December 11, 2024 • 33 mins
Todd Bensman comes on the show to talk about what exactly he saw while visiting a migrant camp down in Mexico. Pres. Biden had a classic mishap at a speech to talk about his economic legacy. Debra tells a story about a crazy woman in an RV with chickens on her street. More on Luigi Mangione.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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all your comments and rantings twice on Friday. The Trump
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effect is a real thing, and it's it's almost as
if he's he's already assumed the presidency, and it's noticeable
in Mexico the migrant camps. There are people in the
migrant camps making decisions because they are convinced that Trump's
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policy is real and it's coming and they'd be better
off making a decision on what they're going to do now.
Todd Bensman has been reporting from the border for years now.
He's been the Center for Immigration Studies. Wrote a piece
for The Daily Mail, Let's get Let's get tought on
to talk about what he's seen at these Mexican migrant camps. Todd,
(01:11):
how are you again?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm doing great? Thank you for having me on. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So you've been interviewing some of the migrants, and what
are they telling you?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Right, I'm fresh back from Mexico City. I went there
because there are thousands nobody knows how many, but there
are definitely thousands and informal encampments all over the city.
It's a gigantic city, of course, and that's a good
place to sort of sample what's going on. And so
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I wandered around three different camps and interviewed a lot
of different immigrants from all over the world, you know
what's going on. And what a lot of them told
me was, I'm going home because a you know CBP one,
which is the parole program them under Biden, where they're
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just walking them in over the border, scheduling their illegal
immigration over the border. The landports is going to be
canceled on January twentieth, That's what Trump's saying. And they're
all down there waiting on it. So what are you
going to do when they cancel it? Well, they're going
to throw up their hands and go all the way home.
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In this way, the Columbia, Guatemala, Honduras.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And this is the app that if you went on
the app and filled out the form, you in effect
would be pre legalized across the border, and you'd then
be given a date for asylum hearing years into the future,
but you could cross into the border and start your
life immediately.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, I mean they've let in a million and a
half people like that over the last year and a
half or so. It's a lot of people. They're just
letting them across it. Basically, instead of them initiating an
I Go crossing, they apply to the government and the
government illegally crosses them in, you know, with these permission
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slips that Congress never approved, nobody approved. It's just this
ad hoc thing. But you know, they've let hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of people in that way, and most
of the ones down there are waiting for their ticket
to get punched for that, but they're seeing the time
is running out. They've only got till January twenty and
there's a backlog. They're not going to make it, so
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they're just there's a lot of despair over that down there,
and the yeah, they're the home.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Where's the backlog?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Because I thought getting on the app and filling out
the forum that that gets you the ticket.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It doesn't you have to go through other procedures.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, because they obviously this thing is mammothly popular, you know.
I mean, the government's going to just let us cross.
You know, that's incredible. Nothing like that's ever happened. So,
you know, I think there's like two million people in
line for it, and they just can't process that many,
so that the wavefime has gotten really long, so a
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lot of them have been down there for months waiting
for their ticket to get punched. They're bringing in about
maybe fifteen hundred a day right now, so they'll be
bringing in fifteen hundred a day by land all the
way to January twenty, and they'll be flying in another
two thousand a month, so about forty about thirty five hundred. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The Biden administration kept this program going full blast even
after Harris lost so badly on election day.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh, it's full blast. They're they're they're definitely doing it.
They'll do it all the way to the last possible
minute of the last day that they can do it.
But everybody else is going to get caught behind the gate.
And they don't even want to try illegal crossings now
because Tom Homan is out there. You know, the new
borders are saying, we're going to deport everybody we catch you.
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We're going to cancel that and you're going to be
illegal before too long, and then we're going to deport you.
So they're not happy about that either. They don't like
the chances or the look of that, and so they're
saying we're going to stay put or go home. And
that means that the border numbers, the crossings will plumb it.
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In fact, they're already plummeting in the Darien Gap further
South story on a Newsweek today that the numbers have
never been lower than they are right now, and the
Darien Gap, which is a good sort of barometer of
what's going on.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Right now, and that's the passage where they go from
South America into Central America.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, and there's one other important thing happening as well
that I found down there, and that is Trump before
he even won election, the day before, he threatened Mexican
government with twenty five per sent trade tariffs and then
progressively higher from there if they didn't shut this down
on their side with their military. And I saw that
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happening down there. They're they're scooping up anybody who tries
to go north and returning them back to the south.
Internal deportation. I guess you would call that that. That's
been going on for a while now because Biden actually
arranged for it, originally to keep the border calm for
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the campaign, for the for his campaign and then Mahari's campaign.
You can't have thousands of people pouring over the border
when you're trying to run a campaign. So I expected
that to kind of end on election day. But then
the day before, Trump said, hey, twenty five percent tariffs
if you if you don't keep that in place, So
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they have kept it in place. Claudia Scheinbaum to some,
I mean, I don't know how wide spread it is,
but I think they're taking the tariff threat very seriously.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So it's almost like somebody flipped a switch and the
party is over.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Everybody's got to go back home now, just like that.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
That's all it takes. It's like you said, it's called
the Trump effect. We saw this in twenty seventeen. We
also saw it, sort of the Trump effect sort of
dissipate in the face of a lot of litigation. Back
in twenty seventeen. That blocked the implementation of a lot
of his policies for a year or so, and they
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started coming. So you have to follow it up with action.
If the Trump administration for some reason does not deport
in sufficient number or kick them back or expel them,
and the Shinbab administration does not keep using its military,
they will come. But on the other hand, if you know,
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if you're an immigrant down in Mexico City hoping to
get in, what you're seeing is a big blockade by
the Mexicans, you'll spend hundreds of dollars or maybe thousands
to get north of Mexico City. And then if you
get caught, that's a sunk cost. You get shipped all
the way back to the South to start over again.
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And then even if you do get across and you
got the Americans waiting to expel you, under remain in
Mexico that other policy that's clear to go now by
the way, by the courts. So it doesn't look good.
