July 21, 2025 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/21) - A man who was hit by an LA City Sanitation truck won a huge settlement from the city and it is no wonder the city is broke. Over 400 guinea pigs were found abandoned in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions. Hunter Biden went on a podcast and had a big time potty mouth. The CEO of In N Out explained why running a business and having a family in California is difficult.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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And we spent much of last hour on Karen Bass.
There's no there's signs popping up all over the palisades.
(00:21):
Karen Bass to resign. Now, Karen Bass resigned now exactly
what it says. And we played some clips from her
appearance on ABC News over the weekend, trying to take
control of the Nastal Guard, trying to take control of
immigration policy. Look, Karen, if you weren't a Castro lover,
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you would have been the vice presidential pick for instead
of Kamala Harris. They were going to go for you,
and then they found your extensive history worshiping Fidel Castro
and decided, oh, that's no good, and so bubblehead Kamala
was picked instead. Imagine as empty headed as Kamala is,
Karen Bass came in second to that because she was
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a cashtro lover, and otherwise, you know, she who knows
she could be president now? Right? Who knows how things
would have been different. I mean, she's got all these
winning arguments on immigration. I'm sure she would have rolled
over Trump in a general election. But here's another facet
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of life in the Los Angeles area. You know, the
city is bankrupt and the county nearly so. And one
of the reasons is the mind boggling amount of money
that they pay out in legal settlements. I don't know
which is crazier in this story. The amount of money
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the city has to pay a man who was hit
by a sanitation truck and he's been in a coma
ever since. Is that the craziest part of the story.
Or the arguments that the city used, that the city
attorneys used to try to tamp down the cost of
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the settlement. Tell you that in a moment. But here's
the case. First, poor guy named Camraan Hakimi, he's now
sixty one years old. He was in a crosswalk at
haven Hurst and Ventura Boulevard. It was last August. He
had a green light to cross, and a sanitation truck
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driver made an unsafe right turn. According to Aikmi's attorneys,
And this is the awful part. There was a handlebar
on the front of the truck hit Hakmi in the head,
flung him to the asphalt, where he smashed his head
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a second time. So he gets the handlebar in the
head and then wax his head on the asphalt. He
actually stood up briefly and flashed the thumbs up I'm okay,
and then went unconscious, and I guess hit his head
a third time as he collapsed. So he's been in
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a coma ever since. And it doesn't say what the
prognosis is, but probably it's very poor, I would guess.
So they go to court and the city acknowledged that
the driver failed to yield. But this is how they
disputed the damages. They said, well, he doesn't deserve that
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much money because his life expectancy was limited. What Yeah,
that he wasn't going to live along anyway because he's
sixty one.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Wait a second, so you're sixty one is now ninety
that's the argument from him That is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
These are the attorneys we pay for. This is what
they told to a jury. They told to a jury.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I would I would I would have been busting up laughing,
and I'm not sixty one.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Part two is even worse. The value of his damages,
pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life.
Well that's minimized because he was in a coma. Anyway,
when you're in a coma, you don't have any emotional distress. Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
He wasn't in a coma before he was hit.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well, you see there's two parts there. There's the loss
of income, right because you were whacked in the head,
and then there's the suffering you go through the emotional distress. Well,
maybe if he was conscious, you'd have a case according
to these attorneys, but there's no emotional distress. He's just
sitting there. That is. This is these are the attorneys
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we pay for. So loss of enjoyment of life. In
other words, he doesn't know he's not enjoying life.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
His family does.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah. The jury, I guess they were so incensed by
this they ordered to pay ordered the city to pay
Hakimi forty eight plus million dollars, including twenty five million
for future paid and suffering. That rejected the argument that
he's not going to feel the pain in the suffering.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, ten million dollars for medical expenses. But we're paying
for all this Now, that's not so long in king Well.
Last year, last fiscal year for twenty twenty five, the
city paid out two hundred and eighty nine million dollars.
It's one of the largest and growing sectors of the budget,
highest liability costs ever and now now we have this,
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we're we're no. Heidi Feldstein Soto, she's the city attorney
and one of the Hakemi attorneys. Brian Parrish said that
Soto should have settled out of court, that she forced
this case to trial and rejected all reasonable settlement proposals.
There were many reasonable proposals made by an independent mediator,
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but Soto said not to all of them, and then
she ended up getting whacked with a huge settlement. I
guess that's far beyond any of the suggests. Hey, you
were going to end up settling this case, right, you
can't beat a handlebar to the head, smacked to the
ground by a guy who made an illegal right turn
in the sanitation truck.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And I'm going to just say that I've had to
complain to the sanitation department before because those truck drivers,
I should say, all of them, that's not fair. A
lot of them. They drive like crazy people. I live
up in the hills and narrow roads, and I'm I'm
telling you these sanitation workers, I sit and I yell
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at them, and I wave my hands and I do
because I'm walking my dogs. And I can't tell you
how many times I've almost been hit.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah you got a dodge?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yes, yeah, you seriously, I've.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Done that too on walks. We've had to do that. No,
they come, they play a game of chicken. They I'm
barreling at you, and they know you're gonna jump and
get out of the way. But if you have a dog,
you don't know what you're dogs exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, how dare they do?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You spend most of the day yelling and waving your arms.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, I'm telling you that there are so many stupid
people out there that I come across, and I just
marvel at it because I don't understand it. You're in
this humongous truck in a neighborhood where you you come
every week. You see people are walking their dogs. You
know how narrow the streets are, and you come barreling
around these blind curves going sixty seventy miles an hour. Yeah,
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are you kidding that?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Fat?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
On those hills. Yes, I wouldn't leave the house.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'm not going to let them win.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But when they win, they really win.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
A pancake.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But yes, you'll get wiped out. They won't even notice it.
Anybody hear anything.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You'll know somebody old somebody. There's a lot of John
Cobalt listeners in my neighborhood, so they'll know.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I'll tell you all right that she's a pancake. Now, yes, okay,
we'll roll her up and put her in the news. Wow,
it's a tough neighborhood you're in.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I have a story about we're gonna play some Hunter
Biden clips. I don't know if you've heard this stuff
next segment, but Hunter Biden has did a podcast. Everybody
in America is either hosting or guesting on a podcast.
And he he is really crazy, like he's crazy crazy.
I mean, we all know about his life, right. We
all know he's crack addict and alcoholic and was living
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in the streets here in Los Angeles and suddenly he
was partly running the White House. We know that all
the women he's had and all the babies he's left.
