1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four o'clock, 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 2: and then after four o'clock. If you miss something, shame 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 2: on you. After four o'clock, go to the iHeart app 6 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 2: for John Cobelt's show on demand, and that's the podcast 7 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 2: version same as the radio show. Moves more quickly and 8 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 2: there's no excuse for missing a single segment. We have 9 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 2: Michael Monks here from KFI News Now. We've spent a 10 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 2: lot of time this past hour talking about the insurance 11 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,319 Speaker 2: disaster here in California and. 12 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: Also the. 13 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 2: Lack of action on the part of the City of 14 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Only four permits have been issued, four permits 15 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: for the thousands of homes destroyed in the Palisades. Remember 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 2: Karen Bass claiming they're gonna cut the red tape, They're 17 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 2: going to expedite matters. Gavin Newsom said, we're cutting the 18 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 2: red tape and expediting Matt nothing's been expedited. We're paying 19 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: ten million dollars to an outside consulting firm. 20 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: They've done nothing. 21 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 2: Steve Sobroff, he's almost over as whatever the hell he 22 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 2: was as a special I don't know what did he do, 23 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 2: you know, Michael. 24 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 3: We don't know what he did, what he's done, what 25 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 3: he's supposed to do, whether he's been paid what he's 26 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 3: supposed to be paid. 27 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 2: Well, there's four permits. But what is the city council 28 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: working on. They're working on giving more protections to illegal 29 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 2: aliens because ICE is doing these sweeps and deportations and 30 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 2: Hugo Soto Martinez is leading the charge. Michael Minkes is 31 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 2: going to explain what are these motions about. And motions 32 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 2: doesn't mean they passed a law. Motions means it can depend. 33 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 2: I mean, an ordinance is the law. When the adopt 34 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 2: an ordinance, and that usually takes a couple of votes 35 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 2: and that sort of thing, maybe the mayor has to 36 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 2: sign off on it. Motions can often be symbolic, or 37 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 2: they can ask for something and then action might be 38 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: taken later. And that's the case here. You already know 39 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 2: that Los Angeles City Council has determined that LA is 40 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 2: a sanctuary city, which limits the type of partnerships that 41 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 2: can take place between local officials and federal officials when 42 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 2: it comes to immigration enforcement. Council in HUGOSDA Martinez says 43 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: more motions like this are necessary because they want to 44 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 2: strengthen that sanctuary status. He's quite concerned about what the 45 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: Trump administration has done and what they might have in store, 46 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 2: particularly as it relates to illegal immigrants in the City 47 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 2: of Los Angeles. 48 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: So what does he want done? 49 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 3: Okay, So now, for example, one of these motions ask 50 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 3: for something. So they have asked for city staff to 51 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 3: find funding to the tune of five hundred and forty 52 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 3: thousand dollars to help support legal defense for illegal immigrants 53 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 3: who might find themselves caught up in any type of 54 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 3: immigration enforcement situation. That's important at this time because, as 55 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 3: we talked about last week, the city doesn't have five 56 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 3: hundred and forty thousand dollars lying around that they can 57 00:02:59,240 --> 00:02:59,679 Speaker 3: dedicate to. 58 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 2: No, they're broke exactly, they got a billion dollar deficit 59 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 2: and they're gonna lay off thousands of people. 60 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: They say. 61 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 3: It's not just been this motion related to illegal immigrants 62 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 3: and defense attorneys. We've seen multiple motions in recent weeks 63 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 3: where the motion reads city staff find the funding for 64 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 3: this idea that we have and bring back what those 65 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 3: possibilities might look like. So that's one thing that they're 66 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 3: trying to do today. Another one includes a know your 67 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 3: Rights campaign. This would be city wide and they would 68 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 3: target immigrants, illegal immigrants. Let them know, these are what 69 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 3: your rights are under the current law. This is what 70 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 3: your rights are in the city of la specifically, what 71 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 3: you can say, what you don't have to say, what 72 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 3: you can withhold if you find yourself dealing with immigration. 73 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 3: That would cost efforts, and that's going to cost money 74 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 3: as well. They've also voted to endorse some state legislation 75 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 3: that is in Sacramento, where the state of California is 76 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 3: considering a possibility of increasing funding for deportation defense and 77 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 3: Hugo Soda Martinez has that reinforce versus the city's commitment 78 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 3: to protecting immigrants. 