May 8, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (05/08) - John kicks off the hour ridiculing the pomp and circumstance surrounding the new Pope—though he admits he’s planning to dress his dog Leo in a Pope Halloween costume. Then, he takes aim at Mayor Karen Bass (dubbed "Lyin' Karen") for her dishonesty about the empty Pacific Palisades reservoir, which was built specifically for fire protection. John plays audio from Bass’s panel with Fox LA's Elex Michaelson, slamming her excuses and her defense of LADWP head Janisse Quiñones’ outrageous $750K salary. Later, John highlights Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline, playing a telling moment from The View where Jill Biden had to step in mid-answer. And wrapping the hour: a Florida woman vanishes after her canoe is flipped by an alligator.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't find a six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're out every day
from one until four o'clock, and then after four o'clock.
Whatever you missed, you go to the app for John
Cobell Show on demand. That's the podcast, same as the
radio show. Are we done with Pope Mania for the day? No?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right, okay, still it's the top news story.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
But nobody knows who he is? Nobody?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
But what does it matter who the pope is? I'm
just going to tell you all say the same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's going to be my lead story probably for the
rest of it.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
What else? I mean, seriously, what else can I talk about?
It's more important today.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I have a list of things here. Okay, but everything
we're on, everything we're going to do on the show
today is a news story. They did popes.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They they don't know who they are, right, we don't
know the guy's back round.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He takes a fake name.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
All the popes take a fake name, right, suddenly they
have an alias that always find you're going.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
To offend Catholics.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, I grew up Catholic, so I get special protection.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
That.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh my god, why do you think I'm so crazy?
Huh well, yeah I was. You grew up in the
Catholic Church. So anyway, I enjoy yourself a new pope.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Whoop be.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I'll be the one to be talking about that.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
John, Well, you could enjoy pope mania all day longer.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I didn't say I'm enjoying pope media. I'm just saying,
as a newsperson, that's my main story today.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You know, I saw an article in Slate magazine online magazine,
and they actually had a headline like why do cardinals
wear funny hats? It was a whole article about the
different kinds of hats it makes them pick out one
over the other.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Are you going to mention the thing you bought today
on Amazon?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well yeah I should. Huh. Well, yes, the name of
my dog is Leo.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So when I heard it's Pope Leo, Pope Leo the fourteenth, right, yes,
I thought, oh that's funny, and so I looked up
I don't know, I just had this instinct and to
see if there's pope Halloween outfits for dogs, and shockingly
there was on Amazon for twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So I ordered one.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, so I should get it next week and I'll
dress up my Leo. Yes, in the pope outfit.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You'll take a selfie.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yes, I'll send pictures out and so everyone could enjoy it.
But yes, I've never seen a dog in a pope
outfit on Halloween or any other time, but it does exist.
And they had like large and extra large, and medium
and small, extra small. You know, they covered every dog
size there.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Well, somebody that doesn't care very much about the pope
goes and runs out right away and gets his dog
a pope outfit for Halloween.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm just saying I wonder if there's a rabbi outfit.
Oh that's you know what. Probably there is.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And they get the little long beard yeah Yamaica. Yeah,
you can glue onto a All right, Well it's Pope
Leo the fourteenth, and does anybody remember the first thirteen
Pope Leo's no see, there you go.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
He's the first American. He's from Chicago. It's interesting, that's historical.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, I heard he may be the first pope that
was a Cub fan. Yes, all right, well how much
has he prayed for the Cubs over the years? And
you'd have to ask you what did they get? All right?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
They got they got one World series in one hundred years.
You can do all a prayer your want. I don't
know if anybody's listening, but don't get me started. I've
long since fallen out of the faith. I had no faith.
I don't believe in anything. Where is oh?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Alex Michaelson, You know it's the Fox eleven anchor and
he uh presided over a panel at the Milken Institute
Global Conference here in Los Angeles, and it was one
of those panel discussions, and on the panel was Karen Bass.
I don't know who else is on the panel. It's
(04:12):
like they are about a half a dozen people, but
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Only she matters.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And Alex started asking Karen Bass about the fire aftermath,
and Karen Bass is just I'm sorry, and I'm not sorry.
It's just an incredibly stupid, stubborn woman, smug look on
her face the whole time. And she's a liar. I
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just a bald faced liar. She'll do it right on
stage in front of hundreds of people and say something
that is factorally not true and extremely important to this story.
And I'm gonna start with cut number two, and this
is l asking Karen Bass about I guess the reservoir
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and the Pacific Palisades being empty. So play cut two.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
So one of the big issues was the reservoir and
the fact that the reservoir was empty. The reservoir was empty.
It was not a reservoir. What was a reservoir for
drinking water? So it was covered and the problem was
there was a tear in the cover, and so the
state ordered it to be empty and closed, and it
hadn't been finished in time.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
The reservoir was not for drinking water. It can be
used for drinking water, but it's not. The reservoir was
created for fire protection. She lied about that. And we
had an attorney on a few weeks ago who said
that in all the records, in the media coverage, it
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was well known, well documented that the sant Inez Reservoir
in the Palisades was created for fire protection. Specific reason
for it that we'll get into, and he said, after
this whole debacle, suddenly everybody in government said, oh, no,
it was for drinking water.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
They started rewriting the paperwork, rewriting history. So I saw
this clip this morning and I went to the La
Times website. And this is from January twenty second, not
that long ago, but it was two weeks after the fire.
Now play that play that clip clip again, cut number two.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
So one of the big issues was the reservoir and
the fact that the reservoir was empty. The reservoir was empty.
It was not a reservoir. What was a reservoir for
drinking water? So it was covered and the problem was
there was a tear in the cover, and so the
state ordered it to be empty and closed, and it
hadn't been finished in time.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
She was about to say it it wasn't for fire protection,
but she caught herself. She want to go that far,
so she claimed it was for drinking water.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Matt Hamilton and David Zaneiser, Tuesday, January twenty second, I'm sorry.
