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The John Kobylt Show

Mark Thompson fills in for The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (8/23) - RFK Jr. Drops Out

The John Kobylt Show

Premiere Networks

News

4.3799 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Mark Thompson fills in for John Kobylt. Our very own Blake Troli comes on the show to give an update on an attack on Metro. A homeless women tries to kidnap an 8 year old child. Kurt Bardella comes on the show to talk about JFK Jr. dropping out of the race. Men charged in the killing of Johnny Wactor had a long criminal history

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0:00.0

KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the IHeart Radio app.

0:06.3

Mark Thompson sitting in for John on this Friday. There's a lot going on. We will follow up on the RFK Jr.

0:12.5

announcement that he's suspending his presidential bid. He's not dropping out of the race, but as Debra was noting, he's pulling out of certain strategic states.

0:22.6

And he's throwing his support to President Trump, as he said it.

0:27.6

So I'll talk more about that. I mean, he was a really somewhat, you could argue he was never super relevant because he was polling so low.

0:36.6

But at his peak, he was polling around 5% with the other two guys in the race. He seemed to be an alternative candidate. And a lot of that. And really the cornerstone, I think, his popularity was around the anti-vax movement. Everybody I know, and I know a lot of people who supported RFK Jr., they seem to have crossover in that area.

0:56.0

They were all to a person, anti-vaxxers.

0:59.0

So in any case, once Kamala Harris entered the race, his polling went down four percentage points.

1:08.0

Again, he was only pulling at 5% to begin with, down to 1%. All of a sudden,

1:11.6

his relevance, I'd suggest, is a little diminished. But we'll get to more of that at the bottom

1:16.1

of the hour. Right now to a story that is, sadly, one that we're all too familiar with.

1:24.2

It's more stuff going on on the metro line.

1:28.1

This in Culver City.

1:29.9

And Blake Trolley from the KFI no newsroom can fill us in for more.

1:32.4

Hi, Blake.

1:34.2

Yeah, hey, Mark.

1:35.2

And yeah, this crime trend on the metro system is definitely becoming news every single day, it seems.

1:41.7

I mean, just a few days days ago we were covering that video being

1:44.4

released of that woman being dragged over the train tracks and thrown out under the 210 multiple

1:49.7

times as cars were whizzing by and just a few days later we find out that there was a sexual

1:55.7

assault at the culver city e-line station uh for. We're told that this happened early in the morning

2:03.6

and that a woman was sexually assaulted on the platform.

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