1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,640
Speaker 1: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel

2
00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,520
Speaker 1: Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every day

3
00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:11,000
Speaker 1: from three to six, three to six now Conway's on

4
00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,880
Speaker 1: six to ten, and then after the show, if you

5
00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,440
Speaker 1: missed any part of it after six o'clock, the podcast

6
00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,880
Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show on demand and that's where you catch up.

7
00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:25,400
Speaker 1: Latest from the California Post is Newsom is now in

8
00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:30,120
Speaker 1: South Carolina speaking at an auditorium trying to sell his book.

9
00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,600
Speaker 1: So he's in South Carolina. Why things continue to go

10
00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:40,240
Speaker 1: to hell? Here? Also, one more little news tidbit. Looks

11
00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,880
Speaker 1: like the northeast got about three feet of global warming

12
00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,680
Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours. In fact, Warwick, Rhode

13
00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,560
Speaker 1: Island got thirty seven inches of global warming. That's I remember.

14
00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:58,280
Speaker 1: A few years back there was some idiot. She was

15
00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:04,160
Speaker 1: a congresswoman, and I forget the congressman and congressman. They

16
00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,800
Speaker 1: were on the floor of the house and they're going, oh, it's.

17
00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:07,440
Speaker 2: Gonna be terrible.

18
00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,520
Speaker 1: I don't think our children they're gonna grow up not

19
00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,919
Speaker 1: knowing what snow is. They're not gonna be any snow

20
00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,920
Speaker 1: for them to play. And it's like you're a moron. Well,

21
00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,319
Speaker 1: they got thirty seven inches of it today Rhode Island

22
00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:22,959
Speaker 1: and about two feet of it in New York City. Right,

23
00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,640
Speaker 1: let's go to John Fleischman, John soodes itmatter dot com

24
00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,600
Speaker 1: is his website, and he's a writer and he's a commentator,

25
00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,480
Speaker 1: and he wrote a piece in the California Post about

26
00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:38,319
Speaker 1: the California Democratic Party. They had their conference, their convention

27
00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:43,360
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. All the gubernatorial candidates gave their pitches

28
00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,360
Speaker 1: and they were all yacking about affordability. John, how are you.

29
00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,400
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, John, you know you do that freaked

30
00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,040
Speaker 3: out congresswoman no snow thing? Pretty good?

31
00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,600
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. I identify as a freaked out

32
00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,520
Speaker 1: Democratic congresswoman. That's my official sexuality box. I check.

33
00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,480
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, the Democrats all gathered at Moscone Center in

34
00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,600
Speaker 3: San Francisco in front of like thirty five hundred of

35
00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,600
Speaker 3: the most looney tune left. You can only imagine what

36
00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,880
Speaker 3: a California Democratic Party delegate looks like. I mean, you know,

37
00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:19,440
Speaker 3: they're all straight out of Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Santa Monica,

38
00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,960
Speaker 3: you know, the whole deal. Anyways, they all went up

39
00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,800
Speaker 3: there and they're all of their versions of affordability. Were

40
00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:28,480
Speaker 3: how they're going to raise taxes like you?

41
00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:30,640
Speaker 1: Literally like you?

42
00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,600
Speaker 3: And I would say, hey, get out of mirror, because

43
00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,840
Speaker 3: if there's a reason why California is more expensive than

44
00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,440
Speaker 3: all forty nine other states. Notice this is not Trump now,

45
00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:45,079
Speaker 3: because all the states are different. He's the national president, right,

46
00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,680
Speaker 3: Why is this state more expensive than the others? And you,

47
00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:50,760
Speaker 3: if you're listening to this show, you know that it's

48
00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:55,480
Speaker 3: high taxes, high fees, and regulations, rinse wash, repeat. So

49
00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,840
Speaker 3: all these people do is go to the convention and

50
00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:02,960
Speaker 3: propose more taxes, fees and regulations. And so the.

51
00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,600
Speaker 4: Whole thing is just ludicrous and and uh and nutty,

52
00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,200
Speaker 4: uh you know, and and so and then in the

53
00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,880
Speaker 4: middle of all of it you get our favorite condescending

54
00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,120
Speaker 4: female congresswoman. We'll see if you can interview, if you

55
00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:17,919
Speaker 4: can channel your inner Katie Porter.

