December 4, 2024 • 32 mins
A COVID report from the House of Representatives has confirmed that COVID did in fact come from a lab leak. More on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's DOGE. Josh Margolin comes on the show to talk about the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson being gunned down and killed in New York City. The LPGA has updated their gender policy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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we're going to talk with a reporter from New York
ABC News to tell us if there's anything new on
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the gunman who killed this United Healthcare executive cold blooded
in the streets, shot him in the back. It's all
on video. If you go on social media, you could
see this guy jump out from behind a car and
really calmly gun this executive down. And they have not
caught the gunman. He did his last scene somewhere in
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Central Park and they don't know the motive. The wife
of the dead executive has said that they were getting
threats and apparently he was involved in some kind of
financial scandal this executive, because there was an investigation on
(01:03):
the federal level that he had sold his stock after
he was aware of inside information. It's United Health is
the name of the company. Brian Thompson is the executive
and we'll sort all this out coming up after three
point thirty. But if you run across the video, it's
quite stunning, because rarely do you see a guy gunned
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down in the street on live on a camera. Now,
I want to talk about this. I'm I'm sure this
is the last thing that a lot of people want
to hear about. But you know, when this I always
tell you that the real story comes out sometimes five
years later, ten years later, sometimes in a book or
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maybe an investigation. But in the heat of the moment,
you can have suspicions. And I had a lot of suspicions,
and many people did and aired them, and it turns
out if you had suspicions, you were absolutely right. And
if you thought that the COVID hysteria was a lot
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of nonsense when it came to where the virus came from,
and whether you should wear a mask or not, whether
you should have six feet of distancing or not, well,
if you read the House of Representatives report that came
out today, there was a committee that did an investigation
now for several years on the COVID epidemic. You know what,
(02:31):
You're right, A lot of this was nonsense and something
really bad was going on that may have led to
this pandemic. The Department of Justice had launched a grand
jury investigation into a nonprofit called Eco Health Alliance, and
we talked about this organization. This is the organization that
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was run by a man named doctor Peter Dazak and
Anthony foul excuse me, Saint Anthony Fauci had been funneling
government money to Dazac. It was a legal transaction and
Dazak was using it. He transferred it to China, to
that Wuhan lab and they were doing gain of function research.
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Gain of function means you enhance the virus, you make
it more powerful, you make it more transmissible, and yeah,
our money was going into that kind of research in China.
And there has been a secret grand jury investigation with
the Department of Justice that's been going on for several
years now. Despite all the denials, record requests have repeatedly
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been blocked by the National Institutes of Health. According to
this House committee, it's the House Select Subcommittee on the
Coronavirus Pandemic. They have a five hundred and twenty page
report on the origin of the virus and the response
to the virus and the investigation still is a secret.
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Members of the subcommittee still won't talk about it. I
guess it's an ongoing investigation. There's something really funky that
went on between our government between Fauci, this doctor Peter
Dazac of Eco Health Alliance, and the researchers in China,
which is where the virus originated from that research lab.
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And you remember the extreme behavior on the part of government,
not only denying, but it was more of cancel culture.
It was more of social media bullying. In fact, that's
when the Biden administration colluded with Facebook and Twitter and
other social media companies to block any discussion, to censor
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any discussion, any opposition to their accepted theory that it
started in an animal market.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And why were they so? Why were they?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
This is one thing always bugged me, and it should
keep this in your mind for the rest of your life.
There's always competing theories about everything. There's always several ideas
floating out there about any issue. Why was it that
the government was so insistent that you couldn't discuss the
virus coming from a lab. Why did people get so
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angry if you said it came from a lab. Why
were the social media companies censoring that discussion.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Wasn't that curious?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I was?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I found it weird at the times, like, well, why
can't we talk about it. Maybe we're right, maybe we're wrong.
What do you care if we're wrong. That's why I
didn't understand. It turns out you weren't wrong. It did
come from the lab. And I always thought, well, somebody
powerful is involved in this. And at the time, Anthony
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Fauci was the patron Saint the Blessed one of the
government health response, and he's up to his neck in this,
and so is this doctor Peter Dazac.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You know what was another sign? Peter Dazac led a
group of I think.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Fifty one scientists to put their names to an ad
that ran in the New York Times claiming that anybody
who supports this theory that the virus came out of
a Chinese lab is you know, is full of crap.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And the whole implication was you were racist.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
They actually pulled out racism, xenophobia, you know, all the
Golden oldies. It's like, why would you get this angry
because I think a virus comes from a lab or
any other official, any other doctor. And there were a
lot of respected doctors who were saying it out loud,
and you were vilified like you were part of the
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Holocaust or something.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
This was so weird.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They weren't denying an epidemic. They weren't denying it was
a virus. They were denying where the virus came from.
Why were people invested in it coming from the animal market. Well, well,
eventually we're gonna find out. But there's a federal investigation
going on because it looks like that this Eco Health
Alliance and doctor Dazac has been refusing to quickly release
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all their internal memos and documents and emails and whatever.
Dazac has been referred for criminal prosecution. His organization has
been barred from getting any more federal money. In fact,
in the letter attached to the report, it says that
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Dazac and his organization should never again receive US taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Gee, why do you think that is?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And in the report it said the National Institute of Health,
which Fauci was running, failed to get the required information,
progress reports and vital information that was paid for by
the American taxpayers. National Institute of Health and other agencies
awarded millions of dollars of grants to EcoHealth Alliance. In fact,
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there was a four million dollar project that Fauci's agency
had titled Understanding the Risk of back Coronavirus Emergence. Part
of the research was modifying back coronaviruses with SARS and
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MERS viruses to make it ten thousand times more infectious.
