December 4, 2024 • 34 mins
The United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered in New York outside of a hotel. Several VA officials have quit their jobs after an office sex scandal. More information is coming out about Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for defense secretary. Recapping Pastathon yesterday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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later in the hour of my favorite moment.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There were so many. I'm dying to know which was
your favorite.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
One involved you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh okay, well that that really doesn't give me a hint.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, you'll see you could probably guess anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's what I figure. I figure that.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So anyway, thank you. Your costume was very well received,
the one that you purchased for me, and but I
did the Garcetti dancing.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Thank you. You're such a good sport. I mean, you're
dancing was hysterical. One listener, I think I told you
this off the air. John said that she's saving it
on her She saved it on her phone because when
she wants a good laugh, she's gonna watch you.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah. See, we're not only bringing food to hungry children.
We're bringing joy to people. Yes, well I was. It
was my leopard pimp outfit.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
With his Leopard reusable grocery bag.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
We know that John has refused to bring a reusable
bag to grocery stores, and now he has one and
it's leopard.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
By the way, I was in my office at home.
I have all the costumes that you have gotten for
me over the years.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Oh, we got to do a fashion show. There is
a lot of Leopard.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
If anybody ever breaks into my office, they're going to think, well,
this guy has a weird fetish going on here.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Leopard.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, way too much leopard for a grown man. Anyway,
that was a lot of fun. I know last night
at ten o'clock we were at nine hundred and forty
five thousand dollars, which was just a tremendous and I
imagine we're going to pass a million dollars because you
can still donate money until Sunday, Sunday, December eighth, and
if we get word this afternoon about how far along
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we are, we'll pass it along. I forgot how many
billions of pounds of food pasta and saw us. Yeah,
it was it was some. It was just we were
way ahead of last year's pace. And then that's all
on you. I mean, not only the money you donated
directly through the pastathon site and that's KFI AM six
forty dot com slash Pastathon, but donations to Smart and
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Final and donations to Wild Fork Foods and Wendy's all
that money that you spent on all our corporate partners,
it's it's all included in the total. So thank you again.
So the biggest news this morning, it's kind of shocking.
I just saw this video. I didn't know well. Eric
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Scarr explained to me that it used to be in
the old days, no murders would be broadcast on social media,
and then Elon took over a Twitter and anything goes,
but you can get there's now a video online, widely,
widely spread that shows you this CEO Brian Thompson of
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United Healthcare. He was walking alongside the New York Hilton
Midtown on Avenue of the America is near fifty fourth Street,
and this is a major avenue and big business district,
and he was going to go into the New York
Hilton because they were having an investors conference. It's the
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United Healthcare's annual investor Conference and he's going to be
speaking as the CEO. So he's walking down the street
and you can see him wearing a blue jacket and
I'm just going to start the video in front of
me here. Obviously I've got no sound to play for you,
but he's walking and here coming from behind a car
like they had a string of black uber type cars,
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you know, the black cars, the limousine style or SUVs.
So a guy in a hoodie of course, and a backpack.
He jumps out from behind one of the SUVs and
just he's got his long handgun and he shoots Brian
Thompson in the back and Thompson stumbles forward and then
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turns around. He falls to the ground and mister Hoodie
walks up and shoots him some more and left him
for dead on the sidewalk. Now he crosses the street,
runs across the street and that's the last you could
see him on this security footage. He was seen in
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Central Park later, but as of the moment, they haven't
caught him yet. And it's just really frightening. There is
a woman, I think it's a woman, who is leaning
up against the wall in front of a business and
she had a cup of coffee. And as the shooter
jumped out and started firing bullets at Brian Thompson, she
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runs as fast as she could out of the picture,
but she holds on to her coffee.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And we all need our caffeine fixes.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, I see sometimes how protective people are of their coffee.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
People walk around all morning clutching their coffee cups for
dear life. And I'm thinking, boy, that must be good coffee,
because I would have dropped the thing and ran.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Well, it's like when someone's in the stands and they
don't drop their beer when they catch the flat ball.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That's right, it's like, let me stop this thing and
keeps you reclaying the shooting over and over again. So
Thompson was shot several times. The gun jammed three times,
and this gunman cleared the jam each time and resumed firing.
And and like I said, last scene in Central Park,
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Now what the police almost immediately said this was a
targeted attack. Here's a short clip from the New York
City Police Detective Chief Joseph Kenney.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
The motive for this murder currently is unknown, but based
on the evidence we have so far, it does appear
that the victim was specifically targeted. But at this point
we do not know why. This does not appear to
be a random act of violence.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I mean the posture of the gunman. He looks like
a professional assassin. I don't know if he his or not.
I don't know if he got trained, but he did
the job, and he was so calm throughout the entire
the entire incident. After he did the shooting, cleared the
gun when it jammed, he to see him banging on
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the gun there. Then he's walking slowly. He was not
in a hurry to get out of there up until
he crosses the street between two parked cars, and then eventually,
when he's halfway across the street, he starts to run,
then makes a left turn down the sidewalk, eventually headed
for Central Park. Now, his wife was called by NBC News.
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She said something odd. His wife is Paul Atte Thompson.
They live in Minnesota. They've got a couple of kids.
Paul Atte Thompson, the wife said that her husband Ryan
had been receiving threats. She said this in a phone
call to NBC. There had been some threats. Basically, I
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don't know a lack of coverage what somebody had their
coverage denied or their claim didn't go through Because it's
an health insurance company. I don't know the details. I
just know that there were some people that had been
threatening him. Isn't that weird thing to say a lack
of coverage. I don't think anybody gets that upset at
the insurance companies that they want to take out the CEO,
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but or hire a hit man. I really looked like
it was a hired hit. Now, sometimes when you have
these murders of relatively high profile people, I always my
first reaction is, Okay, what kind of funny business is
going on in his life? Because these kind of things
rarely happen. I know everybody walks around terrified, but even
with all the burglaries in Los Angeles and thefts, they
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just want to get the stuff and they want to
run out. There's very few people actually shot. Unless you
get a full blown mental patient, homeless person right or
somebody whacked out on meth, then occasionally could happen. But
if it's just another day of business for the thief,
they're not going to kill you. I mean, there's no
upside to committing murder if all you want is jewels
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or cash or something something else of value. But this
came up in the Daily Mail. Last year, the Department
of Justice launched an investigation into whether Thompson's company was
unfairly restricting competitors and running a monopoly. He ran like
the insurance RAN's company connected to United Healthcare. I don't
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know exactly what that corporate relationship is, but he was
accused in a lawsuit of failing to tell investors about
this federal investigation, and in that meantime he unloaded over well,
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Thompson and other executives unloaded over thirty one percent of
his stock. Okay, so he got rid of thirty one
percent of his stock in his own company after he
learned about the federal investigation, but he didn't tell other investors.
