1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's Show. We're on every day from one till 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 2: four o'clock. After four o'clock, it's the podcast you can 5 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 2: hear anything you missed. 6 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. 7 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 2: Moist line for Friday is eight seven seven Mois Dady six, 8 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 2: eight seven seven Moist Dady six. Or use the talkback 9 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 2: feature on the iHeart Radio app and you could leave 10 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 2: a message and if it's if it's good enough, if 11 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: it makes the cut, then you'll hear it. Three twenty 12 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 2: and three fifty plenty on Fridays, plenty of room. 13 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,599 Speaker 1: Let's get roll. Oh my god, it's Thursday. Is it Thursday? Yeah, 14 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 1: it's Thursday. 15 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, Holiday weekend always does this, all right? So you're ranting, 16 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 2: you're raving, you're in Sanday, this is the week you'll 17 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: probably get on, all right, So you call eight seven 18 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,279 Speaker 2: seven Moist Dady six, eight seven seven Mois daty six. 19 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 2: So use the talkback feature on the iHeart Radio app. 20 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 2: We've got Alex Stone coming on a little bit of 21 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: controversy in San Clemente of all places, because the city 22 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 2: is going to allow cameras on the beach to uh 23 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,479 Speaker 2: so US Customs and Border proct Protection can tract these 24 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 2: penga boats that are bringing in uh illegal immigrants. 25 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: Let's get alex on. 26 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,199 Speaker 2: I'm leaving my moistline comment right now. Hang on a second, 27 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 2: that's John he I don't I can't stand it. Oh sorry, 28 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 2: but make sure you use that reckon now you're calling 29 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 2: every week, that is me, That is me. 30 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: Put me in a dost. I got you now? 31 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 2: Uh yeah. So you know, at the time when there's 32 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 2: so much anti ICE and border patrol talk and communities 33 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 2: trying to get ICE out, and today we heard from 34 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 2: the the DA in Albuquerque saying that they will prosecute 35 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: any ICE or Border patrol who illegally detained anybody without 36 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 2: a warrant, and all this rhetoric that there is another 37 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 2: side to it. San Clemente is now they have a 38 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 2: of these cameras border patrol cameras that are going to 39 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 2: go up US Customs and Border Protection, the actual full 40 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 2: agency doing it, but these high tech camera systems that 41 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 2: it's going to go up on a hill that can 42 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 2: look over the beach, and the city for anybody trying 43 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 2: to come in via boat, and the mayor is saying, hey, 44 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 2: I know there's controversy, but he says, it just makes sense. 45 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 3: It's a serious public safety issue, not only for the 46 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 3: community but for the people that are being smuggled ashore. 47 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 2: So the thing is San Clemente, and we've covered them 48 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 2: over many, many years, is where a lot of the 49 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 2: penga boats come in. They have the long, skinny fishing boats, 50 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 2: wooden boats that are popular in Mexico with the outboard 51 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 2: motor on the back, and they smuggle in mainly humans, 52 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,679 Speaker 2: but they smuggle in drugs as well, and they typically 53 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: come into San Clemente and sometimes other areas, but go 54 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 2: up on the beach if they don't overturn before they 55 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 2: get there, and you know, there have been a number 56 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 2: of fatal cases. And they go up on the beach 57 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 2: and then those on board scatter into the community and 58 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 2: run up to the five and then vehicles are waiting 59 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 2: for them there, or they hide out in the community 60 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 2: waiting for a ride, and it happens fairly frequently. And 61 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 2: the mayor says they need these cameras. 62 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 3: They had eighteen pongo landings on our beaches. In the 63 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 3: last year or so, half over half of all the 64 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 3: Mexican pongo landings in Los Angeles and Orange County have 65 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 3: happened right here in San Clemente. 