January twenty second was the day they published this. After
flames leveled nearly five hundred homes in bel Air and
Brentwood in nineteen sixty one, Los Angeles had a reckoning
over firefighting. By nineteen sixty four, city leaders had added
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thirteen fire stations, mapped out fire hydrants, purchased helicopters, and
dispatched more cruise to the Santa Monica Mountains. Here we
go to accommodate growth in Pacific Palisades. They built a
reservoir and sent in as canyon as well as a
pumping station to quote, increase fire protection, as the LA
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Department of Water and Powers then chief water Engineer Gerald W.
Jones told The Times in nineteen seventy two. So you
can go to the La Times archive in nineteen seventy
two and you will see a quote by Errold W. Jones,
the chief water engineer for LADWP, and he said they're
building a reservoir to increase fire protection. Now, let's cut
(08:11):
back to January this year. The Times rites some Palisades
residents had initially fought having a reservoir so close, fearing
a repeat of the nineteen sixty three Baldwin Hills disaster,
when a reservoir failed killed five people and destroyed about
two hundred and eighty homes as the reservoir collapsed the
dam collapsed. In the decades since, the Santienez reservoir has
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become a source of comfort.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I used to say all the time, boy, I know
one thing that will never happen in our place.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I know one thing that will never happen is our place.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Will burned down, says Peggy Holter, who in nineteen seventy
eight purchased a townhouse and Palisades Highlands just a stone's
throw from the reservoir. It was the one thing I
never worried about. But on January seventh, the reservoir that
had long been a life flyne was empty when Palisades
residents needed it most as a wildfire spread rapidly ad
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dangerously high winds.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You know the rest of the story.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So Karen Bass lied, and she has created that to
be the official policy of the city of Los Angeles,
and it's used as a weapon to fight these lawsuits
and a weapon to manipulate the media.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Is completely false. The record is the record.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
They built it because of the nineteen sixty one bel
Air fire, because the response from LA was really bad
then too.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
They had nothing in place.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They didn't have a reservoir, they didn't have the fire hydrants,
they didn't have anything. Well, now we got the reservoir
and the fire hydrants, and we ended up with a
worse outcome because Karen Bass botched the preparation. Kristin Crowley,
the fire chief, watched it and this indestructible Genie Keinonias,
(10:04):
another colossal idiot who is still running the DWP. And
when we come back. Elix Michaelson asked Karen Bass directly
about Denise Kinnonias and her seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year salary. But I I she's now forever
(10:24):
going to be known as Lion Karen Bess because that
that is false. And you know you ought to everybody
in the world on a contactor and say, Karen, stop lying,
just stop it. The reservoir was built for fire protection,
not drinking water. You notice, I mean it was closed
(10:45):
for a year in twenty twenty four. There was no
shortage of drinking water in the Palisades. It's self evident.
If it was used for drinking water, there would have
been some kind of drinking water emergency in the Palisades.
There was no such thing. Because she's lying. It can
be used for drinking water, but with fire season, it
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should have been used for fire protection. And they totally
botched up the repair. They're still botching up the repair.
It's been closed a year and a half. I only
hear all their stupid bureaucratic excuses. It's nonsense. They're incompetent,
they're incompetent, they're stupid, and they're liars. So more of
lying Karen Bass. When we come back.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Lying Karen Bass. She spoke on a panel at the
Milken Institute Global Conference. Alex Michaelson is the Fox eleven anchor,
and he was moderating this discussion. And I'm gonna play
a larger clip now. The first clip was she claimed
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the reservoir and the Palisades was a drinking water reservoir,
and that's why it had to be closed, the cover
to be fixed, and it was constructed to be a
fire protection reservoir. And it doesn't matter if a fire
protection reservoir has dirty water in it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It can be used for drinking.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But clearly they weren't using it for drinking because all
of twenty twenty four when this thing was closed, nobody
ran out of drinking water in the Palisades. So Karen
Bass is blatantly lying. I'm going to play you a
larger clip now that includes the eighteen second snippet that
played a few minutes ago, And this is where Alex
(12:38):
Michaelson asks Karen Bass if she's satisfied with the LEDWP
and the idiot head Janie Kinonias.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Are you satisfied with the performance of the LADWP. There's
been a lot of questions about Janie Cononis, who's making
seven over seven hundred thousand dollars a year. Do you
think that she did a good job and should she
continue in that job?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Well, I certainly would not sit here and say she
shouldn't continue in her job, but.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Stop stop right there.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
She let the reservoir run dry one hundred and seventeen
million gallons and dozens and dozens of fire hydrants maybe
hundreds didn't work. It's La DWP. The W stands for water,
the peace stands for power. The W part she completely
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whiffed on. No water in the reservoir and most of
the fire hydrants robusted, so homes burned, people died. She
wasn't very good on the PEA part either, because she
they should have turned off the power to the electrical
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lines in the Palisades because that night, as we found out,
a I think it's called an H beam, an H pole,
which held up the electrical lines collapsed and brought the
energized lines down on dried vegetation, which caused a second
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massive fire. Apart from the one that happened in the morning,
there was a second one that caused a tremendous amount
of damage. So she is a menace, she's dangerous, she's
an idiot, and she's making seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year. But Karen Bass is not going to
sit there and say that she should lose her job continue.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I certainly would not sit here and say she shouldn't
continue in her job. But the issue with the DWP
actually is the DWP and the Fire Department as well.