So this is classic insider training, insider trading. And he
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took in fifteen million dollars for the sale of the stock.
In fact, according to investigators, Thompson and other company executives
sold over one hundred and seventeen million dollars worth of
United health stock during the four month period where insiders
knew about the investigation, but the public did not. It
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was a federal anti trust investigation, and there was a
shareholder suit against the company and Thompson whether that had
anything to do with this, But it's like, well, when
I read the first story about the shooting, it's like, Okay,
what's going on in his life? Second story I read, well,
there was a lot there were shareholders angry with him
because he and his buddies walked off with one hundred
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and seventeen million dollars. And then that third thing was
the strange remarked by his wife there had been some threats.
I don't know, lack of coverage.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Well, I'm just wondering if this was a hired hit
man as we were talking about, or this is somebody
that's just pissed off and doing it on his own.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, but he was very cool, calm, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And he does it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
We saw one of those ubers, so there clearly was
somebody in there because the lights were on, yeah, and
people were what their cars going up into on the street,
people were out and about and he's just right there.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I mean the video shows that. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, I mean, he had he was not not any
not nervous, not scared. I mean his identity is largely
hidden by the hoodie, although I think there were other
shots still shots where you could see his nose and eyes.
I heard, all right, we've got more coming up.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
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Speaker 1 (11:27):
You know, Elon Moschkin the vik Ramaswami are planning to
cut about two trillion dollars annually out of the government,
and they'd have to fire a lot of government workers.
I hear the first ones that are going to be fired,
from what I've read, is people who don't want to
show up for work.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
No, really, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
We've told you seventy five percent of government office buildings
in Washington, d C. Are empty because nobody comes to
work anymore. And so Musk and Ramaswami have a plan
to say you must show up or you're gone, and
they estimate that twenty five percent of the workforce may
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decide just to quit. And because they don't want to
show up after four and a half years, they've bought
homes way out in the Virginia or Maryland suburbs. They
don't want to deal with the traffic anymore, and they
don't want to deal with office culture, which I do
sympathize with. Yes, because I could spend five minutes working
in a traditional office, I have to be by myself
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in a room.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, we're all happy.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I pretend to talk to people and you should be
in your own.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Room too, And I am all by myself.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So we have a perfect setup here. We could watch
each other on a screen. And I think this is
in mental health facilities. They have setups like this, Yeah,
where people have their own rooms and then whoever's managing
the flour can watch the patients on the screens. So
this is very similar to a mental health clinic. But
I think I have I have thirty two, maybe thirty
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three candidates for Musk and Ramaswami to eliminate from the workforce.
This story is from Breitbart, and this seems to be true.
Several Veterans officials have resigned and there is a big
investigation going on because one of the officials a biomedical
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employee at the Veterans Affairs Complex in Mountain Hope, Mountain Home, Tennessee.
This biomedical employee was having sex with thirty two different
co workers.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Wow, I'm Parney.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It must be very good. A lot of good recommendations there,
I think, right, yeah, I'm I guess all the women said, yeah,
go take a crack at them. Oh yeah, that's that's
not bad. Thirty two of them, thirty two different women.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And get this, were they all beautiful or he doesn't?
You know?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Wellminate, but there are some.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I'm sure there are some attractive government workers.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Ye find thirty two attractive women working at the VA.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You never know?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
All right, well, the man and several of the women.
Now this is where I really don't understand. They bragged
about their sexual activities on an online group forum, so
they they like, I guess, they discussed the intimate details
of how of how they performed they want to share,
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and also on a government communications portal that VIA officials
use to communicate about business.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Operator's stupid?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Can you mean I mentioned being on that channel that
group text? Come on? Thirty two of them?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Wait, I've got more here. Because this is a congressional investigation,
they have uncovered that there was an orgy of at
least twelve officials who work at the facility. Twelve person orgy.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Wow, that's the well, I mean, look that is.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I mean, you don't even know who you're doing it
to right, I'm sure they don't care. I guess not.
I mean because the lights are usually.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Low, right, I'm sure there's drinking and drugs involved.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, would have to be. I mean, yeah, doing twelve
random people in the office, I don't know. It says
it's unclear whether the orgy happened on government property at
the VA facility or off site. I guess if it's
off site, and yeah, yeah, but it is still something
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else that everybody would find each other so attractive.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
They're bored, right, I mean, what else?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So this is why these people were coming to work? Yes,
I wondered. It's like, well, why are these thirty two
showing up and nobody else is? Well?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Right, they're having fun.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
They're at least two of the employees admitted to having
sex on the grounds of the VA hospital. One of
that's going on in la.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I wonder if what's going on here?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, there's nobody left to have sex with here. It's
definitely going on in the homeless camp next to it. Oh,
the oh, the one in la oh, the one in
la oh Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah. Well, I mean I when I had to drive
past that camp for four years, I used to see
some really wild stuff because people would be standing in
the street. I nearly hit a guy. He jumped down
to the street and he was holding a whiskey bottle,
right by the neck of a bottle, and he had
no shirt on. And there were some women there, yeah,
you know, and there were There were three people who
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died in that tent city. A couple of them were murdered.