66 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 2: And John He says the cameras are so high tech 67 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 2: that they can zoom in on Catalina, which what a 68 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 2: thirty miles out there, which he says, you can see 69 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 2: someone smiling if it's a clear day and you zoom 70 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 2: in with these cameras. So that's the city council. Yeah, 71 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 2: I don't know if you ever get that clear of 72 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 2: a day, but at least that's what he claims. The 73 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 2: city council meeting that they had this week, there were 74 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 2: a few folks who showed up saying they don't want 75 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 2: the cameras in their neighborhood. They think it adds to 76 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: a police state feeling and they don't want. Yes for 77 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 2: postal is the definition of a big. 78 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: Brother system, and another woman saying, please do not. 79 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 2: Approve a police state surveillance in our Spanish village by 80 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: the sea. So it was a three to one vote 81 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 2: approving it. One member abstained. The one who voted against 82 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: it was a councilman named mark Enmeyer. And he says 83 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 2: that he does think that they need to do things 84 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 2: because this is a continual problem in San Clemente, But 85 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 2: he thinks that there are better ideas than placing a 86 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 2: camera up top that can be moved around and zoom 87 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 2: in on us citizens in the community. That he thinks 88 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 2: that the camera should go on the bluffs or on 89 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 2: the pier and not look around in the community, which 90 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 2: he says that they have said that if they get 91 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 2: migrants running through the community, they may then focus in 92 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 2: on areas of the community. He says, what we're told 93 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 2: is that if there is a smuggling event and people 94 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 2: come into our city, that then they can turn on 95 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 2: the cameras to look into our city. 96 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: But we are just told to trust them. I'm all 97 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: for trust, but with verification. 98 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 2: So it's a five year lease term for CBP and 99 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 2: the city can renew it up to three times. Twenty 100 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 2: years in general is the overall time that they can 101 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: allow the camera to be there. Under the current deal 102 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 2: and US Customs and Mortar protection. They're going to pay 103 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 2: the city ten dollars a ten dollars fee they'll cost 104 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 2: and the cost of running. You get the utilities of 105 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 2: it and CBP says that they may have this thing 106 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,919 Speaker 2: installed by the end of the week. That's pretty easy 107 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 2: to do. And they're looking at plans for at least 108 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 2: one more camera, probably on the San Clemente pier, and 109 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 2: that that one would be where the city councilmen was saying, 110 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 2: put them there looking out over the water for anybody 111 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 2: coming in. 112 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 1: But this one is now going in. 113 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 2: Did you say that San Clemente is charging the CBP 114 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 2: ten dollars ten bucks? Yeah, yeah, so the camera could 115 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 2: run for the next twenty years. Yeah, maybe ten dollars 116 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 2: every time they reap it. So let's say thirty dollars, 117 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 2: because they they said it could be reapped three times 118 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 2: over a twenty year period, even though it's five years 119 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 2: of the math doesn't really add up there. But yeah, 120 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 2: I think it's because it's a lease. They have to 121 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 2: pay something, so it's a ten dollar fee. But it's 122 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 2: going to be next to a water tank that's up 123 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 2: on a hill that overlooks the entire city. 124 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 1: Yeah. 125 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 2: What what was that phrase that woman used? Our Spanish 126 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 2: village by the sea, Spanish village by the sea, which 127 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe that's what San c Mint is 128 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 2: known for. I didn't know that. Does that let you 129 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 2: know how many surveillance cameras exist in the world now, 130 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 2: in every store, on every block. I mean, you can't 131 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 2: walk five feet in most downs without being They are everywhere. 132 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 2: So I think the concern on this one was how 133 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 2: high powered it is. I mean, I guess the answer 134 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 2: would be, don't take a shower next to an open 135 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 2: window if somebody is running through your neighborhood who just 136 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 2: came aboard a boat, because they may zoom by. 137 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 1: You or pan by you. 138 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 2: Uh, but the pieces are not looking into the They're 139 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,359 Speaker 2: not looking into the community. You're going to get a 140 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 2: camera eventually. All right, Alex, thanks very much for coming on. 141 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 2: You got it, Thanks Sean. All right, Please do not 142 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 2: see you later. Please do not approve a police state 143 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 2: surveillance in our Spanish village by the sea. Jeez, the 144 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 2: world changed a one time ago. No nobody stopped surveillance cameras. 145 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 2: They've been around for decades now. One more camera and 146 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 2: this is this is the track illegal aliens. That's only 147 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 2: bad news when when illegal aliens are on those panga 148 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 2: boats and running across the beach and on an Interstate five. 149 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 2: All it is is going to cost us money unless 150 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 2: they unless maybe they're just outright criminals. So that that's 151 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,679 Speaker 2: a way we import crime from Mexico at other places 152 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 2: is with the panga boats. So yeah, we ought to 153 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 2: have cameras. And when you're out in public, there is 154 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 2: no legal expectation of privacy. 