. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But if you he's unleashed every nut ball in the world, Now,
who's going to try to kidnap Meduro? And Trump has
got has got a bounty on him as well. I mean,
the Iranians have had a have him marked for assassination
for many years now, going back to the first Trump administration.
(14:18):
So I'll mean that, I mean, he obviously just doesn't
fear anything. I mean, you start, you start putting a
bounty on other foreign leaders, not now they say that
there there's like seventy what is it, seventy million tons
of cocaine that comes out of Venezuela. Uh, and that
(14:38):
Meduro is personally connected to many millions of tons of
cocaine himself. I gotta, I gotta get the numbers here.
But here it is here, it is, all right, fifty
million dollar reward, all right, thirty tons of cocaine linked
to Meduro self and now thirty tons of cocaine linked
(15:03):
to Maduro and his associates. Seven tons of cocaine linked
to Maduro himself. So that's millions of dollars. I think
I said millions of tons. It's millions of dollars. And
he says the cocaine linked to Meduro's smuggling is often
laced with fentanyl, and so that's killing Americans as well.
(15:24):
So they're treating the president of Venezuela like he's a
drug king bin, which he is, as if he's a
cartel king bin, which he is. And this was, Oh,
there was a bounty of twenty five million when Biden
was president. So Trump is just doubling an old bounty.
(15:46):
Department of Justice has already seized over seven hundred million
of Maduro connected assets, two private jets, nine vehicles and more.
Yet he still continues with this massive cocaine trafficking and
fentanyl trafficking scheme. That's the president of Venezuela, which is
why we ended up with so many Venezuelans coming over
(16:08):
the border and why we ended up with the trend.
Dear Ragua gang here because they were trying to ruin
America from the inside. We got more coming up. Death
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh, John, one more person sent me a message.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
The other name that you were trying to figure out
is Puma, but we actually talked about that off the air.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Right, Puma, Cougar, Mountain Lion are all the same. Yeah,
Bobcat is different exactly. I put Bobcat into the other gap.
You were incorrect? All right? Is every any satisfied?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I have admitted defeat. Okay, I've confessed to being wrong.
Further than that, I have agreed that you were right.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I know.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
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Bob bobcat of the same. You missed some good stuff
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or to runs the moistline next hour and now it's
time to talk about sex toys. You know, there's never
enough sex toy news, but this w n b A
situation has given everybody a chance to go on radio
and television and to make to make the merits of
sex toys. Uh, you know, hardly anybody this is actually
(17:39):
great publicity. I was thinking about this. You know, hardly
anybody watches the w n b A. Not too many
people go to their games. But this has given them
headline coverage for several days now. So I think the
controversy is is an upside.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
For the w n b A because I'll be out.
I didn't know there was a season going on.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Until I saw these clips every night of these green
sex toys. And if you're not familiar, I guess it
happened again. Yeah last night, last night, there's a there's
been four incidents of these green objects flying through the air,
(18:26):
and some a nine year old got actually hit by
one of these things. You know, if they're not thrown well,
I mean it could hit players or gets somebody in
the stand used.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
There was actually betting lines on an offshore betting site
for which color would be the next adult toy to
get thrown.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Onto the court.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I hope they're not, but you are just out of
control today. Well, now this is strange. The New York Times,
you know, they they Operatethathletic dot com, that's a big
daily sports magazine, and they think it is connected to
(19:15):
a cryptocurrency scheme. Does this sound crazy when when at
the Crypto Arena Tuesday night, it was an La Sparks,
Indiana Fever game and a neon green sex toy flew
from the stands and landed right at the feet of
(19:38):
the Indiana Guard Sophie Cunningham. At the same time, a
group of people during an audio livestream on x they
started celebrating because this would boost the value of a
mean coin that's a cryptocurrency, you know, like Bitcoin or ethereum.