Of course you're going to stay put or go home.
I mean, what's the point of dropping all that cash
only to end up like that back to square one.
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That's not the that's not the way it's supposed to work.
That's not how it's been working. The last four years.
You've had an almost guarantee of getting in and staying
in under the Biden administration, so they were dropping the
cash on it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's it's just shocking that if you if you decide
to enforce the law how quickly, even before you take power,
you can change the entire dynamic, you know, from here
all the yeah, all the way to the edge of
Central America into South America and affecting all the people
who've been coming in from Kazakhstan and Africa. I mean,
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it's like it's like a worldwide earthquake.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, we saw this during COVID. I mean, in COVID,
we shut our border. And when we shut our border,
Mexico had no choice but to shut its border or
get stuck with the hot potato.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And all the.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Countries south of Mexico had to shut their borders. So
all during that pandemic period you had almost nobody moving
through the through the routes. That's how it works.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Wow, that's good, great news, Todd. Well, you're gonna be.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Out of a job soon, I know, I mean, but
you know, happily.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
All right, well, we'll talk further see how the next
few month plays out.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's going to be fascinating. Thank you for coming on again.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Todd Bensman and he's got a story in the Daily
Mail about what we just discussed.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You got to go read it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Writes for the Center for Immigration Studies and he has
covered the border as a journalist for many years.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Meantime, the feeble old fool was mumbling into a microphone
last night trying to explain his economic accomplishments over the
past four years. And we also have a Trump looks
like he's going to get rid of the immigration policy
that restricts arrests at churches, schools, and hospitals in this country.
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More coming up.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (10:49):
Follow us at John Cobelt Radio. By the way, on
the on the podcast, which will be put up after
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Speaker 2 (10:56):
What do we got there?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
We got We talked with Tracy Park about the new
anti crime measures that she's getting for the West side
of Los Angeles to make the place civilized again. We
had Laura Ingele from News Nation to talk about the
latest twists in the Luigi mengi Owon case killing of
the healthcare executive. And we just had Todd Bensman on
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from Center of for Immigration Studies and his piece about
the Trump effect in Mexico. A lot of migrants have
decided to leave and go back home because they know
now they're not going to be able to get over
the border in time. So that's all on the iHeartRadio
app John Cobel Show on demand, it's the podcast version.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
What else I got here? Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Final Pastathon totals a million, two hundred and twenty three,
two hundred and seventy dollars. How about that? A million,
two hundred and twenty three thousand. Thank you all very much.
It was a huge year, eighty nine thousand pounds of
pastas and sauce. And we want to thank Wendy's and
Smart and Final because you were able to donate hundreds
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of thousands of dollars. Through Wendy's and through Smart and Final,
they were partners in this Caterina's Club fundraiser Chef Bruno
to get all the pasta and sauce for all the
kids in the Orange County area.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But it was.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
In fact, the donations through the website was a record.
We got just people donating at the website five hundred
and forty eight thousand dollars and that's the most we.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
We ever got in that category. All right.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
So we we just had Todd Densman on and he
was talking about how Trump see people believe Trump when
he says I'm shutting down the border. When Tom Holman
says we're going to be deporting people. Everybody, no matter
what side you're on, you know they mean it. You
may violently disagree with it, but you know, oh, they
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mean it. There's no bs here. Meantime, we've got Joe
Biden making a speech about his get this, his economic legacy,
which primarily is the highest inflation rate that we've had
in over forty years.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's what he's going to be known for. You'll see
it in the history.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You should see it in the history books if they
write straight history anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Anyway, he's trying to feebly on his way out the door,
give a defense for his inept pathetic administration.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Here's a clip of Biden.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Well, he's trying to speak and this is like a
metaphor for his entire presidency.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Listen to what happened, and.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
You know one of the things that's going on here
is that just turned off like I'm going to go out,
I lost suit electriciity here anyway? What a One of
the things we found is that you oh uh we
wei and venticis I mean the computer chip size of
the tipular little finger.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
It's teleprompter went out.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Remember this happened a few weeks ago with Kabla Harris
or telepropt?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
What do you believe written scripts? John?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Everybody, he should know what he's done. He was well,
I guess he wasn't really there. How for the last
four years he's very play that again. Listen, man, you.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Know one of the things that's going on here is
I just turned off my I'm gonna go voute. I
lost the electrician here anyway. What one of the things
we found is that you oh uh we wei and
venticis I mean the computer chip size of the tipular
little finger.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Hey, they turned off the electricity here. I have no
idea what I did. I was going to tell you
what I did the last four years, but since the
power went out, I don't know what did I do.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Who am I?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Here's another clip about the one thing he learned from
Trump and the mistake he made.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
You know, within the first two months of office, I
signed the American Rescue Plan, the most significant economic recovery
package in our history. And I also learned something from
Donald Trump. He signed texts for people seventy four hundred
bucks because we passed the plan and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Stupid.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, that was the difference. You're not signing the checks now, Biden.
This next clip he's been saying this forever, always talking
about how poor he felt.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Is a congressman stock market is Richard Hyes, I wish
you owned a lot of stock. You know the worst
part of all this Acknowledger Brogans. For thirty six years,
I was the foorst man in Congress. What a foolish
man anyway?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Oh No, I've heard him say that so many times.
And that's why I believe that Hunter was looting Ukraine
and China and giving the big guy the ten percent cut,
because I think that pissed him off to no end.
Here he was this proud public servant, really for fifty years,
since he first got elected to the Senate seventy two,
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and then vice president and president, and he's always talking
about how poor he was.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I think he made up for that. They may never
track the money.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
It might be in a Cayman Islands account or in
Switzerland somewhere, or it's buried in gold bars in somebody's backyard.
But that is the attitude that made him bitter and
resentful and why he thought he was justified having Hunter
and his brother Jim go out and shake down executives
and politicians in foreign countries to bring.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Home some more money. Well we come back. Oh you
know what we are to am I here? What's that
wacky story you told off the area yesterday?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Okay, that's abused Eric and I to no end.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I know, but nobody.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
It's a it's a story about something that went on
in the neighborhood. And you should put yourself in Deborah's position.
