August 4, 2025 • 38 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (08/04) - California has the highest unemployment rate in the country. More on California's bad business climate. A zoo in Denmark wants people to donate animals to feed to the zoo animals. More and more people are relying on AI for companionship.
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pick up the podcast. I just want to I don't
know if I'm promoting this or warning you. After one thirty,
the big news story of the day, at least in
this corner, is that in Denmark they're asking for people
to donate their live pets to feed to the animals
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in the zoos.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's disgusting, it's a horrendous story.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, I think there's some I think there's some logic.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Now there's none, not a single thing I can think of.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
All right, all right, after one thirty, I just wanted
to let people know. I don't know what you want
wild animals to do. They do have to eat meat.
If you can teach them to be vegan.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I suppose, well, maybe somebody should try.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, that little guy is not gonna last long, all right,
So that's coming up after one thirty the La Daily News.
Here's the here's a big story. California is number one.
We are number one. We're not number one very often, right,
We are number one in unemployment. Yes, actually tied for first,
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to be more accurate. Now, the national rate is usually
about four percent, four point one, four point two, right,
and that's that's considered normal unemployment. You never get to zero,
and you wouldn't want zero because then there'd be so
much competition for jobs it would drive up wages too
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fast and lead to inflation. So four is just the
normal churn. You know, people people coming and going, they're quitting,
they're looking for something new, or they've been let go
and they're looking for something new. But ours is over
twenty percent higher. Actually it's thirty five percent higher. Five
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point four rate tied with Nevada, and Michigan was third
at five point three. Texas was number eighteen, Florida number
twenty six. We always tell you about jobs and companies
flowing to Texas and Florida, Well they have significantly lower
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unemployment rates. The lowest rates where virtually everybody's working. South
Dakota and North Dakota and Vermont, almost everybody who is
an adult and lives there has a job. But California
is And this story and a couple of others kind
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of breaks apart, like one of the big myths. You know,
I could probably spend the whole show just reading you
La Times propaganda, La Times nonsense, the cheerleading, the boosterism
they do for progressive politics and Gavin news and me.
You know all that, right, I mean that that horse
is way past dead. One of the new talking points
(03:38):
that the progressives and Newsome have are, oh, but we're
the fourth largest economy.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well, I don't know if we have.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
The highest poverty rate and the highest unemployment rate having
the fourth largest economy is that relevant to normal people's lives,
the people in the middle and working class. Does that
mean anything? And the reason we have the fourth largest
economy is we have a lot of the biggest tech
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corporations in the world. Have you heard about the Magnificent Seven.
Maybe you've heard it if you listen to business news
or you've invested in stocks. The Magnificent Seven are seven
major tech companies which have exploded in value. These are
the stocks that if you bet on them some years back,
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you could have made a fortune by now. And out
of that seven, I think more than half of them
are here in California. Metow which owns Facebook and Instagram.
You've got Google, Apple, in Vidia, which is the hottest
of them all right now they make chips and up
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until recently, within the last couple of years, the Tesla
and Tesla still has a lot of operations here, but
the headquarters is down Texas, and the other two out
of it, I mean that's five. And then the other
two are are in Washington. It would be Amazon and Microsoft.
But that is the source of much of the wealth
in California. If you could imagine how many phones Apple
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has sold, how much advertising revenue Facebook and Instagram take
in right staggering them out. Maybe you don't follow in
video much, but they are supplying most of the chips,
about ninety percent of the chips for the AI.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Revolution, and uh.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
The and then and then Google is a massive advertising engine,
and and that's what mostly these these these Internet tech giants,
some of them are they're they're they're advertising venues, which
is why you know, television has been devastated, radio has
been hurt. Newspapers not existent now. Right, it's all online
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ads and and it's it's through social media, and it's
through Google. So that creates a lot of wealth for
those employees. They a lot of GDP, a lot of profit,
a lot of taxes they pay, a lot of the
employees make high salaries and get a lot of stock
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and sell that stock at some point. But the wealth
is so lopsided towards Silicon Valley companies. Then there's everybody else.
And if you look at everybody else and then out
all the illegal aliens, we've got highest unemployment, highest poverty rate,
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most number of people on welfare, most number of people
on Medicaid. And I could go on and on, but
you get the point. There's a huge, huge gulf between
the wealthiest who work and live in the tech areas
and then everybody else down below. And so you can't newsome,
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can't talk about anything with it. Go wow, I got
the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It's like, well, shut up.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
You know that's misleading, you know that's wrong. You know
that middle class and working class people are struggling, and
the poor just you know, left out, left out to
die in the streets. Basically, that's how you reduce the
number of poors. You you let them die in the streets.
That's the Karen Bass method of governing. So, you know,
(07:32):
I see this stuff from newsom the La Times. You know,
I could I could break an artery if I read
you the latest story where you know they try to
mitigate some of the bad economic news. Because they actually
ran a story today trying to mitigate the terrible news
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that California is the worst business climate. Well, you know
it's it's not kind of political conspiracy that's spreading this story.
It's because of that worse business climate. It's ranked fifty
number fifty in the country by Businessman.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I know what the story was about is about the
in and Out woman, the woman who family owns in
and out. You know, she's moving to Tennessee with her family,
and gee, she's doing this for partly for family purposes.
And I think they're taking some of the in and
out offices out to Tennessee as well. And the Times
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is going now now, now, it's not so bad. We're
the fourth largest economy. It's like, well not if you're
setting up a Hamburger stands. It's a very difficult state.
I was just talking to a guy who runs a
restaurant within the last week, and he's talking about trying
to run a restaurant. You know, in the La area
at La County, the minimum wage is extremely difficult to
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deal with. It's simply unaffordable with out raising your prices
a lot, and then the customers dry up. You know,
there's only so much you can charge for meals. And
nobody understands that. And they told me what it's like
talking to politicians who've never owned a business and trying
to explain that you cannot constantly jack up the minimum
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wage to eighteen twenty twenty two, twenty five thirty dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It doesn't work. The math doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And that's why a lot of restaurants have gone out
of business. And they have clearly right. And that's why
you've got that's why you have eighteen thousand fast food
workers who've lost their jobs. The unions are always fighting
for living wages, and they finally hit a point where
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this living wage of twenty bucks an hour has caused
eighteen thousand people to have no wage, and nobody stops
and says, Wow, we really screwed up here because they
don't care.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
More.
