1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,239 Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio 4 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: app Welcome. We're on every day from one until four o'clock, 5 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: and after four o'clock if you missed anything or all 6 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: of it, you go to John Cobelt on demand. That's 7 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: the podcast, the same as the radio show, and that's 8 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,119 Speaker 1: how you catch up and keep current and be informed. 9 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: We have two runs of the Moistline in the three 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: o'clock hour at around three twenty three fifty or thereabouts, 11 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: and also coming up in the next segment, I want 12 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 1: you wandering off. We have a clip CNN. CNN gave 13 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: roughed up Newsom a bit because you know, Newsom started 14 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: that stupid podcast and invited right wing figures so he 15 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: could find common ground. And in the first episode he 16 00:00:55,480 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: met with a conservative activist named Charlie Kirk, and he 17 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: started agreeing with Kirk on all kinds of things. You know, 18 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 1: he started knocking some of the woke pillars that people 19 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: have blindly believed in for the past few years. And 20 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 1: he started going after the language police it's about LATINX, 21 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: claiming that what is LATINX about? People started using it 22 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: in the office. I've never heard of this. Well CNN 23 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: found well, they put together a video montage of all 24 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: the times Gavin Newsom used the term LATINX in public 25 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: and it shows you what a liar he is. I mean, 26 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: just that was what a phony he is. So we'll 27 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: play you that coming up in the next segment. Now, 28 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: a few months ago, I told you there was a 29 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: sixty five cent gas tax coming, and it still is. 30 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: It's coming faster than that high speed rail is being built. 31 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: And the Senate leader Brian Jones, well, he's the Republican, 32 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: the ranking Republican in the Senate. He's actually not charge 33 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 1: of anything because of the two thirds majority. Brian Jones, 34 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: he had a bill that would block the sixty five 35 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 1: cent gas tax increase. This gas tax increase is coming 36 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: from the California Air Resources Board. It's in the form 37 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: of something called low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. It's requiring 38 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: the oil and gas companies to remove carbon from the 39 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: fuel in such a way that it would raise the 40 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: price of gas. 41 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 2: Sixty five cents. Climate nonsense, okay. 42 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 1: You know, as the federal government retreats from all this 43 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: climate idiocy, California keeps going forward. They've had no effect 44 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: on the climate. It's done has cost us a tremendous 45 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 1: amount of money. As of yesterday, the price of gas 46 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: in California was a dollar and ninety nine cents higher 47 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: than the price of gas. 48 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 2: In uh I believe it was Mississippi. 49 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: It was about four sixty nine here in California at 50 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: about two sixty nine in Mississippi. Two dollars difference, and 51 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: we're about a dollar fifty a dollars sixty higher than 52 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: the national average. There's twenty four states that sell gas 53 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: below three bucks, there's forty two states that sell gas 54 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: below three and a quarter. And then there's California alone, 55 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: more expensive even than Hawaii. And now there's another sixty 56 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: five cent increase coming and based on today's prices, that's 57 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: going to take us to five dollars and thirty five 58 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: cents minute them. And of course gas goes for a 59 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: lot higher in places. We had Katie grimes on from 60 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: California Globe and she said in Sacramento she pays by fifteen. 61 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: So if you believed that the Democrats would be shamed 62 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: in any way after being spanked by the Prop thirty 63 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: six defeat, and that because of what's happening around the 64 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: country with Trump and Musk and the change that people 65 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: are finally waking up. It's not happening here because here 66 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 1: was a chance for them to block a sixty five 67 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: cent per gallon increase and it wouldn't cost him anything. 