1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't find AM six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four every day and after 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 2: four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That is the podcast, 5 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 2: and you can listen to whatever you missed. Moist Line 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 2: is open for business. What is today? Wednesday? All right, 7 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 2: you got forty eight hours, but I would call today. 8 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: Make sure you get in eight seven seven moist eighty 9 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 2: six and you could rant and rave and maybe you 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 2: can record yourself well, maybe you could record yourself hitting 11 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 2: your face. 12 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: With a hammer. No, John is just kidding. There's plenty 13 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: of room on the Moistline, folks, not kidding. Yeah, this 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: is a trend. No, I want to. I want to. 15 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: I want a good looking audience. You want to be responsible. 16 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 3: You want to be responsible for somebody seriously hurting themselves. 17 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 2: They're responsible, they're dumb enough to pick up a hammer 18 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 2: and whack themselves anyway. Uh well, eight seven seven moist 19 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 2: staty six eight seven seven steady six. 20 00:00:58,240 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: You're no fun. 21 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 3: I know I've been told that, like like, some days 22 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 3: are better than others. 23 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 2: But you don't want to hear a guy whack himself 24 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 2: in the face of a hammer. You're really no fun. 25 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: Let me move on to uh, you know this, this 26 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 2: story makes me crazy. 27 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: His name. 28 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 2: He's one of these guys with four names. It seems 29 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 2: like everybody's got four names. Now kill mar Ormando, Abrego Garcia. 30 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 2: What should I call him? Which is his last name 31 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 2: Garcia or is it a Brego Garcia? I see both 32 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 2: going in the headlines. Let's call him a Brego Garcia. 33 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 2: And uh, he got deported by Trump. He's an El 34 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 2: Salvadoran gang member, says the Trump administration. He was here illegally, 35 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 2: he got into the country years ago, and the Trump 36 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,279 Speaker 2: people say he's an MS thirteen gang member. 37 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: So when they did the big sweep. 38 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago and they got I think 39 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 2: it was two hundred and sixty eight gang members, most 40 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 2: of them venezuel and Trendy Iragua and a small number 41 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 2: of MS thirteens. Now MS thirteen used to be the 42 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,399 Speaker 2: most vicious gang in North and South America, and now 43 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: Trendiar Ragua of Venezuela is giving them a run for 44 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 2: the championship here. 45 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 1: So Planeloads took the took all the. 46 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 2: Gang members to El Salvador, where Trump paid off the 47 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 2: president of El Salvador six million dollars to put all 48 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 2: these guys in a supermax prison. 49 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: It is brutal. 50 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 2: It is one of the nastiest prisons in the Northern 51 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 2: Hemisphere and at least on our side of the globe. 52 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 2: And this has caused all kinds of court cases. Number one, 53 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 2: because judges tried to stop Trump from sending the prisoners, 54 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 2: all of them to El Salvador, but Trump's team bloomed 55 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,239 Speaker 2: the judge off and said, hey, too late, they're already 56 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:09,399 Speaker 2: in the air. That's one case. And then the other 57 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: case involves one guy out of the two sixty eight, 58 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 2: and that's a Brego Garcia that he was allowed some 59 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 2: years ago to temporarily stay in America. I should have 60 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 2: been deported. He wasn't legal alien, but he had an 61 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 2: asylum claim. And his ridiculous claim was, well, if I 62 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 2: go back home, I'm going to get beaten up by 63 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 2: other gang members, rival gang members. And so judge fell 64 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 2: for this and gave him, I guess, permission to stay 65 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 2: until the whole thing was sorted out. Well, Trump's crowd 66 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 2: decided to throw him in with the trendy iragual characters. 67 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 2: He's now in a supermax prison. He's always described as 68 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 2: a father of three. And I have seen so many 69 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 2: writers on both the conservative and liberal writers because the 70 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 2: conservative crowd doesn't think Trump followed the rule of law, 71 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 2: and the liberals just want to protect any violent gang member. 