August 7, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (08/07) - Uber has a sexual assault problem. AI is going to kill some white collar jobs. Immigration arrests in LA dropped from June to July. Pres. Trump wants the temporary restraining order against ICE operations in LA lifted. Illegal immigrants showed up on a beach in Spain by boat and the beachgoers helped the police detain them.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on every day from one until four o'clock,
and after four o'clock it's John Cobelt's show on demand
on the iHeart app. Getting an Uber ride can be
a really creepy experience, especially if you're a woman. Yes,
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you ever been in a creepy Uber ride? Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Not creepy, But sometimes they are kind of chatty, and
I don't I just I don't feel like chatty.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I don't like being spoken to. You have to check
the box.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
They have a little quick survey they ask when you
book a ride. Yeah, and it's about the driver talking,
and it's like, no, no, I don't want to talk.
And if I forget to check the box, I always
get somebody who can't shut up.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I don't think I saw that when I last took
an Uber.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh yeah, yeah. They're settings like would you want air
conditioning or heat?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You know you want music or no music?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I know, rolling out something where you can ask for
a female.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah yeah, And well I think that it triggered this
this story here. They Uber has been overwhelmed with sexual
assault cases. But they've managed to keep the records sealed
for many years, and now they're unsealing some of the records.
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And you're not going to believe this Uber, And this
is Uber's own documents. Uber received a report of sexual
assault or sexual misconduct almost every eight minutes on average
in a six year period from twenty seventeen to twenty
twenty two. Now, these weren't all physical sexual assaults. Some
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of it was just uncomfortable behavior, but twenty five percent,
we're serious. And I see the guys who come I
used to see the kind of guys who come in
pick me up and a lot of weirdos. And usually
their their car is unclean, it smells bad. They've got
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some weird incense hanging in the air, and maybe they're
burning stage.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Or they're disguising their bo.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Or it may be their bo. It's usually cigarettes too. Yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
They got strange music playing, or they'll have a religious
station on and you've got people howling, howling, howling, Yeah,
you know, like gospel singing, but I mean just or
sometimes just howling, And I'm really uncomfortable. I do not
like being on rides with strangers. I don't like being
on buses. I don't like being on subways. I actually
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like taxis better. Like often when I land at the airport,
I go to the taxi stand because those guys are
employed by a company. There are real employee, and they
have their their ID badges there and they have you know,
a special license number, and I just feel better because
they got to report to somebody, and they were also
went through some kind of vetting process, even minimally right.
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But Uber drivers, there's nothing. It's weird guys who like
to drive around at two in the morning and they
live in dirty apartments.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Not all.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I'm sure there's some very hard Uber driver's job. I
know it's a second or third job for them. I
don't they're upstanding citizens.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I got the ones who are thinking, are are dodging
law enforcement? I'm serious. I get guys who just completely
frequent everything insane.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Is there a setting where you can say please, no convicts?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Well was going to show up then.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So Uber has been testing certain tools to make trips safer,
certain types of algorithms, video recording, pairing female passengers with
female drivers, But Uber, in a lot of cases never
required excuse me, never requires drivers to adopt some of
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these programs, nor did it warrant passengers about certain factors
that would indicate that an attack was possible. So they
identify you know, when you get it, when do you
get a sexual issue?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Every eight minutes?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You have a lot of data you can analyze, and
they made some conclusions, but they never told the customers
and hundreds of the records have been under seal. There
is a large scale sexual assault litigation case against Uber
going on. Part of it is they of course never
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wanted to have their drivers be employees. They wanted to
be contractors, which means you don't have to pay benefits
or overtime. Also means the drivers are minimally supervised and
not subject to the same labor rules. Now listen to this,
and they found this in writing. Our purpose and goal
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is not to be the police. This is according to
a twenty twenty one brainstorming document, our bar is much lower.
Our goal is to protect the company and get this
set a tolerable risk level for our operations. You understand
that ubers Uber's goal was to set a tolerable risk
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level for sexual assault of their female customers. Well, once
this leaked out, Uber's current had a safety. Hannah Nile says, well,
there is no tolerable level of sexual assault. Well, that's
not what it said. That's not what it said in
the in your internal memo, a tolerable risk. So four
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hundred thousand eighty one Uber trips resulted in reports of
sexual assault or sexual misconduct. Now some three quarters are
considered less serious. It's about making, uh like, creepy comments
about somebody's appearance, using explicit language or flirting. I don't
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know what what point flirting becomes sexual misconduct.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I don't think we Well, it can depending on what
is said.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh, I know that that's a that's a gray zone though.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And you know it is, It's true what what somebody
may feel is flirting or inappropriate, somebody else doesn't.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
It doesn't penetrate. Yeah, maybe that wasn't the right word.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Either, but ah, but but I made you the tolerable
risk level. It was in an Uber memo that that
our goal is to protect the company and set the
tolerable risk level for our operations.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, they don't want their drivers hurt either, I mean,
you know, they're crazy people to get into ubers.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The attacks typically her late at night or on the
weekend with pickups originating near a bar.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Here's a big surprise.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, and the vast majority of cases the offenders are men.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
That's not surprising.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
What was the last time a female uber driver attacked
a guy sexually? Has that ever happened?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't think so with uh? And and and if
she did, who's calling in that complaint?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
A whisp? No, that's me to say.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No, if somebody was attacked, if a guy was attacked
by a woman, Huh, yes, absolutely, that person should call
it in.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Maybe if she was a big woman.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
That was very mean. Your meanness is spreading.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No, that was two in this conversation. Yeah, I know, Yeah,
it's two. They they're men, either the drivers or the passengers.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
H And what do you know?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Intoxicated passengers are especially vulnerable. You know, a woman who's
drank too much should not get into the backseat of
an uber with a.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Guy, but you know, driving their own car either, I know,
what are your options?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
No good options there?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
In fact, a drunken woman shouldn't trust her male friends
at two o'clock in the morning if she's loaded. Now,
listen to this. Here here is one driver. The woman
gets picked up at eight fifty three pm. She wants
to be dropped off at a house twenty two minutes away,
but the trip diverged and Uber started setting sending the
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woman automated notifications to check on her, but she didn't respond,
and the ride continued to deviate from its route, and
by nine point thirty it stopped near a motel six.
