1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 3: Every day we do the show from one until four o'clock, 5 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 3: and after four o'clock every day there's people who go, oh, 6 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 3: I missed, dude, I didn't get to hear it all right, 7 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 3: So we have a remedial listening opportunity on the iHeart app. 8 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 3: You can download the podcast John Cobelt's show on demand 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 3: and you could play that anytime later this afternoon, tonight, 10 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 3: tomorrow morning, anytime at all. All these podcasts are on 11 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 3: there forever, and that's this way. You don't miss a 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 3: single segment, and you shouldn't. Now Here is the latest stupidity. 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,599 Speaker 3: I don't know every you know, like every week there 14 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 3: are several stories about these new woke progressive policies that 15 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 3: make no sense. Like if they're benign, they make no sense. 16 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 3: Most of the time. They're really destructive. They're infuriating, and 17 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 3: I always say, how did they think of this? This 18 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 3: is not stuff normal people who would even think of. 19 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 3: There is a super attendent of schools in San Francisco. 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 3: Her name's Maria Sue Su and she unveiled a new 21 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 3: program just last night called grading for equity. Equity is 22 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 3: one of the most destructive words now in government. 23 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 2: Equity. 24 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 3: If you don't understand the concept of equity, see equality 25 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 3: is that means we all have an equal chance at 26 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 3: succeeding at one thing or another. That's equality that everybody 27 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 3: gets the same type of chance. Equity means we're supposed 28 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 3: to all have the same outcome. So imagine being a 29 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 3: smart kid in San Francisco. You do well in school, 30 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 3: you're the problem because there's a lot of kids who 31 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 3: do badly a lot of the time. It's because they 32 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 3: don't care and they're lazy. Maybe some of them are stupid, 33 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 3: Not a big deal. There's always jobs in government. You 34 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:21,239 Speaker 3: could be a mayor or a governor. So I don't 35 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 3: know why they always trying to equalize everything for the 36 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 3: stupid kids. There's politics for them. Well, they had a program, 37 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 3: and it was a voluntary program. Seventy teachers in fourteen 38 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 3: high schools, about ten percent of the educators grades nine 39 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 3: through twelve educators. I noticed some years ago teachers stopp 40 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 3: being teachers and they became educators. It's like garbagemen became 41 00:02:53,760 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 3: maintenance technicians and they got rid of the grading system. Now, 42 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 3: there was one story which said the new passing grade 43 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 3: would be forty one, not sixty one. Right, sixty one 44 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 3: to seventy was always a D. Seventy one to eighty 45 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 3: was a B, and fudget a point either way, and 46 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 3: then and then no. 47 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 2: It was a C. 48 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 3: Right, seventy one to eighty was a C. Eighty one 49 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 3: to ninety was a B, and then ninety one, two 50 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 3: one hundred was an A. Now you get a D 51 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 3: if you're at forty one, not sixty one, although I 52 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 3: just found a story that A was dropping as low 53 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 3: as eighty. This is according to the Daily Mail. While 54 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 3: a mark of twenty one is a D. Twenty one, 55 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 3: you can get four out of five wrong, and you pass, 56 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 3: according to this plane in San Francisco, four out of 57 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 3: five wrong. I mean, I don't know why one story 58 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 3: says forty one, another is twenty one. 59 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 2: But this is the state of journalism. 60 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 4: Now twenty one, I mean, come on, twenty one. That 61 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 4: is ridiculous. That's an F minus. 62 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 3: If you're breathing, you can get a twenty one. It 63 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:18,799 Speaker 3: came from a consultant name Joe Feldman. Now here's how 64 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 3: the thinking goes because they found a piece on him. 65 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 3: At the School Superintendence Association website. There was an article 66 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 3: from twenty nineteen and Joe Feldman said, well, when you 67 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 3: implement this system, the percentage of students receiving d's and 68 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 3: f's decreased. Well, yeah, if the standard's now down to 69 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 3: twenty one, and then you're. 70 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: Just going to pass them, and then you're gonna have 71 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: to keep doing that year after year after year because 72 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: they're not learning if they're failing. 73 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 3: And then he said, and there was so much great 74 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 3: inflation going on, Well this is great inflation because now 75 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 3: you're getting an A with a score of eighty and 76 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 3: you're getting a D with a score of twenty one. 77 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 3: How does that combat great inflation? It literally is great inflation. 