WEBVTT - $2 Billion For Buses?! (08/27) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.240 KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Kobelt Podcast 0:00:04.300 --> 0:00:11.660 on the iHeartRadio app. KFI AM 640. More stimulating talk radio. 0:00:11.700 --> 0:00:15.069 Hello there. John Kobelt Show. We are on the air 0:00:15.250 --> 0:00:18.190 every day at this time from 3 to 6. And 0:00:18.290 --> 0:00:21.889 whatever you miss, you can listen to the audio podcast 0:00:22.770 --> 0:00:26.310 at 6 o'clock. John Kobelt Show on demand. Live on YouTube. 0:00:26.390 --> 0:00:30.250 Live on X. And a special treat today. we had 0:00:30.450 --> 0:00:35.290 an extra hour live stream video we did on YouTube 0:00:35.310 --> 0:00:38.500 and X, and that's already, that was done live. It's 0:00:38.540 --> 0:00:41.699 posted as a video. It's also a podcast hour, right? 0:00:41.900 --> 0:00:46.839 So bonus video, bonus audio. And, uh, a lot of 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:51.890 it is on, uh, Gavin Newsom. And, uh, I know, 0:00:51.909 --> 0:00:56.410 I know people really enjoy discussing the governor. So you 0:00:56.430 --> 0:00:58.890 listen to it and I think you'll, you'll like it. Um, 0:01:00.380 --> 0:01:06.200 All right, this is so crazy. You know, almost every 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.860 day when I look at the news in the morning, 0:01:09.260 --> 0:01:13.360 I get up really early, like 5.30, 6 o'clock, and 0:01:13.700 --> 0:01:16.240 I start looking, and it's like, no, this can't be. 0:01:16.340 --> 0:01:21.940 I'm figuring maybe I'm still in a dream. Oh, by 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.480 the way, I had a horrible dream last night. 0:01:23.670 --> 0:01:24.060 What did you dream? 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.230 Oof, I can't even talk about it. Really? Was I 0:01:26.310 --> 0:01:26.530 in it? 0:01:26.569 --> 0:01:27.430 I better not have been. 0:01:27.450 --> 0:01:28.810 Yeah, you were in it. Oh, no, don't. 0:01:28.850 --> 0:01:29.370 Did I die? 0:01:29.990 --> 0:01:36.860 No, you didn't die. But we were in danger. So 0:01:36.900 --> 0:01:41.020 this is the story. The LA Times. James Rainey. Actually, 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.179 I looked up. I couldn't believe the story so much. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.200 I then read another version in the New York Post 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:51.220 and another version, laist.com, which is public radio. Everybody's got 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:58.910 the same story. The city of Los Angeles needs $ 2 billion. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:07.160 from Donald Trump, from the federal government, to get 1,700 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:13.580 extra buses on the roads for the Olympic Games and 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.740 to create high-speed lanes on streets and freeways. Now, here 0:02:17.780 --> 0:02:21.260 we are, now less than two years to the start 0:02:21.300 --> 0:02:25.680 of the Olympic Games, and Los Angeles had promised everybody 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:27.980 that even though it was going to be the financial 0:02:28.100 --> 0:02:34.310 backstop If the cost of the games. Went overboard. Don't worry. 0:02:34.870 --> 0:02:36.810 We aren't going to need. We're not going to have 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:41.680 to spend any extra money. Everything's under control. And all 0:02:41.700 --> 0:02:45.640 of a sudden. We need two billion dollars. From the 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:51.919 Trump administration. For 1700 buses. Now that sounds crazy. That 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:59.000 much money just for buses. So I looked up. Previous 0:02:59.030 --> 0:03:03.540 Olympics here in America, how much did the federal government spend? 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.480 In 1984, the last time it was in Los Angeles, 0:03:07.260 --> 0:03:13.630 the federal government spent $ 75 million. Accounting for inflation, $ 145 million. 0:03:14.530 --> 0:03:19.150 That Olympics made a profit. They made money on that Olympics. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:25.060 But adjusting for inflation, the federal government threw in $ 145 million, 0:03:25.139 --> 0:03:30.600 most of it for security and staging assistance. Very little 0:03:31.150 --> 0:03:37.030 money was spent on capital projects. Now, so that's $ 145 million. 0:03:38.590 --> 0:03:44.680 This is $ 2 billion for 1,700 buses and some high-speed lanes? 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.120 And what do you mean high-speed? I guess you can't— 0:03:49.460 --> 0:03:52.660 You can't build new lanes on the streets. So is 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.300 that just for the paint to put special colors that 0:03:56.340 --> 0:03:59.340 it's high speed? I guess that's for the buses that 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.910 they don't have. Isn't this amazing? We have high speed rail, 0:04:03.810 --> 0:04:05.930 but we don't have the rail and we don't have 0:04:05.950 --> 0:04:10.950 the trains. And now we have high speed bus lane 0:04:10.970 --> 0:04:13.610 you're supposed to have for the Olympics, but we don't 0:04:13.630 --> 0:04:18.370 have the lane and we don't have the buses. Now, five... 0:04:19.070 --> 0:04:22.720 Five Democratic members of Congress got together at a press 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:27.200 conference in West Hollywood, led by the extremely irritating Laura 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:33.700 Friedman from Glendale. And she said, we are certainly insisting 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.760 that the federal government provide the resources that Los Angeles 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.280 needs to make these games a success. We need $ 2 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:44.320 billion to give the seamless, wonderful experience everyone expects. Well, 0:04:44.350 --> 0:04:49.130 when Garcetti was selling this thing, he said that... They 0:04:49.150 --> 0:04:52.540 weren't going to need any tax money. Don't worry. LA 0:04:52.580 --> 0:04:55.780 will handle it. Or the Olympic Committee will handle it. Now, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.740 all of a sudden, we're insisting. By the way, all 0:04:59.779 --> 0:05:05.820 these people are hardcore, obnoxious Trump haters. Put aside what 0:05:05.860 --> 0:05:09.440 you think of Trump. If you need billions of dollars 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.540 from somebody, are you going to spend years insulting him? 0:05:13.660 --> 0:05:15.839 And then you're going to be all indignant and outraged 0:05:15.860 --> 0:05:21.850 when he doesn't answer your call? What do you think 0:05:21.890 --> 0:05:25.490 he's going to do? I mean, I'm sure he doesn't 0:05:25.529 --> 0:05:31.299 want the United States embarrassed. Or maybe he's just going 0:05:31.310 --> 0:05:33.800 to let California and Los Angeles hung out to dry 0:05:33.820 --> 0:05:36.900 and say, hey, they wanted the Olympics. They promised they 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:44.320 wouldn't need any outside money. And I'm looking at the 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.120 1996 Atlanta Olympics. That federal funding was $ 605 million. $ 605 million. 0:05:49.740 --> 0:05:54.580 which translates to $ 1. 2 billion in today's money. But a 0:05:54.620 --> 0:05:58.680 lot of that money was for projects that would likely 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.440 have been built anyway and received federal funds anyway. They 0:06:03.660 --> 0:06:07.940 were real infrastructure projects. We are just renting buses for 0:06:07.980 --> 0:06:16.930 two weeks, and we're painting lanes. But on top of this, 0:06:17.860 --> 0:06:24.859 The communist L.A. city controller, Kenneth Mejia, said that L.A. 28, 0:06:24.860 --> 0:06:28.060 and that is the private nonprofit that's overseeing the games, 0:06:28.860 --> 0:06:33.089 he wants more detailed reports on its finances because they 0:06:33.130 --> 0:06:36.729 have complied fully with only two of the nine requirements 0:06:36.770 --> 0:06:40.330 of the contract, something called the games agreement. Now, the 0:06:40.390 --> 0:06:46.099 communist is calling out the L.A. Olympic Committee here. for 0:06:46.380 --> 0:06:53.580 sharing very little financial information. Meantime, the Congress people are insisting, 0:06:53.660 --> 0:07:02.760 demanding that Trump cough up $ 2 billion for buses. I'd 0:07:02.779 --> 0:07:06.279 like to see the breakout on that, 1,700 buses for 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:10.640 $ 2 billion for two weeks. And it seems like this 0:07:10.820 --> 0:07:13.730 all should have been worked out, I don't know, 10 0:07:13.730 --> 0:07:17.720 years ago when they were bidding on this? I mean, 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.370 am I crazy? I'm not an Olympics financing expert, but 0:07:22.270 --> 0:07:29.190 really now? You suddenly realized you're $ 2 billion short? They're 0:07:29.270 --> 0:07:33.620 apparently trying to get support from Trump and the Republicans. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.300 Last year, there was legislation approved in Congress promising a 0:07:41.460 --> 0:07:45.180 billion dollars in funding for security, but none of that 0:07:45.260 --> 0:07:52.210 money has shown up yet. And Friedman, Laura Friedman is 0:07:52.230 --> 0:07:54.330 saying without the money, then the games aren't going to 0:07:54.350 --> 0:07:57.030 be the big showcase event for Los Angeles and California 0:07:57.790 --> 0:08:00.810 that people are expecting. Well, maybe Los Angeles and California 0:08:00.890 --> 0:08:05.830 should have come up with the money. I mean, California 0:08:05.860 --> 0:08:11.840 is spending $ 13 billion on illegal alien health care. Maybe 0:08:11.860 --> 0:08:16.640 you shouldn't have done that. You wasted $ 17 billion on 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:21.920 high-speed rail. And that's flushed down the toilet. You blew, oh, 0:08:21.980 --> 0:08:29.080 you allowed like $ 35 billion to get stolen for the 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:35.250 unemployment fraud that went on during COVID. How about the 0:08:35.250 --> 0:08:39.290 $ 24 billion that Newsom blew on homeless spending and he 0:08:39.330 --> 0:08:43.189 can't account for it? And now you're banging on Trump's door? 0:08:45.510 --> 0:08:52.000 That's really outrageous. This is why you can't give a 0:08:52.500 --> 0:08:56.370 big project like putting on the World Wide Olympics to 0:08:56.390 --> 0:09:07.640 a bunch of clowns. This is $ 2 billion for 1,700 buses. 0:09:07.740 --> 0:09:12.820 This doesn't sound right. More coming up. 0:09:13.620 --> 0:09:17.880 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM640. 0:09:23.090 --> 0:09:27.410 KFI AM 640, live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. John 0:09:27.470 --> 0:09:34.089 Cobell Show. And we're on from 3 to 6. YouTube, X. 0:09:35.050 --> 0:09:37.809 We have a live video running right now. And this 0:09:37.870 --> 0:09:40.340 morning we did a live stream, and you can access 0:09:40.380 --> 0:09:47.280 that on either YouTube or X as well. You know, 0:09:47.460 --> 0:09:51.250 I mentioned this on the live stream, and I– If 0:09:51.470 --> 0:09:54.090 you have just a few dollars, you should subscribe to 0:09:54.130 --> 0:10:00.070 Spencer Pratt's Substack because he's actually a great writer. And 0:10:00.170 --> 0:10:02.030 he said the other day, he goes, people think I 0:10:02.070 --> 0:10:04.809 don't write this. They think it's AI. He goes, no, 0:10:04.870 --> 0:10:10.550 I write it. And he writes really good stuff. And 0:10:10.670 --> 0:10:14.420 I don't want to give away what's in it. But 0:10:14.540 --> 0:10:18.940 he talked about what a disaster Gavin Newsom will be 0:10:19.100 --> 0:10:22.410 as a candidate running. for president, and you should read it. 0:10:22.470 --> 0:10:27.190 He also made several cocaine jokes in the story. And 0:10:27.230 --> 0:10:30.910 then Dr. Humaan Hamadi, who we've had on the show, 0:10:31.620 --> 0:10:35.220 and he's a man of many talents, and he posted 0:10:35.260 --> 0:10:39.860 something today making a crack about Newsom's cocaine. And I 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.460 just kind of found it weird that there are four 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.610 cocaine references this morning in the stuff I was reading, 0:10:46.620 --> 0:10:50.820 because people think of him as maybe having Tequila and 