1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 3: There is another coming up later after we talked to 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 3: Daniel Gus. They are draining the reservoir again in the Palisades. 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 3: I couldn't believe this, and it may be empty for 7 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 3: the next nine months, that one hundred and seventeen million 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 3: gallon reservoir that was drained and so there was no 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 3: water for the fire. They're draining it again again. Something 10 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 3: to do with the cover. It's it's insanity. Doesn't even 11 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 3: begin to describe what's going on here, and of course 12 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 3: nobody's explaining this. Let's talk to Daniel Gus. There's a 13 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 3: new LA Council member who is not going to jail, buddy. 14 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 3: He's getting hit with a fine, a big fine for 15 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 3: taking gifts that he shouldn't have taken. Las Vegas is 16 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 3: involved in this story, as it always seems to be. 17 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 3: Let's get Daniel Gus on. 18 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: Hey John, how are you? 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 3: I'm all right? Where can people find your writings? Remind 20 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 3: people where to go online? 21 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: Sure? 22 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 4: Thank you? 23 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 1: I have a subset Danielgus dot substack dot com. Gus 24 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 1: with two says follow me on Twitter at the Gus Report. 25 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 26 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 3: Well, with the collapse of the traditional media, people like 27 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 3: Daniel Gus especially Daniel has really filled a huge gap 28 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 3: in local news, especially for Los Angeles. Now here you 29 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 3: had the Los Angeles Ethics Commission. So these aren't criminal charges. 30 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 3: They found that John Lee, who is a council member 31 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 3: in the northwest San Fernando Valley, and he has to 32 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 3: pay one hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars plus in fines, 33 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 3: explain what he did. 34 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: Well, it's actually a heck of a lot more money 35 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: that's eventually going to be paid than that. 36 00:01:57,920 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 4: But so. 37 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: Both who presently represents District twelve, which is the Chatsworth area, 38 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 1: the northwestern part of the valley, he and Kenvilan former 39 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: council member Mitch Englander, have been elbowing each other to 40 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: succeed Greg and before him, Al Bernson over the past 41 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: several decades and over the course of their being councilmen, 42 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,959 Speaker 1: they're approached by a lot of lobby developers, people who 43 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: need book and favorable opinions in city hall. And in 44 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen there was an infamous trip to Vegas with 45 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: a couple of these types of both businessmen and a 46 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: former city council staffer to then city Council President Michael 47 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: by b Ai. And it appears, according to all of 48 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: the records that I've read, they were with alcohol and 49 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: women who were probably less than half age, and casino 50 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: chips and dinner in the price range that would make 51 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: your head spin. John, I don't know if you've ever 52 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: had a five hundred or thousand dollars dinner, but apparently 53 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: these guys did and had even more money spent on 54 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: alcoholers they call it in Vegas bottle service, flashing lights, 55 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: and these magnificent looking young women. And apparently they either 56 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: didn't report or underreported the value of this debauchery, and 57 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:54,119 Speaker 1: gradually people started poking around. Englander lied about what went 58 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: on in Vegas. He lied to an FBI agent and 59 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: wound up in federal prison for whatever reason. John Lee 60 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: did not but in a lot of records Lee concluded 61 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: by was the person staff or be on that investigation 62 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: about Englander, and he was in piece of staff for 63 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: quite a few years and in criminal charges, so he 64 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: did not crime. He's never been charged with the crime 65 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: as we know. He had to pay a fine that 66 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: went through the administrative process, trait of law. Judge and 67 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: week the Los Angeles Essex con decided to lower the 68 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: boom on Lee of one hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars. 69 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: So that's that's the core of the issue. 70 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 3: So it was mostly meals, booze, hotels, transportation, gambling, trip chips. 71 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 3: I mean, that's the prize package that Lee was enjoy 72 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 3: along with these other characters. 