68 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: It would just simply suspend the increase, block the law, 69 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: and they won't do it. And of course this is 70 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: going to to hurt poor, middle class people the most, 71 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: but they don't care because the religious fanatics and we 72 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 1: are another day closer. I mean, this was November eighth, 73 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: a few days after the election that carb voted, and 74 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: it is now what five months later, December, January, February, March, 75 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: four and a half months later, and nothing's going to 76 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: change now. I don't know what day the price starts 77 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: to kick in. I guess they have to reconfigure their 78 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: processing system and then start paying more money to manufacture it. 79 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 2: Now. 80 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: Center Bill two had bipartisan support and on the committee 81 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: that the Senate committee, it lost three to two. You 82 00:05:54,360 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 1: had a Republican two Republican senators Suzette Valderis and Megan 83 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: Dolly vote for it. Melissa Hurtado also voted for it, 84 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: and she's a Democrat at a Two state senators voted 85 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:20,559 Speaker 1: against it, Lena Gonzalez of Long Beach, Stephen Padilla Dia 86 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: from Chula Vista. So it was three to two in 87 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:29,719 Speaker 1: favor of blocking the gas tax increase. But there's seven 88 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: members of the committee, which means you have to have 89 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: four voting to block it for it to work. Well, 90 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: we only had five people voting. We didn't have seven. 91 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: We had five. So even though it was three to 92 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: two in favor of blocking it, there was no fourth 93 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: vote because two of the voters, well three voters were 94 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: they abstained, three Democrats from me from here in southern California. 95 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: They were so cowardly, so frightened. They didn't want to 96 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: go on the record as voting for a gas tax 97 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: increase of sixty five cents. But they also didn't want 98 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: to block the gas tax increase, and so they just 99 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: abstained Caroline Menjivar of Burbank. I don't know if I'm 100 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: pronouncing that right, Menievar. Sasha Perez of Pasadena. You I'll 101 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: call these two ladies up, Caroline and Sasha. There was 102 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: another one, Catherine Blakespeare Vincinnetas, and their unwillingness to vote. 103 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 2: Has led to. 104 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: This bill failing, and the sixty five cent gas tax 105 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:58,239 Speaker 1: increase stands. So when the tax goes up sixty five cents, 106 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: it is directly the fault of Caroline Menjivar and Sasha Perez. 107 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: I would google this Menjavar is emy n j i 108 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: Var Democrat from Burbank, maybe our district, I don't know. 109 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: And then Sasha Perez, Democrat from Pasadena, Sascha, Sasha's sa 110 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: s Ha Perez, and I would look them up and 111 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: I would start contacting them and just simple message like 112 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: thanks for the sixty five cent gas tax increase, Caroline 113 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: and Sasha. And you didn't even have the courage to 114 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 1: vote for it, you abstained. That's doubly offensive. The gas 115 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 1: tax is bad enough, but not to vote. I mean, 116 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: these are the kind of people who shouldn't be in 117 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 1: office anymore. I don't know who they are, I've never 118 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: seen their names before, but they shouldn't be in office. 119 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: This is a sign that they vote for a lot 120 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: of bad stuff. How could you inflict a sixty five 121 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: cent a gallon increase on everyone? 122 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 2: How could you do that for what? 123 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: For no purpose at all? And if people don't start 124 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 1: contacting these legislators. You know how much money you're gonna lose? 125 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean sixty five cents. Let me see 126 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 1: on a twenty gallon tank. That's that's about thirteen bucks, 127 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: isn't it? And that's what four weeks and a month. 128 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: You're talking about fifty two dollars times twelve months, that's 129 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: probably about six hundred and fifty dollars a year you've 130 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: just lost because of Caroline men Javar and the n 131 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:10,559 Speaker 1: ji Var and Sasha Perez, two Democrats. Menjivar from Burbank, 132 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: Perez from Pasadena. I'm sorry if I'm screwing up their 133 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 1: names in any way, but these two should be uh, 134 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: they should be told how you feel about just by 135 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: them sitting there, just by them sitting on their rear 136 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: ends they're gonna cost you six seven hundred dollars a year, 137 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:40,319 Speaker 1: just like that, and suddenly gases five point thirty five 138 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: a gallon, and suddenly life is that much more difficult. 139 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,839 Speaker 1: And that's the way it goes. Two people decide to 140 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: sit there and watch us get screwed. I'm sure they've 141 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 1: given many speeches to many of their constituents about how 142 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 1: much they care about inflation, how much they care about prices, 143 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 1: how hard it is to make ends meet in California, 144 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: how it's such a high cost state. I'm sure they 145 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: just spill over with fake empathy. But they're frauds. They 146 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 1: are complete frauds. 147 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:19,559 Speaker 2: So there you go. 148 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: Now you know who is responsible for this sixty five 149 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 1: cent gas tex increase, and I'm sure it'll happen within 150 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: a few months. 151 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 152 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:35,839 Speaker 3: six forty. 