So one of the big issues was the reservoir and
the fact that the reservoir was empty. The reservoir was empty,
it was not a reservoir. What was a reservoir for
drinking water. So it was covered and the problem was
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there was a tear in the cover, and so the
state ordered it to be empty and closed and it
hadn't been finished in time. The other issue that overlaps
with the fire department were the fire hydrants, and there
is a lot of evaluation and reporting that we need
to do to.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Fix that as well.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
So the way it is done now is that the
fire department essentially inspects the fire hydrants and then they
give the information over to the DWP, and the DWP
then repairs them. That information was not received and so
that was a problem on the fire department.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
But the issue I would raise is why do we
even do it that way?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
And so I think that we have to take the
lessons from this tragedy to figure out how we strengthen
all of our systems, and most notably the Emergency Management
Department as well as the Fire department, both of those.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You were in charge for two years. Did you never
have a meeting with Kristan Crowley and Janice Q and
you sat down and say, okay, how does this whole
system work? Don't you get isn't there like weekly reports,
monthly reports, or all the fire hydrants in order, or
all the power lines working?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Are the reservoirs filled?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
We have fire season coming, we have a lot of
high dollar homes, a lot of population in these don't
you routinely do this? What is this after the fact, DESI, well,
we have to learn lessons.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Why do you have to learn lessons?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Why does a huge chunk of la have to burn down,
and then you start talking about that. Why didn't you
do your job and prepare for it properly? You weren't
even here, lady. You were on another continent when you
should have been reviewing preparations with Chris Kristen Crowley and
Janice keinon Yez, the three stooges. They never even thought
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to check if the hydrants are working. Nobody even thought
to see in advance, can we keep this reservoir filled?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Of course they could have.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They would not have violated to any law by keeping
one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir full. It wasn't
being used for drinking water, so she's full of it.
She's lying. How can she stay as mayor? How can you,
if you live in Los Angeles keep her as mayor?
And this Genie Kenya is let's play it out a
(17:23):
little cliff uh. This is Alex Michaelson asking Bass about
ken and her salary.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
But you understand how some people see that job performance
maybe not meriting seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that's
more than you make, that's more than Let.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Me let me just say that the DWP is the
nation's largest utility. And if you compare our utility to Omaha, Nebraska,
where the salary was around the same a small town,
I mean in bigtown maybe in Nebraska, but small compared
to Los Angeles. And so to me, I want to
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get the best talent around the nation, and we did
a national search and that's what it took. She took
a significant pay cut to come to work for Los Angele.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Wow y right there. So what was her pay cut?
What was she making? You know, all that's irrelevant.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Significant, but still the.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Last guy that had her job was making the four
hundred thousand dollars range. It doesn't matter what somebody in
Omaha is making. What matters is why do we have
to pay seven to fifty when the last guy did
it in the four hundred. I don't know if the
last guy was competent or not, but that was the
baseline there. And what did we get. We got an
idiot seven hundred. She took a pay cut. Well, whatever
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job she had before, she must have been getting wildly overpaid.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
I guess I'm in the wrong line of work.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
So yeah, I guess we all are not to mention
our bills I mean the DWP and the way that
they bill. I mean, that's a whole another problem. Forget
about the fires, yeah or fire.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Everything is wrong, and Karen Best defends her and defends
her seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. How could she fail
any worse? How could bass fail any worse? Go ahead, Tommy,
somebody tell me what could they do worse? This is
the worst thing that's ever happened to the city since
since it existed, it's been over one hundred and fifty years.
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This is the single worst thing that ever happened. And
she's worth seven hundred and fifty thousands that disuggested said, how.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Is she the best talent from this nationwide search?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Who are the candidates that lost? You gotta do some news.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
We'd like to formally welcome you to the rest home
of Old Joe. Welcome to Bidenville everyone, Oh.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
Betther one were created by going You know that you
know the thing choose my words. Happy birthday, Happy.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Birthday to you.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
I aware since the day he died, every single day
the rosary he got from her lady every time I
hear hell of the chief under where the hell is?
He turned around on where Where's where's the president? There's
some attention paid to some language and the report about
my recollection of events. I was the foot him assume
me the foothills of the Himalays with Shiji Pan. For
(20:31):
Secretary of Health and Educations, ever, I nominated hobbyer Bakaria.
As you know, initially the president of Mexico, CCI did
not want to open up the gate. I got the
one point nine relief so far. Yeah, cryptocracy, the guys
(20:52):
who were the kleptocracy representative Jackie you here? Where's Jackie?
I think she was going to be here. There's been
a response from the opposition, but yes, I'm sorry. From
Mama's Golfs want to mention commerce Debora Ross. Where's Deborah
this year? I just had to my picture take with her.
(21:14):
Oh she couldn't be here.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Actually.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Now, to give you a tour of Bidenville before your
extended stay, here's John Cobalt.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And you never know which tour will be your last.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I uh, you know, I every week or so. There's
another book out about how Fried Brden Biden's brain was
while he was president. Going back to his first day
in office, and increasingly as these books come out and
all the evidence piles up that it was obvious and
well known on the inside that he was senile. You
(21:53):
had these journalists saying, well, I didn't know, I didn't
really notice. I mean, I just don't think it was fair.
I think we did the best. It's like, you guys
are all liars.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You hate Trump, which is fine, but it affected your
news coverage, which is terrible. And you lied about not
realizing that Biden was senile. You're just a bunch of liars,
all right. You're a bunch of shills. There's a guy
the other day I read, Uh he used to be
on CNN. Uh he was a CNN correspondent, Chris Saliza,
(22:23):
And uh what did I read this week? He said that, uh, well, yeah,
we we could have done better. But you know, I
would bring it up with a Biden White House official
and they would shame you. They would, they would, they
would yell at you. And this guy's, you know, in
his fifties. It's like what some political hack yells at
(22:44):
you because you're telling the truth, and you get upset
and you go hide, and then you go and lie
to the public. You lied to all your viewers and
all your readers. What's wrong with you? You did all
these all these journalists should not be all They should
be deported.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
That's what they should do.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Trump should deport all the journalists who lied and covered
up Biden's anility out.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Who needs them? Honestly, who needs them?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And all the politicians and all the TV anchors and
pundits who lied and covered up. It's like out all
of you, not watching you, not listening to you, not
reading you, not paying any attention. I don't care what
you say anymore. I don't care if you're right or wrong.