73 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, and apparently the women right, massage services and you 74 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: know things that John you wouldn't know about this, but 75 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 1: sometimes middle aged men we're too young, but sometimes they 76 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: get a little full of themselves after more years of 77 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: marriage and think, well, gee, I have a marketable power 78 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: in public office, are and I entitled to a weekend 79 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: of craziness in Vegas without the trappings of life in 80 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:37,679 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. So that's apparently more of what this fine 81 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: against John Lee is for. 82 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 3: I saw one of the reports that John Lee was 83 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 3: actually telling investigators or telling the judge looking at this 84 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 3: case that well, yeah, I was served the food, but 85 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 3: I didn't eat it. He actually said he didn't eat it. 86 00:05:59,360 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. 87 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 1: You know, you know, whenever you know, a five star 88 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: restaurant puts, you know, a menu in front of me 89 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 1: for a food that I've never experienced in my life. 90 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: Of course you're going to turn it down right at 91 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: the water grill and uh, you know five star restaurants 92 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: in LA and in Vegas, and I don't know what 93 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: you get for three thousand dollars worth of a round 94 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: or three rounds of bottle service in Vegas. I wouldn't 95 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: turn it down. It was legal for me to accept it. 96 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: But yeah, and then Lee had the audacity during the 97 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: investors state, well, I tried to pay it back. I'm 98 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: trying to figure out how does that map when you 99 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 1: try to pay back something that you weren't entitled to 100 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: in the first place. And so, in my opinion, he's 101 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: getting lucky here with an enormous civil find through through 102 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: the six Commission, But don't to he According to ethics 103 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: records that I'm looking at, he's more than one hundred, 104 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: well over one hundred thousand dollars hole for the legal representation. 105 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: And for some reason, this deputy chief of staff has 106 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: loaned and legal defense fund almost five dollars. So I'm 107 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: not going to say it's criminell, but graft like transactions 108 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: to have ended at minimum disturbing red flags and they 109 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: continue this have to come out of John Lee's pocket 110 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: unless he can raise one heck of a lot of 111 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: money for his lead, which adds fast billings. You know, 112 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: the last quarter he only has fourteen hundred bucks left 113 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: in that and he's finding on appealing. 114 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 3: This, so it turned into a very expensive meal. All right, Daniel, thanks. 115 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: For coming on anytime. John. 116 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 3: You have a nice Daniel wesh that's substat dot com 117 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 3: and you could eat all about all the corruption going 118 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 3: on in La City. 119 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 2: All right, this could be hard to believe, but. 120 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 3: You remember the reservoir that they drained in the Palisades 121 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 3: and then the fire hit and then they claimed that well, 122 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 3: the one hundred and seventeen million gallons that wouldn't have 123 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 3: made a difference. 124 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 2: They're still trying to sell that one. 125 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 3: Well, they're going to be draining the reservoir again and 126 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 3: it could be empty for a long time. This is 127 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,719 Speaker 3: incredibly stupid people once again in the Department of Water 128 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 3: and Power, which has the same incredible bubblehead Genie kino 129 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 3: Yez with her same exorbitant salaries seven hundred and fifty 130 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 3: thousand dollars, and they're draining the reservoir again, and I 131 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 3: guess just hoping there isn't another wildfire because there's nothing 132 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 3: left to burn in the Palisades. 133 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 2: Talk about it when we come back. 134 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 135 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:58,559 Speaker 4: six forty. 136 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 2: Unbelievable. 137 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 3: The Santienez reservoir that was the one that Jenny's Kinonias 138 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 3: stupidly drained and so there was no water to put 139 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 3: out the Palisades fire. Just the dumbest act by the 140 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 3: dumbest bureaucrat and now they're gonna be draining the reservoir again. 141 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 3: Listen to this Fox eleven reporter Matthew Seedorf. 142 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 2: A lot of residents are angry. 143 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 5: This reservoir was broken, then it was fixed, now is 144 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 5: broken again, and the timing couldn't be worse. 145 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 2: An angry wind. 146 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 5: Shaking trees and Pacific Palisades as residents learned a critical 147 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 5: water reservoir could soon go dry again. 148 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 2: Frustrating and annoying. 