November 7, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (11/07) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Who is going to be California's next governor? Jessica Kartalija comes on the show to talk about more of the air travel woes for travelers due to the government shutdown. More on the travel issues due to the government shutdown. Tom Brady has cloned his dog.
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Nobody wants to be governor. There's no real candidate in
the race and no movement on the horizon. This is fascinating.
You have really for politics For a Democrat politician. The
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best place to be if you want to be in
national politics, and that is governor of the largest state
and a blue state like governor of Massachusetts. Pretty good.
Governor of Illinois kind of a problem because Chicago's a mess. California, well,
when it comes to national politics, most people think about
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California in a way that they see it on TV.
Like most Americans will never visit California. And the few
Americans that do go to events. They're here for a reason.
So they go directly to the airport, take a ride
to the hotel for the conference, or go to the
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convention center, or they're here for a ballgame, football game,
baseball game, right, I mean, think about it. For most Americans,
the Los Angeles they see is the overhead view of
Dodger Stadium during the World Series, and it looks fantastic.
Dodger Stadium looks spectacular on TV. Where is Petco Park
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looks spectacular on TV? Levi Stadium in San Francisco looks
amazing on TV. So for most Americans, they don't think
of California as having the kinds of problems that you
and I who live here know. So California is a
great place to springboard to national politics, which is why
Gavin Newsom is so eager to do it. So why
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wouldn't anybody else want that diving board, which is the governor?
And why did Democrats so poorly plan to have the
obvious next Democrat up and coming person be the candidate
for governor? They did it with Gavin. I mean, Newsom
was lieutenant governor. He and Jerry Brown didn't like each other,
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and the lieutenant governor doesn't do anything, especially when you
have such a high profile governor as Jerry Brown. So
but you know, he toiled lieutenant governor's office for eight
years and did party building and team building and built
his own little kitchen cabinet and his own network of
fundraising and when it was his time, there was no
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question that Newsom was going to be governor, and he
is and no one else is doing that, and there's
nothing else like that. The first person to open up
an account, a campaign account for governor was the lieutenant governor.
And I understand she was very good friends, like personal
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friends with Vice President Kamala Harris. The two of them
hung out together all the time. And so I even
think there was some chatter that should Kamala Harris decide
to run for governor, that Elini Kugaraculis or whatever her
name is. She's an unpronounceable name. That's part of the
political problem she has that and she's had a strikingly
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unremarkable run as lieutenant governor. But nevertheless, she opened the
campaign account and then just dropped out like nothing happened.
Same thing with Tony Atkins. Tony Atkins had all the
box checked. She was a woman, she was well, she
is a woman. She is a lesbian. She was the
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first lesbian woman speaker of the State Assembly. Democrats loved
that stuff. They love being the first, this, the first that.
Then she went on to become a state senator. I
don't know if she was the first gay state senator. No,
she certainly wouldn't be. But she was the first Senate leader.
She was a speaker, she was the pro ten leader
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of the Senate, so she was the head of the Senate.
And she was still gay and still a woman, so
she had that lane because the Democrats like, being a
woman in and of itself is an accomplishment, being gay
in and of itself is an accomplishment. So she had
it all going on. She just collapsed. She opened up
an account. She was Tony for governor, and it went nowhere,
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and it just fell apart. Then Kamala Harris was going
to make a decision, and she made a decision, and
she decided that she didn't want to be the governor.
And then I predicted it. I was wrong. My prediction
was wrong. I was sure that the absolute open field
meant that Senator Alex Padilla would make the decision to
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vacate his will, not vacate the Senates heat run as
a senator, because it really is beat being in the
minority already in the Senate, and California Democrats are not
used to being in the minority. I don't think Alex
Badia ever was in the minority in his life in
any political capacity, So they absolutely have no understanding about
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what it's like being in the minority and how to
be an effective member of the minority party because you
don't get to do anything. You have to fundraise and
strategize and come up with alternative, better policies, and Democrats
are good at fundraising but terrible at policy. So it's
beat being back there in the Senate. And he is,
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frankly an unremarkable senator from California. He's got no rasmatas,
no flash, no nothing. He's always crying about something. So
I thought, that's what's going to happen. I see this now.
He is going to run for governor, and then when
he becomes governor, he will then relinquish his Senate seat
and the remaining term of the Senate seat. The governor
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has two choices in California. You can hold a special
election in forty five days or a point and he
will appoint Gavin Newsom, and Newsom will take that appointment
and pledge to only be there for the remainder of
Padia seat, and that will give him two years away
from California on a national stage. Arms length plausible deniability
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of any bad things that happened in California, and that
was a perfect plan. But I was wrong. Badia announced
Tuesday that he doesn't want to be governor either. So
now nobody is the front runner to be governor of California.
Isn't that amazing. So here's the latest poll leading the pack,
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and when I say leading thirteen percent, Riverside County Sheriff
Chad Bianco he's in first place, Katie Porter at eleven.
That ship is sailed at eight percent, Javier Bessera tied
with Steve Hilton. Then you have former Mayor Antonio via Rigosa.
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I think that ship is sale. People don't like retreads
in politics, and via Rigosa at this point would be
a political retread. And then you get to nowhere's land
Betty E and Rick Caruso and Tony Thurman and Stephen Klubeck.