You're totally thoroughly discretited. You're a phony and a fraud
to fake. But they actually tracked Biden out again, brought
(23:31):
him on the view to be questioned by those cackling hens,
and somebody asked, this is from the view, right, somebody
asked Biden about his cognitive decline. And Jill is sitting
next to him, and that's important. Listen to this cut eight.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
Yeah, mister president. Since you left office, there have been
a number of books that have come out deeply sourced
from democratic sources, that claim in your Finally, there was
a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities in the in
the final year of your presidency. What is your response
to these allegations? Are these sources wrong?
Speaker 9 (24:10):
They are wrong. There's nothing to sustain that number one.
Number two, you know, think of what we were left with.
We left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection,
I started nonsense of civil war. We had a circumstance
where we were in a position that we well, the
(24:34):
pandemic because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end
up over a million people dying, million people dying. We're
also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to
deal with a lot of just basic issues and that
won't going to in interest of time. And so we
(24:54):
went to work and we got it done. And you know,
one of the things.
Speaker 11 (24:59):
That uh, well, well, and as you know, one of
the things I think is.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
That this is Jill.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
The people who wrote those books were not in the
White House with us.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Wait stop a second. So he fades out.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
She tries to rescue him because you know, he kind
of lost his train of thought there, lost track, you know,
and he doesn't want to go through the details in
the interest of time. No, it's in the interest of
he can't remember what all the problems and details were.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So Jill jumps in, continue, well, well, and.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
You know, one of the things I think is that
the people who wrote those books were not in the
White House with us, and they didn't see how hard
Joe worked every single day.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I mean he'd get up.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
Four hours, put in a full day, and then at
night he would I'd be in bed, you know, reading
my book, and he was still on the phone, reading
his briefings, working with staff. I mean, it was NonStop.
It's the White House. Being president is not like a job.
It's a lifestyle. It's a life that you live. You
(26:06):
live at twenty four hours a day. That phone can
ring at eleven o'clock at.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Night or two in the morning. It's constant.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Anyone's answer, he leave it.
Speaker 11 (26:16):
And Joe worked really hard. I think he was a
great president.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
And if you look.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
At yet, hear this. They got this. We're all the
happy seals in the audience.
Speaker 11 (26:26):
If you get things today, give me Joe Biden anytime.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
That's worth the invitation to come to the show.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We'd have twenty five million illegal aliens in here by
now they know they're full of it. Biden knows he
a senile, person knows they're senile, and Jill knows he's senile.
This is all theatrics. You got the view hens there
and they're gonna cackle along and I the audience members,
(27:05):
Holy jeez, they should have their vote taken away. Really, yeah,
they deport that whole audience. My god, you wonder why
things are the way they are. Yeah, they have votes.
Just I just look it like my cognitive decline and
the trails off lost in the woods. There we come back.
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We've got more stuff coming up that's fascinating.
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seven moist eighty six. All right, every day we try
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to stir up debris Phobia's I forgot you didn't sleep
last night?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Again?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, you know I've been fighting I don't know if
it's I don't think it's a cold. It's some kind
of sinus allergy something or other.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
And so so it wasn't a fright night. It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
It was just I wasn't feeling great.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Okay, you wear fearing earthquakes or well, no, I.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Did when I was up. I do always every night.
I think about earthquakes every night, almost every night.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I was in Florida recently, and in fact, my wife
is still there, and we sent you a photo. Yes,
we were sitting at a restaurant had an outdoor deck
over this marshy Lagoon area and it had a beware
of Alligators sign on the fence next to the table.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Then after that, right, because that was a fine example
of why I would never live there, Well.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You'll enjoy this story.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Then this happened near the mouth of the Tiger Creek
as it feeds into Lake Kissing Me just south of Orlando.
This is a report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission, and this involved a couple. The woman sixty
one year old Cynthia Decama of Davenport, Florida. She and
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her husband were canoeing and they were canoeing near the
location where another woman had been bitten on the elbow
back in March by an alligator. Yeah, this woman was
kayaking and she got chomped but survived. Just you know,
I guess lost an elbow wasn't that bad. So they're
(29:35):
in the same area and they're in a canoe and
what happened is and you should know what irritates alligators.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Oh, you know what irritates alligators.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, I'll explain right here. It's the canoe drifted over
on top of the alligator.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
They didn't like that.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
No, they didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
The alligator was startled, like they normally don't come at
you if you're startled, unless you know, they wake up,
and they said, hey, there's a canoe on my back.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I don't like this.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
So the angry alligator started thrashing about, tipped the canoe
over and sent the husband and wife into the water.
And they never found Cynthia again. They trapped the alligator
and they're going to try to figure out if they
(30:26):
got the right one. I guess they're going to have
to open them up and see if Cynthia is inside.
But there's another large alligator nearby that was caught, and
that alligator might have been the one responsible, or maybe
he shared a meal with the first.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
One just because it didn't like to have the canoe
on it.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
They're very touchy.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Wow, they have to eat you. Yeah, they can't. Just
you know, maybe you know, just knock you over a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I would just say, excuse me, mister alligator.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah, sorry, I'm so sorry. Please forgive us. We'll be
on our way.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
No, no, no, they did the big chomp and poor
Cynthia is no longer with us.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
You don't you kayak in those waters?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It's similar? Yeah, yeah, I was thinking of this. I'm
debating whether to send this to my wife or oh
god no, because she's been kayaking.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Yes, then you you should.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well I'm kind of screwed either way. If I said
it to her, she's gonna say, why are you scaring me?
If I don't send it to her, then it's like, well,
well don't you care if I get eaten by an alligator?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Okay, I'll tell you what, John, I'm gonna make the
decision for you.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
But please, you're more in that speech.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yes, send it to.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Her and just say, hey, I'm just doing my due diligence,
because I do.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Care about you. That's how you see doing.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Okay, you have to write these for me. Invariably I
screw up almost.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Do what I said.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Just do what I said, yes, Like I don't hear
that all day. Just do what I said, all right?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
When when we come back, there is there's a lot
of Gavin Newso news. It looks like much of the
state is fed up with Gavin Newsom running for president.