79 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 2: Now, there's also a motion to identify. Now, now I 80 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 2: have this story here ABC seven five hundred million to 81 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 2: maintain immigration services or is that a typo? I think 82 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 2: as you were talking about identifying, exactly five hundred and 83 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 2: forty thousand dollars would maintain immigration legal services. Oh so 84 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 2: this this is a mistake, then that would be a 85 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 2: typo in that article there in that article I think 86 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 2: from KFI that's in the KFI newsroom it didn't. 87 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: But this is the ABC news room. Exactly what five 88 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: hundred billion? 89 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 2: Because I saw that and it's like, oh my god, 90 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 2: that's an enormous amount of money. 91 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 1: You know. 92 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 3: I think that's what happens with the homeless spending in 93 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 3: this city. A comma gets misplaced and suddenly we don't 94 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 3: know where any of the money. Reporters added zeros to 95 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 3: all this. 96 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: We need more audits around you. 97 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 3: So what happened was with that particular situation, there was 98 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 3: funding available to help immigrants from public funds to help 99 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,919 Speaker 3: immigrants prepared to f and says to protect themselves against 100 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 3: potential deportation. Council in Hugosoda Martinez says there was a 101 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 3: gap created in that funding when the Trump administration froze it, 102 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 3: so now they don't have access to it. So the 103 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 3: council has voted to direct city staff to find more 104 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,919 Speaker 3: than half a million dollars in the couches somewhere to 105 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 3: help restore a little bit of that funding in order 106 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 3: to help. 107 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 2: So it's an ask and the city officials are required 108 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 2: to go looking, yeah, and then report back to say 109 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 2: if they found any money line around or not. 110 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 3: You seeing report back is such a city hall thing 111 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 3: to say, or a county government thing to say. 112 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: That's often what they say. 113 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 3: We'd like a report back in thirty or sixty or 114 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 3: ninety days on what we're. 115 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: Asking about, and that's what they've asked. So this is 116 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: all symbolic nonsense. 117 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 3: No, hugosda Martinez says, to the contrary, these are not 118 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 3: symbolic efforts. He says, the Trump administration has taken notice 119 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 3: of what we're doing. He says federal officials are already 120 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 3: worried that illegal immigrants in LA and elsewhere already know 121 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 3: too much on how to protect themselves because of efforts 122 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 3: like what the La City Council did today. 123 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 2: Specifically said this is not somebody, of course, having these 124 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 2: illegal immigrants in LA. They all cost us a lot 125 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 2: more money and we're broke, he says. And I talked 126 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: to him on the phone after the vote. We had 127 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 2: a chat and I asked him, you know, what, what 128 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 2: do you think is missing in the conversation about illegal 129 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 2: immigrants in LA. People who are ready to just you know, 130 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 2: wash their hands of this situation, and folks like you 131 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 2: who are moving to offer more protections, And he says, 132 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 2: you know, it helps when you know someone. It's one 133 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 2: of those situations where if you know someone who is 134 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 2: an illegal immigrant, your perspective might change a little bit. 135 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 2: And he suggested that La in particular, because there are 136 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 2: so many here that you probably do know one. They 137 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 2: might be a nanny, they might be a housekeeper, they 138 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 2: might be a vendor himself, got a burrito. 139 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 1: I don't care if you're an illegal alien. You're an 140 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 1: illegal alien. You gotta go. 141 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 2: I heart checked my papers. I'm good. That doesn't work 142 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 2: with me. Oh, you know one. I don't care if 143 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 2: I know one. And your position's not unusual. There are 144 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 2: many of people who hardline on this, and that's why 145 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 2: I asked him. I said, you know, how are you 146 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 2: engaging that line of thinking that it's time for this 147 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,119 Speaker 2: to be over, Let's get all of the illegal immigrants gone. 148 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 3: And he thinks that there might be a situation where 149 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 3: you might know people and not be awhere that status is. 150 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 2: I'll give him a little goodbye gift. I'll call immigration myself. 151 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,679 Speaker 2: It's costing me too much money. All right, very good, Michael, 152 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 2: thanks always, please very much. Michael Monks KFI News Hugo 153 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 2: Soda Martinez never represents American citizens on any issue here 154 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. 155 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:31,559 Speaker 1: Never. 156 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 2: Next time I hear he is will be the first time. 157 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 2: All right, we come back. Why don't we do the 158 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 2: Dubai story since we came off last hour when we 159 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 2: went through Ricardo Lara's travelogue. The insurance commissioner who has 160 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 2: gone looks like on dozens of trips, many of them 161 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 2: are taxpayer's expense, all kinds of exotic locations, many of 162 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 2: them never has been to, and one of them, in particular, Dubai. 