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:56.059 wine issues. Because remember after the Palisades fire, his friend 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:01.160 apparently told a reporter that or told friends and it 0:11:01.179 --> 0:11:04.490 got leaked out that Newsom knocked back a whole bottle 0:11:04.550 --> 0:11:10.370 of tequila by the end of that day. And he's 0:11:10.410 --> 0:11:15.770 in the news for wine again. He's at a press 0:11:15.820 --> 0:11:22.059 conference he had for something else. He and, well, Gavin 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:26.100 and Grifter Jennifer are selling their home in the Sacramento 0:11:26.179 --> 0:11:32.010 area for $ 7. 5 million. Now, in the real estate description 0:11:32.050 --> 0:11:38.910 of the home, it says a 5,000-bottle wine cellar. And 0:11:38.950 --> 0:11:44.080 that is a lot of wine. And he runs, well, 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.100 he has a company that runs the wineries, vineyards, restaurants. 0:11:50.940 --> 0:11:56.120 he's claiming he didn't know there was a 5,000-bottle wine cellar. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.160 Listen to this clip. 0:11:58.460 --> 0:12:03.329 Are you serious? Really? 0:12:03.370 --> 0:12:05.369 No, I never filled it. I didn't even know it 0:12:05.390 --> 0:12:07.350 had that much until I read that in your newspaper. 0:12:08.030 --> 0:12:10.469 I literally didn't even know. By the way, I put 0:12:10.510 --> 0:12:12.050 books in there. I don't know if you saw the photos. 0:12:12.270 --> 0:12:15.380 There's no wine there. It's books. Well, trust me, it's 0:12:15.420 --> 0:12:19.199 my only inheritance from my father. Well, I think that's 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.860 a triple lie there. He managed to cram three lies 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.380 in eight seconds. First of all, there is a photo 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:30.300 with wine bottles in all the cubby holes. I'm looking 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.540 at it right now. And there is also the next 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:40.290 shelf over are books. But he announced on stage some 0:12:40.309 --> 0:12:44.329 months back that he can't read. People who can't read 0:12:44.350 --> 0:12:47.400 don't have book collections. Oh, but he said, well, that's 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.400 the only inheritance he got from his dad, huh? His 0:12:51.540 --> 0:12:55.199 dad was the fixer. He was an attorney and a 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:59.839 judge and was the fixer for the Getty family. And 0:13:00.140 --> 0:13:04.770 in fact, he negotiated that famous incident where one of 0:13:04.809 --> 0:13:08.329 the Getty kids back in the 70s was kidnapped and 0:13:08.590 --> 0:13:14.490 the kidnapper sliced off an ear. Yeah, Newsom's dad, I 0:13:14.510 --> 0:13:16.770 guess he wasn't much of a negotiator. I mean, when 0:13:16.809 --> 0:13:19.670 you end up losing your kid's ear, he's about as 0:13:19.690 --> 0:13:22.850 good of a negotiator as Newsom is governor. It's like 0:13:22.870 --> 0:13:26.360 the Doug Garcetti's, you know, Gil and Eric. You got 0:13:26.380 --> 0:13:29.900 the Doug Newsom's, William and Gavin. But in any event, 0:13:30.500 --> 0:13:35.400 he claims there's the only inheritance. The inheritance, I doubt 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.610 that if William Newsom is getting paid by the Gettys. 0:13:39.690 --> 0:13:44.310 And the Gettys... gave Gavin the money to start up 0:13:44.309 --> 0:13:49.660 10 out of his 11 businesses. Most of them related to, 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.700 if not all of them, related to wine and restaurants, 0:13:52.740 --> 0:13:57.560 wine and food. So what is this that is only 0:13:57.620 --> 0:14:01.559 dad's inheritance if your dad's Getty Connections got you the 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.780 money to start 10 businesses? And you do have bottles 0:14:05.820 --> 0:14:10.440 of wine. Look, if I had a house with 5,000 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:14.990 bottles of wine I would know it holds 5,000 bottles 0:14:15.030 --> 0:14:17.010 of wine because if