This is actually entertaining most of the states convinced he
is running for president and they think he doesn't give
a rats ass about California anymore. We will tell you
(32:17):
all about it when we come back. Deborah Mark is
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
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Can't find a six forty. You're listening to the John
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Whatever you missed, you go to the app for John
Cobell Show on demand. That's the podcast, same as the
radio show. Are we done with Pope Mania for the day? No?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right, okay, still it's the top news story.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
But nobody knows who he is? Nobody?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
But what does it matter who the pope is? I'm
just going to tell you all say the same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's going to be my lead story probably for the
rest of it.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
What else? I mean, seriously, what else can I talk about?
It's more important today.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I have a list of things here. Okay, but everything
we're on, everything we're going to do on the show
today is a news story. They did popes.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They they don't know who they are, right, we don't
know the guy's back round.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He takes a fake name.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
All the popes take a fake name, right, suddenly they
have an alias that always find you're going.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
To offend Catholics.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, I grew up Catholic, so I get special protection.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
That.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh my god, why do you think I'm so crazy?
Huh well, yeah I was. You grew up in the
Catholic Church. So anyway, I enjoy yourself a new pope.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Whoop be.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I'll be the one to be talking about that.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
John, Well, you could enjoy pope mania all day longer.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I didn't say I'm enjoying pope media. I'm just saying,
as a newsperson, that's my main story today.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You know, I saw an article in Slate magazine online magazine,
and they actually had a headline like why do cardinals
wear funny hats? It was a whole article about the
different kinds of hats it makes them pick out one
over the other.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Are you going to mention the thing you bought today
on Amazon?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well yeah I should. Huh. Well, yes, the name of
my dog is Leo.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So when I heard it's Pope Leo, Pope Leo the fourteenth, right, yes,
I thought, oh that's funny, and so I looked up
I don't know, I just had this instinct and to
see if there's pope Halloween outfits for dogs, and shockingly
there was on Amazon for twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So I ordered one.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, so I should get it next week and I'll
dress up my Leo. Yes, in the pope outfit.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You'll take a selfie.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yes, I'll send pictures out and so everyone could enjoy it.
But yes, I've never seen a dog in a pope
outfit on Halloween or any other time, but it does exist.
And they had like large and extra large, and medium
and small, extra small. You know, they covered every dog
size there.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Well, somebody that doesn't care very much about the pope
goes and runs out right away and gets his dog
a pope outfit for Halloween.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm just saying I wonder if there's a rabbi outfit.
Oh that's you know what. Probably there is.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And they get the little long beard yeah Yamaica. Yeah,
you can glue onto a All right, Well it's Pope
Leo the fourteenth, and does anybody remember the first thirteen
Pope Leo's no see, there you go.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
He's the first American. He's from Chicago. It's interesting, that's historical.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, I heard he may be the first pope that
was a Cub fan. Yes, all right, well how much
has he prayed for the Cubs over the years? And
you'd have to ask you what did they get? All right?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
They got they got one World series in one hundred years.
You can do all a prayer your want. I don't
know if anybody's listening, but don't get me started. I've
long since fallen out of the faith. I had no faith.
I don't believe in anything. Where is oh?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Alex Michaelson, You know it's the Fox eleven anchor and
he uh presided over a panel at the Milken Institute
Global Conference here in Los Angeles, and it was one
of those panel discussions, and on the panel was Karen Bass.
I don't know who else is on the panel. It's
(04:12):
like they are about a half a dozen people, but
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Only she matters.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And Alex started asking Karen Bass about the fire aftermath,
and Karen Bass is just I'm sorry, and I'm not sorry.
It's just an incredibly stupid, stubborn woman, smug look on
her face the whole time. And she's a liar. I
(04:41):
just a bald faced liar. She'll do it right on
stage in front of hundreds of people and say something
that is factorally not true and extremely important to this story.
And I'm gonna start with cut number two, and this
is l asking Karen Bass about I guess the reservoir
(05:06):
and the Pacific Palisades being empty. So play cut two.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
So one of the big issues was the reservoir and
the fact that the reservoir was empty. The reservoir was empty.
It was not a reservoir. What was a reservoir for
drinking water? So it was covered and the problem was
there was a tear in the cover, and so the
state ordered it to be empty and closed, and it
hadn't been finished in time.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
The reservoir was not for drinking water. It can be
used for drinking water, but it's not. The reservoir was
created for fire protection. She lied about that. And we
had an attorney on a few weeks ago who said
that in all the records, in the media coverage, it
(05:50):
was well known, well documented that the sant Inez Reservoir
in the Palisades was created for fire protection. Specific reason
for it that we'll get into, and he said, after
this whole debacle, suddenly everybody in government said, oh, no,
it was for drinking water.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
They started rewriting the paperwork, rewriting history. So I saw
this clip this morning and I went to the La
Times website. And this is from January twenty second, not
that long ago, but it was two weeks after the fire.
Now play that play that clip clip again, cut number two.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
So one of the big issues was the reservoir and
the fact that the reservoir was empty. The reservoir was empty.
It was not a reservoir. What was a reservoir for
drinking water? So it was covered and the problem was
there was a tear in the cover, and so the
state ordered it to be empty and closed, and it
hadn't been finished in time.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
She was about to say it it wasn't for fire protection,
but she caught herself. She want to go that far,
so she claimed it was for drinking water.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Matt Hamilton and David Zaneiser, Tuesday, January twenty second, I'm sorry.
January twenty second was the day they published this. After
flames leveled nearly five hundred homes in bel Air and
Brentwood in nineteen sixty one, Los Angeles had a reckoning
over firefighting. By nineteen sixty four, city leaders had added
(07:22):
thirteen fire stations, mapped out fire hydrants, purchased helicopters, and
dispatched more cruise to the Santa Monica Mountains. Here we
go to accommodate growth in Pacific Palisades. They built a
reservoir and sent in as canyon as well as a
pumping station to quote, increase fire protection, as the LA
(07:46):
Department of Water and Powers then chief water Engineer Gerald W.