(19:58):
But they the cryptocurrency is created from an Internet meme
and these these guys are on the Internet and they
start publicizing and hyping a meme that is represented by
the coin.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
See.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I don't do any of this stuff, Eric, do you
do any of this stuff? Absolutely not. Okay, do you
know anybody who does this stuff?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yes, I have a lot of friends that are into
meme coins and okay, in the still currency and all
of this.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And everybody decides at the same time they'll get behind
the sexy cryptocurrency and they start trading it back and forth, yeah,
and pumping up its expectations.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Well, you remember a couple of years ago when that
game stock game stock stock took a huge rise.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yet, that's essentially the same thing.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But it's nothing but the same people selling it back
and forth drive up the price.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Yeah, yeah, I'm all this stuff is legal. I Sam
Bankman Friedman is sitting in the Yeah. Yeah, it's it's
really gambled.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It's casino And I guess it's not hard to start
a cryptocurrency. So they started the Green Sex Toy cryptocurrency.
And these are real markets online and the coin was
created July twenty eighth, a day before the first sex
(21:20):
toy flew through the air at a WNBA game. By Thursday,
the coin's worth had tripled in the first week, So
somebody tripled their investment in a week because seeing all
these green sex toys flying through the air got so
many other quote investors excited that they just started to
(21:42):
buy and sell this mean coin.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I might makeing sense.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I mean this sounds the whole world is nuts, but
it's a way to make money. One of the people
online said, uh oh, someone is tweeting that they're is
one at the Sparks game. This is literally the best
case scenario that we could possibly imagine. So it looks
like these sex toys flying through the air are part
(22:10):
of a coordinated effort to publicize and boost the price
of the meme coin coming out of conversations on the
Internet and social media. Everybody hides their identities, they use pseudonyms,
(22:31):
and the meme cooin is part of a long line
of novelty digital assets which start as jokes or gags
and they turn into people creating these coins and making money,
and then there's a whole art to it. You get
(22:52):
creative and you do something. According to one of these investors,
you do something to make people actually laugh. Mean cooin
should make you laugh. The whole mission was on making
an impact in crypto culture to give a hook for
people to buy and sell, because the more these sex
toys flew through the air, the more people became aware
of it, and then more would then buy and sell
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the mean coin.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I think that's that's how this works.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, And it's really crazy because at first, when all
of this was happening, a lot of people that honestly
including myself, were assuming that people were throwing these sex
toys onto the WNBA courts for LGBTQ reasons because the
athletes a lot of them identify as that, and so
people were making that correlation. But now it's for cryptocurrency
(23:39):
and a mean coin. That's we're living in a simulation
that was a way to insult and embarrass some of
the players. Yeah, exactly, and then it's connected to a
meme coin.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I looks like the Times in the Athletic have done
a lot of research in this, and it looks like
that is the story. So we're gonna see more of this.
I mean that now that it's become like a national story,
I imagine I don't know what the price of it is.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I don't even know how to look this up.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
How would I buy one, gotta go to the dark web?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Is that where they Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
So they don't have like an organized the New York
Stock Exchange for this, No, I didn't think so.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Well, it's an organized stock exchange. It's just not the
New York Stock it's New York Stock Exchange. It's not NASDAC.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
No, I don't believe it's regulated.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, all right, here's what you were talking about. The
the trading price of one of these, I'll spell it
is dollar sign dld O. That that that is the
code if you want to buy or sell. It had
a training volume of more than a million and a
(24:49):
half dollars between Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. Polymarket is a
cryptocurrency based prediction site and took bets on whether the
disrupt would occur, and they got one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars worth of bets on that if a if
a sex toy would be thrown at a game by
August tenth, and you could speculate on when the next
(25:12):
sex toy might hit the court.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I found the price of it on Forbes. What is it?
Zero point zero zero zero nine cents? So you got
to buy what a billion?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
And hope somebody else is going to buy a billion
of them. Yes, this is nuts.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, all all these bright young minds, this is what
they do with their days.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Well did you see the guy that got arrested? What
he look like?
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
That that chubby little uh good lord, what a freak
that guy is.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, you sent a picture of that guy. That's right.
I wanted to talk about that guy. Where is he?
