January 6, 2025 • 36 mins
John is back from the holiday break! California has lied about high-speed rail. President-elect Trump posted on his Truth Social account a compilation video of all of the public figures who lied about Pres. Biden's mental and cognitive health. CA State Senator Suzette Martinez Valladares comes on the show to talk about the high-speed rail boondoggle and the California budget for the year. A Waymo car in Arizona malfunctioned with someone in it.
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So all that coming up after three o'clock. We actually
have a lot to do in the show. Gavin Newsom
is going to play a central role this This is
going to be a really entertaining year. I mean, not
only is Trump and Elon Musk and a bulldoze the
place in Washington, d C. But Newsom has got to
figure out a way to cling on to relevancy. He's
like the last super woke governor who is not moderating
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himself at all. I see that the New York and
Illinois governors are moderating themselves on crime. The Illinois governor
wants to cooperate some with Trump on immigration. But we
have Newsom who really his head is stuck. His head
is stuck in a number of places, but one place
has had is stuck is twenty twenty. He doesn't know
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that that era is over, and it came to an
official crashing halt on November fifth. And if he didn't,
I'm sure he's seen between you know, Gascone getting kicked
out and the Alameda County DA and Oakland getting kicked
out and the San Francisco mayor getting kicked out, among
other things.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
That it's a new era down all right.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
People are not going to live the way we lived
in the twenty teens and in the early twenty twenties.
That's not going to happen anymore. One thing that people
are set up with is high speed rail funding. I
mean that has wasted so much of our money. It
has been now seventeen years. This thing was passed in
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two thousand and eight, it is now twenty twenty five.
And Newsome knows that this is our big albatross around
his neck. He's going to run for president. He's going
to run for president with the worst record of any
state governor, both as a Democrat and overall. There is
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nobody that has a worse story to tell, a worst
set of statistics to back up the story, than Gavin Newsom.
And there's nothing he can do to make it better
in two years, especially since he's refused to let go
of all his woke politics nonsense. Right, we're still on
course to ban gas powered cars. In fact, there's a
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lot of gas powered appliances that are are being banned.
Over the next few years. We'll talk about that. But
today he's going to give some kind of press conference
or an update on California's high speed Rail's supposed to
be at three o'clock. We are going to maybe run
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it or record it and play it back. You know,
we're gonna because I don't know exactly what time it's
going to go on, and I don't know how long
it's going to and you know, he's not a riveting speaker,
so I don't want to waste too much time and
force you to listen to him.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But we will.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
We run a little bit of it and get a
handle on what he's announcing. Coming up at one thirty.
In that regard, it's State Senator Susette Martinez Valaderis. It's
from Santa Clarita, and she is going to talk about
high speed rail as well. Because California high speed rail
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officials and California idiot lawmakers are desperate. Trump comes in.
Trump is going to shut down federal funding. Elon Musk
has California high speed rail way high up on his
list that his DOGE Department is going to handle, and
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there's like no chance that federal funding for high speed
rail survives over.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
The next few weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
As soon as they start implementing either what Trump wants
to do already or what Elon Musk is going to recommend,
that money is gone. And so they're having panic attacks
at High speed Rail headquarters because these guys have had
a real grift going for seventeen years. They have scammed,
you know, about thirteen billion dollars from the public, and
they have paid themselves fat salaries and produced nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
We have no rail. You still can't get from anywhere
anywhere with this thing.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Seventeen efing years and thirteen billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It might even be more than that.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I remember a couple of years ago they did an
audit I think they did more than one audit and
found out that they didn't know where the money went
billions of dollars because nobody kept any records, like they
paid money to crookeet contractors or crooked friends, you know,
engineers and lawyers and environmental people and whatnot, and money
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just to spirit and nobody has any record, not the state,
not high speed Rail, not the people who got the money,
the companies who got the money. We've heard this before, right.
Newson announced the same story for homeless funding that he
didn't know where the money went, and he didn't know
if any of it worked. And the same story when
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they handed out fifty billion dollars to all the fraudsters
for unemployment during the COVID lockdown. It's the same story.
I mean, between the three high speed rail and homelessness
and COVID, what are we talking about here. We're talking
close to one hundred billion dollars in your tax money,
federal tax money.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They have no record. This is like new I'd never
heard of this before.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Just in the past couple of years, I've heard things
in California that I've never heard in my life. It's like, oh, yeah,
we wasted the money. Yeah the program didn't work, blah
blah blah, we.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Hired too much.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
No, no, this is we don't know where it went.
We have no record of it. All right, So they
have broke new ground. So Newsom has got a lot
of messes. He's got to shovel up because the dope
thinks he's going to be president. He's not going to
be president. But he's the only one who doesn't know it.
And jeez, I don't want to. I don't want the
delusion to break because this is going to be wildly entertaining,
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is it not. I mean, he's a complete and utter failure,
and he's the only person who doesn't know it. I
mean his family must know it, right, all his friends
must know it, if he has any friends.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He's a complete failure. State's a disaster. So we'll see
what he says.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
At three o'clock, we'll talk to the state senators Whusette
Martinez Valaderas give you some detail on the panic among
the high speed rail executives. They are begging the Transportation
Secretary Pete Buddhajeedge to release five hundred and thirty six
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million dollars in federal money so they could start digging
tunnels on the rail project. Five representatives from California in Congress,
including the idiot Adam Schiff. Oh my god, that bozo.
So that bozo becomes senator and the first thing he
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does is he asks Pete bodhajeg is another clown, give
us a half a billion dollars so we can dig
tunnels for a railroad track that's never going to carry
any trains. What they want to do is reward labor
unions here in the state who have donated so much
money to new Some in the Democrats reward them with
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hundreds of millions of dollars. They know this is never
going to be built. They know the project will always
be unfinished, that the tunnels are going to lead to nowhere.
What they want those to be able to give the
money to the union members in the forms of in
the form of I don't even want to call it,
make work jobs. It's no work jobs. They're not going
to do anything. They're not going to do anything useful.
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All right, So chapter one of that will be one
thirty with Suzette Martinez Valders. Now, before Biden fades into
history entirely, we've got some audio to play. Next segment,
Trump released during the Christmas break. Maybe you've seen this.
This is a hoot. This is a two and a
half minute video of a lawmaker's cabinet secretaries, media people
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insisting that Joe Biden is mentally sharp as anyone on
the planet. His cognitive powers are unrivaled. When you actually
hear the whole thing, it's a hoot. And we also
got a clip of Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader,
for the moment he went on meet the press and
the anchor asked if the American public should think that
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Schumer and others lied to them about Biden's sonility.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That's a good one. We'll get to that next.