But you know, we rarely saw him speak publicly by himself.
And if you listen to these clips we're gonna play
after two thirty, you'll see why he's such a mess
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in his private life. You know, everybody goes, well, you
know it's his private life. He struggled. You know, he's
absolutely crazy, like clinically insane. Get to that coming up.
All right, Now you have your You have your choice
of two bad animal stories, potentially bad. You get to choose.
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It's either a plan to shoot owls or four hundred
guinea pigs found abandoned.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'll do the guinea pigs.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Guinea pigs first, Okay, animals. This is Karen Bass's Los
Angeles animal rescue. Volunteers found more than four hundred guinea
pigs living in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions. I think that's
a given right. If there's four hundred guinea pigs, Yeah,
it's gonna it's by definition overcrowded, yes, and unsanitary.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
They were the same cage, were they?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Ah, Well, we're gonna find out. They are asking now,
the the rescuers are asking the public to try to
foster some of these guinea pigs or adopt them, or
at least provide donations because they don't know what to
do with them. You know, I think I had guinea
you probably did when I went to uh Peru. I
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believe they served that.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
At one of the rest Oh wait, I thought you
met your kids had them as a peg.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Well, no, actually had it for dinner.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You ate a guinea pig?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Mm hmm, yeah it was. It was on the It
was on the menu.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
A guinea pig. Who eats guinea pigs?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
South America? I'm pretty sure is Peru. I liked it.
Oh your kids had to get No, No, I actually
ate a guinea pig. In fact, I ate one of
my kids guinea pigs, all right. I was hungry. I
grabbed it out of the cage and cooked it up
in a pot.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Please God, you'd have to say that.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, I'd like to really upset you.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You do a very good job, just.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
A little bit too far. Get you to shake your head.
So anyway, Uh, well, this is this is addressed to you.
Would you like to foster or adopt a guinea pig
or at least provide some donations. Uh. It was a
distressing and alarming scene. According to the Southern California Guinea
Pig Rescue. That is a real organization. Now, they were
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in bad shape. Some of the pigs were dead, some
had ringworm and open wounds, some were pregnant or the
new boards didn't have enough water or food the guinea pigs.
Here's what they need. They need grass, hay, vegetables, and pellets.
And some of the guinea pigs were hiding in beer
boxes or crowded in a cage without food. It turns
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it turns out the tenant had hoarded two hundred guinea
pigs and faced eviction if she didn't relocate them. But
when animal services showed up, they had a lot more
than two hundred guinea pigs. They think up it was
over four hundred. They just continued to breed and breed.
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The rest of the people in the house were just
overwhelmed what this woman had roommates. Imagine having a roommate
whose mass breeding guinea pigs. I guess that's all guinea
pigs do all day, Huh.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I've never owned a guinea pig.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Are they're cute? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They are. I have friends that have had guinea pigs
and they are very cute.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Animal shelters are running out of space to house animals.
After the pandemic, people started giving up the pets that
they got keep them company.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And people are going after those designer dogs instead of
going to shelters or going to a reputable foster pet
foster place. There are so you know what, I'm going
to use my platform for a second here just to
say this. You can get amazing, amazing mutts or kittens, cats,
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guinea pigs from shelters and from animal rescue places. You
can if you want a labradoodle, let me tell you
there are labordoodle.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Rescues you should on the West side. People don't say, oh,
nice dog you have. What breed is that?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah? I know?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And then you if you tell them it's some exotic,
expensive breed, Oh she's beautiful. This is what they do well.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
When people ask me, I say, there's some kind of terriers.
They're a West Island Terrier or something, or they're they're rescues.
So I don't know exactly, but aren't they cute? They're
great dogs.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You know how often male and female guinea pigs have sex?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I know, John, I didn't, well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
The four hundred guinea pigs now will reach one thousand
by November. They're very frisky. I don't know how how
quickly the gestation period is, but I guess as soon
as the new piggies are born, there the guys jump
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right in.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We have a big problem, we really do with the shelters,
and I don't know what the solution is, except first thing,
you got to.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Hose down these guinea pigs. Well that they need a cold, shallow.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Well, people need to go, you know, go and adopt
a guinea pig.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But not too or not a male in.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
At reading them.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Oh my gosh, just get two guys or two girls.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Just get one.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
All right, here's this other disturbing animal story.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I forgot we have another one.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yes. Last August, the US Fish and Wildlife Service approved
a plan to shoot to death four hundred and fifty
thousand owls in California.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Why what do owls do?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
They didn't just sit there and.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Hoot, right, And they're supposed to be good luck four.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Times four hundred and fifty thousand in California, Oregon, and
Washington over the next thirty years. This is going to
be a thirty year project to annihilate these owls. They're
called the barred owl b a r D. The barred owl.
It looks like too many barred owls have been out
competing the northern spotted owls, and so they're driving the
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northern spotted owls out of business. And so this is
a mass murder of one owl species in order to
save a second owl species. Is this an owl gang
territory war or something? Well, you know, it all goes
back to those slave owning Europeans, because when the Europeans
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settled on federal land, as they moved from east to west,
they caused a disruption in the in the distribution of owls,
and the bard owl kept moving farther and farther to
the west. And apparently the northern spotted owl just can't compete. Okay,
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so for nesting sites and food.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Again, I've said this when we've had other stories like this,
I'm sure that we can come up with a better
solution than murder. Move them. You know, why do we
have to kill them?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
But if you move them, you cause the same problem
for another species of owl.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Can't they all just get along?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Clearly? No, because the barn owls are much stronger and smarter,
and they stay win all the good all the nesting spots.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Okay, well again I do. I can't do it at
this moment because I'm going to go on the air
put their house.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You have a lot of good wishes, you have got
a lot of good intentions, but you have no practical
plan to solve this problem here.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I am not a scientist, but I am an animal lever,
and I do feel that so many times people the
first inclination is let's kill them, let's get.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Rid of a I've given you opportunity to foster four
hundred guinea pigs.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I have two dogs.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I can't and four hundred and fifty thousand owls.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
You have not picked one of the owls.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I'll take an owl.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You'll take an owl.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
But wait, okay, so but I have to have where's
it gonna live? Owls are outdoors? I mean I can
try and build a bird sanctuary.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Well, there you do. I we're coming here. Now, you're
gonna do something useful.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I can't take a guinea pig because I would make
me very sad for that guinea pig to be in
a cage all day long, every day. And I have
two dogs, and my dogs would go after the guinea pigs.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
So so then let the circle of life play itself out.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Then I'm not watching a murder.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, you know what's temporarily saving the owls? What is that?
