December 3, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (12/03) - Royal Oaks comes on the show to talk about the Venezuelan drug boats being targeted by the Trump Administration and a family claiming that the Trump Administration committed murder during one of the strikes. Pres. Trump had automotive executives in the White House to talk about rolling back fuel emissions standards to make cars cheaper. Update on gas prices around the country and another Waymo issue. LA City Council delayed a decision to waive rebuilding fees for Palisades Fire victims.
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All right, Let's go to Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analyst.
You know, probably about the Venezuelan drug boats, the cocaine boats.
Ships really that been uh exploded by the Trump administration
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and the Secretary of War Pete hegsas. Uh. It looks
maybe like a fisherman's boat got caught up, and the
family of a Colombian fisherman, uh, they are complaining to
the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, saying that the
US government illegally killed him, that they murdered him. The
fisherman's family is upset. Let's talk to Royal Oaks, see
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what this is all about.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Royal Yeah, John, In the context of courses, in the last
couple of months, been a lot of these attacks. Eighty
three people have died from twenty one strikes on vessels
in the last couple of months, and you know, people
are saying, you know, the government's out of control, but
in this case, the one that you mentioned. It has
to do with a man named Alejandro Carnza. The family
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says he was just a fisherman, but floating next to
the boat after he was killed officials on cocaine and sentinel.
So that suggests that maybe the boat was up to
some drug smugglings.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh, he might have been a freelancer.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, who knows. You can't necessarily assume. Maybe he was
just as fishermen, but the other guys are there. Bottom
line is that people are saying that Pete Heggsath running
the war Department Donald Trump, They're not being very careful
about this guilty of war crimes. There was this other
example you'll recall, where there was a first strike and
then a little later there was a second strike, and
the survivors of the first were basically dog peddling in
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the water and they were killed. And so Pete Hegseth
just today at a press conference saying, hey, you know,
I authorized the first strike and then I'm a busy guy.
I went on to other things, and I'm sure the
admiral did the right thing on the second strike that
I wasn't there. So it's getting a little messy. But
bottom line is Human Rights Commission is looking into him.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, the best of your knowledge. What's the rules on this,
because obviously there's people taking political sides, and so I
don't know if they're telling the truth, if they're being accurate,
or they're just trying to make a point to whip
up their base. Right. But Canada president, on his own command,
strikes repeatedly against these Venezuelan drug boats. I have no
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doubt that they're drug boats. What are the limitations of
this according to the law? Are there any limitations?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, the President has a perfect right to do this.
First of all, there's a UN agreement that we're a
Party two that says in international waters, some countries are
allowed legally if they have reason to believe that illegal
stuff is going on in the boat, drugs or whatever,
they may stop it, board it and take the people
into custody. In addition, there's a congressional statute that says
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essentially the same thing. So it's okay. A lot of
people think, you know, what is Trump doing? You know,
I'm floating on the high seas. We do have a
legal right to be out on the high seas international waters.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And you can blow them.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Question becomes, yeah, that's the problem. You can't blow them up.
You can't kill people who may be innocent. You can
board and if they fight back, you can fight them.
And so you know, arguably these eighty three deaths may
all be legal and justified from the twenty one strikes
over the last couple of months, but you know it's
going to take decades to sort that out. You know,
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you have it and throw yourself fel in the water
where the pictures blah blah blah. So and this human
rights commission that the fishermen's family went to, they are truthless.
It's for accountability and transparency, but they can't find anybody.
They can't incarcerate anybody if they say, oh, Donald Trump
violated somebody's human rights. So it's really just pr value. Now,
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if you do something horrible and the grecious, and you're
killing people that are just you know, dog paddling in
the water, then they're going to be consequences. Now, the
rules there are the rules limiting lawsuits against the president
and the federal government, so there may not be a
lot of relief, but certainly if the evidence is crystal
clear that there was illegal cruel, inhumane stuff going on,
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then the US is going to pay a pr price
if nothing else.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, you always hear people shouting about war crimes, not
only in the recognized wars, but the unrecognized wars, and
then all the side battles that we get involved with
every administration. I think Obama had like six battles going
on all at once. And you always hear shouts of
war crimes. But I can't remember anybody getting prosecuted, either
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US or anybody else. It just seems it's a lot
of shouting by activists.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Oh, you're right, it's just people getting up on their soapbox.
And part of it, of course, is the fact that,
as you know, although we did have a declaration of
war by Congress as we're supposed to do, and after
Pearl Harbor, we haven't had a single declersion of war since,
in spite of Korea and Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq
and everything else. And so in that sense, I mean,
for example, when Trump goes out on the high seas,
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is that really a war? Well, he might say it's
a war on drugs. I'm told the suffering inflicted on
American people because the fentanyl and song being spuggled in.
It's not really a war and so probably a war
crime situation doesn't apply to this deal.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I see. And so nobody's going to be able to
prove exactly what this fisherman was up to, whether he
was fishing to feed his family or he might have
been running a side business carrying drugs.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Right, you're going to interview everybody. You're going to look
at all the pictures and all the surveillance, You're gonna
look at the backgrounds of the people involved, and you're
going to look at the fentanol and the cocaine floating
in the water and come to a conclusion. But that's
going to take years, just like any lawsuit would, So
it's not gonna lead you.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't think the average person cares of Venezuelan drug
boats are getting blown up. I see there's outrage more
certain politicians, but the guy guy in the street probably
figures this is good policy.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Well, you're right, because we everybody in America probably either
has been touched personally or somebody in their close family
or extended family friends the scourge of you know, fence
and all overdoses and drugs in general so you're right.
I don't think we were gonna feel too sorry for
fishermen who may be innocent when we know this is
just a constant Narco flow of drugs from the South
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into the United States.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
All right, Royal Oaks, thank you for coming on. You bet, thanks,
Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst. You know, I don't
know how dumb some of these, these these pilots are
who are driving the the the drug boats out Venezuela.
That after you've seen you know, I don't know ten
of them get blown up, maybe you're not going out
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there anymore. Maybe it's like, you know what, I'm getting
into another line of work. This doesn't seem to be fun.
