1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty you're listening to the 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome, Where have 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: you been? You miss so much? We're on every day 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: from one until four o'clock. You should be getting here 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: at one. Don't give me this work stuff one to four, 6 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: and then after four o'clock if you missed it John 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: Cobelt's show on demand, it's the podcast. We had a 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: couple of really outstanding things today. Already we had Jamie 9 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: Page from the West Side Current on who told us 10 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,919 Speaker 1: about how La City and County poured over a billion 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: three hundred million into buying old hotels and motels and 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: apartment complexes and it was supposed to be for homeless 13 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: people and most of the units are still vacant and 14 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: the money's been blown. They way overpaid in a lot 15 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: of cases for the property and they never filled them 16 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: with homeless. So you want to hear Jamie in the 17 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: first hour and then last hour. The return of Michael mcchee, 18 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: the USC professor. His studies that we've talked about about 19 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: the price of gas being the fault of the California 20 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: government has gained a lot of traction and his prediction 21 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: that gas might hit eight p fifty by the end 22 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: of next year, had several Democrats scared and pushing back 23 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 1: on the California Air Resources Board chairwoman. And so that 24 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 1: was in the two o'clock hour. You ought to hear 25 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: that with Michael mcche and the video TV report that 26 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: we played from Ashley's of OLLA. Now we continue with, Uh, 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Ritchie Greenberg. We discussed this briefly 28 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: yesterday because the story just broke yesterday afternoon and I couldn't. 29 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: I'm really I look at things sometimes it's like, is 30 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: this a prank, is this from a one of the 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: you know, the the Onion site, like a parody news story, 32 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: or is it some AI joke. I can't trust anything anymore, 33 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: and I don't, but this turned out to be real. 34 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: The San Francisco School District, for about twenty four hours, 35 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: had a policy that students would be graded on a 36 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: new scale, and if you scored a twenty one out 37 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: of one hundred, you'd pass. You'd get a D, a 38 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: forty one you get a C, and anything between eighty 39 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: and one hundred would all be great at the same 40 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: as an A. So you got one hundred. It's an 41 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: A eighty is an a boy? Oh boy? This really 42 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: would destroy the motivation of most kids, and there was 43 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: so much blowback that they reversed the decision. Richie Greenberg, 44 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: he's a writer and a commentator and is very politically 45 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: connected and active in San Francisco, and we use him 46 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: kind of as an anthropologist to explain that strange tribe. 47 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: It's pretty screwed up here. But some of the stuff 48 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: out of San Francisco. Well, you know, Richie, how are you. 49 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Thanks for having me on this tomorrow today. 50 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: Well, explain this a twenty one out of one hundred 51 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: and you pass in the San Francisco school district. 52 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, we have come to learn that 53 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 2: parents get infuriated. Don't mess with our children, right, and 54 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,679 Speaker 2: that's exactly what's happening here. And you know, we've got 55 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 2: to applaud some of the investigative journalists and others that 56 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 2: leaked out this information Tuesday late afternoon that this whole 57 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: plan on equity grading even was under consideration, because if 58 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 2: it wasn't for that, this might have just been implemented 59 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 2: with barely a whimper. And suddenly there's this. You know, 60 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 2: we always go back to the DEI, right, the diversity 61 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 2: and equity exclusia, So this is another one of those, 62 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: one of the letters, right, there's the equity involved with this. 63 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 2: And yeah, there's a bit of disinformation though, and I 64 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 2: think we have to acknowledge that because some people got 65 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 2: really enraged when this program was exposed. But yeah, it 66 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 2: looks like what they were trying to do ultimately is 67 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 2: to ensure and I'm looking at some of the quotes here, 68 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 2: to ensure that every student would receive a SEA or 69 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 2: better each marking period. So there you have it. 70 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: And how does I don't know if you know how 71 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: they think if you decode, if if nobody after they fail, 72 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: if no child is told, hey you've sailed at this, 73 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 1: we got to do it again. We've got to go 74 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: for you know, extra classes. If you don't know you failed, 75 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 1: how are you ever going to accomplish anything in life? 76 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: If they won't even tell you any more that you failed? 