November 10, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (11/10) - John is back! Joe Khalil from NewsNation comes on the show to talk about the latest going on with the government shutdown and if there is a deal in place to end the shutdown. More on the government shutdown and what exactly was the holdup to making a deal. Gov. Newsom was in Brazil blaming the January fires on climate change even though it was determined the Palisades Fire was started by an arsonist. A dog survived being set on fire at a homeless encampment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome,
thank you for joining us. You're here, I'm here, got back.
We were my family and I. We were all in
the Philly area for a family wedding over the weekend,
and over three days, the five of us took nine
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planes to get there and back, get there and back,
and shockingly, we had very little trouble. Right in a
couple of minor, you know, fifteen to thirty minute delays
taking off, but at one point we were all in
the air at.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The same time.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That's amazing, going in.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Four different directions.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And I realized by Friday that they had told well,
they had made decisions in advance what flights they were
going to cancel. So if you got to the point
where you had a boarding pass, then you were safe
because they were scheduling all the disruptions ahead of time.
So there was really, you know, once I got to
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Friday morning, there was really no danger of being suddenly
being suddenly stranded somewhere. So I'll tell you more about
all that coming up. But obviously the big news and
the reason everybody was concerned if they had to travel
over the weekend. Was the government shutdown is coming to
an end. Eight Democrats defected, caved in, and the Republicans
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got their way, and they are now going to be
going through the voting procedures. But the government's going to
be reopened. Let's going to talk now to Joe Khalil.
He's the Washington correspondent for News it Nation, the cable
TV network.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Joe, how are you say? Good? How you guys doing?
I'm good? So is it really over?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
It is not over yet, but we are on the
pathway for this to be over. Yes, last night the
critical thing happened where eight Democrats voted with the Republicans
to reopen the government. There was a deal that effectively said, Okay,
we'll keep government open between now and January thirtieth. So
it's not super long term, but it reopens the government
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on a couple of conditions. There's some long term spending
in there, so it covers the snap benefits, the food assistants,
the military spending for like a full year. And federal
workers who were fired during the shutdown by the White
House are actually not just going to get paid, but
they're going to get their jobs backed and every federal
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worker who is furloughed will get back pay. That was
kind of a deal that both this group of small
group of moderate Democrats and Republicans came up with. So
it is in the process now we're waiting to see
today if the Senate votes tonight or tomorrow. They're hoping tonight.
They're pushing hard for that, and then by Wednesday or Thursday,
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this should all be wrapped up and reopened.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But the big demand that the Democrats had and did
not get was extending these Obamacare subsidies into the future.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
And exactly, and that is why these eight Democrats are
getting a lot of flak from the rest of their party. Effectively,
it's leaders, it's leader Chuck Schumer and Huckeen Jeffries that
are opposed to this deal. Of nearly the entire Democratic
Senate conference as opposed to it. Nearly every Democrat and
the House is opposed to it. And I'll go further.
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This is pretty remarkable. Even people who are going to
be at the top of the ticket potentially in twenty
twenty eight, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, Illinois Governor Jamie Pritzker,
and others very high profile figures. They have all come
out against this deal because it does not include, as
you point out, extending those Obamacare subsidies for twenty plus
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million Americans. Now, what Democrats did get is a promise
from Republican leaders that they will vote on it in
the Senate. Only there's no guarantee that the House ever
even takes it up. There's no guarantee it's going to pass.
They didn't put the language in the CR which would
have been a bit more compelling for Democrats, they would
have likely jumped on board. So yeah, there's a lot
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of real frustration today among the vast majority of Democrats
and their base voters, who frankly wanted to keep this
fight going until they got some kind of hard guarantee
on these subsidies.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And I imagine these senators as well as everybody else,
was getting enormous amounts of blowback and criticism with the
airports being closed, with the food staff payments not going out,
among other things. But those were the two biggies that
I think affected a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah, I mean, I talked to Tim Kaine today, the
Democrat senator from Virginia, and by the way, Virginia, a
state with three hundred thousand plus feeder workers. Right, so
this is a unique situation too. He I asked him,
you know, you're getting a ton of blowback. Did you
expect level, you know, a pushback on you? And he said,
you know, last night was the first good night of
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sleep I had since October first, The Senator told me,
I walked into the building today, I felt like I
could actually look in the eyes the US Capitol Police
officer who I'd been walking in, you know, for the
last forty plus days and they haven't been getting paid,
or the furloughed worker at my church that comes up
to me, or you know, the people in the communities
around DC that rely on snap. He's like all of that.
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It was just the pain was too much and we
needed to get to a point where we ended it. Now.
Mind you, those eight Democrats say they can still fight
for the Affordable Care Act subsidies. They're going to try
to do it, but you know, realistically they do loose
some leverage here, and I'm sad. The lesson I think
here is in twenty thirteen and in twenty eighteen, it
was Republicans that really shut down the government and they
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were making demands and they did not get those demands.
And this time around it was Democrats making those kinds
of demands and voting to shut down the government. And
so maybe the lesson here is that the side that
generally makes those kinds of demands and votes to shut
down does not usually end up getting what they're demanding.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It doesn't seem to be effective.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You laid out those three scenarios there, and it's zero
for three on that over the last ten twelve years.
So it doesn't think like that that's the way to go,
because there's just too many people who end up getting harmed.
And if you force the shutdown, then you got to
deal with the consequences, and the consequences are never good.
Within a month, you've got chaos, you've got food stamps
not going out, you got you've got airports cutting back
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their schedule. I mean, it's just it's a stupid way.
Considering you have all year to negotiate this stuff. This
is a ridiculous way to try to force what you
want into law.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Typically. Yeah, and the side that's not making demands, you know,
it's obviously a lot easier for them because they can
look at the public and say we're just asking for
the government to open and for all the pain to stop. Now.