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Coming up after two o'clock. The big controversy of the
day in the world of animal rights.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
In Denmark, there's a zoo that says, we.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Have a lot of wild animals here and they're always
hungry and it's better for them if they eat live,
live animals. So if you have an unwanted dog or cat,
bring them in. Nobody's going to claim them at the
humane shelter anyway. So provide a nice meal for a
starving tiger or whatever it is they have.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Believable and.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Well, I mean it puts the animal to good use,
better than being euthanized.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No, no, all right, we'll discuss that coming up after
one thirty.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Ia that.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I was telling you that California is number one for
employment again and it's five point four percent, tied with
Nevada our rivals, and they are rivals, their rivals for
all our businesses and a lot of our residents. Texas
number eighteen, Florida at number twenty six. And it's not
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so much that, oh, you know, we want to be
better than every other states. That it's that, you know,
our our our economy is in bad shape here. The
unemployment level is high. And look at all.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
The things that are just so expensive.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know, they talk about affordability costs. And Texas added
almost ten million jobs in the last fifty years. Florida
added seven and a half million. And they're much smaller
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than California. In California in the last fifty years, we
added ten million. And you know, if you if you
account for size, that's not that's not that's not a
good number. Now if you, uh, there's a there's a
guy named Hector Barajas who wrote a piece today, uh
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it worried for California Globe. It was talking about the
in and out President Lindsey Snyder, she and her family
going for Tennessee and going to Tennessee, and she went
on a podcast and said, there's a lot of great
things about California, but raising a family is not easy here.
Doing business is not easy here. I love cal California,
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but California doesn't love me. And Hector Barajas talks about
how we stack up to the rest, to the rest
of the country. California lost more residents than it gained
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in twenty twenty four Atlas van Lines. Sixty percent of
Atlas van Lines customers moved out of California. Fifty six
percent of California voters have considered leaving because of the
cost of living. Get this, and this is the secret story.
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Thirty five percent had to choose between food and housing
in the last month. That's what infuriates me about Newsom
and the ally time's going on. I've got the fourth
margest economy. Well that's not really a good thing if
you're among I mean, that's over a third. Over a
third of the residents have to choose between food and
housing every month because housing costs are so high, rental
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costs are so high, gasoline is so high, taxes are
so high.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
All self inflicted by the government. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
If there's a third of people who can't, who have
to decide between food and housing.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Maybe you should vote differently. What does it take.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
There are three point eight million California families three point
eight million, almost four million that don't earn sufficient income
to meet but basic needs.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, and a lot of maybe immigrants. And if that's true,
then you know that's.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Why you can't have unlimited illegal immigration because they come
here and they're really poor, and then the taxpayers have
to bail them out.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
What's the point of that?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And he he talks about the gas prices, The housing
market is extreme, the refineries there a shutting down, building
codes and labor agreements make it nearly impossible to build
affordable homes.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
That's all self inflicted by the government, whether it's the
state government or county and city governments. Tax rates that
are excessive, and finally things are starting to break. People
are just packing up and leaving. And he writes about
how so many people.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'll give you.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I'll give you one paragraph because I have the same
experience here. He writes, I just had breakfast with a
friend named Chris. He and his wife are moving to Houston.
They love California, But like many others I know, small
business owners, young professionals, retired teachers, pastors, they've reached the
heartbreaking conclusion that the state they love no longer loves
them back. Each week more of them are packing up
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and leaving. I have so many My wife and I
have so many conversations with so many friends who are
weighing this decision about just just getting out because it's
just too much. And if you have sixty percent of
it Atlas vanline customers moving out of California, WHOA, what
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did we tell you about U haul last week? California
is number one in U haul rentals to move out
and number fifty in U haul rentals moving in out
of all the states. So something is happening in ordinary
lives and ordinary neighborhoods that you don't see covered in
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the media very much like I got this story from
the California Globe dot com, LA Daily News. It's not
on the television stations, not on the television networks, not
in the La Times. In fact, the La Times will
print print the opposite saying, well, you know, we really
have the fourth largest economists. Look at this, We are
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sitting records for people renting vans and renting.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Uhaul carriers to get out of here. Look at this.
This doesn't lie.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Everyone of those rental agreements has a name on it,
and the name is attached to an address, and the
address means somebody isn't living there anymore. They got out,
you would think, right since the bubblehead Tamala Harris dropped out,
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So people aren't going to be mesmerized by whatever, you know, whatever,
I don't know. If she hypnotizes people, whatever our surrounds her,
that makes people think she's competent at anything.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
All right, that's god.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Now we're left with a bunch of nameless, faceless, washed
up wannabes, never wors recycled political trash.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That's all. That's where. On the Democratic side.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Maybe somebody else, there's a couple of Republican guys who
look interesting. There might be a Democrat guy who's interesting.
Maybe somebody is going to come fly it in from
the outside. But you cannot elect this, this crowd of
rehashed leftovers, refugees from la and Sacramento, government losers from
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the Biden and the Newsome administration. I mean, you can't
do this. We're at the breaking point. Finally, are we
come back something completely different? Big controversy today in Denmark
there's a zoo. Zoo's very upfront saying hey, look, we
got to feed live animals too, our wild zoo friends.
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So if you have an extra dog or a cat
that you no longer want, bring them over. And he's
tonight's dinner for.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Some Enny jerk.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I had to edit my thoughts that would bring their
domestic animal. Yeah, to that zoo is a piece of work.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, work what you meant to say. You should see
the steely gaze in her eyes.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
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John Cobelt Radio. All right, here's the big deal story
of the day. There's a zoo in Denmark called the
Alborg Zoo AA l B O r CHI. If you
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want to go looking for it, it's Alborg Zoo dot
DK and Mark, and they put on their website on
social media they want donations of small pets to feed
all their predatory animals that they care for. And I
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looked on the website. I mean, just click over here.
I looked on the website and they have photos of
polar bears, tigers, giraffes, I know, some animal with longhorns.
