WEBVTT - John's Back From Vacation (09/28) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.240 KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Kobelt Podcast 0:00:04.300 --> 0:00:12.850 on the iHeartRadio app. KFI AM 640. Or Stimulating Talk Radio. 0:00:12.869 --> 0:00:17.050 It's the John Kobelt Show. Hi. It's me. I'm back. 0:00:17.230 --> 0:00:17.950 Are you back? 0:00:18.790 --> 0:00:23.650 They let me back into the country. We got back 0:00:23.710 --> 0:00:29.270 in real quick with the new global entry. Oh, it's 0:00:29.350 --> 0:00:32.349 so easy. Wow. You just walk right in. I felt 0:00:32.390 --> 0:00:36.150 like I was coming in from across the border. Just 0:00:36.210 --> 0:00:38.490 walked in. Nobody stopped me. Nobody questioned me. 0:00:38.530 --> 0:00:38.850 Nothing. 0:00:39.050 --> 0:00:42.150 That's great. It's so good to have you back. It's 0:00:42.170 --> 0:00:46.230 good to be back, except what the issue is, because 0:00:46.590 --> 0:00:49.530 whenever I come back from a vacation in a place 0:00:49.550 --> 0:00:54.050 like Italy, you come back and it's a nine-hour time difference. So, uh, 0:00:54.070 --> 0:00:57.470 right now it is, uh, midnight in Italy and, uh, 0:00:57.590 --> 0:01:00.090 every night on the vacation, I was asleep by midnight 0:01:00.170 --> 0:01:03.970 in Italy. So even though I, well, here, here's what 0:01:04.010 --> 0:01:08.660 I did yesterday. Cause, uh, jet lag, I handle pretty well, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:13.180 wipes out my wife. Uh, and you'll find out how 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:21.360 this works. So we came back yesterday, mid afternoon. And I, 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.030 first thing I did is to go out and I 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.200 went to In-N-Out because I hadn't had a cheeseburger in 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.660 11 days. Oh, all that good Italian food wasn't good. 0:01:29.540 --> 0:01:30.160 Enough for you? 0:01:30.260 --> 0:01:32.880 It was terrific. It was wonderful. We were in Rome 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.619 the entire time. At least that was where we were based. 0:01:35.660 --> 0:01:38.690 And then we took trips away from it back and forth. 0:01:39.050 --> 0:01:42.130 But yeah, got a lot of fantastic Italian food. But 0:01:42.670 --> 0:01:46.429 last few days, I have been having cravings for a cheeseburger. 0:01:48.230 --> 0:01:50.680 So I got home. And my son and I, we 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:52.780 went to In-N-Out. I come back. It's about 4 in 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.420 the afternoon yesterday. And my wife went upstairs to bed. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.930 And I told myself, I'm going to force myself to 0:02:02.070 --> 0:02:05.570 stay up until my normal time, like around 10 o'clock 0:02:05.750 --> 0:02:08.990 is when I usually go down. And watched a football 0:02:09.010 --> 0:02:12.130 game last night, watched the Rams game, and was up 0:02:12.169 --> 0:02:15.680 with my son. I was reading. And I was very tired. 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.330 I was up 26 hours without sleep, right? And so 0:02:18.350 --> 0:02:23.450 your brain starts getting very fuzzy, very watery. I couldn't 0:02:23.510 --> 0:02:27.190 concentrate on anything anymore. So I'd watch the game, and 0:02:27.230 --> 0:02:29.630 during the commercials, I'd read something. I kept talking to 0:02:29.669 --> 0:02:32.889 my son, and I just kept getting stimulus to keep 0:02:32.910 --> 0:02:35.830 the brain awake. But by the end of it, as 0:02:35.889 --> 0:02:39.830 we got to around 9 o'clock, just about every play, 0:02:40.630 --> 0:02:46.380 I'm blacking out. I'm falling asleep right before the ball is... 0:02:47.380 --> 0:02:51.600 is height. But I made it. And I got seven 0:02:51.620 --> 0:02:53.700 and a half hours of sleep last night. Oh, wow. 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:59.440 That's impressive. Yeah, almost uninterrupted. And really hard to do 0:02:59.500 --> 0:03:02.530 on your first night back. My wife goes to bed 0:03:02.550 --> 0:03:06.850 at four, wakes up at midnight. And then that was it. 0:03:08.010 --> 0:03:10.630 She never fell back asleep. And I knew that was 0:03:10.650 --> 0:03:12.389 going to happen. I even told my son, I go, watch. 