163 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 2: Terrible things go on in Dubai to women. 164 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 4: I didn't have a problem except for the flooding, which, well. 165 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 2: You probably don't sign up for sex parties with chikhs. 166 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you weren't flown out by a prince. Yeah, 167 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 2: But in case you get an offer, this is this 168 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 2: is a public warning. 169 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 4: Thank you for that bolic service announcement. 170 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 2: Sorry, anybody out there who's thinking to go in the 171 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 2: flight to Dubai for a sex party with sheiks you 172 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 2: hear this story, you're not going to want to do that. Well, 173 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 2: maybe you will, maybe you're going to want to make 174 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 2: the money. No, no, not kidding, but that's really the question. 175 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: More coming up. 176 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 177 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 5: six forty. 178 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 2: Moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six. It's back 179 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 2: on Friday, eight seven seven Moist eighty six. Boy, We've 180 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 2: given you plenty of material so far. He's the talkback 181 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 2: feature on the iHeartRadio app. So fill up the Moistline 182 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 2: with your bile and venom and we'll play it back 183 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 2: on Friday. And don't forget we're it's a twenty four 184 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 2: hour service, seven days a week, and we're open for 185 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 2: any critiques and analysis of Debora Mark as well. 186 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 4: Bring it on. 187 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 2: That's the favorite for American and I all right, So 188 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 2: you've been to Dubai. I have, and you flooded out 189 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 2: Dubai when you were there. I did, yes, some massive 190 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 2: once in a century floodstore. 191 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 4: Was flooded, Its were flooded. 192 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,319 Speaker 2: You got tongue up for a while. Well, you were 193 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 2: in a better place than this poor Ukrainian model. This 194 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 2: is actually kind of a nasty story. But people, you know, 195 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 2: a lot of people don't know this, but in that 196 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 2: part of the world, there are a lot of extremely 197 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 2: wealthy oil chiks. They have billions of dollars like the 198 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:56,959 Speaker 2: Saudi Arabian family that runs the country, and the wealth 199 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 2: is unimaginable. I mean it d Wharf's American wealth, right. You 200 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 2: look at the American billionaires, you look at the Saudi 201 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 2: Arabian UAE billionaires. It's not even close. She went missing 202 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 2: for ten days. She attended a hotel sex party in Dubai. 203 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 2: Her name is Maria Kovalchuk, and she was supposed to 204 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 2: come home and she missed her flight, and she told 205 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 2: her family and friends she was going to a hotel party. 206 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 2: And then two days later she was supposed to go 207 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 2: on a flight, never showed. Ten days, nobody heard from her. 208 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 2: She's only twenty years old. She's Eventually, she's discovered on 209 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 2: the side of a road, bloodied and with several horrific injuries, 210 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 2: including a broken spine and broken arms and legs. 211 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 4: I'm a sex party. 212 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 2: Well, that's the last thing she attended, as far as 213 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 2: they know. I don't know what they do to women 214 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 2: at these sex parties, but if they threw her out 215 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 2: a window. When they found her, she was unable to speak, 216 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 2: had to undergo four different surgeries, and now they think 217 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 2: she was the victim of a sinister sex slave. 218 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: Plot in Dubai. 219 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: Oh gosh, it's like, don't even next time you land 220 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 2: in Dubai, don't even get out of the plane. You 221 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 2: know what. 222 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 6: I'm not a twenty year old model, so I think 223 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 6: I'll be okay. 224 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 1: Don't beat me. 225 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 2: Russian media outlets said her relatives think that she could 226 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 2: have been made a sex slave and just was sexually 227 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 2: attacked for several days before being thrown onto the road. 228 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 2: She attended some kind of cult like party with unknown shakes, 229 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:47,839 Speaker 2: where models and only fan stars, especially those from Eastern Europe, 230 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 2: are known to be popular. Do you know what I 231 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 2: have heard over the years being out here in La 232 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 2: all this time, that there are a number of actresses 233 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 2: and models want to be actresses and models when they 234 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 2: can't make money anymore. They have trouble getting roles and jobs. 235 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 4: They don't hear about the violins that goes on. 236 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 2: The Arab sheiks apparently troll the all the clubs and 237 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 2: the restaurants, and they find beautiful women and they invite them, 238 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 2: They seduce them and invite them to come to the parties. 