1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on from 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: one till four o'clock and then after four o'clock John 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. There's been 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: a lot of mystery surrounding Karen Bass's handling of the 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 1: fires and the early days of the alleged recovery, and 7 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: one thing everybody was wondering is where did the money 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: come from? That they were going to give Steve sober 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: Off five hundred thousand dollars for three months work, and 10 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: Randy Johnson, a real estate executive, was going to get 11 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Sober Offs Buddy, Randy Johnson, 12 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 1: the two of them were going to get three quarters 13 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: of a million dollars for three months, paid for by charities. 14 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: But nobody, nobody at the beginning said that they were 15 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: getting paid that kind of money, and nobody said where 16 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: the money was coming from. But now we found out 17 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: that it was really five hundred thousand and two hundred 18 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand the sober Off and Johnson, and we 19 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: found out today what the three charities are and Susan 20 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: Shelley wrote a piece for the Southern California News group, 21 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: Let's get Susan on here. 22 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 2: Hi, John, thanks you with you? 23 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, good to have you on. Well, tell us what's 24 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: the secret? What are the three alleged charities that we're 25 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: going to cough up seven hundred and fifty thousand for 26 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: sober Off and Johnson. 27 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: Well. Alleged is a keyword, because I don't know for 28 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 2: a fact that these were the charities involved. But the 29 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 2: La Times reporters, who are very good, dug into this 30 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 2: and all they could get was unnamed charities and one 31 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 2: source that said there were three of them, and that 32 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 2: triggered something in my memory. Banks because Karen Bass controls 33 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 2: three nonprofit organizations, baghetty House Foundation, the Mayor's Fund for 34 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, which was set up under Eric Carcetti, and 35 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 2: the third one is La LA, which goes back I 36 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 2: think to twenty twenty three. She set this up to 37 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 2: be one of these public private partnerships between the city 38 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 2: government and businesses and philanthropy groups to provide housing in 39 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 2: Los Angeles. It's all very sketchy because in California it 40 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 2: is legal for an elected official to call up businesses 41 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 2: that have business before the city, contracts or pending contracts, 42 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 2: or contracts that they're bidding on, and ask them for 43 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 2: donations to a nonprofit or for a governmental purpose. This 44 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 2: is allowed, This is legal. All they have to do 45 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 2: is file form if it's more than five thousand dollars 46 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: from a single source in a single calendar year. So 47 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: I went and I looked at those various at those 48 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: various shakedowns. Because you know, in any other in any 49 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 2: other state, this would be called extortion. Pretend an elected 50 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 2: official calls someone who has business before the city and say, 51 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 2: I'd really like you to give a million dollars to 52 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 2: this nonprofit that I've just set up. That is very sketchy. Obviously, 53 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 2: it's very coercive, and it looks a lot like a shakedown. 54 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 2: So these three charities have received tons of money. Most suspiciously, 55 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 2: the Mayor's fund collected eight hundred and seventy five thousand 56 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 2: dollars from the la Care health Plan, we have city contracts, 57 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 2: and a million dollars from Kaiser Permanente, which has city contracts, 58 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 2: and a million dollars from Molina Healthcare of California, and 59 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars from ultimat. This was before the fires. 60 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 2: This was in December and January. Why are they donating 61 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 2: to the Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles in those kinds 62 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 2: of numbers. Nobody knows. It doesn't look very good. 63 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: This is all legal. 64 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 2: This is all legal. This is called behested payment. 65 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: They even have their own a cute little term for it. Huh. 66 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: Behested is when Karen Bass calls up and say, Hey, 67 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: you've got contracts with the city for healthcare. Maybe you'd 68 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: like to donate to some of my favorite charities. How's 69 00:03:58,640 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: that different from what the mob does? 70 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 2: I don't think it is. She has behested in the 71 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 2: time she's been in office. She has hosted twenty point 72 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 2: six million dollars. And that includes one point four million 73 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 2: for the Getty House Foundation, which is for the preservation 74 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 2: of the mayor's official residence, but also for civic education 75 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 2: and engagement whatever that is. 76 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: And go on, sorry, I can't exists. 