0:03:12.669 --> 0:03:14.889 She's asleep. She's going to stay there. She's going to 0:03:14.910 --> 0:03:16.570 wake up at midnight. And that's going to be it. 0:03:17.169 --> 0:03:21.210 Because that's, you know, she woke up at 9 o'clock 0:03:21.230 --> 0:03:24.570 Rome time. And it was midnight here. So she was 0:03:24.630 --> 0:03:26.440 up all night. And she was still up when I 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.940 left for work now. And she's going to, I go, 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.320 you are going to crash. And then you repeat the 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.780 same routine. She'll fall asleep about 4 o'clock. And then 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:42.410 she'll stay in bed until midnight. I got to say, 0:03:42.500 --> 0:03:44.230 and I say this too when I come back from 0:03:44.290 --> 0:03:48.030 every trip. Rome, I had more fun in Rome than 0:03:48.070 --> 0:03:50.570 ever before. We've gone to Italy probably a half a 0:03:50.620 --> 0:03:53.279 dozen times over the years, and usually we end up– well, 0:03:53.300 --> 0:03:55.240 we land in Rome, right? So we spend some time there. 0:03:56.580 --> 0:03:59.380 And we found a quiet part of Rome, like away 0:03:59.460 --> 0:04:02.400 from the crowds and the chaos. I never really liked 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.640 Rome because of all the noise and the crush of 0:04:06.660 --> 0:04:09.630 the people. But we didn't go to too many of 0:04:09.670 --> 0:04:12.850 the tourist attractions this time because we've seen them. So 0:04:12.890 --> 0:04:15.320 we spent a lot of time in a neighborhood, which 0:04:15.380 --> 0:04:17.660 is always wanted to do. It's just kind of live 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.760 in a neighborhood and go to the shops there, go 0:04:20.779 --> 0:04:23.480 to the restaurants there. My son was with us for 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.679 about half the trip because he was going to a wedding. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:33.550 And that was really nice. But in all the days 0:04:33.589 --> 0:04:37.710 we spent there, we were there about 11 days. And 0:04:38.050 --> 0:04:40.810 we took day trips to Florence and to Venice and 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.020 And to Naples, because my wife's got family in Naples. 0:04:44.700 --> 0:04:48.800 That's four major cities. Ask me how many homeless people 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.240 I saw sleeping in the streets. Hey, John, how many 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.940 homeless people did you see sleeping in the streets? Zero. 0:04:55.460 --> 0:04:59.250 Zero for four major cities. Zero for 11 days. Not 0:04:59.310 --> 0:05:00.190 a single person? 0:05:00.610 --> 0:05:00.870 No. 0:05:01.510 --> 0:05:08.169 Not a single person. There was absolutely nobody asleep on 0:05:08.190 --> 0:05:11.610 a sidewalk or in a street or in a park. Nobody. 0:05:12.390 --> 0:05:15.640 I saw a couple of characters staggering around who didn't 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.640 look too well, but they weren't sleeping. They weren't living 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:23.000 on the street. They were wide awake. They were wide awake, 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.650 and they were not causing any problems. And I looked up. 0:05:27.770 --> 0:05:30.870 I go, how big Rome was? Well, square mileage, it's 0:05:30.930 --> 0:05:35.430 about the same square mileage as Los Angeles. Very slightly smaller. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.200 it's about two thirds of Los Angeles, but still significant 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:45.300 2.7 million people as a really 2.7 million people and 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:50.779 about 500 square miles. And I couldn't find one single 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:56.780 guy on a blanket in a sleeping bag. It no tense. 0:05:57.700 --> 0:06:01.820 How do they do it? How is this happening? Did 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.690 you find out? I didn't. I had nobody to ask. 0:06:07.130 --> 0:06:11.159 But they just did it. They just say no. You 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:11.760 can't do this. 