1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 2: four o'clock it's John Cobelt Show on demand, that is 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: the podcast version of the radio show. I have to 6 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 2: go through a lengthy explanation yesterday to somebody, Well they're 7 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 2: very confused. 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 3: What were they confused about. 9 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 2: Well, they can't listen to the show because the time 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 2: that they work. And I said, well, it's a podcast, 11 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, how do those work? And I got to 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 2: explain how they work? And I explained that the podcast 13 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 2: is just like the radio show. It's you know, not 14 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,840 Speaker 2: everybody knows what's going on out there, is my point. 15 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 2: That's why you have to constantly explain these things. You 16 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 2: want to call us on the Moist line and rant 17 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 2: about the world eight seven seven Moist eighty six for 18 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 2: Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty six or usually talkback 19 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 2: feature on the iHeartRadio apps. So this morning, my wife 20 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 2: and I were going to take a walk in the 21 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades. There is a camion there with a hiking 22 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 2: path that we used to go to all the time 23 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 2: and then couldn't for six months. It's it's open down 24 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 2: and we were driving through there and I suddenly yelled stop, 25 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 2: stop the car. I got to take a picture of this, 26 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 2: and if you want to see the picture, it's on 27 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 2: all our social media sites. I'm happen to be looking 28 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 2: at the one on the X for Twitter. And there 29 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 2: was a huge sign on an empty lot, black background, 30 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 2: white littering, all capital letters, four words Karen Bass resigned now. 31 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 2: And this is a big sign. And there are smaller 32 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 2: signs placards popping up all over the palisades as well, 33 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 2: dozens of them, and I saw some of that, but this, 34 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 2: this was a big one, and it's on an douth. 35 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 2: The people there are now fencing off their property. They're 36 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: put chain link fence up or other kinds of fencing 37 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: because here's a new problem. And there was a guy 38 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 2: named Luke Melchior. He is a builder, he's in construction. 39 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: He has an Instagram account and he posts a lot 40 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: of what goes on in the burn zone and here 41 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 2: he explains Playton in just a second, squatters are taking 42 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 2: over plots of land in the La fireburn zones. Yes, 43 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 2: I predicted this because Karen Bass is not providing the 44 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 2: police presence and the security that's necessary. So you have 45 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:51,239 Speaker 2: all this wide open land, empty lots, and the homeless guys. Hey, 46 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 2: maybe it's the same guys who started the fire. The 47 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 2: homeless guys are now building encampments on the lots. If 48 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 2: you live in the Palace Stades, you better go take 49 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 2: a ride and go see your property. 50 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: And you apparently you're gonna. 51 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 2: Have to spend some money and put up fencing because 52 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 2: the city is the city doesn't care. 53 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: Clearly. Here here is Luke Milchior on Instagram. 54 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 4: Here is the latest insanity over here in the La 55 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 4: fire zones. Squatters are overtaking vacant lots that burn down 56 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 4: like this one right behind me. Here, this guy set 57 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 4: up a whole camp site and I guess actually went 58 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 4: down to the DMV listed this as his address on 59 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 4: his driver's license, and the property owner can't get them off. 60 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 4: The police even showed up and they said, we can't 61 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 4: do anything about it. It's got to go to the courts. 62 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 4: Here's another one right behind me. This is two right 63 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 4: across the street from each other. Squatters who have overtaken 64 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:58,119 Speaker 4: these properties and the homeowners cannot get them off. 65 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: Of the site. 66 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 4: So if you're Pacific Palisades or Altadena, I'd get some 67 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 4: security fencing up right away, or you might lose your 68 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 4: property to a vagrant and the county isn't gonna do 69 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 4: anything to help you. 70 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 2: Neither the city nor the county. I saw this this 71 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 2: morning and I. 72 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 1: Couldn't believe it. 73 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: How many indignities do you have to suffer at the 74 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 2: hands of this incompetent, stupid, do nothing. 75 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: Karen Bass government. 