Would you actually do this yourself?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I am definitely a Karen.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It was really invasive.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yeah all right, No, I'm not that proud.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Oh you were yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
It was but.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
For the review.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
And I don't know who's going to be hearingot in
my neck.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Of the boods.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
No, we got all right before you chick it out entirely.
You got to tell the story that's coming up next.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
We're on from one till four every day, Conway, coming
up at four o'clock. So so yesterday, Uh, never comes
in the studio and starts, I guess were you were
telling me about your weekend?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, And Eric and I were both in here and
she tells us a story and we said, wait, you've
got to tell this on the air now. I don't
want you to leave anything out, all right, because I
see you're trying to back off.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We'll call you on it too.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I can tell you were I can tell by the
look on your face you were a hopeing I'd forget this.
I was, yeah, all right, so what what did? What
did you do? This is something in your neighborhood?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Okay, So there was this beat up old car in
my neighborhood. But it's it's on this imagine kind of
a concrete platform, so I don't even know how it
got up there, okay, And it's right by a golf
course and anyway, it was the windows were smashed and
it was such an eyesore, and I mean almost every
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day i'd go buy it and I just go, oh God,
I wish, I wish somebody would call and get rid
of this.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So on private property or on the side of the road.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
It's on the side of the road, but I think
it's kind of I think it's private par property because
somebody had to build this kind of concrete car port,
but not really in the hill. Okay, it's it's very
hard to explain anyway, So I was very excited a
couple weeks ago the car was gone and I thought,
oh my gosh, thank goodness, it looks so much better.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Fast forward a couple days.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Later, and I see that somebody has an RV there.
I don't even know how they got well, I do
know they somebody smashed the hill and uh and kind
of made this makeshift ramps so you can put the
RV up there. And I notice that there's a chicken coop,
and there's a refrigerator on the street kind of on
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the street, a little off the street by the r V,
and a barbecue.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Now it's we're in the hills.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
And we've got these Santa Anas, and it's dangerous.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Thinking, wait, a second.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
We can't have an this is not going to be
an RV camp here. It's this is this is not
zoned for our and so anyway, I was trying to
figure out what to.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Do, and I'm going to be in charge yet.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
So I walked back down after I took some pictures,
and I sent my husband to go talk to the
police to figure out what we can do. And apparently
another neighbor told me that there's already been complaints. So
I'm working and I see one of the chickens out
of this coop lying in the middle of the street,
and I said, Okay, this poor chicken is gonna get
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either eaten by a coyote, hit by a golf car,
a golf cart or a golf ball, or run over
by a car, or get cooked on the grill. Yes,
So I go up to the r V and I'm
banging on the door.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
At this point my husband left. He's like, come on,
let's go. Yes, because their chicken was in the middle
of the street, you know who, they had a gun.
I didn't really think.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm glad you said that today. You didn't say that yesterday.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
I didn't really think I was so worried about the chicken.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You know you you couldn't.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
If you gave me one hundred thousand dollars, I would
not go bang on a stranger.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Okay, tougher than you, John, No, No, you're nuts.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Well that too, and nobody answered.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
And so I'm standing there and I'm sitting here thinking, well,
what am I going to do about this chicken? So
I walk up to the chicken and it flies away
and it lands on top of the RV. So I
felt a little better. Later in the day, a neighbor
texts me and says, oh, the RV's being moved.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
So really, so I.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Go back, go back.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
I go back, and this woman is up there with
this guy and they're kind of cleaning up, and I
see that the RV has been moved and it's a mess,
and I'm looking at her. Shees hello, I said, hey,
what's up with the RV? Well, we own this property,
but we had to move the RV. And I said, well,
you have chickens and a chicken coop, and your chickens
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are flying all over the place and one of them
was in the middle of the street and it's gonna
get eaten by a coyote or hit by a car.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You're yelling at her, annoyed.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
And she said, well, there was a top to the
chicken coop, but somebody removed it.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Well, yeah, duh, because I don't know what you're doing.
I don't understand how she is. Did you off, No,
I did not.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
I was worried about the chickens, and so I just said, okay,
well I was worried about your chickens because and I
listed the problems, and she just looked at me like
I was a lunatic, and maybe I was acting like one.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I was calm, so, but the whole thing is their
property and their chicken.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Okay, you got to understand. This is a single family neighborhood.
And she said that the property was hers, that they
bought the property. Now there are parstles of land where
I live that it's just trees and bushes that people
can buy.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
So I'm assuming that if she's telling the truth, that
maybe she bought this land thinking that she's gonna park
an r V there with the barbecue right in the middle.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Of all this.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
So there's no regular house on the land.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
No, not there, I see no. Uh. And there's been
some demolition going on there lately.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Do you know what happens to women who knock on
r V's Usually it's it's methatics are inside, I know,
and they usually have, you know, blow up sex dolls.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
And I wasn't thinking clearly, And if it was my daughter,
I would have been saying the exact dame thing.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And I know, imagine if your daughter from the crazy
guys RV.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I just was so concerned about these chickens that had
just messed.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Up my brain for a half a second.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I just want to point out she cares more about
the chickens well being than the fact that there were
people on her street that have chickens living in an RV.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Oh no, well I was not happy about that.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Have you ever seen all the chickens at Ralph's? I mean, yeah,
what's gonna happen to the chicken? It's going to be dinner.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Chickens made a terrible end every day.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Million and I didn't want to see it and I
couldn't believe it. I'm thinking, what you're gonna be cooking
the chickens and the barbecue that you have in the
middle of the brush, and then you're gonna put the
leftovers and the fridge that you have right by the streets.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Okay, I mean it was so crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
It's not your you or the woman in the r
V with the chicken. That's a good question. And I
just want to know if the chicken made it across
the road.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
The chicken coop is gone, but there was one chicken
that was just seriously standing around by where the chicken
coop was.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
And I was going to work and I thought, oh crap.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
All right, another chapter in what is Debora do when
she's not working?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
John?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
How many times have I told you I'm very boring?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And I keep telling you, no, you're not. There isn't
another person in the whole state. I was banging on
an RV door to complain about a loose chicken.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Okay, that was stupid, You're right, it was.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
It was It was I know you both have said
it to me numerous times off the air.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I get it. It was a momentary lapse in judgment.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Okay, all right, fine, you're listening to John Cobels on
demand from KFI A six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I've just run a call across a couple of stories
about the shooter Luigi Mangiona, the healthcare executive Brian Thompson.