77 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 2: This is what reason me. You know, at the at 78 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 2: the state and local level, and they all do it. 79 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 2: Nearly twelve point eight million dollars for the Mayor's Fund 80 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 2: for Los Angeles. That's the one that collected from the 81 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 2: insurance companies and three point six million for the LA 82 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 2: for La Fund. And I should say that a paid 83 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 2: spokesperson for the LA for La Fund reached out to 84 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 2: me at six point thirty yesterday and said they deny 85 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 2: that they were part of the discussions over paying Steve 86 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 2: sober Off. They officially denied it, but we don't really 87 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 2: know because even though a paid spokesman said that, let 88 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 2: me just point out to you who La four La 89 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 2: deitre Lynde, who co founded the Mayor's Fund in twenty 90 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 2: fourteen under Eric Carcetti, and Sarah Dusseau, who's the former 91 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 2: chair of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Well, there's 92 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 2: nothing wrong with any of that, is there? 93 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: No? 94 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 2: So now fine, everything's fine. 95 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: So, now that the deal's canceled, presumably no money has 96 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: exchanged hands, and they're just probably going to shred any 97 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: of the correspondence they had that was setting up the deal. 98 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: I suppose we could do a public records request and 99 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 2: try to get it before they do that, but I 100 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 2: suspect you might be right. 101 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's pretty sh I'm a twelve million dollars 102 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: for the Mail's Fund. For the Mayor's fund. 103 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 2: Just since she's been in office, twelve million, twelve point 104 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 2: eight million dollars for the Mayor's Fund for Los Angeless. 105 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 2: You know, they all have these very magnificent names. They're 106 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 2: all just taking care of, you know, wonderful people and 107 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 2: their needs. But they're getting the money from entities with 108 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 2: business before the city. 109 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: I like the subtle connection you make, because you're right 110 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: that the web site for the LA for LA fund 111 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: says it was formed to unlock affordable housing options in 112 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and the Wall Street Journal has reported that 113 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: sober Off hasn't ruled out adding more affordable housing in 114 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: the Ballisades. 115 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 2: I thought that was a really odd comment that he 116 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 2: made when I read it in the Wall Street Journal. 117 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 2: And really it would be perfectly in line with what 118 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 2: Mayor Bath is raising money for, frankly, to build affordable 119 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 2: housing everywhere. And they make these comments like what a 120 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 2: wonderful opportunity it is to reimagine Los Angeles, and what 121 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 2: do they mean by that? And who is putting up 122 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 2: the money and why are they putting up the money, 123 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 2: And these are all questions that I think need to 124 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 2: be asked. I'm an opinion columnist. I'm looking at this 125 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 2: and potential connections. I can't tell you for an absolute 126 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 2: fact that anyone of these charities was going to pay 127 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 2: Steve sober Off. But it's odd that they won't tell 128 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 2: us what charities were going to do this, and that 129 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: they kept its secret at the beginning. 130 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 1: It must be something funky because now it's over a 131 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: month and they won't They won't talk at all. I mean, 132 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: Karen Bass has not had like one long form answer 133 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: about anything regarding what happened January sixth or January seventh. 134 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: I mean, we don't know still why the reservoir was 135 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: never filled for the last year as an example, why 136 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: the hydrants weren't working, why the fire department sent home 137 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: a thousand firefighters, why they weren't prepositioned in the hills 138 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: with the extreme fire danger, why she decided to go 139 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: to Africa. I mean, all this stuff, and she just 140 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: doesn't speak and hopes it goes away. And I'm so 141 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: glad that you're pressing this matter and you're writing a 142 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: column about it, and you're doing, you know, the investigation 143 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: on it, because otherwise it goes into the memory hole, 144 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: and much of the media here in La does not 145 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: follow up on it. 146 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 2: There's a big problem where there's just not enough. There's 147 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 2: not enough real journalism on these city issues, which is 148 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 2: why the LA City government gets away with so much corruption. 