1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 2: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt 3 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app or on every day from 4 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 2: three to six and if you miss anything, every day, 5 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 2: right after six o'clock, we released the podcast John Cobelt' 6 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: show on demand, and that's how you keep up with stuff. 7 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 2: There is a tremendous amount going on today, as you 8 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 2: probably heard, so we were not allowed to waste any time. 9 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 2: First person we're bringing up here is from Newsdation. They're 10 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: national correspondent Alex Capareello. Because this is right on our doorstep, 11 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 2: you could see. Mexico went crazy over the weekend. There 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 2: is violence in twenty out of the thirty states, and 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 2: it was ignited because Mexican authorities captured a drug cartel 14 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 2: leader known as El Mencho. His name is Nemessio Asagura 15 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 2: and that's his legal name, and he was running the 16 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 2: Hallisco drug cartel and he's and Mexico got some help 17 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 2: from US intelligence. Well, there's been all kinds of mayhem 18 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 2: going on, shootings and fires, and you have American tourists 19 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 2: fleeing hotels, trying to get on planes, not always successfully. 20 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: Let's go to Alex Capririello and see what the latest is. Alex. 21 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, hey there, good to be with you. I can 22 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: tell you that we have seen some of the disruption, 23 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: unrest and chaos beginning to scale back, at least partially 24 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: in some of the Mexican states. Shelter in places as 25 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: you just mentioned, were happening in cities all across the 26 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: country and about half a dozen or so Mexican states. 27 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: They've been lifted in some areas, particularly the ones that 28 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: are further away from Puerto Viata and Guadalajara, of course 29 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: the Jlisico state, So for example, people that are vacationing 30 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: in Camcuon or Tauloom where on Quintana Rue state, those 31 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: shelter in places have been lifted. But still a little 32 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: bit of uneasiness happening in Jalisco, and we are seeing 33 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: slight disruptions as well, causing a little bit of a 34 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: problem for the people that are just trying to get out. 35 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 2: Of there and get home. What's causing it to die down? 36 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 2: Is it because of actions on the part of the 37 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 2: Mexican government or is it just the drug cartels. For 38 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 2: twenty four hours, we're going to show everybody that they're 39 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 2: still here and they're still in charge and don't mess 40 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 2: with us further. Was just a statement that would last 41 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: only a day or two. 42 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a little bit of both. I mean, obviously, 43 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 1: when a fiery erupts, firefighters rushed to the scene to 44 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: put it out right, and so I think, you know, 45 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: after the actual military operation occurred, and you know, there 46 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: was that brief moment where the cartels were trying to 47 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: reassert their authority or show that they are still powerful, 48 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: in charge, or have the capacity to enact revenge. You know, 49 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 1: the firefighters, so to speak, rush to the scene, and 50 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: in this case it's National guardsmen, it's military police, it's 51 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: actual state police, so they've been able to get a 52 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: hold on things. I think it's also probably safe to 53 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: assume that these cartels, in this case, the new generation 54 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: how Let's go cartel or the various factions are probably 55 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: in a place where they are strategically trying to figure 56 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: out what their next move is. It's not so plain 57 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: and easy. When a high ranking cartel official is assassinated. 58 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: There's going to be a power struggle. There's going to be, 59 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: you know, a hierarchy that forms in and of itself. 60 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: So it's entirely possible that that's also happening behind the. 61 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 2: Scenes, and I guess the various cartels are also looking 62 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 2: at this, this unstable period as a chance to maybe 63 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 2: claim more territory, claim more control of the industries. 64 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, that almost always happens. You know, the rival gang 65 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: or cartel for the new generation Hallisco is the Sinaloa cartel, 66 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: and so death of a high ranking cartel member and 67 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: the rival faction easily can be perceived as a win. 68 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 2: You know. 69 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: As for even the future of the new generation Hallisco cartel, 70 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 1: who's going to be the one that steps up. Is 71 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: it going to be, you know, a senior lieutenant that's 72 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: already has the knowledge and wherewithal Is it going to 73 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: be broken up into smaller factions in which, you know, 74 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: new members sort of rise through the ranks. So it 75 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: is very accurate to say that this is a state 76 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: of unreffed among the cartels as well. 77 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 2: The president, Claudia Shinbaum, she was under a lot of 78 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 2: pressure from Trump. Trump had declared these drug cartels the 79 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 2: terrorist organizations and one was threatening to bring in the 80 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 2: US military and Shinebaum was begging him not to do that. 81 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 2: I guess assuring him that she'd take care of it 82 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 2: in some way. Is that the origin of all this 83 00:04:58,400 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 2: activity from the Mexican government. 