You sent it on our text threat, right, yeah, it
was a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Caden Lopez. Boy, this guy
hasn't missed a meal and he's got food stains on
his sweatshirt, and he's got shaggy, curly hair, and it
looks like a dumb cluck.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
He's eighteen. He's eighteen.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh, he got arrested because he hits somebody with the
sex toy at the Phoenix game. So he's charged with
assault and disorderly conduct. Yeah, good, good, use of your life.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
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Speaker 1 (26:29):
KFI A six.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Coming up next hour, two rounds of the Moist Line,
and we're gonna have State Senator Tony Strickland on right
after Debor's newscast. He is coming out against Gavin Newsom's
special election scheme so that the public could vote on
(26:54):
redrawing the congressional districts and strick and this is going
to cost us two hundred million dollars. Newsom the guy
who blows thirty five billion on illegal alien healthcare and
has blown twenty five billion on the homeless with no
(27:14):
accounting for it, and seventeen billion on high speed rail
and nobody knows where that money went, and thirty billion
on fraudulent unemployment claims during COVID. Now he's got another
two hundred million to blow on this redistricting idea. And again,
the purpose is to almost eliminate Republican representation in Congress
(27:39):
from California. Right now, the Democrats among the fifty two
congress people, Democrats are have forty three, yes, forty three,
Republicans nine. He wants to make it so it's Democrats
forty nine and Republicans three. Now, there is a commission
that's supposed to redraw the districts every ten years after
(28:01):
the census. Well, he wants to overturn that commission. But
he needs the legislature to approve the idea by two
thirds vote. And then you the public to approve it
by two thirds vote in November, and they want to
rush this for November and spend the two hundred million
because he wants to get.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Back at Texas because Texas is.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Trying to get Democrats Democratic congress people out of office.
But that's their issue, that's their problem in Texas that
they have to police and vote on. It's not our issue.
It's not our business. But here's what he said. He
(28:45):
actually blames Trump for this when Newsom is solely behind
this redistricting scheme here in California. Listen to what a
narcissistic sociopath does.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It's mister at number one.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
We want to encourage national redistricting, which is critical of
long supported national redistricting. I appreciate Common Cause and their
work in this space. Should be done in Ohio, it
should be done in Florida, it should be done elsewhere.
I appreciate Governor Schwarzeneger's leadership in this space. I was
proud to support those efforts in the past as a
(29:22):
mayor at the time lieutenant governor, working against the repeal
of some of those independent redistricting efforts. That's why we
want to continue to keep the Independent Redistricting Commission, but
recognizing that we cannot unilatterally disarm at this existential moment
in terms of these congressional maps in twenty six, twenty eight,
(29:43):
and thirty but to maintain its status beyond thirty into
thirty thirty two, and to codify our intent to continue
to promote a national independent redistricting model.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
The idea of the United States as he's.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Entitled to five seats should sicken everybody. There's nothing normal
about that, and anyone who says it's not surprising.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Is normalizing it. That's shocking. So it's sickening and shocking.
But it's exactly what Newsom is doing.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Newsom wants to eliminate five to six Republican seats out
of Congress in California. So there's forty nine Democrats and
three Republicans. So it's impossible for anybody to elect Republicans
in these in these districts because the Republicans are going
to be drawn out of the districts.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
They're just going to squiggle lines.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood to encircle registered Democrats
or people they think will vote Democrat, and then he says,
Trump says he's entitled to five seats, and that's shocking
and sickening. Trump has no direct power over this. The
Texas legislation and governor has the direct power. Trump could
(31:03):
could stomp his feet and fume and fuss about it,
but he doesn't have any direct power. Newsom, though, wants
to use this election in November to get direct power.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
He wants to.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Destroy a commission that Schwarzenegger created and got passed, an
independent commission which still gives you forty three Democrat seats.
And Newsom wants to spend two hundred million dollars of
tax money to overrule the commission. And then he blames Trump.
(31:38):
This is sociopathic behavior. It's about deflecting and blaming someone else.
It's not taking responsible And he talks fast enough and
so much confusing jargon that most people don't even.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Notice to go, oh, yeah, Trump sucks. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
We've got forty percent of the population in California that
vote Republican.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
They're entitled to Congress people. Two. Who's a threat to democracy? Well,
what's this.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Kicking off five to six Republican congress people at office
just because you feel like it, and it's only to
boost his boost his political career so he could be
a leader running for the presidential nomination. This is disgusting
Newsome is disgusting, and he thinks he can just double
(32:29):
talk his way. Well, we're going to talk to Tony
Strickland because this is two hundred million dollars of your
tax money. Deborah Mark Live, CAFI twenty four, our newsroom.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
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