1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on every day 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: from one until four o'clock, and then after four o'clock 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 1: you can go to the John Coblt on demand podcast 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: to listen to what you've missed. Same as the radio show. 6 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,600 Speaker 1: We did a lot in the first hour about the 7 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: shooting in Dallas today of the three illegal aliens who 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: were being processed at a detention center and some crazy 9 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: anti ICE guy started firing a rifle from another snapper's 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: position on a rooftop and he killed one, wounded two, 11 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 1: and then killed himself. The bullets that were met for 12 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: ICE agents and I know this because it's said so 13 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 1: on his bullet anti Ice, but he missed all the 14 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: ICE agents and only got the immigrants being processed. And 15 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: we've also played a lot of Gavin Newsom, who was 16 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: doing a PEP rally on Stephen Colbert last night trying 17 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: to whip up anger towards ICE. More on that later next. 18 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: Lennon Negrete, she's the mayor of Santa Monica. She is 19 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,839 Speaker 1: taking issue with what I've been saying about Santa Monica 20 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: over the last few days, actually the last few years, 21 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: and she posted a video and inserted my face in 22 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: the middle of the video. So we'll talk to her. 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: We asked her to come on. She said yeah, but first, 24 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: as the circus continues, Michael monks, because you got Santa 25 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 1: Monica being out of money, you got La being out 26 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: of money. But miraculously, yesterday Mayor Bass held a public 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: event and said that, well, we don't have to lay 28 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 1: off anybody. It was supposed to be sixteen hundred, now 29 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: it's zero. And Michael's gonna explain this magic trick here. 30 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 2: It's quite a magic trick. In fact, back in April, 31 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 2: those sixteen hundred layoff were proposed by Mayor Baths herself. 32 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: She creates a suggested budget and it goes to the 33 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: city council and then they do their hacking and their 34 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 2: maneuvering and figure out what the priorities are and they 35 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 2: craft a budget that then goes back to her her 36 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 2: excuse me. By the time that they got back to her, 37 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 2: the city had closed this billion dollar budget shortfall and 38 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 2: saved about a thousand of those jobs. There were still 39 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 2: six hundred people on the shopping block, but they all 40 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 2: hoped that at some point, in some way, they'd be 41 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 2: able to save those hundreds of city jobs. And that's 42 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 2: what the mayor announced yesterday, is that they were able 43 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 2: to do that. 44 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: Did they get an unexpected windfall? Did someone die and 45 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: leave the city an inheritance? 46 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 3: Know? 47 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 2: What they got was different positions in different departments. So 48 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 2: if you may have had a let's say you were 49 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 2: a guy who cleaned the windows at the city building, 50 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 2: you might be cleaning the windows at the airport now 51 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 2: or at the Port of Los Angeles. Well, other agencies 52 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 2: they ship exactly city agencies or city related agencies. 53 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: Or other departments. Are they really said to the airport 54 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: there are airport jobs. No. No, I'm just wondering if 55 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: they're going to keep doing their same job and they're 56 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: just listed under a different No. No. 57 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 2: People were moved into different positions other departments. A lot 58 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 2: of the jobs represented by unions took some concessions, not 59 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 2: necessarily of course, on their pay, but for example, a 60 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 2: lot of the police officers will bank their overtime hours. 61 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 2: And in fact, the city councilman Monic Rodriguez was on 62 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 2: the Bill Handle Show this morning with Nil Savedra, and 63 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 2: this is how she explained the maneuvering at the end. 64 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 4: Of the day that people are still losing out in 65 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 4: terms of the services in the city from the cuts. 66 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: That were achieved or were done to our. 67 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 4: Graffiti abatement, to street services, sidewalk repairs, street lighting, all 68 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 4: of those things her still being affected by these cuts. So, yes, 69 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 4: we were able to avoid layoffs, and that's always a 70 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 4: good thing. 71 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: There will be furloughs though, right there. 