84 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if you're good at reading between the 85 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: lines politically speaking, then that would be a way to 86 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: interpret this. I mean, this was a Mexican military operation, 87 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: and the US is not disputing that the US did 88 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 1: contribute some of its intelligence into taking down this leader, 89 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: specifically utilizing technology to share with Mexico the fine tuned 90 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: pinpoint location of l menshow but you know, this is 91 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 1: no doubt about it an operation that not only takes 92 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: out a foreign leader that's considered an adversary to both 93 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: the United States and Mexico, but also helps out with 94 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: curving the fentanyl crisis that's happening in Mexico and coming 95 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: across the border to the United States. So it most 96 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 1: certainly kills multiple birds with one stone, but it can 97 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: be perceived as an action that directly helps out the 98 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: United States, and therefore President Trump was. 99 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 2: Porto Viarta the worst place for the violence. I mean, 100 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 2: it's just where. 101 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: We've see in a lot of the difficult videos that 102 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: are airing, you know, on news networks all across the 103 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: nation today. 104 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 2: The burned cars, the. 105 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: Tractor trailers blocking highways, the gunshots ringing out Porto Viarta 106 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: and Guadalajara are most certainly the hot eds of the 107 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: activity today. 108 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you very much for coming on 109 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 2: with us. 110 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: Appreciate you having me. 111 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 2: Thanks Alex Capariello, News Nation national correspondent on all the 112 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 2: violence in Mayhem in Mexico. And when we come back, 113 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 2: who do you think was planning a vacation to Porto Viarta? 114 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 2: It may just what guess? We're going to give you 115 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 2: the latest installment of the debor Mark Travel Club. This 116 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 2: is a club you do not want to join, and 117 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 2: we'll explain next. 118 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 119 00:06:57,880 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 3: six forty. 120 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 2: We are on from three to six every day, and 121 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 2: as soon as six o'clock hits and the show is over, 122 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 2: you can hear the whole thing all over again or 123 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 2: maybe for the first time. John Cobelt Show on demand. 124 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 2: That's the podcast. You got that three to six on 125 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 2: the radio. After six o'clock the podcast and you can 126 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 2: follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at 127 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Radio. All right, now, you know, if I 128 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 2: were running things there'd be an ordinance where that if you, Deborah, 129 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 2: decide to plan a trip anywhere, that you'd have to 130 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 2: give the rest of the state ninety days notice. Similar 131 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:46,239 Speaker 2: if you haven't listened to us long enough, wherever Debra 132 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 2: picks the vacation. And this has been going on for 133 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 2: years and years now. This is not just a one 134 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 2: shot fluke or a coincidence twice. No, this is a 135 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 2: pattern here. Whenever she books a trip somewhere, something bad happens, 136 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 2: like really bad happens. For example, a couple of years ago, 137 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 2: she booked a trip to go to Israel, right, and 138 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 2: you were going to go there. 139 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 4: One week before, I mean sorry, one week after the war. 140 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 2: The war broke out a week before. 141 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 4: You were going to go on Saturday, the seventh of October, 142 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 4: and I was leaving on the fourteenth. 143 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, of October. That was your best one. Oh yeah, 144 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 2: you actually instigated a huge, bloody war. 145 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 4: So much power. 146 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. And you might say, well, you know that that 147 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 2: could happen. Obviously there were a lot of people. Wait, 148 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 2: wait a second. She goes on a trip to Scotland 149 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 2: and kills the queen. 