1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty you're listening to the 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: one until four and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeart app, and you could it's 5 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: a podcast version of the show. It's the same thing. 6 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: You could hear what you missed eight seven seven Moist 7 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 1: eighty six for tomorrow, twenty four hours from now. We're 8 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: gonna have two rounds of the Moistline and we got 9 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: a little bit of room left if you want so, 10 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: give a call and unleash whatever you want to unleash. 11 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: I got slightly confused. I was trying to wrote too 12 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: many things at once, which happens. I want to address 13 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: that massive trash pile up at the home in Fairfax 14 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: that Karen Bass tried to fake indignation and Katie r 15 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: Slatsky the council and tried to fake indignation when records 16 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: show that neighbors have been complaining for ten solid years 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: about this crazy guy who piles up five six feet 18 00:00:57,960 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: worth of track. 19 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 2: Feet high. The trash covers the entire yard. 20 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: And also I want to get Michael Monks on on 21 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: another story, not entirely unrelated though, and it's about how 22 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: city council is looking at I think it's Katy r. 23 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 1: Slovski in about creating a special area where the homeless 24 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,479 Speaker 1: can live in r v's on a city street. 25 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 2: So let's get Michael on. 26 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 3: Hey, John, how are you today? 27 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 2: I'm all right? So what is this proposal about. 28 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: This is about homeless living in RVs and it being legal. 29 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 3: Actually, what happened in the Transportation Committee is that they 30 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 3: want to stop the homeless camps and RVs in certain 31 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 3: parts of the city. So what they've heard, like you 32 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 3: just mentioned in Fairfax, neighbors continuously complaining about the dangers, 33 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 3: the filth that might beneath some of these camps. And 34 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 3: so this is actually in a council member had their 35 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,839 Speaker 3: huts district District ten, and she represents areas of town 36 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 3: like West Adams, Baldwin Hills, mid City, and there are 37 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 3: a lot of these camps around the ten. And so 38 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 3: she was able to push through four ordinances through the 39 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 3: Transportation Committee by votes of four to one, with four 40 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 3: different council members signing on to each one differently to 41 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 3: say no more RVs camped out on about fourteen different 42 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 3: blocks in her district between the hours of two am 43 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,519 Speaker 3: and six am, so essentially danning them from overnight camping. 44 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: Did this come up though, Kendy Arstovsky once expose setting 45 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: up r vs is temporary housing on Cottiner Avenue, which 46 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: runs along the four or five in West LA. 47 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 2: Did that come up during this meeting? 48 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 3: Not during the Transportation committee meeting. But I think what 49 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 3: you're finding is as they as they stop folks from 50 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 3: camping in one area, where do they go? So they're 51 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 3: probably dealing with having to find a designated area to 52 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 3: accommodate these folks and these large vehicles. 53 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: Right because there's on Conner Avenue, there's already a massive 54 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: amount of RVs there and disgusting trash and really weird 55 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: sick characters and and. 56 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 3: That's well, I was just going to say, that's what 57 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 3: one of the issues is is that this is only 58 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,839 Speaker 3: in one council district. But as we know that these 59 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 3: camps exist all over the city and the county, and 60 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 3: so this is only fourteen different blocks where they would 61 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 3: now be banned. And so I haven't heard yet about 62 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 3: whether there will be an effort from other council members 63 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 3: to try this in their own districts. But these four 64 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 3: different ordinances addressing fourteen different blocks again in like West Adams, 65 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 3: Baldwin Hills, mid City, all north of the ten that 66 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 3: they're going to be banned from camping out from the 67 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 3: hours of two to six, which would make it illegal 68 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 3: for them to be there. 