I mean, I mean, when you're the eleventh boat to
get blown up, it's hard to have much sympathy. It's like, jeez,
do you read the news. You get the news in Venezuela.
What's going on when we come back. Oh my god,
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what a bunch of ninnies. The LA County supervisors they're
banning ice agents from wearing masks. They can't, they know
they can't. They do it anyway, we'll talk about it
when we come back.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I made a mistake. Michael Monks is coming in to
talk about the LA County supervisors. Yeah, and the ice
agents wearing masks at three o'clock. So I inadvertently said
that was coming up next. It's not coming up next,
but it's coming up. No, No, we'll get to it
with Michael. I have other news that I wanted to
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talk about, UH and this just this just broke at
about two o'clock. UH. Trump had UH four executives from
the major automakers in the Oval Office, and he announced
that the Transportation Department is going to significantly weaken the
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fuel efficiency standards for tens of millions of new cars
and light trucks. This means that cars will become much
less expensive because they won't have all these emissions control
requirements anymore. And it's not going to get the mileage
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isn't going to be as high. But you also are
aren't going to have you know, all the well, I'll
tell you what I hope disappears from cars because if
I find out if he really does this, right, I
guess it's all regulatory stuff. You know. I can't stand
on my car. The most is that automatic start stop
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mechanism that when you come to a traffic light, you
come to a stop and then the engine turns off.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You I think that you can do something to stop that.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You can turn Yes, you can, you can turn that
mechanism off off, so the car stops turning itself off.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
So why don't you do that?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, here's what bugs me and I get this a
lot with rental cars. It's like a game. Every car
model has a different way to turn it off, and
it's hard to figure out, like it might be buried
on one of the many screens on your dashboard. So
you have to go through all the different screens and
the different settings and find it. And you have to
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do it every time you start.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Oh it doesn't just no, no, I have.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
A rental right now because my car is getting is
getting fixed for something stupid. All right, there's an example.
I really really I keep telling this to my wife.
I am this close to going back and buying like
a nineteen seventy three Pontiac Catalina, which I had once.
I had two of them.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Actually, I've never even heard of that car.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Big boat of a car got eight miles to the gallon.
But man, I could fit a lot of people in it,
and I could go on a cross country trip in
it and fill up the back seat and fill up
the trunk. I could have another family living in the thing.
I had a blue one that I bought from my dad,
and I bought I had a brown one from this
girl I knew her dad was selling it. And so
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I had two of these things, which lasted me a
couple of years, because they'd only last about a year
and then they'd blow up. Nothing better than old American
cars for me. They would They would fall apart quickly.
But man, this thing was so big and it looked
so cool. I love the way cars used to look.
And all all these emissions requirements caused car designers to well,
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they couldn't be creative anymore. And how they designed cars
for aerodynamic reasons in order to get more and more mileage.
The government kept dimandling more mileage, so they kept blanding
out the car design. So to me, to my eyes,
all cars look alike. To me, all the cars, I
don't care what model is. A luxury car could be
a cheap o car. Everything looks the same. And I
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love the distinctiveness of cars from like really before I
was born. I loved the way fifties cars look sixties cars,
and I used to dry. I probably drove about ten
junk cars, all from the sixties and seventies. I'd buy
them from my parents or my friend's parents or whoever
my friends and I'd buy for fifty dollars or one
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hundred dollars I think five hundred dollars. I would max
out at driving for a year. They'd blow up, and
then I'd get another one for And they were really
cool looking and not aggravating. Right you started the car,
the car went, nothing beeped at you. I wish I
could get rid of all the beeps and buzzers and
warnings and everything. It's like, why do you care if
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I have my seatbelt on? Now I do put my
seatbelt on, but why do you have to constantly nag
me about it? Why this this car that I was renting,
And I found how to turn this thing off if
I drifted a half an inch out of the lane.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, an beppepeep.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
But then there was a second thing. It jerked me.
It wouldn't let me leave the lane, And at first
I thought. I thought my my wheels were coming off,
because sometimes I panic with this stuff. What is this?
I figured out how to turn that off. I figured
out how to turn the automatic start thing off. And
it's like, could you just get out of my wife?
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Stop worrying about me. Just stop worrying about how much
gas I'm using, Stop worrying about if I'm drifting out
of the lane, Stop worrying about my seat belts on
and my mirrors are this, and I can't, I can't stay.
Just leave me in peace. I wish I could I
build my own car. I build my own card had
no lights, no warnings, no nothing. It would just be
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like the cars I had when I was a teenager.
Just jump in and go. Sorry, it's a source spot
with me anyway. He says it would save Americans over
one hundred billion dollars over the next five years, take
one thousand dollars off the average cost of a new car.
And he's he's he's completely dismantling all the fuel efficiency
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standards that the Biden administration had piled on. And I'm
sure they'll still make cars that get fifty miles to
the gallon if you want. I'm some little tin box
matchbox car thing. Plus he got rid of the tax
credits for electric cars. Plus they got they declared it
illegal to mandate electric cars, which is what Newsom tried
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to do. It's like, we're gonna be We're gonna be
normal again. We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna live in
a more national society now where people are free to
buy the car they want. They'll decide what kind of
car they want in terms of mileage. They'll decide if
they want they want to buy a gas car in
an electric car. And he's got the he's got the
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leaders of the automotive companies behind him because they all
took a bath, huge amounts of red ink pushing electric
cars that most people did want, huge bill hundreds of
billions of dollars. The car company's lost on this nonsense, absolutely,
and it's all over over climate hysteria, and that age
is over now. And I'm very excited if anybody manufactures
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a car that is completely warning free. You got my money,
I'll be there. I'll be first in line.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Do you feel better now?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I do. There's another issue bugging me, but maybe not today,
maybe tomorrow. I don't want to do two in a day. Yeah,
but it's the end of the plastic bags at the
grocery store.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Remember last pastathon, I gave you a reusable Leopard bag.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I still have that part of my Deba Mark Leopard
Connection collection in my closet where the furry outfit is now.