72 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 4: Are furloughs, and there were a lot of compromises. LAPD 73 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 4: a lot of their overtime is going to be banked, 74 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 4: so that's ultimately going to cost more. 75 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 2: So what you're saying there is we may a lot 76 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 2: of cuts in the budget process in order to close 77 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 2: that billion dollars shortfall. A lot of public facing services 78 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 2: still got cut, but everybody saved their job. 79 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: The job for these people is just somewhere else right now. 80 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: That's exactly. So we're not going to have the people 81 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: to clean up the graffiti or to fix the street lighting. 82 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 2: But people are still employed and you're still on a 83 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 2: humanity level, that's great news. But if you're not getting 84 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 2: the services as a tax paying itsident. 85 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: That's all I care about it. I know you lack humanity, Bob. 86 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: Like Gavin Newsome, I'm a narcissistic sociopath. I can't help it. 87 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: I don't understand. So I'm not going to get the 88 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 1: services anymore. But at least these people still have their 89 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: jobs giving the services in some other department not directly 90 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: connected to the city, that's right. 91 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 2: Or I'm still connected to the city, but not necessarily 92 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 2: doing what they were doing before. So the other key here, 93 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 2: as I've sat through all of those grueling budget meetings 94 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: in the spring up until they passed the budget, you. 95 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: Did something terrible in a previous life, I think I did, yeah, 96 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: and probably in this life. 97 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. But there were projections. They don't just make the 98 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 2: budget for this year. They are told what to expect 99 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 2: for the next several years. 100 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: And it's not good. It's not good for the next 101 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: several years. 102 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 2: So I thought, you know, my own understanding of local government, 103 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 2: maybe they should go ahead and just bite the bullet 104 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 2: and lay these folks off. Sad as that is, because 105 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 2: their financial outlook is not improving, and so they may 106 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 2: find themselves in a similar position when the time to 107 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 2: craft next fiscal year budget comes around in the spring. 108 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: And here's the weird thing. 109 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:29,679 Speaker 5: John. 110 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 2: Last Friday, the city council voted for the expansion of 111 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 2: the La Convention Center. I don't think many people dispute 112 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 2: whether that convention center needs to be expanded or cleaned 113 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 2: up to be more competitive. It's been thirty years since 114 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 2: the last time. But with their financial condition, it seems 115 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 2: a strange choice because it's a two point six billion 116 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 2: dollar project that basically guarantees they're going to have another 117 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars worth of debt payments coming out 118 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 2: of their pockets as soon as next Year's City controller, 119 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 2: Keneth Mahia is beside himself. Here's what he said about 120 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 2: the decision. 121 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 6: We are still on the hook to find an additional 122 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,799 Speaker 6: one hundred four million dollars for the next thirty years, 123 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 6: and so I'm afraid financially because I do not know 124 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 6: where we're going to find one hundred four million dollars 125 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 6: each year for the next thirty years. And the city 126 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 6: just keeps over estimating revenues. There's no controls. It's it 127 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 6: mind boggles me how the city is handling its finances. 128 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 2: You don't want the city controller to say there are 129 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 2: no controls, and it mind boggles me how the city 130 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 2: is handling its finances. 131 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: Well, what's his role in that? He does he have 132 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: any power to say stop, don't we can't do this? 133 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 2: Yes, excuse me again. He has the power to recommend, 134 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 2: that's it. Yeah, and the power of some oversight and 135 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 2: some auditing and those sorts of things. And he may 136 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 2: be able to audit some some different categories. 137 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: So he has audits from time to time, and then 138 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: everybody ignores them. That's right. 139 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 2: In fact, that ignoring, he says, ignoring his proposed audit 140 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 2: of the homeless spinning in the city is how the 141 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 2: city ended up with those attorneys that I think you've 142 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 2: talked about, Yes, and that massive attorney bill, another underestimated expenditure, 143 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 2: right that many many times more than what they had 144 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: already budgeted. 145 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: Six million dollars for fifteen attorneys, And you heard it 146 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: from the controller there. 147 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 2: Now, every year for the next thirty years, this city 148 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 2: that was already in a billion dollar budget hole just 149 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 2: this year, has to find another one hundred four million 150 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 2: dollars this year, next year, the year after that to 151 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 2: pay for this convention center expansion. Wish Mayor Bass signed 152 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 2: into law today. 