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The Los Angeles County District Attorney George gascon 9 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:32,919 Speaker 2: another scandal in his office seems to happen constantly, and 10 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 2: this involves someone in his administration at the very highest level, 11 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 2: the Assistant District Attorney Diana Tehran. Diana Tehran is being 12 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 2: charged by the California Attorney General Rob Bonte with eleven felonies. 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 2: You know, she's also the chief of Ethics and Integrity, 14 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 2: except she's being charged with illegally looking into officer personnel 15 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: files and then using that information to prosecute them, and 16 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 2: that is a clear violation of the law. We are 17 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 2: now going to get John lewinon a Deputy DA and 18 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,479 Speaker 2: he's going to explain what all this is about. Oh oh, 19 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 2: and one more thing we got Steve Garvey coming in 20 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,479 Speaker 2: studio in an hour. Steve Garvey running as the Republican 21 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 2: candidate for Senate. In an hour, he's going to be here, 22 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:23,839 Speaker 2: so be ready for that. Okay, let's get John Lewin 23 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 2: on here. John, how are you? 24 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 3: John? 25 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: I'm good? 26 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 2: So explain what did this chief of Ethics and Integrity, 27 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 2: Diana Tehran do. Now she's a former public defender and 28 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 2: Gascone bumped her up to an assistant district attorney, and 29 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 2: what was her crime according to the Attorney General? 30 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 3: As you're aware, John, let me quickly say that obviously 31 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 3: I'm not speaking on behalf of George gast going to 32 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 3: the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. So let me 33 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 3: start with this. Diana Turan was a career public defender 34 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 3: who was brought in by George Gascon. She was brought 35 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 3: in well after back in two thousand and nineteen, before 36 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 3: Gascon ever took office. There were articles in the paper 37 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 3: and on the media. I'm looking at one from Channel 38 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 3: seven from August fourteenth of twenty nineteen. Lasd has criminal 39 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 3: investigation into its own watchdog and names Diana Turan by name. 40 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 3: So George Gascone takes over December seventh, twenty twenty. And 41 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 3: what does he do. He brings in Diana Turan, someone 42 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 3: to be investigated for serious, serious criminal conduct, brings her 43 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 3: in and immediately starts promoting her. It's like she had 44 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 3: a rocket attached to her rear end in the way 45 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 3: that she just climbed the office. Eventually she becomes the 46 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 3: assisted DA, a promotion that was made in the last 47 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 3: few months. Well into this investment instigation, she's promoted and 48 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 3: she has put in charge of get this, the prosecution 49 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 3: of police officers. Now, this is a woman, by the way, 50 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 3: who's misconduct eleven felonies. I am unaware in the history 51 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 3: of the office of an indidividual being charged with felony 52 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 3: conduct for actions that relate to their responsibilities as a prosecutor. 53 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 3: So what was she doing. She was illegally accessing police 54 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 3: records that she was not supposed to have. We don't 55 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 3: know what she did with those records, but coincidentally records 56 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 3: that she should not have had or excuse it should 57 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 3: not have been passed on. In for instance, the Torrents 58 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 3: police officer bout a voluntary maslaughter case were given to 59 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 3: the two million dollar prosecutor George handled to take over 60 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 3: that case, and all of a sudden he had confidential 61 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 3: materials that a judge had given to to Brand's investigative 62 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 3: unit who was prosting these police officers with instructions that 63 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 3: they could not be turned over to anybody, and all 64 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 3: of a sudden he had them. So what's the bottom 65 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 3: line do all this? Diana Turan, who is supposed to 66 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 3: be investigating and charging police officers, is illegally accessing information that, 67 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 3: apparently the reasonal inference would be she is using to 68 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 3: make determinations on those charges of police officers. Now, as prosecutors, 69 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 3: we not only have an obligation to try in vigorously 70 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 3: and ethically prosecute our cases, but we have to do 71 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 3: so in a legal manner. And she's been charged with 72 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 3: eleven felonies. Now that brings up this question, when did 73 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 3: George Gascone find out this information and what specifically did 74 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 3: he know? I send him a long email today which 75 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:54,799 Speaker 3: I'm sure he won't answer. 