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Speaker 1 (10:08):
How are you doing.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I am great. I feel like I haven't seen you
in forever.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's been over over two weeks, I know.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And we're sort of matching today.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, I don't know how that happens.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Weird.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's like the third time in the last few months. Yeah,
we have exactly the same color. And it's not a
regular color too. It's a bold green.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, actually mine is more of a turquoise turl.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yes, it is turquoise. Yes, No, that's a forest green.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
No it's not.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You know, I always wondered if people see colors the same,
and I guess.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
This is turquoise.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Well not to my eyes. Let's'll break the tie.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Levra's jacket is definitely more blue than green, and your
shirt is definitely more green.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So wow, and.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Mine is a velvet jacket, and I thought yours was
a velvet shirt. But it's Quarteriz.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
We sound like the golden glow red carpets.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
What are you wearing? We actually we're not really matchy matches.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
All right?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, you know what, Actually, in person, you look dark green.
On the video screen it looks blue. I don't see
colors like everyone else. I must be well, there's a
lot of things are maree, But I think I got
some kind of color blindness or a color shift situation.
All right, let's get on to Joe Biden, because you're
not going to have him. You can't kick his dead
body around for much longer.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
What is today?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
January sixth, So we've got two weeks, right, January twentieth,
that's right, two weeks to the day Trump posted this.
And I was looking for a montage like this, because
you know, we all got lied to like crazy. Now
we here on the program never fell for the lies.
(11:47):
We As I've told you, we called out Joe being
senile way back when he was running. We had our
little Biden Biden what we call it Biden Bidenville, Bidenville, right,
I was gonna call it Biden World. Biden Land Bidenville,
I'm having the same problem he is. And we had
that playing the first week that he after he got inaugurated.
(12:08):
All right, as soon as he got elected, biden World
was commissioned, so it was clearly senile. He was senile
when he was running in twenty twenty and I marveled
about how the whole world pretended that he wasn't in
advanced dementia by twenty twenty four, and then the debate happened. Well,
Trump decided to post him on tige. Of all the
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people in public, I guess this is a collection of
anchors or commentators or lawmakers all assuring the world that
Biden is the sharpest guy on the planet.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So roll this.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Does the president have the stamina physically and mentally? Do
you think to continue on even after twenty twenty four?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You're asking me this question.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh my gosh, he's the president of the United States,
you know. I can't even keep up with it.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden
is preparing for it, because he is sharp, intensely probing,
and detail oriented and focused.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
I can testify because I've been working very closely with
this president for the past few years. I've been knowing
it for thirty years, and I'm telling you, this guy's tough.
He's smart, he's on his game.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Joe Biden has a vision, he has knowledge, he has
a strategic thinker.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
The President is focused, he's detail oriented, he's always thinking
about the big picture.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Is engaging. He is capable. He has an incredible record
as president, and I'm often with him on foreign trips.
He's at the top of his game.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
So he has a vision, he has knowledge, he has judgment,
he has a strategic thinking.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
I met with the President I don't know, five or
six weeks ago at the same find to make.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
Have complete confidence in the president. I have watched him
expertly guide meetings of staff and cabinet members. I could
not have more confidence than the president.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
I would just tell you that I meet frequently with
the President, and every single time I meet him, he
is just fine.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
But he is again, knowledgeable, wise.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Incredibly sharp, incredibly probing, incredible command of the details.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
He is sharp, he is on top of things.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
There is nothing to these challenges, these suggestions that somehow
he's not sharp and he's not capable.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
We see Joe Biden.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
Of course, we know how attuned to oughts to the issue,
and you're going to see how smart he is and
the experience he has.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I say his age is an asset.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
Hu he's wise.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes, he's wise. He has wisdom, he has experiences.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
And his experience because of his age and his wisdom,
has been invaluable to this country.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
A lot of countries, people who've been in office a
longer period of time are praised for their wisdom. I
have seen a lot of seventy two year olds not
as capable as this eighty year old.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
It is hard for us to keep up with this president.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
His mental acuity is great. It's fine. It's as good
as it's been over the years i've been. He's fine.
All this right wing propaganda that he mental acuity has
declined is wrong.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
And this kind of sense that he's not ready for
this job is just a bucket of bs that's so
deep your boots will get stuck at it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I counted twenty four liars there. I think a few
of them will repeat liars. They got two clips, but
that was twenty four separate clips of prominent Washington officials lying,
just absolutely lying. A couple of them I noticed were
less confident in the lie. Like their voice quavered a
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little quavered a little bit at the end, and they
would kind of hesitate and just say he's just fine.
But most of them were full throated. Yes, he's sharp,
and people much younger have trouble keeping up with him,
and his cognitive abilities are my got twenty four life.
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This is what propaganda is. This is about everybody getting
talking points in order and repeating the same lie over
and over again. None of these people should be allowed
in public life ever, none of them, none of them
should ever be believed, nor any of the media people
who covered this administration for the last four years and
(16:34):
didn't see the obvious, didn't report on the obvious. Here's
another clip. This is Chuck Schumer on Meet the Press.
He was questioned over the weekend by Kristen Welker on
NBC being asked whether Schumer and everybody else was lying
all this time.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
I want to play you a little bit of something
you said last year.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Take a look.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I talked to President Biden, you know, regularly or sometimes
several times in a week, or musually saideveral times in
a week. His mental acuity is great, It's fine. It's
as good as it's been over the years. All this
right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is
wrong literature.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
Well, what do you say to Americans who feel as
though you and other top Democrats misled them about President
Biden's mental acuity?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Look, we didn't, and let's let's look at President Biden.
He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed, one
of the most significant groups of legislation since the New
Deal since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, putting in two hundred
and thirty five judges a record, And he's a patriot,
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he's a great guy. And when he stepped down, he
did it on his own because he thought it was
better not only for the Democratic Party, for the America.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
We should all salute him. We should all salute him.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Do you feel, as we have this conversation today, that
President Biden could serve another four years had he stayed
in the race, and potentially one.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Well, I'm not going to speculate, As I said, I
think his record is a stellar one and he'll go
down in history as a really outstanding president.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
But I'm sorry, sack of crap.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
He is what a line bag of feces, honest to God, Well,
he's just He's an absurd buffoon, a clown. Chuck Schumer,
Senate minority leader. This is what we have in the country.
He's the Senate manar leader. He lies for years, and
then he lies about lying, and then when he was
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cornered to tell a super duper whopper lie that Biden
could serve another four years, he finally had to back down.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I don't want to speculator, I red God, what.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
A bunch of coloss of morons. They're so dishonest. And
here in California we got our own specific set, starting
with Gavin News absolute dishonesty. Well, we're going to delve
into the seventeen year boondoggle. Now, seventeen years of waiting
for high speed rail to get built, billions and billions
have been spent. Nobody knows where the money is. There's
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there's there's there's no railroad track leading from anywhere to anywhere.
