1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Canf I Am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 2: You got the show every day live from one to 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 2: four o'clock, and then after four o'clock it still exists. 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 2: You can still access it John Cobelt Show on demand 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 2: on the iHeart app and you listen to what you missed. 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, we are going to talk 8 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 2: to a listener who actually went to a town hall 9 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 2: meeting for this weirdo. Assemblyman Nick Schultz used to be 10 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 2: the mayor of Burbank and now he has reappeared as 11 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 2: an assembly member and he just started and he's already 12 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 2: voting to exempt perverts, predators, and pedophiles from being charged 13 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 2: with felonies if they buy teenagers for sex. That's right, 14 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 2: that's his vote. He is on the side of the pervert, pedophile, 15 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 2: and predator, and it's okay cool with him to buy 16 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 2: teenagers for sex. We did that story quite a bit 17 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 2: the last week yourself, and we are going to continue to. 18 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: Do it because it's true. 19 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 2: And Schultz had a town hall meeting coincidentally Friday night, 20 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 2: and one of our listeners was there and you'll hear 21 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 2: his story. All right, let's get to Alex Stone from 22 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:18,559 Speaker 2: ABC News. Trump posted over the weekend that he wants 23 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 2: the Bureau of Prisons to open Alcatraz. I don't know 24 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 2: where he comes up with this stuff. This is this 25 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 2: is just great. Well, what's the feasibility of it? Yeah, 26 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 2: So he posted about it, and then he talked about 27 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 2: it as he came back from Florida yesterday, and then 28 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 2: he talked about it again today. And I mean it 29 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 2: came out of nowhere on Sunday night. Is as somebody 30 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 2: who grew up in the Bay Area back in the 31 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: eighties and nineties, Alcatraz was where he went on a 32 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 2: field trip and it smelled like an old museum back then, 33 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 2: and the buildings were crumbling and the windows were broken out, 34 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 2: and the National Park Service rangers and their uniforms were 35 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 2: touring year round. But by no means do I think 36 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 2: anybody has thought, you know, one day Alcatraz will come 37 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 2: back again and it will be an operating prison. This 38 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 2: guy took tour yesterday when Trump made the announcement. He 39 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 2: is a little caughtoff guard the rock. 40 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: The island is not suitable. Yeah, no, no, it's sice 41 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: a visit. 42 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 2: I would never trust somebody to be imprisoned. You do 43 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 2: remember there were numerous escapes. Most were caught or died 44 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 2: in the cold water. There are a few mysteries out 45 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 2: there of did they die, did they get to the 46 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 2: land and then ran off in San Francisco. So many 47 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 2: classic movies have been made about it. But the historic buildings, 48 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 2: if you've been there in the last thirty years, as 49 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 2: they're now national landmarks, they'd have to be torn down 50 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 2: and start over. He talks about rehabilitating them, but you 51 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 2: would have to begin from ground up. Running water and 52 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 2: sewage is a problem. Getting staff. They used to live 53 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:45,959 Speaker 2: there back in the forties, fifties, and sixties. 54 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: Now you'd have to pay. 55 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 2: A ton for them to live anywhere, you know, within 56 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 2: a two hour drive of the Bay Area. State tendor 57 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 2: Scott Wiener says, no, what the idea that it would 58 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 2: be turned back into a prison would be so expensive 59 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 2: and just so dumb that it's hard to imagine it. 60 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: A few minutes ago that the President saying. 61 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 3: Just represented something strong having to do with law and order. 62 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: We need law and order in this country. But John, 63 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: we talked to Elizabeth Newman. 64 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 2: She served in Homeland Security and the first Trump administration says, 65 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: you got to understand, it's pretty clear he is a 66 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 2: showman who likes hadlines that he puts big ideas out 67 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 2: there to generate this show, to get people talking about it. 68 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,119 Speaker 2: But she's been in the room with him when he've 69 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:25,679 Speaker 2: come up with previous big ideas. 70 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: She says, it may not go anywhere. 71 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 4: He has a lot of ideas. People will go off 72 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 4: and study them, then they'll come back with the facts 73 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 4: and usually gets dropped at that stage. This has that 74 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 4: kind of feeling to me that he just was thinking 75 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 4: about it over the weekend. 