April 4, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (04/04) - LA County has settled for $4 billion dollars for sex abuse claims that happened in county juvenile and foster care facilities which is the largest settlement in US history for sex abuse claims. Gov. Newsom wants to start making his own trade agreements with foreign countries after Pres. Trump imposed a bunch of tariffs across the world. People are listening to The John Kobylt Show Podcast all over the world! Kamala Harris was at an event in Orange County this week. Some tourists causes a ruckus in Bali.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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could listen later. You could listen this weekend after two
o'clock in about an hour. That couple from Michigan, they
were locked up in a Mexican prison for a month
because they had a dispute with a timeshare company over
a billing. You may have heard about this. They've been
released from prison. We're gonna have John Manley on their attorney,
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and it looks like Donald Trump himself got involved, so
we will see what's up with that story. It's fascinating.
They stopped paying their timeshare bill because the timeshare company,
according to them, kept canceling the weeks they reserved, and
the timeshare company, well, the couple went to American Express
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and issued a complaint and American Express sided with them,
and then one day when they traveled to Mexico again,
they had law enforcement waiting outside the plane, took them away,
through them in prison and didn't feed them properly, and
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they were stuck for a month. It was really one
of those TV movie nightmares. So anyway, John Manley's going
to come on after two o'clock. Now, this story just happened,
broke this morning at about nine point thirty. This is
so outrageous. I mean, there's nothing anybody can do about
it now. But when you hear the scope of this story,
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you know, nothing we need gets funded. Right. Fire departments
aren't funded. Police and sheriff's departments are not funded. The
schools really suck even though they are funded. They're always claiming,
we don't have money, we don't have money, we don't
have money. Well, the County of Los Angeles is going
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to have to find four billion dollars and fast to
settle sit down, to settle seven thousand claims of childhood
sex abuse that occurred inside its juvenile facilities and foster homes.
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This is by far the largest sex abuse settlement in
the history of the United States and probably the world.
One of the attorneys involved in the case says he
can't find any other sex abuse settlement anywhere close to
it let alone larger. The Boy Scouts of America had
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to pay two and a half billion dollars, the Archdiocese
of La Cardla Mahoney a billion and a half. Those
are the other candidates for largest settlement ever. Victims of
the usc gynecologists George Tyndall a little over a billion.
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Michigan State paid five hundred million to victims of the team.
Doctor Larry Nasser. Listen to what I'm saying is you
get grown men who either get into the gynecology field
or they you know, they want to be teachers, they
want to be Scout leaders, they want to be foster parents.
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How many? How many of these these creeps became foster
parents just so they could have a free shot at
the boys or girls that they were fostering. Was that
the motivation?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And maybe money?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, you're right, they did. They'd make they'd make some
good money. Yeah. So you get some money and you
get pedophile sex on the side. Seven thousand claims thousands
of women. Well, I should point out that the reason
there's such an avalanche. They passed a law in twenty
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twenty in Sacramento that gave victims of childhood sex abuse
a new window to sue even though the statute of
limitations had expired and so people they had to be
under the age of forty. People started pouring out. I
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really almost seven thousand claims abuse that happened from the
nineteen eighties through the two thousands, and apparently nobody in
government ever stopped it. All the people who served in
La County government, in the bureaucracies, the board of supervisors,
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people in law enforcement, people who ran the juvenile centers,
people who ran the foster care service in La County.
This is so disgusting. They actually buggered seven thousand children,
seven thousand, and there must have been hundreds thousands of
employees who knew you can't keep seven thousand secrets. Nobody cared.
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This is just like all the creepy pedophiles in the
Catholic Church, or the all the weirdos at USC and
UCLA who knew about the guy tocologists that were diddling
the college girls. And then we have an La County
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Chief executive officer now and I don't know how to
pronounce this name, Fesha sounds good to me, Fesha Davenport
and now here in twenty twenty five, she says on
behalf of the county. I apologize wholeheartedly to everyone who
was harmed. But what is the point of a woman
in twenty twenty five who had nothing to do with
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you almost fifty years worth of sexual crimes, but she apologizes.
And that's supposed to mean what?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Nothing? It doesn't mean a thing, But it doesn't change
a thing, obviously.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, symbolic nonsense. How about the people who did the
who committed the sex crimes. Nothing happened to most of them.
They all got away with it. And how about all
the people in the county government in knew about what
is wrong with people in God? This is your government here,
your people, you paid with your tax money sexually assaulted
seven thousand children over the last forty five years. Yeah,
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what do we I always make disparaging remarks about government workers.
How many pedophiles were hired? Where's that story? Who hired
these pedophiles? This settlement is so big that Patrick McNicholas,
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whose law firm is representing twelve hundred of the plaintiffs,
said he was mindful to reach for a settlement number
that would bring some justice to the victims without bankrupting
the county. Even the plaintiffs attorney said, oh, man, we
could bring the whole County of Los Angeles down here.
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We can destroy the government. Like, let's go a little
easy on them. And I'm looking to see who did this.
Some of the employees accused of being the most prolific abusers. Well,
let me back up here. According to the La Times,
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there had been few criminal prosecutions of county employees. The
LA County DA's office received evidence against two staff members,
Thomas Jackson and out of these abnor in December twenty
twenty three. Thomas Jackson resigned that year. He had a
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thirty three year career in which at least twenty women
accused him of sexually abusing them when they were girls.
So we got one guy. Thomas Jackson accused of attacking
twenty different women, and nobody knew you know where them.