Uber kept sending electronic notifications. Well, what's that going to do.
You're just going to get a bubble on your phone
screen and it's going to go ding.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Why don't you send a police card to the location.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yes, that's what I thought, And then they kept contacting
her with a roboclaw She didn't pick up. And this
this drive, this ride lasted until two in the morning.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
What were they doing?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I don't know. I mean, maybe she was in on it,
maybe she maybe she was. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
She liked except the driver had received two previous activate
accusations of sexual misconduct for inappropriate comments.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Another twenty two minute ride had lasted about five hours.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
So then why is this and still driving for Uber?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Because Uber didn't care, they didn't do anything about it.
In fact, the report asked, are our actions or lack
of actions? Defensible. The first thing they did is they
went to an attorney and said, okay, well, yes, the
guy disappeared for five hours, ended up in a motel six.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We didn't do anything about it. Is that defensible? Yeah?
I don't know. I was never I was never thrilled
by the uber phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, I thought it was pretty cool, but you take
your chances.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Really, it's like, who's you know, who's available late at night?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
What's what's the what's the gene pool late at night? Right?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
No good thing happens late at night.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
No. I always told that to my sons.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It's kind of true.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I I kind of I always said, nothing good happens
after midnight. Yeah, more coming up.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
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radio app. We were talking a few days ago about
how there's one Google ex Google executive who said it's
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going to start in twenty twenty seven, and it's going
to be the destruction of the middle class white collar
office jobs because of AI that the technology advances over
the past decades went after a lot of blue collar
manual labor, you know, technology so that machines can do
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the work rather than humans, rather than big strong men.
Need fewer of those. Now, well, this wave of AI
is going to go after people who work in cubicles,
people who stare at screens all day. And here's an example.
And I hope I don't run into this. You know
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what it's like traveling long distances, right, Yeah, And you're
in a strange city going to a hotel you've never
been to before. You're tired, you feel just ragged and dirty,
just want to get to your room. You go up
to the receptionist desk. And if you go to the
Lakita in in sweets in Miami, there's no receptionist to
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greet you anymore. Nobody is it a robot. It's a screen.
There's a kiosk attached to a credit card machine. It
says check in and check out here, and you start.
You stick in your credit card and you get this
young guy with a foreign accent, looks like he's in
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India or somewhere in that region, wearing a headset, and
he comes on the screen to guide you through the process.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You're kidding.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
No, Now, So you're checking into Miami hotel and you're
talking to somebody ten thousand miles away looking at a camera.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
And when you have questions about the location that you're at,
the person in India is.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Going to have no clue.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, ask some questions about, well, what kind of tourist
attractions are there in the air?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
No, a good restaurant.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Can you send somebody from the US here please?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Can you send somebody up to my room? You know,
I need some more pillows, I need a new sheet.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Somebody has happened to a real person, a remote receptionist,
and they took a video the whole thing, and two
million people have already viewed it and nobody seems to
like it. One person wrote, the reason for a desk
is like having a dormant and an apartment building security.
I wouldn't feel safe in a hotel without without a staff,
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because there's no there's nobody in charge.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
You have cockroaches in your room. Who are you gonna
call about that?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Can't call anybody, call a guy in India.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And some people don't even think it was a real
guy and they think it was an artificial intelligence receptionist.
So they took it to Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, which
is the parent company of Lakita, and the spokesperson didn't
deny that they had this going on. We're where this
matter and are actively investigating. All Lakita Hotels are independently
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owned and operated. This is a franchise situation, and they're
required to have a team member at the front desk
at all times.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, because what if some criminal comes in?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Uh huh, Well, you've called the guy in Pakistan, see
what he can do for you.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Sure, that's what life is.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Every time you need to talk to a human, no
matter what your business is, you end up being sent
to the other side of the world. It's somebody in
the Philippines, it's somebody in India, it's somebody it's always
in Asia because you know they have slave labor policies there.
Damn these American companies. So this is what this is
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the AI world.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
We're gonna get The only thing about AI that I
like is when I go to Google and I ask
a question and then the answer gets you know, it's AI.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Right, that's all.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't want to taking anybody's jobs. I don't want
to take our job.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I don't know how long we can last year.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Before there's some AI generated posting newsperson that they designed
in Pakistan, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
This is this is just this is not better.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know. One of my sons, and my sons are
on there ties and I was talking about one of
them's in town this week and I said, I remember
my mother when she got to a certain age.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
She said, I don't recognize the world anymore.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Well, you've been saying that for a while.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And I go, now, I don't recognize the world anymore.
And he goes. My son says, I don't recognize the world.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
That's so sad.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It's so different than it.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Was, you know, even ten to fifteen years ago. And
he said the same thing I did. It's not better.