I will say it was unusual when you looked at
the public pulling this time around, because the public seemed
to be blaming Republicans in the White House more than
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they were blaming Democrats for this shutdown. And it's something
that even President Trump acknowledged publicly and said, yeah, we're
losing the public battle here, which is in many ways
why a lot of Democrats were so frustrated yesterday that
those eighthes seem to you know, cave because they were thinking,
you know, we might have actually the sort of moral
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high ground. We're we're winning the fight among the public,
the perception of it. But you know, here we are now,
and so we're on the path to reopening and we're
going to see what happens with the healthcare fight. I've
heard a lot of Republicans today, including John Thune, say
we actually do want to work on that, Like we
don't want to see people's premiums go up two hundred
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and three hundred one thousand dollars in January February and
blame Republicans. And so Leader John's is like we're going
to work on this. We will, but we just got
to open the government first and then we'll figure out
together how to go about this.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, I could see why the average person might blame
the Republicans because they're in charge of all the branches
of government right now. But a lot of people don't
know or don't understand, is with the Senate, you need
sixty votes, So you could have fifty three Republicans or
in this case, fifty two because one was against it,
you need another eight Democrats. And it was the lack
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of those eight Democrats that caused the whole thing to
seize up. They had to cooperate, and for forty days
they weren't cooperating. Very good, Joe, thanks for coming on
and explaining.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
To all that.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Of course, happy to do it all.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Right, Joe Khalil, Washington, correspondent for Newstation, the cable television
news network. When we come back, well, I'll explain in
detail what the what the real dynamic was behind the scenes.
Because people the government. They made government complicated, so it's
not so easy to always just blame one side. And
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the key in the middle there is the filibuster rules.
The Democrats might only have forty seven seats in the Senate,
but the Republicans need sixty votes. Any party needs sixty
votes to pass legislation, and that that is the secret
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weapon in the Senate, which Trump wants to get rid
of because he finds it to be a pain in
the ass.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
We'll talk more and when we come back.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So the shutdown is on its way to ending, and
there is an agreement. There's eight Democratic senators who defected,
and that gives sixty votes to the Republicans to pass
this deal. But the big thing that the Democrats wanted
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the shutdown was all over. What was all about Obamacare subsidies,
tax credits to people who signed up for Obamacare. And
the Democrats didn't get it. And that's why the progressive
crowd is so angry. They didn't get Granted, they didn't
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get it. It's a complete cave in. But here's what
you need to know. These Obamacare subsidies were supposed to
be temporary. They were passed in twenty twenty one as
part of a COVID package. Now COVID is long long over,
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but the subsidies continued, and that's real federal spending. If
you wonder why we're thirty seven trillion dollars in debt,
there's a lot of these situations. A temporary subsidy goes
on forever, and the Republicans said, no, oh it's over.
Party is over. No more subsidies. On top of that,
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the subsidies go directly to the insurance companies. Doesn't even
go to the people, goes to the insurance companies. Now
the Democrats are saying, well, well, without these payments, you're
gonna have Obamacare premiums skyrocketing. All right, stop a second.
Maybe you don't remember because it's fifteen years now. You
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got to go back to twenty ten. Obamacare was supposed
to lower premiums. That never happened. They kept going up
and up anyway, and then it got to the point
where they were skyrocketing. Well, then I guess that original
Obamacare plan doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's a failure.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So the public debate should not be about whether you
keep shoveling money into a failed program. The public ought
to be well, why is this thing failing? And maybe
it ought to be replaced. I mean, everybody's got an
opinion on what's wrong with healthcare, and almost everything is
wrong with healthcare. But what's pretty clear is what they
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dreamed up in twenty ten does not work. Maybe it
worked for five minutes, but it's a failure as of now.
And of course the Democrats relye most politicians rely on
the public's ignorance. Ignorant voters our goal to politicians because
then these bastards can tell you anything, and you don't
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know what to believe. We have a dishonest news media.
Hardly anybody has any time to explain it. So you
might think, well, this is terrible, premiums are going to skyrocket. Well,
skyrocketing premiums are terrible, but it needs to be fixed. Oh,
I don't know at the root cause it's a bad system.
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Obamacare is a failed bad system. It doesn't you know
what the official name of OBAMACAREUS Affordable Healthcare ACA. You
might hear in the news stories they call it. They say,
you know, the ACA Act. It's not afforded, hasn't been
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almost since the beginning, so it has to be replaced.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
But nobody wants to have that fight.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
The Trump people have an idea that if we give subsidies.
We ought to give it directly to you. You should
get the money and then you decide what you want
to spend it on. But if you give it to
the insurance companies, what do you think is going to happen.
They're going to take that money, and now they can,
they can jack up the cost. It's like the stupidest
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thing was was giving my when the federal government gave
When the federal government guaranteed student loans, well, as soon
as all the universities realized that the loans were guaranteed, they.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Jacked up the tuition.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That's why you have seventy thousand and eighty thousand dollars
a year tuition because they know the loans that the
kids are taking out. Those loans are guaranteed by the
federal government. So the students desperate to get into the
right schools, they and their parents said okay, okay, well
we'll we'll pay, we'll pay their rents, and we'll pay
seventy or eighty thousand. The other half of the promise
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was you were going to get great jobs. That part
didn't happen for a lot of people. The whole thing
is a racket, like student loans are a racket. Obamacare
is a racket. It's a racket everywhere you look. The
Democrats were trying to capitalize on two pieces of ignorance.
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One is because Obamacare became like a sacred term in
politically society. If you criticized it, you were some kind
of Neanderthal savage. But it's a failure. It's objectively factually
a failure, doesn't work, needs to be replaced. Secondly, there
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was a majority of people blaming the Republicans, and I
could see why, because, hey, they have the House, they
have the Senate, they have the presidency. Except in the
Senate you need sixty votes. In this case, you need
fifty three Republican votes and seven Democratic votes. There was
one Republican defector to the other side, so you needed
eight Democrats. They didn't have the eight Democrats for forty days.