Had I had another Deborah bag I brought in yesterday,
this with the furry outfit and that's that's now with
all the Leopard stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And I'm glad that you enjoy all that.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Stuff when we come back. Here's part of the uh,
the electric car insanity weimo. You know what they've made
Waymos have been overly cautious and it's kind of driven
a lot of people crazy because they go exactly the
speed limit. Uh. Now they are rewiring the weymos to
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start taking chances, and that's not necessarily working out. Tell
you about it. See, we're all in favor of humans here.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Have you been in a way.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
No, I'm not going to stand. I'm not taking because
Mike Waymill will end up like take it off, end
up flying down the ten Freeway until they get to FLOORID.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart
app coming up after three o'clock. Michael Monks. The LA
County Supervisors, four of the five of the LA County
Supervisors are some of the dumbest people on the planet.
And they voted to ban the ICE agents from wearing
masks or are they late to that party? And they
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still don't have the power to do that. It's still
not up to them. Federal government decides how federal law
enforcement dresses, but that doesn't stop an empty can like
Janis Han. We'll talk Michael Monks coming up. I'm just
telling you that the Trump administration, now it's just a
couple hours ago, that they're going to relax the fuel
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standards on cars at which means you're going to eliminate
a lot of the fuel emissions technology that costs a
lot of money. I didn't realize this until going through
this story because I haven't bought a card six years. Yeah,
the average price for a car now is fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
So expensive. Used cars are so expensive.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I know because people can't afford to buy a real car,
I mean a new car. I have fifty thousand just
for an average car. So you know, his new regulations
are supposed to knock off one thousand dollars on the price.
It's a thousand dollars of nonsense regulating the mileage because
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they thought that electric cars were going to well, they
kind of knew that electric cars weren't going to be
a big hit. Because if they thought they were going
to be a big hit, then why the mandate. The
mandate was because they know, Oh, the electric cars largely
sucked and nobody would like, nobody wants one. Unlast year,
really wealthy, and you buy a Tesla. That's what I
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see on the west side, lots of teslas. I see
more teslas on the west side of La than I
see in the rest of the country combined.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
And what about those cyber trucks too, Jesus, I do
not understand.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
That at all.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I don't either, and maybe I'm supposed to because I'm
a guy and a big, strong beast of a car
so ugly. Yeah, I don't like. I don't like having
to park stuff like that, because what I do is
I end up crashing into.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
This, well, you would not be a good candidate.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
No, no, so speaking, I meant to mention this as well.
So today, for the first time since I don't know when,
the average price of gas, this is going to make
you sick. Average price of gas across the nation two
dollars ninety nine cents two dollars ninety nine and nine
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tensive ascent to be exact. And there are now forty
four states where you can get gas for less than
for less than three point thirty a gallon, and there's
about twenty five states where you can get it for
less than three bucks. And you know what our price is,
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all right, two ninety nine across the country, and in
California it's four point fifty two. The two ninety nine
includes California and the millions of drivers who are paying
four point fifty to five bucks a.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Gallon, And it's going to go up a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
The other thing I saw today is we have the
highest unemployment rate in the country. We're at five and
a half percent. It's a lot higher than everywhere else.
There are states in the twos and the threes when
it comes to unemployment, big states, you know, not not
you know North Dakota or Vermont. But stay it's like,
you know, Florida and Texas much lower unemployment rate. Democratic
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states like New York and New Jersey lower unemployment rate.
We get the highest unemployment rate and the highest gas prices.
And I just looked up on TV and there was
another graphic on one of the cable channels about Newsom
being the lead candidate on the Democrat side for president.
It's like, am I living in an alternate universe here?
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Anyway down to the waymos. The waymos were programmed to
be ultra cautious. So here's what happened. You're behind a
waymo on a residential street and it comes to a stop.
It comes to a full stop, and it sits there
for a while, and it doesn't do rolling stops. And
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if you show if it shows up at the same
time as another car in the intersection, that other car
gets to go. And if you're stuck behind the waymo,
you've got to wait because it's it's like having somebody
who's ultra polite and ultra frightened. And uh, according to
Wall Street Journal, they are now reprogramming the way moos
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to be more aggressive. Uh. Now, well, the story here
one woman who got stuck behind a a A. Uh
well it was a moving truck, right, They had double
parked and guys were unloading, you know, the furniture and
the boxes. But the waymo didn't know that because weymos
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are stupid. So because the moving truck in front of
him wasn't moving double parked, woman is stuck behind the
moving truck. Of course she can't see around the moving
truck or the way moot across into oncoming traffics.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
They need some kind of bypass mechanism in there.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, but who's who's gonna who's gonna click it? I
guess the passing. Yeah. So now they're programmed to take risks.
It says they're bending traffic laws. They're getting impatient with pedestrians.
Oh that's good. Last September, police in San Bruno, California,
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pulled a Weymo over it made an illegal U turn
and they chased it. No driver. And you may have
heard in the Mission District in San Francisco, a weamo
hit and killed a neighborhood cat. Apparently it was a
well known cat and they set up a shrine for
the cat. And you know, the people are bringing flowers
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and candles, and their photo was on the flyers and everything.
It's terrible, but the weymouth crushed it. Did you laugh?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
No, we said crushed it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I thought that was just an awful way to describe it.
So no, you come on, I'm an animal lover.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I would not know that.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
It was a sarcastic kind of you know, because you
say the weimo crushed it unexpected.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Okay, if it was a dog, you wouldn't have snorted that,
not as much.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I'm allergic to cats, but I still.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Like okay, all right. Oh here, here's a in Pacific
Heights up in San Francisco, because they had like hundreds
and hundreds of waymos up there. There was a multi lane,
four way stop and one weimo got impatient. It didn't
want to wait anymore, so it hit the gas along
with a car next to it. Like the car next
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to it hit the gas and the weimo hit the
gas at the same time because it didn't want to
wait its turn anymore. Uh. Then the weimo didn't signal
for the lane change, So I wondered. They say, with
artificial intelligence, the fear is eventually it starts thinking for itself.
