December 18, 2024 • 35 mins
Matt Capelouto comes on the show to talk about Alexandra's Law going into effect today which means if someone dies of a fentanyl overdose the person who sold them the drug could be charged with murder. Gov. Newsom has declared a state of emergency over the bird flu. More on high speed rail. A man died in custody after being detained on a cruise ship.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I Am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Today's a big day. We're
on the air from one until four, and then after
four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app.
You could listen to what you missed last hour. We
had Todd Spitzer on the Orange County DA. We were
celebrating the first day that Prop thirty six is the
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law here in California. It passed by about a seventy
to thirty margin on election day and it goes into
effect today. And so we talked with Todd Spitzer because
he was with us way back in February when we
did our signature gathering show that really really kicked off
the whole drive to get this thing on the ballot.
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We were down in Anaheim at the Honda Center and
I think we got over thirteen hundred CANFE listeners to
come and sign the petition in just three hours. Thirteen
hundred people. And that was a sign that this thing
was going to be big. And it has been big.
And I tell you who's one man who's very pleased
about it is Matt Cappalaudo. If his name is familiar.
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We've had Matt on many times as he and his
family suffered the worst tragedy A few days before Christmas
in twenty nineteen, about five years ago now, his daughter
Alexandra took what she thought was a percocet. It had
fentanyl in it, and she died from fentanyl poisoning in
her bedroom shortly after. She was only twenty years old.
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And ever since then, Coppolado went to the Sacramento legislature
again and again and again to get Alexandra's law passed,
and finally it became part of Prop. Thirty six, and
so now Alexandra's law is on the books as part
of Prop. Thirty six. But the road it took he
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got denied. I cannot tell you what terrible awful human beings.
But the human beings I didn't even know I could
call them. Some of these people in Sacramento, they're terrible,
awful people, they really are. I mean, they gave Copilotta
such a hard time, and they constantly kept blocking Alexandra's law.
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They did not want to put fentinyl dealers in jail
for any reason, even if they killed people. I mean,
I mean, they we just really have disgusting representatives in Sacramento,
mostly Democrats. I mean, he he, the Republicans ever blocked
this stuff. All right, let's get back Copolata on how
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are you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Matt Hi John? Thank you. It's a good it's a
good day. This was a great Christmas present.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, I know, I'm very happy about it. But I
start to think about the long road that you took
to get to this point, and it makes me crazy.
But yeah, let's let let's enjoy this moment because there
aren't too many days like this. First, explain Alexandra's Law,
named after your daughter. It's part of Prop. Thirty six.
What does it do? How does it treat fentanyl dealers?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So Alexandra's Law it really reframes drug related deaths from
being viewed as accidental overdoses to actually being seen as
prosecutable homicides. Unlike first degree murder, which requires evidence of intent,
second degree murder requires evidence of knowledge, in this case,
proving the drug dealer was aware of the deadly consequences
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of illegally furnishing drugs. So by giving a drug dealer
in admonishment under Alexandra's Law, this provides that evidence of
knowledge the admonishment is given to someone convicted of a
drug offense. It's read by a judge, recorded in court records,
and provided to the defendant in writing. If the defendant
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continues to be involved in the drug trade and a
death can be tied to their actions, then they can
be prosecuted for second degree murder.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And this is similar to drunken driving laws. Correct. If
somebody kills someone while under the influence, they're also given
a warning, and if it happens the next time, then
they would go to prison.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, we've mirrored this exactly after what's known as the
Watson admonishment, and that's exactly right. It's an admonishment that
is given to somebody convicted of driving under the influence,
and if they continue and somebody dies as a result
of their continued actions, the prosecutors can proceed with a
second degree murder charge there too.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's worked.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It showed to be very effective and dramatically reducing dui fatalities,
and we think the same thing will happen here. We
still need law enforcement to do their part because Alexandra's
law only works if we start arresting these people who
are involved in drugs. They need to get admonished. And
that'll be my focus in twenty twenty five, working with
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law enforcement agencies to make sure they're aware of this
this tool that they have and to be out there
arresting these people involved in drugs, not to in their lives,
but so they get admonished. We want to have that
admonishment on records.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well, we talked about this with Todd Spitzer last hour that
the next step here now that Prop. Thirty six is
on the books, is it has to be implemented. It
has to be enforced in order to actually send the
right people to jail or the right people to rehab
or warrn these fentanel dealers that you're not getting another chance.
Everybody's got to do their job in government. And he fears,
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I fear. I'm sure you're worried about this too. It
being undermined because there's such resistance to being harsher on criminals.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, we still have a battle ahead of us. There
are certainly members of our legislature that want to see
this fail. But we are making progress here in my
county of Riverside County, Orange County under Todd Spitzer, Los
Angeles County under the new District Attorney of Nathan Hawkman,
I think we are going to see a shift. We
are finally going to see people being held accountable and
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arrest being made.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Talk about you took three runs at Sacramento to get
this passed through the legislature, and you were blocked all
three times. Talk about that journey. What were what in
God's name were the objections from you know, the vast
majority of the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, and then and this turned out to be a
blessing in disguise because every year as we reintroduced it,
we we watered it down more and more just to
try to get something to pass. And uh, you know,
the the objections were really you know, you're all arguments
that don't hold water. This is a part of the
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failed war on drugs. You know, this is going to
lock up minorities at higher rates than other people. You know,
all the typical blah blah blah. You know, there's there's
no evidence, certainly that the loss of the manishment given
for d UIs has locked for incarcerated more people of color.
And uh, you know it's.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Meant loss is to lock up fentinyl dealers. It doesn't
say anything about the color of the fentinel dealer. It's
that you're dealing sentinel.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Right, But those were the arguments that were given. They
purported it as this is going to you know, charge
people with murder on their first you know, drug dealing offense.
It doesn't do that. They completely exploited this and misrepresented it.
But but what's great about it passing now through through
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the ballot measure is this admonishment will be given to
anybody convicted of any hard drug offenses. So that's involving heroin,
that's antetamine, cocaine. We had narrowed it down to just
sentinel specific to in an effort to try to get
it passed, So this brings it back to its original context.
