1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Well, 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 2: we had a great first hour and you could hear 4 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 2: that if you missed it. John Cobelt's show on demand 5 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: on the iHeart app. I mean, Dever was telling me 6 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 2: a story about today, about somebody she knows who. As 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 2: soon as our time slot moved a few years ago, 8 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 2: the guy doesn't listen anymore. It's like, you know, there's 9 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 2: no excuse for this, all right. It is very easy 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: to get on the iHeartRadio app and follow the show 11 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 2: anytime of day, twenty four hours a day, seven days 12 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 2: a week, anywhere in the world. So we are not 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 2: tolerating any excuses we have. Michael Munk's here, I'm sick 14 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 2: of hearing that. I mean, I understand for the first month, 15 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 2: you know, but after all these years, it's like to 16 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 2: figure out how to work the podcast. 17 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: It's not that hard. 18 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 2: I am the least technologically a Depp person that's ever existed. 19 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 3: We were just talking about that offense. Why we can't 20 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 3: play the sound from inside here because Eric is shooting 21 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 3: a video and that means we can't play sound. 22 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 2: You can't rely on me to be able to operate 23 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 2: the control by time for training, I'd screw it up. Well, 24 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: Michael is here because today they were going to announce 25 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 2: the homeless county in LA City and LA County. They 26 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 2: did the census in February, the homeless secon Yeah, they 27 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 2: deleted a month because of the fires in different parts 28 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: of the county. 29 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: So homeless started moving around. That's right. The flames were changed, 30 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: so they had to track them down. 31 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 3: They did find them, and they didn't find as many 32 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,119 Speaker 3: as they did last year. Apparently, because for the second 33 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 3: year in a row, LA Homeless Services Authority is reporting 34 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 3: a decline in homelessness, both at the county level and 35 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 3: within the city limits of lawsuit. 36 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: That's great news. How big a decline? 37 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 3: Well, the big decline in LA County is represented as 38 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 3: four percent four and in Los Angeles it is three 39 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 3: point four percent in terms of raw numbers. 40 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: It's that's it. 41 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 2: All those billions of dollars and it's down four in 42 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 2: the county and three point four in the city. 43 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: That all the billions that LASA has spent. That's right. Wow, 44 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: that's right. I mean I could have done that myself. 45 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 2: This is gonna chase four percent of the homeless out 46 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 2: of the county by myself. 47 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 3: And I'm sure they would love for you to do that. However, 48 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 3: in the meantime, not only have they spent billions, they 49 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 3: continue to spend a lot of money. This is also 50 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 3: a very awkward time to be Valicia Adams Kellum, the 51 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 3: CEO's LA Homeless Service Authority. She is leaving, but she 52 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 3: is still there and led this news conference that is 53 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 3: still ongoing, still moment. 54 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: Well, it started late. 55 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 3: It was supposed to start at one, It started about 56 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 3: a quarter after and everybody's got to get up and 57 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 3: do their their song and dance. 58 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,239 Speaker 2: That's a long that is a long press conference though 59 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 2: for a four percent drop. 60 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 3: And she credits the spending and says that because last 61 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 3: year there was a decline and this year is a decline, 62 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 3: it is now a trend that there is a decline. 63 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 2: Do we have to spend twenty five times as much 64 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 2: money in order to get all the homeless gone? 65 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 1: Hopefully not. 66 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 2: If they have zero in most cities in the United 67 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 2: States they have zero, homeless. 68 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: LA has a lot more than zero at this point. 69 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 3: And because of the spending and because of the auditing, 70 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 3: and because of the lack of proper accounting, as determined 71 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 3: by auditors and a federal judge. Right there are changes 72 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 3: with the way the homeless industrial complex in Los Angeles 73 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 3: will be governed. Felicia Kellum Adams Kellum is leaving LASA. 74 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 3: The La County Board of Supervisors voted to leave LASSA. Basically, 75 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 3: they're creating their own homeless department. In fact, LA County 76 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 3: Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, who pushed for the new homeless department 77 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 3: and to leave loss behind, put out a statement that 78 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 3: says a four percent decrease in progress is positive basically, 79 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 3: but she says it's a sign that our efforts are 80 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 3: making a difference. But at this pace, it would take 81 00:03:52,680 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 3: three centuries to end homelessness in Los Angeles County. In 82 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 3: raw numbers, John, it's seventy two thousand, three hundred and 83 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 3: eight homeless people in Los Angeles County, more than half 84 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 3: of whom are in the city property There used to be. 85 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: What seventy five thousand, Now it's seventy two thousands. 