153 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: John coblt Show, and we are doing the Moistline twice 154 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: in the three o'clock hour. You can follow us at 155 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Radio on all social media platforms. 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In fact, twice as many people thought less 165 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: of Newsom after hearing it than thought more of him. 166 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 2: I wish I was in that ninety nine and a 167 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 2: half percent. 168 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: I was thinking, considering how low his ratings are on 169 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: that you may be one of the few people who 170 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: waded through most of these podcasts, right, I mean. 171 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 2: I've had to go through three of them. Three of them. Yeah, 172 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 2: and how long are they? Some a little under an hour, 173 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 2: some a little over an hour. Say you get three 174 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 2: hours of Gavin Newsom in your head? Yeah, unfortunately, Yeah, 175 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 2: that's tough. 176 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 1: So anyway, he on one of these podcasts, he claimed 177 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:07,599 Speaker 1: that he'd never even heard of the phrase latinx. He 178 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: went on this whole riff about he doesn't understand all 179 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: the political correctness, he doesn't understand the language, police stuff, 180 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: you know, trying to to find common ground. Well, he's 181 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: full of it, and CNN called him out on it. 182 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 1: Aaron Burnett hosts a show at night on CNN and 183 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:29,839 Speaker 1: she has a senior editor, Andrew Kazinski, and they played 184 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: the Newsom clip where he denied knowing what latinx was 185 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,079 Speaker 1: about where did this come from? And then they put 186 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,679 Speaker 1: together a montage of all the times Newsom used LATINX 187 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: in his speeches. 188 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 4: So let's talk about the word LATINX. Just two weeks ago. 189 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:46,319 Speaker 4: Here's what he said about it. 190 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 5: By the way, now, one person ever in my office 191 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 5: has ever used the word LATINX. 192 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 2: So can we finally put that to bout? 193 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, but where did that even know? 194 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 2: More LATINX? 195 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 5: Everybody well just didn't even know where it came from. 196 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 5: And like, what are people talking about? But there was 197 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 5: a person who used LATINX was actually a really important person, 198 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 5: is him right? 199 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. And look, these aren't minor shifts. These 200 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 6: are progressive issues that Gavin Newsom used to champion until 201 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 6: fairly recently. And now he's not just walking away from them, 202 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 6: he's sort of acting like they were never legitimate with 203 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 6: that clip talking about LATINX in the first place. But 204 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 6: let's just let's take latin X. We did find somebody 205 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 6: who used it repeatedly in his office. Let's take a 206 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 6: listen to this. 207 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 5: I hope we can really paint a picture in terms 208 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 5: of our consciousness of how impactful this has been on 209 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 5: the LATINX community. 210 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 2: LATINX community, the LATINX and. 211 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 5: Black communities got politicians that are banning, not assault rifles, 212 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 5: but the word latin X, they're. 213 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 2: Not even serious. 214 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 6: And look, Aaron, those aren't the only times that we 215 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 6: found that he used that. He also used it a 216 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 6: lot on social media. Look at a few of these 217 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 6: right here. You see there that is a lot of 218 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 6: use of latin x by him for somebody who said 219 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 6: that nobody in his office has ever used that phrase. 220 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 4: Right right, So that was put upon him. 221 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: So he's a liar, a fake, a phony, a fraud. Wow, 222 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: CNN finally discovered something that we've known for what twenty years. 223 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: He's a liar of fake, a phony, and a fraud. 224 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: So that was four clips of him using the term 225 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: LATINX and at least six tweets. Probably there's more, but 226 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: you know, they made the point ten examples and the 227 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: way he says it, the way he delivers the line. See, now, 228 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: he's really fascinating me, how he effortlessly delivers something that 229 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: he knows is a total lot. 230 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 4: He's fascinating you. 231 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: Oh, yes, he's fascinating me, because a verb to fascinate somebody, 232 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: well it. 233 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 2: Is now it is now? Well because he goes, oh, 234 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 2: I mean, do you have the clip of him. 235 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: Talking about LATINX in that podcast. Yeah, play again. Just 236 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: listen to his tone of voice, because there may be 237 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: a tell he has. There might be a tone of 238 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: voice kind of the way he delivers a line when 239 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: he's lying, and we can start looking for that pattern. 