69 00:03:58,720 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, over nine. 70 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: Well that's what they do in normal cities. I mean 71 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: most cities are right here in Burbank. I was just 72 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: going to a restaurant Burbank the other day and I'm parking 73 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: on a block and they have signs you can't park 74 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: between two am and six am. And you know, at 75 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: first glance, it's like, why do they do that, But 76 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: it's to keep people from parking the RVs and living 77 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: overnight in residential areas in front of people's homes. So 78 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: the Transportation Committee was mostly for this because in the 79 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: past they have blocked all this stuff. You know that 80 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: this has been going on for many years, this RV living, 81 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: it has. 82 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 3: And so it's interesting that recreational vehicle or r V 83 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 3: where are not specifically sited in these and homeless people 84 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 3: are not specifically cited in this. They use language that 85 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 3: addresses vehicles that are quote in excess of twenty two 86 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,799 Speaker 3: feet in length or over seven feet in height between 87 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 3: the hours of two and six am, and then identify 88 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 3: the fourteen different blocks north of ten where this is 89 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 3: no longer allowed. There was, of course, some push back 90 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 3: from the Los Angeles Community Action Network who say that 91 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 3: this is another step that the council is taking to 92 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 3: criminalize homelessness, and yeah, it is, and whether where the folks. 93 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: Will go good, Yeah, I guess that's that's what it 94 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: needs to be done. We got to start criminalizing homelessness, 95 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: got to start criminalizing having having discussing our being in 96 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: a residential neighborhood and they unleash all their toxic human waste. 97 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 1: Uh that that's that's part of the problem. See, that's 98 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: what these homeless advocates never discuss or address, is what 99 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: do you do with all the all the fecal waste 100 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: and all the garbage and the urine and everything, because 101 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: there's no there's nowhere to put all that and it 102 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: ends up creating a big stream running down down the road. 103 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,799 Speaker 3: Yes, and one of the activists from l a CAN 104 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 3: mentioned specifically that the council seems to prioritize those who 105 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 3: already have houses or operate businesses in these areas over 106 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:55,679 Speaker 3: the homeless folks. 107 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: Yes, they do, you know, yeah, I think everybody's got 108 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 1: to start embracing this idea. Yes, we are going to 109 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: embrace people who go to work every day and bought 110 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 1: a home and and and have a job, And they 111 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: get embraced first. And the guy who spends his day 112 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 1: in the r V is smoking weed or snorting math 113 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: or snorting heroin or fentonoe, what are the hell he's doing. No, 114 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: you're not going to be embraced. You don't get priority anymore. 115 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: You know, we want to we want to take you 116 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: out into the desert. Did they discuss that at all 117 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: about you know. 118 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 3: Well, you've heard from residents, of course, who say that 119 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 3: this is a neighborhood where you know, when you buy 120 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 3: a home, that's the largest investment that many people will 121 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 3: ever make in their lives. And there's a certain depreciation 122 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 3: that that may be associated with the environment if these 123 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 3: camps are allowed to continue. That that's what we've heard 124 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 3: from residence. That's what you've seen in media work. 125 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 4: Yeah. 126 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 1: Yeah, can you imagine guy opens a meth lab on 127 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: in front of your driveway and gee, would that hurt property. 128 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 2: Values a bit. 129 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 3: Probably. 130 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy, all right, So that's good news. The 131 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: Transportation Committee approved that. Now it's going to go on 132 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: to the full council. Yes, indeed, all right, well very good, 133 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, my pleasure. 134 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 3: John, thanks a. 135 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: Lot, all right, And that is as Michael Monks from 136 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: KFI News. When we come back, I'm going to talk about, Well, 137 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: we got a couple of things I want I want 138 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: to talk about. 139 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta ham. 140 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: We got to keep hammering Karen Bass here and carry 141 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: Katie Arslavsky because these frauds have to be driven out 142 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: of office. I completely fed up with Karen Bass because 143 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: she's a fake. Ten years, for ten years, they've had 144 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: the garbage piling up on the Fairfax House ten freaking years. 145 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: And now she comes out and says, well, this is uh, 146 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: you know, she's all kinds of righteous indignation. We'll play 147 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: you the clip and Katie R. Swotsky saying it's unacceptable. Yeah, 148 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: well it was acceptable for ten years, and now today 149 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: because Channel five ran a TV right now. 150 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 2: It's unacceptable. 151 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: I just patience is gone, completely tried. 152 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 5: Up eighteen year old mom in twenty twenty one, thirty 153 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 5: thousand dollars reward has been offered in Santa Anna for 154 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 5: information leading to the conviction of a fatal hit and 155 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 5: run driver a year ago. President Biden will travel to 156 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 5: Baltimore tomorrow to visit the site of the Francis Scott 157 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 5: Key Bridge collapse. 