76 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been looking through it. Yes, I'm reading this. 77 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 3: You know. What is important is to find out, first 78 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 3: of all, what exactly when did he find out there 79 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 3: was this investigation? Now, what is absolutely striking is Remember 80 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 3: rob Bonta is Gascone's political ally. If you remember, Gascone's 81 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 3: inexperienced chief of staff, a Gray two, who had four 82 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 3: felony trials at the time he was made the second 83 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 3: highest position in the office, was arrested for an alcohol 84 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 3: intoxication incident, and the ag Bontus people sat on that 85 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 3: case until the statue of the litations expired. So how 86 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 3: horrible must this case be for Rob Bonta, George Gascone's 87 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 3: political ally, to have filed these eleven felony charges. This 88 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 3: is the tip of the iceberg. Diana Turan is being 89 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 3: charged for conduct which appears to specifically be directed at 90 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 3: aiding George Gascone and improperly prosecuting police officers. Now, if 91 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 3: George Gascon had ever tried to case himself, he has 92 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 3: never tried a case. He is barely a lawyer, much 93 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 3: less a prosecutor. He would understand the ethics involved, but obviously, 94 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 3: given who he is who he serves, which are the 95 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 3: basically incarcerated people of California, he doesn't care about any 96 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 3: victims in our cases. He doesn't care. And by the way, 97 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 3: Diana Turan, as far as I know George Gascon has 98 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 3: marched two different people, lawyers in our office, out of 99 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 3: the office when there were allegations of misconduct, allegations which 100 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 3: turned out to result in no discipline. I'm unaware of 101 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 3: Diana Turan being marched out when she was charged with 102 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 3: eleven felonies. So that's kind of the basics, and it 103 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 3: is beyond disturbing. What does George Gascaux know, when did 104 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 3: he know it? And what other shoes are going to drop? 105 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 2: Well, you have laid out quite the case here, and 106 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 2: I've got the same questions too. I don't know how 107 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 2: he could not have known this was going on when 108 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 2: you do something eleven times and involving by eleven police 109 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 2: officers and all of them had some kind of legal 110 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 2: action against them. 111 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 3: Well we don't They're right, they're right now named as 112 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 3: John Doe, So we don't know who those deputies are. 113 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 3: But if you look back what she was accused of 114 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 3: doing in this article would also named the Inspector General, 115 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 3: Max Huntsman, and all of them. Huntsmen and the Board 116 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 3: of Supervisors came forward and said this investigation by the 117 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 3: Sheriff's Department is it's unethical and it's not accurate, and 118 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 3: it's a bunch of garbage. Well, Rob Bonta is one 119 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 3: of the most liberal liberal Democrats in this state. He 120 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 3: just charged his buddy, Gascone's top advisor with eleven felonies. 121 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 3: So apparently where there are smoke, there was fire, and 122 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 3: this is an inferno. 123 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 2: All right, we'll see where this goes next. John, maybe 124 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 2: come back on. We'll talk some more when we get 125 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 2: some further details. But this is quite shock all right, 126 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 2: very good. John Lewin, a deputy DA laying out what's 127 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 2: going on with this is the top of Gascones administration, 128 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 2: the Assistant District Attorney, Diana Tarn She's charged with eleven 129 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 2: felonies by the Attorney General Rob Bonta, who's Gascones buddy. 130 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 2: Remember Bonta is Gascones buddy Newsome is Gascones buddy. Newsom 131 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 2: appointed gascon to be San Francisco District Attorney and got 132 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 2: him his start in his career as being a DA. 133 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 2: And they're all very left wing, very progressive, very pro criminal. 134 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 2: So for Bonta to turn on one of the Gascones 135 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 2: top lieutenants with eleven felonies means there's something really rotten 136 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 2: going on in Gascon's office. But hey, that's why Nathan 137 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 2: Hockman is running. And we've got some some reaction from 138 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 2: Nathan Hockman. We're going to pass along too. 139 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 140 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 4: M six forty. 141 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: It is true. 142 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 2: We mentioned this a little bit ago, and we've got 143 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 2: some more details. 144 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: USC. 145 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 2: What is with these universities. They are so cowardly and 146 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 2: weak and they are. 147 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 1: They're there. They've canceled the graduation ceremony. 148 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 5: Which is so unfair, so unfair to these students. 149 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 2: You know, people as soon as children are born in 150 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 2: a lot of families, parents start worrying about what college. 