239 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 2: I know somebody who knows someone who went on one 240 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 2: of it, and she used to make good money. You know, 241 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 2: she was an actress who hit the end of the road. 242 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 2: And what are you going to. 243 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 4: Do find another profession? 244 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 2: Well, well, if you're promised twenty thousand dollars in a 245 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 2: broken bag from a Saudi Arabian or divide sick. Oh, 246 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 2: I see you perked up. Don't don't be so sure 247 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 2: that they wouldn't want you. 248 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 4: They wouldn't. 249 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: Uh well, uh the event. 250 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 2: Is called a porta potty party. 251 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 4: That's sexy. 252 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 2: Well, it's a phrase used to describe these gatherings with 253 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 2: female influencers. Oh, I see they troll Instagram. 254 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: Right. 255 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 2: They're paid exorbitant amounts of money to carry out horrific 256 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 2: and degrading sexual acts. Yes, apparently it includes human waste. 257 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 2: But the women are paid one hundred thousand dollars to 258 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 2: attend and are subjected to extreme abuse to fulfill the 259 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 2: dark desires of these wealthy Arab Shaks. 260 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 4: Look at Eric, he's wishing he was a woman. 261 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 2: Now, absolutely not. I'm just saying, like I said, for 262 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 2: a certain amount of price, it might be wishing if 263 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 2: he's an Arab Shak. I don't know about that. Kavalta 264 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 2: purportedly met with two men from the modeling business. Now 265 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 2: Tavalcik was was the model. She met with two men 266 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 2: from the modeling business will in Dubai and the next 267 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 2: day she told the family she's going to stay with 268 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 2: them for the night, and then she was supposed to 269 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 2: fly on to Thailand, but not heard from again until 270 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 2: she was found on the side of the road. She's 271 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 2: from Norway and that's where she's making a recovery after 272 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 2: all the surgeries. She had no documents, no phone, nothing. 273 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:15,719 Speaker 2: Did she get paid well, I don't know. The The 274 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 2: ud Buy police claim that the woman's injuries occurred because 275 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 2: she fell from a construction site. 276 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: Oh sure, yeah, so calling the police there isn't going 277 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: to help. 278 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 2: The police said a comprehensive investigation revealed that she sustained 279 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 2: serious injuries after entering a restricted construction site alone and 280 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 2: falling from a height A good one. The family does 281 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 2: not believe this. I think there's one attorney Gordon has 282 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 2: is urging influencers, and we have many of them here 283 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, many beautiful women who were influencers, and 284 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 2: they try to work as models and actresses and they 285 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 2: you know, they offer you get offered one hundred thousand dollars. 286 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: You probably think, well, how bad could it be? 287 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, it could be pretty bad. 288 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I'll have sex with a cute guy for 289 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 2: a night for one hundred grand. But the lawyer said 290 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 2: she was She was found after a party with Arab shakes. 291 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 2: And the scandal with the porta potty parties has been 292 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 2: raging over a year. Apparently there's videos on the internet 293 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 2: and you could see the shakes beating the girls, cutting 294 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 2: their hair and doing all sorts of terrible things to them. 295 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: And the lawyer is urging women do not go to 296 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 2: these parties. 297 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 6: So noted, Okay, so okay, Well you know I won't 298 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 6: be going. 299 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 2: You get in trouble A lot of times I do, 300 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 2: but somebody might invite you to a party, and you know, thanks, John, 301 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 2: we don't want to find you on the side of 302 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 2: the road. 303 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 4: I don't want to find myself on the side of 304 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 4: a road either. 305 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 5: All right, you're listening to John Cobel's on demand from 306 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty. 307 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock. 308 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 2: We're going to talk with someone from the Slantahunga neighborhood. 309 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 2: They are very upset that a lot of toxic waste 310 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 2: from the eating fire. Toxic dirt is being dumped in 311 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 2: the neighborhood. So we'll get into that after three o'clock. 312 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 2: Why they can't, By the way, there are tons of 313 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 2: trucks driving within a quarter mile in my house every 314 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 2: day carrying all sorts of disgusting, filthy, toxic materials and 315 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 2: they're not supposed to. I just want people to know 316 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 2: that they're supposed to go down Pch and get on 317 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 2: the ten and to take the ten freeway east to 318 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 2: I don't know where. 319 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 4: They covered trucks, well, is anything spewing out? 320 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: The covering is flimsy. They have a tarp. 321 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 4: Oh that's not good. 322 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: No, it's not sealed. 