1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty, you're listening to the 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Hello, how are 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: you doing? 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 2: Hello? 5 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: How are you doing? 6 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 2: I'm fine? 7 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: How are you all right? We are here every day 8 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: from one to four o'clock. We work hard for you. 9 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: We do this for you. And after four o'clock you 10 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 1: can download the podcast John Cobelt Show on demand on 11 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: the iHeart app as well. It's the same as the 12 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: radio show and you could listen to whatever you missed. 13 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: Today's a momentous day. I don't know how many people 14 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: we have thrown in the dumpster over the last ten years, 15 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: A dozens and dozens and dozens, probably into the triple figures. 16 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: And this is the first time I can remember that. 17 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: As soon as we threw somebody in the dump dumpster, 18 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: the next business day they resigned. Apparently that's the ultimate humiliation, 19 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: is to be thrown in the dumpster on our show. 20 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 2: I don't realize you had so much power. 21 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: I didn't either, but I think I'm gonna start using it. 22 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: I mean, this is the way to get rid of 23 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: bad government workers, bad politicians. 24 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 2: Well, you have a few still on your lists. 25 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: It's a long list. But it is a momentous day 26 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: because Vlicia Adams Kellum, the head of the Los Angeles 27 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: Homeless Services Authority, announced her resignation. Oh look at that 28 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: on Friday. Now this was not news. Let me see. Yeah, 29 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: here's right. Updated seven to fourteen pm Pacific time. Michael 30 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: Monks literally right after you left, came running down the 31 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: hall and saw me and Ray and was like, did 32 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: John already leave? Did he hear what happened? So as 33 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: soon as we threw her in the dumps, literally as 34 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: soon as you got off the airs when he told 35 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: us it happened, So just as she was hitting the 36 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: bottom of the dumpster. Basically, she decided to resign as 37 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: soon as Deborah spitt all over her. 38 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 2: Yes, it was my spittle. 39 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, she said, Oh, I've had it. I'm at the 40 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: bottom of a dumpster and I got this crazy woman 41 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: spitting all over me. Vlicia Adams Kellum, Yeah, she resigned 42 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: on Friday, and on Thursday, the LA County Board of 43 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: Supervisors defunded her by three hundred and forty eight million dollars. 44 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: If you don't know how this works, the Los Angeles 45 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: Homeless Services Authority, known as LASA, is a joint county 46 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: city venture. County gives your tax money if you live 47 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: in La County, the city gives La City tax money. 48 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: And the county said, enough of this. This is a disaster. 49 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: And what sunk her was the audits that have been done, 50 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: most recently by the federal judge David o'carter. He commissioned 51 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: an audit that found out that there were billions, b 52 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: billions of dollars unaccounted for, like two over two million 53 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:58,679 Speaker 1: dollars I think two and a half two and a 54 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: half billion, and it was spent, but they don't know 55 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: if where it went exactly and if it did any good. 56 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: And they had released homeless numbers just a few days ago. 57 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: The annual homeless count was in January, and they were 58 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: claiming that the homeless numbers were down five percent, and 59 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: it's like, whooah, we've got we've got over seventy I 60 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: think seventy five thousand homeless people in the county and 61 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: it's down five percent, so we still have seventy thousand plus. 62 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: And then they were waving the flag like this, this 63 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: is time for a great celebration, a great success because 64 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: the number went down five percent, although at this rate, 65 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: it would take until the year twenty forty five to 66 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: get all the homeless people off the streets. But you 67 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: know they'll be replaced by a new generation because they 68 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: don't enforce the law here. And I have a story 69 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: about that coming up. I've had to deal with that 70 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: just today, about the city not enforcing the law. Delicia 71 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 1: Adams Kellam resigned and the thing is, all these political 72 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: hacks were saying nice things about her on the way out. 73 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: Wendy Gruel, who's such a terrible politician, and if you 74 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: remember her, she used to be a city council woman. 75 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: She was so bad she lost to Eric Arcetti for mayor. 