153 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: And she doesn't talk about any of this publicly, it's 154 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: always Ray Rob pep rally stuff. 155 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 2: They think by closing the budget gap and keeping these 156 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 2: folks jobs that they have done the right thing, that 157 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 2: they have done the right thing for as she says Angelino's. 158 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: But graffiti's not going to get cleaned up. I'm sure 159 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: the sanitation Department's going to be that la is so 160 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: disgustingly dirty as I'm sure you know, I do know. 161 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 2: I'll tell you this being downtown, well, one of the 162 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 2: things that none of the many things did you hear 163 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 2: from downtown residents, who, by the way, supported this expansion 164 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 2: because they think it'll be important economic driver down there, 165 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 2: so to a lot of the civic and business organizations. 166 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 2: The mayor says, with this expansion project that she signed 167 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 2: today to make it official, she says that they're also 168 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 2: going to have more police foot patrols, they are going 169 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 2: to have more mental health. 170 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: People down there. But there broke well, I guess you'll 171 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,239 Speaker 1: see LAPD banking those overtime hours to be paid off. 172 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 2: When I tell you this, when we get together in 173 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 2: this room in about six months in spring, when it's 174 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 2: time for the budget to be crafted again, I hope 175 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 2: we save this conversation because I'm very anxious to see 176 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 2: what the projected deficit is by. 177 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: Then and how many layoffs they're proposed. All right, Michael Monks, excellent, 178 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. AFI News. 179 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 180 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 7: six forty. 181 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: Mois sign eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven 182 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 1: seven only to eighty six or used the talkback feature 183 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. After three o'clock, we're gonna have 184 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: the mayor of Santa Monica coming on, Lanna ne Grete. Really, 185 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: she went online and she's not happy about what I'm 186 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: saying about Santa Monica, and so she wants to talk 187 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: and we invited her on the show. And you'll hear 188 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: that right after three o'clock. Oh, you just heard Michael 189 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:34,559 Speaker 1: Monk's son. You know, there's nothing more phony than government budgets. 190 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna get lost in the weeds here 191 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,599 Speaker 1: because it's all nonsense. Right. They claim they were a 192 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: billion dollars short. They this is Karen Bass, and you 193 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: know she's she's in over her head, she's incompetent, she 194 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: can't count, she's you know, a cashtro girl. You know, 195 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: she's just she's not fit to be the mayor of anywhere, 196 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 1: but she gets elected in La basically because of her 197 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: gender and her race. But as far as actual qualify pations, no, 198 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: that's pretty much zero. And you can see as it 199 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:09,239 Speaker 1: played out. The place is overrun with the legal aliens, 200 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: homeless people, mental patients, vagrants. City services are next to nothing. 201 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: The streets are in total disrepair. It is like being 202 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe in maybe Palace, maybe Gaza after 203 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: Israel got through that. That's what some of the roads 204 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: are like. I've never been to Gaza, but when I 205 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: drive in La City streets, this reminds me of Gaza. Seriously, 206 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: it's really bad, incredible amounts of garbage, especially around the 207 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: homeless encampments. She's a complete failure, but she does these 208 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: weird happy dances in these press conference every few days, 209 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: and she had one yesterday, which Michael Monks I think 210 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: saw through because there were supposed to be sixteen hundred 211 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: layoffs to help fill the billion dollar deficit, and now 212 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: they filled the billion dollar deficit and there were no layoffs, 213 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: and so these people have been reassigned, like to go 214 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: work at the airport or some other quasi city related agency, 215 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 1: except their jobs are still gone. There's nobody's gonna be 216 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: picking up the garbage, and nobody's going to be painting 217 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: over the graffiti, and nobody's going to be fixing the 218 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: street lights. You know, they've been reassigned somewhere else. That's 219 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 1: not going to help out your life and help out 220 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: what's going on in your block. But she does a 221 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: big victory dance because she balanced the budget. Now you 222 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: heard Michael's report, I hope you did. Let's play this 223 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: Channel seven report and see how how they covered it. 224 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: Seems the same thing. This is ABC seven sid Garcia. 