And it'll do evil things like set off nuclear missiles.
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Are the weamos now starting to think on their own that,
you know, I'm sick of this. Why am I sitting
here in traffic being polite? They can't ticket me?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Now you're speaking for a weaymo.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
This woman, Jennifer Jeffrey, she was the one who got
stuck for a while behind that double parked truck. She says,
Now they've they've re reprogrammed it. They'll go around a car,
or they will get closer to a car than a
human driver would. And sometimes I'm sitting in the back
and I'm like, oh, that was really close. They do it,
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and I guess they know exactly how close they can go,
so they take a risk, or they make or they
estimate a risk that you and I wouldn't because you know,
we can't judge things that precisely. So, you know, let
me see what else they've got here. Oh, if you
ask the weymo to pick you up at a certain address,
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you gotta look down and see. If the curb is
painted red and there's a technically a no stopping area,
it won't stop. It'll stop across the street or around
the corner and you're standing there looking for the Weimo,
looking for the Weamo. It's not coming to where you are.
You might see the weaimo, but you can't wave the
waimo over right. But the Waimo is thinking, oh that
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that's a red line there. I can't. I can't stop
in front of that and pick you up. Needs that.
Here's a guy named Mark Schreiber. He was walking to
the gym and he was in a crosswalk opposite a Weymo,
and his chest as soon as he made it past
the waimeo room took off like he could feel the
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wind behind him. That's how quickly. Because again they can
they can. They can judge things so precisely. According to
a senior director of product management with Weamo, they've been
trying to make their cars confidently assertive. Great. Being assertive
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it is like a personality characteristic. So it's not just
straight thinking anymore. Now, it's it's supposed to have a swagger,
it's supposed to take risks. It's not good.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Definitely not there all right.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Michael Monk's coming up at three o'clock on the blockhead
LA County supervisors banning ice agents from wearing Masks. It's
not their business, but they go and vote anyway. They
like Topreen and Virtue Signal.
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We're gonna do a Moistline twice on Friday. We weren't
here last week.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
You know Michael Monks, he's a big fan, big fan
of your furry costs.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, you know, he told me he was saying that
disturbs me.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
And he's in there with you right now.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Not yet. Oh I thought he was no, no, no,
I'm coming up next segment.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Okay, Well, maybe you can go have somebody bring it
to you and you can put it on and put
it on for him.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I can dance on top of the table yeah, all right,
that's coming up next. Maybe Matthew Seedorf, he's got a story.
In fact, Eric, I just found the video for this.
Maybe you could find the video of the audio. We
could play this later. Matthew Seedorf is a Fox eleven
(28:56):
reporter and he covered an LA City Council meeting. Do
you remember when the fire happened, Karen Bass and Gavin
Newsom promised that all the fees were going to be waived, right,
all the permits rebuilding fees. I heard that, right, I
saw that on live television, right, because remember Trump started
yelling at her and she started insisting to Trump that no, no, Well,
(29:20):
the LA City Council and this happened yesterday delayed action
on rebuilding, on rebuilding fee waivers. Delayed action, which means
they never took action. So still now, eleven months after
the fire, they never waved the fees. And they were
(29:43):
debating it yesterday. And there's two plans they agreed to
neither plan and so still still you have to pay
the rebuilding fees in the palisades. How can this be?
I know I heard Newsom and Bass say the fees
(30:06):
were going to be waived. Everything was going to be streamlined.
I know I heard that. So she lied and he lied.
I know. I'm shocked. My innocence has been shattered.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
The Budget Committee has a plan to wave fees for
single family homes and duplexes that are rebuilt up to
one hundred and ten percent of their original size, the
ad hoc Recovery Plan, whatever the hell that means. I
hate when they use Latin. That's a waiver for all
fire damage structures, no cap size. That'll cost three times
(30:46):
as much. Well, yeah, the fire started on state government land.
The city failed to put out the original fire. It
blew up into the second fire through their incompetence and stupidity,
(31:07):
and the state wouldn't let the LA Fire Department put
out the first fire efficiently because they wanted to protect
the milk Vetch plan. So now you've got thousands of buildings,
thousands of homes burnt, and they won't wave the fee. Well,
you're responsible for these buildings burning to the ground. It
is your fault in state government and in city government.
(31:29):
Knewsom in Bass. I mean there's a lot of people
at fault, but will start with them since they're in
charge of the two governments. So Karen bass Well, she
was in Africa. La fire department didn't do their job,
fire reignited, many many other sins were committed. Whole town
(31:50):
burns down, and now nobody can get the rebuilding fees
waved seriously because they claim it costs too much. Well,
maybe if you weren't spending billions of dollars on the
vagrants and the mental patients and the drug addicts. You know,
those homeless people. You waste billions on them, and you
don't have millions for the residents who pay the taxes.
(32:18):
Bob Lumenfeld, is this idiot council member? Is he your counselman? Yes,
he's a dope. He says. The fee waiver concept is tricky. No,
it's not wave the fees. That means the fees are zero.
There's nothing tricky. Why should the residents have to pay this? Ah,
(32:38):
we're gonna get more of this. We're gonna get Matthew
seed durs report on next hour. Good lord, all right,
Michael Munks, we're gonna talk about wearing masks, not me
wearing that. What was that animal fox?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Well, Eric said, a fox. It was like a fox
or a cat. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
It was a fox. It was orange with a white
nose in a.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Wat tails, some kind of cat, or it's.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
A fox, but you guys in charge of the La zoo,
what are we happier? I don't know. Is it an
elephant or draft? I can't tell.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
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You go. That should be your ringtone. That's that'd be great.
All right, Let's go to Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analyst.
You know, probably about the Venezuelan drug boats, the cocaine boats.