Trump's got the funded to shoot all the owls.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh okay, good, okay, But then we need to make
it illegal for those poachers that are going to do it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Anyway, there's a resolution, and if it's introduced past and
signed by Trump, the plan will be over. And apparently
they've already defunded it. The federal officials canceled three owl
grants to the California Department of Fishing. Wildlife is a
million dollars. There was one study that would remove barn
owls from one hundred and ninety two thousand acres.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Problem solved next.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
There that No, those are all the animal tragedy stories.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I have you waited until the end to tell me
that it's not gonna happen anyway. You got me all
riled up.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That was the purpose. Purpose is to rile you up.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I like owls.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You're the comedy portion of the program.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh that's sad if I'm the comedy yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Right know, Well you take what you can get.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You use whatever you have, right, Okay, we come back.
Hunter Biden clearly is insane. How many times does Hunter
Biden curse in these clips? I heard one clip on
the radio coming in and it was a bleepfest. Well,
we'll play. He went on Channel five with Andrew Callahan,
some YouTube show. He's angry with He's angry with Trump,
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he's angry with the El Salvadoran president. With George Clooney.
He's well, you'll hear it. These are gold.
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know the thing is on podcasts. I because you know,
people will get nervous being on a regular television show
if they know they're they're live. There's cameras pointed at
them something about podcasts where people are sitting in ordinary circumstances.
They all look like they're sitting in somebody's living room
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or in their backyard. Obviously a lot of them have cameras,
but the cameras are not intrusive. It's not like going
into a television studio where the cameras are huge and
there's intense lighting and there's lots of wires. It's just people,
and they're just more honest, and they have endless time
to fill. The podcasts are running like five hours now.
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I was just reading, and people are willing to have
what used to be private conversations publicly, and there are
no restrictions from the FCC on language or content. Anything goes,
and we've got a prime example of that. Hunter Biden
appeared on something called Channel five with Andrew Callahan. I
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don't know why it's called Channel five, but it's a
YouTube show. I don't know who Andrew Callahan is. But
Hunter Biden went on the show. And as much as
Hunter Biden has been in the news over the last
ten plus years, you rarely see him speak, or you
don't see him speak unscript. You know he's God done
a couple of canned announcements, and the guys had had
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just the worst mess of a life. He should be
in a federal prison, but his dad gave him my pardon.
But between the tax evation charges and the gun charges
and having an affair with his his dead brother's wife,
and that that stripper in Arkansas that he had a
child with, and all the crack cocaine he did, and
(22:29):
the booze and the videos and the laptop, it's like,
really a disgusting, filthy, foul mess of a person. But
rarely has he spoken publicly. Well, now you got a
little peek inside Hunter Biden's head, and it doesn't take
long to realize that he really is his nuts. There's
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like a serious mental disorder going on. Here is a
little clip about well he's on with Andrew Callahan about
Trump and illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
All these Democrats say, you have to talk about and
realize that people are really upset about illegal immigration. You,
how do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How
do you think you got food on your table?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Who do you think washes your dishes?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Who do you think does your garden?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Who do you think is here by the sheer? Just
grit and will that they figured out a way to
get here because they thought that they could give theirselves
in their family a better chance. And he's somehow convinced
all of us that these people are the criminals.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Eric had to do some emergency surgery on some of
these clips because he laced so many f bombs into
the audio that is easy to miss. One or two
surgery was complete, by the way, Well you can play
that one, okay, all right, Now here's another one. He
imagines he was president. You can imagine Hunter Biden as president,
and what do you would do with sending illegal immigrants
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to El Salvador.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
These guys think that we need to run away from
all values in.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Order for us to lead.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I say you, how are we getting those people back
from in El Salvador? Because I'll tell you what, if
I became president in two years from now, or four
years from now or three years from now, I would
pick up the phone and call the president of El
Salvador and say, you either send them back or I'm
going to invade. It's a crime what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
He's a dictator, thug Kelly or Trump both. He's going
to invade El Salvador. If they don't release the criminal
aliens back into the US. Well, he's perfect, he's perfect
to lead the Democratic Party. That pretty much is their philosophy.
And that's Karen Bass's philosophy. I say, Hunter Biden Karen
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Bass should be the next Democratic ticket. They're right online there.
He didn't know when the election was either. Notice that
years four years, three years. Wow, he needs another hit,
all right, now, he's going to go off about white
people angry about white people.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
White men in America are forty five more times likely
to commit a violent crime than an immigrant. And the
media says, well, you got David Axelrod, and you know
rom manual or so smart ram Emmanual is that we
got to understand that these people are really mad, and
these we got to appeal to these white voters. The
only people that appealed to those voters was Joe Biden
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eighty one years old, and he got eighty one million votes.
And he did because not because he appeased their Trumpian sense,
but because he challenged it. And he said, you can
be an eighty one year old Catholic and Scranton that
doesn't understand it but still has empathy for transgender people
and immigrants, and nobody said, oh, Joe Biden's going to
turn this into a social estate, no matter how much
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they said it. But these guys think that we need
to run away from all values in.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Order for us to lead. Yes, we're running away from
all values by enforcing the law. That's a good one,
all right. Now here's one more hunter. Biden very angry
with the George Clooney. If you remember, Clooney turned on
Biden and wrote a piece in The New York Times
last year urging Joe to drop out because he was senile.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Him, him, him and everybody around him.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I don't have to be.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Nice Number one. I agree with Quentin Tarantino. George Clooney
is not an actor. He is a like I don't
know what he is. He's a brand. And by the way,
and God bless him, you know what. He sunsly, treats
his friends really well, you know what I mean, buys
them things, and he's got a really great place in
Lake Como, and he's great friends with Barack Obama. You
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what do you have to do with and anything? Why
do I have to listen to you? What right do
you have to step on a man who's given fifty
two years of his life to the service of this
country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to
take out basically a full page Adams New York Times.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You think he's on or off crack right now? On?
I can't tell if he's honitor he needs some Wow,
there you go. And he was in the end one
of the final advisors for Joe when when everybody else
had fled, it was him and uh and Jill. That
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was it. So hey, g remember that bag of cocaine
they found found in the White House a couple of
years ago. Do you think it was hunters? That's another
thing they never investigated. You know, we don't have we
don't have an answer to that mystery. Wow, we come back.