150 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 4: The queen dies, I didn't kill her, John, Let's wait, 151 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 4: come on. 152 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 2: The queen was the queen for what seventy years? Yeah? Right, 153 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 2: she was. She was ninety six, seventy since nineteen fifty two, 154 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 2: she was the queen. Yeah. And the week you show up, 155 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 2: she's dead. You called in a report on the show. 156 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 2: Did tell us? Yes? I did tell us. Telled her 157 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 2: you had to stop in Dubai a couple of years 158 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 2: ago on your way to U. 159 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 4: I went to Dubai, then went to the Maldives, and 160 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 4: I was going back to finish my vacation in Dubai. 161 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 4: Was looking forward to, uh doing a dune buggy in 162 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 4: the sand, you know, in the desert of Dubai. 163 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 2: And they got six and a half inches of rain, 164 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 2: didn't they. Yes, yes, And the airport was shut down, 165 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 2: everything was flooded out. 166 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it was a catastrophe. 167 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 2: You went to Mexico and caught COVID and you infected 168 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 2: an entire plane on the way back because you didn't 169 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 2: tell anybody. 170 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 4: Correct, no, no, no, no, correct is I came back 171 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 4: from Mexico with. 172 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 2: Clovid and you were and you were on the plane. 173 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 5: And wearing a mask. 174 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 2: Well that's four right, I did four? All right? And 175 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 2: now this is the fifth one. 176 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 4: My last trip, though there was there was nothing really 177 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 4: or shouting. I just I got mosquito bites all over 178 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 4: my body and I had in Bali and I had 179 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 4: to get a doctor to come in and do a 180 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 4: house call. 181 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 2: But oh, that that's new information. You didn't know about that. No, 182 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 2: I didn't know about that. Yes, all right, so a 183 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: personal medical crisis for you. 184 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 4: That was because I thought I was going to get 185 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 4: den gay or sea or something like that. Fortunately I 186 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 4: did not. 187 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 2: Okay, So now we're up to six and now you 188 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 2: have Portovara coming up in May, right, you and other 189 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 2: family members, my family. 190 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 4: We were all going for a birthday celebration. The trip's 191 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 4: been planned for about a year, and we have one 192 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 4: week to cancel. We lose everything like we did with 193 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 4: our Israel trip. 194 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 2: Oh well, I mean yesterday there was huge balls of 195 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 2: fire in the air and smoke and shootings in the street, 196 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 2: and the airport shutdown. Airport shut down, shut down. You 197 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 2: text us you had a trip planned there in two months. 198 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: I just about fell off my chair. How do you 199 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 2: do it? I don't know. 200 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 4: It's you know, I wish I could use these powers 201 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 4: to create like amazing things. 202 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 2: Create good for the world. I know you create wars 203 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 2: and outbreaks of disease and flooding in Dubais. How do 204 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 2: you flood Dubai? 205 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 4: That was Cloud City. 206 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 2: I had nothing to do with that. You kill a 207 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 2: queen what's been there for seventy years? 208 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 4: That's okay, But John, what I have to say this? 209 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 4: Shannon Farren was actually on her way to port and 210 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 4: the plane had to turn around. Yeah I heard so, Yes, 211 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 4: So she's on me on this trip. 212 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 2: Did you recommend port Of? I did not. Now one 213 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 2: of her port operators, Jesse, who's worked with us, he's 214 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 2: he was trapped in Yeah, he's still there. He's still there. Yeah, 215 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:14,319 Speaker 2: I texted him. He's at a hotel in port of 216 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 2: my art. So he's not a hostage. No, it's not 217 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 2: a hostage. 218 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 3: He's supposed to be getting out soon. 219 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,559 Speaker 2: See. That's how you have to up your game. You 220 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 2: got to end up being a hostage. And you would 221 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 2: be the first person I would call, Oh, we'll negotiate 222 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 2: on your behalf. Never mind, we'll do it, go fund me. 223 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, sure you be. 224 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 5: You'd say, keep her. 225 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 2: Keep her. It's good for business. It's good for business, 226 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 2: that's right, That's what Ray would say, good for business chaos. 227 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 2: Let's let's do a GoFundMe to convince the cartel to 228 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 2: keep her. Yes, although I think even those guys would say, 229 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 2: all right, take her. All right, we've had a day 230 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 2: and a half. That's enough. 