323 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 2: And as they're driving, the wind blows the tarp up, 324 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 2: and there's tons of trucks and we were told that 325 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 2: wasn't going to happen, and people in the neighborhoods are screaming, 326 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 2: but nobody cares because they're trying to do this fast 327 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 2: dirt and which which I understand, except now every day 328 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 2: we're all breathing in all the toxic dirt. 329 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 6: There's a really good documentary on Netflix called Toxic Town. 330 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 6: It's based on a true story and uh, you may, 331 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 6: you may want to watch that. 332 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 4: John. 333 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 2: What was it they had like a toxic dump in 334 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 2: the town. Huh, Well, these are rolling toxic dumps. Yeah, 335 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many tracks. 336 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 4: Now that's very scary. 337 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 6: Yeah, And because that stuff is going to fly into 338 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 6: your your yard and your dog's wandering around the yard 339 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 6: and maybe it lands on something your dog eats. 340 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 4: I mean, there's there's hazards. 341 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 2: I will say it because we drove through there again 342 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 2: over the weekend and there was a lot more activity 343 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 2: than we saw a couple of weeks ago. And and 344 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,679 Speaker 2: I don't know how much activity there should be. You know, 345 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 2: it's hard to say they're they're they're not doing enough 346 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 2: or they're doing the right amount, because you don't know 347 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 2: any of the details. But there was a lot more activity, 348 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 2: and there's a lot of trucks carrying a lot of 349 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 2: debris out of there. But everybody in my section in 350 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 2: town thought that the trucks were going to stay on 351 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 2: the highways. 352 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 6: Well, I mean, so that's one thing, But the other 353 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 6: thing is if you're going to be hauling toxic stuff, 354 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 6: why would you have tarps? 355 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 2: Yes, that's what my wife noticed right away, is like 356 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 2: that that that's not a cover there exactly because the 357 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 2: tarp isn't stopping anything from flying out, you know, as 358 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 2: it flaps up in the wind and it's running over 359 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 2: at Sunset Boulevard is some of the roughest roads in 360 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 2: North America. 361 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: That is just just awful. 362 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 2: So now, Gavin Newsome, I want to get into a 363 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 2: story that Katie Grimes put together, because you've been playing 364 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 2: a clip from his podcast where he's claiming how well 365 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 2: California does so many different categories. He has a guest 366 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,439 Speaker 2: on this podcast that I'm familiar with. His name is 367 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 2: Ezracline As reclined as a writer and a columnist now 368 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 2: for The New York Times, and he's a liberal Democrat. 369 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 2: That's where his sympathies lie. But he tells the truth 370 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 2: every week. He tells Democrats, it's like lately, you guys 371 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 2: can't build anything. You guys, for example, the high speed rail, 372 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 2: the Democratic mayors that run the big cities. There's no 373 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 2: execution here. 374 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: We can't. If you're gonna want people. 375 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 2: To vote for your party and your candidates, you can't 376 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 2: foul up every time you're given a job to build something, 377 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 2: which is you know, happening now with the rebuilding the Palisades, 378 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 2: there's only four permits. This after just dozens of insurances 379 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 2: from Newsoman Bass. 380 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: And what. 381 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:04,360 Speaker 2: Katie Grimes pointed out, because this is a report from 382 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 2: the California Center for the for Jobs in the Economy, 383 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 2: and she describes it as a devastating report. How far 384 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 2: Newsome has destroyed California, even worse than Jerry Brown. 385 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 1: Net job growth in January? How many? How many? 386 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 2: All right, here's a good one. Here's another quiz for 387 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 2: the two of you. How many jobs net job growth? 388 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 2: How many jobs do you think we added to the 389 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 2: California economy in the month of January? 390 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 1: Ten thousand, ten thousand, says Eric h five hundred, five 391 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: hundred zero. 392 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 4: We sunck this guy. 393 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 2: I was gonna say, we're over too. I've tried this 394 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 2: three times this week. Texas added twenty eight thousand, so 395 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 2: you were on the right track, Eric, Florida gained sixteen thousand, 396 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 2: even New York State, which is a mess, twenty thousand, 397 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:08,400 Speaker 2: and California zero. California has the second highest unemployment rate 398 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 2: of all fifty states, and Los Angeles's unemployment rate is 399 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 2: higher than any of the states. 400 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: It's at six percent. 401 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 2: There is a million Californians unemployed, more than a million 402 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 2: for the thirteenth straight month. We're of only we're only 403 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 2: one of five states that haven't recovered to pre COVID levels. 