151 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: They're going to go to. 152 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 2: Right absolutely, and you go somewhere like USC that costs 153 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 2: a fortune. So people have to work a lot to 154 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 2: for that sort of thing, or the kids have to 155 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,439 Speaker 2: do extraordinarily well to get some kind of a scholarship 156 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 2: or a grant, and and and it's tough work, and 157 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 2: they can't help it if the universities teach you a 158 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 2: lot of nonsense that you have to suck up to. 159 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 2: But to finally get to graduation day and not have 160 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 2: a graduation, I mean they should be if they were 161 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 2: college administrators. I realized there's some special breed of psychopath. 162 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 2: They're not capable of feeling shame. They're not capable of 163 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 2: understanding all the emotions that go into this, and they 164 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 2: always hide this hide behind something like safety. You know, 165 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 2: it was crap that they closed all the graduation ceremonies 166 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 2: down for COVID because in one of those ceremonies could 167 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 2: have been done outdoors, and that was completely bogus. It 168 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 2: was an overreaction. It was just childish. And now this 169 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 2: is a huge overreaction. You know, every public facility has 170 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 2: to deal with possible outside agitators causing a problem. Right 171 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 2: every stadium, every arena, every shopping mall, any kind of 172 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 2: public facility that draws those of people can put together 173 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 2: measures to make sure that nothing bad happens. And why 174 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 2: USC can't do that. The first thing you do is 175 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 2: if you punish the agitators right from the start, all 176 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 2: the students that are illegally you just declare protesting off 177 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 2: limits on the campus, and you do that on day one, 178 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 2: and you suspend the kids, and you expel the kids 179 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 2: if necessary, and then they know you get rid of 180 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 2: all the bad apples, you get rid of all the troublemakers. 181 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: Nobody goes to college to hear. 182 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 2: Other people screaming about some boutique issue of the day. 183 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 2: Because if it isn't the Israel Hamas thing, it's something else. 184 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 2: You know, it's trans rites, or it's Black lives matter, 185 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:45,839 Speaker 2: or it's whatever. And all this stuff comes and goes 186 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 2: and comes and goes, and it's really important for about 187 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 2: five minutes, and then everybody gets tired of it and 188 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 2: on to something else. All right, these issues are a 189 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 2: dime a dozen these days, and it's the same people 190 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 2: shouting and yelling and blah blah blah. And they do 191 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 2: it in order to perform. They do it because they 192 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 2: have their own psychological dysfunction going on. 193 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 5: Well look what they did today, John, Right, they closed 194 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 5: campus to non right to the general public. 195 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, so why don't you do. 196 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 5: Something like that? Obviously parents and family members, but do 197 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 5: something do It's just ridiculous that these innocent students that 198 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 5: are graduating and that have no part in these protests 199 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 5: now don't have they don't know, they don't get to 200 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 5: they don't get to enjoy their hard work. 201 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 2: Why can't why can't us open a graduation ceremony just 202 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 2: for the students and their families. Use IDs, use special tickets, 203 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 2: let them walk through metal detectors, make sure nobody's bringing 204 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 2: in any metal weapons or signs. And if anybody acts up, 205 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 2: tell them you act up just once, and you're not going. 206 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: To graduate exactly. 207 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 2: You'll be immediately expelled right at the ceremony and your 208 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 2: four years worth of your parents' money goes in the toilet. 209 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: You'll be walked right off the stag. 210 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 2: That's right. So there's no graduation. And as in previous years, 211 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 2: the Universe I'm going to read from their press release here, 212 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 2: As in previous years, the university will host dozens of 213 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 2: commencement events, but we will not be able to host 214 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,959 Speaker 2: the main stage ceremony that brings sixty five thousand students, 215 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 2: family and friends to our campus. And we understand this 216 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 2: is disappointing, but they don't care. We're adding many new 217 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 2: activities and celebrations to make this commencement meaningful, memorable, and 218 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 2: uniquely usc Oh. 219 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: I hate that fake cheerlead. 220 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 5: How do you know that those events aren't going to 221 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 5: be comprised of all these protesters figuring out what's happening 222 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:41,119 Speaker 5: and trying. 