1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 2: Nobody has used the Burnbank composting bin, the City of 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 2: Burbank mandatory composting bin. 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 3: Here at KFI. 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: Here at KFI we went. 7 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 2: We got, well, we got as I mentioned last hour, 8 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 2: we got a memo instructing us that we're supposed to 9 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: put all our compostable garbage in this bin. So I 10 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 2: went into the lund room there looking for the bin, 11 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 2: and it's very confusing in there because there's black bins 12 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 2: I guess for regular garbage, and then there are two 13 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 2: bins that have green tops with circular openings, and I thought, well, 14 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 2: those must be the composting bins because I saw green. 15 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 2: It's like, no, I guess they're meant for bottles and cans. Yeah, 16 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: it's recycling, recycling, right, Well, I confuse the recycling bins 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 2: for the composting bin. So I'm looking around, So where's 18 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 2: the composting bit. This little tiny green thing under the sink, 19 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 2: one little and nothing in, nothing in the bin. So 20 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 2: I just want to make clear that apparently now this 21 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 2: this memo went out at eight point fifty six am 22 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 2: on Friday, So it's been more than seventy two hours 23 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 2: and not one single employee has dropped one piece of 24 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 2: compostable material in the mandatory composting bin. 25 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 3: We have rule breakers here again, FI. 26 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 2: I mean it's supposed to be food scraps, meat bones, 27 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 2: dairy and produce peels and coffee grounds and food soiled paper. 28 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: There must be people who produced that kind of garbage. 29 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 4: Oh no, I did have a banana last week and 30 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 4: I threw it in here. 31 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: Look at that, your violator. 32 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 3: I forgot. 33 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: That is not best practices. 34 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 3: No, it's not. Man, I screwed up. 35 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 2: I'm going to keep track. We last week while I 36 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 2: was on vacation once in a while. Look at the 37 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 2: news and they get all pissed off. Cardinal Mahoney, who 38 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 2: I thought was dead, But it's not. He's John Manley's 39 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 2: press release puts it the disgraced cardinal. He's the guy 40 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: who covered up all the child sex abuse, all the 41 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 2: child rape that his priests were committing for decades. And 42 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 2: Mahoney was eventually forced out and he's been in some 43 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 2: kind of limbo ever since. 44 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: But they were. 45 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 2: Resurrected him as the official LA archdiocese representative to Rome 46 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 2: for Cardinal Francis's I'm sorry Pope Francis's funeral, and John Manley, 47 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 2: who represented many of the sex abuse victims here in 48 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 2: La County, was angry with that. I was angry with that. 49 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 2: Let's get John Manley on and we could both shout 50 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 2: at each other. 51 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,959 Speaker 5: John, how are you, hey, John, how are you? 52 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 2: I'm all right, No, I was. I was smacking myself 53 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 2: in the head when I saw this. 54 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's uh. You just can't believe it. You 55 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 5: just when you think you know they're turning a corner, 56 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 5: they bring this. And who's a cardinal out of Los 57 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 5: Angeles where he's not allowed to have any public ministry 58 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 5: according to the current archbishop because of his crimes against children. 59 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 5: He allowed, for example, father Michael Baker, who was a 60 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 5: prolific pedophile who went to Mahoney in nineteen eighty eight 61 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 5: and said I'm having sex with kids, and he said, okay, 62 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 5: go to therapy. He came back, put him back in 63 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 5: a parish and he molested more kids. I represented him. 64 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 5: I know the toll. And he has the honor of 65 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 5: witnessing the closing of Francis's casket at the funeral. And 66 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 5: then discloses that he was very close to the Pope 67 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 5: and exchanged many many letters with him over the years 68 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 5: and blah blah blah. So what does that tell us? 69 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 5: It tells us that number one, apparently Pope Francis didn't 70 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 5: it wasn't offended by his behavior, which is troubling. And 71 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 5: number two, I think important thing is what message does 72 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 5: that send to other bishops and cardinals throughout the world 73 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 5: who are covering this up or might cover it up. 74 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 5: And the answer is nothing's going to happen. And the 75 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 5: victims out there, of the priests heat concealed and they 76 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 5: allowed to molest how do they feel. I've spoken to 77 