They have a dinosaur, a dinosaur. Oh yeah, yeah, they've
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got a photo of a dinosaur prowling through the woods.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Maybe it's a.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Fake one, Okay, I thought they were extinct.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I think they brought them back.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Well, if they have crocodiles, those are technically dinosaurs.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Right, But yeah, I mean this one looks like a
dinosaur standing on its legs, So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Maybe an experiment went crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Have wart hogs orangutans, baboons.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Penguins, all right, So that's a typical zoo.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And the Albarg Zoo says it wants to mimic the
natural food chain of the animals for the sake of
animal welfare and professional integrity. See, they think, if they're
proper caretakers, they have to feed the animals real fresh meat,
and which is what they would find in the wild.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But they're not in the wild.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Animals that the zoo people want brought to them would
not be animals that these animals in the zoo would
be hunting.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Well, but you know me is me? I mean, the
tiger's not going to know any different.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
It bites into Well, they're looking for horses, for example,
Oh no, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Somebody's going to bring their horse to the zoo and
say here, No.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Alborg Zoo gratefully accepts live horses, which we euthanize, so
they do kill them right before they're fed.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
It's not like they throw a live horse. Well I
thought that.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Was the point that they throw live animals to these animals.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Well, they're they're just killed and then immediately thrown and
so the meat is fresh, you see. So they're not
thinking at old carcasses. It might be unwieldy to bring
a live worse and the horse may object.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, well yes, I would hope.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
So if you bring the horse to it back of
a tiger cage, the horse is gonna go, well, I
don't like this.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Well, the headline's deceiving.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Oh so it's okay, I say that. I'm just saying
the headline is deceiving.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Gratefully accepts live horses, which you euthanize and slaughter for feed.
At Alburt Zoo. Our needs may vary throughout the year
and there might be a waiting list, they might get,
you know, too many horse donations.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I guess the Danish people are cold.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I mean you think, well, is that one of those
assistant suicide countries. I don't know, because once you get
into Scandinavia, assistant suicide is really encouraged. So I mean,
if they're willing to off you know, the grandparents and
aunts and uncles, why not the why not the pets Netherlands.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Denmark does not have legal assisted suicide.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Oh does not? Yes, I just know it's popular nearby though, well,
the Netherlands Netherlands. Now I get those two countries confused.
Guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I just here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Is it just puppies that catch you upset?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Puppies and cats and kittens, all animals. I just can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
What I thought when I first heard this is somebody's
going to take their dog instead of taking it to
a shelter, and they're going to bring it to a
and the poor dog is going to be freaking out,
and they're going to take that live dog and they're
gonna throw it in a cage with lions, and the
dog is going to be murdered.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Right, well, so this is okay.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I didn't say it was.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Then launching, because honestly, I would think, okay, now this
is very personal, so you don't need to email me. Okay,
But when my dogs are very ill and they need
to be euthanized, I hate that word put down. I
want to bring no euthanized put down. I want to
do it in a humane way. I want somebody to
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come to my house. I want to be holding my dog,
and I want them to be put to sleep where
they're peaceful and they're at home. I haven't done that
with my other dogs went to a vet. I was
still holding them. I was with them the whole time.
But I know that this is a thing and and
there's so many people that that do that.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
So that's what I would do. I wouldn't be taking
my dog, my elderly.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Dog to a zoo and go to the baboos like.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Zoos anyway I think. I I want all animals to
be in the.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Wild and free. Not all animals, but in the wild,
everybody's eating each other.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
All night, you know what, that's the circle of life.
I can't control that. So when humans get involved.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Enhancing the circle. We're speeding up the circle of life.
It's Scottish rosters.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Hamsters are are are domesticated pets. I mean, come on
to a horse.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
The horse.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Must be a maximum of one hundred and forty seven centimeters.
I don't know what that translates to an inches, but
that's the maximum size. The horse must be in a
good condition for transport, not sick in the last thirty years.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Okay, so why would somebody want to do that? Why
are you going to euthanize them?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
That's the other thing. They want healthy animals. Why are
you going to take healthy animals? This is not even
animals that are just dying. They want healthy m Yeah,
they want healthy eshes' I stand by what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
They want healthy. So you have a perfectly healthy dog.
I don't want the dog anymore. Here, take it, kill it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
The horse must have a horse passport, which I didn't
know was a thing. Does that have a little mugshot
photo of the horse?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And do you like?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Is it cute enough for your zoo animals?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
The horse will be delivered alive to Alburg Zoo and
there it gets euthanized.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
So who knows?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Okay, and that's the other thing. Who knows how it's
going to be euthanized. It's definitely not gonna be somebody's
gonna be.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Hugging the horse, that's right, and singing a lullaby in
their ear. Yes, and then it gets slaughtered.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah. No, so no, this is a terrible idea.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Alburg Zoo receives the horse as a donation and as
owner of the horse, you can obtain a tax deduction.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh, people will definitely do this.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
If you get a tax deduction, that's probably a pretty
good sized deduction. Uh, just to provide your civil registration number.
And the value of the horse is calculated at five
whatever the Danish curR see is. It's called DKK five
per kilogram. So that's the deduction you can take. And
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you know the horses are lots of kilograms. We accept chickens,
rabbits and guinea pigs weekdays between ten am and one pm.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
No more than four at a time.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Well the rules.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Maybe if you your kids moving out of the house
and left behind an animal collection.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Is one of my sons dead.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
It's they take a perfectly healthy speaking from experiences, you
just scoop.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Them all up, throw them in the back of the
car and Daddy has a tax deduction.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
No, Daddy needs to figure something else out.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Kids comes home from college and oop, sorry, dog ran aways.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I'm curious. Does it say anything about cats and dogs
on that list?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
No, I'm not in the news stories. No, but I
why not?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (27:58):
The next thing the zoo is going to do is
going to be contacting the shelters and saying, hey, guys,
bring us your dogs, bring us your dogs and cats.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Well, that is a problem, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Yeah, but there again, at least when they're there, there
is a possibility of them being adopted.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I just looked up their Facebook post because they just
posted this week, and the Facebook post from the Allborg
Zoo that advertised the donation program.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Accompanying the post is.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
A photo of a large tiger with its mouth wide
open as far as it can go, and you could
see all their teeth, all their sharp front teeth.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
And wow, it's.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
It says, chicken, rabbits and guinea pigs make up an
important part of the diet of our predators. They need
whole prey reminiscent of what would nact they would naturally
hunt in the wild. End zoos have responsibility to imitate
the natural food chain of the animals. So if you're
if you have an animal that has to leave here
for various reasons they have to leave, feel free to
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donate to us.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
They'll be Uh, they'll be gently euthanized and used as fodder, gented.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Nothing goes to waste.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Oh, I'm sure we faintly euthanized.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
We ensure natural behavior, nutrition, and the well being of
our predators.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
You see, it's nutrition.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I don't like it.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
More.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Coming up, you're listening to John Cobbels on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Coming up after two o'clock. You may we talked a
little last week. But this story is developing in in Texas.