I can't believe how people are reacting to this. Here
is you know that that Senator Elizabeth Warren, she ran
for president a few years ago. She's sympathizing with the killer,
(25:40):
and she's sympathizing with the people who support the killer.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
She told the Huffington Post.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The visceral response from people across the country who feel cheated,
ripped off and threatened by the vile practices of the
insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the
healthcare system.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
What is she saying?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You're all gonna get shot? This is just the first one.
Violence is never the answer. But people can be only
pushed so far. Well, it sounds like it's never the answer,
except sometimes it's the answer.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Maybe that'll get him to change things. That's what she's saying. Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
She got some blowback because later on she said, well,
violence is never the answer, period. I should have been
much clear that there isn't never a justification for murder.
But her first impulse is to offer a justification for
the murder of Brian Thompson.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
She is a crazy whack job. She is.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
She's in the government. Her party had total control of
the Senate, the House, and the presidency for two years
and didn't do anything to fix the problems. How can
she stand there and justify the murder when you would
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have to have federal legislation to redesign the healthcare system.
And the reason they don't is most of the Democrats
as well as the Republicans, take millions and millions of
dollars of bribes period. I mean, they got another word
for it. It's called campaign contributions. It's bribery. She knows it.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Her whole party was in charge for two years.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And now she says, well, everybody feels cheating and ripped off,
and people can only be pushed so far. Here's another one.
This is in the New York Times. Vanessa Friedman. She
covers image making in court and politic court in politics.
(27:46):
She's had this job for you ten years, and she
says that Luigi Mangione has become, you know, like a
He's so hot and so attractive that there's a whole
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movement around him. He's a folk hero, a social bandit,
a man taking a stand against an unfair system that
Mangione is enjoying something called the halo effect. That's what
forensic psychologists call when the public sees somebody attractive, they
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equate the attractiveness with innocence, and that he's like Robin Hood,
or he's like Robin Hood played by Russell Crowe, or
Jesse James played by Brad Pitt, or Butch and Sun
(28:55):
Dance played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
That he's so handed him and.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
He's taking such a powerful stand against the bad guys,
and he's so good looking. They said that his his
photos are on TV, in the newspaper, all over social media,
photos of him and a navy blazer, cris crisp bright
shirt and tie, shirtless in the hills, clean shaven, curly hair,
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and flashing a bright white grin. Even his tender profile
has made it into the public with more pictures featuring
his six pack. It's an endless photo shoot and people
online saying if this guy is fit, you must have quit.
Another said he's even hotter with his mask and shirt off.
In fact, he's being known as the hot Assassin and
(29:45):
you're getting this is this is the New York Times.
This is nuts, absolutely nuts. Shot a guy in the
back watched him bleed to death on the sidewalk. And
now there's two kids that have no daddy, gonna be
absolutely tortured and traumatized for the rest of their lives.
(30:06):
And this is what Elizabeth Warren in the New York
Times does. They interview people from Queer Eye Dancing with Stars,
you know, these these Hollywood people carrying on about how
beautiful he is. Oh jeez, we've got We've gone completely
off the cliff. What a bunch of stupid asses in
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our culture and in the media, stupid asses.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
And we got Tim Conny heya, Hey, John Decker is
coming out with us. He is the iHeart media correspondent
in the White House press pool, talk about the FBI
ahead of the FBI retiring, right before he gets a resigning,
right before he gets slaughtered, right or I should say
(30:54):
fired in this evens.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, yeah, fired, thrown in the street.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Christopher ray Is is out, so we'll talk to about
see what's going on in the White House. David Vase
with the La Dodgers, he'll be coming on with us.
They're at their winter meetings right now. And you're a
Mets got healthy during the winter, you know, yeah? One
so one, so you can't beat that. You know, thirty
years ago, I think we talked about this. They paid
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seven hundred and sixty five million dollars for the whole
team and the stadium.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah. Now it's one guy. You remember when we were kids.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh yeah, I guy would get a hundred thousand dollars
and that was I remember Reggie Jackson got a million
dollar contract to the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, for three years, and that was groundbreaking.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
Sandy kofax I didn't show up for spring training because
they won another twenty five thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, and they said, no, you know, it only.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Costs I think it was twenty three or twenty four
million dollars to build Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, twenty four million dollars.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
Yeah, you know, that's that's what it costs to build
that building out there.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You know, Soto's the equivalent of thirty Dodger stadiums. That's right.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
I don't know what the endgame is, you know, obviously
everybody's making money.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, it's in the television contry TV.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
Yeah, Well, because sports is one of the last things
you have to watch live. Yeah, you know, everything else
you can record or watch ten days later. But sports
is uh, you gotta watch.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
You want to see. You got to be there in
the moment.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Yeah, or somebody will ruin it on a text. You know,
somebody will text you. We'll get him next year, get
him next year on I'm ten minutes played?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Alright, the hell? What's the champagne for? We have a celebration.
Shannon was celebrating Wednesday. Oh that's crazy, that's classic. And
there's coke everywhere. Huh yeah, that's me.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
Oh my god, I get bar in here. It's like
an old Hollywood bar. Just need a cigarette machine.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That's crazy.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
And then my sister lives in Malibu. She had a
pretty scary couple of days. We'll talk to her about
what's going on in Malibu with the fires.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
All Right, Conway.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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all your comments and rantings twice on Friday. The Trump
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effect is a real thing, and it's it's almost as
if he's he's already assumed the presidency, and it's noticeable
in Mexico the migrant camps. There are people in the
migrant camps making decisions because they are convinced that Trump's
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policy is real and it's coming and they'd be better
off making a decision on what they're going to do now.
