April 1, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (04/01) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about sick sea lions attacking people in SoCal. Gas prices are rising again. Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about US Attorney General Pam Bondi seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing the United Healthcare CEO. John is sick of federal workers complaining about returning to work in person in the office.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio
app Coming up after two point thirty death penalty for
Luigi Mangioni says, the federal government death penalty they're going
to look for and where Royal Oaks for MAYBEC News
is going to come on and talk to us about it.
We're also going to discuss the plight of the federal
(00:24):
workers forced to return to the office in Washington and
they're horrified. Apparently while they were gone for the last
five years, nobody bought toilet paper and back to the
office and there's no toilet paper. They have all kinds
of whining complaints now that Trump is forcing him to
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go back to the office. That's coming up as well.
Let's get to Alex Stone for MAYBC News. You may
have heard their fifteen year old girl it's taking a
swim test and a sea lion attacker. Sea lions have
in getting violent, getting sick, they're getting poisoned and it
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all has to do with toxic algae and that's what
Alex is going to explain here either. John, Yeah, I
thought you were going to say it was a five
year old toilet paper, and it was like disintegrating on
them that they just don't have any toilet paper. Well,
I think maybe it all disintegrated. I mean you might
be onto something that single ply and yeah, it just
kind of falls apart into the dust on them. Yeah,
the problem with the sea lions. So it's sea lions
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and birds the other sea life that have been getting
really sick. But the sea lions are losing their minds.
And one surfer who was attacked about a week ago
says it was a demonic sea lion that near Oxnard,
came out him out of came at him out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And he was surfing and it came up on him.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
He was not antagonizing it, he wasn't doing anything to it,
and began biting and attacking him like a shark would.
And then this week in Long Beach there was a
fifteen year old girl taking a swim test to be
a lifeguard cadet and she was attacked by what everybody
thought was a shark at the beginning, and Long Beach
Fire says that the lifeguards saw what they quickly determined
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was a sea lion that had come full steam ahead
at her and began biting her arm and ripping it up,
and it was a sea lion attack. And this is
all because they're being poisoned by toxic algae, a bloom
that's floating in the waters off southern California from Ox
and are down to San Diego right now. Jenny Smith
is with the rescue program at SeaWorld. She says it's
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a big problem, so.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
It will affect California sea lions. It has affected dolphins,
common dolphins, and that's kind of what we're seeing off
our coastline here in San Diego.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So she's down San Diego. And as these animals eat
sardines and other fish that have eaten the toxic alga,
it turns into a neurological disorder for the sea lions
and they go nuts. And they're going nuts right now.
Many of brain swelling from the neurotoxin, and they can
be super aggressive. They can go after humans unprovoked, and
some are getting really sick.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's like they're high and they've.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Got glossed over or glassed over eyes and they're just
staring off into space.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
The clinical signs that we're seeing for these animals are seizures.
We're seeing them look start like they're stargazing. We're seeing
some animals seem very very sleepy, maybe right after having
a seizure. They may be abnormally aggressive.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So they've received about one hundred calls at Sea World
about this at their rescue center. Birds are dying too.
At a bird rescue center in the Long Beach area,
they say that they've been overwhelmed trying to nurse birds
back to health that have come in contact with either
fish or the toxic algae itself.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
So we're seeing very severe disorientation, active seizures, the inability
to walk or fly, and a lot of them are
emaciated because they haven't been able to find food on
their own.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And they believe John the January's wildfires and the runoff
that it created all of this, that's where the algae
bloom is coming from, that all of the chemicals and
burned going into the ocean that it created the algae bloom.
And the rescue groups are trying to help these animals
by flushing the acid from their bodies, are giving the
sea lions anti seizure meds if they need it. But
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on the human side of it, now in the last
week or so, two unprovoked attacks by sea lions from
people that are in the water.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So all the.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Washed out debris may have instigated this algae bloom. Yeah,
the ass and everything else going in the water, all
those chemicals and then kind of created this algae, and
then the algae creates this acid. It's called demoic acid.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah. Well I first looked at it, I thought it
was demonic acid.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, no, those are the demonic sea lions, the demon
sea lions of this guy described the surfer. I mean,
he said it was like this thing came upon him
so fast and swam up to him and just started
biting at his arm, and the eyes were all big
and looking at him.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, he said it was. It was scary. He thought
it was a shark.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
At first they looked at this thing that was all
blubber attached to him, that was biting down on him.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The poor teenage girl thought it was a shark.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, and so the people around her too, They thought
it was a shark attack. And then they realize the
blood in the water, that this was a sea.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Lion, crazed sea lion.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
What a bizarre story, and what a bizarre chain of
events that this fire may have led to the to
the algae bloom, which leads to the sea lions getting
poisoned and then attacking human.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
They go nuts.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And you would think that people, you know, because like
in San Francisco and elsewhere, they always here are people
messing with the sea lions and down in the South
Bay and they tell you to stay away, and La
Jolla the same thing. But no, these are people that
are in They're nowhere near the sea lions, and sea
lion is in the water and they don't know it
and it comes upon them. All right, Alex, thank you,
you got it. Letter Alex Stone, Caffine News. This is look,
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more victims of the fire, more victims of the city's
in competence here, like we don't have.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Enough so sad, I mean really, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Now the sea lions are suffering and now now humans
are getting getting attacked.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
John, I don't know. I got an email from the
local homeowners Association. Nearly all the trucks that are taking
the debris out of the Palisades in Malibu, they're supposed
to go south on the pch and then east on
the ten and then get out of here, and they're not.
They're rumbling through all the neighborhoods on the west side.
(06:21):
Why because it's quicker and the recommendation it wasn't a
legal order, right, there's no penalty. Recommendation was south on
pch east.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
On the tent.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
They're coming through and they're causing massive traffic jams on
the west side, and the trucks are now sneaking through
the isolated residential neighborhoods because everybody's looking for a way out.
So I'm about a block away from some of these
debris trucks rumbling down the road near me.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Are you wearing a mask?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But they you know, they've they've all they've all got
deb and dust that being shaken into the air.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
That's scary.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
The roads are such rotten shape on Sunset Boulevard. It's
a really rocky ride. So the truck vibrates and stuff
shoots out of it in a second.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
But our gas tax money should be fixing those roads.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, that's that's that's true.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Our gas tax money should be fixing the roads somehow.