Forget it. That's that's not happening. But forty five percent
of those polled had no choice forty five percent. So
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the race is wide open. And there's only three hundred
and fifty nine days until the election, which is a
short amount of time to raise the kind of money
you need to compete in California. Unless you come in
with a high profile name, which means somebody from the
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world of celebrity. Whether it's business or pop culture, sports,
I don't know, but it is absolutely wide open. Loupenrose
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And you've been hearing about it all day. Flight delays
and very very hassled flyers forty major airports four percent
of all flights. That is starting today at four percent,
on its way up to ten percent by next weekend.
American Airlines is reporting two hundred and twenty flights canceled,
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Delta Airlines one hundred and seventy. United Airlines two hundred flights.
Oh my goodness, all right. News Nations national correspondent Jessica
Jessica Cartovilla is with us. Hey, Jessica, thanks for spending
time with us. I hope you're not on a plane
or on your way to an airport.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
No, thank you, I am not. Fortunately, we're at Newer
Airport where you know, we've just heard from the Associated
Press that the total number of flights canceled today has
topped one thousand and again, as you said, this is
just four percent. Then we're going to ten percent, and
today Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said, if this shutdown continues,
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we can see this go all the way up to
twenty percent of flight being canceled. And it's not just
the larger airports that are affected, like lax or here
in New York at Newark or JFK, smaller airports, even Peterborough,
which is just outside of Manhattan where we see a
lot of private flights, they're affected as well. Sean Duffy
is saying that, you know, they have to assess what
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controllers are coming in and what is going to take,
you know, for the airlines to bring these flights back.
Considering that the shutdown is continuing, forty airports affected, they
are starting with that four percent kind as I said,
but we're talking about eighteen hundred flights that will be
impacted a day when this goes up to you know,
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ten percent.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So just does is it?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah? What a headache? Is it? Just air traffic controllers
or are TSA agents also calling in? Are are others?
I mean, are we seeing sympathy strikes or is this
just the air traffic controllers.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
No, so we're seeing both. But it's really the air
traffic controllers that is the issue here, because what's happening
is we've heard Secretary Duffy saying that, you know, so
many of them had to go and get the second job,
like driving Uber or Lyft for example, and then uh,
you know, they can't come to a job where they're
not getting paid. So we've heard the stories of air
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traffic controllers to say, look, I can't pay for child's care,
then get a lift or an Uber job where I'm
still getting a paycheck to come to my job where
I'm not getting paid at all. And that's the challenge.
You know, we have seen TSA calling out, but that
doesn't seem to be issue, especially not here in New York.
That's not what we're seeing in some of the bigger
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air The nice thing or the silver lining to all
of this is that people are getting the message they're
not coming to the airport. You know, we're not seeing
people sitting on the floor of the airport because their
flight was canceled, are delayed, they're listening to the reports,
they are downloading the airlines apps, they are getting real
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time information and not coming to the airport if their
flight was canceled. Also, fortunately we are not seeing this
huge holiday rush just yet. If this government shut down continues, though,
that's going to be a major hassle and could you know,
really erode consumer confidence in these airlines.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
So when these kinds of things happen for specific airlines,
I remember, I don't I don't remember which airline it was,
but it had software issue and it messed things up
for a couple of days. It took a couple of
days after that for the airline to get back in
order right, to get their schedules back, to get all
the planes where're supposed to be good old right. That
was one airline. So now you're talking about the higher
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airline industry all gonna they're all gonna be behind. Even
if I see the Senate is still in session, there's
talk of perhaps some kind of compromise. Even if this
is resolved by this weekend, it's you're still saying that
it's going to be many days thereafter until all the
planes are where they're supposed to be, and all the
people are where they're supposed to be. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Absolutely, We're going to see the residual effects of this
for quite some time. So every day, you know, when
we don't see it, places going and it impacts you know,
even a percentage. We're talking about millions of dollars in
the economy that you know that is being impacted. And
then you have the thing too, if people start canceling
their plans, that's hotel, those are taxis ubers, it's you know,
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people spending money. It's in the community.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
The trickle down effect is just the range of this
is so wide. You know, even today, which is unprecedent,
their frontier airlines as ceo posts on social media that
you know, might be a good idea to buy a
plane ticket with another carrier, just in that your flight
is wow, okay business a CEO of a major airline
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encouraging someone to buy a backup flight on another terrier.
So you know, at this point it is desperate times,
call for desperate measures, right. So we spoke with a
girl here who is trying to get up to Boston
from New York for the weekend. You can hear it
all the noise behind me here at the airport, and
she was saying, look, her flight was canceled last night.
She got to the airport today, it was delayed, delayed, delayed.
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She looked into getting a train ticket on Amtrak up
to Boston, but that was more expensive than her flight,
so she was just going to try to wait it
out and hopefully get there. So, you know, a lot
of people have plans. If you have a wedding you
have to get to or some reason that you need
to travel, and you can't wait it out. Unfortunately, that's
what you have to do.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And then when you as you said that, I mean
the other industries and hotels that are impacted. Think about
all the cars that are not being returned, the rent
of cars that are not being returned because people to
be at their destination for an extra day so that
now you are able to get to your city, but
there are no cars because they're all still out. I mean,
this is this is really it impacts people's just quality
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of life, right, I mean, this is just it's just
making a miserable experience. And I think for many many travelers,
the idea that this is the result of the shutdown.