76 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: That's how bad. She described Adam Kellam's departure as a 77 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: loss for the agency because she brought down homelessness. You 78 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: know that five percent according to their numbers, if you 79 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: believe you can count all the homeless people in the county. 80 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: We brought her to be a change agent, and she's 81 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: been a change agent. Notice, Weddy Grill does not address 82 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: the two and a half billion dollars that's unaccounted for. 83 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 1: Adams Callum has been running the agency for only two 84 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: years as it underwent According to the Times, a historic 85 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: growth spurt, new funds flowing into homelessness programs, but faced 86 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: heightened criticism for disjointed services, poor account poor accounting. I'd say, 87 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: can you imagine not knowing where two and a half 88 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: billion dollars went, and ultimately the inability to reduce the 89 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: number of people on the streets. Yeah, claiming two weeks 90 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: before you're defunded that things are down five percent and 91 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: not providing any proof. That's why I didn't believe that number, 92 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: because the came out and they had to counter with something, 93 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, but the numbers went down. Yeah, okay, 94 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: sure they did so in the last five months. The 95 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: two audits found lacks accounting procedures, poor financial oversight, loss 96 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. What they also didn't mention in 97 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: all those first paragraphs that a story that came out 98 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: in February, and this was from Public Radio las dot com, 99 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: is that Valicia Adams Kellum signed a two million dollar 100 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: contract to send that money to a nonprofit where her 101 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: husband works, Edward Kellem. He's one of the senior leaders 102 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: Upward Boundhouse is the name of the nonprofit since Santa 103 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: Monica Adams Kellum, Valicia Adams them signed the two million 104 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: dollar payout. Now that breaks the law because California has 105 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: conflict of interest laws that banned public officials from any 106 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: involvement in contracts in which they have a financial interest, 107 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: including agreements that benefit their spouse or any group that 108 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: pays their spouse. So Luisi Adams Kellum signs the contract 109 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: and then told everybody that she stuck to the rules, 110 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: that she had been walled off and completely recused herself 111 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:43,239 Speaker 1: from business relating to Upward Bound, where her husband works 112 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: as one of the leaders. That's where she claimed publicly. 113 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: And then LASD which is a news service, investigated and 114 00:07:55,320 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: found the contracts, and they printed the contracts and I'm 115 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: looking at him right now, and I see her signature. 116 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: Look at that one two three times. She signed a 117 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: contract on May the on March the twelfth of twenty 118 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: twenty four. Here's another one March twelfth, another one on 119 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: May twenty second, So she actually signed three times on 120 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: two different days. It was a main contract and two amendments. 121 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: And then she tried to claim that she had inadvertently 122 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: signed the contracts three times, that you know, somebody accidentally 123 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: put them on her desk and she didn't read that 124 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: it was going to upward Bound. In fact, I'm looking 125 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:56,719 Speaker 1: at the contract and at the top it says for 126 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, and the attom half says 127 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: for Upward Boundhouse. In other words, she's signing it for LASSA. 128 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: And then someone named Christine miraor C. Glasgow. What is 129 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: with all the multiple names Felicia Adams Kellum and Christine 130 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: Mira C. Glasgow. That is seven names for two women. 131 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: Oh excuse me, Felicia Adams Kellum is a doctor, not 132 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: a medical doctor. Seven names for two people, two point 133 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: one million dollars for her husband's nonprofit. And then she 134 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 1: said she didn't break any rules her signatures all. How 135 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: come she wasn't forced to resign immediately, so she lied. 136 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: There's billions of dollars that have disappeared. She claims right 137 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: before she got defunded that she lowered the UH homeless 138 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: rate by five percent, which I flat out don't believe 139 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: because hey, she also said she didn't break any rules. 140 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: Now we come back, I want to tell you about 141 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: this homeless situation that's dealing with not far from my house. 142 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: I think it's getting resolved, but we'll see you're. 143 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 3: Listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six forty. 