Jones told The Times in nineteen seventy two. So you
can go to the La Times archive in nineteen seventy
two and you will see a quote by Errold W. Jones,
the chief water engineer for LADWP, and he said they're
building a reservoir to increase fire protection. Now, let's cut
(08:11):
back to January this year. The Times rites some Palisades
residents had initially fought having a reservoir so close, fearing
a repeat of the nineteen sixty three Baldwin Hills disaster,
when a reservoir failed killed five people and destroyed about
two hundred and eighty homes as the reservoir collapsed the
dam collapsed. In the decades since, the Santienez reservoir has
(08:34):
become a source of comfort.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I used to say all the time, boy, I know
one thing that will never happen in our place.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I know one thing that will never happen is our place.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Will burned down, says Peggy Holter, who in nineteen seventy
eight purchased a townhouse and Palisades Highlands just a stone's
throw from the reservoir. It was the one thing I
never worried about. But on January seventh, the reservoir that
had long been a life flyne was empty when Palisades
residents needed it most as a wildfire spread rapidly ad
(09:07):
dangerously high winds.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You know the rest of the story.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So Karen Bass lied, and she has created that to
be the official policy of the city of Los Angeles,
and it's used as a weapon to fight these lawsuits
and a weapon to manipulate the media.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Is completely false. The record is the record.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
They built it because of the nineteen sixty one bel
Air fire, because the response from LA was really bad
then too.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
They had nothing in place.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They didn't have a reservoir, they didn't have the fire hydrants,
they didn't have anything. Well, now we got the reservoir
and the fire hydrants, and we ended up with a
worse outcome because Karen Bass botched the preparation. Kristin Crowley,
the fire chief, watched it and this indestructible Genie Keinonias,
(10:04):
another colossal idiot who is still running the DWP. And
when we come back. Elix Michaelson asked Karen Bass directly
about Denise Kinnonias and her seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year salary. But I I she's now forever
(10:24):
going to be known as Lion Karen Bess because that
that is false. And you know you ought to everybody
in the world on a contactor and say, Karen, stop lying,
just stop it. The reservoir was built for fire protection,
not drinking water. You notice, I mean it was closed
(10:45):
for a year in twenty twenty four. There was no
shortage of drinking water in the Palisades. It's self evident.
If it was used for drinking water, there would have
been some kind of drinking water emergency in the Palisades.
There was no such thing. Because she's lying. It can
be used for drinking water, but with fire season, it
(11:07):
should have been used for fire protection. And they totally
botched up the repair. They're still botching up the repair.
It's been closed a year and a half. I only
hear all their stupid bureaucratic excuses. It's nonsense. They're incompetent,
they're incompetent, they're stupid, and they're liars. So more of
lying Karen Bass. When we come back.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Lying Karen Bass. She spoke on a panel at the
Milken Institute Global Conference. Alex Michaelson is the Fox eleven anchor,
and he was moderating this discussion. And I'm gonna play
a larger clip now. The first clip was she claimed
(11:53):
the reservoir and the Palisades was a drinking water reservoir,
and that's why it had to be closed, the cover
to be fixed, and it was constructed to be a
fire protection reservoir. And it doesn't matter if a fire
protection reservoir has dirty water in it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It can be used for drinking.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But clearly they weren't using it for drinking because all
of twenty twenty four when this thing was closed, nobody
ran out of drinking water in the Palisades. So Karen
Bass is blatantly lying. I'm going to play you a
larger clip now that includes the eighteen second snippet that
played a few minutes ago, And this is where Alex
(12:38):
Michaelson asks Karen Bass if she's satisfied with the LEDWP
and the idiot head Janie Kinonias.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Are you satisfied with the performance of the LADWP. There's
been a lot of questions about Janie Cononis, who's making
seven over seven hundred thousand dollars a year. Do you
think that she did a good job and should she
continue in that job?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Well, I certainly would not sit here and say she
shouldn't continue in her job, but.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Stop stop right there.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
She let the reservoir run dry one hundred and seventeen
million gallons and dozens and dozens of fire hydrants maybe
hundreds didn't work. It's La DWP. The W stands for water,
the peace stands for power. The W part she completely
(13:31):
whiffed on. No water in the reservoir and most of
the fire hydrants robusted, so homes burned, people died. She
wasn't very good on the PEA part either, because she
they should have turned off the power to the electrical
(13:52):
lines in the Palisades because that night, as we found out,
a I think it's called an H beam, an H pole,
which held up the electrical lines collapsed and brought the
energized lines down on dried vegetation, which caused a second
(14:14):
massive fire. Apart from the one that happened in the morning,
there was a second one that caused a tremendous amount
of damage. So she is a menace, she's dangerous, she's
an idiot, and she's making seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year. But Karen Bass is not going to
sit there and say that she should lose her job continue.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I certainly would not sit here and say she shouldn't
continue in her job. But the issue with the DWP
actually is the DWP and the Fire Department as well.