149 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 2: The FBI rated the DWP, this is not going well 150 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. We have City Compo members in prison 151 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 2: and in Hancoff. This is not going well. And we 152 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 2: really need to look at all of these things that 153 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 2: are raising money from businesses which undoubtedly would be intimidated 154 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 2: from speaking about it. 155 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean just today, another LA Council 156 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: member is corruption trial begainst tomorrow. There's a story out 157 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: today by Daniel Guss and Current Price. It's the fourth 158 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: council member undergoing a corruption trial. 159 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 2: And they're constantly passing these ethics rules, but then they 160 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 2: get around it with things like these the Hasted payments. 161 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 2: You know, the Essex Office does not allow gifts or 162 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 2: political contributions from certain bidders and contractors and subcontractors, and 163 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 2: that's to protect the integrity of the city's contracting processes 164 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 2: and prevent undue influence. But Behested payments don't count as 165 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 2: gifts and they don't count as political contributions. And then 166 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 2: you see all the money changing hands behind the scenes. 167 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: All right, Susan Shelley, and she's written this piece for 168 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: the Southern California News Group, and that would be the 169 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: Orange County Register, Long Beach Press, Telegram, LA Daily News, 170 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: and other papers in southern California. In fact, I think 171 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: most of the suburban papers, if not all of them, 172 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: belonged to the Southern California Newsgroup. So you could find 173 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: Susan Shelley somewhere online. Thank you for coming on with us. 174 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 2: Thank you, John. 175 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 3: All right, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from 176 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. 177 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: What's really amusing me to no end about the Trump 178 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: Musk assault on the federal government is they're finding stuff 179 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: that nobody can argue with. There are obviously a lot 180 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: of people squealing in Washington, DC, and I suspect that 181 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 1: they have been the receivers of some of the tax 182 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: money that's been spent on garbage and non and they're 183 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: afraid they're going to get caught and maybe charged with 184 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: crimes or at the very least terribly embarrassed. And that's 185 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: why they're squealing so hard. Because I really don't want 186 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: to hear from the legislators who are out of power now, 187 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: the Progressives, because they had twelve of the last sixteen 188 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: years to get rid of all this corruption and waste 189 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: and fraud and they did so, How they could possibly 190 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: squeal about what Trump and Musk are doing makes me 191 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,359 Speaker 1: think that they must have been in on the grift. 192 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: And here's an example of a spending program that nobody 193 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: can defend. I like the ones that nobody can defend. 194 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: This is from that ridiculous Morning Joe program on MSNBC. 195 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough's the host former Republican congressman, by the way, 196 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,599 Speaker 1: turned nut job on MSNBC. He had Congressman Mike Wallerrod 197 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: from a Republican from New York, listen to this expenditure. 198 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 4: Probably one of the best soft power accomplishments of the 199 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 4: United States foreign aid program ever. But then you look 200 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 4: at some of the expenditures by USAID. For instance, I 201 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 4: uncovered over three million dollars to a rap artist in 202 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 4: Gaza producing anti Israel, anti Semitic songs. Is that the 203 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 4: best use of American taxpayer dollars, I would venture. 204 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 2: Not. 205 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: Anti Semitic rap songs made by a rapper in Gaza 206 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: and this one guy got three million dollars. I mean 207 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: that's what I heard. I three million dollars. And what's 208 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: funny is if you watch the video, Joe Scarborough again 209 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 1: was a Republican and now he joined that Democratic propaganda 210 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: channel and normally is defending the Democrats. But he sat 211 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: there in his anchorchair with his arms folded tight like 212 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: he was really like angry and uncomfortable, because there's no 213 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: way you could defend this an anti Semitic rap artist. 214 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: Three million dollars of our tax money? Who even thought 215 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: of that? How does anybody think of that? 216 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 4: You know how they have. 217 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 2: Those class action lawsuits and everybody gets like five dollars. Well, 218 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 2: I think we all should should get money, get money 219 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 2: back from something like this. 220 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: Yes, our money went to it. Yeah, And I want 221 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: to know who who was the person who authorized this, 222 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:47,839 Speaker 1: who came up with the idea? I mean, how did 223 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 1: the rapper apply? Imagine this? You're a rapper in Gaza, 224 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: career prospects are not good? How many? How many? How 225 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: many rap stars are in Gaza? What's the market for that? 226 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: Especially want my money back exactly? Think Think of the 227 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: millions of Jewish citizens here who pay tax money and 228 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: find out it goes for anti Jewish rap songs for 229 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: some whack job in Gaza. I'm I'm just I'm beside 230 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 1: myself on this. And that's why I don't want to 231 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 1: hear about anybody's complaints. Because you had you had years 232 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: and years to try to ferret out all this corruption 233 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: and waste, and uh, it was your side in charge, 234 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: and now you're not. And now you're just gonna have 235 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: to eat it. It's just gonna have to stuff it 236 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: because this is just outrageous. Uh, listen to this. Gavin 237 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: Newsom is a bind. Gavin Newsom needs Donald Trump to 238 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: send him billions and billions of dollars so he can't 239 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: piss off Trump even a little bit. He's behavior, I know, 240 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: because Trump has Newsome by the privates. He's hanging Nooseom 241 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: upside down hold on, and Newsom has to just say yes, sir, yes, sir, 242 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: anything you want sir. Now, the Democratic legislature here in 243 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 1: Sacramento put Newsom in a terrible position because they wrote 244 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: up a bill to give protection to illegal alien criminals 245 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: here in California, to prevent the illegal alien criminals from 246 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: being deported. There's a lot of detail to this. But 247 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: that's the gist of it. And now Gavin Newsom is 248 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 1: promised to veto the bill. Now, when was the last 249 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: time Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that was going to 250 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: help criminals or illegal aliens? Not to mention criminal illegal aliens. Well, 251 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: this is a first. It would limit state prison officials 252 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: cooperation with ICE agents when the ICE agents are looking 253 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: for these criminals to be deported. He says, this bill 254 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: would go too far. Then Trump squeezed a little tighter. No, no, 255 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: I'll me do it. I promise Donald, just give me 256 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: a little twist there when we come back. Oh, you're 257 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: not gonna leave this. But this is true. There's a 258 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: new head of the EPA, Lee Zelden. In fact, he's 259 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: been in the Palisades in Alta Dina quite a bit 260 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: because his agency is in charge of cleaning up of 261 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: the toxic waste. This story is not about that, though. 262 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: This story is about lee Zelden his team finding twenty 263 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: twenty billion, not million, but billion dollars in tax money 264 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: that the Biden administration purposely wasted. Turns out, the Biden administration, 265 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: when they realized they had lost the election, started shoveling 266 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: money out the door so that Trump couldn't have it 267 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: unspent moneys. And one of the workers, one of the 268 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: EPA workers, was at a party, was drinking. Because he's 269 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: holding a drink, it looked like a red liquid in 270 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: a goblet. Young kid in his twenties, smug arrogant, and 271 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: a journalist from Project Veritas. Project Veritas is that right 272 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: wing organization that likes to do undercover videos and expose 273 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: some of the corruption. And this journalist at a hidden 274 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: camera and got this guy who'd been drinking to start 275 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: talking how they were shoving twenty billion dollars out the 276 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: door real fast before Trump took over, got about a 277 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: two minute clip to play. It's another thing you're not 278 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: going to believe. We'll get to it next. He compared 279 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: it to throwing gold bars off the Titanic. 280 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KIFA. 281 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: You can follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio. 282 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 1: So you should do that now. Last hour, we told 283 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: you that the head of Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority 284 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 1: is a woman named the Licia Adams Kellum, and she 285 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: signed a two million dollar contract to funnel two million 286 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 1: dollars of tax money to a homeless nonprofit called Upward Bound, 287 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 1: and it just by chance her husband, Edward, happens to 288 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: be one of the senior leaders. Now, this is supposed 289 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: to be against the rules, against the law, violates ethics, 290 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 1: but they got copies of the contracts and there's her signature, 291 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: and she's going, oh, I made a mistake, or her 292 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: staff made a mistake sending her the papers. All these 293 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: mistakes are made, but it's true. Valicia Adams Kellum signed 294 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: a two million dollar contract and sent money to her 295 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: has sent the two million to her husband's employer. And 296 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: you can't understand how careless all these government people are 297 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: with large sums of money. I mean that's two million, 298 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: how about twenty billion. I'm gonna play a tape in 299 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: just a moment because you might think this isn't true, 300 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 1: and then you'll hear it. Leezelden is the new EPA administrator. 