76 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 5: He's really frustrated. 77 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 4: About the fact that all of these millions of people 78 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 4: he wants to deport are going to have to have 79 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 4: their own trial, and that's going to take too long. 80 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 4: So where do I put all these people? 81 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: Today? 82 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 2: The new director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, who 83 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 2: he just appointed to be in that spot, said that 84 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 2: they will vigorously pursue the president's agenda. If he wants 85 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 2: to reopen Alctire, they will reopen Alcatraz, But we will see. 86 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 2: What I read in one of your reports is it 87 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 2: was closed in nineteen sixty three because it was crumbling. 88 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 2: Then it was crumbling and too expensive to run. They 89 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 2: decided that the water and housing and sewage and the 90 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 2: buildings with the upkeep because of the salt water, that 91 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 2: it was costing way too much money. Back then, sixty 92 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 2: two years ago, it was crumbling. Yeah, it's definitely still 93 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 2: crumbling now. 94 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 6: You know. 95 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 2: The Park Service does a good job of trying to 96 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 2: keep it up and replace windows that get broken out 97 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 2: and keep the buildings painted and that sort of thing. 98 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 2: But I brought my three sons there when they were small. Yeah, 99 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 2: I got behind bars. That's a good day. Yeah, it's 100 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 2: a fun day. It's fun to go out there. But 101 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 2: to imagine it, and it's not that big of a rock, 102 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 2: you know, if he were to go out and see 103 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 2: it and go, well, there's not a lot of land 104 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 2: out there. They used up most of it when they 105 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 2: build Alcatraz. That it would take a lot of work 106 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 2: to pull that off. 107 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: I left them there for the night too. Oh got job. 108 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 2: We got a peaceful night's sleep. It's a good idea. Actually, 109 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 2: it's pretty funny. I got photos of them behind bars, 110 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: holding under the bars, and then you see that one 111 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 2: where they like dug their way out and I mean, 112 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 2: you know all went on at Algatraz. 113 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 6: Yeah. 114 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:14,799 Speaker 1: No, it's a fascinating place. 115 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Alex Very you got it from 116 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 2: kf I News. 117 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know the woman that Alex played in 118 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: that story. 119 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 2: I mean that's you know, he just flirts things out 120 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 2: and everybody takes everything seriously and he just you know, 121 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 2: somebody does a report. It's like, you can't really do this. 122 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 2: It costs too much money. 123 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 5: That was a creepy place to visit, though. 124 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,239 Speaker 7: I remember there was an inmate there who got out 125 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 7: and he was signing books. And you know, I told 126 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 7: you I kind of had this, not fetish, but this 127 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 7: interest in people incarcerated, not like those women that go 128 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 7: want to marry, you know, the Menendez brothers, anything like that. 129 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 7: I just always found it fascinating the culture of people 130 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 7: being behind bars. 131 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 5: And so. 132 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 2: You got a book, You got a book that the 133 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 2: prisoner wrote, yes to read about his life Yes, in Alcatraz. 134 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 7: Gosh, I don't know if it was about his life 135 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 7: in Alcatraz or before he was in Alcohira. 136 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 5: I can't. 137 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: Oh, man, this is more serious than I thought. 138 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 5: No, it's not serious if. 139 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: You're showing up at book signings for prisoners. 140 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 7: No, I didn't go because I knew there was a 141 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 7: book signing. I went because I was in San Francisco 142 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 7: a gazillion years ago and I wanted to go to Alcatraz. 143 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 5: Like so many people like you. You took your sons, 144 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 5: I took. 145 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: Them off they were they were all locked up. 146 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 6: Yeah. 147 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 7: Well I was in one of those selves too. Fortunately 148 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 7: I got out. 149 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: So what which is the fantasy you have being locked 150 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: up in. 151 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 6: No? 152 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 5: I just find it so crazy. 