You may be wondering where's the money gonna come from?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Taxes?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, you know what they they are?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
They actually we don't pay enough.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Are we gonna have a pedophile tax? Yeah? Yes. Are
they gonna jack up the sales tax another penny or
two to pay for the pedophiles?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Would not surprise me.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Officials say they're gonna drain the rainy day fund. They're
gonna slash budgets. Now, there's probably a lot of slashing
that needs to be done. I mean, this place could
use a dojing, but I wonder they're gonna use it
in his excuse not to provide any services. And they're
gonna have to borrow money, take out bonds. They're gonna
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end up owning hundreds of millions of dollars in interest
on the bonds. We're gonna be paying this off until
the year twenty fifty one. That's insane, long after a
lot of people are dead. We're gonna be paying for
sexual attacks from forty five years ago. Who are the people,
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I guess the people who have sexual desires. You know what,
way more people have sexual desires for children and teenagers
than I ever knew. I had no idea that there
were so, I mean, you always thought of the pedophiles
as being you know, one lone wolf, you know, the
weirdo guy wandering around town in the park. But it
looks like there were hundreds of these people in government.
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I mean, that's that's that's some both and so we
can't get anything. I mean, I mean, I know this
is the city, but look at the city Fire department
right it's it's underfunded by fifty percent. But in La
County we're going to spend four billion dollars on pedophile
activity that everybody knew about all these decades. We got
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more coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at
John Cobelt Radio less than six hundred followers away from
twenty five thousand and a get after two o'clock. We're
gonna have John Manley on, ironically not to talk about
a massive pedophilia case, which usually what we that's what
we have them on for. But he took on the
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case of the Michigan couple, Christy and Paul Akio, who
had a dispute with a Mexican timeshare company, and they
claimed that the timeshare company was was blocking them from
using their timeshare every time that they tried to every
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time they tried to schedule, you know, a week at
the timeshare, they were told they can't. And this went
on so often that they said, well, we're not paying.
And the bill grew to one hundred and seventeen thousand
dollars and the Akios took it to American Express. American
Express sided with them. But then the Achios go to
Mexico on another trip and the company Palace Elite, had
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him arrested and they were thrown into Mexican prison for
a month. So we will talk to John Manley, who
got them out of prison, apparently with Donald Trump's help.
So all that's ahead after two o'clock. I still, I mean,
I just can't get over that first story we did.
I can't believe if you didn't hear, the County of
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Los Angeles taxpayers have to pay four billion dollars because
it turns out all these county employees who worked for
the juvenile detention centers and who also worked in foster
care or I guess these were parents who had taken
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in foster children. They abused almost seven thousand children over
a forty year period, the eighties, the nineties, the two thousands.
I it's just astonishing, and we got to pay four billion,
which the county doesn't have. They're gonna be borrowing money
and they're gonna be paying back the money until the
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year twenty fifty one. And if they must have. I mean,
I'm sure the play of attorneys and I'm sure the
county they know the names of these people, but hardly
anybody's been criminally charged. We should know the names of
these people if we have to pay four billion dollars.
And I'd like to know the names of all the
people who hired this crowd and all the people who
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recruited these foster parents, because there just must have been
hundreds and hundreds untold numbers of county employees who knew
what was going on. A lot of people are dead.
Now that's just astonishing. You should be the La Time
story if you, if you get a chance. It's infuriating.
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It's's gonna be like one of those one day stories.
It's like, oh yeah, y'all owe four billion dollars and
then that's it. You know, by Monday, it's as if
it never happened. You know, we will remind you of
it though every time we're told there's not enough money
for services that are needed here in La County. Now
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knew some is trying, you know. He he believes that
California is its own state, and he is now going
to dip into like diplomatic policy and trade negotiation. Because
Trump has smacked so many countries with these very high tariffs,
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they are now threatening tariffs against America. China already came
through with a thirty four percent tariff, So all that
Chinese junk that people buy could cost you thirty four
percent more. That's gonna that's gonna be increasingly expensive junk.
And Newsom says that California has more to lose because
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we have so much manufacturing, high tech agriculture. Yeah, don't we.
What is the crop that takes up like eleven percent
of our water? Almonds? I remember this? You remember during
the water shortages. Yeah, we found out that almonds consume
eleven percent of our water supply. Yes, and three quarters
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of the almonds go to China. Well, we were being
told to take five minute showers and we can't order
our lawns. It turns out there there's this couple in
Beverly Hills. I forget their name, but they they own
a company that sends enormous amounts of almonds to China.
They make a big profit, and our water supply is
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diminished by eleven percent every year just for the almonds.
And I guess there's gonna be a tax in those
almonds down there, tariff yep, oh, that'd be terrible. Maybe
we'll get our water back, right, they're gonna eat a
fewer almonds in China. Maybe we'll have more water and
we could take a six minute shower the next time
we have a drought.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
How long is your shower? By the way, you.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Know, I actually know that because I'm in such a
tight schedule. Twelve minutes?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Oh wow, yeah, I think I'm five. Really, when I
don't wash my hair.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
And then if you wash your hair, that's probably double right. Yeah, yeah,
now I've been totally hair washing consumes a lot. Well,
I know hair washing consumes a lot of time because
I've sat downstairs waiting. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We digress of the blood.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Drying too, Yes, yeah, uh no, I've That's why I
do a lot of relaxing and thinking. It's like the
only quiet time of my day that I know I have.
I just well, I've got the right to waste water. See,
that's the thing. I'm paying for the water, and I
want to waste it. Why should this couple of Beverly Hills.
It's my water as long as I pay for it. Anyway,
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Newsom says he's going to fight back against Trump's tariffs.
He's going to try to create strategic alliances so that
California made products are not subject to the Chinese tariffs
or any other country's tariffs. So the tariffs will be
on companies outside of California. But he's trying to make
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it so California based companies don't have to be affected.
Can he even do that? Can he undermine a federal
tariff policy? Don't?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Actually, something seems funky about it. He's always announcing that
it's the fifth largest economy in the world, as if
he has something to do with it. We have the
highest poverty rate in the country. Most of the wealth
is tilted, obviously, very very heavily into the tech companies.