The governor, the Republican governor, Greg Abbott, is trying to engineer.
They want to redraw the congressional district lines and to
ensure more Republican congress people are elected in Texas, and
(30:07):
so in response, California and some other Democratic run states
want to do the same thing. They want to drive
out Republican congressman in this state. But Abbot is starting it,
and they had a proposal they had to vote on.
But in Texas, it's overwhelmingly Republican, and so all the
(30:31):
Democrats got on a plane and went to Chicago. Seriously,
all the Democratic people in the legislature left to keep
the Republican legislator for legislative leaders from having a quorum.
I think they need at least one hundred out of
one hundred and fifty to show up. And so now
Governor Abbott is threatening to arrest all the Democrats who
(30:56):
fled to Chicago and remove them from office. Apparently he's
got the power to do that. We are going to
talk with Ben Siegel, who's the deputy political director for
ABC News, and he's going to explain this story. I'm
starting to pay close attention to the AI doom stories.
(31:21):
You know, we've heard for years that AI is going
to destroy a lot of the jobs, especially white collar jobs,
in this country. And there's a story in the New
York Post. They interviewed a former Google executive. The guy's
name is Moe Goddat, and he says that artificial intelligence
(31:48):
will plunge society into a decade of severe disruption, disruption
and hardship. Many white collar jobs are going to be
eliminated and the hell will begin as early as twenty
twenty seven. Moe Goadact. He was the chief business officer
(32:08):
for Google X in twenty eighteen, and now he's become
an author and a public speaker, and he has painted
a grim picture of widespread job losses, economic inequality, social chaos.
On a podcast, he said, the next fifteen years will
be hell before we get to heaven. They gave an example.
(32:30):
He's got his own startup company. It's called Emma Love.
Where do you think this company? Is Emma Love artificial intelligence.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Porn.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It's a fake girlfriend, probably very good, which could turn
into porn. It builds emotional relationships with people. So you
go to Emma Love and I guess you meet Emma
and you fall in love with her, and Emma's in
(33:03):
love with you, and you know, when you're done with her,
you just.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Throw her to a zoo animal beat her to the zoo.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
You just x at the screen.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
And now Emma's quiet, and you could go watch the
ball game and have a beer, you know, before you
go to bed. If you need some dirty talk, you
can call Emma back up. That really is what's going
to be going on. Oh, I know, you know, at
least that's what the guys we're using for Emma Love
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is a three person company because they use artificial intelligence.
Mo Goddad said that this startup would have been three
hundred and fifty developers in the past. It's that three
hundred and fifty employees. He can run it with three.
So extrapolate that to the world and the end of
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white collar work, he says, will begin by the late
twenty twenties, a fundamental shift in how society op rates.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
See all the other.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Technical revolutions affected manual labor, like in the factories. This
is going to go after the educated professionals and middle
class workers, and it will channel enormous wealth and influence
to the people who own these systems. It will trigger AI,
(34:25):
he says, will trigger significant social unrest.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
People will have to struggle with their losing their livelihoods,
their sense of purpose. Unless you're in the top one
ten to one percent, you're a peasant.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
There's no middle class.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
But by twenty forty Hell will be replaced by a
utopian era. Workers will be free from doing repetitive and
mundane tasks.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
But what are they going to do well?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
He says.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Humanity will be guided by love community and spiritual development.
You know, I had an argument with a couple of
friends of mine going back, oh, I don't know, maybe
eighteen years ago when they were and they were they
talked like this guy, or at least they believed the
same kind of trajectory that this guy is talking about.
And they said, well, the jobs are going to disappear.
And I said, well, well then what's going to happen. Well,
(35:19):
there's going to be so much wealth that you'll be
able to pay everybody.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
A like a universal income.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
You've heard about universal basic income, So this would be
the idea, and people could stay at home and they'll
just get their government check. Let's say everybody gets you know,
one hundred thousand dollars, just make up a number and
then they'll be happy.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
And I go, but they're not going to be happy.
What are they going to do all day? People work
to have a purpose.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It's yeah, you have to make money, but the money
alone doesn't cover it. You have to have a central
point to your life. And even all these retired Google executives,
like like this character he went opened up a new company.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
They're bored. Well, yeah, you can get bored.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'm thinking, now, what are you gonna do with all
the middle class and blue collar manual labor people When
all these people are home and frustrated and they don't,
They're gonna drink, They're gonna get stoned, they're gonna start
fighting with their spouses.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
The government gonna do we have a mass firing squad
and kill all those people.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
I'm going to the dark side.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Job, that's pretty good. You outrun me. Now you run
to the edge before I can get there. I like that.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I don't know, but this guy is saying twenty twenty seven,
we're gonna start seeing it.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Twenty twenty seven, our.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Last hurrah as a species could be, could be how
we adapt, reimagine, and humanize this new world. In other words,
we got to figure out how to be happy without
many jobs.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Well that does, it's just not going to it's no realistic.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
We're designed to work because we had to work coming
out of the caves to keep ourselves and our families alive.
That that that's how our brain's evolved to need a
purpose and a task.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
So that's going to be the end of the human race.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yeah, because people are just I mean, you can't it
just it won't work.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Look at all.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
All the mental health problems during COVID, Right, what did
people do? They drank too much in nuts Stone. So
he's expecting rising rates of mental health problems, more loneliness,
more social divisions.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Remember how crazy everybody got.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
That's why we ended up with all the riots and
the protests and the violence and all the all the
kids at school lost their minds because they weren't in school.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
This is not good.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
How can we hang on to uh?
Speaker 4 (37:50):
How can we make sure that we're No one's going
to be us, John, We're not going to be part
of this AI world.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
He predicts the end of podcasters will be gone. So
if the podcasters are gone, then it will be gone too.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Oh jeez, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 6 (38:06):
There?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
You go, Well, you have to find I don't know,
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
No, this can't be.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Welcome to hell a Debora Mark live in the CAFI
twenty four hour News. Hey, you've been listening to the
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pick up the podcast. I just want to I don't
know if I'm promoting this or warning you. After one thirty,
the big news story of the day, at least in
this corner, is that in Denmark they're asking for people
to donate their live pets to feed to the animals
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in the zoos.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's disgusting, it's a horrendous story.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, I think there's some I think there's some logic.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Now there's none, not a single thing I can think of.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
All right, all right, after one thirty, I just wanted
to let people know. I don't know what you want
wild animals to do. They do have to eat meat.