86 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 3: They peaked at seventy five thousand, They dropped modestly for 87 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 3: the first time last year, and now they've seen further reduction. 88 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 3: By the way, there is a margin of error of 89 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 3: thirteen hundred individuals according to USC. 90 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: I wonder which way that era goes. There could be more, 91 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: there could be fewer. 92 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 3: But when you think back to twenty nineteen, homelessness was 93 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 3: still a significant issue even six years ago and Los Angeles, 94 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 3: but the number in La County according to this annual 95 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 3: what they call the point in time census of homeless 96 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 3: people was fifty eighty nine hundred and thirty six. 97 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 1: Thank you for that. That sounds great. 98 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 2: It's in fact, they take that down and give it 99 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 2: to me because that's the story. That is the story 100 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 2: that now we're talking six years later and instead of 101 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 2: fifty eight thousand, it's seventy two thousand, and they're holding 102 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 2: a news conference appl cutting themselves that it's only seventy 103 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 2: two thousand. 104 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 3: It's almost a fifty percent increase from twenty nineteen to 105 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. So we're celebrating these incremental drops. Yeah, 106 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 3: off a huge increase from just six years ago. 107 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: Right, So if you look at six years of funding, 108 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 2: it's a tremendous failure because homelessness is up significantly since 109 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 2: since six years ago, and. 110 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 3: It took the past six months for really, at least 111 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 3: seemingly serious conversations to start at the local government level. 112 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,679 Speaker 3: You are finally starting to see not just the county 113 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 3: break away from it entirely basically, but finally at LA 114 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 3: City Hall, which has been slow to criticize lass you 115 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 3: are seeing more voices and louder voices say this isn't working. 116 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 3: They don't have anybody at La City Hall keeping track 117 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 3: of these homeless dollars. 118 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 1: Well, that's what's shocking about this. 119 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 2: For all the money we spent, they're not employees working 120 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 2: every day to try how the money. 121 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: Is being spent. 122 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 3: Yeah, and there are various committees here and different positions here, 123 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 3: and even LASSA itself. It's a big organization that oversees 124 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 3: a ton of smaller organizations that deals with contracts with 125 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 3: smaller service providers. And that's where they've run into these 126 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 3: problems with how and where the money is being spent 127 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 3: because they're writing big checks to smaller agencies that don't 128 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 3: even have to tell them apparently what they did with 129 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 3: the money. 130 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: Don't have to tell, or what the what the plan was, 131 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: or how do we measure success? What are the metrics here? 132 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: That's what they haven't known. This is all in that 133 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: federal court case. 134 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 2: No, I know, I know, which I'll give you a 135 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,919 Speaker 2: lot of credit because hardly any journalist is covering that 136 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 2: court case or has been covering the court case all year, 137 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 2: and that that has revealed. I mean, just the audit 138 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 2: Alan when they hired that firm and found there was 139 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 2: over two billion dollars that they couldn't track. 140 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 3: There are very few problems in Los Angeles County that 141 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 3: aren't somehow related to the presence of this population right now, 142 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 3: large population of homeless people, safety concerns. Look, just yesterday 143 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 3: we had another machete wielding man in downtown LA who 144 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 3: was shot by police. 145 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, and near the Crypto. 146 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 3: Nearcrypto dot com, which is supposed to be one of 147 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 3: the safer parts of downtown Los Angeles. But that guy 148 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 3: was I believe, reported to have been homeless as well. 149 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 3: And it's not just people without a house living on 150 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 3: the streets. A lot of these folks are drug addicted 151 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 3: with mental health issues and create scary environments all the 152 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 3: time all over this community. 153 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 2: No, it is it's mostly that it's drug addiction and 154 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 2: mental health issues. 