223 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 1: To ruin that here. 224 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 2: Tickets will be required to access all campus and commencement 225 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 2: events taking place from May eight to eleven. You'll be 226 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 2: able to reserve free charge tickets for themselves up to 227 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 2: eight named guests. Tickets not transferable. So I don't understand 228 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 2: if you're going to go through this for all the 229 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 2: smaller events, why can't you have the big event? People 230 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 2: wait all their lives, parents wait all their child's life 231 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 2: for the moment where they're walking across the stage and 232 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,559 Speaker 2: getting the diploma and having their name announced. You can't 233 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 2: make that. You can't get security to make that crazy proof. 234 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 5: Usc you can't afford you a CD security. 235 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: What was there and what's their endowment down to? You 236 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: could do it. 237 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 2: You could set up an intimidating presence and and and 238 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 2: say there's gonna be absolute consequences. We're gonna charge you 239 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 2: immediately with a crime, and we're gonna kick you out 240 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 2: of school and you'll never get a diploma, and we're 241 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 2: going to erase your records and come sue us. But they, 242 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 2: you know, they never want all you. You have to 243 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 2: be really tough and aggressive with with these screaming toddlers, 244 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 2: because you can you can control screaming toddlers. You have 245 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 2: to be firm enough. Any every parent knows that that 246 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 2: has had a screaming toddler. If you're tough enough, they'll 247 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 2: stop screaming. 248 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from kf I 249 00:14:57,960 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 4: am six forty. 250 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 2: Yes, the yellow bellied cowards in the US, the administration 251 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 2: has canceled the graduation ceremony, punishing thousands of students who 252 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 2: showed up every day and went to class and didn't 253 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 2: stand out on the lawn and act like spoiled toddlers. 254 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 2: So the spoiled toddlers win. Normal students lose. You know 255 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 2: who all riot next? The rest of the students and 256 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 2: the parents. They ought to start a big riot at 257 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 2: USC for taking away the graduation ceremony, but they wouldn't 258 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 2: because they're normal. They're not mental patients like the toddlers 259 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 2: we saw on TV last night. One more thing, This 260 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 2: is funny, and then I want to get to something 261 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 2: a little more serious. I just I want to do 262 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 2: this now because otherwise I'll forget. I want to play 263 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 2: cut seven. This is well. You know, the Trump trials 264 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 2: going on right, and it's drawing all kinds of characters 265 00:15:56,160 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 2: in Manhattan, And Newsmax had a reporter there asking a 266 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 2: construction worker in Manhattan about Trump and Joe Biden. So 267 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 2: here's a real New York construction worker giving his opinion. 268 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 4: What's it like seeing so many Republicans in Manhattan, so 269 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 4: many Trump supporters in Manhattan. 270 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: Is that surprise you? No, not at all. It's turning 271 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: out Trump's turn again. What's your message to Joe Biden? 272 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 2: You it's a little better way you can hear the 273 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 2: whole word. But it was a big f you from 274 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 2: the big Burley construction worker. And you know, in one 275 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 2: line that explains the appeal of Trump to tens of 276 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 2: millions around the country. If you ever run into somebody 277 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 2: who says, I don't understand, it's what he said. It's 278 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 2: a big f you to everything, to the establishment, the 279 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 2: Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the media, the elite universities, 280 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 2: the whole thing. It's Trump is f you. That's the 281 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:06,239 Speaker 2: beginning an end of the message. Now, part of the 282 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 2: insanity I just explained it that these college protests is 283 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 2: that most of those screaming toddlers are ignorant. They don't 284 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 2: know that they're fighting for Hamas and Palestine and Iran, 285 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 2: who are all governed by Sharia law, and would stone 286 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 2: and lash women who violated any of their religious principles, 287 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 2: who would execute just murder any gays and lesbians, and 288 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 2: many of those groups are out protesting against the war. 289 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 2: A lot of ignorance too, about the role of the 290 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 2: Supreme Court. And you heard this a lot when the 291 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 2: Supreme Court issued its ruling on abortion, and they didn't 292 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 2: make abortion illegal, they just said there's no constitutional right 293 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 2: to it, and the states have to decide on their 294 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 2: own because abortion is not in the constitution, it doesn't 295 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 2: exist right, and so that was the decision. But most 296 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 2: people are ignorant of the law and of Supreme Court rulings. 