144 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: Follow us on social media John Cobelt Radio at John 145 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: Cobelt Radio now less than five hundred followers away from 146 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand. So today we've got great news. I 147 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,959 Speaker 1: guess as soon as we threw the head of LASA 148 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: into the dumpster, within minutes, Felicia Adams Callum said, Okay, 149 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: that's enough. That is enough. I have now been thrown 150 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: in the dumpster and the ultimate humiliation, and she quit 151 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: as the head of Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. It's 152 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: a few days after the bort of supervisors stripped her 153 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: out of three hundred and fifty million dollars. Hundreds of 154 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: workers are going to be transferred out now because she 155 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:14,959 Speaker 1: was really bad at her job. She's stunk at her job. 156 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: And I cannot stand going through the Times and reading 157 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: all these hacked politicians, including the idiot Karen Bass praise her. 158 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: Homelessness is still horrible in this county. They've blown billions 159 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,559 Speaker 1: of dollars. They don't know where the money's gone. And 160 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: she gave away millions of dollars to her husband's nonprofit 161 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: and lied about it. Broke the law and then lied 162 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: about it. She didn't think anybody would look for the contracts, 163 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: and she got caught. Now, I'm especially animated today because 164 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: I had been dealing with a homeless guy in my 165 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 1: town and he's been living on Santa Sante Boulevard on 166 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: the west side. And a couple of saturdays ago, my 167 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: wife and I are driving east on the stand of 168 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: the Scente Boulevard and we look over to the other 169 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: side and there's a crazy homeless guy. And my wife said, oh, 170 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,559 Speaker 1: he's been there a few days. She has friends who 171 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: notified her. She looked over, slowed down the car. My 172 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: wife took the guy's photo. He saw it, and he 173 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 1: charged us. He ran across the westbound lanes and ran 174 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: across the median, and he was carrying a huge stick 175 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: or a pipe. He had a weapon. See, this guy 176 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: had set up double sized camp. Wasn't just a tent, 177 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: wasn't a bedroll. This was a structure. I don't know 178 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: what the hell it was made of, but it was 179 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: like a double size structure. And he had shelves filled 180 00:12:54,200 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: with various goods or he had trays or blankets out. 181 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: It was like it was like collection, and it was 182 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 1: stuff he's stolen, maybe from our neighborhood. This wasn't far 183 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: from our neighborhood. So he has all this stolen stuff out. 184 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if he's carrying it around or he's 185 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: trying to sell it to other homeless people. But he 186 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 1: was crazy, angry, and turns out he's one of these 187 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: guys that they can't seem to put away because he's uncooperative. 188 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,959 Speaker 1: And so this is a guy who you know, Valicia 189 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: Adams Kellam or now these these county supervisors with their 190 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 1: new agency, you have to come and get this guy 191 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 1: off the street and put him in a mental institution, 192 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: forced drug treatment, forced mental institution. I talked to Tracy 193 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: Park today, or councilwoman who's maybe the only sane person 194 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,839 Speaker 1: in LA government, and she's now on the case to 195 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: get this guy finally removed. But he tried, all right, 196 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: So I interrupt to my own story. He's running across 197 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: two lanes of traffic on the other side of the boulevard, 198 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: runs across the median, and we're driving east. Well, he 199 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: takes a turn with the big stick or the pipe 200 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: and starts running after our car and we hit the 201 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: gas and I'm looking ahead thinking, well, should we blow 202 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: the light, you know, because he's running hard, because you know, 203 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: if they're on meth or something, they have superhuman capabilities. 204 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: Or maybe he's got a gun. Maybe he's going to 205 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: start shooting at us. This is absolutely insane, and he's 206 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: camped out on a sidewalk, so first of all, it's 207 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: an ADA violation. Secondly, he's got a lot of stolen 208 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: garbage and he's blocking the sidewalk that leads to the 209 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: business district on San Vacente. There's a major drug store 210 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: just three lots away from him. There's a well known 211 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: gift shop two lots away from him. He perched in 212 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: front of the empty lot that's owned by a former 213 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: billionaire named Charles Munger who died he was ninety eight 214 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: years old. Billionaire, and he couldn't build anything on the 215 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: empty lot because the neighborhood always complained that there's too 216 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: much traffic or not enough parking. So now we've got 217 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: a big empty lot, excellent for homeless people. Always. You 218 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: either can climb the fence and start camping on the 219 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: grass area, or you can set up shop in front 220 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: and there's nobody who's going to complain and this is 221 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: why am I dealing with this? The Supreme Court said, 222 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: these guys have no right to live in public places. 