The resulting viruses were different than SARS covid two, which
is the one that we all dealt with. But another
Eco Health grant proposal has been flagged as a possible
blueprint for engineering the SARS covid two virus.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That we endured.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
DAZAC has downplayed the involvement, downplay collaboration with Chinese researchers,
and then finally, the report says that as far as
mask mandates are concerned, there was no conclusive evidence that
masks effectively protected Americans and there was also no evidence
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that six feet of social distancing would slow the spread
of the virus. That was arbitrary and not based on science,
and said in the committee report, Trump is now going
to be populating a lot of the medical establishments in
his administration with those scientists and researchers who protested the
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policies four years ago and were publicly vilified and censored
on social media. But that's who's going to be running
these medical departments, because there's a reason that these people
with this such great lengths to come up with a
phony theory and to shut down anyone who disagreed with it,
because they were guilty. They were involved in engineering this virus.
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At the very least, the virus came out of that lab.
Maybe it was a lab accident, but it got loose,
and they knew that their fingerprints were on the funding.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That was.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Allowing the research to go on for years, and that
there was even more controversial research that was going to
be funded in the future. They wanted to make a
ten town ten thousand times more contagious, and all these
people ought to go to prison, starting with Fauci. No
one's ever hurt held accountable, though more coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Coming up, after the three thirty News with Deborah, We're
going to talk with Josh Margolin ABC News in New
York City about the United Health executive who was.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Gunned down in the street.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Looks like a hit job. He was walking outside of
Hilton Hotel. He was going to speak at the investors
conference for Eco Health, a lot for United Healthcare.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Confusing the two stories.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And it was all on video, on a security video,
and you could see the guy jumping out and shooting
the executive in the back. It's a pretty scary thing.
But right away the police said, no, this was targeted.
This wasn't just a random criminal, This wasn't a Venezuelan
gang member.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Brian Thompson is the name of the executive who's killed.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Now we've been talking about with Elon Musk and the
vehicle Rumaswami has their Doge Commission to try to cut
trillions of dollars of government waste. They're going after government
workers who don't show up to work anymore because seventy
five percent of government buildings are empty and we're paying
to keep those buildings. I guess working. There's a few
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people working there, but you've got to pay. You've got
to pay the rent on it, you've got to pay
the taxes. You've got to pay for all the upkeep
and the maintenance so the rats don't take over or
gangs don't move in, and it costs a lot to
keep these buildings going, and why why should we If
people aren't going to show up for work anymore, We
ought to bulldoze these places.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Even if they do show up for work, we ought
to bulldoze them.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So they're they're they're going to lay down the law
and they're they're going to say, you know, come the
beginning of the Trump administration, everyone has to show up
five days a week, eight hours a day.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That's just the way life is. And a lot of
government workers are saying no, they'd rather quit.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
They think twenty five percent might quit because they don't
want to drive in anymore. They're living way out in
the suburbs. They don't want to deal with traffic, the
poor babies.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's never heard of this.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
I mean, the only thing I would say is if
I got a job that was fully remote and that
I was told that and I lived in another.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Let's just say they'd be a commute, right.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
But then they changed, the company changed its mind and said, okay,
now everybody has to work in the office.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Okay, that I can understand. You're not living anywhere near
the office, right, I mean, that's that's an obvious thing.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Or even three hours away if you moved under the
with the understanding that this job is always going to
be remote, right.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
If you had some kind of an agreement, I got
to understand. But most of these people just ran for
the hills because well my last story, all the government
advice wasn't based on any science.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
We didn't have to have these lockdowns go on for
years and years.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
But when the lockdown was over, people they just they said, no,
we don't want to go back to work.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
And I think that that the employers should have said, okay,
they don't.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
The lockdown should have been over after three months. After
three months I saw. I remember reading on air the
research that that said, especially the schools, more than anything,
the schools should never have been lockdown, which is another
story I have maybe for later. But so Joe Biden
or what's left of him, they're trying to protect the
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government workers, and the Biden administration is trying to work
with government employee unions to lock in hybrid work protections
for tens of thousands of Social Security staff. And this
is not the only department that the unions are working
with the Biden administration to contractually protect themselves so no
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one has to go in and show up for work.
That's what they're doing. Federal employee. Now what One senator
from Ohio, a new one named Bernie Moreno, he's a Republican,
and he said he's going to work with the Trump
administration to unwind these agreements first day in office, and
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Moreno said, federal employees are on notice in the real world,
when you you don't show up to work, you get fired.
Senate Republicans will start unwinding these ridiculous deals on day one.
I don't know how they're going to do this exactly.
I don't know how binding these agreements are going to be.
But Biden administration is trying to work out do a
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rush job on new contracts so the employees that you
pay for it, that are supposed to work for you
don't have to actually work. Nobody in the world is
ever going to convince me that most ordinary office workers
work more efficiently from home and are more productive at home.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I just will not believe that.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
You know, you know what they're doing, Demor, I absolutely
know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
They're riding their bicycles, and you know, it's.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Just you know what it is, John, It's just not fair.
It's not fair. It's not fair. We had to pay
all the money for gas.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And we had to come to work and oh oh,
that's what I've read is that people who are going
to start to go into work now, they're going to
be shocked. Yeah with gas cats, especially like you're in California. Yeah,
you're gonna be paying five bucks a gallon.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, we welcome.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I know these people who decided that they were entitled
to be separated from the real world and all the
real world challenges because they were government employees, some special
class boy. I am rooting for Musk and Ramaswami so hard.
I mean, all they can do is they have this
you know, commission, and they're going to set up recommendations.
