1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,159 Speaker 1: day from one until four. And if you, oh, you 4 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: might be one of these people that has a job 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,639 Speaker 1: and now you've been ordered into the office. That's why 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 1: we provide a public service John Cobell Show on demand. 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: It's the podcast version of the radio show. So if 8 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: you're not in attendance between one and four, a little 9 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: bit after four o'clock, we post it and you can 10 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: listen to that for anytime the rest of the day 11 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: and forever. Moistline is eight seven seven mois s eighty 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: six eight seven seven Moist eighty six. The final calls 13 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four will air them a Friday in 14 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: the three o'clock hour twice. You can also use the 15 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. When I came to California, 16 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: I've said this many times. San Francisco we visited years 17 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: ago and it was the most beautiful city I had 18 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: ever seen, and the last time I left San Francisco 19 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: a few months back, it had become one of the 20 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: most disgusting cities I've ever seen, probably the most disgusting 21 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: in America. I've seen a few others overseas, and who 22 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 1: presided over the decline of San Francisco over the past 23 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: few years. It's the mayor London Breed, who's now on 24 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: her way out. She lost an election to Daniel Lourie. 25 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: Lourie is heir to the Levi Strauss fortune. He's a 26 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: nonprofit executive and he is going to try to resuscitate 27 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 1: really has become a tragic story. One of the people 28 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: who have helped chronicle what's gone on in San Francisco 29 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 1: the last few years is Richie Greenberg, the writer and commentator, 30 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: and we have him on again because Richie, welcome, Hello from. 31 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 2: San Francisco, home of tsunami warnings and tornado warnings and earthquakes. 32 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 2: And I'm glad to be with her day. 33 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: And that's the that's all that is on the least 34 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: your problems. So London Breed loses the election and on 35 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: her way out, she's saying, no matter what the results said, 36 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 1: I'm still a winner. 37 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 2: Well, yes, she's a winner in her mind and to 38 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 2: those people who benefited tremendously off of her being the 39 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 2: mayor over the last few years. Of course, she's a winner. 40 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 2: There a winner, and I predict right now it's going 41 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 2: to be a little bit difficult for the incoming mayor 42 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 2: to try and pry these fingers, pry away the nonprofits 43 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 2: and others who have been drifting off of the San 44 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:47,239 Speaker 2: Francisco taxpayers that were established commissions and departments and initiatives 45 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: that were started by London Breed. That's going to be 46 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 2: a challenge for the incoming mayor. 47 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: I guess those are the other winners you were referring to, 48 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: and this would be the homeless mental illness industrial complex 49 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: that has grown into a huge force. 50 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're also leaving out something that's very important 51 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 2: and I'm going to say pretty much unique to San 52 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 2: Francisco is that we are one of the cities that 53 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 2: they made a hard push for reparations. And so even 54 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 2: though the reparations plan itself, which I've written extensively about 55 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 2: and done a deep dive, even though they shelled the plan, 56 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 2: many aspects of the plan wound up being put into 57 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: operation anyway, but not package as reparations. So there is 58 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: a specific initiative that was established under London Breed called 59 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 2: the dream Keeper Initiative, which was funneling millions of dollars 60 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 2: through certain recipients Black African American in San Francisco, So 61 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 2: that is also they are winners per se as well. 62 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: Well, can can can How much can Daniel Lurie do? 63 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: Can he? Can he turn off the money spigot to 64 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: all these nonprofits, whether it's over reparations or it's the 65 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: mental illness and homeless h grift that's going on. I mean, 66 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: I mean, what what what can he do to end 67 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: the drain of taxpayers money to organizations that aren't doing 68 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: anybody any good. 69 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, there's going to need to be a very 70 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 2: serious sit down and concerted effort between him, the executive office, 71 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:38,239 Speaker 2: the mayor, and our board of Supervisors, our city council, 72 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 2: because they deal with not only these different programs, but 73 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 2: they deal with the funding as well. And one of 74 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 2: the things that is the major responsibility of a mayor 75 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 2: is to do the budgets. They do the budgeting, so 76 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 2: they say, Okay, the doors are open, let's start talking 77 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: about next year and the year after. What will our 78 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 2: plan be for you know, giving out the money to 79 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 2: these different departments and different agencies, And you have people 80 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 2: coming in that are begging for money. They're different apartments. 