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:13.440 Out. Out. 0:06:13.540 --> 0:06:13.960 That's right. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:14.260 Out. 0:06:14.740 --> 0:06:15.140 Wake up. 0:06:15.380 --> 0:06:15.500 Out. 0:06:17.779 --> 0:06:23.030 Out. It's just magical. You have to get outside of 0:06:23.170 --> 0:06:26.470 Los Angeles. And I know I sound like a broken record. 0:06:26.730 --> 0:06:29.850 And you find out even here in America, life is 0:06:30.210 --> 0:06:37.920 dramatically different. Nobody's got any weird, wacky philosophy or ideology. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.180 They just say, here's what's accepted behavior, and here's what's 0:06:41.220 --> 0:06:45.370 not accepted behavior. And it's what everyone agrees on. Everyone 0:06:45.410 --> 0:06:47.710 agrees that, yeah, people can do this in public, but 0:06:47.730 --> 0:06:50.890 they can't do that. And if there is somebody who 0:06:50.950 --> 0:06:53.990 objects and tries to sleep, it's like, well, you're going 0:06:54.010 --> 0:06:57.240 to be lifted up and taken somewhere. And I don't 0:06:57.250 --> 0:07:04.050 know why that's so hard. I don't understand it. But 0:07:04.089 --> 0:07:10.290 it was... You know something? We went and it was 0:07:10.310 --> 0:07:13.480 a bit of the off-season. I may sound like I'm 0:07:14.260 --> 0:07:17.920 turning anti-American, and maybe I am. I don't know. But 0:07:17.980 --> 0:07:23.100 the Italians are quite thin. Almost everybody is in good shape. 0:07:23.140 --> 0:07:25.820 And they eat a lot. And, you know, they have 0:07:25.900 --> 0:07:29.510 wine with lunch. Some of them are smoking. That was fascinating, 0:07:29.550 --> 0:07:31.990 watching old people who are enjoying a glass of wine 0:07:32.010 --> 0:07:36.450 at lunch and... People smoking all over the place. And 0:07:36.510 --> 0:07:39.130 we're so uptight here. You're not supposed to have a 0:07:39.150 --> 0:07:41.490 drink at lunch anymore, right? Especially, I've got a business lunch. 0:07:41.770 --> 0:07:45.330 And you're not supposed to smoke. But they do what 0:07:45.380 --> 0:07:50.300 they do. Everybody seems happy. And they're thin. And then 0:07:50.740 --> 0:07:52.720 the other tourists there, and there were a lot of tourists, 0:07:52.780 --> 0:07:56.180 especially at the attractions, because we walked by some of 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:01.290 the attractions. They're all thin as well. there was a 0:08:01.570 --> 0:08:08.470 very small percentage of grossly overweight people. All of them Americans. No, seriously. 0:08:11.890 --> 0:08:12.610 I believe you. 0:08:12.830 --> 0:08:13.090 Yes. 0:08:14.070 --> 0:08:17.660 Because I made it a thing. I was looking for 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:25.020 obese people. Why? Because it's a... You're obsessed. It's a 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.040 symptom of our culture and not a good one. 0:08:29.140 --> 0:08:29.340 And.... 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:35.520 In Rome, people dress stylishly and fashionably. Yeah. Especially the women. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:42.240 They're like you. Thank you. They take their time, and 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.330 they look great. A lot of them. Most of them. 0:08:46.450 --> 0:08:50.270 And then here comes the Americans. And it's Walmart clothing. 0:08:51.470 --> 0:08:52.030 Oh, John. 0:08:52.410 --> 0:08:56.660 No, I'm serious. He's been back for, what, 10 minutes? 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:02.880 Bat shaming, Walmart shaming. Well, you know, they got all 0:09:02.940 --> 0:09:06.820 that cheap stretch clothing. And the men are all wearing 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:12.369 Hawaiian shirts and baseball caps and baggy shorts. And the 0:09:12.410 --> 0:09:18.200 women are, too. It's like, wow. Not L.A. women. They're 0:09:18.220 --> 0:09:22.440 not L.A. tourists. Well, West L.A. women. The Americans really 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.340 stood out in a crowd. They were walking around, and 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.700 we were in a neighborhood where there was probably about 0:09:26.700 --> 0:09:32.640 10 Trattorias, which are places that largely sell, have lunch 0:09:32.660 --> 0:09:35.870 for pasta, pizza, right? Oh, you're making me hungry. Oh, yeah. 0:09:36.510 --> 0:09:39.750 And think of the prices. Prices were half what they 0:09:39.790 --> 0:09:43.170 charge on the west side of L.A. for dinner. A 0:09:44.550 --> 0:09:46.929 Beautiful plate of pasta. It was like 12 euros, which 0:09:46.970 --> 0:09:50.460 is maybe $ 15. Yeah, and it's 30, 31, 32 here. 