1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four o'clock 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: and after four o'clock. If you miss any part of 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: the show, you've already missed an hour. Perhaps after four 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 2: o'clock John Cobel's show on demand the podcast on the 7 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 2: iHeart app, so you could listen to it later today, tonight, tomorrow, 8 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 2: on the weekends. You shouldn't miss anything, right, they shouldn't 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 2: miss anything. 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: You're not going to agree, Well, no, they shouldn't. 11 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 3: And also it might be a useful tool if you 12 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 3: have you know, if you have insomnia. 13 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 2: Boy, you're red hot today, aren't you. Yes, a cure 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 2: for insomnia. It doesn't work for you, Well, actually it 15 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 2: does work for you. You you don't sleep at night, 16 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: but you're always yawning listening to you. That's all right, 17 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 2: I know I'm counting by the way the awns. I'm 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 2: gonna start keeping a running total. 19 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: All right. 20 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 2: Let's get to Jamie Page from the West Side Current, 21 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 2: which is a really good news website for the West 22 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 2: Side of Los Angeles, and they do the stories that 23 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 2: the La Times used to do. This is based on 24 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 2: early data from the twenty twenty five Los Angeles Homeless Count, 25 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 2: and they have found thirty six hundred fewer, as they say, 26 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 2: unsheltered homeless that would be like the street crazies, and 27 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 2: which is a really small percentage amount considering the billions 28 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 2: that they've spent to give us more detailed Jamie Page, 29 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 2: west Side Current, Jamie, how are you? 30 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: I'm good? John, how about you? 31 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 2: I'm fine. What have you learned about this homeless count? 32 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 2: And did they release these numbers or did you get 33 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 2: a tip? 34 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 3: No, we got to release last Thursday, And anybody who 35 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 3: follows the homeless count usually wait for the end of 36 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 3: June for these numbers to come in. They compile them, 37 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 3: they go through kind of a system through the USC 38 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 3: to put them in a formula that quote unquote, we're 39 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 3: all supposed to understand. So it took us all by 40 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 3: surprise that these numbers were released so early. They do say, 41 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 3: they did say when they released them that this is 42 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 3: not a comprehensive count, and that there's still months of 43 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 3: counting that they still need to do for things like 44 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 3: making sure, by the way, the youth is not a 45 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 3: part of this count. They admitted that. So these are 46 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 3: just really preliminary, raw numbers that don't really paint a 47 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 3: picture because we don't have enough information yet. But they 48 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 3: were released, and the CEO of LASA said that they 49 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 3: were released because they are under so much fire and 50 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 3: April first, the county is going to be voting on 51 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 3: their budget, so they thought, well, here's thirty six hundred people. 52 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 3: Let's put this information out there. Whether it's right or wrong, 53 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 3: here's a number. 54 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 2: We don't know if it's accurate or not, but hey, 55 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 2: you know, we're fighting for our lives. 56 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 3: That it's not incomplete data, by the way, they've admitted that. 57 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 3: So it's fascinating. 58 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 2: But it's a simple count one, two, three, four. Presumably 59 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: they sent out hundreds of people to walk in the 60 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 2: streets of La County and as they found the people, 61 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 2: they've found the bodies, they counted them. I don't know 62 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 2: why that would take months. You just let let's say 63 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 2: you sent out a thousand people. Each one of them 64 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 2: has a number, You add up the numbers and there's 65 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 2: your total. 66 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 3: Well, there's like strange things that the USC does with this. 67 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 3: They have. This is something that they say that they 68 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 3: do is they have like an annual multiplier data that 69 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 3: they include with this. I don't know if you remember, 70 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 3: but we to get specific counts from like Venice and Westchester. 71 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 3: Now we only get what they call spot counts, so 72 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 3: a bunch of cities put together, which they say is 73 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 3: a more accurate picture. 74 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 2: I remember the Venice count a few years ago and 75 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 2: they had a zero in one particular section of Venice, 76 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 2: which was notorious for its homeless problem. 77 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, well, and often that happens. They have this, 78 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 3: They had the app that year, they launched this new 79 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 3: app that was supposed to be fantastic. Well, then when 80 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 3: the numbers came in through this app, they found that 81 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 3: a lot of them were wrong. There's never really been 82 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 3: a rhyme or reason for most people who follow this 83 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 3: point in time count except for this is how how 84 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 3: we get our money. The city, the county, the state 85 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 3: gets their money from these pit counts. So that's the 86 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 3: reason for doing them. Last year, there was a victory 87 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 3: lap for the one percent decrease that they said they have, 88 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 3: and that's well within their margin of error, right. 89 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 2: Right, so been it could have been a five percent 90 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 2: increase all we know, yes, well. 91 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, and those of us who are boots on 92 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 3: ground all the time. The numbers often don't add up 93 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 3: to what they say that they are the one thing 94 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 3: I want to highlight though, and that's what we tried 95 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 3: to do in a very in a very quick way, 96 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 3: because again we weren't expecting these numbers. Is the budget 97 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 3: every year now for LASA is eight hundred and seventy 98 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 3: five million dollars. So, however that number goes up or down, 99 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 3: the thirty six hundred from this year, we're still talking 100 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 3: about a multi hundred dollar budget that the two don't 101 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 3: add up. 102 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 2: Now, Now, when it's written in your story that it's 103 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 2: thirty six hundred unsheltered, does that mean these people are 104 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 2: actually living in the streets? What counts as unsheltered? They 105 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 2: have a people in temporary housing, you know the the. 106 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 3: You know cardwellers. 