56
00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,160
Speaker 1: Oh, I got the clip. Let me let me play

57
00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,799
Speaker 1: the clip for people if they haven't heard it. Play perfect.

58
00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,440
Speaker 1: This is great play cut number eight. This is Katie

59
00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,000
Speaker 1: Porter again. She's trying to get an endorsement from the

60
00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,000
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. Here awful message. So we can all agree

61
00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,760
Speaker 1: on sail with me. Are you ready? One?

62
00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:43,279
Speaker 5: Two, three, Yeah?

63
00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:49,600
Speaker 1: That's right, Trump, and she had she had her stupid

64
00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,800
Speaker 1: little whiteboard with the phrase bleep Trump on it.

65
00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:58,240
Speaker 3: That's right. Matter of fact, I'm glad you had that.

66
00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,760
Speaker 3: There were hundreds of protesters outside, not protesting these liberal

67
00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,200
Speaker 3: Democrats that have taken over California. These are the further

68
00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,760
Speaker 3: left protesters who were upset that these people aren't left

69
00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:17,560
Speaker 3: wing enough. And so you know, between that and attacking Newsom.

70
00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,240
Speaker 3: But you know, Newsom of course was not even there

71
00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,880
Speaker 3: because he's busy on the aforementioned book tour that he's

72
00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,640
Speaker 3: on on the East Coast. Have you guys talked about

73
00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:28,919
Speaker 3: what he did yesterday?

74
00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:35,000
Speaker 1: Oh? Oh yeah? Him in Atlanta. He's telling a black

75
00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,840
Speaker 1: audience and the black mayor on stage that he's like them.

76
00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,440
Speaker 1: He was, he can't read, and he's got a low

77
00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:42,480
Speaker 1: s at score.

78
00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,080
Speaker 3: Let's set the table. He's in Atlanta at a at

79
00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,840
Speaker 3: a program where it's basically all black Americans at this program.

80
00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:51,640
Speaker 1: He's gonna sit.

81
00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,960
Speaker 3: Down with chairs and the mayor of Atlanta is sitting

82
00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,520
Speaker 3: right next to him, and he just looks and he says,

83
00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,080
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to impress you. He's says, I am

84
00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,919
Speaker 3: like you. I am no better than you. I'm a

85
00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,640
Speaker 3: nine sixty SAT guy. You've never seen me read a

86
00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,600
Speaker 3: speech because I cannot read a speech. I'm like you,

87
00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,039
Speaker 3: what the actual hell? I mean, it's like, it's like,

88
00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,159
Speaker 3: you can't make this stuff up. And so, of course,

89
00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:20,839
Speaker 3: and the mayor of Atlanta, does one of you know

90
00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:23,440
Speaker 3: how you can do like a fake laugh? Like yeah,

91
00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,480
Speaker 3: right right, it was, I mean right out of central casting.

92
00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,840
Speaker 3: So I mean you just just you can't make Oh.

93
00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,400
Speaker 3: And then it's even better because then his staff people,

94
00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,039
Speaker 3: when when everybody started to notice this and say something

95
00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:41,720
Speaker 3: about it, Oh, you're beating up on the guy with dyslexia.

96
00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,720
Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you see the clip that somebody.

97
00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,679
Speaker 3: Like dyslexia is like down syndrome or something.

98
00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,640
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if did you hear this clip

99
00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,320
Speaker 1: about him on his own podcast a few months ago,

100
00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:56,760
Speaker 1: bragging about how fast he can read. Well, no, yeah,

101
00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:58,880
Speaker 1: let me play it. Let me play it for you,

102
00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,320
Speaker 1: because it's hard to be okay. So he's talking to

103
00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,160
Speaker 1: two authors and they came on his podcast. First thing

104
00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,880
Speaker 1: eased to eat brags is how quickly he read their book.

105
00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,240
Speaker 6: Amy Jonathan, thank you so much for taking the time

106
00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,320
Speaker 6: to be here. You've written a.