So one of the big issues was the reservoir and
the fact that the reservoir was empty. The reservoir was empty,
it was not a reservoir. What was a reservoir for
drinking water. So it was covered and the problem was
(14:57):
there was a tear in the cover, and so the
state ordered it to be empty and closed and it
hadn't been finished in time. The other issue that overlaps
with the fire department were the fire hydrants, and there
is a lot of evaluation and reporting that we need
to do to.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Fix that as well.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
So the way it is done now is that the
fire department essentially inspects the fire hydrants and then they
give the information over to the DWP, and the DWP
then repairs them. That information was not received and so
that was a problem on the fire department.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
But the issue I would raise is why do we
even do it that way?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
And so I think that we have to take the
lessons from this tragedy to figure out how we strengthen
all of our systems, and most notably the Emergency Management
Department as well as the Fire department, both of those.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You were in charge for two years. Did you never
have a meeting with Kristan Crowley and Janice Q and
you sat down and say, okay, how does this whole
system work? Don't you get isn't there like weekly reports,
monthly reports, or all the fire hydrants in order, or
all the power lines working?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Are the reservoirs filled?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
We have fire season coming, we have a lot of
high dollar homes, a lot of population in these don't
you routinely do this? What is this after the fact, DESI, well,
we have to learn lessons.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Why do you have to learn lessons?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Why does a huge chunk of la have to burn down,
and then you start talking about that. Why didn't you
do your job and prepare for it properly? You weren't
even here, lady. You were on another continent when you
should have been reviewing preparations with Chris Kristen Crowley and
Janice keinon Yez, the three stooges. They never even thought
(16:48):
to check if the hydrants are working. Nobody even thought
to see in advance, can we keep this reservoir filled?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Of course they could have.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They would not have violated to any law by keeping
one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir full. It wasn't
being used for drinking water, so she's full of it.
She's lying. How can she stay as mayor? How can you,
if you live in Los Angeles keep her as mayor?
And this Genie Kenya is let's play it out a
(17:23):
little cliff uh. This is Alex Michaelson asking Bass about
ken and her salary.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
But you understand how some people see that job performance
maybe not meriting seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that's
more than you make, that's more than Let.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Me let me just say that the DWP is the
nation's largest utility. And if you compare our utility to Omaha, Nebraska,
where the salary was around the same a small town,
I mean in bigtown maybe in Nebraska, but small compared
to Los Angeles. And so to me, I want to
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get the best talent around the nation, and we did
a national search and that's what it took. She took
a significant pay cut to come to work for Los Angele.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Wow y right there. So what was her pay cut?
What was she making? You know, all that's irrelevant.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Significant, but still the.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Last guy that had her job was making the four
hundred thousand dollars range. It doesn't matter what somebody in
Omaha is making. What matters is why do we have
to pay seven to fifty when the last guy did
it in the four hundred. I don't know if the
last guy was competent or not, but that was the
baseline there. And what did we get. We got an
idiot seven hundred. She took a pay cut. Well, whatever
(18:44):
job she had before, she must have been getting wildly overpaid.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
I guess I'm in the wrong line of work.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
So yeah, I guess we all are not to mention
our bills I mean the DWP and the way that
they bill. I mean, that's a whole another problem. Forget
about the fires, yeah or fire.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Everything is wrong, and Karen Best defends her and defends
her seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. How could she fail
any worse? How could bass fail any worse? Go ahead, Tommy,
somebody tell me what could they do worse? This is
the worst thing that's ever happened to the city since
since it existed, it's been over one hundred and fifty years.
(19:25):
This is the single worst thing that ever happened. And
she's worth seven hundred and fifty thousands that disuggested said, how.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Is she the best talent from this nationwide search?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Who are the candidates that lost? You gotta do some news.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
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Speaker 5 (19:50):
We'd like to formally welcome you to the rest home
of Old Joe. Welcome to Bidenville everyone, Oh.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
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Birthday to you.
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I aware since the day he died, every single day
the rosary he got from her lady every time I
hear hell of the chief under where the hell is?
He turned around on where Where's where's the president? There's
some attention paid to some language and the report about
my recollection of events. I was the foot him assume
me the foothills of the Himalays with Shiji Pan. For
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Secretary of Health and Educations, ever, I nominated hobbyer Bakaria.
As you know, initially the president of Mexico, CCI did
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who were the kleptocracy representative Jackie you here? Where's Jackie?
I think she was going to be here. There's been
a response from the opposition, but yes, I'm sorry. From
Mama's Golfs want to mention commerce Debora Ross. Where's Deborah
this year? I just had to my picture take with her.
(21:14):
Oh she couldn't be here.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Actually.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Now, to give you a tour of Bidenville before your
extended stay, here's John Cobalt.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
And you never know which tour will be your last.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I uh, you know, I every week or so. There's
another book out about how Fried Brden Biden's brain was
while he was president. Going back to his first day
in office, and increasingly as these books come out and
all the evidence piles up that it was obvious and
well known on the inside that he was senile. You
(21:53):
had these journalists saying, well, I didn't know, I didn't
really notice. I mean, I just don't think it was fair.
I think we did the best. It's like, you guys
are all liars.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You hate Trump, which is fine, but it affected your
news coverage, which is terrible. And you lied about not
realizing that Biden was senile. You're just a bunch of liars,
all right. You're a bunch of shills. There's a guy
the other day I read, Uh he used to be
on CNN. Uh he was a CNN correspondent, Chris Saliza,
(22:23):
And uh what did I read this week? He said that, uh, well, yeah,
we we could have done better. But you know, I
would bring it up with a Biden White House official
and they would shame you. They would, they would, they
would yell at you. And this guy's, you know, in
his fifties. It's like what some political hack yells at
(22:44):
you because you're telling the truth, and you get upset
and you go hide, and then you go and lie
to the public. You lied to all your viewers and
all your readers. What's wrong with you? You did all
these all these journalists should not be all They should
be deported.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
That's what they should do.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Trump should deport all the journalists who lied and covered
up Biden's anility out.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Who needs them? Honestly, who needs them?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And all the politicians and all the TV anchors and
pundits who lied and covered up. It's like out all
of you, not watching you, not listening to you, not
reading you, not paying any attention. I don't care what
you say anymore. I don't care if you're right or wrong.
You're totally thoroughly discretited. You're a phony and a fraud
to fake. But they actually tracked Biden out again, brought
(23:31):
him on the view to be questioned by those cackling hens,
and somebody asked, this is from the view, right, somebody
asked Biden about his cognitive decline. And Jill is sitting
next to him, and that's important. Listen to this cut eight.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
Yeah, mister president. Since you left office, there have been
a number of books that have come out deeply sourced
from democratic sources, that claim in your Finally, there was
a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities in the in
the final year of your presidency. What is your response
to these allegations? Are these sources wrong?