297 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 2: They don't understand it. The same thing is happening now 298 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 2: that the Supreme Court held a hearing on whether we 299 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 2: can start getting the homeless off the street, because the 300 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 2: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had created a fake right 301 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 2: that the homeless can sleep on in public places, and 302 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 2: to threaten them with any kind of civil or criminal 303 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 2: penalty if they don't move is a violation of the 304 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 2: Eighth Amendment Cruel and unusual punishment, And you can see 305 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 2: a lot of the justices on the Supreme Court said, well, 306 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 2: that's a lot of horsecrap, because there's nothing in the 307 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 2: Eighth Amendment that gave you a permanent right to sleep 308 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 2: in a public place. 309 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: It's not cruel and unusual to say. 310 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 2: Move along or eventually you're going to suffer some kind 311 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 2: of penalty. People are just ignorant of what the amendments 312 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 2: say in the Constitution and of what's not listed in 313 00:18:55,920 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 2: the county Constitution. Well, so many people in California, especially 314 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 2: in the media, especially activists and politicians, have invested so 315 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 2: heavily in the rights of the homeless for the last 316 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 2: ten years. They've totally forgotten the law and the Constitution. 317 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 2: And now there's this frightening story in the La Times 318 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 2: by some weasel named Kevin Rector. The headline is the 319 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 2: Supreme Court's homelessness decision could backfire on California. Oh, no, backfire, 320 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 2: And it highlights this whack job progressive Lindsay Horvath, who's 321 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 2: an LA County supervisor. She replaced Sheila Cule on the 322 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 2: West side. She's my supervisor, and she is a progressive 323 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 2: looney to and Rector writes that as the Court heard 324 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:51,719 Speaker 2: arguments this week in a case expected to shape homeless policies. 325 00:19:52,040 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 2: Lindsay Horvath listened angrily. The Board of Supervisors actually voted 326 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 2: to throw its support behind the case, as did Gavin Newsom. 327 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 2: This is the Grant's pass case, and Grant's passed in. 328 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 2: Newsom and three of the members of the Supervisors said, 329 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,160 Speaker 2: you know, we ought to have the right to coerce 330 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 2: people off public spaces by threatening with some kind of penalty. Well, 331 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 2: Horror of Ath is very angry. She voted against that 332 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 2: supervisor's resolution. And here's her reasoning. Saying that the only 333 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 2: way we can get ourselves out of this problem is 334 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 2: by citing people for having a blanket on the ground 335 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 2: or for daring to sleep on a park bench is absurd, 336 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 2: just absurd, And I would also say immoral. All we'll 337 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 2: be doing is pushing people from one place to another, 338 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 2: and we've been doing that for decades. Horror of Ath, 339 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 2: like a lot of these progressives, when they have to 340 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 2: give a public argument, give one that is so misleading. 341 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 3: So. 342 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: Just just wrong. 343 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 2: What they do is they minimize what's going on out 344 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 2: in the street, which of course is crazy people who 345 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 2: are screaming and yelling, and they're acting violent. They're under 346 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 2: all kinds of drugs, all kinds of mental illness. They're 347 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 2: stabbing people to death. They're running in the streets or 348 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 2: they're passed out on the sidewalk. They're defecating and urinating 349 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 2: and vomiting all over the place. They're very aggressive. That's 350 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 2: what's going on. Instead, she reduces it to having a 351 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 2: blanket on the ground or gearing to sleep on a 352 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 2: park bench. That's not what people are upset about. And 353 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 2: besides that, the Constitution doesn't give you the right to 354 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 2: sleep on a park bench twenty four hours a day 355 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 2: or lay a blanket on the ground forever. 356 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 1: You don't have that right. It's a public space. You 357 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: have that right in your backyard. 358 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 2: The risk, according to Horvathis and others, is that the 359 00:21:55,600 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 2: Supreme Court could enable laws hostile to homeless people across 360 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 2: the American West. 361 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: Hillvisals. 362 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 2: The other supervisor said if Grant's pass wins, it would 363 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 2: open a can of worms. 364 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 1: The ruling would be implemented unevenly. 365 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 2: Some cities who have some cities who have shelter beds 366 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 2: would end up with most of the homeless, while the 367 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 2: ones without shelter beds would not have homeless. And I 368 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 2: don't think any city has to take homeless. Really, I 369 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 2: don't think any city, any county has any state has 370 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 2: the moral right to accept homeless from all the other 371 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 2: counties and cities and states. What should be done is 372 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 2: you build a psychiatric hospital network and a drug treatment network, 373 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 2: and it's mandated that when you find people in the 374 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 2: streets acting insane, they be forced into those treatment centers. 