Right now, we're gonna we're News. I'm supposed to speak
on the matter. Coming up at three three o'clock. Next,
we're going to talk to State Senator Susette Martinez. Valaderis
from Santa Clarita, she is going to talk to us
about the high speed rail funding.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
When when's it? Finally they're gonna pull the plug and
give up on this nonsense.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
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more information on Matthew Livelsberger and his life. He's the
guy who shot himself and blew up his cyber truck
in front of that Trump hotel in Las Vegas. There
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is more information coming out. Is just a really sad case.
Looks like both guys, both guys, the one of New
Orleans who did that mass killing, and then this character
in Las Vegas, former military who lost their minds. We'll
get to that now. High speed Rail Newsom has decided
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to open twenty twenty five by highlighting the biggest boom
dooggle I think in California public works history, probably in
the nation's public works history, and that is the many
multi billions that have been blown on high speed rail
with nothing to show for it. He's gonna has an
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announcement to make after three o'clock. Where it is they're
betting begging the federal government to send them some money
before Biden Lee's office because Trump and Musk are likely
to shut down the high speed rail spigott in terms
of federal dollars. Let's talk with Schuseette Martinez Valadarius. She's
a Republican from Santa Clarita State senator. He's got some
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information on all this, Suzan, how are you hi?
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Hello John, Happy New Year to you and thanks for
having me on Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
What's going on three o'clock news? I'm supposed to give
some public statement. Do you know what this is about?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Now?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Well, your guess is as good as mine. But what
I can probably guess here is that he is going
to be yes begging the Feds for money as well
as trying to allocate more of our hard earned tax
dollars to this high speed ripoff. It really has been
a ripoff to the voters of California.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Whatever he is.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
Going to propose, we know it's going to be a
waste of resources when Californians need him to be focusing
on the issues the mandate they just gave us this
past November on affordability. He's going to be squandering more
of our money.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
We could go through like a top twenty list of
issues in California that normal people care about. High speed
rail is not on the list, except for all the
billions that have been wasted. But there's nobody crying after
this thing. This doesn't have a constituency, so.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
No, I mean, is the governor's pet project. He is
obsessed with this. And I'm sure you know this, John,
When the voters originally approved this, we approved a bond
for over nine billion dollars. Now then they came back
and said it was going to cost thirty three billion dollars,
and now we're at one hundred and twenty eight billion dollars.
Speaker 11 (22:32):
And not one writer has ridden this high speed ripoff
because it's not even done, and it's still the first
piece of it isn't going to be done until twenty
thirty at.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Best, and we know we will see them push that
back further and further as they always do.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well they don't.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
It's a complete riplof They don't have.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Funding for this, there's no funding in sight. There's no
private money, there's very little federal government money, and even
that is going to get cut off certainly by Jay
Uary twentieth.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Yeah, there's no money, not even to finish the first
phase you know of this yet alone. The second phase
and the phase that they may end up completing one
hundred and thirty billion dollars later, is going to be
a rail from Bigger's Field to were said, Well, I'm
in Santa clearly that I'm never going to go drive
to Bakersfield to get to Mersaid for a train ride.
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It's just not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Seriously.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Just today earlier, no go ahead. Sorry, as I say,
just today earlier, Kevin Kylie announced that he is has
introduced the no more funds for the California High Speed
Rail because our California delegation of Congress representative, including Kevin Carlei, No,
this is a waste of talks, pay dollars, and the
federal governvation not be bailing this project out by any means.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
What's the motivation for blowing this money?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Is it just to give unions a free pay day?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
You know what?
Speaker 10 (24:00):
That is a million That is a billion dollar question there?
Who's making you know who's making money off of this?
Why have we not seen any meaningful progress since they started?
And you know, there needs to be an intense audit
invest and an investigation and transparency on where these dollars
are being spent. And I have a feeling if we
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do that, we're gonna, you know, uncover some pretty nasty
and and uh spending here.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's got to be corruption. Now.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
They did an audit a few years ago and they said, well,
we couldn't find any records.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But like the money just evaporated.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It's not even like wasted or stolen, it's it doesn't
exist anymore.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
That's the m of how they operate with our finances
here in California. We've seen that with the homeless, the
billions we've spent on homeless, no accountability, no transparency, no
no political will at all from those controlling Sacramento to
actually look at and and and follow the money at all.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
It's astonishing just how much money they've blown over such
a long period of time and and and nobody, nobody
can stop them.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
I mean, and you know what, I'm hopeful, John, though,
because it is a little daunting when you see, you know,
projects like this that are just you know, wasting money
while voters are hurting, while voters are worried about paying
Californians are worried about paying their utilities, you know, putting
gas in their car, and to have have a project
that even if the first phase is done is completed,
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which I highly doubt that will happen, that'll be you know,
we won't be selling any gas powered vehicles in California anymore.
So what what CO two emissions need to be reduced
with the high speed rail if we're not going to
have any gas powered vehicles. It just it makes no
sense to me. It's a complete waste of money. It's
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somebody getting rich here, and we're going to get to
the bottom of it.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
All right, Suzette, thanks very much for coming on. Maybe
this is the year finally gets God. All right, Suzette
Martinez valaderis from Santa Clarita State Senator. On this never
ending waste of billions and billions of your tax dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Outside of bribing.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Some of the unions that support Newsom and the Democrats,
there's no reason for this thing still to live. Nobody
wants it, there's no need for it, and the price
tag really she was right.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
And the price tag. They asked the state.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
To borrow nine billion dollars and this thing is going
to cost one hundred and twenty eight billion minimum. It's
going to be a lot more than that. And I
don't think there's a market for Bakersfield to Mercete.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I'm going out on a limb. There is no market.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
There's nobody standing in line to catch a train from
Bakersfield to Mercette. All right, two o'clock Alex Stone on
the lunatic who shot himself and then blew up his
cyber truck in front of Trump's hotel.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
We're on from one until four. You could follow us
at John Cobelt Radio on social media. Do you have
wamos where you are? They're all over Santa Monica and
West LA.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I was just thinking about that this morning because I
saw that news story. I have not seen one.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Really No.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I'm seeing them almost every day, and they freaked me
out every time when I when they're on the road
in front of me, I try to pass them as
quickly as possible. I just don't trust them, and I'm
waiting for the bad guys to hack these weymos. That's
got to happen. And you know, some poor person is
(27:53):
going to be in the backseat trying to get trying
to get home, and a hacker as a prank is
going to hijack and next thing you know, she's going
to be in a high speed a high speed chase.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
On the four h five.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
That's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, but there's two way most stories, there's the one
that you just mentioned and then there's a second one.