72 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 2: But there's not too many fans of this decision from 73 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 2: a legal standpoint. Now, in normal world, nobody cares what 74 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 2: happens to him. Never should have been here. He's a 75 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 2: violent bastard. He's with a gang, and who cares. Most 76 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 2: of the normal worlds not into paperwork. I mean that's 77 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 2: something for lawyers and politicians and judges. But seriously, when 78 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 2: you read about what these guys have done in their life, 79 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 2: it's like, just send them out, send them by bus, 80 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 2: by plane, you know, let them rot in a ditch. 81 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 2: Who cares? 82 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 4: Well? 83 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 2: All right, this guy, kilmar Abrigo Garcia. He is now 84 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: being accused of physically abusing his wife. I tell you 85 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 2: he's a bad guy, and his wife is one of 86 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 2: the fiercest advocates for him to be released. Her name's 87 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 2: Jennifer Vasquez and this is not just a rumor. She 88 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 2: applied for a protective order against him in twenty twenty one. 89 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 2: Jennifer says that he punched, scratched, grabbed, and bruised her. 90 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 2: This is all in court documents, and the Department Home 91 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 2: Land Security put the case on X and says it's 92 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: evidence that Garcia has a history of violence. Was not 93 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 2: the upstanding Maryland demand the media's portrayed him as. And 94 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 2: suddenly the lawyers representing Garcia have gone quiet. But Department 95 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 2: of Homeland Security says he's not a sympathetic figure. 96 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: He's beat up his wife. 97 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 2: Now, there was one politician in particular, and I'd never 98 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 2: heard of this guy. His name is Senator Chris van 99 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 2: Holland from Maryland, and they got him at the airport 100 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 2: before we found out that a Brago Garcia is a 101 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 2: wife beater. And he was speaking from the airport about 102 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 2: why he's going to El Salvador to visit a Brago Garcia. 103 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: Cut six. 104 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 5: I'm here at the airport. I'm about to board my 105 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 5: flight for San Salvador. The goal of this mission is 106 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 5: to let the Trump administration, to let the government of 107 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 5: Al Salvador know that we are going to keep fighting 108 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 5: to bring Albrego Garcia home. Until he returns to his family. 109 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 5: I hope to meet with representatives of the government. I 110 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 5: hope to have a chance to actually see Kilmark and 111 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 5: see what his condition is. But we are going to 112 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 5: keep fighting because this is a miscarriage of justice. The 113 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 5: Supreme Court has ruled nine to zero, nine to zero 114 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 5: that he was illegally taken out of the country and 115 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 5: put in a prison in Al Salvador. And this is 116 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 5: about due process, is about rule of law. What bullies 117 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 5: do is they begin by picking on the most vulnerable. 118 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 5: But if we get rid of the rule of the 119 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 5: United States, it's a short road from there to tyranny. 120 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: Is he supposed to come? 121 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 2: So that's Van Holland, Except what do you want the 122 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 2: guy to come back to the country and beat up 123 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 2: his wife all over again? 124 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: I don't understand this. 125 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 2: See this, when you create such a huge mess, even 126 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 2: get the US Supreme Court go, oh, you know, we 127 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 2: have to go through the proper paper. 128 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: He's not a legal citizen here. He came here, beat 129 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: the crap out of his wife. 130 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 2: Trump had the good sense to send him to an 131 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 2: El Salvador in supermax prison. And now everybody's screaming he 132 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 2: should come back why here's more of this buffoon Chris 133 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 2: Van Holland. 134 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 5: The Trump administration's foot dragging and bringing Abrego Garcia home 135 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 5: is absolutely unacceptable. 136 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: They illegally abducted. 137 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 5: Him and got him out of the country in seventy 138 00:07:58,840 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 5: two hours. 139 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 4: They can get him. 140 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 5: Home in less than that. All they need to do 141 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 5: is send somebody from the US embassy to the prison 142 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 5: and have him released. After all, the United States is 143 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 5: paying El Salvador to keep him there. This was a 144 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 5: nine to nothing decision by the Supreme Court, and now 145 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 5: they need to stop foot dragging and bringing him back. 146 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 5: This is contemptuous action. I will leave it to the 147 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 5: judge as to when contempt charges need to be filed. 