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 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show Welcome. 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 2: We are on from one until four every day and 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 2: then whatever you miss you can hear on the podcast. 6 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 2: It's the same as the radio show John Cobelt Show 7 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 2: on demand on the iHeart app right after four o'clock 8 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: you can access it. I'm gonna jump right into talk 9 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: here now with John Alley. We've had her on the 10 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: show many times. John Alley is a businessman with a 11 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 2: lot of businesses in Santa Monica and in the MacArthur 12 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 2: Park neighborhood. What now is the notorious infamous MacArthur Park, 13 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 2: And you know, they've got a ton of homeless, a 14 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 2: lot of criminals, drug addicts, gang members, mental patients, just 15 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 2: lunacy rains over MacArthur Park and it's turned a really, 16 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 2: really beautiful spot into something that's just unimaginable. It's governed 17 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 2: by the councilwoman unitses Hernandez and John and others have said, 18 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 2: you know that lake is filled with. 19 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 1: Not just water, but. 20 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 2: There's some dead bodies in there that have sunk to 21 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 2: the bottom and they're weighted down by a lot of 22 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 2: heavy debris and there's a lot of weapons down there. 23 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 2: And he hired a company that was going to do 24 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 2: some high tech scanning of the bottom to see just how. 25 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: Bad it is. 26 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: And this is Hernandez stopped it Monday morning just as 27 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,839 Speaker 2: it was about to start. So let's talk to John 28 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 2: Alley now and see what this is about. 29 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: John. How are you? 30 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 3: Oh good? John? Thank you? 31 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: What do you know is in MacArthur Park? Lake? And 32 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: how do you know it? 33 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 3: Well? I heard your last segment. You can add lakes 34 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 3: the dirtiest in maybe the country. But right now MacArthur 35 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 3: Park is asnsical and environmental threat to its own residents, 36 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 3: all the patrons, workers and businesses nearby. It's a destination 37 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 3: for dealers and angerous cartels still here. From three years ago. 38 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 3: Our group has repeatedly collected information from homeless who want 39 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 3: to leave the park still too dangerous there and reunite 40 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 3: how to stay with their families. So they reported every 41 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 3: single one seeing others assaulted, stabbed. Many the majority have 42 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 3: said they've seen people tied the wheelchairs, bicycle parts and 43 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 3: dumped into MacArthur Park, sometimes front paid drug debts, sometimes 44 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 3: for no reason. At all, so our group funded this. 45 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 3: We got a group together. We wanted to find out 46 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 3: what was going on in there, and we contracted with 47 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 3: Pharma Marine, a licensed and bonded state of the art, 48 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 3: eco friendly firm specializing in sonar camera readings murky lakes, poceans, 49 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 3: and their experience and photographing evidence of body parts, remains, knives, 50 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:04,119 Speaker 3: guns at all the disaster sites across the country. They 51 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 3: felt that the lake of Courthur Park was the dirtiest 52 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 3: they had ever seen, dirtier than any beach sewer lagoon, 53 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 3: and we researched, and I personally researched the license requirement 54 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 3: and was told months ago by LA's City Licensing and 55 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 3: Permit Department and the park rangers no permits were required 56 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 3: for small camera taking photos below murky water. The company 57 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 3: last week provided us a day and a time because 58 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 3: they're really busy, and the operation was set up for 59 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 3: yesterday Monday. We reviewed and discussed the plans, and I 60 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 3: did personally again with the park rangers who called me 61 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon to again confirm what was going on. I 62 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 3: have the emails and the text messages, but soon after arrival, 63 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 3: three park rangers and a staff member with a badge 64 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 3: and council woman Unites Randaz arrived and told us that 65 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 3: photography could not continue. Then a fourth fifth park ranger arrived, 66 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 3: didn't realize there are that many in the park, and 67 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 3: the lead ranger told us Mayor Baths It intervened and 68 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 3: the park rangers threatened everyone on site with arrest, including me, 69 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 3: because there was no permit in hand, you know, permits 70 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 3: not even required to photograph or used metal scanners on 71 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 3: the beach by coins. So a little ironic in La 72 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 3: with our mayor who tries to convince us that permitting 73 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 3: is easy and the city's open for business. Those rangers 74 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 3: were moving the goalposts for Karen Bass and unitsus Hernandez. 