155 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: Because if you. 156 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 2: Don't have that you figure out how to bounce back 157 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 2: from some kind of you know, life issue that sent 158 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 2: you into the street, because there's plenty of services that 159 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 2: you can go to to climb your way out. If 160 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 2: you want shelter, it's there. If you want an education, 161 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 2: it's there. If you need job training, it's all there, 162 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: all funded. A lot of folks don't want this health. 163 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 2: That's what I have thought from the beginning, and I 164 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 2: have seen. I mean, Gavin Newsom, I remember a few 165 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,559 Speaker 2: years ago, was getting hounded by the media over something 166 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 2: and gee, I simply reject the idea that people don't 167 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 2: want help. Okay, you reject the idea that happens to be. 168 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 3: The trouble or they would love to have an apartment 169 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 3: without the responsibilities right of having the Yeah, well of 170 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 3: course I'd love to, but then you have to go 171 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 3: to work. 172 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 2: All right, Michael, very good, get me all those numbers 173 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 2: if I'm here for you, all right, Michael monks KFI News. 174 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 2: See if you hear any of that, any of those 175 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:39,199 Speaker 2: facts and wisdom and perspective anywhere else on radio, television 176 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:40,079 Speaker 2: or on the news sites. 177 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 178 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 4: m six forty. 179 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 2: I got I got distracted, Debra said, a very relevant 180 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 2: post that Karen bass but on X the more results 181 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 2: from today's report homelessness dropping in Los Angeles leading to 182 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 2: noticeable change not just in the city but throughout the region. 183 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 2: Noticeable change. 184 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 5: Having you noticed a change, John. 185 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 2: No, I could take you to the areas that have 186 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 2: not changed very much. It seems like people are living 187 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 2: There are fewer people in their cars. 188 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: That's not something you'd notice. 189 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 2: There's fewer people living in their vans, fewer people living 190 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 2: in there arevs. These are the decreases that she's highlighting. 191 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 2: Nineteen percent drop in people living in cars, sixteen percent 192 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,199 Speaker 2: drop in r vs. The stuff that's frightening people are 193 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 2: the people on the streets. They are so scary. My 194 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 2: wife and I were going to go for a walk 195 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 2: on the West Side. We got to one of our 196 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 2: favorite walking spots. Oh ironically, it was a guy in 197 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 2: a car, but he had his door open. His entire 198 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 2: car was filled with bags of garbage. I don't know 199 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 2: what he was doing. He was hanging his legs out 200 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 2: of the car. He looked wild eyed and crazy, and 201 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 2: it was in the exact place we were going. 202 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:19,559 Speaker 1: To park. 203 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: And my wife goes, well, we're not walking here because 204 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 2: he had his door. It's like you, you don't know 205 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 2: if he's got weapons inside the car. 206 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 5: Smart, you did the right thing. 207 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 2: But here's what she doesn't right. And this is what 208 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 2: Michael Moss, Michael Moss, Michael Monks, I used to work 209 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 2: with a Michael Moss. Oh you did a long time ago. Yeah, 210 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 2: I'm really. 211 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: I know, I know. I think I'm dehydrated. 212 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 2: Michael Monks had had the story just a few minutes ago, 213 00:10:54,520 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 2: and he highlighted something specifically that I want to return 214 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 2: to because while the homeless might be down four percent 215 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 2: in the county Woho and three point four percent in 216 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 2: the city, we are still looking at a homeless total 217 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 2: that's at seventy two thousand people in the county, forty 218 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 2: three thousand in the city, seventy two and forty three. 219 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 2: And what you need to know that compared to twenty nineteen, 220 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 2: these numbers are way up. Homelessness in the county was 221 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 2: fifty nine thousand people in twenty nineteen. It's now at 222 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:46,439 Speaker 2: seventy two thousand, and that's not good. Remember I was 223 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 2: talking about the distorted headlines that you get like in 224 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 2: the La Times, the distorted stories you get on Channel 225 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 2: five and other places. When it count comes to the 226 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 2: immigration operations, well, same thing with the homeless guarantee. 227 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: You guarantee you every. 