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The the proposition they were fighting over was an just
an extension, an exact extension of the same spending that
we've had for the last twelve months. The Republican said, Okay,
let's extend the spending for another seven weeks, try to
work out our issues. And the Democrats said no, unless
they were guaranted heed to have this Obamacare subsidy renewed forever.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And again it came out of COVID. There's no COVID.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It was meant to be temporary to help people out
with all the financial and medical struggles of COVID. It's
not the situation. Of course, it should not be removed,
and clearly it doesn't work. It just added to the problem.
It just made everything more expensive. The more the government
gives subsidies, the more it guarantees things, the higher the
cost will be. Because an insurance company or a university
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free money for them, you know, the more they charge,
the more money they'll get from the government. Again, most
people are ignorant in that, because most people don't understand economics.
Most people still believe in their political leaders. But those
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subsidies had to end. They have to come up with
a new plan, and the whole tame. It ended up
hurting who ended up hurting all the people who needed
food stamps. It ended up hurting the government employees who
didn't get paid, ended up hurting the ones who got
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fired now being hired back. Ended up hurting the air
traffic controllers who had to go to work and not
get paid.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
What was this?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
This is stupid, stupid for a moment one, so the
Republicans did the only thing they could do. Oh, I
think they should have passed two temporary spending bills to
cover the food stamps and cover the air traffic controllers.
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But now it's over, and it should be over and
it never should have happened. We'll talk more about this
later on in the show.
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Speaker 1 (18:11):
Now. While while all.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
The news was in Washington this week, Gavin Newsom flew
to Brazil to attend that idiotic climate change summit. You know,
the US Trump has pulled out of that nonsense. In fact,
most countries, I think most countries just send delegates there
so the delegates are rewarded. They can have the booze,
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the food, and Brazilian prostitutes.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
That's the purpose of the trip for most of these people.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Because most of the countries and they were complaining about
this at the conference. Have not come near their promised
goals of reducing greenhouse gases climate change emissions. This is
another failure. This has been going on for decades. It's
a complete failure. They get together every couple of years
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and they just blow a lot of hot gas out
of their rear ends and they accomplish nothing. Most of
the countries they're not interested in this. Let me tell
you the way to go to succeed in the modern world.
Because the modern world is heading towards artificial intelligence and
they're going to be they're building massive data centers to
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process artificial intelligence. Those data centers need enormous amounts of electricity.
And the companies that are building these data centers, and
this is hundreds of billions of dollars of investment, they
are going to states and countries where electricity is cheap
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because they need huge amounts of energy. The energy has
to be extremely cheap, and that means natural gas, oil, nuclear.
Some of these data center plants are going to have
their own nuclear reactors. States and countries that have hydro
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electric power.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That that's really really cheap.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
States that use expensive energy like wind and solar which
is really a failed method. Now economically, states that have
high taxes, states like California, that economy is not coming
to California. They're not going to build too many data
centers here. The energy is way too expensive. But everyone
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else is going to have the party, not here in California.
And it's because of a jackass like Gavin Newsom. And
he was speaking in Brazil, and you stick a microphone
in front of his mouth and you don't know what
you're going to hear. I thought the world pretty much
agreed that the fires have the federal investigation. They were
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started by that arsonist. Right January first fire started by
the arsonist. LA Fire Department did not put out the
hot spot. They chose not to put out the hot spot.
In January second and Santa Ana Wins came and kicked
up that fire, and that's why the Palasades burned.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's exactly what happened.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And Newsome now he goes overseas and he tells all
those pompfoons in Brazil, these climate pompfoons, that it wasn't
the arsonist.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Listen to his explanation.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Home values will start to decline. You're seeing it across
the spectrum right now. In my state included, which is
one of the most blessed and cursed states. As it
relates to climate, we're on the tip of the sphere
of climate change, simultaneous droughts and simultaneous floods. The hots
are getting a lot hotter, the dry is drier. You
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saw one of the most devastating wildfires in American history
in the middle of winter in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Well, stop, boy, there was so much horse manere in
that what was that thirty seconds? I didn't get even
halfway through on the dot seven thirty seconds. Yeah, I
can time his horse maneur flow. Good Lord. In the
middle of winter, we had a devastating fire. Santa Ana
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winds blow off it in January. The Santa Ana winds
were the culprits, along with the arsonist. We don't have
traditional winter in southern California. But I guess he figured
the people in Brazil or the people from foreign countries
don't know this. Of course, you wouldn't have a fire
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like that in a normal wintry climate. There'd be too
much snow, too much rain, to which fog be too cold.
We don't have that. We have the Sant Ana winds,
desert winds, which can happen anytime of the year, but
they frequently happened in January. So he's full of it.
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He's lying to everybody there and he's focusing on the
fires as if climate change started the fires.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
They did not. Obviously it was the artsilist.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
He also started on state land, and it started on
land where the brush wasn't cleared like it was supposed to. Wow,
and then he did, the hots are getting hotter, the
drys are getting drier.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
The hots are getting a lot hotter, the dry is drier.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Let me play you this cut.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
This is from we played on the show January ninth,
twenty twenty three, two years ago. He was talking with
officials in northern California about the rain. He needed federal
funding to fight the rain, and he had a twist
on this line.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Play it.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
People have referred to global warming. Now is climate change
to global weirding? You know, just you know hots, I've
said at one hundred times, hot's getting a lot hotter,
dry is getting a lot drier, but the wet's getting
a lot wetter as well.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
The hot's getting hotter, the wet's getting wetter, the dry
is getting drier. So you see the genius of this
is it covers all the possible weather that we experience.
