February 7, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (02/07) - Mark Thompson fills in for John. The Super Bowl is Sunday. Pres. Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub says that Pres. Trump's attempt to remove her from office is illegal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can'tf I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Mark Thompson's sitting in for John. And it is Super
Bowl weekend. It's fair to say that there is much anticipation,
a lot of emotion. There are people rooting against the
Kansas City Chiefs just because they feel that the Chiefs
have been given the benefit of the refs. Ducas sports,
this looks to be a legitimate controversy that's emerging. I mean,
(00:29):
I've never seen this Chiefs team kind of take on
the haters like they are this year.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
They've played the Eagles before in the Super Bowl, haven't they.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Last year or two years ago? Years? Excuse me? And
who won that one? Eric? The Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
The Chiefs are going for a three peat, so three
in a row. They beat the forty nine ers last year,
the Eagles of the year before that. And I mean,
this whole rest controversy, I don't really play too much
into it. I mean, every team benefits from a good
caller a bad call. It kind of kind of just
happens in sports.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
You don't see the Chiefs of having benefited more than
their opponents.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Maybe, but it saw that Bills game. It's looked to
me like, I don't know, man, that was a yeah,
that was that was a tough one.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
That was a tough one, and you hate you hate
that it happens to be that the refs are the
storyline when it should be the players on the field, right,
But I don't really pay too much attention to the
ref stuff. I mean, the Chiefs were the best team
all year besides the Eagles. Obviously, this is I think
the worst Chiefs team that has been in the Super
(01:40):
Bowl as of recent but this Chiefs team also won
the most game in franchise history this season, so it's
like they might not be as good as other teams,
but they still won more games than other teams in
the past that the Chiefs have had. So it's it's
kind of an interesting dynamic here. Yeah, that's a really
good way to put it too. The gamblers are split
in the early way during Yeah. ESPN actually earlier today
(02:03):
moved the line to even no favorite nobody's favorite, no,
and then they just changed the line again to Kansas
City minus one, so the Eagles would be one point underdogs,
Chiefs one point favorites. FanDuel and DraftKings have the Chiefs
favored by minus a point and a half. So if
you want to go the FanDuel DraftKings route and get
(02:24):
an extra half a point, you can go that way.
If you want to go to ESPN Bet route, you
can get the Chiefs for a point. But unfortunately sports
gambling here in California is not legal. So not legal,
so you'll have to meet Rudy in the alley. If
you want to get paid, text a friend in a
state that is legal and slip them your bets and
send them a Venmo.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You never know that might work too.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Have I told you the story about having to pay
off my booky across the street from Fox eleven where
I would used to be working. No, let me just
tell the story quickly. I'll promise I'll keep it quick.
I used to work at Fox eleven for many years,
twenty three years. I was there and at ten o'clock news,
and so around nine o'clock on Tuesdays, I would meet
the bookie and give him an envelope of money. Okay,
(03:07):
And it was across the street at the Chevron station.
It's still there on Olympic and Bundy. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay.
So that's Chevron Stations where i'd meet the book. And
then he started, he said, I'm going to start sending
my assistant. Do you mind if I send my you know,
somebody else I can't meet you. I said, oh, that's
no problem, that's fine. So every Tuesday would go there,
and I was in a coat and tie of course,
(03:28):
because i'm you know, on the news in at ten o'clock,
so it's an hour away, and so I usually was
you know, dressed for you know, camera ready. Anyway, I
go meet this new guy and he shows up in
this beatter car, this white beater car, and he gets out.
He's a little guy and he walks a little limp
and stuff. Very nice guy. And I give him the envelope.
(03:49):
And I meet him the next week and I'm giving
him avelope again because I'm a losing gambler.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Every week I'm giving him an envelope. And then he.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I remember a we skip week and I called the
book and I said, hey, just a question. He doesn't
it's just awkward for me to be meeting him. He
doesn't know who I am, so you can doesn't have
a TV. This guy doesn't know he forget it, don't
even worry about it. So then the following week I
meet him. I'm waiting at the gas station, which is
(04:19):
humiliating in itself because you've got to pay somebody there,
and I'm hear my coat and tie, and there comes
the white Beater car and he gets out of the car,
and this time he gets out with a little girl,
and he walks up to me and says, Mark, would
you take a picture with my daughter?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Please?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Oh my goodness, he knew who you were the whole time.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Joh I said, please get a picture of me giving
her the envelope. Could yeah, anyway, that was my But
you will have to find your own guy like that
in California because gambling is illegal, as Eric is noted.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
So I guess the deal here is.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
The bets within the bet like Saquon Barkley, and you
can just make bets within your friends and you know
you don't have to go with some gambling operation. This guy,
Saquon Barkley is insanely talented, right.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yes, almost broke the rushing record this year.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And there are bets along the lines of will Jalen Hurtz,
who is a quarterback of the Eagles have more rushing
yards than Patrick Mahomes. Both of them are big runners
on their own, right, Yep, I think it's really hard
to say how the Eagles will play with the kind
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of threat that Saquon Barkley is. You tend to just
give him the ball, right and if he for some
reason the Chiefs jam him. I guess what would you say, Eric?
Then you then that opens up a lane for Hurts
to run it. Also, it opens up a lane for
Hurts to run.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It opens up a lane for Hurts to throw it
to aj Brown or Davonte Smith, two very dynamic receivers
that the Eagles have. But I mean, realistically, I think
the are gonna ride Saquon Barkley like they have all season,
and until someone stops Saquon, I don't know if anybody can.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And it's their offensive line, right. They've got guys blocking
for him that are immense and talented.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, what about Taylor Swift's boyfriend, Travis Kelcey, how do
you see him figuring into this contest?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I mean, he's going to have to get a touchdown
on Super Bowl Sunday with her in the audience.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You kind of just have to put that in stone already.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
He had an interesting season, just as you said, like,
this isn't the best Chief team and this isn't the
best Kelsey season, is it.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, he kinda has taken a step back, but in
terms of like production in numbers, but what he means
to that team and just having him out there and
the other team having to account for him does wonders
for everybody else on the team because it'll open up
the run game with Isaiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt. You
got Xavier Worthy another receiver, you got Juji Smith Schuster,
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another receiver for the Chief. So just having Travis Kelcey
out there, they're and the other team having to worry
about them kind of makes things easier for the other
guys on the team.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The game is run on computer on all of these
sites that no doubt, if you're into football at all,
you may or and you're certainly if you're into wagering,
you look at it like they run computer simulations. So
if you run this contest with all of these specifics
one hundred thousand times, you know, I wonder what team prevails?
(07:31):
Do you know the answer.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I'm going to guess that the simulation says the Chiefs win.