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I mean that's California's wealth is in the tech companies,
and it's relatively few companies with a staggering amount of value.
The Neustims had nothing to do with that. What he's
had to do with is a lot of the poverty
and a lot of the struggle for ordinary tax payers
who have to deal with five dollars a gallon gas.
In fact, I was going to check and see if
we had five dollars as an AVERG today.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I got gas today, I paid for eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, although the gas prices should be going down probably
the rest of the country because oil dropped to sixty
dollars a gallon. Oh but that won't sixty dollars a
barrel run.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
It's not going to affect it never does. It won't
affect our gas prices. I think one time it did.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
When we come back, I'm going to get John Manley on.
No it's two o'clock. John Manley's coming on about the
Kio couple in Mexico.
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countries people are listening. We've had three podcast downloads in Syria.
Now who's that who's that guy? Why is he listening?
Say some of these countries I don't trust if we
have to listen. But we got seven in Iran. Uh
oh great, got the iotol all pissed off. You're gonna
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have to start my car. I'm saying I'm eighteen in Cuba.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Better be careful what you say, John, don't bring me
in on those conversations, please.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, you know, all these countries have a steak in
listening because you might be vacationing in any one of
these places. They want to know where you're going. I'm
going to give you.
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I'm gonna give you this. I'm not going to be
going to those places.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
You're not going to guitar. You meet some rich men there.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I am married.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
What about a Retria? A Retrea? I forgot? Where is that?
That's an Africa. That's an Africa.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I don't really have a plan to go there right now.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You probably want to go to Sink Sink to Saint
kits right. Yes, that's beautiful. You got twenty downloads there,
Al Salvador, we got thirty. Oh maybe some of the
prisoners in that supermans on their way up there.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You're not going to be fans of yours, John.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, it could be. It could be some of the
local Maris Latricia gang members and they're hearing us laugh
at them.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I'm not laughing at them.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
We've got fifty one people in Ukraine that trying to
see is Russia listed here, We're probably blocked in. Oh no,
Russia's got fifty five fifty five, five fifty five downloads.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Let's definitely not talk about Russia.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah please. You know, actually remember when we rent to Russia,
you know, not that I'm this international media figure, but
I remember feeling a little nervous because I figured the
KGB probably flags anybody in American media, yeah, not knowing
what it is they do, or what influence they have,
or what their opinions are. And so I was nervous
(21:02):
when I was there, and it was on a cruise ship.
We actually took listeners and one night we got tickets
to the Russian Ballet, which was gorgeous, and the cruise
ship set up like a taxi to pick us up
or you know, a car service, and I remem there
was a black car and then I noticed that there
was no signage on it and the driver didn't have
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you know, a license posted on the dashboard, and he
starts driving us through Moscow, and I thought, I have
no idea where he's going. And outside of the three
kids who we left on the ship with a babysitter,
nobody knows where we are. Like if they decide like
I was a bad guy, right, like a dangerous media
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host from America, they could just drive me and my
wife off to you know, some gulag in Siberia and
nobody would ever hear from me again. And this is
what was going through my mind as I'm sitting in
the back seat. This is not me looking back. While
I was sitting in the car, I'm thinking we could
end up in a deadly present. Yes, I don't know
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this guy. He's got no idea on him. There's no
idea on the car.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Did you ask him? Excuse me, sir, but are you
for real?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I'm not you. And this was before smartphones too, huh, yeah,
this would have been two thousand and six. No, there
was absolutely no way to track us. I think I
had a flip phone, which didn't work anyway in Russia.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well, the good thing is you survived.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I did survive. But I see that and see fifty
five people listening in Russia, I'm thinking, oh they might
they not like I mean, it could be people in
the Kremlin. You don't know. They could be tracking all
kinds of US media. Kamala Harris was in Orange County
this week. Apparently she's not going to go away, and
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in fact, she said that explicitly, I'm not going anywhere.
There was a national conference of Black women, business owners
and politic minitions at an ocean front resort in Dana Point,
and there was one hundred women attending this gathering and
she entered the room and it was a surprise, and
all these women leaped to their feet, whooped, cheered, and
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waved napkins in the air. Wow for Kamala Harrits, they're
whooping and waving napkins in the air. I'm not going
to ask why. And then she started spewing cliches and platitudes.
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Our commitment to lifting each other up, lifting up our community,
lifting up our country has not changed. There's a sense
of fear taking hold in the country, and I understand it.
There are things we're witnessing each day in the last
few months in our country, and it creates a great
sense of fear because you know, there were many things
that we knew would happened, many things things well there's
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a lot of specifics in there. In fact, her speech
was so vague that this La Times writer Sima Mata,
spent a paragraph trying to explain what she the writer,
thought Harris was talking about. Harris didn't mention Trump by dame,
but she was clearly referring to rollbacks of protections for minorities,
women in the LGBT goop plus community, among others. It's
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like she didn't say any of that, but the writer
didn't know what she was talking about. So she offered
a possible explanation in case the reader was wondering, what
the hell does that mean? Well, here's the writer's See.
The writer is supposed to tell you what she said,
but because Harris doesn't say anything, the writer tells you
takes a guess at what she might be referring to. Now,
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another commalist story this week, and it makes you wonder why,
but it would whoop and wave Napkins. That book I mentioned, Well,
there's a couple of books out and this is called
Fight Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, and
the reporters for this book interviewed Harris's senior campaign advisor,
Stephanie Cutter, and We've mentioned this moment many times. When
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she went on the view and when she asked to
name something she would have done differently than Joe Biden,
she said, nothing comes to mind. Well, you know who
smacked herself in the head the campaign. The senior campaign
advisor Stephanie Cutter was floored at her response. What the
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hell was that? Cutter recalled, thinking to herself, that's not
what we practiced. I thought that line was a hoot.