78 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: I thought we got rid of all this stuff when 79 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: you know, remember a couple of years ago they said, okay, 80 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: well a lot of these elite universities weren't going to 81 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: require SAT and ACT scores. 82 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 4: Well now they're bringing them back. But now we're going 83 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 4: it's almost like we're going. 84 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 3: Backwards because they ended up with a lot of students, 85 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 3: especially at the elite schools, or couldn't cut it. They 86 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 3: just simply were overwhelmed because they I'm sorry they didn't 87 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 3: have the capabilities they did. We're not all born with 88 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 3: the same brain, you know. IQ is pretty much something 89 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 3: you're born with and if you grow up in if 90 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 3: you're first of all, if you're curious, and you grow 91 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 3: up in an enriched environment, you could maximize your capacity. 92 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 3: IQ tells you what your capacity is. Some people don't 93 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 3: have much of a capacity. This is the way it is. 94 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: Although the SAT when people take those prep courses and 95 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: they're expensive, and so many people argued, well, not everybody 96 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 1: can afford out those prep courses. 97 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 3: I went through this three times with my kids. What 98 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 3: the what the prep courses do? It helps you achieve 99 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 3: your capabilities. But the IQ is the capability score. Now, 100 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 3: whether you bother to pay attention in class and do 101 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 3: the hard work and do the prep, that's up to you. 102 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,799 Speaker 3: So IQ is different than you know, an SAT test score. 103 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 3: Anyway they have, they were so much blowback from everybody 104 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 3: in the world that Maria Sue the superintendent, unveiled the 105 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 3: plan last night and today big U turn tires screeching. 106 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 4: That was fast. 107 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, this didn't last. This didn't even last twenty four hours. 108 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 4: Well, it shouldn't, because that's stupid. 109 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,359 Speaker 3: At the May twenty seventh Board of Education meeting, we 110 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 3: presented a proposal for a professional development opportunity in standards 111 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 3: based grading. What that that That is gibberish. There was 112 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 3: no action taken. No changes to grading passes were adopted 113 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 3: by the district or the Board of Education. We hold 114 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 3: every student to high standards and our goal is to 115 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 3: support student soon success. And you know what, this even affected, 116 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 3: This even insulted left wing politicians. Rocanna, as a congressman 117 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 3: from the San Jose area, a very left wing. He says, Mi, 118 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 3: amigrant dad asked me where the missing ten percent went 119 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 3: when I scored a ninety. He came to America for 120 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 3: the chance to work hard and pursue excellence. Giving a's 121 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 3: for eighty percent and no homework is not equity. It 122 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 3: betrays the American dream. That's another thing. There were going 123 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 3: to be no weekly tests and there was going to 124 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 3: be no homework. Somebody else posted San Francisco Schools trying 125 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 3: its hardest to make sure all middle income families who 126 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 3: could move out of the city do so right away. 127 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 3: Grading for equity is going to be a real disaster 128 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 3: and We had one tech executives who's thinking about running 129 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 3: for Governor's name is and is a difficult name to pronounce, 130 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 3: Shamath Polyhapitia, and he says, it's a disgrace that this 131 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 3: comes from the pre eminent tech capital of the world. 132 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 3: It is you know, I what was I just reading 133 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 3: the other day? You know they well, Trump wants to 134 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 3: move all the iPhone manufacturing here to the United States, 135 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 3: and that's just not possible. And part of the reason 136 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 3: it's not possible is we don't have very many American 137 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 3: students who will grow up and become qualified to work 138 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 3: at that level of tech. Apparently in China where most 139 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:57,079 Speaker 3: of the manufacturing goes on, and in India, according to 140 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 3: one of the people in the industry, you can fill 141 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 3: football fields with all the students coming out of school 142 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 3: who are technologically capable of manufacturing, inventing iPhones and all 143 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 3: the successive and connected technology. Football fields were the students 144 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 3: every year in the United States, he said, you can't 145 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 3: fill a room. We produce stupid children and uneducated children. 146 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 3: There is much there's vastly more intelligence coming out of 147 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 3: India and China than in America. Our kids really are dopes. 