76 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 2: She's running around with her hair on fire over illegal 77 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:36,559 Speaker 2: aliens getting deported. But you've got thousands of homes wiped 78 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 2: out in the Palisades. And because she doesn't provide enough 79 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 2: police protection or at least pay for private security something, 80 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 2: what do we got now? Squatters? And you know, at 81 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 2: first I thought, well, all right, squatters, the police are 82 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 2: gonna have to go and rouse these guys and Jason away. 83 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 2: Then I actually listened to what he just said. You 84 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 2: can hint and the police won't help you. A guy 85 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 2: goes downtown and goes to the DMV and gets one 86 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 2: of these empty lots is his address. So he shows 87 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 2: that to the police. It's like, no, this is my 88 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 2: legal address. Well, I don't think it works that way. 89 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 2: You have to show you have the deed. You can't 90 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 2: just falsify an address. And I remember when I went 91 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 2: to the DMV to get that new license. What are 92 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 2: they calling it, the new the real ID license. 93 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 3: You did this right, Yes, I did, long, long, long 94 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 3: time ago. 95 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 96 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 2: But it's a pain in the ass. Yes it was 97 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 2: because you got to show them several forms of identification. 98 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 2: You have to show them that you have either a 99 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 2: utility bill or a bank account, things of that nature. 100 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 3: I think I had to go back because I didn't 101 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 3: have an information. This is many years ago. 102 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's the same. It's the same rules. 103 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 5: Now. 104 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 2: You got to show him a water bill, electricity bill, 105 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 2: a gas bill, a bank statement. You had to have 106 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 2: multiple identifiers where it's your name and your address. So 107 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 2: how does this guy go to the DMV and and 108 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 2: just say, uh, well here's my address with no proof. 109 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 2: How he how did he pull that off? 110 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: Oh? 111 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 2: Because it's the stupid asses in the government. Right then 112 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,239 Speaker 2: the police show up. We can't do anything. I'm sorry, 113 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 2: our hands are tied. This is the This is LAPD's 114 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,359 Speaker 2: mantra in the sheriff's departments mantra. Our hands are tied. 115 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 2: Our hands are tied. Now, this doesn't smell right to me. 116 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 6: This. 117 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 2: I don't know if this guy maybe got it wrong. 118 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 2: I don't think he did. But how I don't understand 119 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 2: how somebody is like stealing somebody's identity. How do you 120 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 2: steal somebody else's address and you have to go to 121 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 2: court now to prove that they're squatters? Seriously that the 122 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 2: police will not help you, The sheriff's department won't help you. 123 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 2: Nobody in the city will help you. Let's go through 124 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 2: again the list of crimes here. I read today that 125 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 2: the National Weather Service put out its first fire weather 126 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 2: warnings on December the thirtieth, That would be nine days 127 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 2: before the fire. Nothing was done. Karen Bass claims she 128 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 2: never knew of the warnings. I think she's lying. She 129 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 2: went to Africa instead. Nobody was designated to handle the 130 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 2: impending emergency in her place. In fact, the guy he 131 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 2: normally would was on leave because he called in a 132 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 2: bomb threat. That'd be Brian Williams. He was supposed to 133 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 2: be the deputy mayor in charge of police and fire. 134 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 2: They didn't fill the reservoir. Chenese Kenonias didn't fill the reservoir. 135 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 2: Over a thousand hydrants robusted and fixed the The fire 136 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 2: department was not pre deployed the night before or the 137 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 2: morning of. They showed up way late. They never turned 138 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 2: off the electricity, never de energy energize the lines, and 139 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 2: homes that could have been protected were starting to burn 140 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 2: at six that afternoon, and there is no fire recovery. 141 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 2: Chief Steve Sobaroff did a dance for about three months 142 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 2: and he's long gone, not been replaced. There is nobody 143 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 2: to go to and say, hey, what's going on. So 144 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 2: they eventually took most of the security and the police 145 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 2: out of the area, and so now here come the squatters. 146 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 2: Here come the vagrants, and they're armed with paperwork, so 147 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 2: that the police. 148 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: Go, I don't know, I don't know what to do. Oh, yes, 149 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go to court. You gotta go 150 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: to court. 