If you can teach them to be vegan.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I suppose, well, maybe somebody should try.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, that little guy is not gonna last long, all right,
So that's coming up after one thirty the La Daily News.
Here's the here's a big story. California is number one.
We are number one. We're not number one very often, right,
We are number one in unemployment. Yes, actually tied for first,
(01:47):
to be more accurate. Now, the national rate is usually
about four percent, four point one, four point two, right,
and that's that's considered normal unemployment. You never get to zero,
and you wouldn't want zero because then there'd be so
much competition for jobs it would drive up wages too
(02:08):
fast and lead to inflation. So four is just the
normal churn. You know, people people coming and going, they're quitting,
they're looking for something new, or they've been let go
and they're looking for something new. But ours is over
twenty percent higher. Actually it's thirty five percent higher. Five
(02:31):
point four rate tied with Nevada, and Michigan was third
at five point three. Texas was number eighteen, Florida number
twenty six. We always tell you about jobs and companies
flowing to Texas and Florida, Well they have significantly lower
(02:51):
unemployment rates. The lowest rates where virtually everybody's working. South
Dakota and North Dakota and Vermont, almost everybody who is
an adult and lives there has a job. But California
is And this story and a couple of others kind
(03:13):
of breaks apart, like one of the big myths. You know,
I could probably spend the whole show just reading you
La Times propaganda, La Times nonsense, the cheerleading, the boosterism
they do for progressive politics and Gavin news and me.
You know all that, right, I mean that that horse
is way past dead. One of the new talking points
(03:38):
that the progressives and Newsome have are, oh, but we're
the fourth largest economy.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well, I don't know if we have.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
The highest poverty rate and the highest unemployment rate having
the fourth largest economy is that relevant to normal people's lives,
the people in the middle and working class. Does that
mean anything? And the reason we have the fourth largest
economy is we have a lot of the biggest tech
(04:06):
corporations in the world. Have you heard about the Magnificent Seven.
Maybe you've heard it if you listen to business news
or you've invested in stocks. The Magnificent Seven are seven
major tech companies which have exploded in value. These are
the stocks that if you bet on them some years back,
(04:29):
you could have made a fortune by now. And out
of that seven, I think more than half of them
are here in California. Metow which owns Facebook and Instagram.
You've got Google, Apple, in Vidia, which is the hottest
of them all right now they make chips and up
(04:51):
until recently, within the last couple of years, the Tesla
and Tesla still has a lot of operations here, but
the headquarters is down Texas, and the other two out
of it, I mean that's five. And then the other
two are are in Washington. It would be Amazon and Microsoft.
But that is the source of much of the wealth
in California. If you could imagine how many phones Apple
(05:16):
has sold, how much advertising revenue Facebook and Instagram take
in right staggering them out. Maybe you don't follow in
video much, but they are supplying most of the chips,
about ninety percent of the chips for the AI.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Revolution, and uh.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
The and then and then Google is a massive advertising engine,
and and that's what mostly these these these Internet tech giants,
some of them are they're they're they're advertising venues, which
is why you know, television has been devastated, radio has
been hurt. Newspapers not existent now. Right, it's all online
(05:58):
ads and and it's it's through social media, and it's
through Google. So that creates a lot of wealth for
those employees. They a lot of GDP, a lot of profit,
a lot of taxes they pay, a lot of the
employees make high salaries and get a lot of stock
(06:20):
and sell that stock at some point. But the wealth
is so lopsided towards Silicon Valley companies. Then there's everybody else.
And if you look at everybody else and then out
all the illegal aliens, we've got highest unemployment, highest poverty rate,
(06:43):
most number of people on welfare, most number of people
on Medicaid. And I could go on and on, but
you get the point. There's a huge, huge gulf between
the wealthiest who work and live in the tech areas
and then everybody else down below. And so you can't newsome,
(07:05):
can't talk about anything with it. Go wow, I got
the fourth largest economy in the world.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It's like, well, shut up.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
You know that's misleading, you know that's wrong. You know
that middle class and working class people are struggling, and
the poor just you know, left out, left out to
die in the streets. Basically, that's how you reduce the
number of poors. You you let them die in the streets.
That's the Karen Bass method of governing. So, you know,
(07:32):
I see this stuff from newsom the La Times. You know,
I could I could break an artery if I read
you the latest story where you know they try to
mitigate some of the bad economic news. Because they actually
ran a story today trying to mitigate the terrible news
(07:54):
that California is the worst business climate. Well, you know
it's it's not kind of political conspiracy that's spreading this story.
It's because of that worse business climate. It's ranked fifty
number fifty in the country by Businessman.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I know what the story was about is about the
in and Out woman, the woman who family owns in
and out. You know, she's moving to Tennessee with her family,
and gee, she's doing this for partly for family purposes.
And I think they're taking some of the in and
out offices out to Tennessee as well. And the Times
(08:32):
is going now now, now, it's not so bad. We're
the fourth largest economy. It's like, well not if you're
setting up a Hamburger stands. It's a very difficult state.