77 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 2: Exactly And again, this is like a participation trophy, right, 78 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 2: you're as lung as you're enrolled in the class, you're 79 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 2: going to succeed. You're going to get your medal or 80 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 2: a certificate on the wall that will be potent actually 81 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 2: good for your future. But we know that that's not 82 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 2: the case, because then it is not setting up these children, 83 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 2: these students for success when they go on to higher education. 84 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 1: Do you know anybody in real life who actually believes 85 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: in this crap? 86 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 2: Well, how about the author follow this whole thing that 87 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 2: Joe Feldman, the one who came up with this. He's 88 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 2: this founder and CEO of the Crescendo Education group based 89 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 2: in Oakland. He's the one that came up with a plan. 90 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 2: He's the one that wrote books on this, and he's 91 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 2: the one that apparently fully believes, firmly believes that what 92 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 2: he is proposing to make vast changes in the and 93 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 2: the grading system of public schools, that he's doing something good. 94 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: Well, if you skate by by getting a twenty one 95 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: and every single assignment for twelve years, right, you get 96 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: a twenty one every time you get a diploma? What 97 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: does that prepare you for? What college are you going 98 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: to be able to compete in? 99 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 3: Well? 100 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 2: Exactly, But you know, beyond that, what's going to happen 101 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 2: with the admissions departments of these different collegers that know 102 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 2: that these school districts might have some problem with their 103 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 2: grading system and may not even want to accept these 104 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 2: students because of the dubious nature. 105 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,919 Speaker 1: I don't know much about the San Francisco school district. 106 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: Is it mostly minority students that go there? I mean, 107 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: I can't imagine with all the rich people in San Francisco, 108 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: all the tech people, that they would put up with 109 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: this kind of stuff, because the tech industry is all 110 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: about merit, regardless of their politics. It's all about merit 111 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: when you're you know, on the field. 112 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 2: Yes, correct. The thing though, is that those who have 113 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 2: financial means have their children in private school and there's 114 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 2: a lot, a pretty high percentage of kids are in 115 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 2: private and private schools, and others that are coming, like 116 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 2: new couples that are expecting a child within the first 117 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 2: couple of years, they raise them here in the city. 118 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 2: But we have a very high what's a good word 119 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 2: at attrition rate. The couples leave because they know the 120 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 2: quality of education is just not up just enough, it's 121 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:35,679 Speaker 2: not what they want, so they leave. 122 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: Who's left to be taught in the schools? 123 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 2: Then, well, you do have there's a lot of Asians. 124 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 2: It's a pretty high percentage. And this is what has 125 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 2: caused over these years, that that fight, that resentment, that 126 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 2: argument saying that the white and. 127 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 3: Asian school children population right, you see, so they're the 128 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 3: ones that have the privilege, and so we have to 129 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 3: do something to bring down rather than although the rising 130 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 3: tide brings up all boat rises all. 131 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 2: Boats or whatever however that goes. And so that's you're 132 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 2: seeing that in play here as well. 133 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: Equity is about equal outcomes, not equal opportunity. Equality is 134 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: about equal opportunity. Equity is equal outcomes no matter what. 135 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: So you have to drag down the kids who were smart, 136 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: the kids who were driven and work hard, the kids 137 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: whose parents put in a lot of resources. You got 138 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: to drag them down with the kids who maybe the 139 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: parents don't care at all, and maybe they weren't born 140 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: with those particular gifts or they just don't care. 141 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, yep. And you know, we had another situation here 142 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 2: a few years ago with one of the premier public schools, 143 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 2: but it was by you had to test well to 144 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 2: get into this school. It's called low O High, and 145 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 2: they made this controversial change and say we're taking away 146 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 2: merit and instead we're just going to open up to 147 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 2: a lottery system and that outraged all of these parents 148 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 2: who had their kids already in the school, and it 149 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 2: wound up. Part of this is the whole reason why 150 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 2: there was a recall against three of the school board 151 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 2: commissioners back in twenty twenty two. And so we're fighting, 152 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 2: we are seeing this, we are fighting. Many of us 153 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 2: are so thankful that this particular issue with the equity 154 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 2: grading program got exposed so quick and it went national 155 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 2: and we saw all over all over the country picked 156 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 2: up on that almost immediately, and the blowback against the 157 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 2: superintendent who went ahead. And Maria Sue is her name. 158 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 2: She is under fire. Now we're agreeing to bring in 159 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 2: this program. 