151 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 2: These people are getting screwed over by the insurance companies 152 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 2: because the insurance companies pulled out of the area because 153 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 2: they saw what a huge fire has or it was. 154 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 2: So they have no insurance, they have no home, and 155 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 2: now the why is being inhabited by the squatters. How 156 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 2: long before the squatters claim, oh, I've been here so long. 157 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 2: I own this now, the squatters have rights now, I mean, 158 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 2: none of this can be happening. 159 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: And Karen Bass says nothing does nothing. 160 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 2: And all those vegetables on the city council they say nothing, 161 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 2: they do nothing. 162 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: How can this be? How are they getting away with this? 163 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 2: How come anybody outside the Palisades isn't noticing? I mean, 164 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 2: this is this is like crazy land, seriously crazy land. 165 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: We come back. I'll play a clip. 166 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 2: Karen Bass was on Face the Nation over the weekend 167 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 2: on CBS, and on that show she was asked a 168 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 2: fire question and yeah, we still don't have a regular 169 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 2: fire chief. Six months later, we don't have a fire chief. 170 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 2: We got an acting guy. We'll talk about it coming up. 171 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 172 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 7: six forty. 173 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four, and 174 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 2: anything you missed you can hear on the podcast posted 175 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 2: after four o'clock on the iHeartRadio app John Cobelt Show 176 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 2: on demand. As we told you yesterday, there's dozens of 177 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 2: Karen Bass resigned now signs appearing across the Palisades. And 178 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 2: there's one big banner sign that somebody hoisted up. I 179 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 2: took a picture of it, and you could see that 180 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 2: picture on all our social media pages. Curiously, when she 181 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 2: went on ABC's news show, what does it called? I 182 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 2: Think this Week Martha Radditz, it seems it was mostly 183 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 2: about illegal aliens at ice. Margaret Brennan and Faced the 184 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 2: Nation put Karen Bass on too, and she asked about 185 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 2: the fire and said, how come LA doesn't have a 186 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 2: permanent fire chief because this is roughly the start of 187 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:19,679 Speaker 2: the peak fire season. 188 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 1: Let's go. 189 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 8: We are now officially in fire season. It was just 190 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 8: six months ago we saw those blazes in La. You 191 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 8: fired the then fire chief for you said a failure 192 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 8: to prepare, But you still don't have a permanent fire 193 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 8: chief in that role. Isn't that a problem? Are you prepared? 194 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 2: No? 195 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 6: No, I don't think that that's a problem at all. 196 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 6: Our interim fire chief has forty years of experience. In fact, 197 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 6: he had just recently retired. I called him in out 198 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 6: of retirement. During the fires, he was doing the emergency 199 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 6: operations center, so he stepped in, didn't miss a beat 200 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 6: by taking over the fire department. And you are prepared. 201 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 6: We do know that it's fire season. 202 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 8: So is your plan to keep him in place since 203 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 8: you brought him out of retirement. 204 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 6: And put in a sorry, No, we're doing a national 205 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 6: search and he is certainly open to apply, but the 206 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 6: nation's second largest city needs to make sure that we 207 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 6: search the nation for the best talent. And I'm sure 208 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 6: that there will be people in the department that apply, 209 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 6: but we want to cast the net wide. We did 210 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 6: the same type of search for our police chief. Okay, 211 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 6: in the meantime, he is more than capable of managing. 212 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 2: How long is she going to take? We got a 213 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 2: new fire season here, and for her to say that 214 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 2: the Kristin Crowley was fired because she wasn't prepared, how 215 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 2: do you have the gall to say that? How do 216 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 2: you really have the gall to criticize somebody for not 217 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 2: being prepared When you were in Africa and you claim 218 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 2: you never even heard the fire warnings. That is the 219 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:10,439 Speaker 2: mark of sociopath there. She has no conscience, no self awareness, 220 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 2: no care at all. It's like, Wow, that woman over 221 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 2: there and she wasn't prepared, and you you you willingly 222 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 2: went to Africa National Weather Service put out the first 223 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 2: warnings December thirtieth. They said, Now, I don't know about you, 224 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 2: but if I was mayor, and I saw extreme fire warnings. 225 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 2: I think we have all the main city administrators, including 226 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 2: the fire chief. We're having a meeting that night. We're 227 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 2: all going to sit in the conference room, right and 228 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 2: you have the police chief and the fire chief and 229 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 2: the chief of reservoirs and I don't know how many 230 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 2: other people, And you say, okay, is are all the 231 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 2: reservoirs filled? Are all the hydrandts fixed? This is basic? 