One of them was dragged under a car driven by
another homeless guy. He had no home, but he had
a car and he used it to drag a second
homeless guy to his death. One guy was stabbed, if
I remember correctly, One guy in a wheelchair was stabbed
by another homeless guy. And then there was a third
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killing as well. I don't think it was a murder,
but it might have been an overdose or something. So
it looks like there's a congressional committee. The chairman of
it is Michael bost Is, a Republican from Illinois, and
there are whistleblowers who provided further details on these charges
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and more allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault, improper interpersonal relationships.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Now was this going on when they were clocked in
or was it after hours?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You know? It doesn't say, I bet you it would
be when they were clocked in.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, then that's not okay.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
You're getting paid to have sex and orgies and all
that orgies.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That just stands so u hygenic, doesn't it. It is,
I mean, especially when you get up to twelve.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah, you know it means it's disgusting. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's just a lot of bodily fluids and you don't
know what's in the bodily fluids.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's that's always my that's my objection to orgies. Who
knows what's in that? Guy?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Right, Yeah, that's fair, And.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I don't all right, when we come back, I have
nothing as exciting as the twelve person orgy.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Oh well then let's go home.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But by the way, Toda, I hear. I heard you
Gary and Shannon today you suddenly blurted out, I want
a sex story.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh well, because they tease me.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
They think that all I watch are sex shows, and
they're not really wrong, but it just happens. It just
happens to be the shows that I don't look specifically
for sex shows. And so when Shannon brought up Deborah
and a sex show, I said, oh, actually, I haven't.
I haven't released sem one. I could use something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You could use something.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Okay, that's coming out wrong, all right, No, let's just backspace.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I'm just saying that.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I'll just let you talk long enough, and I'm never disappointed.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I did myself anyway. I haven't watched a good sex
show in a while.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
That's all I was doing. Okay, you could use it.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
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Speaker 1 (19:28):
From one until four and then after four o'clock John
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up on what you missed. In fact, if you missed
our pastathon yesterday, that whole show is on yesterday's podcast,
so you could go through that and enjoy it. Next segment,
I'm going to play my favorite clip from yesterday's show,
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maybe maybe two favorite clips, and that'll that'll be in
about fifteen minutes. I lied. Last we discussed this sexual
scandal at the VA at Mountain Home, Tennessee, where thirty
two government employees at the VA we're having sex with
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one another.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
No, no, what happened. It happened, and it was one
official who had at least thirty two women. And then
there was also a story about a dozen government workers
showing up at an orgy, but they don't know if
it was in the office or off site. And I said, well,
that's all the sexual stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I have, right, Oh, you have more sexual.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Style, Yeah, a government sexual story. I forgot about Pete Heggsath.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Oh, yes, Pete Heigsath.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I mean I you probably know if you follow this.
He's up to be Trump's Secretary of Defense, and now
his nomination is in a lot of trouble. There's a
lot of Republican senators who want to vote for him,
and Trump may ask Ron de Santis. They're already beating.
So this has been one of the big political stories
of the day. But the reason that Hegseth is is
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his nomination is really shaky. Is the New Yorker magazine
came out with a lengthy investigative piece on what Pete
Hegseth does at night. And you know, a week or
so ago, there was a story about him up in
Monterey and he was out with a few women in
some Republican women's conference, I tell you the Republican women,
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let me tell you that they're going Apparently they were
all going nuts on Pete Hegseth. I mean he is
considered just stunning. Look he's good looking, better than Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
They're both equal, I would say, you think both are equal?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
All right?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I just you asked me a question.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Do women have one the one ten scale that we
men do?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I'm sure, yeah, Well but I'm sure have you heard it?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Yes? Have you beens or maybe a long time, a
very long time, but you would hand out sevens and
eighths and threes force.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I don't recall, I really don't.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I don't recall.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Okay, it's a long time. Every guilty witness says, I
don't recall. Hey, so there was that story in Monterey,
and that has turned into like he said, she said
thing because she was cheating on her husband that night,
spent the night with heg Seth, and she claimed that
he was forcing himself. All right, that one's too. I
didn't think that that story by itself would sink him
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because it was just too murky. And when a woman
is with a guy while the husband and kids are
in another room. I'm gonna be a little judgmental here
and say that it wasn't just heg Seth. However, he's
got a long history of being an alcoholic and all
kinds of sexual improprieties. I mean, I couldn't believe this stuff.
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He used to that Now he was a very well
respected military man, and he has been a Fox News
host for a number of year. I've seen him occasionally,
but I think mostly he does a weekend morning show.
And I don't watch cable TV news very much. I'll
listen to a little bit of it in the car,
but I don't watch these shows, and I certainly don't
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watch morning television because I can't. So heg Seth all right,
Fox News. We know Trump watches Fox News obsessively. He
sees heg Seth, good looking guy, really strong military record,
and he's got some very provocative ideas on the military,
on how the military should be run. He wants woke
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this out of the military, which it should be. Out
of the military. You just want the military guys to
kill people, right, that's the whole purpose. But Hegseth has
had other organizations that he's worked for a couple of
I guess you'd call them nonprofits and boys. He had
a good time. I mean he puts that va orgy
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crowd to shame. Oh really, Oh yeah, uh well accumulatively probably. Yeah.
He was president of something called Concerned Veterans for America
for three years, and I guess this was a lobbying
style group pushing veterans issues. Well. He was described as
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being repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity, to
the point of having to be carried out of their
events because he was so blasted.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That's not good.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
At one point, Hexseth had to be restrained while drunk
from joint. Well. They had gone to a strip club
in Louisiana. You imagine a bunch of guys strip club
in Louisiana. I'm assuming it's a no wives trip, and
he was so drunk they had to restrain him from
joining the dancers on stage.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And a lot of guys are like that.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
He'd brought his team with him and hec's Hexseth was
married at the time. Other members of the management team
sexually pursued the female staffers. They divided the women into
two groups, the party girls and the not party girls.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Do you guys do that when you talk to your friends,
do you do you say.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Are those girls party girls? Or are those girls not?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Of course, we have a complicated numerical system. I was
about to say, we have different categories.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
She put out, Does she.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You do make that judgment? Yes, you try to pick
up clues. No, I can't say that editing yourself. You
should see what goes on at among dad's at school.
That's all I'm gonna say. There's also let me see
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the while hag Seth was running this organization, it was
a hostile workplace. There was an allegation made by a
female employee that another employee working with heg Seth had
tried to sexually assault her at that same Louisiana strip club. Look,
nobody should be sexually assaulted. I wouldn't if I was
a woman, I would not go out with a bunch
of guys to a strip club. Acciently, that is just apparently.
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Heg Seth also was with a group at a bar
in Ohio at some other event, and they drunkenly started chanting,
kill all Muslims, Kill all Muslims. I'm not making this
stuff up. Let me see here. That was just the
first page of the story. Actually, this is extremely long story.