149 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: Concerns me about the safety of my family. 150 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 5: We were here last January as the Palisades fire grew 151 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 5: out of control and hydrants ran dry. The nearby Santa 152 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 5: and As reservoir empty offline for repairs. In June, LEDWP 153 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 5: announced the problem was fixed. We're placing a damaged floating cover, 154 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 5: but now just months later the cover is damaged again. 155 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 5: So now the reservoir is expected to be drained and 156 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 5: take an offline for an estimated nine months, starting around 157 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 5: the one year mark of the Palisades fire. 158 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: It's tone deaf, to say the least, to think that 159 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: they somehow think it's okay at this time and under 160 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:25,439 Speaker 1: these circumstances. 161 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 2: I mean, look how windy it is even tonight. 162 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 3: To be able to take down the reservoir again for 163 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 3: another nine months just makes no sense. 164 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 5: Is it going to be even usable again in nine 165 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 5: months after they do their repairs like this last repair 166 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 5: just lasted three months. To reduce fire risk, LEDWP has 167 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 5: plans for a six mile ten inch high pressure hose 168 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,959 Speaker 5: line from Topega tanks designed to pump water in if 169 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 5: there's a fire. 170 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 2: We want a full reservoir for wildfire fighting. We don't 171 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 2: want garden hose. 172 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 6: At the end of the day, Matt, this permeable cover 173 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 6: is a problem to trace. 174 00:10:57,559 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 2: Your parts to rip or. 175 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 6: Get damaged every time. 176 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 2: The wind blows. 177 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 5: LA Councilwoman Tracy Park also expressing frustration, calling for a 178 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 5: permanent fix. 179 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 6: The long term solution is to put a permanent cover 180 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 6: on the reservoir. It needs to be concrete, and this 181 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 6: is something that we are already in discussion with DWP about. 182 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 5: In a statement, LADWP tells Fox eleven replacing the cover 183 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 5: as a necessary interim step to prevent unexpected failures and 184 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:26,559 Speaker 5: to protect water quality. 185 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: Why do they need to take it down for nine 186 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: months just to. 187 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 2: Repair a tarp doesn't make any sense to me. 188 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 5: So right now today I thought water reservoir is still online. 189 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:39,439 Speaker 5: It does have water in it, but it could be 190 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 5: drained whenever this construction begins. 191 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 3: Honestly, this is the dumbest story, and it's been going 192 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 3: on two years now. I absolutely don't understand this. This 193 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 3: reservoir was built originally in nineteen sixty four after the 194 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 3: bell Air fire which burned five hundred homes back in 195 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,199 Speaker 3: sixty one, and it was built as the la times 196 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 3: just prove typically for fires, you don't need it for 197 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 3: drinking water. Obviously, the reservoir was drained for a year 198 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,719 Speaker 3: up until June of this year. It was drained when 199 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 3: the fire happened. Nobody was ever short of water. I 200 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 3: don't understand this. In fact, from nineteen seventy until twenty twelve, 201 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 3: there was no cover. 202 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 2: It's just a tarp. It's like your pool cover. 203 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 3: So for over forty years they never had a pool cover. 204 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 3: They claimed all of the law changed. Why did the 205 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 3: law change? And they don't use it for drinking water 206 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 3: obviously because they closed it in in February of twenty 207 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 3: twenty four. The fire happened in January of twenty twenty five, 208 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 3: and when they finally got around to fixing it. God, 209 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 3: they're so lazy and so stupid at the DWP. That's 210 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 3: really a bunch of lazy, stupid buffoons working there, starting 211 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 3: with Jenny's Canonias. It's a corrupt agency. It's been corrupt 212 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 3: since I moved here. It's an empty hole you have 213 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:05,320 Speaker 3: to fill with water, that's all. And when it had 214 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 3: no cover for over forty years, nothing bad ever happened. 215 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 3: This is baffling. There's gotta be something else to this. 216 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 3: They also could have fixed it very quickly back in 217 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, and that ever bothered. Then the fire happened, 218 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 3: and now they're gonna drain it again. It says it's 219 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 3: the cover needs to be fixed to prevent unexpected tears. Well, 220 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 3: why didn't you do that the first time or the 221 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 3: second time? It's a tarp i. 222 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 2: Now they're gonna, they're gonna, they're gonna. 