223 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: They don't. There's no constitutional right. They're cray z. They're 224 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: mentally ill. This guy's deeply mentally ill, and he's violent. 225 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: What's the if you chase somebody with a with a 226 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: stick or a pipe and it looks like you want 227 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: to hit them? Is that assault with the deadly weapon? 228 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: I think it is. Anyway, hopefully it's being taken care of. 229 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: But uh yeah, And then I read about you know 230 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: this Vlicia Adams Kellum. You know, she's she's making a 231 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: double what the old homeless director is making. She's given 232 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: two million dollars to her husband. She's got all these idiot, 233 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: idiot politicians. Oh here here's the Karen Bass quote. She 234 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: praised Adams Kellum for her bold vision. What bold vision? 235 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 1: They couldn't pick up one violent, insane person on my street. 236 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: And Adam's Kellum is Karen Bass's buddy. It's like Denise 237 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: KEINONEZ with Karen Bassi's buddy. This is this is just 238 00:16:53,080 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: just a whole group of incompetent, awful, incompetent politicians and bureaucrats. 239 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 1: She said, despite knowing that LASA was broken, she answered 240 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: the call of service to service CEO because she knows 241 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: that above all else, we must work to save lives. 242 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,640 Speaker 1: The call of service. She's making hundreds of thousands of dollars, 243 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: and she gave her husband's nonprofit two million the call 244 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: of service, and they lost track of billions of dollars. 245 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 1: The Call of Service Times actually prints this crap. She 246 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: helped us move the needle to save lives, restore neighborhoods, 247 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: and show homelessness can be solved, can be solved. All 248 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: she's claiming is five percent, And I think that's a lie. 249 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:55,640 Speaker 1: Am I crazy? All right? We're coming up and then 250 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: after after two o'clock this other nutty story. LA County 251 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: settle the sex abuse lawsuit four billion dollars, seven thousand claims, 252 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: four billion, and we are going to talk to Patrick McNicholas, 253 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,199 Speaker 1: whose law firm is representing twelve hundred of the plaintiffs. 254 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 1: That's coming up after two o'clock. 255 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 256 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 3: six forty. 257 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 1: I AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 258 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: Are you getting enough oxygen today? Because yeah, you were 259 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: kind of confused. 260 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 4: Oh well, you know what, because we just got this 261 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 4: whole new format that was sent to us in an. 262 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 2: Email while I'm on the air. 263 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 4: So I'm looking at that, and then I'm trying to 264 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,479 Speaker 4: make adjustments to things that we need to do, and 265 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 4: then I got messed up in my okay, in my timing. Yeah, 266 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 4: I just don't want the cast. I was looking at 267 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 4: a quarter because I was making it anyway. 268 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:55,199 Speaker 1: It is what it is, all right, you find the 269 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:55,640 Speaker 1: plane there. 270 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:57,959 Speaker 4: I don't mind that I'm not flying a plane. Can 271 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 4: you imagine? 272 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: It's just news. We're on from one until four and 273 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,120 Speaker 1: then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That's 274 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,239 Speaker 1: the podcast on the iHeartRadio app. All right, ready for 275 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,479 Speaker 1: the brothels still going in Boston. Shockingly, it has to 276 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: do with the politicians, among others. This is something else. 277 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: It is Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard is in Cambridge, isn't it. Yes, 278 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 1: this was an elite, high end brothel that charged up 279 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: to six hundred dollars an hour for sexual encounters. What 280 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 1: do you get for six hundred dollars? I couldn't tell 281 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: you I mean, what more can they do, I don't know, 282 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:45,959 Speaker 1: luxury apartments and it was right near Harvard University, and 283 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: they got biotech executives, doctors, lawyers, and politicians. You had 284 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: to fill out applications and handover IDs, work badges and 285 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: personal references to get in the brothel, to become a 286 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: member of the club. Yet to show that you're connected 287 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 1: to some high tech company or you're you're a doctor 288 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: or a. 289 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 2: Lawyer, because those guys need it. 290 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: They're under a lot of pressure. You know, there's but 291 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,159 Speaker 1: there's and a lot of desire builds up over the 292 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: course of the day. Okay, six hundred dollars an hour, 293 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 1: and uh so, anyway, the the federal prosecutors got in 294 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,400 Speaker 1: and they have all the records, so they know who 295 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 1: these people are, and they're releasing names. 