Ships really that been uh exploded by the Trump administration
(01:47):
and the Secretary of War Pete hegsas. Uh. It looks
maybe like a fisherman's boat got caught up, and the
family of a Colombian fisherman, uh, they are complaining to
the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, saying that the
US government illegally killed him, that they murdered him. The
fisherman's family is upset. Let's talk to Royal Oaks, see
(02:15):
what this is all about.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Royal Yeah, John, In the context of courses, in the last
couple of months, been a lot of these attacks. Eighty
three people have died from twenty one strikes on vessels
in the last couple of months, and you know, people
are saying, you know, the government's out of control, but
in this case, the one that you mentioned. It has
to do with a man named Alejandro Carnza. The family
(02:39):
says he was just a fisherman, but floating next to
the boat after he was killed officials on cocaine and sentinel.
So that suggests that maybe the boat was up to
some drug smugglings.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh, he might have been a freelancer.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, who knows. You can't necessarily assume. Maybe he was
just as fishermen, but the other guys are there. Bottom
line is that people are saying that Pete Heggsath running
the war Department Donald Trump, They're not being very careful
about this guilty of war crimes. There was this other
example you'll recall, where there was a first strike and
then a little later there was a second strike, and
the survivors of the first were basically dog peddling in
(03:18):
the water and they were killed. And so Pete Hegseth
just today at a press conference saying, hey, you know,
I authorized the first strike and then I'm a busy guy.
I went on to other things, and I'm sure the
admiral did the right thing on the second strike that
I wasn't there. So it's getting a little messy. But
bottom line is Human Rights Commission is looking into him.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, the best of your knowledge. What's the rules on this,
because obviously there's people taking political sides, and so I
don't know if they're telling the truth, if they're being accurate,
or they're just trying to make a point to whip
up their base. Right. But Canada president, on his own command,
strikes repeatedly against these Venezuelan drug boats. I have no
(03:57):
doubt that they're drug boats. What are the limitations of
this according to the law? Are there any limitations?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, the President has a perfect right to do this.
First of all, there's a UN agreement that we're a
Party two that says in international waters, some countries are
allowed legally if they have reason to believe that illegal
stuff is going on in the boat, drugs or whatever,
they may stop it, board it and take the people
into custody. In addition, there's a congressional statute that says
(04:27):
essentially the same thing. So it's okay. A lot of
people think, you know, what is Trump doing? You know,
I'm floating on the high seas. We do have a
legal right to be out on the high seas international waters.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And you can blow them.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Question becomes, yeah, that's the problem. You can't blow them up.
You can't kill people who may be innocent. You can
board and if they fight back, you can fight them.
And so you know, arguably these eighty three deaths may
all be legal and justified from the twenty one strikes
over the last couple of months, but you know it's
going to take decades to sort that out. You know,
(04:57):
you have it and throw yourself fel in the water
where the pictures blah blah blah. So and this human
rights commission that the fishermen's family went to, they are truthless.
It's for accountability and transparency, but they can't find anybody.
They can't incarcerate anybody if they say, oh, Donald Trump
violated somebody's human rights. So it's really just pr value. Now,
(05:18):
if you do something horrible and the grecious, and you're
killing people that are just you know, dog paddling in
the water, then they're going to be consequences. Now, the
rules there are the rules limiting lawsuits against the president
and the federal government, so there may not be a
lot of relief, but certainly if the evidence is crystal
clear that there was illegal cruel, inhumane stuff going on,
(05:39):
then the US is going to pay a pr price
if nothing else.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, you always hear people shouting about war crimes, not
only in the recognized wars, but the unrecognized wars, and
then all the side battles that we get involved with
every administration. I think Obama had like six battles going
on all at once. And you always hear shouts of
war crimes. But I can't remember anybody getting prosecuted, either
(06:03):
US or anybody else. It just seems it's a lot
of shouting by activists.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Oh, you're right, it's just people getting up on their soapbox.
And part of it, of course, is the fact that,
as you know, although we did have a declaration of
war by Congress as we're supposed to do, and after
Pearl Harbor, we haven't had a single declersion of war since,
in spite of Korea and Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq
and everything else. And so in that sense, I mean,
for example, when Trump goes out on the high seas,
(06:29):
is that really a war? Well, he might say it's
a war on drugs. I'm told the suffering inflicted on
American people because the fentanyl and song being spuggled in.
It's not really a war and so probably a war
crime situation doesn't apply to this deal.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I see. And so nobody's going to be able to
prove exactly what this fisherman was up to, whether he
was fishing to feed his family or he might have
been running a side business carrying drugs.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Right, you're going to interview everybody. You're going to look
at all the pictures and all the surveillance, You're gonna
look at the backgrounds of the people involved, and you're
going to look at the fentanol and the cocaine floating
in the water and come to a conclusion. But that's
going to take years, just like any lawsuit would, So
it's not gonna lead you.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't think the average person cares of Venezuelan drug
boats are getting blown up. I see there's outrage more
certain politicians, but the guy guy in the street probably
figures this is good policy.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Well, you're right, because we everybody in America probably either
has been touched personally or somebody in their close family
or extended family friends the scourge of you know, fence
and all overdoses and drugs in general so you're right.
I don't think we were gonna feel too sorry for
fishermen who may be innocent when we know this is
just a constant Narco flow of drugs from the South
(07:44):
into the United States.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
All right, Royal Oaks, thank you for coming on. You bet, thanks,
Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst. You know, I don't
know how dumb some of these, these these pilots are
who are driving the the the drug boats out Venezuela.
That after you've seen you know, I don't know ten
of them get blown up, maybe you're not going out
(08:07):
there anymore. Maybe it's like, you know what, I'm getting
into another line of work. This doesn't seem to be fun.
I mean, I mean, when you're the eleventh boat to
get blown up, it's hard to have much sympathy. It's like, jeez,
do you read the news. You get the news in Venezuela.