160 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: Means there a way to fire her. How do you 161 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: remove the superinten? 162 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, there is, Yeah, the superintendent is not an elected position, 163 00:09:55,120 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 2: so we have seven elected school board commissioners. They can 164 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 2: vote to toss her out. 165 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: She ought to be tossed for us. This is unforgivable, 166 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 1: absolutely too. Yeah right, oh, I bet all right. Hey listen, Richie, 167 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,079 Speaker 1: thank you for coming on with us again. 168 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 2: Hey, my pleasure anytime. 169 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: Richie Greenberg, writer and commentator up in San Francisco about Yeah, 170 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: Maria Sues her name. Superintendent said, Hey, if you score 171 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: at twenty one, you pass in San Francisco's schools. And 172 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: you know a lot of the Asian parents did revolt 173 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: several years ago and removed three of the school board members. 174 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 1: And I'm surprised anybody would want to take that contingent 175 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: on again. But I guess that's just shows you how 176 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: stupid Maria Sue must be. I mean, what did you 177 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: think was going to happen? All country thinks this is ridiculous. 178 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: When we come back, Mayor Bass is such a failure 179 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: when it comes to homelessness that it looks like some 180 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: of the city council wants to end her emergency power. 181 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: Tell you about it. When we come back. 182 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 183 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 4: six forty. 184 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: Man moistline It's last call here eight seven seven Moist 185 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: eighty six eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or you 186 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: go to the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Mayor 187 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: Bass is such a failure when it comes to homelessness, 188 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:31,479 Speaker 1: and I think everyone is starting It's interesting now Democrats 189 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: are having an awakening a little bit throughout the state. 190 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: Like Gavin Newsom realized having men compete in girls sports 191 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: is deeply unfair, right that ruckus this week. And then 192 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: you have several Democrats on the Assembly Energy and Utilities Committee. 193 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: They started pushing back with the California Air Resources Board 194 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: chair saying, hey, hey, wait a second. You know we're 195 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: looking at you know what, ten dollars a gallon gas here? 196 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: What are we doing? What's going on? People can't afford this? 197 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 1: And then here in Los Angeles, you know, we've been 198 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: under a homeless emergency for two and a half years. 199 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: It was the first thing that Karen Bass did. She 200 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: invoked a city emergency on homelessness, and that gave her 201 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: all the power. She could give out no bid contracts 202 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: to all those predatory, parasitic nonprofit groups and they were 203 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: supposed to rent hotels and motels for interim housing. It 204 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: was also going to allow them to buy these organizations 205 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: to buy apartment buildings. She was going to waive regulations. 206 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: And after two and a half years, well, we told 207 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: you earlier in the show, a billion, three hundred million 208 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,559 Speaker 1: have been spent by the city in county on hotels 209 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: and motels and apartment buildings, and there's very little to 210 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: show for it. In the city forty four percent of 211 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,839 Speaker 1: what they purchased is still vacant. The county seventy one 212 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: percent of the rooms vacant. They way overpaid for a 213 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: lot of properties, and a lot of the properties that 214 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: needed to be renovated and upgraded are still sitting and 215 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: rotting behind chain link fences. So it's a big failure. 216 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: And maybe the city council everybody saw this report that 217 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: the West Side Current did, because now you've got some 218 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 1: some city council people saying, well, maybe maybe we should 219 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: end this emergency here because nothing's getting better. In fact, 220 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: there's one activist, Sam Yebry, who says that pass is 221 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: going around claiming that there's ten percent fewer homeless on 222 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: the streets, and he says, well, that ten percent accounts 223 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: for the twenty five hundred vagrants who died in the streets. 224 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: If there are fewer homeless, it's only because twenty five 225 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: hundred of them died last year. That's why. Then and 226 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: then here's this Tim McCosker. He replaced, He was the 227 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: councilman from San Pedro. He replaced Joe Bisquano. Tim mccoskar 228 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: says he wants to return city government to its normal 229 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: process the way it's spelled out in the city Charger 230 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: Charter and Bass his power toward no bid contracts. Well, 231 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: that should be cut off here. Let's go back to 232 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: why these processes exist. Mccscar said, they exist so the 233 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: public can be made aware of what we're doing with 234 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: public dollars. Hey, why didn't this guy say this two 235 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: years ago he watched billions of dollars disappear. We now 236 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: have a federal court investigation, we have a federal criminal investigation. 