375 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: Period. End of story. 376 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 2: Michael Schellenberger wrote about this today, and I'm going to 377 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 2: get to his because every once in a while I 378 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,199 Speaker 2: run across somebody who thinks exactly like I do. And 379 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 2: everything he wrote about today, we've talked about on the air. 380 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 2: And sometimes you feel like you're talking in a closet 381 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 2: and you're crazy because nobody else seems to see what 382 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:17,199 Speaker 2: you say. Well, Michael Schellenberger sees it. And we have 383 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 2: to just bust through this mentality that we're responsible for 384 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 2: all these homeless people because it's society and these people 385 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 2: have been oppressed. It's like, no, they're not oppressed, they're 386 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 2: mentally ill or they're drug addicted, and there's way way 387 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,360 Speaker 2: way more drugs destructive drugs now than there were decades ago, 388 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 2: and that's why we have all the homeless ed We've 389 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,120 Speaker 2: put up with it. And I'm going to get into 390 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,719 Speaker 2: what Schellenberger wrote about when we come back. And then 391 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 2: after three o'clock we got Steve Garvey coming in the studio. 392 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 2: Steve Garvey is here. He is running as a Republican 393 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 2: for a US Senate and he wants to speak out 394 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:52,239 Speaker 2: about all the pro Hamas, anti Jewish demonstrations going on 395 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 2: at the college campuses and elsewhere. 396 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: So Steve's coming on after three. 397 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KIA. 398 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:06,159 Speaker 2: Steve Garvey coming in after three o'clock. Steve Garvey, the 399 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 2: Great Dodger, running to be the Great Senator as a 400 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 2: Republican against Adam Schiff, and he wants to talk about 401 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 2: all the all the spoiled toddlers at USC and u 402 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 2: c l A whining and complaining about a war that 403 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 2: they have no effect on, and now USC has canceled 404 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 2: graduation ceremonies. You believe that you believe that that is 405 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 2: that is disgusting, that that's absolutely shameful and disgusting that 406 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 2: they caved into a few hundred lunatics and outside agitators 407 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 2: and jew haters and Hammad. 408 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: How come? 409 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 2: How come you support terrorists and you create such a 410 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 2: ruckus and the normal people who don't support terrorists, they 411 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 2: lose their graduation ceremony that they worked so many years for. 412 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: How does that happen? 413 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 3: All Right? 414 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 2: I want to follow up on what I was talking 415 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,399 Speaker 2: about about homelessness because Michael Schellenberger, who we've had on 416 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,439 Speaker 2: the show a number of times, and he he's a 417 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 2: great substat column. Actually would pay money for his substack 418 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 2: holm It's about the only one I paid for. And 419 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 2: the name of his column is called public And he 420 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 2: go to piece today, the Dirty Little Secret about homelessness, 421 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 2: and it spun off this Supreme Court case that was 422 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 2: heard this week, and he wrote stuff which I believed 423 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 2: and talked about on the air before I met Michael Schellenberger. 424 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 2: And then after we met and we had a number 425 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,120 Speaker 2: of interviews and I read his writings. 426 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 1: It turns out he's got exactly the. 427 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 2: Same thoughts and I'm right, and he's right, and it's 428 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 2: just a matter of when the public will is going 429 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 2: to force these idiot politicians and activists to stop their 430 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 2: destructive policies because it's really worth reading. It's called the 431 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 2: dirty Little Secret about homelessness is the key to ending it, 432 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 2: and he says that many homeless advocates claim homelessness exists 433 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,399 Speaker 2: because we don't have enough homes and poverty has increased, 434 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 2: but neither is true. Do you know, poverty has steadily 435 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 2: declined since the nineteen eighties, and that's what homeless This 436 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 2: first really popped up. And he writes that very few 437 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,880 Speaker 2: people are on the street simply because they can't afford 438 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 2: the rent. The evidence is overwhelming that the majority of 439 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 2: people on the street are there because of untreated mental 440 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 2: illness or addiction, and it leads people to use all 441 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 2: their money to support their drug habit and get high 442 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:32,880 Speaker 2: rather than work. There you go, that's it, that's it. 443 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 2: Most of the people are drug addicts. The rest are 444 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 2: mental patients, he writes. The people who can't afford the 445 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 2: rent but are able to work, and who are not 446 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 2: in the grip of addiction or untreated mental illness. 