The other thing I want to point out real fast,
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where we kind of drew the line and said no
more negotiating. They wanted us, They said they would pass
it through committee if if we made it where law
enforcement would have to prove that the victim was not
seeking fentanyl in order to receive the admonishment. And that's
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where we put our foot down and said no more negotiating,
because you know, how do you prove that the victim's
dead and whether or not, well, that's whether or not.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
That's the purpose of those poisoned bills. It's something unprovable.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Correct, And whether they were seeking it or not, that
does not justify somebody providing this poison.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
How did you end up getting these provisions part of
Prop thirty six? What was that process?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well? Those behind Prop thirty six, and I commend them,
Greg Totten and Maurice.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Schubert dead right, those are district attorneys passed around the state.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, they were watching this the whole time. They saw
our struggles with this, they saw how how much of
a of a common sense law this was, and they
brought it in under under their fold.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, I'm I'm sure Alexandra, your daughter would have been
very proud of you for all the work that you
did for five years and to have this finally pass
in her honor and and will it will prevent a
lot of other young people from inadvertently getting poisoned with
fanil and all the other drugs that you mentioned. I mean,
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you've really done a great thing here that everybody would
stick it out for as long as you have and
go through all the agony and the frustration because of
the way our legislature is, but really it's something else.
Not very few people would go through it. Matt.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I want to give credit to the numerous parents that
stood by us, the fellow brief parents who've also lost
a child in this fashion. We had a number of
parents and are you know there was an element, mostly
in law enforcement that heard our voices and they they
helped us, you know, get this on Prop. Thirty six. Fortunately,
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and if anybody wants to read the exact wording of
the admonishment, they can go on our charitable organization website
Stop Drug Homicide dot org and they can read it
exactly how it's written.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
All Right, thank you Matt for coming on. We'll talk again.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Great work. Thank you, Johnathan, all right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
She would be very proud. And you did you did
your daughter's memory very well there. And also Terry Sworzer
wrote a great article in the Southern California News Group
about all this this week and this is this is this,
you know, it's terrible that, Matt, how about don't have
to go through all this for the last five years
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and god knows how many other people died because this
law wasn't in effect in twenty nineteen. I mean, after
her his daughter died, he started on this mission, and
year after year he kept bringing it through and watering
it down. But I'm telling you, we've got such awful,
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awful people in the legislature, and still it's a super
majority of awful people. You would think if you had
any kind of decency and you heard Matt's story and
the story of so many other parents, you would say, absolutely,
we are going to put these guys in jail. After
they kill their first victim, they don't get a second one.
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They're going to prison. This is bad. This is no
difference than shooting people in the head. It's like a
Russian Roulette game they were playing. I'm just totally flabbergasted
at the idiocy that we have among legislators and Governor
Newsom too. Speaking of the governor, when we come back,
he's declared a state of emergency. What do you think
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the state of emergency is over all the crazed crime,
out of control, homelessness, the millions of dollars that he
has blown in various fraudulent schemes. What do you think
the state of emergency is excessive taxes? I'll tell you
we come back.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
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Speaker 5 (12:21):
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I'll tell you can you there?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
You know? Uh? You know, I like, Hey, Tony Lallar,
it's just the season it is. Doesn't give you like
a little tingo a little chill to hear that again.
And he's running for governor, and boy, if it's him
and Kamala, I'm going with I'm going with Tony Vallar
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because he's not nearly as empty headed as she is.
I mean, he doesn't have a whole lot going on,
but at least he's got a couple of hamsters spinning
on a wheel inside that head of his. All Right,
so here's the big state of emergency. And I mean
I could waste a minute going through all the terrible
calamities going on in California that require a state of
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emergency declaration. But which one did Gavin Newsom pick. He's
declared a state of emergency over bird flu. Well, bird
flu it can be dangerous so don't get intimate with
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a bird.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Don't kiss your birds, John.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I do not kiss my birds.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I know, Well, they must be so lonely.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
What do you do with your pets?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I kiss them.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
They're dogs.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Yeah, kiss Okay, do you kiss your dog?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
No? I don't kiss animals. Do you know what's on
them that you're in German photos?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I know?
Speaker 7 (14:20):
No.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Explain this now, no, because I have to hear my
husband ask the same question, and I'm over.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Well, maybe I'm rational and your husband's rational. No, you're
afraid of germs on a doorknot. Yes, but you're not
afraid of germs when you when you kiss. No, I
don't kiss them.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I don't kiss them on the mouth. I kissed them
on the side of the face. I give them little
kisses because they're so cute.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Do you know where dogs have been all day?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
In my house.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
No, I hate to break it to you, there's germs
in your house. Well, this is this is about bird flu.
Apparently the bird flu is on the move from the
Central Valley to southern California, and there is one patient
Louisiana who's severely ill and in the hospital. This is
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the first case of severe bird flu and a human
in the United States, and so now they're worried? Is
that patient zero? Is that the beginning of this year's
pandemic fear mongering? So this state of emergency allows for
a more streamlined approach among state and local officials to
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tackle the virus, flexibility around staffing, contracting, and other rules
to support California's evolving response. What the hell does that mean?
That's gibberish. But look, look look what they did with
the homeless situation. They blew twenty four billion dollars and
nothing worked. How do we know they can handle a
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bird flu outbreak? I mean they botched the whole COVID thing.
The only thing they accomplished with their COVID response is
to shut down the entire economy and ruin all the
kids lives for a year and a half. Apparently, we
have the largest bird monitoring bird flu monitoring apparatus in
the whole nation. While the risk to the public remains low,
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we will take all steps necessary to stop the spread
of this virus. Six and forty five dairy herds have
been infected. So this infects, this infects cows.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Your steak, your burger, and milk I don't drink milk.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Well, I know, gotcha. Let me see. Sixty one people
have gotten the virus. Most suffered from mild illnesses. You
get pink eye or upper respiratory inform irritation. Thirty four
people in California have gotten the bird flu H five
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and one it's called. All of them except one got
it from infected dairy. Are these people who drinking raw milk?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Heard this? Christ I have?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
This is Robert Kennedy's new obsession drinking raw milk. I
don't understand with him specifically, but there are a lot
of people like this. Everybody wants to undo all the
all the scientific advancement advances that we made over one
hundred years ago that worked out really well. Like I
heard the other day, he was against the polio vaccine
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and that wiped out polio correct.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Understand people nobody should be forced to take a vaccine,
but the thinking that the polio vaccine was a bad
idea is really stupid. And now this, this this raw
milk thing. I get. You want to drink raw milk,
go ahead, But I don't get it. There's a reason
they came up with pasteurization because people would die from
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a lot of funky uh infections, because who knows what's
going on in cows.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Well, yeah, there's a lot of ye oh, go ahead, no, no, yes, yes,
I was going to say that.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You had been you've been telling me about puss and milk.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
For because it's true.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Well, I mean there's yeah, and there are there are
bugs in every box of cereal and cookies. Did you
know that I saw I saw a This was something
online the other day. I think my wife sent this
to me. She sends me all kinds of odd stuff too,
And it's it. It was like an X ray of
a box of cereal, and the X ray was magnified
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like a thousand times or ten thousand times, and you
could see these little tiny bugs walking around in the cereal.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Well, I don't eat cereal, like.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I'm just saying, I know, I have heard of that.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You have millions of little tiny mites living on your skins.