I mean, it is really like Afghanistan.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
You should call in to governor Newsom's podcast and tell
him about that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I need my own hotline.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You know he's he was handing out burner phones to
tech executives so they could call him directly.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I think with any economic business issues that they have
in the state, I want one of those burner phones
so badly, because apparently you click on something and it
goes right to Newsom, you get them immediately.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Get ray on that somehow.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
If we can, if we can maybe get a tech
executive to donate a burner phone to the.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Show, can you imagine? Oh, let's be terrific radio. Yeah, Oh,
all right, we come back. I get so much stuff
I want to do.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I do want to talk about the toilet paper, and
I also do want to talk about how they're gonna
charge Luigi Mangioni with uh, where they're gonna they're gonna
go for the death penalty on him, and other things.
I will get to all this coming up.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
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Speaker 2 (08:39):
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Speaker 3 (08:40):
Moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven
seven Moist eighty six. You're usually talkback feature on the
iHeartRadio app. I know what else I want to do,
and I've decided I want to do this now. Something
we were just talking about off the air.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
When I get up in the morning and I go
drive to the bagel shop, like this morning, my little
ride was increasingly aggravating because first of all, I pass,
you know, the vagrant running around with the pipes right,
and he's got his encampment. Then I go down another
block and I see the gas station on the corner,
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and I saw the gas prices, and it's like, holy hell,
when did this happen? Because I swear a week or
so ago it was four thirty nine, which is an
outrageous number.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's now four eighty nine. It went a fifty cents
in a week.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Yeah, if you listen to my news, you would have
heard me.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I talk about that the other day.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I do listen to your news, and I'm going to
play you this little clip from Fox eleven, little summary
of what's going on here. Gas prices are on the
rise here in California and drivers should brace for more
pain at the punk.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
Okay, so right now in La County, expect to pay
an average of four dollars and eighty one cents a
gallon in Orange County. It's four seventy nine and four
sixty five in San Brandino. So what's fueling the rise
and gas prices? Well, tell me refinery outages are playing
a role here.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
This is all according to gas Buddy.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
But you know, the spring spike is also typical.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
As we switch to summer.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
Gas gas Buddy analyst Patrick de Hans has predicted prices
and sokel could keep rising as much as fifteen to
thirty cents more.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
This is so tough for people out there, got terriffs.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
It's the same story all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
More, it's gonna be five dollars and fifteen cents.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Yeah, and the sales tax went up today, right, And.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
The sales tax drives the gas price up because there's
a number of taxes on gas, all right. So I
went to the Triple A site because they do a
state by state breakdown. You could look at this yourself
gasprices dot Triple A dot com. And uh, we are
on average four eighty five. So I'm getting a break
(11:03):
in my neighborhood. I'm only at for eighty one or
was it for eighty nine?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Oh no, I know what it was. It was forty
one this morning in that Fox eleven report. It's for
eighty five now since this morning, when it's sad. Look
at the prices the rest of the country. Mississippi, it's
two sixty eight, two sixty eight. It's like two dollars
and twenty cents less. And Mississippi is not an outlier.
(11:30):
There are seventeen states selling gas for under three dollars
a gallon. Seventeen states, and they are not all Southern
Republican states either Democratic Northeast states like Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Rhode Island, they're selling gas for about two ninety seven each,
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and then uh, New York is selling it for three twelve.
I mean, there's only three states selling for more than
four dollars a gallon, Washington, Hawaii, in California. In California
is now thirty three cents more expensive than Hawaii, which
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is what three thousand miles out in the ocean. This
is just crazy, crazy nonsense for eighty five a gallon.
And why Newsom's head is not on a stick for this.
(12:37):
Weren't there riots in France over gas prizes a few
years ago?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
The Yellow vest riots?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Right, yep, they were going to put in an artificial
tax because the idiot president was having another one of
those climate change spasms, and he was having a climate
change fit, and they jacked up the gas prices and
people started burning cars in the streets wearing yellow vests.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Just accept this.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
And every year we hear the same excuse, the summer blend,
the gas refinery issues. It's the same story every year.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
If they made, if they didn't make it impossible to
build refineries. We're down to eight. So if one refinery
has a problem, then yeah, you're gonna have a big
hit to the gas supply, which is going to drive
up the price. But we used to have I think
over forty refineries and.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Now we have eight.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Look at that four eighty five and I mean seventeen
states are under three dollars. And you people, this is
what I understand. And then you vote to raise the
price of gas when you voted to raise the sales
tax in La County because there's a sales tax attached
to the gas price, so you actually and then I
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constantly hear, well, I heard this the other day. Why
are people moving out of California? Well, the number one
reason is the cost of living you vote for the
high cost of living.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You do this, You know how many.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Votes you've made that has raised the cost of living,
starting with the gas prices, starting with the taxes, when
you vote for climate change nonsense, When you allow millions
of illegal aliens to come in. Oh, you know there's
a housing shortage. Well, of course there's a housing shortage.
(14:33):
There's four million people here illegally. They're living in homes.
If you didn't have four million people living here, that'd
be four million Americans or Californians who could live there,
and the price of real estate would be cheaper, the
price of homes would be cheaper.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
It's supplying demand. We're overloaded with people who have no
legal right to be here, all right, it's the cost
of living.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
You created this, Ah, some is responsible for much of this.
There was another set of articles in the paper today
about Newsom and his and his and his transgender views.
And it's amusing because he's really boxed himself.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Into a corner.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I'm gonna mention that later, and he's getting fired from
all sides right because he's a dumb cluck and he
contradicted his own policy and he should follow through on
it and change the law and not allow guys to
play in girls sports right because he said it's unfair.
But my point is, I have read like a dozen
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articles on Newsom and transgender Why isn't there twenty five
articles on how Newsom created for eighty five a gallon
for the price of gas, among other things. That's Newsom's
gas price for eighty five. The other forty nine states
do not have Gavin Newsom as a governor, and their
gas is all is much cheaper.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
In fact, I think.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
We've got let's see one, one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven eight. There there's like forty two states that are
selling gas for three thirty or less forty two states,
and there's seventeen states that are selling it for under
three bucks. And we're at four eighty five, and like
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the anchor said, we're headed for well over five dollars
any day. Now by Memorial Day, be five point fifteen
a gallon. And and wait a second, how did I forget?