155 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: Don't people understand that by now? 156 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 2: If you're if you're on a sailboat out in the 157 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: ocean and somebody wants to train a high powered camera 158 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 2: or a telescope or whatever they want on you, you can't 159 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 2: stop them. Nobody does it because there's no value in it. 160 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 2: But there is value in tracking the illegal aliens coming in. 161 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 2: I just I don't understand people. All Right, we got 162 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 2: a big one when we come back. Are you ready? 163 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 2: Are you ready for another big the next big rain boot, 164 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 2: the next big rail boondoggle. Yes, there's another one that's gonna. 165 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: Come up next. 166 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 167 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:17,239 Speaker 4: M six forty. 168 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 2: Well, all the parasites and grifters are celebrating today. It's 169 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 2: it's practically a holiday because the La Metro board has 170 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 2: approved plan called the Supulvida trans Supulvita Transit Corridor project, 171 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 2: and it's going to be an underground rail system through 172 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 2: the Santa Monica Mountains to connect the San Fernando Valley 173 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 2: with the west side of LA Can you can you 174 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 2: imagine what this This will probably end up rival ring 175 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 2: hot rival ring hot rivalry. Help me out rivaling high 176 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 2: speed rail for corruption and waste. This is another big 177 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 2: boondoggle coming. Let's have a show of hands. Who thinks 178 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,559 Speaker 2: that this is going to be built on time and 179 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 2: on budget? Anybody? I think if you asked all the 180 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 2: Metro board members and injected them with sodium pedothhal they 181 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 2: would admit this is just another big scam for those 182 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 2: who are politically connected. I bet you it's the same 183 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 2: crowd that got wealthy off a high speed rail. And 184 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 2: I'm looking at the board of directors and it's all 185 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 2: the usual suspects of incompetence and boobs. 186 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: Karen Bass, there you go. Karen Bass is there. 187 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,199 Speaker 2: When we last saw her, she's coming off the plane 188 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 2: from Ghana and and then we find out that there's 189 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 2: two billion dollars in homeless money that she can't explain. 190 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 2: She can't explain where it went two billion dollars, and 191 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,599 Speaker 2: she hired fifteen lawyers so that she'd never have to 192 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 2: explain it. Jennis Hahn, Wow, you talk about an empty can. 193 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 2: She is the dumbest woman in politics. Lindsey Horvath. She's 194 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 2: the one who tried to sneak fifty severely homeless mental 195 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 2: patients into a residential neighborhood in Santa Monica without telling anybody. 196 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 2: Holly Mitchell. Holly Mitchell, her supervisor district is the RV 197 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 2: capital of America. There are more garbage junk RVs with 198 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,079 Speaker 2: crazy people living them living in them in Holly Mitchell's 199 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 2: district than anywhere else. 200 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: In the nation. 201 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 2: And oh, Katie Arroslavsky another winner. She has some of 202 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 2: the most disgussed, dirty garbage ritten homeless camps that you'll 203 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,439 Speaker 2: find in Los Angeles. Even in Los Angeles, Katie Jaroslavsky 204 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 2: stands alone. So it's the collection of the worst city 205 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 2: council people and the worst county supervisors and the worst 206 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 2: mayors in southern California. And so they got together and 207 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,599 Speaker 2: voted this is going to be an underground heavy rail. 208 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: Construction. 209 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,079 Speaker 2: It's going to start in Van Nuys, Go to Sherman Oaks, 210 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 2: go under the mountains, go underneath bel air rise up 211 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 2: at UCLA and end at the Expo station, the E 212 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 2: Line Expo station, which of course that's where the Homeless 213 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 2: Express arrives and takes all the vagrants, mental patients and 214 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:55,599 Speaker 2: drug addicts and dumps them into Santa Monica. Right, it 215 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 2: will continue west into Santa Monica. So now the commuters 216 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 2: coming in from the valley, if they go as far 217 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 2: as the Expo Line, they could they could make friends 218 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:09,199 Speaker 2: and greet all the homeless people who are probably going 219 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 2: to mug them and steal their money to buy new drugs. Now, 220 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 2: this line was pushed forward by Metros Planning and Programming Committee. 221 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: They were thinking of doing a monorail. 