Let's play the first one. This is I mean, this
is funny. There's a there's a guy who was from Arizona. Oh,
he's in Arizona in Scottsdale and he wanted to go
(28:29):
to the airport to fly back to LA. So he's
an LA guy in Scottsdale, Arizona listening to this report
from KTLA.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
Self driving cars promise convenience, right and innovation. But for
one LA man, a recent ride in a way More
vehicle turned into a bizarre and really frustrating ordeal.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It happened this week in Arizona.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Instead of a smooth trip back.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
To the airport, the car glitches driving in circles for minutes,
leaving him stranded and dizzy.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Passenger Mike Johns says.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
The company's customer service only made things worse, and.
Speaker 12 (28:59):
It was just going in the circles, like around the
fifth or sixth times. That feeling was very uncomfortable where
you're strapped in, you can't open the door, and this
vehicle is just going in circles. So somebody obviously at
the control tower realized that there's a malfunction, and then
they're trying to fix it. But the kicker is they're
trying to fix it and they're trying to use my
phone to fix the problem.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So it wasn't simple.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
John says the experience raises concerns about safety.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
And nation and autonomous vehicles. Waimo has yet to respond
to John's complaint.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Ktola also reached out to the company, but we have
not heard back.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
How many times do reporters every day type the phrase
raises concerns? I read that all day in the headlines,
raises concerns. Well, now you're trapped in a car, it's
spinning around and around and around ten times you call
their customer service and they need to use your phone
(29:54):
to fix the problem. So they don't have any control
over one of their cars. They can't send a sit
a little to stop it. To break it, you have
to with your phone.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
How does that work? He said he was getting dizzy.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I'd be getting dizzy too.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
You imagine around and around and around and and he
could have get could.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Have gotten killed, got to jump out of the car.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
If there were other cars on the roadway. I don't
know exactly where this thing started spinning around. But the
irony is he's the guy who got trapped. Is the
founder of an AI strategy company. Well, this is a
little AI that went haywire. The other story is there's
a way mo and some criminal jumped behind the wheel
(30:41):
and tried to steal it and drive off with it.
Uh Thursday, this happened in downtown LA. Guy breaks into
a Waymo and drive away. The police showed up and
got the man out of the car.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
And what happened?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And when there's a passenger inside and somebody wants to
carjack the thing, Now, I guess he wasn't going anywhere
or he wasn't able to go anywhere with it. And
and Waimo claims only a handful of people have tried
to take over the vehicles. Well, it's only a handful
until these news stories hit, and then all kinds of
goons and pranksters are going to want to want to
(31:21):
copy the h copy the attempt. The cars are equipped
to move evasively, honk, or make other sounds, including telling
people outside the vehicle that nine one one is being called.
So that's their protection. When you have crazy guy trying
to jump in the car and take it over, they'll
(31:43):
play a recording telling you that nine one one is
being called. Oh, like, somebody's gonna answer nine one one
here in LA like the police. Yeah, like the police
are going to show up. I called nine a couple
of weeks ago, Yeah, and I got it.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Well, what was it? What was it?
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I was in a bagel shop in Santa Monica. Crazy
guy comes in. Crazy guy and he's he's he's jerking
his body left and right like he was having some
kind of spasm, like like some kind of drug induced fit.
He looked like he had he was having an epileptic fit.
(32:21):
And he's he's shouting stuff incoherent stuff.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Big guy, did he threaten you?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Well, that's the thing. When I got on with nine
one one.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
The woman was interrogating me, like she wasn't gonna automatically
send a cop there to get the crazy guy out. Well, well,
what's he doing, sir, Well tell me what's he doing.
She wanted to know that this was a threat by
her standards, or by the standard she has in her manual.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And and it's.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Like, well, he's jerking from side to side, and he's
shouting all kinds of craz nonsense.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
But that's at the moment, in about ten seconds.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Who knows what he's gonna do because he's unpredictable and erratic.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
So what were you told?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Well, she says, well, hold on, and then she sends
me another person.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
So I got questioned again, and I said.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
You know, by time you people get your act together,
we could all be stabbed.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I hope you really said that I did good for you, I.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Said, I said, this is well to tell me the story,
I said, I just told the story.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Well, you didn't tell it to me.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
That's infuriating when they do that.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Well, I told it to the other woman. And by
now we could all be dead.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
What a bunch of stupid asses running run in this city,
in this county in Santa Monica, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
So did they end up sending anybody?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
They sent me a text later saying that they sent
someone but they couldn't find anything because he'd wandered out.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, they weren't asking you so many questions and got
there earlier. They could have all with the situation.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yeah, they only I guess what they need is some
kind of proof so that they could arrest him.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
It's like, no, no, what you have to do is
break up the moment here.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
They rather you have been shot in the leg.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Right right, And that's what I guess I have to say.
And then you know they charged me with calling it
a false crime. Yeah, I mean that's abominable. If I
say there's something frightening going on, there's something frightening going on,
all right. Most people don't spend their day calling nine
one one with nonsense. Oh God, that pissed me off.
But that's that's Santa Monica for you. So I'm never
(34:39):
getting it away now when we come back, all right,
we're going to talk to Alex Stone. On New Year's Day,
you had the New Orleans situation we all know about.
There there also was the cyber truck exploding in front
of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. I thought it
(35:00):
was I guess everybody thought it was a statement against
Trump and Elon Musk, right, that would be the obvious,
except this guy was a Trump fan and he was
driving a cyber truck. But I think it was a
statement that you know, he's well, he's got He may
have PTSD military guy. The one in New Orleans is
a military guy as well, and this guy probably heard.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Broke up with his wife. She left him.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
He was running around on her and looks like he
was crazy. In any event, the investigators of more information,
Alex Stone from ABC News is going to come on
and talk about it after three o'clock. We are going
to see what Gavin Newsom has to announce about high
speed rail. I think this should be the year in
California we stopped putting up with all nonsense like this
(35:48):
is it. The rest of the country has moved on
to a saner way of life, and a lot of
stuff is coming to an end. The corporations, they're getting
out of wool politics, they're getting out.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Of DEI nine.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Since Trump is going to clean out a lot of
the idiocy. Oh, we got to talk about Biden on
the way out shutting down all the oil natural gas
drilling in the future along the entire United States coast.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
But I mean, all this stuff has to end.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
This entire era, this progressive era, totally a failure, totally discredited,
totally a pain in the ass, and only here in
California is going to keep rolling on. So we got
to get to all that as well. Deborah Mark Live
in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been
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the excitement three o'clock Okay, three o'clock will announce the winners.
I will say we had three people go three for three,
and we had forty two listeners go two for two.
And I'll give you the list also of the top
choices that did not result in the death of a celebrity.