That doesn't count the sixty five cent a gallon carbon
tax that's coming, which the Senate Democrats have refused to block. Well,
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add that gas is conceivably going to be five dollars
and eighty cents a gallon. Within a few months, five eighty,
it's going to be three dollars more than it is
in Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and the rest three bucks
more a gallon.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It's going to be more than double. None of this
sticks to him, and.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Then I just it just hit me this morning as
I was reading this transgender thing.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's like, wait a second.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
This doesn't matter nearly as much as paying five or
six dollars a gallon in gas.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Where's the outrage.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I don't know, but it's like that clip you played
those men on the Street interviews the people who just
found out this sales tax is going up in Olla County. Oh,
there's really nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yes, they're is, don't vote for the sales tax increase. God.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
A few years ago, we were leading the charge to
repeal another gas tax they had passed. Knewsom ran this
lying campaign about the tax, and people voted against the repeal,
and then everybody bitches about nobody complains about the cost
of living more than people in California. It's like, look
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in the mirror, it's you. You're doing this. It is
really great sport to blame Newsom, but he's only doing
what you let him. You could see he blows with
the wind. If the wind was blowing against gas price increases,
if people voted on gas prices, he would have repealed
half of these taxes by now. Because all he cares
(18:30):
about is, you know, moving on running for president. I
got to see him run for president on five bucks
a gallon.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I got it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I mean that he's so deluded though he's going to
you'll have an excuse.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
He'll have a reason he always does. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Well, people, once you cross the California line, people don't
believe his excuses. This is this is some weird cult
bubble we're in. There's another thing in that story. Newsom
says he's been in a bubble. He's been in a bubble. Oh,
I gotta get to that. I got so much today.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Uh, I have an hour and a half. I know
I need more time. This is not working.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Let's get to We're gonna get to Royal Oaks coming
on and right after Debbor's news because Pam Bondi, the
Attorney General, going for the death penalty on that murderous
jackass Luigi man Gione for murdering the healthcare executive that
is next.
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missed that nut. The New Jersey Senator Corey Booker has
now been babbling for twenty two hours.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
What a looney to him?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Twenty two hours He's giving a single speech on the
floor of the Senate.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
He won't shut up, he won't stop.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
The other senators are trying to tackle him and drag
him away, and he's fought them off.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
What an ego bag huh?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
He thinks the world wants to hear this guy go
on for twenty two hours. See what do you think
it's about? You talk about Trump arrangement syndrome. It can
make you talk obsessively for twenty two hours and nobody cares.
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We'll talk more about that later. Royal Oaks is with us.
What a nutty country we're in. So Luigi Mangioni was
the murderous lunatic who shot and killed the United Healthcare
CEO Brian Thompson. And now the Trump Attorney General, Pam
Bondi says they're going to go for the death penalty.
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Let's get royal on here.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, John, you know what happened his very first day
of Trump's administration of January twenty, he said, I'm going
to reinvigorate the federal death penalty. Because you remember Biden
in his final days in office, he commuted thirty seven
of the forty guys on federal death row. They are
now in there for life. He made exceptions for the
Boston bomber and the Bill and Rufe who shot up
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that Charleston church, but basically there were no executions on
his watch. And following up on that lead, now the
Attorney General, as you say, is saying, okay, as to
this guy who allegedly shot the CEO, he is going
to be getting the deafinitely, even though New York State
court they're charging him with murder two but they don't
have the death penalty in New York, so worst he
(21:39):
can get there his life. But if he's convicted in
a separate federal trial, he could be executed.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
So there's going to be two separate trials on this. Well,
I guess with the same evidenz and two slightly different results.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Right, And as we know from you know, police dramas
and courtroom drama, sometimes there's a turf battle. You know,
we're going to go first. He'll figure out who goes first.
But whatever happens when it comes to the federal trial,
and you know, they'd probably used basically the same evidence
as the state prosecutors. Whoever goes first, if they made
some mistakes and the second guy would be able to
take advantage of that. But the bottom line is, yes,
(22:15):
there's a separate opportunity in the federal case, and it's
because of two things. On the federal law. If you
kill somebody through use of a firearm, that can get
you lethal injection. If it's interstate stalking, which this allegedly was,
that could get you the death penalty. But you know,
basically we've gone for years and years with no executions.
(22:37):
Under Trump, we had thirteen executions in six months basically
the last six months of his first term. Before that,
we went seventeen years without any federal executions. But now
Trump is saying we're back in that business.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Have you seen the rantings of Karen Friedman Agniffelo, the
defense attorney for Louis Gimanjion.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
She said, Oh no, I'm just sured he's hired some
higher high profile people.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, well, they're two separate things. First response was, while
claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to
commit the premeditated state sponsored murder of Luigi. By doing this,
they're defending the broken, immoral, and murderous healthcare industry that
continues to terrorize the American people.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Complete metal patient. Now you look and you see the
defense fund is up over seven hundred and seventy five
thousand dollars. And I think John, it's a combination of
the fact that the guy's kind of a hunk and
the fact that everybody hates their insurance companies. And you know,
these morons take these two factors into account and say, oh, yeah,
we're going to help this guy. Now, how you can
(23:45):
excuse executing somebody with a shot to the back of
the head and talk about premeditating. He wrote on his
shell casings. You'll remember deny, defend, and depose, meaning that's
what insurance companies do. They deny the claim that they
defend and the losses, and they take a deposition of
the people. I think John is going to boil down
to insanity. They're going to try to claim the guy
(24:06):
was a nut case and he was just there was
this irresistible impulse because otherwise, I mean, it's obviously premeditated
and he's obviously guilty.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Right he does it on video. Clearly it's planned.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It seems like she she somehow wants to put the
healthcare industry on trial and push the idea that Thompson
deserved it. But you can't really do that in the trial,
can you.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
No, you can't. You can say in the trial, well,
he was nuts and the reason he did this is
because he was, you know, he had a debilitating back injury,
he was victimized by his own health insurance company, and
he had all these delusions and he thought it would
be a good idea to kill this man. And of
course we can't condone him killing somebody, but you can
understand how he was kind of out of his mind,
and ladies and gentlemen of the jury, if he was
(24:54):
out of his mind, you certainly are not going to
find him guilty. I remember the guy that shot Ronald Gregg,
and he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
He planned it, he wanted to please Jodie Foster. This
guy had similar weirdo hallucinations. So I think that's going
to be his defense because again it was certainly premeditated.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Because if it goes to trial, she's going to have
to hope to get on one of these nullification nuts,
like maybe one of the group bees that's following MANGIONI
around get them on the jury to vote against conviction.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
But that's a difficult thing to pull off.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, it's hard. But on the other hand, as we know,
it's got to be unanimous. First, the first part of
the trial is guilt, got to be twelve zero guilty
and a second trial sat jury. But the second half
is okay, you decided he was guilty, does he get
death or not. All it takes is one person who,
as you say, I mean this nullification deal is the judge.