I know.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And now I'm going to start scratchings. Let's not talk
about that. You know, sometimes it's just very hard to
be alive.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
It's you're you're sharing your existence with I know, all
kinds of little creature, you know, what that are living
off you.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
There's nothing I can do about that except die, right,
But I don't have to drink milk so I can
eliminate puss.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
They're fishing, they're feasting on your skin. What all these
mites are doing?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
What it's discussed.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I got to hear about your puss and the milk,
so i'd figure out match you with the mites on
your skin.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
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Speaker 1 (19:34):
Sixty continuing our celebration. Today is the day of Prop.
Thirty six becomes law in the state of California. Beaves
are going to go to prison. Drug addicts are either
going to rehab or prison. Fentanyl dealers are going to
go to prison. Yes, because you all finally woke up
and repealed Prop. Forty seven and repealed George Gascon and
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now we're going to have some more sanity back in
the state of California. But boy, we got a long
way to go. We have talked about in the show
today a lot of the wasted money in homelessness. We've
had several audits. Gavin, which is established at Gavin Newsom
Beyond a shadow of a Doubt, has blown twenty four
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billion dollars on homelessness and has zero to show for it.
And here locally, the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, I
think that's what it is. LASA. They have nearly a
billion dollars a year for a budget and they have
blown all of it. Every year They've done nothing good. Well,
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we've got another long running absolute fiasco. And I'm actually
just fascinated how this thing never dies. And this is
more of the corruption in California, the corruption of Gavin Newsom.
And maybe Trump is going to finally put a stake
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through the heart of this beast. High speed rail. What's
left of the LA Times. They did an article on it.
They used to have a great writer at the LA
Times who chronicled the high speed rail fiasco honestly, accurately
and in great detail. And I could never detect anything
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but accurate truth. I never found anything that he withheld.
His name was Ralph Vardibidian, and Ralph Ardibidian really was
one of the last great writers. He was an older guy,
and he has since gone on to another news website
here in California. But man, he was the only one.
Even in one of the LA Times, thebes On the
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editorial board constantly did cheerleading editorials insisting that we're supposed
to blow billions of dollars on high speed rail. He
kept putting out articles, front page articles saying that this
whole this whole operation is a disaster, and now we're
in our seventeenth year of that being a disaster. It
was passed in November of two thousand and eight while
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Arnold Schwarzeninger was governor. Now the La Times got a
woman named Colleen Shlby who wrote this story, and the
headline is completely distorted. I mean this is you know,
somebody tell Patrick soon s Young to go after the
headline writer here and also the writer high speed rail
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financial crisis could get worse under Trump, implying that Trump
is going to do something terrible to ruin high speed rail.
He's not going to fund it anymore because we have
blown billions and billions of dollars and we got nothing
for it. That we've got no usable track. After you know,
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when you're in year seventeen and you don't have any
usable track out in the whole state of California, it's
time to end it. And so Trump is saying we'll
no more money. Well, the crisis could get worse under Trump. Yeah,
I got technically that's true, but that is a biased headline.
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You ought to talk about who made this crisis so bad,
and it's Gavin Newsom and the Democratic legislature. They should
have pulled the plug on financing years ago. But Gavin
Newsom is corrupted by all the construction unions who have
thousands of make work, fake work jobs that they have
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been doing for years and producing nothing useful. There's a
state senator named David Cortes from San Jose, chair of
the Senate Transportation Committee, and he says one of the
keys to keeping the project going is private developer investments.
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Do you know I've heard that since two thousand and
eight there is no private developer invest There is not
a single company, a single investor who wants to spend
a dime on this. Nobody. This has been a turkey
before day one because normally you line up your investors,
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you line up your partners, before you even launch the
initiative on the ballot. You get everything together saying okay,
here's what we're going to do, and here are the
people that are going to finance it. Because it was
supposed to be a combination of public and private financing. Instead,
they conned us into borrowing ten billion dollars here in
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California paid by state taxpayers. They never got a They
never got a dollar. Now, if you have had this
on the open market seventeen years worldwide and nobody has
contributed to dime, what does that tell you? We've got
so many huge companympanies, multi billionaires. I mean I read
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the other day. You know how much Elon Musk is
worth right now on paper? Four hundred and seventy four
billion dollars, four hundred and seventy four billion dollars. And
anybody who bitches about him, I asked you, what did
you do?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
What did you do? Did you create Tesla? Did you
create SpaceX? You sending rocket ships up there? You got
the only successful electric car in the country. What did
you do? Are you providing?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
What's his other companies?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
X X?
Speaker 7 (25:36):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
He finally took over that social media platform and made
it honest. Now everybody can participate instead of having so
many people censored. He's got Neurlink, which is going to
eventually make paralyzed people walk. How about that. He's got Starlink,
which provides internet satellite connection to people in war zones,
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to people in hurricane zones like in North Carolina, among
among other people. I mean, what did you do today? Huh?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
You know this?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
All the criticism comes from the fuzzy slipper and robe crowd.
These are the people who can't get out of their
underwear in the morning and drive to work. But they're
the first ones to bitch about Elon Musk. I mean,
he's got he's got brain power like probably a ten
thousand times what you have. So you just sit at
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home with your bureaucratic government job and bitch about Elon Musk.