It used to be it was just global warming and
people didn't care. Okay, it's not just the hot's getting hotter,
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it's the dry's getting drier and the wet's getting wetter,
which of course is Southern California's climate years ago. You
just have to go to any weather almanac online. And
I was always into the weather, even when I was
a little kid. So I was always into looking at
at at weather patterns, rain patterns, dry patterns over the
course of years since I was since I was like
eleven years old. And if you look, there's there's a
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website called LA Almanac Almanac dot com la Almanac, and
you will see that wet years are often grouped together
and dry years are often grouped together. There's kind of
a mega weather cycle that goes on. We know this
just from experience. We had a couple of really wet
years in a row, and that's happened many times, and
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then sometimes it's followed by some really dry years all
in a row.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
They don't even know why this happens, but it just happens.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well, he takes advantage of that, so that in the
dry years he said, ah, climate change drive is getting drier,
and then two years later the wet period socks.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh, now the wets are getting wetter.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That is normal weather for as long as they've been
tracking weather, as long as modern humans have been in
La for example, since like eighteen seventy one. Go look,
go to La hamlineck dot com. Go look at the
rainfall dating back to eighteen seventy one, and you will
see several dry years in a row, several wet years
in a row, and there's almost a rhythm to it.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I'm going to express my relationship to my.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Truth and the opening line of that first cup we
played from Brazil where he talks about home prices are
going to be going down. Where are they going down
in California? Show me that neighborhood anybody out there was
looking for real estate, any neighborhoods where it's cheaper now
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than it was last year. I don't think there's one.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits there
and lies to you.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
But you know he can go to Brazil and sell
this crap again, and all the other pomp foods listening
to it. They're not really paying attention anyway. They got
food drinking prostitutes coming up tonight. That's all they care about,
you know. And to earn the right to enjoy the
food the drink of the prostitutes, you got to sit
through a windbag like Gavin Newsom, all right, will we
come back. Two dog stories, neither one of them pleasant,
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not necessarily unhappy endings, such a tease.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It's just for you, thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
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Speaker 2 (27:37):
Okay, two bad dog stories, although in this case, so
not to upset you too much, both dogs survive.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Dog number one.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
In North Hollywood, Carla Vicuna said she's walking to her
four year old German Shepherd named a Treyu German Shepherd
Husky mix a Trayo started acting strangely, wouldn't settle down,
eyes moving in a weird way, and Carl and her
husband took the dog to the vet started getting him tests.
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He had a fever, his heart rate elevated. It turns
out he had tested positive for meth.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Of course, because it's North Hollywood, well, it's the valley,
it's southern California.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
They had walked through a neighborhood alleyway and they think
somewhere there he's sniffing around, he's chewing on something, and
he got a good dose of meth. He saw a
tray who grabbed something, but he couldn't tell what it was,
and he ate it real fast.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
That's what happened to my dog. But it was marijuana, right,
But it was your own in the house, right, No,
it was. I keep forgetting this, you do. You're right
on the walk. Yes, did somebody just toss a joint?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I know it was a edible or something. A dog
was stone, remember, I I.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Remember, I remember it was woozy, right, A little.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
More than woozy. I thought it was having a stroke.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Carly here said this the second time her dog had
ingested drugs.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Oh well maybe you need to not walk in that
same place.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, a few months ago, weed in the park.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Different.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
See ye, so one a little bit of weed one day,
a little bit of.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Meth the other dog, and the dog survived.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well, there's a lot of riff raff people around. It's
all they do, is they They just.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Ingest drugs all day and they walk around zombified poisoned dogs.
Now for the weed, he was drowsy, he was trying
to stand up and then he'd.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Pee on him.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Yeah, that's exactly what happened to my exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But you can see about the homeless people are in
the condition they're in now the other one. Uh and
and this is why every homeless encamp and are to
be cleared immediately, and nobody wants to go. They ought
to be arrested. This story alone, all right, mass arrest,
mass incarceration for all these street bumps. Florence Avenue in
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South LA, a one year old shepherd mix. Some homeless
people set them on fire on purpose. It was intentional,
according to a rescue group. It was done by the
homeless people at the encampment. According Sandra Viveros with Compton
Paw Patrol, wait, why because they're odd meth and weed?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
They're crazy people.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Oh god, this is horrible.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
They set them on fire and he took off running
and he's in the hospital. Burns covering almost entire his
entire body and third and fourth degree burns. I never
heard a fourth degree burns. Smoke inhalation and Luke, though,
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will live. It'll take six more weeks and then they're
going to put them up for adoption. Sandy Vivero said,
he'll be able to live a very happy life. He
needs to heal. He might have some scars, but he'll
be okay. He's strong.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
You know, there is there's a go fundme to help Luke.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
So if you're interested, you go to kfiam six forty
dot com slash Luke so you can help pull Luke.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And somebody will adopt them probably.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
And I think the homeless people that set Luke on fire,
we need to set them on fire.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Instant justice. Yeah, all right, No, I look, these people
have to be removed. I'm running a city and I
wake up and I find out these these these these
drug addicts and mental patients that I allowed or roam
the streets of Los Angeles have set a dog on fire.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, just for sport, just for fun, to see what
would happen.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Yeah, then we need to do the same to them,
just for fun.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I don't know why we put up with this.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I'm so amazed at the horrific tolerance by Karen Bass
and all the rest of them for this stuff.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You tell them, John, I am.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Tired of this. I'm tired of reading these stories.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Almost I'm tired of hearing you read these stories.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
They're setting dogs on fire, and there's now there's no no,
no policy to get rid of them, no policy to
put them in prison. They should be belonging to a
cycle ward. You're setting dogs on fire. Go to a
cycle ward. All right, we come back. Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You know, the police always gets their budget cut by
Karen Bass, and they decided just to start hiring officers
on their own. They don't have the money for it.