223 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 3: Install a six mile high pressure hose line from Watar 224 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 3: tanks and to Banga and Topanga. Why didn't they do 225 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 3: that in twenty twenty four before the Palisades fire hit. 226 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 3: None of this makes sense, and they don't explain anything. 227 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 3: There is no need to use this reservoir for drinking water. 228 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 3: That is complete, utter nonsense. It's meant to put out fires, 229 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 3: and yes, unequivocally, without a doubt, one hundred and seventeen 230 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,559 Speaker 3: million gallons would have saved some homes in the Palisades. 231 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 3: Anybody who says that, who says otherwise must be a 232 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 3: defendant in the lawsuit or or stone cold stupid. 233 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 2: Shouldn't Bess and Kenonia's and the. 234 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 3: Fire chief all be marched out and forced to explain everything? 235 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 3: I mean, Matthew Seedorf did a good story here, But 236 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 3: where is the week we got? We got six we 237 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 3: have six TV news departments, We've got several newspapers and 238 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 3: radio stations. Nobody, nobody is aggressive enough. The only Times 239 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 3: has been, but very very few other journalists or outside journalists, 240 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 3: independent or network journalists. Jesus Los Angeles is the biggest 241 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 3: urban fire in US history. Katie Grimes from California Globe 242 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 3: yesterday said, they're just uninterested. 243 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 2: They just don't care. All the public's interested. 244 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 3: Everybody I talked to, especially on the West Side, talks 245 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 3: about this stuff all the time. Really, you'd get an 246 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 3: audience what's wrong with you? 247 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 2: What's wrong? 248 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 3: I'm addressing all the journalists I know, many of them 249 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 3: listen to the show What's wrong with all of you? 250 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 2: And today's Kenoians what is wrong with her? 251 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 3: There's a lot of mental disorders going on here. It's 252 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 3: actually to actually drain the reservoir. Again, it's an alternate 253 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 3: reality we've all been dropped into when we come back. 254 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 3: I've been telling you this and it's turning out to 255 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 3: be true. There are a lot of people who want 256 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 3: to run for president on the Democratic side. We're not 257 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 3: named Gavin Newsom, and they are developing all kinds of 258 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 3: opposition research to take him out early and decisively, because 259 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 3: we all know that he's a complete fraud and a 260 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 3: complete screw up, and all these other would be candidates 261 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 3: and their staffs are busy compiling all the dirt. 262 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 2: Tell you about it when we come back. 263 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM 264 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 4: six forty. 265 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 3: There's kind of a friend of mine the other day, 266 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 3: friend I know since high school, and I know he 267 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 3: usually votes Democratic. He lives way out of state, and 268 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 3: I told him, I said, whatever you do, don't vote 269 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 3: for Gavin Newsom. And he says to me, well, I'm 270 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 3: not voting for a mega guy. I'm not telling you 271 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 3: to vote for a maga guy. You vote whatever Democrat, 272 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 3: but not Gavin Newsom. All right, you vote that Gavin 273 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 3: Newsom for president. You're going to be dealing with Republican 274 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 3: presidents for twenty years after that. This guy's a disaster. 275 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 3: And there's a lot of Democrats in the party, the 276 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 3: ones who run the party run campaigns. They know he's 277 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 3: a disaster waiting to happen. So Axios acxios dot com, 278 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 3: they're a political news website. 279 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 2: They did a story. 280 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 3: They looked, they talked with twenty Democratic operatives, a number 281 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 3: of them who work for twenty twenty eight possible candidates. 282 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 3: And while they admit Newsom is the guy to beat 283 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 3: right now because he's leading the polls, they've got a 284 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 3: lot of ammunition to use against him and all the 285 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 3: stuff we're real familiar with. And that's the thing. We're 286 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 3: all burned out on Newsom. We all know the history. 287 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 3: The rest of the country does it, though, and when 288 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:22,360 Speaker 3: they hear it, if these opposition campaigns are run properly, 289 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 3: it's going to be bang bang bang bang bang bang. 290 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 3: And people around the country are going, what the hell 291 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 3: is this guy? This is disgusting what he's done. The 292 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 3: policies are so destructive his personal life, and what they 293 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 3: plan is to characterize And these are Democrats. 