225 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 3: Labor and city leaders were all smiles earlier today as 226 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 3: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced there will be no 227 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 3: layoffs for this fiscal year. 228 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 8: I remember in April when I gave my State of 229 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 8: the City speech and unfortunately had to announce that the 230 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 8: state of the economy and our budget in the city 231 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 8: at that time in April of this year, was going 232 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 8: to result in the potential layoff of sixteen hundred city workers. Well, 233 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 8: I am here today to tell you that this has 234 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 8: been completely everted, I. 235 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: Should say everted. So how did the city do it? 236 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 3: It? Was facing. How Mayor Bass describes it, a terrifying 237 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 3: billion dollar budget deficit. In Layman's terms, the heads of 238 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 3: city departments were able to fill vacancies with current employees. 239 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 3: The city got creative and shuffling city employees around. 240 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 8: This was always about protecting our skilled city workforce who 241 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 8: have trained for years and honed their crafts as building inspectors, 242 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 8: truck operators, mechanics. 243 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: A second, the way they they're presenting it is if 244 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: everybody moved around a differ departments within the city. But 245 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: if that was true, that's still the same amount of 246 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: money you have to pay these people. You haven't saved 247 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: any money unless you get them off the City of 248 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: Los Angeles payroll. Training everybody around in different departments doesn't accomplish. 249 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: That doesn't save a penny. You have to farm them 250 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: out and put them under put them under an expense 251 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 1: column that is not directly connected to the city, like 252 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: the airport. The airport has its own budget, you see. 253 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: Maybe they'll explain that coming up. Play some more. 254 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 8: Truck operators, mechanics, engineers, city planners, street lighting electricians, crime 255 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 8: and intelligence officers, zoo animal keepers, and so many more 256 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 8: roles that are responsible for the delivery of vital services 257 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 8: to Angelino's. 258 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 3: The city's twenty twenty five twenty twenty six budget is 259 00:13:55,240 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 3: fourteen billion dollars and there are approximately fifty thousand city employees. 260 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 5: As of now, the billion dollar deficit was closed and 261 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 5: as this budget is implemented, we are projecting structural balance 262 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 5: in the following fiscal year, along with surpluses in years 263 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 5: three and four. 264 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 9: This is more than a budget decision, This is a 265 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 9: promise kept to the people who keep our city running 266 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 9: every single day, from sanitation crew to S three services, 267 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 9: from clerks to cross the sanitations and emergency responders. Our 268 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 9: city workers are the backbone of Los Angeles and. 269 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 10: Those who happened laid off have been called back to 270 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 10: work according to the city. 271 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: Wow, that report sucked. That's stunk, sid Garcia. His reports 272 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: have popped up on our radar before. That was terrible. 273 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: It makes no sense if they're moved to other departments, 274 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: those departments are still spending the same city money. They 275 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: were moved to a two different budgets, not the actual 276 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: city but city related agencies that are off the city 277 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: books and they have their own fiscal structures. That's terrible 278 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: and the city is disgustingly dirty. What what is that 279 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: other woman talking about sanitation hardest work? Oh? Stop it. Wow, 280 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: these are terrible reports. Michael played it out right. These 281 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: people are still gonna work, They're gonna work for different agencies. 282 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: They're not gonna have their old jobs. No one's gonna 283 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: do their old jobs. So you're not gonna have people 284 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: working in street lighting or graffiti abatement or in sanitation. 