222 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 2: I think I was supposed to go down the middle 223 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 2: of the four oh five, but you know, there was 224 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 2: all kinds of there was all kinds of pushback from 225 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 2: the community, and you know, the community was unhappy. They 226 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 2: had thousands of public comments and now obviously people want 227 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 2: this line to be built. So you know, if there's 228 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 2: any votes that the public has to weigh in on, 229 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:57,079 Speaker 2: the public will support it. Because the traffic going north 230 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 2: on the four h five during rush hour during afternoon 231 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 2: rush hour is horrendous. In the morning it's horrendous going 232 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,439 Speaker 2: south on the four or five between the valley and 233 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 2: the West Side, and in the evening, it's horrendous going north. 234 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 2: And I've been in that traffic frequently because I live 235 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 2: on the West Side and I work in Burbank. I 236 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 2: go at off hour times, though, But boy, if you're 237 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 2: in primetime morning commute and you're trying to get from 238 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 2: the valley, and it seems like there's about twelve million 239 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 2: people who want to get in from the valley and 240 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 2: north of the valley into the West side of la 241 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 2: you know, at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, 242 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 2: and the same thing at five or six at night. 243 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 2: Oh my god. So yeah, they need a train. But 244 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 2: who thinks this thing is going to be built on 245 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 2: time and on budget. When we come back, I'll tell 246 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 2: you what the original plan was, and I'll tell you 247 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 2: it has gone up so much in budget they wouldn't 248 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 2: even admit how much it's gonna cost. And again, look 249 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 2: at the people who are voting for this and approving this. 250 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 2: Karen Bass, janis Han, Lindsey Horvath, Holly Mitchell, Hilda Slise, 251 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 2: Kenny Roslavsky. The biggest disasters we have in politics, the 252 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 2: biggest disasters that any city has and that any county 253 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 2: has in all of America. And they're all clustered on 254 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 2: this metro board and they've just given birth to this 255 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 2: new boom Doggle. It's like a little baby boom Doggle. 256 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 2: Today we'll tell you about it some more coming up. 257 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM. 258 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 2: Six forty ron every day from one to till four 259 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 2: after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the 260 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 2: iHeart app, and that's where you listen to whatever you 261 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 2: missed wherever you missed youring the radio show over the 262 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 2: year on AM or streaming, you could pick up on 263 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 2: the podcast four o'clock. We're in the middle of explaining metrorail. 264 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 2: Metrorail is the rail line that brings homeless people, mental patients, 265 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 2: and the drug addicts, and they're able to move them 266 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 2: at high speed into peaceful residential neighborhoods. I mean that 267 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 2: happens every night, several times a night. That Expo Line 268 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 2: or is it called the the E Line, comes flying 269 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 2: out of downtown and they just got dozens and dozens 270 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 2: of the most mentally ill, most severely addicted lunatics and 271 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 2: comes to the last stop in Santa Monica and all right, 272 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 2: everybody out, everybody out, end of the line, everybody out. 273 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:51,359 Speaker 2: And then they spend the rest of the night shooting up, snorting, inhaling, 274 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 2: doing their drugs and then passing out all over the parks, 275 00:15:55,400 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 2: the sidewalks, in the street. And that's Metro's gift, specifically 276 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 2: to Santa Monica. Inventis, that is their gift. And again 277 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 2: I'm going to go through the names of those on 278 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 2: the board that you'd recognize. There are other losers on 279 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 2: the board, but it's Karen Bass, and it's Jenis Hahn, 280 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 2: Lindsay Horvath, Ali Mitchell, Hildesalise. It is a collection, oh 281 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 2: in Katie Roslavsky, a collection of the worst La County 282 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 2: supervisors and the worst La City council people. 