Sometimes the judges aren't even allowed to ask. Now, you know,
(25:50):
would you ever find somebody guilty and send them to
the chair or not? Instead, you just hope that people
are going to follow the law. But if you get
one person who doesn't believe in capital punished, or hates
the insurance industry so much, or think just thinks this
guy should be you know, on the Bachelor. He's so
hunky than Boom one person. You don't get the execution.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Here's the other things she said.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
We are prepared to fight these federal charges brought by
a lawless justice department, as well as the New York
state charges and the Pennsylvania charges and anything else they
want to pile on Luigi. This is a corrupt web
of government dysfunction and one upsmanship.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Luigi is caught in a high stakes game of.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Tug of war between state and federal prosecutors, except the
trophy as a young man's life.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You know, she sounds as big a nutcase as anybody
coming down the pike, because if you're going to get
this guy off, you have to be a really sharp
defense lawyer, you know, deeply all this is the rules
about insanity. It sounds like she's an advocate. She just
loves to get into hyperbole, and who knows where she
is on the political spectrum. But I think he needs
a better lawyer than her.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
All right, Royal Oaks, ABC News, thank you for coming on.
Do you bet when we returned, I do want to
talk about the federal workers. These people irritate me. I
have very little sympathy for all the cuts that are
happening in Washington, d C. Because they're such whining babies.
They got five years to work out of their homes,
(27:17):
and you know they weren't working. It was a robe
and fuzzy slippers time. Now they're being forced back into
work and they're complaining that there wasn't toilet paper waiting
for them.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Really not making this up.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
We have Kate Sanchez coming on after three o'clock and
she's a Republican assembly woman from marnchas Santa Margarita, and
the Republicans are trying to wave the flag and say hey,
Gavin Newsom says it's deeply unfair that men and boys
are playing women's and girls' sports in college, high school,
(28:04):
elementary school. Deeply unfair. So the Assembly Republicans are saying, well,
then repeal the law that allows them to do that.
And Newsome is stuck and he's griping about it.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
He made his own stew and he doesn't know what
to do and what to say, and everybody's mad at him.
So we'll talk all about it, starting with Kate Sanchez,
the assembly woman, coming up. All right, I've had it
up to here with federal workers whining and complaining and
protesting and squawking because.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
They have to go to the office. She's just take
the buy out already. Just quit. What a bunch of
headaches these people are.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
So The New York Times tries to do a sympathetic story.
Federal workers returning to offices have described logistical challenges, cramped conditions,
and short of basic supplies. What's this For Some federal employees,
returning to the office has meant an expansion of their
(29:08):
duties to include cleaning toilets and taking out the trash. Well,
weren't they doing this at home. It's not an expansion
of duties. It's no different than being at home clean
the toilet.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
But it is their job requiring? Is that that in
the job description? Well it is now. They probably cut
the janitors. Well I wouldn't want to do that. Of
course you wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
If I.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
If they come to me here at KFI, you have
people to do that. No, if they came.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
To me, you're a KFI and they said, besides doing
what you're doing, you need to go clean the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Sorry, John, I'm leaving here here.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
They would tell you to clean the toilets while you're
doing the newscast, right, yeah, So apparently they they created
these changes so quickly that nobody in the Washington d C.
Offices was prepared to bring in a million workers toilets.
(30:14):
See that's the spirit, all right? Oh yeah, John l tell.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
You to go clean in between when I'm on the
air doing newscasts, commercial breaks and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
You're going to go clean the toilets, not the men's room.
I'm not no.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
The uh Trump hopes that these people quit by requiring
them to come to the office, he said, he hopes
it's a way that that they'll it'll it'll lead to
more government employees quitting. We think a very substantial number
of people will not show up to work, and therefore
(30:50):
our government will get smaller and more efficient. They didn't
have they didn't have workspaces for a lot of these workers.
And it turns out a lot of these workers are
now commuting to the office. But they're back to video conferencing,
just like they would be if they stayed at home.
(31:12):
Oh it says morales plummeted. Oh too bad. They've interviewed
dozens of federal workers and most of them would only
speak as long as they could remain anonymous, because they
don't want to lose their jobs. Well, if you don't
want to lose your job, your job now includes cleaning
(31:34):
the toilets.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
And apparently the toilets are a big problem because there
is a shortage of toilet paper in some buildings, which
is why.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
They need to be cleaned.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Oh god, can you imagine no government workers.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It's time for a new job.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
They're leaving waste all over the restrooms. They don't have
any toilet paper. They probably don't have a cleaning supplies either.
Oh my god, what what us?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Health hazard? It is a health hazard. I think they
should quit. I'm telling you, I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You know, you know at the beginning of the year,
the civilian federal workforce, this is not military. Two point
three million people. Two point three million people. What do
they do all day? Two point three million bathrooms have
run out of toilet paper and paper tobbles. The cafeteria
has not stocked enough food, bring your own lunch. Have
(32:33):
you heard of brown paper bags?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
God?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
What are these people? Eight years old? There weren't enough
office supplies. I bring your own pens.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Sounds like schools.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
It is, you know I bought you probably bought every
year school supplies. Right, absolutely, Well, you go to you
go to Staples, and you buy all the school supplies,
and you bring them to office, to the office, and
then you stop at rouse. Get some toilet paper, get
some paper tottels. Uh, you know, get bring some canned
(33:06):
food with you. Maybe the microwaves working.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
One worker said they were hired to do remote work.
Now they have to share office space. Uh while she
works on sensitive and proprietary projects creating ethical and practical concerns. Oh,
get over yourself. Nobody's interested in what you're doing ethical.
(33:32):
Oh no, they're gonna look at my work here. It's
very sensitive work. Oh this this is terrible. People at
the I R s and are not showing up. Yeah, yeah,
that's okay. Some employees who work directly with Americans on
their tax returns did show up, but they were sent
(33:53):
home right away. So instead of working that day, they
spent time hanging out in the office.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
Oh well, Zach, and affect people's tax refunds.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
In some cases. In some cases they've been told we'll
keep working remotely because they just have they don't have
space prepared.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
All right, we come back.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
We're going to talk with Let me get this right,
Kate Sanchez, the Republican assemblyman from Rancho assembly women from
Rancho Santa Margarita, because the Republicans are trying to get
the legislature. Hey, hey, Newsom says it's deeply unfair for
men and boys to participate in women's and girls college
and high school and elementary sports. So come on, let's
(34:36):
update the law here, let's grant the governor's wishes. Debormark
live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've
been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can
always hear the show live on KFI AM six forty
from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and
of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio
app Coming up after two point thirty death penalty for
Luigi Mangioni says, the federal government death penalty they're going
to look for and where Royal Oaks for MAYBEC News
is going to come on and talk to us about it.