153 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 7: How how people you know, you commit crimes and you 154 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 7: and you're behind bars, and that you have to live 155 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 7: that way. 156 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 5: It's just it's just a fascinating Do you. 157 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: Have any fear of being like wrongfully arrested in jail? 158 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 5: Yes? I do. 159 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: I do? And why would that be the rules? 160 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 5: I'm not a rule breaker. 161 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 7: I've seen way too many I have seen way too 162 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 7: many shows where people are locked up and they're innocent. 163 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 2: You're so you're up late at night when you're not 164 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 2: terrified in the earthquake or the tsunami, you're worried that 165 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 2: somebody is going to bust in and drag you off 166 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 2: to prison. 167 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 7: No, I try not to think about that. I really do, 168 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 7: because my brain can only handle so much. But when 169 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 7: I do watch shows like Presumed Innocent, or movies or 170 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 7: you know, Shawshank, Redemption. 171 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 5: All those different things, you know it. 172 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: I know. I think anybody thrown in prison is guilty. 173 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 5: Not everybody. I mean, I agree with you. 174 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 2: There are they put themselves in play, they were too 175 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 2: close to bad things. 176 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 5: But there are some I never got. 177 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 2: Thrown in prison. I use my mother as the standard. Yeah, 178 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 2: my dad was never thrown It was your dad thrown 179 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 2: in prison? Well why is that? Because they lived normal, 180 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 2: good lives. 181 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, I get it. 182 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 7: But there are some people who have been wrongfully accused. 183 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: Not a lot. 184 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 5: But look, we know that there's been movies made about that. 185 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, well usually they're they're in the neighborhood. 186 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 5: Though, you're so mean. 187 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: I don't believe anybody's innocent. 188 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 7: Okay, what if I got thrown in jail and I 189 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 7: truly was innocent, would you not think I was in it? 190 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: I would not believe you were truly innocent? 191 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 5: Really? 192 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: Yes, even less? 193 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 6: So? 194 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 2: Now thank you? All right, we come back. Big story 195 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 2: in the Elsegunda Times over the weekend. 196 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: Is that? 197 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 2: And remember I just told you twenty minutes ago that 198 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 2: the the city is cutting all nearly all the departments 199 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 2: to shovel more money at the vagrants. Well, there's so 200 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 2: much money being spent on vagrants that the city and 201 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 2: county don't want to spend a dime on testing soil 202 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 2: for all the all the all the lots in Altadena 203 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 2: and the Palisades where the homes burned down. 204 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: So the Los. 205 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 2: Angeles Times decided to spend some money to test random 206 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 2: lots and we'll tell you what they found. And uh, 207 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 2: this is this is what I'm saying. You can't get 208 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 2: basic services even in an emergency now because there's no 209 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 2: money for anybody except the vagrants, even if the government 210 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 2: helped burn down your home. 211 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: That's next. 212 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:41,319 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 213 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 3: M six forty. 214 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,319 Speaker 2: I've been trying to connect things. Maybe somebody will understand 215 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 2: that so much money is being wasted on the vagrants 216 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 2: that no other departments can seem to function here in 217 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 2: the city or county. And we we know that the 218 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 2: fire department was only fifty percent funded by Karen Bass 219 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:09,079 Speaker 2: because she dumped so much money into these vagrants who 220 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 2: are just really bleeding the city and the county dry. 221 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 2: And I told you within the last hour, there's another 222 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 2: story out and Karen bass is cutting the budget of 223 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 2: many departments, but she's increasing the amount of money on 224 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 2: the vagrants. And I'll give you an example of why 225 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 2: spending so much money on vagrants has just destroyed the 226 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 2: government's ability to do anything common sense and rational. So 227 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 2: not only did all the money spent on the vagrants 228 