you look at the photo of 0:14:17.030 --> 0:14:20.510 the wine cellar, it can't be anything else. It's meant 0:14:20.550 --> 0:14:24.750 to be cold. It's got a brick ceiling, brick walls, 0:14:26.110 --> 0:14:35.119 tile floors. I'm sure it's refrigerated. Oh, I didn't know. Oh, wow, really? Oh, 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.500 I didn't know that until I read your story. Really, 0:14:38.540 --> 0:14:40.190 all I have is books there. And I'm looking at 0:14:40.210 --> 0:14:43.530 the photos. Like, yeah, there's books on one aisle, but 0:14:43.590 --> 0:14:50.500 there's wine bottles at the other aisle. How does he 0:14:50.550 --> 0:14:56.700 do that? And he doesn't even hesitate. You know, sometimes 0:14:56.740 --> 0:15:01.820 when people, you know, try to lie, they get a 0:15:01.860 --> 0:15:05.470 catch in their speech, in the flow of their speech. 0:15:05.530 --> 0:15:06.700 They can't really go through with it. 0:15:07.810 --> 0:15:07.869 Ah. 0:15:11.740 --> 0:15:17.140 And the home also has a personal wellness oasis, a 0:15:17.420 --> 0:15:25.400 resort-style pool, full-size tennis court, and the private casita, which 0:15:25.860 --> 0:15:29.010 I was told is a guest house. Yeah, much of 0:15:29.350 --> 0:15:33.310 Newsom's income is from a wine and hospitality business that 0:15:33.390 --> 0:15:38.780 he got from the Getty Oil family. Didn't get an 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.880 inheritance from his dad. No. He just got lifelong connections 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:48.230 to one of the wealthiest families in American history, which 0:15:48.270 --> 0:15:54.910 he used to produce... He actually makes wine. Plump Jack. 0:15:56.750 --> 0:15:59.780 Ever tell you my wife was putting together a gift basket? No. 0:16:00.500 --> 0:16:04.660 And she's calling a local place. And it was on speakerphone, 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.500 so I heard the woman say, okay... you know, is 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.560 there any particular wine you want in the gift basket? 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.160 And my wife said, no, and what do you have? Oh, 0:16:12.180 --> 0:16:14.690 we could put this Plump Jack. And I just yelled 0:16:14.710 --> 0:16:18.950 from across the room, no, Plump Jack, no. Enough of 0:16:19.030 --> 0:16:21.930 our money's going to Newsom. We're not buying a bottle 0:16:21.950 --> 0:16:22.750 of his wine, too. 0:16:23.350 --> 0:16:23.490 Ouch! 0:16:23.830 --> 0:16:25.610 Hey, John, you just missed something. 0:16:25.910 --> 0:16:28.410 You know, I told you that Mayor Bass was live 0:16:28.510 --> 0:16:31.450 on KTLA. There's an abandoned building in Studio City, and 0:16:31.490 --> 0:16:33.910 so the residents are fed up because homeless people are there. 0:16:33.930 --> 0:16:37.250 There's lots of trash. It's a nightmare. So I was 0:16:37.330 --> 0:16:40.670 looking at Mayor Bass, and she looked very different to me. 0:16:40.810 --> 0:16:44.570 And then Ray came in and said, what the heck 0:16:44.610 --> 0:16:45.310 with her face? 0:16:45.350 --> 0:16:47.830 You need to tell John. So she did some, there's 0:16:47.870 --> 0:16:48.450 a change. 0:16:49.130 --> 0:16:51.610 And you missed it because she's not on, but I'm 0:16:51.650 --> 0:16:56.040 sure Ray will find a picture or something. But there's something, 0:16:56.260 --> 0:16:59.560 unless she's aging because of the stress of the campaign. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.300 I don't know. This was a good change or a 0:17:01.300 --> 0:17:04.139 bad change? Bad change. 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:05.060 I'm taking the fifth. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.300 It was bad really maybe uh surgery gone. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:14.639 Awry at first i thought she kind of looked older 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:19.160 but i right so erica's saying yes but there's something 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.409 different and i don't i don't know what it is 0:17:21.450 --> 0:17:24.090 so i'm not gonna say all right well i can't 0:17:24.130 --> 0:17:26.850 understand that you know stress she's probably under a lot 0:17:26.890 --> 0:17:27.790 of stress these. 