That's the thing. I realized. It's maybe cheaper and more
efficient for the companies, but it's not better.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Right again, we talked about this the other day. You're
going to have so many people out of work. They're
going to be god knows doing what. You're eliminating so
many jobs. What are you expecting humans to do?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
All the out of work young men in the world,
what are they going to do?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
It's not just men, it's women too.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yeah, but men are dangerous when they have nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Except I told you, I'm watching hunting wives and this,
this line cracked me up when somebody asked these women,
so what do you do for work? And they said,
we we wife, We don't work, we wife, we wife,
we wife.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I did.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Ly wife wife.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'll bring that. I'll bring that line home. You do that,
I think you should wife today.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, that's gonna go over real.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Well do wife work? We don't work, we wane wife.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I don't know what that means, but it sounds. It
sounds intriguing. Glad you told me about one of the scenes. Yeah, well,
if that's part of wife work.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Then you can thank Shannon Farren because she's the one
that got me hooked on.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
You guys watch a lot of dirty shows.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yeah, I know it's all Shannon's and.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You never say no, no, I don't all right, Uh but.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But well, what I was gonna say is how long
does this go on? And you have all those people unemployed,
all that young energy, all that testosterone before they go
and they overthrow all the tech companies and there's this
massive rebellion against the tech world in the AI world. Yeah,
that's what I think is gonna happen. I think you're
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right because you can't change it. You can't deprive human
nature of its purpose. And just you can't just send
him a check for a universal income I had a
couple of guys tell me this one day and a
long time and they were just it's just years ago,
and they go, oh, no, everybody will get a universal
income check. And and so you don't have to worry
about money, right the tech companies will be making quadrillions
of dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
How much money would we get? And then how much
are we talking?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Oh, not to cover your fashion bill. But there's.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
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dumped on you shortly after four o'clock so you could
catch up on what you missed. All the media outlets
covered this story. The number of illegal aliens that were
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arrested in the Los Angeles area dropped in the month
of July, and the federal agents had arrested twenty almost
twenty eight hundred illegal aliens in the seven counties around
LA since June sixth, but it dropped from June, dropped
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from twenty eight hundred to thirteen hundred, and that's because
the Border Patrol the ICE agents decided to back off.
After that judge issued a temporary restraining order that you
can't do indiscriminate raids rounding people up just because they
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happen to be standing around a home depot looking for work.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
They took it to a.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Court of appeals the Trump administration, and the Court of
Appeals upheld the temporary restraining order. Now Trump is asking
the US Supreme Court to lift that restraining order so
that federal agents can make arrests with the raids that
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they were executing back in June, that they are being
carried out with probable clause.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
It's an emergency petition.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And they're going directly now to try to get not
to litigate the whole issue yet, but just to get
the temporary restraining order lifted. This case involves a district
court injunction that threatens to upend immigration officials' ability to
enforce the law in the Central District of California by
hanging the prospect of contempt over every investigative stop of
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a suspected illegal alien.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That's what it says.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
And uh, you know, I uh I said, I said
yesterday on the air, and I think this is the
clip that Eric used on our on Instagram, is that
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I don't care anymore if if.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Ice agents are violating the constitution, I don't think they are.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
But I'm not a judge, but I really, I really don't.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I think there's so much law not being enforced that
why why why are we picking knits over this? They're
here illegally, They're they're not. Are are they deporting US citizens?
Are they deporting Green card holders? Are they are they
deporting anybody who are is on a legitimate visa of
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any kind, anybody with real legal protection? Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
They or not? So it looks like they must have.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Reasonable suspicion because, as far as I know, the sixteen
guys they picked up at the home depot, they were
sixteen for sixteen. All of them were illegal aliens. So
if they were using some kind of illegal stereotype, how
did they hit sixteen out of sixteen?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Imagine that?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And I think the key was it's they lured the
illegals to that pedske truck by the driver offering him work,
and then they came all running to the truck and
that's when the guys jumped out of the back. Apparently
whatever I said yesterday drew a lot of contentious comments
on Instagram?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Is that right, Eric? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, people not happy. People didn't agree with your sentiments. No, well,
I'm glad they're still listening. Yeah, or at least they're
on their feed.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I can't believe somebody doesn't agree with John on something.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You know that almost never happens, That's what I'm so sure.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
They usually agree with you.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Well, they should, they should, But I'm right, well not always,
not always.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
No, I say ninety nine percent of the.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Time I'm right, maybe ninety five.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I am right.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
The only way to pick up the illegal aliens is
to monitor their behavior. And if you're standing around who
all right, let me ask you this. Do you know
anybody in your life who stands around a home depot waiting,
waiting for work, waiting for a stranger to show up
at a pickup truck. They coax you in so you
could spend the day doing what?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
But I know people that pick them up?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Oh yeah, oh sure.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
But then there's another way to look at it. They
are there at least they want to work, right, They're
trying to find work.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah, but they can't be self sufficient or it wouldn't
be spending thirty five billion dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Totally understand that.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I'm just saying that some people they don't want to work, right,