148 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 5: But he needs to come home, and he needs to 149 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 5: come home now. I met just the other day with 150 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 5: his wife, with his mother, with his brother. The families traumatized. 151 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 5: They're worried, of course, minute to minute about what might 152 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 5: happen to him in that notorious prison. 153 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: And the Trump. 154 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 5: Administration needs to get him home and they need to 155 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 5: stop lying about this case. 156 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 2: I'd never heard of this guy. Did he give this 157 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: a passion speech? When Lake and Riley was raped and 158 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 2: murdered in Flora and her head dashed in with a rock. 159 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 2: I don't remember this guy's maybe he did, I don't know. 160 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 2: I mean, i'd go through the list of young women 161 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 2: who were raped and murdered viciously by illegal aliens, don't 162 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 2: I don't remember this Chris van Holland standing up and 163 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 2: squawking about it. Apparently, only it's when a wife beating 164 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 2: illegal alien gets wrongfully sent to El Salvador, which, by 165 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 2: the way, is his home country. 166 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: It's his home country. 167 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 2: Really is up to the l Salvador and president president 168 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 2: there to figure out what to do if the alsar 169 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 2: El Salvadoran president wants to let one of his citizens go, 170 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 2: that's up to him. And then maybe the guy could 171 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 2: take another crack at a crossing the Mexican border. 172 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: We've got more coming up. 173 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 174 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 4: six forty. 175 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 1: All Right, you know, I was. 176 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 2: I was looking at the next door app today in 177 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 2: my neighborhood and somebody posted this and apparently this story 178 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 2: was from a few days ago, but they were very 179 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 2: impressed by it, and it was the first I saw it, 180 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: and we're gonna play it here. This is gonna be 181 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 2: cut one coming up. Eric Leonard did an interview with 182 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 2: Rick Caruso on his plans to help rebuild Pacific Palisades, 183 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 2: and what struck me was how intelligent and measured and 184 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 2: detailed he is about the plans. And you compare it 185 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 2: to the nonsense that spills out of Karen Dass's face, 186 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 2: and you know this is going to go down in history. 187 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 2: One of the most faithful and in some cases fatal 188 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 2: decisions that Los Angeles voters ever made is when they 189 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 2: decided to snub a guy who has constructed just absolutely 190 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 2: beautiful shopping malls and attractions here in Los Angeles in 191 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 2: favor of a tired, retread political hack. And I want 192 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 2: to play this clip, and then I want to follow 193 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 2: up by giving you details of a new report that 194 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 2: shows just how many fires the insane vagrants start in 195 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 2: this city and how that has screwed up a fire 196 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 2: response in Los Angeles. Let's start with our old friend 197 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 2: Eric Leonard from NBC four. 198 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 6: Rick Caruso tells me he thinks the Palisades can recover 199 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 6: from the fire much faster than many expect. He says 200 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 6: he plans to reopen his Palisades Village shopping center in 201 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,559 Speaker 6: early twenty twenty six. It survived the fire in part 202 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 6: because it was protected by private firefighters that he hired. 203 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 7: So I'm very confident when we reopen, which should be 204 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 7: after the first of the year, that our businesses will 205 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 7: do well. It's going to be different for a while, 206 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 7: but I think we're going to do well. 207 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 6: Caruso, who ran for mayor and has had a hand 208 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 6: in overseeing a number of city agencies as an appointed commissioner, 209 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 6: says he has a unique understanding of the city's bureaucracy 210 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 6: and plans to use his leverage to push government to 211 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 6: work faster. 212 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,719 Speaker 7: Government agencies do not have a sense of urgency and 213 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 7: they do not have a sense of innovation. With all 214 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 7: due respect, when you bring private agencies, private companies, very 215 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 7: talented people in to the fold, use start solving problems 216 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 7: very quickly. 217 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 6: For example, he says, the prospect of tariffs driving up 218 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 6: the cost of imported building supplies can be managed. He 219 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 6: says he's working to help homeowners and developers buy wholesale 220 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 6: then pre stage lumber and other supplies in the Palisades 221 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 6: to lower the cost of buying and delivering construction materials. 