237 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: You realize what's going on here. You got the Judge 238 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: David Carter doing a federal investigation from the bench with 239 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: an audit, threatening to put everything into receivership the county 240 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: and the city management of the homelessness. Then you have 241 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: Bill A. Saley, the US attorney who's has launched a 242 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: federal investigation because if federal money's involved in all this 243 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: money laundering and all this theft, then people are going 244 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: to go to federal prison. And now Tim McCosker woke 245 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: up from his two and a half year nap and said, well, 246 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: maybe we ought to take the power back from Karen Bass. Really, 247 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: the city needs to address the remainder of this crisis 248 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: because you now have all these hotels we paid for, 249 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: these motels, these apartment buildings with vacant apartments and vacant 250 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: rooms everywhere, and the hotels and motels, the ones that 251 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: were dilapidated are still in ruins and nothing was done 252 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: to fix them. Now today, Karen Bass was supposed to 253 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: testify at Judge Carter's hearing, and we will address this tomorrow. 254 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: We don't know what's been going on the inside yet. 255 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: All right, we got more coming up. 256 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 257 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 4: six four. 258 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 5: Just not enough of you, I know, I know, five 259 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 5: and a half hours every single day. 260 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 1: Now we're getting highlights of debor from yesterday. 261 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 5: Yes, well no it was from today. 262 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: Well it was today. Okay, it's all the stuff you 263 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: just did old news. 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Did a lot on 282 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: the homeless disaster here in Los Angeles in the last segment, 283 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: and some of the highlights are One political activist has 284 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: calculated Karen Bass claims that there are ten percent fewer 285 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: homeless in the streets. Well, if that's true, be it's 286 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: because ten percent of the street homeless died last year. So, 287 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: I mean, she might be right, but it's not because 288 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: she helped them, it's because they died. Well, we also 289 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: find out that the county and city has blown a 290 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: billion three hundred million on motels and hotels and apartment 291 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: buildings and much of those many of those buildings are 292 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: empty still. Now, you would think since the County pulled 293 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: out a LASA. The Housing Services Authority basically defunded LASA. 294 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 1: The city may do it soon. The federal judge is 295 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: investigating what's going on there. The head of it has resigned, 296 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,719 Speaker 1: and there's a huge budget problem that the city and 297 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: the county have, especially the city. LASA, LA Homeless Services 298 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:57,400 Speaker 1: Authority has over seven hundred employees. With all this turmoil, right, 299 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:01,880 Speaker 1: all this failure, all the money it's been spent, all 300 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: the layoffs that are going on, how many how many 301 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: loss of workers are actually getting laid off losing their jobs? 302 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: You get to guess there's no eric toa You're close, 303 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: You're amazing. Eleven eleven out of more than seven hundred. 304 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 5: I'm surprised. 305 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: I have surprises that. I yeah, the last week everybody 306 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: got an email asking everyone to consider voluntary separation, voluntary 307 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 1: separation to minimize involuntary layoffs. And then after all that, 308 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 1: they only got rid of eleven people. That's pretty good. 309 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: You know, when ninety nine percent of your staff survives 310 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 1: a big layoff, when you are one hundred percent of failure, 311 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: and LASA is a one hundred percent failure, that's that's 312 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: something else. Now in Santa Monica. In Santa Monica's gotten 313 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 1: really really disgusting. It's really out of control. There are 314 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: so many mental patients, vagrants, drug addicts running around, criminals. 315 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 1: They're terrorizing everybody. Stores are empty and boarded up all 316 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: over the place. Most people are afraid to walk the 317 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:25,679 Speaker 1: streets because somebody might club you over the head. Do 318 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,679 Speaker 1: you know what the Santa Monica residents are upset with? 319 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: Though Weimo vehicles getting recharged. Residents have been so angry 320 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: that the Weimo robotaxis they are bending together. There's fifty 321 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: six vehicles in the Santa Monica fleet and they all 322 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 1: show up and you know, in a parking lot, and 323 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: they pull up and they get recharged. But when they 324 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: back up out of their recharging slot, they beep, you 325 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: know the way delivery trucks are trash trucks beep, you know, beep, beep, beep. Well, 326 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: it goes on all day. If you live in the neighborhood, 327 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: it drives them crazy. And I read this, It's like 328 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,439 Speaker 1: I understand the beep, beep, beep all day. But the 329 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: homeless people screaming, vobbiting all over the place, taking their 330 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 1: fecal dumps, assaulting, assaulting you. That doesn't that doesn't upset 331 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: you enough to organize. But the beep beep beep of 332 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 1: the Weimo taxis well, that's it. I can't live here anymore. 