Todd Bensman has been reporting from the border for years now.
He's been the Center for Immigration Studies. Wrote a piece
for The Daily Mail, Let's get Let's get tought on
to talk about what he's seen at these Mexican migrant camps. Todd,
(01:11):
how are you again?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm doing great? Thank you for having me on. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So you've been interviewing some of the migrants, and what
are they telling you?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Right, I'm fresh back from Mexico City. I went there
because there are thousands nobody knows how many, but there
are definitely thousands and informal encampments all over the city.
It's a gigantic city, of course, and that's a good
place to sort of sample what's going on. And so
(01:40):
I wandered around three different camps and interviewed a lot
of different immigrants from all over the world, you know
what's going on. And what a lot of them told
me was, I'm going home because a you know CBP one,
which is the parole program them under Biden, where they're
(02:02):
just walking them in over the border, scheduling their illegal
immigration over the border. The landports is going to be
canceled on January twentieth, That's what Trump's saying. And they're
all down there waiting on it. So what are you
going to do when they cancel it? Well, they're going
to throw up their hands and go all the way home.
(02:23):
In this way, the Columbia, Guatemala, Honduras.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And this is the app that if you went on
the app and filled out the form, you in effect
would be pre legalized across the border, and you'd then
be given a date for asylum hearing years into the future,
but you could cross into the border and start your
life immediately.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, I mean they've let in a million and a
half people like that over the last year and a
half or so. It's a lot of people. They're just
letting them across it. Basically, instead of them initiating an
I Go crossing, they apply to the government and the
government illegally crosses them in, you know, with these permission
(03:07):
slips that Congress never approved, nobody approved. It's just this
ad hoc thing. But you know, they've let hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of people in that way, and most
of the ones down there are waiting for their ticket
to get punched for that, but they're seeing the time
is running out. They've only got till January twenty and
there's a backlog. They're not going to make it, so
(03:30):
they're just there's a lot of despair over that down there,
and the yeah, they're the home.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Where's the backlog?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Because I thought getting on the app and filling out
the forum that that gets you the ticket.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It doesn't you have to go through other procedures.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, because they obviously this thing is mammothly popular, you know.
I mean, the government's going to just let us cross.
You know, that's incredible. Nothing like that's ever happened. So,
you know, I think there's like two million people in
line for it, and they just can't process that many,
so that the wavefime has gotten really long, so a
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lot of them have been down there for months waiting
for their ticket to get punched. They're bringing in about
maybe fifteen hundred a day right now, so they'll be
bringing in fifteen hundred a day by land all the
way to January twenty, and they'll be flying in another
two thousand a month, so about forty about thirty five hundred. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The Biden administration kept this program going full blast even
after Harris lost so badly on election day.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh, it's full blast. They're they're they're definitely doing it.
They'll do it all the way to the last possible
minute of the last day that they can do it.
But everybody else is going to get caught behind the gate.
And they don't even want to try illegal crossings now
because Tom Homan is out there. You know, the new
borders are saying, we're going to deport everybody we catch you.
(05:01):
We're going to cancel that and you're going to be
illegal before too long, and then we're going to deport you.
So they're not happy about that either. They don't like
the chances or the look of that, and so they're
saying we're going to stay put or go home. And
that means that the border numbers, the crossings will plumb it.
(05:21):
In fact, they're already plummeting in the Darien Gap further
South story on a Newsweek today that the numbers have
never been lower than they are right now, and the
Darien Gap, which is a good sort of barometer of
what's going on.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Right now, and that's the passage where they go from
South America into Central America.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, and there's one other important thing happening as well
that I found down there, and that is Trump before
he even won election, the day before, he threatened Mexican
government with twenty five per sent trade tariffs and then
progressively higher from there if they didn't shut this down
on their side with their military. And I saw that
(06:10):
happening down there. They're they're scooping up anybody who tries
to go north and returning them back to the south.
Internal deportation. I guess you would call that that. That's
been going on for a while now because Biden actually
arranged for it, originally to keep the border calm for
(06:31):
the campaign, for the for his campaign and then Mahari's campaign.
You can't have thousands of people pouring over the border
when you're trying to run a campaign. So I expected
that to kind of end on election day. But then
the day before, Trump said, hey, twenty five percent tariffs
if you if you don't keep that in place, So
(06:55):
they have kept it in place. Claudia Scheinbaum to some,
I mean, I don't know how wide spread it is,
but I think they're taking the tariff threat very seriously.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So it's almost like somebody flipped a switch and the
party is over.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Everybody's got to go back home now, just like that.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
That's all it takes. It's like you said, it's called
the Trump effect. We saw this in twenty seventeen. We
also saw it, sort of the Trump effect sort of
dissipate in the face of a lot of litigation. Back
in twenty seventeen. That blocked the implementation of a lot
of his policies for a year or so, and they
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started coming. So you have to follow it up with action.
If the Trump administration for some reason does not deport
in sufficient number or kick them back or expel them,
and the Shinbab administration does not keep using its military,
they will come. But on the other hand, if you know,
(08:01):
if you're an immigrant down in Mexico City hoping to
get in, what you're seeing is a big blockade by
the Mexicans, you'll spend hundreds of dollars or maybe thousands
to get north of Mexico City. And then if you
get caught, that's a sunk cost. You get shipped all
the way back to the South to start over again.
(08:21):
And then even if you do get across and you
got the Americans waiting to expel you, under remain in
Mexico that other policy that's clear to go now by
the way, by the courts. So it doesn't look good.
Of course you're going to stay put or go home.
I mean, what's the point of dropping all that cash
only to end up like that back to square one.
(08:44):
That's not the that's not the way it's supposed to work.
That's not how it's been working. The last four years.