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It's it's it's up to Congress and Trump to push
all these through and make them official policy or.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Law, whatever they have to do legally. Uh, well, we
come back.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
We're going to talk with Josh Margolan from ABC News
in New York about the United Healthcare executive gunned down
in the street.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Looks like a hit job. Why, we'll see what Josh knows.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
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From one to four every day and then for four
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so you can listen to the podcast version Conway coming
up here at four o'clock. Let's now get to the
biggest story of the day across the country. Josh Margolin
from ABC News is going to tell us the latest
on this healthcare executive Brian Thompson, he's the United Healthcare CEO.
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He was going to speak at investors meeting of the
Hilton Hotel in New York City, and he's walking alongside
the hotel and he got gunned down. A guy jumped
out from it looks like behind an suv and it
looks like a hit. And now they got photos of
the gunman standing in front of the counter at Starbucks.
In fact, the clearest picture I've seen of him. He's
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wearing a hoodie. All you can see are his eyes
and nose. Let's get Josh mar going on to see
what he knows. Josh, Hey, we know that there's an
active man hunt right now.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
This is a huge story that you know, it's not
uncommon to have a shooting a killing in New York City,
but this was a brazen not broad daylight. It was
just before dawn, but we're talking about a quarter to
seven in the morning, and we're talking about one of
the most densely populated, most heavily traveled, most iconic parts
of Manhattan. You know, the New York Hilton just up
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sixth Avenue from Rockefeller Center. The Christmas Tree is going
to be lit tonight. The Radio City Rock Catch Radio
City is right there and just south of Central Park.
This is a very very busy area and to do
this kind of thing the way that it was done,
the police commissioner said that they will not rest until
they find this shooter.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It looked like a hit.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Have the police said anything on the record or behind
the scenes as to what the motivation would.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Be, Well, it does look like a hit, But importantly,
there are a couple of things that do suggest the
shooter is not some sort of a train special Forces
assassin or something. There were quote unquote mistakes that were
made according to the police that we're talking to, things
that's some sort of a professional criminal probably wouldn't do
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in terms of motivation. They are actively trying to determine
that because that will help them determine who the shooter is,
and they right now do not have an identification, or
at least one that they're willing to share. They're trying
to determine this the result of some sort of personal
grudge in the victim's private life, Is the result of
something inside the workplace, you know, something where somebody got fired,
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laid off, something like that, or is it something as
a result of the insurance work. This is Brian Thompson
was the CEO United Healthcare. It's a large health insurance company,
and we all know from our own lives that the
insurance business is a tough business and a lot of
people get angry with decisions that are made by insurance companies.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you saw.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It was a curious comment that his wife made to
NBC News saying, quote, there had been some threats basically,
I don't know, a lack of covering which question mark,
I don't know details. I just knew he said there
were some people that had been threatening him. I just
thought that was an odd comment, A lack of coverage,
which would make it sound like yeah, and an angry
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customer who didn't get his claim approves.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Well, honestly, you could imagine It does not take too
much imagination to think about cases where a lack of
coverage could be really, really serious and lead somebody to
take violent action. Right. We definitely can picture that I
did see the comment from the wife, and threats get made.
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Police are looking at threats. You know, in law enforcement,
there's a view that the most dangerous threat is the
one that's not made, because typically people who threaten don't act,
and the people who act don't threaten. That's the general
view of it. But they are checking to see if
there had been threats. We've spoken with local police. We
don't believe that there were any reports of threats that
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had been made to the house, and we're at this
point the company has not confirmed any of that, but
that's a critical part of the investigation right now.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
The gun jammed while he's firing it, but he I
guess he unjammed it.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Right, And so that does suggest to detectives that the
shooter has some familiarity, had some competency with firearms on
one side. On the other side, there were three spent
shell casings retrieved from the scene. That obviously tells people,
you know, people who know guns. That tells people that
three bullets were fired, but there were also three fresh
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bullets that came out of the weapon, which suggests that
the person was not, you know, a really proficient in
using the firearm, because typically they would only expect to
see one unspent you know, fresh bullet that comes out
and is retrieved on the floor. They found three. So
that's the kind of nitty gritty detail they're looking at
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to try to determine the profile of the shooter.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
He shot him from back and then as Thompson stumbled
to the ground and rolled over, the gunman walked up
to him and finished him off with It looked like
a few more shots.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Three shots in total were fired, and so they're trying
to go through all of that. We know that he
then took off, got on an e bike headed up
towards Central Park, which is not a far distance away,
apparently though he dropped his cell phone in the process. Again,
the cell phone suggests that this is not somebody who's
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a professional killer, because trained assassins don't don't don't carry
their cell phone on it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
There'd be way way too many clues in a phone potential, right,
all right, well, very good.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Absolutely, Josh, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Hey, have a great evening, all right.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Josh Margowan from ABC News in New York City covering
the uh what looked like an execution of this United
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, UH.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Down Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, it's just four blocks away from Rockefeller Center where
the Christmas tree lighting is supposed to happen. Let's see
if I can get that sheet in front of me here,
because yeah, it's this evening. The tree lighting probably going
on very soon. Yeah, usually happens around seven o'clock, I think.
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So they're going to have their normal security measures in place,
which is already a massive police presidence. You could imagine
in New York City with all the insane people that
have come in illegally. I mean they got about two
hundred and fifty thousand illegal immigrants. There's got to be
more than a few terrorists and gang members there. Thompson
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managed a division that employs one hundred and forty thousand people.
The company offers insurance plans to employers and individuals, very profitable.