232 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 2: This is just basic. Do we have enough manpower? Oh? Yeah, 233 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 2: we only have half a fire department. Imagine to come 234 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 2: to LA and you have half a fire department. I 235 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 2: saw a clip online today where somebody was talking about 236 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 2: the fire department and how they have to deal with 237 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 2: hundreds and hundreds of calls every day to deal with 238 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 2: homeless people because the police women show up, so the 239 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 2: fire department paramedics show up to deal with all the 240 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 2: insane behavior in addition to all the fires they start, 241 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 2: because they start hundreds of fires, thousands of fires a year, 242 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 2: they start lots of fires. They're always overdosing, they're always 243 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 2: having mental breakdowns, and the fire department and the paramedics 244 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 2: have to show up. 245 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: I wonder you do a nation to white search. 246 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 2: Are there going to be a lot of people, competent 247 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 2: people who are going to want to do this. You know, 248 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 2: Bass is gonna cut your legs out from under you 249 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 2: if you tell the truth. That's why Kristan Crowley got fired. 250 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 2: She told the truth. Bass is shameless, absolutely shameless. Meantime, 251 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 2: we're driving around Palisades this morning. Everything is vacant. There's 252 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 2: Karen Bass resigned. Now signs pop it up and squatters 253 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 2: are taking over and squatters at least one guy showed 254 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 2: up with a driver's license, and the police say, oh 255 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 2: to the homeowner, jeez, nothing we can do. He's got 256 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 2: a driver's license with your address on it. Boy, that's 257 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 2: a tough break. Looks like you're gonna have to go 258 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 2: to court to reclaim the land that Karen Bass's fire 259 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 2: department didn't protect because they're only at half staff. And 260 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 2: the fire chief sent a lot of people home that morning, 261 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 2: and there's dozens of fire trucks that are still busted. 262 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 2: By the way, this fire truck's fixed. What's the cause 263 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 2: of the fire of us fire trucks fixed? How come 264 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 2: there was no meaning on December thirtieth to fill the reservoir. 265 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: To fix the high. How come? How come? How come? 266 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: How come? 267 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 2: And nobody on these stupid news shows like this, Margaret 268 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 2: Brennan or Martha Radditt's, they never. 269 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: Ask any of this. 270 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 2: She gets to go on, Karen Best gets to go 271 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 2: on and gets all self righteous about illegal aliens. Screw that, 272 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 2: these are people breaking the lawn, shouldn't be in the country. 273 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 2: And this is the neck, knockdown, drag out fight we're 274 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 2: having over people who just cost us lots of money, 275 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 2: while the people who pay a lot of the taxes, 276 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 2: like the Palisades residents, are giving a back of the 277 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 2: hand to smack. 278 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 1: In the face. 279 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 2: What kind of insanity is this? What's with all this 280 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 2: illegal alien stuff? It's not Bass's call anyway. Trump's gonna 281 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 2: get rid of him, Home's gonna get rid of him. 282 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 2: And the story case closed on that dead issue. That's 283 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 2: what it's gonna happened. And she's trying trying to run 284 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 2: for reelection, ginning up progressive raids against ice. How about 285 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 2: your citizens who actually pay a lot of the taxes. 286 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 2: Do you know what kind of tax money they get 287 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 2: out of the Palisades? And there's no fire department, and 288 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 2: now squatters are showing up and the police will throw 289 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 2: out the squatters. The police ought to jest, take out 290 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 2: their guns and start firing some warning shots until the 291 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:28,160 Speaker 2: guys run away. 292 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: That's what they ought to do. 293 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 2: Fire warning shots and if they don't leave those warning 294 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 2: shots drop a little lower and a little lower. They'll 295 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 2: go eventually. That's what the police ought to do. She's 296 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 2: all right. 297 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: We come back. 298 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 2: Another atrocity going going on and Sino where that couple 299 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 2: was murdered, turns out with their own gun and the 300 00:17:55,160 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 2: the the residents there are angry. We'll talk more coming up. 301 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 302 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 7: six forty. 