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We are losing all kinds of businesses here in California,
including one of the most beloved businesses, very close to
my heart, is at least partially leaving the state. Oh yeah,
this is really sad, and this really has me angry,
and now I really want to take to the streets
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tell you about it. Coming up.
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Cobelt Radio. Now Chief Executive magazine has an annual story
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annual survey Best and Worst States for Business, and this
is the twenty twenty five edition. Tennessee is the best
state for business. California is dead last, number fifty, worst
state in the Union to run a business, start a business.
(29:10):
And this leads to this very sad story. After seventy
seven years, In and Out is moving to Tennessee. All
of the restaurants are being towed to Tennessee. No, it
(29:30):
looks like Lindsey Snyder, the president, is moving her family
to Tennessee, and also some of the operations are moving
there as well. And looks like eventually all the operations
are going there.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Well? I was kidding, I don't. I think some of
the restaurants will be left behind here. But the corporate
the corporate wing is getting out. They're going to be
opening up Tennessee In and Out restaurants in by twenty
twenty six. It's I mean, that was a huge business
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in California, obviously one of the signature businesses. But the
taxes are too high, the regulations. I have read that
it's nearly impossible to start a fast food business here
in California because of the excessive regulations, and so they
want out. Lindsey Snyder said, there's a lot of great
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things about California, but raising a family is not easy here.
Doing business is not easy here. A significant portion of
the company will move as well. Some corporate employees will
move to Tennessee. Others will remain in southern California. But
they have a long term plan to give employees time,
you know, to leave, to kind of leave, yes, I guess,
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time to sell their homes and find kids new schools
and all that. She's had it with the crime. I'm
in San Francisco and Oakland. It's affecting their restaurants. And
she said, all started Nooseoman, COVID. So many pressures, so
many hoops, we had to jump through masks, plastic shields,
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checking vaccine cards. Is that right? You had to check
vaccine cards.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Ready for the employee. The employee to get.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Into the in and out. No, that's what it says.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I'm okay, I'm thinking that she had to check the employees.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, you don't remember the restaurants having to check vaccine
cards when you were going into it?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I never, well, yeah, I never.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Never. A couple of times I did.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, oh I never did, unless I can't.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
She said, the state made restaurants check vaccine cards. No,
I do remember that happening. I don't know how extensive
it was. I don't remember going into an in and
out in that happening.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I just remember getting on a plane. You had to
show that you were vaccinated.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
You've got to do this, you got to wear a mask.
Get at this plasting thing up between us and our
customers is really terrible, And I said, maybe we should
have pushed even harder on some of that stuff and
dealt with the legal backlash. Yeah, everybody should have. Everybody
absolutely should have. Because that smug bastard. Now he's laughing
about it on podcasts, he's lying about it. He's pretending
he said, oh, yeah, yeah, California, we had the restrictions.
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We got it up to scale, which which is his
term for excessive. They took away rights from us like
had never been done before in history, and everybody here goes,
you don't want to kill your grandmother. Three months, within
three months, they knew who was going to kill. They
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knew the kids weren't affected. They knew it was mostly
the elderly, and almost entirely the elderly, and people who
had pre existing conditions immunal, they were immunal compromised, or
they had, you know, terrible health conditions. In and Out
was shut down by the state briefly in San Francisco
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back in twenty twenty one. In and Out told the city, Oh, yes,
I guess this is the vaccine mandate maybe in San Francisco. Yeah,
we refuse to become the vaccination police. Yes, San Francisco
city government. This is why we don't remember it. They
temporarily closed an in and Out over the company's refusal
to force customers to prove they're vaccinated. You had to
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get vaccinated in San Francisco to buy a cheeseburger. What
a horrific, horrific time that was. Katie Grimes wrote about
this in California Globe. San Francisco the city where open
meth and heroin purchases on city streets homeless, vagrants poop
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on the sidewalks. Thieves rip off Walgreens daily. But if
you want to double double in a chocolate shake, you
have to prove you've been vaccinated. That's right. People would
pull down their pants and leave a pile of hepatitis
on the sidewalk, and that was okay. They didn't violate
any ELF codes. And who used to run San Francisco?
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Do you know that Newsom to this day denies that
Californians and others are fleeing to other states. And they are,
but by the hundreds of thousands, it's over a million
people that bolted out of here.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
And Tennessee is one of those hot spots.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, they've got a very well I got they got
a much very nice climate, and they have a low
tax rate. I don't know if it's zero tax rate,
but it's much lower. Business taxes are lower.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I've never been. Nashville is on my list of places
I want to go to.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I drove through it once a long time ago, but
I never really spent time there. Chevron has left Elon,
Musk move X and Twitter, BaseX, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Charles Schwab,
Toyota or some of the big businesses, but then there's
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there's small businesses that have moved. I got a minute. Here,
there's a there's a guy who, uh, what's his name? Here?
A guy named oh, Barry Brucker. Barry Brucker has an
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ink manufacturing business in La County on Avalon Boulevard near
Rosecrans and Compton. Channel seven did a story. This is
the district run by Holly Mitchell that has an enormous
amount of r v's where homeless people and the insane live,
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the drug addicts live these massive RV encampments, and it's
so bad that Barry Brucker is closing his business and
moving out. He keeps calling Holly Mitchell, but everything keeps
getting worse. She doesn't do a damn thing because he's
an idiot. La County Sheriff's Department won't do anything about it.
He's had one hundred thousand dollars worth of copper stolen
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piping tubes. All of his electrical was stripped, no water,
no electric. They cut it at the power pole and
they trashed the inside over the weekend. Copper theft is
a massive problem, and nobody wants to do anything about it.
So he's moving, he's getting out because it's uninhabitable, because
people like Holly Mitchell are morons, vegetables, brainstems. She doesn't
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have a brain in her head. And so this poor
guy who's had a business for years has been overrun
with these with these crazy people, these thieves who still
copper and you could tell you drive through Los Angeles
City and County, all the lights are out. I can't
believe months and months go by, all the overhead lights
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are out. Nobody does it eything? All right, more coming
up Debora Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour News. Hey,
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And we spent much of last hour on Karen Bass.
There's no there's signs popping up all over the palisades.