I don't really understand this, and that's why Michael will
be here in minutes. Deborah Mark, Friend of all Animals.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yes I am.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome,
thank you for joining us. You're here, I'm here, got back.
We were my family and I. We were all in
the Philly area for a family wedding over the weekend,
and over three days, the five of us took nine
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planes to get there and back, get there and back,
and shockingly, we had very little trouble. Right in a
couple of minor, you know, fifteen to thirty minute delays
taking off, but at one point we were all in
the air at.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The same time.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That's amazing, going in.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Four different directions.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And I realized by Friday that they had told well,
they had made decisions in advance what flights they were
going to cancel. So if you got to the point
where you had a boarding pass, then you were safe
because they were scheduling all the disruptions ahead of time.
So there was really, you know, once I got to
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Friday morning, there was really no danger of being suddenly
being suddenly stranded somewhere. So I'll tell you more about
all that coming up. But obviously the big news and
the reason everybody was concerned if they had to travel
over the weekend. Was the government shutdown is coming to
an end. Eight Democrats defected, caved in, and the Republicans
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got their way, and they are now going to be
going through the voting procedures. But the government's going to
be reopened. Let's going to talk now to Joe Khalil.
He's the Washington correspondent for News it Nation, the cable
TV network.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Joe, how are you say? Good? How you guys doing?
I'm good? So is it really over?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
It is not over yet, but we are on the
pathway for this to be over. Yes, last night the
critical thing happened where eight Democrats voted with the Republicans
to reopen the government. There was a deal that effectively said, Okay,
we'll keep government open between now and January thirtieth. So
it's not super long term, but it reopens the government
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on a couple of conditions. There's some long term spending
in there, so it covers the snap benefits, the food assistants,
the military spending for like a full year. And federal
workers who were fired during the shutdown by the White
House are actually not just going to get paid, but
they're going to get their jobs backed and every federal
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worker who is furloughed will get back pay. That was
kind of a deal that both this group of small
group of moderate Democrats and Republicans came up with. So
it is in the process now we're waiting to see
today if the Senate votes tonight or tomorrow. They're hoping tonight.
They're pushing hard for that, and then by Wednesday or Thursday,
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this should all be wrapped up and reopened.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But the big demand that the Democrats had and did
not get was extending these Obamacare subsidies into the future.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
And exactly, and that is why these eight Democrats are
getting a lot of flak from the rest of their party. Effectively,
it's leaders, it's leader Chuck Schumer and Huckeen Jeffries that
are opposed to this deal. Of nearly the entire Democratic
Senate conference as opposed to it. Nearly every Democrat and
the House is opposed to it. And I'll go further.
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This is pretty remarkable. Even people who are going to
be at the top of the ticket potentially in twenty
twenty eight, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, Illinois Governor Jamie Pritzker,
and others very high profile figures. They have all come
out against this deal because it does not include, as
you point out, extending those Obamacare subsidies for twenty plus
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million Americans. Now, what Democrats did get is a promise
from Republican leaders that they will vote on it in
the Senate. Only there's no guarantee that the House ever
even takes it up. There's no guarantee it's going to pass.
They didn't put the language in the CR which would
have been a bit more compelling for Democrats, they would
have likely jumped on board. So yeah, there's a lot
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of real frustration today among the vast majority of Democrats
and their base voters, who frankly wanted to keep this
fight going until they got some kind of hard guarantee
on these subsidies.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And I imagine these senators as well as everybody else,
was getting enormous amounts of blowback and criticism with the
airports being closed, with the food staff payments not going out,
among other things. But those were the two biggies that
I think affected a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah, I mean, I talked to Tim Kaine today, the
Democrat senator from Virginia, and by the way, Virginia, a
state with three hundred thousand plus feeder workers. Right, so
this is a unique situation too. He I asked him,
you know, you're getting a ton of blowback. Did you
expect level, you know, a pushback on you? And he said,
you know, last night was the first good night of
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sleep I had since October first, The Senator told me,
I walked into the building today, I felt like I
could actually look in the eyes the US Capitol Police
officer who I'd been walking in, you know, for the
last forty plus days and they haven't been getting paid,
or the furloughed worker at my church that comes up
to me, or you know, the people in the communities
around DC that rely on snap. He's like all of that.
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It was just the pain was too much and we
needed to get to a point where we ended it. Now.
Mind you, those eight Democrats say they can still fight
for the Affordable Care Act subsidies. They're going to try
to do it, but you know, realistically they do loose
some leverage here, and I'm sad. The lesson I think
here is in twenty thirteen and in twenty eighteen, it
was Republicans that really shut down the government and they
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were making demands and they did not get those demands.
And this time around it was Democrats making those kinds
of demands and voting to shut down the government. And
so maybe the lesson here is that the side that
generally makes those kinds of demands and votes to shut
down does not usually end up getting what they're demanding.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It doesn't seem to be effective.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You laid out those three scenarios there, and it's zero
for three on that over the last ten twelve years.
So it doesn't think like that that's the way to go,
because there's just too many people who end up getting harmed.
And if you force the shutdown, then you got to
deal with the consequences, and the consequences are never good.
Within a month, you've got chaos, you've got food stamps
not going out, you got you've got airports cutting back
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their schedule. I mean, it's just it's a stupid way.
Considering you have all year to negotiate this stuff. This
is a ridiculous way to try to force what you
want into law.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Typically. Yeah, and the side that's not making demands, you know,
it's obviously a lot easier for them because they can
look at the public and say we're just asking for
the government to open and for all the pain to stop. Now.