75 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 3: I think that they were worried about what Farmer Marine 76 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 3: would find and what we disclosed. And Jamie Page did 77 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 3: a great article in the Post yesterday and it's awful 78 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 3: the legacy that the supervisors told the police. Lindsay Horvath, 79 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 3: Aaron Bass unices have leftist John the lake is an 80 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 3: environmental sickening hazard. Dead ducks, pigeons, even sliced dead cats. 81 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 1: What dishesting slice dead cats are in the lake. 82 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 3: And surprisingly the boats aren't allowed, But there is a 83 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 3: gentleman in the corner of the lake that throughout a 84 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 3: fishing line and was actually fishing. So you can't swim 85 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 3: in the water, but you can fish. 86 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: Who's going to eat that? 87 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 3: Well? If they won't stay around for more another day 88 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 3: to listen to your show, that's for sure. But these 89 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 3: same drug addicts are getting on the West Lake MacArthur 90 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 3: Park subway on Alvarado. We've tagged it the drug Train 91 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 3: to Santa Monica. They had every night Anamonica and our 92 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 3: police tell us that between eleven pm and two am daily, 93 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 3: about one hundred and fifty people from mccar's at Park 94 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:11,679 Speaker 3: and skid Row walk or stumble off that expo along 95 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 3: the end famous Route sixty six, two blocks from the 96 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 3: promenade Danta Monica Beach Pier and camp in the storefronts 97 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 3: and residential carports. 98 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, next bowl line is the Homeless Express and that's 99 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 2: what's caused so much damage to Santa Monica is they 100 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 2: get off that train every night and disperse. 101 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 3: You could picture this John. While all this was occurring yesterday, 102 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 3: between eight thirty and say nine, within seventy five yards, 103 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 3: three women were screaming inside a tent. Two guys were 104 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 3: swumped over overdosing, two others were shooting up and the 105 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 3: park rangers were not interested in that when we pointed 106 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 3: it out. We're solutions oriented. So paying for figures for 107 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 3: day of the art photography to satisfy families of loved 108 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 3: ones struck down there and our city is a lot 109 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 3: less than the eight million daily time set LA paid 110 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 3: between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three to drain 111 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 3: the lake and install new lane aligning and aeration. So 112 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 3: we're saying Karen Bass and Unitses Tornandez are fiscally irresponsible. 113 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,559 Speaker 3: Neither one is making good decisions, and I personally question 114 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 3: Basses mental cognizance Units. This tells us four people are 115 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 3: overdosing a day in that park. The paramedics report five 116 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 3: to six people are dying every week, So we're calling 117 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 3: it a nine to eleven attack in slow motion in 118 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 3: our park. Yet she and Bass and the council authorized 119 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 3: renewed and renewed contracts not one, but for two of 120 00:07:55,720 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 3: their friendly nonprofits hand out pipes and drug syringes three 121 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 3: times a day. 122 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 2: They're handing wait wait, wait, they're handing out like meth 123 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 2: pipes and drug syringes three times a day, and you're 124 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 2: having you're having. 125 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: Six deaths a week and four overdoses a day. 126 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense at all. And it's continued chaos. 127 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 3: And I think continued chaos keeps these morons in power, 128 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:32,839 Speaker 3: encouraging lawsuits and they don't have to settle. They can 129 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 3: toss it to the sea at taxpairs. 