We're also going to discuss the plight of the federal
(00:24):
workers forced to return to the office in Washington and
they're horrified. Apparently while they were gone for the last
five years, nobody bought toilet paper and back to the
office and there's no toilet paper. They have all kinds
of whining complaints now that Trump is forcing him to
(00:44):
go back to the office. That's coming up as well.
Let's get to Alex Stone for MAYBC News. You may
have heard their fifteen year old girl it's taking a
swim test and a sea lion attacker. Sea lions have
in getting violent, getting sick, they're getting poisoned and it
(01:05):
all has to do with toxic algae and that's what
Alex is going to explain here either. John, Yeah, I
thought you were going to say it was a five
year old toilet paper, and it was like disintegrating on
them that they just don't have any toilet paper. Well,
I think maybe it all disintegrated. I mean you might
be onto something that single ply and yeah, it just
kind of falls apart into the dust on them. Yeah,
the problem with the sea lions. So it's sea lions
(01:27):
and birds the other sea life that have been getting
really sick. But the sea lions are losing their minds.
And one surfer who was attacked about a week ago
says it was a demonic sea lion that near Oxnard,
came out him out of came at him out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And he was surfing and it came up on him.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
He was not antagonizing it, he wasn't doing anything to it,
and began biting and attacking him like a shark would.
And then this week in Long Beach there was a
fifteen year old girl taking a swim test to be
a lifeguard cadet and she was attacked by what everybody
thought was a shark at the beginning, and Long Beach
Fire says that the lifeguards saw what they quickly determined
(02:08):
was a sea lion that had come full steam ahead
at her and began biting her arm and ripping it up,
and it was a sea lion attack. And this is
all because they're being poisoned by toxic algae, a bloom
that's floating in the waters off southern California from Ox
and are down to San Diego right now. Jenny Smith
is with the rescue program at SeaWorld. She says it's
(02:29):
a big problem, so.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
It will affect California sea lions. It has affected dolphins,
common dolphins, and that's kind of what we're seeing off
our coastline here in San Diego.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So she's down San Diego. And as these animals eat
sardines and other fish that have eaten the toxic alga,
it turns into a neurological disorder for the sea lions
and they go nuts. And they're going nuts right now.
Many of brain swelling from the neurotoxin, and they can
be super aggressive. They can go after humans unprovoked, and
some are getting really sick.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's like they're high and they've.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Got glossed over or glassed over eyes and they're just
staring off into space.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
The clinical signs that we're seeing for these animals are seizures.
We're seeing them look start like they're stargazing. We're seeing
some animals seem very very sleepy, maybe right after having
a seizure. They may be abnormally aggressive.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So they've received about one hundred calls at Sea World
about this at their rescue center. Birds are dying too.
At a bird rescue center in the Long Beach area,
they say that they've been overwhelmed trying to nurse birds
back to health that have come in contact with either
fish or the toxic algae itself.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
So we're seeing very severe disorientation, active seizures, the inability
to walk or fly, and a lot of them are
emaciated because they haven't been able to find food on
their own.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And they believe John the January's wildfires and the runoff
that it created all of this, that's where the algae
bloom is coming from, that all of the chemicals and
burned going into the ocean that it created the algae bloom.
And the rescue groups are trying to help these animals
by flushing the acid from their bodies, are giving the
sea lions anti seizure meds if they need it. But
(04:13):
on the human side of it, now in the last
week or so, two unprovoked attacks by sea lions from
people that are in the water.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So all the.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Washed out debris may have instigated this algae bloom. Yeah,
the ass and everything else going in the water, all
those chemicals and then kind of created this algae, and
then the algae creates this acid. It's called demoic acid.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah. Well I first looked at it, I thought it
was demonic acid.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, no, those are the demonic sea lions, the demon
sea lions of this guy described the surfer. I mean,
he said it was like this thing came upon him
so fast and swam up to him and just started
biting at his arm, and the eyes were all big
and looking at him.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, he said it was. It was scary. He thought
it was a shark.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
At first they looked at this thing that was all
blubber attached to him, that was biting down on him.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The poor teenage girl thought it was a shark.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, and so the people around her too, They thought
it was a shark attack. And then they realize the
blood in the water, that this was a sea.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Lion, crazed sea lion.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
What a bizarre story, and what a bizarre chain of
events that this fire may have led to the to
the algae bloom, which leads to the sea lions getting
poisoned and then attacking human.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
They go nuts.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And you would think that people, you know, because like
in San Francisco and elsewhere, they always here are people
messing with the sea lions and down in the South
Bay and they tell you to stay away, and La
Jolla the same thing. But no, these are people that
are in They're nowhere near the sea lions, and sea
lion is in the water and they don't know it
and it comes upon them. All right, Alex, thank you,
you got it. Letter Alex Stone, Caffine News. This is look,
(05:43):
more victims of the fire, more victims of the city's
in competence here, like we don't have.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Enough so sad, I mean really, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Now the sea lions are suffering and now now humans
are getting getting attacked.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
John, I don't know. I got an email from the
local homeowners Association. Nearly all the trucks that are taking
the debris out of the Palisades in Malibu, they're supposed
to go south on the pch and then east on
the ten and then get out of here, and they're not.
They're rumbling through all the neighborhoods on the west side.
(06:21):
Why because it's quicker and the recommendation it wasn't a
legal order, right, there's no penalty. Recommendation was south on
pch east.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
On the tent.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
They're coming through and they're causing massive traffic jams on
the west side, and the trucks are now sneaking through
the isolated residential neighborhoods because everybody's looking for a way out.
So I'm about a block away from some of these
debris trucks rumbling down the road near me.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Are you wearing a mask?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But they you know, they've they've all they've all got
deb and dust that being shaken into the air.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
That's scary.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
The roads are such rotten shape on Sunset Boulevard. It's
a really rocky ride. So the truck vibrates and stuff
shoots out of it in a second.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
But our gas tax money should be fixing those roads.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, that's that's that's true.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Our gas tax money should be fixing the roads somehow.
