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The John Kobylt Show

Nick Shirley Is Doing Great Work (03/20)

The John Kobylt Show

Premiere Networks

News

4.3799 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (03/20) - John talks about how Nick Shirley is doing great work and it's a shame that legacy media companies aren't doing more reporting like Nick is. CBS News report on hospice fraud in California. Gregory Vogelsang's release has been temporarily stopped and Cesar Chavez is still in California's Hall of Fame. 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.2

Welcome, John Cobalt Show, and we are on live.

0:07.3

Again, another day.

0:09.1

And we'll be on from 3 to 6 and then after 6 o'clock.

0:12.5

And all weekend long, John Cobalt Show on demand, the podcast.

0:16.1

And if you miss anything today, you could listen to it after 6.

0:19.9

And if you miss any of the other shows in the

0:22.1

past week or the past however long, you can download them and enjoy them over the weekend.

0:28.4

The IHeart Radio up, that's the home for all this stuff. Nick Shirley is coming on the show.

0:33.8

He is a busy guy, 23 years old, and his primary outlet is YouTube, and he's an

0:40.8

independent investigative reporter. There is a whole breed of these, it's men and women, and

0:47.2

they're mostly young, and, you know, with the media landscape shrinking, you may not have heard today, but the CBS Radio News Network is no longer with us.

1:00.4

I don't know what the exact end date is, but the demise of that network, which had been around for the last 99 years.

1:07.6

One of my earliest memories sitting in my parents' kitchen was whatever station they had on.

1:13.8

I grew up in Jersey. I just remember the CBS radio news, all the little sounders they'd have,

1:21.1

and the different anchors and reporters and the World News Roundup and all this, all this classic radio program,

1:27.1

and it's all over for CBS News. So the world news round up and all this all this classic radio program and it's all over for cbs

1:29.1

news so the the traditional media is shrinking rapidly and in its place though there is a vacuum

1:36.9

and what's developing in its place is something better it's these independent journalists

1:42.9

who now can carry around an iPhone and start

1:48.0

taking video, and they don't need approval from a, oh, I don't know, a producer, a news

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