404 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: So that's why I whant I heard you play that clip? 405 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 4: Do you want to hear it? 406 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 2: Yeah? 407 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, play play that again. 408 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 4: Okay, here we go. Well, let me read what the 409 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 4: interest read the whole thing? 410 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: Okay. 411 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 6: Governor Newsom says California isn't building enough housing. He was 412 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 6: joined on his podcast by New York Times columnist as 413 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 6: a Recline, where they talked about the cost of living 414 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 6: in California. 415 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 7: This notion that everyone's leaving is complete. Bs. We dominate 416 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 7: in so many of these categories because I think of 417 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 7: our values, but we're not building enough damn housing and 418 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 7: that's led to this homeless crisis. 419 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,640 Speaker 2: Oh, there's so many lies in that, and somebody, you're 420 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 2: not leading in all these categories, but I canno don't 421 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 2: know where to start with that one. And we don't 422 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 2: have homelessness because we aren't building enough housing. Because the 423 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 2: people that you're finding laying in the streets are not 424 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 2: going to. 425 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: Be buying homes. 426 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 2: Even if the homes were cheap, even if there is 427 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 2: like two hundred thousand dollars homes available for them. Those 428 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 2: people are mental patients and drug addicts. They couldn't buy 429 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 2: a twenty dollars dog house to stop it. And the 430 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 2: reason we're not building enough housing is because of the 431 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 2: incredible regulations. There are so many regulations against developers building anything. 432 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 2: And then when you try to build well, case in point, 433 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 2: palace four permits in seventy five days, which what as 434 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 2: a recline and I read asraclined because he's trying to 435 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 2: explain to people in his own party that you guys 436 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 2: are bad at this job of governing. You guys are 437 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 2: bad at running cities and states. And that's what people 438 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 2: are reacting to. You know, everybody starts screaming about, you know, 439 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 2: transgenders or whatever the hot button issue is. But really 440 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 2: what's grinding down the Democratic Party in the most of 441 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 2: the country is just a terrible performance in these cities. 442 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 2: People are fleeing California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey by 443 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 2: the droves, and the population is moving south to Florida 444 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 2: and Texas and Arizona and Tennessee and the Carolinas and 445 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 2: by twenty thirty, so many people will have moved from 446 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 2: Democrat states to current reportublican states that those Republican states 447 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 2: are going to pick up twelve electoral votes because your 448 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 2: population determines how many Congress people you have, and the 449 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 2: number of Congress people you have determine how many electoral 450 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 2: votes is up for grabs in a presidential race. So 451 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:26,959 Speaker 2: people are leaving California because California is scheduled to lose 452 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 2: a certain number of electoral votes, and then New York 453 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 2: is going to lose some, and New Jersey and Illinois 454 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 2: are going to lose some, and they're moving to states 455 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 2: that are already Republican. So, by the way, this has 456 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 2: been projected by Democratic analysts who are trying to sound 457 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 2: the alarm about all this stupid progressive politics. According to 458 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 2: the Democratic analysts, whoever runs for president as a Democrat 459 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 2: in twenty thirty, they could win all the states Kamala 460 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 2: Harris did and win Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan and 461 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 2: still lose because now you have so many electoral votes 462 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 2: that have gone south. And so what Newsom is saying, 463 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 2: there were like three lives in one in that one 464 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,120 Speaker 2: little paragraph there were at least three lives, probably more. 465 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: He's so. And the thing is he's. 466 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 2: Got a guest who's trying to save his ass and 467 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 2: trying to save his party's ass by saying, you guys 468 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,719 Speaker 2: are are effing up. And then when you get this 469 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 2: California Center for Jobs in the Economy, which I guess 470 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 2: is a non partisan unit, they'll tell you the unemployment 471 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 2: is second highest, LA is higher than any state, net 472 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 2: job growth is zero, only five states haven't recovered to 473 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 2: pre COVID levels. And the proportion of Californians receiving unemployment 474 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 2: payments is double the national average. That that's you know, 475 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,120 Speaker 2: don't say, oh, well, California the biggest state. No, no, no, 476 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 2: it's the percentage of people in California getting unemployment is 477 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 2: double the national average. And there's never going to be 478 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,919 Speaker 2: affordable housing never because developers, if they build it, they 479 