I mean, it is really like Afghanistan.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
You should call in to governor Newsom's podcast and tell
him about that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I need my own hotline.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You know he's he was handing out burner phones to
tech executives so they could call him directly.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I think with any economic business issues that they have
in the state, I want one of those burner phones
so badly, because apparently you click on something and it
goes right to Newsom, you get them immediately.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Get ray on that somehow.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
If we can, if we can maybe get a tech
executive to donate a burner phone to the.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Show, can you imagine? Oh, let's be terrific radio. Yeah, Oh,
all right, we come back. I get so much stuff
I want to do.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I do want to talk about the toilet paper, and
I also do want to talk about how they're gonna
charge Luigi Mangioni with uh, where they're gonna they're gonna
go for the death penalty on him, and other things.
I will get to all this coming up.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
John Cobalt Show.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven
seven Moist eighty six. You're usually talkback feature on the
iHeartRadio app. I know what else I want to do,
and I've decided I want to do this now. Something
we were just talking about off the air.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
When I get up in the morning and I go
drive to the bagel shop, like this morning, my little
ride was increasingly aggravating because first of all, I pass,
you know, the vagrant running around with the pipes right,
and he's got his encampment. Then I go down another
block and I see the gas station on the corner,
(09:16):
and I saw the gas prices, and it's like, holy hell,
when did this happen? Because I swear a week or
so ago it was four thirty nine, which is an
outrageous number.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It's now four eighty nine. It went a fifty cents
in a week.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Yeah, if you listen to my news, you would have
heard me.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I talk about that the other day.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I do listen to your news, and I'm going to
play you this little clip from Fox eleven, little summary
of what's going on here. Gas prices are on the
rise here in California and drivers should brace for more
pain at the punk.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
Okay, so right now in La County, expect to pay
an average of four dollars and eighty one cents a
gallon in Orange County. It's four seventy nine and four
sixty five in San Brandino. So what's fueling the rise
and gas prices? Well, tell me refinery outages are playing
a role here.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
This is all according to gas Buddy.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
But you know, the spring spike is also typical.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
As we switch to summer.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
Gas gas Buddy analyst Patrick de Hans has predicted prices
and sokel could keep rising as much as fifteen to
thirty cents more.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
This is so tough for people out there, got terriffs.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
It's the same story all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
More, it's gonna be five dollars and fifteen cents.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Yeah, and the sales tax went up today, right, And.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
The sales tax drives the gas price up because there's
a number of taxes on gas, all right. So I
went to the Triple A site because they do a
state by state breakdown. You could look at this yourself
gasprices dot Triple A dot com. And uh, we are
on average four eighty five. So I'm getting a break
(11:03):
in my neighborhood. I'm only at for eighty one or
was it for eighty nine?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Oh no, I know what it was. It was forty
one this morning in that Fox eleven report. It's for
eighty five now since this morning, when it's sad. Look
at the prices the rest of the country. Mississippi, it's
two sixty eight, two sixty eight. It's like two dollars
and twenty cents less. And Mississippi is not an outlier.
(11:30):
There are seventeen states selling gas for under three dollars
a gallon. Seventeen states, and they are not all Southern
Republican states either Democratic Northeast states like Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Rhode Island, they're selling gas for about two ninety seven each,
(11:53):
and then uh, New York is selling it for three twelve.
I mean, there's only three states selling for more than
four dollars a gallon, Washington, Hawaii, in California. In California
is now thirty three cents more expensive than Hawaii, which
(12:15):
is what three thousand miles out in the ocean. This
is just crazy, crazy nonsense for eighty five a gallon.
And why Newsom's head is not on a stick for this.
(12:37):
Weren't there riots in France over gas prizes a few
years ago?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
The Yellow vest riots?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Right, yep, they were going to put in an artificial
tax because the idiot president was having another one of
those climate change spasms, and he was having a climate
change fit, and they jacked up the gas prices and
people started burning cars in the streets wearing yellow vests.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Just accept this.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
And every year we hear the same excuse, the summer blend,
the gas refinery issues. It's the same story every year.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
If they made, if they didn't make it impossible to
build refineries. We're down to eight. So if one refinery
has a problem, then yeah, you're gonna have a big
hit to the gas supply, which is going to drive
up the price. But we used to have I think
over forty refineries and.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Now we have eight.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Look at that four eighty five and I mean seventeen
states are under three dollars. And you people, this is
what I understand. And then you vote to raise the
price of gas when you voted to raise the sales
tax in La County because there's a sales tax attached
to the gas price, so you actually and then I
(13:55):
constantly hear, well, I heard this the other day. Why
are people moving out of California? Well, the number one
reason is the cost of living you vote for the
high cost of living.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You do this, You know how many.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Votes you've made that has raised the cost of living,
starting with the gas prices, starting with the taxes, when
you vote for climate change nonsense, When you allow millions
of illegal aliens to come in. Oh, you know there's
a housing shortage. Well, of course there's a housing shortage.
(14:33):
There's four million people here illegally. They're living in homes.
If you didn't have four million people living here, that'd
be four million Americans or Californians who could live there,
and the price of real estate would be cheaper, the
price of homes would be cheaper.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
It's supplying demand. We're overloaded with people who have no
legal right to be here, all right, it's the cost
of living.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
You created this, Ah, some is responsible for much of this.
There was another set of articles in the paper today
about Newsom and his and his and his transgender views.
And it's amusing because he's really boxed himself.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Into a corner.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I'm gonna mention that later, and he's getting fired from
all sides right because he's a dumb cluck and he
contradicted his own policy and he should follow through on
it and change the law and not allow guys to
play in girls sports right because he said it's unfair.
But my point is, I have read like a dozen
(15:39):
articles on Newsom and transgender Why isn't there twenty five
articles on how Newsom created for eighty five a gallon
for the price of gas, among other things. That's Newsom's
gas price for eighty five. The other forty nine states
do not have Gavin Newsom as a governor, and their
gas is all is much cheaper.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
In fact, I think.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
We've got let's see one, one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven eight. There there's like forty two states that are
selling gas for three thirty or less forty two states,
and there's seventeen states that are selling it for under
three bucks. And we're at four eighty five, and like
(16:23):
the anchor said, we're headed for well over five dollars
any day. Now by Memorial Day, be five point fifteen
a gallon. And and wait a second, how did I forget?