296 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 2: There's no privacy anymore. 297 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: No now, you know, if you think if you think 298 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 1: you can enjoy a private brothel and that the records 299 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: are going to kept secret, not if the federal government 300 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: gets involved. This is what the federal government's doing though. Okay, yeah, 301 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: all the thing's going on. Here's a bunch of horny 302 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: guys take a in the middle of the day, drop 303 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: six hundred, they're dropping a lot more than six hundred. 304 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 2: Are they going to be taxed? 305 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: The Cambridge City Councilman Paul Turner is among the alleged 306 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: sex buyers, and now everybody wants him to resign. Oh, 307 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: and it says he's been stripped of committee assignments. That's 308 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: a clever writer there at the Wall Street Journal. It's 309 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: called the Cambridge Brothel hearings. Others have quit their jobs 310 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: in business and medicine without explanation. So far, thirty names 311 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: have been released. And the brothel they had these young 312 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: Asian women who had names like Tulip and Tiki. They 313 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: chose these locations because they were trying to attract rich 314 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: and power, powerful man who wanted to buy sex. Oh yeah, 315 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: they had a Washington office and that's where they lured 316 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 1: some wealthy people, like next time you're in Boston, you 317 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: might want to come to our private club. So they've 318 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: also arrested people in Virginia. Now here's now. You know, 319 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 1: I'm reading about these guys, and some of these guys 320 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: have done really good work that might be useful for society. 321 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: And I wonder, and I'm serious about this, I wonder 322 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: is it worth bringing him down for having like a 323 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: weird sexual proclivity when there's so many other good things 324 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: they're doing. Now they're going to be forced out of 325 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: their job. So I'm going to explain a couple of 326 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: these guys. You can tell me what you think. Jonathan 327 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: land Fear, he's fifty six. He's the CEO of Hybersell, 328 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: a biotech firm focused on novel cancer therapies. They found 329 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: his ideas from an old company he worked for, a 330 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: named Taquida Pharmaceuticals, and his driver's license and credit card 331 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 1: and even a selfie we're all found on the brothel phone. Now, 332 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 1: they had records that land Fear arranged for sex at 333 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: least ten times, and he was interested, particularly about a 334 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 1: woman named Wren. You like the bird? Yes. The brothel 335 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: confirmed Wren's availability, but warned only GF E services no 336 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: BB services. GFE stands for the Girlfriend Experience, which a 337 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 1: prosecutor said is a more intimate experience BB which they 338 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 1: said no BB services is H stands for a bareback. 339 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 2: Okay, can I ask a question? 340 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: Yes, real quick? 341 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 4: Anybody under age? I'm trying to be trying to figure 342 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 4: out the legalities here. 343 00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: It's it's they call it young Asian women, but it 344 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: didn't say that they were under age, under age, were 345 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: they trafficked, it's not, it's it's not clear. Well, because if. 346 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 4: They're not underage and they're not traffic then I don't 347 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 4: really care what these people do in their downtime, their 348 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 4: private time. 349 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I mean it says you're anti sex trafficking 350 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: groups are are happy with with what's going on here. 351 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: They usually and the police usually target sex traffickers and workers, 352 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: so it could be, but they're saying specifically, but. 353 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 4: If they are traffic trafficking, well then yeah, they shouldn't 354 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 4: be doing that. 355 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, they should be fired. Yeah they're they're bad people. 356 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 4: But if they're consenting adults, then that's a whole different story. 357 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, the madam, they still use that. 358 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 2: It's just so crazy. 