This might be what it takes to get senators in
DC to say, all right, we got to get out
of this somehow.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Yeah, it's interesting that you bring that up, because they're saying,
you know, it's when the lawmakers are not going to
be able to get their flights home on the weekends
from DC that okay, maybe they'll be in you know,
that's the incentive that they'll need to really get this going.
But you know, today when Duffy said, okay, well it's
obviously not having that much of an impact. We may
have to see this up to twenty percent. You know,
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is that a direct result of of you know, what
we're seeing here in Newark that people are getting the
warning and they're just slowing down the traffic and you know,
or are we going to have to kind of ramp
this up and put a little more pressure on So
I spoke with a girlfriend I'm originally from San Diego
who said she's stuck in Puerto Rico trying to get
back to San Diego. And You're like, well, you know,
it could be worse, you're stuck in Puerto Rico, But
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she said, yeah, I have, you know, someone watching my
children and I have work and I have this, so
there's it's such an impact, and like you said, just
the ripple effect is very concerning.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Jessica, Thanks so much. Be well there in Newark. We'll
check in with you again. Oh my goodness, I can
I can't imagine what it's like at these airports right now,
And imagine just sitting at the airport bar watching the
news and seeing that there's just yet another impasse vote
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Just getting word now one thousand, one thousand flights have
been canceled since this morning. Since this went into effect,
major airports affected four percent of all flights. And that's
the beginning part. According to the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy,
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we started four percent limitation of flights and that impacts
other flights, but then it moves up on Tuesday another
two percent, and then on Thursday another two percent, and
then by Saturday of next week it will be ten
percent of all flights, and now the number twenty is
being dangled out there, so that is a deal. And
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I'm sure that people at every one of these major airports,
including LX, but it's not just LAX Ontario, San Diego.
My goodness, I'm looking at some video here of the
terminals and yeah, they're packed. Nobody's moving people that are
finding out that their flights have been canceled or staying home,
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but some people are finding out their connections are not
now on time. Our weight thing sounds reasonable, it isn't.
I mean it is. Certainly it is reasonable because you
can usually get to whatever city you're connecting to. But
it's a hassle man. Four hours is a long time
at the airport. And I know at the Delta terminal,
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Wine is now eighteen dollars a poor now it's it's
nine ounce classes, but that's still I mean that that's
a You could spend a fortune waiting four hours in
the airport with nothing to do, and if you don't
have your own phone charger, some kind of power bank,
you're in trouble because there's they'll they'll kill you over
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that that charging station. There's only so many things you
could do at the airport. So this is gonna be
this is gonna be an interesting weekend to see how
this is. This factors out politically.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
What I don't get about this air traffic controller issue
is why don't these airports, which are run by the
cities and these airlines put together a fund where they
lend money to these air traffic controllers so that they
can continue to come into work. Because honestly, if they
don't come into work, then no airlines make any money
and no airports make any money. So it seems pretty
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obvious that they should be helping out with this.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, well that sounds reasonable, but it really isn't. Like
what's happening is not reasonable. I mean you can say
that about anything. Why doesn't the interested parties of any
industry set aside funds for a thirty eight day government shutdown?
I mean, this is this is a long period of time. Again,
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I want to win this battle politically, but a government
shutdown is a stunt at the end of the day,
and I'm not a big fan of political stunts. We
don't have to we don't have to have stunts. If
your ideas are better and you've won the argument. You
don't have to have a political stunt. Republicans always wind
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up caving in the end, so that's really where the
pressure comes to not cave and hold your ground for
once to actually win one. But Democrats had a really
good night on Tuesday, and they are now emboldened to
fight back. But thirty eight days is a goodly amount
of time, Like the point has been made. So there
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has to be a way out of this, and I
think this extension of the Obama error ACA subsidies is
probably the right way out. Because even though I did
not support the Affordable Care Act, I didn't support Obamacare,
he was the president. It was passed, it was made
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into law, people signed up for it. I am amazed
that people thought it was ever going to work, but
they did. They were hoping that their health insurance concerns
and their health care concerns, and their affordability concerns were
solved by Obamacare. That was the promise to the Americans
that bought into it, and it was working with government
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subsidies that were you know, projected out over ten years.
That was the only way that Obamacare could work is
if the government, You and me if the taxpayer subsidized
the person that was on Obamacare, the person that had
the policy, and it was even extended, it didn't pencil
out even in the term that it was originally designed.
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So under the Biden administration, it was extended by President Biden.
And now here we are December thirty first, and there
isn't enough money to make this dream come true for
you to pay a premium that you can afford and
still get all the health care you want. So the
problem was never solved without government subsidizing it. So there's
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still a problem. Right. We still have people that can
afford private market insurance. There are still government regulations that
make private insurance just too expensive, and it's a non
competitive industry. There's like a lot going on there that
still needs to be worked out. There is a post
Obamacare job, and that is still making healthcare costs and
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health insurance affordable to Americans. So given that the people
that are on Obamacare, that are watching their potential premiums
double on December thirty first, it isn't really fair to them.
They didn't do anything wrong, they did everything right. Democrats
are using that as leverage, which isn't right. They should
just open up the government and start debating the issue
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in the United States Senate. So President Trump is right
about that. But now you have air traffic controllers calling
in sick because they're stressed out, and people are stuck
having to pay eighteen dollars for white wine at LAX.
So the only way out is to compromise on specifically
on the ACA deal on those I don't think giving
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a year is that much money, and reopened the government
and let's get back to work. It's the only way forward.