I can't stand those people.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
This is the guy who's like the Thomas Edison of
our times, like the the the uh were some of
the other great inventors, or like Albert Einstein. I mean he,
I don't understand you're you're complaining about him. How about
the thousands, millillions of parasites that work in government? How
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about Gavin Newsom? You got a bitch about somebody? How
about a loser like him who's blown billions of dollars
twelve different ways? You complained to Elon Musk? Why Because
he creates jobs, he invents products that are wildly popular
that transform our way of life. He's the guy you're
mad at stupid, stupid world. Oh you know what Musk
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says about this, well, Musk and Vivic Ramaswami has targeted
high speed rail in California as an area to cut spending.
Musk said billions of dollars has been spent on high
speed rail for practically nothing. US Congressman Kevin Kylie from
northern California is introducing legislation that would cut the federal
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dollars to the project. Here's one guy named Andy Cunns.
That's an unfortunate name. He is president, chief of executive
of the US High Speed Rail Association, and he is bitching.
More than twenty five countries, most of them smaller than California,
have been operating clean, safe and fast high speed rail
systems for years. We should be leading, not following the
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rest of the world. Yes, but we're corrupt and incompetent.
The other twenty five countries apparently aren't. That's the thing.
We gave them the billions of dollars. They're in year
seventeen and we've got nothing. That's why you cut it
off by the way in here? You know how I
told you they want to build. They might just settle
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for one hundred and nineteen miles from baker to Merced,
which of course is a ridiculous route. It's not even
Bakersfield in Merced, it's actually a Shafter Toco. Those are
the towns. Wassco is outside of Bakersfield. I think Shafter
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is outside of Merced, or maybe it's the other way around.
I don't know because there's hardly any people that in
those towns. I don't know exactly where they are. But
the train stations are going to be Shafter to Wasco. Well,
who's going to get there to take the train to what?
In a normal world, this entire project would be canceled.
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But Newsom is corrupt and stupid. But who are people
angry at? Elon Musk? That tells you everything you want
to know about humanity.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Coming up after three o'clock in studio. Bill A. Saley,
who is the legislator from Inland Empire. We've had him
on the show many times, and he's gonna come in
here and talk about a number of things. Today is
the day that Prop. Thirty six becomes law in the
state of California, So thieves, drug addicts, and sentinel dealers
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will go to prison again, although the drug addicts will
get a shot at rehabilitation first. And Bill is not
afraid to describe exactly what goes on in this cesspool
and Sacramento. So we're going to talk with him next hour.
This story I want to play Eric if you get
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clip number five ready. Yeah, you go on cruises. I
go on cruises, and I'm always worried what if you
accidentally get on the cruise filled with just not the
right demographic or you've got a lunatic on board, right,
because it could be several thousand people on the cruise
and somebody is going to have mental disorder or some
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kind of alcohol or drug addiction, or some bad relationship
sorts itself out. This is from Fox eleven and it's
about a Royal Caribbean cruise ship which sailed for sailed
to Ensnata an hour after it left San Pedro. Listen
to what happened.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
I spoke to a family member of the man who
died on the cruise ship he was a bored with
his little son and his wife some other family members.
They say his enraged behavior was completely uncharacteristic of him,
that he's a very nice person, and they're trying to
get to the bottom of exactly what happened. But they
are absolutely devastated, as is the man we introduced you
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to yesterday video.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I should set this up. This passenger went nuts on
the ship and they had to detain him, and then
he died while in detainment. Yeah, so that's who the
reporter's talking about there right continue.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Yesterday who videotaped the incident.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
I just want to give my condolences to the family,
and I'm really sorry. Nobody deserves to die, especially like that.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Shocked and saddened Christopher McHale says he's heartbroken no to
learn an unruly cruise ship passenger has died. The Coroner's
office confirms thirty five year old Michael Virgil died aboard
Royal Caribbean's navigator of the seas.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Hest in Peace.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
We just needed some hell.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
It was supposed to be a fun cruise to Mexico,
water slides, hot tubs, even an escape room on board,
but an hour after departing the port out of San Pedro.
Michael says Virgil gone off the elevator on the wrong
floor and started making threats, screaming profanity and rachel slurs.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
The gentleman that was drunk said that he was going
to kill us, and then he started chasing us down
the hallway. The crew member that I was running with
was able to lock himself in one of the towel rooms.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Michael says Virgil injured two crew members and then captured
video of him trying to get to that crew member
by kicking the door to the towel room with his
steel toed boots.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
And he was asking for God to forgive him. So
I mean, I forgive him, you know, but I forgive him.
He's it's awkwod.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Shirtless and exhausted. Virgil is surrounded by security. Michael says
they used bear or pepper spray, towels, zip ties, and
eventually handcuffs to detain Virgil, but one of his family
members says security injected Virgil with.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Some sort of sedative.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Within an hour, he died.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
The family member says Virgil's enraged behavior is completely uncharacteristic
of it sure that he was a good man who
leaves behind a white stock and seven year old son
also aboard the cruise.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You know what, you can stop it, you know, I
your last moments in life. You shouldn't be described as
shirtless and exhausted.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
I feel really sorry for that seven year old son.
I hope he wasn't watching all.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
This go down.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, well, it's all of the television now I know.
But I mean he sounded like a wild animal screaming.
I don't know he was. They said he was drunk.
It's gotta be more than an alcohol Yeah, yeah, I
mean he's trying to kick the door down, terrorizing the
poor guy in the other side of the door, locked
in a towel closet. What set him off exactly? And
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he's he's screaming profanity. Of course, that game a sedative.
It's like like, give him a bear tranquilizer.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
That is can you I can't even imagine.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I'm amazed it wasn't on a ship. You were you
were ticking.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
I don't go on those big cruise lines anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
There are certain cruise lines and certain runs where you
know that it's going to be riff rashed.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Yeah, it's just that well, it's just I don't like
to be with thousands of people.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah, but confined, Yeah, a lot of drunks and lunatics. Yeah. Uh,
all right, we come back. Bill Shaley's going to come in.
He's the state senator, Republican in the Inland Empire, and
uh we're talk him an upgrade. He's an assemblyman. Sorry,
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he should be actually he should be governors.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
What it is.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Bill A. Saley ought to be governor and he was
going to tell the truth about what's going on on
the inside because as Sacramento is an absolute disaster and
it's going to remain a disaster because the idiot voters
sent another Democratic supermajority to Sacramento. Like the life hasn't
been bad enough the last ten years, you want another
two years like this? Debor Mark Live in the KFI
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twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
John Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
live on KFI AM six forty from one to four
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I Am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Today's a big day. We're
on the air from one until four, and then after
four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app.