222 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 6: He says, through his Steadfast La nonprofit, he's already draught 223 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 6: up engineering plans to put the Palisades electric system underground, 224 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 6: which he says could cost of billion dollars. 225 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 7: We have it solved for them. If you left it 226 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 7: up to the city forces alone, by time they just 227 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 7: went through the thinking of it, you're going to be 228 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,679 Speaker 7: spending years to do so the undergrounding of the power 229 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 7: lines can be happening at the same time people are 230 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:06,839 Speaker 7: building their homes. 231 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 6: Caruso remains critical of much of city Hall and the 232 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,559 Speaker 6: head of the Department of Water and Power. He thinks 233 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 6: the city needs a change of leadership to be more 234 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 6: focused on solving the city's massive financial crisis by attracting 235 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 6: businesses and industry back to the city. Caruso tells me 236 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 6: he's been consumed lately trying to figure out solutions to 237 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,559 Speaker 6: problems facing fire victims both residents and business owners, then 238 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 6: trying to convince city, county, and state officials to go 239 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 6: along with his ideas. 240 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got to try to convince them to go along. 241 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 2: He lays out with clear, rational, intelligent logic exactly what 242 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 2: needs to be done. For example, you lay the wires 243 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 2: while you're rebuilding the homes takes a lot less time. 244 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 2: My wife's in charge of building well, we built a 245 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,079 Speaker 2: couple of homes over the years, and that's one of 246 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 2: the things she did to get a home built much 247 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 2: more quickly than you'd expect, is that she insisted all 248 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 2: the subcontractors work at the same time, the electric and 249 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 2: the plumbing and the drywall. You know, they're all layered 250 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 2: on top of each other at the same time as 251 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 2: best you can. But what Caruso is getting at, and 252 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 2: he's got to speak very politically there and carefully, is 253 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 2: that the government is not filled with the best and brightest. 254 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 2: It's filled with the slow and the stupid. There is 255 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 2: no sense of urgency. What do they care. It doesn't matter. 256 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 2: They can't be fired. It's not their money, it's not 257 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: their grief in life. What does it matter? And Karen 258 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 2: passes a product of that culture. She spent her whole 259 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 2: life in that culture where nothing matters, doesn't have to 260 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 2: get done. There's no urgency, there's no creativity, there's no Hey, 261 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 2: here's what we could do to make this work fast, 262 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 2: Like he was talking about beating the tariff problem, or 263 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 2: buy a wholesale order a lot of it up front, 264 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 2: pile it up in the Palisades now, so if there's 265 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 2: a price disruption down the road, people are going to 266 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 2: be able to get a deal and get it into 267 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 2: the Palisades now, so there'll be less problem with shipping. 268 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: If there's disruption in the supply chain. 269 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 2: Because he's run a business for decades, you know, there's 270 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 2: always those kind of problems. 271 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: Got it so frustrated, But he's sitting right here in 272 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: the city. 273 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 2: At least he's taken this incredible approach with this outside 274 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 2: agency and engaging with the homeowners to try to bypass 275 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 2: Why Karen Bass and Marquise Harris Dawson most people can't 276 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 2: even find their texts, so they you know, we can 277 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 2: get the proof of them bubbling around the week of 278 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 2: the fires and speaking of fires. 279 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 3: Do we know the cause yet? 280 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 2: We know? Ah, glad you brought that up. We still 281 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 2: do not know the cause of the Palisades fire. Why 282 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 2: is that? Why won't they tell us? Maybe it's in 283 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 2: those texts, Maybe it's in the emails they won't release. 284 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: Nobody wants to tell us the secret. Well fires, huh? 285 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 2: A third of LA's fires in the last six years 286 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 2: We're started by vagrants, mental patients, psychos, drug addicts, Oh 287 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 2: excuse me, people experiencing homelessness, homelessness impacted. 288 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: People tell you bet we come back. 289 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 290 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 4: six forty. 