They want to just collect the welfare check and they
don't want to work.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
These guys are trying to, you know, make some money.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
You know what people are cool with too, And I
don't understand it. This is a massive slave labor market
that we have set up in this country. All those
laborers at the home depot, they're getting paid garbage. I
know when I go to the car wash, those guys
are getting paid garbage. They're hoping for good tips.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I was going to say they rely on tips, right,
But I.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Don't understand why.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Why is everybody okay with this modern form of slavery
that's become part of the culture that we have an
entire political party approving. The same political party that screams
about slave reparations is happy to create a new generation
of slaves imported from another country.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Because people don't want to pay all that money for
their gardeners, their housekeepers, their nannies, and the people washing
their cars. Everybody's used to paying what they're paying, and
can you imagine it triples quadruples.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And they all can afford it, especially on my side
of town.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Of course your side of town.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
If you can't afford it, do like my dad did,
push the lawnmower around on the front lawn. That's what
you do. Wash your own freaking dishes. I wash my
own dishes. It's not that hard. I don't understand. Actually,
it's just laziness. They want slaves because they're too lazy
to do physical labor around the house and on their property.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Well, I wouldn't say they're slaves because they are.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Getting paid, yeah, but it's really terrible wages and you know,
then we got to give them, you know, free healthcare
from beginning to end. I mean, it's just ridiculous. It's
a ridiculous system. That we could have work programs for people,
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and we could have you know, earned work credits that
lead to a green card and citizenship. But this, this
this completely uncontrolled system of literally millions of people. And
I thought of this the other day too. Everybody screams
about how housing is unaffordable here. Well, if we didn't
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have a million extra people living here illegally.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
How many homes and apartments would that open up?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I mean, you'd have entire neighborhoods that you could build
affordable housing, and you could you could have a significant
impact on bringing down the overall price of housing by
building more homes. That's the only way to bring down
the price of housing. In southern California. Well, we've got
a lot of people who are basically squatters. They came
here from other countries and they're squatting, and all those
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buildings should be converted to to decent housing. I mean,
you cannot have an underclass of a million, two million,
four million, whatever the total is. I know it's a
million just in La county, and I think it's four
million in the state or three or four million from
what I've read. Plus there's not even any way to
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count this know for sure, that's what you have, this
whole underclass. And what's that doing that that's not benefit? Yeah,
it benefits you because you don't have to pay for
your own gardener or pay for your own.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Housekeeper.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Right, But do you realize how much you're paying in
taxes to cover the thirty five billion every year? That's
over ten percent of our budget. That's over ten percent
of your taxes. You're not saving anything. Well, then the
list will be too much, the tomatoes will be too much.
You know how much it is to provide healthcare for
(27:58):
millions of illegal aliens. You know how much it is
to provide to provide not in the medical care, but
but but schooling.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I'm noticing the traffics lighter. I'm probably saving an hour
a week now.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
In driving LA schools are back in session. I think
we're screwed.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Well, that's the big test, because you're right. I don't
know for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I think the the UH the raids have lightened the
traffic quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Maybe, but school you know, you and I always talk
about this, but with school being out a session, a man,
I know a lot of school districts are in session now,
but I think LA is maybe next week or the
week after.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I think next week that'll be the test.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Oh see, you're listening to John cobelts on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock and
in a little while the podcast will be available on
the iHeart app John Cobelt's Show on Demand. So we're
just talking about how you know, here in Los Angeles,
too many people have created this slave culture, so illegal
aliens can stand around and do heavy labor at people's homes,
(29:16):
make very little money, and everybody seems to be cool
with that, right, same crowd who would probably fight for reparations,
but suddenly the modern day slave labor is not something
they object to. And in Spain, I love it when
people get fed up and start taking action themselves, like
(29:36):
I loved it earlier this week when we found out
that the that in Studio City, a group of homeowners
got sick of a guy stealing their mail.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Every day.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
He'd stolen a mail key from a up a male worker.
He stole the key and he's stealing the mail every day,
and a group of homeowners went after him and just
pepper sprayed him, roughed them up, chased him away. I
don't think they've caught him yet though, but it was
fun hearing him scream from the paper from the pepper spray.
(30:13):
And also the intruder got shot by a studio city homeowner.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And then in.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Spain where a lot of illegal aliens crossed the water
from North Africa, and there's a video going around showing
a black motor boat pulling up to Sotillo Beach in
the town of Casteal de Ferro and several migrants from
North Africa dove into the sea fully clothed and started
(30:40):
swimming towards shore and they were being chased by law enforcement.
Law enforcement was waiting for them on the beach and
then the people sunbathing on the beach joined the chase.
They joined with the local police. One video shows a
man in a bathing suit who tackled the migrants, held
(31:03):
him to the ground with his knee and his just
drilled his knee into the guy's back until they handed
him over to Spain's Civil Guard One witness described the
scene as surreal. We all stood there staring, not quite
knowing what was happening. It was a recreational boat, but
(31:25):
when people started to throw objects into the water started
getting out, we realized it wasn't normal, said a restaurant
owner who has his place on the beach front. What
surprised us most The boat was moving very slowly. They
weren't in a hurry or afraid. They went where they where.
There were more people, as if nothing had happened. And
(31:48):
I guess they thought they were just gonna pull up
on the beach and blend into the crowd. But the
police happened to be there. That alerted the beach goers
and everybody chased.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
This chased the.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Migrants, the migrants. Migrants ended up getting getting arrested, and
the guys driving the boat turned around and got out
of there. But you know this is you want to
keep one on order here, you have to demand it
and you have to do it yourself. Sometimes can't just
(32:20):
you know, scrawl on the internet all day. Vote for morons.
You vote for morons and government. Then you stand around
looking at the degradation of the city or the county
or the state, and then bitch about it all the time.
It's like, well, no, you voted badly. This is the consequence.