158 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 2: We'll check your drive on. 159 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 5: The five and we'll also check in with the KFI 160 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 5: and the Sky next. 161 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: If you're hurting an accident, you call Sweet James. That's 162 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: what I do. I know which team I want on 163 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: my side, and that's sweet. That's the attorney's sweet change. 164 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: They don't just win, they win the most. Here's an example. 165 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: One of my listeners injured after being rear ended at 166 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: a red light. The insurance company offered them sixty thousand dollars. 167 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 6: That might seem like you're listening to John Cobelt on 168 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 6: demand from KFI AM six forty. 169 00:08:55,160 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: Would you believe these ah, These these commune socialists LA 170 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 1: City Council members were actually celebrating the one year anniversary 171 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: of Measure ULA. This is the real estate tax that 172 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: they slapped on people. If you sell a house for 173 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: more than five million dollars, the city steals four percent 174 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: of the tax with a tax four percent of the 175 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: sell price, so that would be uh, how much would 176 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,959 Speaker 1: that be? That'd be two hundred thousand dollars. They take 177 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: you mentioned you sell a house for five million dollars, 178 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: and it was Nithia Rahman, Bob Lumenfeld, and Hugo Soda Martinez. 179 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:41,439 Speaker 1: These are died in the world socialists. And so if 180 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: you enjoyed a big real estate increase on your property, 181 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: you got to pay four percent tax and a five 182 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: and a half percent charge if it sells above ten million. 183 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: And they were so thrilled because they got two hundred 184 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars for the first year, and they're going 185 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: to waste that money on all their corrupt, criminal homeless programs. 186 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: And of course they claim this is going to generate 187 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: an unprecedented amount of money for affordable housing production. They 188 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: have been trying to build affordable housing for ten years. 189 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: I think Karen Bass admitted that they've only placed forty 190 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: two people in permanent housing. Forty two And when Garcetti 191 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: left about a year ago, the price of building one apartment, 192 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:47,839 Speaker 1: one unit for homeless person was over eight hundred thousand dollars. 193 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: In other words, it's approaching a million dollars per unit. 194 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: So this two hundred and fifteen million dollars that they 195 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: stole from people is not going to change very much 196 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: at all, but it's going to enrich the politically connected 197 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: people who are politically connected to Nithia Rahmen and Bob 198 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: Lumidfeld and Hugos Soda Martinez, and they believe in taxing 199 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: property owners and taking their wealth and giving it to 200 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: these vague, amorphous government programs which do not work, which fail. 201 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: Daily Mail has it's funny how the Daily Mail in 202 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: London keeps coming up with these Los Angeles stories that 203 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: The Times doesn't touch. The wealthy real estate market has 204 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: collapsed in Los Angeles collapsed. The number of single family 205 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: homes in the five to ten million dollar range went 206 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: from three hundred and sixty six sales in the twelve 207 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: months before the tax to one hundred sixty six in 208 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: the year since, So the market collapsed from three sixty 209 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:11,199 Speaker 1: six to one sixty six. These are the homes that 210 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: would fall under the tax. And it hasn't come close. 211 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: While they were celebrating the two hundred and fifteen million 212 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: dollars they stole, they it hasn't come close to what 213 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: they thought they were going to get the luxury house 214 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: sales have dropped seventy percent in the first year, and 215 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 1: rich people are now choosing to live outside the city 216 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills, Malibu, and Santa Monica. And because people 217 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:44,719 Speaker 1: there are few people want to live in La if 218 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: they're wealthy. Because of the tax, housing prices for these 219 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 1: mansions have dropped significantly. They use one example here, a 220 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: Tarzana mansion has dropped from about eighteen million to fifteen million. 221 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: Here's another one in Pacific Palisades that slashed its price 222 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: by six hundred thousand. So prices on wealthy mansions being 223 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: slashed because there aren't that many buyers anymore. And the 224 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: wealthy people a lot of them sold right before the 225 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: deadline last year of March thirty first, so there was 226 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 1: a huge bulge in wealthy sales before the law went 227 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: into effect. They thought they were going to get seven 228 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. Now they're only getting two hundred million. 