447 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: You know what they do. We said this hundred times. 448 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 2: People who can't afford the rent find a cheaper place 449 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,719 Speaker 2: to live, or move somewhere cheaper, or live with family 450 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:02,360 Speaker 2: and friends. Yes, that's what a rational person does, even 451 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,719 Speaker 2: if their rent is raised. Getting your rent raised is 452 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 2: not a deadly disease. It means you can't afford the rent, 453 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 2: so you move somewhere cheaper, or move in with someone, 454 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 2: or move. 455 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 1: To another town. Now, he says, it's true there aren't enough. 456 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 2: Shelter beds and case workers and group homes in psychiatric hospitals. 457 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 2: But that's because for forty years, the homeless activists and 458 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 2: the politicians demanded that the funding is to give people 459 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 2: private studio apartments rather than shelter beds. They call it 460 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 2: housing first, and its record is awful. And it's true 461 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,400 Speaker 2: because very few actually stay in the housing, and many 462 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:50,959 Speaker 2: of them die quickly anyway, because they're still addicted, they 463 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:56,199 Speaker 2: still have untreated mental illness. Not having a house is 464 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,719 Speaker 2: not the cause of their drug addiction and mental illness, 465 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 2: he writes, it's the symptom. And studies have found that 466 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 2: cities that give basic shelter over expensive housing reduced the 467 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 2: deaths by threefold. Yes, in La, homeless die at a 468 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 2: rate three times higher than New York. Because when you 469 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 2: live inside, it protects you from murder, drug overdose, and 470 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 2: car accidents. That's why we have more pedestrians dying in 471 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,479 Speaker 2: LA That's why we don't need roague diets because the 472 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 2: increase of pedestrian deaths are drug addicted, mentally a homeless 473 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 2: people stumbling into traffic in the dark. 474 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 1: Well, this is all connected. 475 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 2: All the weird changes in the last ten years are 476 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 2: all interwoven. But of course the homeless advocates have exposed 477 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 2: expanding psychiatric hospitals and mandatory care. They think it's bad 478 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 2: to mandate hospitalization for psychotic people, but it's not. One 479 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 2: hundred and twelve thousand Americans died from drug overdose last 480 00:28:54,920 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 2: year because we didn't mandate treatment, and these these homeless 481 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 2: advocates would rather people die on the street than be 482 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 2: forced into treatment. The number of drug deaths Schollenberger Rights 483 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 2: quintupled in twenty twenty two to one hundred and twelve 484 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 2: thousand last year. How about that? What that's fentanyl and 485 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 2: that's more people dying per year than died in Hiroshima, 486 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 2: He writes, how about that? And the ideology behind this 487 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 2: is that people suffering from addiction and mental illness are 488 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 2: victims of society or the system. We're just fundamentally evil. 489 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 2: So we have to give the victims of the evil 490 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 2: whatever they want, including the right to camp anywhere and 491 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 2: use hard drugs, even if it results in their death. 492 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 2: That's it, That's all you need to know. You force 493 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,959 Speaker 2: them into treatment for either their drug addiction or mental illness. 494 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 2: You build them a cheap shelter, and you will have 495 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 2: less people homeless, less people dying in the streets. You 496 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 2: don't have to give them a hundred. You don't have 497 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 2: to give him a one billion dollar apartment, which is 498 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 2: what they're doing in Santa Monica. Now, you know, years ago, 499 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 2: you didn't have fentanel, you didn't have the supercharged version 500 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 2: of meth. The drugs and there's all kinds of boutique, 501 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 2: weird drugs out there, and that's why you see things 502 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 2: in recent years you never saw before in your life. 503 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 2: And so you have to mandate that they get off 504 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 2: the drugs, or yeah, you put them in jail. I 505 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 2: mean going back to repealing Prop forty seven. All right, 506 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 2: Steve Garvey waiting in the wings. He's coming in next 507 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 2: he's going to be running. He is running for a 508 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 2: senator against Adam Schiff, and he wants to talk about 509 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 2: all the pro terrorism, pro hamas nonsense going on on 510 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 2: the campus is Hey, you've been listening to The John 511 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 2: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 512 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 2: on KFI AM six forty from one to four pm 513 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 2: every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand 514 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app.