I will say it was unusual when you looked at
the public pulling this time around, because the public seemed
to be blaming Republicans in the White House more than
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they were blaming Democrats for this shutdown. And it's something
that even President Trump acknowledged publicly and said, yeah, we're
losing the public battle here, which is in many ways
why a lot of Democrats were so frustrated yesterday that
those eighthes seem to you know, cave because they were thinking,
you know, we might have actually the sort of moral
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high ground. We're we're winning the fight among the public,
the perception of it. But you know, here we are now,
and so we're on the path to reopening and we're
going to see what happens with the healthcare fight. I've
heard a lot of Republicans today, including John Thune, say
we actually do want to work on that, Like we
don't want to see people's premiums go up two hundred
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and three hundred one thousand dollars in January February and
blame Republicans. And so Leader John's is like we're going
to work on this. We will, but we just got
to open the government first and then we'll figure out
together how to go about this.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, I could see why the average person might blame
the Republicans because they're in charge of all the branches
of government right now. But a lot of people don't
know or don't understand, is with the Senate, you need
sixty votes, So you could have fifty three Republicans or
in this case, fifty two because one was against it,
you need another eight Democrats. And it was the lack
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of those eight Democrats that caused the whole thing to
seize up. They had to cooperate, and for forty days
they weren't cooperating. Very good, Joe, thanks for coming on
and explaining.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
To all that.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Of course, happy to do it all.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Right, Joe Khalil, Washington, correspondent for Newstation, the cable television
news network. When we come back, well, I'll explain in
detail what the what the real dynamic was behind the scenes.
Because people the government. They made government complicated, so it's
not so easy to always just blame one side. And
(09:03):
the key in the middle there is the filibuster rules.
The Democrats might only have forty seven seats in the Senate,
but the Republicans need sixty votes. Any party needs sixty
votes to pass legislation, and that that is the secret
(09:24):
weapon in the Senate, which Trump wants to get rid
of because he finds it to be a pain in
the ass.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
We'll talk more and when we come back.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So the shutdown is on its way to ending, and
there is an agreement. There's eight Democratic senators who defected,
and that gives sixty votes to the Republicans to pass
this deal. But the big thing that the Democrats wanted
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the shutdown was all over. What was all about Obamacare subsidies,
tax credits to people who signed up for Obamacare. And
the Democrats didn't get it. And that's why the progressive
crowd is so angry. They didn't get Granted, they didn't
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get it. It's a complete cave in. But here's what
you need to know. These Obamacare subsidies were supposed to
be temporary. They were passed in twenty twenty one as
part of a COVID package. Now COVID is long long over,
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but the subsidies continued, and that's real federal spending. If
you wonder why we're thirty seven trillion dollars in debt,
there's a lot of these situations. A temporary subsidy goes
on forever, and the Republicans said, no, oh it's over.
Party is over. No more subsidies. On top of that,
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the subsidies go directly to the insurance companies. Doesn't even
go to the people, goes to the insurance companies. Now
the Democrats are saying, well, well, without these payments, you're
gonna have Obamacare premiums skyrocketing. All right, stop a second.
Maybe you don't remember because it's fifteen years now. You
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got to go back to twenty ten. Obamacare was supposed
to lower premiums. That never happened. They kept going up
and up anyway, and then it got to the point
where they were skyrocketing. Well, then I guess that original
Obamacare plan doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's a failure.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So the public debate should not be about whether you
keep shoveling money into a failed program. The public ought
to be well, why is this thing failing? And maybe
it ought to be replaced. I mean, everybody's got an
opinion on what's wrong with healthcare, and almost everything is
wrong with healthcare. But what's pretty clear is what they
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dreamed up in twenty ten does not work. Maybe it
worked for five minutes, but it's a failure as of now.
And of course the Democrats relye most politicians rely on
the public's ignorance. Ignorant voters our goal to politicians because
then these bastards can tell you anything, and you don't
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know what to believe. We have a dishonest news media.
Hardly anybody has any time to explain it. So you
might think, well, this is terrible, premiums are going to skyrocket. Well,
skyrocketing premiums are terrible, but it needs to be fixed. Oh,
I don't know at the root cause it's a bad system.
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Obamacare is a failed bad system. It doesn't you know
what the official name of OBAMACAREUS Affordable Healthcare ACA. You
might hear in the news stories they call it. They say,
you know, the ACA Act. It's not afforded, hasn't been
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almost since the beginning, so it has to be replaced.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
But nobody wants to have that fight.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
The Trump people have an idea that if we give subsidies.
We ought to give it directly to you. You should
get the money and then you decide what you want
to spend it on. But if you give it to
the insurance companies, what do you think is going to happen.
They're going to take that money, and now they can,
they can jack up the cost. It's like the stupidest
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thing was was giving my when the federal government gave
When the federal government guaranteed student loans, well, as soon
as all the universities realized that the loans were guaranteed, they.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Jacked up the tuition.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That's why you have seventy thousand and eighty thousand dollars
a year tuition because they know the loans that the
kids are taking out. Those loans are guaranteed by the
federal government. So the students desperate to get into the
right schools, they and their parents said okay, okay, well
we'll we'll pay, we'll pay their rents, and we'll pay
seventy or eighty thousand. The other half of the promise
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was you were going to get great jobs. That part
didn't happen for a lot of people. The whole thing
is a racket, like student loans are a racket. Obamacare
is a racket. It's a racket everywhere you look. The
Democrats were trying to capitalize on two pieces of ignorance.
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One is because Obamacare became like a sacred term in
politically society. If you criticized it, you were some kind
of Neanderthal savage. But it's a failure. It's objectively factually
a failure, doesn't work, needs to be replaced. Secondly, there
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was a majority of people blaming the Republicans, and I
could see why, because, hey, they have the House, they
have the Senate, they have the presidency. Except in the
Senate you need sixty votes. In this case, you need
fifty three Republican votes and seven Democratic votes. There was
one Republican defector to the other side, so you needed
eight Democrats. They didn't have the eight Democrats for forty days.