0:17:27.650 --> 0:17:31.150 Days hey it's it's not easy destroying a major city 0:17:31.830 --> 0:17:35.370 You know, she's up probably 18, 20 hours a day 0:17:35.410 --> 0:17:37.590 ruining this place. All right, I'll go look for it 0:17:37.869 --> 0:17:38.910 while you do the news. 0:17:38.990 --> 0:17:42.040 Okay, and this was Ray's. This was Ray wanted me 0:17:42.060 --> 0:17:45.000 to tell you. So don't blame me, anybody, about that. 0:17:45.020 --> 0:17:46.619 Yeah, we got a lot of Karen Bass fans in 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.639 the audience who are insulted. Yeah, sure, there'll be picket 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:50.480 lines here soon. 0:17:51.770 --> 0:17:55.730 You're listening to John Kobelt on Demand from KFI AM640. 0:17:59.950 --> 0:18:03.790 KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. John Kobelt Show. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.080 And Ron from 3 to 6. And you can follow 0:18:08.100 --> 0:18:10.580 us at John Kobelt Radio. So I'm looking to find 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:15.460 some video of Karen Bass's public appearance today, which has, 0:18:16.859 --> 0:18:20.810 so far it's unanimous that she's not looking too good. 0:18:22.010 --> 0:18:26.130 But I can't find, I can't find that exact video. 0:18:26.930 --> 0:18:31.550 But I didn't know about the story until now. There 0:18:31.930 --> 0:18:35.050 was a fire in Studio City at this abandoned property. 0:18:35.070 --> 0:18:40.409 It was a house, and it had enormous amounts of 0:18:40.490 --> 0:18:45.840 garbage in the backyard. It had an empty swimming pool 0:18:46.150 --> 0:18:51.820 filled to the top with all kinds of trash. And. 0:18:53.630 --> 0:18:57.080 Everybody's now screaming at Bass because the people in the 0:18:57.100 --> 0:19:00.639 neighborhood have called Bass and they've called Nithya Raman. It's 0:19:00.660 --> 0:19:04.800 her district, of course. They have records going back to 2021. 0:19:04.780 --> 0:19:08.310 They've been calling about this property. Finally, it goes on fire. 0:19:10.510 --> 0:19:14.510 And Bass and Raman are now blaming each other. The 0:19:14.550 --> 0:19:18.679 reason that. This story finally went public is the neighbors 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.959 finally called the media, which I think should be the 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:22.720 first thing you do when you have one of these places, 0:19:23.100 --> 0:19:30.010 not the last thing. Problems go back to 2021. And 0:19:30.810 --> 0:19:37.550 Bass is saying Rahman should have contacted her directly. You're 0:19:37.590 --> 0:19:42.090 not aware? You're not, I'm, you know, I got the 0:19:42.109 --> 0:19:51.540 hiccups back. Boo! So it's been five years. Okay, you 0:19:51.580 --> 0:19:54.080 know what? Now what am I going to do? 0:19:54.140 --> 0:19:56.640 Go get some sugar and put it on your tongue. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.800 Sugar on my tongue? Yeah. Well, I don't have any 0:20:00.900 --> 0:20:01.380 sugar here. 0:20:02.020 --> 0:20:02.939 Okay, well, somebody. 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.340 Let me tell you, you're doing a live radio show. 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:06.919 The last thing you want is a case of the hiccups. 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:11.840 I know. You were worried about catching colds and coughing 0:20:11.950 --> 0:20:12.820 while you're reading the news? 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:14.380 I know. 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:15.500 Hiccups aren't much better. 0:20:15.980 --> 0:20:18.020 Hold your breath for five seconds. 0:20:18.820 --> 0:20:19.520 For five seconds? 0:20:19.540 --> 0:20:30.619 Yeah. One, two, three, four, five. Okay. Let's see if 0:20:30.660 --> 0:20:31.080 that helped. 0:20:32.940 --> 0:20:33.200 Okay. 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:35.320 Well, you did six, but it's okay. 0:20:35.380 --> 0:20:39.710 That's all right. I hiccuped once, so. Then I came back. Oh, 0:20:41.030 --> 0:20:44.830 it's going to be a great afternoon. This is just great. Well, 0:20:45.090 --> 0:20:46.910 you people just have to put up with the hiccups. 