I was just talking to a guy who runs a
restaurant within the last week, and he's talking about trying
to run a restaurant. You know, in the La area
at La County, the minimum wage is extremely difficult to
(08:56):
deal with. It's simply unaffordable with out raising your prices
a lot, and then the customers dry up. You know,
there's only so much you can charge for meals. And
nobody understands that. And they told me what it's like
talking to politicians who've never owned a business and trying
to explain that you cannot constantly jack up the minimum
(09:20):
wage to eighteen twenty twenty two, twenty five thirty dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It doesn't work. The math doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And that's why a lot of restaurants have gone out
of business. And they have clearly right. And that's why
you've got that's why you have eighteen thousand fast food
workers who've lost their jobs. The unions are always fighting
for living wages, and they finally hit a point where
(09:50):
this living wage of twenty bucks an hour has caused
eighteen thousand people to have no wage, and nobody stops
and says, Wow, we really screwed up here because they
don't care.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
More.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
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Speaker 2 (10:15):
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Coming up after two o'clock. The big controversy of the
day in the world of animal rights.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
In Denmark, there's a zoo that says, we.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Have a lot of wild animals here and they're always
hungry and it's better for them if they eat live,
live animals. So if you have an unwanted dog or cat,
bring them in. Nobody's going to claim them at the
humane shelter anyway. So provide a nice meal for a
starving tiger or whatever it is they have.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Believable and.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Well, I mean it puts the animal to good use,
better than being euthanized.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No, no, all right, we'll discuss that coming up after
one thirty.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Ia that.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I was telling you that California is number one for
employment again and it's five point four percent, tied with
Nevada our rivals, and they are rivals, their rivals for
all our businesses and a lot of our residents. Texas
number eighteen, Florida at number twenty six. And it's not
(11:34):
so much that, oh, you know, we want to be
better than every other states. That it's that, you know,
our our our economy is in bad shape here. The
unemployment level is high. And look at all.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
The things that are just so expensive.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know, they talk about affordability costs. And Texas added
almost ten million jobs in the last fifty years. Florida
added seven and a half million. And they're much smaller
(12:18):
than California. In California in the last fifty years, we
added ten million. And you know, if you if you
account for size, that's not that's not that's not a
good number. Now if you, uh, there's a there's a
guy named Hector Barajas who wrote a piece today, uh
(12:40):
it worried for California Globe. It was talking about the
in and out President Lindsey Snyder, she and her family
going for Tennessee and going to Tennessee, and she went
on a podcast and said, there's a lot of great
things about California, but raising a family is not easy here.
Doing business is not easy here. I love cal California,
(13:00):
but California doesn't love me. And Hector Barajas talks about
how we stack up to the rest, to the rest
of the country. California lost more residents than it gained
(13:20):
in twenty twenty four Atlas van Lines. Sixty percent of
Atlas van Lines customers moved out of California. Fifty six
percent of California voters have considered leaving because of the
cost of living. Get this, and this is the secret story.
(13:42):
Thirty five percent had to choose between food and housing
in the last month. That's what infuriates me about Newsom
and the ally time's going on. I've got the fourth
margest economy. Well that's not really a good thing if
you're among I mean, that's over a third. Over a
third of the residents have to choose between food and
housing every month because housing costs are so high, rental
(14:05):
costs are so high, gasoline is so high, taxes are
so high.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
All self inflicted by the government. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
If there's a third of people who can't, who have
to decide between food and housing.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Maybe you should vote differently. What does it take.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
There are three point eight million California families three point
eight million, almost four million that don't earn sufficient income
to meet but basic needs.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, and a lot of maybe immigrants. And if that's true,
then you know that's.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Why you can't have unlimited illegal immigration because they come
here and they're really poor, and then the taxpayers have
to bail them out.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
What's the point of that?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
And he he talks about the gas prices, The housing
market is extreme, the refineries there a shutting down, building
codes and labor agreements make it nearly impossible to build
affordable homes.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
That's all self inflicted by the government, whether it's the
state government or county and city governments. Tax rates that
are excessive, and finally things are starting to break. People
are just packing up and leaving. And he writes about
how so many people.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'll give you.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I'll give you one paragraph because I have the same
experience here. He writes, I just had breakfast with a
friend named Chris. He and his wife are moving to Houston.
They love California, But like many others I know, small
business owners, young professionals, retired teachers, pastors, they've reached the
heartbreaking conclusion that the state they love no longer loves
them back. Each week more of them are packing up
(15:51):
and leaving. I have so many My wife and I
have so many conversations with so many friends who are
weighing this decision about just just getting out because it's
just too much. And if you have sixty percent of
it Atlas vanline customers moving out of California, WHOA, what
(16:14):
did we tell you about U haul last week? California
is number one in U haul rentals to move out
and number fifty in U haul rentals moving in out
of all the states. So something is happening in ordinary
lives and ordinary neighborhoods that you don't see covered in
(16:36):
the media very much like I got this story from
the California Globe dot com, LA Daily News. It's not
on the television stations, not on the television networks, not
in the La Times. In fact, the La Times will
print print the opposite saying, well, you know, we really
have the fourth largest economists. Look at this, We are
(16:59):
sitting records for people renting vans and renting.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Uhaul carriers to get out of here. Look at this.
This doesn't lie.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Everyone of those rental agreements has a name on it,
and the name is attached to an address, and the
address means somebody isn't living there anymore. They got out,
you would think, right since the bubblehead Tamala Harris dropped out,
(17:32):
So people aren't going to be mesmerized by whatever, you know, whatever,
I don't know. If she hypnotizes people, whatever our surrounds her,
that makes people think she's competent at anything.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
All right, that's god.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Now we're left with a bunch of nameless, faceless, washed
up wannabes, never wors recycled political trash.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That's all. That's where. On the Democratic side.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Maybe somebody else, there's a couple of Republican guys who
look interesting. There might be a Democrat guy who's interesting.
Maybe somebody is going to come fly it in from
the outside. But you cannot elect this, this crowd of
rehashed leftovers, refugees from la and Sacramento, government losers from
(18:30):
the Biden and the Newsome administration. I mean, you can't
do this. We're at the breaking point. Finally, are we
come back something completely different? Big controversy today in Denmark
there's a zoo. Zoo's very upfront saying hey, look, we
got to feed live animals too, our wild zoo friends.
(18:54):
So if you have an extra dog or a cat
that you no longer want, bring them over. And he's
tonight's dinner for.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Some Enny jerk.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I had to edit my thoughts that would bring their
domestic animal. Yeah, to that zoo is a piece of work.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, work what you meant to say. You should see
the steely gaze in her eyes.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from kf I
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
We're on from one until four and if you miss
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John Cobelt Radio. All right, here's the big deal story
of the day. There's a zoo in Denmark called the
Alborg Zoo AA l B O r CHI. If you
(19:55):
want to go looking for it, it's Alborg Zoo dot
DK and Mark, and they put on their website on
social media they want donations of small pets to feed
all their predatory animals that they care for. And I
(20:17):
looked on the website. I mean, just click over here.
I looked on the website and they have photos of
polar bears, tigers, giraffes, I know, some animal with longhorns.