301 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: And two months ago a video surfaced. It was posted 302 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: on x Well, actually yeah, video was posted on x 303 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: and it was a young guy, probably in his twenties, 304 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: at a party. He's drinking. He's got a big goblet 305 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: style gas. A glass was some kind of red liquid 306 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 1: in it. It looked like he's in a silly mood 307 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: and he's bragging to a journalist who is interviewing, not 308 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: knowing the journalist was from the infamous group Project Veritas. 309 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: There's a right wing organization which likes to do undercover 310 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 1: videos and embarrass people in government when they accidentally tell 311 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: the truth after having too many drakes. So the Project 312 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 1: Veritus journalist got a video of this guy admitting that 313 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: once Trump got elected at the EPA, they were shoveling 314 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: out billions of dollars that had been appropriated but not 315 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: spent because like the homeless racket that Valicia Adams Kellum 316 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: and her husband Edward are involved in, where Valicia could 317 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: give two million dollars over to Edward's nonprofit. Well, another 318 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: one of the great rackets is climate change, and obviously 319 00:19:55,520 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 1: the EPA is involved with climate change programs, but they 320 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: had twenty billion dollars in tax money that they never 321 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 1: spent on climate change, and this must be spent. So 322 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: listen to this. It's edited a bit so we could 323 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 1: get to the point. It's about two minutes and play 324 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:16,120 Speaker 1: cut too. 325 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 4: Now it's just. 326 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 5: Talking to get the money on. It is half as 327 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,199 Speaker 5: possible before they come in like it truly feels like 328 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 5: card line like gold bars top ten. 329 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:27,439 Speaker 1: Who are the gold bar going through? 330 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 5: Tom Puffed States tried. We gave them the money because 331 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,479 Speaker 5: it was harder if it was a government run program, 332 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 5: they could take the money away, the hits on one. 333 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 5: And because it was a it was an experience policy 334 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 5: against come winning. 335 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: Right, All right, stop, stop a second, just just I'll 336 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 1: just repeat a couple of lines in case you don't 337 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: understand the stamp he said, the twenty billion dollars that 338 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: they had to spend. Okay, this is between November and January. 339 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: Trump's coming in, Biden's out. They got twenty billion dollars 340 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:01,400 Speaker 1: lying around the EPA. And this EPA employee says they 341 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: were tossing gold bars off the Titanic. They were rushing 342 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: to get billions of your tax dollars out the door. 343 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 1: The gold bars were the tax dollars. Tossing them off 344 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 1: the Titanic meant that the people in the Biden administration 345 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: knew they were wasting it. And this is the analysis 346 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: from Lee Zelden. This money they found in an account 347 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: at an outside financial institution, which Zelden did not name, 348 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: but they're going to try to claw back the money. 349 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 1: Do you imagine these EPA employees and this guy, like 350 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: I said, is in his twenties, they're moving money out 351 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: of EPA accounts, putting them in banks now where there 352 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,160 Speaker 1: was going to end up. Well, let's play some more 353 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: of this. 354 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 5: Until the some people come in and tell us we 355 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 5: can longer give them money to say, I knew the 356 00:21:54,920 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 5: environmental yellowy thing. Really yeah, it's amazing that that stuff 357 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 5: is here. I mean because I didn't like the federal 358 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 5: government climate things. Well I've been doing that, but I 359 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 5: might change. Fine, why Anna, I'm saying a lot of 360 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,640 Speaker 5: times amazing, So I do. 361 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: You know the place reduction back? 362 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 5: Yes, okay, Biden's climate ball, Yes, yeah, so I do 363 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 5: hire mpremizations I work with like Biden appointees. Somebody that 364 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 5: we've given out, We've given out like tens of billions 365 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 5: of dollars like I had last year. It was given 366 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 5: out sixty million dollars. 367 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: Stuff. He's saying, they gave out tens of billions of dollars. 