229 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: But they had a celebration anyway, and boy, you can 230 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: count on the progressives in the news media to present 231 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: it as a celebration. It's not a celebration of stealing 232 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,079 Speaker 1: two hundred million it's a disappointment that they didn't steal 233 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,439 Speaker 1: seven hundred million. And the rich people figured out a 234 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: way around it. You know what they're doing. Well, they 235 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: either sold before April first of last year, or some 236 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: of them have carved up their property let's say, into 237 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: two parcels and sell them separately, and then you don't 238 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: have to pay a tax on either one, the mansion tax. Right, 239 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: you get each parcel to fall below five million dollars. 240 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: You get around it that way, or you don't sell 241 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: them at all, which has helped to freeze the market. 242 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: And then other people don't want to buy into the 243 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: market because in case they're selling in a few years, 244 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: they don't want to give up four to five percent 245 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: of the sale price. And this is what happens when 246 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: you have socialists get involved in trying to regulate private 247 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: real estate markets. Of course, they never owned they've never 248 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: owned expensive real estate because they don't work. They're parasites 249 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: that work for the government and they live off our 250 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: tax money. They don't run businesses, they don't know how 251 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: to run businesses. They're not successful in business. Their joy 252 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: in life is stealing money from successful people and then 253 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: giving it to their politically connected friends who successfully spend 254 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: that money on scam homeless nonprofits, scam contractors who build 255 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: million dollar units for the underprivileged. They have a racket, 256 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: and what they do is they tax other people's successes. Now, 257 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: when we come back, I want to finally get to 258 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: the we'll play this story again because this doesn't happen 259 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: very often where you could really show how a nept 260 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: and foolish and embarrassing our government is. In Los Angeles 261 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: about the Fairfax trash house. Finally, Karen Bass sent the 262 00:15:55,200 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: cleanup team and claimed ignorance, and Kady Roslavsky declared that itunacceptable. 263 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: Ten years of complaints, ten years. Wouldn't you love to 264 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: see the paperwork? Ten years? This crazy guy has been 265 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: dumping garbage and it piled up about six feet high, 266 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: covered an entire front lawn. There was a car buried 267 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 1: under it. We'll get to that coming up. 268 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI AM 269 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 6: six forty. 270 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: We're on the radio from one until four and then 271 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: after four o'clock John cobelt Show on demand on the 272 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: iHeart app Conway coming up in about half an hour. 273 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: All right, if there's one thing I could do right, 274 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: one wish I would have. I want to make government 275 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: workers days as miserable as possible, dealing with nothing but 276 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: angry tax players complaining about how lazy and stupid they are, 277 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: sitting in their offices, sitting in their maintenance yards, and 278 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: refusing to do basic work. The pothole thing in my 279 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: town on the west side is so bad, and we've 280 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: talked about it on the air, and I see people 281 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 1: are writing about it online all over the place. And 282 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:08,360 Speaker 1: Karen Bass and whatever passes for that Department of Transportation, 283 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: you have, big fat slugs. Get off your asses and 284 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 1: fill the potholes once and for all. People are wrecking 285 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: their cars right and left in Los Angeles and it's 286 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: on all the roadways. 287 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 2: And I don't get it. 288 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: Everyone's called three to one one, everyone's gone online and 289 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 1: filled out your stupid form. Everyone's done what you asked. 290 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: And it's been a month now and they don't fill 291 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: the potholes. Now it's not that hard. And then in 292 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 1: Compton you had that couple, we had them on the area. 293 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: You might have heard them. They filled the potholes on 294 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: their own and got a deceased and desist order. 295 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 2: From a lawyer for the city. 296 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna play again because maybe some of you 297 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 1: I've played this earlier. But we have a huge chain 298 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: turnover and listenership over the hours, and I want everyone 299 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: as many people as possible to hear Karen Bass and 300 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 1: the city council woman Katie Roslavsky in the Fairfax District 301 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: do an absolute acting job faking it that they're outraged 302 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: and upset that that guy in the Fairfax District was 303 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: allowed to dump his garbage for years until you had 304 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: a huge garbage dump at his front yard that was 305 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 1: six feet high. You listen real closely now to Karen 306 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: Bass and Katy Rslavsky and there just just brazen phoniness. 307 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: Play cut two first. 