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So all that coming up after three o'clock. We actually
have a lot to do in the show. Gavin Newsom
is going to play a central role this This is
going to be a really entertaining year. I mean, not
only is Trump and Elon Musk and a bulldoze the
place in Washington, d C. But Newsom has got to
figure out a way to cling on to relevancy. He's
like the last super woke governor who is not moderating
(01:42):
himself at all. I see that the New York and
Illinois governors are moderating themselves on crime. The Illinois governor
wants to cooperate some with Trump on immigration. But we
have Newsom who really his head is stuck. His head
is stuck in a number of places, but one place
has had is stuck is twenty twenty. He doesn't know
(02:04):
that that era is over, and it came to an
official crashing halt on November fifth. And if he didn't,
I'm sure he's seen between you know, Gascone getting kicked
out and the Alameda County DA and Oakland getting kicked
out and the San Francisco mayor getting kicked out, among
other things.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
That it's a new era down all right.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
People are not going to live the way we lived
in the twenty teens and in the early twenty twenties.
That's not going to happen anymore. One thing that people
are set up with is high speed rail funding. I
mean that has wasted so much of our money. It
has been now seventeen years. This thing was passed in
(02:47):
two thousand and eight, it is now twenty twenty five.
And Newsome knows that this is our big albatross around
his neck. He's going to run for president. He's going
to run for president with the worst record of any
state governor, both as a Democrat and overall. There is
(03:09):
nobody that has a worse story to tell, a worst
set of statistics to back up the story, than Gavin Newsom.
And there's nothing he can do to make it better
in two years, especially since he's refused to let go
of all his woke politics nonsense. Right, we're still on
course to ban gas powered cars. In fact, there's a
(03:30):
lot of gas powered appliances that are are being banned.
Over the next few years. We'll talk about that. But
today he's going to give some kind of press conference
or an update on California's high speed Rail's supposed to
be at three o'clock. We are going to maybe run
(03:51):
it or record it and play it back. You know,
we're gonna because I don't know exactly what time it's
going to go on, and I don't know how long
it's going to and you know, he's not a riveting speaker,
so I don't want to waste too much time and
force you to listen to him.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But we will.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
We run a little bit of it and get a
handle on what he's announcing. Coming up at one thirty.
In that regard, it's State Senator Susette Martinez Valaderis. It's
from Santa Clarita, and she is going to talk about
high speed rail as well. Because California high speed rail
(04:29):
officials and California idiot lawmakers are desperate. Trump comes in.
Trump is going to shut down federal funding. Elon Musk
has California high speed rail way high up on his
list that his DOGE Department is going to handle, and
(04:52):
there's like no chance that federal funding for high speed
rail survives over.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
The next few weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
As soon as they start implementing either what Trump wants
to do already or what Elon Musk is going to recommend,
that money is gone. And so they're having panic attacks
at High speed Rail headquarters because these guys have had
a real grift going for seventeen years. They have scammed,
you know, about thirteen billion dollars from the public, and
they have paid themselves fat salaries and produced nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
We have no rail. You still can't get from anywhere
anywhere with this thing.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Seventeen efing years and thirteen billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It might even be more than that.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I remember a couple of years ago they did an
audit I think they did more than one audit and
found out that they didn't know where the money went
billions of dollars because nobody kept any records, like they
paid money to crookeet contractors or crooked friends, you know,
engineers and lawyers and environmental people and whatnot, and money
(06:01):
just to spirit and nobody has any record, not the state,
not high speed Rail, not the people who got the money,
the companies who got the money. We've heard this before, right.
Newson announced the same story for homeless funding that he
didn't know where the money went, and he didn't know
if any of it worked. And the same story when
(06:22):
they handed out fifty billion dollars to all the fraudsters
for unemployment during the COVID lockdown. It's the same story.
I mean, between the three high speed rail and homelessness
and COVID, what are we talking about here. We're talking
close to one hundred billion dollars in your tax money,
federal tax money.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They have no record. This is like new I'd never
heard of this before.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Just in the past couple of years, I've heard things
in California that I've never heard in my life. It's like, oh, yeah,
we wasted the money. Yeah the program didn't work, blah
blah blah, we.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Hired too much.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
No, no, this is we don't know where it went.
We have no record of it. All right, So they
have broke new ground. So Newsom has got a lot
of messes. He's got to shovel up because the dope
thinks he's going to be president. He's not going to
be president. But he's the only one who doesn't know it.
And jeez, I don't want to. I don't want the
delusion to break because this is going to be wildly entertaining,
(07:17):
is it not. I mean, he's a complete and utter failure,
and he's the only person who doesn't know it. I
mean his family must know it, right, all his friends
must know it, if he has any friends.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He's a complete failure. State's a disaster. So we'll see
what he says.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
At three o'clock, we'll talk to the state senators Whusette
Martinez Valaderas give you some detail on the panic among
the high speed rail executives. They are begging the Transportation
Secretary Pete Buddhajeedge to release five hundred and thirty six
(07:57):
million dollars in federal money so they could start digging
tunnels on the rail project. Five representatives from California in Congress,
including the idiot Adam Schiff. Oh my god, that bozo.
So that bozo becomes senator and the first thing he
(08:18):
does is he asks Pete bodhajeg is another clown, give
us a half a billion dollars so we can dig
tunnels for a railroad track that's never going to carry
any trains. What they want to do is reward labor
unions here in the state who have donated so much
money to new Some in the Democrats reward them with
(08:39):
hundreds of millions of dollars. They know this is never
going to be built. They know the project will always
be unfinished, that the tunnels are going to lead to nowhere.
What they want those to be able to give the
money to the union members in the forms of in
the form of I don't even want to call it,
make work jobs. It's no work jobs. They're not going
to do anything. They're not going to do anything useful.
(09:00):
All right, So chapter one of that will be one
thirty with Suzette Martinez Valders. Now, before Biden fades into
history entirely, we've got some audio to play. Next segment,
Trump released during the Christmas break. Maybe you've seen this.
This is a hoot. This is a two and a
half minute video of a lawmaker's cabinet secretaries, media people
(09:26):
insisting that Joe Biden is mentally sharp as anyone on
the planet. His cognitive powers are unrivaled. When you actually
hear the whole thing, it's a hoot. And we also
got a clip of Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader,
for the moment he went on meet the press and
the anchor asked if the American public should think that
(09:47):
Schumer and others lied to them about Biden's sonility.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That's a good one. We'll get to that next.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
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Speaker 1 (10:08):
How are you doing.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I am great. I feel like I haven't seen you
in forever.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's been over over two weeks, I know.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And we're sort of matching today.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, I don't know how that happens.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Weird.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's like the third time in the last few months. Yeah,
we have exactly the same color. And it's not a
regular color too. It's a bold green.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, actually mine is more of a turquoise turl.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yes, it is turquoise. Yes, No, that's a forest green.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
No it's not.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You know, I always wondered if people see colors the same,
and I guess.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
This is turquoise.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Well not to my eyes. Let's'll break the tie.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Levra's jacket is definitely more blue than green, and your
shirt is definitely more green.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So wow, and.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Mine is a velvet jacket, and I thought yours was
a velvet shirt. But it's Quarteriz.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
We sound like the golden glow red carpets.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
What are you wearing? We actually we're not really matchy matches.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
All right?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, you know what, Actually, in person, you look dark green.