What's going on when we come back. Oh my god,
(08:28):
what a bunch of ninnies. The LA County supervisors they're
banning ice agents from wearing masks. They can't, they know
they can't. They do it anyway, we'll talk about it
when we come back.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I made a mistake. Michael Monks is coming in to
talk about the LA County supervisors. Yeah, and the ice
agents wearing masks at three o'clock. So I inadvertently said
that was coming up next. It's not coming up next,
but it's coming up. No, No, we'll get to it
with Michael. I have other news that I wanted to
(09:11):
talk about, UH and this just this just broke at
about two o'clock. UH. Trump had UH four executives from
the major automakers in the Oval Office, and he announced
that the Transportation Department is going to significantly weaken the
(09:35):
fuel efficiency standards for tens of millions of new cars
and light trucks. This means that cars will become much
less expensive because they won't have all these emissions control
requirements anymore. And it's not going to get the mileage
(09:57):
isn't going to be as high. But you also are
aren't going to have you know, all the well, I'll
tell you what I hope disappears from cars because if
I find out if he really does this, right, I
guess it's all regulatory stuff. You know. I can't stand
on my car. The most is that automatic start stop
(10:17):
mechanism that when you come to a traffic light, you
come to a stop and then the engine turns off.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You I think that you can do something to stop that.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You can turn Yes, you can, you can turn that
mechanism off off, so the car stops turning itself off.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
So why don't you do that?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, here's what bugs me and I get this a
lot with rental cars. It's like a game. Every car
model has a different way to turn it off, and
it's hard to figure out, like it might be buried
on one of the many screens on your dashboard. So
you have to go through all the different screens and
the different settings and find it. And you have to
(10:56):
do it every time you start.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Oh it doesn't just no, no, I have.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
A rental right now because my car is getting is
getting fixed for something stupid. All right, there's an example.
I really really I keep telling this to my wife.
I am this close to going back and buying like
a nineteen seventy three Pontiac Catalina, which I had once.
I had two of them.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Actually, I've never even heard of that car.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Big boat of a car got eight miles to the gallon.
But man, I could fit a lot of people in it,
and I could go on a cross country trip in
it and fill up the back seat and fill up
the trunk. I could have another family living in the thing.
I had a blue one that I bought from my dad,
and I bought I had a brown one from this
girl I knew her dad was selling it. And so
(11:43):
I had two of these things, which lasted me a
couple of years, because they'd only last about a year
and then they'd blow up. Nothing better than old American
cars for me. They would They would fall apart quickly.
But man, this thing was so big and it looked
so cool. I love the way cars used to look.
And all all these emissions requirements caused car designers to well,
(12:06):
they couldn't be creative anymore. And how they designed cars
for aerodynamic reasons in order to get more and more mileage.
The government kept dimandling more mileage, so they kept blanding
out the car design. So to me, to my eyes,
all cars look alike. To me, all the cars, I
don't care what model is. A luxury car could be
a cheap o car. Everything looks the same. And I
(12:28):
love the distinctiveness of cars from like really before I
was born. I loved the way fifties cars look sixties cars,
and I used to dry. I probably drove about ten
junk cars, all from the sixties and seventies. I'd buy
them from my parents or my friend's parents or whoever
my friends and I'd buy for fifty dollars or one
(12:50):
hundred dollars I think five hundred dollars. I would max
out at driving for a year. They'd blow up, and
then I'd get another one for And they were really
cool looking and not aggravating. Right you started the car,
the car went, nothing beeped at you. I wish I
could get rid of all the beeps and buzzers and
warnings and everything. It's like, why do you care if
(13:11):
I have my seatbelt on? Now I do put my
seatbelt on, but why do you have to constantly nag
me about it? Why this this car that I was renting,
And I found how to turn this thing off if
I drifted a half an inch out of the lane.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, an beppepeep.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
But then there was a second thing. It jerked me.
It wouldn't let me leave the lane, And at first
I thought. I thought my my wheels were coming off,
because sometimes I panic with this stuff. What is this?
I figured out how to turn that off. I figured
out how to turn the automatic start thing off. And
it's like, could you just get out of my wife?
(13:48):
Stop worrying about me. Just stop worrying about how much
gas I'm using, Stop worrying about if I'm drifting out
of the lane, Stop worrying about my seat belts on
and my mirrors are this, and I can't, I can't stay.
Just leave me in peace. I wish I could I
build my own car. I build my own card had
no lights, no warnings, no nothing. It would just be
(14:09):
like the cars I had when I was a teenager.
Just jump in and go. Sorry, it's a source spot
with me anyway. He says it would save Americans over
one hundred billion dollars over the next five years, take
one thousand dollars off the average cost of a new car.
And he's he's he's completely dismantling all the fuel efficiency
(14:30):
standards that the Biden administration had piled on. And I'm
sure they'll still make cars that get fifty miles to
the gallon if you want. I'm some little tin box
matchbox car thing. Plus he got rid of the tax
credits for electric cars. Plus they got they declared it
illegal to mandate electric cars, which is what Newsom tried
(14:54):
to do. It's like, we're gonna be We're gonna be
normal again. We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna live in
a more national society now where people are free to
buy the car they want. They'll decide what kind of
car they want in terms of mileage. They'll decide if
they want they want to buy a gas car in
an electric car. And he's got the he's got the
(15:16):
leaders of the automotive companies behind him because they all
took a bath, huge amounts of red ink pushing electric
cars that most people did want, huge bill hundreds of
billions of dollars. The car company's lost on this nonsense, absolutely,
and it's all over over climate hysteria, and that age
is over now. And I'm very excited if anybody manufactures
(15:40):
a car that is completely warning free. You got my money,
I'll be there. I'll be first in line.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Do you feel better now?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I do. There's another issue bugging me, but maybe not today,
maybe tomorrow. I don't want to do two in a day. Yeah,
but it's the end of the plastic bags at the
grocery store.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Remember last pastathon, I gave you a reusable Leopard bag.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I still have that part of my Deba Mark Leopard
Connection collection in my closet where the furry outfit is now.