228 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 2: Single news outlet is going to say homelessness down, homelessness 229 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 2: down four percent county, three and a half percent city, 230 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 2: And maybe some of them will say, oh, it's down 231 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 2: nineteen percent in cars. Well, the cars are mobile, so 232 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 2: I don't know how accurate that statistic could possibly be. 233 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 2: Check to see if any of them note and you 234 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 2: should note this by the second paragraph of your story. 235 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: I will grant you. 236 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 2: I'll give you that the lead should be four percent 237 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 2: down in the county, three percent down in the city 238 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 2: compared to last year. But the real story is in 239 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 2: twenty nineteen it was fifty eight almost fifty nine thousand 240 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 2: people and now it's seventy two. And why that's important 241 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 2: is since twenty nineteen we have spent many, many billions 242 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 2: of day in tax money. 243 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: The taxes that we. 244 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 2: Spend targeted by the city in county for homelessness didn't 245 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 2: exist before twenty eighteen. That came as the result of 246 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 2: a twenty a pair of twenty seventeen votes on election day, 247 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 2: one for the county, one for the city, two separate 248 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 2: measures that produced billions of dollars a year. So we 249 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 2: have had many billions of dollars for the city in 250 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 2: county since twenty eighteen. And yet the numbers in twenty nineteen, 251 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 2: the county number was fifty nine thousand people and now 252 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 2: it's seventy two thousand. In the City of Los Angeles 253 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen was thirty five thousand homeless people. Now 254 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 2: it's forty three thousand. Well, this isn't good. This is 255 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 2: not a success. And that's why Karen Bass puts a 256 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 2: big graphic on X in black and white and deal 257 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 2: with these big arrows pointing down, down, down. Except she's 258 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 2: not She's not putting out the numbers between twenty nineteen 259 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 2: and twenty twenty five. She's putting the numbers from last 260 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 2: year to this year. When it comes to cars and 261 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 2: vans and RVs, tense makeshift shelters. 262 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: Again, the total numbers in the county. 263 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 2: Are now it's now seventy two thousand, and it used 264 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 2: to be fifty nine thousand, which by the way, is 265 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: still a ridiculously high number. 266 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: Almost this was really bad in twenty nineteen. 267 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 2: That's why we passed those two funding mechanisms in twenty seventeen, 268 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 2: because it was already out of control. Most of this 269 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 2: happened in the last ten t twelve years, but it 270 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 2: really accelerated after twenty nineteen, and suddenly we were in 271 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 2: the seventies in the county and in the mid forties 272 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 2: in the city. So in her city it used to 273 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 2: be thirty five thousand, and now it's forty three thousand. 274 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 2: So there's no success here at all. It's great that 275 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 2: they're cherry picking twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five. 276 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: But we're still living. 277 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 2: We everyone who's very angry and upset in twenty nineteen, 278 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 2: they're still angry and upset. You're not going to get 279 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 2: any applause from anybody normal except the leftist progressive jackals. 280 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: But what's the coverage tonight. 281 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 2: See what all the local stations do with this, See 282 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 2: what the La Times does with this. They'll pretend that 283 00:15:54,120 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: life didn't even exist before last year. It's just gonna 284 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 2: to be Oh, we of the numbers compared to twenty 285 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 2: twenty four. See if any of them admits that there 286 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 2: is a significant increase in twenty nineteen still to this day, 287 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 2: and all of it's intolerable. The twenty nineteen numbers were intolerable, 288 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 2: twenty twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five, all of it. 289 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 2: It was bad in twenty seventeen. That's why we passed 290 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 2: the money. 291 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 292 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 4: six forty. 293 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: We are on every day from one until four o'clock. 294 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 2: After four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand on the 295 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 2: iHeart app and you can listen to what you missed. 296 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 2: One o'clock hour, we had Bill a sale on the 297 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 2: US Attorney for the Central District of California, which is 298 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 2: Los Angeles and a large area that surrounds the city, 299 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 2: and he is filing an appeal he in his office 300 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 2: against that wacky judge who claimed that the federal government 301 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 2: has no right to be round up these illegal aliens 302 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 2: that they're rounding up, claiming that they're just being rounded 303 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 2: up based on their race. Saley says that's not true. 304 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 2: It's a whole combination of factors which is entirely legal. 