107
00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:13,920
Speaker 1: Hell of a book. And I don't say that lightly.

108
00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,080
Speaker 6: I went through it in a quick hour and a half,

109
00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,600
Speaker 6: almost two hours, and trust me, I don't read very fast.

110
00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000
Speaker 6: But it reads at an unbelievable pace. It's so well written,

111
00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,320
Speaker 6: and of course it's so familiar because I fell a

112
00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,080
Speaker 6: little bit adjacent so much of the subject matter.

113
00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,279
Speaker 1: But it's eighteen chapters.

114
00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,159
Speaker 6: It's an impressive piece of work, two hundred and sixty

115
00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:38,159
Speaker 6: three or so pages.

116
00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:40,760
Speaker 1: Look at two hundred and sixty three pages and an

117
00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:45,760
Speaker 1: hour and a half. But he can't read, just like.

118
00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:47,680
Speaker 3: Taking one of those classes where you focus on every

119
00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:53,360
Speaker 3: third word, right, I know when you go through it, John,

120
00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,360
Speaker 3: his big problem is is that, you know, obviously, what

121
00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,560
Speaker 3: we've had going on in California is a train wreck,

122
00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,839
Speaker 3: literally with no train I should add, right, everything that

123
00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,640
Speaker 3: he's done wrong here is nothing he can run on nationally.

124
00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:06,920
Speaker 3: So the one thing that he's supposed to be able

125
00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,000
Speaker 3: to sell is that I'm mister cool, I am the telligenic,

126
00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:15,080
Speaker 3: I am mister you know I Am going to be

127
00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,240
Speaker 3: the pr president right. Well, not if he walks into

128
00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,560
Speaker 3: the black community and basically says, I'm just like you guys, because.

129
00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:22,920
Speaker 1: I can't read.

130
00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,840
Speaker 3: I mean, you literally can't make this stuff up. John,

131
00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,880
Speaker 3: It's just it's too much. So so this afternoon at

132
00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:32,760
Speaker 3: So does it matter dot Com? I have the entire

133
00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:34,880
Speaker 3: write up on it, with the video of it. People

134
00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,320
Speaker 3: can check it out, okay, but it's just nobody creates

135
00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,840
Speaker 3: more content for you and me.

136
00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:44,600
Speaker 1: John, this guy, I want him to run because it's

137
00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,520
Speaker 1: so good for business here, but I don't think he's

138
00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:49,720
Speaker 1: going to last long once he gets out of this bubble?

139
00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:58,200
Speaker 1: I think, is everybody insane? Is everybody insane? None of

140
00:07:58,280 --> 00:07:59,239
Speaker 1: this makes any sense?

141
00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,200
Speaker 3: I think. I think they're they're desperate, they're trying to

142
00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,120
Speaker 3: figure out what to do. I mean, look, even our

143
00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,040
Speaker 3: friend Jamala Harris is running again, So I mean, who

144
00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,480
Speaker 3: knows what they're gonna do? Who knows what you're gonna

145
00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:11,400
Speaker 3: You're you're gonna be.

146
00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:12,520
Speaker 1: You got more.

147
00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,440
Speaker 3: Content for the for KFI Radio.

148
00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,080
Speaker 1: Than you've ever had before, and so do you? All right? John?

149
00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:18,000
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on.

150
00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:20,800
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Thank you, sir.

151
00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,680
Speaker 1: All Right, we'll talk against soon, John Fleischman. So does itmatter?

152
00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:24,720
Speaker 1: Dot Com? Go read it?

153
00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,800
Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kfi am

154
00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:31,000
Speaker 5: six forty.

155
00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,720
Speaker 1: Do you believe this story? We got audio of this,

156
00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:39,640
Speaker 1: don't we Matthew Sheedorf story, Yeah, yeah, we do. No,

157
00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,800
Speaker 1: that's a different one. Okay, let me tell you about this. Uh.

158
00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,359
Speaker 1: This is the latest kicking the teeth to the Palisades

159
00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:55,480
Speaker 1: residence from Karen Bass. It's now fourteen months, right after

160
00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:01,160
Speaker 1: Karen Bass's fire. The Bass fire destroyed over six thousand homes.