81 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 2: We need, we need this amount, we need these number 82 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 2: millions or tens of millions or hundreds of millions. And 83 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 2: that's what makes the mayor's job so complicated because they 84 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 2: have to look at how much the budget is and 85 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 2: look at what who is asking and see, you know, 86 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 2: the deficit. We're going to be approaching nearly a billion 87 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 2: dollar deficit coming up in the next year or so, 88 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 2: almost a billion dollars billion dollars one billion. Right now 89 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 2: it was eight hundred and sixty seven or eight seventy 90 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 2: six a million, and next year is going to be 91 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:51,919 Speaker 2: even worse because we have all of these organizations and 92 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 2: agencies and nonprofits that have been demanding money, and we 93 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 2: have a lower property value, so people are asking to 94 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 2: have their property taxes reevaluated. We have a decimated retail core. 95 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 2: We have a still our office the downtown office segment 96 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 2: is they're they're mostly empty as well. So we've lost 97 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 2: a lot of revenue and will continue to lose a 98 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: lot of revenue. 99 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: So the the the office is emptied out and a 100 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: lot of workers are still not back, and that has 101 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: really ruined business for all the restaurants and bars and 102 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 1: retail shops in the area because people used to do 103 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: all their shopping and entertainment. 104 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 2: Uh Domino effect, nomin no effect. 105 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: So the tax you know, the tax money from those 106 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 1: establishments are gone. The tax money that came from these 107 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,239 Speaker 1: these companies that worked in San Francisco, that's gone, and 108 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: and and many blocks are just empty. There's no people 109 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,159 Speaker 1: and there's no money anymore. 110 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 2: Correct. And I often go downtown to do certain work 111 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 2: and around where my office used to be because I 112 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 2: left earlier this year. I finally gave up in I 113 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 2: think it was in February. I gave notice, and that 114 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 2: was that I had shared office space right in our 115 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 2: downtown financial district because people weren't going there anymore, and 116 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 2: clients said that they just didn't want to come into 117 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 2: the city anymore. But then there's also another challenge is 118 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 2: bringing in tourism, and San Francisco relies hugely, a very 119 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 2: high percent on tourist dollars, not only hotel rooms and 120 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 2: hotel taxes, but the small businesses that also catered to 121 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 2: visiting people to the city. And until we are able 122 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 2: to get or not way, but the mayor is able 123 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 2: to get a handle on crime homelessness, drug dealing, the 124 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 2: drug addicts, intents, and graffiti and safety and all of 125 00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 2: those very well known, very documented issues. We won't be 126 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 2: able to turn the city around. And that is why 127 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 2: we're hoping someone from the outside, Daniel Lurie, will be 128 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 2: able to make a difference. And right now we are 129 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 2: supporting him, but we're watching his statements that he's made 130 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 2: over the last couple of weeks, the last couple of days, 131 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 2: and we're hope, we're cautious. 132 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, let me ask you something because I'm you know, 133 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: I'm getting the following statistics from the La Times, which 134 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: I don't trust at all. Hannah while she writes and 135 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: she says various criminal categories, robberies down twenty two percent, 136 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,319 Speaker 1: burglaries down twelve percent, motor vehicle theft down twenty one percent, 137 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: homicides down, she's clearing homeless encampments. Breed is claiming sixty 138 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: percent fewer tents across the city. Is that true? And 139 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: if that were true, then why was Breed chased out? 140 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: Was it too little, too late? Or these are just 141 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: a bunch of phony numbers I'm looking at. 142 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 2: I believe it's both the phony numbers. Ways to explain 143 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 2: those numbers and too little, too