1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 2: four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app, 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: you go to the iHeart app after four and whatever 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 2: you've missed here on the radio show you can hear then. 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 2: And we have millions of people who have listened to 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 2: the show already this year on the iHeartRadio app. 9 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: Now we are Is he still talking? 10 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 3: It's a different senator now. He yielded for a question, 11 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,520 Speaker 3: and so another senator's given him some help. 12 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 2: All right, that's how he takes his breaks. We're talking 13 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 2: about Corey Booker. He's this nutball senator from New Jersey 14 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 2: who has been babbling on the Senate floor for eighteen hours, 15 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 2: probably more than that now, right, Oh yeah, yeah. 16 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: And this is not. 17 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 2: A philipbuster, because philibusters are when a senator won'tsp talking 18 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: so he can block a bill from being voted on, 19 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 2: and it's try to gain leverage against the other party 20 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: and they never work. But he's just giving a speech 21 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 2: and he started around seven o'clock last night, and it's 22 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 2: an anti Trump tirade eighteen hours worth because they can't 23 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 2: figure out what to do. Trump has blown through like 24 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 2: a tornado, you know, with one hundred or two hundred 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 2: executive orders. He's affecting so many different issues. They don't 26 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,559 Speaker 2: know how to stop him. The public is behind Trump 27 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,919 Speaker 2: on a lot of these issues, with a few glaring exceptions, 28 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 2: but it's really a revolution. And you know, they've tried 29 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 2: all these other public relations tactics. 30 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they're blown up tesla's. 31 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: And they're they're they're dropping f bombs that their public appearances. 32 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 2: So finally, Corey Book, I thought, well what if I 33 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 2: start talking and I never stopped. 34 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: He's talking. Now, he's talking. Now let's bring him. This 35 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: is live. 36 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 4: Parents who are struggling to take care of their parents 37 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 4: and their children, who rely on Medicaid because a parent 38 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 4: has Alzheimer's and a child has a disability. They're trying to. 39 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: Make it all work. 40 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 4: But yet they're shackled in fear because they see this 41 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 4: is his nineteenth hour to a House Committee Energy and 42 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 4: Commerce was to find eight hundred and eighty billion dollars 43 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 4: of cuts to the programs that they are relying on. 44 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 2: How do you get to nineteen hours where the material 45 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 2: like how do you organize it's liberated? 46 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 5: He must be repeating some things by the terrify because 47 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 5: whatever he said at three in the morning. 48 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 3: Exactly dealing with well, he's had senators asking questions and 49 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 3: he can tell them like prompts. 50 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, half renters in this country and I were both 51 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 4: local leaders. 52 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 2: This sounds fascinating too, doesn't How many people were watching 53 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 2: he told me. 54 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 3: Paying So this is this audio is directly from Senator 55 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 3: Corey Booker's Twitter account, x account, whatever you wanna call it. 56 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 3: They're currently including US five hundred and thirty four point 57 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 3: seven thousand people watching. 58 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 4: I say, that's so a little bit of twisted non Christian. 59 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 2: This gets half a million paper Huh. 60 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 5: I wonder if anybody has been watching since he started. 61 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 4: You're connected to your community. 62 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: I don't even think his family members would. 63 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 4: Watch, you know, people that are struggling. 64 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 2: Well, what's the point of this. Eventually he's going to 65 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 2: stop or he's going to drop dead, and then what. 66 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 5: Because he's probably gearing up to run for president. 67 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 2: So yeah, he ran back in PAP but I forget 68 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 2: twenty sixteen or twenty twenty twenty twenty Maybetial Ruin. 69 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 4: I forget President doing his promise. 70 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 2: But he only lasted about five minutes to make their lives. 71 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: He lasted about as long as Kamala Harris did that year. Twenty. 72 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, Trump is calling his terriff's Liberatye he got nowhere. 73 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know what's going to remember when 74 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 5: he runs again. 