You could listen to what you missed last hour. We
had Todd Spitzer on the Orange County DA. We were
celebrating the first day that Prop thirty six is the
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law here in California. It passed by about a seventy
to thirty margin on election day and it goes into
effect today. And so we talked with Todd Spitzer because
he was with us way back in February when we
did our signature gathering show that really really kicked off
the whole drive to get this thing on the ballot.
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We were down in Anaheim at the Honda Center and
I think we got over thirteen hundred CANFE listeners to
come and sign the petition in just three hours. Thirteen
hundred people. And that was a sign that this thing
was going to be big. And it has been big.
And I tell you who's one man who's very pleased
about it is Matt Cappalaudo. If his name is familiar.
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We've had Matt on many times as he and his
family suffered the worst tragedy A few days before Christmas
in twenty nineteen, about five years ago now, his daughter
Alexandra took what she thought was a percocet. It had
fentanyl in it, and she died from fentanyl poisoning in
her bedroom shortly after. She was only twenty years old.
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And ever since then, Coppolado went to the Sacramento legislature
again and again and again to get Alexandra's law passed,
and finally it became part of Prop. Thirty six, and
so now Alexandra's law is on the books as part
of Prop. Thirty six. But the road it took he
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got denied. I cannot tell you what terrible awful human beings.
But the human beings I didn't even know I could
call them. Some of these people in Sacramento, they're terrible,
awful people, they really are. I mean, they gave Copilotta
such a hard time, and they constantly kept blocking Alexandra's law.
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They did not want to put fentinyl dealers in jail
for any reason, even if they killed people. I mean,
I mean, they we just really have disgusting representatives in Sacramento,
mostly Democrats. I mean, he he, the Republicans ever blocked
this stuff. All right, let's get back Copolata on how
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are you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Matt Hi John? Thank you. It's a good it's a
good day. This was a great Christmas present.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, I know, I'm very happy about it. But I
start to think about the long road that you took
to get to this point, and it makes me crazy.
But yeah, let's let let's enjoy this moment because there
aren't too many days like this. First, explain Alexandra's Law,
named after your daughter. It's part of Prop. Thirty six.
What does it do? How does it treat fentanyl dealers?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So Alexandra's Law it really reframes drug related deaths from
being viewed as accidental overdoses to actually being seen as
prosecutable homicides. Unlike first degree murder, which requires evidence of intent,
second degree murder requires evidence of knowledge, in this case,
proving the drug dealer was aware of the deadly consequences
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of illegally furnishing drugs. So by giving a drug dealer
in admonishment under Alexandra's Law, this provides that evidence of
knowledge the admonishment is given to someone convicted of a
drug offense. It's read by a judge, recorded in court records,
and provided to the defendant in writing. If the defendant
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continues to be involved in the drug trade and a
death can be tied to their actions, then they can
be prosecuted for second degree murder.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And this is similar to drunken driving laws. Correct. If
somebody kills someone while under the influence, they're also given
a warning, and if it happens the next time, then
they would go to prison.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, we've mirrored this exactly after what's known as the
Watson admonishment, and that's exactly right. It's an admonishment that
is given to somebody convicted of driving under the influence,
and if they continue and somebody dies as a result
of their continued actions, the prosecutors can proceed with a
second degree murder charge there too.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's worked.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It showed to be very effective and dramatically reducing dui fatalities,
and we think the same thing will happen here. We
still need law enforcement to do their part because Alexandra's
law only works if we start arresting these people who
are involved in drugs. They need to get admonished. And
that'll be my focus in twenty twenty five, working with
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law enforcement agencies to make sure they're aware of this
this tool that they have and to be out there
arresting these people involved in drugs, not to in their lives,
but so they get admonished. We want to have that
admonishment on records.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Well, we talked about this with Todd Spitzer last hour that
the next step here now that Prop. Thirty six is
on the books, is it has to be implemented. It
has to be enforced in order to actually send the
right people to jail or the right people to rehab
or warrn these fentanel dealers that you're not getting another chance.
Everybody's got to do their job in government. And he fears,
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I fear. I'm sure you're worried about this too. It
being undermined because there's such resistance to being harsher on criminals.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, we still have a battle ahead of us. There
are certainly members of our legislature that want to see
this fail. But we are making progress here in my
county of Riverside County, Orange County under Todd Spitzer, Los
Angeles County under the new District Attorney of Nathan Hawkman,
I think we are going to see a shift. We
are finally going to see people being held accountable and
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arrest being made.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Talk about you took three runs at Sacramento to get
this passed through the legislature, and you were blocked all
three times. Talk about that journey. What were what in
God's name were the objections from you know, the vast
majority of the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, and then and this turned out to be a
blessing in disguise because every year as we reintroduced it,
we we watered it down more and more just to
try to get something to pass. And uh, you know,
the the objections were really you know, you're all arguments
that don't hold water. This is a part of the
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failed war on drugs. You know, this is going to
lock up minorities at higher rates than other people. You know,
all the typical blah blah blah. You know, there's there's
no evidence, certainly that the loss of the manishment given
for d UIs has locked for incarcerated more people of color.
And uh, you know it's.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Meant loss is to lock up fentinyl dealers. It doesn't
say anything about the color of the fentinel dealer. It's
that you're dealing sentinel.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Right, But those were the arguments that were given. They
purported it as this is going to you know, charge
people with murder on their first you know, drug dealing offense.
It doesn't do that. They completely exploited this and misrepresented it.
But but what's great about it passing now through through
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the ballot measure is this admonishment will be given to
anybody convicted of any hard drug offenses. So that's involving heroin,
that's antetamine, cocaine. We had narrowed it down to just
sentinel specific to in an effort to try to get
it passed, So this brings it back to its original context.