130 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 2: That's the whole thing is just terrific. There is one 131 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 2: point you said at the beginning. I just want to 132 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 2: get it clarified. You talked about people being thrown in 133 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 2: tied to wheelchairs and bikes and then they sink to 134 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 2: the bottom. Are they dead and being thrown in or 135 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 2: are they being drowned that way? 136 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 3: I haven't asked. My question every single time was why 137 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 3: wouldn't the dead body come back up to the surface. 138 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 3: And I was told intentionally, they're tied to something very heavy, 139 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 3: so they won't come back up. So it's so just 140 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 3: ingenuous with Karen Baths and Unis because six months ago 141 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 3: Karen Bass a little bit longer, stood on the corner 142 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 3: opposite Language Deli and told me she would fight against 143 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 3: both the County Barbara Ferrer and the nonprofits, private nonprofits 144 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 3: contracted by the City of la from distributing needles and pipes, 145 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 3: and she didn't realize we would do a record's request. 146 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 3: Five months prior to that, they okayed a contract with 147 00:09:54,760 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 3: a group called Sidewalk Cafe excuse me, Sidewalk Project. Those 148 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 3: are the vans of pull up several times a day 149 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 3: and they have supper outputs out posts there for the 150 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 3: sex trade workers. They feel that that sex trade is 151 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 3: dignified work that's going on there. You've got zombies waiting 152 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 3: for the pipes. We saw a woman there yesterday. Jamie 153 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 3: Page said, look at that woman needs help? 154 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 1: Can you stop saying? Can you stop second? I just 155 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: got to do news and commercial break. I'll be right back. 156 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 2: We'll continue with John Ally, the businessman who has says 157 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 2: the city, Karen Bass and munisus Hernandez will not even 158 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 2: do a scan to see how many dead bodies are 159 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 2: at the bottom of MacArthur Park Lake. 160 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 161 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 4: six forty. 162 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 2: We continue with John Ally, a businessman who was on 163 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 2: the verge of getting a sonar scan high tech sonar 164 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 2: scan of the bottom of the lake at MacArthur Park 165 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 2: stopped Monday right as they were going to start it 166 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 2: by Unicus Hernandez, the councilwoman Karen Bass. He has information 167 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 2: from the vocals that there's dead bodies down there, among 168 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:17,079 Speaker 2: a lot of other horrible things, people tied to wheelchairs 169 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 2: and bikes involved in bad drug deals and other criminal situations. 170 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 2: And the people are tied to the bikes and wheelchairs 171 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 2: thrown into the link and they sink to the bottom. 172 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 2: And Bass and Hernandez if that's true, they don't want 173 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 2: the rest of the world finding out. Let's go back 174 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 2: to John Ally. John, you were in the middle of 175 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 2: of you're just starting a story and we had we 176 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 2: had to go back to it, just reset it for us. 177 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,839 Speaker 3: When we were with Jimmy Page from the Post, she 178 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 3: noticed a woman wandering around looking around, and Jamie walked 179 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 3: up to her and talked to her, and she said, 180 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 3: where are the eels. We're the handout. It came from 181 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 3: Orange County because they're supposed to be being handed out here. 182 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 3: Just one example of what we see in that park, 183 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 3: and basically Santa Monica's parks as well. And it's interesting 184 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 3: because unic this Tornandez calls mcguards at park, the icon 185 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 3: and the example for all parks across and the city 186 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 3: and their baths. Just several months ago, told the President 187 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 3: nothing bad is going on in this park here, it's 188 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 3: safe for kids. The gates they go to the soccer field, 189 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 3: there are two of them. They go under wilfure, they're 190 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 3: locked and they're locked with chain length sens totally graffiti. 