On the video screen it looks blue. I don't see
colors like everyone else. I must be well, there's a
lot of things are maree, But I think I got
some kind of color blindness or a color shift situation.
All right, let's get on to Joe Biden, because you're
not going to have him. You can't kick his dead
body around for much longer.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
What is today?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
January sixth, So we've got two weeks, right, January twentieth,
that's right, two weeks to the day Trump posted this.
And I was looking for a montage like this, because
you know, we all got lied to like crazy. Now
we here on the program never fell for the lies.
(11:47):
We As I've told you, we called out Joe being
senile way back when he was running. We had our
little Biden Biden what we call it Biden Bidenville, Bidenville, right,
I was gonna call it Biden World. Biden Land Bidenville,
I'm having the same problem he is. And we had
that playing the first week that he after he got inaugurated.
(12:08):
All right, as soon as he got elected, biden World
was commissioned, so it was clearly senile. He was senile
when he was running in twenty twenty and I marveled
about how the whole world pretended that he wasn't in
advanced dementia by twenty twenty four, and then the debate happened. Well,
Trump decided to post him on tige. Of all the
(12:29):
people in public, I guess this is a collection of
anchors or commentators or lawmakers all assuring the world that
Biden is the sharpest guy on the planet.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So roll this.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Does the president have the stamina physically and mentally? Do
you think to continue on even after twenty twenty four?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You're asking me this question.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh my gosh, he's the president of the United States,
you know. I can't even keep up with it.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden
is preparing for it, because he is sharp, intensely probing,
and detail oriented and focused.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
I can testify because I've been working very closely with
this president for the past few years. I've been knowing
it for thirty years, and I'm telling you, this guy's tough.
He's smart, he's on his game.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Joe Biden has a vision, he has knowledge, he has
a strategic thinker.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
The President is focused, he's detail oriented, he's always thinking
about the big picture.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Is engaging. He is capable. He has an incredible record
as president, and I'm often with him on foreign trips.
He's at the top of his game.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
So he has a vision, he has knowledge, he has judgment,
he has a strategic thinking.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
I met with the President I don't know, five or
six weeks ago at the same find to make.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
Have complete confidence in the president. I have watched him
expertly guide meetings of staff and cabinet members. I could
not have more confidence than the president.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
I would just tell you that I meet frequently with
the President, and every single time I meet him, he
is just fine.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
But he is again, knowledgeable, wise.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Incredibly sharp, incredibly probing, incredible command of the details.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
He is sharp, he is on top of things.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
There is nothing to these challenges, these suggestions that somehow
he's not sharp and he's not capable.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
We see Joe Biden.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
Of course, we know how attuned to oughts to the issue,
and you're going to see how smart he is and
the experience he has.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I say his age is an asset.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
Hu he's wise.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes, he's wise. He has wisdom, he has experiences.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
And his experience because of his age and his wisdom,
has been invaluable to this country.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
A lot of countries, people who've been in office a
longer period of time are praised for their wisdom. I
have seen a lot of seventy two year olds not
as capable as this eighty year old.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
It is hard for us to keep up with this president.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
His mental acuity is great. It's fine. It's as good
as it's been over the years i've been. He's fine.
All this right wing propaganda that he mental acuity has
declined is wrong.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
And this kind of sense that he's not ready for
this job is just a bucket of bs that's so
deep your boots will get stuck at it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I counted twenty four liars there. I think a few
of them will repeat liars. They got two clips, but
that was twenty four separate clips of prominent Washington officials lying,
just absolutely lying. A couple of them I noticed were
less confident in the lie. Like their voice quavered a
(15:50):
little quavered a little bit at the end, and they
would kind of hesitate and just say he's just fine.
But most of them were full throated. Yes, he's sharp,
and people much younger have trouble keeping up with him,
and his cognitive abilities are my got twenty four life.
(16:12):
This is what propaganda is. This is about everybody getting
talking points in order and repeating the same lie over
and over again. None of these people should be allowed
in public life ever, none of them, none of them
should ever be believed, nor any of the media people
who covered this administration for the last four years and
(16:34):
didn't see the obvious, didn't report on the obvious. Here's
another clip. This is Chuck Schumer on Meet the Press.
He was questioned over the weekend by Kristen Welker on
NBC being asked whether Schumer and everybody else was lying
all this time.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
I want to play you a little bit of something
you said last year.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Take a look.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I talked to President Biden, you know, regularly or sometimes
several times in a week, or musually saideveral times in
a week. His mental acuity is great, It's fine. It's
as good as it's been over the years. All this
right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is
wrong literature.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
Well, what do you say to Americans who feel as
though you and other top Democrats misled them about President
Biden's mental acuity?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Look, we didn't, and let's let's look at President Biden.
He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed, one
of the most significant groups of legislation since the New
Deal since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, putting in two hundred
and thirty five judges a record, And he's a patriot,
(17:41):
he's a great guy. And when he stepped down, he
did it on his own because he thought it was
better not only for the Democratic Party, for the America.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
We should all salute him. We should all salute him.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Do you feel, as we have this conversation today, that
President Biden could serve another four years had he stayed
in the race, and potentially one.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Well, I'm not going to speculate, As I said, I
think his record is a stellar one and he'll go
down in history as a really outstanding president.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
But I'm sorry, sack of crap.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
He is what a line bag of feces, honest to God, Well,
he's just He's an absurd buffoon, a clown. Chuck Schumer,
Senate minority leader. This is what we have in the country.
He's the Senate manar leader. He lies for years, and
then he lies about lying, and then when he was
(18:32):
cornered to tell a super duper whopper lie that Biden
could serve another four years, he finally had to back down.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I don't want to speculator, I red God, what.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
A bunch of coloss of morons. They're so dishonest. And
here in California we got our own specific set, starting
with Gavin News absolute dishonesty. Well, we're going to delve
into the seventeen year boondoggle. Now, seventeen years of waiting
for high speed rail to get built, billions and billions
have been spent. Nobody knows where the money is. There's
(19:07):
there's there's there's no railroad track leading from anywhere to anywhere.