148 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 3: Like I told you, in California, three quarters of the 149 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,559 Speaker 3: kids in California graduate high school not proficient in math 150 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 3: or reading, So they can't read and they can't add 151 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 3: and subtract three quarters of them. And this has been 152 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 3: going on for thirty five years, which means some of 153 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 3: these people are now in their fifties. A thing of 154 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 3: that that's being going assence nineteen ninety. So if you're 155 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 3: eighteen and nineteen ninety, you're now fifty three years old. 156 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 3: And everybody from age fifty three and younger. Every year 157 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 3: in LA Unified, seventy percent of the kids, seventy five 158 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 3: percent of the kids can't do math, can't read. 159 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 2: What do you think we have here? 160 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 3: You think Apple is doing recruitment seminars here Now they're 161 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 3: going to India and China because the parents insist on 162 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 3: you not only get educated, you retain the education. You 163 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 3: just sit in the classroom, you actually learn it, you 164 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:36,319 Speaker 3: get tested. 165 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 2: On it all right, more coming up. 166 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 167 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 5: six forty. 168 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 3: John Cobelt Show, Moistline, Get to It. Certainly gave you 169 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 3: enough material today eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight 170 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 3: seven seven Moist eighty six are usually talkback feature on 171 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app. Yes, don't worry. You can do badly 172 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 3: in school. You can get d's and f's. They'll pass 173 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 3: you through anyway. Equity, right, and then you could take 174 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 3: your equity and become the mayor of Los Angeles. It 175 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 3: doesn't matter how you could be like a mid double 176 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 3: digit IQ and be the mayor of Los Angeles or 177 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,559 Speaker 3: be on the city council. And so this is what 178 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 3: happens when you have people with load of middling intellects 179 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 3: and your budgeting for the coming year in Los Angeles, 180 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 3: what would you do? This is a good test of intelligence. 181 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 3: You have an emergency management department. You have a gigantic 182 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 3: cleanup after the Palisades wildfire, which no other city in 183 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 3: the history of America's had to deal with. We routinely 184 00:11:55,360 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 3: get floods, mud slides, droughts, earthquakes, the earthquake. We're a 185 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 3: day closer to an earthquake. It's been thirty one years, 186 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 3: thirty one and a half years now. So they were 187 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 3: LA leaders were asked, maybe we should increase the budget 188 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 3: of the emergency management department. Not only that big events 189 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 3: coming twenty twenty eight Olympics, twenty twenty six World Cup 190 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 3: super Bowl is in there somewhere, I forget which year. 191 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 3: So we're going to have literally millions and millions of 192 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,079 Speaker 3: people coming into the city, and you could have any 193 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,199 Speaker 3: of these disasters happen at any given moment. We could 194 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 3: have an earthquake in the the middle of the Olympics. 195 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 2: Super Bowl is twenty twenty seven. 196 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 3: Twenty so we got three and three years World Cup 197 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 3: super Bowl. Well, because the city council can't do math. 198 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 3: And again this is where I point out, I'm sure 199 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 3: all these people went to LA unified public schools. There 200 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 3: are billion dollars short in the budget, and last week 201 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 3: they rejected funding increases requested by the Emergency Management Department. 202 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 3: The EMD wanted to hire more staffers and fix broken 203 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 3: security equipment around its facility. Broken security equipment. I don't 204 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 3: know what they have in there, but I guess it's 205 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 3: easy to steal. There was an audit done several years 206 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 3: ago by the city controller at the time named Ron 207 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 3: Galprin found out that La spends a dollar fifty six 208 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 3: per resident on emergency management. San Diego spends two forty 209 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 3: six long Beats spends two twenty six. San Francisco spends 210 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 3: seven dollars and fifty nine cents. Wait what seven fifty 211 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 3: nine they spend? 212 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 2: How much would that be? I'm not going at that. 213 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 4: I went to schools in the LA school district. 214 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 2: Oh is that it? 215 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:13,559 Speaker 5: Yeah? 216 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 3: Five times more. They spent five times more. LA only 217 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 3: has thirty people. Thirty people in the Emergency Management department, 218 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 3: which is why when they fire exploded in the Palisades 219 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 3: there was nobody around to do anything. To give you 220 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 3: another comparison, New York has doubled the population, but they 221 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 3: have seven times as many people in their emergency department. 222 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 3: Philadelphia has half the population and has sixty percent more employees. 