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 2: can't make a profit. If they can't make a profit, 480 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 2: they're not going to build it. The government can't build 481 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 2: it because they've tried that in LA. Remember under Garcetti 482 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 2: and they were building million dollar apartments. It was costing 483 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:38,479 Speaker 2: a million dollars to build an apartment for what almost guy, 484 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 2: all right, we come back. Newsom is blocking an environmental 485 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 2: law that some stores have started to implement. And I 486 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 2: discovered this a couple of weeks ago when I went 487 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 2: to the vegetable department. They have a new kind of 488 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 2: bag to put your vegetables. And you may be saying, 489 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 2: why am I buying vegetables for my wife? 490 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: Well? 491 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 2: Sometimes yes, sometimes no, Well sometimes for my lizard. 492 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 1: Oh you see. And every week I got to buy a. 493 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 4: Lizard lettuce, lizard lettuce. 494 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 2: And what's funny is this state is such an overwhelming 495 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 2: nanny state that I could be do something, do something 496 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 2: really benign, Like I go to the. 497 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: Grocery store, which I like doing. 498 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 2: Got to buy half a dozen things, good husband, reading 499 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 2: the list, I have to get the lizard lettuce. I 500 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 2: get to the lettuce, I look up at the plastic bags. 501 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 2: They have a new kind of plastic bags. And it's infuriating. 502 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 2: And I start running up to employees to. 503 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 4: Complain, Oh, what do you think they're going to do? 504 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 2: They stare at me and they blame Newsome. So I'll 505 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 2: tell you about this when we come back. 506 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 507 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 5: six forty. 508 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 2: He can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social 509 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 2: media at John Cobelt Radio. After three o'clock, we're going 510 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 2: to talk with Lydia Grant. Lydia is the head of 511 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 2: the Sunland Tahunga Neighborhood Council. She's the president, and she 512 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 2: and many people in that region are upset that so 513 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 2: much toxic dirt from the Eton fire zone is going 514 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 2: to be dumped in their area. They have done independent 515 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 2: tests that show potentially toxic levels of arsenic and selenium. 516 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 2: So Lydia Grant is coming on because the aftermath of 517 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 2: the fires is affected a much much wider group of 518 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 2: people than just people's whose homes have burned. All right, 519 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom, now this is gonna be fascinating year as 520 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 2: he gears up for his presidential run, and this is 521 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 2: all he cares about. And so you see he's doing 522 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 2: these public renunciations of his formerly woke positions like boys 523 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 2: playing in girls' sports. Most famously, although this week we 524 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 2: highlighted it, bill a sale, the Republican assemblyman came up 525 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 2: with a bill that said boys and men can't play 526 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 2: in any organized sports from elementary school through college. Democrats 527 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 2: vetoed it Newsom didn't do anything to stop him. So 528 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 2: Newsom is a lying hypocrite. Almost nothing he says is true. 529 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 2: You can believe almost nothing. I don't know what it 530 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 2: says about a state. That Alexa guy that everybody should know, 531 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 2: is a pathological liar, he's compulsive. He's now quietly screwed 532 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 2: over the environmentalists because there was a law that Newsom 533 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 2: signed in twenty twenty two, and it was about limiting 534 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 2: the use of well admitted, limiting the amount of single 535 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 2: use plastics that are sold and distributed in California, plastic bags, 536 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 2: for example, and other items I guess like plastic knives 537 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 2: and forks. And since then, dozens of regulators. Now that's 538 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 2: signed in twenty twenty two, Since then, dozens of regulators, lawmakers, environmentalists, 539 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 2: and industry groups have worked together to write the rules 540 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 2: and regulations. 541 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: You imagine this. 542 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 2: They have been doing this for two and a half years. 543 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 2: Two and a half years. They're writing the rules on 544 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 2: single use plastics to cut plastic pollution, claiming that it. 545 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: All ends up in the water. 