(00:21):
Karen Bass to resign. Now, Karen Bass resigned now exactly
what it says. And we played some clips from her
appearance on ABC News over the weekend, trying to take
control of the Nastal Guard, trying to take control of
immigration policy. Look, Karen, if you weren't a Castro lover,
(00:43):
you would have been the vice presidential pick for instead
of Kamala Harris. They were going to go for you,
and then they found your extensive history worshiping Fidel Castro
and decided, oh, that's no good, and so bubblehead Kamala
was picked instead. Imagine as empty headed as Kamala is,
Karen Bass came in second to that because she was
(01:07):
a cashtro lover, and otherwise, you know, she who knows
she could be president now? Right? Who knows how things
would have been different. I mean, she's got all these
winning arguments on immigration. I'm sure she would have rolled
over Trump in a general election. But here's another facet
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of life in the Los Angeles area. You know, the
city is bankrupt and the county nearly so. And one
of the reasons is the mind boggling amount of money
that they pay out in legal settlements. I don't know
which is crazier in this story. The amount of money
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the city has to pay a man who was hit
by a sanitation truck and he's been in a coma
ever since. Is that the craziest part of the story.
Or the arguments that the city used, that the city
attorneys used to try to tamp down the cost of
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the settlement. Tell you that in a moment. But here's
the case. First, poor guy named Camraan Hakimi, he's now
sixty one years old. He was in a crosswalk at
haven Hurst and Ventura Boulevard. It was last August. He
had a green light to cross, and a sanitation truck
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driver made an unsafe right turn. According to Aikmi's attorneys,
And this is the awful part. There was a handlebar
on the front of the truck hit Hakmi in the head,
flung him to the asphalt, where he smashed his head
(02:54):
a second time. So he gets the handlebar in the
head and then wax his head on the asphalt. He
actually stood up briefly and flashed the thumbs up I'm okay,
and then went unconscious, and I guess hit his head
a third time as he collapsed. So he's been in
(03:16):
a coma ever since. And it doesn't say what the
prognosis is, but probably it's very poor, I would guess.
So they go to court and the city acknowledged that
the driver failed to yield. But this is how they
disputed the damages. They said, well, he doesn't deserve that
(03:42):
much money because his life expectancy was limited. What Yeah,
that he wasn't going to live along anyway because he's
sixty one.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Wait a second, so you're sixty one is now ninety
that's the argument from him That is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
These are the attorneys we pay for. This is what
they told to a jury. They told to a jury.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I would I would I would have been busting up laughing,
and I'm not sixty one.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Part two is even worse. The value of his damages,
pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life.
Well that's minimized because he was in a coma. Anyway,
when you're in a coma, you don't have any emotional distress. Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
He wasn't in a coma before he was hit.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well, you see there's two parts there. There's the loss
of income, right because you were whacked in the head,
and then there's the suffering you go through the emotional distress. Well,
maybe if he was conscious, you'd have a case according
to these attorneys, but there's no emotional distress. He's just
sitting there. That is. This is these are the attorneys
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we pay for. So loss of enjoyment of life. In
other words, he doesn't know he's not enjoying life.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
His family does.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah. The jury, I guess they were so incensed by
this they ordered to pay ordered the city to pay
Hakimi forty eight plus million dollars, including twenty five million
for future paid and suffering. That rejected the argument that
he's not going to feel the pain in the suffering.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, ten million dollars for medical expenses. But we're paying
for all this Now, that's not so long in king Well.
Last year, last fiscal year for twenty twenty five, the
city paid out two hundred and eighty nine million dollars.
It's one of the largest and growing sectors of the budget,
highest liability costs ever and now now we have this,
(05:59):
we're we're no. Heidi Feldstein Soto, she's the city attorney
and one of the Hakemi attorneys. Brian Parrish said that
Soto should have settled out of court, that she forced
this case to trial and rejected all reasonable settlement proposals.
There were many reasonable proposals made by an independent mediator,
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but Soto said not to all of them, and then
she ended up getting whacked with a huge settlement. I
guess that's far beyond any of the suggests. Hey, you
were going to end up settling this case, right, you
can't beat a handlebar to the head, smacked to the
ground by a guy who made an illegal right turn
in the sanitation truck.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And I'm going to just say that I've had to
complain to the sanitation department before because those truck drivers,
I should say, all of them, that's not fair. A
lot of them. They drive like crazy people. I live
up in the hills and narrow roads, and I'm I'm
telling you these sanitation workers, I sit and I yell
(07:03):
at them, and I wave my hands and I do
because I'm walking my dogs. And I can't tell you
how many times I've almost been hit.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah you got a dodge?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yes, yeah, you seriously, I've.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Done that too on walks. We've had to do that. No,
they come, they play a game of chicken. They I'm
barreling at you, and they know you're gonna jump and
get out of the way. But if you have a dog,
you don't know what you're dogs exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, how dare they do?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You spend most of the day yelling and waving your arms.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, I'm telling you that there are so many stupid
people out there that I come across, and I just
marvel at it because I don't understand it. You're in
this humongous truck in a neighborhood where you you come
every week. You see people are walking their dogs. You
know how narrow the streets are, and you come barreling
around these blind curves going sixty seventy miles an hour. Yeah,
(07:55):
are you kidding that?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Fat?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
On those hills. Yes, I wouldn't leave the house.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'm not going to let them win.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But when they win, they really win.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
A pancake.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But yes, you'll get wiped out. They won't even notice it.
Anybody hear anything.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You'll know somebody old somebody. There's a lot of John
Cobalt listeners in my neighborhood, so they'll know.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I'll tell you all right that she's a pancake. Now, yes, okay,
we'll roll her up and put her in the news. Wow,
it's a tough neighborhood you're in.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
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Speaker 1 (08:41):
I have a story about we're gonna play some Hunter
Biden clips. I don't know if you've heard this stuff
next segment, but Hunter Biden has did a podcast. Everybody
in America is either hosting or guesting on a podcast.
And he he is really crazy, like he's crazy crazy.
I mean, we all know about his life, right. We
all know he's crack addict and alcoholic and was living
(09:04):
in the streets here in Los Angeles and suddenly he
was partly running the White House. We know that all
the women he's had and all the babies he's left.
But you know, we rarely saw him speak publicly by himself.
And if you listen to these clips we're gonna play
after two thirty, you'll see why he's such a mess
(09:26):
in his private life. You know, everybody goes, well, you
know it's his private life. He struggled. You know, he's
absolutely crazy, like clinically insane. Get to that coming up.