303 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four and then after that 304 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show on demand. It's the podcast version of 305 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 2: the radio show Moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty 306 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 2: six for Friday eight seven seven moist eighty six. Or 307 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 2: he's the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Stephen Klubec 308 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 2: is coming on. Stephen Klubek we had on the show 309 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 2: once before. He's a Democratic candidate for governor and he's 310 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 2: a very successful businessman. He was the CEO, chairman, founder 311 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 2: of Diamond Resorts International, timeshare Company of Leisure Resorts, ninety 312 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 2: two of them, and he sold it to Hilton for 313 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 2: almost two billion dollars. And he's now in California, back 314 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 2: in California, and he's running for governor, and we're going 315 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 2: to talk to him after two o'clock. He'll be in 316 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 2: the studio looking for alternate of candidates. I don't I don't, 317 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think we should be sitting 318 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 2: around debating the merits of Kamala Harris Jesus all right, 319 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 2: And we spent a lot of time on the fire 320 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 2: because now there are squatters. There are squatters in the Palisades, 321 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:23,959 Speaker 2: and at least one guy got somebody's address on his 322 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 2: motor vehicle license. I don't know how he did that. 323 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 2: And cops show up and they can't a victim. They're 324 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 2: saying that homeowner asked to go to court, which I 325 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 2: think is absolutely atrocious. That can't possibly be the law. 326 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 2: And if it is law, the police ought to be 327 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 2: firing shots. 328 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: Anyway. 329 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna we're gonna have to take some 330 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 2: serious measures here. Then we have the murder of Robin Kay, 331 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 2: who is a music supervisor for American Idol, for many years. 332 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 2: Robin and her husband, Thomas de Luca, also musician. They 333 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 2: were killed when they walked in the local crazy guy 334 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 2: had entered their house. His name is twenty two year 335 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:15,199 Speaker 2: old Raymond Boudarian. Turns out that Boudarian somehow got a 336 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 2: hold of this couple's own gun and then shot them 337 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 2: both in the head and then used his own cell 338 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 2: phone to. 339 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 1: Call police to report the crime. Now he's got. 340 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 2: A serious criminal record, And this is the point I 341 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 2: want to get to you here. Boodarian was booked last 342 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,919 Speaker 2: year on suspicion of threat, weapons and battery charges. And 343 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,640 Speaker 2: it's not the first time, but every time he got 344 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 2: arrested for committing some serious crimes. Well, in this case, 345 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,959 Speaker 2: a judge dismissed his case after a mental health evaluation. 346 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 2: Now I'm looking at a Channel four story, NBC, a 347 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 2: CBS Channel two story, and an ABC seven story. And 348 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 2: you know what I'm not reading in these stories. I'm 349 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 2: not reading who the judge is. Who's the judge who 350 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:21,359 Speaker 2: let this guy go so he could murder two people 351 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 2: in their home. This guy, this guy had a mental 352 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 2: health evaluation. What is the name of the mental health 353 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 2: professionals who signed off and said, yeah, this Raymond Bodoori, 354 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 2: and he's fine. Or are these people? They should be 355 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 2: held on criminal charges. This judge should be this is 356 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 2: bad judging. Don't you think I mean the word judge. 357 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 2: So he looked at this guy, looked at the record, 358 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 2: looked at the crimes he committed, and said, oh, yeah, 359 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 2: sure you could let him go because these mental health 360 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:02,679 Speaker 2: professionals say he's okay. But what the hell they. 361 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:03,239 Speaker 1: Get away with it. 362 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 2: They get away with sending a double murder around on 363 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:11,400 Speaker 2: the street when they had caught him, when they agreed he. 364 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 1: Was out of his mind. 365 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 2: And by the way, I don't care if somebody is 366 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 2: out of their minds put him in prison anyway. Put 367 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 2: him in prison, lock them up. Put you put him 368 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 2: in a mental health facility, lock them up and never 369 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 2: let them out. What is the point of this because 370 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,479 Speaker 2: you're crazy, you get to kill people? 371 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 1: What this this never went on before? 