161
00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:07,160
Speaker 1: Some residents now say they're being mailed thirty one dollar notices.

162
00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:11,840
Speaker 1: They're being fined because they're not complying with brush clearance rules.

163
00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:18,280
Speaker 1: They don't have any brush. They're home burned, everything on

164
00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:22,920
Speaker 1: the lot burned. The lots are empty, there's nothing but dirt.

165
00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:30,280
Speaker 1: I go there twice a week. It's dirt. There might

166
00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,560
Speaker 1: be a couple of weeds, but there's no brush. And

167
00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:38,280
Speaker 1: Karen Bass sends out a letter demanding thirty one dollars.

168
00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:45,000
Speaker 1: One resident, Christine Martinez said, this is one final blow

169
00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,840
Speaker 1: after everything that happened, they're still trying to take money.

170
00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,800
Speaker 1: Carol Sanborn, by the way, these women lost their homes entirely.

171
00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:58,480
Speaker 1: Carol was there for forty years. Carol said, I was

172
00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:02,679
Speaker 1: a little astonished because there's no no house and no brush.

173
00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:08,120
Speaker 1: Sandborn says neighbors have also received the notices. It's not

174
00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:12,319
Speaker 1: just the thirty one dollars, that's what it represents. What

175
00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,480
Speaker 1: do you people said, they tried calling the number on

176
00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,000
Speaker 1: the bill, but they can't leave messages because the voicemail

177
00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:23,120
Speaker 1: box is full. Martinez said, voicemail is full, can't leave

178
00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,880
Speaker 1: a message. They said to write, so I wrote last week,

179
00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:33,199
Speaker 1: haven't heard anything. This is from the Los Angeles Fire Department.

180
00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,880
Speaker 1: So now after it became a big story, it was

181
00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,600
Speaker 1: in the California Post, and it was I think it

182
00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,679
Speaker 1: was on television too, Yeah, it was. It was on

183
00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:48,200
Speaker 1: Fox eleven. Now Bass is saying, well, this is unacceptable.

184
00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,960
Speaker 1: No resident who lost their home in the Palisades should

185
00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,920
Speaker 1: receive this charge. The mayor's office is in contact with

186
00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,760
Speaker 1: the Alley Fire Department to determine next steps. What do

187
00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,200
Speaker 1: you mean determine next steps? There is no next step

188
00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:04,200
Speaker 1: there is you rescind this thirty one dollar fine? Are you?

189
00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:09,320
Speaker 1: Are you insane? And who at the fire department? Which genius? Oh?

190
00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:13,240
Speaker 1: Is it the new fire chief stooge? He anymore?

191
00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:15,960
Speaker 3: Is it?

192
00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,920
Speaker 1: Is it the is it the committee that rewrote and

193
00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,520
Speaker 1: lied in the after action report to U save Karen

194
00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:27,319
Speaker 1: Vass's ass to cover up what a bunch of criminals

195
00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,640
Speaker 1: thirty one bucks for brush clearance? No, no, your your

196
00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:34,800
Speaker 1: brush clearance plan actually worked really well. By not putting

197
00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,800
Speaker 1: out the fire, that fire was able to clear an

198
00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,960
Speaker 1: enormous amount of brush in the Palisades. So you guys

199
00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,679
Speaker 1: did a great job. I gotta hand it to all

200
00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,640
Speaker 1: the fire commanders and fire captains, whatever the hell you

201
00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,600
Speaker 1: call yourselves. You did a great job clearing the brush.

202
00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,480
Speaker 1: You burned everything down while I was burning, you stood

203
00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:59,880
Speaker 1: and looked at it. Oh wow, those flames a shooting.

204
00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:09,280
Speaker 1: I mean, how much are people supposed to take? How

205
00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:17,440
Speaker 1: stupid are the people? I mean, how could you starn

206
00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,800
Speaker 1: a thirty one dollar bill for brush clearing his violations?

207
00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,680
Speaker 1: It was a fine. It wasn't Freddy work they did.