223 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 3: The current leaders of the Emergency Management Department, the GM, 224 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 3: is Carol Parks. The assistant GM Jim Featherstone. Featherstone told 225 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 3: the council, we're one of the most populous and at 226 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 3: risk jurisdictions in the nation, if not the world. It's 227 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 3: really not in the city's best interest not to have 228 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 3: recovery capability for a disaster similar to the one we 229 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 3: just had. A Pete Brown, a spokesperson for Carol Park, said, well, 230 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 3: for Tracy Park actually it's inevitable that we're going to 231 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 3: have another disaster and we still won't be prepared. We'll 232 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 3: be in the same position we were before. We got 233 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 3: a horrible taste of what it's like when we're not prepared, 234 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 3: and despite all that, we haven't learned a lesson from it. 235 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 3: We're doing the same thing. That's what stupid people do. 236 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 3: See with Karen Bass, she can actually watch a fire 237 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 3: burn seven thousand buildings, displaced twenty thousand people, and she 238 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 3: will not increase the emergency management department by a dollar 239 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 3: or by one employee. 240 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 2: Rick Caruso. 241 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 3: Said, what Bass of the city council is doing is 242 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 3: a blatant display of mismanagement and bad judgment. We're in 243 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 3: an earthquake zone, we're in a fire zone. Come on, 244 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 3: She's dangerous and destructive, and so is the city council, 245 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 3: led by Marquise Dawson. These are dangerous, destructive people that 246 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 3: can't do math. I'm sure they can't read. How do 247 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 3: you have thirty people in emergency management in the city. 248 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 2: Of Los Angeles? What a joke? What a jed. But 249 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 2: it's not a joke. 250 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 3: It's dangerous, and they have two people running the department 251 00:16:53,240 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 3: Carol Parks and Jim Featherstone telling him directly, this is awful. 252 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 3: The Parks just wanted ten positions minimum. None of them 253 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 3: were included. They wanted an in house recovery team, which 254 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 3: they don't have. When the Palisades fire broke out, the 255 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 3: Emergency Emergency Management Department had no person assigned full time 256 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,160 Speaker 3: to the recovery. You hear that in the Palisades there 257 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 3: wasn't one city employee assigned to the Palisades recovery. 258 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 2: There's nothing to say. 259 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 260 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 5: six forty. 261 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,479 Speaker 3: We're on from one to four every day, and if 262 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 3: you miss stuff, we had a lot of good stuff today, 263 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 3: shouldn't have missed it. After four o'clock, we're gonna post 264 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 3: the podcast John cob Show on demand and it's got 265 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 3: everything we did today, so you can listen to that 266 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 3: or tonight or tomorrow. One thing we are waiting for 267 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 3: some news on and I guess we'll have a lot 268 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 3: of detail tomorrow, is that federal Judge David Carter is 269 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 3: holding hearings this week on a lawsuit. This lawsuit you 270 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 3: may be aware of, it's La Alliance for human rights. 271 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 3: This is a several groups, a lot of businesses and 272 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 3: other groups that says the city has blown wasted billions 273 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 3: of dollars in homeless money, and the investigations so far 274 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 3: have proven that group right, and they want they would 275 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:51,199 Speaker 3: like to take away all the homeless money from the 276 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 3: city and maybe have the judge put it into a receivership, 277 00:18:54,960 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 3: having an outside court appointed receiver start to decide what 278 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 3: to do with the billions of dollars coming in because 279 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 3: Karen Bass can't handle it. She's blown the money and 280 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 3: they don't know where it is. And that's what's damning. 281 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 3: It's not like we can look at the invoices and 282 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,439 Speaker 3: the programs and say, Okay, the money went to this program, 283 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 3: what did they spend it on? 284 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 2: All right? What good did it do? You know? Did 285 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 2: it get people off the street? 286 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 3: What? You use your eyes, you can see it didn't 287 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 3: get anybody off the street. There was an audit done 288 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 3: by Alvarez, Alvarez and Marcel Public Sector Services. It did 289 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 3: an eighty two page audit and they've been testifying in 290 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 3: this case and they found widespread failures in financial management. 