75 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 4: Liberated from the bully neighbor that is Donald Trump. Do 76 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 4: you think Greenland feels liberated? 77 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: Greenland? 78 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 2: That's right, there's a burning issue feels liberated. 79 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: There's fifty seven thousand people in. 80 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 4: Greenland universities that are cutting ANIH funding, that are cutting 81 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 4: the scientific research that will cure the diseases in the future, 82 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 4: that will alleviate suffering that now aren't allowing. 83 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: Oh I guess we're all going to die. 84 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 4: They're not hiring, they're slashing the number of engineering students 85 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 4: that they're allowing in because they're terrified because this president 86 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 4: is menacing in direct costs. 87 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: Huh is that liberation? 88 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 2: See tomorrow is the Trump proclaimed liberation day because he's 89 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 2: going to unleash these tariffs on foreign countries trying to 90 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 2: import their products here. And Trump has said that these 91 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 2: countries put tariffs on our on our products, and that 92 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 2: it's unfair. Their tariffs are much higher than ours. So 93 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 2: he wants to at least equalize and and put this 94 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 2: at least the same amount of because it's like a tax. Uh, 95 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 2: so that that people buy more American products, so we 96 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 2: have more American factories and more American jobs. I have 97 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 2: no idea if that's going to work or not, but 98 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 2: that that's what he's doing. And so that's what's triggered 99 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 2: these the last few minutes of Corey Booker's rampage. So 100 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 2: he did this at seven o'clock at night, and every 101 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 2: once in a while another senator comes in and just 102 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 2: talks for a few minutes, ends with a question, and 103 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 2: then Booker pops up back. I guess he had a 104 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 2: snack or soda, and that's rice to go. 105 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: To the restroom. 106 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 2: I for some reason, left wing progressive people love symbolic nonsense. 107 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 2: I mean, he's been in he's been in office a 108 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 2: number of years now. His party ran the House and 109 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 2: the Senate, and they had the presidency for two years. 110 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 2: And they still had the Senate and the presidency the 111 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 2: last two years before Trump got re elected they could 112 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 2: have done whatever they wanted, and a lot of stuff 113 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 2: they ignored, like the border. In fact, they intentionally exacerbated 114 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 2: the illegal alien problem. A lot of stuff they did 115 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 2: turned out to be a disaster, you know, spending trillions 116 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 2: of extra dollars that had to be printed or borrowed, 117 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 2: caused crazy inflation. You had your chance, you had your chance, 118 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 2: and you blew it badly, and you got repudiated by 119 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 2: much of the nation. 120 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 1: And now you're completely out of power. 121 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 2: You have you don't have the House, you don't have 122 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 2: the Senate, you don't have the presidency. Supreme Court is 123 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 2: stacked against you. Most of the governorships are Republican, majority 124 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 2: of the legislation, the legislative bodies in the States are Republican. 125 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: It's it's it's the big wipeout. 126 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 2: It's like when the asteroid hit the Earth and the 127 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 2: dinosaurs went extinct. You know, Trump, Trump was the asteroid. 128 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 2: You guys are the dinosaurs. You got to you got 129 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 2: to regenerate yourselves. And you can't keep selling woke nonsense. 130 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 2: Nobody wants to hear the woke nonsense anymore. That's said 131 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 2: pathetic nineteen years and we'll check on it. In on 132 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 2: him a case and if he goes thump right, just 133 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 2: make sure you get that audio. I want to hear 134 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 2: him when he hits the ground. You got it, all right? 135 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 2: When we come back. What is wrong with people? The 136 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 2: taxes went up today? The sales tax went up today, 137 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 2: a new tax, a new tax that has no expiration date, 138 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: and the majority of Los Angeles County voters approved of 139 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 2: this back in November, and today it kicks in. 140 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: What is wrong with you? It's for homelessness of all things. 141 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 6: Really, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI 142 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 6: Am six forty. 