0:20:46.930 --> 0:20:49.280 I don't know what to tell you. In any event, 0:20:49.470 --> 0:20:53.800 Bass is saying that she's had, that Rahman's had her 0:20:54.340 --> 0:20:58.280 cell phone number for years. Why didn't she call? The 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.760 neighbors are saying, well, we've called Rahman for years and 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.240 she never did anything. They're saying they called City Hall 0:21:03.260 --> 0:21:08.730 for years and you never did anything. Is it daunting 0:21:08.790 --> 0:21:11.429 on people that these two, Bass and Rahman, don't care 0:21:11.450 --> 0:21:14.379 at all? They have a good life. They're making a 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.800 lot of money. And they don't sit around waiting for 0:21:17.820 --> 0:21:20.820 your phone calls. They don't read memos from the staff 0:21:20.859 --> 0:21:26.119 who put together the day's complaints. Whatever you're calling in, 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.919 whoever you're talking to, the news doesn't reach Bass or Rahman. 0:21:30.810 --> 0:21:37.270 And they're not asking for the news. They're not demanding that. 0:21:37.910 --> 0:21:43.210 They're employees. Tell them what's going on. So you might 0:21:43.250 --> 0:21:48.250 as well be shouting down, just lift up a manhole 0:21:48.290 --> 0:21:52.930 and shout down into the sewers. Go talk to the wall, 0:21:53.710 --> 0:21:56.169 as my mother used to say. I feel like I'm 0:21:56.210 --> 0:22:00.420 talking to the wall. You are talking to the wall. Now, 0:22:01.140 --> 0:22:03.659 I was just watching a clip from Channel 5 where 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:06.120 she went on the morning show. And she goes, you know, 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:09.409 I always watch your show. She tries to disarm, I 0:22:09.470 --> 0:22:14.970 noticed this in interviews, she tries to disarm the interviewer. Well, 0:22:16.030 --> 0:22:19.449 as you know, well, we've talked about this, trying to 0:22:19.490 --> 0:22:23.490 establish a personal relationship. So she tells the KTLA anchors, well, 0:22:23.510 --> 0:22:28.190 I watch you every morning. And I guess she saw 0:22:28.230 --> 0:22:32.690 this story and realized she's got to do something because 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:36.669 the video of the fire is pretty spectacular. And the 0:22:36.770 --> 0:22:40.450 old video they had of all the rotting garbage is 0:22:40.490 --> 0:22:48.179 pretty spectacular. And this is on Babcock Avenue. There was 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.459 so much debris and overgrown vegetation. I don't know, maybe 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:57.290 it was spontaneous combustion. So what do you do when 0:22:57.330 --> 0:23:00.530 you have the two people running? And they're not only 0:23:00.590 --> 0:23:02.730 really bad at their jobs, but one of the reasons 0:23:02.750 --> 0:23:06.400 they're really bad is they don't care. And they'll never 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:08.899 admit they don't care. And no one's going to force 0:23:08.940 --> 0:23:11.380 them to admit they don't care. So what do you do? 0:23:14.970 --> 0:23:17.070 And a big percentage of the votes are union votes. 0:23:17.190 --> 0:23:19.590 And the union people don't care just as long as 0:23:19.630 --> 0:23:23.860 they get their big, fat union raise. Talk more. 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:30.400 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:23:34.810 --> 0:23:38.450 Can't buy AM640 more stimulating talk radio, the John Cobalt Show. 0:23:39.050 --> 0:23:40.430 And the hiccups are gone. 0:23:41.010 --> 0:23:42.250 Did you do what I told you to do? 0:23:42.910 --> 0:23:44.229 No, but I want to get some sugar. I didn't 0:23:44.250 --> 0:23:49.570 have any sugar on me. Oh. But they're gone. What 0:23:49.590 --> 0:23:52.570 did you do? I just. 0:23:52.670 --> 0:23:54.730 You ran out of here like a crazy person, so 0:23:54.750 --> 0:23:55.130 I guess you. 0:23:55.070 --> 0:23:58.590 Don't want to tell us. It's a long explanation. I'll 0:23:58.630 --> 0:24:01.780 tell you later. Believe me, you don't want to hear 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:03.560 it right now. Okay. 