All right, Now you have your You have your choice
of two bad animal stories, potentially bad. You get to choose.
(09:51):
It's either a plan to shoot owls or four hundred
guinea pigs found abandoned.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'll do the guinea pigs.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Guinea pigs first, Okay, animals. This is Karen Bass's Los
Angeles animal rescue. Volunteers found more than four hundred guinea
pigs living in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions. I think that's
a given right. If there's four hundred guinea pigs, Yeah,
it's gonna it's by definition overcrowded, yes, and unsanitary.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
They were the same cage, were they?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Ah, Well, we're gonna find out. They are asking now,
the the rescuers are asking the public to try to
foster some of these guinea pigs or adopt them, or
at least provide donations because they don't know what to
do with them. You know, I think I had guinea
you probably did when I went to uh Peru. I
(10:51):
believe they served that.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
At one of the rest Oh wait, I thought you
met your kids had them as a peg.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Well, no, actually had it for dinner.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You ate a guinea pig?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Mm hmm, yeah it was. It was on the It
was on the menu.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
A guinea pig. Who eats guinea pigs?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
South America? I'm pretty sure is Peru. I liked it.
Oh your kids had to get No, No, I actually
ate a guinea pig. In fact, I ate one of
my kids guinea pigs, all right. I was hungry. I
grabbed it out of the cage and cooked it up
in a pot.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Please God, you'd have to say that.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, I'd like to really upset you.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You do a very good job, just.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
A little bit too far. Get you to shake your head.
So anyway, Uh, well, this is this is addressed to you.
Would you like to foster or adopt a guinea pig
or at least provide some donations. Uh. It was a
distressing and alarming scene. According to the Southern California Guinea
Pig Rescue. That is a real organization. Now, they were
(11:58):
in bad shape. Some of the pigs were dead, some
had ringworm and open wounds, some were pregnant or the
new boards didn't have enough water or food the guinea pigs.
Here's what they need. They need grass, hay, vegetables, and pellets.
And some of the guinea pigs were hiding in beer
boxes or crowded in a cage without food. It turns
(12:25):
it turns out the tenant had hoarded two hundred guinea
pigs and faced eviction if she didn't relocate them. But
when animal services showed up, they had a lot more
than two hundred guinea pigs. They think up it was
over four hundred. They just continued to breed and breed.
(12:47):
The rest of the people in the house were just
overwhelmed what this woman had roommates. Imagine having a roommate
whose mass breeding guinea pigs. I guess that's all guinea
pigs do all day, Huh.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I've never owned a guinea pig.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Are they're cute? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They are. I have friends that have had guinea pigs
and they are very cute.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Animal shelters are running out of space to house animals.
After the pandemic, people started giving up the pets that
they got keep them company.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And people are going after those designer dogs instead of
going to shelters or going to a reputable foster pet
foster place. There are so you know what, I'm going
to use my platform for a second here just to
say this. You can get amazing, amazing mutts or kittens, cats,
(13:44):
guinea pigs from shelters and from animal rescue places. You
can if you want a labradoodle, let me tell you
there are labordoodle.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Rescues you should on the West side. People don't say, oh,
nice dog you have. What breed is that?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah? I know?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And then you if you tell them it's some exotic,
expensive breed, Oh she's beautiful. This is what they do well.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
When people ask me, I say, there's some kind of terriers.
They're a West Island Terrier or something, or they're they're rescues.
So I don't know exactly, but aren't they cute? They're
great dogs.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You know how often male and female guinea pigs have sex?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I know, John, I didn't, well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
The four hundred guinea pigs now will reach one thousand
by November. They're very frisky. I don't know how how
quickly the gestation period is, but I guess as soon
as the new piggies are born, there the guys jump
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right in.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We have a big problem, we really do with the shelters,
and I don't know what the solution is, except first thing,
you got to.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Hose down these guinea pigs. Well that they need a cold, shallow.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Well, people need to go, you know, go and adopt
a guinea pig.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But not too or not a male in.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
At reading them.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Oh my gosh, just get two guys or two girls.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Just get one.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
All right, here's this other disturbing animal story.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I forgot we have another one.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yes. Last August, the US Fish and Wildlife Service approved
a plan to shoot to death four hundred and fifty
thousand owls in California.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Why what do owls do?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
They didn't just sit there and.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Hoot, right, And they're supposed to be good luck four.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Times four hundred and fifty thousand in California, Oregon, and
Washington over the next thirty years. This is going to
be a thirty year project to annihilate these owls. They're
called the barred owl b a r D. The barred owl.
It looks like too many barred owls have been out
competing the northern spotted owls, and so they're driving the
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northern spotted owls out of business. And so this is
a mass murder of one owl species in order to
save a second owl species. Is this an owl gang
territory war or something? Well, you know, it all goes
back to those slave owning Europeans, because when the Europeans
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settled on federal land, as they moved from east to west,
they caused a disruption in the in the distribution of owls,
and the bard owl kept moving farther and farther to
the west. And apparently the northern spotted owl just can't compete. Okay,
(16:52):
so for nesting sites and food.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Again, I've said this when we've had other stories like this,
I'm sure that we can come up with a better
solution than murder. Move them. You know, why do we
have to kill them?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
But if you move them, you cause the same problem
for another species of owl.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Can't they all just get along?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Clearly? No, because the barn owls are much stronger and smarter,
and they stay win all the good all the nesting spots.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Okay, well again I do. I can't do it at
this moment because I'm going to go on the air
put their house.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You have a lot of good wishes, you have got
a lot of good intentions, but you have no practical
plan to solve this problem here.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I am not a scientist, but I am an animal lever,
and I do feel that so many times people the
first inclination is let's kill them, let's get.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Rid of a I've given you opportunity to foster four
hundred guinea pigs.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I have two dogs.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I can't and four hundred and fifty thousand owls.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
You have not picked one of the owls.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I'll take an owl.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You'll take an owl.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
But wait, okay, so but I have to have where's
it gonna live? Owls are outdoors? I mean I can
try and build a bird sanctuary.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Well, there you do. I we're coming here. Now, you're
gonna do something useful.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I can't take a guinea pig because I would make
me very sad for that guinea pig to be in
a cage all day long, every day. And I have
two dogs, and my dogs would go after the guinea pigs.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
So so then let the circle of life play itself out.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Then I'm not watching a murder.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, you know what's temporarily saving the owls? What is that?