359 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: The madam. She was very picky about clients. She wanted 360 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: clients to provide information like the work ideas and the 361 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:15,439 Speaker 1: references from existing customers or other brothels. Wow, we're not 362 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 1: gonna let you come in here and screw anybody. Okay, 363 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 1: we want to hear from other people you've screwed, right, Okay, 364 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: they said. She vetted clients to screen out law enforcement 365 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: because her attorneys say she cared about the safety of 366 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 1: her workers. Born into poverty in South Korea, she was 367 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: a sex worker for years until becoming a madam. She 368 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: let the women keep more than half the proceeds and 369 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 1: allowed them to decline to perform certain services if they chose. Now. 370 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 1: Going back to land Fear, he arranged for sex ten times, 371 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: and the woman named Wren Landfear agreed to pay three 372 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: hundred and forty dollars an hour. He didn't know that 373 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: the FEDS had installed hallway cameras in the complex, and 374 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 1: he was stopped by detectives on the way out. One questioned, 375 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: Landfear said he was visiting a friend. I guess that's true, 376 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 1: visiting a come if you've been with someone ten times, 377 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: I guess at some point they become a friend. His 378 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 1: attorney is saying, well, there's a lot of conclusions that 379 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,679 Speaker 1: are being drawn. That's not sufficient evidence to back up 380 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: those conclusions. But the thing is, if he's working on 381 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: sex therapies, I mean, maybe you know, we need him. 382 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 1: We need to give m a pass here. You know, 383 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: he needs to do whatever he needs to do. 384 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 4: They're fine, that's fine, as long as as long as 385 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 4: they are consenting adults. 386 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess he wouldn't know though, if they were 387 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 1: trafficked or not. 388 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,479 Speaker 4: Well, he could ask, and he could ask the women 389 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 4: the girls, Yeah, are you here because you want to 390 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 4: be here? 391 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: I'm probably not going to tell the truth. Oh here 392 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: here's another guy, Uh, Honor rog bush Pey trained at 393 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 1: MIT Mechanical Engineer. His innovations earned him a spot on 394 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: Scientific American's annual Top ten World Changing ideas. Well, it's 395 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: a brilliant mind. Yeah, he's probably alone a lot, and 396 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: he needs the girlfriend experience once in a while. 397 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 2: He needs that. 398 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: But I'm saying, if we've got we've got one guy's 399 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: literally changing the world. 400 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 2: Get it, I get it. 401 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 3: Yeah. 402 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: And then another one is uh has cancer therapies that 403 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: no one's ever heard of before. I don't know. 404 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 4: Again, I don't care what kind of sexual experiences people 405 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 4: are into, as long as the people that they're into 406 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 4: are consenting and not they're not trafficked. 407 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: Well, I've heard about your taste in television shows. I 408 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: know nobody these sexual experiences bother you as well as 409 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 1: you could watch. 410 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:04,159 Speaker 2: Actually that's not true. 411 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 4: There's a new a new show out that I was 412 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 4: talking to with with Shannon that I not my deal? 413 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: Oh what is it? 414 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 2: Dying for Sex? It stars Michelle Williams. 415 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 4: It's brand new, It's on Hulu, and I'll just quickly 416 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 4: give you. 417 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: A sex with dead people. 418 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 4: No, she has cancer, terminal cancer, and there's certain things 419 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 4: sexually that she wants to experience before she dies, and 420 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 4: some of those things I cannot relate to at all. 421 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 2: That's all I'm going to be saying. 422 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 1: Okay, network is that Hulu? 423 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 2: Can I tell you what one thing? Spoiler alert? Okay, 424 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 2: spoiler alert. 425 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: Well you do watch anything that No. I just I've 426 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 1: heard you probably have two dozen conversations with Shannon on 427 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: the air about this stuff. I know. 428 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 4: A guy dresses up as a dog and barks. Okay, 429 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but that. 430 00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: No doesn't turn you on. 431 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 4: No, it does the exact opposite. 432 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: Trying to think if I came home my wife. 433 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 4: Wanted me, Well, yeah, your wife, debris is John. 434 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 2: Here's a dog outfit. 435 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 4: Okay, put it on and then sit and stay and 436 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 4: heal and lay down. 437 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: And roll over. 438 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 2: What are you gonna do? 439 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: Where do I get in return? Whenever she was we 440 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: can negotiate. 