Now you could do something about it. All right, we
(32:41):
come back. It's going to be Conway. Tim Conway's next
and see you tomorrow. And Michael Krozer is the News
Live and the KFI twenty four hour newsroun. Hey, you've
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on every day from one until four o'clock,
and after four o'clock it's John Cobelt's show on demand
on the iHeart app. Getting an Uber ride can be
a really creepy experience, especially if you're a woman. Yes,
(00:22):
you ever been in a creepy Uber ride? Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Not creepy, But sometimes they are kind of chatty, and
I don't I just I don't feel like chatty.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I don't like being spoken to. You have to check
the box.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
They have a little quick survey they ask when you
book a ride. Yeah, and it's about the driver talking,
and it's like, no, no, I don't want to talk.
And if I forget to check the box, I always
get somebody who can't shut up.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I don't think I saw that when I last took
an Uber.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh yeah, yeah. They're settings like would you want air
conditioning or heat?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You know you want music or no music?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I know, rolling out something where you can ask for
a female.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah yeah, And well I think that it triggered this
this story here. They Uber has been overwhelmed with sexual
assault cases. But they've managed to keep the records sealed
for many years, and now they're unsealing some of the records.
(01:26):
And you're not going to believe this Uber, And this
is Uber's own documents. Uber received a report of sexual
assault or sexual misconduct almost every eight minutes on average
in a six year period from twenty seventeen to twenty
twenty two. Now, these weren't all physical sexual assaults. Some
(01:51):
of it was just uncomfortable behavior, but twenty five percent,
we're serious. And I see the guys who come I
used to see the kind of guys who come in
pick me up and a lot of weirdos. And usually
their their car is unclean, it smells bad. They've got
(02:16):
some weird incense hanging in the air, and maybe they're
burning stage.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Or they're disguising their bo.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Or it may be their bo. It's usually cigarettes too. Yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
They got strange music playing, or they'll have a religious
station on and you've got people howling, howling, howling, Yeah,
you know, like gospel singing, but I mean just or
sometimes just howling, And I'm really uncomfortable. I do not
like being on rides with strangers. I don't like being
on buses. I don't like being on subways. I actually
(02:53):
like taxis better. Like often when I land at the airport,
I go to the taxi stand because those guys are
employed by a company. There are real employee, and they
have their their ID badges there and they have you know,
a special license number, and I just feel better because
they got to report to somebody, and they were also
went through some kind of vetting process, even minimally right.
(03:15):
But Uber drivers, there's nothing. It's weird guys who like
to drive around at two in the morning and they
live in dirty apartments.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Not all.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I'm sure there's some very hard Uber driver's job. I
know it's a second or third job for them. I
don't they're upstanding citizens.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I got the ones who are thinking, are are dodging
law enforcement? I'm serious. I get guys who just completely
frequent everything insane.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Is there a setting where you can say please, no convicts?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Well was going to show up then.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So Uber has been testing certain tools to make trips safer,
certain types of algorithms, video recording, pairing female passengers with
female drivers, But Uber, in a lot of cases never
required excuse me, never requires drivers to adopt some of
(04:17):
these programs, nor did it warrant passengers about certain factors
that would indicate that an attack was possible. So they
identify you know, when you get it, when do you
get a sexual issue?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Every eight minutes?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You have a lot of data you can analyze, and
they made some conclusions, but they never told the customers
and hundreds of the records have been under seal. There
is a large scale sexual assault litigation case against Uber
going on. Part of it is they of course never
(04:54):
wanted to have their drivers be employees. They wanted to
be contractors, which means you don't have to pay benefits
or overtime. Also means the drivers are minimally supervised and
not subject to the same labor rules. Now listen to this,
and they found this in writing. Our purpose and goal
(05:15):
is not to be the police. This is according to
a twenty twenty one brainstorming document, our bar is much lower.
Our goal is to protect the company and get this
set a tolerable risk level for our operations. You understand
that ubers Uber's goal was to set a tolerable risk
(05:39):
level for sexual assault of their female customers. Well, once
this leaked out, Uber's current had a safety. Hannah Nile says, well,
there is no tolerable level of sexual assault. Well, that's
not what it said. That's not what it said in
the in your internal memo, a tolerable risk. So four
(06:05):
hundred thousand eighty one Uber trips resulted in reports of
sexual assault or sexual misconduct. Now some three quarters are
considered less serious. It's about making, uh like, creepy comments
about somebody's appearance, using explicit language or flirting. I don't
(06:28):
know what what point flirting becomes sexual misconduct.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I don't think we Well, it can depending on what
is said.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh, I know that that's a that's a gray zone though.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And you know it is, It's true what what somebody
may feel is flirting or inappropriate, somebody else doesn't.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
It doesn't penetrate. Yeah, maybe that wasn't the right word.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Either, but ah, but but I made you the tolerable
risk level. It was in an Uber memo that that
our goal is to protect the company and set the
tolerable risk level for our operations.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, they don't want their drivers hurt either, I mean,
you know, they're crazy people to get into ubers.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The attacks typically her late at night or on the
weekend with pickups originating near a bar.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Here's a big surprise.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, and the vast majority of cases the offenders are men.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
That's not surprising.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
What was the last time a female uber driver attacked
a guy sexually? Has that ever happened?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't think so with uh? And and and if
she did, who's calling in that complaint?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
A whisp? No, that's me to say.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
No, if somebody was attacked, if a guy was attacked
by a woman, Huh, yes, absolutely, that person should call
it in.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Maybe if she was a big woman.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
That was very mean. Your meanness is spreading.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No, that was two in this conversation. Yeah, I know, Yeah,
it's two. They they're men, either the drivers or the passengers.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
H And what do you know?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Intoxicated passengers are especially vulnerable. You know, a woman who's
drank too much should not get into the backseat of
an uber with a.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Guy, but you know, driving their own car either, I know,
what are your options?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
No good options there?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
In fact, a drunken woman shouldn't trust her male friends
at two o'clock in the morning if she's loaded. Now,
listen to this. Here here is one driver. The woman
gets picked up at eight fifty three pm. She wants
to be dropped off at a house twenty two minutes away,
but the trip diverged and Uber started setting sending the
(09:00):
woman automated notifications to check on her, but she didn't respond,
and the ride continued to deviate from its route, and
by nine point thirty it stopped near a motel six.