333 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: Residents are blocking the way moos from entering the parking 334 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: lot themselves. They use cones cars and sometimes they stand there. 335 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: So now Waimo has called the cops on the residents, 336 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: says Darius Boom Darius Bourne, I want the noise stopped. 337 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 1: I thought it was cool, and then those freaking noises started, 338 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: and then I thought, oh no, this can't be happening again. 339 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: Does he get aggravated with all the mental patient drug 340 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: addicts screaming in the streets, It's gotten so bad that 341 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: the Weimo company has called the cops on the residents 342 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: a half dozen times. City officials are surprised. They had 343 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: no idea Waymos set up charging stations in their backyard. 344 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: Oh the bozos who run the city, the mayor and 345 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,239 Speaker 1: the city council. Yeah, they have no idea what's going on. 346 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: They don't know there's a waymo charging station. They don't 347 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:43,959 Speaker 1: know there's crazy people roaming the streets and criminals terrorizing anything. 348 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,880 Speaker 1: They barely opened their eyes and they all got Joe 349 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: Biden disease. One guy named Christopher Potts lives near one 350 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 1: of the lots. Uh, this is not what we signed 351 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: up for. They opened up two charging stations. Santa Monica 352 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: is a base of operations. And at first everybody thought 353 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:09,360 Speaker 1: it was cool because you have that little rotating device 354 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: on the roof and wow, look at it going round 355 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 1: and round. They must all be stoned in Santa Monica. 356 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: They all thought it was cool, but the beep, beep 357 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: beep is driving them out of their minds. And the 358 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: company apologized, said they would do something about it, but 359 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: they'd never done anything about it. The city staff checked 360 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 1: sound levels and they said, well, it's within city noise limits. 361 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 5: You know, I still have not seen an autonomous car 362 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,160 Speaker 5: in la Oh. 363 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: They're every day I see them. 364 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 5: I have not seen a single. 365 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: One, sometimes multiple times. You saw that story of the 366 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,400 Speaker 1: way most stopping just short of running over a little dogs. 367 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 5: I know I did that story today. I thought that 368 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 5: was amazing. 369 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: Of course, if it if it was just a couple 370 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: of more inches, but it wasn't, people would have been 371 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:06,360 Speaker 1: torching Waimo headquarters. Yes, so now people are fighting back 372 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 1: with orange cones. Yeah, waymos can't handle orange cones. They 373 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 1: if they drive up to an orange cone. Or there's 374 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 1: one guy I think up in San Francisco who would 375 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 1: put the cones on their hood and it would paralyze 376 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: the car. It's like kryptonite. An orange cone. One resident 377 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: was so effective that parking lot workers called the police 378 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,920 Speaker 1: on him six times and the company saw a temporary 379 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: restraining order. Wow, that's what That's what animates the idiots 380 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: and Santa Monica because it is the people's fault. They 381 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: vote for all these jerk politicians who implement these vagrant 382 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: loving policies, all the dysfunction, all the aberrant, deviant behavior 383 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: that's apparently got full approval of the people. But hey, no, 384 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: weimo beeping. You know that everybody's got their limits. 385 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 386 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 4: six forty. 387 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: What did I do here? I had a story and 388 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: it oh hey, I just well, in all the news 389 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 1: about Newark Airport over the last few weeks, they were 390 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,919 Speaker 1: down to one air traffic controller when they were supposed 391 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: to have fourteen. You had the audio connection to the 392 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 1: pilots going out, you had the screen, the radar screen's 393 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: going out, and so the one guy who was sitting 394 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: there had no radar screen to look at. He had 395 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: no radio connection to listen to or speak speak on. 396 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: So finally, the federal government and this is now, you know, 397 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: Trump's baby. The Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, a new 398 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: fiber optic cable is going to be installed to fix 399 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 1: all the chaos at