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I couldn't possibly tell you all all the carousing that
this guy did. When he was finally removed as the
head of Concerned Veterans for America, there was an email
sent out by a whistleblower who said among the staff,
the disgust for Pete was pretty high. Most veterans do
not think he represents them nor their high standard of excellence.
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He's got a history of alcohol abuse and treated the organization,
the funds in the organization like they were a personal
expense account for partying, drinking, and using the events as
little more than opportunities to hook up with women on
the road.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Okay, I doesn't Trump have somebody to vet these people
before him.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Well, that's a funny story, because they do.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Then why would they ever think I mean, it's the
same kind of thing with Matt Gates.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I don't think they did background checking. They just had
from what I read, Xseeth came in a room and
they said, all right.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh, he's a good looking guy, we want him.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, that's Trump's criteria. I know people who look and
speak well on Fox News right at the top of
the list to get a cabinet position. So there's a
question though, that they always ask at the end of
these interviews, is there anything else we should know?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well, let me tell you I'm involved in.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Uh yeah, I'm involved in the Orgies and the strip
club dancing. Well, apparently, heg Seth said, no, nothing I
can think of.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And they don't dig.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
No gay, Clearly they don't dig.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That doesn't make any sense, And.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So you wait until the New Yorker uh comes up
with this. Here's another. Here's another one of uh heg
Seth's former colleagues. These are his friends. I've seen him
drunk so many times. I've seen him dragged away, not
a few times, but multiple times. To have him at
the Pentagon would be scary.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
This is a friend.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah. When those of us who worked at CVA heard
he was being considered for the Secretary of Defense, it
wasn't no, it was hell no. Here's another complaint memorial
of the weekend twenty fourteen. Hegseth was totally sloshed and
needed to be carried to his room because he was
so intoxicated. Following month in Cleveland, he was described as
(28:58):
completely drunk in a pub place. Several high profile people
who went to the event were very we're very disappointed
to see this kind of public behavior. And this just
this just goes on and on and on. Uh oh
one more. I know you got to do the news.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Apparently way more exciting than my news.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Apparently he was so drunk that by one in the
morning at an event, one of the staffers who driven
him to his hotel in a van full of other
drunken staffers. Uh, they needed help to get Hecseth to
his room. He was completely passed out in the middle seat,
slumped over a young female. Two men had to carry
Hecseth into the hotel. A young woman who was with
(29:41):
them vomited in some bushes, and another woman helped him
to bed.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I'm going to go out on a limb here.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I'd say this probably isn't the best choice as a job.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
He's you know, the Pendagon's an eight hundred and forty
seven billion dollar operation. Yeah, yeah, I tell you. This
play cafe is really boring. We get none of this none.
We come back up playing my favorite clip from the
postathon yesterday.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from kf I
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Coming up after Deborah's news we're gonna tell you about
Gavin Newsom has now that Joe Biden is fading into
disgrace and sinility, He's finally saying something critical about old Joe,
and we'll get to that next. UH. I'm gonna play
a clip. Uh play play play cut for in just
a second. This UH is from the yesterday's Postathon and
(30:41):
Deborah and I had been going through a story she
had told me a while back, where you know she
it's very difficult to go out to eat with her,
apparently because you know she has these long list of villa.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
It was difficult going out to dinner or out to
eat with me. You assumed a different that's.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Right, and so that there was one time that she
went out to dinner with her husband and he ordered
pork belly and she was completely disgusted and you didn't
want him to eat it.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I asked him to the order. Did the first time.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Does that happened to Does anybody have ever had a
wife where you've ordered food and restaurant and the wife
ordered tells you to rescind the order.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
It was the first time and the only time I
have done.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
That, because get up and go home.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It was just the thought it was just it just
bows me out.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
We were talking about it, and I guess. I guess
Michelle and put in an order with Bruno because every year,
part of the pasta Thun tradition is Bruno brings me
a plate of some unusual animal or you know, entree
that he's made. So listen to this. What does it
taste like? Very tender? Yes, this very very very flavorful.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh he loves it.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah. I kind of knew it that he will take
something special. Oh man, this is got honeymoon.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Okay, you guys should up a break because John is hungry.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
He's going to be This is juicy, tender, flavorful. Can
you figure out what is not yet? I have no idea.
I don't think it's anything I've had before, or at
least not in this form. Look, I'm not going to
(32:34):
say anything for an hour. I'm just gonna eat this thing.
But we'll go ahead. Tell me buck Belly, there you go,
show me. No, no, no, no, oh.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
My god, that is my worst nightmare.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Are you it's good?
Speaker 5 (32:59):
I love it is an amazing Sorry.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
No disrespect, I know, I know, don't you're about to
be disrespected. I mean, she was willing to take on
the mop five minutes.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, you're just going to eat that
for the rest of the show.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You hear the contempt at her voice. You're just going
to eat that for the rest of the show.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Well, and I'm such a ding dong.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I I thought that Michelle had had that planned before
our discussions. I thought it was so magical that that
appeared without, you know, my brain.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
She gave me the heads up after she put the
order in and said, just wait for this.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
It was so good.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You thought it was so crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You have to go on Instagram, though, and see Debora's
face when she realizes it's pork belly funnier.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
So good.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
How and he's just stuff in his face wanting to finish.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
This is delicious, This is so tender. And I had
no idea what it was.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
I did finish the plate that John didn't finish. There
was about a piece of a half left.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
That is gross.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
It was so good. It was good, wasn't it. Yeah,
whatever glaze was on top of it. Ooh, I love
that tone of voice. You guys, just say tone voice
your husband heard when you told him to sit in
the order. Could you send that order please, because I.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Just I couldn't for whatever reason that night.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I've never done that before. But when he said the
Park Valley, no who.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Go to John Cobelt Radio on Instagram or Twitter and
you can see the videos yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah you got it. Yeah, you gotta see all the
videos and you got to see your face at the
end of that. All right, Debra Mark Live CAFI twenty
four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live
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podcast and enjoy. Well, I'm going to play a clip
(00:23):
later in the hour of my favorite moment.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There were so many. I'm dying to know which was
your favorite.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
One involved you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh okay, well that that really doesn't give me a hint.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, you'll see you could probably guess anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's what I figure. I figure that.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So anyway, thank you. Your costume was very well received,
the one that you purchased for me, and but I
did the Garcetti dancing.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Thank you. You're such a good sport. I mean, you're
dancing was hysterical. One listener, I think I told you
this off the air. John said that she's saving it
on her She saved it on her phone because when
she wants a good laugh, she's gonna watch you.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah. See, we're not only bringing food to hungry children.