Uber kept sending electronic notifications. Well, what's that going to do.
You're just going to get a bubble on your phone
screen and it's going to go ding.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Why don't you send a police card to the location.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yes, that's what I thought, And then they kept contacting
her with a roboclaw She didn't pick up. And this
this drive, this ride lasted until two in the morning.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
What were they doing?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I don't know. I mean, maybe she was in on it,
maybe she maybe she was. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
She liked except the driver had received two previous activate
accusations of sexual misconduct for inappropriate comments.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Another twenty two minute ride had lasted about five hours.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
So then why is this and still driving for Uber?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Because Uber didn't care, they didn't do anything about it.
In fact, the report asked, are our actions or lack
of actions? Defensible. The first thing they did is they
went to an attorney and said, okay, well, yes, the
guy disappeared for five hours, ended up in a motel six.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We didn't do anything about it. Is that defensible? Yeah?
I don't know. I was never I was never thrilled
by the uber phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, I thought it was pretty cool, but you take
your chances.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Really, it's like, who's you know, who's available late at night?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
What's what's the what's the gene pool late at night? Right?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
No good thing happens late at night.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
No. I always told that to my sons.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It's kind of true.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I I kind of I always said, nothing good happens
after midnight. Yeah, more coming up.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
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Speaker 2 (11:02):
If you want to call the moist line, these are
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hour eight seven seven Moist eighty six, eight seven seven
moist eighty six, or usually talkback feature on the iHeart
radio app. We were talking a few days ago about
how there's one Google ex Google executive who said it's
(11:26):
going to start in twenty twenty seven, and it's going
to be the destruction of the middle class white collar
office jobs because of AI that the technology advances over
the past decades went after a lot of blue collar
manual labor, you know, technology so that machines can do
(11:47):
the work rather than humans, rather than big strong men.
Need fewer of those. Now, well, this wave of AI
is going to go after people who work in cubicles,
people who stare at screens all day. And here's an example.
And I hope I don't run into this. You know
(12:10):
what it's like traveling long distances, right, Yeah, And you're
in a strange city going to a hotel you've never
been to before. You're tired, you feel just ragged and dirty,
just want to get to your room. You go up
to the receptionist desk. And if you go to the
Lakita in in sweets in Miami, there's no receptionist to
(12:35):
greet you anymore. Nobody is it a robot. It's a screen.
There's a kiosk attached to a credit card machine. It
says check in and check out here, and you start.
You stick in your credit card and you get this
young guy with a foreign accent, looks like he's in
(12:57):
India or somewhere in that region, wearing a headset, and
he comes on the screen to guide you through the process.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You're kidding.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
No, Now, So you're checking into Miami hotel and you're
talking to somebody ten thousand miles away looking at a camera.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
And when you have questions about the location that you're at,
the person in India is.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Going to have no clue.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, ask some questions about, well, what kind of tourist
attractions are there in the air?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
No, a good restaurant.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Can you send somebody from the US here please?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Can you send somebody up to my room? You know,
I need some more pillows, I need a new sheet.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Somebody has happened to a real person, a remote receptionist,
and they took a video the whole thing, and two
million people have already viewed it and nobody seems to
like it. One person wrote, the reason for a desk
is like having a dormant and an apartment building security.
I wouldn't feel safe in a hotel without without a staff,
(14:00):
because there's no there's nobody in charge.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
You have cockroaches in your room. Who are you gonna
call about that?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Can't call anybody, call a guy in India.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And some people don't even think it was a real
guy and they think it was an artificial intelligence receptionist.
So they took it to Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, which
is the parent company of Lakita, and the spokesperson didn't
deny that they had this going on. We're where this
matter and are actively investigating. All Lakita Hotels are independently
(14:38):
owned and operated. This is a franchise situation, and they're
required to have a team member at the front desk
at all times.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, because what if some criminal comes in?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Uh huh, Well, you've called the guy in Pakistan, see
what he can do for you.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Sure, that's what life is.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Every time you need to talk to a human, no
matter what your business is, you end up being sent
to the other side of the world. It's somebody in
the Philippines, it's somebody in India, it's somebody it's always
in Asia because you know they have slave labor policies there.
Damn these American companies. So this is what this is
(15:19):
the AI world.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
We're gonna get The only thing about AI that I
like is when I go to Google and I ask
a question and then the answer gets you know, it's AI.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Right, that's all.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't want to taking anybody's jobs. I don't want
to take our job.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I don't know how long we can last year.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Before there's some AI generated posting newsperson that they designed
in Pakistan, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
This is this is just this is not better.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know. One of my sons, and my sons are
on there ties and I was talking about one of
them's in town this week and I said, I remember
my mother when she got to a certain age.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
She said, I don't recognize the world anymore.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Well, you've been saying that for a while.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And I go, now, I don't recognize the world anymore.
And he goes. My son says, I don't recognize the world.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
That's so sad.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It's so different than it.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Was, you know, even ten to fifteen years ago. And
he said the same thing I did. It's not better.