231 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 4: We'll send her home alive, because that's how much. 232 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 2: We want to go on. Now. The New York Post 233 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 2: has a couple of stories on because this was really 234 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 2: indirectly orchestrated by Trump, because he had told Clodia show Shinebaum, 235 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 2: the Mexican president, that you have to start doing something 236 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 2: about these drug cartels or the American militaries coming in, 237 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 2: and she begged him not to because if the American 238 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 2: military comes in, then she's going to be out as 239 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 2: president because the Mexican people do not want us in there. 240 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 2: And he said, well, you have no choice either. We're 241 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 2: going to send the military unless you take care of 242 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,079 Speaker 2: it yourself. Well, that's very dangerous for obvious reasons. I mean, 243 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 2: the drug cartels have run a lot of the government 244 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 2: and have corrupted a lot of the police agencies obviously 245 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 2: over the years, and it's really difficult to separate the 246 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 2: drug cartels from the government and from the police. Agencies. 247 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,599 Speaker 2: So I mean, the probably the worst job in the 248 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 2: world is Claudia Shinbaums right now, because she's got Trump 249 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 2: pressuring from one end. She knows how you know, the 250 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 2: cartels have no issue with chopping her head off, and 251 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 2: she knows that they've infiltrated a lot of the law 252 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 2: enforcement and the military in Mexico. So yeah, I mean, 253 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 2: you're screwed no matter what you do. But he did 254 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 2: get Mexico to hand over one hundred cartel leaders, including 255 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 2: Elmentcho's brother. Before this raid, Cory New York Post, Mexico 256 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: quietly shipped one hundred suspected cartel drug traffickers to stand 257 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 2: trial after Trump called them terrorist organizations, including the brother 258 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 2: of Elmento. By the way, Almentcho's full name is Nemessio 259 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 2: Asaguera Cervantes and his cartel is the Plisco New Generation 260 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 2: Cartel CJNNG, and Mexican army killed him and many of 261 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 2: the ninety two defendants that Mexico turned over to America. 262 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 2: I had US extradition requests that were ignored by the 263 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:22,119 Speaker 2: Biden administration. Also, New York Posts did a little background 264 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 2: a little bio on El Mencho. He started as a 265 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 2: small time drug dealer in San Francisco. Of course, he 266 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 2: was deported in the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties, but 267 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 2: worked his way up to be the kingpin of the 268 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 2: most powerful and ruthless of the drug cartels. He first 269 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 2: dealt drugs in San Francisco, and he was arrested by 270 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 2: police there in nineteen eighty six when he was nineteen 271 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 2: years old, from possession of stolen property and a loaded gun. 272 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 2: There's even a booking photo showing him at the age 273 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 2: of nineteen, and he was wearing a hoodie a blank expression. 274 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 2: He was deported to Mexico, but in Mexico he worked 275 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 2: on his parents' avocado farm, and he didn't want that, 276 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 2: so he snuck back into the US over and over 277 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 2: again before settling again in San Francisco because there are 278 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 2: no laws, there's no drug enforcement up there. He was 279 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 2: arrested again for selling drugs, deported again, came back to 280 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: San Francisco busted in ninety two for selling heroin. He 281 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 2: and his brother Abraham were wiretap discussing a deal to 282 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 2: sell heroin five ounces worth of ninety five hundred dollars 283 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 2: at the Imperial Bar. He's again deported after serving three 284 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 2: years in prison, and then he fell in with the 285 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 2: Millennial cartel, which then splintered and he took over the 286 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 2: Jalisco New Generation cartel. So that's his history. Of course, 287 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 2: San Francisco would play a key role, because when you 288 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 2: don't enforce laws like drug law, you breed. You breed 289 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 2: a guy like h like almenshow and they should be 290 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 2: very proud, all these San Francisco politicians for creating this 291 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:16,479 Speaker 2: kind of mayhem. And this is why the open border 292 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 2: policy by Biden was so terribly, terribly destructive, and k 293 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 2: Newsome supported the open border as well. There was a 294 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 2: tremendous amount of drug trafficking obviously, a tremendous amount of 295 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 2: weaponry that had been smuggled over and people, you know, 296 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 2: I I gotta take a break, but I just want 297 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 2: to spend like ten seconds on this. Everybody is howling 298 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 2: about the Epstein files. Epstein files are nothing compared to 299 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 2: the tens of thousands of young girls that have bought 300 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 2: and sold by the Mexican drug cartels into sex, sex, slavery. 301 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,719 Speaker 2: But you can't find three people who care about that. 302 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM sixty. 