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 2: severely impact the La Fire Department's response, but now after 229 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 2: the fires, you have all this toxic material that was 230 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 2: in the air is on the ground, and the Army 231 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 2: Corps of Engineers has no interest, the FEMA has no 232 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 2: interest in spending another dollar and cleaning it up. They 233 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 2: say they're not interested in spending a lot of federal 234 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 2: dollars out of their budgets to meet California requirements. That's 235 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 2: up to California. If they have these certain standards, then 236 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 2: let them spend the money. And there should be money 237 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 2: set aside for natural disasters and used to test soil, 238 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 2: but there isn't because it's been blown on the homeless. 239 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 2: I'll give you an example here. So the La Times 240 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 2: sent journalists out across Altaden and Pacific Palisades to obtain 241 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 2: soil samples, twenty properties cleared by the federal cleanup crews 242 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 2: and twenty homes that survived, and the Times paid for 243 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 2: I guess Patrick Soon's young paid for it because the 244 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 2: Times is broke that they heard they laid off another 245 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 2: fourteen people last Friday, so that leaves what about six 246 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 2: I think they have six people left. So basically this 247 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 2: is Sun Chiang, in order to give material to his newspaper, 248 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 2: paying for the UH paying for the soil tests. Let's 249 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 2: look at Outda Dina first. So there's ten homes that 250 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 2: they tested the soil at. All of them had been 251 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,119 Speaker 2: cleaned up to some extent by the Army Corps of Engineers, 252 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 2: but two of the ten still had toxic heavy metals 253 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 2: on their property in excess of California's standards. In fact, 254 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 2: one of the homes had lead levels more than three 255 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 2: times higher than the state's standard. So this is the 256 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 2: first evidence that the federal contractors are leaving toxic contamination behind. 257 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 2: Elevated levels of arsenic lead and mercury in three homes 258 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 2: that survived the Eton fire, but these homes did not 259 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,679 Speaker 2: have a federal cleanup. Now, the city and county you 260 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 2: would think would step in here, especially since you know, 261 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 2: the city and the county's response was so poor. I mean, 262 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 2: the city's response was so absurd and disastrous, but they 263 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 2: don't have the money. Again, it's more important that the 264 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 2: vagrants on the sidewalk are taken care of than the 265 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 2: newly homeless. 266 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: Who had the fire. 267 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 2: But didn't have a fire department to help them. I mean, 268 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 2: something's really gotten sick and twisted out here, more sick 269 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 2: and twisted than I ever could imagine. And they don't 270 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 2: have insurance. These people, some of them in the in 271 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:04,079 Speaker 2: the Fair program, that's the California Backup insurance program. 272 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 1: There's not enough. 273 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 2: Money to cover their reconstruction costs and expenses. So the 274 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 2: state insurance program has failed them. The fire department failed them, 275 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 2: the mayor failed them, the FEMA failed them, and there 276 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 2: is no money for the city and county to do 277 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 2: any of testing. So you got to pay for your 278 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 2: own testing, which is thousands of dollars. Now, I'm not 279 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 2: much for government spending, you know, but if you're going 280 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 2: to spend on anybody, how about spend it on the 281 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 2: soil testing for the people whose government abandoned them and 282 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 2: didn't do anything to prevent or mitigate the fire when 283 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 2: it was first started rolling. I mean, they should be 284 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 2: first in line, not the guy injecting fentanyl into his 285 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 2: system or snorting meth or heroin or whatever the hell 286 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 2: they do. Uh, so that this is gonna be thousands 287 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 2: of dollars alta Dina is really susceptible to the poisonous 288 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 2: fallout because they have old homes and back in the 289 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 2: old days they used lead paint and asbestos and other 290 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 2: materials that contained arsenic, and. 291 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: So all this burned went into the air. People are breathing. 292 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 2: They get in and now it's settled down on the ground, 293 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 2: and they don't they don't have they don't have the money. 294 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's and there's nobody at answer the phone. 