191 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 3: So those poor families have to walk two blocks around 192 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 3: this park, which the city doesn't want us to go into. 193 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 3: They want to keep that sheltered. So we're finished. We're 194 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 3: asking and advocating for help from any one at the 195 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 3: federal government level and encouraging them to contact us. We're 196 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 3: willing to share our findings with the White House, and 197 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 3: we're going to be working with US Attorney Bill of 198 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 3: Saley following the money and hoping he can prosecute and 199 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 3: with anyone listening right now, feel safe for healthy lying 200 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 3: on that ground or eating lunch or dinner there. I mean, 201 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 3: we're worried, are we really ready for the World Cup 202 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 3: or twenty eight Olympics. So we're going to reach out 203 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 3: to secretaries. In addition to Bill Saley, secretary is RFP 204 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 3: Junior's got dissent and US Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller. 205 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 3: We need help. And it's a one party's all affiliated 206 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 3: fraternity sorority in California and LA politics down here, and 207 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 3: we're going to end it. We're going to try. 208 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 2: There's got to be some kind of federal money that 209 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 2: goes into MacArthur Park. There's all kinds of grants that 210 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 2: get dispersed because that's a huge park, a huge body 211 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 2: of water, and if there's any federal money there, that 212 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 2: would give a SAILY an opening to pursue legal action 213 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 2: or an investigation. 214 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: At the very least. 215 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 3: We found portions of federal money and many items affiliated 216 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 3: with that park, obviously with the Metro, with the housing 217 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 3: that surrounds the park. So we're identifying those and we'll 218 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 3: do everything we can to help. 219 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: All right, Well, as you find out more, please let 220 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: us know. 221 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 3: All right, sure, well, thanks for asking the questions. 222 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 2: All right, thank you very much. John Alley, businessman in 223 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 2: MacArthur Park. Just let's run through a few of the things. 224 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 2: He said, they have four overdoses a day. Now do 225 00:14:53,080 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 2: the math on that. That is fourteen hundred sixty overdoses 226 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 2: a year in one park. They're six deaths a week. 227 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 2: That's over three hundred deaths a year in that one park. 228 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 2: There are people wandering in from all over looking for 229 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 2: needles because Karen Bass is giving out free needles and 230 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 2: meth pipes to the drug addicts, and it's funneled through 231 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 2: Oh what do you know, another nonprofit sidewalk project. Several 232 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 2: times a day, members of the Sidewalk Project show up 233 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 2: with new meth pipes or crack pipes and needles so 234 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 2: people can inject themselves with rowin and fentanil. Not only that, 235 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 2: but they let the prostitutes run and rampant because they 236 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 2: think it's noble work. It sounds like a good place 237 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 2: where kids could play. You've got drug addicts, you got 238 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 2: free meth pipes, free needles, you got prostitutes wabbling around everywhere. 239 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 2: And then you have all these criminal gangs and bad 240 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 2: drug deals, and whoever's on the wrong side of an 241 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 2: argument gets tied to a wheelchair or bike and they 242 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 2: don't know if these people are dead or alive, but 243 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 2: they're thrown into the lake and they hit bottom and 244 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 2: they stay there because they're tied to these heavy objects 245 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 2: and they're certainly dead. 246 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: So you have. 247 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 2: Fourteen hundred plus overdoses, overdoses a year, three hundred plus 248 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 2: deaths a year, and unices Hernandez and Karen Bass. And 249 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,239 Speaker 2: I saw another semi positive article the other day somehow. 250 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 2: And I don't know if these progressive journalists are stupid, 251 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 2: naive and easily snowed or they are all part of 252 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 2: the big propaganda machine. There's something in it for them, 253 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 2: but they always make it s it's it's turning around. Oh, 254 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 2: it's you know, it's it's getting clean. It's yeah, they're 255 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 2: working on it. They got some progress. No, and we'll 256 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:22,360 Speaker 2: talk more about here's another example where the Trump administration 257 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 2: is going to have to it's going to have to 258 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 2: take over in some manner and investigate because of the 259 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 2: destructive policies of Karen Bass. This is just astonishing that 260 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 2: it's the bad. All right, we come back. We're going 261 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 2: to Alex Stone on for MAYBC News. 262 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 4: Uh. 263 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 2: TikTok has been sold to a new company largely owned 264 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 2: here in the US, and TikTok creators say they're being 265 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 2: censored if they post anti Trump or anti Ice content. 