The other thing I want to point out real fast,
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where we kind of drew the line and said no
more negotiating. They wanted us, They said they would pass
it through committee if if we made it where law
enforcement would have to prove that the victim was not
seeking fentanyl in order to receive the admonishment. And that's
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where we put our foot down and said no more negotiating,
because you know, how do you prove that the victim's
dead and whether or not, well, that's whether or not.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
That's the purpose of those poisoned bills. It's something unprovable.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Correct, And whether they were seeking it or not, that
does not justify somebody providing this poison.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
How did you end up getting these provisions part of
Prop thirty six? What was that process?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well? Those behind Prop thirty six, and I commend them,
Greg Totten and Maurice.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Schubert dead right, those are district attorneys passed around the state.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, they were watching this the whole time. They saw
our struggles with this, they saw how how much of
a of a common sense law this was, and they
brought it in under under their fold.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, I'm I'm sure Alexandra, your daughter would have been
very proud of you for all the work that you
did for five years and to have this finally pass
in her honor and and will it will prevent a
lot of other young people from inadvertently getting poisoned with
fanil and all the other drugs that you mentioned. I mean,
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you've really done a great thing here that everybody would
stick it out for as long as you have and
go through all the agony and the frustration because of
the way our legislature is, but really it's something else.
Not very few people would go through it. Matt.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I want to give credit to the numerous parents that
stood by us, the fellow brief parents who've also lost
a child in this fashion. We had a number of
parents and are you know there was an element, mostly
in law enforcement that heard our voices and they they
helped us, you know, get this on Prop. Thirty six. Fortunately,
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and if anybody wants to read the exact wording of
the admonishment, they can go on our charitable organization website
Stop Drug Homicide dot org and they can read it
exactly how it's written.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
All Right, thank you Matt for coming on. We'll talk again.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Great work. Thank you, Johnathan, all right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
She would be very proud. And you did you did
your daughter's memory very well there. And also Terry Sworzer
wrote a great article in the Southern California News Group
about all this this week and this is this is this,
you know, it's terrible that, Matt, how about don't have
to go through all this for the last five years
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and god knows how many other people died because this
law wasn't in effect in twenty nineteen. I mean, after
her his daughter died, he started on this mission, and
year after year he kept bringing it through and watering
it down. But I'm telling you, we've got such awful,
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awful people in the legislature, and still it's a super
majority of awful people. You would think if you had
any kind of decency and you heard Matt's story and
the story of so many other parents, you would say, absolutely,
we are going to put these guys in jail. After
they kill their first victim, they don't get a second one.
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They're going to prison. This is bad. This is no
difference than shooting people in the head. It's like a
Russian Roulette game they were playing. I'm just totally flabbergasted
at the idiocy that we have among legislators and Governor
Newsom too. Speaking of the governor, when we come back,
he's declared a state of emergency. What do you think
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the state of emergency is over all the crazed crime,
out of control, homelessness, the millions of dollars that he
has blown in various fraudulent schemes. What do you think
the state of emergency is excessive taxes? I'll tell you
we come back.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
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am six forty ladies and gentlemen, Please welcome mar Antonio
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Speaker 5 (12:21):
Oh, come on, come on, let's go. H You know,
I want fantastic, but I want it, you know, but
(12:46):
I'll tell you can you there?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
You know? Uh? You know, I like, Hey, Tony Lallar,
it's just the season it is. Doesn't give you like
a little tingo a little chill to hear that again.
And he's running for governor, and boy, if it's him
and Kamala, I'm going with I'm going with Tony Vallar
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because he's not nearly as empty headed as she is.
I mean, he doesn't have a whole lot going on,
but at least he's got a couple of hamsters spinning
on a wheel inside that head of his. All Right,
so here's the big state of emergency. And I mean
I could waste a minute going through all the terrible
calamities going on in California that require a state of
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emergency declaration. But which one did Gavin Newsom pick. He's
declared a state of emergency over bird flu. Well, bird
flu it can be dangerous so don't get intimate with
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a bird.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Don't kiss your birds, John.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I do not kiss my birds.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I know, Well, they must be so lonely.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
What do you do with your pets?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I kiss them.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
They're dogs.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Yeah, kiss Okay, do you kiss your dog?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
No? I don't kiss animals. Do you know what's on
them that you're in German photos?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I know?
Speaker 7 (14:20):
No.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Explain this now, no, because I have to hear my
husband ask the same question, and I'm over.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Well, maybe I'm rational and your husband's rational. No, you're
afraid of germs on a doorknot. Yes, but you're not
afraid of germs when you when you kiss. No, I
don't kiss them.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I don't kiss them on the mouth. I kissed them
on the side of the face. I give them little
kisses because they're so cute.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Do you know where dogs have been all day?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
In my house.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
No, I hate to break it to you, there's germs
in your house. Well, this is this is about bird flu.
Apparently the bird flu is on the move from the
Central Valley to southern California, and there is one patient
Louisiana who's severely ill and in the hospital. This is
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the first case of severe bird flu and a human
in the United States, and so now they're worried? Is
that patient zero? Is that the beginning of this year's
pandemic fear mongering? So this state of emergency allows for
a more streamlined approach among state and local officials to
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tackle the virus, flexibility around staffing, contracting, and other rules
to support California's evolving response. What the hell does that mean?
That's gibberish. But look, look look what they did with
the homeless situation. They blew twenty four billion dollars and
nothing worked. How do we know they can handle a
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bird flu outbreak? I mean they botched the whole COVID thing.
The only thing they accomplished with their COVID response is
to shut down the entire economy and ruin all the
kids lives for a year and a half. Apparently, we
have the largest bird monitoring bird flu monitoring apparatus in
the whole nation. While the risk to the public remains low,
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we will take all steps necessary to stop the spread
of this virus. Six and forty five dairy herds have
been infected. So this infects, this infects cows.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Your steak, your burger, and milk I don't drink milk.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Well, I know, gotcha. Let me see. Sixty one people
have gotten the virus. Most suffered from mild illnesses. You
get pink eye or upper respiratory inform irritation. Thirty four
people in California have gotten the bird flu H five
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and one it's called. All of them except one got
it from infected dairy. Are these people who drinking raw milk?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Heard this? Christ I have?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
This is Robert Kennedy's new obsession drinking raw milk. I
don't understand with him specifically, but there are a lot
of people like this. Everybody wants to undo all the
all the scientific advancement advances that we made over one
hundred years ago that worked out really well. Like I
heard the other day, he was against the polio vaccine
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and that wiped out polio correct.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Understand people nobody should be forced to take a vaccine,
but the thinking that the polio vaccine was a bad
idea is really stupid. And now this, this this raw
milk thing. I get. You want to drink raw milk,
go ahead, But I don't get it. There's a reason
they came up with pasteurization because people would die from
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a lot of funky uh infections, because who knows what's
going on in cows.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Well, yeah, there's a lot of ye oh, go ahead, no, no, yes, yes,
I was going to say that.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You had been you've been telling me about puss and milk.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
For because it's true.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Well, I mean there's yeah, and there are there are
bugs in every box of cereal and cookies. Did you
know that I saw I saw a This was something
online the other day. I think my wife sent this
to me. She sends me all kinds of odd stuff too,
And it's it. It was like an X ray of
a box of cereal, and the X ray was magnified
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like a thousand times or ten thousand times, and you
could see these little tiny bugs walking around in the cereal.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Well, I don't eat cereal, like.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I'm just saying, I know, I have heard of that.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You have millions of little tiny mites living on your skins.