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.620 I don't know what's going on with the prices here, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.679 but it's not that way. You know, our taxes are 0:09:55.710 --> 0:09:58.290 going up October 1st, by the way. Yeah, I know, 0:09:58.450 --> 0:10:04.780 I know. Anyway, sorry. It's okay. Sorry to pile on. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.660 I got to acclimate to reality here. By the way, 0:10:08.710 --> 0:10:11.670 my brain is going really soft, I can tell. It 0:10:11.750 --> 0:10:14.589 wants to go to sleep. Okay, well, then why don't 0:10:14.610 --> 0:10:16.410 you go to me? I'll do the news and you 0:10:16.429 --> 0:10:19.370 can sleep. All right, one more thing I wanted to say. 0:10:20.550 --> 0:10:23.120 So I was walking the streets and looking at all 0:10:23.140 --> 0:10:27.280 these trattorias and all these beautiful shops with the nice clothes. 0:10:27.380 --> 0:10:32.100 What did you buy me? Negotiate with my wife because 0:10:32.140 --> 0:10:35.370 she bought so much. I think she sent you a 0:10:35.390 --> 0:10:37.990 list and it was only a partial list. So maybe 0:10:38.010 --> 0:10:43.130 she could spare a couple. You know what America's representation 0:10:43.170 --> 0:10:45.829 in culture is there? What? A Burger King and a 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.220 McDonald's every few blocks. Oh, no. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:48.460 Yeah. 0:10:49.150 --> 0:10:52.910 Yeah, I've walked by 10 Trattoria's and then a Burger King. Well, 0:10:52.929 --> 0:10:56.410 then you could have gotten your cheeseburger there. Not that, no. 0:10:56.530 --> 0:11:00.429 Even I don't go to those places for cheeseburgers. It's 0:11:00.450 --> 0:11:05.689 like buying your clothes at Walmart. All right, more coming up. 0:11:07.670 --> 0:11:09.869 I'm getting tired of the country. I admit it. I 0:11:09.950 --> 0:11:12.360 am getting weary of the culture in the country. 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:19.520 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:11:21.010 --> 0:11:25.670 KFI AM 640, live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It 0:11:25.730 --> 0:11:30.969 is the John Kobelt Show, and we're back on. Moistline 0:11:31.270 --> 0:11:36.790 is Friday. We're going to have our Moistline again, 877-MOIST-86, 877-MOIST-86, 0:11:37.550 --> 0:11:43.209 or the Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. A few 0:11:43.230 --> 0:11:48.170 days ago, CBS California, Julie Watts, released a report saying 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:53.280 on something that I was not aware of. And have 0:11:53.300 --> 0:11:57.710 you ever heard of the prison to college pipeline? And 0:11:57.809 --> 0:12:00.050 I saw this and I go, what the hell is that? 0:12:00.110 --> 0:12:05.690 This doesn't sound good. And it's a program where let's say, 0:12:06.250 --> 0:12:10.500 and I'm not exaggerating. Let's say you're 15 years old 0:12:10.620 --> 0:12:16.800 and you kill somebody. Well, under California's laws, you don't 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:21.230 spend much time in prison. in jail or juvenile detention 0:12:21.270 --> 0:12:23.850 or whatever the hell they call it, whatever idiotic phrase 0:12:23.890 --> 0:12:28.929 they have, after a few years, if you want to 0:12:28.980 --> 0:12:33.280 go to college, they'll send you to college. And it's taxpayer-paid. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:37.559 You're paying for this. And you may wonder, well, has 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.579 this worked out? Well, Julie Watts and the people at 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:46.800 CBS California, based up in Sacramento... Wondered as well. Listen 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.079 to this report and listen carefully to the examples they 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:55.220 give of real prisoners who did terrible things when they 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:59.160 were teenagers and after a few years got a free 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:04.150 ride at a college. And then what happened? Play cut to. 0:13:04.309 --> 0:13:09.190 Digital scales, baggies, text messages with apparent drug deals, thousands 0:13:09.230 --> 0:13:13.170 of dollars in cash and ammunition hidden in a sock drawer. 0:13:13.730 --> 0:13:17.830 That's what officers allegedly found here in the dorm room 0:13:17.850 --> 0:13:20.809 of a young woman serving out the remainder of her 0:13:20.870 --> 0:13:22.770 murder sentence at UC Davis. 0:13:23.850 --> 0:13:26.190 He didn't deserve this. We need justice. 0:13:26.230 --> 0:13:27.030 We need answers. 0:13:27.090 --> 0:13:30.840 That was 15-year-old Amari Lowry's sister, days after he was 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.000 shot dead on this street in Sacramento in 2021. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.800 A 15-year-old girl is behind bars. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.360 Police later tracked his killer down in Idaho, where she 0:13:38.460 --> 0:13:42.000 ran from police before she was captured. Record shows she 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.300 served roughly three years in custody before a Sacramento judge 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.400 found that she'd made enough progress to serve out the 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.700 remainder of her sentence for killing Amari here at UC Davis. 0:13:52.140 --> 0:13:53.400 School tells us she was. 0:13:53.420 --> 0:13:57.900 One of 92 students enrolled in its underground scholars program. 0:13:58.330 --> 0:14:02.750 That's a state funded program intended to help incarcerated and 0:14:02.830 --> 0:14:07.000 formerly incarcerated youth get a college education. It's one of 0:14:07.100 --> 0:14:11.540 dozens of similar programs on UC, Cal State, and community 0:14:11.580 --> 0:14:16.550 college campuses across California. But while California taxpayers directly fund 0:14:16.610 --> 0:14:19.330 these programs through the state budget, state officials tell us 0:14:19.430 --> 0:14:24.030 they don't have data on enrollment outcomes or spending. Meanwhile, 0:14:24.070 --> 0:14:27.060 the young woman arrested here, she was considered a model 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:31.660 for the program, serving on the state's Youth Justice Advisory Board, 0:14:31.700 --> 0:14:34.440 and she was even being paid as a peer mentor. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.400 That's the occupation listed on her arrest records. She's now 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:42.020 facing adult felony charges for the ammunition found in her 0:14:42.110 --> 0:14:45.970 dorm room. Meanwhile, just up I-80 at Sacramento State, law 0:14:45.990 --> 0:14:48.930 enforcement sources confirm a similar arrest of a young woman 0:14:48.970 --> 0:14:52.570 serving out her sentence on campus for the 2021 stabbing 0:14:52.630 --> 0:14:56.950 of Fresno State student Sergio Bombaster. She stabbed him 19 times. 0:14:57.430 --> 0:15:00.390 His body dismembered, burned, and dumped in a canal. 0:15:00.530 --> 0:15:01.690 Nothing brings back to my brother. 0:15:02.030 --> 0:15:05.770 That's Sergio's sister. She joined the state's chief probation officers 0:15:05.790 --> 0:15:08.920 at the Capitol last month, calling for changes the day 0:15:08.980 --> 0:15:13.220 her brother's killer, now 20, was sent back to juvenile custody. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.750 And it hadn't even been a full year. These stories 0:15:17.130 --> 0:15:20.350 aren't being told. She clearly had a little bit too 0:15:20.390 --> 0:15:23.350 much freedom. And this was just that she was caught. 