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 5: a couple of them and they don't feel good. And 78 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 5: you know, it just it just is sad. And you 79 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 5: I think institutions are important and the church has an 80 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 5: important role to play, but they just these bishops are 81 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 5: who they are and I don't think anything's going to 82 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 5: really change. It makes me sad. 83 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 2: I remember, because you know, this is going back over 84 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 2: twenty years ago, but we had a source who sent 85 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 2: us sixty emails of Cardinal Mahoney actively covering up I remember, Yeah, 86 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 2: we broke that story was an exclusive story and covering 87 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 2: up with his staff members information regarding the priests who 88 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 2: had been raping children. He wanted to keep it away 89 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: from the media. 90 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 5: And frankly, if anybody else imagine if Southwest Airlines was 91 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 5: covering up for pedophile flight attendants and those emails were leaked, 92 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 5: not only would the DA have been involved and people 93 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 5: have been indicted, the FBI would have been involved. The 94 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 5: US Attorney would have been involved. Here nothing happened to him. 95 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 5: Some priests went to jail, not many, but some, and 96 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 5: he just walked free. And he continues to live this 97 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 5: luxurious life where he flies first class to Rome and 98 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 5: people kiss his ring. And the truth is he's a criminal, 99 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 5: and he's a criminal who protected pedophiles, who gets to 100 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 5: close the casket of the pope? And it makes you wonder, 101 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 5: you know, I remember some priests telling me a kid, 102 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 5: what would Jesus do? I don't know, man, I don't 103 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 5: think Jesus would be too happy about that, But maybe 104 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 5: that's just me. 105 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 2: You would you'd hope that Jesus would say, what the 106 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 2: hell is he doing here? 107 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 5: Yeah? 108 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: Why? Why? Why is he he completely kicked out of 109 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: the church. 110 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 5: Well, I almost think that that that you know, Jesus 111 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 5: is still president in the church, but I don't think 112 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 5: he's particularly happy with the bishops and cardinals or frankly 113 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 5: popes that have been presided over this, you know. 114 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: Because he's a criminal. 115 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 2: But he's not a criminal like he embezzled a million 116 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 2: dollars what. He's a criminal who covered up child rape 117 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 2: that went on for decades. 118 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 5: That. Yeah, I'm not much on quoting the Bible, but 119 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 5: I do remember from the nuns and Saint Catherine's military 120 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 5: school who were German drilled into me, is that Matthew's 121 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 5: Gospel says, you know, it would be better to throw 122 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 5: yourself with a rock into the sea than to hurt 123 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 5: one of my little ones. It's from matthew Gospel. I 124 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 5: often told judges that, and uh, you know, and mediators 125 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 5: and things like that, and they just seem to have 126 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 5: forgotten that, you know. The rest. I just don't understand 127 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 5: how an institution can hurt children on this scale and 128 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 5: still uh be regarded as legitimate. And that's not to 129 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 5: say that I'm not talking about the faithful, and I'm 130 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 5: not talking about their beliefs. I'm talking about the leadership. 131 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 2: And why do you want him representing your faith and 132 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 2: your beliefs exactly. 133 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 5: That's exactly the question. And the answer is troubling, isn't it. 134 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, and the financial disaster that he brought the la 135 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 2: ar Styce billion and a half dollars, yeah, two. 136 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 5: Well, actually it's on the upwards of two billion. And 137 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 5: you know he still gets the cousted. You know, it's 138 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 5: it's like honoring the guy that covered up for Jeffrey Epstein. 139 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 5: Bring him in, you know, cover here. You know, you've 140 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 5: covered up for pedophiles. But you know, you have a 141 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 5: neat hat and a great outfit and you're ninety one 142 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 5: years old. You know, you get to close the pope's deal. 143 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 5: Get out of here. He really closed. That was his 144 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 5: that was his role. He witnessed the closing of the 145 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 5: clasket and closed the casket. So you know, nice, whoa 146 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 5: great What is the what is the you know it 147 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 5: was he carried out by pedophiles. I mean obviously that 148 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 5: didn't happen, but I mean it's just it's despicable. There 149 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 5: no other words for it. 150 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 2: It is and it makes me question everybody in the 151 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 2: hierarchy that that nobody had the power of the influence 152 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 2: the good sense to say no, not that guy, almost 153 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 2: anyone else. Why that guy, He was the most notorious 154 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 2: in the nation. 