294 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 2: He's gonna get, Forget the Republicans. 295 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 3: He's gonna get destroyed by his fellow Democrats because they 296 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 3: know this guy is a loser. He's not going to 297 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:57,479 Speaker 3: appeal to more than he's gonna do worse than Kamala Harris. 298 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 3: Kamala Harris only one I think nineteen state e he's 299 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 3: gonna win fifteen, maybe maybe less. 300 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 2: There's no appeal. And they said, as far as. 301 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 3: Policy, illegal alien healthcare, do you know how unpopular that 302 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 3: it is around the country. And sometimes you only need 303 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 3: one issue to be wildly unpopular to be a hot button, 304 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 3: and it sinks the whole candidacy. Look at all the 305 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 3: damage done to Kamala Harris because they found an old 306 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:30,400 Speaker 3: video clip of her approving of what was a taxpayer 307 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 3: paid healthcare for no taxpayer paid gender reassignment surgery for 308 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:37,959 Speaker 3: illegal alien criminals. 309 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 2: That was a grand slam. 310 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 3: Huh, taxpayer money for sex reassignment surgery for chopping off penises. 311 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 3: That's two for illegal alien three criminals. That's four guys 312 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 3: in prison if they decided to bond be a woman 313 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 3: and they wanted to get their penises chopped off by 314 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 3: a doctor. She was all in favor of us paying 315 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 3: for it. That was the famous part of the famous 316 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 3: Kamala is for They them commercials, and the Democrats admit 317 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,959 Speaker 3: that was the single most devastating series of commercials. They 318 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 3: could measure it. They could measure how many points, how 319 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 3: many votes it costs them. What kind of commercials do 320 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 3: you think they that other Democrats could create with because 321 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 3: a lot of other Democrats are running away from the 322 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 3: illegal alien issue because they lost it. They lost it badly. 323 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 3: If there's anything Trump has wildly succeeded on in the 324 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 3: first year is that he'd proved that the Democrats were 325 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 3: lying like hell. They were actively allowing millions of illegal 326 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 3: aliens to come into the country to benefit Democrats. Someday 327 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 3: what they would get amnesty and become voters. That's what 328 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 3: it was for. And that plan was blown to hell, 329 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 3: and Trump proved that you could close the border in 330 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 3: five minutes. Now they may come up with some complicated 331 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 3: plans to slowly let in immigrants, but it's going to 332 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 3: be a very controlled, targeted plan, maybe to increase legal immigration, 333 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 3: but they're not opening the border, and nobody's going to 334 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 3: Nobody is going to get elected running on opening the border. 335 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 3: Gavin though, legal AI owned healthcare, which almost single handedly 336 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 3: has put us into a massive deficit thirteen billion dollars 337 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,439 Speaker 3: of money, thirteen billion dollars in California tax money. So 338 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,360 Speaker 3: I mean that alone is going to sink him. Then 339 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 3: what's he going to carp about affordability? We have the 340 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 3: highest housing prices, the highest rental prices, We've got the 341 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 3: highest inflation in the country, we got the highest taxes 342 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 3: in the country. Gas is going for four to fifty 343 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 3: a gallon and two fifty in a lot of other states. 344 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 3: Does that been saying for several years now, what's he 345 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,239 Speaker 3: running on here? The Democrats are going to take him 346 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 3: out first, because whoever succeeds Trump is going to massacre 347 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 3: new some on these issues. Homelessness, oh my god, and 348 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 3: the all right, we got hundreds of thousands of homeless 349 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 3: in this state. 350 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: You know. 351 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 3: Newsom first announced in two thousand and four, he's first homeless, 352 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 3: planned to end the problem. 353 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 2: Two thousand and four. 354 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 3: We are now approaching year twenty two of his end 355 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:20,479 Speaker 3: homelessness program. Meantime, we got almost two hundred thousand homeless. 