308 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 4: But some residents now worry this might just be a 309 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 4: temporary fix. 310 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 2: It's nice but and this is Carlos Sassido from the 311 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 2: Katla From filthy clutter to cleared outdoor space. 312 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 4: Sanitation workers, some wearing hazmat suits, spent the day removing 313 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 4: mountains of debris from the Fairfax home on Martell Avenue 314 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:06,120 Speaker 4: dubbed the Trash House. Buried under the piles of rubbish. 315 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 4: Vehicles like this Toyota Selica it's. 316 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 5: Sad, you know, that's gotten this bad and it's taken 317 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 5: this long. 318 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 4: City workers seen here speaking with the homeowner, who at 319 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 4: times appeared confused even upset about his belongings being cleared away. 320 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: I hope they get the homeowner some help for whatever 321 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: this problem is, because it's mental. 322 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 2: It's not you know, it's not the trash. It's the 323 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 2: problem with the person who's collecting the trash. 324 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 4: Sanitation trucks and street service vehicles hauling away broken glass bottles, 325 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,160 Speaker 4: stinky food waste, and other items. The home sided close 326 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,400 Speaker 4: to two dozen times in the last decade, but neighbors 327 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 4: say complaints were never addressed until KTLA got involved this week. 328 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 4: I don't know how to describe this any other way 329 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 4: then to say that this is just a tragedy. LA 330 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 4: Mayor Karen Bass not minsing words as she tore the 331 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 4: trash site Wednesday morning, saying she just learned of the 332 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 4: problem twenty four hours ago, the Department of Building and 333 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 4: Safety declaring the property an imminent health and safety hazard. 334 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 2: This to me is a public health emergency. 335 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,719 Speaker 4: This is a fire hazard, and I worry about the 336 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 4: individual there. It's unclear why the city didn't take action sooner. 337 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 4: It is a health clear Katie Yaroslavsky says she's been 338 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 4: aware of the issue for months. 339 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 7: It's not acceptable. It's just not acceptable, and we're going 340 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 7: to be doing outreach to the community to make sure 341 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 7: they know that our office and the Mayor's office are 342 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 7: resources connecting them to our field staff. 343 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 4: But some residents now worry this might just be a 344 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 4: temporary fix. 345 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 2: It's nice, but what's going to happen once they leave? 346 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 2: Is he going to start all over again? 347 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 8: And we made multiple attempts to speak with the homeowner. 348 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 8: He did not want us on the property. He's been 349 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 8: allowed back onto into the house, but again he's also 350 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 8: been offered help from city crews. 351 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: Looney bit that's where he goes. He goes in the 352 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: looney bit. That's what they used to do to people 353 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: who've completely lost their minds and are not only not 354 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: functioning properly, but there are danger to others. That thing 355 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: could have burst into flames and ended up burning down 356 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: the whole neighborhood. And for Karen Bass to say, well, 357 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: this is a public health emergency, oh really? Twenty fourteen. 358 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: Twenty fourteen is when the first complaints were filed twenty fourteen, 359 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 1: Kenny Roslovsky said she's been aware of this for months. 360 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: You did nothing, Katie, Yes, sat on your ass again, 361 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: didn't you just one like when the naked woman was 362 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: sleeping on the sofa in Losienaga. You just sit there 363 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 1: and my field staff. Your field staff isn't worth poop. 364 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: Your field staff does nothing. The Department of Sanitation, all 365 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: those lug nuts, they do nothing. They sit in the 366 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 1: yard and they drain beer. That's all. They don't work. 367 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: Nobody works. And then you TV cameras. Oh, I'm there, 368 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: I'm there. This is a public health emergency. You that 369 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: Karen basket Club the cut one play. 370 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,919 Speaker 2: That to me is a public health emergency. This is 371 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 2: a fire hazard. 372 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I worry about the individual there this place 373 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: catching fire, him losing his life. Thanks Captain obvious. Six 374 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 1: feet of garbage. Probably it was higher than Karen Bass. 375 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: She was probably looking up at the top of the 376 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: garbage pile. They found a Toyota celica underneath. Did you 377 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 1: catch that? They found a car underneath? How long does 378 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 1: that have to go on? Where you're he's only taking 379 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: out one garbage bag at a time, I mean, was. 380 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 2: He taking other people's garbage. It was just what he generates. 