155 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 5: Because they've all done it, They've all covered up, and 156 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 5: nobody wants to say it. But it's the truth. And 157 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 5: you know, some are better than others others. And there's 158 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 5: definitely been improvement, largely because of the few prelates that 159 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 5: have gone to jail in this country. But and the liability. 160 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 5: But it's still a troubled it's a troubled organization of 161 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 5: that trouble culture where you would allow somebody who let 162 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 5: children be savaged close the you know, close the pope's 163 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 5: casket of the most public ritual in the you know, 164 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 5: in the history of the Church's it's sickening. 165 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 2: Well, John, I'm so glad you still speak out on 166 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: this because it should never be forgotten. And I'm never 167 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 2: going to stop either. You could spend obviously we still 168 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 2: have a big issue here. Yeah, we do, all right, John. 169 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 5: Thanks for coming on see it mass. 170 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: Pray for me. John Manly. 171 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 5: He is. 172 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 2: The attorney that represented so many of the victims of 173 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 2: the child sex abuse, child rape committed by priests, covered 174 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 2: up and enabled by Cardio Mahoney. And you could see 175 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 2: and after ninety one years and he spent about twenty 176 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 2: five years now in disgrace. Mahoney is still honored by 177 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 2: the highest circles of the Catholic Church in Rome. And 178 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 2: John's John's Law from his manly Stuart and finaldi all right, 179 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 2: we've got coming up after two thirty we are going 180 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 2: to talk I know you're ready. We're going to talk 181 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 2: about Karen Bass cutting the budgets of animal services here 182 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 2: in La. 183 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 3: What's going to happen to the animals. 184 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 2: They're going to die if that's that's all they can do, 185 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 2: is Mike. 186 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 3: You know what, John, people. 187 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 4: I hope that people listen to you and they go 188 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 4: and they rush to these animal shelters and go and adopt. 189 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 4: I know a lot of animal shelters are having free 190 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 4: adoptions because they just they need to offload these animals. 191 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 2: I know, I know that it's you adopt them or 192 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 2: they're going to die because Karen Bass doesn't want to 193 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 2: pay for it anymore. It's more importantly give them money 194 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 2: to the homeless. 195 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on Demand from KFI AM 196 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 6: six forty. 197 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 2: We mentioned earlier that tomorrow the La County Union Workers 198 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:02,839 Speaker 2: fifty five thousand of them, first ever strike of its kind, 199 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 2: and it's going to be for forty eight hours, including 200 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 2: those who clear homeless encampments. 201 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: The jokes are too easy, aren't they? 202 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 2: The biggest failures the clearly the biggest failures in county 203 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 2: government are those who clear homeless encampments. But they're going 204 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 2: on strike and they want more money. And at the 205 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 2: same time, the La Times did a story about the 206 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 2: huge amount of cash that's going to pour in to 207 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:41,319 Speaker 2: the city and county because you passed Measure A last November. 208 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 2: It's a half cent sales tax. All the money, all 209 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 2: the prizes going to the homeless people. So the people 210 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 2: in the encampments that the county is incapable of clearing, 211 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 2: that the city is incapable of clearing, all that money 212 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 2: is going to continue to pour in. And all the 213 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 2: criminals in parasites who work in city and county government, 214 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 2: who work in those fake, phony nonprofits, they are going 215 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 2: to reap in a billion, five hundred million. 216 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:17,559 Speaker 1: That is just unbelievable. And The Times, Doug Smith is the. 217 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 2: Writer his lead paragraph, after nearly a decade of unprecedented 218 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 2: taxpayer spending on homelessness, with little to show and improvement 219 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 2: on the streets. 220 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: There you go. 221 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 2: It's not just me. This La Times writer too noticed 222 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 2: nothing's changed. The giant nonprofits behind the measures. 223 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: That's the giant not on there. That Yeah, that's right. 