They have a dinosaur, a dinosaur. Oh yeah, yeah, they've
(20:39):
got a photo of a dinosaur prowling through the woods.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Maybe it's a.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Fake one, Okay, I thought they were extinct.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I think they brought them back.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Well, if they have crocodiles, those are technically dinosaurs.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Right, But yeah, I mean this one looks like a
dinosaur standing on its legs, So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Maybe an experiment went crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Have wart hogs orangutans, baboons.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Penguins, all right, So that's a typical zoo.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And the Albarg Zoo says it wants to mimic the
natural food chain of the animals for the sake of
animal welfare and professional integrity. See, they think, if they're
proper caretakers, they have to feed the animals real fresh meat,
and which is what they would find in the wild.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But they're not in the wild.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Animals that the zoo people want brought to them would
not be animals that these animals in the zoo would
be hunting.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Well, but you know me is me? I mean, the
tiger's not going to know any different.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
It bites into Well, they're looking for horses, for example,
Oh no, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Somebody's going to bring their horse to the zoo and
say here, No.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Alborg Zoo gratefully accepts live horses, which we euthanize, so
they do kill them right before they're fed.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
It's not like they throw a live horse. Well I
thought that.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Was the point that they throw live animals to these animals.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Well, they're they're just killed and then immediately thrown and
so the meat is fresh, you see. So they're not
thinking at old carcasses. It might be unwieldy to bring
a live worse and the horse may object.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, well yes, I would hope.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
So if you bring the horse to it back of
a tiger cage, the horse is gonna go, well, I
don't like this.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Well, the headline's deceiving.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Oh so it's okay, I say that. I'm just saying
the headline is deceiving.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Gratefully accepts live horses, which you euthanize and slaughter for feed.
At Alburt Zoo. Our needs may vary throughout the year
and there might be a waiting list, they might get,
you know, too many horse donations.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I guess the Danish people are cold.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I mean you think, well, is that one of those
assistant suicide countries. I don't know, because once you get
into Scandinavia, assistant suicide is really encouraged. So I mean,
if they're willing to off you know, the grandparents and
aunts and uncles, why not the why not the pets Netherlands.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Denmark does not have legal assisted suicide.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Oh does not? Yes, I just know it's popular nearby though, well,
the Netherlands Netherlands. Now I get those two countries confused.
Guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I just here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Is it just puppies that catch you upset?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Puppies and cats and kittens, all animals. I just can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
What I thought when I first heard this is somebody's
going to take their dog instead of taking it to
a shelter, and they're going to bring it to a
and the poor dog is going to be freaking out,
and they're going to take that live dog and they're
gonna throw it in a cage with lions, and the
dog is going to be murdered.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Right, well, so this is okay.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I didn't say it was.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Then launching, because honestly, I would think, okay, now this
is very personal, so you don't need to email me. Okay,
But when my dogs are very ill and they need
to be euthanized, I hate that word put down. I
want to bring no euthanized put down. I want to
do it in a humane way. I want somebody to
(24:33):
come to my house. I want to be holding my dog,
and I want them to be put to sleep where
they're peaceful and they're at home. I haven't done that
with my other dogs went to a vet. I was
still holding them. I was with them the whole time.
But I know that this is a thing and and
there's so many people that that do that.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
So that's what I would do. I wouldn't be taking
my dog, my elderly.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Dog to a zoo and go to the baboos like.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Zoos anyway I think. I I want all animals to
be in the.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Wild and free. Not all animals, but in the wild,
everybody's eating each other.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
All night, you know what, that's the circle of life.
I can't control that. So when humans get involved.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Enhancing the circle. We're speeding up the circle of life.
It's Scottish rosters.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Hamsters are are are domesticated pets. I mean, come on
to a horse.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
The horse.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Must be a maximum of one hundred and forty seven centimeters.
I don't know what that translates to an inches, but
that's the maximum size. The horse must be in a
good condition for transport, not sick in the last thirty years.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Okay, so why would somebody want to do that? Why
are you going to euthanize them?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
That's the other thing. They want healthy animals. Why are
you going to take healthy animals? This is not even
animals that are just dying. They want healthy m Yeah,
they want healthy eshes' I stand by what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
They want healthy. So you have a perfectly healthy dog.
I don't want the dog anymore. Here, take it, kill it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
The horse must have a horse passport, which I didn't
know was a thing. Does that have a little mugshot
photo of the horse?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And do you like?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Is it cute enough for your zoo animals?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
The horse will be delivered alive to Alburg Zoo and
there it gets euthanized.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
So who knows?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Okay, and that's the other thing. Who knows how it's
going to be euthanized. It's definitely not gonna be somebody's
gonna be.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Hugging the horse, that's right, and singing a lullaby in
their ear. Yes, and then it gets slaughtered.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah. No, so no, this is a terrible idea.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Alburg Zoo receives the horse as a donation and as
owner of the horse, you can obtain a tax deduction.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh, people will definitely do this.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
If you get a tax deduction, that's probably a pretty
good sized deduction. Uh, just to provide your civil registration number.
And the value of the horse is calculated at five
whatever the Danish curR see is. It's called DKK five
per kilogram. So that's the deduction you can take. And
(27:05):
you know the horses are lots of kilograms. We accept chickens,
rabbits and guinea pigs weekdays between ten am and one pm.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
No more than four at a time.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Well the rules.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Maybe if you your kids moving out of the house
and left behind an animal collection.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Is one of my sons dead.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
It's they take a perfectly healthy speaking from experiences, you
just scoop.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Them all up, throw them in the back of the
car and Daddy has a tax deduction.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
No, Daddy needs to figure something else out.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Kids comes home from college and oop, sorry, dog ran aways.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I'm curious. Does it say anything about cats and dogs
on that list?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
No, I'm not in the news stories. No, but I
why not?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (27:58):
The next thing the zoo is going to do is
going to be contacting the shelters and saying, hey, guys,
bring us your dogs, bring us your dogs and cats.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Well, that is a problem, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Yeah, but there again, at least when they're there, there
is a possibility of them being adopted.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I just looked up their Facebook post because they just
posted this week, and the Facebook post from the Allborg
Zoo that advertised the donation program.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Accompanying the post is.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
A photo of a large tiger with its mouth wide
open as far as it can go, and you could
see all their teeth, all their sharp front teeth.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
And wow, it's.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
It says, chicken, rabbits and guinea pigs make up an
important part of the diet of our predators. They need
whole prey reminiscent of what would nact they would naturally
hunt in the wild. End zoos have responsibility to imitate
the natural food chain of the animals. So if you're
if you have an animal that has to leave here
for various reasons they have to leave, feel free to
(29:14):
donate to us.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
They'll be Uh, they'll be gently euthanized and used as fodder, gented.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Nothing goes to waste.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Oh, I'm sure we faintly euthanized.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
We ensure natural behavior, nutrition, and the well being of
our predators.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
You see, it's nutrition.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I don't like it.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
More.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Coming up, you're listening to John Cobbels on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Coming up after two o'clock. You may we talked a
little last week. But this story is developing in in Texas.