208
00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:33,960
Speaker 1: It's like, well, you're doing clear or brush? So what brush?

209
00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,760
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sure people think I make this

210
00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,920
Speaker 1: stuff up. I'm not that talented. I can't write this

211
00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,360
Speaker 1: well all right, I can't do this kind of comedy.

212
00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,360
Speaker 1: I just report what's actually going on. I don't have

213
00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,440
Speaker 1: to work that hard anymore. I just have to get

214
00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,600
Speaker 1: up in the morning and read, you know, because I

215
00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,400
Speaker 1: had a higher SAT score than Gavin Newsom, and I

216
00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,760
Speaker 1: did learn how to read at a young age. So

217
00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,760
Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to identify with you by

218
00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,400
Speaker 1: pretending I can't read or I didn't do well on

219
00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:05,520
Speaker 1: the SAT test. I did and I could read, And

220
00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:07,400
Speaker 1: so all I have to do now is read this

221
00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,440
Speaker 1: stuff out loud. I just want you to know I'm

222
00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,480
Speaker 1: not making none of this up because I think you are.

223
00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,640
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, this can't be true, can you.

224
00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,680
Speaker 1: I mean, how did they think of this? Who in

225
00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,360
Speaker 1: the fire department said, Oh, I got an idea, Let's

226
00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:29,440
Speaker 1: charge them for brush clearance. No, let's find them because

227
00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,120
Speaker 1: they didn't clear the brush. That's what it was. Who

228
00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,199
Speaker 1: decided to do that, and they sent out a lot

229
00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:40,559
Speaker 1: of these It was a mistake. They had a database

230
00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:44,000
Speaker 1: of all the homes that they allowed to burn and

231
00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:47,240
Speaker 1: said yeah, okay, it's this. This is where we're going

232
00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,560
Speaker 1: to send the bills. Oh yeah, yeah, all right, more

233
00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:50,960
Speaker 1: coming up.

234
00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,840
Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from kf I

235
00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:56,840
Speaker 5: AM six forty.

236
00:13:57,679 --> 00:13:59,600
Speaker 1: We are on from three to six and then after

237
00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,120
Speaker 1: six o'clock do the podcast John Cobelt Show on demand

238
00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:09,320
Speaker 1: on the iHeart app. Jamie Page has another great one

239
00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,120
Speaker 1: in the California Post. Debn and I have talked for

240
00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:17,400
Speaker 1: years about people never showing up for work. I mean,

241
00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:22,880
Speaker 1: that stupid lockdown was six years ago, and there's still

242
00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,360
Speaker 1: people not showing up for work. I don't want to

243
00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,680
Speaker 1: drive to work. I don't want to I want to

244
00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:34,640
Speaker 1: work from home. I'm jealous. I'm just these toddlers, and

245
00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,960
Speaker 1: the worst are government employees. My god, not only they

246
00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,560
Speaker 1: they they are They're a low IQ. They have no

247
00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:53,440
Speaker 1: drive at all, just lazy loafs, sloths. Jamie Page went

248
00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:58,240
Speaker 1: to LA City Hall, visited you know, city Hall, the

249
00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,760
Speaker 1: nuts and bolts of the government where bass is, the

250
00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,200
Speaker 1: Office of Finance, a council liaison office, the Los Angeles

251
00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:11,920
Speaker 1: Housing Department. Everything's closed. Not because I thought maybe one

252
00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:17,760
Speaker 1: of those stupid holidays, right, No, not a holiday. They

253
00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,600
Speaker 1: just don't work on Friday. Everybody doesn't work, so the

254
00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,640
Speaker 1: doors are locked. And the thing is, while she was there,

255
00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:30,840
Speaker 1: there were fifty Los Angeles residents who showed up because

256
00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,400
Speaker 1: they wanted to pay their bills. They had some kind

257
00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,640
Speaker 1: of a financial issue, they had some kind of government

258
00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:42,480
Speaker 1: issial issue and just the Office of Finance alone, fifty

259
00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:45,920
Speaker 1: residents were left stranded. They were told to come in person,

260
00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:48,640
Speaker 1: but I guess nobody told them that you don't come

261
00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:49,280
Speaker 1: on a Friday.