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:03.940 You're right. 0:24:04.140 --> 0:24:11.450 Never mind. Do you remember a few months back, it 0:24:12.030 --> 0:24:15.330 happened in March, because I know you always get spooked 0:24:15.390 --> 0:24:18.270 by air crash stories. 0:24:18.290 --> 0:24:18.800 Oh, please. 0:24:18.990 --> 0:24:19.190 Yeah. 0:24:19.490 --> 0:24:22.899 Remember the fire truck that crashed into the plane on 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:26.320 the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport in New York City? And 0:24:26.660 --> 0:24:30.760 it killed... the pilot and the co-pilot of the plane. 0:24:32.020 --> 0:24:38.820 This fire truck was responding to a different incident and crossed, 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:46.070 went right across the landing lanes, crashed into the nose 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:52.429 of this Air Canada plane and killed the pilot and 0:24:52.450 --> 0:24:57.640 the co-pilot. The reason for this is two air traffic 0:24:57.700 --> 0:25:03.980 controllers left work early, right before the collision. So the 0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:09.130 two controllers who were left had no backup and no assistance, 0:25:09.210 --> 0:25:15.570 and they needed it. Leaving early is called an early shove, 0:25:16.590 --> 0:25:21.590 according to traffic controllers. And these two characters took an 0:25:21.630 --> 0:25:29.440 early shove. It's longstanding practice in the industry. I guess 0:25:29.480 --> 0:25:31.400 when you're feeling tired and you want to go home. 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:36.280 I'm tired. Can I go home? I mean, my job 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:38.820 is a lot less important than an air traffic controller. 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:42.420 And they killed two pilots. And there were six other 0:25:42.460 --> 0:25:48.020 people who got injured as well. The fire truck killed 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:51.439 the two pilots because the air traffic controllers had gone home. I... 0:25:54.980 --> 0:25:59.399 Now they're going to fire those two. An early shove. 0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:08.460 That's that's. I'd never heard of this. Wouldn't you feel guilty? 0:26:08.660 --> 0:26:09.040 Yes. 0:26:09.830 --> 0:26:10.119 Yes. 0:26:10.460 --> 0:26:11.550 A hundred percent. 0:26:13.010 --> 0:26:15.850 I mean, haven't we all, if we have responsible jobs, 0:26:15.890 --> 0:26:18.310 we don't waste our days as social media influencers. 0:26:18.350 --> 0:26:18.530 Right. 0:26:18.850 --> 0:26:22.459 But if we have responsible jobs. And you leave early, 0:26:22.619 --> 0:26:25.820 and that gives too much work to somebody else, or 0:26:25.840 --> 0:26:29.270 some project doesn't get done. I don't know. I feel 0:26:29.310 --> 0:26:32.129 bad about that. I know you do. I do. Yeah. 0:26:33.369 --> 0:26:35.410 These people are landing planes. 0:26:36.150 --> 0:26:38.450 The most important. One of the most important jobs. 0:26:39.369 --> 0:26:42.590 Where people actually died, and it's like, I'm not into 0:26:42.630 --> 0:26:44.939 it anymore. Can I have an early shove? 0:26:45.660 --> 0:26:46.219 I'm tired. 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:47.100 I need a nap. 0:26:47.540 --> 0:26:50.830 What the hell? What is with, I mean, the work 0:26:50.910 --> 0:26:55.630 ethic has just totally evaporated. It's just gone ever since 0:26:55.670 --> 0:26:58.250 COVID ever since COVID. Yeah. This would not have happened 0:26:58.290 --> 0:27:01.650 before COVID there'd be plane crashes or collisions, but not 0:27:01.730 --> 0:27:04.940 because of an early shove. Although I don't know. They 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:07.500 said that it's been, this has been going on for years. Well, 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:08.900 it shouldn't have been going on for years. It shouldn't 0:27:08.940 --> 0:27:09.780 go for a day. 0:27:12.740 --> 0:27:13.160 Crazy. 0:27:14.960 --> 0:27:18.480 Um, We've got a special segment coming up right after 0:27:18.480 --> 0:27:20.360