295 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 2: You're you're on your own. And I mean, I told 296 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 2: you I got a taste in this during the fire 297 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 2: when our neighborhood was overrun with looters and we had 298 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 2: to hire a random guy with a gun to protect 299 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 2: our home because the police apartment had fled the neighborhood. 300 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 2: There was no police. The fire was a couple of 301 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 2: miles away, and I realized it's like, wow, we've really 302 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 2: been abandoned by the worst government that I've ever experienced 303 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 2: in my life. And some of the people in the Palisades, 304 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 2: people in Altadena, they have been abandoned by every layer 305 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 2: of government, federal, state, city, county. Nobody cares all this 306 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 2: tax money. Richest state in the Union, right, biggest, the 307 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 2: top five largest GDP in the nation, and we don't 308 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 2: have a few bucks to test the soil because vagrants, criminals, 309 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 2: illegal aliens, they're in line in front of us. What 310 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 2: do we We're just stupid ass taxpayers left unprotected and helpless. 311 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 2: And then in November this year, next year, four years 312 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 2: from now, you will vote. 313 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: The same clowns in. 314 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 2: No matter how many times they screwed your neighbor, screwed 315 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 2: other people in your city or town, you'll vote them 316 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 2: in and they'll do the same thing. They'll give the 317 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 2: money away to the vagrants, the criminals, and the illegal aliens, 318 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 2: and you will keep scrolling away on Instagram. 319 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: More coming up. 320 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 321 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 3: six forty. 322 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. And 323 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 2: you know what happens after four o'clock. We are transformed 324 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:41,199 Speaker 2: into a podcast, John Cobelt's show on demand on the 325 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 2: iHeart app. So you don't have any excuse for missing 326 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,919 Speaker 2: a single segment, a single word, all right, that happens 327 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,880 Speaker 2: after four o'clock. Starting up the three o'clock hour, We're 328 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 2: going to talk to a listener who showed up at 329 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 2: Assemblyman Nick Schultz's town hall meeting in burd Bank. Schultz 330 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:03,919 Speaker 2: is one of these weirdo assemblymen who voted to not 331 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 2: make it a felony to buy teenagers for sex sixteen 332 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,360 Speaker 2: and seventeen year olds. Not to make it a felony. 333 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 2: He voted against that idea. Why what's going on with him? 334 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 2: Why wouldn't that be a felony? Well, we told you 335 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 2: about his town hall meeting Friday night. At least one 336 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 2: listener showed up, and he has a report on what 337 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 2: went on there. I think you'll find it interesting. Daniel Guss. 338 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 2: Daniel Guss has a news site on substack Daniel Gust 339 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 2: substack dot com and he's on with us frequently and 340 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 2: he is a huge animal rights guy in addition to 341 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 2: being a journalist, and writes often on LA Animal Services. 342 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 2: And he has a new piece here. Because you remember 343 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,919 Speaker 2: a week or two ago, it was leaked that Bass 344 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 2: was cutting animal services. In fact, three of the six 345 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 2: shelters were going to be closed down, which was going 346 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 2: to create all kinds of mayhem. And then they said, 347 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 2: oh no, that's not true. We put it in additional 348 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 2: supplemental spending on page one thirteen. Didn't you see that? 349 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 2: You know that's some kind of smoking mirrors game. Anyway, 350 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 2: Daniel has more on this situation. Welcome, how are you. 351 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 6: Hey, John? Thanks for having me back on the issue 352 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 6: that matters most to me in my life. I appreciate it. 353 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:33,239 Speaker 2: What's going on now? The money was cut and they 354 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 2: wasn't cut. I mean, what's happening going forward here? 355 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: Right? 356 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 6: So animal service is one of those agencies like anywhere 357 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 6: across the country, maybe around the world, where it's a 358 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 6: deeply emotional issue because animals don't have the same rights 359 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:54,400 Speaker 6: as humans, and people were drawn to them because they 360 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 6: also don't have a voice. So in her State of 361 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 6: the City address two weeks ago, Karen Bass released her 362 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 6: proposed budget, which was going to cut five million dollars 363 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 6: out of her worst department, the city's deadly diseased animal 364 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 6: pounds from thirty million down to twenty five million, and 365 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 6: she had threatened and don't believe the denials, John, I'm 366 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 6: telling him and watching this department since nineteen ninety nine, 367 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,679 Speaker 6: they threatened to close as many as half of the 368 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 6: city's pounds, which to me are a jobs program masquerading 369 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 6: as a municipal service. And of course the outcry and 370 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 6: the various news outlets did storry. Hundreds of volunteers and 371 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,400 Speaker 6: rescue groups and just people who care about their damn 372 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 6: dogs and cats turned out. And suddenly suddenly Karen Bass 373 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 6: mad Zabel and the people behind the scenes at city 374 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 6: Hall said, oh, it's a misunderstanding. We found an unappropriated 375 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 6: five million, so we're going to add that back in. 376 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 6: And so it's back in there now. And I forwarded 377 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 6: to you and Ray this morning an email that I 378 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 6: sent to Bas and her top deputies are chief of 379 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 6: staff or deputy chief of staff, saying, hey, you know what, 380 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 6: five million dollars is not going to solve this problem. 381 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 6: In fact, it's only going to enable the same things. 382 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 6: And so they look like they're going to make the 383 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 6: same mistakes in the coming weeks to find another GM 384 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 6: that they made two years ago when Bas came in. 385 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 2: Give me and give me in as a shorthand here 386 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 2: just like two or three mistakes that they are consistently making. 387 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: That's bad news for the dogs and cats. What are 388 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: they doing wrong? 389 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 6: They are lying to the public. Number one, They are 390 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 6: lying to the public that they don't kill animals for space. 391 00:21:54,400 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 6: They kill thousands of healthy, young, big, lively, adoptable, friendly animals, 392 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,880 Speaker 6: dogs and cats, and they are lying to the public 393 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 6: about that because a politician wants to be able to 394 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 6: say they're doing good things for animals, and then they 395 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 6: find ways to kill them and even dump them on 396 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 6: the streets. What by calling it something else? Right, John, 397 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 6: If your neighbor took a dog, and you sometimes see 398 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 6: these horrible videos, horrible videos where people abandoned a dog 399 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 6: and they drive away and the poor dog is chasing 400 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,360 Speaker 6: after the car, you and I and your neighbor would 401 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 6: be charged with a crime. But the city of Los 402 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 6: Angeles has been dumping cats, in particular friendly adoptable cats 403 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,439 Speaker 6: on the streets of Los Angeles. And I've been pressing 404 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 6: Nathan Hoffman, if you're listening, mister District Attorney, that this 405 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 6: is a crime, each and every time, please investigate it. 406 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 2: What prevents animal services from getting these dogs and cats adopted. 407 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 2: If you say the pets themselves are adoptedble, So what's 408 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 2: blocking LA Animal Services from doing that? 409 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 6: They aren't putting in the effort. They could do that, 410 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 6: but they keep hiring general managers who aren't doing the things. 411 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 6: What you have to do, stop the killing massive free 412 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 6: spady nooter, get the word out there and crack down 413 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 6: on backyard breeders. It is not brain surgery. But they 414 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,919 Speaker 6: keep lying because they want to hire a female. They 415 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 6: want to hire a gay person as GM instead of 416 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 6: the person who is best suited to do the job. 417 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 1: Oh so they're all hamstrung by DEI nonsense. 418 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 6: One hundred for as long as I've watched. 419 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: It, John, And the cats and dogs have to die. 420 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,400 Speaker 6: They don't have to die, well, they have to. 421 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 1: Die because of their incompetence. 422 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 6: Here right in that regard. Yes, And by the way, 423 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 6: in faris to Karen Bess. This went on with Eric 424 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 6: Garson and Garcetti and La City Council President Herb Wesson 425 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 6: back in the day, and Paul Koretz and the city 426 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,640 Speaker 6: Controller Ron Galprin. They rigged an audit until I called them, 427 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,719 Speaker 6: and then they reversed the numbers. And the LA Times 428 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 6: did not report on it. That's why I have zero 429 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 6: sympathy for what's going on at the LA Times. They 430 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 6: enabled it, and now they're they're they're all fretting that 431 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 6: fourteen more people lost their jobs. These animals have been 432 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 6: abused and lied about for years, and I put the 433 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 6: blame squarely on the LA Times and the TV news 434 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 6: stations that do not report the truth. The only parrot 435 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 6: with the LA Times has been telling them. 436 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 2: And what's the LA Times interest in protecting this this 437 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 2: dog and cat killing regime? 