303 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 2: We are on from three to six every day this program, 304 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 2: and then after six o'clock whatever you missed, you go 305 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 2: to John Cobelt Show on demand. All right, there's no excuse. 306 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 2: So we just went through the uh, all the mayhem 307 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 2: with the Mexican drug cartels down in down in Mexico. 308 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 2: And I can't wait to talk to Shannon, but I 309 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 2: guess this is her vacation week and she's going to pivot. 310 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 2: Literally the pain plane had to turn around and h 311 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 2: and come back home. And we're just all still shocked 312 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 2: that you weren't there already. All right now, Karen Bassu 313 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 2: was in a parade in Chinatown over the weekend. Uh, 314 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,640 Speaker 2: And what you're gonna hear a clip? 315 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 1: Uh? 316 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 2: There is a guy and I don't know his name, 317 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 2: but he's an activist. He posts a lot online and 318 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:00,199 Speaker 2: he's decided to target Karen bass He's he's up that 319 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:10,719 Speaker 2: primarily that she doesn't she doesn't discipline bad cops more forcefully, 320 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 2: or doesn't come out against cops who've been involved in 321 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 2: you know, questionable use of force situations. And I don't 322 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 2: know if he's got a legitimate case on this or not. 323 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 2: I do know she's defunded the police and we're down 324 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 2: to eighty three hundred cops when the chief, the police 325 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 2: chief says we need twelve thousand. So but he uses 326 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 2: that issue kind of as the hook and then spreads 327 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 2: out into other issues that we're all more familiar with. 328 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 2: And he heckled Karen Bass relentlessly as she was rolling 329 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 2: down somewhere in Chinatown. Now there wasn't that much of 330 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 2: a crowd, and at times, to drown out his heckling, 331 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,919 Speaker 2: she had a little microphone and a sound system. She 332 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 2: pretended to talk to people who weren't there. Ye know, 333 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 2: she pretended like she was greeting people and having conversations 334 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 2: with them. And then you look at the sidewalk and 335 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 2: the sidewalk was empty. So they've they've been hallucinating. But 336 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 2: you'll you'll get an idea what was going on this weekend? 337 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 2: Roll cut one. 338 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 5: Sure that today is a day that we all contribute 339 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 5: and express on support for Chinatown. 340 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 6: Yes, we support time, we don't support talent baths. 341 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 5: We want Chinatown to be a Christine. 342 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 2: We want Karen Bass location happy. 343 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. 344 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 2: The year of the Horse, the year you can bring, 345 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 2: the year you leave. 346 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 7: Office Karen Absolutely, whoa there? 347 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 6: You make sure you page, make sure you vote against 348 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 6: Karen Bass. 349 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 5: Go to a restaurant, go to a souvenir shops. 350 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 2: So there's some blonde lackey of Karen Bass is some 351 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 2: staff member, and she tries to shame this guy by saying, well, 352 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 2: there's children here all. Just think of all the trauma 353 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 2: and heightst children in the palisades watching their childhood home 354 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 2: and all their toys and their teddy bears burned to 355 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 2: the ground. Huh, how about that trauma. I don't know 356 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 2: who that lady was, but she was irritating. Right, play 357 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 2: some more. 358 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 3: Town. 359 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 6: You defunded our city, Karen. You're standing in front of lady. 360 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 6: You're standing in front of children. I know you're standing up. 361 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 6: Please move by the way, thank you, thank you. 362 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. 363 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,360 Speaker 2: The bullers kept trying to get in his way. They 364 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 2: want you to disappear, Karen. They want Karen Bass to disappear. Right, 365 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 2: you can stop you you get the idea. This went 366 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 2: on and on and on. I watched several clips online, like, hey, 367 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 2: you know, everybody should be doing that. She should get 368 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:05,400 Speaker 2: this relentlessly for the rest of her miserable, awful failure. 369 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 2: Of a life. Now here's another Karen Bass moment. Eric Spilman, 370 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,400 Speaker 2: who's a great reporter for many years at KTLA Channel five, 371 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 2: a Bass did one of these fixing pothole photo ops 372 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 2: where she had a shovel and she was dumping asphalt 373 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 2: into a pothole, and Eric Spilman went after her. 374 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 7: Potholes are an issue now, especially since it has rained, 375 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 7: and we've seen so many of them. 376 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 2: What are you going to do about it? 377 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,239 Speaker 5: That's right, well, and let me just tell you we 378 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 5: are fixing them. And in the last three months, we 379 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 5: fixed over ten thousand potholes. 