You've had an almost guarantee of getting in and staying
in under the Biden administration, so they were dropping the
cash on it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's it's just shocking that if you if you decide
to enforce the law how quickly, even before you take power,
you can change the entire dynamic, you know, from here
all the yeah, all the way to the edge of
Central America into South America and affecting all the people
who've been coming in from Kazakhstan and Africa. I mean,
(09:19):
it's like it's like a worldwide earthquake.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, we saw this during COVID. I mean, in COVID,
we shut our border. And when we shut our border,
Mexico had no choice but to shut its border or
get stuck with the hot potato.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And all the.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Countries south of Mexico had to shut their borders. So
all during that pandemic period you had almost nobody moving
through the through the routes. That's how it works.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Wow, that's good, great news, Todd. Well, you're gonna be.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Out of a job soon, I know, I mean, but
you know, happily.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
All right, well, we'll talk further see how the next
few month plays out.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's going to be fascinating. Thank you for coming on again.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Todd Bensman and he's got a story in the Daily
Mail about what we just discussed.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You got to go read it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Writes for the Center for Immigration Studies and he has
covered the border as a journalist for many years.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Meantime, the feeble old fool was mumbling into a microphone
last night trying to explain his economic accomplishments over the
past four years. And we also have a Trump looks
like he's going to get rid of the immigration policy
that restricts arrests at churches, schools, and hospitals in this country.
(10:41):
More coming up.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
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Follow us at John Cobelt Radio. By the way, on
the on the podcast, which will be put up after
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Speaker 2 (10:56):
What do we got there?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
We got We talked with Tracy Park about the new
anti crime measures that she's getting for the West side
of Los Angeles to make the place civilized again. We
had Laura Ingele from News Nation to talk about the
latest twists in the Luigi mengi Owon case killing of
the healthcare executive. And we just had Todd Bensman on
(11:17):
from Center of for Immigration Studies and his piece about
the Trump effect in Mexico. A lot of migrants have
decided to leave and go back home because they know
now they're not going to be able to get over
the border in time. So that's all on the iHeartRadio
app John Cobel Show on demand, it's the podcast version.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
What else I got here? Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Final Pastathon totals a million, two hundred and twenty three,
two hundred and seventy dollars. How about that? A million,
two hundred and twenty three thousand. Thank you all very much.
It was a huge year, eighty nine thousand pounds of
pastas and sauce. And we want to thank Wendy's and
Smart and Final because you were able to donate hundreds
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of thousands of dollars. Through Wendy's and through Smart and Final,
they were partners in this Caterina's Club fundraiser Chef Bruno
to get all the pasta and sauce for all the
kids in the Orange County area.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But it was.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
In fact, the donations through the website was a record.
We got just people donating at the website five hundred
and forty eight thousand dollars and that's the most we.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
We ever got in that category. All right.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
So we we just had Todd Densman on and he
was talking about how Trump see people believe Trump when
he says I'm shutting down the border. When Tom Holman
says we're going to be deporting people. Everybody, no matter
what side you're on, you know they mean it. You
may violently disagree with it, but you know, oh, they
(13:00):
mean it. There's no bs here. Meantime, we've got Joe
Biden making a speech about his get this, his economic legacy,
which primarily is the highest inflation rate that we've had
in over forty years.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That's what he's going to be known for. You'll see
it in the history.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You should see it in the history books if they
write straight history anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Anyway, he's trying to feebly on his way out the door,
give a defense for his inept pathetic administration.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Here's a clip of Biden.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Well, he's trying to speak and this is like a
metaphor for his entire presidency.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Listen to what happened, and.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
You know one of the things that's going on here
is that just turned off like I'm going to go out,
I lost suit electriciity here anyway? What a One of
the things we found is that you oh uh we
wei and venticis I mean the computer chip size of
the tipular little finger.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
It's teleprompter went out.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Remember this happened a few weeks ago with Kabla Harris
or telepropt?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
What do you believe written scripts? John?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Everybody, he should know what he's done. He was well,
I guess he wasn't really there. How for the last
four years he's very play that again. Listen, man, you.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Know one of the things that's going on here is
I just turned off my I'm gonna go voute. I
lost the electrician here anyway. What one of the things
we found is that you oh uh we wei and
venticis I mean the computer chip size of the tipular
little finger.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Hey, they turned off the electricity here. I have no
idea what I did. I was going to tell you
what I did the last four years, but since the
power went out, I don't know what did I do.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Who am I?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Here's another clip about the one thing he learned from
Trump and the mistake he made.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
You know, within the first two months of office, I
signed the American Rescue Plan, the most significant economic recovery
package in our history. And I also learned something from
Donald Trump. He signed texts for people seventy four hundred
bucks because we passed the plan and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Stupid.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, that was the difference. You're not signing the checks now, Biden.
This next clip he's been saying this forever, always talking
about how poor he felt.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Is a congressman stock market is Richard Hyes, I wish
you owned a lot of stock. You know the worst
part of all this Acknowledger Brogans. For thirty six years,
I was the foorst man in Congress. What a foolish
man anyway?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Oh No, I've heard him say that so many times.
And that's why I believe that Hunter was looting Ukraine
and China and giving the big guy the ten percent cut,
because I think that pissed him off to no end.
Here he was this proud public servant, really for fifty years,
since he first got elected to the Senate seventy two,
(16:25):
and then vice president and president, and he's always talking
about how poor he was.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I think he made up for that. They may never
track the money.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
It might be in a Cayman Islands account or in
Switzerland somewhere, or it's buried in gold bars in somebody's backyard.
But that is the attitude that made him bitter and
resentful and why he thought he was justified having Hunter
and his brother Jim go out and shake down executives
and politicians in foreign countries to bring.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Home some more money. Well we come back. Oh you
know what we are to am I here? What's that
wacky story you told off the area yesterday?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Okay, that's abused Eric and I to no end.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I know, but nobody.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
It's a it's a story about something that went on
in the neighborhood. And you should put yourself in Deborah's position.