224 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:49,719 Speaker 2: The giant nonprofits asked voters to double down, and they 225 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 2: doubled the tax. 226 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: Right. 227 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 2: The nonprofits that steal the money they financed the campaigns. 228 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: To vote for measure. 229 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 2: So the people who stole money from you successfully convinced 230 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 2: you to give them more money even though nothing is improved. 231 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 2: Maybe if you have somebody like Tracy Park as your councilwoman, 232 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 2: which I do. Specific neighborhoods can get cleaned up. But 233 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 2: I'm the hole in the city. Oh my god, all 234 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 2: the neighborhoods you don't go to. 235 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: Woooo. 236 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 2: There's apparently a new layer of bureaucracy now that's being 237 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 2: financed by this billion and a half dollars. Doug Smith says, 238 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 2: it's a complex system of oversight, a complex system. Great, 239 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 2: how about here's some money, shovel all their garbage into 240 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:00,599 Speaker 2: this trash truck and you drive these people out to 241 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 2: the desert. Okay, that that that You don't need complexity 242 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 2: for that, And of course it's supposed to increase what 243 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 2: are the magic words, transparency and accountability. So now they 244 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 2: are these uh, these new UH agencies. 245 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: U L A C O C. 246 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 2: L t r h A E c r h A 247 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 2: and l A c A H s A. Now behind 248 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 2: those agencies are oversight boards. You know who's on the 249 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 2: oversite boards? Experts, the same experts who've blown billions of 250 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 2: dollars and stolen, well stolen billions of dollars. Experts from government. Yeah, 251 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 2: experts from business, housing development and homeless services. Come on, 252 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 2: when does it stop? I think it's pitchfork time. I 253 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 2: think it's time to organize in the streets with pitchforks. 254 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: Ah who's on one of these boards? 255 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 2: Nythia Rahman, the idiot LA City councilwoman, says she's optimistic 256 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 2: that the two boards that she sits on, the E 257 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 2: C R H A and the L A C A 258 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 2: H s A, will allow us to improve coordination and 259 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 2: communication between all the different players, but so far, she 260 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 2: feels frustrated. I've invested a lot of time into it, 261 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 2: but so far, the time I've invested in it has 262 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 2: not necessarily yielded outcomes that I think are better for 263 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 2: the city. She was the woman who knew absolutely nothing 264 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 2: about the encampments in her neighborhood. 265 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: She wouldn't even help. But the guy who was assaulted by. 266 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 2: The vagrant who is waving a bag of feces around 267 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 2: in the air, and Clauber the guy's car with a 268 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 2: bag of theeces and went up to Ramen publicly, and 269 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 2: Ramen gave her, gave him the cold stare. 270 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: We're coming up. 271 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI Am sixty. 272 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show. 273 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock and 274 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 2: in case you missed the first hour and a half, 275 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 2: that's what we have the podcast for posted after four o'clock. 276 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: Also on the iHeart app. 277 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 2: It's called John Cobelt Show on Demand and it's so 278 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 2: you can catch up on what you missed. Podcast every 279 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 2: day posted after the show. You should do that. Lots 280 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 2: of people do. All right, this is this is an atrocity. 281 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 2: Karen Bass is going to close half the shelters, half 282 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 2: of the pet shelters in Los Angeles. They're cutting because 283 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 2: she's got a billion dollar deficit. Cut five million dollars 284 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:12,439 Speaker 2: from the Los Angeles Animal Services. Yeah, Los Angeles Animal 285 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 2: Services budget specifically, and it's it's taken a bigger hit 286 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 2: than most departments. 287 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, why is that we have a problem. 288 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 4: So many animals are already being euthanized and everybody's so 289 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 4: upset about it, and now you want to close half 290 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 4: the shelters. And in fact, I think some of the 291 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 4: county workers that are expected to go on strike tonight 292 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 4: work at these animal shelters. 293 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 2: They're closing the shelter where we got our dog are 294 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 2: are Leo. We went to the West La shelter ten 295 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 2: years ago and that's being closed. Possibly the Harbor West 296 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 2: Valley shelters. There's only six and they're going to close three. 297 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 4: So what's going to happen. We're just going to kill 298 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 4: all of these helpless animals. 