Trump's got the funded to shoot all the owls.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh okay, good, okay, But then we need to make
it illegal for those poachers that are going to do it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Anyway, there's a resolution, and if it's introduced past and
signed by Trump, the plan will be over. And apparently
they've already defunded it. The federal officials canceled three owl
grants to the California Department of Fishing. Wildlife is a
million dollars. There was one study that would remove barn
owls from one hundred and ninety two thousand acres.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Problem solved next.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
There that No, those are all the animal tragedy stories.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I have you waited until the end to tell me
that it's not gonna happen anyway. You got me all
riled up.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That was the purpose. Purpose is to rile you up.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I like owls.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You're the comedy portion of the program.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh that's sad if I'm the comedy yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Right know, Well you take what you can get.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You use whatever you have, right, Okay, we come back.
Hunter Biden clearly is insane. How many times does Hunter
Biden curse in these clips? I heard one clip on
the radio coming in and it was a bleepfest. Well,
we'll play. He went on Channel five with Andrew Callahan,
some YouTube show. He's angry with He's angry with Trump,
(19:58):
he's angry with the El Salvadoran president. With George Clooney.
He's well, you'll hear it. These are gold.
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know the thing is on podcasts. I because you know,
people will get nervous being on a regular television show
if they know they're they're live. There's cameras pointed at
them something about podcasts where people are sitting in ordinary circumstances.
They all look like they're sitting in somebody's living room
(20:57):
or in their backyard. Obviously a lot of them have cameras,
but the cameras are not intrusive. It's not like going
into a television studio where the cameras are huge and
there's intense lighting and there's lots of wires. It's just people,
and they're just more honest, and they have endless time
to fill. The podcasts are running like five hours now.
(21:17):
I was just reading, and people are willing to have
what used to be private conversations publicly, and there are
no restrictions from the FCC on language or content. Anything goes,
and we've got a prime example of that. Hunter Biden
appeared on something called Channel five with Andrew Callahan. I
(21:41):
don't know why it's called Channel five, but it's a
YouTube show. I don't know who Andrew Callahan is. But
Hunter Biden went on the show. And as much as
Hunter Biden has been in the news over the last
ten plus years, you rarely see him speak, or you
don't see him speak unscript. You know he's God done
a couple of canned announcements, and the guys had had
(22:07):
just the worst mess of a life. He should be
in a federal prison, but his dad gave him my pardon.
But between the tax evation charges and the gun charges
and having an affair with his his dead brother's wife,
and that that stripper in Arkansas that he had a
child with, and all the crack cocaine he did, and
(22:29):
the booze and the videos and the laptop, it's like,
really a disgusting, filthy, foul mess of a person. But
rarely has he spoken publicly. Well, now you got a
little peek inside Hunter Biden's head, and it doesn't take
long to realize that he really is his nuts. There's
(22:51):
like a serious mental disorder going on. Here is a
little clip about well he's on with Andrew Callahan about
Trump and illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
All these Democrats say, you have to talk about and
realize that people are really upset about illegal immigration. You,
how do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How
do you think you got food on your table?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Who do you think washes your dishes?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Who do you think does your garden?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Who do you think is here by the sheer? Just
grit and will that they figured out a way to
get here because they thought that they could give theirselves
in their family a better chance. And he's somehow convinced
all of us that these people are the criminals.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Eric had to do some emergency surgery on some of
these clips because he laced so many f bombs into
the audio that is easy to miss. One or two
surgery was complete, by the way, Well you can play
that one, okay, all right, Now here's another one. He
imagines he was president. You can imagine Hunter Biden as president,
and what do you would do with sending illegal immigrants
(24:04):
to El Salvador.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
These guys think that we need to run away from
all values in.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Order for us to lead.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I say you, how are we getting those people back
from in El Salvador? Because I'll tell you what, if
I became president in two years from now, or four
years from now or three years from now, I would
pick up the phone and call the president of El
Salvador and say, you either send them back or I'm
going to invade. It's a crime what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
He's a dictator, thug Kelly or Trump both. He's going
to invade El Salvador. If they don't release the criminal
aliens back into the US. Well, he's perfect, he's perfect
to lead the Democratic Party. That pretty much is their philosophy.
And that's Karen Bass's philosophy. I say, Hunter Biden Karen
(24:53):
Bass should be the next Democratic ticket. They're right online there.
He didn't know when the election was either. Notice that
years four years, three years. Wow, he needs another hit,
all right, now, he's going to go off about white
people angry about white people.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
White men in America are forty five more times likely
to commit a violent crime than an immigrant. And the
media says, well, you got David Axelrod, and you know
rom manual or so smart ram Emmanual is that we
got to understand that these people are really mad, and
these we got to appeal to these white voters. The
only people that appealed to those voters was Joe Biden
(25:35):
eighty one years old, and he got eighty one million votes.
And he did because not because he appeased their Trumpian sense,
but because he challenged it. And he said, you can
be an eighty one year old Catholic and Scranton that
doesn't understand it but still has empathy for transgender people
and immigrants, and nobody said, oh, Joe Biden's going to
turn this into a social estate, no matter how much
(25:56):
they said it. But these guys think that we need
to run away from all values in.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Order for us to lead. Yes, we're running away from
all values by enforcing the law. That's a good one,
all right. Now here's one more hunter. Biden very angry
with the George Clooney. If you remember, Clooney turned on
Biden and wrote a piece in The New York Times
last year urging Joe to drop out because he was senile.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Him, him, him and everybody around him.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I don't have to be.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Nice Number one. I agree with Quentin Tarantino. George Clooney
is not an actor. He is a like I don't
know what he is. He's a brand. And by the way,
and God bless him, you know what. He sunsly, treats
his friends really well, you know what I mean, buys
them things, and he's got a really great place in
Lake Como, and he's great friends with Barack Obama. You
(26:51):
what do you have to do with and anything? Why
do I have to listen to you? What right do
you have to step on a man who's given fifty
two years of his life to the service of this
country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to
take out basically a full page Adams New York Times.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You think he's on or off crack right now? On?
I can't tell if he's honitor he needs some Wow,
there you go. And he was in the end one
of the final advisors for Joe when when everybody else
had fled, it was him and uh and Jill. That
(27:30):
was it. So hey, g remember that bag of cocaine
they found found in the White House a couple of
years ago. Do you think it was hunters? That's another
thing they never investigated. You know, we don't have we
don't have an answer to that mystery. Wow, we come back.