283 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: Now, these are the. 284 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 2: People who've allowed the homeless to multiply by the thousands, 285 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 2: and these are the people who allow all kinds of 286 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 2: quality of life crime, makes everybody afraid to walk the streets, 287 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 2: especially at night. They allow the garbage and filth to 288 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 2: pile up everywhere, and somehow they get in charge of 289 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 2: the Metro system. And their only contribution, like I said, 290 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 2: is taking all the human debris and stuffing him on 291 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 2: the trains so they could get moved around the city late. 292 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 2: So now you've got this new rail project that's been 293 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 2: in the works for many years, and it's going to 294 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 2: connect the valley with the west side, and everybody's going, yeah, 295 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 2: this is cool. Yeah, And I see the same kind 296 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 2: of blindness I saw seventeen years ago when people voted 297 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 2: to approve high speed rail. They actually believe it's going 298 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 2: to be done. 299 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: They don't think this is going to be a giant 300 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 1: money suck. Huh. Hello the hell. 301 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 2: They think this is the end to their commuting woes. 302 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 2: This terribly designed city has extreme traffic problems, especially between 303 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,360 Speaker 2: the valley and the west side, and I understand where 304 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 2: everybody's looking for some relief. And in theory, Wow, you 305 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 2: put a rail line underneath the Santa Monica Mountains, underneath 306 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 2: bel Air and it'll be twenty minutes, you know, from 307 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 2: Van Nuys to the side on down to the Expo line. 308 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:04,719 Speaker 1: It's like, oh, you think that's going to happen. Okay. 309 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 2: And in the meantime, they are going to raise taxes 310 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 2: like crazy because they don't have the money. I don't 311 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 2: know if that was in all the news reports. Just 312 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 2: like high speed rail, Metro doesn't have the money. Let 313 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 2: me give you a quick history here. Maybe you didn't know, 314 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:29,360 Speaker 2: maybe you've forgotten understandable. In twenty sixteen, the idiot voters 315 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 2: approved transit improvements between the Valley and the west Side. 316 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 2: It was measure m in twenty sixteen. This project was 317 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 2: going to cost six billion dollars, and then it grewed 318 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 2: a nine and a half billion, and then it grew 319 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:52,399 Speaker 2: to fourteen billion, and it was supposed to be completed 320 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 2: in twenty thirty three. Well course we're only seven years 321 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 2: from twenty thirty three, and like high speed rail, there 322 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 2: is no track laid down. They just agreed on the 323 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 2: general idea today. Then it's going to be a heavy rail, 324 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 2: not a monorail. Metro doesn't have an estimate. There also 325 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 2: was a previous estimate recently of twenty four billion, but 326 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 2: Metro says ignore that. 327 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: So it went from. 328 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 2: Six to nine to fourteen to twenty four in the 329 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 2: space of ten years. 330 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 1: Now, how much do they have. 331 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 2: They need at least twenty four billion plus they have 332 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 2: three and a half billion and they're going to be 333 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 2: looking for state tax money, more local tax money, more 334 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 2: federal funding. And how about they said private public partnerships, 335 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 2: Let's get private companies to invest. That was the model 336 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 2: that they were going to use for high speed rail 337 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 2: back in two thousand and eight. At seventeen years later, 338 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 2: Kevin Newsom is still saying, Oh, yeah. 339 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: We're going to get private investors. There's never been one. 340 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 1: Well you think there's going to be one for this. 341 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 2: Private companies don't want to do this invest in rail 342 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 2: lines in California. 343 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: Now. 344 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 2: Can you imagine how long it's going to take for 345 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 2: them to burrow through the Santa Monica Mountains? And I 346 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 2: know you're saying, well, it could be done. I mean 347 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 2: they've done things like here in this state in twenty 348 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:41,640 Speaker 2: twenty six. Again, I'm using high speed rail as a guide. 349 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 2: High speed rail is the most recent attempt to show 350 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:51,719 Speaker 2: us the engineering capabilities of the California government. And they 351 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 2: never even gotten to the port of the burrowing through 352 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 2: the mountains. Right. That project is so stalled and so behind. 353 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,959 Speaker 2: They never got near the mountains. I have yet to 354 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 2: see how California or Los Angeles is going to burrow 355 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 2: through any Mountain Range get to see that. 356 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: So the agency. 357 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 2: I remember the last time we talked about the Metro agency, 358 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 2: they were trying to explain why so many of their 359 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 2: passengers were being stabbed to death in the trains and 360 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 2: while other passengers were being lit on fire. We actually 361 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 2: met a Metro passenger who was set on fire. 362 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: He came to one of our shows. 