546 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 2: The goal is to reduce single use plastic packaging by 547 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 2: twenty five percent and ensure that sixty five percent of 548 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 2: that material is recyclable. One hundred percent either recyclable or compostable. Okay, 549 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 2: this takes me to the produce department at my local 550 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 2: store to buy lettuce from my Lizard because my store 551 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 2: has jumped the gun and they're already. They used to 552 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 2: have these beautiful clear plastic bags and it was a 553 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 2: really strong plastic and you could put in, you know, 554 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 2: your cumquats and avocados and apples and at everything, and 555 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 2: it was a strong plastic and it was big and 556 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 2: it held a lot. One day, I show up to 557 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 2: buy the Lizard lettuce Bandelion Greens and it's this extremely thin, 558 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 2: flimsy plastic where both sides of the bag stick to 559 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 2: each other and you can't pull it apart and it 560 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 2: wrinkles all up and you can't and the bag is 561 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 2: too small and you can't get anything into the bag easily, 562 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 2: and whatever you buy, it's always sticking out. And there's 563 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 2: a big sign on the bag that says compostable. I 564 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 2: am not going to compost my Lizard lettuce bag. Nobody 565 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 2: does that. 566 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 4: Well, there are some people that do. 567 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 2: But they're they're whack jobs. Normal people don't compost. I'm 568 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 2: not gonna have a garbage landfill in my backyard to 569 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 2: dump my lizard lettuce bags. 570 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: So you're you're you're you're forcing something. 571 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 2: I mean, if you wanted to make thinner plastic or 572 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 2: better plastic or whatever it is, like like they, you know, 573 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 2: because paper straws were so awful, companies did come up 574 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 2: with plastic like material that you don't really notice the 575 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 2: difference now, but that and it makes me mad. And 576 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 2: I go there and I'm stuffing the lizard lettuce in 577 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 2: and it's always sticking out, and I keep going up 578 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 2: to the UH. I keep going up to the employees 579 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 2: because I'd forgotten about this law. And I'm thinking maybe 580 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 2: some nut got involved in management at the grocery store. 581 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 2: And they go, well, and that's that's the state rules, 582 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,000 Speaker 2: it's the state, or well that's got that's Gavin Newsom 583 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 2: for you. In fact, that cashier told me I can't 584 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 2: stand him. He goes, that's Gavin Newsom. That's why you 585 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 2: have that bag. Even cashiers are speaking out against this nonsense. 586 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: Anyway. 587 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 2: To get to the final point here, he has suspended 588 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 2: the rules and regulations. He's told them to go back 589 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 2: and start over again and rewrite them because this is 590 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 2: going to buy him a couple of more. It took 591 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 2: him two and a half years they presented to him. 592 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 2: It's like, oh, I'm running for president. 593 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: Now. 594 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 2: If people start realizing you have these flimsy compostable bags 595 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 2: that are awful, it's going to be a national news 596 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 2: story about the nanny state and Newsom running the nanny state. 597 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 2: So he told them to all go home and start again, 598 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,120 Speaker 2: knowing he's not gonna have to deal with this for 599 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 2: another two and a half years. 600 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 4: Aren't you happy then? 601 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,960 Speaker 2: Well, I'd be happy if they got see as I'm saying, 602 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 2: I start jumped the gun. 603 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 6: Okay, but now they're gonna a backstep and they're gonna 604 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 6: bring the better bag. 605 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:04,840 Speaker 1: I'm bringing this article to them. 606 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 6: Good show it to the store manager's. 607 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 1: I mean I did composting. 608 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,680 Speaker 4: Now you could be a rebel. John. 609 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,840 Speaker 2: Only hippies do that. Oh, by the way, you know 610 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 2: what that's led to Because I can't really use it 611 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 2: to store. It doesn't keep the lettuce fresh. I have 612 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,239 Speaker 2: to get a ziplock bag and put the lettuce in 613 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 2: a large gallon sized ziplock bag. So I'm using a 614 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,800 Speaker 2: plastic bag anyway. Now I have two bags. 615 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,200 Speaker 6: I'm using, bring your ziplock bag to the store until 616 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 6: they go back to the better bags, and then there 617 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 6: you go. You don't have to have the flimsy bag, 618 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,279 Speaker 6: and you don't have two plastic bags. 619 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 1: And now the ziplock bag is going to end up 620 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: in the landfill. 621 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 4: Though you know what, you don't worry about that. You 622 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:53,279 Speaker 4: don't care. 623 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 2: I worry about it. Yeah, sure, no, nothing gets me 624 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:58,400 Speaker 2: crazier than bags. 625 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,080 Speaker 4: No, but what I'm saying is you don't care that 626 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:00,479 Speaker 4: it's going. 627 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:00,759 Speaker 5: To end up. 628 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,680 Speaker 1: I don't. That's what land so for now on. 629 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 6: So you don't have to complain anymore. Just bring a 630 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,320 Speaker 6: zip block bag until they go back to would I 631 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 6: do If I can't conform, I don't know, You'll find 632 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:11,360 Speaker 6: something else to complain. 633 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 2: Nember Marks Live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 634 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 2: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You 635 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 636 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 637 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,760 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.