291 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,400 Speaker 3: This is Karen Bass and this is that Valicia adams 292 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 3: Kellum that Bass hired to run. That's why the county 293 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 3: has pulled out a LASSA. The county divorced themselves from this. 294 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 3: It was so bad, and adams Kellum was the one 295 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 3: who gave two million dollars to her husband's foundation. The 296 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 3: audit from Alvarez and Marcel identified, if you hadn't heard this, 297 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:28,199 Speaker 3: raise yourself two point three billion dollars in funding, but 298 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 3: much of it could not be properly accounted for. Can't 299 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 3: account for it, don't know where it went. I had 300 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 3: two billion dollars basically lost to the wins. Don't know 301 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 3: where it went, don't know if it did any good. 302 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 3: Nearly half the people placed in programs ended up homeless 303 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 3: again if you more than one in four ended up 304 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 3: with permanent housing. The LA Alliance attorney said these findings 305 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:13,719 Speaker 3: are not just troubling, they are deadly. Total dysfunction of 306 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 3: the system has resulted in devastation on the streets. Total 307 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 3: dysfunction devastation. So tomorrow Bass is going to testify, and 308 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 3: today two councilwomen, Tracy Park and Monica Rodriguez, who have 309 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:38,399 Speaker 3: been very critical of the city, they are testifying. I 310 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 3: don't know if it's going on this minute or not. 311 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 3: But today was a scheduled day and tomorrow for Karen 312 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 3: Bass and the West Side Current is reporting. Now LA 313 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 3: Alliance is the group that's suing, right. You know how 314 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 3: many attorneys they have two? You know how many attorneys. 315 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 3: Karen Bass has eleven, eleven attorneys. This is our tax money. 316 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 3: After blowing two and a quarter billion dollars on the vagrants, 317 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 3: the mental patients, and the drug addicts, now we're gonna 318 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 3: blow god knows how much money. They hired Gibson, Done 319 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 3: and Crutcher, LLP, one of the most prestigious law firms 320 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 3: in the country, nine attorneys, nine plus two city attorneys 321 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 3: for a total of eleven. 322 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 2: See. 323 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 3: LA had agreed in a federal settlement three years ago 324 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 3: that they were going to fix the homeless. They were 325 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 3: going to fix this enormous waste and mismanagement, and they 326 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:52,160 Speaker 3: did not. It just got worse. So the city has eleven, 327 00:22:52,840 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 3: the plaintiffs have two, and the judges presiding over the evidence. 328 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 2: And the arguments. 329 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 3: It's going to be up to him, but he has 330 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 3: indicated he's really not happy. He really doesn't want to 331 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 3: send it to a receivership because a receivership is unelected. 332 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:22,880 Speaker 3: But what Bass has managed is so disastrous it's incomprehensible. 333 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 3: Imagine if you were the mayor, or you were in 334 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 3: charge of Lassa. Could you lose two billion dollars? Could 335 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 3: you lose track of it over two billion? Would you 336 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 3: only have thirty people working in emergency management after the 337 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 3: Palisades burned? 338 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 2: Would you do that? 339 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 3: I have never seen a worst managed city in my life. 340 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 3: I lived in New York, I lived in Chicago. I 341 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 3: lived out here for you know, thirty years now. I 342 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 3: never remember any mirror being this bad. Garcetti was really, 343 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 3: really bad. Somehow Karen Bass is worse. There is tell 344 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 3: me one thing she does well? Like what is she 345 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 3: has gotten better here? I mean a whole chunk of 346 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 3: the city doesn't exist anymore. She's shrinking fire, she's shrinking 347 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 3: the fire department, and she's shrinking the police department further 348 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 3: because she gave excessive raises to Cubica workers in all 349 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 3: the riff raft departments that none of us know about, 350 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 3: our care about, because they don't do anything useful for us. 351 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 3: Police fire it's different. We're way underfunded in police, way 352 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 3: underfunded with fire way underfunded in emergency management. All the 353 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 3: money went to homelessness, and all the money was lost. 354 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:10,120 Speaker 3: Nobody knows where it is. They should be broadcasting her 355 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 3: testimony on live television tomorrow. I don't know why that 356 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 3: isn't a thing in a democracy. 357 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI A 358 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 5: six forty. 359 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 3: Early in the show, we spent a lot of time 360 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,400 Speaker 3: on Gavin Newsom still, even though he says it's deeply unfair, 361 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 3: still allowing boys men to participate in girls' sports, even 362 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 3: at the championship level. Covered this extensively and you could 363 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 3: hear all about it, and you should on the podcast 364 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 3: John Cobelt Show on Demand to be posted after four o'clock. 365 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 3: Conway will be here in moments. So the Memorial Day 366 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 3: weekend riot, remember about a thousand people showed up in 367 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 3: downtown LA and we were wondering, well, why didn't the 368 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 3: police stop it? Because they boarded a train and terrorizing 369 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 3: the passengers and spray painting the inside of the train. 