And I think President Trump knows that, and I think
that's why he signaled today that he's willing to talk
with the Democrats on it. And I noticed that the
Senate is working on a Friday, which is unusual. So
this thing could end rather quickly, or it could get
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a whole lot worse, at least at the airports. We
will wait and see. Lou Penrose if John coblt on
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John out and I hope he caught his flight. Now
one thousand flights have been canceled just today.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Flights at forty major airports across the country, including New York,
Los Angeles, and Chicago are being cut by four percent,
with more on the way by next weekend to ease
pressure on unpaid air traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That's a lot. That's a lot of flight No matter
what happens, this is going to be a couple of
days of It's more than inconvenience because, as the caller
said earlier, if you have to get home because you
have children, like you can't what if the babysitter can't
watch the kids on Monday? And I mean this is
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really a big deal for a lot of people when
you consider the amount of flights that have been cut
and the ripple effect that has.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
The only way we're going to prevent government shutdowns is
to make sure that nobody in the House or Senate
receives a paycheck during one.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
A lot of members of the House are not taking
their paycheck. That has been tried. It doesn't work as
well as you think. There are some pretty wealthy members
of Congress, and then they would be able to decide
what the solution is. So look the old. The only
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way out of this is to have five Democrats vote
to open the government, or for Republicans to agree with
all forty seven Democrats. So that's it. I mean, one
side has to blink, and we'll see who's gonna blink first. Hey,
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before we go, Tom Brady's dog is in the news.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Tom Brady's a durable pop Juny is a social media star.
But if she looks familiar, it's definitely not a coincidence.
The dog is actually a clone of Brady's previous pitple
mixed Lua, who died in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
So they cloned the dog. They're able to do this.
Now they're able to take a cell from the dog
and grow it into a new dog. I was watching
this and the scientist was explaining that it's basically in
vitro fertilization. It's not a whole lot different than what happens.
But instead of bringing the two parts together from the
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mother and the father, you taken already. It's not really
a fertilized egg. You just take. The dog is already there.
The DNA of the dog has already been established. Everything
Everything about every dog is in every cell of every dog.
The hair color, the eye color, the attitude, the height
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and weight. Everything about the dog is in every single
cell of the dog. So you just take one of
those cells and turn it into the other dog. But
it's a new dog.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
The NFL legend revealing his new dog's background this week,
writing in a few short months, Colossal gave my family
a second chance with the clone of our beloved dog.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And people are talking about this, and I don't understand
what the problem is. Is that a bad thing? Why
is that bad? If you really liked your dog, and
you really liked the fit of that breed or that
mix in your family, and the size was right and
the dog was right, then you can try your best
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to go find another pet from that breed. I mean,
if you can find the exact you know, family, that
would be good. But if you could, you have to
either go and find the exact, you know, type of dog,
or you can just clone the dog. I'm not sure
why that's so upsetting to people. It does sound kind of,
you know, science fiction y, but it isn't. It's done.
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They figured it out. And guess what, Tom Brady owns
the company.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Grady an investor in the biotech company Colossal Biosciences. The
company CEO compares the process of cloning to IVF without sperm.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, so it's a kind of like IVF, but it's done.
It's he has the dog. He's not the only one.
Paris Hilton has one of those dogs too, And I
don't think it's a terrible idea. Now think about it.
Even though it will be the same dog, it'll be
a different snapshot in the time of the owners of
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that dog. So the dog's behavior should be somewhat different.
Like if you had a dog ten years ago and
now the DNA clone of that dog appeared in your life,
You're ten years older, you have a different life, maybe
you are in a different house, maybe your kids are older.
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Maybe you have more free time with the dog, maybe
you have less free time. Right, So a dog is
also a reflection of its environment. So the new clone
dog won't be and behave exactly the same as the
old clone dog or the old original dog, but it
will be close and in many respects, I think that's
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kind of cool. I'm not as afraid of the whole
clone thing as many are. I hear the slippery slope
all the time, lou this is a slippery slope, though,
why is it a slippery slope. I've never understood the
slippery slope argument. I don't subscribe to the slippery slope argument.
The slippery slope suggests that it's slippery and you're going
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to slip and fall like there's nothing slippery here. You're
in complete control. We can and have cloned a dog
for people that want to go that route. That doesn't
mean that automatically we're going to start cloning humans, right.
We can govern ourselves, we can stop ourselves. We can say, okay,
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we want to do this for pets. I really want
the dog that I had, so rather than try and
fall in love with a whole other creature, I'm going
to clone the dog. But you know, we don't do
that for humans. Like you can make those distinctions. It's
absolutely doable, So I'm not all that worried about the
slippery slope. I wonder if they will do it for
other animals, though I can imagine the horse racing industry
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would be interested in this. I'm sure that cats will
do it. Tom Brady's the only one I know that
Paris Hilton has a clone dog. Tom Brady's the only
one that I've actually seen, and I've seen pictures and
video of the two dogs, and it is uncanny because
it is an actual clone. Unbelievable stuff. Lou Penrose on
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Nobody wants to be governor. There's no real candidate in
the race and no movement on the horizon. This is fascinating.
You have really for politics For a Democrat politician. The
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best place to be if you want to be in
national politics, and that is governor of the largest state
and a blue state like governor of Massachusetts. Pretty good.
Governor of Illinois kind of a problem because Chicago's a mess. California, well,
when it comes to national politics, most people think about
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California in a way that they see it on TV.