262
00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,760
Speaker 2: You know what. A lot of people don't work or

263
00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,680
Speaker 2: come into the office on Fridays, I've noticed.

264
00:15:55,080 --> 00:16:02,600
Speaker 1: Or Mondays or Mondays, or Tuesdays, sometimes Wednesday. Kyla Wilkinfeld

265
00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,960
Speaker 1: Bronson is a small business owner and she has one

266
00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,120
Speaker 1: day off a week, and she drove the city hall.

267
00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:14,360
Speaker 1: She lives near lax and she has a four thousand

268
00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,680
Speaker 1: dollars tax bill she wanted to settle. She's trying to

269
00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:23,240
Speaker 1: pay the money, and she got locked doors, couldn't get in.

270
00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,360
Speaker 1: She looked at the website before leaving. There was no

271
00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:31,160
Speaker 1: notice that the Office of Finance would be closed. She

272
00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,320
Speaker 1: told the Post, this is crazy. I had no idea

273
00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,480
Speaker 1: their office is closed. It doesn't make sense. I drove

274
00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,360
Speaker 1: all the way down here, and she's got a deadline

275
00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,080
Speaker 1: coming up to pay the money, and she's gonna have

276
00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:47,720
Speaker 1: to take another day off work. Do you know the

277
00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:52,240
Speaker 1: city employees over fifty thousand workers, fifty three hundred and

278
00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,920
Speaker 1: twelve workers. Apparently none of them fill potholes. None of

279
00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,600
Speaker 1: them pave streets, none of them pick up the garbage,

280
00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,000
Speaker 1: None of them help you out with your tax issues.

281
00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:07,200
Speaker 1: It's a payroll of six and a half billion dollars,

282
00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:14,240
Speaker 1: forty four departments, forty four departments, fifty thousand workers, and

283
00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:24,200
Speaker 1: nobody shows up on a Friday. And when when JB.

284
00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:29,000
Speaker 1: Page called these various departments, their only answer is because

285
00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,720
Speaker 1: they were asked, you know, what days do people show up?

286
00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,840
Speaker 1: And they said, well, we forwarded the inquiry and a

287
00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,840
Speaker 1: response will be forthcoming. You can't answer that question. It's

288
00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:46,159
Speaker 1: very easy. I guess somebody picked the How did somebody

289
00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,760
Speaker 1: pick up the phone? Maybe this was an email. I

290
00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:54,119
Speaker 1: don't know. The Department of Public Works wouldn't say whether

291
00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:58,560
Speaker 1: people actually work, which is why the sidewalks aren't fixed,

292
00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:00,840
Speaker 1: and the roads aren't paved, and the pot aren't filled.

293
00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:06,239
Speaker 1: They don't show up anymore. They don't have to. The

294
00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,520
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Housing Department has six hundred and seventy employees,

295
00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,800
Speaker 1: the Office of Finance two hundred and thirty, the Bureau

296
00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:18,120
Speaker 1: of Street Services thousands of people. Office of Finance two

297
00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:22,679
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty. There was zero all two hundred and

298
00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:28,040
Speaker 1: thirty are they working from home? Nobody works from home.

299
00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,440
Speaker 1: Nobody actually works from home.

300
00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:31,200
Speaker 2: Nobody does.

301
00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,240
Speaker 1: No, nobody does. That's a whole scam. It's a scam.

302
00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:38,719
Speaker 1: It's a sham. It's a complete ripoff farce. I know

303
00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:43,159
Speaker 1: of a couple people who work from home and they

304
00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:47,399
Speaker 1: got all these tricks. This one person who rigged. I

305
00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:52,160
Speaker 1: can't say that they cheated. Yeah, they've got some kind

306
00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,439
Speaker 1: of contraption with a pencil and it goes up and

307
00:18:55,480 --> 00:19:00,000
Speaker 1: down on the keyboard because their employer monitors the keyboard

308
00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,840
Speaker 1: to see if somebody's using it. And so they've got

309
00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,920
Speaker 1: this device that goes up and down presses the keyboard.