But I don't know the simulation that you have right
in front of you. So I will look and I
will share. When we come back, I will give you
the computer simulation. They run it again tens of thousands
of times, and which team prevails I will tell you next.
(07:57):
And then I will ask the Duke of Sports for
his prediction that he'll have to live with come Monday.
You will share that with us next as well. It's
KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Six forty the John Coblt Show, Mark Thompsons sitting in
for John Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, the super Bowl is coming up. It's Sunday, as
you know, and all the good Patriots, and I'm not
talking about the New England Patriots. I'm talking about you,
as an American patriot. You must watch, well, at least
go to a party and pretend to watch, pretend to care.
The Duke of Sports is here. It's about to make
his prediction.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So close.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I mean, you've seen the line bounce back and forth,
the gambling line. It's been a point and a half
and even money. Now back to a point. The Chiefs
are favored by a point, and so I ask you,
Duke of Sports, what do you like as the outcome?
(09:03):
Make your prediction, tell us what will happen.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I think the Chiefs achieve the first ever three pete
in NFL history. The Eagles are a great team. They've
been on an amazing run. Saquon Barkley had an MVP
like season. He didn't win the MVP last night. Josh
Allen from the Buffalo Bills won the MVP last night
at the NFL Honors Awards. But Saquon almost broke the
rushing record from held by Eric Dickerson. Obviously la Ram legend.
(09:32):
But I just think the Chiefs are going to figure
out a way to get it done. I think the
final score is twenty eight to twenty one.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
The over under for this game is forty eight and
a half, so I have it at just at forty
nine going over.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So take the over and the Chiefs, Yeah, says the Duke.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah, that's my prediction.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
In computer simulations, they run a ten thousand times, all
the different minutia, all of the different elements they know about.
Isaiah Pacheco they know about Patrick Mahomes, they know about
Jalen Hurts, they know about Saquon Barkley. They put it
all into the computer and they also have the chiefs prevailing.
(10:22):
That makes me feel so much better. There you go.
Your computer may vary, but that's what this computer simulation says.
So secure in the fact that that's the prediction. Now
we must play the game. By the way, I found
your super Bowl ad with the Budweiser Clydesdale just to
(10:47):
make you feel that America hasn't lost its way. You'll
still have your Clydesdale Budweiser ad during the Super Bowl game.
Here's what it will it will sound like anyway.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Oh, it's still too little buddy.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
That's the keg of the of Budwiser.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It strikes me that this ad may need some explanation
as opposed to just play the audio.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
The idea is that it's a nostalgic pull of the
Clydesdale on nosing a keg across the countryside. And then
that song that you're hearing is the Bellamy Brothers song There's.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
A reason or the Sunshine Guy, and there's a reason
why I'm feeling so high must be the season when.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The so.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And so you'll have your Clydesdale nosing okay, across the
country road to the sound of the Bellamie Brothers and
celebrate America. That's your Budweiser ad mark. We haven't talked
about my favorite bet though.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
What is that? What color gatorade gets dumped on the
winning coach?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now, purple was the uh color of the gatorade in
the last two Super Bowls?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Am I right? Yeah? So you go with trend or
do you go with changing it up? I'm going light
blue this year. Oh light blue.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Now you may think that this is a silly thing,
but you can bet on this. You can bet on
the coin toss. I think you should bet on the
coin toss. It may be the best bet in the
whole house.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
So much fun. Yeah, I do recommend.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
What Eric's talking about, would you, is making some side
bets that are paid off early. Like the thing about
you know, betting on the game is you won't really
know whether you want until the end of the game.
Now that's great, it's a great sweat, you know, great
way to watch the game, But it's fun too early
on have things pay off like the coin flip or
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the national anthem? How long does that take? The over
under on that? Yeah, and the national anthem length, I
believe you can, at least at my site that I
believe I bet on the only but I think they
really limit it.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Yes, Yeah, most of these prop bets in terms of
like Gatorade color coin toss, national anthem, does the ref
drop the ball or something like that, You can really
only bet a certain amount on that. That type of stuff,
so the books don't let you go too crazy on that. Yeah,
but the prop bets are really fun.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It makes it a lot of fun to watch the
game and have a little bit of extraction on the side.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, exactly. And you don't have to be a football
fan to bet on the coin flip. You don't have
to know anything, right, which I do think you know
changes things enormously. It's interesting. I was just looking at
predictions and odds from big odd makers, odds makers from
MGM bet, MGM, NFL odds. There is their predictions and
(14:19):
their layouts from a couple Tyler Dragon Eagles have a
better roster. Saquon Barkley has had an unbelievable year in
the backfield, but not betting against Patrick Mahomes and the
Chiefs sort of again kind of what the Duke was saying,
Chief twenty seven Eagles twenty four. Again, that would mean
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the Chiefs would cover the game twenty spread. Jordan Mendoza says,
does NFL history finally happen at Super Bowl fifty nine.
No matter that circumstance, Kansas City has continuously found a
way to win in the postseason, even if there's some controversy.
The Chiefs defense will have their hands full trying to
defend Saquon and company off to an electric performance. Game
(15:03):
will really fall on Jalen Hurts whether he's able to
orchestrate a passing game that makes life tough for Case.
It's another Super Bowl that comes down to the final minute,
says Jordan Mendoz. Philadelphia goes down the field, gets the
winning score to get revenge on Case and win in
this Super Bowl. Twenty seven to twenty five is what
(15:26):
he says. It does feel like it's going to be
a close game. That's why I particularly like your prediction,
oh Duke of Sports. Well, thank you, Mark, because you've
really You've got the Chiefs winning by a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I think it will come down to a tight game
at the end where one team will have a chance
to win, and I ultimately think the Chiefs will win.
But realistically, what I think will happen is whoever has
the ball last will win. Obviously, whoever has the ball
last will win, but I think I think it's going
to be the Chiefs at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, I mean, I think that's a really good take,
which is that you know it's going to be a
possession game, and so I mean I'd love to see
a really close game. The championships game. The championship games
were terrific. Yes, So are you looking forward to the
halftime show? Remind me, Kendrick Lamar, I guess not. Then
(16:23):
I guess not. Then are you I'm very much looking
forward to So I should be, is what you're saying. Yeah,
I think it's going to be a really great performance.
I think these halftime shows are insanely great. I mean,
I don't care who the performer is. It's insanely complicated.
The choreography, the lighting, the setup, it's unreal.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Well, and I think we were talking about it last
week when we were talking about the Fire Aid concert.