143 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 2: John Cobelt coming up after one point thirty. Michael Monks 144 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 2: from KFI News. The LA County Supervisors were voting today 145 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 2: whether they were going to create their own homeless agency 146 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 2: because the current homeless agency LASA, is a big failure 147 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 2: and people are just stealing money left and right. Oh 148 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 2: what a coincidence. Today's the first day of the new 149 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 2: sales tax, which is supposed to go to LASA among 150 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 2: of their homeless agencies here in the city and in 151 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 2: the county. 152 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: Do you believe that in November the. 153 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 2: Majority of voters voted for a new tax because a 154 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 2: quarter sent homeless sales tax was going to run out, 155 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 2: so they voted yes on a half sent permanent sales 156 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 2: tax to replace it. They couldn't let the quarter sent 157 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 2: thing run out. Now it's half sent and there's no 158 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:35,359 Speaker 2: expiration date on it, and it's for homelessness. And four months, 159 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 2: five months after that vote, we find out La County 160 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 2: wants really nothing to do. 161 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: With LASA because it's corrupt because they steal the money. 162 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 2: Funny how they didn't have this debate in this vote 163 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 2: before election day before Measure A passed, they get the 164 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 2: and a few months later, oh good, we got this 165 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 2: new pot of money. We could finance this new boondoggle, 166 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 2: another oversight agency. But you know, you may know this 167 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 2: stuff because you listen to the show every day. You 168 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 2: listen to CAFI every day. But there's a lot of 169 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 2: lost souls out there in Debor's news. A little while ago, 170 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 2: I heard a couple of people interviewed by a reporter. 171 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: You want to play that again, Well, we voted for. 172 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 5: It, then I guess we're just going to have to 173 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 5: do it, you know. 174 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 7: But with the prices of everything going up now, we 175 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 7: didn't anticipate that when we voted for this, here's somebody else. 176 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,959 Speaker 6: I don't know what we can do about it, but 177 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 6: it needs a change because, I mean, things are already 178 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 6: expensive as it is. 179 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 2: In a second, the inflation has been roaring for about 180 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 2: three years four years now. Oh, we didn't know the 181 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 2: prices were going to go up. The prices had been 182 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 2: going up. Prices are up like twenty thirty percent and more. 183 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:03,559 Speaker 2: What do you mean we need to know the prices 184 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 2: were going up. 185 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 5: I just wonder how many people when they're voting, if 186 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 5: they really understand they if they really, if they really 187 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 5: get that prices you're voting for an increase that this 188 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 5: is a sales tax. It's going to stay forever. 189 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: We're one of the highest taxed states in the nation. 190 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 2: And in La County they voted to increase the sales 191 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 2: tax for homelessness of all things. 192 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: How many stories have been out and I. 193 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 2: Know we don't have much of a media, but for 194 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 2: God's sakes, read something. 195 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: I mean, all right. 196 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 2: One of the dominating stories locally, if you're paying attention, 197 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 2: is that this agency the city they lost two and 198 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 2: a half billion dollars. In other words, they don't know 199 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 2: where it went. They can't account for it, it was spent, 200 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 2: but they don't know on but. 201 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: LASA. 202 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 2: And we have a federal judge investigating David o'carter and 203 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 2: he's been holding hearings and he ordered an outside audit 204 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 2: because he the judge, doesn't understand where the money's going, 205 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 2: so he authorized the audit. And he still doesn't know 206 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 2: where the money's going because they couldn't figure it out. 207 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 5: So I think the tax should be null and void. 208 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 2: It should be. 209 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: These people going, I don't know what we could do 210 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: about it. 211 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 2: Why don't you start a petition to repeal the tax. 212 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 2: That's what you do about it. You've been defrauded, you've 213 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 2: been conned. The money is stolen. The woman running LASA, 214 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 2: which is the City County Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, 215 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 2: The woman who runs it is Valicia Adams Kellum. She 216 00:12:55,440 --> 00:13:00,959 Speaker 2: gave a two million dollar contract to her husband's nonprofit. 