240 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 5: By the way, no one person ever in my office 241 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 5: has ever used the word latinx. 242 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 2: So can we finally put that to bad? Yeah? 243 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 5: But where did that even? 244 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: Know? More? 245 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 5: Everybody well just didn't even know where it came from. 246 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 5: And like, what are people talking about? Like like the 247 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 5: the the exasperation, the outrage. Where did this even come from? 248 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: So he calculates in his head that if he if 249 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: he gets really performative right and really looks like he's 250 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: he's flustered, he's exasperated, It's like, where did this come from? 251 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 1: Nobody in my office uses this? I mean, who says 252 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: these sort of things? I mean, what like maybe the 253 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: because he normally doesn't talk like that. Normally he has 254 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: that drone technobabble that he used, but suddenly he got animated. 255 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: It's like would you believe this? Like he's a guy 256 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: at the bar, right, would you believe this? I mean, 257 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: where this come from? A vapol these days? So when 258 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: he's overacting. That maybe a sign that he's lying, and 259 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: he's very aware that he's lying. Oh God, all right, 260 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: we've got Oh I want to talk about this. I 261 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: mentioned this yesterday, but it's it's it's the more I 262 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: thought about it, the more it it drove me nuts. 263 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: And I have some charts now. I found a website 264 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: that put these charts together. It is it is impossible 265 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: to believe. And this may be the only time in 266 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: history I've ever heard that a major city, Los Angeles, 267 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: has lost tens of millions of dollars on parking tickets. 268 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: I honestly don't think that's ever been done in history. 269 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: It just can't be if anybody's ever heard of this 270 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,880 Speaker 1: or is aware of this. But somehow Karen Bass lost 271 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: about sixty five million dollars. 272 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 2: On parking tickets. 273 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: Because it costs that much more to run the Parking 274 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: Enforcement Bureau than they got back in revenue. 275 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 2: Talk about it. We come back. 276 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A six. 277 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock, We're going to have Richie 278 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: Greenberg gone. He's our kind of like our San Francisco correspondent. 279 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: He's a writer and commentator on San Francisco politics. And 280 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: you may not know this, but there's a California law 281 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 1: about putting up speeding cameras. These are going to be 282 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: passive speeding cameras that will snap you speeding and then 283 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 1: send you a ticket. They're up in San Francisco thirty 284 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: three cameras around the city. And by the way, if 285 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 1: you don't make much money, you get a discount on 286 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: the fine. If you're speeding but you're poor, you don't 287 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: have to pay as much. Another penalty for being successful. 288 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: Unsuccessful people can drive faster than successful people. 289 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 2: They will get fined the same. 290 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 1: All right, now, talking abouts do you know Los Angeles 291 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: gives out close to two million parking tickets every year. 292 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: It's infuriating. I can't stand parking enforcement officers. I get livid. 293 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: Is that irrational? I just see them and I get 294 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: red in the face. 295 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 4: I know you told us at least she told me. No, 296 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 4: you said on the air your Starbuck. 297 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 2: Story, right from a few weeks ago. Yeah, this this 298 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 2: this parking attendant. 299 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: This woman was across the street talking to someone and 300 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: she stops her conversation and starts motioning to me to 301 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: move my car up in a parking space a few 302 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: more inches and I go, what are you doing? And 303 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 1: she goes, well, I don't want to have to give 304 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 1: you a ticket, Like if I didn't move up a 305 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: few inches, she was going to give me a ticket. 306 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: And it's like it just made me crazy and I 307 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: started screaming at her. It was during the fire. I 308 00:19:58,080 --> 00:19:59,679 Speaker 1: told her, why don't you go in and help put 309 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: out the fire. 310 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 4: Yeah, but she's not a firefighter. 311 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:09,439 Speaker 1: No, no, she ses a she hands out tickets if 312 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 1: you're a few inches off the space. I mean, what 313 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 1: a useless profession who ends up being a parking enforcement agent? 314 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: Like how many bad decisions do you make in your life? 315 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: Will you end up doing that? Although I'm thinking it 316 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 1: must be way more lucrative than I realized. Of course 317 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: it is, because the city of Los Angeles loses sixty 318 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: five million dollars just in the past year on parking tickets. 