The fact that all the behind the scenes and production
stuff they have to squeeze that in. I know they
extend halftime a little bit for the Super Bowl because
of the performance. But being able to put all of
that together and building the set and everything in that
short amount of time while having to fit the constraints
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of a game, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, it really is. It's a true tour to force.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah, and what a It's such a great thing to
be part of for all of these performers, you know
what I mean. That's why I think the performers of
I want to say they perform for free or close
to free.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
They pay for all of the production costs. They do
not get paid by the NFL who performs at the
Super Bowl. They basically the NFL basically says, hey, we're
not going to pay you, but the amount of exposure
you are about to get will pay off tenfold in
the long run. Afterwards, they're probably right, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
All right, there's a little bit of Super Bowl. If
we have time, we'll we'll share some more ads with you.
But it's still Look, this is the American pastime, America sport,
and it's the crescendo weekend for it. Super Bowl Sunday
game starts at three thirty. By the way, if you're
if you're wondering, you'll see six thirty posters. But remember
those times are Eastern, so it's three thirds in the West.
(18:01):
It's John Cobelt Show, Mark Thompson sitting in for John
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Six forty Mark Thompson sitting in for John. And it
has been quite a week. It has been a busy
week in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nett and Yahoo
meeting with President Trump and President Trump making that shocking announcement.
I mean, it was certainly not anticipated that America would
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seek ownership of the Gaza strip and move out the population,
and the pushback has been immense. But before I even
get to any conversation about that, did you see what
Prime Minister net and Yahoo gave Trump? Sort of like
the parting gift. It was like the I don't know,
(18:55):
the gift bag you get after the diplomatic teta tet
in Washington. It was a golden pager. He gave Trump
a golden pager. That's a reference to that September operation
carried out by Israel in Lebanon, and that targeted pagers
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used by members of Hezbolah, and those pagers, of course
went out by the thousands. They hit Hesbolah members that
had those pagers, and then walkie talkies a day later. Now,
the controversy associated with that was not just taking out
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terrorists but also taking out some children injured nearly three thousand,
some of them were civilian bystanders. This is again according
to Lebanese health authorities, but it was widely viewed by
those who are saying, look, we've lived with this threat
from Hesbolah for so long. It was widely viewed as
(19:59):
an incredibly ingenious victory. And that's the way Trump viewed it.
And that's of course the way Net Nyao who views
it as he gives Trump this golden pager sort of
to memorialize this remarkable operation.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Again, that's the way it was cast.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And Trump and Net Yowho have this remarkable relationship, to the.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Point that.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Trump gave net and Yawho a signed photograph of the
two of them together. He signed the photograph to be
be a great leader. So now that golden pager will
go into the treasure trove of stuff that Trump has
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as Trump begins to navigate this situation in the Middle East,
and it's unclear what will happen. I mean, you know,
let's face it, Gaza has been this cesspool for a
long time.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's been a essentially an incubation zone for terrorism.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Sophisticated tunneling has really been the source of so much
hurt from the standpoint of Israel. And of course the
October seventh attacks changed everything.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And so in the response to the.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
October seventh attacks, Gaza has become unlivable. Gaza has become
worse than ever before. And that birthed this notion that
Gaza is unlivable and we should take it over, and
with taking it over, we will get rid of and
move the indigenous population people who live there. Well, I mean,
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you know, you get all the pushback across the Arab world,
you get pushback across the civilized world. You get pushed
back along the lines of you can't move a population
out of an area. It's a sovereign nation. If you will,
it's a sovereign territory and because of that, it would
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be considered a war crime. So there is this weird
back and forth because even after the announcement from Donald Trump,
the White House the next day began to walk back
and soften the remarks of Trump, And in typical Trump fashion,
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he sort of took the position like, don't walk back
what I said. I meant what I said. We're going
to turn this thing into the riviera of the Middle East.
We are going to take charge of it. We'll clean
it up, we'll get it ready. And the only question
where there was waffling was will there be American troops there?
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I mean, there's tremendous pushback on this entire ideas, as
I said, But where you really see pushback from a
group of lawmakers who typically don't push back on this president,
I mean they are really I mean, let's face it,
everybody's in lockstep with the GOP, with Trump for any
number of reasons. For the first time you began to
see cracks in that choreography. They were saying, Hey, we're
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not sure we want to have American troops over there.
We don't want to put American troops in the Middle
East to begin with, we don't want to pay for this,
and Trump himself sort of suggests maybe there'll be troops there,
maybe there won't be troops there. So the whole situation
becomes an extremely difficult one to navigate, at least from
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the standpoint of just taking what people are.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Saying as their word.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Clearly, Donald Trump has a plan, and his plan is
very much consistent with the Net and Yahoo plan, which
is no more terrorism, no more Gaza being this incubator
for terrorism. We are going to reframe Gaza as a
different place. Now the specific says to what that different
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place will look like clearly Still the blueprints have yet
to be drawn up.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
But this was.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
An audacious kind of thing for Trump to say, and
he's not backing down from it. So the mainstream in
Israel doesn't even necessarily embrace this notion. But I would
say this about the Israeli street. If you'd pitch this
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three years ago, you would have gotten insane pushback on it. No,
can't do this. We're looking for a two state solution.
What's changed in Israel is what October seventh that changed everything,
And now the Israeli street has had enough, And so
there's still a huge constituency is in Israel that is
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sympathetic to a Palestinian cause. But there's also a bigger
constituency I would argue that is open to getting rid
of this problem now again, moving these people, you know,
from this area in which they lived to Jordan to Egypt.
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I don't know that that's ever going to happen. I
really don't. So I'm like you looking at this going wow,
that's that's at minimum an audacious plan. Maybe would you
consider it immoral, a war crime, et cetera. But it
is the articulated plan of this president, and it's consistent
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with a net Yahoo plan, which is we've had enough.
We're not taking Gaza anymore. We're not going to set
up another terrorist laboratory in Gaza.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
We are done.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's the Cobalt Show, Mark Thompson sitting in. I'm KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Tim Conway.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
They know, Hey, I heard you are a little bit
ago talking about bb net and Yahoo. Yeah, he runs
Israel and he gave Donald Trump a bomb for a
going away gift.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
It was a.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
It was a going it was a what a commemorative
paga explodon Pageah.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Do you think the Secret Service took that apart? Or
at least X rated nine hundred times.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I'm guessing it was looked at. It had to have been.
I don't think they're looking at for explosives.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
You don't think so.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
No.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I think they're looking at it for you know, listening
devices or whatever.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Oh, they probably do that, yeah, I'm sure, but you
don't think they're I mean, there's a one in a
billion chance that the BB and yet not Yahoo didn't
even know about it, like some idiot who hates both
of them. Oh it's a you know, a bomb in
there and it's.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Over well in the movie, it might be like that.