Speaker 9 (24:10):
They are wrong. There's nothing to sustain that number one.
Number two, you know, think of what we were left with.
We left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection,
I started nonsense of civil war. We had a circumstance
where we were in a position that we well, the
(24:34):
pandemic because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end
up over a million people dying, million people dying. We're
also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to
deal with a lot of just basic issues and that
won't going to in interest of time. And so we
(24:54):
went to work and we got it done. And you know,
one of the things.
Speaker 11 (24:59):
That uh, well, well, and as you know, one of
the things I think is.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
That this is Jill.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
The people who wrote those books were not in the
White House with us.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Wait stop a second. So he fades out.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
She tries to rescue him because you know, he kind
of lost his train of thought there, lost track, you know,
and he doesn't want to go through the details in
the interest of time. No, it's in the interest of
he can't remember what all the problems and details were.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So Jill jumps in, continue, well, well, and.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
You know, one of the things I think is that
the people who wrote those books were not in the
White House with us, and they didn't see how hard
Joe worked every single day.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I mean he'd get up.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
Four hours, put in a full day, and then at
night he would I'd be in bed, you know, reading
my book, and he was still on the phone, reading
his briefings, working with staff. I mean, it was NonStop.
It's the White House. Being president is not like a job.
It's a lifestyle. It's a life that you live. You
(26:06):
live at twenty four hours a day. That phone can
ring at eleven o'clock at.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Night or two in the morning. It's constant.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Anyone's answer, he leave it.
Speaker 11 (26:16):
And Joe worked really hard. I think he was a
great president.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
And if you look.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
At yet, hear this. They got this. We're all the
happy seals in the audience.
Speaker 11 (26:26):
If you get things today, give me Joe Biden anytime.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
That's worth the invitation to come to the show.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We'd have twenty five million illegal aliens in here by
now they know they're full of it. Biden knows he
a senile, person knows they're senile, and Jill knows he's senile.
This is all theatrics. You got the view hens there
and they're gonna cackle along and I the audience members,
(27:05):
Holy jeez, they should have their vote taken away. Really, yeah,
they deport that whole audience. My god, you wonder why
things are the way they are. Yeah, they have votes.
Just I just look it like my cognitive decline and
the trails off lost in the woods. There we come back.
(27:30):
We've got more stuff coming up that's fascinating.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
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Speaker 1 (27:38):
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(27:59):
to stir up debris Phobia's I forgot you didn't sleep
last night?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Again?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, you know I've been fighting I don't know if
it's I don't think it's a cold. It's some kind
of sinus allergy something or other.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
And so so it wasn't a fright night. It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
It was just I wasn't feeling great.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Okay, you wear fearing earthquakes or well, no, I.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Did when I was up. I do always every night.
I think about earthquakes every night, almost every night.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I was in Florida recently, and in fact, my wife
is still there, and we sent you a photo. Yes,
we were sitting at a restaurant had an outdoor deck
over this marshy Lagoon area and it had a beware
of Alligators sign on the fence next to the table.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Then after that, right, because that was a fine example
of why I would never live there, Well.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You'll enjoy this story.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Then this happened near the mouth of the Tiger Creek
as it feeds into Lake Kissing Me just south of Orlando.
This is a report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission, and this involved a couple. The woman sixty
one year old Cynthia Decama of Davenport, Florida. She and
(29:13):
her husband were canoeing and they were canoeing near the
location where another woman had been bitten on the elbow
back in March by an alligator. Yeah, this woman was
kayaking and she got chomped but survived. Just you know,
I guess lost an elbow wasn't that bad. So they're
(29:35):
in the same area and they're in a canoe and
what happened is and you should know what irritates alligators.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Oh, you know what irritates alligators.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, I'll explain right here. It's the canoe drifted over
on top of the alligator.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
They didn't like that.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
No, they didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
The alligator was startled, like they normally don't come at
you if you're startled, unless you know, they wake up,
and they said, hey, there's a canoe on my back.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I don't like this.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
So the angry alligator started thrashing about, tipped the canoe
over and sent the husband and wife into the water.
And they never found Cynthia again. They trapped the alligator
and they're going to try to figure out if they
(30:26):
got the right one. I guess they're going to have
to open them up and see if Cynthia is inside.
But there's another large alligator nearby that was caught, and
that alligator might have been the one responsible, or maybe
he shared a meal with the first.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
One just because it didn't like to have the canoe
on it.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
They're very touchy.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Wow, they have to eat you. Yeah, they can't. Just
you know, maybe you know, just knock you over a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I would just say, excuse me, mister alligator.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah, sorry, I'm so sorry. Please forgive us. We'll be
on our way.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
No, no, no, they did the big chomp and poor
Cynthia is no longer with us.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
You don't you kayak in those waters?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It's similar? Yeah, yeah, I was thinking of this. I'm
debating whether to send this to my wife or oh
god no, because she's been kayaking.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Yes, then you you should.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well I'm kind of screwed either way. If I said
it to her, she's gonna say, why are you scaring me?
If I don't send it to her, then it's like, well,
well don't you care if I get eaten by an alligator?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Okay, I'll tell you what, John, I'm gonna make the
decision for you.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
But please, you're more in that speech.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yes, send it to.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Her and just say, hey, I'm just doing my due diligence,
because I do.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Care about you. That's how you see doing.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Okay, you have to write these for me. Invariably I
screw up almost.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Do what I said.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Just do what I said, yes, Like I don't hear
that all day. Just do what I said, all right?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
When when we come back, there is there's a lot
of Gavin Newso news. It looks like much of the
state is fed up with Gavin Newsom running for president.
This is actually entertaining most of the states convinced he
is running for president and they think he doesn't give
a rats ass about California anymore. We will tell you
(32:17):
all about it when we come back. Deborah Mark is
live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've
been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can
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