368 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 1: And what he's saying is, you know Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. Yeah, yeah, 369 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 1: we we we're given out ten. First of all, anybody 370 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: who talks like that, it's like like, yuh, we were 371 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: giving out tens of billions of dollars. Shouldn't be allowed 372 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: to be near tens of billions of dollars. It's like 373 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: a high school kid doing that up talk thing. It's like, 374 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: we have, you know, tens of billions of dollars. You 375 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: heard the Inflation Production Act play some. 376 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 5: More fifteen million dollars billion billy would be fifty billion dollars, yes, 377 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 5: for climate maintains. So like to go work for one 378 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 5: of these places, I think we'll be here too. What 379 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 5: are the places that you've given them to? It's only 380 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 5: been a few weeks, so it's sominar fun like green 381 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 5: days so like so you know, like non profit institutions 382 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 5: that are like making it more financially feasible to build 383 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 5: renewables to do like climate All right. 384 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: Stop there, stop there. Oh there's that word again, that 385 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 1: phrase nonprofit institutions getting billions of dollars and there's something 386 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: about it, renewables and climate change. That's that's the other 387 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: big record, right, homelessness, the homeless industry here in La, 388 00:23:55,200 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: the climate industry in Washington. Rackets where you have billions 389 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: of dollars slashing around in this trough and they're wasting it. 390 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: They're just sending it to these organizations. People are skimming 391 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 1: off the top. I'm sure they're kickbacks involved. Everybody's getting rich. 392 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: Do you know three of the top five richest counties 393 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 1: in America are the Washington DC suburbs in Maryland and Virginia. 394 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,200 Speaker 1: That's three of the top five. Because not only are 395 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 1: government employees well paid. You know, that's an old myth 396 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 1: that people took government work and it was I didn't 397 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: pay as well, but it was secure. Oh, it has 398 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: been true for a long time. It pays really well, 399 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: better than the private sector. And it's still up till 400 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: this week, was secure. And not only government workers getting 401 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: paid well, but all the people who work for these 402 00:24:55,720 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: bogus fake climate nonprofits, homeless nonprofits. They get paid very well, 403 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: and then they're all this extra money is slashing around 404 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: that people are skimming off the top, you know, kickbacks, 405 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 1: they're just taking their percentage. I mean, you've got if 406 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 1: you've got tens of billions of dollars going out the 407 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: door and a dufus like this drunk is in charge 408 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: of spending the money and allocating it to the nonprofits. 409 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: What do you think is going on? And where do 410 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: they live? They live in the suburbs of Washington, d C. 411 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: And again three of the five riches suburbs. That's where 412 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: your textabody's going. And we should all take a bus 413 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,879 Speaker 1: ride to these counties. Look at all the homes we 414 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: bought for people like him. Play some more. 415 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 5: Like how do you spend one hundred billion dollars? How 416 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 5: do you make sure that like the prop fall until recently, 417 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,679 Speaker 5: talk to make sure that like buses are partially in 418 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:55,479 Speaker 5: place that's hot, and like making sure that like make 419 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 5: sure that like like. 420 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 1: Like we're gonna like yes, we're gonna like us, We're 421 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: gonna like like like like like all right, stop it 422 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: turn him off. Guy, spent billions of our dollars. Hit 423 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: it at a bank. Now the new EPA had lee Zelden. 424 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: They got to go find what bank? What's the account 425 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:20,360 Speaker 1: that this kid stuffed the money in? More coming up, Oh, 426 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: when we come back. Big raucous school board meeting in 427 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 1: New York over uh over a book that they were 428 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: using to teach elementary school kids about lgbt q I 429 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: A plus The book included naked people and bondage enthusiasts. 430 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: Well that that well, I was I was writing something 431 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: and that caught my attention. That was a great tease. John. 432 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 1: I always keep note of what perks you up. If 433 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: I think you're fading off, I'll just mention something about 434 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,679 Speaker 1: bondage and you snap right back in. 435 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from kfi A 436 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 3: six forty. 437 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: Today, Robert F. Kennedy Junior became the Secretary of Health 438 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: and Human Services, So he's going to be in charge 439 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: of all the medical programs, Medicare and Medicaid, And we 440 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: are going to talk with David Mensdorffer. David is a 441 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: former senior executive and deputy Assistant secretary at HHS during 442 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 1: the first Trump administration, and he's been involved with the 443 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: transition team for the second Trump administration, and he's going 444 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,479 Speaker 1: to tell us what may go on with RFK Junior 445 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: now running Health and Human Services. Early on, RFK was 446 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: given no shot of actually becoming the secretary, but most 447 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: everybody fell in line except for the ancient Mitch McConnell 448 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: on the Republican side, and he got voted in. Today 449 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,719 Speaker 1: now in Monroe, County upstate New York, north of New 450 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: York town of Penfield. The progressives. The progressives who have 451 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,959 Speaker 1: infiltrated many school boards and sexually many of them are 452 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 1: sick and twisted, and they managed to get this book 453 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: in as part of the curriculum. It's called the Rainbow Parade, 454 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 1: a celebration of lgbt q I A plus identities and allies. 