217 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: What else do you need to know? Do you need 218 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:05,680 Speaker 1: any other. 219 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 2: Information than the woman running the agency shuffled shuffled over 220 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 2: two million dollars to her husband's outfit. 221 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 5: We need a class action lawsuit so that we can 222 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 5: get the money back. 223 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 2: I'm astonished because this has been going on now for 224 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 2: eight years we passed these homeless taxes. There was a 225 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 2: city tax and a county tax eight years ago. Everything's 226 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 2: gotten worse. That's been well publicized. All you have to 227 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 2: do is use your own eyes. Just use your own eyesight. 228 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 2: Even their counts, which I don't trust, still generally produces 229 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 2: increases from year to year. Why would you give this 230 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 2: beast more money? What's wrong with you? I'm trying to understand. 231 00:13:58,320 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 2: Is it just colossal ignorance. 232 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 5: I think that when you have Mayor Bass and other 233 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 5: officials saying, oh, well, you know, the programs are working, 234 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 5: more people are going into shelters or tiny homes or 235 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 5: what have you. So we need more money to continue 236 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 5: this and get more people off the street. Because when 237 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 5: you talk about homeless in Los Angeles, it's pulling on 238 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 5: people's heartstrings. As I said yesterday, people feel that if 239 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 5: they say no, I'm not gonna I don't want I 240 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 5: don't want to give more money for the homeless, that 241 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 5: other people will think that you're a horrible, horrible person. 242 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 2: Why why do you want Well, it's amazing how people 243 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 2: feel than they have this desire. I want to be 244 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 2: known as a good person. I'm going to vote, so 245 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 2: I can think of myself as a good person. I 246 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 2: am compassionate. I worry about humanity. You're not helping these people. 247 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 2: The money doesn't go to them. With all the money 248 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 2: we've thrown at it, they all should be indoorsed somewhere 249 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 2: or transfer for it out of the county. It the 250 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 2: money is stolen by the nonprofits and by the government agencies. 251 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 2: It is in fact, well Valicia Adams Kellum, they had 252 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 2: a lossa She was supposed to appear in court before 253 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 2: Judge Carter. She wasn't available. Why she was in Boston. 254 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 2: She was on a trip. Like Karen bash is in Africa, 255 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 2: Adams Kellum is in Boston, Kyle Fart, Ricardo Lara is 256 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 2: in is in Columbia. Instead of going to a Senate 257 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 2: insurance hearing, all they do is travel and charge you. 258 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 5: But John, we had people that didn't want Gascon to 259 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 5: be recalled, right, yeah, until it got so bad that 260 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 5: he lost the election. So something has to be so 261 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 5: profound so that really people have to really open their 262 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 5: eyes and then they're going to say, oh wait, oh wait, 263 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 5: we're paying more money at the store so that we're 264 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 5: helping the homeless. But oh but the homeless. Oh, the 265 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 5: people don't know. Not everybody's listening to your show. 266 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's just just awful. You know, they should be. 267 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 5: Well because I don't think a lot of people understand 268 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 5: or even know that there's all this millions of dollars 269 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 5: are missing. 270 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean two 271 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 2: and a half billion, two and a half billion, big. 272 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 5: Billion billion dollars are missing. 273 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 2: And the judge calls in Karen Bass, It's like, there's 274 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 2: two and a half billion dollars missing. Oh, I don't know. 275 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 2: We got Michael Munks coming in next. Because the La 276 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 2: County Supervisors are voting to create their home, their own 277 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 2: homeless agency because they think loss of is a lost cause. 278 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 2: So on the day that the tax kicks in, they 279 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 2: hold a vote basically saying that yeah, this loss of 280 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 2: thing that you're funding. 281 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: Uh, it's as we're separating ourselves. 282 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 283 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 6: six forty. 