We're bringing joy to people. Yes, well I was. It
was my leopard pimp outfit.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
With his Leopard reusable grocery bag.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
We know that John has refused to bring a reusable
bag to grocery stores, and now he has one and
it's leopard.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
By the way, I was in my office at home.
I have all the costumes that you have gotten for
me over the years.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Oh, we got to do a fashion show. There is
a lot of Leopard.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
If anybody ever breaks into my office, they're going to think, well,
this guy has a weird fetish going on here.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Leopard.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, way too much leopard for a grown man. Anyway,
that was a lot of fun. I know last night
at ten o'clock we were at nine hundred and forty
five thousand dollars, which was just a tremendous and I
imagine we're going to pass a million dollars because you
can still donate money until Sunday, Sunday, December eighth, and
if we get word this afternoon about how far along
(02:11):
we are, we'll pass it along. I forgot how many
billions of pounds of food pasta and saw us. Yeah,
it was it was some. It was just we were
way ahead of last year's pace. And then that's all
on you. I mean, not only the money you donated
directly through the pastathon site and that's KFI AM six
forty dot com slash Pastathon, but donations to Smart and
(02:37):
Final and donations to Wild Fork Foods and Wendy's all
that money that you spent on all our corporate partners,
it's it's all included in the total. So thank you again.
So the biggest news this morning, it's kind of shocking.
I just saw this video. I didn't know well. Eric
(03:00):
Scarr explained to me that it used to be in
the old days, no murders would be broadcast on social media,
and then Elon took over a Twitter and anything goes,
but you can get there's now a video online, widely,
widely spread that shows you this CEO Brian Thompson of
(03:22):
United Healthcare. He was walking alongside the New York Hilton
Midtown on Avenue of the America is near fifty fourth Street,
and this is a major avenue and big business district,
and he was going to go into the New York
Hilton because they were having an investors conference. It's the
(03:46):
United Healthcare's annual investor Conference and he's going to be
speaking as the CEO. So he's walking down the street
and you can see him wearing a blue jacket and
I'm just going to start the video in front of
me here. Obviously I've got no sound to play for you,
but he's walking and here coming from behind a car
like they had a string of black uber type cars,
(04:06):
you know, the black cars, the limousine style or SUVs.
So a guy in a hoodie of course, and a backpack.
He jumps out from behind one of the SUVs and
just he's got his long handgun and he shoots Brian
Thompson in the back and Thompson stumbles forward and then
(04:29):
turns around. He falls to the ground and mister Hoodie
walks up and shoots him some more and left him
for dead on the sidewalk. Now he crosses the street,
runs across the street and that's the last you could
see him on this security footage. He was seen in
(04:50):
Central Park later, but as of the moment, they haven't
caught him yet. And it's just really frightening. There is
a woman, I think it's a woman, who is leaning
up against the wall in front of a business and
she had a cup of coffee. And as the shooter
jumped out and started firing bullets at Brian Thompson, she
(05:13):
runs as fast as she could out of the picture,
but she holds on to her coffee.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And we all need our caffeine fixes.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, I see sometimes how protective people are of their coffee.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
People walk around all morning clutching their coffee cups for
dear life. And I'm thinking, boy, that must be good coffee,
because I would have dropped the thing and ran.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Well, it's like when someone's in the stands and they
don't drop their beer when they catch the flat ball.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That's right, it's like, let me stop this thing and
keeps you reclaying the shooting over and over again. So
Thompson was shot several times. The gun jammed three times,
and this gunman cleared the jam each time and resumed firing.
And and like I said, last scene in Central Park,
(06:02):
Now what the police almost immediately said this was a
targeted attack. Here's a short clip from the New York
City Police Detective Chief Joseph Kenney.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
The motive for this murder currently is unknown, but based
on the evidence we have so far, it does appear
that the victim was specifically targeted. But at this point
we do not know why. This does not appear to
be a random act of violence.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I mean the posture of the gunman. He looks like
a professional assassin. I don't know if he his or not.
I don't know if he got trained, but he did
the job, and he was so calm throughout the entire
the entire incident. After he did the shooting, cleared the
gun when it jammed, he to see him banging on
(06:47):
the gun there. Then he's walking slowly. He was not
in a hurry to get out of there up until
he crosses the street between two parked cars, and then eventually,
when he's halfway across the street, he starts to run,
then makes a left turn down the sidewalk, eventually headed
for Central Park. Now, his wife was called by NBC News.
(07:13):
She said something odd. His wife is Paul Atte Thompson.
They live in Minnesota. They've got a couple of kids.
Paul Atte Thompson, the wife said that her husband Ryan
had been receiving threats. She said this in a phone
call to NBC. There had been some threats. Basically, I
(07:33):
don't know a lack of coverage what somebody had their
coverage denied or their claim didn't go through Because it's
an health insurance company. I don't know the details. I
just know that there were some people that had been
threatening him. Isn't that weird thing to say a lack
of coverage. I don't think anybody gets that upset at
the insurance companies that they want to take out the CEO,
(07:55):
but or hire a hit man. I really looked like
it was a hired hit. Now, sometimes when you have
these murders of relatively high profile people, I always my
first reaction is, Okay, what kind of funny business is
going on in his life? Because these kind of things
rarely happen. I know everybody walks around terrified, but even
with all the burglaries in Los Angeles and thefts, they
(08:18):
just want to get the stuff and they want to
run out. There's very few people actually shot. Unless you
get a full blown mental patient, homeless person right or
somebody whacked out on meth, then occasionally could happen. But
if it's just another day of business for the thief,
they're not going to kill you. I mean, there's no
upside to committing murder if all you want is jewels
(08:41):
or cash or something something else of value. But this
came up in the Daily Mail. Last year, the Department
of Justice launched an investigation into whether Thompson's company was
unfairly restricting competitors and running a monopoly. He ran like
the insurance RAN's company connected to United Healthcare. I don't
(09:02):
know exactly what that corporate relationship is, but he was
accused in a lawsuit of failing to tell investors about
this federal investigation, and in that meantime he unloaded over well,
(09:24):
Thompson and other executives unloaded over thirty one percent of
his stock. Okay, so he got rid of thirty one
percent of his stock in his own company after he
learned about the federal investigation, but he didn't tell other investors.