356 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 3: And you know the videos. You see the videos, it's 357 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 3: part of the nightly news. Those are campaign videos. He 358 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 3: cannot he cannot just post angry anti Trump Twitter messages, 359 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 3: especially when Trump isn't going to be running. That is 360 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 3: not a campaign. That's the only reason he has any 361 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 3: support now, because he's trying to tap into that to 362 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 3: the insane, irrational, deranged anger that a lot of people 363 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 3: have about Trump. But absent that, there's no candidacy, there's 364 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 3: nothing there. He's also writing a book about how he 365 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 3: came from a modest background, or he had one foot 366 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 3: in a modest background and one foot in wealth, you know, 367 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 3: because his dad was closely tied. 368 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 2: To the Getties. 369 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,880 Speaker 3: He's going to try to position himself as a small businessman. Well, 370 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 3: the Getty family. The Getty family's money built ten of 371 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 3: his first eleven businesses, the wineries, the restaurants, vineyards. Ten 372 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,640 Speaker 3: out of the first eleven were paid for by the Gettys. 373 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,239 Speaker 3: I don't think there's any other small business person that 374 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 3: can make that claim. If you're a small business person, 375 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 3: did the Gettys help you out at all? Helped him 376 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,479 Speaker 3: out ten times. Then the sleeves bag had an affair 377 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 3: with his campaign manager's wife who was also working in 378 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 3: his office. That's when he was mayor, campaign manager's wife. 379 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 3: And then the French laundry. One advisor to a possible 380 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 3: arrival for president said, French laundry is never going to 381 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 3: go away. It's one of the stickiest things ever. Nobody 382 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 3: ever forgot the image of him sitting in close quarters 383 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 3: with twelve other people healthcare lobbyists while he had imposed 384 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 3: the strictest, strictest COVID lockdown world of any state in 385 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 3: the Union. And I've never I know, he said, Oh, 386 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 3: I've a mistake. I've never understood. There was such dire 387 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 3: warnings about COVID. Why wasn't he afraid? 388 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 2: Did he know? 389 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,120 Speaker 3: Did he know it was all a fake? He must 390 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,719 Speaker 3: have knew it was a fake. But this was a 391 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 3: fantastic way to control people. You scare him, you control them. 392 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 3: And he did that, and then he went out and 393 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 3: partied drinking at a party, like bass drinking at a 394 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:29,360 Speaker 3: party in Ghana. Well, his opponents in the Democratic part 395 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 3: priority Democratic Party are going to beat him over the 396 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 3: head with that. All right, we got more coming up 397 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 3: after three o'clock. We're going to talk with John Fleischmann. 398 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 3: Here's another scandal news is they're spending a billion dollars 399 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 3: on an extension of the California State Capitol in Sacramento. 400 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 3: It's called the Capital Annex Project. It's over a billion 401 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 3: dollars and nobody after five years, nobody knows the thing 402 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 3: about it. Hundreds of people have been forced to force 403 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 3: to non disclosure agreements, and it's way over budget, and 404 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 3: it's way late. It's a big scam, and there's only 405 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 3: one reporter in the whole state who's been investigating it, 406 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 3: because again, we have lazy, stupid reporters generally in the media, 407 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,640 Speaker 3: who are afraid of losing access more coming up. 408 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 409 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 4: six forty. 410 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 3: We're gonna have John Fleischman on. He's got a website, 411 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 3: so does Itmatter dot com. He's a political writer and commentator, 412 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 3: and he's delving into the billion dollar Sacramento Capital Annex, 413 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 3: this huge construction project that has gone on for years. 414 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 2: It's cost a billion dollars in your tax money. 415 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 3: This really amuses me because there has been a lot 416 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 3: of anger, people, puppet fists, the furious that Trump is 417 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 3: building a ballroom which is financed with private money, but 418 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 3: Newsome is spending billion dollars of California taxpayer money on 419 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 3: this addition to the Capitol building. And it's some kind 420 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 3: of high speed rail like boondoggle that's wasting money that 421 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,959 Speaker 3: nobody wants to talk about. That news some lies about 422 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 3: and it doesn't get much coverage. Well we'll talk about it. 423 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 3: We'll have John Fleischbannon coming up, as you know, and 424 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 3: this is going to be another rich target. As Newsom 425 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 3: continues as presidential campaign for his Democratic opponents, twenty four 426 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:35,959 Speaker 3: billion dollars of tax money has disappeared. Twenty four billion 427 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 3: that was allocated to end homelessness. Right, And Elon Musk, 428 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 3: there's a clip of him. He was on some show 429 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 3: and he was talking about the big scam in California 430 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 3: when homeless money is sent from Newsom's government to these 431 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 3: nonprofit organizations. 