310
00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:08,479
Speaker 1: So if you try to monitor them, oh, it's like, oh,

311
00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,120
Speaker 1: they're working. And then another one has something I'm serious.

312
00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,439
Speaker 1: Then another person has something that jiggles the mouse on

313
00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,840
Speaker 1: the mousepad, and so that signals to the home office

314
00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,680
Speaker 1: that they're working. So what are they doing all day?

315
00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:26,280
Speaker 1: Riding their bicycle and then posting videos of their bike

316
00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:33,879
Speaker 1: riding on Facebook? I've seen that done. Then they lecture

317
00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,280
Speaker 1: other people and how they should be doing their job. Yeah,

318
00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:46,639
Speaker 1: I've seen that done. Yeah, it says, you know, how

319
00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,840
Speaker 1: all the street lights are out in Los Angeles. Well,

320
00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,080
Speaker 1: The California Post asked the LA Department of Public Works

321
00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,600
Speaker 1: about its work from home policies. Did not get a response.

322
00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:06,720
Speaker 1: But nobody shows up to repair the street lights, and uh,

323
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:10,280
Speaker 1: they said one One staffer at city council said, Uh,

324
00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,960
Speaker 1: coordination has grown harder. It's hard to get business done

325
00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:21,840
Speaker 1: when people aren't at their desks. Yeah. Wow, after six years,

326
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:30,520
Speaker 1: give them the Gavin Newsom Genius Award. The city logged

327
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 1: five thousand, two hundred and twenty five street light service

328
00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 1: requests in January, forty five thousand in twenty twenty four.

329
00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:47,440
Speaker 1: Forty four percent remain unresolved. This is from the three

330
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,720
Speaker 1: to one one system that Bass was telling people to call.

331
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,280
Speaker 1: Go ahead, call it. Report a port pothole, report a

332
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,359
Speaker 1: street light is out, report that a street needs to

333
00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,000
Speaker 1: be repaved, report that garbage needs to be picked up.

334
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,160
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna come. It's all a joke that you're paying

335
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,200
Speaker 1: for it, but you vote for this. This is what's funny.

336
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 1: I want to grab everybody by the throat and shake

337
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: them really hard. What are you doing? The city controller,

338
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:21,399
Speaker 1: Kenneth Mahea, who's a socialist, says the city took a

339
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty million dollars less revenue than they expected.

340
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 1: So they're broke. They're broke. They're busted. Nobody's showing up

341
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,119
Speaker 1: for work, and most of the same people will get

342
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 1: elected because most people seem to have an IQ below

343
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,400
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom. We're going to call it the Newsom line,

344
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:53,200
Speaker 1: the Newsom line ninety three. And most people are below

345
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 1: the Newsom line who vote. But this is what I

346
00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 1: would do. Everybody's yelling about voter id IQ tests, IQ tests.

347
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,360
Speaker 1: That's what I'd do if I was in charge. Oh,

348
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:04,880
Speaker 1: and you have to have a test to see if

349
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 1: you pay attention to what's going on in the world

350
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 1: and going on going on in the news, and then

351
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 1: after you pass the news test, and you pass the

352
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 1: IQ test, then you can come in and vote. That's

353
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,919
Speaker 1: what it would be. But I would love my country

354
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:23,080
Speaker 1: would work a lot better than their country. I don't

355
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:27,160
Speaker 1: believe in democracy anymore. Democracy produces this. This is this

356
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 1: is unlivable. Down with demand? Whatbel that's right? Down with democracy?

357
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 1: Enough with the right to vote? No less people voting,

358
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 1: more people deported, less people voting.

359
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:46,440
Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on Demand from KFI Am sixty.