He was promoted to chief executive of United Healthcare in
April twenty twenty one. Based in Minnesota, that's where his
family lives all right, more coming up.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
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Speaker 2 (24:11):
I wasn't going to bring this up because this turned
out to be maybe not a real story, but you know,
this would have completed the trilogy of three major criminal
cases from the nineteen nineties all coming back in the
news in the same week. We had the Menendez brothers, obviously,
and then a couple of days ago there's the John
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Benna Ramsey cases is back in the news because the
police say this is the year we're going to crack
the case. We've got new DNA testing, and there's another
Netflix special out. Well, you know this climate. There was
an OJ Simpson story. Now TMZ had this earlier in
the day that his former bodyguard had been claiming that
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he had on tape a recording of OJ confessing to
the murders of Ron and Nicole. And there isn't an
existence of some kind of thumb drive. That the guy's
name is Iraq A Velly, right, he was an OJ bodyguard.
I don't know exactly what his official duties were and
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when he was the bodyguard, but he had said Ojay's
on this thumb drive admitting to the crimes. So there
was a search warrant and apparently there was another legal
case which led to the confiscation of the thumb drive
inside a green backpack. So I don't know what's going
on in this iraq a Velly's life. But they seized
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the backpack. It had multiple drives and there was an
investigation on a separate case. They had a search warrant
to collect evidence. There was live ammunition and other items
in the bag. So this guy's up to no good
and so TMS he went with this report. Well, the
update is is that the Bloomington, Minnesota Police Department examined
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the drives in question and determined they contained nothing of
evidentiary value, which is a disappointment. LAPD says, we have
never listened to or been in possession of these drives.
This is what the Minneapolis or rather the Bloomington Police
Department is telling us. So it turns out the big
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splashy breakthrough headline at the moment turns out to be nothing,
which is a major disappointment.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Now this is kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
You know, the LPGA Tour, the Ladies Professional Golf Association
and when I was first starting out on a media
career as a sports writer back in New Jersey for
suburban paper think of something along the lines of the
Orange County Register. And among my earliest assignments was covering
every single golf tournament in New Jersey, which most was
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local tournaments like semi professional golfers or guys who had
day jobs and they were on a low level tour.
You'd be amazed how many golf tours there are, and
there's a little bit of money to hand out. And
back then when I was a sports writer, I got
this for two whole summers. They did nothing but cover
golf tournaments, mostly low level tournaments, with two exceptions. And
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you'll see in a moment one of those exceptions worked,
and you'd cover to the tournaments and all the local
media showed up. There were a lot of suburban newspapers
in the day, and we'd all show up and spend
the day eating free food and getting loaded because they
would have open bar and open buffets for all the reporters.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
All day long.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Now you know how long a golf tournament takes golf tour,
you know that's you know, eight ten hours. Sometimes the
tournament went on for several days and all the reporters
would show up. That's why I know what reporters are about,
because I saw these guys for years and they just
want to have free food and free booze, and you know,
then they hash out a hack article and you know,
I was right with them every day.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
The two exceptions was I got to do the LPGA
tournament that came through every year into New Jersey, and
one year a PGA tournament it was the US Open.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I got to cover the US Open. Jack Nicholas won
that year.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
In fact, but the LPGA Tour made the news because
they have updated their gender eligibility policy.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You would think if your acronym is LPGA, which stands
for Ladies Professional Golf Association, that you'd only have women
playing golf, right, But up until today male players who
have gone through male puberty. I guess if they identified
as female, they could play. And now the requirement is
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if you're a male and you went through puberty, you
are banned from competing.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
In the LPGA Tour. Oh man.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I just like the way they worded it. It's like
if you went through puberty. It's a very distinct point
in time of what's the official test for that. That's
a good question.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Come over here. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Also the EPSOM Tour, the Ladies European Tour, and all
other LPG eight competitions players assigned male at birth. Oh
that phrase, I hate that phrase. I wasn't assigned male.
It was immediately obvious. And if you've gone through male puberty,
you're not eligible to compete in these events anymore. And
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they've been under a lot of pressure to change its
rules and make sure it's just women. I think at
the very least, you have to go through the big chop.
You have to get the chop and then we'll maybe
talk about competing as a woman.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Conways here, do you know what they refer to you
and I as non transgend non transgendered men.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Yeah, we're non trend gendered man. We we didn't go
through the transition having trans yet. But hey, look it's
a long life, you know. Never say no, LAPD Chief,
Deputy Chief, I apologize. Is coming on with us Allen
Hamilton to talk about the woman from Maui who is
missing and now in is Mexico and her dad jumped
(30:20):
allegedly jumped off a building near the lax.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
It's a mess. There's a great story in there.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
It's a horrible story, but we'll have the police LAPDS
version of what happened. A huge amount of money raised
at pastathon yesterday, nine hundred and forty five thousand dollars
and counting take over a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, I'm sure it is over a million by now.
That's really cool.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Plus twenty three people arrested at the Black Friday retails
up a camerie. You ever go to the came Real outlets?