0:15:23.450 --> 0:15:26.350 Who knows what else that she wasn't caught with. 0:15:26.730 --> 0:15:30.510 These cases and others like them are raising questions about 0:15:30.830 --> 0:15:34.630 oversight of the state's so-called prison to college pipeline. The 0:15:34.650 --> 0:15:39.160 state agency required to identify best practices tells us that 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:44.570 it supports these programs because research shows that education decreases recidivism, 0:15:45.110 --> 0:15:48.740 though it couldn't provide us with any data on recidivism 0:15:49.270 --> 0:15:53.640 or success rates or even funding of these programs. Meanwhile, 0:15:53.780 --> 0:15:56.280 UC Davis tells us it works with the courts to 0:15:56.380 --> 0:16:01.680 track progress towards college degrees, not recidivism. And they say 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.180 the young lady arrested here was close to getting her degree. 0:16:05.420 --> 0:16:08.710 We are now waiting for records from multiple agencies across 0:16:08.790 --> 0:16:11.010 the state. And this is the first in an ongoing 0:16:11.210 --> 0:16:16.990 juvenile justice investigation. looking at California policies related to incarcerated youth. 0:16:17.430 --> 0:16:21.400 That's Julie Watts from CBS California. Did you follow this? 0:16:22.420 --> 0:16:30.740 This girl, woman now, when she was 15, she killed somebody. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.610 She killed somebody and she spent three years in jail 0:16:36.430 --> 0:16:42.210 and then got basically a scholarship to UC Davis. And 0:16:42.270 --> 0:16:48.600 everybody thought that she was a model student. In fact, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.060 in the print version of the story, she was a 0:16:52.140 --> 0:16:59.780 California comeback story. And in that piece that Julie did, 0:16:59.990 --> 0:17:04.230 did you hear? The state doesn't know how much money 0:17:04.270 --> 0:17:07.950 they spend on it or they won't tell us. More 0:17:07.990 --> 0:17:12.180 likely the first. Secondly, They don't keep track of what 0:17:12.260 --> 0:17:17.820 happens to these people. So we don't know what percentage 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.460 ends up committing crimes again. But when you've killed somebody, 0:17:21.260 --> 0:17:25.860 you've got something seriously wrong in your head. You don't 0:17:25.900 --> 0:17:29.159 just outgrow it three years later. If you're killing somebody 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.810 at the age of 15, it doesn't go away. Whatever 0:17:32.850 --> 0:17:36.710 that rage is, that anger, that lack of self-control, that 0:17:36.850 --> 0:17:43.400 violence inside you. Well, education helps. Education doesn't help when 0:17:43.420 --> 0:17:49.450 you're so whacked out, so volatile and mentally ill that 0:17:49.490 --> 0:17:54.110 you go to some classes and now you're better. It's like, oh, yeah, no, 0:17:54.150 --> 0:17:56.390 I'm not going to have the urge to kill anyone again. 0:17:56.410 --> 0:17:59.490 And so she opened up a drug business in college, 0:17:59.490 --> 0:18:09.080 100 plastic baggies, drug sales, a scale. Live ammunition, thousands 0:18:09.100 --> 0:18:12.800 of dollars of cash. She's running a drug operation out 0:18:12.820 --> 0:18:16.380 of the UC dorm after killing somebody. That was the reward. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.290 And the only thing UC Davis has to say is, well, 0:18:19.310 --> 0:18:24.430 you know, she's very close to graduating here. Is everybody insane? 0:18:29.310 --> 0:18:35.260 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:18:37.900 --> 0:18:42.400 KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. John Cobelt Show. 0:18:42.740 --> 0:18:48.560 And if you miss anything, the podcast is on the 0:18:48.619 --> 0:18:51.760 iHeartRadio app every day at 6 o'clock. We have a 0:18:51.820 --> 0:18:56.040 new one. It's the radio show in podcast form. And 0:18:56.060 --> 0:18:59.330 you go to John Cobelt Show On Demand on the 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.810 iHeart app, and that'll be after 6 o'clock. So if 0:19:02.270 --> 0:19:04.690 you missed what we were doing in the first half hour, 0:19:05.090 --> 0:19:10.889 that's where you can hear it. While I was gone, 0:19:12.230 --> 0:19:15.300 I noticed there was a poll out, and Nithya Raman 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:23.580 had an 11-point lead on Karen Bass. And the poll was, 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.240 let me see here, 39 to 28. 0:19:25.220 --> 0:19:25.290 Oof. 