That's not what we practiced. You have to practice and
answer what would you do differently? Makes me want to
whoop and wave a napkin. And one of Harris's people
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said that that clip provided the money shot for Trump's ads.
It was her own bad moment when she gave us
the gift of the view interview, said a Trump advisor.
We were able to anchor her to the Biden administration
in her own words, which is something we were trying
to do anyway. And ahead of her first interview, remember
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I think she went on CNN with Tim Walls, Harris
was prepped by AIDS with a list of items that
she could name that made her proud of her work
with Joe Biden. She needed a list. She was prepped
with a list. Now, most of us, if we were
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suddenly asking what are you most proud of in your career? Right,
or what are you most proud of in your life,
we would be able just to, off the top of
our heads, you know, have a small list, have a
discussion of the things we're most proud of, right, our
own accomplishments. But she they have to give her a script,
all right, if they ask you, what, uh, what what
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you're most proud of your work with Biden? Here's what
you're going to tell them. But when it got to
what would you do differently? She forgot the script. That's
not what we practiced. It's not the answer was not
nothing comes to mind. Yeah, God to help. She runs
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for governor, and you know what, the elector the whole whooping,
napkin waving crowd will elect her like it doesn't matter
how dumb she is. I realize now, if you've if
you've got the uh you've got, if you have certain
attributes and you belong to the right party, you could
be as dumb as a box of rocks, and people
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will whoop and wave napkins. All right, when we come
back off, let me tell you after two o'clock, we
are going to have John Manley, the attorney for the
couple who from Michigan who was thrown in a Mexican
prison after a dispute with a time share company in Mexico.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
We're on from one until four. After two o'clock, we're
going to talk with John Manley, the attorney for Christy
and Paul Ako. They were thrown in a Mexican prison
for a month because they ran a foul of the
Palace Company, which is a time share company, and Palace
Company said the Aquio has offered them owed them one
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hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. The I Kio said, well,
we didn't pay. An American Express backed us up because
they kept canceling our reservations at the time share. They
were in there for a month. They just got out.
John Manley is going to explain how that came to be.
Apparently Trump was involved. Now I mentioned before, I've been
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looking through some software here that tells us about podcast
downloads for our show in various countries, and we have
one hundred and thirty six downloads in the month of
March from Indonesia. Oh are you traveling to Indonesia? I
am okay, here's a tourist warning for you. Really, authorities
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in Bali, Indonesia have a new policy banning menstruating tourists
from entering the temples.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
How did they know? First of all, it doesn't say okay,
So that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
They are concerned that dirty period blood will contaminate their
holy sites.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh my god, I am not making this.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
The governor of the island, Weighan Costor, on March twenty fourth,
said they're going to clamp down on misbehaving tourists overrunning
the country. I'm implementing this as an immediate mesas to
regulate foreign tourists. Under new rules, women would be prohibited
from entering temples in Bali while on their period because
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they fear the menstrual plasma is dirty and would make
the temple become impure. According to stories passed down from
generation to generation, there are negative effects if you are
determined to enter the temple during menstruation. Many women experience
pain and faint well in the temple, and there's also
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reportedly mystical events that can befall menstruating women in temples,
such as possession. I guess possession by the devil. Oh, okay,
I'd go with that. It wasn't just the mentuating women
who were affected. Residents around the temple could be affected
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by natural disasters and diseases prompted by a period. So
a woman has a period and that could cause an earthquake.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Oh my god, are you kidding this?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
This is the Indonesian government. This is you know. If
you're mentioning while on holiday and BALI, don't worry. There
are many other entertainment spots around the temple. You can
watch traditional dance performances. It did not specify how they
plan to check dress appropriately when visiting the temples. Pay
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attention to this or any tourist attractions. Do not enter
sacred temple areas unless you are a worshiper wearing traditional
Bolanese attire, so you better find out what the Bolanese
women wear. And also prohibited are single use plastics like
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plastic bags and straws.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I may have to rethink this.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
You cannot be rude to locals, okay, don't get any
arguments with you know, a clerk.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I can't make any promises.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Okay, no littering.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I don't litter.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
M Bali has a special task force whose job it
is to monitor visitors and punish naughty violators with penalties
ranging from fines to jail time. An Indonesian jail.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Is that worse than a Mexican jail?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
They want you to I don't know. Could we could
hear the story from the Mexican from the couple in
the Mexican jail compared to your story in a few months.
This ensures that Bali's tourism remains respectful, sustainable and in
harmony with our local values. And they're going to be
charging you ten dollars as a tourist just to enter
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the island. Wow, ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Every single place that I want to go to, or
I have gone to, or I'm going to. There's always
something I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You keep pillick picking places where you're likely to be arrested.
I don't The rest of the world world doesn't put
up with the likes of you. I know, you know,
that's that's why you're always in danger, all right, John
Manley coming up next. Christy and paul A Keio were
released from the Mexican prison after they had a dispute
with a Mexican timeshare company one hundred and seventeen thousand
(33:16):
dollars they wouldn't pay because they say the timeshare company
kept canceling their reservations and they appeal to American Express,
and American Express sided with them, but then they went
to Mexico and the Mexican government did not side with them,
so they ended up in prison for a month. John
Manley the attorney next Debor Mark Live CAFI twenty four
(33:36):
hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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could listen later. You could listen this weekend after two
o'clock in about an hour. That couple from Michigan, they
were locked up in a Mexican prison for a month
because they had a dispute with a timeshare company over
a billing. You may have heard about this. They've been
released from prison. We're gonna have John Manley on their attorney,
(00:47):
and it looks like Donald Trump himself got involved, so
we will see what's up with that story. It's fascinating.