285 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: They'll be doing something else, somewhere else. So why couldn't 286 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: they be c seven? Did they not understand? Did they 287 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: not ask the questions? Does anybody pay attention? Will you 288 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: get your news the KFI way or you can get 289 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: it the local news way? And no wonder people don't 290 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: respond the way they should and vote the way they 291 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: should because nobody knows what's going on, and there's nobody 292 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: around to tell them. Well, we're gonna keep trying. Coming up. 293 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: So Trump's escalator ride to his UN speech, the escalator stopped, 294 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: telepropter broke down, and just by coincidence, UN employees were 295 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: heard joking about stopping his escalator before he arrived. Not 296 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory, actually true, and there's a secret service 297 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: investigation now that's next. 298 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 299 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: We're on everyday one and to four o'clock and if 300 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,679 Speaker 1: you miss stuff, eh, we have the podcast same as 301 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,199 Speaker 1: the radio show, moves even quicker. You go to the 302 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app John Cobolt Show on demand. Coming up after 303 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 1: three o'clock, Lana Negrete is gonna come on with us. 304 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 1: Lanta is the mayor of Santa Monica. In Santa Monica, 305 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: they have a city council and they rotate who's mayor. 306 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 1: It's her turn. We had Phil Brock on a few 307 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: times last year when he was mayor. Lana is coming on. 308 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,439 Speaker 1: She is a little miffed at what I've been saying 309 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: on the air about the city of Santa Monica. But 310 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: I'm just telling everybody what I see with my own eyes. 311 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: I've lived in the area long enough and it's it's 312 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 1: got a lot of trouble. Well, she wants to talk 313 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: O well, actually she you know, she put out some 314 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: criticism and then we called her and she said she'd 315 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 1: come on. So we'll see what that's like. Coming up 316 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: after three o'clock. Now, you know, at first I thought 317 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: this is just you know, conspiracy theory nonsense, but it's not. 318 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 1: Trump went to the United Nations yesterday and he told 319 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: off the world and I got to tell you, I 320 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: enjoyed it. That's what I wish. That's what I've always 321 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 1: wanted to do. Stand before all those pompfoons of the 322 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: United Nation and just tell them off on how they're 323 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 1: ruining the world. Their countries are a mess. Illegal immigration 324 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: has ruined Europe, it really has, and their green energy 325 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: policies were absurd, and it's screwed up their economies. He's 326 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: just tell them the truth. And everybody's appalled and offended 327 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: because he is so blunt and rude about it. But 328 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: that's the only way to cut through because otherwise they 329 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: talk in diplo speak, in government babble. These people are 330 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: one of the worst generations of leaders, you know. And 331 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: and and they they've made they've made the economies and 332 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: the way of life in Europe so much worse. And 333 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: because my wife and I've flown there a number of times, 334 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's like witnessing Santa Monica. You 335 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 1: just trust your own eyes, do you know what's going on? Well, 336 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 1: the same thing's happened was happening here. We were blowing 337 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: hundreds of billions of dollars on green energy nonsense. We 338 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: had illegal aliens running amock, criminals and gang members harming people. 339 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: We got tons of drugs being imported into the country, 340 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 1: and Trump has said stop it enough, and he's actually 341 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 1: stopped it. He's closed the border, he has stopped a 342 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 1: lot of the drug flow. He's blown up the ships 343 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: in Venezuela that are trying to cart more more drugs here, 344 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: and they're chasing all the criminals out of Washington, d C. 345 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: He's shut down all the wasteful green energy projects because 346 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: that was a racket. Is a racket. So he's threatened 347 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: every once in a while to cut the UN budget, 348 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: and the UN workers don't like him. And apparently some 349 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:19,679 Speaker 1: of the workers, and this is from the Lunday the 350 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 1: London Sunday Times, they overheard employees joking about stunts they 351 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: could pull to highlight the funding shortage because the Trump 352 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: administration is withholding money. We put in billions. So one 353 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 1: of the ideas they were kicking around was to turn 354 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:44,360 Speaker 1: off the escalators and the elevators, and then when Trump complained, say, oh, 355 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 1: we ran out of money and force him to walk 356 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: up the stairs. And guess what happened. Malania steps on 357 00:20:54,760 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: the escalator and then Trump does and immediately it stopped. 358 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: And you know, she's wearing those really high heels, and 359 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 1: she almost toppled over. 360 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 11: Oh trust me, I've yeah, I can relate to that. 361 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: You wear the same kind. 362 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,440 Speaker 11: Yeah, I do. Yeah, And mind the little the heel 363 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 11: gets stuck sometimes in right different places. 