291 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four o'clock, 292 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 2: and then after four o'clock. If you miss part of 293 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 2: the show, it's John Cobelt Show on demand. It's the 294 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 2: podcast version, and you can pick up whatever you missed 295 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 2: out on all right, you know, this is just so 296 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 2: unbelievably outrageous. There is a new city budget coming out 297 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles that Karen Bass has given birth to. 298 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 2: And of course, the last city budget underfunded the police 299 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 2: department by fifty percent. It didn't have any money so 300 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 2: that we could have a fully staffed firefighter force. We 301 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 2: had one hundred engines that were in the garage broken. 302 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 2: It didn't fund the repairs to the engines, it didn't 303 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 2: fund the mechanics needed to fix the engines. It didn't 304 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 2: fund very much at all. And because Karen Bass and 305 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 2: the rest of these progressive jackasses have embraced this weird 306 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 2: progressive religion, the streets are still littered with tens of 307 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 2: thousands of homeless people, vagrants, mental patients, drug addicts. So, 308 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 2: I guess what's happened in the last six years. ABC 309 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 2: seven has a story on this. There's a new memo 310 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 2: from the interim fire chief, Ronnie Villanueva. He replaced the 311 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 2: one that bass fired, Kristin Crowley, and he said there's 312 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:40,120 Speaker 2: been a surge in calls to help the vagrants. And 313 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 2: last year the city spent I believe this is an undercount, 314 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 2: under count almost a billion dollars on homelessness, but the 315 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 2: total fire department budget was well under that, about eight 316 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 2: hundred and thirty million. Now, explain to me, in what 317 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:09,439 Speaker 2: rational world do you spend more money on drug addicts 318 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 2: and mental patients living in the streets than you spend 319 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 2: on firefighters. By the way, she set these budget terms voluntarily, 320 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 2: and the city council approved it. And so when you 321 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 2: hear fire officials say, wow, we didn't respond in the 322 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 2: Palo Sidge because the firefighters, you know, they're actually engaged 323 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 2: in other important calls, it's this This memo again, this 324 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 2: is from the new fire chief, set a third of 325 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 2: all fires that the department responded to in the last 326 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 2: six years involved a vagrant a third, or, as ABC 327 00:19:55,560 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 2: seven puts, a member of the homeless community. A what 328 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 2: do they have? Do they have do they have meetings? 329 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 2: Is there like a membership card you could apply for? 330 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:10,719 Speaker 2: Do you get any special benefits a member like it 331 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 2: was a private club? Who the hell writes this at 332 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 2: Channel seven what Numskull calls these vagrants? A member of 333 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:25,199 Speaker 2: the homeless community who comes up with this crap? Anyway, 334 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 2: they talked to Freddy Eskobar, president of the United Firefighters 335 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 2: of LA who said, and this is almost like a prayer. 336 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 2: Whenever you start speaking about homeless you have to say 337 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,160 Speaker 2: at the beginning, we don't want to criminalize. We don't 338 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 2: want to criminalize homelessness. Yeah, well maybe you should. You 339 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 2: criminalize the acts of homelessness, such as starting one third 340 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 2: of the fires, such as doing drugs in publics, such 341 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 2: as stealing anything that's not nailed down, Like the guy 342 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,640 Speaker 2: the city he finally got rid of that was near 343 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 2: my neighborhood. You've just seen all the crap that he 344 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 2: had in his little encampment, lots of stolen stuff from 345 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 2: the neighborhood. I saw probably two dozen crimes. He was committing. 346 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 2: I can tell you the members that I represent, meaning 347 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 2: the firefighters, cannot sustain the call load of what we're 348 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 2: doing for homelessness. Uh, it's based on rubbish fires. They 349 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 2: call it rubbish fires. In the last ten years, surged, 350 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 2: are you ready let me let me endeavor? How high 351 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 2: do you think rubbish fires have gone up at a 352 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 2: percentage basis last ten years? 353 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 3: I would say eighty five percent. 354 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 2: You say, Eric, you got a guess, three hundred percent, 355 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 2: four hundred and seventy five percent, four hundred and seventy 356 00:21:55,320 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 2: five percent, and half of the rubbish fires. Oh, here's 357 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 2: another great euphemism. Involve a person experiencing homelessness. This reports 358 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 2: by Kevin Ozebek. Kevin, you've got all the woke phrases down. 359 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 2: I don't know which one i'd like better, a member 360 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 2: of the homeless community or a person experiencing homelessness. So 361 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 2: that's half of all the garbage fires. Four hundred and 362 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 2: seventy five percent increase. In nineteen sixty, the fire department 363 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 2: at one hundred and twelve fire stations. Today it only 364 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 2: has one hundred and six. Do you think we have 365 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 2: a few more people living in LA than in nineteen sixty. 