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:31.430 That is a bad number for Bass, 28, when you're 0:19:31.450 --> 0:19:35.450 the incumbent. You got 72% of the public that does 0:19:35.490 --> 0:19:37.970 not want to vote for you. First time they're asked 0:19:37.990 --> 0:19:42.669 the question. The thing is, and I, you know, I, 0:19:42.869 --> 0:19:45.710 I have extreme skepticism with polls. This is a UC 0:19:45.750 --> 0:19:55.560 Berkeley LA times poll. 33% are undecided, which is what 0:19:55.580 --> 0:19:58.159 you get when you have two candidates that most people 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:04.480 don't like. But 33%, along with the margin of error, 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:11.380 means this race could go either way. Spencer Pratt had 0:20:11.420 --> 0:20:15.460 an interesting piece last week on his blog. His blog 0:20:15.580 --> 0:20:20.480 is really worth reading. I have to say that I 0:20:20.580 --> 0:20:24.340 knew that Spencer Pratt existed, but I never really followed 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.639 his career or just knew much about him other than 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.619 that he was a reality star, and I never watched 0:20:30.090 --> 0:20:34.469 reality shows, and I certainly didn't watch his. And when 0:20:34.510 --> 0:20:37.730 he first started running, and we had him on the air, 0:20:38.220 --> 0:20:39.540 I think we had him on the air before he 0:20:39.580 --> 0:20:43.020 was even officially running. I didn't really know what to 0:20:43.060 --> 0:20:45.400 make of him. But I did know that he was 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:51.270 describing everything 100% accurately. I believe we ended up having 0:20:51.310 --> 0:20:54.350 him on about a half a dozen times. And I 0:20:54.390 --> 0:20:59.310 was all for him being mayor. And, of course, Nithya 0:20:59.330 --> 0:21:05.159 Raman got that mysterious surge of homeless votes after the 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.659 polls had closed. And he got squeezed out of second place. 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.639 And should she win, I will call her the fake 0:21:13.700 --> 0:21:16.560 mayor every day of the year. Because at the moment, 0:21:16.580 --> 0:21:18.550 she's a fake candidate. And if she wins, she'll be 0:21:18.590 --> 0:21:21.250 a fake mayor. Because I do not believe that was 0:21:21.290 --> 0:21:25.030 a legitimate election. Not with thousands of votes coming from 0:21:25.150 --> 0:21:30.970 Skid Row after the polls closed. And a big percentage 0:21:31.090 --> 0:21:33.250 went to Rahman. Not even Bass, but Rahman. 0:21:33.869 --> 0:21:34.050 Whew. 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:37.920 That still smells. There is a stink in the air 0:21:38.420 --> 0:21:42.060 over Skid Row. And it's not just all the poop 0:21:42.100 --> 0:21:45.380 in the streets and the dogs rotting. That's the remnants 0:21:45.420 --> 0:21:52.370 of the Rahman election there. However, she's up 39 to 28. 0:21:52.369 --> 0:21:55.070 A third undecided. I would say that one third that's 0:21:55.130 --> 0:22:01.760 undecided are probably almost entirely Spencer Pratt voters. So... Pratt 0:22:01.780 --> 0:22:06.159 wrote this piece saying everybody's bugging him on who to 0:22:06.220 --> 0:22:11.640 vote for, and his response is, well, they're both really, 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:15.510 really bad. What do you want me to say? To 0:22:15.710 --> 0:22:19.490 give an endorsement, you have to start saying positive things 0:22:19.550 --> 0:22:21.770 about one of the two, and he doesn't want to 0:22:21.790 --> 0:22:25.300 do that. What he did say, and I was thinking 0:22:25.340 --> 0:22:27.419 this way, I found as I talked with him, and 0:22:27.460 --> 0:22:30.679 I've talked with him almost entirely on the air, But 0:22:30.700 --> 0:22:35.300 I found out that he and I thought along the 0:22:35.340 --> 0:22:39.220 same lines about a lot of things. And he articulated 0:22:39.260 --> 0:22:41.879 in his column a thought that I was having as well, 0:22:42.550 --> 0:22:46.470 in that there's two candidates here that nobody likes. If 0:22:46.609 --> 0:22:49.530 one of them wants to get Spencer Pratt votes, why 0:22:49.550 --> 0:22:52.830 don't you do something? Why don't you do something that 