late, that she bears 144 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 2: responsibility for everything that happens, going back to when she 145 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 2: was first elected in the twenty eighteen in a race 146 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 2: that actually me yours truly happened to run in against 147 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 2: her as well in twenty eighteen. But you know, I 148 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 2: have been quoted numerous times recently that when you empty 149 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 2: out the businesses, when they have closed up, boarded up 150 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,079 Speaker 2: and left town, and you have blocks and blocks of 151 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 2: very little or to no cafes, restaurants, retail, then there's 152 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 2: nothing to rob anymore. So the criminals leave, they've left town. 153 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 2: So at the beginning, back in twenty twenty or twenty 154 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 2: twenty one, when we had those massive looting events and 155 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 2: coordinated looting and the retail and the smash and grabs 156 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 2: of both cars and shops, uh, when they're just not there. 157 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 2: They're not there. So what are you going to do? 158 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: You don't have any drops, you don't have any potential 159 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: targets for crime. 160 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 2: Exactly exactly. Now, that's that's a realistic, logical explanation to 161 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,079 Speaker 2: say crime went down, Well, that's because there's nothing to 162 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 2: rob anymore. Yeah, I believe that's totally I. 163 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: Hadn't thought of that. Now you're you're you're probably right 164 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: that that that makes that makes perfect sense here because 165 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: I know they moved over to Oakland's. 166 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 2: Yet, and that's what happened to Oakland. So now they're 167 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 2: still they're just like a year behind us. 168 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: I just have another minute. But don't you marvel at 169 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: how the people in San Francisco put up with all 170 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: this civil destruction for so many years. It's it's actually 171 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: frightening that they were willing to endure all this without 172 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: any serious pushback. 173 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 2: Well, they or we. I'm part of that. I moved 174 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,199 Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one, so I've 175 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 2: been here for twenty four years or so. Not every 176 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 2: square inch of the city is under siege by the 177 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 2: drug addicts. There are there are areas that are better. 178 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 2: So there are the core parts of the city that 179 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 2: do have the humanitarian disaster that are still ongoing today. 180 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 2: And that is one of the things that Daniel Lurie 181 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 2: promised on day one he was going to be tackling that. 182 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 2: It's not just a tenderloin, but it's maybe half a 183 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 2: mile south of there, in an area Soma south of 184 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:42,559 Speaker 2: Market Soma sixth Street and Mission. Sixth and Mission is 185 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 2: another ground zero. He promised to go after that with 186 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 2: the drug dealers and dealing and homeless and all that. 187 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 2: That is what he promises from day one. He even 188 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 2: tweeted that yesterday or today is something. So we are hopeful. 189 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 2: I am hopeful. We're hoping that our hard work and 190 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 2: our tax dollars are to be used prudently from this 191 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 2: point going forward. 192 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: All right, Richie Greenberg, thank you very much. 193 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 2: My pleasure. Thank you. 194 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: From San Francisco Mayor London Breed finally been kicked out of office. 195 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,839 Speaker 1: You got a business executive going to be running things 196 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: and try to put the place back together. 197 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 198 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:26,079 Speaker 3: six forty. 199 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: Follow us at John Cobelt Radio at John co Belt Radio, 200 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: and we are seven hundred and seventy four followers away 201 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,199 Speaker 1: from twenty thousand. I was just a couple of weeks ago, 202 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: and we were a lot more than that, seven hundred 203 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: and seventy four followers to go, trying to get there 204 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: by the new year. After two thirty, this ruined by morning. 205 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 1: I'm going through all the news sites. I found two 206 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: two excuse me two two news articles about Kamala Harris 207 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 1: becoming governor of California, and I thought, oh, come on, now, 208 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: stop it. This can't be. And these are articles that 209 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: are explaining how it could happen and why it could happen, 210 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 1: and we'll get to it after two thirty. This is 211 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: good news. Kevin Kylie. We've hit him on the show 212 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: a number of times. He is a former state legislator 213 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: now a congressman from northern California. Kevin Kylie, he's going 214 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:32,959 Speaker 1: to introduce a federal bill that would cut off all 215 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: the funding for the failed California High Speed Rail project, 216 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: and that's going to save the United States of America 217 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: at least eight billion dollars. California High Speed Rail is 218 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: nothing but a giant, corrupt money suck. There is no 219 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: other project like this in the world. Trust me. I've looked. 