I have, yes, but we never know Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
But don't you have.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Money to stay away from the outlets? You know, you
have outlet free money. My wife will not end. Oh
that's great, that kind of no, that way great, good
for you. Impossible old school, yes, yes, Kmart Marshalls, that's right. Yeah,
my my most of my wife and daughter's clothes are
from Target and Walmart.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
They enjoy that and yours. Obviously.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
This is Cole's young Man, that's Coles, Coles Special, Cole
Special down.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
What do you pay for that? This was yester night.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
It was nineteen dollars, but it was it was it
was on it was the browser bin, so it was
half off.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's not like about nine ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Yeah, okay, yeah, all right, and it costs me four
dollars to London, all right?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Ky waits song with you, Buddy, Digl.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one until four and then
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That's the
podcast version same as the radio show. You could download
it on the iHeart app. Coming up after three thirty,
we're going to talk with a reporter from New York
ABC News to tell us if there's anything new on
(00:22):
the gunman who killed this United Healthcare executive cold blooded
in the streets, shot him in the back. It's all
on video. If you go on social media, you could
see this guy jump out from behind a car and
really calmly gun this executive down. And they have not
caught the gunman. He did his last scene somewhere in
(00:43):
Central Park and they don't know the motive. The wife
of the dead executive has said that they were getting
threats and apparently he was involved in some kind of
financial scandal this executive, because there was an investigation on
(01:03):
the federal level that he had sold his stock after
he was aware of inside information. It's United Health is
the name of the company. Brian Thompson is the executive
and we'll sort all this out coming up after three
point thirty. But if you run across the video, it's
quite stunning, because rarely do you see a guy gunned
(01:25):
down in the street on live on a camera. Now,
I want to talk about this. I'm I'm sure this
is the last thing that a lot of people want
to hear about. But you know, when this I always
tell you that the real story comes out sometimes five
years later, ten years later, sometimes in a book or
(01:46):
maybe an investigation. But in the heat of the moment,
you can have suspicions. And I had a lot of suspicions,
and many people did and aired them, and it turns
out if you had suspicions, you were absolutely right. And
if you thought that the COVID hysteria was a lot
(02:07):
of nonsense when it came to where the virus came from,
and whether you should wear a mask or not, whether
you should have six feet of distancing or not, well,
if you read the House of Representatives report that came
out today, there was a committee that did an investigation
now for several years on the COVID epidemic. You know what,
(02:31):
You're right, A lot of this was nonsense and something
really bad was going on that may have led to
this pandemic. The Department of Justice had launched a grand
jury investigation into a nonprofit called Eco Health Alliance, and
we talked about this organization. This is the organization that
(02:54):
was run by a man named doctor Peter Dazak and
Anthony foul excuse me, Saint Anthony Fauci had been funneling
government money to Dazac. It was a legal transaction and
Dazak was using it. He transferred it to China, to
that Wuhan lab and they were doing gain of function research.
(03:16):
Gain of function means you enhance the virus, you make
it more powerful, you make it more transmissible, and yeah,
our money was going into that kind of research in China.
And there has been a secret grand jury investigation with
the Department of Justice that's been going on for several
years now. Despite all the denials, record requests have repeatedly
(03:41):
been blocked by the National Institutes of Health. According to
this House committee, it's the House Select Subcommittee on the
Coronavirus Pandemic. They have a five hundred and twenty page
report on the origin of the virus and the response
to the virus and the investigation still is a secret.
(04:03):
Members of the subcommittee still won't talk about it. I
guess it's an ongoing investigation. There's something really funky that
went on between our government between Fauci, this doctor Peter
Dazac of Eco Health Alliance, and the researchers in China,
which is where the virus originated from that research lab.
(04:24):
And you remember the extreme behavior on the part of government,
not only denying, but it was more of cancel culture.
It was more of social media bullying. In fact, that's
when the Biden administration colluded with Facebook and Twitter and
other social media companies to block any discussion, to censor
(04:46):
any discussion, any opposition to their accepted theory that it
started in an animal market.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And why were they so? Why were they?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
This is one thing always bugged me, and it should
keep this in your mind for the rest of your life.
There's always competing theories about everything. There's always several ideas
floating out there about any issue. Why was it that
the government was so insistent that you couldn't discuss the
virus coming from a lab. Why did people get so
(05:21):
angry if you said it came from a lab. Why
were the social media companies censoring that discussion.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Wasn't that curious?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I was?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I found it weird at the times, like, well, why
can't we talk about it. Maybe we're right, maybe we're wrong.
What do you care if we're wrong. That's why I
didn't understand. It turns out you weren't wrong. It did
come from the lab. And I always thought, well, somebody
powerful is involved in this. And at the time, Anthony
(05:53):
Fauci was the patron Saint the Blessed one of the
government health response, and he's up to his neck in this,
and so is this doctor Peter Dazac.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You know what was another sign? Peter Dazac led a
group of I think.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Fifty one scientists to put their names to an ad
that ran in the New York Times claiming that anybody
who supports this theory that the virus came out of
a Chinese lab is you know, is full of crap.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And the whole implication was you were racist.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
They actually pulled out racism, xenophobia, you know, all the
Golden oldies. It's like, why would you get this angry
because I think a virus comes from a lab or
any other official, any other doctor. And there were a
lot of respected doctors who were saying it out loud,
and you were vilified like you were part of the
(06:45):
Holocaust or something.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
This was so weird.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They weren't denying an epidemic. They weren't denying it was
a virus. They were denying where the virus came from.
Why were people invested in it coming from the animal market. Well, well,
eventually we're gonna find out. But there's a federal investigation
going on because it looks like that this Eco Health
Alliance and doctor Dazac has been refusing to quickly release
(07:14):
all their internal memos and documents and emails and whatever.
Dazac has been referred for criminal prosecution. His organization has
been barred from getting any more federal money. In fact,
in the letter attached to the report, it says that
(07:36):
Dazac and his organization should never again receive US taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Gee, why do you think that is?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And in the report it said the National Institute of Health,
which Fauci was running, failed to get the required information,
progress reports and vital information that was paid for by
the American taxpayers. National Institute of Health and other agencies
awarded millions of dollars of grants to EcoHealth Alliance. In fact,
(08:07):
there was a four million dollar project that Fauci's agency
had titled Understanding the Risk of back Coronavirus Emergence. Part
of the research was modifying back coronaviruses with SARS and
(08:28):
MERS viruses to make it ten thousand times more infectious.