Maybe I don't see it in real life.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
Buddy, your YouTube show today got ninety four ninety six
thousand views.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, that's huge, Thank you pal.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
You have eighty eight thousand subscribers ninety two okay, you
have ninety two thousand subscribers. You have that video today
got ninety six thousand views. They got more views than subscribers.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, no, and some of them do that, so I
call that plus.
Speaker 8 (27:16):
Sub it's better it's bigger than the subscribers.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I had to tell I'm going to say this to
everybody because the fact that you watch my YouTube show,
that you follow it, that you know, how many subs
I've got that you know, I mean, how many views
I've got. It's so it's it's really sweet and I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Well, look, I look at it like this. The guy
who had on today thinks that Kamala Harris won the election.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh, that was right, that Palace guy. Okay, so I
look at it this way. He talks about a voter suppression.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Because okay, so for four years, you know, when Trump
was president, you guys, you know, had were on the sidelines.
And then when Trump was on the sidelines, you know,
that's the way we all looked at government. You know,
it was stolen. Stolen, yeah, stolen, and now it's reversed.
Now your side thinks it's stolen. Sure, Sure, what percentage
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of your viewers thinks the election is stolen?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
A majority? I think, I think, uh, well, I don't
know about that. I don't know, but I think it's split.
I think it might be evenly split. Yeah, sounds like
a lot. I mean, I think the jury is still out.
You know, I'm among for many people.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Do they call you the Rudy Giuliani of the left,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I'm not a big you know, if you watch if
you watch me, you know I'm do you. I'm tough
on law and order. I'm not a super lefty on
a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Run some things. I am a super lefty. That's right.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Anyway, one to the point, you know, all right, how
are we going to pick this game? Look, I don't
want to. Politics just separates guys. You brings this together.
Losing on football games. That's what brings us together. You
and I. We are united in loss, That's right.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
So I think Philadelphia is going to win by nineteen.
I know you really. Tim thinks it's going to be
a runaway.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
Blowout, So load up on Kansas City. I'm always always
I never get those right.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Well, Eric thinks that Kansas City will win by a touchdown? Really, yeah,
what's the spread?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
A point?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
It's a point or even I mean he's saying it's
bouncing back and Ford. Now it's a point. So the
Eagles are one point underdogs right now?
Speaker 8 (29:15):
Wait, so Eric Sklar, the Duke of sports, Now, who's
the producer Slashboard Op of The John Colebell Show. You
are not afraid of Barkley running all over this team?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I mean I am, But I still think the Chiefs
will figure out a way to win.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Really wow, I.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Mean they they're one of the most historic teams ever.
They got to they got to complete the story, all right,
any help from the refs there might be some. Hey, look,
if you're betting on Kansas City, you want the refs.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
To help him out. Oh totally. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
You don't care why new stories come out. You want
the flags throw on every play. You know, like when
when you're at the at the racetrack, you know you
want a guy juice and a horse if it's going
to mean you can cash a ticket.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Oh you know, I thought you meant you'd want like
a disqualification but nothing.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Oh you want that too, Yeah?
Speaker 8 (30:05):
Yeah, you want, you know, the lead horse to do
a cartwheel so you can beat him at the end.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Like you don't want to. You think of people you
don't want to. You don't want to pray for a
tragedy like that. But you're saying, oh, when there's money
on the line, you do you want to win? Winning
is great losing sucks. Hey, we got the Alex Michaelson.
You're you're a guy coming up. Uh Fox eleven, Yeah,
Fox eleven. And then we also have some other guests
as well. I see you just really organized the whole
(30:30):
show around Alex. Oh, we got this guy, this cool dude,
Paul Hadad. He wrote a great book.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
He's written a couple of great books about the the
organization and the development of the freeways in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I found unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
Oh, that would be cool to It's great because you
know LA and San Diego had in the early nineteen fifties,
San Diego and LA had the same company or the
same group of guys plan out the freeways in LA
and plan out the freeways in San Diego. San Diego
developed and installed. I think it was ninety seven percent
of the freeways that they had designed back in the
(31:05):
nineteen fifties, LA about twenty eight percent.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
We just never got it together.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
That's why when you go to San Diego you can
fly around and go anywhere, and freeways or everywhere you
can get around real quickly.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But in LA you're always stuck in the car, always
there you go.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
It's true I mean, things are so vast in southern California,
in La County, don't you think of it?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Just thinks you're just so far apart, buddy.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
There are two million people that live in the San
Fernando Valley and there's one freeway that cuts right through it.
I mean, if you know, if the valley, if it
was its own city, would be the seventh largest city
in America.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
It'd be the size of Houston.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Houston has nine freeways that run through it, and the
valley has one. We have the one, seventy in the five,
but those skirt the valley. I'm talking about right going
right through the heart of the valley. The four or
five is the only big deal goes right through the valley.
And you got to take it. If you're out in Palmdale, Lancaster,
you know, Santa Clarita, Valencia, that's your freeway and you
have to be on it every single day.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
And it sucks.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
It does suck. It absolutely shucks the worst, the worst.
But there's one virtue in being stuck on those freeways.
This show exactly that you get to listen to Tim
Conways here.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
That's right, all right, And then we have a self employed.
I don't know, Tim, just seeing the show.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Oh I know what this guy is. Oh, this guy
could can make you some dough. This guy can make
get some dough. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Guys.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
All right, you got a lot of stuff going on
going on. Hey, look it's it's it's Friday before Super
Bowl Sunday. What else is there to go on? I mean,
it's it's very very exciting. I'll be listening.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'll catch every minute with you, and we will report
back on Monday.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
We will pick up the ashes of loss.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
How soon before they put Harris in the Oval office
this week?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I think I don't if they can reach her. Where
is she?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
She's a Laker game.
Speaker 8 (32:54):
I don't know if you saw that squar I did
that that Kambala Harrison and her her boy Dougie were
at a Laker game last night.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Let me got she's got really good seats row fifty eight.
Yeah you think that's good? No, I don't. I think
I can buy fifty Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
I was gonna say he sat right up near the
of the announcers table, row fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
What happened to her? Well, she lost the election, That's
what happened.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Yeah, but you can't sit in row fifty eight as
a VP. I agree, you gotta be a front row.