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The the proposition they were fighting over was an just
an extension, an exact extension of the same spending that
we've had for the last twelve months. The Republican said, Okay,
let's extend the spending for another seven weeks, try to
work out our issues. And the Democrats said no, unless
they were guaranted heed to have this Obamacare subsidy renewed forever.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And again it came out of COVID. There's no COVID.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It was meant to be temporary to help people out
with all the financial and medical struggles of COVID. It's
not the situation. Of course, it should not be removed,
and clearly it doesn't work. It just added to the problem.
It just made everything more expensive. The more the government
gives subsidies, the more it guarantees things, the higher the
cost will be. Because an insurance company or a university
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free money for them, you know, the more they charge,
the more money they'll get from the government. Again, most
people are ignorant in that, because most people don't understand economics.
Most people still believe in their political leaders. But those
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subsidies had to end. They have to come up with
a new plan, and the whole tame. It ended up
hurting who ended up hurting all the people who needed
food stamps. It ended up hurting the government employees who
didn't get paid, ended up hurting the ones who got
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fired now being hired back. Ended up hurting the air
traffic controllers who had to go to work and not
get paid.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
What was this?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
This is stupid, stupid for a moment one, so the
Republicans did the only thing they could do. Oh, I
think they should have passed two temporary spending bills to
cover the food stamps and cover the air traffic controllers.
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But now it's over, and it should be over and
it never should have happened. We'll talk more about this
later on in the show.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
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Speaker 2 (18:00):
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Speaker 1 (18:11):
Now. While while all.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
The news was in Washington this week, Gavin Newsom flew
to Brazil to attend that idiotic climate change summit. You know,
the US Trump has pulled out of that nonsense. In fact,
most countries, I think most countries just send delegates there
so the delegates are rewarded. They can have the booze,
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the food, and Brazilian prostitutes.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
That's the purpose of the trip for most of these people.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Because most of the countries and they were complaining about
this at the conference. Have not come near their promised
goals of reducing greenhouse gases climate change emissions. This is
another failure. This has been going on for decades. It's
a complete failure. They get together every couple of years
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and they just blow a lot of hot gas out
of their rear ends and they accomplish nothing. Most of
the countries they're not interested in this. Let me tell
you the way to go to succeed in the modern world.
Because the modern world is heading towards artificial intelligence and
they're going to be they're building massive data centers to
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process artificial intelligence. Those data centers need enormous amounts of electricity.
And the companies that are building these data centers, and
this is hundreds of billions of dollars of investment, they
are going to states and countries where electricity is cheap
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because they need huge amounts of energy. The energy has
to be extremely cheap, and that means natural gas, oil, nuclear.
Some of these data center plants are going to have
their own nuclear reactors. States and countries that have hydro
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electric power.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That that's really really cheap.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
States that use expensive energy like wind and solar which
is really a failed method. Now economically, states that have
high taxes, states like California, that economy is not coming
to California. They're not going to build too many data
centers here. The energy is way too expensive. But everyone
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else is going to have the party, not here in California.
And it's because of a jackass like Gavin Newsom. And
he was speaking in Brazil, and you stick a microphone
in front of his mouth and you don't know what
you're going to hear. I thought the world pretty much
agreed that the fires have the federal investigation. They were
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started by that arsonist. Right January first fire started by
the arsonist. LA Fire Department did not put out the
hot spot. They chose not to put out the hot spot.
In January second and Santa Ana Wins came and kicked
up that fire, and that's why the Palasades burned.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's exactly what happened.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And Newsome now he goes overseas and he tells all
those pompfoons in Brazil, these climate pompfoons, that it wasn't
the arsonist.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Listen to his explanation.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Home values will start to decline. You're seeing it across
the spectrum right now. In my state included, which is
one of the most blessed and cursed states. As it
relates to climate, we're on the tip of the sphere
of climate change, simultaneous droughts and simultaneous floods. The hots
are getting a lot hotter, the dry is drier. You
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saw one of the most devastating wildfires in American history
in the middle of winter in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Well, stop, boy, there was so much horse manere in
that what was that thirty seconds? I didn't get even
halfway through on the dot seven thirty seconds. Yeah, I
can time his horse maneur flow. Good Lord. In the
middle of winter, we had a devastating fire. Santa Ana
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winds blow off it in January. The Santa Ana winds
were the culprits, along with the arsonist. We don't have
traditional winter in southern California. But I guess he figured
the people in Brazil or the people from foreign countries
don't know this. Of course, you wouldn't have a fire
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like that in a normal wintry climate. There'd be too
much snow, too much rain, to which fog be too cold.
We don't have that. We have the Sant Ana winds,
desert winds, which can happen anytime of the year, but
they frequently happened in January. So he's full of it.
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He's lying to everybody there and he's focusing on the
fires as if climate change started the fires.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
They did not. Obviously it was the artsilist.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
He also started on state land, and it started on
land where the brush wasn't cleared like it was supposed to. Wow,
and then he did, the hots are getting hotter, the
drys are getting drier.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
The hots are getting a lot hotter, the dry is drier.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Let me play you this cut.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
This is from we played on the show January ninth,
twenty twenty three, two years ago. He was talking with
officials in northern California about the rain. He needed federal
funding to fight the rain, and he had a twist
on this line.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Play it.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
People have referred to global warming. Now is climate change
to global weirding? You know, just you know hots, I've
said at one hundred times, hot's getting a lot hotter,
dry is getting a lot drier, but the wet's getting
a lot wetter as well.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
The hot's getting hotter, the wet's getting wetter, the dry
is getting drier. So you see the genius of this
is it covers all the possible weather that we experience.