220 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,319 Speaker 1: I have. I've gone to foreign countries looking for a 221 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 1: worse project. There is nothing. This is the most money 222 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: spent on a project that's produced nothing, absolutely nothing, and 223 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: it's going to be many, many years before they project 224 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: any kind of rail service will be available. And all 225 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 1: they're looking at is Bakersfield. To me, Orr said the 226 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: construction estimates, which started sixteen plus years ago. The original 227 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: estimate is thirty three billion dollars. May I remind you 228 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: the thirty three billion dollars was going to get us 229 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: high speed rail that ran from Sacramento to San Francisco 230 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, through Anaheim and down to San Diego. 231 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: That was the original plan, Sacramento to San Diego and 232 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: everywhere in between for thirty three billion. Right now the 233 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: projection is one hundred and thirty five billion, and you're 234 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: only going to get Bakersfield to Merced one hundred and 235 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 1: thirty five billion. They're desperately trying to connect Bakersfield and 236 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: Merced because then they then they'll say, hey, look what 237 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: we did. And they've never heard of the term don't 238 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: throw good money after bad. This is such an embarrassing disaster. 239 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: And the thing is they keep spending the money and 240 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: nobody in government ever addresses all the horrible waste. This 241 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: is like living in East Germany or the Soviet Union, 242 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: where all kinds of terrible disasters happen. It's like even 243 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: when Chernobyl imploded back in back in the Soviet Union, 244 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: all the officials just look the other way, nothing happened, 245 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: and the high speed rail is our financial version of Chernobyl. 246 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: It is a complete disaster. Now, the vic Rnaswami confirmed 247 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: last week that the DOGE Commission is going to be 248 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: looking at removing all the funding from high speed rail. 249 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: So Kevin Kyleie is going to introduce a bill and 250 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: see this will carry some weight, because you'll have a 251 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: California Republican convincing the rest of the California well convincing 252 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: the rest of the Republican House and Republican Senate that 253 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: it's time to end this thing. Now. Trump has other 254 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: ways to end it, but the most permanent way would 255 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: have Congress pass a bill that Trump signs. He could 256 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: end it by blocking the money through the Federal Railroad Administration. 257 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: He could issue executive orders, he could have the Department 258 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: of Justice tie up the construction with legal issues. But 259 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: as as one expert here says, Tylie's bill is the 260 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 1: cleanest way to do it. It would be simply passed 261 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: legislation that Trump would never veto. Trump can stop funding 262 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: in other ways if for some reason it didn't get through, 263 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 1: but this would be much more permanent, and this would 264 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,679 Speaker 1: be a great way to stick it to Gavin Newsom, 265 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: because Newsom has presided over almost the entire history of 266 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: high speed rail. Remember he was lieutenant governor for eight 267 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: years and six years as governor. That's fourteen out of 268 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: the sixteen years Gavin Newsom has held a high office 269 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: in California and watched all the billions of dollars go 270 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: into the toilet. And he tried, he wanted to stop it, 271 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 1: but he didn't have the guts because he's a he's 272 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 1: one of these pajama boys, and he couldn't stand up 273 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: to the instruction unions which wanted to suck out the 274 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: money to give their members make work, fake work jobs, 275 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: which is what this is all. That's the only thing 276 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: at Brager are all the jobs that created You created 277 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 1: fake jobs. You have hundreds of workers working every day 278 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: producing nothing. There is no rail and there's not going 279 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: to be any rail. They haven't even bought up all 280 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: the land yet after sixteen plus years, the state doesn't 281 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: even own all the land that they need. So hopefully 282 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: Kevin Kylie's bill will be this will be the final flush. 