284 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and 285 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 2: then after four o'clock whatever you missed you get on 286 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 2: the iHeart app. It's John Cobelt Show on demand. The 287 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 2: podcast same as the radio show. We have been telling 288 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 2: you that today is a sales tax increase day at 289 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 2: La County because voters, maybe not you, but somebody else 290 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 2: passed a half cent tax increase for homelessness because a 291 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 2: quarter cent homeless tax was expiring, well not till twenty 292 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 2: twenty seven, but they wanted to get a jump on things, 293 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 2: get that half cent surcharge going now. And the day 294 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 2: that the tax kicks in the day that you might 295 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 2: actually notice it is the same day that the La 296 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 2: County Supervisors are. 297 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,400 Speaker 1: Having a vote whether to. 298 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 2: Sever themselves basically from LASA, which is the dominant homeless 299 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 2: agency where a lot of this money is supposed to 300 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 2: go to. They want to create their own new agency. 301 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 2: Today Michael Monks is covering the story. They haven't voted yet, have. 302 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 7: They They have not. They've been an executive session for 303 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 7: the past few hours. They only just moments ago reconvened 304 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 7: in the main area where they meet and they have 305 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 7: just taken up this issue. So I don't know if 306 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,119 Speaker 7: you've watched many La County Board of Supervisors meetings, but 307 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,120 Speaker 7: zero way it works is all five of them get 308 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 7: a chance to talk and then it opens up the 309 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 7: public comment, maybe a staff member delivers a presentation, so 310 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 7: it might be a while, but they are taking up 311 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 7: this issue right now. 312 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 2: What specifically are they voting on? What would they do 313 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 2: if this proposal passes. 314 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 7: This is a motion presented by Supervisor Lindsay Horvath, who 315 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 7: had served on the board of the LA Homeless Services 316 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 7: Authority for a while and decided that it's not going well. 317 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 7: All of the audits are looking too bad. We've got 318 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 7: to do our own thing to win the trust of 319 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 7: the citizens and make sure that the money is being 320 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 7: spent accordingly as they desired, especially after voting in favor 321 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 7: of giving more. 322 00:18:57,920 --> 00:18:59,719 Speaker 2: But these are the same people who pushed this new 323 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 2: town and at the same time they're realizing that the 324 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 2: agency is a disaster. 325 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 7: I think the key difference, if you were to ask 326 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 7: the government officials, is that LASA is governed by a 327 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 7: board with representatives from the county and the city. It's 328 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 7: a joint operation, but there are no city staffers or 329 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 7: county staffers who are writing the checks and doing any 330 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 7: internal auditing. They get reports they serve on the board. 331 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 7: You know, they could get this information, but it's not 332 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 7: day to day direct oversight and I suppose that by 333 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,919 Speaker 7: bringing it in house, if it is an actual government 334 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 7: agency rather than a quasi government agency, there's different levels 335 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 7: of scrutiny. 336 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 2: Well, why don't do that and then ask for a 337 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 2: tax increase after you've proved that the money is effective, 338 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 2: it's going where it's supposed to. 339 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 7: You know, when this issue was headed towards the ballot 340 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,239 Speaker 7: in November, ahead of the vote, I had asked some 341 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 7: folks about elected officials, what are your concerns about voters' 342 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 7: concerns about the way the money has been spent, whether 343 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 7: it is paid off, whether there's been enough. There is 344 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 7: a piece of this new sales tax that vaguely refers 345 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 7: to the fact that there should be more oversight and 346 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 7: more accountability. 347 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what that will look like yet. 348 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:11,880 Speaker 1: What does that mean? 349 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 2: I think they have layers and layers of bureaucracy supposedly 350 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 2: providing oversight, and what's wrong with the people who are 351 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 2: actually spending the money and what happened in the two 352 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 2: and a half billion dollars that Judge Carter's looking for. 353 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 7: He was going to say, you're sounding a lot like 354 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 7: Judge Carter right now, because he definitely gave them all 355 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 7: a tongue lashing last week and will probably do so 356 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 7: again when he reconvenes them all very soon. By the way, 357 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 7: LA City Council's meeting right now too, they're talking about 358 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 7: that very issue about the court case, because they've got 359 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 7: some loss of issues on their own agenda today that 360 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 7: they're talking about. LA City Council has been a little 361 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 7: more lukewarm towards LASSA rather than ice cold the way 362 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 7: the county has been recently, so they have not determined 363 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 7: whether they're leaving that organization. 