So this is classic insider training, insider trading. And he
(09:45):
took in fifteen million dollars for the sale of the stock.
In fact, according to investigators, Thompson and other company executives
sold over one hundred and seventeen million dollars worth of
United health stock during the four month period where insiders
knew about the investigation, but the public did not. It
(10:06):
was a federal anti trust investigation, and there was a
shareholder suit against the company and Thompson whether that had
anything to do with this, But it's like, well, when
I read the first story about the shooting, it's like, Okay,
what's going on in his life? Second story I read, well,
there was a lot there were shareholders angry with him
because he and his buddies walked off with one hundred
(10:26):
and seventeen million dollars. And then that third thing was
the strange remarked by his wife there had been some threats.
I don't know, lack of coverage.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Well, I'm just wondering if this was a hired hit
man as we were talking about, or this is somebody
that's just pissed off and doing it on his own.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, but he was very cool, calm, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And he does it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
We saw one of those ubers, so there clearly was
somebody in there because the lights were on, yeah, and
people were what their cars going up into on the street,
people were out and about and he's just right there.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I mean the video shows that. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, I mean, he had he was not not any
not nervous, not scared. I mean his identity is largely
hidden by the hoodie, although I think there were other
shots still shots where you could see his nose and eyes.
I heard, all right, we've got more coming up.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You know, Elon Moschkin the vik Ramaswami are planning to
cut about two trillion dollars annually out of the government,
and they'd have to fire a lot of government workers.
I hear the first ones that are going to be fired,
from what I've read, is people who don't want to
show up for work.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
No, really, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
We've told you seventy five percent of government office buildings
in Washington, d C. Are empty because nobody comes to
work anymore. And so Musk and Ramaswami have a plan
to say you must show up or you're gone, and
they estimate that twenty five percent of the workforce may
(12:10):
decide just to quit. And because they don't want to
show up after four and a half years, they've bought
homes way out in the Virginia or Maryland suburbs. They
don't want to deal with the traffic anymore, and they
don't want to deal with office culture, which I do
sympathize with. Yes, because I could spend five minutes working
in a traditional office, I have to be by myself
(12:32):
in a room.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, we're all happy.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I pretend to talk to people and you should be
in your own.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Room too, And I am all by myself.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So we have a perfect setup here. We could watch
each other on a screen. And I think this is
in mental health facilities. They have setups like this, Yeah,
where people have their own rooms and then whoever's managing
the flour can watch the patients on the screens. So
this is very similar to a mental health clinic. But
I think I have I have thirty two, maybe thirty
(13:04):
three candidates for Musk and Ramaswami to eliminate from the workforce.
This story is from Breitbart, and this seems to be true.
Several Veterans officials have resigned and there is a big
investigation going on because one of the officials a biomedical
(13:26):
employee at the Veterans Affairs Complex in Mountain Hope, Mountain Home, Tennessee.
This biomedical employee was having sex with thirty two different
co workers.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Wow, I'm Parney.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It must be very good. A lot of good recommendations there,
I think, right, yeah, I'm I guess all the women said, yeah,
go take a crack at them. Oh yeah, that's that's
not bad. Thirty two of them, thirty two different women.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And get this, were they all beautiful or he doesn't?
You know?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Wellminate, but there are some.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I'm sure there are some attractive government workers.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Ye find thirty two attractive women working at the VA.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You never know?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
All right, well, the man and several of the women.
Now this is where I really don't understand. They bragged
about their sexual activities on an online group forum, so
they they like, I guess, they discussed the intimate details
of how of how they performed they want to share,
(14:36):
and also on a government communications portal that VIA officials
use to communicate about business.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Operator's stupid?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Can you mean I mentioned being on that channel that
group text? Come on? Thirty two of them?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Wait, I've got more here. Because this is a congressional investigation,
they have uncovered that there was an orgy of at
least twelve officials who work at the facility. Twelve person orgy.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Wow, that's the well, I mean, look that is.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I mean, you don't even know who you're doing it
to right, I'm sure they don't care. I guess not.
I mean because the lights are usually.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Low, right, I'm sure there's drinking and drugs involved.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, would have to be. I mean, yeah, doing twelve
random people in the office, I don't know. It says
it's unclear whether the orgy happened on government property at
the VA facility or off site. I guess if it's
off site, and yeah, yeah, but it is still something
(15:51):
else that everybody would find each other so attractive.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
They're bored, right, I mean, what else?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So this is why these people were coming to work? Yes,
I wondered. It's like, well, why are these thirty two
showing up and nobody else is? Well?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Right, they're having fun.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
They're at least two of the employees admitted to having
sex on the grounds of the VA hospital. One of
that's going on in la.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I wonder if what's going on here?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, there's nobody left to have sex with here. It's
definitely going on in the homeless camp next to it. Oh,
the oh, the one in la oh, the one in
la oh Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah. Well, I mean I when I had to drive
past that camp for four years, I used to see
some really wild stuff because people would be standing in
the street. I nearly hit a guy. He jumped down
to the street and he was holding a whiskey bottle,
right by the neck of a bottle, and he had
no shirt on. And there were some women there, yeah,
you know, and there were There were three people who
(16:50):
died in that tent city. A couple of them were murdered.