0:22:53.230 --> 0:22:58.750 would impress them? What he wrote is, if you're going 0:22:58.770 --> 0:23:01.199 to vote for one of them, They should do something 0:23:01.260 --> 0:23:06.000 for you. It doesn't mean come over your house and, 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:10.790 you know, clean your carpeting. But what they should do 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:15.270 is something that you want done for the city. For example, 0:23:16.070 --> 0:23:19.150 Karen Bass has got five weeks until Election Day. She's 0:23:19.210 --> 0:23:24.020 allegedly down by 11 points. There's one issue that overwhelms 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:27.820 all the others, and that's homelessness. We've been talking about 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:31.500 it for 10 years. Why not do something really concrete 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:38.010 like declare a ban on encampments? That's it. And start 0:23:38.310 --> 0:23:40.450 scooping up all the tents and rolling up all the 0:23:40.490 --> 0:23:45.330 sleeping bags and forcing people to move on to rehab, 0:23:46.830 --> 0:23:49.189 to mental health treatment or drug treatment or to get 0:23:49.230 --> 0:23:50.879 out of town. Buy them a bus ticket and get 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:56.740 out of town. They're your choices. Or jail, which is 0:23:57.580 --> 0:24:02.230 the Santa Ana approach. The mayor said, Anna, we had 0:24:02.250 --> 0:24:05.580 her on twice. I don't think there's any other approach 0:24:05.619 --> 0:24:07.900 that's ever going to work. I'm tired of talking about this, 0:24:07.940 --> 0:24:11.879 but that's the only approach. You give them a choice. 0:24:12.820 --> 0:24:17.720 Drug treatment, mental health treatment, bus ticket out of town, 0:24:18.270 --> 0:24:18.649 or jail. 0:24:19.290 --> 0:24:19.530 Ouch! 0:24:19.850 --> 0:24:22.520 That's four choices. That's pretty good. A lot of times 0:24:22.580 --> 0:24:25.570 in life you have only one choice, and it's a 0:24:25.570 --> 0:24:27.869 bad one. Here's four good ones that are one way 0:24:27.890 --> 0:24:30.010 or the other make your life better, make our lives 0:24:30.050 --> 0:24:33.690 better too. Yeah, if Bass started openly doing that, I'm thinking, 0:24:33.970 --> 0:24:37.490 you know, that would get her some votes. So why 0:24:37.510 --> 0:24:39.720 doesn't she do it? Now she can do it and 0:24:39.760 --> 0:24:42.760 Rahman can't because Rahman's not the mayor. Rahman is stuck 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:47.540 being in the city council. She's not even charging the 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:50.640 homeless committee anymore. They kicked her off that. So she 0:24:50.660 --> 0:24:53.800 has next to no power on this homeless situation right 0:24:53.859 --> 0:24:58.619 now for the next five weeks. Bass has all the 0:24:58.660 --> 0:25:02.970 power in the world to authorize the police and get 0:25:03.030 --> 0:25:10.409 all these goody good people, the outreach people, and send 0:25:10.470 --> 0:25:16.000 strike teams out. In fact, pick a section of town 0:25:16.140 --> 0:25:22.620 and clean up the whole section. Hollywood, for example. Clean 0:25:22.660 --> 0:25:29.440 up everything in Hollywood. Go to Skid Row. Rescue the dogs, 0:25:29.500 --> 0:25:37.450 at least. Rescue the dogs. Clean up. You're not going 0:25:37.470 --> 0:25:39.270 to get everybody at Skid Row. That's going to take 0:25:39.310 --> 0:25:44.360 a while. But make a huge dent. what they still 0:25:44.390 --> 0:25:47.639 have to deal with in Venice, on the beach, in 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:51.020 the alleyways. Those are the three largest collections, homeless people. 0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:55.020 Take one of those areas on and do a complete wipe, 0:25:55.060 --> 0:25:58.619 a complete sweep. That's the only way you're really going 0:25:58.640 --> 0:26:01.120 to get the votes. Nobody wants to hear you talk 0:26:01.180 --> 0:26:03.620 about your plans. Nobody wants to hear about your theories. 0:26:03.900 --> 0:26:06.540 Nobody wants to hear the arguments anymore. Everyone's sick of 0:26:06.560 --> 0:26:10.510 the arguments. Everyone's sick of the justifications and the excuses 0:26:10.810 --> 0:26:13.210