372 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 2: And who what are the names of the legislators who 373 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 2: wrote this bill and passed this bill? 374 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: How can nobody does news stories in any of this. 375 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 2: Well I got to spend six months now was researching 376 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 2: the history of this bill and who voted for it, 377 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,239 Speaker 2: and half those guys are probably out of office now, 378 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 2: maybe all of them are at a office. And good 379 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 2: luck finding the name of the mental health professionals who 380 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 2: treated this guy. 381 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: Good luck. 382 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 2: You can't get a hold of the records. And who's 383 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 2: who's the judge? And what's wrong with him? And shouldn't 384 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 2: he be uh, shouldn't he be investigated? Interrogated like a 385 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 2: live television It's like, what the hell's wrong with you? 386 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 2: Who else have you let go? Do you realize they're 387 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 2: like no standards anymore? Everybody in the neighborhood said he 388 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 2: was crazy. He was always scaring people. He was constantly 389 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 2: getting arrested for this and that threatening. In fact, he 390 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 2: went after his own family members. He went after his 391 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 2: own family members with a weapon. And then let him out. Oh, 392 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 2: oh yeah, we gotta let him out. He's crazy, he's 393 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 2: violently crazy. We got what do you mean, he's violently crazy? 394 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 2: You gotta let him out. Well, you're supposed to take 395 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 2: his medication. Oh okay, he didn't take his medication. Well 396 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 2: that's a big surprise. Can you imagine a mental patient 397 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:52,360 Speaker 2: who didn't take their pill? Well, that hardly ever happens. 398 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 2: What is wrong with everybody? So the residents got to 399 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 2: get other and they went to a meeting. We're going 400 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:04,199 Speaker 2: to play this. What is this for? 401 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: Maybe s this story, let's play it. 402 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 9: People in this community feel targeted because of these break ins, 403 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 9: and right now LPD is investigating two separate incidents that 404 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 9: took place in this community overnight, the first. 405 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,199 Speaker 1: One taking place in the home that you see behind me. 406 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, these are new crimes in the neighborhood. And then 407 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 2: sino okay and cinos be set by all these burglaries. 408 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: So continue playing. Two separate incidents. 409 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 9: That took place in this community overnight, the first one 410 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 9: taking place in the home that you see behind me. 411 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: Check out this video. 412 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 9: This is video of the scene as LPD investigated and 413 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 9: attempted break in at the home on Havenhurst Avenue. There 414 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 9: is limited information, but officers were called out around ten 415 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 9: thirty last night and this a report. State of family 416 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 9: may have been home when two suspects made their way 417 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 9: into the home through a garage but ran away shortly after. 418 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 9: We are still waiting to confirm those details with police. 419 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 9: Police half confirmed there was a break in at another 420 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 9: home in the area just a few hours later. These 421 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 9: incidents all come after more than two hundred insen of 422 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 9: residence packed the community center for a town hall last 423 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 9: night with LPD and LA County District Attorney. That town 424 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 9: hall was held in the wake of the shocking murders 425 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 9: of American Idol executive and her husband inside their Encinate home. 426 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 9: Their bodies were discovered last Monday, and this morning LA 427 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 9: County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman revealing new information into the murders. 428 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 9: The suspect, Raymond Budrian, allegedly used the couple's own gun 429 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 9: to kill them. The DA says he then called police 430 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 9: and gave them his name, which helped track him down 431 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,199 Speaker 9: and senor. Residents say crime is out of control and 432 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 9: demand more protection. 433 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,239 Speaker 10: Criminals keep offending and offending, and they're back out on 434 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:51,439 Speaker 10: the streets offending again. 435 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 8: There's no consequence and that's the problem. 436 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 3: But law enforcement's hands. 437 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 8: Are tied because they don't have enough services to do 438 00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 8: their job. 439 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: So Mayor Karen, we beg. 440 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 10: You to allow additional officers to protect your citizens. 441 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 9: LPD says they've stuffed up patrols in these neighborhoods, but 442 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,919 Speaker 9: add the department basis challenges but staffing. Hawkman promises they 443 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 9: are going after criminals and this time last year, there 444 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 9: were at least ten burglaries in the month of July 445 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 9: in the valley right now, but a majority of those 446 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 9: incidents to take place in the city of Encino. 