455 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 1: Oh I haven't heard of that. Yeah, you didn't, Your 456 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: kid didn't. Your kids didn't read this. I don't think so. 457 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 4: No. 458 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: The parents were angry because this book tells the story 459 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: of a young girl and her two mothers attending an 460 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: LGBT parade and follows a child who's exploring their gender identity. 461 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: This book is taught in grades one through five, so 462 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: you're talking about kids ages five through eleven are being 463 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: told about this girl who's exploring the gender identity. The 464 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: book's lesson is for kids to break down stereotypes and 465 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: embrace diversity. The parents say, if you look in the 466 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: book and it's true. There are drawings of a naked 467 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: person showed from behind, a gay couple outfitted in leather, bondage, domination, 468 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: and sado masochism attire. No, yes, for these kids. For 469 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: the kids. I saw the drawings. It's true, I don't 470 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: want to see them B D. 471 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 4: S M. 472 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: But you knew that right. Also, they have drawings of furries. 473 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: Imagine this. Don't the kids need to know about furry 474 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 1: those weird sexual perverts who dress up in furry animal costume. 475 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: Now that's ridiculous. One parent. Then John Feather said, if 476 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 1: you think that's appropriate for children to see, there's something 477 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: wrong with you. You need to have a mental evaluation that 478 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: there's no reason that should be in the schools whatsoever 479 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 1: at all. And then Feather said, he's pointing at a drawing. 480 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: You can see this guy's butt is clearly out. I 481 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: guess it's one of those leather cut out which you 482 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 1: only see in parades. And then if you it's not appropriate, 483 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: the thing is nobody on the board gave the parents 484 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: the time of day. They didn't want to hear about it. Well, 485 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: that's too bad. 486 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 4: If I was a parent, I mean I am a parent, 487 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 4: but if I was one of those parents, oh my god, 488 00:30:59,600 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 4: is right? 489 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,479 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I mean constantly I say to myself, 490 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: I'm so glad my kids grew up. You know, in 491 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: the two thousands and twenty ten's I would not want 492 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,479 Speaker 1: to be part of this. I have grandkids. Yeah, I know, 493 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 1: but that's that's somebody else's problem. It's the stuff that 494 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: I could do about that. I'm here. I'm just don't 495 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: don't you say that. Sometimes it's like, aren't you glad 496 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 1: your kids? Yeah in their twenties. Yeah, furreze. Okay, come on, 497 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 1: surries a guy with his naked ass cheeks sticking through 498 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: his leather outfit. The one of the people on the 499 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: board UH tried to calm everybody down by telling them 500 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: what the proper procedure for filing objections to school materials, 501 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: but he was overwhelmingly booed. We are here at the 502 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 1: board meeting, conducting our business. He got boots some more. 503 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: It's our board meeting, we pay you, said one parent. 504 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: The booze continued, and the school officials close the meeting. 505 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: They're just leaving, said one parent. Yeah, they just left. 506 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: They got out of there. Elon Musk is aware of 507 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 1: this because he posted something on x about its going 508 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: to do well if that school is getting any federal funding. 509 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 1: I think that's just been canceled. Yeah, when we come back, 510 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: hard to believe all this is going on. Robert F. 511 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior is in charge of the Department of Health 512 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,480 Speaker 1: and Human Services, and we're going to talk with a guy, 513 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: David Mansdorf for he was a senior executive and deputy 514 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: assistant secretary at HHS and the first Trump administration, part 515 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: of the transition team for the second Trump administration, and 516 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: he's going to tell us what may be going on 517 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: in the next few years with RFK Junior. Deborah Mark 518 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: is live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 519 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. 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