Yeah right, I don't know something. She needs to talk
to one of our guys, ticket brokers. Yeah right, yeah yeah,
get up front. That's exactly right, all right, you got
to talk to.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
My boy Barrett, Tim Conway Junior next with Krozier on
the rest. Thank you Eric, always helpful man. Thank you, Deborah,
and thank you Matt Cobalt. Back on Monday.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobelt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on KFI Am
six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Can'tf I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Mark Thompson's sitting in for John. And it is Super
Bowl weekend. It's fair to say that there is much anticipation,
a lot of emotion. There are people rooting against the
Kansas City Chiefs just because they feel that the Chiefs
have been given the benefit of the refs. Ducas sports,
this looks to be a legitimate controversy that's emerging. I mean,
(00:29):
I've never seen this Chiefs team kind of take on
the haters like they are this year.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
They've played the Eagles before in the Super Bowl, haven't they.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Last year or two years ago? Years? Excuse me? And
who won that one? Eric? The Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
The Chiefs are going for a three peat, so three
in a row. They beat the forty nine ers last year,
the Eagles of the year before that. And I mean,
this whole rest controversy, I don't really play too much
into it. I mean, every team benefits from a good
caller a bad call. It kind of kind of just
happens in sports.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
You don't see the Chiefs of having benefited more than
their opponents.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Maybe, but it saw that Bills game. It's looked to
me like, I don't know, man, that was a yeah,
that was that was a tough one.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
That was a tough one, and you hate you hate
that it happens to be that the refs are the
storyline when it should be the players on the field, right,
But I don't really pay too much attention to the
ref stuff. I mean, the Chiefs were the best team
all year besides the Eagles. Obviously, this is I think
the worst Chiefs team that has been in the Super
(01:40):
Bowl as of recent but this Chiefs team also won
the most game in franchise history this season, so it's
like they might not be as good as other teams,
but they still won more games than other teams in
the past that the Chiefs have had. So it's it's
kind of an interesting dynamic here. Yeah, that's a really
good way to put it too. The gamblers are split
in the early way during Yeah. ESPN actually earlier today
(02:03):
moved the line to even no favorite nobody's favorite, no,
and then they just changed the line again to Kansas
City minus one, so the Eagles would be one point underdogs,
Chiefs one point favorites. FanDuel and DraftKings have the Chiefs
favored by minus a point and a half. So if
you want to go the FanDuel DraftKings route and get
(02:24):
an extra half a point, you can go that way.
If you want to go to ESPN Bet route, you
can get the Chiefs for a point. But unfortunately sports
gambling here in California is not legal. So not legal,
so you'll have to meet Rudy in the alley. If
you want to get paid, text a friend in a
state that is legal and slip them your bets and
send them a Venmo.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You never know that might work too.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Have I told you the story about having to pay
off my booky across the street from Fox eleven where
I would used to be working. No, let me just
tell the story quickly. I'll promise I'll keep it quick.
I used to work at Fox eleven for many years,
twenty three years. I was there and at ten o'clock news,
and so around nine o'clock on Tuesdays, I would meet
the bookie and give him an envelope of money. Okay,
(03:07):
And it was across the street at the Chevron station.
It's still there on Olympic and Bundy. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay.
So that's Chevron Stations where i'd meet the book. And
then he started, he said, I'm going to start sending
my assistant. Do you mind if I send my you know,
somebody else I can't meet you. I said, oh, that's
no problem, that's fine. So every Tuesday would go there,
and I was in a coat and tie of course,
(03:28):
because i'm you know, on the news in at ten o'clock,
so it's an hour away, and so I usually was
you know, dressed for you know, camera ready. Anyway, I
go meet this new guy and he shows up in
this beatter car, this white beater car, and he gets out.
He's a little guy and he walks a little limp
and stuff. Very nice guy. And I give him the envelope.
(03:49):
And I meet him the next week and I'm giving
him avelope again because I'm a losing gambler.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Every week I'm giving him an envelope. And then he.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I remember a we skip week and I called the
book and I said, hey, just a question. He doesn't
it's just awkward for me to be meeting him. He
doesn't know who I am, so you can doesn't have
a TV. This guy doesn't know he forget it, don't
even worry about it. So then the following week I
meet him. I'm waiting at the gas station, which is
(04:19):
humiliating in itself because you've got to pay somebody there,
and I'm hear my coat and tie, and there comes
the white Beater car and he gets out of the car,
and this time he gets out with a little girl,
and he walks up to me and says, Mark, would
you take a picture with my daughter?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Please?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Oh my goodness, he knew who you were the whole time.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Joh I said, please get a picture of me giving
her the envelope. Could yeah, anyway, that was my But
you will have to find your own guy like that
in California because gambling is illegal, as Eric is noted.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
So I guess the deal here is.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
The bets within the bet like Saquon Barkley, and you
can just make bets within your friends and you know
you don't have to go with some gambling operation. This guy,
Saquon Barkley is insanely talented, right.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yes, almost broke the rushing record this year.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And there are bets along the lines of will Jalen Hurtz,
who is a quarterback of the Eagles have more rushing
yards than Patrick Mahomes. Both of them are big runners
on their own, right, Yep, I think it's really hard
to say how the Eagles will play with the kind
(05:33):
of threat that Saquon Barkley is. You tend to just
give him the ball, right and if he for some
reason the Chiefs jam him. I guess what would you say, Eric?
Then you then that opens up a lane for Hurts
to run it. Also, it opens up a lane for
Hurts to run.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It opens up a lane for Hurts to throw it
to aj Brown or Davonte Smith, two very dynamic receivers
that the Eagles have. But I mean, realistically, I think
the are gonna ride Saquon Barkley like they have all season,
and until someone stops Saquon, I don't know if anybody can.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And it's their offensive line, right. They've got guys blocking
for him that are immense and talented.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, what about Taylor Swift's boyfriend, Travis Kelcey, how do
you see him figuring into this contest?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I mean, he's going to have to get a touchdown
on Super Bowl Sunday with her in the audience.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You kind of just have to put that in stone already.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
He had an interesting season, just as you said, like,
this isn't the best Chief team and this isn't the
best Kelsey season, is it.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, he kinda has taken a step back, but in
terms of like production in numbers, but what he means
to that team and just having him out there and
the other team having to account for him does wonders
for everybody else on the team because it'll open up
the run game with Isaiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt. You
got Xavier Worthy another receiver, you got Juji Smith Schuster,
(06:56):
another receiver for the Chief. So just having Travis Kelcey
out there, they're and the other team having to worry
about them kind of makes things easier for the other
guys on the team.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The game is run on computer on all of these
sites that no doubt, if you're into football at all,
you may or and you're certainly if you're into wagering,
you look at it like they run computer simulations. So
if you run this contest with all of these specifics
one hundred thousand times, you know, I wonder what team prevails?
(07:31):
Do you know the answer.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I'm going to guess that the simulation says the Chiefs win.
But I don't know the simulation that you have right
in front of you. So I will look and I
will share. When we come back, I will give you
the computer simulation. They run it again tens of thousands
of times, and which team prevails I will tell you next.