(27:50):
We are losing all kinds of businesses here in California,
including one of the most beloved businesses, very close to
my heart, is at least partially leaving the state. Oh yeah,
this is really sad, and this really has me angry,
and now I really want to take to the streets
(28:13):
tell you about it. Coming up.
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Cobelt Radio. Now Chief Executive magazine has an annual story
(28:45):
annual survey Best and Worst States for Business, and this
is the twenty twenty five edition. Tennessee is the best
state for business. California is dead last, number fifty, worst
state in the Union to run a business, start a business.
(29:10):
And this leads to this very sad story. After seventy
seven years, In and Out is moving to Tennessee. All
of the restaurants are being towed to Tennessee. No, it
(29:30):
looks like Lindsey Snyder, the president, is moving her family
to Tennessee, and also some of the operations are moving
there as well. And looks like eventually all the operations
are going there.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Well? I was kidding, I don't. I think some of
the restaurants will be left behind here. But the corporate
the corporate wing is getting out. They're going to be
opening up Tennessee In and Out restaurants in by twenty
twenty six. It's I mean, that was a huge business
(30:10):
in California, obviously one of the signature businesses. But the
taxes are too high, the regulations. I have read that
it's nearly impossible to start a fast food business here
in California because of the excessive regulations, and so they
want out. Lindsey Snyder said, there's a lot of great
(30:32):
things about California, but raising a family is not easy here.
Doing business is not easy here. A significant portion of
the company will move as well. Some corporate employees will
move to Tennessee. Others will remain in southern California. But
they have a long term plan to give employees time,
you know, to leave, to kind of leave, yes, I guess,
(30:54):
time to sell their homes and find kids new schools
and all that. She's had it with the crime. I'm
in San Francisco and Oakland. It's affecting their restaurants. And
she said, all started Nooseoman, COVID. So many pressures, so
many hoops, we had to jump through masks, plastic shields,
(31:15):
checking vaccine cards. Is that right? You had to check
vaccine cards.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Ready for the employee. The employee to get.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Into the in and out. No, that's what it says.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I'm okay, I'm thinking that she had to check the employees.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, you don't remember the restaurants having to check vaccine
cards when you were going into it?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I never, well, yeah, I never.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Never. A couple of times I did.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, oh I never did, unless I can't.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
She said, the state made restaurants check vaccine cards. No,
I do remember that happening. I don't know how extensive
it was. I don't remember going into an in and
out in that happening.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I just remember getting on a plane. You had to
show that you were vaccinated.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
You've got to do this, you got to wear a mask.
Get at this plasting thing up between us and our
customers is really terrible, And I said, maybe we should
have pushed even harder on some of that stuff and
dealt with the legal backlash. Yeah, everybody should have. Everybody
absolutely should have. Because that smug bastard. Now he's laughing
about it on podcasts, he's lying about it. He's pretending
he said, oh, yeah, yeah, California, we had the restrictions.
(32:20):
We got it up to scale, which which is his
term for excessive. They took away rights from us like
had never been done before in history, and everybody here goes,
you don't want to kill your grandmother. Three months, within
three months, they knew who was going to kill. They
(32:43):
knew the kids weren't affected. They knew it was mostly
the elderly, and almost entirely the elderly, and people who
had pre existing conditions immunal, they were immunal compromised, or
they had, you know, terrible health conditions. In and Out
was shut down by the state briefly in San Francisco
(33:04):
back in twenty twenty one. In and Out told the city, Oh, yes,
I guess this is the vaccine mandate maybe in San Francisco. Yeah,
we refuse to become the vaccination police. Yes, San Francisco
city government. This is why we don't remember it. They
temporarily closed an in and Out over the company's refusal
to force customers to prove they're vaccinated. You had to
(33:25):
get vaccinated in San Francisco to buy a cheeseburger. What
a horrific, horrific time that was. Katie Grimes wrote about
this in California Globe. San Francisco the city where open
meth and heroin purchases on city streets homeless, vagrants poop
(33:46):
on the sidewalks. Thieves rip off Walgreens daily. But if
you want to double double in a chocolate shake, you
have to prove you've been vaccinated. That's right. People would
pull down their pants and leave a pile of hepatitis
on the sidewalk, and that was okay. They didn't violate
any ELF codes. And who used to run San Francisco?
(34:13):
Do you know that Newsom to this day denies that
Californians and others are fleeing to other states. And they are,
but by the hundreds of thousands, it's over a million
people that bolted out of here.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
And Tennessee is one of those hot spots.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, they've got a very well I got they got
a much very nice climate, and they have a low
tax rate. I don't know if it's zero tax rate,
but it's much lower. Business taxes are lower.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I've never been. Nashville is on my list of places
I want to go to.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I drove through it once a long time ago, but
I never really spent time there. Chevron has left Elon,
Musk move X and Twitter, BaseX, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Charles Schwab,
Toyota or some of the big businesses, but then there's
(35:09):
there's small businesses that have moved. I got a minute. Here,
there's a there's a guy who, uh, what's his name? Here?
A guy named oh, Barry Brucker. Barry Brucker has an
(35:29):
ink manufacturing business in La County on Avalon Boulevard near
Rosecrans and Compton. Channel seven did a story. This is
the district run by Holly Mitchell that has an enormous
amount of r v's where homeless people and the insane live,
(35:50):
the drug addicts live these massive RV encampments, and it's
so bad that Barry Brucker is closing his business and
moving out. He keeps calling Holly Mitchell, but everything keeps
getting worse. She doesn't do a damn thing because he's
an idiot. La County Sheriff's Department won't do anything about it.
He's had one hundred thousand dollars worth of copper stolen
(36:14):
piping tubes. All of his electrical was stripped, no water,
no electric. They cut it at the power pole and
they trashed the inside over the weekend. Copper theft is
a massive problem, and nobody wants to do anything about it.
So he's moving, he's getting out because it's uninhabitable, because
people like Holly Mitchell are morons, vegetables, brainstems. She doesn't
(36:40):
have a brain in her head. And so this poor
guy who's had a business for years has been overrun
with these with these crazy people, these thieves who still
copper and you could tell you drive through Los Angeles
City and County, all the lights are out. I can't
believe months and months go by, all the overhead lights
(37:02):
are out. Nobody does it eything? All right, more coming
up Debora Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour News. Hey,
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