438 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 6: Like wow, well you want to know what's convenience? They 439 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 6: get the story, they get the access, they hedge on 440 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 6: the story. They don't quite say what's going on in 441 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 6: other things, and they have the access. That's why John 442 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 6: at the begin of this year, Marquis Harris Thaws and 443 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 6: the city council president, when I confronted him about several 444 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 6: of these issues related to the inferno, three of his 445 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 6: staffers and by the way, this story is going to 446 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 6: have a chapter two to it physically attacked me as 447 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 6: they did a few weeks later to a KTLA reporter 448 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 6: Annie Rose ramos So. And I've been harassed by LAPD officers, 449 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:28,360 Speaker 6: and they rigged an internal audit, an internal investigation about it. 450 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,679 Speaker 6: So it's a very close clubby thing, and I have 451 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 6: zero sympathy for the lies biomission being told by the 452 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 6: La Times. 453 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 2: Let me ask you one more thing before you go, 454 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 2: And it's a little piece you had in one of 455 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:47,919 Speaker 2: your sub stack articles and you teased it as you 456 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 2: have an upcoming story on the city Attorney Howdie felstin 457 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 2: Soto that she or her office has repeatedly reportedly warned 458 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 2: the fire department and the police apartment that if they 459 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 2: take troubled homeless people to the hospital against their will, 460 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 2: it's the equivalent of kidnapping, right, is it? 461 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 6: Rich Seriously, Well, that's what several independent sources have told me. 462 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 6: I live in one of the nicer parts of the valley, 463 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:24,479 Speaker 6: Sherman Oaks, and there are situations and merchants where people, 464 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 6: homeless people go in covered in their own feces and urine, 465 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 6: breaking windows, pulling their pants down and pleasuring themselves in 466 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 6: the middle of an intersection, right in front of an intersection, 467 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 6: And they were told. Various independent sources of mine have 468 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 6: told me that the first responders say, while we have 469 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 6: the unarmed crisis response people. So if we take them 470 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 6: to the hospital, what's the dividing line. It is the 471 00:26:55,800 --> 00:27:00,439 Speaker 6: equivalent of kidnapping, which is a load of malarkey, just 472 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 6: their way of dumping these problems on us. 473 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 2: Kidnapping to take a guy off the street, who's who's 474 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:15,159 Speaker 2: who's pleasuring himself in traffic, you can't automatically take him 475 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 2: to a psych clinic. 476 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 6: John, It's worse than that. A few days, by the way, 477 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 6: Nythia Ramen has not responded council Member Nythia Ramen, my 478 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 6: council member, and the city Attorney's office has not responded 479 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 6: to these requests. So several days after my last communications 480 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 6: with him, I have on video a drugged out, homeless 481 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 6: guy who's not only dropping a deuce on one side, but 482 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 6: pleasuring himself on the other side. I had to ask Google, 483 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 6: is there a word for this? 484 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: Is he? 485 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 6: Wait? 486 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 1: Wait by saying he's doing both at once at once. 487 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 6: By the way, I have video of it. 488 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: Oh, please forward that. Ray would love to see that. 489 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 8: Yeah, oh no, you guys will and uh and so no, 490 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,199 Speaker 8: I'm coming home from the dog park, for God's sakes, 491 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 8: and this is happening in front of my favorite sushi 492 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 8: restaurant in the area. 493 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 6: And I got it. I gotta tell you, I was 494 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 6: I had to ask Google, what do you call someone 495 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 6: who does this and simultaneously with that, And apparently it's 496 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 6: called a slumpkin? What like akin? I think it's called 497 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 6: s l U m K I N. 498 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:36,640 Speaker 2: I think it's across It sounds disgusting, sounds awful. 499 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 6: Right, well, I guess it's a cross between a blumpkin 500 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 6: and something called a Cleveland steamer. 