370 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 3: They were spray painting all the local businesses. And it 371 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 3: was around a sixth well it was it came off 372 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 3: from a rooftop warehouse party sixteenth in Trinity. They came 373 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:30,400 Speaker 3: across a rooftop concert taking a place taking place across 374 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 3: two parking lots, and people were calling in complaints because 375 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 3: a big disturbance. It was promoted on social media and 376 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 3: the owner said these people are trespassing and wanted them out, 377 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:52,360 Speaker 3: but there weren't enough officers and the whole thing spilled 378 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 3: out onto the street as he had one hundreds, maybe 379 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 3: one thousand people, and that's when they started vandalize the 380 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 3: vehicles in the neighborhood, the storefront, spray painting everything in sight, 381 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 3: a cop car, a metro train, and when the police 382 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 3: showed up, they started vandalizing the police cars. One officer 383 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 3: hit in the face with a bottle. And here's the 384 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:24,120 Speaker 3: killer line. No arrests were made, No arrests were made. 385 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 3: Carrying bass on Monday Fumford. It's unacceptable under any and 386 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 3: all circumstances, and these people will be held accountable to 387 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 3: the fullest extent of the law, except she doesn't have 388 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 3: any police to arrest them. How do you hold them 389 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 3: accountable to the fullest extent of the law where there's 390 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 3: no police. In fact, that's what the LA Police Commander 391 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 3: Lily and Caranza said, our officers were heavily outnumbered, so 392 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,120 Speaker 3: the decision was to clear the area rather than make arrests. 393 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 3: But I can assure you we will find those responsible. Yeah, 394 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,439 Speaker 3: that was yesterday. Today the story is police are seeking 395 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 3: the public's help in identifying the rioters who are on 396 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:15,719 Speaker 3: the illegal rooftop concert. They were shooting fireworks at an 397 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 3: LAPD helicopter and several officers were struck by projectiles. You 398 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 3: have to break up the warehouse party with an overwhelming 399 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 3: show of force immediately, but they didn't. Karen Bass and 400 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 3: the city council, led by Marquis Harristawson, have defunded the police. 401 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 3: We should have ten thousand officers. We have eighty seven hundred, 402 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 3: and after next year we'll be down to eighty four hundred. 403 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 3: By the way, we needed twelve thousand. So we're gonna 404 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 3: have two thirds of a police department, half a fire department. 405 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 3: And so of course they're gonna hold a concert. They're 406 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 3: gonna have their big warehouse party and the police and 407 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 3: fire are gonna show up. These people don't care. They'll 408 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 3: just start firing at the helicopter. They'll start spray painting 409 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 3: the police car. They're in charge police are not allowed 410 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 3: to do anything, and so they end up not doing anything. 411 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 2: No arrest made, no arrest. Can you imagine that? 412 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 3: But they have video and now they're asking the public 413 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 3: to rat out the people on the video. 414 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna happen. 415 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 3: Wow, total breakdown in Los Angeles under Karen Bass. Total breakdown. 416 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 3: There's a doctor named afshin a Chaven. He runs a clinic, 417 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 3: the House of Health Clinic on Washington Boulevard, and he said, 418 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 3: this type of vandalism happens every day every day in 419 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 3: his neighborhood because we don't have the police, and the 420 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 3: police aren't allowed to enforce the law. There's no arrests, 421 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 3: you know, but never did this extense extent, said doctor. 422 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 3: We really need to teach future generations how to care 423 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 3: for one another. 424 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 2: Yeah. 425 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 3: Sure, most of these kids don't have a dad. I 426 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 3: don't know what the moms are up to. But if 427 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 3: you talk to the moms, they'll say, no, my baby 428 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 3: boy is wonderful. You have extremely dysfunctional I wouldn't even 429 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 3: call them parents because again, I don't think most of 430 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 3: these people have dads. Extremely dysfunctional neighborhoods A thousand. You 431 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 3: ended up with a thousand people willing to riot all 432 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 3: at the same time. Well, that that's a deep seated 433 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 3: problem that you know, over in an entire region that's increasing, 434 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 3: and and police are defunded. And Karen Bass all she 435 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 3: can do is that is pretend she's indignant. She was 436 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 3: really upset. She wouldn't be defunding the police further and 437 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 3: she is, and defunding the fire department further. 438 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 2: And she is. 439 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 3: But hey, that's what the people wanted. Oh, all right, 440 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 3: when we come back, Well I'm not coming back till tomorrow. 441 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 3: Conway is going to be here though, And Michael Kurzer 442 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 3: has the news live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 443 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 3: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 444 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 3: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 445 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 3: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 446 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 3: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.