Like most Americans will never visit California. And the few
Americans that do go to events. They're here for a reason.
So they go directly to the airport, take a ride
to the hotel for the conference, or go to the
(01:10):
convention center, or they're here for a ballgame, football game,
baseball game, right, I mean, think about it. For most Americans,
the Los Angeles they see is the overhead view of
Dodger Stadium during the World Series, and it looks fantastic.
Dodger Stadium looks spectacular on TV. Where is Petco Park
(01:35):
looks spectacular on TV? Levi Stadium in San Francisco looks
amazing on TV. So for most Americans, they don't think
of California as having the kinds of problems that you
and I who live here know. So California is a
great place to springboard to national politics, which is why
Gavin Newsom is so eager to do it. So why
(01:57):
wouldn't anybody else want that diving board, which is the governor?
And why did Democrats so poorly plan to have the
obvious next Democrat up and coming person be the candidate
for governor? They did it with Gavin. I mean, Newsom
was lieutenant governor. He and Jerry Brown didn't like each other,
(02:18):
and the lieutenant governor doesn't do anything, especially when you
have such a high profile governor as Jerry Brown. So
but you know, he toiled lieutenant governor's office for eight
years and did party building and team building and built
his own little kitchen cabinet and his own network of
fundraising and when it was his time, there was no
(02:39):
question that Newsom was going to be governor, and he
is and no one else is doing that, and there's
nothing else like that. The first person to open up
an account, a campaign account for governor was the lieutenant governor.
And I understand she was very good friends, like personal
(03:01):
friends with Vice President Kamala Harris. The two of them
hung out together all the time. And so I even
think there was some chatter that should Kamala Harris decide
to run for governor, that Elini Kugaraculis or whatever her
name is. She's an unpronounceable name. That's part of the
political problem she has that and she's had a strikingly
(03:23):
unremarkable run as lieutenant governor. But nevertheless, she opened the
campaign account and then just dropped out like nothing happened.
Same thing with Tony Atkins. Tony Atkins had all the
box checked. She was a woman, she was well, she
is a woman. She is a lesbian. She was the
(03:43):
first lesbian woman speaker of the State Assembly. Democrats loved
that stuff. They love being the first, this, the first that.
Then she went on to become a state senator. I
don't know if she was the first gay state senator. No,
she certainly wouldn't be. But she was the first Senate leader.
She was a speaker, she was the pro ten leader
(04:03):
of the Senate, so she was the head of the Senate.
And she was still gay and still a woman, so
she had that lane because the Democrats like, being a
woman in and of itself is an accomplishment, being gay
in and of itself is an accomplishment. So she had
it all going on. She just collapsed. She opened up
an account. She was Tony for governor, and it went nowhere,
(04:27):
and it just fell apart. Then Kamala Harris was going
to make a decision, and she made a decision, and
she decided that she didn't want to be the governor.
And then I predicted it. I was wrong. My prediction
was wrong. I was sure that the absolute open field
meant that Senator Alex Padilla would make the decision to
(04:51):
vacate his will, not vacate the Senates heat run as
a senator, because it really is beat being in the
minority already in the Senate, and California Democrats are not
used to being in the minority. I don't think Alex
Badia ever was in the minority in his life in
any political capacity, So they absolutely have no understanding about
(05:13):
what it's like being in the minority and how to
be an effective member of the minority party because you
don't get to do anything. You have to fundraise and
strategize and come up with alternative, better policies, and Democrats
are good at fundraising but terrible at policy. So it's
beat being back there in the Senate. And he is,
(05:34):
frankly an unremarkable senator from California. He's got no rasmatas,
no flash, no nothing. He's always crying about something. So
I thought, that's what's going to happen. I see this now.
He is going to run for governor, and then when
he becomes governor, he will then relinquish his Senate seat
and the remaining term of the Senate seat. The governor
(05:58):
has two choices in California. You can hold a special
election in forty five days or a point and he
will appoint Gavin Newsom, and Newsom will take that appointment
and pledge to only be there for the remainder of
Padia seat, and that will give him two years away
from California on a national stage. Arms length plausible deniability
(06:21):
of any bad things that happened in California, and that
was a perfect plan. But I was wrong. Badia announced
Tuesday that he doesn't want to be governor either. So
now nobody is the front runner to be governor of California.
Isn't that amazing. So here's the latest poll leading the pack,
(06:44):
and when I say leading thirteen percent, Riverside County Sheriff
Chad Bianco he's in first place, Katie Porter at eleven.
That ship is sailed at eight percent, Javier Bessera tied
with Steve Hilton. Then you have former Mayor Antonio via Rigosa.
(07:04):
I think that ship is sale. People don't like retreads
in politics, and via Rigosa at this point would be
a political retread. And then you get to nowhere's land
Betty E and Rick Caruso and Tony Thurman and Stephen Klubeck.
Forget it. That's that's not happening. But forty five percent
of those polled had no choice forty five percent. So
(07:29):
the race is wide open. And there's only three hundred
and fifty nine days until the election, which is a
short amount of time to raise the kind of money
you need to compete in California. Unless you come in
with a high profile name, which means somebody from the
(07:51):
world of celebrity. Whether it's business or pop culture, sports,
I don't know, but it is absolutely wide open. Loupenrose
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Loup Penrose in for John Cobelt on the John Cobelt Show.