360
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: We're on from three to six, Conway coming up in

361
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,440
Speaker 1: minutes after six, and also after six, the podcast gets

362
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 1: released John Cobelt Show on demand, So whatever you miss

363
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,439
Speaker 1: today you can hear it on the podcast that'll be

364
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,160
Speaker 1: out in just a few minutes. All right, this is this,

365
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 1: this is funny Boy. The all the all the woke

366
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:15,399
Speaker 1: Hollywood celebrities and creatives they were. They had kind of

367
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 1: a brain lock because over the weekend there was the

368
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: there was the BAFTA Awards BAFTA that's the British Academy

369
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 1: of Film and Television Arts and one of the nominees

370
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 1: was a movie called I Swear, which is based on

371
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: the life of John Davidson. And he was in the

372
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 1: audience and the movie is about Davidson's, uh, his his affliction,

373
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: which is Tourette syndrome. And you may be aware, with

374
00:23:54,920 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: Tourette's syndrome, people blurt out weird sounds, words, sometimes racial insults.

375
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: They can't control it. It's a tick, it's involuntary. And

376
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 1: so Davidson is there for his movie and on stage

377
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: are two black actors, Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo,

378
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,119
Speaker 1: and they were presenting the award for Best Visual Effects

379
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 1: to the latest Avatar movie. And then suddenly Davidson started

380
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: shouting from the audience play cut twelve.

381
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 3: JA and I are delighted to be presenting the first

382
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 3: BAFT of the night for a vital part of movie making.

383
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 1: We're here to celebrate. He's shouting the word. John Davidson

384
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 1: is shouting the N word from the audience at the

385
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: two black actors, and they just soldiered on. And then

386
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: the host comes on Alan coming to apologize.

387
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,439
Speaker 2: You may have had some strong and offensive language tonight.

388
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,399
Speaker 2: If you've seen the film, I swear you will know

389
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 2: that film is but the experience of a person with

390
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 2: Touete syndrome. Touet syndrome is a disability, and the tics

391
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 2: you've heard tonight are involuntary, which means the person who

392
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 2: has Threet syndrome has no control over their language. We

393
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 2: apologize if you were offended.

394
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: So the Wolkesters don't know what to do. You have

395
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: a disability. You have a person afflicted with a terrible

396
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: brain disability up and he's blurting out racial slurs, the

397
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: end word of all things, and people are offended. But

398
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,199
Speaker 1: then they feel what embarrassed that they're offended. I mean,

399
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 1: how does how do you how does the woke brain

400
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 1: handle that? I mean, that is really a collision, right,

401
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 1: because you have to be tolerant of people's disabilities. You

402
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: got something which he can't control, and at the same

403
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: time he's shouting out all these heinous words. Well, some

404
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 1: of the celebrities, we were really upset because they don't

405
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: think there's any excuse and they didn't like I didn't

406
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 1: like the apology if you were offended, you know, they

407
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: don't think that's an apology. Jamie Fox was upset about that.

408
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: There's no solution there. Huh, you have you have you

409
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 1: have two classes that are normally protected, the racial classes

410
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: and uh and disabilities from offensive situations. There's really no

411
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 1: resolving this now. This guy left. John Davidson left the

412
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: the auditorium after it happened. But it kind of tied

413
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: people up in knots there, which is unusual. What do

414
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 1: you do? What do you do with the guy? I

415
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: mean he did a movie. They watched the movie you

416
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 1: could see. Have you ever known anybody or Turette's side,

417
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: I haven't. I pretended to have Tourette's to get a

418
00:26:53,080 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 1: handicapped past at Disneyland. Once did it work? It did?

419
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: What did you do? I yelled randomly in the customer

420
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 1: in the guest services office. N words, not the N word,

421
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: but definitely swear words. I was like eight years old

422
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: with like a summer camp and the councilor wanted a

423
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: handicap pass for the rides. You were eight. Yeah, that

424
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: was the counselor's little brother. You know, I'm getting get

425
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,360
Speaker 1: a doctor to give me a Turette's same drump diagnose.

426
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 1: That might be a bad idea. All right, that's great. Uh,

427
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 1: Carzer's got the news. Conway's up next, NFI twenty for

428
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: our newsroom. You've been listening to the John Cobelt Show podcast.

429
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: You can always hear the show live on KFI AM

430
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: six forty from three to six pm every Monday through Friday,

431
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app

432
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: KFI AM six More stimulating talk