One of them was dragged under a car driven by
another homeless guy. He had no home, but he had
a car and he used it to drag a second
homeless guy to his death. One guy was stabbed, if
I remember correctly, One guy in a wheelchair was stabbed
by another homeless guy. And then there was a third
(17:12):
killing as well. I don't think it was a murder,
but it might have been an overdose or something. So
it looks like there's a congressional committee. The chairman of
it is Michael bost Is, a Republican from Illinois, and
there are whistleblowers who provided further details on these charges
(17:34):
and more allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault, improper interpersonal relationships.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Now was this going on when they were clocked in
or was it after hours?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You know? It doesn't say, I bet you it would
be when they were clocked in.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, then that's not okay.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
You're getting paid to have sex and orgies and all
that orgies.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That just stands so u hygenic, doesn't it. It is,
I mean, especially when you get up to twelve.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah, you know it means it's disgusting. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's just a lot of bodily fluids and you don't
know what's in the bodily fluids.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's that's always my that's my objection to orgies. Who
knows what's in that? Guy?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Right, Yeah, that's fair, And.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I don't all right, when we come back, I have
nothing as exciting as the twelve person orgy.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Oh well then let's go home.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But by the way, Toda, I hear. I heard you
Gary and Shannon today you suddenly blurted out, I want
a sex story.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh well, because they tease me.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
They think that all I watch are sex shows, and
they're not really wrong, but it just happens. It just
happens to be the shows that I don't look specifically
for sex shows. And so when Shannon brought up Deborah
and a sex show, I said, oh, actually, I haven't.
I haven't released sem one. I could use something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You could use something.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Okay, that's coming out wrong, all right, No, let's just backspace.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I'm just saying that.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I'll just let you talk long enough, and I'm never disappointed.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I did myself anyway. I haven't watched a good sex
show in a while.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
That's all I was doing. Okay, you could use it.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
You're listening to John Cobbel's on demand from KFI Am
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Speaker 1 (19:28):
From one until four and then after four o'clock John
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up on what you missed. In fact, if you missed
our pastathon yesterday, that whole show is on yesterday's podcast,
so you could go through that and enjoy it. Next segment,
I'm going to play my favorite clip from yesterday's show,
(19:50):
maybe maybe two favorite clips, and that'll that'll be in
about fifteen minutes. I lied. Last we discussed this sexual
scandal at the VA at Mountain Home, Tennessee, where thirty
two government employees at the VA we're having sex with
(20:13):
one another.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
No, no, what happened. It happened, and it was one
official who had at least thirty two women. And then
there was also a story about a dozen government workers
showing up at an orgy, but they don't know if
it was in the office or off site. And I said, well,
that's all the sexual stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I have, right, Oh, you have more sexual.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Style, Yeah, a government sexual story. I forgot about Pete Heggsath.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Oh, yes, Pete Heigsath.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I mean I you probably know if you follow this.
He's up to be Trump's Secretary of Defense, and now
his nomination is in a lot of trouble. There's a
lot of Republican senators who want to vote for him,
and Trump may ask Ron de Santis. They're already beating.
So this has been one of the big political stories
of the day. But the reason that Hegseth is is
(21:04):
his nomination is really shaky. Is the New Yorker magazine
came out with a lengthy investigative piece on what Pete
Hegseth does at night. And you know, a week or
so ago, there was a story about him up in
Monterey and he was out with a few women in
some Republican women's conference, I tell you the Republican women,
(21:24):
let me tell you that they're going Apparently they were
all going nuts on Pete Hegseth. I mean he is
considered just stunning. Look he's good looking, better than Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
They're both equal, I would say, you think both are equal?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
All right?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I just you asked me a question.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Do women have one the one ten scale that we
men do?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I'm sure, yeah, Well but I'm sure have you heard it?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Yes? Have you beens or maybe a long time, a
very long time, but you would hand out sevens and
eighths and threes force.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I don't recall, I really don't.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I don't recall.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Okay, it's a long time. Every guilty witness says, I
don't recall. Hey, so there was that story in Monterey,
and that has turned into like he said, she said
thing because she was cheating on her husband that night,
spent the night with heg Seth, and she claimed that
he was forcing himself. All right, that one's too. I
didn't think that that story by itself would sink him
(22:27):
because it was just too murky. And when a woman
is with a guy while the husband and kids are
in another room. I'm gonna be a little judgmental here
and say that it wasn't just heg Seth. However, he's
got a long history of being an alcoholic and all
kinds of sexual improprieties. I mean, I couldn't believe this stuff.
(22:52):
He used to that Now he was a very well
respected military man, and he has been a Fox News
host for a number of year. I've seen him occasionally,
but I think mostly he does a weekend morning show.
And I don't watch cable TV news very much. I'll
listen to a little bit of it in the car,
but I don't watch these shows, and I certainly don't
(23:14):
watch morning television because I can't. So heg Seth all right,
Fox News. We know Trump watches Fox News obsessively. He
sees heg Seth, good looking guy, really strong military record,
and he's got some very provocative ideas on the military,
on how the military should be run. He wants woke
(23:34):
this out of the military, which it should be. Out
of the military. You just want the military guys to
kill people, right, that's the whole purpose. But Hegseth has
had other organizations that he's worked for a couple of
I guess you'd call them nonprofits and boys. He had
a good time. I mean he puts that va orgy
(23:55):
crowd to shame. Oh really, Oh yeah, uh well accumulatively probably. Yeah.
He was president of something called Concerned Veterans for America
for three years, and I guess this was a lobbying
style group pushing veterans issues. Well. He was described as
(24:17):
being repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity, to
the point of having to be carried out of their
events because he was so blasted.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That's not good.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
At one point, Hexseth had to be restrained while drunk
from joint. Well. They had gone to a strip club
in Louisiana. You imagine a bunch of guys strip club
in Louisiana. I'm assuming it's a no wives trip, and
he was so drunk they had to restrain him from
joining the dancers on stage.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And a lot of guys are like that.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
He'd brought his team with him and hec's Hexseth was
married at the time. Other members of the management team
sexually pursued the female staffers. They divided the women into
two groups, the party girls and the not party girls.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Do you guys do that when you talk to your friends,
do you do you say.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Are those girls party girls? Or are those girls not?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Of course, we have a complicated numerical system. I was
about to say, we have different categories.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
She put out, Does she.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You do make that judgment? Yes, you try to pick
up clues. No, I can't say that editing yourself. You
should see what goes on at among dad's at school.
That's all I'm gonna say. There's also let me see
(25:51):
the while hag Seth was running this organization, it was
a hostile workplace. There was an allegation made by a
female employee that another employee working with heg Seth had
tried to sexually assault her at that same Louisiana strip club. Look,
nobody should be sexually assaulted. I wouldn't if I was
a woman, I would not go out with a bunch
of guys to a strip club. Acciently, that is just apparently.