And you've been hearing about it all day. Flight delays
and very very hassled flyers forty major airports four percent
of all flights. That is starting today at four percent,
on its way up to ten percent by next weekend.
American Airlines is reporting two hundred and twenty flights canceled,
(08:38):
Delta Airlines one hundred and seventy. United Airlines two hundred flights.
Oh my goodness, all right. News Nations national correspondent Jessica
Jessica Cartovilla is with us. Hey, Jessica, thanks for spending
time with us. I hope you're not on a plane
or on your way to an airport.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
No, thank you, I am not. Fortunately, we're at Newer
Airport where you know, we've just heard from the Associated
Press that the total number of flights canceled today has
topped one thousand and again, as you said, this is
just four percent. Then we're going to ten percent, and
today Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said, if this shutdown continues,
(09:19):
we can see this go all the way up to
twenty percent of flight being canceled. And it's not just
the larger airports that are affected, like lax or here
in New York at Newark or JFK, smaller airports, even Peterborough,
which is just outside of Manhattan where we see a
lot of private flights, they're affected as well. Sean Duffy
is saying that, you know, they have to assess what
(09:40):
controllers are coming in and what is going to take,
you know, for the airlines to bring these flights back.
Considering that the shutdown is continuing, forty airports affected, they
are starting with that four percent kind as I said,
but we're talking about eighteen hundred flights that will be
impacted a day when this goes up to you know,
(10:02):
ten percent.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So just does is it?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah? What a headache? Is it? Just air traffic controllers
or are TSA agents also calling in? Are are others?
I mean, are we seeing sympathy strikes or is this
just the air traffic controllers.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
No, so we're seeing both. But it's really the air
traffic controllers that is the issue here, because what's happening
is we've heard Secretary Duffy saying that, you know, so
many of them had to go and get the second job,
like driving Uber or Lyft for example, and then uh,
you know, they can't come to a job where they're
not getting paid. So we've heard the stories of air
(10:39):
traffic controllers to say, look, I can't pay for child's care,
then get a lift or an Uber job where I'm
still getting a paycheck to come to my job where
I'm not getting paid at all. And that's the challenge.
You know, we have seen TSA calling out, but that
doesn't seem to be issue, especially not here in New York.
That's not what we're seeing in some of the bigger
(10:59):
air The nice thing or the silver lining to all
of this is that people are getting the message they're
not coming to the airport. You know, we're not seeing
people sitting on the floor of the airport because their
flight was canceled, are delayed, they're listening to the reports,
they are downloading the airlines apps, they are getting real
(11:19):
time information and not coming to the airport if their
flight was canceled. Also, fortunately we are not seeing this
huge holiday rush just yet. If this government shut down continues, though,
that's going to be a major hassle and could you know,
really erode consumer confidence in these airlines.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
So when these kinds of things happen for specific airlines,
I remember, I don't I don't remember which airline it was,
but it had software issue and it messed things up
for a couple of days. It took a couple of
days after that for the airline to get back in
order right, to get their schedules back, to get all
the planes where're supposed to be good old right. That
was one airline. So now you're talking about the higher
(12:00):
airline industry all gonna they're all gonna be behind. Even
if I see the Senate is still in session, there's
talk of perhaps some kind of compromise. Even if this
is resolved by this weekend, it's you're still saying that
it's going to be many days thereafter until all the
planes are where they're supposed to be, and all the
people are where they're supposed to be. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Absolutely, We're going to see the residual effects of this
for quite some time. So every day, you know, when
we don't see it, places going and it impacts you know,
even a percentage. We're talking about millions of dollars in
the economy that you know that is being impacted. And
then you have the thing too, if people start canceling
their plans, that's hotel, those are taxis ubers, it's you know,
(12:42):
people spending money. It's in the community.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
The trickle down effect is just the range of this
is so wide. You know, even today, which is unprecedent,
their frontier airlines as ceo posts on social media that
you know, might be a good idea to buy a
plane ticket with another carrier, just in that your flight
is wow, okay business a CEO of a major airline
(13:05):
encouraging someone to buy a backup flight on another terrier.
So you know, at this point it is desperate times,
call for desperate measures, right. So we spoke with a
girl here who is trying to get up to Boston
from New York for the weekend. You can hear it
all the noise behind me here at the airport, and
she was saying, look, her flight was canceled last night.
She got to the airport today, it was delayed, delayed, delayed.
(13:27):
She looked into getting a train ticket on Amtrak up
to Boston, but that was more expensive than her flight,
so she was just going to try to wait it
out and hopefully get there. So, you know, a lot
of people have plans. If you have a wedding you
have to get to or some reason that you need
to travel, and you can't wait it out. Unfortunately, that's
what you have to do.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And then when you as you said that, I mean
the other industries and hotels that are impacted. Think about
all the cars that are not being returned, the rent
of cars that are not being returned because people to
be at their destination for an extra day so that
now you are able to get to your city, but
there are no cars because they're all still out. I mean,
this is this is really it impacts people's just quality
(14:11):
of life, right, I mean, this is just it's just
making a miserable experience. And I think for many many travelers,
the idea that this is the result of the shutdown.
This might be what it takes to get senators in
DC to say, all right, we got to get out
of this somehow.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Yeah, it's interesting that you bring that up, because they're saying,
you know, it's when the lawmakers are not going to
be able to get their flights home on the weekends
from DC that okay, maybe they'll be in you know,
that's the incentive that they'll need to really get this going.