Newark Airport. Because Newark Airport is, 400 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: for I'm ungodly reason, run by air traffic control in Philadelphia, 401 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: which is about ninety miles away. Why nobody does so 402 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: the one guy in Philadelphia has to direct the traffic 403 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: ninety miles to the northeast. And I'd read that they 404 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,199 Speaker 1: were having copper wire problems and that they needed to 405 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: install fiber optic cables, which I think became popular in 406 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties. I remember when people were getting Internet 407 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: systems and there were companies that had DSL Internet and 408 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: they were advertising I remember doing commercials for fiber optic cables. Well, 409 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 1: they find the federal government has discovered them and they're 410 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: in place between Philly and New York. Should be ready 411 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 1: by July. Look how fast they're doing that, Huh? They're 412 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: running ninety miles a fiber optic cable a cable and 413 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 1: they did it in a month. Are they going to 414 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,479 Speaker 1: do it a month? And that's where the communication are 415 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: being caused along the line. It's already been laid. We're 416 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: doing some of the connections right now, and then we 417 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: have to test it, he says, I don't want to promise, 418 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 1: over promise and under delivered. And if all goes well, 419 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: we should be able to turn over this new fiber 420 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: line at the start of July. And there have been 421 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 1: four rounds of outages and sometimes they've been up to 422 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 1: ninety seconds long, either no audio or no radar screen. 423 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: And they have cut hundreds of flights to Newark Airport 424 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 1: over the next few months. They're also doing runway construction. 425 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: And Newark Airport is the hub for you, the hub 426 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: for United Airlines, and it's caused huge disruptions. And we 427 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: might go back east this summer to go visit friends 428 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: and family. And I was told at home, no way 429 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: We're going to Newark Airport. Uh uh, not going to happen. 430 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: So now tomorrow on the show, two things, we are 431 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 1: going to have Jamie Page back on from the sena 432 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: from the West Side Current dot com and get some 433 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 1: information if Karen Bash really testified in court today before 434 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: that Federal Judge David Carter, who's investigating the fiasco, the 435 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 1: homelessness fiasco and all the billions of dollars that had 436 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: been lost, And we're also going to have Chris Legras 437 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: on and this you're going to want to pay attention to. 438 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: Holy Moly, there is a bill coming out of Sacramento, 439 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: and Chris Lagra is a journalist and it's a well 440 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: he describes it as an all out assault on our neighborhoods, 441 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: on single family homes. It would require cities require cities 442 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: to approve buildings as tall as ten stories or even 443 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: in single family neighborhoods if the development is within a 444 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: half mile of a bus stop, that's the law. And 445 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: Chris has provided a map showing Sherman Oaks, for example, 446 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of bus stops every couple of 447 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: blocks along Ventur Boulevard and some Pulvita Boulevard and Oxnard 448 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: and burd Bank, and there are a lot of half 449 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: mile red circles on this map that will overlay on 450 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: thousands of homes in the valley. And all of a sudden, 451 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: there's going to be ten story apartment buildings in your 452 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: single family neighborhood. So you know, developers are going to 453 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: come and buy up, buy out a lot of people, 454 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: and then put these ten story monstrosities, and then they're 455 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: going to stick vagrants and mental patients in a portion 456 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: of them, you know, affordable housing. And wow, So that 457 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: that'll just troy suburban life in Los Angeles. It'll destroy 458 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: suburban life in the vast majority of California neighborhoods. And 459 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: guess guess who filed this evil bill, That depraved weirdo, 460 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: Scott Weiner, Scott Wiener, excuse me, Winer works too. Scott Wiener. 461 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: He is really malicious and he hates families, He hates 462 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: suburban neighborhoods, he hates modern life. He hates your lawn, 463 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: your pool, your dog, your driveway because it has cars 464 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: in the driveway. And he's trying to dismantle, single handedly 465 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: suburban life in California with these idiotic bills, and he's 466 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: getting them through committees even though some Democrats are trying 467 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 1: to oppose it. So it's quite a story that we're 468 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: going to have tomorrow. You want to be listening and 469 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 1: if you missed any of today's show, that will posted 470 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: online the podcast John Cobalts Show on demand coming up 471 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: in the four o'clock hour. Hey, you've been listening to 472 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the 473 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: show live on KFI AM six forty from one to 474 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime 475 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app