The governor, the Republican governor, Greg Abbott, is trying to engineer.
They want to redraw the congressional district lines and to
ensure more Republican congress people are elected in Texas, and
(30:07):
so in response, California and some other Democratic run states
want to do the same thing. They want to drive
out Republican congressman in this state. But Abbot is starting it,
and they had a proposal they had to vote on.
But in Texas, it's overwhelmingly Republican, and so all the
(30:31):
Democrats got on a plane and went to Chicago. Seriously,
all the Democratic people in the legislature left to keep
the Republican legislator for legislative leaders from having a quorum.
I think they need at least one hundred out of
one hundred and fifty to show up. And so now
Governor Abbott is threatening to arrest all the Democrats who
(30:56):
fled to Chicago and remove them from office. Apparently he's
got the power to do that. We are going to
talk with Ben Siegel, who's the deputy political director for
ABC News, and he's going to explain this story. I'm
starting to pay close attention to the AI doom stories.
(31:21):
You know, we've heard for years that AI is going
to destroy a lot of the jobs, especially white collar jobs,
in this country. And there's a story in the New
York Post. They interviewed a former Google executive. The guy's
name is Moe Goddat, and he says that artificial intelligence
(31:48):
will plunge society into a decade of severe disruption, disruption
and hardship. Many white collar jobs are going to be
eliminated and the hell will begin as early as twenty
twenty seven. Moe Goadact. He was the chief business officer
(32:08):
for Google X in twenty eighteen, and now he's become
an author and a public speaker, and he has painted
a grim picture of widespread job losses, economic inequality, social chaos.
On a podcast, he said, the next fifteen years will
be hell before we get to heaven. They gave an example.
(32:30):
He's got his own startup company. It's called Emma Love.
Where do you think this company? Is Emma Love artificial intelligence.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Porn.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It's a fake girlfriend, probably very good, which could turn
into porn. It builds emotional relationships with people. So you
go to Emma Love and I guess you meet Emma
and you fall in love with her, and Emma's in
(33:03):
love with you, and you know, when you're done with her,
you just.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Throw her to a zoo animal beat her to the zoo.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
You just x at the screen.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
And now Emma's quiet, and you could go watch the
ball game and have a beer, you know, before you
go to bed. If you need some dirty talk, you
can call Emma back up. That really is what's going
to be going on. Oh, I know, you know, at
least that's what the guys we're using for Emma Love
(33:33):
is a three person company because they use artificial intelligence.
Mo Goddad said that this startup would have been three
hundred and fifty developers in the past. It's that three
hundred and fifty employees. He can run it with three.
So extrapolate that to the world and the end of
(33:53):
white collar work, he says, will begin by the late
twenty twenties, a fundamental shift in how society op rates.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
See all the other.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Technical revolutions affected manual labor, like in the factories. This
is going to go after the educated professionals and middle
class workers, and it will channel enormous wealth and influence
to the people who own these systems. It will trigger AI,
(34:25):
he says, will trigger significant social unrest.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
People will have to struggle with their losing their livelihoods,
their sense of purpose. Unless you're in the top one
ten to one percent, you're a peasant.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
There's no middle class.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
But by twenty forty Hell will be replaced by a
utopian era. Workers will be free from doing repetitive and
mundane tasks.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
But what are they going to do well?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
He says.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Humanity will be guided by love community and spiritual development.
You know, I had an argument with a couple of
friends of mine going back, oh, I don't know, maybe
eighteen years ago when they were and they were they
talked like this guy, or at least they believed the
same kind of trajectory that this guy is talking about.
And they said, well, the jobs are going to disappear.
And I said, well, well then what's going to happen. Well,
(35:19):
there's going to be so much wealth that you'll be
able to pay everybody.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
A like a universal income.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
You've heard about universal basic income, So this would be
the idea, and people could stay at home and they'll
just get their government check. Let's say everybody gets you know,
one hundred thousand dollars, just make up a number and
then they'll be happy.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
And I go, but they're not going to be happy.
What are they going to do all day? People work
to have a purpose.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It's yeah, you have to make money, but the money
alone doesn't cover it. You have to have a central
point to your life. And even all these retired Google executives,
like like this character he went opened up a new company.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
They're bored. Well, yeah, you can get bored.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'm thinking, now, what are you gonna do with all
the middle class and blue collar manual labor people When
all these people are home and frustrated and they don't,
They're gonna drink, They're gonna get stoned, they're gonna start
fighting with their spouses.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
The government gonna do we have a mass firing squad
and kill all those people.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
I'm going to the dark side.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Job, that's pretty good. You outrun me. Now you run
to the edge before I can get there. I like that.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I don't know, but this guy is saying twenty twenty seven,
we're gonna start seeing it.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Twenty twenty seven, our.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Last hurrah as a species could be, could be how
we adapt, reimagine, and humanize this new world. In other words,
we got to figure out how to be happy without
many jobs.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Well that does, it's just not going to it's no realistic.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
We're designed to work because we had to work coming
out of the caves to keep ourselves and our families alive.
That that that's how our brain's evolved to need a
purpose and a task.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
So that's going to be the end of the human race.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yeah, because people are just I mean, you can't it
just it won't work.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Look at all.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
All the mental health problems during COVID, Right, what did
people do? They drank too much in nuts Stone. So
he's expecting rising rates of mental health problems, more loneliness,
more social divisions.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Remember how crazy everybody got.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
That's why we ended up with all the riots and
the protests and the violence and all the all the
kids at school lost their minds because they weren't in school.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
This is not good.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
How can we hang on to uh?
Speaker 4 (37:50):
How can we make sure that we're No one's going
to be us, John, We're not going to be part
of this AI world.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
He predicts the end of podcasters will be gone. So
if the podcasters are gone, then it will be gone too.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Oh jeez, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 6 (38:06):
There?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
You go, Well, you have to find I don't know,
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
No, this can't be.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
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