266 00:17:58,040 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 2: Talk about that with Alex Stone coming up. 267 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI A 268 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 4: six forty. 269 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 2: That was a pretty chilling segment we did which your 270 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 2: businessman John Alley about the bodies in the lake at 271 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 2: MacArthur Park. That un This is Hernandez the councilwoman and 272 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 2: Karen Bass don't want don't want to know about people 273 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 2: being tied to bikes and wheelchairs and dropped in to 274 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 2: MacArthur Park Lake. That's what all the locals are saying. 275 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 2: You know, it's criminals, gangs, drug deals gone bad. 276 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: Huh. 277 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 2: And they're there at the bottom rotting. The bodies don't 278 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 2: float because they're tied to you know, heavy equipment. And 279 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 2: then we're told that no, the crime is down, the 280 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 2: murder rate is down. Well, of course they're tossed into 281 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 2: the water. A lot of them are drifters and vagrants 282 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 2: and attics, and nobody reports the missing, nobody cares. Police 283 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 2: don't want to deal with it, don't worry. The crime 284 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 2: rates down, murder rates down, because they say so. We'll 285 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 2: get back to that coming up, but first let's go 286 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 2: to Alex Stone from ABC News. Now, TikTok has new owners, 287 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 2: mostly American companies. It's a huge like consortium of companies 288 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 2: the Trump administration helped broker the deal. There's a number 289 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 2: of companies whose executives are connected to Trump, and now 290 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 2: creators are complaining that if they post anti Trump or 291 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 2: anti Ice content, they get censured. Let's go to alex 292 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 2: see what this is about. 293 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: Hey John? 294 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, So that the claims are being made that in 295 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 2: the last couple of days from a bunch of folks 296 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 2: on TikTok, the loudest being celebrities and influencers and Democratic politicians, 297 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 2: and they say that if they post something that is 298 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 2: anti Trump or anti Ice, that it either gets blocked 299 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 2: or it gets throttled in the sense it doesn't show 300 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 2: up on anybody's feeds and they don't get any views, 301 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 2: that it's there but nobody sees it, or if it 302 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 2: is Epstein related, that it goes into this no man's land. 303 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 2: And did they feel like that a change has been 304 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 2: made over the last couple of days and it's all 305 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 2: over the place. There are a lot of people who 306 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 2: are claiming this, Influencers who say that that they've been 307 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 2: posting content that is critical of what went on in 308 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 2: Minneapolis and that their videos go nowhere, and they're posting 309 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 2: this on other site, TikTok is censoring us. 310 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 1: Let me show you the censorship. 311 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 4: Let me just show you we are posting factual political 312 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 4: information and they are censoring our content. 313 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 2: So today Governor Newsom said that the California is going 314 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 2: to investigate because this would violate the law if they 315 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 2: were blocking anti Trump content, that it would be freedom 316 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 2: of speech and the number of other state laws that 317 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 2: they would impact and involve social media. But this comes, 318 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 2: as you mentioned, three days after this fourteen billion dollar 319 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 2: deal was made giving control of the US portion of 320 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 2: TikTok to a group of investors who are openly supportive 321 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 2: of the president, and President Trump has supported the deal 322 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 2: with them running it. So that adds more fuel to 323 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 2: these theories that are floating around out there. And California 324 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 2: State Tender Scott Wiener, he's dealing with it too. Normally 325 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 2: he posts a video, it gets tens of thousands of 326 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 2: views relatively quickly. He posted one critical of ICE this week, 327 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: federal agents as he was talking about them and that 328 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 2: their immunity. It got zero views, not a single one, 329 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 2: And there's a clip of that video. They know that 330 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 2: they can't be sued, it's almost impossible, and that creates 331 