366 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 2: We certainly have tens of thousands more homeless in the streets. 367 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 2: And this is the Karen Bass budget. This is why 368 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 2: my head pops off whenever I hear some antiot in 369 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 2: one of our staff members, like that idiot spokes old 370 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 2: Zach Sidell or the idiot city Council President mar Keith 371 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 2: Harris Dawson. They start defending her. You just it's like, 372 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 2: what is wrong with you? You know you're full of crap. 373 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 2: You know you're full of crap. I can smell it 374 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 2: from here. So they're having, uh, they're having an LA 375 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 2: Fire Department commission meeting. Let me see here, what, yeah, 376 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 2: I guess on Tuesday, and that's a week before Bass 377 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 2: is going to release her proposed budget. How much you 378 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 2: want to spend? They're going to spend more money on 379 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 2: the vagrants and the mental patients than they're going to 380 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 2: spend on firefighters. And here's the guy, Zack Sidel. You 381 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 2: should see what he looks like a real goofball. The 382 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 2: report shows how much money is being spent to address 383 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:01,439 Speaker 2: the homelessness crisis, how much money is being spent. The 384 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,159 Speaker 2: report's not going to show that they're actually getting people 385 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 2: off the streets and they're getting them to stop starting fires. No, 386 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 2: but we're wasting more of your tax money. And we'll 387 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 2: demonstrate that on Tuesday. And he claims the number of 388 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 2: homeless will decrease as more Angelinos come inside. 389 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: What do they call them? 390 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 2: Angelino's a lot of marriage. They were sent packing by 391 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 2: their families from all over the country. Families got sick 392 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:37,479 Speaker 2: of them stealing their money and jewelry and starting violent 393 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 2: fights inside the house. Listen to the zach sidell he's 394 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 2: another one who's full of it. Oh my god, where 395 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 2: do they get these people? Do they manufacture them in China? 396 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 2: I mean, where do they get them? We are shattering 397 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 2: the status quo to solve homelessness and get people off 398 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 2: the streets for good. As we continue to house angelina 399 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 2: is living on the streets. We know that the cost 400 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 2: of doing nothing is far greater. 401 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: No, it's not. The cost of doing nothing is zero. 402 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 2: You put them on a bus and send them out 403 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 2: of town, send them out of the state. Maybe ask 404 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 2: Trumpy if he has extra deportation planes and we can 405 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,719 Speaker 2: send them all to that El Salvador in prison. 406 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: God. 407 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 2: Oh yes, He actually writes this and says this out 408 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 2: loud and the reporters. What did you say, Zach? I'm 409 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 2: want to get that exactly right. Okay, what did you say? 410 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 2: The cost of doing nothing is far great. Oh that's 411 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 2: a good one, Zach. Ah ah. 412 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 1: Get me a hammer you want to chisel? 413 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how you chisel your looks the back end 414 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 2: of a hammer. That's what I'm gonna do. The head 415 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 2: ankle distract me. Uh when we come back. I don't 416 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 2: know now, I'm exhausted. 417 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 418 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show, I Am six forty live everywhere in 419 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. After Debra's News at three o'clock, Carl 420 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,879 Speaker 2: Demayo is coming on the hits. Keep coming with Carl. 421 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 2: He's the Assemblyman from San Diego and he is announced legislation. 