305 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 2: So he denies that's The judge also put out a 306 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 2: list of things that she says ought to be done. 307 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 2: If you're going to do immigration enforcement, it's not her call. 308 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 2: She's a district court judge. She's not the President of 309 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 2: the United States. He has he and his executive branch 310 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 2: have sole control over the policies. 311 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: Of the Immigration Department. 312 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 2: I don't under see all do these I'm trying to 313 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,880 Speaker 2: figure out are they stupid, are they ignorant? Or do 314 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,439 Speaker 2: they know this stuff? And they're just creating havoc for 315 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:56,399 Speaker 2: the sake of creating havoc. The federal government's in charge 316 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 2: of immigration, period They're in charge of immigrants, whether you 317 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 2: think their laws are too lenient or too strict. They 318 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 2: were too lenient, and some states tried to set their 319 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 2: an immigration policy and they were smacked down by the 320 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 2: Supreme Court. I didn't like that, but that's what the 321 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:20,919 Speaker 2: constitution says. So the Yeah, the Constitution says that you 322 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,880 Speaker 2: have to accept it even if you don't like it. 323 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 2: I didn't like it, but hey, that's what it says 324 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 2: in black and white. Now the situation's reversed. Everybody think 325 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 2: Trump has gone overboard. Doesn't matter what you think. Constitution 326 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 2: gives the president the power, whether it's Trump, Obama, Biden, 327 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 2: doesn't matter. 328 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:43,199 Speaker 1: They get to call the shots. 329 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 2: A district judge does not, Karen Bass doesn't, and Gavin 330 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 2: Newsom doesn't. They're all just emotionally manipulating people to get 331 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 2: them all whipped up. 332 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: And they've got them whipped up to now. 333 00:18:54,560 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 2: Ice agents are getting assaulted with rocks and bottles and concrete. 334 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 2: People are firing bullets at them here in California, in Texas. 335 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 2: We'll have more on that coming up in the three 336 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 2: o'clock hour. We're also going to have Tracy park on 337 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 2: in the three o'clock hour. She's the LA councilman for 338 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 2: the West Side my counseling, and we're going to address, 339 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 2: among other things, the one hundred and one million dollars 340 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 2: that Gavin Newsom is deploying for affordable housing in the Palisades. 341 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: People in the Palisades. 342 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 2: And I drove around the Palisades, my wife and I yesterday, 343 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 2: and you know what it's like there right now on 344 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 2: a Sunday, grant you it was a Sunday, so workers 345 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 2: were taking the day off. It is still eerily quiet. 346 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 2: There's nothing being constructed. After six months, there's nothing being 347 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 2: built at all. There's not a single structure I think one. 348 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 2: I think there's one commercial structure that I saw, and 349 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 2: they had their wood frame going up, but it's in 350 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:10,640 Speaker 2: a state of suspended animation. It's like a Twilight Zone episode. 351 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 2: All the people are gone, all the buildings are gone, 352 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 2: and nobody is rebuilding anything. But Newsom jumped on his 353 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 2: affordable housing horse and he found one hundred million dollars. 354 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 2: So we'll talk with Tracy Park about that. I've been 355 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 2: talking a lot today about the extreme amount of false information, 356 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 2: twisted slanted information in the local media, and of course 357 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 2: you're going to discuss that goes back to the La Times. 358 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:53,679 Speaker 2: They have some bubblehead writer named Julia Wick, and I 359 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 2: always noticed the bylines, and I notice the most egregious 360 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 2: of the writers who basically bull crap at you, just 361 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 2: steaming piles. Julia Wick is a leading is a leading 362 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 2: bull crap shoveler. She does a profile here on a 363 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 2: guy named Rick Cole. Rick Cole, she writes, has forgotten 364 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,959 Speaker 2: more about municipal government than most of us will ever know. 365 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 2: Former mayor of Pasadena, City Manager in Ventura Azusa in 366 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 2: Santa Monica, Deputy mayor of Los Angeles. He's seventy two 367 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 2: now he returned for a third time to La City 368 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 2: Hall in twenty twenty two to be the chief deputy 369 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 2: to the City Controller Kenneth Mahea. And now he announced 370 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:50,679 Speaker 2: he's leaving, and what follows is a question and answer session, 371 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 2: which he says, very lightly edited, condensed for clarity. Tell 372 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 2: me about the speech you gave it the council, what 373 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 2: motivated it? Why are you so armed about the future 374 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 2: of Los Angeles? Do you think government is wasting tax 375 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 2: payer money? What would it look like to fix these problems? 