299 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:00,040 Speaker 1: Cambass is gonna kill dogs. 300 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 4: And ca Okay, I'm sorry, there's other places that she 301 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,440 Speaker 4: should be cutting, not the animal shelters. 302 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, we got another billion and a half dollars for 303 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 2: the failed homeless program, so that the parasites can leach 304 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 2: more money from the tax payers and the homelessness gets 305 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 2: worse and worse. 306 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 4: Wait a second, John measure, A right, why don't we 307 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 4: take that money because we could rescind that right, Why 308 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 4: don't we take that money instead of putting it toward 309 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 4: the homeless because we know that the money going to 310 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 4: the homeless right has been misappropriated and there's all these problems, 311 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 4: and put that toward the animal shelters. 312 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: I agree. 313 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 2: I mean, sixty two employees are going to be laid off, 314 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 2: sixty other vacant positions will be eliminated, So that's potentially 315 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty two staff members either out of 316 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 2: work or never be hired. Animal control officers, veterinary technicians. 317 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: Now. 318 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 2: Fox eleven did a report last year because the employees 319 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 2: were speaking out the shelters, we're killing healthy dogs just 320 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 2: to make room. 321 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: And that was a big scandal. 322 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 2: Because Stacy Dannis, the general manager, resigned a month after 323 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 2: the report. And so they're gonna have to now shift 324 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 2: the dogs in the three shelters that are closing to 325 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 2: the three that are remaining open. 326 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:21,439 Speaker 1: But they're going to run out of space. 327 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 3: There's already not enough space. 328 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, already five to ten dogs are killed every week 329 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 2: because of overcrowding. 330 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 3: Oh, come on, and you know what is really sad. 331 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 4: It is so true that there are healthy puppies and 332 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,360 Speaker 4: dogs and cats and kittens that are being euthanized because 333 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 4: there's no room. It's not even that these are troubled animals, 334 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 4: animals that are sick puppies, kittens, babies. 335 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 2: Here's what else happens when you get the death notice. 336 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 2: When you put on the death list, they take you off. 337 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,199 Speaker 2: I'm talking about a dog here. Okay, they take you 338 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 2: off the website and put him in the back where 339 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 2: the public can't see them. So the dog is going 340 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 2: to die and they're not giving any chance of reprieve 341 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 2: if you put them on the website and said, hey, 342 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 2: these six dogs are about to get about to get 343 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 2: to the death penalty. Maybe somebody is going to show up. No, 344 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 2: don't you don't even know they exist? 345 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 3: Well that's stupid. 346 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. 347 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 2: Renee Roustin is the founder of Start Rescue. The shelter 348 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 2: system is so overburdened to cut the budget and fire 349 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 2: staff members is ludicrous. These budget cuts are a knee 350 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 2: jerk reaction. This is not leadership. Leadership finds ways to 351 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 2: increase revenue only only for the thieves in the homeless industry. 352 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 2: All the increased revenue goes to those thieves. It doesn't 353 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 2: even go to the homeless, obviously. It goes to the criminals, 354 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 2: the friends and relatives of everyone in the mayor's office 355 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:00,440 Speaker 2: and the city council's office and anyone else who's connected 356 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 2: bureaucratically to city Hall. If you need more money for 357 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 2: your shelter system, go and do a like a door 358 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 2: to door canvas to license dogs every day are not licensed, 359 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:19,479 Speaker 2: So go after it. That's money you're not capturing. Sushie 360 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 2: Ross is a volunteer at a local animal shelter. She says, 361 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:28,719 Speaker 2: what's going on is disgusting. Zach Sidell, that insufferable wiener 362 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 2: who lies for Bass well he's the Deputy mayor for communications, 363 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 2: says this is false. We are setting aside funding in 364 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 2: the unappropriated balance to restore those cuts. Yeah, but right 365 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 2: now it's on the books that it's getting cut. So 366 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 2: why are you cutting it just to restore it somewhere else? 367 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes zero sense. 368 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 2: Well it sounds like they're getting such a blowback here, 369 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 2: Yeah they are. 370 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. 