283 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: That's what they ought to call the bill, the final flush. 284 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: Now when we return, this really ruined my morning. Some 285 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 1: people ought to get off the stage and stay off 286 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: the stage, and Kamala Harris is trying to find a 287 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 1: way to climb back on the stage and maybe run 288 00:18:54,200 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 1: for governor. This, this is horrifying. She's an absolute idiot 289 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: and she's got no business running California. She had no 290 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 1: business running for president. I'm seriously, well, I'll save it 291 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: till we come back. There you go, I what a genius. 292 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 293 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 3: six forty. 294 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock, Alex Stone from ABC News 295 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: is going to give us the latest information on the 296 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,919 Speaker 1: shooting at that Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin earlier in 297 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: the day. Turns out it's a girl who did the shooting, 298 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 1: seventeen year old female. I can't I cannot remember the 299 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: last time a girl was the perpetrator. 300 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 4: What's so funny is that earlier today you're like, of 301 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 4: course it's a guy. 302 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I did I said that to you off there. 303 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: Of course it's a guy. 304 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 4: And it turns out in this case when you said 305 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 4: that that it's not I know. 306 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: Well, let's be shore, is there really a girl or 307 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 1: as somebody with a confused sexual situation. 308 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 4: As of now, we are being told a seventeen year old. 309 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 1: Female, seventeen year old girl, this guy just can't recall 310 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: the last time that happened, all right, onto something that 311 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,239 Speaker 1: this whole, this whole issue should not really exist. In 312 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: a normal world, nobody would consider Kamala Harris to become 313 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: governor of California. Yet not. I read not one but 314 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 1: two articles today, one in the La Times and one 315 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 1: in one CNN. George Skelton Is this ancient columnist? He's 316 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: somewhere in his mid eighties, I think, who still writes 317 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: for the La Times? And the headline says Kamala Harris 318 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: should run for governor if she wants to solve California's problems? Well, 319 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: how does does anyone think Kamala Harris can solve any political, 320 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 1: any public problem? What indication has there been? She helped 321 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 1: create some of the worst problems in the state when 322 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: she wrote the title in summary for Prop. Forty seven, 323 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,679 Speaker 1: the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act that unleashed so much crime, 324 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 1: so much public drug addiction, and so much homelessness. Much 325 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: of the problems over the last ten years goes back 326 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: to the day that she or someone on her staff 327 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: typed the words safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, thereby lying 328 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 1: to the public on what Prop forty seven was going 329 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: to do. The intention was to further clear out the 330 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: prisons and the jails and not put anyone away for anything. 331 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: George Gascon was the co writer. So what do you 332 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 1: think the intent was? She teamed up with George Gascon 333 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,400 Speaker 1: to massively deceive the public and create an intolerable situation 334 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:12,479 Speaker 1: of crime and homelessness and public drug addiction. And she's 335 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: the one considered a favorite to be governor. Why would 336 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: you do that? And how come nobody in the media 337 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: asks that? Am I insane? She really wrote that that 338 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,239 Speaker 1: really had an effect on Prop forty seven passing, and 339 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: it really was this disgusting disaster which we just repealed. 340 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: We just repealed by a seventy to thirty margin, most 341 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: of Prop forty seven. So why would you do this? 342 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 1: We just got rid of the guy who wrote Prop 343 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: forty seven, George Gascone. He got kicked out of office 344 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: in La County. I mean, the two most left wing 345 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: disasters of a city are La and San Francisco. The 346 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 1: mayor's been kicked out of San Francis. The DA has 347 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: been kicked out. Several school board members were kicked out. 348 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: Here in La the DA was finally kicked out. Why 349 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 1: would you go back to Kamala Harris. She's a loser, 350 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 1: she's a failure. She never did anything, but oh, let's 351 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: go to her vice presidency. I'm sorry to keep beating 352 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: this dead horse, but really, she was in charge of 353 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 1: the border and ten million people crossed it. Total failure. 