That doesn't count the sixty five cent a gallon carbon
tax that's coming, which the Senate Democrats have refused to block. Well,
(16:45):
add that gas is conceivably going to be five dollars
and eighty cents a gallon. Within a few months, five eighty,
it's going to be three dollars more than it is
in Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and the rest three bucks
more a gallon.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It's going to be more than double. None of this
sticks to him, and.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Then I just it just hit me this morning as
I was reading this transgender thing.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's like, wait a second.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
This doesn't matter nearly as much as paying five or
six dollars a gallon in gas.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Where's the outrage.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I don't know, but it's like that clip you played
those men on the Street interviews the people who just
found out this sales tax is going up in Olla County. Oh,
there's really nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yes, they're is, don't vote for the sales tax increase. God.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
A few years ago, we were leading the charge to
repeal another gas tax they had passed. Knewsom ran this
lying campaign about the tax, and people voted against the repeal,
and then everybody bitches about nobody complains about the cost
of living more than people in California. It's like, look
(18:07):
in the mirror, it's you. You're doing this. It is
really great sport to blame Newsom, but he's only doing
what you let him. You could see he blows with
the wind. If the wind was blowing against gas price increases,
if people voted on gas prices, he would have repealed
half of these taxes by now. Because all he cares
(18:30):
about is, you know, moving on running for president. I
got to see him run for president on five bucks
a gallon.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I got it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I mean that he's so deluded though he's going to
you'll have an excuse.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
He'll have a reason he always does. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Well, people, once you cross the California line, people don't
believe his excuses. This is this is some weird cult
bubble we're in. There's another thing in that story. Newsom
says he's been in a bubble. He's been in a bubble. Oh,
I gotta get to that. I got so much today.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Uh, I have an hour and a half. I know
I need more time. This is not working.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Let's get to We're gonna get to Royal Oaks coming
on and right after Debbor's news because Pam Bondi, the
Attorney General, going for the death penalty on that murderous
jackass Luigi man Gione for murdering the healthcare executive that
is next.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
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missed that nut. The New Jersey Senator Corey Booker has
now been babbling for twenty two hours.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
What a looney to him?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Twenty two hours He's giving a single speech on the
floor of the Senate.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
He won't shut up, he won't stop.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
The other senators are trying to tackle him and drag
him away, and he's fought them off.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
What an ego bag huh?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
He thinks the world wants to hear this guy go
on for twenty two hours. See what do you think
it's about? You talk about Trump arrangement syndrome. It can
make you talk obsessively for twenty two hours and nobody cares.
(20:32):
We'll talk more about that later. Royal Oaks is with us.
What a nutty country we're in. So Luigi Mangioni was
the murderous lunatic who shot and killed the United Healthcare
CEO Brian Thompson. And now the Trump Attorney General, Pam
Bondi says they're going to go for the death penalty.
(20:54):
Let's get royal on here.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, John, you know what happened his very first day
of Trump's administration of January twenty, he said, I'm going
to reinvigorate the federal death penalty. Because you remember Biden
in his final days in office, he commuted thirty seven
of the forty guys on federal death row. They are
now in there for life. He made exceptions for the
Boston bomber and the Bill and Rufe who shot up
(21:18):
that Charleston church, but basically there were no executions on
his watch. And following up on that lead, now the
Attorney General, as you say, is saying, okay, as to
this guy who allegedly shot the CEO, he is going
to be getting the deafinitely, even though New York State
court they're charging him with murder two but they don't
have the death penalty in New York, so worst he
(21:39):
can get there his life. But if he's convicted in
a separate federal trial, he could be executed.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
So there's going to be two separate trials on this. Well,
I guess with the same evidenz and two slightly different results.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Right, And as we know from you know, police dramas
and courtroom drama, sometimes there's a turf battle. You know,
we're going to go first. He'll figure out who goes first.
But whatever happens when it comes to the federal trial,
and you know, they'd probably used basically the same evidence
as the state prosecutors. Whoever goes first, if they made
some mistakes and the second guy would be able to
take advantage of that. But the bottom line is, yes,
(22:15):
there's a separate opportunity in the federal case, and it's
because of two things. On the federal law. If you
kill somebody through use of a firearm, that can get
you lethal injection. If it's interstate stalking, which this allegedly was,
that could get you the death penalty. But you know,
basically we've gone for years and years with no executions.
(22:37):
Under Trump, we had thirteen executions in six months basically
the last six months of his first term. Before that,
we went seventeen years without any federal executions. But now
Trump is saying we're back in that business.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Have you seen the rantings of Karen Friedman Agniffelo, the
defense attorney for Louis Gimanjion.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
She said, Oh no, I'm just sured he's hired some
higher high profile people.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, well, they're two separate things. First response was, while
claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to
commit the premeditated state sponsored murder of Luigi. By doing this,
they're defending the broken, immoral, and murderous healthcare industry that
continues to terrorize the American people.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Complete metal patient. Now you look and you see the
defense fund is up over seven hundred and seventy five
thousand dollars. And I think John, it's a combination of
the fact that the guy's kind of a hunk and
the fact that everybody hates their insurance companies. And you know,
these morons take these two factors into account and say, oh, yeah,
we're going to help this guy. Now, how you can
(23:45):
excuse executing somebody with a shot to the back of
the head and talk about premeditating. He wrote on his
shell casings. You'll remember deny, defend, and depose, meaning that's
what insurance companies do. They deny the claim that they
defend and the losses, and they take a deposition of
the people. I think John is going to boil down
to insanity. They're going to try to claim the guy
(24:06):
was a nut case and he was just there was
this irresistible impulse because otherwise, I mean, it's obviously premeditated
and he's obviously guilty.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Right he does it on video. Clearly it's planned.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It seems like she she somehow wants to put the
healthcare industry on trial and push the idea that Thompson
deserved it. But you can't really do that in the trial,
can you.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
No, you can't. You can say in the trial, well,
he was nuts and the reason he did this is
because he was, you know, he had a debilitating back injury,
he was victimized by his own health insurance company, and
he had all these delusions and he thought it would
be a good idea to kill this man. And of
course we can't condone him killing somebody, but you can
understand how he was kind of out of his mind,
and ladies and gentlemen of the jury, if he was
(24:54):
out of his mind, you certainly are not going to
find him guilty. I remember the guy that shot Ronald Gregg,
and he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
He planned it, he wanted to please Jodie Foster. This
guy had similar weirdo hallucinations. So I think that's going
to be his defense because again it was certainly premeditated.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Because if it goes to trial, she's going to have
to hope to get on one of these nullification nuts,
like maybe one of the group bees that's following MANGIONI
around get them on the jury to vote against conviction.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
But that's a difficult thing to pull off.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, it's hard. But on the other hand, as we know,
it's got to be unanimous. First, the first part of
the trial is guilt, got to be twelve zero guilty
and a second trial sat jury. But the second half
is okay, you decided he was guilty, does he get
death or not. All it takes is one person who,
as you say, I mean this nullification deal is the judge.