364 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 1: And so she started wobbling and she had to grab 365 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: the she had to grab the arm rest, and they 366 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: both looked over to the right. And this didn't occur 367 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 1: to me the first time I saw it, but you know, 368 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: later on I heard people saying, what the hell was 369 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,719 Speaker 1: the Secret Service? Because that would be a great distraction 370 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: to freeze the two of them, and and and while 371 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,719 Speaker 1: everybody's trying to figure out the escalator, somebody could take 372 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: a shot at them, somebody could do something to kill them. 373 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: And both of them look kind of scared in the 374 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,679 Speaker 1: moment because they stopped and they both look to the right. 375 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: It's like, what is this Secret Service? Didn't move? I 376 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 1: think they hired a lot of it must have been 377 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: during the DEI or they hired a lot of bad 378 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,199 Speaker 1: Secret Service agents. They have fired quite a few, but 379 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:02,959 Speaker 1: they got to cycle them through the system, and they 380 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 1: got to train new ones. Because these agents there, their 381 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 1: shoes must have been nailed to the ground. So anyway, 382 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 1: Malania is wobbling. Trump stops and stares, and it looks 383 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: like maybe the U and staff members actually did this. 384 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 1: They turned off the escalators as soon as they because 385 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: the escalator is working fine all day. They step on 386 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 1: the escalator and it stops, and then Trump starts his 387 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: speech and the teleprompter stops. Well, he went on an 388 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: hour anyway, probably mostly off the top of his head. 389 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: Here is what he said at the beginning of the speech. 390 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 10: I don't mind making this speech without a teleprompter because 391 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 10: the teleprompter is not working. 392 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: I feel very happy. 393 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 10: To be up here with you. Nevertheless, and that way 394 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,719 Speaker 10: you speak more from the heart. I can only say 395 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 10: that whoever's operating this teleprompter is in big trouble. 396 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 1: Some teleprompter breaks, the escalator breaks. You mentioned Biden was 397 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: left up there last year without a teleprompter. Uh uh 398 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: would have went on for an hour then. According to 399 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: Katie Pavlich, who's a reporter with town Hall or Communist, 400 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: she said, the audio inside the press room was much 401 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 1: lower and different for Trump than all the other speakers. 402 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt, the President's press secretary, So when you put 403 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: all this together, the teleprompter, the escalator, the audio, it 404 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 1: doesn't look like a coincidence. So the US Secret Service 405 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 1: is investigating it. And if we find that UN staffers 406 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,679 Speaker 1: were purposely trying to trip up Little really trip up 407 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: the President and the first Lady, well there better be 408 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: a accountability for these people, and I will personally see 409 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 1: to it. They were working this in this story is 410 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: from the London Times too. The yeah, they were working 411 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: perfectly until Milania first stepped foot on one. 412 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 12: All right, Oh they're playing the video of them walking up. 413 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 12: Oh yeah, yeah, I see. You see on the left 414 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 12: side the escalator going up isn't working, but the one 415 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 12: on the right is working. Yeah, So why did they 416 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 12: stop just the one that Trump and Millennia were on, 417 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 12: Because Trump and Millennia were on it exactly. Yeah, it 418 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 12: was a targeted attack of that escalator. And he later said, 419 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 12: there's two things I got from the United Nations, a 420 00:24:54,760 --> 00:25:01,880 Speaker 12: bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. And it was now 421 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 12: now the UN is trying to deny all this. They said, well, 422 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 12: the escalator was the safety mechanism that was inadvertently triggered 423 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,400 Speaker 12: by someone who was ahead of the president. 424 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 1: Well who the escalator is immediately reset and in operation. Wow, 425 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: what a coincidence. The one minute that Trump's on the escalator, 426 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: somebody hits a switch. Regarding the teleproptery, we have no comment. 427 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: We don't operate that teleprompter. Also, they said that the 428 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: the video feed of his speech was switched to a 429 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: foreign language and suddenly there was like a closed caption 430 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 1: on the screen and Trump's words were obscured because they 431 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 1: had to they this this, this had this had to 432 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: be this, this had to be coordinated. I mean they really, 433 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 1: they really are trying to kill him. Guys almost aid 434 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: years old. You could have fallen down the escalator. They 435 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:10,400 Speaker 1: missed time to stop by a few seconds. That's that's 436 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: where we're living now, all right, Lennon to Grette coming 437 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: up after three o'clock, the mayor of Santa Monica. I 438 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: know what I'm seeing in Santa Monica. We're going to 439 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,119 Speaker 1: talk about it with her. Coming up. 440 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM 441 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:24,200 Speaker 7: six forty. 