They stopped paying their timeshare bill because the timeshare company,
according to them, kept canceling the weeks they reserved, and
the timeshare company, well, the couple went to American Express
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and issued a complaint and American Express sided with them,
and then one day when they traveled to Mexico again,
they had law enforcement waiting outside the plane, took them away,
through them in prison and didn't feed them properly, and
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they were stuck for a month. It was really one
of those TV movie nightmares. So anyway, John Manley's going
to come on after two o'clock. Now, this story just happened,
broke this morning at about nine point thirty. This is
so outrageous. I mean, there's nothing anybody can do about
it now. But when you hear the scope of this story,
(01:52):
you know, nothing we need gets funded. Right. Fire departments
aren't funded. Police and sheriff's departments are not funded. The
schools really suck even though they are funded. They're always claiming,
we don't have money, we don't have money, we don't
have money. Well, the County of Los Angeles is going
(02:14):
to have to find four billion dollars and fast to
settle sit down, to settle seven thousand claims of childhood
sex abuse that occurred inside its juvenile facilities and foster homes.
(02:37):
This is by far the largest sex abuse settlement in
the history of the United States and probably the world.
One of the attorneys involved in the case says he
can't find any other sex abuse settlement anywhere close to
it let alone larger. The Boy Scouts of America had
(03:01):
to pay two and a half billion dollars, the Archdiocese
of La Cardla Mahoney a billion and a half. Those
are the other candidates for largest settlement ever. Victims of
the usc gynecologists George Tyndall a little over a billion.
(03:21):
Michigan State paid five hundred million to victims of the team.
Doctor Larry Nasser. Listen to what I'm saying is you
get grown men who either get into the gynecology field
or they you know, they want to be teachers, they
want to be Scout leaders, they want to be foster parents.
(03:42):
How many? How many of these these creeps became foster
parents just so they could have a free shot at
the boys or girls that they were fostering. Was that
the motivation?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And maybe money?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, you're right, they did. They'd make they'd make some
good money. Yeah. So you get some money and you
get pedophile sex on the side. Seven thousand claims thousands
of women. Well, I should point out that the reason
there's such an avalanche. They passed a law in twenty
(04:22):
twenty in Sacramento that gave victims of childhood sex abuse
a new window to sue even though the statute of
limitations had expired and so people they had to be
under the age of forty. People started pouring out. I
(04:42):
really almost seven thousand claims abuse that happened from the
nineteen eighties through the two thousands, and apparently nobody in
government ever stopped it. All the people who served in
La County government, in the bureaucracies, the board of supervisors,
(05:02):
people in law enforcement, people who ran the juvenile centers,
people who ran the foster care service in La County.
This is so disgusting. They actually buggered seven thousand children,
seven thousand, and there must have been hundreds thousands of
employees who knew you can't keep seven thousand secrets. Nobody cared.
(05:29):
This is just like all the creepy pedophiles in the
Catholic Church, or the all the weirdos at USC and
UCLA who knew about the guy tocologists that were diddling
the college girls. And then we have an La County
(05:50):
Chief executive officer now and I don't know how to
pronounce this name, Fesha sounds good to me, Fesha Davenport
and now here in twenty twenty five, she says on
behalf of the county. I apologize wholeheartedly to everyone who
was harmed. But what is the point of a woman
in twenty twenty five who had nothing to do with
(06:13):
you almost fifty years worth of sexual crimes, but she apologizes.
And that's supposed to mean what?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Nothing? It doesn't mean a thing, But it doesn't change
a thing, obviously.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, symbolic nonsense. How about the people who did the
who committed the sex crimes. Nothing happened to most of them.
They all got away with it. And how about all
the people in the county government in knew about what
is wrong with people in God? This is your government here,
your people, you paid with your tax money sexually assaulted
seven thousand children over the last forty five years. Yeah,
(06:52):
what do we I always make disparaging remarks about government workers.
How many pedophiles were hired? Where's that story? Who hired
these pedophiles? This settlement is so big that Patrick McNicholas,
(07:12):
whose law firm is representing twelve hundred of the plaintiffs,
said he was mindful to reach for a settlement number
that would bring some justice to the victims without bankrupting
the county. Even the plaintiffs attorney said, oh, man, we
could bring the whole County of Los Angeles down here.
(07:32):
We can destroy the government. Like, let's go a little
easy on them. And I'm looking to see who did this.
Some of the employees accused of being the most prolific abusers. Well,
let me back up here. According to the La Times,
(07:53):
there had been few criminal prosecutions of county employees. The
LA County DA's office received evidence against two staff members,
Thomas Jackson and out of these abnor in December twenty
twenty three. Thomas Jackson resigned that year. He had a
(08:18):
thirty three year career in which at least twenty women
accused him of sexually abusing them when they were girls.
So we got one guy. Thomas Jackson accused of attacking
twenty different women, and nobody knew you know where them.
You may be wondering where's the money gonna come from?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Taxes?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, you know what they they are?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
They actually we don't pay enough.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Are we gonna have a pedophile tax? Yeah? Yes. Are
they gonna jack up the sales tax another penny or
two to pay for the pedophiles?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Would not surprise me.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Officials say they're gonna drain the rainy day fund. They're
gonna slash budgets. Now, there's probably a lot of slashing
that needs to be done. I mean, this place could
use a dojing, but I wonder they're gonna use it
in his excuse not to provide any services. And they're
gonna have to borrow money, take out bonds. They're gonna
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end up owning hundreds of millions of dollars in interest
on the bonds. We're gonna be paying this off until
the year twenty fifty one. That's insane, long after a
lot of people are dead. We're gonna be paying for
sexual attacks from forty five years ago. Who are the people,
(09:42):
I guess the people who have sexual desires. You know what,
way more people have sexual desires for children and teenagers
than I ever knew. I had no idea that there
were so, I mean, you always thought of the pedophiles
as being you know, one lone wolf, you know, the
weirdo guy wandering around town in the park. But it
looks like there were hundreds of these people in government.