That's the thing. I realized. It's maybe cheaper and more
efficient for the companies, but it's not better.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Right again, we talked about this the other day. You're
going to have so many people out of work. They're
going to be god knows doing what. You're eliminating so
many jobs. What are you expecting humans to do?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
All the out of work young men in the world,
what are they going to do?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
It's not just men, it's women too.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yeah, but men are dangerous when they have nothing to do.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Except I told you, I'm watching hunting wives and this,
this line cracked me up when somebody asked these women,
so what do you do for work? And they said,
we we wife, We don't work, we wife, we wife,
we wife.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I did.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Ly wife wife.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'll bring that. I'll bring that line home. You do that,
I think you should wife today.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, that's gonna go over real.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Well do wife work? We don't work, we wane wife.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I don't know what that means, but it sounds. It
sounds intriguing. Glad you told me about one of the scenes. Yeah, well,
if that's part of wife work.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Then you can thank Shannon Farren because she's the one
that got me hooked on.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
You guys watch a lot of dirty shows.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yeah, I know it's all Shannon's and.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You never say no, no, I don't all right, Uh but.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But well, what I was gonna say is how long
does this go on? And you have all those people unemployed,
all that young energy, all that testosterone before they go
and they overthrow all the tech companies and there's this
massive rebellion against the tech world in the AI world. Yeah,
that's what I think is gonna happen. I think you're
(18:15):
right because you can't change it. You can't deprive human
nature of its purpose. And just you can't just send
him a check for a universal income I had a
couple of guys tell me this one day and a
long time and they were just it's just years ago,
and they go, oh, no, everybody will get a universal
income check. And and so you don't have to worry
about money, right the tech companies will be making quadrillions
of dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
How much money would we get? And then how much
are we talking?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Oh, not to cover your fashion bill. But there's.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
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Speaker 1 (18:54):
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John Cobel Show on demand, and it's going to be
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catch up on what you missed. All the media outlets
covered this story. The number of illegal aliens that were
(19:17):
arrested in the Los Angeles area dropped in the month
of July, and the federal agents had arrested twenty almost
twenty eight hundred illegal aliens in the seven counties around
LA since June sixth, but it dropped from June, dropped
(19:43):
from twenty eight hundred to thirteen hundred, and that's because
the Border Patrol the ICE agents decided to back off.
After that judge issued a temporary restraining order that you
can't do indiscriminate raids rounding people up just because they
(20:04):
happen to be standing around a home depot looking for work.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
They took it to a.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Court of appeals the Trump administration, and the Court of
Appeals upheld the temporary restraining order. Now Trump is asking
the US Supreme Court to lift that restraining order so
that federal agents can make arrests with the raids that
(20:31):
they were executing back in June, that they are being
carried out with probable clause.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
It's an emergency petition.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And they're going directly now to try to get not
to litigate the whole issue yet, but just to get
the temporary restraining order lifted. This case involves a district
court injunction that threatens to upend immigration officials' ability to
enforce the law in the Central District of California by
hanging the prospect of contempt over every investigative stop of
(21:08):
a suspected illegal alien.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That's what it says.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
And uh, you know, I uh I said, I said
yesterday on the air, and I think this is the
clip that Eric used on our on Instagram, is that
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I don't care anymore if if.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Ice agents are violating the constitution, I don't think they are.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
But I'm not a judge, but I really, I really don't.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I think there's so much law not being enforced that
why why why are we picking knits over this? They're
here illegally, They're they're not. Are are they deporting US citizens?
Are they deporting Green card holders? Are they are they
deporting anybody who are is on a legitimate visa of
(21:55):
any kind, anybody with real legal protection? Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
They or not? So it looks like they must have.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Reasonable suspicion because, as far as I know, the sixteen
guys they picked up at the home depot, they were
sixteen for sixteen. All of them were illegal aliens. So
if they were using some kind of illegal stereotype, how
did they hit sixteen out of sixteen?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Imagine that?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And I think the key was it's they lured the
illegals to that pedske truck by the driver offering him work,
and then they came all running to the truck and
that's when the guys jumped out of the back. Apparently
whatever I said yesterday drew a lot of contentious comments
on Instagram?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Is that right, Eric? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, people not happy. People didn't agree with your sentiments. No, well,
I'm glad they're still listening. Yeah, or at least they're
on their feed.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I can't believe somebody doesn't agree with John on something.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
You know that almost never happens, That's what I'm so sure.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
They usually agree with you.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Well, they should, they should, But I'm right, well not always,
not always.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
No, I say ninety nine percent of the.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Time I'm right, maybe ninety five.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I am right.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
The only way to pick up the illegal aliens is
to monitor their behavior. And if you're standing around who
all right, let me ask you this. Do you know
anybody in your life who stands around a home depot waiting,
waiting for work, waiting for a stranger to show up
at a pickup truck. They coax you in so you
could spend the day doing what?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
But I know people that pick them up?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Oh yeah, oh sure.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
But then there's another way to look at it. They
are there at least they want to work, right, They're
trying to find work.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah, but they can't be self sufficient or it wouldn't
be spending thirty five billion dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Totally understand that.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I'm just saying that some people they don't want to work, right,
They want to just collect the welfare check and they
don't want to work.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