380 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 2: Okay, stop, stop right there, mark that last three months, 381 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 2: ten thousand potholes. Okay, continue, we. 382 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 5: Fixed over ten thousand potholes. And in the last couple 383 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 5: of weeks we've fixed almost three hundred. 384 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,679 Speaker 2: All right, stop stop, all right. Those numbers don't make 385 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 2: any sense. They did three hundred in two weeks, but 386 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 2: ten thousand, she said, in the last six months, three months, 387 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:14,640 Speaker 2: three months, okay, okay, so it's two hundred, it's three 388 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:19,159 Speaker 2: hundred in the last two weeks, but ten thousand in 389 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,679 Speaker 2: the last three months. Well, at the pace of the 390 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 2: last two weeks, well, that would add up to eighteen 391 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 2: hundred potholes. How did it become ten thousand in three months? 392 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 2: I mean she gave the two statistics one after the other. 393 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 2: Ten thousand in three months and then almost three hundred 394 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 2: in the last two weeks. I don't understand. So they 395 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 2: were filling potholes like crazy for two and a half months, 396 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 2: and then they weren't less stopped because she was making 397 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 2: up the numbers. It's total nonsense. And there's a long 398 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 2: history of mayors making up pothole numbers. I've told this 399 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 2: story before, but not in a lot of years. When 400 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 2: when sleazy Tony Lallar was the mayor, he insisted that 401 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:13,159 Speaker 2: he filled a million potholes, and Ken and I banged 402 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 2: on him for months and months. He can filled a 403 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 2: million potholes. That a million potholes, and he planted a 404 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 2: million trees, which he didn't do either. Turned out he 405 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 2: planted four hundred trees. And one of his stupid aids 406 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 2: came in here with a list of potholes. I am 407 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 2: the pothole king. Yeah right, it was a whole thing. 408 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 2: So I said, well show me. He was out right 409 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 2: here alive on the ear. I said, show me the 410 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 2: million potholes, and I'm looking at the paperwork and I 411 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 2: noticed the numbers and I had and I go, you 412 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 2: got fifty eight thousand. Then he goes, yeah, well he's 413 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 2: saying he filled a million. Well you have the numbers 414 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 2: that it's fifty eight that well, why is he saying 415 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 2: a million if he filled fifty eight thousand? And why 416 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 2: is she saying she did ten thousand in the last 417 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 2: three months but only uh three hundred in the last 418 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 2: two weeks. They just they just what everybody? Well, I'll 419 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 2: play more of the Spielman thing when we come back. 420 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 421 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 2: K IF I AM six forty more stimulating talk radio. 422 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 2: After Debris four o'clock news, we're going to have Trey 423 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 2: lovel and he is an attorney here in Los Angeles. Uh, 424 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 2: we're going to talk about uh, Rob Reiner's son, Nick Reiner, 425 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 2: pleading guilty, pleading not guilty. Excuse me, you scared me. 426 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 5: You scared me. 427 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 4: I started doubting myself. 428 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 2: You know what I was thinking. My reaction here in 429 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 2: the news all day was well, of course he did it. 430 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:49,479 Speaker 2: Of course he's guilty. What is this nonsense, right, But gilty, 431 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 2: well he is, Yes, that's the standard iden allegedly anything 432 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 2: he did it. He stabbed them mercilessly, and everybody knows it. 433 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 2: This is where I can't stand it, and so I 434 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 2: have it encoded in my brain that if I see 435 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 2: the name Nick Reiner, the next word is guilty. But 436 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 2: he's pleaded, not guilty. And that's why we're going to 437 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 2: talk to Trey low level coming out after debris doings. 438 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to this report. I'm going 439 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 2: to start it from the beginning. I have noted the 440 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 2: bizarre discrepancy in her numbers. Eric Spilman from Channel five 441 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 2: pressing Karen Bass about fixing potholes. It was a pothole 442 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 2: photo op where she's shoveling asphalt into a hole and 443 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 2: she claims they've done almost three hundred in two weeks, 444 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 2: ten thousand in three months. That doesn't add up. Three 445 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 2: hundred in two weeks means it would have been about 446 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 2: eighteen hundred in three months, So she's clearly lying. Play 447 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 2: the whole thing over again. 448 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 7: Potholes are an issue now, especially since it has rained 449 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 7: and we've seen so many of them. 450 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 2: What are you going to do with it. That's right. 