376 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 1: Okay? 377 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 2: And I noticed right away, and Daniel Guss noticed right away. 378 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 2: We've been corresponding a little bit back and forth. He's 379 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 2: the journalist and he's got a Substack column, Daniel Guss 380 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,639 Speaker 2: at substant Daniel Guss dot substack dot com. 381 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: And we both noticed the same thing. 382 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 2: Julia Wick didn't mention that this Rick Cole, this deputy 383 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 2: city Controller, did not mention that he resigned very shortly 384 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 2: after his twin daughters were arrested for assault with a 385 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,120 Speaker 2: deadly weapon against law enforcement during the Ice riots. 386 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: So as she wrote that. 387 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 2: Their conversation published today was very lightly edited and condensed 388 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:59,719 Speaker 2: for clarity, I assumed and he assumed he neverd she 389 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 2: never asked Cole about the two daughters and what that 390 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 2: had to do with his sudden resignation. So he's emailed 391 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,880 Speaker 2: the following questions to Julia Wick, journalist. 392 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: Number one. 393 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 2: Were there any conditions that you had to agree to 394 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 2: in order to have the interview with Rick Cole? If so, 395 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 2: what were these conditions. Did you ask Cole whether his 396 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 2: leaving the city of La Job had anything to do 397 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 2: with the criminal charges against his twin daughters? 398 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 1: If so, how did he respond? 399 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 2: If you did not, why not did you ask him 400 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 2: whether he or any government official intempted to get the 401 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 2: charges against his twin daughters dropped or reduced so they 402 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 2: could be released without bail. Do you believe the Times 403 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 2: readers would have liked an answer to some of all 404 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 2: or all of these questions? I mean, I find it 405 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 2: outrageous that you talked to a guy who's two daughters, 406 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 2: by the way, work in government. They're in their twenties, 407 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 2: they're both arrested for felonies for this assault with a 408 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 2: deadly weapon situation against law enforcement. Can you imagine you 409 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 2: have two daughters accused of assault with a deadly weapon 410 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 2: and you work in a high ranking position at city Hall. 411 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 2: The Ally Times interviews you to ask about your leaving office, 412 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 2: and Julia Wick doesn't bring it up. And that is 413 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 2: the key to all this bias. Biases is not a 414 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 2: strong enough word. This is this is deception. I want 415 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 2: to know from Rick Cole, how did you end up 416 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 2: with two daughters getting arrested on Ice Riot Day? 417 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: How did you raise your daughters? 418 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 2: You've worked in government all your life at many different cities. 419 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: I had never heard of this guy. Usually a good thing. 420 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 2: Usually guys like that, they're just you know, doing their jobs, 421 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 2: staying below the radar, no corruption, no controversies. You know, 422 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 2: I wonder. I don't know if he's a good or 423 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 2: a bad guy. Again, I never heard of him. But 424 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 2: you've got two lunatic daughters, assault with a deadly weapon 425 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 2: against against law enforcement officials. 426 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: Those are terrorist style charges. So what's that? 427 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 2: That's not a story like if Julia Wick has editors nobody? 428 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,400 Speaker 2: The La Times said, well, wait a second, what about 429 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,120 Speaker 2: the crazy daughters? At least mentioned it in the paragraph 430 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 2: and say Rick Cole didn't want to talk about any 431 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 2: of that. He asked me not to ask him those 432 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 2: questions because he wasn't going to answer them. Just let 433 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,159 Speaker 2: me know otherwise, I think you either weren't aware you forgot, 434 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 2: or you were intentionally covering it up, or you made 435 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 2: some kind of sneaky deal and you didn't want to 436 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 2: admit to it, like I said. 437 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: With Channel five. 438 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 2: Burying the details of that cal State Channel Islands professor 439 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 2: who threw a tear gas canister at ICE agents and 440 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 2: is arrested on felony charges, federal felony charges, and ninety 441 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 2: plus of Carlos Cescedo's report on Channel five was character testimony. 442 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 2: This for this wacky professor Jonathan Caravello who looks like 443 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 2: a deranged mental patient in his mudshot photo. 444 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: If you look at it, you'll see it. 445 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 2: We got more coming up, and we've got Tracy Park, 446 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 2: the LA City Council Woman. After three, Deborah Mark Park 447 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 2: and Mark, you're listening. 448 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 4: To John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 449 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 2: We've got Tracy Park coming up, the LA City Councilwoman 450 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 2: west side. She represents Palisades Park, Palisads Park, Pacific Palisades 451 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 2: and up in Pacific Palisades is where Dosh He's sending 452 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:19,159 Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars to build affordable housing for some reason. 