Right now, we're gonna we're News. I'm supposed to speak
on the matter. Coming up at three three o'clock. Next,
we're going to talk to State Senator Susette Martinez. Valaderis
from Santa Clarita, she is going to talk to us
about the high speed rail funding.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
When when's it? Finally they're gonna pull the plug and
give up on this nonsense.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Six forty on every day from one until four.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Miss anything after four o'clock John Cobelts show on demand
on the iHeart app. Coming up after two o'clock, We're
gonna talk with Alex Stone from ABC News. He's got
more information on Matthew Livelsberger and his life. He's the
guy who shot himself and blew up his cyber truck
in front of that Trump hotel in Las Vegas. There
(20:01):
is more information coming out. Is just a really sad case.
Looks like both guys, both guys, the one of New
Orleans who did that mass killing, and then this character
in Las Vegas, former military who lost their minds. We'll
get to that now. High speed Rail Newsom has decided
(20:22):
to open twenty twenty five by highlighting the biggest boom
dooggle I think in California public works history, probably in
the nation's public works history, and that is the many
multi billions that have been blown on high speed rail
with nothing to show for it. He's gonna has an
(20:42):
announcement to make after three o'clock. Where it is they're
betting begging the federal government to send them some money
before Biden Lee's office because Trump and Musk are likely
to shut down the high speed rail spigott in terms
of federal dollars. Let's talk with Schuseette Martinez Valadarius. She's
a Republican from Santa Clarita State senator. He's got some
(21:05):
information on all this, Suzan, how are you hi?
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Hello John, Happy New Year to you and thanks for
having me on Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
What's going on three o'clock news? I'm supposed to give
some public statement. Do you know what this is about?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Now?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Well, your guess is as good as mine. But what
I can probably guess here is that he is going
to be yes begging the Feds for money as well
as trying to allocate more of our hard earned tax
dollars to this high speed ripoff. It really has been
a ripoff to the voters of California.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Whatever he is.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
Going to propose, we know it's going to be a
waste of resources when Californians need him to be focusing
on the issues the mandate they just gave us this
past November on affordability. He's going to be squandering more
of our money.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
We could go through like a top twenty list of
issues in California that normal people care about. High speed
rail is not on the list, except for all the
billions that have been wasted. But there's nobody crying after
this thing. This doesn't have a constituency, so.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
No, I mean, is the governor's pet project. He is
obsessed with this. And I'm sure you know this, John,
When the voters originally approved this, we approved a bond
for over nine billion dollars. Now then they came back
and said it was going to cost thirty three billion dollars,
and now we're at one hundred and twenty eight billion dollars.
Speaker 11 (22:32):
And not one writer has ridden this high speed ripoff
because it's not even done, and it's still the first
piece of it isn't going to be done until twenty
thirty at.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
Best, and we know we will see them push that
back further and further as they always do.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well they don't.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
It's a complete riplof They don't have.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Funding for this, there's no funding in sight. There's no
private money, there's very little federal government money, and even
that is going to get cut off certainly by Jay
Uary twentieth.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Yeah, there's no money, not even to finish the first
phase you know of this yet alone. The second phase
and the phase that they may end up completing one
hundred and thirty billion dollars later, is going to be
a rail from Bigger's Field to were said, Well, I'm
in Santa clearly that I'm never going to go drive
to Bakersfield to get to Mersaid for a train ride.
(23:26):
It's just not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Seriously.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Just today earlier, no go ahead. Sorry, as I say,
just today earlier, Kevin Kylie announced that he is has
introduced the no more funds for the California High Speed
Rail because our California delegation of Congress representative, including Kevin Carlei, No,
this is a waste of talks, pay dollars, and the
federal governvation not be bailing this project out by any means.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
What's the motivation for blowing this money?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Is it just to give unions a free pay day?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
You know what?
Speaker 10 (24:00):
That is a million That is a billion dollar question there?
Who's making you know who's making money off of this?
Why have we not seen any meaningful progress since they started?
And you know, there needs to be an intense audit
invest and an investigation and transparency on where these dollars
are being spent. And I have a feeling if we
(24:20):
do that, we're gonna, you know, uncover some pretty nasty
and and uh spending here.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's got to be corruption. Now.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
They did an audit a few years ago and they said, well,
we couldn't find any records.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But like the money just evaporated.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It's not even like wasted or stolen, it's it doesn't
exist anymore.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
That's the m of how they operate with our finances
here in California. We've seen that with the homeless, the
billions we've spent on homeless, no accountability, no transparency, no
no political will at all from those controlling Sacramento to
actually look at and and and follow the money at all.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
It's astonishing just how much money they've blown over such
a long period of time and and and nobody, nobody
can stop them.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
I mean, and you know what, I'm hopeful, John, though,
because it is a little daunting when you see, you know,
projects like this that are just you know, wasting money
while voters are hurting, while voters are worried about paying
Californians are worried about paying their utilities, you know, putting
gas in their car, and to have have a project
that even if the first phase is done is completed,
(25:36):
which I highly doubt that will happen, that'll be you know,
we won't be selling any gas powered vehicles in California anymore.
So what what CO two emissions need to be reduced
with the high speed rail if we're not going to
have any gas powered vehicles. It just it makes no
sense to me. It's a complete waste of money. It's
(25:57):
somebody getting rich here, and we're going to get to
the bottom of it.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
All right, Suzette, thanks very much for coming on. Maybe
this is the year finally gets God. All right, Suzette
Martinez valaderis from Santa Clarita State Senator. On this never
ending waste of billions and billions of your tax dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Outside of bribing.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Some of the unions that support Newsom and the Democrats,
there's no reason for this thing still to live. Nobody
wants it, there's no need for it, and the price
tag really she was right.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
And the price tag. They asked the state.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
To borrow nine billion dollars and this thing is going
to cost one hundred and twenty eight billion minimum. It's
going to be a lot more than that. And I
don't think there's a market for Bakersfield to Mercete.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I'm going out on a limb. There is no market.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
There's nobody standing in line to catch a train from
Bakersfield to Mercette. All right, two o'clock Alex Stone on
the lunatic who shot himself and then blew up his
cyber truck in front of Trump's hotel.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
We're on from one until four. You could follow us
at John Cobelt Radio on social media. Do you have
wamos where you are? They're all over Santa Monica and
West LA.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I was just thinking about that this morning because I
saw that news story. I have not seen one.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Really No.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I'm seeing them almost every day, and they freaked me
out every time when I when they're on the road
in front of me, I try to pass them as
quickly as possible. I just don't trust them, and I'm
waiting for the bad guys to hack these weymos. That's
got to happen. And you know, some poor person is
(27:53):
going to be in the backseat trying to get trying
to get home, and a hacker as a prank is
going to hijack and next thing you know, she's going
to be in a high speed a high speed chase.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
On the four h five.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
That's terrifying.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, but there's two way most stories, there's the one
that you just mentioned and then there's a second one.