Had I had another Deborah bag I brought in yesterday,
this with the furry outfit and that's that's now with
all the Leopard stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And I'm glad that you enjoy all that.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Stuff when we come back. Here's part of the uh,
the electric car insanity weimo. You know what they've made
Waymos have been overly cautious and it's kind of driven
a lot of people crazy because they go exactly the
speed limit. Uh. Now they are rewiring the weymos to
(16:51):
start taking chances, and that's not necessarily working out. Tell
you about it. See, we're all in favor of humans here.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Have you been in a way.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
No, I'm not going to stand. I'm not taking because
Mike Waymill will end up like take it off, end
up flying down the ten Freeway until they get to FLOORID.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart
app coming up after three o'clock. Michael Monks. The LA
County Supervisors, four of the five of the LA County
Supervisors are some of the dumbest people on the planet.
And they voted to ban the ICE agents from wearing
masks or are they late to that party? And they
(17:42):
still don't have the power to do that. It's still
not up to them. Federal government decides how federal law
enforcement dresses, but that doesn't stop an empty can like
Janis Han. We'll talk Michael Monks coming up. I'm just
telling you that the Trump administration, now it's just a
couple hours ago, that they're going to relax the fuel
(18:03):
standards on cars at which means you're going to eliminate
a lot of the fuel emissions technology that costs a
lot of money. I didn't realize this until going through
this story because I haven't bought a card six years. Yeah,
the average price for a car now is fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
So expensive. Used cars are so expensive.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I know because people can't afford to buy a real car,
I mean a new car. I have fifty thousand just
for an average car. So you know, his new regulations
are supposed to knock off one thousand dollars on the price.
It's a thousand dollars of nonsense regulating the mileage because
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they thought that electric cars were going to well, they
kind of knew that electric cars weren't going to be
a big hit. Because if they thought they were going
to be a big hit, then why the mandate. The
mandate was because they know, Oh, the electric cars largely
sucked and nobody would like, nobody wants one. Unlast year,
really wealthy, and you buy a Tesla. That's what I
(19:08):
see on the west side, lots of teslas. I see
more teslas on the west side of La than I
see in the rest of the country combined.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
And what about those cyber trucks too, Jesus, I do
not understand.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
That at all.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I don't either, and maybe I'm supposed to because I'm
a guy and a big, strong beast of a car
so ugly. Yeah, I don't like. I don't like having
to park stuff like that, because what I do is
I end up crashing into.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
This, well, you would not be a good candidate.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
No, no, so speaking, I meant to mention this as well.
So today, for the first time since I don't know when,
the average price of gas, this is going to make
you sick. Average price of gas across the nation two
dollars ninety nine cents two dollars ninety nine and nine
(20:00):
tensive ascent to be exact. And there are now forty
four states where you can get gas for less than
for less than three point thirty a gallon, and there's
about twenty five states where you can get it for
less than three bucks. And you know what our price is,
(20:24):
all right, two ninety nine across the country, and in
California it's four point fifty two. The two ninety nine
includes California and the millions of drivers who are paying
four point fifty to five bucks a.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Gallon, And it's going to go up a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
The other thing I saw today is we have the
highest unemployment rate in the country. We're at five and
a half percent. It's a lot higher than everywhere else.
There are states in the twos and the threes when
it comes to unemployment, big states, you know, not not
you know North Dakota or Vermont. But stay it's like,
you know, Florida and Texas much lower unemployment rate. Democratic
(21:04):
states like New York and New Jersey lower unemployment rate.
We get the highest unemployment rate and the highest gas prices.
And I just looked up on TV and there was
another graphic on one of the cable channels about Newsom
being the lead candidate on the Democrat side for president.
It's like, am I living in an alternate universe here?
(21:26):
Anyway down to the waymos. The waymos were programmed to
be ultra cautious. So here's what happened. You're behind a
waymo on a residential street and it comes to a stop.
It comes to a full stop, and it sits there
for a while, and it doesn't do rolling stops. And
(21:50):
if you show if it shows up at the same
time as another car in the intersection, that other car
gets to go. And if you're stuck behind the waymo,
you've got to wait because it's it's like having somebody
who's ultra polite and ultra frightened. And uh, according to
Wall Street Journal, they are now reprogramming the way moos
(22:13):
to be more aggressive. Uh. Now, well, the story here
one woman who got stuck behind a a A. Uh
well it was a moving truck, right, They had double
parked and guys were unloading, you know, the furniture and
the boxes. But the waymo didn't know that because weymos
(22:34):
are stupid. So because the moving truck in front of
him wasn't moving double parked, woman is stuck behind the
moving truck. Of course she can't see around the moving
truck or the way moot across into oncoming traffics.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
They need some kind of bypass mechanism in there.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, but who's who's gonna who's gonna click it? I
guess the passing. Yeah. So now they're programmed to take risks.
It says they're bending traffic laws. They're getting impatient with pedestrians.
Oh that's good. Last September, police in San Bruno, California,
(23:16):
pulled a Weymo over it made an illegal U turn
and they chased it. No driver. And you may have
heard in the Mission District in San Francisco, a weamo
hit and killed a neighborhood cat. Apparently it was a
well known cat and they set up a shrine for
the cat. And you know, the people are bringing flowers
(23:39):
and candles, and their photo was on the flyers and everything.
It's terrible, but the weymouth crushed it. Did you laugh?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
No, we said crushed it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I thought that was just an awful way to describe it.
So no, you come on, I'm an animal lover.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I would not know that.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
It was a sarcastic kind of you know, because you
say the weimo crushed it unexpected.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Okay, if it was a dog, you wouldn't have snorted that,
not as much.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I'm allergic to cats, but I still.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Like okay, all right. Oh here, here's a in Pacific
Heights up in San Francisco, because they had like hundreds
and hundreds of waymos up there. There was a multi lane,
four way stop and one weimo got impatient. It didn't
want to wait anymore, so it hit the gas along
with a car next to it. Like the car next
(24:33):
to it hit the gas and the weimo hit the
gas at the same time because it didn't want to
wait its turn anymore. Uh. Then the weimo didn't signal
for the lane change, So I wondered. They say, with
artificial intelligence, the fear is eventually it starts thinking for itself.