The resulting viruses were different than SARS covid two, which
is the one that we all dealt with. But another
Eco Health grant proposal has been flagged as a possible
blueprint for engineering the SARS covid two virus.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That we endured.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
DAZAC has downplayed the involvement, downplay collaboration with Chinese researchers,
and then finally, the report says that as far as
mask mandates are concerned, there was no conclusive evidence that
masks effectively protected Americans and there was also no evidence
(09:16):
that six feet of social distancing would slow the spread
of the virus. That was arbitrary and not based on science,
and said in the committee report, Trump is now going
to be populating a lot of the medical establishments in
his administration with those scientists and researchers who protested the
(09:41):
policies four years ago and were publicly vilified and censored
on social media. But that's who's going to be running
these medical departments, because there's a reason that these people
with this such great lengths to come up with a
phony theory and to shut down anyone who disagreed with it,
because they were guilty. They were involved in engineering this virus.
(10:05):
At the very least, the virus came out of that lab.
Maybe it was a lab accident, but it got loose,
and they knew that their fingerprints were on the funding.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That was.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Allowing the research to go on for years, and that
there was even more controversial research that was going to
be funded in the future. They wanted to make a
ten town ten thousand times more contagious, and all these
people ought to go to prison, starting with Fauci. No
one's ever hurt held accountable, though more coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Coming up, after the three thirty News with Deborah, We're
going to talk with Josh Margolin ABC News in New
York City about the United Health executive who was.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Gunned down in the street.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Looks like a hit job. He was walking outside of
Hilton Hotel. He was going to speak at the investors
conference for Eco Health, a lot for United Healthcare.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Confusing the two stories.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And it was all on video, on a security video,
and you could see the guy jumping out and shooting
the executive in the back. It's a pretty scary thing.
But right away the police said, no, this was targeted.
This wasn't just a random criminal, This wasn't a Venezuelan
gang member.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Brian Thompson is the name of the executive who's killed.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Now we've been talking about with Elon Musk and the
vehicle Rumaswami has their Doge Commission to try to cut
trillions of dollars of government waste. They're going after government
workers who don't show up to work anymore because seventy
five percent of government buildings are empty and we're paying
to keep those buildings. I guess working. There's a few
(11:59):
people working there, but you've got to pay. You've got
to pay the rent on it, you've got to pay
the taxes. You've got to pay for all the upkeep
and the maintenance so the rats don't take over or
gangs don't move in, and it costs a lot to
keep these buildings going, and why why should we If
people aren't going to show up for work anymore, We
ought to bulldoze these places.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Even if they do show up for work, we ought
to bulldoze them.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So they're they're they're going to lay down the law
and they're they're going to say, you know, come the
beginning of the Trump administration, everyone has to show up
five days a week, eight hours a day.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That's just the way life is. And a lot of
government workers are saying no, they'd rather quit.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
They think twenty five percent might quit because they don't
want to drive in anymore. They're living way out in
the suburbs. They don't want to deal with traffic, the
poor babies.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's never heard of this.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
I mean, the only thing I would say is if
I got a job that was fully remote and that
I was told that and I lived in another.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Let's just say they'd be a commute, right.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
But then they changed, the company changed its mind and said, okay,
now everybody has to work in the office.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Okay, that I can understand. You're not living anywhere near
the office, right, I mean, that's that's an obvious thing.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Or even three hours away if you moved under the
with the understanding that this job is always going to
be remote, right.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
If you had some kind of an agreement, I got
to understand. But most of these people just ran for
the hills because well my last story, all the government
advice wasn't based on any science.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
We didn't have to have these lockdowns go on for
years and years.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
But when the lockdown was over, people they just they said, no,
we don't want to go back to work.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
And I think that that the employers should have said, okay,
they don't.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
The lockdown should have been over after three months. After
three months I saw. I remember reading on air the
research that that said, especially the schools, more than anything,
the schools should never have been lockdown, which is another
story I have maybe for later. But so Joe Biden
or what's left of him, they're trying to protect the
(14:07):
government workers, and the Biden administration is trying to work
with government employee unions to lock in hybrid work protections
for tens of thousands of Social Security staff. And this
is not the only department that the unions are working
with the Biden administration to contractually protect themselves so no
(14:31):
one has to go in and show up for work.
That's what they're doing. Federal employee. Now what One senator
from Ohio, a new one named Bernie Moreno, he's a Republican,
and he said he's going to work with the Trump
administration to unwind these agreements first day in office, and
(14:55):
Moreno said, federal employees are on notice in the real world,
when you you don't show up to work, you get fired.
Senate Republicans will start unwinding these ridiculous deals on day one.
I don't know how they're going to do this exactly.
I don't know how binding these agreements are going to be.
But Biden administration is trying to work out do a
(15:19):
rush job on new contracts so the employees that you
pay for it, that are supposed to work for you
don't have to actually work. Nobody in the world is
ever going to convince me that most ordinary office workers
work more efficiently from home and are more productive at home.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I just will not believe that.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
You know, you know what they're doing, Demor, I absolutely
know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
They're riding their bicycles, and you know, it's.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Just you know what it is, John, It's just not fair.
It's not fair. It's not fair. We had to pay
all the money for gas.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And we had to come to work and oh oh,
that's what I've read is that people who are going
to start to go into work now, they're going to
be shocked. Yeah with gas cats, especially like you're in California. Yeah,
you're gonna be paying five bucks a gallon.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, we welcome.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I know these people who decided that they were entitled
to be separated from the real world and all the
real world challenges because they were government employees, some special
class boy. I am rooting for Musk and Ramaswami so hard.
I mean, all they can do is they have this
you know, commission, and they're going to set up recommendations.
