Refugees Are Upset (12/31)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (12/31) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Federal drone ban over Chinese technology impacting police and firefighters. Alex Stone, ABC News Correspondent, joins the show. The Somali fraud story expands to Philly and Seattle.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | KFI AM-640. |
| 0:06.5 | You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the I-Hart Radio app. |
| 0:10.8 | Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobalt on New Year's Eve. |
| 0:14.4 | Good to be with you. |
| 0:15.8 | Well, this one I did not see coming. |
| 0:17.5 | Of all the political discussions and political arguments that we are having, |
| 0:22.7 | the Trump administration has banned foreign-made drones and their critical components. |
| 0:28.4 | The ban is due to national security concerns, according to the FCC. |
| 0:32.3 | The FCC says that hostile actors, the makers of the drones, I guess, could take advantage of upcoming |
| 0:39.2 | mass events like the World Cup, the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles using the technology. |
| 0:47.1 | But law enforcement and fire departments also use these drones. And they don't know now |
| 0:52.2 | where to go to get new drones joining us Alex |
| 0:55.0 | Stone from ABC News here in Los Angeles Alex never saw this one coming this is an |
| 0:59.8 | interesting little fight and I'm not even sure where to go with it yeah and police |
| 1:05.1 | departments seem kind of caught off guard by it and fire departments as well because |
| 1:08.8 | they use these drones and DJI is one of the |
| 1:11.9 | most popular drone companies in the world and the one that a lot of police departments a lot of |
| 1:16.9 | fire departments use and now they can't get what they need so this went into effect last week |
| 1:22.6 | this FCC rule it bans foreign made drones from being imported inS. It includes any parts coming in to maintain drones that are already in the U.S. |
| 1:32.3 | And then we're told by the users of these drones that software and firmware updates are also now blocked, |
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