And it'll do evil things like set off nuclear missiles.
(24:56):
Are the weamos now starting to think on their own that,
you know, I'm sick of this. Why am I sitting
here in traffic being polite? They can't ticket me?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Now you're speaking for a weaymo.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
This woman, Jennifer Jeffrey, she was the one who got
stuck for a while behind that double parked truck. She says,
Now they've they've re reprogrammed it. They'll go around a car,
or they will get closer to a car than a
human driver would. And sometimes I'm sitting in the back
and I'm like, oh, that was really close. They do it,
(25:34):
and I guess they know exactly how close they can go,
so they take a risk, or they make or they
estimate a risk that you and I wouldn't because you know,
we can't judge things that precisely. So, you know, let
me see what else they've got here. Oh, if you
ask the weymo to pick you up at a certain address,
(25:57):
you gotta look down and see. If the curb is
painted red and there's a technically a no stopping area,
it won't stop. It'll stop across the street or around
the corner and you're standing there looking for the Weimo,
looking for the Weamo. It's not coming to where you are.
You might see the weaimo, but you can't wave the
waimo over right. But the Waimo is thinking, oh that
(26:19):
that's a red line there. I can't. I can't stop
in front of that and pick you up. Needs that.
Here's a guy named Mark Schreiber. He was walking to
the gym and he was in a crosswalk opposite a Weymo,
and his chest as soon as he made it past
the waimeo room took off like he could feel the
(26:39):
wind behind him. That's how quickly. Because again they can
they can. They can judge things so precisely. According to
a senior director of product management with Weamo, they've been
trying to make their cars confidently assertive. Great. Being assertive
(27:00):
it is like a personality characteristic. So it's not just
straight thinking anymore. Now, it's it's supposed to have a swagger,
it's supposed to take risks. It's not good.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Definitely not there all right.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Michael Monk's coming up at three o'clock on the blockhead
LA County supervisors banning ice agents from wearing Masks. It's
not their business, but they go and vote anyway. They
like Topreen and Virtue Signal.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Moist Line for Friday. Let's get going. Everybody took the
day off yesterday to watch grown men dancing like fairies,
not fairies fairies eight seven seven moist eighty six, sugarplum fairies.
Eight seven seven moist eighty six is the number you
could complain about the dance if you want. I don't
(27:55):
care or eight seven seven sixty six four seven eight
eighty six us the talkback feature on the iHeart Radio app.
We're gonna do a Moistline twice on Friday. We weren't
here last week.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
You know Michael Monks, he's a big fan, big fan
of your furry costs.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, you know, he told me he was saying that
disturbs me.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
And he's in there with you right now.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Not yet. Oh I thought he was no, no, no,
I'm coming up next segment.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Okay, Well, maybe you can go have somebody bring it
to you and you can put it on and put
it on for him.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I can dance on top of the table yeah, all right,
that's coming up next. Maybe Matthew Seedorf, he's got a story.
In fact, Eric, I just found the video for this.
Maybe you could find the video of the audio. We
could play this later. Matthew Seedorf is a Fox eleven
(28:56):
reporter and he covered an LA City Council meeting. Do
you remember when the fire happened, Karen Bass and Gavin
Newsom promised that all the fees were going to be waived, right,
all the permits rebuilding fees. I heard that, right, I
saw that on live television, right, because remember Trump started
yelling at her and she started insisting to Trump that no, no, Well,
(29:20):
the LA City Council and this happened yesterday delayed action
on rebuilding, on rebuilding fee waivers. Delayed action, which means
they never took action. So still now, eleven months after
the fire, they never waved the fees. And they were
(29:43):
debating it yesterday. And there's two plans they agreed to
neither plan and so still still you have to pay
the rebuilding fees in the palisades. How can this be?
I know I heard Newsom and Bass say the fees
(30:06):
were going to be waived. Everything was going to be streamlined.
I know I heard that. So she lied and he lied.
I know. I'm shocked. My innocence has been shattered.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
The Budget Committee has a plan to wave fees for
single family homes and duplexes that are rebuilt up to
one hundred and ten percent of their original size, the
ad hoc Recovery Plan, whatever the hell that means. I
hate when they use Latin. That's a waiver for all
fire damage structures, no cap size. That'll cost three times
(30:46):
as much. Well, yeah, the fire started on state government land.
The city failed to put out the original fire. It
blew up into the second fire through their incompetence and stupidity,
(31:07):
and the state wouldn't let the LA Fire Department put
out the first fire efficiently because they wanted to protect
the milk Vetch plan. So now you've got thousands of buildings,
thousands of homes burnt, and they won't wave the fee. Well,
you're responsible for these buildings burning to the ground. It
is your fault in state government and in city government.
(31:29):
Knewsom in Bass. I mean there's a lot of people
at fault, but will start with them since they're in
charge of the two governments. So Karen bass Well, she
was in Africa. La fire department didn't do their job,
fire reignited, many many other sins were committed. Whole town
(31:50):
burns down, and now nobody can get the rebuilding fees
waved seriously because they claim it costs too much. Well,
maybe if you weren't spending billions of dollars on the
vagrants and the mental patients and the drug addicts. You know,
those homeless people. You waste billions on them, and you
don't have millions for the residents who pay the taxes.
(32:18):
Bob Lumenfeld, is this idiot council member? Is he your counselman? Yes,
he's a dope. He says. The fee waiver concept is tricky. No,
it's not wave the fees. That means the fees are zero.
There's nothing tricky. Why should the residents have to pay this? Ah,
(32:38):
we're gonna get more of this. We're gonna get Matthew
seed durs report on next hour. Good lord, all right,
Michael Munks, we're gonna talk about wearing masks, not me
wearing that. What was that animal fox?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Well, Eric said, a fox. It was like a fox
or a cat. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
It was a fox. It was orange with a white
nose in a.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Wat tails, some kind of cat, or it's.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
A fox, but you guys in charge of the La zoo,
what are we happier? I don't know. Is it an
elephant or draft? I can't tell.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
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