442 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four o'clock and 443 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,679 Speaker 1: then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on 444 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: the iHeart app. We are going to have the Mayor 445 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: of Santa Monica, Lennon to Grete. I just watched her 446 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 1: full video that she posted. I guess that was on Instagram. 447 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: It was a lengthy statement and there was a piece 448 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: of it about how somebody told her about a radio 449 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: host and that radio host has lots of listeners and 450 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 1: I was talking about Santa Monica and you can follow 451 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: the show for four and five minutes. You know what 452 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 1: I've witnessed in Santa Monica over the last few years. 453 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: And she says, well, I've only been there since December. Well, 454 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 1: we'll talk. She put a photo of me in the 455 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: middle of her speech. I just suddenly popped up on 456 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: the screen. There, Oh you're famous. I well, she'd mentioned 457 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: my name, she just my photo, like this is the 458 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 1: jackass right here. Okay, they should have had a little 459 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: red arrow pointing at me. She didn't want to say 460 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: her name, but she wanted to show your face. Yeah. 461 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: So uh we called her and said you want to 462 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: come on, and she said she would, and I listened 463 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 1: to her. It was a lengthy speech, and there wasn't 464 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: much I disagreed with in terms of a worldview on 465 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: how we should get our head out of our screens. 466 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: And we have these curated algorithms feeding us a lot 467 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: of bad information, and we should be talking to each 468 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 1: other and getting civically involved. Most of what she's saying 469 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: is true, but I don't know what she's upset with me. Well, well, 470 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: well we'll find out coming up. I mean, you know, 471 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: by the way, feel free to chime in, because you 472 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: were talking about being in Santa Mona. 473 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 11: I'm terrified of being in Santa Monica. I love Santa Monica. 474 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 11: I told you one of my dreams was to live 475 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 11: in Santa Monica one day. And if Yeah. 476 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: Now, I think a lot of people misunderstand. I'm not 477 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: just here too aggressively wax Santa Monica. 478 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 11: No, we would like to go back to Santa Monica, right, 479 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 11: You and your wife would like to go shopping at 480 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 11: Santa Monica place again. 481 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:27,400 Speaker 1: We all would like to. 482 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,159 Speaker 11: Go to the restaurants in the beach and all of 483 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 11: that and feel safe. 484 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm disappointed. Yeah, like I'm sad me too. I mean, 485 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: between that and the Palisades burning on my side of town. 486 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: We've got nowhere to go. We really don't. We did 487 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: most of our fun stuff in Santa Monica and Palisades. 488 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:49,160 Speaker 11: Santa Monica is a tourist destination as well, so it 489 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 11: needs to be safe for people that want to come 490 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 11: and visit and people like us who live in southern 491 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 11: California and we want to go to Santa Monica and hang. 492 00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: Out, which pretended when you live on the west side, 493 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people tend to go to the west 494 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: for fun, like Santa Monic compalses because going to the 495 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 1: east requires crossing the four h five. 496 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 11: Well, it's us valley people. Going to your side is 497 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 11: a big pain in the butt. 498 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: You're former valley person. You've upgraded to the mountaintop. Don't 499 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: mislead people. 500 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 11: That's still part of the San Fernando Valley, right, but. 501 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: You're not down below anymore. You look down on those people. Oh, John, 502 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 1: she's not at the peak, but she's on a hill. 503 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: Yeah she is, it's not at the very top. 504 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 12: Well that's true, John, Deborah might as well give her 505 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 12: address out. 506 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 11: Oh there's nothing to steal there. 507 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: Let me just tell you, all right, well, we'll we'll 508 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: have Lennon and Grette on and that'll be in just 509 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. Deborah Mark live in the KFI 510 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The 511 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: John Cobalt Show podcast. 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