But you know, today when Duffy said, okay, well it's
obviously not having that much of an impact. We may
have to see this up to twenty percent. You know,
(14:48):
is that a direct result of of you know, what
we're seeing here in Newark that people are getting the
warning and they're just slowing down the traffic and you know,
or are we going to have to kind of ramp
this up and put a little more pressure on So
I spoke with a girlfriend I'm originally from San Diego
who said she's stuck in Puerto Rico trying to get
back to San Diego. And You're like, well, you know,
it could be worse, you're stuck in Puerto Rico, But
(15:09):
she said, yeah, I have, you know, someone watching my
children and I have work and I have this, so
there's it's such an impact, and like you said, just
the ripple effect is very concerning.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Jessica, Thanks so much. Be well there in Newark. We'll
check in with you again. Oh my goodness, I can
I can't imagine what it's like at these airports right now,
And imagine just sitting at the airport bar watching the
news and seeing that there's just yet another impasse vote
in the United States. Senate Lou Penrose INVA John Cobelt
on the John Cobelt Show on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Lou Penrose in for John Coblt on the John coblt Show.
Just getting word now one thousand, one thousand flights have
been canceled since this morning. Since this went into effect,
major airports affected four percent of all flights. And that's
the beginning part. According to the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy,
(16:10):
we started four percent limitation of flights and that impacts
other flights, but then it moves up on Tuesday another
two percent, and then on Thursday another two percent, and
then by Saturday of next week it will be ten
percent of all flights, and now the number twenty is
being dangled out there, so that is a deal. And
(16:35):
I'm sure that people at every one of these major airports,
including LX, but it's not just LAX Ontario, San Diego.
My goodness, I'm looking at some video here of the
terminals and yeah, they're packed. Nobody's moving people that are
finding out that their flights have been canceled or staying home,
(16:55):
but some people are finding out their connections are not
now on time. Our weight thing sounds reasonable, it isn't.
I mean it is. Certainly it is reasonable because you
can usually get to whatever city you're connecting to. But
it's a hassle man. Four hours is a long time
at the airport. And I know at the Delta terminal,
(17:21):
Wine is now eighteen dollars a poor now it's it's
nine ounce classes, but that's still I mean that that's
a You could spend a fortune waiting four hours in
the airport with nothing to do, and if you don't
have your own phone charger, some kind of power bank,
you're in trouble because there's they'll they'll kill you over
(17:43):
that that charging station. There's only so many things you
could do at the airport. So this is gonna be
this is gonna be an interesting weekend to see how
this is. This factors out politically.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
What I don't get about this air traffic controller issue
is why don't these airports, which are run by the
cities and these airlines put together a fund where they
lend money to these air traffic controllers so that they
can continue to come into work. Because honestly, if they
don't come into work, then no airlines make any money
and no airports make any money. So it seems pretty
(18:16):
obvious that they should be helping out with this.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, well that sounds reasonable, but it really isn't. Like
what's happening is not reasonable. I mean you can say
that about anything. Why doesn't the interested parties of any
industry set aside funds for a thirty eight day government shutdown?
I mean, this is this is a long period of time. Again,
(18:41):
I want to win this battle politically, but a government
shutdown is a stunt at the end of the day,
and I'm not a big fan of political stunts. We
don't have to we don't have to have stunts. If
your ideas are better and you've won the argument. You
don't have to have a political stunt. Republicans always wind
(19:02):
up caving in the end, so that's really where the
pressure comes to not cave and hold your ground for
once to actually win one. But Democrats had a really
good night on Tuesday, and they are now emboldened to
fight back. But thirty eight days is a goodly amount
of time, Like the point has been made. So there
(19:24):
has to be a way out of this, and I
think this extension of the Obama error ACA subsidies is
probably the right way out. Because even though I did
not support the Affordable Care Act, I didn't support Obamacare,
he was the president. It was passed, it was made
(19:45):
into law, people signed up for it. I am amazed
that people thought it was ever going to work, but
they did. They were hoping that their health insurance concerns
and their health care concerns, and their affordability concerns were
solved by Obamacare. That was the promise to the Americans
that bought into it, and it was working with government
(20:08):
subsidies that were you know, projected out over ten years.
That was the only way that Obamacare could work is
if the government, You and me if the taxpayer subsidized
the person that was on Obamacare, the person that had
the policy, and it was even extended, it didn't pencil
out even in the term that it was originally designed.
(20:30):
So under the Biden administration, it was extended by President Biden.
And now here we are December thirty first, and there
isn't enough money to make this dream come true for
you to pay a premium that you can afford and
still get all the health care you want. So the
problem was never solved without government subsidizing it. So there's
(20:53):
still a problem. Right. We still have people that can
afford private market insurance. There are still government regulations that
make private insurance just too expensive, and it's a non
competitive industry. There's like a lot going on there that
still needs to be worked out. There is a post
Obamacare job, and that is still making healthcare costs and
(21:16):
health insurance affordable to Americans. So given that the people
that are on Obamacare, that are watching their potential premiums
double on December thirty first, it isn't really fair to them.
They didn't do anything wrong, they did everything right. Democrats
are using that as leverage, which isn't right. They should
just open up the government and start debating the issue
(21:38):
in the United States Senate. So President Trump is right
about that. But now you have air traffic controllers calling
in sick because they're stressed out, and people are stuck
having to pay eighteen dollars for white wine at LAX.