363 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 2: We were gathering signatures for something, and he showed up 364 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 2: and told his story. So I've met a guy most 365 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 2: people probably haven't met. The victims of the stabbing and 366 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 2: the human arsonists, I mean they set humans on fire. 367 00:21:56,119 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 2: And these are the people who live on the Metro line. Hm. 368 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 2: You wait, you people on the west side and then 369 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 2: the valley who think this is going to be a 370 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 2: great idea. You just wait, wait, wait till the wait 371 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,400 Speaker 2: till these characters greet you on the train every day. 372 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 2: By the way, uh, the uh, the idea that it's 373 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 2: going to be built. There is one one guy on 374 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 2: the board and his name is Aaron Nigerian and uh 375 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 2: he's a local politician and he says, uh, oh, I 376 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 2: hope it's going to happen in my lifetime. And I 377 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:39,400 Speaker 2: looked up his age and mister Nigerian. Uh, it will 378 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 2: not happen in your lifetime. 379 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say so. 380 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 2: Don't don't. Don't get your hopes up. You're not you're not. 381 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 2: You're not seeing this. Uh. In fact, I think most 382 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 2: people listening you're not going to see this in your lifetime. 383 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 2: But they're gonna spend billions of dollars and it's going 384 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 2: to end up in the same rat hole, the same 385 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 2: sore as the high speed rail mind and probably a 386 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 2: lot of the same people are going to get it. 387 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 2: And if you think I'm being too negative and too 388 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 2: cynical to whatever, Okay, we'll show me the project that's worked. 389 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 2: Send me the last project that worked, came in on time, 390 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 2: on budget and actually make people's lives better. I'm not 391 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 2: talking about holmost express roots. 392 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,680 Speaker 1: So that's my challenge. More coming up. 393 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 394 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 4: six forty. 395 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 2: You can follow us on social media at John Cobelt 396 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 2: Radio at John Cobelt Radio or on YouTube. 397 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: We put out. 398 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 2: Video segments and you could subscribe by going to YouTube 399 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 2: dot com slash at John Cobelt's show YouTube dot com 400 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 2: slash at John Cobelt's show. We're gonna have Richie Greenberg. 401 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 2: He's a writer and commentator out of San Francisco, and 402 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 2: he's written a piece for The New York Post about 403 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom's world stage flop in Davos. Newsom is the 404 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 2: laughing stock of the world right now for his absurd performance. 405 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 2: Whatever he was doing there, some kind of theatrics he 406 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 2: was putting on, opposing Trump all by himself, trashing all 407 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 2: the European leaders, trashing Trump. It's not his business. He's 408 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 2: got no business on the stage. He runs a state. 409 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 2: That's it runs a state. He's not leader of the 410 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 2: free world here. He's not the leader of anything. And 411 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,360 Speaker 2: he's an idiot. I mean, he's just just a it's 412 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 2: in his DNA. He can't help himself. He's got a 413 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 2: ninety three IQ, he's got nine to sixty on the 414 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 2: SATs and he proves it every time he opens his mouth. 415 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 2: He just likes being on stage and he loves preening. 416 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 2: But yesterday he outdid himself yesterday, And Richie Greenberg's gonna 417 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 2: talk about it when we come back. Yeah, I'm going 418 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 2: to effect. Newsom is getting to ride it all over now. 419 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 2: I just told you about how they want to build 420 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 2: a new rail underground, a heavy rail through the Santa 421 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 2: Monica Mountains to connect the San Fernando Valley with the 422 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 2: west side of Los Angeles. And it's predictably costing many, many, 423 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 2: many billions more than they originally said it would ten 424 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 2: years ago. And it's obviously way behind schedule because they've 425 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 2: done nothing, and it was supposed to be done soon, 426 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 2: and it's not going to be done till everybody's dead. 427 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 2: And I said, the people on the board are all 428 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 2: the terrible city council people who bring you all the 429 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 2: terrible conditions in Los Angeles, such as Hancock Park, which 430 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 2: is a nice section of town. 431 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 1: It is like. 432 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 2: In the mid city area as you head towards Korea 433 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 2: and eventually downtown, and Hancock Park is beautiful, has these 434 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 2: stately mansions and a lot of large lawns, and it's 435 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 2: a place. First time I saw it, I was like, Wow, 436 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 2: that's beautiful here right in the middle of Los Angeles. 