451 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 5: Well, and let me just tell you we are fixing them. 452 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,400 Speaker 5: And in the last three months, we've fixed over ten 453 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 5: thousand potholes, and in the last couple of weeks we've fixed. 454 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 2: Almost three hundred. 455 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 5: So we are going to continue doing that following until 456 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 5: all the potholes are fixed, and we're what we're doing 457 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 5: here is asking people to report on three to one 458 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 5: one when they receive and they see a pothole, because 459 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 5: we certainly don't want cars damaged an answer. You don't 460 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:29,679 Speaker 5: have difficulty with that. 461 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 7: I saw you fill a pothole with asphalt here just 462 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 7: a few minutes agoing you're you're encouraging people to call 463 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 7: three one one, But guess what we we know people 464 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 7: I work with people who've called three one one, Nothing happened, 465 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 7: The pothole was never right. 466 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, they called several times over a couple of months. 467 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 2: What do you have to say about that. 468 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 5: Let me just tell you that in the last two months, 469 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 5: three months, we have fixed over ten thousand. We have 470 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 5: a lot more to fix. But I think this is 471 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 5: a reflection of decades of lack of investment in our infrastructure. 472 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,719 Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, waite, our death stop stop. You've been 473 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 2: the mayor for three years and she makes up a 474 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 2: phony blooney number, like she makes up phony, baloney homeless numbers. 475 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 2: He points out, you got I've had this experience I 476 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 2: called three one one off in the line is it 477 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 2: says we're shut down. Our hours I think are eleven 478 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 2: am to eleven fifteen days, forty five calls ahead of you. 479 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 2: Get that right? Yet that's the reality. And he gave 480 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 2: her some reality, and she just repeated her prefabricated lie. 481 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 2: Play some more. 482 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 5: And we are definitely addressing that. 483 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 7: Talk about that, I mean, we spent so much less 484 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 7: here in LA than other cities do, for example New 485 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 7: York or San Diego, San Francisco, and and we haven't 486 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 7: repaved a single city street here since last summer. 487 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 488 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 5: Well, let me just say that we have much more 489 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 5: we need to do, which is why I've been developing 490 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 5: a comprehensive infrastructure plans. 491 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, wait, stop, she's mayor for over three years. 492 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 2: We have not paid the road And that is true 493 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 2: what he said. Not since last June, not since last June. Well, 494 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 2: preparing a comprehensive well, you've been doing for the last 495 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 2: three and a half years twice some more. 496 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 5: And it's an infrastructure plan. Again, this is a situation 497 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 5: that has existed for a very long time and we 498 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 5: are absolutely addressing it. We need to invest more in 499 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 5: our infrastructure, and that is something that we are definitely 500 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 5: going to do. 501 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 2: I mean, but these things take a lot of time. 502 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 7: I think it was you saying or somebody that they're 503 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 7: going to repave something like sixty lane miles of city 504 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 7: streets this year. Well there's twenty two thousand lane miles 505 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 7: in the city of Los Angeles. 506 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 2: There is a tiny fractory. 507 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 5: There is a lot to do, and we need the 508 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 5: resources to make sure that it is done. And I 509 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 5: think sixty miles will be an accomplishment that needs to happen. 510 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 2: But you could look at every apait wait, stop, stop, stop, 511 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 2: twenty two thousand lane miles? Is that what he said? 512 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 2: She did sixty and she calls that an accomplishment. Look, well, 513 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 2: you do the news. I'm gonna hurl myself out this window. 514 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 4: But then who am I going to talk to? 515 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 2: I don't know, one of your imaginary friends. You can 516 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 2: talk to them, Deborah Mark. Oh, when we come back, 517 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Trey Lovell and Trey is 518 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 2: an attorney here in Los Angeles, and about Nick Reiner 519 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 2: with her is not guilt deeply, all right. Deborah Mark 520 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 2: is live the KFI twenty four our newsroom. You've been 521 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 2: listening to The John Cobelt Show podcast. You can always 522 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 2: hear the show live on KFI AM six forty from 523 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 2: three to six pm every Monday through Friday, and of 524 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 2: course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI Am 525 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 2: six More stimulating talk