354 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: And we saw what she's like as a candidate. She 355 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: can't talk, she can't think, She had no ideas, she 356 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: made no sense most of the time. I mean, I 357 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: wonder if she's got really some kind of brain disorder. 358 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 1: And then she though. The only thing she's put out 359 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: publicly since U since the loss was a video to 360 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 1: her supporters where it seemed like she was drunk. In fact, 361 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: much of the time when she spoke and we played 362 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: all the clips, she sounded like she was stoned. You 363 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: can't be serious. We already have a disaster of a governor. 364 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: Why would you follow up Gavin Newsom with Kamala Harris. 365 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 1: Ah Newsom comes across as Albert Einstein next to Kamala Harris, 366 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: and I am right on this, and you know you 367 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: feel the same way. Who wants her? Who the hell 368 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 1: would want Kamala Harris? She has been a failure and 369 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 1: we just watched her for one hundred days. You can't say, well, 370 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: you don't really know the real Kamala Harris. You know, 371 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: behind closed Doris she was from very of fact. No 372 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: she wasn't. And now we've seen her out in the open. 373 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: Then I read these ridiculous stories in CNN. It says 374 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: top aides and people close to Kamala Harris are divided 375 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: over whether she should head home to run for California 376 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: and it all comes down to whether they believe she 377 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 1: could win the Democratic nomination for president. Oh no, she 378 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: can't win that There are much more accomplished, smarter, and 379 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 1: more articulate Democrats. She is going to end up like 380 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: she did in twenty nineteen, dropping out before the primaries 381 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:25,120 Speaker 1: because she makes no sense when she talks. And who 382 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: are these advisors? Are the people who told her, Hey, 383 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 1: when you go on television, tell everybody that you're going 384 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: to do exactly the same thing as Joe Biden. You're 385 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: not going to change a thing. Be insane. Other aides 386 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 1: worry that in a longer campaign longer than one hundred days, 387 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 1: Harris might fizzle out and follow her loss to Trump 388 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: with the humiliation of being rejected by her own party. 389 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,360 Speaker 1: She was rejected by her own party in twenty nineteen. 390 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: She she was rejected by her own party in the 391 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: state of California when she ran for president. Of course 392 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: she's going to be rejected because even Democratic seem because 393 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:20,159 Speaker 1: you know, because the vice presidency job. Ye Biden said it. 394 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: He wanted, he wanted to. He wanted a black woman. 395 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: That's the only reason she got it. He made it 396 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: clear up front, who's going to be vice president. You've 397 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: you've got You've got hundreds of possibilities, plausible candidates for 398 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 1: vice president. He said, I want to have a black woman. 399 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 1: And he picked a terrible candidate. I'm sure there was 400 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: a better choice than Kamala even with those restrictions. Oh 401 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,920 Speaker 1: my god. And everybody knows this, and they pretend otherwise. 402 00:26:54,160 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: Why do they pretend otherwise? Quit the Commila campaign and 403 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: go go find another candidate who's intelligent, who speaks clearly, 404 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:10,160 Speaker 1: who has original thoughts or copies other people's thoughts. As 405 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: long as there's something useful there, But stop it with this. 406 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 1: This sounds sounds like just got brain damage. 407 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 2: I don't know. 408 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: Half the time when we played her clips, I had 409 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 1: no idea what she was talking about. Nobody else did either. 410 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: Everybody was just faking it and playing pretend. There's nothing 411 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 1: in there, there's nothing. Can't make her governor. But short 412 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: Skeleton wrote, Kamala could make history as the first woman 413 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 1: in person of color to be elected California governor. No, 414 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: who cares? What is the obsession with skin color at 415 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 1: this late day and this obsession with what gender you are? 416 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: You gotta have somebody competent. We had an incompetent white 417 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:03,640 Speaker 1: man for the last six years. It's been horrible. Why 418 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: would you followed up with an incompetent black woman? Why 419 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,439 Speaker 1: why do we only have incompetent people being elected? And 420 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: then everybody fixates on color and gender. No, it's it's 421 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 1: their intelligence, it's their judgment. Of course, that's never discussed. 