Would you actually do this yourself?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I am definitely a Karen.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It was really invasive.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yeah all right, No, I'm not that proud.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Oh you were yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
It was but.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
For the review.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
And I don't know who's going to be hearingot in
my neck.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Of the boods.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
No, we got all right before you chick it out entirely.
You got to tell the story that's coming up next.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
We're on from one till four every day, Conway, coming
up at four o'clock. So so yesterday, Uh, never comes
in the studio and starts, I guess were you were
telling me about your weekend?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, And Eric and I were both in here and
she tells us a story and we said, wait, you've
got to tell this on the air now. I don't
want you to leave anything out, all right, because I
see you're trying to back off.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We'll call you on it too.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I can tell you were I can tell by the
look on your face you were a hopeing I'd forget this.
I was, yeah, all right, so what what did? What
did you do? This is something in your neighborhood?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Okay, So there was this beat up old car in
my neighborhood. But it's it's on this imagine kind of
a concrete platform, so I don't even know how it
got up there, okay, And it's right by a golf
course and anyway, it was the windows were smashed and
it was such an eyesore, and I mean almost every
(18:47):
day i'd go buy it and I just go, oh God,
I wish, I wish somebody would call and get rid
of this.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So on private property or on the side of the road.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
It's on the side of the road, but I think
it's kind of I think it's private par property because
somebody had to build this kind of concrete car port,
but not really in the hill. Okay, it's it's very
hard to explain anyway, So I was very excited a
couple weeks ago the car was gone and I thought,
oh my gosh, thank goodness, it looks so much better.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Fast forward a couple days.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Later, and I see that somebody has an RV there.
I don't even know how they got well, I do
know they somebody smashed the hill and uh and kind
of made this makeshift ramps so you can put the
RV up there. And I notice that there's a chicken coop,
and there's a refrigerator on the street kind of on
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the street, a little off the street by the r V,
and a barbecue.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Now it's we're in the hills.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
And we've got these Santa Anas, and it's dangerous.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Thinking, wait, a second.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
We can't have an this is not going to be
an RV camp here. It's this is this is not
zoned for our and so anyway, I was trying to
figure out what to.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Do, and I'm going to be in charge yet.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
So I walked back down after I took some pictures,
and I sent my husband to go talk to the
police to figure out what we can do. And apparently
another neighbor told me that there's already been complaints. So
I'm working and I see one of the chickens out
of this coop lying in the middle of the street,
and I said, Okay, this poor chicken is gonna get
(20:30):
either eaten by a coyote, hit by a golf car,
a golf cart or a golf ball, or run over
by a car, or get cooked on the grill. Yes,
So I go up to the r V and I'm
banging on the door.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
At this point my husband left. He's like, come on,
let's go. Yes, because their chicken was in the middle
of the street, you know who, they had a gun.
I didn't really think.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm glad you said that today. You didn't say that yesterday.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
I didn't really think I was so worried about the chicken.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You know you you couldn't.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
If you gave me one hundred thousand dollars, I would
not go bang on a stranger.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Okay, tougher than you, John, No, No, you're nuts.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Well that too, and nobody answered.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
And so I'm standing there and I'm sitting here thinking, well,
what am I going to do about this chicken? So
I walk up to the chicken and it flies away
and it lands on top of the RV. So I
felt a little better. Later in the day, a neighbor
texts me and says, oh, the RV's being moved.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
So really, so I.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Go back, go back.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
I go back, and this woman is up there with
this guy and they're kind of cleaning up, and I
see that the RV has been moved and it's a mess,
and I'm looking at her. Shees hello, I said, hey,
what's up with the RV? Well, we own this property,
but we had to move the RV. And I said, well,
you have chickens and a chicken coop, and your chickens
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are flying all over the place and one of them
was in the middle of the street and it's gonna
get eaten by a coyote or hit by a car.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You're yelling at her, annoyed.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
And she said, well, there was a top to the
chicken coop, but somebody removed it.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Well, yeah, duh, because I don't know what you're doing.
I don't understand how she is. Did you off, No,
I did not.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
I was worried about the chickens, and so I just said, okay,
well I was worried about your chickens because and I
listed the problems, and she just looked at me like
I was a lunatic, and maybe I was acting like one.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I was calm, so, but the whole thing is their
property and their chicken.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Okay, you got to understand. This is a single family neighborhood.
And she said that the property was hers, that they
bought the property. Now there are parstles of land where
I live that it's just trees and bushes that people
can buy.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
So I'm assuming that if she's telling the truth, that
maybe she bought this land thinking that she's gonna park
an r V there with the barbecue right in the middle.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Of all this.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
So there's no regular house on the land.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
No, not there, I see no. Uh. And there's been
some demolition going on there lately.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Do you know what happens to women who knock on
r V's Usually it's it's methatics are inside, I know,
and they usually have, you know, blow up sex dolls.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
And I wasn't thinking clearly, And if it was my daughter,
I would have been saying the exact dame thing.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And I know, imagine if your daughter from the crazy
guys RV.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I just was so concerned about these chickens that had
just messed.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Up my brain for a half a second.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I just want to point out she cares more about
the chickens well being than the fact that there were
people on her street that have chickens living in an RV.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Oh no, well I was not happy about that.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Have you ever seen all the chickens at Ralph's? I mean, yeah,
what's gonna happen to the chicken? It's going to be dinner.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Chickens made a terrible end every day.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Million and I didn't want to see it and I
couldn't believe it. I'm thinking, what you're gonna be cooking
the chickens and the barbecue that you have in the
middle of the brush, and then you're gonna put the
leftovers and the fridge that you have right by the streets.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Okay, I mean it was so crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
It's not your you or the woman in the r
V with the chicken. That's a good question. And I
just want to know if the chicken made it across
the road.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
The chicken coop is gone, but there was one chicken
that was just seriously standing around by where the chicken
coop was.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
And I was going to work and I thought, oh crap.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
All right, another chapter in what is Debora do when
she's not working?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
John?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
How many times have I told you I'm very boring?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And I keep telling you, no, you're not. There isn't
another person in the whole state. I was banging on
an RV door to complain about a loose chicken.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Okay, that was stupid, You're right, it was.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
It was It was I know you both have said
it to me numerous times off the air.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I get it. It was a momentary lapse in judgment.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Okay, all right, fine, you're listening to John Cobels on
demand from KFI A six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I've just run a call across a couple of stories
about the shooter Luigi Mangiona, the healthcare executive Brian Thompson.