(26:16):
Heg Seth also was with a group at a bar
in Ohio at some other event, and they drunkenly started chanting,
kill all Muslims, Kill all Muslims. I'm not making this
stuff up. Let me see here. That was just the
first page of the story. Actually, this is extremely long story.
(26:39):
I couldn't possibly tell you all all the carousing that
this guy did. When he was finally removed as the
head of Concerned Veterans for America, there was an email
sent out by a whistleblower who said among the staff,
the disgust for Pete was pretty high. Most veterans do
not think he represents them nor their high standard of excellence.
(27:02):
He's got a history of alcohol abuse and treated the organization,
the funds in the organization like they were a personal
expense account for partying, drinking, and using the events as
little more than opportunities to hook up with women on
the road.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Okay, I doesn't Trump have somebody to vet these people
before him.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Well, that's a funny story, because they do.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Then why would they ever think I mean, it's the
same kind of thing with Matt Gates.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I don't think they did background checking. They just had
from what I read, Xseeth came in a room and
they said, all right.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh, he's a good looking guy, we want him.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, that's Trump's criteria. I know people who look and
speak well on Fox News right at the top of
the list to get a cabinet position. So there's a
question though, that they always ask at the end of
these interviews, is there anything else we should know?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well, let me tell you I'm involved in.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Uh yeah, I'm involved in the Orgies and the strip
club dancing. Well, apparently, heg Seth said, no, nothing I
can think of.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And they don't dig.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
No gay, Clearly they don't dig.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That doesn't make any sense, And.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So you wait until the New Yorker uh comes up
with this. Here's another. Here's another one of uh heg
Seth's former colleagues. These are his friends. I've seen him
drunk so many times. I've seen him dragged away, not
a few times, but multiple times. To have him at
the Pentagon would be scary.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
This is a friend.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah. When those of us who worked at CVA heard
he was being considered for the Secretary of Defense, it
wasn't no, it was hell no. Here's another complaint memorial
of the weekend twenty fourteen. Hegseth was totally sloshed and
needed to be carried to his room because he was
so intoxicated. Following month in Cleveland, he was described as
(28:58):
completely drunk in a pub place. Several high profile people
who went to the event were very we're very disappointed
to see this kind of public behavior. And this just
this just goes on and on and on. Uh oh
one more. I know you got to do the news.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Apparently way more exciting than my news.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Apparently he was so drunk that by one in the
morning at an event, one of the staffers who driven
him to his hotel in a van full of other
drunken staffers. Uh, they needed help to get Hecseth to
his room. He was completely passed out in the middle seat,
slumped over a young female. Two men had to carry
Hecseth into the hotel. A young woman who was with
(29:41):
them vomited in some bushes, and another woman helped him
to bed.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I'm going to go out on a limb here.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I'd say this probably isn't the best choice as a job.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
He's you know, the Pendagon's an eight hundred and forty
seven billion dollar operation. Yeah, yeah, I tell you. This
play cafe is really boring. We get none of this none.
We come back up playing my favorite clip from the
postathon yesterday.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from kf I
AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Coming up after Deborah's news we're gonna tell you about
Gavin Newsom has now that Joe Biden is fading into
disgrace and sinility, He's finally saying something critical about old Joe,
and we'll get to that next. UH. I'm gonna play
a clip. Uh play play play cut for in just
a second. This UH is from the yesterday's Postathon and
(30:41):
Deborah and I had been going through a story she
had told me a while back, where you know she
it's very difficult to go out to eat with her,
apparently because you know she has these long list of villa.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
It was difficult going out to dinner or out to
eat with me. You assumed a different that's.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Right, and so that there was one time that she
went out to dinner with her husband and he ordered
pork belly and she was completely disgusted and you didn't
want him to eat it.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I asked him to the order. Did the first time.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Does that happened to Does anybody have ever had a
wife where you've ordered food and restaurant and the wife
ordered tells you to rescind the order.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
It was the first time and the only time I
have done.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
That, because get up and go home.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It was just the thought it was just it just
bows me out.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
We were talking about it, and I guess. I guess
Michelle and put in an order with Bruno because every year,
part of the pasta Thun tradition is Bruno brings me
a plate of some unusual animal or you know, entree
that he's made. So listen to this. What does it
taste like? Very tender? Yes, this very very very flavorful.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh he loves it.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah. I kind of knew it that he will take
something special. Oh man, this is got honeymoon.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Okay, you guys should up a break because John is hungry.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
He's going to be This is juicy, tender, flavorful. Can
you figure out what is not yet? I have no idea.
I don't think it's anything I've had before, or at
least not in this form. Look, I'm not going to
(32:34):
say anything for an hour. I'm just gonna eat this thing.
But we'll go ahead. Tell me buck Belly, there you go,
show me. No, no, no, no, oh.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
My god, that is my worst nightmare.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Are you it's good?
Speaker 5 (32:59):
I love it is an amazing Sorry.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
No disrespect, I know, I know, don't you're about to
be disrespected. I mean, she was willing to take on
the mop five minutes.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, you're just going to eat that
for the rest of the show.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You hear the contempt at her voice. You're just going
to eat that for the rest of the show.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Well, and I'm such a ding dong.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I I thought that Michelle had had that planned before
our discussions. I thought it was so magical that that
appeared without, you know, my brain.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
She gave me the heads up after she put the
order in and said, just wait for this.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
It was so good.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You thought it was so crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You have to go on Instagram, though, and see Debora's
face when she realizes it's pork belly funnier.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
So good.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
How and he's just stuff in his face wanting to finish.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
This is delicious, This is so tender. And I had
no idea what it was.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
I did finish the plate that John didn't finish. There
was about a piece of a half left.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
That is gross.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
It was so good. It was good, wasn't it. Yeah,
whatever glaze was on top of it. Ooh, I love
that tone of voice. You guys, just say tone voice
your husband heard when you told him to sit in
the order. Could you send that order please, because I.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Just I couldn't for whatever reason that night.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I've never done that before. But when he said the
Park Valley, no who.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Go to John Cobelt Radio on Instagram or Twitter and
you can see the videos yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah you got it. Yeah, you gotta see all the
videos and you got to see your face at the
end of that. All right, Debra Mark Live CAFI twenty
four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
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