(10:09):
I mean, that's that's that's some both and so we
can't get anything. I mean, I mean, I know this
is the city, but look at the city Fire department
right it's it's underfunded by fifty percent. But in La
County we're going to spend four billion dollars on pedophile
activity that everybody knew about all these decades. We got
(10:32):
more coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at
John Cobelt Radio less than six hundred followers away from
twenty five thousand and a get after two o'clock. We're
gonna have John Manley on, ironically not to talk about
a massive pedophilia case, which usually what we that's what
we have them on for. But he took on the
(11:01):
case of the Michigan couple, Christy and Paul Akio, who
had a dispute with a Mexican timeshare company, and they
claimed that the timeshare company was was blocking them from
using their timeshare every time that they tried to every
(11:23):
time they tried to schedule, you know, a week at
the timeshare, they were told they can't. And this went
on so often that they said, well, we're not paying.
And the bill grew to one hundred and seventeen thousand
dollars and the Akios took it to American Express. American
Express sided with them. But then the Achios go to
Mexico on another trip and the company Palace Elite, had
(11:49):
him arrested and they were thrown into Mexican prison for
a month. So we will talk to John Manley, who
got them out of prison, apparently with Donald Trump's help.
So all that's ahead after two o'clock. I still, I mean,
I just can't get over that first story we did.
I can't believe if you didn't hear, the County of
(12:13):
Los Angeles taxpayers have to pay four billion dollars because
it turns out all these county employees who worked for
the juvenile detention centers and who also worked in foster
care or I guess these were parents who had taken
(12:33):
in foster children. They abused almost seven thousand children over
a forty year period, the eighties, the nineties, the two thousands.
I it's just astonishing, and we got to pay four billion,
which the county doesn't have. They're gonna be borrowing money
and they're gonna be paying back the money until the
(12:54):
year twenty fifty one. And if they must have. I mean,
I'm sure the play of attorneys and I'm sure the
county they know the names of these people, but hardly
anybody's been criminally charged. We should know the names of
these people if we have to pay four billion dollars.
And I'd like to know the names of all the
people who hired this crowd and all the people who
(13:16):
recruited these foster parents, because there just must have been
hundreds and hundreds untold numbers of county employees who knew
what was going on. A lot of people are dead.
Now that's just astonishing. You should be the La Time
story if you, if you get a chance. It's infuriating.
(13:37):
It's's gonna be like one of those one day stories.
It's like, oh yeah, y'all owe four billion dollars and
then that's it. You know, by Monday, it's as if
it never happened. You know, we will remind you of
it though every time we're told there's not enough money
for services that are needed here in La County. Now
(13:59):
knew some is trying, you know. He he believes that
California is its own state, and he is now going
to dip into like diplomatic policy and trade negotiation. Because
Trump has smacked so many countries with these very high tariffs,
(14:20):
they are now threatening tariffs against America. China already came
through with a thirty four percent tariff, So all that
Chinese junk that people buy could cost you thirty four
percent more. That's gonna that's gonna be increasingly expensive junk.
And Newsom says that California has more to lose because
(14:41):
we have so much manufacturing, high tech agriculture. Yeah, don't we.
What is the crop that takes up like eleven percent
of our water? Almonds? I remember this? You remember during
the water shortages. Yeah, we found out that almonds consume
eleven percent of our water supply. Yes, and three quarters
(15:01):
of the almonds go to China. Well, we were being
told to take five minute showers and we can't order
our lawns. It turns out there there's this couple in
Beverly Hills. I forget their name, but they they own
a company that sends enormous amounts of almonds to China.
They make a big profit, and our water supply is
(15:24):
diminished by eleven percent every year just for the almonds.
And I guess there's gonna be a tax in those
almonds down there, tariff yep, oh, that'd be terrible. Maybe
we'll get our water back, right, they're gonna eat a
fewer almonds in China. Maybe we'll have more water and
we could take a six minute shower the next time
we have a drought.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
How long is your shower? By the way, you.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Know, I actually know that because I'm in such a
tight schedule. Twelve minutes?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Oh wow, yeah, I think I'm five. Really, when I
don't wash my hair.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
And then if you wash your hair, that's probably double right. Yeah, yeah,
now I've been totally hair washing consumes a lot. Well,
I know hair washing consumes a lot of time because
I've sat downstairs waiting. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We digress of the blood.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Drying too, Yes, yeah, uh no, I've That's why I
do a lot of relaxing and thinking. It's like the
only quiet time of my day that I know I have.
I just well, I've got the right to waste water. See,
that's the thing. I'm paying for the water, and I
want to waste it. Why should this couple of Beverly Hills.
It's my water as long as I pay for it. Anyway,
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Newsom says he's going to fight back against Trump's tariffs.
He's going to try to create strategic alliances so that
California made products are not subject to the Chinese tariffs
or any other country's tariffs. So the tariffs will be
on companies outside of California. But he's trying to make
(17:05):
it so California based companies don't have to be affected.
Can he even do that? Can he undermine a federal
tariff policy? Don't?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Actually, something seems funky about it. He's always announcing that
it's the fifth largest economy in the world, as if
he has something to do with it. We have the
highest poverty rate in the country. Most of the wealth
is tilted, obviously, very very heavily into the tech companies.
(17:38):
I mean that's California's wealth is in the tech companies,
and it's relatively few companies with a staggering amount of value.