447 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,439 Speaker 2: Deborah Palace was the name of the resident who is 448 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 2: begging Karen Bass to do something, and she used the 449 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 2: phrase their hands are tied. They're severely understaffed because Karen 450 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 2: Bass defunded the police. Because the police, I believe by 451 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 2: the end of this year is going to be down 452 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:48,360 Speaker 2: to eighty three hundred total officers, eighty three hundred. When 453 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 2: via Gosa left about ten years ago, it was ten 454 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 2: thousand police. So we went from ten thousand to eighty 455 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 2: three hundred, seventeen percent cut because Bass defunded the police department, 456 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 2: like she defunded the fire department. Defund the police, defund 457 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 2: the fire department. I remember when she was running for office, 458 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 2: people say, are you part of that defund the police movement? 459 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I've never said that. 460 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,199 Speaker 2: Well yeah, she never said it, but when she became 461 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 2: mayor she did it. It's like everybody's chasing that. To 462 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,880 Speaker 2: communist running for mayor in New York, it's like, well, 463 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 2: do you believe in this, and do you believe in that? 464 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 2: And oh no, no, I don't believe in that. I 465 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 2: never said that. Oh yeah, you wait till he gets in. 466 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 2: They downplay, they deny, they pretend they never said it 467 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 2: to begin with. And then they get in, she's a 468 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 2: defund the police woman, she's a defund the fire department woman. 469 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 2: And so what happens. There's a gang of thieves running 470 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 2: around in the sinow and nobody can stop them. And 471 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 2: then there's a crazy person out on the loose and 472 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:59,360 Speaker 2: he gets spun through by idiot mental health professionals and judges, 473 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 2: and they just keep doing it, They keep just spading it. 474 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 2: There's more being released every day, and nobody stops them, 475 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 2: and nobody even prints their name. God forbid, the news 476 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 2: media in this town would print the name of the 477 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 2: judge who let this guy go. We'll talk more. 478 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFII. 479 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 2: We've got Stephen Klubeck coming on, the millionaire businessman who 480 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 2: is running as a Democrat for governor. We've talked with 481 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 2: him some months ago and he's coming in the studio 482 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 2: in just a moment. He also has a podcast, The 483 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 2: Stephen J. Klubec podcast. Now, we were discussing the murder 484 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 2: of the American Idol music supervisor Robin Kay and her 485 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 2: husband Thomas de Luca, shot with their own gun. As 486 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 2: it turns out, because a local nut, somebody's crazy son, 487 00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 2: Raymond Boudarian, brooke into their house and they walked in 488 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 2: on him, and then he got their gun. 489 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: I don't know. 490 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 2: They haven't published the details of how he got the 491 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 2: gun exactly. And then there was a meeting last night, 492 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 2: even seen her residence and it's you know, it's like 493 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 2: shouting into the wind. The police don't do anything, and 494 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 2: the police blame their bass. The police are way underfunded. 495 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 2: There's only gonna be eighty three hundred left by the 496 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,479 Speaker 2: end of the year, and they usually have ten thousand, 497 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 2: and they need twelve thousand at least. And here here's 498 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 2: one of the things that drives me nuts. ABC seven 499 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 2: David Gonzalez wrote this. He was the reporter we played. 500 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 2: But their online story is all about a real Housewives 501 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 2: of Beverly Hills star having their home broken into. Teddy Mellencamp, 502 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 2: who's Yah. 503 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 3: Her father is the singer. 504 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 2: John Mellencamp, and she has some terrible cancer too from 505 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 2: what I've read. But because her home got broken into, 506 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 2: it became a big headline story. But there's all these 507 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 2: other non famous people who get broken into all the time, 508 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 2: and the stuff isn't covered at all. Like if all 509 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:18,479 Speaker 2: the burglaries got this kind of treatment that Teddy Mellencamp's house, Scott. 510 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 5: And the American Idol and the American executive, Yeah, then 511 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 5: every day we would be hearing about all the break 512 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 5: ins and Ensino and all the ones in Tarzana and 513 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 5: all the ones in Woodland Hills and everywhere else. 514 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 2: But only the celebrity ones get noticed. Meantile, there's a 515 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 2: lot of burglaries going on, and the police, of course 516 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 2: or the city officials are back to lying actually crime 517 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 2: is down. It's like, would you stop it? We already 518 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 2: caught Dominic Choi, the interim chief, last year, lying about it, 519 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 2: giving us a bogus phony set of numbers. We already 520 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 2: know that Karen Vass's homeless numbers are inside safe numbers 521 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 2: are phony. People on the inside have publicly admitted to 522 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 2: that all the numbers out of La government are phony numbers. 