(07:57):
And then I will ask the Duke of Sports for
his prediction that he'll have to live with come Monday.
You will share that with us next as well. It's
KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Six forty the John Coblt Show, Mark Thompsons sitting in
for John Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, the super Bowl is coming up. It's Sunday, as
you know, and all the good Patriots, and I'm not
talking about the New England Patriots. I'm talking about you,
as an American patriot. You must watch, well, at least
go to a party and pretend to watch, pretend to care.
The Duke of Sports is here. It's about to make
his prediction.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So close.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I mean, you've seen the line bounce back and forth,
the gambling line. It's been a point and a half
and even money. Now back to a point. The Chiefs
are favored by a point, and so I ask you,
Duke of Sports, what do you like as the outcome?
(09:03):
Make your prediction, tell us what will happen.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I think the Chiefs achieve the first ever three pete
in NFL history. The Eagles are a great team. They've
been on an amazing run. Saquon Barkley had an MVP
like season. He didn't win the MVP last night. Josh
Allen from the Buffalo Bills won the MVP last night
at the NFL Honors Awards. But Saquon almost broke the
rushing record from held by Eric Dickerson. Obviously la Ram legend.
(09:32):
But I just think the Chiefs are going to figure
out a way to get it done. I think the
final score is twenty eight to twenty one.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
The over under for this game is forty eight and
a half, so I have it at just at forty
nine going over.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So take the over and the Chiefs, Yeah, says the Duke.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah, that's my prediction.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
In computer simulations, they run a ten thousand times, all
the different minutia, all of the different elements they know about.
Isaiah Pacheco they know about Patrick Mahomes, they know about
Jalen Hurts, they know about Saquon Barkley. They put it
all into the computer and they also have the chiefs prevailing.
(10:22):
That makes me feel so much better. There you go.
Your computer may vary, but that's what this computer simulation says.
So secure in the fact that that's the prediction. Now
we must play the game. By the way, I found
your super Bowl ad with the Budweiser Clydesdale just to
(10:47):
make you feel that America hasn't lost its way. You'll
still have your Clydesdale Budweiser ad during the Super Bowl game.
Here's what it will it will sound like anyway.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Oh, it's still too little buddy.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
That's the keg of the of Budwiser.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It strikes me that this ad may need some explanation
as opposed to just play the audio.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
The idea is that it's a nostalgic pull of the
Clydesdale on nosing a keg across the countryside. And then
that song that you're hearing is the Bellamy Brothers song There's.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
A reason or the Sunshine Guy, and there's a reason
why I'm feeling so high must be the season when.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The so.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And so you'll have your Clydesdale nosing okay, across the
country road to the sound of the Bellamie Brothers and
celebrate America. That's your Budweiser ad mark. We haven't talked
about my favorite bet though.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
What is that? What color gatorade gets dumped on the
winning coach?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now, purple was the uh color of the gatorade in
the last two Super Bowls?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Am I right? Yeah? So you go with trend or
do you go with changing it up? I'm going light
blue this year. Oh light blue.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Now you may think that this is a silly thing,
but you can bet on this. You can bet on
the coin toss. I think you should bet on the
coin toss. It may be the best bet in the
whole house.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
So much fun. Yeah, I do recommend.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
What Eric's talking about, would you, is making some side
bets that are paid off early. Like the thing about
you know, betting on the game is you won't really
know whether you want until the end of the game.
Now that's great, it's a great sweat, you know, great
way to watch the game, But it's fun too early
on have things pay off like the coin flip or
(13:19):
the national anthem? How long does that take? The over
under on that? Yeah, and the national anthem length, I
believe you can, at least at my site that I
believe I bet on the only but I think they
really limit it.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Yes, Yeah, most of these prop bets in terms of
like Gatorade color coin toss, national anthem, does the ref
drop the ball or something like that, You can really
only bet a certain amount on that. That type of stuff,
so the books don't let you go too crazy on that. Yeah,
but the prop bets are really fun.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It makes it a lot of fun to watch the
game and have a little bit of extraction on the side.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, exactly. And you don't have to be a football
fan to bet on the coin flip. You don't have
to know anything, right, which I do think you know
changes things enormously. It's interesting. I was just looking at
predictions and odds from big odd makers, odds makers from
MGM bet, MGM, NFL odds. There is their predictions and
(14:19):
their layouts from a couple Tyler Dragon Eagles have a
better roster. Saquon Barkley has had an unbelievable year in
the backfield, but not betting against Patrick Mahomes and the
Chiefs sort of again kind of what the Duke was saying,
Chief twenty seven Eagles twenty four. Again, that would mean
(14:39):
the Chiefs would cover the game twenty spread. Jordan Mendoza says,
does NFL history finally happen at Super Bowl fifty nine.
No matter that circumstance, Kansas City has continuously found a
way to win in the postseason, even if there's some controversy.
The Chiefs defense will have their hands full trying to
defend Saquon and company off to an electric performance. Game
(15:03):
will really fall on Jalen Hurts whether he's able to
orchestrate a passing game that makes life tough for Case.
It's another Super Bowl that comes down to the final minute,
says Jordan Mendoz. Philadelphia goes down the field, gets the
winning score to get revenge on Case and win in
this Super Bowl. Twenty seven to twenty five is what
(15:26):
he says. It does feel like it's going to be
a close game. That's why I particularly like your prediction,
oh Duke of Sports. Well, thank you, Mark, because you've
really You've got the Chiefs winning by a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I think it will come down to a tight game
at the end where one team will have a chance
to win, and I ultimately think the Chiefs will win.
But realistically, what I think will happen is whoever has
the ball last will win. Obviously, whoever has the ball
last will win, but I think I think it's going
to be the Chiefs at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, I mean, I think that's a really good take,
which is that you know it's going to be a
possession game, and so I mean I'd love to see
a really close game. The championships game. The championship games
were terrific. Yes, So are you looking forward to the
halftime show? Remind me, Kendrick Lamar, I guess not. Then
(16:23):
I guess not. Then are you I'm very much looking
forward to So I should be, is what you're saying. Yeah,
I think it's going to be a really great performance.
I think these halftime shows are insanely great. I mean,
I don't care who the performer is. It's insanely complicated.
The choreography, the lighting, the setup, it's unreal.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Well, and I think we were talking about it last
week when we were talking about the Fire Aid concert.