(16:32):
It's it's it's up to Congress and Trump to push
all these through and make them official policy or.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Law, whatever they have to do legally. Uh, well, we
come back.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
We're going to talk with Josh Margolan from ABC News
in New York about the United Healthcare executive gunned down
in the street.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Looks like a hit job. Why, we'll see what Josh knows.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI AMC on.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
From one to four every day and then for four
o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app,
so you can listen to the podcast version Conway coming
up here at four o'clock. Let's now get to the
biggest story of the day across the country. Josh Margolin
from ABC News is going to tell us the latest
on this healthcare executive Brian Thompson, he's the United Healthcare CEO.
(17:25):
He was going to speak at investors meeting of the
Hilton Hotel in New York City, and he's walking alongside
the hotel and he got gunned down. A guy jumped
out from it looks like behind an suv and it
looks like a hit. And now they got photos of
the gunman standing in front of the counter at Starbucks.
In fact, the clearest picture I've seen of him. He's
(17:46):
wearing a hoodie. All you can see are his eyes
and nose. Let's get Josh mar going on to see
what he knows. Josh, Hey, we know that there's an
active man hunt right now.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
This is a huge story that you know, it's not
uncommon to have a shooting a killing in New York City,
but this was a brazen not broad daylight. It was
just before dawn, but we're talking about a quarter to
seven in the morning, and we're talking about one of
the most densely populated, most heavily traveled, most iconic parts
of Manhattan. You know, the New York Hilton just up
(18:19):
sixth Avenue from Rockefeller Center. The Christmas Tree is going
to be lit tonight. The Radio City Rock Catch Radio
City is right there and just south of Central Park.
This is a very very busy area and to do
this kind of thing the way that it was done,
the police commissioner said that they will not rest until
they find this shooter.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It looked like a hit.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Have the police said anything on the record or behind
the scenes as to what the motivation would.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Be, Well, it does look like a hit, But importantly,
there are a couple of things that do suggest the
shooter is not some sort of a train special Forces
assassin or something. There were quote unquote mistakes that were
made according to the police that we're talking to, things
that's some sort of a professional criminal probably wouldn't do
(19:08):
in terms of motivation. They are actively trying to determine
that because that will help them determine who the shooter is,
and they right now do not have an identification, or
at least one that they're willing to share. They're trying
to determine this the result of some sort of personal
grudge in the victim's private life, Is the result of
something inside the workplace, you know, something where somebody got fired,
(19:31):
laid off, something like that, or is it something as
a result of the insurance work. This is Brian Thompson
was the CEO United Healthcare. It's a large health insurance company,
and we all know from our own lives that the
insurance business is a tough business and a lot of
people get angry with decisions that are made by insurance companies.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you saw.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It was a curious comment that his wife made to
NBC News saying, quote, there had been some threats basically,
I don't know, a lack of covering which question mark,
I don't know details. I just knew he said there
were some people that had been threatening him. I just
thought that was an odd comment, A lack of coverage,
which would make it sound like yeah, and an angry
(20:11):
customer who didn't get his claim approves.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Well, honestly, you could imagine It does not take too
much imagination to think about cases where a lack of
coverage could be really, really serious and lead somebody to
take violent action. Right. We definitely can picture that I
did see the comment from the wife, and threats get made.
(20:36):
Police are looking at threats. You know, in law enforcement,
there's a view that the most dangerous threat is the
one that's not made, because typically people who threaten don't act,
and the people who act don't threaten. That's the general
view of it. But they are checking to see if
there had been threats. We've spoken with local police. We
don't believe that there were any reports of threats that
(20:56):
had been made to the house, and we're at this
point the company has not confirmed any of that, but
that's a critical part of the investigation right now.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
The gun jammed while he's firing it, but he I
guess he unjammed it.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Right, And so that does suggest to detectives that the
shooter has some familiarity, had some competency with firearms on
one side. On the other side, there were three spent
shell casings retrieved from the scene. That obviously tells people,
you know, people who know guns. That tells people that
three bullets were fired, but there were also three fresh
(21:34):
bullets that came out of the weapon, which suggests that
the person was not, you know, a really proficient in
using the firearm, because typically they would only expect to
see one unspent you know, fresh bullet that comes out
and is retrieved on the floor. They found three. So
that's the kind of nitty gritty detail they're looking at
(21:56):
to try to determine the profile of the shooter.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
He shot him from back and then as Thompson stumbled
to the ground and rolled over, the gunman walked up
to him and finished him off with It looked like
a few more shots.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Three shots in total were fired, and so they're trying
to go through all of that. We know that he
then took off, got on an e bike headed up
towards Central Park, which is not a far distance away,
apparently though he dropped his cell phone in the process. Again,
the cell phone suggests that this is not somebody who's
(22:32):
a professional killer, because trained assassins don't don't don't carry
their cell phone on it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
There'd be way way too many clues in a phone potential, right,
all right, well, very good.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Absolutely, Josh, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Hey, have a great evening, all right.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Josh Margowan from ABC News in New York City covering
the uh what looked like an execution of this United
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, UH.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Down Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, it's just four blocks away from Rockefeller Center where
the Christmas tree lighting is supposed to happen. Let's see
if I can get that sheet in front of me here,
because yeah, it's this evening. The tree lighting probably going
on very soon. Yeah, usually happens around seven o'clock, I think.
(23:24):
So they're going to have their normal security measures in place,
which is already a massive police presidence. You could imagine
in New York City with all the insane people that
have come in illegally. I mean they got about two
hundred and fifty thousand illegal immigrants. There's got to be
more than a few terrorists and gang members there. Thompson
(23:45):
managed a division that employs one hundred and forty thousand people.
The company offers insurance plans to employers and individuals, very profitable.