The Neustims had nothing to do with that. What he's
had to do with is a lot of the poverty
and a lot of the struggle for ordinary tax payers
who have to deal with five dollars a gallon gas.
In fact, I was going to check and see if
we had five dollars as an AVERG today.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I got gas today, I paid for eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, although the gas prices should be going down probably
the rest of the country because oil dropped to sixty
dollars a gallon. Oh but that won't sixty dollars a
barrel run.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
It's not going to affect it never does. It won't
affect our gas prices. I think one time it did.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
When we come back, I'm going to get John Manley on.
No it's two o'clock. John Manley's coming on about the
Kio couple in Mexico.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Six forty run from one until four o'clock and then
after four o'clock John cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart app. And you know, we have millions of downloads
already this year for the show on the iHeart app
the podcast, and Eric has showed me a website where
you could see the breakouts in what the states and
(18:58):
countries people are listening. We've had three podcast downloads in Syria.
Now who's that who's that guy? Why is he listening?
Say some of these countries I don't trust if we
have to listen. But we got seven in Iran. Uh
oh great, got the iotol all pissed off. You're gonna
(19:23):
have to start my car. I'm saying I'm eighteen in Cuba.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Better be careful what you say, John, don't bring me
in on those conversations, please.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, you know, all these countries have a steak in
listening because you might be vacationing in any one of
these places. They want to know where you're going. I'm
going to give you.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I'm gonna give you this. I'm not going to be
going to those places.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
You're not going to guitar. You meet some rich men there.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I am married.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
What about a Retria? A Retrea? I forgot? Where is that?
That's an Africa. That's an Africa.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I don't really have a plan to go there right now.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You probably want to go to Sink Sink to Saint
kits right. Yes, that's beautiful. You got twenty downloads there,
Al Salvador, we got thirty. Oh maybe some of the
prisoners in that supermans on their way up there.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You're not going to be fans of yours, John.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, it could be. It could be some of the
local Maris Latricia gang members and they're hearing us laugh
at them.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I'm not laughing at them.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
We've got fifty one people in Ukraine that trying to
see is Russia listed here, We're probably blocked in. Oh no,
Russia's got fifty five fifty five, five fifty five downloads.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Let's definitely not talk about Russia.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah please. You know, actually remember when we rent to Russia,
you know, not that I'm this international media figure, but
I remember feeling a little nervous because I figured the
KGB probably flags anybody in American media, yeah, not knowing
what it is they do, or what influence they have,
or what their opinions are. And so I was nervous
(21:02):
when I was there, and it was on a cruise ship.
We actually took listeners and one night we got tickets
to the Russian Ballet, which was gorgeous, and the cruise
ship set up like a taxi to pick us up
or you know, a car service, and I remem there
was a black car and then I noticed that there
was no signage on it and the driver didn't have
(21:24):
you know, a license posted on the dashboard, and he
starts driving us through Moscow, and I thought, I have
no idea where he's going. And outside of the three
kids who we left on the ship with a babysitter,
nobody knows where we are. Like if they decide like
I was a bad guy, right, like a dangerous media
(21:46):
host from America, they could just drive me and my
wife off to you know, some gulag in Siberia and
nobody would ever hear from me again. And this is
what was going through my mind as I'm sitting in
the back seat. This is not me looking back. While
I was sitting in the car, I'm thinking we could
end up in a deadly present. Yes, I don't know
(22:07):
this guy. He's got no idea on him. There's no
idea on the car.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Did you ask him? Excuse me, sir, but are you
for real?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I'm not you. And this was before smartphones too, huh, yeah,
this would have been two thousand and six. No, there
was absolutely no way to track us. I think I
had a flip phone, which didn't work anyway in Russia.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well, the good thing is you survived.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I did survive. But I see that and see fifty
five people listening in Russia, I'm thinking, oh they might
they not like I mean, it could be people in
the Kremlin. You don't know. They could be tracking all
kinds of US media. Kamala Harris was in Orange County
this week. Apparently she's not going to go away, and
(22:52):
in fact, she said that explicitly, I'm not going anywhere.
There was a national conference of Black women, business owners
and politic minitions at an ocean front resort in Dana Point,
and there was one hundred women attending this gathering and
she entered the room and it was a surprise, and
all these women leaped to their feet, whooped, cheered, and
(23:15):
waved napkins in the air. Wow for Kamala Harrits, they're
whooping and waving napkins in the air. I'm not going
to ask why. And then she started spewing cliches and platitudes.
(23:38):
Our commitment to lifting each other up, lifting up our community,
lifting up our country has not changed. There's a sense
of fear taking hold in the country, and I understand it.
There are things we're witnessing each day in the last
few months in our country, and it creates a great
sense of fear because you know, there were many things
that we knew would happened, many things things well there's
(24:02):
a lot of specifics in there. In fact, her speech
was so vague that this La Times writer Sima Mata,
spent a paragraph trying to explain what she the writer,
thought Harris was talking about. Harris didn't mention Trump by dame,
but she was clearly referring to rollbacks of protections for minorities,
women in the LGBT goop plus community, among others. It's
(24:22):
like she didn't say any of that, but the writer
didn't know what she was talking about. So she offered
a possible explanation in case the reader was wondering, what
the hell does that mean? Well, here's the writer's See.
The writer is supposed to tell you what she said,
but because Harris doesn't say anything, the writer tells you
takes a guess at what she might be referring to. Now,
(24:46):
another commalist story this week, and it makes you wonder why,
but it would whoop and wave Napkins. That book I mentioned, Well,
there's a couple of books out and this is called
Fight Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, and
the reporters for this book interviewed Harris's senior campaign advisor,
Stephanie Cutter, and We've mentioned this moment many times. When
(25:11):
she went on the view and when she asked to
name something she would have done differently than Joe Biden,
she said, nothing comes to mind. Well, you know who
smacked herself in the head the campaign. The senior campaign
advisor Stephanie Cutter was floored at her response. What the
(25:33):
hell was that? Cutter recalled, thinking to herself, that's not
what we practiced. I thought that line was a hoot.