422 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,920 Speaker 1: You know, I wish they would stop stop describing candidates 423 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 1: by their by their race and their gender. Why don't 424 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: you start describing them by their intelligence level. Let's have 425 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: public IQ tests and we reveal the results. She doesn't 426 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: make triple digits, But George just Skelton says she'd have 427 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: to be eager to deal with homelessness. Deal with homelessness. 428 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 1: She created all this, the housing shortage, the housing shortage. 429 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: You know, if we weren't housing several million illegal aliens, 430 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: there'd be a lot of empty housing that we could 431 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: use to put in American citizens. We could increase the 432 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 1: supply of housing tremendously if we weren't a sanctuary for 433 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: millions of illegal aliens. Apparently that's another thing you can't discuss. 434 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 1: She'd have to deal with street crime again see Prop 435 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: forty seven over regulation. Well, that's all done by her party. 436 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: It's a one party system, so she has to deal 437 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: with this and this and this and this, except it's 438 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: her own party. And when she was in Congress, she 439 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: voted as the most liberal senator out of all of them. 440 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 1: The most liberal was Kamala Harris. So she's not going 441 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: to fix homelessness. Her party creates homelessness, They create a 442 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: housing shortage, they create the street crime, they create the overregulation. 443 00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: What is she going to do? Come on, no, you know, 444 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: if you're in business and you saw her walking in 445 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: to run your company, you'd be putting out new resumes 446 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,479 Speaker 1: in five minutes because you know the place would be 447 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: going into the ground. 448 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from 449 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 450 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: Alex Stone from ABC tell us what he knows about 451 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 1: the school shooting situation in Wisconsin. A girl, this, this 452 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: story just came in minutes ago. I am not making 453 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: this up. Have you ever heard of Casa Diablo in Portland? 454 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 1: You might have. I have not. You have not. You 455 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: know what it is. 456 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 2: I do not. 457 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: It is a famous vegan strip club. 458 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 4: Oh wait, what what vegans? 459 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: Vegan strip? 460 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 4: What they just saw? Vegan meals when you're watching people strip? 461 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 1: I guess. So this is a strip club. Maybe four 462 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: vegans who want to have a uh, non meat, non 463 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 1: dairy dinner. Uh well, one of the strippers lost her 464 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 1: mind and stabbed the DJ several times. Her boss the 465 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: woman's name is Peyton Lathan, and her boss said she 466 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,959 Speaker 1: started acting as if she was possessed by a demon, 467 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: and she took a knife and started stabbing the DJ. 468 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: Duncan Allen from behind, thrust a knife into his back, 469 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: stabs him four times, including once in the chest, and 470 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: then runs away. He struggles and then collapses in the kitchen. 471 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: Even have this on video. He said, I was standing 472 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 1: in the DJ booth. Next thing I knew, I felt 473 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: like a five hundred pound man punched me in the back. Half. 474 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: The girls were in shock and started freaking out. The 475 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: other half were help me survive. He was fading in it, 476 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: out of consciousness, blood loss, lack of oxygen. His lun 477 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: collapsed and the staff started applying pressure to the wound. 478 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: Wound and called nine one one. What did I tell 479 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 1: you about these? 480 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,959 Speaker 4: It could have been this could have happened anywhere, but 481 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 4: it didn't act. Okay, we had a school shooting today. 482 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 4: It wasn't a vegan school. 483 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: Well we don't know yet, We don't know about it. 484 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: It was a. 485 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 4: Christian school K through twelve, Christian school. 486 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: The only thing that kept him going, he said, he 487 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: was worried about his dog Stone. Oh that's the only 488 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 1: thing that kept me going. I didn't want to leave 489 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 1: this world and have Stone not know what happened to 490 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: his dad, not see my body and all that. And 491 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 1: first responders took him to the hospital and he's recovering. 