He was promoted to chief executive of United Healthcare in
April twenty twenty one. Based in Minnesota, that's where his
family lives all right, more coming up.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I wasn't going to bring this up because this turned
out to be maybe not a real story, but you know,
this would have completed the trilogy of three major criminal
cases from the nineteen nineties all coming back in the
news in the same week. We had the Menendez brothers, obviously,
and then a couple of days ago there's the John
(24:31):
Benna Ramsey cases is back in the news because the
police say this is the year we're going to crack
the case. We've got new DNA testing, and there's another
Netflix special out. Well, you know this climate. There was
an OJ Simpson story. Now TMZ had this earlier in
the day that his former bodyguard had been claiming that
(24:57):
he had on tape a recording of OJ confessing to
the murders of Ron and Nicole. And there isn't an
existence of some kind of thumb drive. That the guy's
name is Iraq A Velly, right, he was an OJ bodyguard.
I don't know exactly what his official duties were and
(25:20):
when he was the bodyguard, but he had said Ojay's
on this thumb drive admitting to the crimes. So there
was a search warrant and apparently there was another legal
case which led to the confiscation of the thumb drive
inside a green backpack. So I don't know what's going
on in this iraq a Velly's life. But they seized
(25:42):
the backpack. It had multiple drives and there was an
investigation on a separate case. They had a search warrant
to collect evidence. There was live ammunition and other items
in the bag. So this guy's up to no good
and so TMS he went with this report. Well, the
update is is that the Bloomington, Minnesota Police Department examined
(26:03):
the drives in question and determined they contained nothing of
evidentiary value, which is a disappointment. LAPD says, we have
never listened to or been in possession of these drives.
This is what the Minneapolis or rather the Bloomington Police
Department is telling us. So it turns out the big
(26:26):
splashy breakthrough headline at the moment turns out to be nothing,
which is a major disappointment.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Now this is kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
You know, the LPGA Tour, the Ladies Professional Golf Association
and when I was first starting out on a media
career as a sports writer back in New Jersey for
suburban paper think of something along the lines of the
Orange County Register. And among my earliest assignments was covering
every single golf tournament in New Jersey, which most was
(27:00):
local tournaments like semi professional golfers or guys who had
day jobs and they were on a low level tour.
You'd be amazed how many golf tours there are, and
there's a little bit of money to hand out. And
back then when I was a sports writer, I got
this for two whole summers. They did nothing but cover
golf tournaments, mostly low level tournaments, with two exceptions. And
(27:23):
you'll see in a moment one of those exceptions worked,
and you'd cover to the tournaments and all the local
media showed up. There were a lot of suburban newspapers
in the day, and we'd all show up and spend
the day eating free food and getting loaded because they
would have open bar and open buffets for all the reporters.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
All day long.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Now you know how long a golf tournament takes golf tour,
you know that's you know, eight ten hours. Sometimes the
tournament went on for several days and all the reporters
would show up. That's why I know what reporters are about,
because I saw these guys for years and they just
want to have free food and free booze, and you know,
then they hash out a hack article and you know,
I was right with them every day.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
The two exceptions was I got to do the LPGA
tournament that came through every year into New Jersey, and
one year a PGA tournament it was the US Open.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I got to cover the US Open. Jack Nicholas won
that year.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
In fact, but the LPGA Tour made the news because
they have updated their gender eligibility policy.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You would think if your acronym is LPGA, which stands
for Ladies Professional Golf Association, that you'd only have women
playing golf, right, But up until today male players who
have gone through male puberty. I guess if they identified
as female, they could play. And now the requirement is
(28:53):
if you're a male and you went through puberty, you
are banned from competing.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
In the LPGA Tour. Oh man.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I just like the way they worded it. It's like
if you went through puberty. It's a very distinct point
in time of what's the official test for that. That's
a good question.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Come over here. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Also the EPSOM Tour, the Ladies European Tour, and all
other LPG eight competitions players assigned male at birth. Oh
that phrase, I hate that phrase. I wasn't assigned male.
It was immediately obvious. And if you've gone through male puberty,
you're not eligible to compete in these events anymore. And
(29:38):
they've been under a lot of pressure to change its
rules and make sure it's just women. I think at
the very least, you have to go through the big chop.
You have to get the chop and then we'll maybe
talk about competing as a woman.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Conways here, do you know what they refer to you
and I as non transgend non transgendered men.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Yeah, we're non trend gendered man. We we didn't go
through the transition having trans yet. But hey, look it's
a long life, you know. Never say no, LAPD Chief,
Deputy Chief, I apologize. Is coming on with us Allen
Hamilton to talk about the woman from Maui who is
missing and now in is Mexico and her dad jumped
(30:20):
allegedly jumped off a building near the lax.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
It's a mess. There's a great story in there.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
It's a horrible story, but we'll have the police LAPDS
version of what happened. A huge amount of money raised
at pastathon yesterday, nine hundred and forty five thousand dollars
and counting take over a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, I'm sure it is over a million by now.
That's really cool.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Plus twenty three people arrested at the Black Friday retails
up a camerie. You ever go to the came Real outlets?
I have, yes, but we never know Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
But don't you have.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Money to stay away from the outlets? You know, you
have outlet free money. My wife will not end. Oh
that's great, that kind of no, that way great, good
for you. Impossible old school, yes, yes, Kmart Marshalls, that's right. Yeah,
my my most of my wife and daughter's clothes are
from Target and Walmart.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
They enjoy that and yours. Obviously.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
This is Cole's young Man, that's Coles, Coles Special, Cole
Special down.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
What do you pay for that? This was yester night.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
It was nineteen dollars, but it was it was it
was on it was the browser bin, so it was
half off.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's not like about nine ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Yeah, okay, yeah, all right, and it costs me four
dollars to London, all right?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Ky waits song with you, Buddy, Digl.
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