432 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 2: Play this clip. 433 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 7: Homeless is the wrong word. Like the homeless implies that 434 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 7: somebody got a little behind in their mortgage payments and 435 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 7: if they just got a job offer, they'd be back 436 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 7: on their feet. But someone who's I mean, you see 437 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 7: these videos of people that are just shuffling, you know, 438 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 7: they're on the fentanyl. They're they're like, you know, taking 439 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 7: a dump in the middle of the streets, you know, 440 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 7: and they got like open sores and stuff. They're not 441 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 7: like one drop offer away from getting back on their feet. 442 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:24,439 Speaker 1: Right. 443 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 7: It's not a homeless almemless, it's a profit underword. 444 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: Right. 445 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 7: So and then the the the you know these sort 446 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 7: of charities, Uh, of course are they get money proportionate 447 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 7: to the number of homeless people or a number of 448 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 7: drug zombies. So their incentive structure is to maximize the 449 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 7: number of drug zombies, not minimize it. That's why they 450 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 7: don't arrest the drug dealers, because if they arrest the 451 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 7: drug dealers. The drug zombies leave. 452 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 2: So they know who the drug dealers are. 453 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 7: They don't arrest them on purpose, because otherwise the drug 454 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 7: zombies would leave and they would stop getting money from 455 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 7: the state of California and from all the charity. 456 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 3: He wanted to say, this is a diabolical scam. You're 457 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 3: taxed on any money going through the system in San Francisco. 458 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 3: That money goes to the homeless industrial complex. When you 459 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 3: add up all the money that's flowing, they're getting close 460 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 3: to a million dollars per drug zombie, like nine hundred 461 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 3: thousand dollars or something, he said, some crazy amount going 462 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 3: to these organizations. So they want to keep people just 463 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 3: barely alive, and that is that is a great point, 464 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 3: and we've talked about this. They want they're getting nine 465 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars per drug zombie. These nonprofits they spend 466 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 3: just enough so these guys don't die, and then they 467 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 3: keep the rest. They run off with the rest because 468 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,439 Speaker 3: Musk says, they need to keep them in the area 469 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,879 Speaker 3: so they get the revenue, because if they actually cured 470 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 3: their drug addictions and got them jobs, then. 471 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 2: What would they do. And they need We. 472 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 3: Told you a few days ago that there are there's 473 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 3: human trafficking going on where drug addicts are actually flown 474 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 3: in from out of state in order to get benefits 475 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 3: here because the homeless nonprofits need new bodies, they need 476 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 3: new flesh to exploit. So there's drug zombies being flown 477 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 3: in or bust in all the time. So we could 478 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 3: pay our million dollars in tax money. The people running 479 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 3: the nonprofit continue to get richer and richer. They don't arrest, 480 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 3: they don't arrest the drug dealers, they don't arrest the 481 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 3: drug zombies. They want that action. And the politicians are 482 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 3: getting a cut of all this as well. The politicians, 483 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 3: I can San Francisco like here in La they get 484 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 3: a kickback, they get a cut. We pay tax money, 485 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 3: it goes to the drug not the homeless nonprofits. The 486 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,239 Speaker 3: homeless non profits then kick back some money to the 487 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 3: politicians so that. 488 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 2: The drug addicts aren't arrested, the. 489 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 3: Drug dealers aren't arrested, and we just keep getting built 490 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 3: for more tax That is exactly what's happening. It's been 491 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 3: going on for well over ten years now, and of course, 492 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 3: when it comes time to vote for new taxes to 493 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 3: help the homeless people, do it every time. 494 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 2: It is the damnedest thing. 495 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 3: It's a colossal scam that the public is a part of. 496 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 3: All Right, we'll talk with John Fleishman coming up next. Hey, 497 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 3: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 498 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 3: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 499 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 3: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 500 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 3: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.