441 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 2: And somebody's filming it. 442 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: After you got a screw loose. 443 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, and now I'm working with Shannon, so I have. 444 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 1: No help for me your damage. 445 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KF I 446 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 3: am sixty. 447 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: What is that that name of that show again with 448 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: the woman and the guy who dresses up as a dog, 449 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: And I should, I. 450 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 4: Really should get some kind of promotetional fee out of 451 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 4: this dying for such on Hulu and it starts Withchelle Williams. 452 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,959 Speaker 2: It's a good cast. See Spasic is in there. I mean, 453 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 2: it's a very good cast, but it's. 454 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 1: It's it's it's cool things I don't want to see. 455 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, you would not want to see some 456 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 2: of these. 457 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: I don't think it was the stomach for that. Coming 458 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: up after two o'clock, Patrick McNicholas. He represents twelve hundred 459 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: of the victims at a seven thousand who got this 460 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: massive settlement with LA County, which is, if you're living 461 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: in LA County, it's you the taxpayer. You're going to 462 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: be paying out four billion dollars or your children will, 463 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: your grandchildren will because they're going to have to borrow 464 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: billions of dollars that will not be paid off till 465 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: the year twenty to fifty one. Seriously, and this is 466 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: a tentative settlement between the county and the lawyers representing 467 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: the victims. Again, one of those lawyers, Patrick McNicholas, is 468 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: coming on our show. This seems to be the largest 469 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: settlement ever in a sex abuse case. It involved children 470 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: teenagers who were in the juvenile facilities of La County 471 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: and the foster homes. In fact, one of the cases, 472 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: some of the cases go back to nineteen fifty nine. Now, 473 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 1: I understand that if you've been sexually attacked, raped when 474 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: you were very young by government employees, the only thing 475 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: left is to give you some money. But how come 476 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: I have to pay for some sexual attack that happened 477 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty nine. Why are we paying for stuff 478 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 1: that happened before we were born? Why not? I don't understand. 479 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: Why not all the all the employees who did these acts, 480 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 1: make them pay, liquid date them, and the supervisors who 481 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: knew about it and were complaint to, and the political officials, 482 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: anybody who's still alive, they should pay this because this 483 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 1: is not something as a taxpayer we can control. I mean, 484 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: I wasn't around here for decades, that for many of 485 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: the decades this lawsuit covers, and I I have I 486 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: have to pay for this. It's one thing. It's like, well, 487 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: look who you voted for. It's like I did. Even 488 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 1: if I voted for somebody twenty years ago. I don't 489 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 1: know who was hired to run a particular agency, or 490 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: who that director hired to do all the normal jobs 491 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: in a prison system. Or I didn't pick the parents 492 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 1: in foster care who were sexually abusing and raping the children. 493 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 1: I didn't do any of this. I didn't have control. 494 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 1: It's one thing to, you know, blame voters, and voters 495 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 1: are often guilty. But this is administrative stuff. You know. 496 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 1: This is like blaming me for sexual abuse going on 497 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 1: to McDonald's because I was a customer. This is ridiculous. 498 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: Four billion dollars and we must know the names of 499 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 1: the government workers or these foster families who did all 500 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 1: the abuse. How come they're not released. I don't know. 501 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 1: I don't understand any of four billion dollars. And we're 502 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: paying till twenty fifty one. And it says this is 503 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: going to seriously a significant impact on the county's budget 504 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 1: for years to come. Well, we already got enough problems 505 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,760 Speaker 1: that can't be fixed. I mean, we can't fix the home. Oh, 506 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 1: this place is really going to hell. They don't have 507 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: the money to get the homeless people off the street 508 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,239 Speaker 1: and set up mental health clinics. And now we got 509 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 1: to spend four billion dollars for the next twenty six years. 510 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,479 Speaker 1: I don't know. We're gonna talk to Patrick McNicholas, the 511 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,120 Speaker 1: Plain off Saturney. That's next on The John Cobelt Show. 512 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 1: Debbra Mark Live the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, 513 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 1: you've been listening to The John Covelt Show podcast. 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