381 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: So you'd have to take months and months and months 382 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 1: of garbage to create an entire yard five feet high 383 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: and cover up a car. 384 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 5: And you know those rats that I was talking to 385 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,919 Speaker 5: you about earlier, they were huge, Yeah, they were just 386 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 5: small halfs. 387 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 2: Wow, this is they're eating a lot of stuff. It's 388 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 2: a Las Vegas buffet for them. 389 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: This is rad Heaven, this is radhav And I bet 390 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,440 Speaker 1: you see, this is the stuff we can never find out. 391 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: I mean, I wish I had the time. I'd go 392 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: in there and I'd find every citation and read every 393 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 1: single citation, every date, and let's see who who who? 394 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 1: Who reacted to it? Maybe somebody maybe the field staff 395 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: for Katie Aroslovsky or her previous that previous uh lughead, 396 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: Paul Carretz, the old councilman Eric Carcetti, who runs the 397 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: sanitation department. How many people don't respond to a complaint. 398 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: And I'm saying this especially because now we've got potholes 399 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 1: everywhere on there's another rainstorm coming and they're not filling them. 400 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:37,159 Speaker 1: And these are big, I mean these are chasms, they're canyons, 401 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: and the and and the Karen Bess crowd does nothing, 402 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: But you don't give us another lecture on the diversity 403 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 1: athuity inclusion, okay, because that's that's more important than filling 404 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 1: my freaking pothole or bulldozing this guy's front yard. By 405 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:59,120 Speaker 1: the way, somebody put him away. Somebody put him away. 406 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: He needs to be in a mental institution. And what 407 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: I notice is the neighbors and maybe this is why 408 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: they got stuck with it for ten years. They seem 409 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: to be more worried about him than worried about the 410 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: danger in their neighborhood from having all that garbage. 411 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 2: And by the way, who do you. 412 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 1: Think that attracts, That tracts all kinds of undesirables because 413 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: they think people in the neighborhood don't care. I don't 414 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: understand how that happens. For ten years, I don't understand. 415 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: And I'm sure these people were complaining, but were they 416 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: just making phone calls filling out paperwork? Really, eventually you 417 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: got to go to somebody's office and stand on their 418 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 1: desk and start screaming at them. Ten years, I guarantee you, 419 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: I guarantee you this never would have happened in the 420 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: little town. 421 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 2: I grew up in. 422 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: They would not, it wouldn't happen in my neighborhood. Now 423 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't wait ten years, I'd have gotten 424 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: next door to me with Well, I mean, can you 425 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 1: imagine living next door to guy, Well, what would you do? 426 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: I'd go to Keeddy R. Sawsk's office and I stand 427 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: on her desk and I won't leave. 428 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 5: And what if she doesn't do anything and you're living 429 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 5: next to this the she's. 430 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: Got I'm gonna start a protest movement. You have to 431 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: make their life miserable. What you have to do is 432 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: follow them around and make their life miserable until she 433 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: surrenders and gets rid of all the Yeah, within with 434 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: the legally of course, be polite, of. 435 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 5: Course, Oh I would die if I was next to 436 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 5: that house, I would. 437 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 2: Just I'd start filing lawsuits. I file lawsuits against that guy. 438 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 2: I'd file lawsuits again. So what you have to do? 439 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 2: You have to go to war. You have to go 440 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 2: to war. 441 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 5: But all that takes time. Meantime you're next to that 442 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 5: trashy house with the rats. 443 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 1: It's I'm not going to put up with her ten years, 444 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying, Not ten years. 445 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 2: And you wouldn't either know, Are you kidding me? I 446 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 2: would put up with it for a week. I'll lug 447 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 2: out the stuff myself. 448 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 5: Well, I wouldn't go that far. I mean unless I 449 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 5: was wearing two hazmat suits. And I don't even know 450 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 5: then if I. 451 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:49,880 Speaker 2: Don't think you'd handle the rats, I know. 452 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 5: No, And you know I love animals, and not that 453 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 5: I want anything armed. 454 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 2: I don't want the rats hardts. I don't love them. No, 455 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 2: you don't like. 456 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 1: Them, I don't. They all died tomorrow. It's a happy day. 457 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: Get them out, kill them all. 458 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 5: No, just let them go elsewhere, just not around my house. 459 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 2: Let them go elsewhere. Let them be free in a 460 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 2: rat farm or something. 461 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:19,719 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 462 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 6: six forty. 