It used to be it was just global warming and
people didn't care. Okay, it's not just the hot's getting hotter,
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it's the dry's getting drier and the wet's getting wetter,
which of course is Southern California's climate years ago. You
just have to go to any weather almanac online. And
I was always into the weather, even when I was
a little kid. So I was always into looking at
at at weather patterns, rain patterns, dry patterns over the
course of years since I was since I was like
eleven years old. And if you look, there's there's a
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website called LA Almanac Almanac dot com la Almanac, and
you will see that wet years are often grouped together
and dry years are often grouped together. There's kind of
a mega weather cycle that goes on. We know this
just from experience. We had a couple of really wet
years in a row, and that's happened many times, and
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then sometimes it's followed by some really dry years all
in a row.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
They don't even know why this happens, but it just happens.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well, he takes advantage of that, so that in the
dry years he said, ah, climate change drive is getting drier,
and then two years later the wet period socks.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh, now the wets are getting wetter.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That is normal weather for as long as they've been
tracking weather, as long as modern humans have been in
La for example, since like eighteen seventy one. Go look,
go to La hamlineck dot com. Go look at the
rainfall dating back to eighteen seventy one, and you will
see several dry years in a row, several wet years
in a row, and there's almost a rhythm to it.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I'm going to express my relationship to my.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Truth and the opening line of that first cup we
played from Brazil where he talks about home prices are
going to be going down. Where are they going down
in California? Show me that neighborhood anybody out there was
looking for real estate, any neighborhoods where it's cheaper now
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than it was last year. I don't think there's one.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits there
and lies to you.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
But you know he can go to Brazil and sell
this crap again, and all the other pomp foods listening
to it. They're not really paying attention anyway. They got
food drinking prostitutes coming up tonight. That's all they care about,
you know. And to earn the right to enjoy the
food the drink of the prostitutes, you got to sit
through a windbag like Gavin Newsom, all right, will we
come back. Two dog stories, neither one of them pleasant,
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not necessarily unhappy endings, such a tease.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It's just for you, thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Okay, two bad dog stories, although in this case, so
not to upset you too much, both dogs survive.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Dog number one.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
In North Hollywood, Carla Vicuna said she's walking to her
four year old German Shepherd named a Treyu German Shepherd
Husky mix a Trayo started acting strangely, wouldn't settle down,
eyes moving in a weird way, and Carl and her
husband took the dog to the vet started getting him tests.
(28:12):
He had a fever, his heart rate elevated. It turns
out he had tested positive for meth.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Of course, because it's North Hollywood, well, it's the valley,
it's southern California.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
They had walked through a neighborhood alleyway and they think
somewhere there he's sniffing around, he's chewing on something, and
he got a good dose of meth. He saw a
tray who grabbed something, but he couldn't tell what it was,
and he ate it real fast.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
That's what happened to my dog. But it was marijuana, right,
But it was your own in the house, right, No,
it was. I keep forgetting this, you do. You're right
on the walk. Yes, did somebody just toss a joint?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I know it was a edible or something. A dog
was stone, remember, I I.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Remember, I remember it was woozy, right, A little.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
More than woozy. I thought it was having a stroke.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Carly here said this the second time her dog had
ingested drugs.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Oh well maybe you need to not walk in that
same place.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, a few months ago, weed in the park.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Different.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
See ye, so one a little bit of weed one day,
a little bit of.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Meth the other dog, and the dog survived.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well, there's a lot of riff raff people around. It's
all they do, is they They just.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Ingest drugs all day and they walk around zombified poisoned dogs.
Now for the weed, he was drowsy, he was trying
to stand up and then he'd.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Pee on him.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Yeah, that's exactly what happened to my exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But you can see about the homeless people are in
the condition they're in now the other one. Uh and
and this is why every homeless encamp and are to
be cleared immediately, and nobody wants to go. They ought
to be arrested. This story alone, all right, mass arrest,
mass incarceration for all these street bumps. Florence Avenue in
(30:11):
South LA, a one year old shepherd mix. Some homeless
people set them on fire on purpose. It was intentional,
according to a rescue group. It was done by the
homeless people at the encampment. According Sandra Viveros with Compton
Paw Patrol, wait, why because they're odd meth and weed?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
They're crazy people.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Oh god, this is horrible.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
They set them on fire and he took off running
and he's in the hospital. Burns covering almost entire his
entire body and third and fourth degree burns. I never
heard a fourth degree burns. Smoke inhalation and Luke, though,
(30:58):
will live. It'll take six more weeks and then they're
going to put them up for adoption. Sandy Vivero said,
he'll be able to live a very happy life. He
needs to heal. He might have some scars, but he'll
be okay. He's strong.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
You know, there is there's a go fundme to help Luke.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
So if you're interested, you go to kfiam six forty
dot com slash Luke so you can help pull Luke.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And somebody will adopt them probably.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
And I think the homeless people that set Luke on fire,
we need to set them on fire.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Instant justice. Yeah, all right, No, I look, these people
have to be removed. I'm running a city and I
wake up and I find out these these these these
drug addicts and mental patients that I allowed or roam
the streets of Los Angeles have set a dog on fire.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, just for sport, just for fun, to see what
would happen.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Yeah, then we need to do the same to them,
just for fun.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I don't know why we put up with this.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I'm so amazed at the horrific tolerance by Karen Bass
and all the rest of them for this stuff.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You tell them, John, I am.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Tired of this. I'm tired of reading these stories.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Almost I'm tired of hearing you read these stories.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
They're setting dogs on fire, and there's now there's no no,
no policy to get rid of them, no policy to
put them in prison. They should be belonging to a
cycle ward. You're setting dogs on fire. Go to a
cycle ward. All right, we come back. Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You know, the police always gets their budget cut by
Karen Bass, and they decided just to start hiring officers
on their own. They don't have the money for it.
I don't really understand this, and that's why Michael will
be here in minutes. Deborah Mark, Friend of all Animals.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yes I am.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
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