453 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 2: That's on a fast track, but not any of the 454 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 2: permits coming out of Karen Bass's office. And we're going 455 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 2: to talk to Tracy about that and other things coming up. 456 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 2: We should take a minute to congratulate a vagrant who 457 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 2: won a million dollars in the lottery in San Luis Obispo. 458 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 2: We got this Instagram video audio from thrifty dot Beaches 459 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 2: on Instagram. Play cut number four if you will. My 460 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,199 Speaker 2: friend here just won the lottery for a million dollars 461 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 2: in slow. 462 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: Are you comfortable saying that like being posted? Sure? So 463 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: you want a million dollars? 464 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 5: I want a million dollars, Karen Slowe that said he's 465 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 5: at the store, and yes, I just can't wait to get. 466 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: Off the streets. You can't wait to get off the streets. Brother, 467 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: that's sick. That's so dope. That's crazy. 468 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:18,360 Speaker 2: Spends one a million dollars, that's crazy. Like two stoners 469 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 2: on a sidewalk, that's sick. That's dope. Those two will 470 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 2: be working for NASA soon. So this homeless guy, how 471 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 2: much you want to Betty blows the whole million and 472 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 2: he's homeless. Within what I say, five years, he's back 473 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 2: on the streets. 474 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 5: Hopefully somebody will get him a good financial planner. 475 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got to listen to the financial planner. 476 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 2: True, it's like those I mean, they've done whole I've 477 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 2: seen whole shows done on lottery winners who blew a 478 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 2: lot more than a million dollars, and usually you figure 479 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 2: out why they were buying lottery tickets to begin with. 480 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 2: Why they were so broke they had to buy lottery 481 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 2: tickets is because you know, they've got all kinds of 482 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 2: personality disorders, h and drug addictions and alcohol addictions, and 483 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 2: it's certainly why you end up homeless. So I don't 484 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 2: know if you hand out a million dollars to just 485 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 2: random alcoholics or drug addicts. 486 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 5: Why didn't you try that, John Wy, don't you do 487 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 5: an experiment? 488 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 2: Well, you know, I get this was on Scratchers he 489 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 2: got and Michelle Q buys me a Scratcher card every 490 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 2: year for my birthday. 491 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 5: Not a dollar i've won before, I won twenty bucks, you. 492 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:40,479 Speaker 1: Buy a lottery tickets. 493 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 5: No, she gives me Scratchers for my birthday. 494 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: Oh was that right? And you got twenty bucks yes, 495 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: and I got zero? 496 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 5: Well it was one time. 497 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,479 Speaker 1: I don't remember. I don't remember you sharing the twenty bucks. 498 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 5: I probably didn't, toughly selfish. 499 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 2: Come on, are either of you in the lottlepool that 500 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 2: she does too? Yes, I'm not, but my wife entered 501 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 2: against my will. Oh okay, so you're technically in it. 502 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 2: Technically in it, But I've got nothing out of that either. 503 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. No, we rarely get anything. I mean it's some 504 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: kind of a racket. 505 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 5: No, because if if the day happens where we're big winters, 506 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 5: can you imagine the fomo? 507 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, that's exactly why I joined it. Yes, 508 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: I can't be the only schmuck that didn't get it. 509 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 5: You'd be so unhappy everybody walks away by your. 510 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 1: We're quitting You're exactly, I'd be the only one left 511 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: working here. 512 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 2: So if I win it that I buy the place, well, 513 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 2: maybe an institute. 514 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 1: You have to work here five days a week. Yeah, 515 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: it's right. 516 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, there's no remote. 517 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 2: Working, no no working from home, and no cooking any 518 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 2: weird food in the in the lunch room either, all 519 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 2: those horrific odors. 520 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: Uh and no. 521 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 5: Compost no comp okay. 522 00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: God, what was that? Sorry? I think you had it 523 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: on your news last week. 524 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 2: It had the word compost in it and it was 525 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 2: about there was they'd done some study that a tremendous 526 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 2: amount of food is wasted by people who rent out 527 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 2: homes for short term like Airbnb style rentals. Yeah, and 528 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 2: that there's all this food wasted. So this goodie good 529 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 2: organization thought that there should be some kind of law 530 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 2: passed where the owners of the airbnb tell the renters 531 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 2: make recommendations on where they could take their food before 532 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 2: they go back home. 533 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. 