319 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: Sixty five million dollars. And you may say, well, how 320 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: could that be, Well, I'm going to tell you the 321 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: cost for salaries, equipment, equipment, that little handheld, the device 322 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: they have, processing and other expenses total eighty eight million. 323 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 1: But then add in pension obligations and other liabilities insurance. 324 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: I suppose it jumps to one hundred and seventy six 325 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: million dollars a year in expenses. The city only collects 326 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: one hundred and ten million. The city collects one hundred 327 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: and ten million, and it costs him one hundred and 328 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: seventy six million. Now we've got this billion dollar budget deficit. 329 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: The thing is, if if a mayor or if Elon 330 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,360 Speaker 1: Musk came and said, you know what, I'm closing down 331 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: the parking Enforcement Agency, everybody. 332 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 2: Go, oh my god, can you believe this? 333 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: This is terrible. No, I'm firing everybody. No more parking 334 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: enforcement agents. 335 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 2: Oh this is awful. I'm gonna go and burn a tesla. 336 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: Actually he'd be saving the city sixty five million dollars 337 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: a year. 338 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 2: So I think they should close the whole thing down. 339 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 2: Why not? 340 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: And I didn't know this because I found a longer story. 341 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,400 Speaker 1: I also, we got to give credit to Crosstown LA. 342 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 1: It's a nonprofit newsroom based at USC. They broke this story. Increasingly, 343 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: we're finding stories like this in the from these small 344 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 1: news agencies or neighborhood newspapers, because the El Segundo Times 345 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: doesn't do this stuff. 346 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 2: This to me should be a banner headline anyway. They 347 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 2: have been losing money since twenty sixteen. They've been losing money. 348 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: For the last eight years handing out tickets. They're also 349 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 1: handing out fewer tickets than ever before. It's down over 350 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 1: twenty percent since twenty sixteen, and twenty sixteen was the 351 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: last year that revenue from parking exceeded the cost to 352 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: enforce the laws. So it's been twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, 353 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,360 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, twenty all the way up through twenty four 354 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:07,400 Speaker 1: eight years of escalating losses for handing up parking tickets. 355 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: Gar Citi and Karen Bass are the two biggest losers 356 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: in political history. How do you f up parking tickets? 357 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 1: Every parking ticket you hand out is supposed to be 358 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: like a free fifty sixties, seventy bucks whatever it is now, 359 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: but they actually lose money. And I guess it's the pensions. 360 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: Pensions you mean parking enforcement agents get pensions. My dad 361 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: worked in a factory for fifty years, sweated like a 362 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 1: dog for fifty years. 363 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 2: You never had a. 364 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: Pension because the unions kept the unions kept stealing the 365 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: pensions and the management would steal the pensions and they 366 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 1: go out of business and the jobs would go to Mexico. 367 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 1: But here you had these little twerps, these little weasel people. 368 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 1: They all have bad attitudes. Every time I see one, 369 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: I have to restrain myself from rolling down the window 370 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: and just shouting incoherently. There's no other job I see 371 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: that gets me to do that. Just that. 372 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 2: I get triggered. I know you do. 373 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: I get triggered. I can't, I can't take it. It's 374 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,679 Speaker 1: like it's like it's just a silly, pointless and it's 375 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: just theft of money. There's there's a little shopping center 376 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: in my neighborhood that I go to, and, like a 377 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: lot of places, they don't have enough parking right, But 378 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: they have a bakery, they have a coffee shop, and 379 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: people park their car along the curb or park it 380 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: in a restricted zone just to run in and pick 381 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 1: up their their muffin or pick up their coffee order. 382 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: And there's always these little these parasites coming around with 383 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: their little devices and hitting you up for a sixty 384 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: three dollars ticket. 385 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 4: Why that's their job. 386 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 2: It's bad job. 387 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 1: They shouldn't exist since they got to do the doge 388 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: on the City of Los Angeles. They ought to do 389 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: the dough on the whole parking enforcement agency. I mean, 390 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,199 Speaker 1: they're losing sixty five million a year and it's been 391 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: that way for eight years. 