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 2: an air of impunity. So he says when he posted that, 332 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 2: not a single person side. So TikTok today is saying 333 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 2: he's got to make an editorial comment. I'm all in 334 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 2: favor of Scott Wiener being big oppressed and nobody else 335 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 2: just yeah, TikTok is saying there is no censorship, but 336 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 2: we're throttling going on that this is a bad coincidence 337 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 2: that was caused by a power outage and one of 338 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 2: the data centers that they've got that there's a bug 339 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 2: and that the algorithm's got all funky, and that they're 340 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 2: working on it. Now that they say that TikTok is 341 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 2: not changing its rules, it has nothing to do with 342 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,439 Speaker 2: the new owners, that it's going to operate as per usual. 343 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 2: They say they have resolved most of the issues as 344 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 2: have a few hours ago. They say that that some 345 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 2: users are going to have problems here and there today 346 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 2: and tomorrow, but that they're working on So they had 347 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 2: a sig that only went after anti Trump content. I mean, 348 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 2: that's the claim by those who are having a problem 349 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 2: posting their stuff, and TikTok isn't like, no, everything's great. 350 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 2: They're admitting that there has been something a little weird 351 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 2: going on, but they say, nope, it's it's the power 352 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 2: outage and it impacted things. Yeah, you look back when 353 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 2: X was taken over by Elon Musk and things changed 354 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 2: pretty significantly there, and you had one crowd of people 355 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 2: decide they're no longer going to use it. Another crowd 356 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 2: come in and say, well, now they felt like it 357 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:55,120 Speaker 2: was more open to their side, and so we kind 358 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 2: of changed what X was. We'll see with TikTok what 359 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 2: this ends up being. But TikTok's has all coincidence, nothing 360 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 2: going on, and then they're going. 361 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:03,919 Speaker 1: To fix it. 362 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 2: All right, thank you very much. You got it, thinks 363 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 2: out that is Alex Stone. Yes, somebody's got to come 364 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 2: up with an anti Scott Wiener bug that blocks everything 365 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,360 Speaker 2: that he posts. He should get a zero on all 366 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 2: his communications. We did not have a problem yesterday with 367 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 2: me posting to TikTok, so didn't affect us. Well, we 368 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 2: have antibodies. We got the vaccine, so we can't get 369 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 2: the bug. There's another thing going on. TikTok, along with Meta, 370 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 2: which runs Facebook and Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, all those companies 371 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 2: are involved in massive lawsuits and the lawsuit against Meta 372 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 2: and YouTube is going to be starting today in La 373 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 2: here in California Superior Court. And this is about teenagers 374 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 2: who got addicted to these social media platforms and it 375 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 2: had a severe impact on their mental health. One of 376 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 2: the cases is a nineteen year old, a girl known 377 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,160 Speaker 2: as KGM, who said she was addicted at a young 378 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 2: age because of their attention grabbing design led to depression, 379 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 2: suicidal thoughts, and she holds the companies responsible. Now you, 380 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 2: TikTok has already settled Kgm's case with that company, But well, 381 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 2: we know that they created the whole system to create 382 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 2: a mental addiction, causing dopamine releases in your brain that 383 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 2: gives you a surge of excitement and pleasure. 384 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 1: And Debra has been victimized by this. 385 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 5: You've been victimized by TikTok. I mean, I know you're 386 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 5: trying to learn how to dance and you've been following 387 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 5: all those dance moves. I see you in there. 388 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 2: Honest to god, I have never gone on TikTok. Really no, 389 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 2: I don't have an account. I don't even know how 390 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 2: to get on it, to be honest. Well, you had 391 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 2: a period where you. 392 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 5: Were yes, it wasn't TikTok though you were your Instagram 393 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 5: Instagram likes that seems to have passed. Yeah, I don't 394 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 5: care so much about likes anymore. I'm not I'm not likable. 