523 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 2: They're lies. It's bad. The homelessness is worse than they admit. 524 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 2: The crime is worse than they admit. The burglaries are worse, certainly, 525 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,719 Speaker 2: and I mean everybody should be sick of this. Instead, 526 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,719 Speaker 2: you got the Deputy Chief Maria SiO Fatelli. We are 527 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 2: having phenomenal numbers on crime reduction. That being said, when 528 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 2: two wonderful people end up dead in their own home, 529 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 2: those crime statistics fall kind of flat. Yeah, you think, so, 530 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 2: what's the first reaction all the people in the neighborhood had. Hey, 531 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 2: we've had a lot of crime here. There's been a 532 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 2: lot of break ins and the police don't do anything 533 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 2: about it. I wonder how often the police don't even 534 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 2: show up so it's not registered as a crime. And 535 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 2: then when there's a high profile burglary of Teddy Mellencamp's house, 536 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 2: high profile murder of Robin at Robin Kay's house, then oh, 537 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 2: we're gonna have round the clock patrols here. 538 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: We got helicopters. Would we stop, you know, by by Thursday? 539 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: And that's going to be done. 540 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 2: This is just to entertain the media and calm down 541 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 2: the angry savages who were yelling at the meeting. 542 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 10: I said this to you off the air and I'm 543 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 10: just going to say it on the air. I wonder 544 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 10: how Karen Bass would feel if somebody I don't know 545 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 10: who would say, Okay, you know what, we're not going 546 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,479 Speaker 10: to have the World Cup here, and we're not going 547 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 10: to have the Olympics until you clean up this city. 548 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 10: You need to do something about the crime, you need 549 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 10: to do something about more police officers, and you got 550 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 10: to clean up the homeless, or you know what, say 551 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 10: goodbye to the dreams of the Olympics and the World 552 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 10: Cup and all the other events that are planned for la. 553 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 2: I wish that would happen too. That's the only thing 554 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 2: that would get her to clean it up. Absolutely, is 555 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 2: this somebody at the Olympic committee or the World Cup 556 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 2: committee said, you know what, this place is a hellhole. 557 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 2: We're not coming, We're not safe. Yeah, that's the only 558 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 2: thing that would do it. Barring that she's not gonna 559 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 2: do anything. I wish every person that ran into her 560 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 2: would just say, why don't you resign? 561 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: Now? 562 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 2: Why don't you resign now? Does Karen Bass resigned now? 563 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 2: Concept that this is all she should hear, because I 564 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 2: think everybody should be done talking to her. She's a brick, 565 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 2: she's never going to respond properly. She shows no interest. 566 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 2: I mean, she's had zero days where she got in 567 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 2: front of the public and said, Okay, here's what we're doing, 568 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,960 Speaker 2: here's the plan, here's how we're executing it, here's the 569 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 2: people in charge. Here is how you can measure us. 570 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,400 Speaker 3: But she has a lot to say about the ice rain. 571 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 1: Oh my god, she can't shut up about it. She 572 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 1: can't shut up. He was on that ABC show for 573 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: what probably half an hour. 574 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 10: And I'm not saying that people that are upset about 575 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 10: the raids are wrong. 576 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 3: I'm not getting into that. 577 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 10: But I'm saying that a lot of people are pretty 578 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 10: pissed off about crime and homelessness in our city. And 579 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 10: I will just say that I'd rather our city be 580 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 10: cleaned up from all that then have the Olympics and 581 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 10: the World Cup here. 582 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say 583 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 1: that I'm with you on that. You're right. 584 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,799 Speaker 2: I mean enough, they're all gonna do all this raw 585 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 2: ros stuff about the Olympics in the World Cup. In meantime, 586 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 2: we've got to live with with all the burglaries, the murderers, 587 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:16,800 Speaker 2: the homeless people. 588 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 1: It's our daily live that's our daily lives. 589 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,400 Speaker 2: All right, Well we come back Stephen Klubec. He's running 590 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,240 Speaker 2: for governor on the Democratic side here in California. Deborah 591 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 2: Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 592 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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