437 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 2: Look at that, right in the middle of the city. Well, 438 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 2: Alla Times has a story that Hancock Park is mostly 439 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 2: dark these days. It's been dark for months, and it's 440 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 2: going to be dark for many more months. At night, 441 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 2: streets are pitch black, according to the residents, and the 442 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 2: burglars are roaming around and stealing things. Why something that 443 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 2: the idiots who run Los Angeles, Karen Bass and the 444 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 2: city council can't seem to do anything about. Copper thieves. 445 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,679 Speaker 2: They steal the copper wiring from about a dozen public 446 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 2: street lights, three city blocks, and the all neighborhood's in 447 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 2: the dark. And one of the homeowners, David Barlag, added, 448 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 2: we have car thef's, we have break ins. It just 449 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 2: feels dangerous. And I asked David and everybody else in 450 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,439 Speaker 2: Hancock Park, well, who you been voting for? I know 451 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 2: who you've been voting for. I look at the voting patterns. 452 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 2: You know, after a big election, who do you vote for? 453 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: Oh? 454 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 2: You surprised they allow thieves to steal all the Have 455 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 2: you ever heard of this before the last few years? 456 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 2: Wait till you tell you tell you how much copper 457 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 2: wiring they've stolen stolen. You're not gonna leave this now. 458 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,639 Speaker 2: He could call the public Works department. I see this 459 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 2: on the neighborhood app some some Karen type goes, you 460 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 2: know what you could do is you could call three 461 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 2: one one, and you report it to the Public Works department. Yeah, okay, lady, 462 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 2: nine month timeline for repairs and repair times are going 463 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 2: to be delayed worse than that because looters cleaned out 464 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 2: a city storage yard which had the replacement wire. A 465 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 2: large amount of replacement copper wire was stolen from the 466 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 2: storage yard, so there's no replacement wire to replace the 467 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 2: stolen wire. The actual warehouse that has all the cables 468 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 2: and wires we need to fix the lights was broken 469 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 2: into all that was stolen, said six Dos Cecilia of 470 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,199 Speaker 2: the Greater Wilship Neighborhood Council. So they're looking at a 471 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 2: year or more before they. 472 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: Can turn on the lights. 473 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 2: So people are spending their own money in the neighborhood 474 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 2: to attach solar power lamps to the disabled light posts. 475 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I saw a version. 476 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 2: Of this the other day where some person was saying, 477 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 2: I want to thank all the people who joined me 478 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 2: as we picked up the trash together, let's clean up 479 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 2: LA together. And I'm saying, you know, that's great, that's wonderful, 480 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 2: but you already paid a tremendous amount of tax money 481 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 2: and Karen Bass and your city council person ought to 482 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 2: be cleaning up the garbage. 483 00:28:59,000 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: Same thing here. 484 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 2: So now people are buying their own solar powered lights 485 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 2: because Bass and the idiots in the city council can't 486 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 2: stop the thieves. You know how much they've stolen. Get 487 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 2: ready for this. In twenty eighteen, eight years ago, the 488 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 2: city had fourteen thousand electronics street light service requests fourteen 489 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 2: thousand in twenty twenty four, forty six thousand, and Cecilia said, 490 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 2: neighbors are being burglarized quite often. We have situations to 491 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 2: our homes are actively cased by burglars with people walking 492 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 2: by and nobody has noticed. 493 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: Bark. 494 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 2: The other resident said, I'm paying one thousand dollars a 495 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,680 Speaker 2: month in taxes from my house. What do I get 496 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 2: for my thousand dollars? Here's a clue, Karen Beak gave 497 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 2: it to a nonprofit, a homeless nonprofit, and they're having 498 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 2: a big dinner and lots of drinks on Friday night, 499 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 2: and you're not. They just steal the money, but hey 500 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 2: keep shoveling it to them and then do their work. 501 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 2: You will fix the street lights, and you clean up 502 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 2: the garbage while you're at it. And the people on 503 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 2: the city Council laugh their asses off at you, and 504 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 2: they should. We'll talk more coming up with the Richard 505 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 2: Greenberg about the big buffoon flopping around in Davos. That's 506 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:20,479 Speaker 2: the idiot Governor Gavin Newsom. 507 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: That's next. 508 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 2: Debora Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, 509 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 510 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 511 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 512 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app