395 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: I guess I don't care who you stopped getting them. 396 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 1: You became Scott Wier. 397 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 2: Nobody wanted to look at your stuff, and nobody wanted 398 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 2: to like it. All Right, we come back. I'm sorry, 399 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 2: I can't get s out of my head. I mean, 400 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 2: this is so foul that this idea that us is 401 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 2: Hernandez and Karen Bass don't want to search for the 402 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 2: dead bodies of MacArthur Park. This just it just can't be. 403 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 2: This is so disgusting and so foul and so awful. 404 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 2: And I got to see. I don't know if I 405 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 2: could find it in five minutes, but I know I 406 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 2: just read a story in the last week where where somebody, 407 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,719 Speaker 2: some journalists, was trying to sell us on the idea 408 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 2: that it was making a comeback there. It's incredible, blatant 409 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 2: lying in propaganda now and about many journalists. We'll talk 410 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 2: more and we come back. 411 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 412 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,679 Speaker 4: six forty. 413 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 2: After three o'clock. Trump assigned an executive order to streamline 414 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 2: the permit process and the Palisades. Since Bass has failed 415 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:31,479 Speaker 2: and Newsom has failed, Trump has said he's got an 416 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 2: executive order so people will be able to get their 417 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 2: permits done real fast. 418 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: We'll explain what that is. 419 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 2: And we're also going to talk with Jessica Rogers and 420 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 2: Jim Cragg Palisades long Term Recovery Group members. We'll get 421 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 2: to that, and Jessica's a Palisades resident. We'll talk to that, 422 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 2: talk about that after three. I just want to get 423 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 2: this in, all right. So first half hour we had 424 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 2: John Alley, the businessman on. He's got a lot of 425 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 2: properties there in the area and MacArthur Park is really, 426 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 2: really really crime ridden and filled with crazy people, drug addicts, homeless, disgusting, disgusting, 427 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 2: And he says he's been told repeatedly by the locals 428 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 2: that there's a lot of dead bodies that are at 429 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 2: the bottom of MacArthur Park Lake. Why don't they flow 430 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 2: to the top because they're tied to I'm not making 431 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 2: this up, tied to bicycles or wheelchairs. Now, whether they're 432 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 2: killed first and then dumped, or they're already dead and 433 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,239 Speaker 2: they're dumped. They're at the bottom of the water and 434 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 2: they're not coming back and they can't because they're and 435 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 2: Karen Bass and Unicus Hernandez does not want to investigate this, 436 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 2: and John Alley had a a recovery team Monday morning. 437 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 2: They were going to go into a scan like a 438 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 2: sonar scan high tech, just to see what's down there, 439 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,439 Speaker 2: if they could identify it. And it was stopped at 440 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 2: the very last second by Bass and Unicus Hernandez. 441 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, you don't what I just read. 442 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 2: And John Alley said, the place is just completely out 443 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 2: of control with all the problems I just listed right, 444 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, I know, I just read somebody trying 445 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 2: to do a happy dance about MacArthur Park. And yeah, 446 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 2: it was five days ago in the La Times. Of course, 447 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 2: you see, this is what the California Post is so important. 448 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 2: The Post and the writer Jamie Page, they did the 449 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 2: story on the bodies possibly at the bottom of the 450 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,439 Speaker 2: of the lake. This is what you get from the 451 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 2: La Times. Gustavo Ariana, who is this left wing hack? 452 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 2: And the headline makes you think, oh, maybe he's finally 453 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 2: getting the message. A walk through promising problem playing MacArthur 454 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 2: Park with its council member. He goes on a walk 455 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 2: with unses Hernandez. Now, of course, there's nothing in here 456 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 2: about dead bodies tied to wheelchairs at the bottom of 457 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 2: the lake. 458 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 3: No. 459 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 2: And it opens with Yeah, people lie on the sidewalk, 460 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 2: stand hunched over, motionless. Others lounge on lawns. Trash cans 461 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 2: are overflowing, graffiti on the trees, graffiti on the trees, 462 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 2: Police and firefighter sirens weil in the distance. Oh, it's 463 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 2: almost like it's just another day an He raises, the 464 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 2: MacArthur Park is a Rorshac test for people on how 465 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 2: they see the challenges of Los Angeles. It's not a 466 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 2: Rush Act test. A Russhac test means everybody sees something different. 