These guys are trying to, you know, make some money.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
You know what people are cool with too, And I
don't understand it. This is a massive slave labor market
that we have set up in this country. All those
laborers at the home depot, they're getting paid garbage. I
know when I go to the car wash, those guys
are getting paid garbage. They're hoping for good tips.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I was going to say they rely on tips, right,
But I.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Don't understand why.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Why is everybody okay with this modern form of slavery
that's become part of the culture that we have an
entire political party approving. The same political party that screams
about slave reparations is happy to create a new generation
of slaves imported from another country.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Because people don't want to pay all that money for
their gardeners, their housekeepers, their nannies, and the people washing
their cars. Everybody's used to paying what they're paying, and
can you imagine it triples quadruples.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And they all can afford it, especially on my side
of town.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Of course your side of town.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
If you can't afford it, do like my dad did,
push the lawnmower around on the front lawn. That's what
you do. Wash your own freaking dishes. I wash my
own dishes. It's not that hard. I don't understand. Actually,
it's just laziness. They want slaves because they're too lazy
to do physical labor around the house and on their property.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Well, I wouldn't say they're slaves because they are.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Getting paid, yeah, but it's really terrible wages and you know,
then we got to give them, you know, free healthcare
from beginning to end. I mean, it's just ridiculous. It's
a ridiculous system. That we could have work programs for people,
(26:02):
and we could have you know, earned work credits that
lead to a green card and citizenship. But this, this
this completely uncontrolled system of literally millions of people. And
I thought of this the other day too. Everybody screams
about how housing is unaffordable here. Well, if we didn't
(26:23):
have a million extra people living here illegally.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
How many homes and apartments would that open up?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I mean, you'd have entire neighborhoods that you could build
affordable housing, and you could you could have a significant
impact on bringing down the overall price of housing by
building more homes. That's the only way to bring down
the price of housing. In southern California. Well, we've got
a lot of people who are basically squatters. They came
here from other countries and they're squatting, and all those
(26:53):
buildings should be converted to to decent housing. I mean,
you cannot have an underclass of a million, two million,
four million, whatever the total is. I know it's a
million just in La county, and I think it's four
million in the state or three or four million from
what I've read. Plus there's not even any way to
(27:14):
count this know for sure, that's what you have, this
whole underclass. And what's that doing that that's not benefit? Yeah,
it benefits you because you don't have to pay for
your own gardener or pay for your own.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Housekeeper.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Right, But do you realize how much you're paying in
taxes to cover the thirty five billion every year? That's
over ten percent of our budget. That's over ten percent
of your taxes. You're not saving anything. Well, then the
list will be too much, the tomatoes will be too much.
You know how much it is to provide healthcare for
(27:58):
millions of illegal aliens. You know how much it is
to provide to provide not in the medical care, but
but but schooling.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I'm noticing the traffics lighter. I'm probably saving an hour
a week now.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
In driving LA schools are back in session. I think
we're screwed.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Well, that's the big test, because you're right. I don't
know for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I think the the UH the raids have lightened the
traffic quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Maybe, but school you know, you and I always talk
about this, but with school being out a session, a man,
I know a lot of school districts are in session now,
but I think LA is maybe next week or the
week after.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I think next week that'll be the test.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Oh see, you're listening to John cobelts on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock and
in a little while the podcast will be available on
the iHeart app John Cobelt's Show on Demand. So we're
just talking about how you know, here in Los Angeles,
too many people have created this slave culture, so illegal
aliens can stand around and do heavy labor at people's homes,
(29:16):
make very little money, and everybody seems to be cool
with that, right, same crowd who would probably fight for reparations,
but suddenly the modern day slave labor is not something
they object to. And in Spain, I love it when
people get fed up and start taking action themselves, like
(29:36):
I loved it earlier this week when we found out
that the that in Studio City, a group of homeowners
got sick of a guy stealing their mail.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Every day.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
He'd stolen a mail key from a up a male worker.
He stole the key and he's stealing the mail every day,
and a group of homeowners went after him and just
pepper sprayed him, roughed them up, chased him away. I
don't think they've caught him yet though, but it was
fun hearing him scream from the paper from the pepper spray.
(30:13):
And also the intruder got shot by a studio city homeowner.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And then in.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Spain where a lot of illegal aliens crossed the water
from North Africa, and there's a video going around showing
a black motor boat pulling up to Sotillo Beach in
the town of Casteal de Ferro and several migrants from
North Africa dove into the sea fully clothed and started
(30:40):
swimming towards shore and they were being chased by law enforcement.
Law enforcement was waiting for them on the beach and
then the people sunbathing on the beach joined the chase.
They joined with the local police. One video shows a
man in a bathing suit who tackled the migrants, held
(31:03):
him to the ground with his knee and his just
drilled his knee into the guy's back until they handed
him over to Spain's Civil Guard One witness described the
scene as surreal. We all stood there staring, not quite
knowing what was happening. It was a recreational boat, but
(31:25):
when people started to throw objects into the water started
getting out, we realized it wasn't normal, said a restaurant
owner who has his place on the beach front. What
surprised us most The boat was moving very slowly. They
weren't in a hurry or afraid. They went where they where.
There were more people, as if nothing had happened. And
(31:48):
I guess they thought they were just gonna pull up
on the beach and blend into the crowd. But the
police happened to be there. That alerted the beach goers
and everybody chased.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
This chased the.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Migrants, the migrants. Migrants ended up getting getting arrested, and
the guys driving the boat turned around and got out
of there. But you know this is you want to
keep one on order here, you have to demand it
and you have to do it yourself. Sometimes can't just
(32:20):
you know, scrawl on the internet all day. Vote for morons.
You vote for morons and government. Then you stand around
looking at the degradation of the city or the county
or the state, and then bitch about it all the time.
It's like, well, no, you voted badly. This is the consequence.
Now you could do something about it. All right, we
(32:41):
come back. It's going to be Conway. Tim Conway's next
and see you tomorrow. And Michael Krozer is the News
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