392 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 2: That should be it. 393 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 1: They're issuing fewer tickets, and while they're issuing fewer tickets, 394 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: the cost of parking enforcement has increased forty percent. 395 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 2: Why what's going on? 396 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 1: And how many other stories like this exist within the 397 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: battels of government. It can't just be the parking enforcement agency. 398 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: Things went to hell in twenty twenty during that stupid lockdown, 399 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: they lifted parking restrictions, and so they had the officers 400 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: shift to other responsibilities, including COVID nineteen testing, working at 401 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:55,199 Speaker 1: vaccination sites. Some of them managed traffic. Oh, those are 402 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: the people that foul up the traffic. 403 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 6: Ugh. 404 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 2: Oh, these people are headaches. Do you ever see them? 405 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: Sometimes we'll have a traffic light out, or there's some 406 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: event going on and and and you could always tell 407 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 1: the traffic. Yeah, they're all doing the hand signals. They're waving, 408 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 1: and they really get into their jobs, like they wave 409 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: furiously and they thrust their hand out very strongly to 410 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: show that they're in charge. They're in command, they always 411 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: back up traffic. Those parking enforcement people are really among 412 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: these most useless government workers. This is why it's such 413 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: a hostility towards government workers. In case you're wondering, it's 414 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: because the ones I see all the time are the 415 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: parking enforcement agents, and they're either filing up the traffic 416 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: or they're they're writing out tickets trying to steal money 417 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: from me. 418 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 4: Well, but you could obey and just not park in 419 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 4: those places where you're not supposed to, then you don't 420 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 4: have to have any run ins with them. I'm just 421 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 4: looking out for your mental health. 422 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 2: I don't think they should be policing that stuff. 423 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: I know. 424 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 2: I don't think it's their business. 425 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 4: I get it. It's going to change anytime soon. 426 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 2: Well, I want to put them out of business. I 427 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 2: want to stir up a movement here. You do that. 428 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 2: Don't patronize me. Let me indulge in my mental illness. 429 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 1: Okay, Anyway, the deficit last year actually was I said 430 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 1: sixty five is actually sixty six million, to be exact, 431 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: and the forecast for this year is sixty five forty 432 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: forty nine officers traffic officers retired or moved to different positions, 433 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 1: they retired, They retired from what and now they're on 434 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,399 Speaker 1: a pension. Now I'm working and paying taxes so they 435 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: can live at home on a pension. 436 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, this place needs a doging so badly. 437 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 3: You're listening to Cobels on demand from KFI. 438 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock, We're you talk with Richie Greenberg. 439 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 1: There is a new virus loose in San Francisco. Speed cameras, 440 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 1: speed cameras. It's part of California law. It's more harassment, 441 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: it's more another invasionary tactic, more of the nanny state. 442 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: It's a it's a state law. But there's already thirty 443 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:33,879 Speaker 1: three cameras up in San Francisco because people in San 444 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: Francisco just love this stuff. The more government interference in 445 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: their lives, the more monitoring they have, the better. We're 446 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 1: going to talk with Richie Greenberg, the writer and the commentator, 447 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: about what's just hit San Francisco. Now here in La 448 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles, well, the Department of Order and Power. 449 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 2: You believe. 450 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 1: Another person who still has a job is Janie Kinonies, 451 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: the idiot who didn't fill up the the reservoir in 452 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades what is called Santa Inez Reservoir. Not only 453 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: I mean the parking enforcement agents have jobs. Denise Kinez 454 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: has a job. I'm I hope we're gonna get the 455 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: big clean out here. Every day I'm going to pray 456 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:26,479 Speaker 1: it for this. Now Bass is going to be forced 457 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: to do exactly what Elon Musk is doing. She's gonna 458 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: have to lay off thousands of people because she so 459 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: badly mismanaged the finances that now she is going to, uh, 460 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: maybe she's gonna put on a baseball cap and she's 461 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: going to start dodging things. That's gonna be rich. The 462 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Department of Order and Power has announced that 463 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 1: they have fixed or replaced most of the fire hydrants 464 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: that they discovered were broken after the fire. 465 00:29:59,400 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 4: Isn't that a me? 466 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: After the fire, they found