364 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 3: So the. 365 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: Is the county withdrawing from LASA. 366 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 7: LASSO would still exist even in relationship to the county 367 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 7: right now, because there are some key areas that loss 368 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 7: of handles through federal funding, one of which is what 369 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 7: just happened the annual count of the homeless people in 370 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 7: the county. So that is at least one thing that 371 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 7: LASSO would ideally, in the views of the people creating 372 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 7: this new department, would still be responsible for, and hopefully 373 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 7: as we listen to today's meeting, will get a clearer 374 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 7: idea of what they want. They hope to have a 375 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 7: CEO or some type of director of this new department 376 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 7: in place by July first. 377 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 2: So the county supervisors think there's a severe problem, but 378 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 2: the City Council La City they don't think it's that bad. 379 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 7: Not comprehensively. We will see where all of the supervisors 380 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 7: stand today. Lindsay Horvath has said it's time a supervisor 381 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 7: Barger co signed on this motion that she's put for. 382 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: We'll hear from the rest of them. 383 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 2: They're constantly being embarrassed by these audits. The city Controller 384 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 2: Kenneth Mahea had an audit last year that came to 385 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 2: the same conclusion as David Carter. It's like there's a 386 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 2: lot of money missing, and it's not like it's badly spent. 387 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 2: It's they don't know where it was spent. 388 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 7: A lot of time, they don't even know if it 389 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 7: was badly spent because they don't know what the outcomes 390 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 7: were supposed to be. What was this money for, what 391 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 7: was it supposed to do? 392 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 1: Did it do that? They don't know. 393 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 7: So now the argument at the county is we will 394 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 7: bring this in house and we will be able. 395 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 1: To answer all of those questions. That is how it 396 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 1: has been presented. 397 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 2: Are they getting new people or are they going to 398 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 2: take the same people out of LASA and give them 399 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 2: new offices and a new letterhead, and it's going to 400 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 2: be the same people. And why is it so hard 401 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 2: to keep track of this? I don't understand. It's not 402 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 2: that complicated. It seems like some very loose accounting was 403 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,959 Speaker 2: going on. No one has alleged excuse me, you have 404 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 2: I was just gonna say I will again there are 405 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 2: a bunch of thieves. None of these audits have said 406 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 2: fraud was taking place. Money is alleged officially that there 407 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 2: was thievery taking place. It just looks like poor accounting practices. 408 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 1: No, it looks like thievery in my opinion, And you're 409 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: allowed to say that. That's right, of course. 410 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 7: And hopefully what the county hopes to do is to 411 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 7: be able to give people like you and me and 412 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 7: everyone who's listening more details on where this money is going, 413 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 7: especially because as of today a lot more money is 414 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 7: going to be coming. 415 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: They do all this it, yeah, they do all this 416 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 1: with a straight face. 417 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 2: Huh, and on the judge screaming at them, and yeah, 418 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 2: it's like, well, we're gonna have more accountability now, Like no, 419 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:21,199 Speaker 2: you're not. 420 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 1: You haven't in ten for ten years. 421 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 7: Your skepticism is warranted. Your frustration is warranted. But here's 422 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 7: the thing about the homeless tax. It won by fifteen points. 423 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 7: This was not a close race, I know. So, I 424 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 7: mean a pretty clear majority of La County voters. 425 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: And that's not just the city, oh, I know, the 426 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: whole county. Yeah. 427 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 7: And I mean, if you live in a place like 428 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 7: Palmdale or Lancaster, your sales tax today is north of 429 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 7: ten maybe even eleven percent, depending on which of those 430 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,159 Speaker 7: two cities that you're in. So people are going to 431 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 7: really want to start seeing some results. 