492 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: And now the uh, the stripper she'd worked for ten 493 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: years and seemed a little off. Let's see, she's a sper. 494 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: Do you think she's a little off? No, I do not. 495 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: She goes to work in a place where they only 496 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 1: serve vegan meals and she takes off her clothes for 497 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: the customers every day. Now, why would you think she'd 498 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,479 Speaker 1: be a little off. I don't know. She definitely had 499 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: a mental health crisis, said the owner, Johnny Johnny de 500 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: Johnny Diablo Zuckly. I think she intended to kill someone 501 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 1: and it just happened to be Duncan. And when I 502 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 1: think about it, she was in the dressing room for 503 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: about ten minutes, seeming like she was possessed like a demon. 504 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 4: I bet you she's not a vegan. She's working at 505 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 4: a vegan place, but she's not a vegan. 506 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 1: You want to if you go to the website, you 507 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 1: know what their slogan is. Vixen's not vegan, Sizzle not steak, 508 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: and we put the meat on the pole, not on 509 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: the plate. Diablo. The dancers are known as Starcakes, Amethyst 510 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 1: and Trouble, one of Portland's best exotic clubs, they claim, 511 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,880 Speaker 1: and they eat what they serve for food. What Amy's 512 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:23,320 Speaker 1: tofu pad tie. I don't like tofu mac and cheese bowl. 513 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: But it's not cheese. I don't like that either. So 514 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:34,280 Speaker 1: she's been arrested and charged. And now the stripper claimed 515 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:38,720 Speaker 1: that the DJ was a drug dealer. But he he says, 516 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: that's not true. You'll never find a trace of drugs 517 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:46,359 Speaker 1: in my body. So, I mean, turns out he survived them. 518 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 1: But don't trust a vegan stripper. I just I told 519 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,360 Speaker 1: you there's a lot going wrong in there. Get you anything. 520 00:34:55,400 --> 00:35:02,279 Speaker 1: She's not a vegan. She just works. 521 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:01,319 Speaker 2: I mean. 522 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 4: I think she eats meat something, maybe something bad. She 523 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 4: had some bad meat. It's caused her to go cuckoo. 524 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: All right, just one of the odds I'd find that story, 525 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:17,799 Speaker 1: Oh very good. I live all day to find that. 526 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 1: I know you all right. When we come back, we're 527 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,439 Speaker 1: going to talk with Alex Stone and Debra is gonna 528 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: have a lot of details here, but Alex will give 529 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: us some behind the scenes color as well. ABC News correspondent. 530 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 1: It's the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, and there 531 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 1: was a school shooting today with a girl. Now, also, 532 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,200 Speaker 1: we are going to do more on the drones. We 533 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,840 Speaker 1: did some earlier but I have some other audio to play. 534 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: There are a number of politicians that are are getting 535 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,279 Speaker 1: angry with the UH, with the federal government because they 536 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:53,319 Speaker 1: will not explain. Trump claims that the Biden administration knows 537 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 1: what's going on, and instead they send out these UH, 538 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 1: these dip bags like Alejan Romi Orcus and John Kirby 539 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 1: who make absolutely no sense with their non explanations and 540 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,600 Speaker 1: their non denials. And at this point, when you've got 541 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: you know, most of the country aware of this story, 542 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 1: and we all know that the administration knows what's going on, 543 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 1: just say what it is. You're not blowing any big secret. 544 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:24,240 Speaker 1: We've already seen the drones flying around with our own eyes. 545 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,840 Speaker 1: And the thing is, despite all this intense commentary and 546 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,800 Speaker 1: criticism and people being afraid, they keep sending out the 547 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:34,799 Speaker 1: drones anyway every night, Like what are they trying to prove? 548 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 1: What are they testing? 549 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 2: Oh? 550 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: And they remember last week there was a congress I 551 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 1: think he was a state legislator in New Jersey who 552 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:46,000 Speaker 1: claimed that there's a drone ship from Iran. Well he 553 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 1: was right. They do have a drone ship that left 554 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,239 Speaker 1: Iran a few weeks ago. And I'll tell you all 555 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,520 Speaker 1: about that as well. He claimed he had it from 556 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,799 Speaker 1: a very reliance and everybody thought he was crazy. He 557 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,120 Speaker 1: wasn't crazy. We'll talk about it when we come back. 558 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,920 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, 559 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,799 Speaker 1: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You 560 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,399 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 561 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,240 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 562 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,520 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.