463 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 2: Just a couple of odds and ends. 464 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: This this is a federal story, but they they're doing investigation. Congresses, 465 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 1: the chairwoman Virginia Fox of the House Education and Workforce Committee, 466 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:41,639 Speaker 1: they passed a huge spending bill for COVID relief a 467 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: few years ago, and it included eighty six billion dollars 468 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: to bail out employer in pension funds because the union's 469 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 1: pushed for it, and now they're doing an investigation because 470 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 1: apparently the government agency made one hundred and twenty seven 471 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: million dollars in payments to thirty five hundred dead workers. 472 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: Thirty five hundred dead people got government payments. Oh all right, 473 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 1: now this you got to I'm want to play cut 474 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,119 Speaker 1: number five here before we go. And this is a 475 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: crazy person who's been running across the San Fernando Valley 476 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: smashing windows of parked cars with bricks. 477 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 9: Captured on camera once again king a car. The woman's 478 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 9: random ragn of crime now over as she's behind bars. 479 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 2: I don't know why she did it. I don't know 480 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 2: what her purpose. 481 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,160 Speaker 9: It's a question so many victims are asking after her 482 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 9: brazen brick attacks and vandalism made Batista's vaned, two other 483 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 9: vehicles targeted Tuesday afternoon in Burbank. 484 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,640 Speaker 2: She threw a break on the windshell. 485 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 7: And basically that's all she did. 486 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 9: And then she picked up and left post part and 487 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 9: had seen the story circulating on the news, and we believe, 488 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 9: based on the witness accounts and description, this to be 489 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,479 Speaker 9: the same suspect identified as Lisa Jones, the thirty year 490 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 9: old now facing felony vandalism charges. He alledged crime stretching 491 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,360 Speaker 9: from Venice to Woodland Hills to downtown LA. That's where 492 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 9: Constantin and Ivanen's car was keyed in a parking rage 493 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 9: in March. 494 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:23,199 Speaker 3: Got her key out, He my entire passengers side and 495 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 3: just kept walking. 496 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 2: But I'm just happy to wear the bricks around. That 497 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 2: would have been worse like all the other victims. 498 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 9: He thought he was the only one targeted until he 499 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 9: saw our story. 500 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 2: I look at the EBC seven video and I'm like, 501 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 2: Haln looks kind of familiar. 502 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 9: All of the videos of the attacks and good old 503 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 9: fashioned detective work between West LA and other agencies helping 504 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 9: track Jones down. Investigators arresting her around noon. They didn't 505 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 9: find the brick in her car, but say there were 506 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 9: other items tying her to the crime. At this point, 507 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 9: police don't know what Jones's motive was. It's all part 508 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 9: of the ongoing investigator as they continue to tally up 509 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 9: the damage from her alleged crimes. 510 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 1: Another person who should be locked up in a mental institution, 511 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 1: right next to the guy with the garbage dump in 512 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 1: his front lawn. You know that you never used to 513 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: hear these stories, and now every day and there's several 514 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: of them. And they used to remove these people from 515 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: society and put them away, and now they won't and 516 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 1: they have to start again. Because your car's getting smashed 517 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: and you're living next door to the huge garbage dump 518 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: and you just got it, like not put up with this? 519 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 2: I mean, what guys driving? 520 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: She's driving from burt Bank to Woodland Hills and what's 521 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: gonna happen. She's gonna be released on no bail and 522 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: she's still gonna be a crazy lunatic and she's still 523 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: going to find a brick and she's still gonna be 524 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: whipping those extro your car. 525 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 2: Deborah, and I better watch out. Burbank to Woodland Hills. 526 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 2: That's our route to work exactly. Yeah. 527 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: No, I'm just gonna ask she's heard about this because 528 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: something else for her to stay up all night over Conway. 529 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 7: You know, doesn't this sound like Deborah just minus the brick? 530 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 7: I mean, doesn't it sound like everything else is her? 531 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 7: You waited until she left right in the elevator. She's 532 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 7: not gonna hear you. I'm a huge coward. But the craziness, 533 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 7: the you know, the look at me, the selfies, the 534 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:36,479 Speaker 7: whole run. Sorry, Deva, You're not gonna suck me to this. 535 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 2: You gotta do it. Yeah, you have? 536 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 3: You have. 537 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 2: You have a fixation on her, you do? 538 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 7: I actually I don't. I really like her, but she's 539 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 7: easy to make fun of. Okay, Yeah, you just can't 540 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 7: resist every time you see her. It's pretty good, Yeah, 541 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 7: pretty good. But she it's I have a weird relationship 542 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 7: with her. I I like her a lot, and she 543 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 7: has good taste and rest. She goes to new restaurants 544 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 7: and talks about them, and I always listen to that 545 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 7: because she knows what's going on out there. 