534 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 5: Sure, can you imagine doing that? 535 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,479 Speaker 2: You know, a list of like food banks or something 536 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 2: places to donate the excess food, or or where they 537 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 2: could compost the food. Can you imagine that? I mean, 538 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 2: there's no end to these busy bodies and their ideas. 539 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 2: It's like I'm on vacation and I can take my leftover. 540 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: Food getard list. 541 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 5: Okay, so we can are here here, here, Let's go here. 542 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 5: Let's go there. 543 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 1: Oh they're closed. 544 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 5: Okay, we're going to go here. 545 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 2: Before we go to the airport, before we return the 546 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 2: rental car, before we get the kids all packed up. 547 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 2: Let's make let's make sure we go to the compost 548 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 2: facility in town. 549 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 5: You're not a good citizen, Have. 550 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 1: You composted anything in the at the bucket in the air? 551 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 5: Have not? 552 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:23,120 Speaker 1: Yesterday? 553 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 2: Just yesterday, all the weird little irritations of Newsom. I 554 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 2: wish he wasn't on my mind so much in the legislature. 555 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 2: But we went to a restaurant in Malibu near the beach, 556 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 2: and the waiter comes and he gives us our food 557 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 2: and our drink, and he's walking away, and I got 558 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 2: to go, oh, can I. 559 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 1: Have a straw? 560 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 2: Because they're not allowed to hand a straw. And I 561 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 2: don't know why that bothers me so much. It's this 562 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 2: weird little infringement, you know, just something to make more 563 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 2: friction in life. Is that I have to, like like 564 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 2: halfway get up and flag him down so he could 565 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 2: bring back the straw because he doesn't want to violate 566 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 2: state law. 567 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: Right. 568 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:08,959 Speaker 2: I go to the grocery store. We're coming back from 569 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000 Speaker 2: the beach. Stop at the grocery store. I had to 570 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 2: get some lettuce for the lizard. I get the lettuce 571 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 2: and it's dandelion greens which are really leafy, and the 572 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 2: stalk is too big for that flimsy compost bag they 573 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 2: give you now used to give you a big thick 574 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 2: plastic bag to put it in, and so on the 575 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 2: front what I'm trying to stuff the composts. I'm trying 576 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:35,320 Speaker 2: to stuff the dandelions, dandelion greens, the lizard lettuce into 577 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 2: this compostable bag. And I couldn't go in because it's 578 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 2: really flimsy. It doesn't open up, it sticks together. The 579 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 2: whole bag is the worst design for a bag ever, 580 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 2: and it doesn't fit. And I'm thinking, you know, it's 581 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 2: more friction, right, more unnecessary, stupid friction. 582 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 5: Did you have to have a bag that was the 583 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 5: only thing you bought? You really didn't need it? 584 00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 1: Oh? I needed it for the lettuce? 585 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 5: Oh you didn't. You can just grab the bundle of 586 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 5: it and pay for it and go. You're buying other things, 587 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,960 Speaker 5: Well I had one other thing. Oh well then never mind. 588 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 5: But I just I know I understand they those bags. 589 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 5: I know exactly what you're talking about. They are a paint. 590 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 2: Somebody has to repeal that law. How much would it 591 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:23,880 Speaker 2: take to finance a statewide referendum to repeal the compost 592 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 2: bag law for vegetables and fruits in grocery stores. 593 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: That is so. 594 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,320 Speaker 2: Annoying, And I've complained to everybody at the store, and 595 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 2: I know there's nothing they can do about it, although 596 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 2: one guy started cursing out Newsome over it, and I 597 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 2: do that just to amuse myself. I want to see 598 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 2: what other people think. All the grocery store employees agree 599 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 2: that it's a terrible bag. But this is why he's 600 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,239 Speaker 2: on my mind. And then by the time I get 601 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,240 Speaker 2: to work on Monday, you know, I'm ready to throttle 602 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 2: somebody because I've been wrestling with composting bags and begging 603 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,279 Speaker 2: people for straws and thinking how many different ways, and 604 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 2: then you need when you leave California go to another state. 605 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 1: It's easier, but we got to stop. Sorry once I 606 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:04,880 Speaker 1: get started. 607 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 2: Deborah mark Oh, Tracy Park next CAFI AM six forty. Hey, 608 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. 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