Sometimes the judges aren't even allowed to ask. Now, you know,
(25:50):
would you ever find somebody guilty and send them to
the chair or not? Instead, you just hope that people
are going to follow the law. But if you get
one person who doesn't believe in capital punished, or hates
the insurance industry so much, or think just thinks this
guy should be you know, on the Bachelor. He's so
hunky than Boom one person. You don't get the execution.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Here's the other things she said.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
We are prepared to fight these federal charges brought by
a lawless justice department, as well as the New York
state charges and the Pennsylvania charges and anything else they
want to pile on Luigi. This is a corrupt web
of government dysfunction and one upsmanship.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Luigi is caught in a high stakes game of.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Tug of war between state and federal prosecutors, except the
trophy as a young man's life.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You know, she sounds as big a nutcase as anybody
coming down the pike, because if you're going to get
this guy off, you have to be a really sharp
defense lawyer, you know, deeply all this is the rules
about insanity. It sounds like she's an advocate. She just
loves to get into hyperbole, and who knows where she
is on the political spectrum. But I think he needs
a better lawyer than her.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
All right, Royal Oaks, ABC News, thank you for coming on.
Do you bet when we returned, I do want to
talk about the federal workers. These people irritate me. I
have very little sympathy for all the cuts that are
happening in Washington, d C. Because they're such whining babies.
They got five years to work out of their homes,
(27:17):
and you know they weren't working. It was a robe
and fuzzy slippers time. Now they're being forced back into
work and they're complaining that there wasn't toilet paper waiting
for them.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Really not making this up.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
We have Kate Sanchez coming on after three o'clock and
she's a Republican assembly woman from marnchas Santa Margarita, and
the Republicans are trying to wave the flag and say hey,
Gavin Newsom says it's deeply unfair that men and boys
are playing women's and girls' sports in college, high school,
(28:04):
elementary school. Deeply unfair. So the Assembly Republicans are saying, well,
then repeal the law that allows them to do that.
And Newsome is stuck and he's griping about it.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
He made his own stew and he doesn't know what
to do and what to say, and everybody's mad at him.
So we'll talk all about it, starting with Kate Sanchez,
the assembly woman, coming up. All right, I've had it
up to here with federal workers whining and complaining and
protesting and squawking because.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
They have to go to the office. She's just take
the buy out already. Just quit. What a bunch of
headaches these people are.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
So The New York Times tries to do a sympathetic story.
Federal workers returning to offices have described logistical challenges, cramped conditions,
and short of basic supplies. What's this For Some federal employees,
returning to the office has meant an expansion of their
(29:08):
duties to include cleaning toilets and taking out the trash. Well,
weren't they doing this at home. It's not an expansion
of duties. It's no different than being at home clean
the toilet.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
But it is their job requiring? Is that that in
the job description? Well it is now. They probably cut
the janitors. Well I wouldn't want to do that. Of
course you wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
If I.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
If they come to me here at KFI, you have
people to do that. No, if they came.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
To me, you're a KFI and they said, besides doing
what you're doing, you need to go clean the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Sorry, John, I'm leaving here here.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
They would tell you to clean the toilets while you're
doing the newscast, right, yeah, So apparently they they created
these changes so quickly that nobody in the Washington d C.
Offices was prepared to bring in a million workers toilets.
(30:14):
See that's the spirit, all right? Oh yeah, John l tell.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
You to go clean in between when I'm on the
air doing newscasts, commercial breaks and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
You're going to go clean the toilets, not the men's room.
I'm not no.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
The uh Trump hopes that these people quit by requiring
them to come to the office, he said, he hopes
it's a way that that they'll it'll it'll lead to
more government employees quitting. We think a very substantial number
of people will not show up to work, and therefore
(30:50):
our government will get smaller and more efficient. They didn't
have they didn't have workspaces for a lot of these workers.
And it turns out a lot of these workers are
now commuting to the office. But they're back to video conferencing,
just like they would be if they stayed at home.
(31:12):
Oh it says morales plummeted. Oh too bad. They've interviewed
dozens of federal workers and most of them would only
speak as long as they could remain anonymous, because they
don't want to lose their jobs. Well, if you don't
want to lose your job, your job now includes cleaning
(31:34):
the toilets.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
And apparently the toilets are a big problem because there
is a shortage of toilet paper in some buildings, which
is why.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
They need to be cleaned.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Oh god, can you imagine no government workers.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It's time for a new job.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
They're leaving waste all over the restrooms. They don't have
any toilet paper. They probably don't have a cleaning supplies either.
Oh my god, what what us?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Health hazard? It is a health hazard. I think they
should quit. I'm telling you, I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You know, you know at the beginning of the year,
the civilian federal workforce, this is not military. Two point
three million people. Two point three million people. What do
they do all day? Two point three million bathrooms have
run out of toilet paper and paper tobbles. The cafeteria
has not stocked enough food, bring your own lunch. Have
(32:33):
you heard of brown paper bags?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
God?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
What are these people? Eight years old? There weren't enough
office supplies. I bring your own pens.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Sounds like schools.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
It is, you know I bought you probably bought every
year school supplies. Right, absolutely, Well, you go to you
go to Staples, and you buy all the school supplies,
and you bring them to office, to the office, and
then you stop at rouse. Get some toilet paper, get
some paper tottels. Uh, you know, get bring some canned
(33:06):
food with you. Maybe the microwaves working.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
One worker said they were hired to do remote work.
Now they have to share office space. Uh while she
works on sensitive and proprietary projects creating ethical and practical concerns. Oh,
get over yourself. Nobody's interested in what you're doing ethical.
(33:32):
Oh no, they're gonna look at my work here. It's
very sensitive work. Oh this this is terrible. People at
the I R s and are not showing up. Yeah, yeah,
that's okay. Some employees who work directly with Americans on
their tax returns did show up, but they were sent
(33:53):
home right away. So instead of working that day, they
spent time hanging out in the office.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
Oh well, Zach, and affect people's tax refunds.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
In some cases. In some cases they've been told we'll
keep working remotely because they just have they don't have
space prepared.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
All right, we come back.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
We're going to talk with Let me get this right,
Kate Sanchez, the Republican assemblyman from Rancho assembly women from
Rancho Santa Margarita, because the Republicans are trying to get
the legislature. Hey, hey, Newsom says it's deeply unfair for
men and boys to participate in women's and girls college
and high school and elementary sports. So come on, let's
(34:36):
update the law here, let's grant the governor's wishes. Debormark
live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've
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