I can't believe how people are reacting to this. Here
is you know that that Senator Elizabeth Warren, she ran
for president a few years ago. She's sympathizing with the killer,
(25:40):
and she's sympathizing with the people who support the killer.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
She told the Huffington Post.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The visceral response from people across the country who feel cheated,
ripped off and threatened by the vile practices of the
insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the
healthcare system.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
What is she saying?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You're all gonna get shot? This is just the first one.
Violence is never the answer. But people can be only
pushed so far. Well, it sounds like it's never the answer,
except sometimes it's the answer.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Maybe that'll get him to change things. That's what she's saying. Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
She got some blowback because later on she said, well,
violence is never the answer, period. I should have been
much clear that there isn't never a justification for murder.
But her first impulse is to offer a justification for
the murder of Brian Thompson.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
She is a crazy whack job. She is.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
She's in the government. Her party had total control of
the Senate, the House, and the presidency for two years
and didn't do anything to fix the problems. How can
she stand there and justify the murder when you would
(27:03):
have to have federal legislation to redesign the healthcare system.
And the reason they don't is most of the Democrats
as well as the Republicans, take millions and millions of
dollars of bribes period. I mean, they got another word
for it. It's called campaign contributions. It's bribery. She knows it.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Her whole party was in charge for two years.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And now she says, well, everybody feels cheating and ripped off,
and people can only be pushed so far. Here's another one.
This is in the New York Times. Vanessa Friedman. She
covers image making in court and politic court in politics.
(27:46):
She's had this job for you ten years, and she
says that Luigi Mangione has become, you know, like a
He's so hot and so attractive that there's a whole
(28:07):
movement around him. He's a folk hero, a social bandit,
a man taking a stand against an unfair system that
Mangione is enjoying something called the halo effect. That's what
forensic psychologists call when the public sees somebody attractive, they
(28:35):
equate the attractiveness with innocence, and that he's like Robin Hood,
or he's like Robin Hood played by Russell Crowe, or
Jesse James played by Brad Pitt, or Butch and Sun
(28:55):
Dance played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
That he's so handed him and.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
He's taking such a powerful stand against the bad guys,
and he's so good looking. They said that his his
photos are on TV, in the newspaper, all over social media,
photos of him and a navy blazer, cris crisp bright
shirt and tie, shirtless in the hills, clean shaven, curly hair,
(29:23):
and flashing a bright white grin. Even his tender profile
has made it into the public with more pictures featuring
his six pack. It's an endless photo shoot and people
online saying if this guy is fit, you must have quit.
Another said he's even hotter with his mask and shirt off.
In fact, he's being known as the hot Assassin and
(29:45):
you're getting this is this is the New York Times.
This is nuts, absolutely nuts. Shot a guy in the
back watched him bleed to death on the sidewalk. And
now there's two kids that have no daddy, gonna be
absolutely tortured and traumatized for the rest of their lives.
(30:06):
And this is what Elizabeth Warren in the New York
Times does. They interview people from Queer Eye Dancing with Stars,
you know, these these Hollywood people carrying on about how
beautiful he is. Oh jeez, we've got We've gone completely
off the cliff. What a bunch of stupid asses in
(30:28):
our culture and in the media, stupid asses.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
And we got Tim Conny heya, Hey, John Decker is
coming out with us. He is the iHeart media correspondent
in the White House press pool, talk about the FBI
ahead of the FBI retiring, right before he gets a resigning,
right before he gets slaughtered, right or I should say
(30:54):
fired in this evens.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, yeah, fired, thrown in the street.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Christopher ray Is is out, so we'll talk to about
see what's going on in the White House. David Vase
with the La Dodgers, he'll be coming on with us.
They're at their winter meetings right now. And you're a
Mets got healthy during the winter, you know, yeah? One
so one, so you can't beat that. You know, thirty
years ago, I think we talked about this. They paid
(31:19):
seven hundred and sixty five million dollars for the whole
team and the stadium.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah. Now it's one guy. You remember when we were kids.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh yeah, I guy would get a hundred thousand dollars
and that was I remember Reggie Jackson got a million
dollar contract to the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, for three years, and that was groundbreaking.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
Sandy kofax I didn't show up for spring training because
they won another twenty five thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, and they said, no, you know, it only.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Costs I think it was twenty three or twenty four
million dollars to build Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, twenty four million dollars.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
Yeah, you know, that's that's what it costs to build
that building out there.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You know, Soto's the equivalent of thirty Dodger stadiums. That's right.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
I don't know what the endgame is, you know, obviously
everybody's making money.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, it's in the television contry TV.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
Yeah, Well, because sports is one of the last things
you have to watch live. Yeah, you know, everything else
you can record or watch ten days later. But sports
is uh, you gotta watch.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
You want to see. You got to be there in
the moment.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Yeah, or somebody will ruin it on a text. You know,
somebody will text you. We'll get him next year, get
him next year on I'm ten minutes played?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Alright, the hell? What's the champagne for? We have a celebration.
Shannon was celebrating Wednesday. Oh that's crazy, that's classic. And
there's coke everywhere. Huh yeah, that's me.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
Oh my god, I get bar in here. It's like
an old Hollywood bar. Just need a cigarette machine.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That's crazy.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
And then my sister lives in Malibu. She had a
pretty scary couple of days. We'll talk to her about
what's going on in Malibu with the fires.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
All Right, Conway.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
And Brigita de Castino, Yes, with the news slide in
the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
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