501 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: No, no, no, I've heard of that. 502 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 2: All right, Daniel, you're the only guy in town covering 503 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 2: this in any media, any. 504 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 6: Media, at least at least transparently. Just a little bit 505 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 6: of breaking news. I just published it on subseack. I 506 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 6: sent it to Ray. The International Association of Firefighters has 507 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 6: placed under temporary conservatorship the United Firefighters of Los Angeles 508 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 6: City for misappropriation of funds. They suspended the the the president, 509 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 6: and two others Freddie Escobar. But the irony you'll see 510 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 6: this on subseck. I posted this about fifteen minutes ago. 511 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: I'm right away, now, go ahead, finished, but I just 512 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: got to run and do the news. Sure. 513 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 6: The irony as that that the conservatorship or the receivership 514 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 6: is being oversaw, overseen by the General Secretary Treasurer uh Lima. 515 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 6: And he's the guy who was buddying up to Eric 516 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 6: Garcetti when they thought he might be President of the 517 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 6: United States. 518 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: See that are my sub sect. 519 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,479 Speaker 6: See it in your email and I'll time operator. 520 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. Daniel. 521 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 522 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 3: six forty. 523 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 2: So I followed up on Daniel Guss and he did 524 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:12,479 Speaker 2: post this minutes ago. We had Freddy Escobar on the 525 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 2: air a couple of times, and he's the president of 526 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 2: the United Firefighters of Los Angeles Local one twelve as 527 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 2: the firefighters union, and he was speaking out on how 528 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 2: badly funded and badly equipped the LA Fire Department has 529 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 2: been for many years and we have like the same, 530 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 2: we have fewer fire stations that we did in the 531 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 2: nineteen sixties. Remember he came on. Well, United Firefighters of 532 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 2: LA belongs to the larger National International Association of Firefighters 533 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 2: and the executive board has placed the United Firefighters of 534 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 2: LA under temporary conservatorship. There's funny business going on with 535 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 2: the finances, and Freddy Escobar has been suspended also the 536 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 2: first vice president of the union, someone named Coats, and 537 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 2: a director named ho and bringing charges against them, and 538 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 2: I don't have details of the charges. Also a secretary 539 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 2: named Walker, and so they're being suspended and charged and investigated. 540 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 2: And it's got something to do with the finances, the 541 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 2: way they handled the finances for the firefighters union. Do 542 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 2: you believe this? I thought these were I thought Escobar 543 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 2: was a good guy. Of course, I did see a 544 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 2: story a few days ago that he hauled in five 545 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 2: hundred and forty dollars in salary. There's a lot of overtime, 546 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 2: and I don't know if that has anything to do 547 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 2: with this particular investigation. But now it's being placed under 548 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 2: a temporary receivership and the whole city is is just collapsing. 549 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 2: There's nobody to go to, you know, much of the 550 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 2: city council has been jailed, and the fired and police 551 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 2: department are way underfunded. The only industry doing well is 552 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 2: the homeless industry that's doing great. I can't you know, 553 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 2: if there was a news organization that could do an 554 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 2: investigation and we could find out how many politicians, family members, friends, 555 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 2: political donors and consultants are on the payrolls of all 556 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 2: these fake homeless nonprofits, but nobody's bothering to do the work. 557 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 2: The Times is laying people off. Another fourteen were laid off, 558 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 2: and the TV stations cover car crashes. 559 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 1: So there you go. 560 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 2: When we come back right after Debra's and news. Nick 561 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 2: Schultz is the Burbank Assemblyman. He is the head of 562 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 2: the Public Safety Committee in the Assembly. He's the one 563 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 2: who helped squash the bill to make it a felony 564 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 2: to pay sixteen and seventeen year olds for sex. He 565 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 2: thinks there's nothing wrong with that, and he got the 566 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 2: bill well, I mean, they voted down the bill with 567 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 2: fifty five Democratic votes and he took it away from 568 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 2: the bill's sponsor. He had a town hall meeting Friday night, 569 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 2: and one of our listeners went, and he's going to 570 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 2: explain what he saw. 571 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 1: That's next. 572 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 2: Debra Mark is live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, 573 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 2: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You 574 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 575 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 576 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.