I know.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And now I'm going to start scratchings. Let's not talk
about that. You know, sometimes it's just very hard to
be alive.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
It's you're you're sharing your existence with I know, all
kinds of little creature, you know, what that are living
off you.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
There's nothing I can do about that except die, right,
But I don't have to drink milk so I can
eliminate puss.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
They're fishing, they're feasting on your skin. What all these
mites are doing?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
What it's discussed.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I got to hear about your puss and the milk,
so i'd figure out match you with the mites on
your skin.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Sixty continuing our celebration. Today is the day of Prop.
Thirty six becomes law in the state of California. Beaves
are going to go to prison. Drug addicts are either
going to rehab or prison. Fentanyl dealers are going to
go to prison. Yes, because you all finally woke up
and repealed Prop. Forty seven and repealed George Gascon and
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now we're going to have some more sanity back in
the state of California. But boy, we got a long
way to go. We have talked about in the show
today a lot of the wasted money in homelessness. We've
had several audits. Gavin, which is established at Gavin Newsom
Beyond a shadow of a Doubt, has blown twenty four
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billion dollars on homelessness and has zero to show for it.
And here locally, the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, I
think that's what it is. LASA. They have nearly a
billion dollars a year for a budget and they have
blown all of it. Every year They've done nothing good. Well,
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we've got another long running absolute fiasco. And I'm actually
just fascinated how this thing never dies. And this is
more of the corruption in California, the corruption of Gavin Newsom.
And maybe Trump is going to finally put a stake
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through the heart of this beast. High speed rail. What's
left of the LA Times. They did an article on it.
They used to have a great writer at the LA
Times who chronicled the high speed rail fiasco honestly, accurately
and in great detail. And I could never detect anything
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but accurate truth. I never found anything that he withheld.
His name was Ralph Vardibidian, and Ralph Ardibidian really was
one of the last great writers. He was an older guy,
and he has since gone on to another news website
here in California. But man, he was the only one.
Even in one of the LA Times, thebes On the
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editorial board constantly did cheerleading editorials insisting that we're supposed
to blow billions of dollars on high speed rail. He
kept putting out articles, front page articles saying that this
whole this whole operation is a disaster, and now we're
in our seventeenth year of that being a disaster. It
was passed in November of two thousand and eight while
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Arnold Schwarzeninger was governor. Now the La Times got a
woman named Colleen Shlby who wrote this story, and the
headline is completely distorted. I mean this is you know,
somebody tell Patrick soon s Young to go after the
headline writer here and also the writer high speed rail
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financial crisis could get worse under Trump, implying that Trump
is going to do something terrible to ruin high speed rail.
He's not going to fund it anymore because we have
blown billions and billions of dollars and we got nothing
for it. That we've got no usable track. After you know,
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when you're in year seventeen and you don't have any
usable track out in the whole state of California, it's
time to end it. And so Trump is saying we'll
no more money. Well, the crisis could get worse under Trump. Yeah,
I got technically that's true, but that is a biased headline.
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You ought to talk about who made this crisis so bad,
and it's Gavin Newsom and the Democratic legislature. They should
have pulled the plug on financing years ago. But Gavin
Newsom is corrupted by all the construction unions who have
thousands of make work, fake work jobs that they have
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been doing for years and producing nothing useful. There's a
state senator named David Cortes from San Jose, chair of
the Senate Transportation Committee, and he says one of the
keys to keeping the project going is private developer investments.
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Do you know I've heard that since two thousand and
eight there is no private developer invest There is not
a single company, a single investor who wants to spend
a dime on this. Nobody. This has been a turkey
before day one because normally you line up your investors,
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you line up your partners, before you even launch the
initiative on the ballot. You get everything together saying okay,
here's what we're going to do, and here are the
people that are going to finance it. Because it was
supposed to be a combination of public and private financing. Instead,
they conned us into borrowing ten billion dollars here in
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California paid by state taxpayers. They never got a They
never got a dollar. Now, if you have had this
on the open market seventeen years worldwide and nobody has
contributed to dime, what does that tell you? We've got
so many huge companympanies, multi billionaires. I mean I read
(25:02):
the other day. You know how much Elon Musk is
worth right now on paper? Four hundred and seventy four
billion dollars, four hundred and seventy four billion dollars. And
anybody who bitches about him, I asked you, what did
you do?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
What did you do? Did you create Tesla? Did you
create SpaceX? You sending rocket ships up there? You got
the only successful electric car in the country. What did
you do? Are you providing?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
What's his other companies?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
X X?
Speaker 7 (25:36):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
He finally took over that social media platform and made
it honest. Now everybody can participate instead of having so
many people censored. He's got Neurlink, which is going to
eventually make paralyzed people walk. How about that. He's got Starlink,
which provides internet satellite connection to people in war zones,
(26:03):
to people in hurricane zones like in North Carolina, among
among other people. I mean, what did you do today? Huh?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
You know this?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
All the criticism comes from the fuzzy slipper and robe crowd.
These are the people who can't get out of their
underwear in the morning and drive to work. But they're
the first ones to bitch about Elon Musk. I mean,
he's got he's got brain power like probably a ten
thousand times what you have. So you just sit at
(26:31):
home with your bureaucratic government job and bitch about Elon Musk.
I can't stand those people.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
This is the guy who's like the Thomas Edison of
our times, like the the the uh were some of
the other great inventors, or like Albert Einstein. I mean he,
I don't understand you're you're complaining about him. How about
the thousands, millillions of parasites that work in government? How
(27:02):
about Gavin Newsom? You got a bitch about somebody? How
about a loser like him who's blown billions of dollars
twelve different ways? You complained to Elon Musk? Why Because
he creates jobs, he invents products that are wildly popular
that transform our way of life. He's the guy you're
mad at stupid, stupid world. Oh you know what Musk
(27:27):
says about this, well, Musk and Vivic Ramaswami has targeted
high speed rail in California as an area to cut spending.