So the only way out is to compromise on specifically
on the ACA deal on those I don't think giving
(22:02):
a year is that much money, and reopened the government
and let's get back to work. It's the only way forward.
And I think President Trump knows that, and I think
that's why he signaled today that he's willing to talk
with the Democrats on it. And I noticed that the
Senate is working on a Friday, which is unusual. So
this thing could end rather quickly, or it could get
(22:25):
a whole lot worse, at least at the airports. We
will wait and see. Lou Penrose if John coblt on
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Lou Penrose Info John coblt on The John Cobalt Show.
John out and I hope he caught his flight. Now
one thousand flights have been canceled just today.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Flights at forty major airports across the country, including New York,
Los Angeles, and Chicago are being cut by four percent,
with more on the way by next weekend to ease
pressure on unpaid air traffic controllers.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That's a lot. That's a lot of flight No matter
what happens, this is going to be a couple of
days of It's more than inconvenience because, as the caller
said earlier, if you have to get home because you
have children, like you can't what if the babysitter can't
watch the kids on Monday? And I mean this is
(23:25):
really a big deal for a lot of people when
you consider the amount of flights that have been cut
and the ripple effect that has.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
The only way we're going to prevent government shutdowns is
to make sure that nobody in the House or Senate
receives a paycheck during one.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
A lot of members of the House are not taking
their paycheck. That has been tried. It doesn't work as
well as you think. There are some pretty wealthy members
of Congress, and then they would be able to decide
what the solution is. So look the old. The only
(24:00):
way out of this is to have five Democrats vote
to open the government, or for Republicans to agree with
all forty seven Democrats. So that's it. I mean, one
side has to blink, and we'll see who's gonna blink first. Hey,
(24:20):
before we go, Tom Brady's dog is in the news.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Tom Brady's a durable pop Juny is a social media star.
But if she looks familiar, it's definitely not a coincidence.
The dog is actually a clone of Brady's previous pitple
mixed Lua, who died in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
So they cloned the dog. They're able to do this.
Now they're able to take a cell from the dog
and grow it into a new dog. I was watching
this and the scientist was explaining that it's basically in
vitro fertilization. It's not a whole lot different than what happens.
But instead of bringing the two parts together from the
(25:03):
mother and the father, you taken already. It's not really
a fertilized egg. You just take. The dog is already there.
The DNA of the dog has already been established. Everything
Everything about every dog is in every cell of every dog.
The hair color, the eye color, the attitude, the height
(25:25):
and weight. Everything about the dog is in every single
cell of the dog. So you just take one of
those cells and turn it into the other dog. But
it's a new dog.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
The NFL legend revealing his new dog's background this week,
writing in a few short months, Colossal gave my family
a second chance with the clone of our beloved dog.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And people are talking about this, and I don't understand
what the problem is. Is that a bad thing? Why
is that bad? If you really liked your dog, and
you really liked the fit of that breed or that
mix in your family, and the size was right and
the dog was right, then you can try your best
(26:08):
to go find another pet from that breed. I mean,
if you can find the exact you know, family, that
would be good. But if you could, you have to
either go and find the exact, you know, type of dog,
or you can just clone the dog. I'm not sure
why that's so upsetting to people. It does sound kind of,
you know, science fiction y, but it isn't. It's done.
(26:32):
They figured it out. And guess what, Tom Brady owns
the company.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Grady an investor in the biotech company Colossal Biosciences. The
company CEO compares the process of cloning to IVF without sperm.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, so it's a kind of like IVF, but it's done.
It's he has the dog. He's not the only one.
Paris Hilton has one of those dogs too, And I
don't think it's a terrible idea. Now think about it.
Even though it will be the same dog, it'll be
a different snapshot in the time of the owners of
(27:07):
that dog. So the dog's behavior should be somewhat different.
Like if you had a dog ten years ago and
now the DNA clone of that dog appeared in your life,
You're ten years older, you have a different life, maybe
you are in a different house, maybe your kids are older.
(27:28):
Maybe you have more free time with the dog, maybe
you have less free time. Right, So a dog is
also a reflection of its environment. So the new clone
dog won't be and behave exactly the same as the
old clone dog or the old original dog, but it
will be close and in many respects, I think that's
(27:51):
kind of cool. I'm not as afraid of the whole
clone thing as many are. I hear the slippery slope
all the time, lou this is a slippery slope, though,
why is it a slippery slope. I've never understood the
slippery slope argument. I don't subscribe to the slippery slope argument.
The slippery slope suggests that it's slippery and you're going
(28:12):
to slip and fall like there's nothing slippery here. You're
in complete control. We can and have cloned a dog
for people that want to go that route. That doesn't
mean that automatically we're going to start cloning humans, right.
We can govern ourselves, we can stop ourselves. We can say, okay,
(28:35):
we want to do this for pets. I really want
the dog that I had, so rather than try and
fall in love with a whole other creature, I'm going
to clone the dog. But you know, we don't do
that for humans. Like you can make those distinctions. It's
absolutely doable, So I'm not all that worried about the
slippery slope. I wonder if they will do it for
other animals, though I can imagine the horse racing industry
(28:58):
would be interested in this. I'm sure that cats will
do it. Tom Brady's the only one I know that
Paris Hilton has a clone dog. Tom Brady's the only
one that I've actually seen, and I've seen pictures and
video of the two dogs, and it is uncanny because
it is an actual clone. Unbelievable stuff. Lou Penrose on
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