546 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 2: You don't go to them. 547 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 1: I mean occasionally I go. You just go to Wendy's 548 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 1: and I like Wendy's. Yeah, Bob's big boy. That's right, 549 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: that's right. I all my twenty dollars guys are there now. 550 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 3: Man. 551 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 7: We had some you know, I'm not going to go 552 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 7: too deep into this, but we had you know, somebody 553 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 7: on the air here and they said that this twenty 554 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 7: dollars an hour is not going to affect anybody. That's 555 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 7: blown up like a big bowl of s. It's affected everybody. 556 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 7: Everyone's paying more or getting fired or reducing their hours. 557 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 2: It's over. It's a disaster. Yeah, it's a wholesale disaster 558 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 2: for everybody. Yeah. 559 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: Whoever believes that hasn't the slightest idea how a business 560 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: runs or how an economy works. 561 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 7: It was an economist from Berkeley that said it. Yeah, 562 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 7: he said, twenty dollars hour will be good for the 563 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 7: food fast food business. 564 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: That's how inflation gets created, right, because now the price 565 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: of food is going to go up at these restaurants, 566 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 1: and people are gonna are going to demand raises to 567 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 1: cover their food bills. 568 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 2: Which sure, that's how the spiral goes. 569 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 7: And at Burger King, there's one meal that went up 570 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 7: for two dollars two bucks overnight. You know that meal 571 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 7: wasn't you know it's fourteen dollars, was fourteen out sixteen. 572 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 7: But yesterday, you know, two days ago, that meal was 573 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 7: fourteen out sixteen. 574 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 2: That's a big jump for people like that. 575 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: And nobody wants to like, peel off a twenty dollars 576 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 1: bill and all you've had is a Burger King lunch. 577 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 2: That doesn't feel good. That's depressive. 578 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 7: Hey, a friend of mine lives in Connecticut. He's got 579 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 7: three kids, so he went with his wife and his 580 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:33,239 Speaker 7: three kids. McDonald's ninety eight dollars, ninety eight dollars, I 581 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 7: believe it. Yeah, ninety eight bucks or Burger King, what 582 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 7: are those choice? Yeah, but he put the receipt online 583 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 7: ninety eight forty eight. 584 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 1: Well no, no, that's that's destructive. Too much money, and 585 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of these fast food workers 586 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 1: are losing their jobs. They don't know it. 587 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 2: I know too. 588 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 7: They're too dumb. They're going away. They're going away, and 589 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 7: it sucks. It's gonna be AI and automation. Fast food 590 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 7: will forever worked beautifully, perfectly. 591 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 2: And I'll prove that. 592 00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 7: You go to in and out and there's there's literally 593 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 7: some time sixty cars in line. 594 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. 595 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 7: Where else do you get sixty cars in line? Post office? No, 596 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 7: you know, bank, No, nowhere else. We enjoyed the prices, 597 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 7: and we enjoyed the food. We like the food. We 598 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 7: like the prices. And now it's over. Yeah, all right, 599 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 7: Alex Stone is coming on. Big story. The tens of 600 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 7: millions of dollars stolen from a massive movie. 601 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 2: It's like a movie heist. And we'll have him Mom, 602 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 2: talk about that. 603 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 7: Kevin Lagrett is in charge of sports here at iHeartMedia 604 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 7: and he's gone like eighteen and three in March Madness, 605 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,239 Speaker 7: and over the last four games he went four and oh. 606 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 7: So we're gonna try to figure out and make some 607 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,360 Speaker 7: money over the weekend on the Final four and then 608 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 7: Dean Sharp is coming on as well. Six twenty plus. 609 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 7: There's a bunch of kids out in the hall. There's 610 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 7: a college and that they're broadcasting and they're going to 611 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 7: come in and I don't know, watch you. I guess 612 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 7: watch what not to do? They're here to make ken. 613 00:33:58,280 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 7: Is that too late? 614 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: No, I'll text his address exactly. 615 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 2: I'm on a bus trip. I dig dong with you 616 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 2: by money you can make in the business. 617 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,360 Speaker 1: We've got Ashley Johnson live in the CAFI twenty four 618 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 1: hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt 619 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,319 Speaker 1: Show podcast. 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