432 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 2: Actually voted to monetize the thieves and give them another 433 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:56,360 Speaker 2: burst of cash. 434 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 7: And just incredible that the county will be deciding how 435 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 7: the city get this money. By the way, and there 436 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 7: is a rocky relationship between the city and the county, 437 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 7: specifically as it relates to homelessness. The city is often 438 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 7: saying that the county is not doing their part on 439 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 7: the mental health side of things. So it's just a bad, 440 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 7: bad collaboration right now, All right. 441 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 2: Very good, Michael Munks CAFI News, And I cannot if 442 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,120 Speaker 2: you voted for this, and there must be people out 443 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 2: there who voted for this, You've just given more money 444 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 2: to the thieves. I don't understand why people do what 445 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:36,399 Speaker 2: they do. If you starve this beast, we would stop. 446 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 2: We end up the same amount of homeless anyway. Homelessness 447 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 2: hasn't gone down. So I give them millions and millions 448 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 2: of dollars. Don't give them anything. You'll have the same problems. 449 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six. 450 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 2: Alex Stone will be with us after Debra's News at 451 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 2: two o'clock because a teenage girl was was attacked by 452 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 2: a sea lion. 453 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, this is getting a little out of control. 454 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 2: There's toxic algae blooming in the ocean and it creates 455 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 2: some kind of acid and the sea lions ingest the 456 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 2: acid and then they start going crazy and they get violent. 457 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,199 Speaker 2: So there's violent sea lions loose. Alex will bring us 458 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 2: that story coming up. We will talk more later in 459 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 2: the show about this homeless tax, because you know this 460 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 2: is homeless tax won by fifteen points. Fifteen points, you 461 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 2: know what, I. 462 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 5: Would love for people to call in and explain why 463 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 5: they voted for that. 464 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would too. 465 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 2: I wonder if do we have people listening who vote 466 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 2: for taxes like this I don't even know. 467 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 5: I'd be surprised they're listening to your show that they would, 468 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 5: But I'm sure there must be a few. 469 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 2: You know, because it's a different debate than do you 470 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 2: think we ought to spend public money on the homeless? 471 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 2: Which I'm guessing that's why people are voting, because they 472 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 2: think it's a good thing to spend money on the homeless. 473 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 2: The real question is why do you spend money on 474 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 2: agencies that are thoroughly corrupt. They're stealing your money because 475 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,199 Speaker 2: they didn't know that. Have they noticed nothing's worked? 476 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 1: They think. 477 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 5: I have talked to some people and they think that 478 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 5: it is getting better slowly, but surely, that it takes time. Seriously, 479 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 5: I have talked to people that think that Marabas is 480 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 5: doing a decent job with the Really with cleaning up 481 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 5: the homeless. 482 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 2: It's okay. I got to give these people a ride. 483 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 2: By the way, I have a guy who set up 484 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 2: an encampment near my neighborhood, and he's been there a week. 485 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 2: In fact, I just called this morning and yelled at 486 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 2: some legislative Wiener to get this guy removed. He came 487 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 2: at us. We drove down this boulevard and there's a 488 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 2: median and we're on the let me see the eastbound 489 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 2: side of the medium. He's on the westbound side blocking 490 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 2: a sidewalk. He's got a tent and he's got all 491 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 2: kinds of extra construction going on. It's like this sprawling 492 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 2: thing that he's created. He's expanded. Yeah, I can't even 493 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 2: make out what it is. So it seems to me 494 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 2: that you're on a sidewalk. That's an ADA violation right there. 495 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 2: You remember when people used to be used to care 496 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 2: very much that those with disabilities had access in places 497 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 2: where they used to not remember, they made buildings, yes, 498 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 2: reconfigure themselves with ramps and with elevators, and the same 499 00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 2: thing with parking lots. 500 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 1: You got to a certain parking. 