422 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:33,119 Speaker 2: It's called the Cut the Politician's Perks Act. You know, 423 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 2: the California legislators and other elected officials have a large 424 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,199 Speaker 2: amount of benefits and perks and Carl's going to go 425 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 2: through them and which ones ought to be banned. Poster 426 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 2: child for this is the incredibly incompetent Insurance Commissioner Ricardo 427 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 2: calpart Lara, last seen in Bermuda, instead of going to 428 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 2: a Senate hearing on all the insurance problems that people 429 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 2: have in California. And then we found out he'd gone 430 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 2: on dozens of trips and he costs the taxpayer tens 431 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 2: of thousands of dollars. All he does is he goes 432 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 2: on trips and spends our money. And if he's not 433 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 2: spending our money, he's taking money from others who have 434 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 2: business here in the States with the governments. I think 435 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 2: there's a word for that. So we'll talk to Carl 436 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 2: Demo coming up. All right, this is funny. You ever 437 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 2: heard of a British tennis player named Harriet Dart. No, 438 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 2: Harriet Dart was playing in the Ruin Open on Tuesday 439 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 2: and was playing against a woman named Lois Bossan. Now 440 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 2: Dart is from the UK, she's British. Boussan is from France, 441 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 2: which may have something to do with well you'll hear 442 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 2: next A hot Mike picked up what Dart was telling 443 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 2: the umpire about Bussan. 444 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: Can you tell her to war? 445 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 2: Can you tell her to put on deodorant? She smells 446 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 2: really bad? 447 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 3: Yeah? 448 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 2: Full quote is can you tell her to where deodorant 449 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 2: because the smell, can you tell her where deodorant? 450 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: She smells really bad. 451 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 4: In Boissan's defense, she's doing something athletic, so she's gonna sweat. 452 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: She probably puts them on before and it probably wore off. Well, 453 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: the real problem is she's French. 454 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 3: So what are you saying? She doesn't wear deodorant at all. 455 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: Have you ever smelled the French in France? 456 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 3: No, I've never gone up to somebody in France and 457 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 3: smelled them. I mean, look, they are lovely perfume in France. 458 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 2: I was the victim. Yes, the perfume in France is great. 459 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 2: What what the body's naturally produced? Not so great because 460 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 2: they don't they don't generally use the yorderant. It's not 461 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 2: part of the culture. 462 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: We were in. 463 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:13,239 Speaker 5: Uh. 464 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 2: I've been to Paris twice, I think, and the first 465 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 2: time we were there we went, for only time my life, 466 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 2: went to a really fancy French restaurant and we're sitting 467 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 2: all dressed up and they were serving us these incredibly 468 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 2: tiny portions of food. Nothing like paying a lot of 469 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 2: money and getting a little speck of meat. And as 470 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 2: the waiter is leaning across in front of me to 471 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 2: remove a dish or fill a water glass. His armpit 472 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 2: was right in my face. Oh, oh my god, right 473 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 2: in the middle of dinner. Wf no wonder they serve 474 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 2: only tiny port. 475 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: You're not gonna want to eat very much. Nobody's gonna 476 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: make it through a full meal. 477 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 2: And the thing is that I'd already heard the joke 478 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 2: about you know, they don't use the order into France. 479 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: It's like, well, no, they don't. 480 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 2: And then we were we were packed in uh during 481 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 2: rush hour on a bus. You know, we went on 482 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 2: a bus to uh go a few blocks to whatever 483 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 2: the next tourist site was. Oh, in the heat with 484 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 2: a bus full of people. H yikes. I didn't know 485 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 2: anything could smell like that. That was just eye wadering, 486 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 2: to say the least. Anyway, I feel bad for Harriet 487 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 2: right now now she she's blubbering an apology. 488 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: Well, she feels bad. But she meant what she said 489 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: she did. 490 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 3: But but she didn't want others to hear it. It 491 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 3: was a private It was a private conversation that went publish, right. 492 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 3: Can you imagine some of our conversations. 493 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be great? 494 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 2: I wish they could be I want everybody to hear 495 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 2: all that, including the people we talk about. All Right, 496 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 2: we come back. Carl Demayo cut the politician's perks. That's 497 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 2: his new bill, and it's an honor. Ricardo Lara, the 498 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 2: insurance commissioner who flies off around the world and does 499 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 2: not show up for all the hearings in Sacramento and 500 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 2: the insurance the state of insurance in California is a 501 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 2: complete disaster. Debor Mark is live in the KFI twenty 502 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 2: four our newsroom. 503 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. 504 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am 505 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 506 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.