Musk said billions of dollars has been spent on high
speed rail for practically nothing. US Congressman Kevin Kylie from
northern California is introducing legislation that would cut the federal
(27:49):
dollars to the project. Here's one guy named Andy Cunns.
That's an unfortunate name. He is president, chief of executive
of the US High Speed Rail Association, and he is bitching.
More than twenty five countries, most of them smaller than California,
have been operating clean, safe and fast high speed rail
systems for years. We should be leading, not following the
(28:11):
rest of the world. Yes, but we're corrupt and incompetent.
The other twenty five countries apparently aren't. That's the thing.
We gave them the billions of dollars. They're in year
seventeen and we've got nothing. That's why you cut it
off by the way in here? You know how I
told you they want to build. They might just settle
(28:34):
for one hundred and nineteen miles from baker to Merced,
which of course is a ridiculous route. It's not even
Bakersfield in Merced, it's actually a Shafter Toco. Those are
the towns. Wassco is outside of Bakersfield. I think Shafter
(28:55):
is outside of Merced, or maybe it's the other way around.
I don't know because there's hardly any people that in
those towns. I don't know exactly where they are. But
the train stations are going to be Shafter to Wasco. Well,
who's going to get there to take the train to what?
In a normal world, this entire project would be canceled.
(29:15):
But Newsom is corrupt and stupid. But who are people
angry at? Elon Musk? That tells you everything you want
to know about humanity.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Coming up after three o'clock in studio. Bill A. Saley,
who is the legislator from Inland Empire. We've had him
on the show many times, and he's gonna come in
here and talk about a number of things. Today is
the day that Prop. Thirty six becomes law in the
state of California, So thieves, drug addicts, and sentinel dealers
(29:53):
will go to prison again, although the drug addicts will
get a shot at rehabilitation first. And Bill is not
afraid to describe exactly what goes on in this cesspool
and Sacramento. So we're going to talk with him next hour.
This story I want to play Eric if you get
(30:13):
clip number five ready. Yeah, you go on cruises. I
go on cruises, and I'm always worried what if you
accidentally get on the cruise filled with just not the
right demographic or you've got a lunatic on board, right,
because it could be several thousand people on the cruise
and somebody is going to have mental disorder or some
(30:36):
kind of alcohol or drug addiction, or some bad relationship
sorts itself out. This is from Fox eleven and it's
about a Royal Caribbean cruise ship which sailed for sailed
to Ensnata an hour after it left San Pedro. Listen
to what happened.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
I spoke to a family member of the man who
died on the cruise ship he was a bored with
his little son and his wife some other family members.
They say his enraged behavior was completely uncharacteristic of him,
that he's a very nice person, and they're trying to
get to the bottom of exactly what happened. But they
are absolutely devastated, as is the man we introduced you
(31:16):
to yesterday video.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I should set this up. This passenger went nuts on
the ship and they had to detain him, and then
he died while in detainment. Yeah, so that's who the
reporter's talking about there right continue.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Yesterday who videotaped the incident.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
I just want to give my condolences to the family,
and I'm really sorry. Nobody deserves to die, especially like that.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Shocked and saddened Christopher McHale says he's heartbroken no to
learn an unruly cruise ship passenger has died. The Coroner's
office confirms thirty five year old Michael Virgil died aboard
Royal Caribbean's navigator of the seas.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Hest in Peace.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
We just needed some hell.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
It was supposed to be a fun cruise to Mexico,
water slides, hot tubs, even an escape room on board,
but an hour after departing the port out of San Pedro.
Michael says Virgil gone off the elevator on the wrong
floor and started making threats, screaming profanity and rachel slurs.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
The gentleman that was drunk said that he was going
to kill us, and then he started chasing us down
the hallway. The crew member that I was running with
was able to lock himself in one of the towel rooms.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Michael says Virgil injured two crew members and then captured
video of him trying to get to that crew member
by kicking the door to the towel room with his
steel toed boots.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
And he was asking for God to forgive him. So
I mean, I forgive him, you know, but I forgive him.
He's it's awkwod.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Shirtless and exhausted. Virgil is surrounded by security. Michael says
they used bear or pepper spray, towels, zip ties, and
eventually handcuffs to detain Virgil, but one of his family
members says security injected Virgil with.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Some sort of sedative.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Within an hour, he died.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
The family member says Virgil's enraged behavior is completely uncharacteristic
of it sure that he was a good man who
leaves behind a white stock and seven year old son
also aboard the cruise.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You know what, you can stop it, you know, I
your last moments in life. You shouldn't be described as
shirtless and exhausted.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
I feel really sorry for that seven year old son.
I hope he wasn't watching all.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
This go down.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, well, it's all of the television now I know.
But I mean he sounded like a wild animal screaming.
I don't know he was. They said he was drunk.
It's gotta be more than an alcohol Yeah, yeah, I
mean he's trying to kick the door down, terrorizing the
poor guy in the other side of the door, locked
in a towel closet. What set him off exactly? And
(34:07):
he's he's screaming profanity. Of course, that game a sedative.
It's like like, give him a bear tranquilizer.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
That is can you I can't even imagine.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I'm amazed it wasn't on a ship. You were you
were ticking.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
I don't go on those big cruise lines anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
There are certain cruise lines and certain runs where you
know that it's going to be riff rashed.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Yeah, it's just that well, it's just I don't like
to be with thousands of people.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah, but confined, Yeah, a lot of drunks and lunatics. Yeah. Uh,
all right, we come back. Bill Shaley's going to come in.
He's the state senator, Republican in the Inland Empire, and
uh we're talk him an upgrade. He's an assemblyman. Sorry,
(34:57):
he should be actually he should be governors.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
What it is.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Bill A. Saley ought to be governor and he was
going to tell the truth about what's going on on
the inside because as Sacramento is an absolute disaster and
it's going to remain a disaster because the idiot voters
sent another Democratic supermajority to Sacramento. Like the life hasn't
been bad enough the last ten years, you want another
two years like this? Debor Mark Live in the KFI
(35:22):
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