out that thirteen hundred and 467 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: fifty hydrants were broken, and they said, well, nobody told 468 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: us until the firefighters. Well, Debora and I were talking 469 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 1: to somebody here at the station yesterday. He lost his 470 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: home and late in the day the fires were coming 471 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: and people were asking the firefighters, aren't you gonna like 472 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: pluging a hose here? Aren't you like the fed against them, 473 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 1: and they go, well, we don't have any water. The 474 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: firefighters were telling the residents we don't have any water 475 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 1: hours into the fire. And part of the reason, in 476 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: addition to the reservoir that was dry, were these thirteen 477 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty hydrants broken. Now they fixed them, and 478 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 1: now they're talking to the media. Now they're standing up 479 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 1: at meetings saying, look at the good work we've done. 480 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 1: You know what I hate is when public officials or 481 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: public employees want applause for something that's their basic job. 482 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: It's like a grocery cash here wanting applause every time 483 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 1: she rings up a mellet. 484 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 2: Look at that, I ring up a melon. 485 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: Ay, well, here's a set of bananas. Ey, just stupid 486 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: job that we're paying you for. Of course, you fixed 487 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 1: the hydrants, except you didn't before the fire. 488 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 4: I hope they put something on these hydrants so that 489 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 4: when they do go down, there's you know, there's some 490 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 4: kind of a signal. 491 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: You're still you're right, there should be a censor. Yeah, 492 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: but we have the same system that we had in 493 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: the nineteen forties. I suspect a lot of these neighborhoods 494 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: on the West Side were developed. 495 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 2: In the nineteen forties. Mine was. 496 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,479 Speaker 1: In fact, I looked at the deed for the original 497 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 1: deed for my house in my neighborhood and was developed 498 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: in nineteen forty three. You know what it even had 499 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,959 Speaker 1: it had a restriction clause in it that it couldn't 500 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: be sold to any any black residents. Oh wow, Yeah, 501 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: that's what That's what LA was like in the nineteen forties. 502 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 1: And we have the same fire hydrant system from that era. 503 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 1: There were let's see, they replaced one hundred and forty 504 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: eight hydrants. They did repairs on eight hundred and five 505 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: other hydrants. 506 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:26,960 Speaker 2: Oh listen to this. 507 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: Six hydrants were functioning but needed water to be turned 508 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: on at a nearby valve. 509 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 4: So they didn't know that. I mean, that's what I mean, 510 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 4: the need. I really hope they've they've changed this system. 511 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 1: That you're right to modernize it. And if the slightest 512 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: thing is wrong, I mean, you know, you know people 513 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: with ring cameras, right, I haven't you haven't, Okay, doesn't 514 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: your little to your your phone go off anytime somebody 515 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: approaches the entrance of your property? 516 00:32:58,680 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 4: Absolutely? 517 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. So if the gardener. 518 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 1: Shows up, I know, you know, the postman shows up 519 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: cleaning lady, you know whoever it shows up, and then 520 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: you can turn on the camera and see how come 521 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 1: they don't have something like that with the hydrants, where 522 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 1: if something goes haywire, one hundred and eighty six hydrants 523 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: turned out did not require repairs, even though they were 524 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 1: tagged as damaged. Now, who made that mistake? One hundred 525 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: and eighty six times, Oh, it's broken, Well, no it's not. 526 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: It's broken. Well, it's either either water is flowing or 527 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: it's not flowing. How do you get that wrong? One 528 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty six times. Are there any intelligence tests 529 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 1: for any jobs in government? Now they have a new system. 530 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 1: The fire inspectors are going to send a new list 531 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 1: of hydrants needing repair every week or two, and they 532 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 1: already found another three hundred hydrants in need of repairs. 533 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:08,479 Speaker 2: What have they been doing? 534 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,759 Speaker 1: We come back Richie Greenberg Up in San Francisco. They're 535 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: installing speed cameras up there to irritate the public further. 536 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: This is more from the nanny state legislators. All the 537 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,839 Speaker 1: progressives up in Sacramento, thirty three speed cameras. That's next. 538 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,799 Speaker 1: Debra Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, 539 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You 540 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 541 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 542 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,319 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.