467 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. If you have homeless people and drug addicts 468 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 2: littered all over the place, and garbage and graffiti and 469 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 2: dead bodies, that's what you have. And everybody seeings the 470 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 2: same homeless and the same dead bodies. This isn't dependent 471 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 2: on someone's point. 472 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 1: Of view in life. They really exist or they don't. 473 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: And they do. 474 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 2: And he said what Hernandez wanted to pay attention to 475 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 2: were the faded red curbs. The curbs we redid all 476 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 2: of them in the area, and you're probably thinking that 477 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 2: does not look like it's redone. This is Hernandez talking 478 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 2: the paint. 479 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 1: On the curbs. Am I reading this right? 480 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 2: But the amount of labor and resources we had to 481 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 2: put to get this done, that's just a tiny bit 482 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 2: of the work you do around MacArthur Park. That's what 483 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 2: she's proud of. That's what she's been working on painted curbs. 484 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 2: Gustavo Ariano admits he was underwhelmed. And Hernandez is running 485 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 2: for a second term, and even he writes, liberals have 486 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 2: blasted Hernandez, who's a socialist, for de emphasizing a police 487 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 2: presence in favor of volunteers and contract workers armed with 488 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 2: little more than overdose kits, notepads and phone numbers. Overdose kits, 489 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 2: notepads and phone numbers, not police. This woman is a 490 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 2: crazy person, a crazy crazy person. No wonder she doesn't 491 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 2: want a scan done of the bottom to see how 492 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 2: many dead bodies there are. But later on he he 493 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 2: he says. She asks him, Ariano, you know what he sees, 494 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 2: and he goes, I see beauty. I also see a 495 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 2: lot of people that need help I see progress? Are 496 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 2: you talking about progress? Do you know they spend twenty 497 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 2: eight million dollars in three years on MacArthur Park City County, state, 498 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 2: federal funds, private funds, federal funds. 499 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: There's the hook. That's why Bill A. 500 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 2: Sale and the Trump administration can investigate this because they're 501 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 2: using federal money and they might have bodies, dead bodies 502 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 2: piled up at the bottom of the lake progress. And 503 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 2: then they talk to some of these idiot social workers. 504 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I think people who end up in 505 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 2: social work generally are born with half a brain. Because 506 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 2: there's somebody trying to excuse some of the drug addicts 507 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 2: as saying, well, there was a bad batch of excuse me, 508 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 2: a bad batch of trank. Trank is uh? I believe 509 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 2: it's heroin mixed with a horse tranquilizer. And there's no 510 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 2: such thing as a bad batch. All of it's bad. 511 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 2: I mean, the idea is you go I mean, you 512 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 2: go stiff and you start to is it fentanyl is 513 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 2: a trunk where you're sort of bent over and you're 514 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 2: you're frozen. 515 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 5: I think, Eric, do you know who you're younger? 516 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: You know you might have I know, there's the fentanyl 517 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: like the fent lean where it's like the trenk gives 518 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: you the open source. That's right, Yeah, that's that pickat. 519 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 1: It's so gross. Have you seen that? Oh yeah, I 520 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: see it on homeless people on the sidewalk all the time, 521 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: just picking it, scabs and stuff. 522 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 2: That's the trunk that's the worst tranquilizes, right, and then 523 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 2: and then the the fentanyl. 524 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: You have the lean. 525 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,360 Speaker 2: I see these guys at the bottom of highway ramps 526 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 2: and they're tilted over and yeah, completely stiff. Uh, good work, Nostava. 527 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 2: Why don't you go take a dive in the water, 528 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 2: Gustavo see what she finds. We're coming up, debor mark 529 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,400 Speaker 2: the KFI twenty for hour newsroom. 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