The fact that all the behind the scenes and production
stuff they have to squeeze that in. I know they
extend halftime a little bit for the Super Bowl because
of the performance. But being able to put all of
that together and building the set and everything in that
short amount of time while having to fit the constraints
(17:01):
of a game, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, it really is. It's a true tour to force.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah, and what a It's such a great thing to
be part of for all of these performers, you know
what I mean. That's why I think the performers of
I want to say they perform for free or close
to free.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
They pay for all of the production costs. They do
not get paid by the NFL who performs at the
Super Bowl. They basically the NFL basically says, hey, we're
not going to pay you, but the amount of exposure
you are about to get will pay off tenfold in
the long run. Afterwards, they're probably right, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
All right, there's a little bit of Super Bowl. If
we have time, we'll we'll share some more ads with you.
But it's still Look, this is the American pastime, America sport,
and it's the crescendo weekend for it. Super Bowl Sunday
game starts at three thirty. By the way, if you're
if you're wondering, you'll see six thirty posters. But remember
those times are Eastern, so it's three thirds in the West.
(18:01):
It's John Cobelt Show, Mark Thompson sitting in for John
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Six forty Mark Thompson sitting in for John. And it
has been quite a week. It has been a busy
week in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nett and Yahoo
meeting with President Trump and President Trump making that shocking announcement.
I mean, it was certainly not anticipated that America would
(18:34):
seek ownership of the Gaza strip and move out the population,
and the pushback has been immense. But before I even
get to any conversation about that, did you see what
Prime Minister net and Yahoo gave Trump? Sort of like
the parting gift. It was like the I don't know,
(18:55):
the gift bag you get after the diplomatic teta tet
in Washington. It was a golden pager. He gave Trump
a golden pager. That's a reference to that September operation
carried out by Israel in Lebanon, and that targeted pagers
(19:16):
used by members of Hezbolah, and those pagers, of course
went out by the thousands. They hit Hesbolah members that
had those pagers, and then walkie talkies a day later. Now,
the controversy associated with that was not just taking out
(19:38):
terrorists but also taking out some children injured nearly three thousand,
some of them were civilian bystanders. This is again according
to Lebanese health authorities, but it was widely viewed by
those who are saying, look, we've lived with this threat
from Hesbolah for so long. It was widely viewed as
(19:59):
an incredibly ingenious victory. And that's the way Trump viewed it.
And that's of course the way Net Nyao who views
it as he gives Trump this golden pager sort of
to memorialize this remarkable operation.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Again, that's the way it was cast.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And Trump and Net Yowho have this remarkable relationship, to the.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Point that.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Trump gave net and Yawho a signed photograph of the
two of them together. He signed the photograph to be
be a great leader. So now that golden pager will
go into the treasure trove of stuff that Trump has
(20:47):
as Trump begins to navigate this situation in the Middle East,
and it's unclear what will happen. I mean, you know,
let's face it, Gaza has been this cesspool for a
long time.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's been a essentially an incubation zone for terrorism.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Sophisticated tunneling has really been the source of so much
hurt from the standpoint of Israel. And of course the
October seventh attacks changed everything.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And so in the response to the.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
October seventh attacks, Gaza has become unlivable. Gaza has become
worse than ever before. And that birthed this notion that
Gaza is unlivable and we should take it over, and
with taking it over, we will get rid of and
move the indigenous population people who live there. Well, I mean,
(21:48):
you know, you get all the pushback across the Arab world,
you get pushback across the civilized world. You get pushed
back along the lines of you can't move a population
out of an area. It's a sovereign nation. If you will,
it's a sovereign territory and because of that, it would
(22:09):
be considered a war crime. So there is this weird
back and forth because even after the announcement from Donald Trump,
the White House the next day began to walk back
and soften the remarks of Trump, And in typical Trump fashion,
(22:33):
he sort of took the position like, don't walk back
what I said. I meant what I said. We're going
to turn this thing into the riviera of the Middle East.
We are going to take charge of it. We'll clean
it up, we'll get it ready. And the only question
where there was waffling was will there be American troops there?
(22:53):
I mean, there's tremendous pushback on this entire ideas, as
I said, But where you really see pushback from a
group of lawmakers who typically don't push back on this president,
I mean they are really I mean, let's face it,
everybody's in lockstep with the GOP, with Trump for any
number of reasons. For the first time you began to
see cracks in that choreography. They were saying, Hey, we're
(23:17):
not sure we want to have American troops over there.
We don't want to put American troops in the Middle
East to begin with, we don't want to pay for this,
and Trump himself sort of suggests maybe there'll be troops there,
maybe there won't be troops there. So the whole situation
becomes an extremely difficult one to navigate, at least from
(23:39):
the standpoint of just taking what people are.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Saying as their word.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Clearly, Donald Trump has a plan, and his plan is
very much consistent with the Net and Yahoo plan, which
is no more terrorism, no more Gaza being this incubator
for terrorism. We are going to reframe Gaza as a
different place. Now the specific says to what that different
(24:07):
place will look like clearly Still the blueprints have yet
to be drawn up.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
But this was.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
An audacious kind of thing for Trump to say, and
he's not backing down from it. So the mainstream in
Israel doesn't even necessarily embrace this notion. But I would
say this about the Israeli street. If you'd pitch this
(24:39):
three years ago, you would have gotten insane pushback on it. No,
can't do this. We're looking for a two state solution.
What's changed in Israel is what October seventh that changed everything,
And now the Israeli street has had enough, And so
there's still a huge constituency is in Israel that is
(25:03):
sympathetic to a Palestinian cause. But there's also a bigger
constituency I would argue that is open to getting rid
of this problem now again, moving these people, you know,
from this area in which they lived to Jordan to Egypt.
(25:26):
I don't know that that's ever going to happen. I
really don't. So I'm like you looking at this going wow,
that's that's at minimum an audacious plan. Maybe would you
consider it immoral, a war crime, et cetera. But it
is the articulated plan of this president, and it's consistent
(25:47):
with a net Yahoo plan, which is we've had enough.
We're not taking Gaza anymore. We're not going to set
up another terrorist laboratory in Gaza.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
We are done.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's the Cobalt Show, Mark Thompson sitting in. I'm KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Tim Conway.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
They know, Hey, I heard you are a little bit
ago talking about bb net and Yahoo. Yeah, he runs
Israel and he gave Donald Trump a bomb for a
going away gift.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
It was a.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
It was a going it was a what a commemorative
paga explodon Pageah.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Do you think the Secret Service took that apart? Or
at least X rated nine hundred times.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I'm guessing it was looked at. It had to have been.
I don't think they're looking at for explosives.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
You don't think so.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
No.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I think they're looking at it for you know, listening
devices or whatever.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Oh, they probably do that, yeah, I'm sure, but you
don't think they're I mean, there's a one in a
billion chance that the BB and yet not Yahoo didn't
even know about it, like some idiot who hates both
of them. Oh it's a you know, a bomb in
there and it's.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Over well in the movie, it might be like that.