That's not what we practiced. You have to practice and
answer what would you do differently? Makes me want to
whoop and wave a napkin. And one of Harris's people
(25:57):
said that that clip provided the money shot for Trump's ads.
It was her own bad moment when she gave us
the gift of the view interview, said a Trump advisor.
We were able to anchor her to the Biden administration
in her own words, which is something we were trying
to do anyway. And ahead of her first interview, remember
(26:22):
I think she went on CNN with Tim Walls, Harris
was prepped by AIDS with a list of items that
she could name that made her proud of her work
with Joe Biden. She needed a list. She was prepped
with a list. Now, most of us, if we were
(26:43):
suddenly asking what are you most proud of in your career? Right,
or what are you most proud of in your life,
we would be able just to, off the top of
our heads, you know, have a small list, have a
discussion of the things we're most proud of, right, our
own accomplishments. But she they have to give her a script,
all right, if they ask you, what, uh, what what
(27:05):
you're most proud of your work with Biden? Here's what
you're going to tell them. But when it got to
what would you do differently? She forgot the script. That's
not what we practiced. It's not the answer was not
nothing comes to mind. Yeah, God to help. She runs
(27:26):
for governor, and you know what, the elector the whole whooping,
napkin waving crowd will elect her like it doesn't matter
how dumb she is. I realize now, if you've if
you've got the uh you've got, if you have certain
attributes and you belong to the right party, you could
be as dumb as a box of rocks, and people
(27:48):
will whoop and wave napkins. All right, when we come
back off, let me tell you after two o'clock, we
are going to have John Manley, the attorney for the
couple who from Michigan who was thrown in a Mexican
prison after a dispute with a time share company in Mexico.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
We're on from one until four. After two o'clock, we're
going to talk with John Manley, the attorney for Christy
and Paul Ako. They were thrown in a Mexican prison
for a month because they ran a foul of the
Palace Company, which is a time share company, and Palace
Company said the Aquio has offered them owed them one
(28:34):
hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. The I Kio said, well,
we didn't pay. An American Express backed us up because
they kept canceling our reservations at the time share. They
were in there for a month. They just got out.
John Manley is going to explain how that came to be.
Apparently Trump was involved. Now I mentioned before, I've been
(28:54):
looking through some software here that tells us about podcast
downloads for our show in various countries, and we have
one hundred and thirty six downloads in the month of
March from Indonesia. Oh are you traveling to Indonesia? I
am okay, here's a tourist warning for you. Really, authorities
(29:19):
in Bali, Indonesia have a new policy banning menstruating tourists
from entering the temples.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
How did they know? First of all, it doesn't say okay,
So that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
They are concerned that dirty period blood will contaminate their
holy sites.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh my god, I am not making this.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
The governor of the island, Weighan Costor, on March twenty fourth,
said they're going to clamp down on misbehaving tourists overrunning
the country. I'm implementing this as an immediate mesas to
regulate foreign tourists. Under new rules, women would be prohibited
from entering temples in Bali while on their period because
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they fear the menstrual plasma is dirty and would make
the temple become impure. According to stories passed down from
generation to generation, there are negative effects if you are
determined to enter the temple during menstruation. Many women experience
pain and faint well in the temple, and there's also
(30:30):
reportedly mystical events that can befall menstruating women in temples,
such as possession. I guess possession by the devil. Oh, okay,
I'd go with that. It wasn't just the mentuating women
who were affected. Residents around the temple could be affected
(30:51):
by natural disasters and diseases prompted by a period. So
a woman has a period and that could cause an earthquake.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Oh my god, are you kidding this?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
This is the Indonesian government. This is you know. If
you're mentioning while on holiday and BALI, don't worry. There
are many other entertainment spots around the temple. You can
watch traditional dance performances. It did not specify how they
plan to check dress appropriately when visiting the temples. Pay
(31:23):
attention to this or any tourist attractions. Do not enter
sacred temple areas unless you are a worshiper wearing traditional
Bolanese attire, so you better find out what the Bolanese
women wear. And also prohibited are single use plastics like
(31:45):
plastic bags and straws.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I may have to rethink this.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
You cannot be rude to locals, okay, don't get any
arguments with you know, a clerk.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I can't make any promises.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Okay, no littering.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I don't litter.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
M Bali has a special task force whose job it
is to monitor visitors and punish naughty violators with penalties
ranging from fines to jail time. An Indonesian jail.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Is that worse than a Mexican jail?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
They want you to I don't know. Could we could
hear the story from the Mexican from the couple in
the Mexican jail compared to your story in a few months.
This ensures that Bali's tourism remains respectful, sustainable and in
harmony with our local values. And they're going to be
charging you ten dollars as a tourist just to enter
(32:42):
the island. Wow, ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Every single place that I want to go to, or
I have gone to, or I'm going to. There's always
something I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You keep pillick picking places where you're likely to be arrested.
I don't The rest of the world world doesn't put
up with the likes of you. I know, you know,
that's that's why you're always in danger, all right, John
Manley coming up next. Christy and paul A Keio were
released from the Mexican prison after they had a dispute
with a Mexican timeshare company one hundred and seventeen thousand
(33:16):
dollars they wouldn't pay because they say the timeshare company
kept canceling their reservations and they appeal to American Express,
and American Express sided with them, but then they went
to Mexico and the Mexican government did not side with them,
so they ended up in prison for a month. John
Manley the attorney next Debor Mark Live CAFI twenty four
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