371 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 2: So it's like, well, this is what they claimed with 372 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 2: the fire department. They cut the fire department greatly last 373 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 2: year and then tried to clean up the mess by saying, well, 374 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 2: we reappropriated money here, not that it did any good 375 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 2: when the palisades burned down. Yeah, and the fire department 376 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 2: always claimed that Bass was lying, that they're work cuts, 377 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:20,120 Speaker 2: And now the animal shelters are disputing what they don't 378 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 2: tell the truth in Bass's city Hall, they don't. 379 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 4: If you're looking for an animal, really seriously, right now 380 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 4: is the time to go to a shelter. I know 381 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 4: so many people they want the so called designer dogs. 382 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 3: But you know what, you can find some of those 383 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 3: in the shelters. You can't. 384 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 4: They're not just I'm not even gonna name the names 385 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 4: of certain dogs that people don't want, because everybody has 386 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 4: a different idea of what they want they don't want, 387 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 4: but there are some amazing dogs that you can find 388 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 4: in these shelters. 389 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:53,959 Speaker 1: What is the obsession with designer dogs? 390 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 4: I'm telling you people, especially the Golden Doodle, the labradoodle, 391 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 4: the this and the that doodle. 392 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 3: I mean, they're cute. Is that I don't know? 393 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 4: But let me say because I have friends that have 394 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 4: those dogs, they are very cute. I can understand the appeal, 395 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 4: But there are too many dogs that need to be 396 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 4: saved from the shelters. Go to those shelters first, adopt, 397 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 4: don't buy. 398 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: Or the verge of destroying your social standard. 399 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 4: I know, I know, and trust me once again, I 400 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 4: have a big mouth, I do. But you know what, 401 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 4: here's a platform that we could use to tell people 402 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 4: to do this. 403 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 2: No, I got my dog from a shelter. I got 404 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 2: our cat from the shelter too. 405 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 4: You and I got my two dogs. Actually, my two 406 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 4: dogs were not from the shelter. They were from rescue 407 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 4: groups who save dogs from shelters, or they find dogs 408 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,159 Speaker 4: that are stray, so before they go to a shelter, 409 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 4: they take them in. 410 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 2: Why is Karen Bath so bad at this? And Garcetti 411 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 2: was bad at this? I mean, Daniel Guss is a 412 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 2: big animal lover and he has written many columns online 413 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 2: is a substack and he's written He's very passionate, has 414 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 2: written many columns about just all the corruption that goes 415 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 2: on and all the mistreatment of the animals and just 416 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 2: the disorganization. I don't get it. Why is it so hard? 417 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 2: Why are the simple things so hard? Because they don't 418 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 2: care about any of this. They don't care about about 419 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,639 Speaker 2: dogs getting killed. That's why they kill a lot of them. 420 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 2: You think it bothers Karen Bass and she's killing ten 421 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 2: dogs a week. I'm she had no problem with thousands 422 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,360 Speaker 2: of homes burning down. She has no problem with thousands 423 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 2: of people living on the streets and thousands dying on 424 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 2: the streets every year. They're all just in it for 425 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 2: the money. More coming up. 426 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A sixty. 427 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 5: Oh. 428 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 2: I forgot to mention the Moistline's coming back Friday, eight 429 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 2: seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven Moist eighty 430 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: six After Debor's News, Alex Stone from ABC News is 431 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 2: coming on. You heard in Vancouver somebody drove a car 432 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 2: into a big crowd, killed the people, injured dozens more. 433 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 2: And he's got a history of mental health issues. 434 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: Again, all you had to do was lock him up. 435 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 2: The authorities knew he was a lunatic, but they let 436 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 2: him out. 437 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: And what did he do? 438 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 2: Mowed down and killed eleven people, actually mowed down dozens more. 439 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 2: Talk about that coming up after three o'clock. It's not 440 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 2: so hard if I say Harvard Medical School, right, I 441 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 2: probably think. 442 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: Very elite. 