501 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 2: Lots and there's there's rows and rows of unused spaces 502 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 2: for disability parking. 503 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 5: But nobody is thinking that way when it comes to 504 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 5: a homeless person that's taking up a sidewalk where you 505 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 5: have to go around them. 506 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 2: Where I am if I can't walk down that sidewalk 507 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 2: because the guy's crazy, My wife and I slowed down 508 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 2: and my wife took a picture of it, and the 509 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 2: guy saw us take a picture, and he picked up 510 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 2: something long. Might have been a broom handle, might have 511 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 2: been a pipe, I don't know. He picked up a 512 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 2: weapon and he charged across the street. 513 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: His side of the meeting is chasing you. 514 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. 515 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, were you guys running. 516 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 1: No, we were in a car. 517 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 5: Oh you were in the car. 518 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 2: We were in a car. But he ran across, you know, 519 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 2: his side of the road. Then ran across the median 520 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 2: that made a left, and he's chasing us down our 521 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 2: side of the road. We're at a traffic light. Look 522 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 2: in the mirror and he's waving. His piper is stick 523 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 2: in the air. Well. 524 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 5: It wasn't nice of you to take his picture without 525 00:28:58,760 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 5: his permission. 526 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, he wants he wants to sign something. He wants 527 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 2: to sign a waiver. 528 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: I mean, you know. 529 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,239 Speaker 2: And and he's there for days, and other people are 530 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 2: are calling and complaining about it because neighbors have exchanged 531 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 2: photos of this guy. He's all by himself for the moment, 532 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 2: but it's not going to be long. This is how 533 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 2: a hole village starts. 534 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 5: Look, I want to just say I feel really bad 535 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 5: for people that are homeless. I really do, But I 536 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,239 Speaker 5: just I don't know what the solution is. But the 537 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 5: solution that people think that by by right to to 538 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 5: a homeless organization that has lost billions of dollars is 539 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,479 Speaker 5: definitely not the answer. 540 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 2: This is a failure. You wake up and tell people, 541 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 2: you know, to wake up. 542 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: So aggravated. 543 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 2: Uh, coming up after two o'clock, we're going to talk 544 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 2: with Alex Stone from the can if I News. 545 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 5: We're not aggravated with him. He's a cool dude. 546 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, he's guy. 547 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:04,719 Speaker 3: Uh. 548 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 2: Toxic algae blooming in the ocean. It creates some type 549 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 2: of acid. The sea lines and just the acid, and 550 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 2: it's as if they're on acid. Then they start charging 551 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 2: and they when they want to eat people. And a 552 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 2: fifteen year old girl was bit by feel a crazed 553 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 2: sea line. 554 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: You can't feel bad. 555 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 5: For I really feel bad for the animals, not people, well, 556 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 5: not a lot of people. 557 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually it's not only the it's I don't 558 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 2: feel bad for a lot of these people. If there 559 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 2: were little videos, I wish there was videos on all 560 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 2: these vagrants and mental patients and we could see what 561 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 2: they did in their life that led them to this spot. 562 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 2: If you could you could see like a highlight reel 563 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,959 Speaker 2: of what they've done that's. 564 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 1: Why they're there. 565 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 2: They deserve to be there if you've done too many 566 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 2: bad things or too many stupid things in your life. 567 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 5: But if you're meant ill and you definitely need help, 568 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 5: and you shouldn't be on the street, you should be 569 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 5: somewhere else. 570 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't. Well, that's one thing the county does 571 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 2: not do. They don't have good mental health facilities at all. 572 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 2: And a lot of money has been supposedly earmarked for 573 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 2: that and it's disappeared, like everything else. We'll talk more 574 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 2: later on about all these matters, but Alex Still will 575 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 2: come on next about the crazed, drug addicted Sea Lions. 576 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 2: Debora Mark is live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 577 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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