Maybe I don't see it in real life.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
Buddy, your YouTube show today got ninety four ninety six
thousand views.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, that's huge, Thank you pal.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
You have eighty eight thousand subscribers ninety two okay, you
have ninety two thousand subscribers. You have that video today
got ninety six thousand views. They got more views than subscribers.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, no, and some of them do that, so I
call that plus.
Speaker 8 (27:16):
Sub it's better it's bigger than the subscribers.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I had to tell I'm going to say this to
everybody because the fact that you watch my YouTube show,
that you follow it, that you know, how many subs
I've got that you know, I mean, how many views
I've got. It's so it's it's really sweet and I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Well, look, I look at it like this. The guy
who had on today thinks that Kamala Harris won the election.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh, that was right, that Palace guy. Okay, so I
look at it this way. He talks about a voter suppression.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Because okay, so for four years, you know, when Trump
was president, you guys, you know, had were on the sidelines.
And then when Trump was on the sidelines, you know,
that's the way we all looked at government. You know,
it was stolen. Stolen, yeah, stolen, and now it's reversed.
Now your side thinks it's stolen. Sure, Sure, what percentage
(28:08):
of your viewers thinks the election is stolen?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
A majority? I think, I think, uh, well, I don't
know about that. I don't know, but I think it's split.
I think it might be evenly split. Yeah, sounds like
a lot. I mean, I think the jury is still out.
You know, I'm among for many people.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Do they call you the Rudy Giuliani of the left,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I'm not a big you know, if you watch if
you watch me, you know I'm do you. I'm tough
on law and order. I'm not a super lefty on
a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Run some things. I am a super lefty. That's right.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Anyway, one to the point, you know, all right, how
are we going to pick this game? Look, I don't
want to. Politics just separates guys. You brings this together.
Losing on football games. That's what brings us together. You
and I. We are united in loss, That's right.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
So I think Philadelphia is going to win by nineteen.
I know you really. Tim thinks it's going to be
a runaway.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
Blowout, So load up on Kansas City. I'm always always
I never get those right.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Well, Eric thinks that Kansas City will win by a touchdown? Really, yeah,
what's the spread?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
A point?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
It's a point or even I mean he's saying it's
bouncing back and Ford. Now it's a point. So the
Eagles are one point underdogs right now?
Speaker 8 (29:15):
Wait, so Eric Sklar, the Duke of sports, Now, who's
the producer Slashboard Op of The John Colebell Show. You
are not afraid of Barkley running all over this team?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I mean I am, But I still think the Chiefs
will figure out a way to win.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Really wow, I.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Mean they they're one of the most historic teams ever.
They got to they got to complete the story, all right,
any help from the refs there might be some. Hey, look,
if you're betting on Kansas City, you want the refs.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
To help him out. Oh totally. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
You don't care why new stories come out. You want
the flags throw on every play. You know, like when
when you're at the at the racetrack, you know you
want a guy juice and a horse if it's going
to mean you can cash a ticket.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Oh you know, I thought you meant you'd want like
a disqualification but nothing.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Oh you want that too, Yeah?
Speaker 8 (30:05):
Yeah, you want, you know, the lead horse to do
a cartwheel so you can beat him at the end.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Like you don't want to. You think of people you
don't want to. You don't want to pray for a
tragedy like that. But you're saying, oh, when there's money
on the line, you do you want to win? Winning
is great losing sucks. Hey, we got the Alex Michaelson.
You're you're a guy coming up. Uh Fox eleven, Yeah,
Fox eleven. And then we also have some other guests
as well. I see you just really organized the whole
(30:30):
show around Alex. Oh, we got this guy, this cool dude,
Paul Hadad. He wrote a great book.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
He's written a couple of great books about the the
organization and the development of the freeways in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I found unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
Oh, that would be cool to It's great because you
know LA and San Diego had in the early nineteen fifties,
San Diego and LA had the same company or the
same group of guys plan out the freeways in LA
and plan out the freeways in San Diego. San Diego
developed and installed. I think it was ninety seven percent
of the freeways that they had designed back in the
(31:05):
nineteen fifties, LA about twenty eight percent.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
We just never got it together.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
That's why when you go to San Diego you can
fly around and go anywhere, and freeways or everywhere you
can get around real quickly.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But in LA you're always stuck in the car, always
there you go.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
It's true I mean, things are so vast in southern California,
in La County, don't you think of it?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Just thinks you're just so far apart, buddy.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
There are two million people that live in the San
Fernando Valley and there's one freeway that cuts right through it.
I mean, if you know, if the valley, if it
was its own city, would be the seventh largest city
in America.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
It'd be the size of Houston.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Houston has nine freeways that run through it, and the
valley has one. We have the one, seventy in the five,
but those skirt the valley. I'm talking about right going
right through the heart of the valley. The four or
five is the only big deal goes right through the valley.
And you got to take it. If you're out in Palmdale, Lancaster,
you know, Santa Clarita, Valencia, that's your freeway and you
have to be on it every single day.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
And it sucks.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
It does suck. It absolutely shucks the worst, the worst.
But there's one virtue in being stuck on those freeways.
This show exactly that you get to listen to Tim
Conways here.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
That's right, all right, And then we have a self employed.
I don't know, Tim, just seeing the show.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Oh I know what this guy is. Oh, this guy
could can make you some dough. This guy can make
get some dough. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Guys.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
All right, you got a lot of stuff going on
going on. Hey, look it's it's it's Friday before Super
Bowl Sunday. What else is there to go on? I mean,
it's it's very very exciting. I'll be listening.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'll catch every minute with you, and we will report
back on Monday.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
We will pick up the ashes of loss.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
How soon before they put Harris in the Oval office
this week?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I think I don't if they can reach her. Where
is she?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
She's a Laker game.
Speaker 8 (32:54):
I don't know if you saw that squar I did
that that Kambala Harrison and her her boy Dougie were
at a Laker game last night.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Let me got she's got really good seats row fifty eight.
Yeah you think that's good? No, I don't. I think
I can buy fifty Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
I was gonna say he sat right up near the
of the announcers table, row fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
What happened to her? Well, she lost the election, That's
what happened.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Yeah, but you can't sit in row fifty eight as
a VP. I agree, you gotta be a front row.
Yeah right, I don't know something. She needs to talk
to one of our guys, ticket brokers. Yeah right, yeah yeah,
get up front. That's exactly right, all right, you got
to talk to.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
My boy Barrett, Tim Conway Junior next with Krozier on
the rest. Thank you Eric, always helpful man. Thank you, Deborah,
and thank you Matt Cobalt. Back on Monday.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
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