443 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 2: University, probably the best doctors, right, Yes, most educated people 444 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 2: working there. Apparently the hiring standards at the Morgue not 445 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 2: so good at the Morgue. Well, yet, a lot of 446 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 2: people donate their bodies to Harvard Medical School so that 447 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 2: they could do research and experiments. Well, the guy who 448 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:05,360 Speaker 2: ran the Morgue, Sidric Lodge, he uh, he was stealing 449 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 2: body parts that had been donated for research, and he 450 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 2: sold them for thousands of dollars. Now you're saying, who 451 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 2: would buy thousands of dollars of old, used human bodies. 452 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 4: It's not like somebody who is alive, right needs a 453 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 4: new heart, right right? 454 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 3: You can't. 455 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,640 Speaker 1: So, yeah, if he was selling organs, I could get that, right. 456 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 3: What's what's the point here? 457 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 2: Well, apparently there are people who collect body parts. That's 458 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 2: that's their hobby. I don't know if they use it 459 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 2: as decor or put it on the wall. Hey, you 460 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:50,959 Speaker 2: want to see what's in this drawer? He it's New 461 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 2: York Times says he turned the Morgue into a shopping 462 00:26:53,600 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 2: emporium selling brains, skin and other parts. And there was 463 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 2: a whole criminal network, including his wife, and he would 464 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 2: drive the stolen body parts from Harvard Medical School to 465 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 2: his home in New Hampshire and did this for five years, 466 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 2: and now he's pleading guilty and could face some years 467 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:28,719 Speaker 2: in prison and a heavy fine. The dean of the 468 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 2: Harvard Medical School says Cedric Lodge's criminal actions were morally 469 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 2: reprehensible and a disgraceful betrayal of the individuals who chose 470 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 2: to wield their bodies. 471 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 3: I bet he's being haunted by those ghosts. 472 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: And you end up in somebody's trophy case. 473 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 3: Can you imagine. I mean, not that you would know, not. 474 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,439 Speaker 2: That I would know. No, I don't know this world. 475 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 2: And they also they also prosecuted six six other people 476 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 2: and they've pled guilty or agreed to plead guilty. He 477 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:05,120 Speaker 2: would dissect the cadavers. He would cut their heads off, 478 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 2: they got their brains, bones, skin, and then he would 479 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 2: ship the remains to buyers. I would guess that's an 480 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 2: extra charge. Yeah, I mean, there's there's some ups driver 481 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 2: with a brain, with a box of brains as somebody severed. 482 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:31,119 Speaker 3: That's awful. I'd be so pissed off. And that was 483 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 3: my family members. 484 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: You think you're doing a good thing. 485 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 2: You're donating a body to science and maybe they'll save 486 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 2: lives down the road. Apparently they let people come in 487 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 2: to the morgue to pick out which body parts they wanted. 488 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 2: There was a woman named Katrina McLean. She owns a 489 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 2: store in Massachusetts called Cats Creepy Creations, Creations that shock 490 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 2: the mind and shake the soul. 491 00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: That's her slogan. 492 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 2: And in October twenty twenty, she toured the morgue and 493 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 2: chose two dissected faces. Oh come on, and so Cedric 494 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 2: Lodge sold her two faces for six hundred dollars. 495 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 3: Oh that's a bargain. What is wrong with people? 496 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 2: They found one transaction where a guy named Joshua Taylor 497 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 2: sent Lodge one thousand dollars with the memo on the 498 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 2: invoice read head number seven. 499 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 3: This is a terrible job. 500 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 4: Really, I can't believe that there are people in this 501 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 4: world to do that. 502 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 2: Head number seven and number six was not so good, 503 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 2: But seven, that's that's the head I want. 504 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: Okay, we're really really a bad spec. 505 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 3: Yes, we really are, all right? 506 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, another member of the really 507 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 2: bad species ran over lots of people up in Vancouver, 508 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 2: killed dozens more injured. 509 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: Who is this guy? 510 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 2: Well, turns out he was a well known mental patient 511 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 2: to local authorities, so of course he was running around free. 512 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 2: This is at a street festival. Alex Stone has more 513 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 2: on that. Deborah Mark Live in the KFI twenty four 514 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 2: hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt 515 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 2: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on 516 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 2: KFI Am six forty from one to four pm every 517 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 2: Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand on 518 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:26,240 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app