Let's play the first one. This is I mean, this
is funny. There's a there's a guy who was from Arizona. Oh,
he's in Arizona in Scottsdale and he wanted to go
(28:29):
to the airport to fly back to LA. So he's
an LA guy in Scottsdale, Arizona listening to this report
from KTLA.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
Self driving cars promise convenience, right and innovation. But for
one LA man, a recent ride in a way More
vehicle turned into a bizarre and really frustrating ordeal.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It happened this week in Arizona.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Instead of a smooth trip back.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
To the airport, the car glitches driving in circles for minutes,
leaving him stranded and dizzy.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Passenger Mike Johns says.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
The company's customer service only made things worse, and.
Speaker 12 (28:59):
It was just going in the circles, like around the
fifth or sixth times. That feeling was very uncomfortable where
you're strapped in, you can't open the door, and this
vehicle is just going in circles. So somebody obviously at
the control tower realized that there's a malfunction, and then
they're trying to fix it. But the kicker is they're
trying to fix it and they're trying to use my
phone to fix the problem.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So it wasn't simple.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
John says the experience raises concerns about safety.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
And nation and autonomous vehicles. Waimo has yet to respond
to John's complaint.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Ktola also reached out to the company, but we have
not heard back.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
How many times do reporters every day type the phrase
raises concerns? I read that all day in the headlines,
raises concerns. Well, now you're trapped in a car, it's
spinning around and around and around ten times you call
their customer service and they need to use your phone
(29:54):
to fix the problem. So they don't have any control
over one of their cars. They can't send a sit
a little to stop it. To break it, you have
to with your phone.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
How does that work? He said he was getting dizzy.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I'd be getting dizzy too.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
You imagine around and around and around and and he
could have get could.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Have gotten killed, got to jump out of the car.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
If there were other cars on the roadway. I don't
know exactly where this thing started spinning around. But the
irony is he's the guy who got trapped. Is the
founder of an AI strategy company. Well, this is a
little AI that went haywire. The other story is there's
a way mo and some criminal jumped behind the wheel
(30:41):
and tried to steal it and drive off with it.
Uh Thursday, this happened in downtown LA. Guy breaks into
a Waymo and drive away. The police showed up and
got the man out of the car.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
And what happened?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And when there's a passenger inside and somebody wants to
carjack the thing, Now, I guess he wasn't going anywhere
or he wasn't able to go anywhere with it. And
and Waimo claims only a handful of people have tried
to take over the vehicles. Well, it's only a handful
until these news stories hit, and then all kinds of
goons and pranksters are going to want to want to
(31:21):
copy the h copy the attempt. The cars are equipped
to move evasively, honk, or make other sounds, including telling
people outside the vehicle that nine one one is being called.
So that's their protection. When you have crazy guy trying
to jump in the car and take it over, they'll
(31:43):
play a recording telling you that nine one one is
being called. Oh, like, somebody's gonna answer nine one one
here in LA like the police. Yeah, like the police
are going to show up. I called nine a couple
of weeks ago, Yeah, and I got it.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Well, what was it? What was it?
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I was in a bagel shop in Santa Monica. Crazy
guy comes in. Crazy guy and he's he's he's jerking
his body left and right like he was having some
kind of spasm, like like some kind of drug induced fit.
He looked like he had he was having an epileptic fit.
(32:21):
And he's he's shouting stuff incoherent stuff.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Big guy, did he threaten you?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Well, that's the thing. When I got on with nine
one one.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
The woman was interrogating me, like she wasn't gonna automatically
send a cop there to get the crazy guy out. Well, well,
what's he doing, sir, Well tell me what's he doing.
She wanted to know that this was a threat by
her standards, or by the standard she has in her manual.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And and it's.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Like, well, he's jerking from side to side, and he's
shouting all kinds of craz nonsense.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
But that's at the moment, in about ten seconds.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Who knows what he's gonna do because he's unpredictable and erratic.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
So what were you told?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Well, she says, well, hold on, and then she sends
me another person.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
So I got questioned again, and I said.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
You know, by time you people get your act together,
we could all be stabbed.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I hope you really said that I did good for you, I.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Said, I said, this is well to tell me the story,
I said, I just told the story.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Well, you didn't tell it to me.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
That's infuriating when they do that.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Well, I told it to the other woman. And by
now we could all be dead.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
What a bunch of stupid asses running run in this city,
in this county in Santa Monica, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
So did they end up sending anybody?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
They sent me a text later saying that they sent
someone but they couldn't find anything because he'd wandered out.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, they weren't asking you so many questions and got
there earlier. They could have all with the situation.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yeah, they only I guess what they need is some
kind of proof so that they could arrest him.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
It's like, no, no, what you have to do is
break up the moment here.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
They rather you have been shot in the leg.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Right right, And that's what I guess I have to say.
And then you know they charged me with calling it
a false crime. Yeah, I mean that's abominable. If I
say there's something frightening going on, there's something frightening going on,
all right. Most people don't spend their day calling nine
one one with nonsense. Oh God, that pissed me off.
But that's that's Santa Monica for you. So I'm never
(34:39):
getting it away now when we come back, all right,
we're going to talk to Alex Stone. On New Year's Day,
you had the New Orleans situation we all know about.
There there also was the cyber truck exploding in front
of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. I thought it
(35:00):
was I guess everybody thought it was a statement against
Trump and Elon Musk, right, that would be the obvious,
except this guy was a Trump fan and he was
driving a cyber truck. But I think it was a
statement that you know, he's well, he's got He may
have PTSD military guy. The one in New Orleans is
a military guy as well, and this guy probably heard.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Broke up with his wife. She left him.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
He was running around on her and looks like he
was crazy. In any event, the investigators of more information,
Alex Stone from ABC News is going to come on
and talk about it after three o'clock. We are going
to see what Gavin Newsom has to announce about high
speed rail. I think this should be the year in
California we stopped putting up with all nonsense like this
(35:48):
is it. The rest of the country has moved on
to a saner way of life, and a lot of
stuff is coming to an end. The corporations, they're getting
out of wool politics, they're getting out.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Of DEI nine.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Since Trump is going to clean out a lot of
the idiocy. Oh, we got to talk about Biden on
the way out shutting down all the oil natural gas
drilling in the future along the entire United States coast.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
But I mean, all this stuff has to end.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
This entire era, this progressive era, totally a failure, totally discredited,
totally a pain in the ass, and only here in
California is going to keep rolling on. So we got
to get to all that as well. Deborah Mark Live
in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been
listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
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