107 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, are they unsheltered? I mean what what's definition unsheltered? 108 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 2: Is it literally they're laying in the streets? Or does 109 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 2: it include living in your car, living in a temporary 110 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 2: room for the night. 111 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: Or nobody knows? 112 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 3: And I just want to be clear. This is their 113 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 3: terminology that they're using this year. It is broken up 114 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,359 Speaker 3: into sheltered like a bridge home or they're they're homeless, 115 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 3: but they're living in a shelter within the city, right, Like, 116 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 3: those are all categories that they then compile and put 117 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,679 Speaker 3: together for us. This is their new way of doing 118 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 3: it this year. And so they called this unsheltered, and 119 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 3: they said that the numbers are vehicle dwellers, tent dwellers, 120 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 3: people who are street dwellers, is what they had used. 121 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 2: I see, So which do they count? A tent dweller 122 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 2: is unsheltered? 123 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 3: We don't know, No, that's a that's a street yes, unheltered. 124 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 2: That oh icee okay, of course, See they have to 125 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 2: make it confusing. 126 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 3: Of course they do, because then they can't and then. 127 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 2: They could change the definition every year. But I know 128 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,559 Speaker 2: in the county there's seventy thousand homeless people they say 129 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 2: that they admit to in the city, it's forty five thousand. 130 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 2: Either way, three thousand, six hundred, if this number is 131 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 2: even accurate, is not much of a dead considering all 132 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 2: the billions we spent in the last especially eight years. 133 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 3: And that's the argument they like to make, right, They're saying, well, 134 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 3: this is a five percent to ten percent decrease if 135 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 3: we do this year after year. Look at all the 136 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 3: progress we're making, but they don't do they don't add 137 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 3: the mass in and for eight hundred and seventy five 138 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 3: million dollars. And of course this isn't all about the 139 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 3: unsheltered homeless, but it's a significant budget. And if that is, like, 140 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 3: if that's their victory lap, then we have some serious 141 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 3: issues with how much money we're spending on this crisis. 142 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 2: Oh, it's a disaster. It's overall, it's a complete failure. 143 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 2: It's a disaster. Obviously, they're going to put a few 144 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 2: people away because they've built so so much in the 145 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 2: way of temporary shelters and bridge homes and whatnot. But 146 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 2: some of those people end up in temporary shelter and 147 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,119 Speaker 2: then and then they're out, they're back on the street, 148 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 2: and there's always new people coming in on the buses 149 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 2: all the time, because you know, Venice is a great 150 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: destination around the country for all the drug addicts and 151 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 2: mental patients. Everybody knows Venice in those circles. 152 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 3: So not only do they yes, they know Venice, they 153 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 3: know what they're going to get when they go to Venice, 154 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 3: right like three square males and shower and handouts and 155 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 3: all of that. Stuff that come with the appeal of 156 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 3: living by a beach. 157 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, and an ocean view, yeah, on top of it all. 158 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 2: All right, well, all right, well we'll mark this number 159 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:36,959 Speaker 2: down and see where it goes from here, and as 160 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 2: you get more information, please let us know and we'll 161 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 2: be we'll be reading Westside Current dot com and we'll 162 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 2: talk again soon. 163 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 3: All right, perfect, thanks for having me on. 164 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,959 Speaker 2: All right, that's Jamie Page with the West Side Current. 165 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 2: You could tell there's a lot of asterisks to this, 166 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 2: but still at thirty six hundred unsheltered homeless, however you 167 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 2: define that, that's not much considering we have over seventy 168 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 2: thousand in the county and we have spent many billions 169 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 2: of dollars and more billions to come. It's look, I 170 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 2: think we've made the case. It's a racket. It's undeniably 171 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 2: run by a bunch of criminals, both inside the LA government, 172 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 2: inside city hall and among these nonprofits. It's a bunch 173 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 2: of criminals. The question is when's the public going to 174 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 2: decide to stop it, stop the funding, have these people fired, 175 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 2: and just force the homeless out do what they're going 176 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:40,319 Speaker 2: to be doing. In San Jose three Outreach three outreach events, 177 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 2: and after that you have to get off public property 178 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 2: or you go before a judge and then the judge 179 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 2: sends you to drug treatment or to jail. That's what 180 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 2: we have to do in Los Angeles. They're doing it 181 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 2: more and more around the state. San Jose being the latest. 182 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 2: We had the mayor on a week or two ago, 183 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 2: and that's where Karen Bass has to and she has 184 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 2: to be forced to go there. Speaking to Karen Bash, 185 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 2: it is incredibly incompetent. I mean people should be in 186 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 2: jail for this one. How do you lose sixty five 187 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 2: million dollars handing out parking tickets? Well, I had an 188 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 2: email exchange with the city hall reporter Daniel Guss about it, 189 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 2: and I'm going to tell you what he tells me, 190 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 2: and then Daniel's coming on after two thirty. Because it 191 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 2: looks like the the burning issue the LA City Council 192 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 2: is trying to deal with is crazy people showing up 193 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 2: at the meeting and shouting the N word and the 194 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:39,839 Speaker 2: C word and all kinds of other slurs and insults. 195 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 2: That's what they're working on. But sixty five million blown 196 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 2: handing out parking tickets. You don't hear you don't hear 197 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 2: any comment, But then again, you don't hear anybody in 198 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 2: the media asking for comment. 199 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six. 200 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 2: Forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, as well as 201 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 2: the podcast after four o'clock. Also follow us at John 202 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 2: Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt Radio on all the social 203 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 2: media platforms. We need only eight hundred and ninety three 204 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 2: more followers and we have twenty five thousand, and then 205 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 2: cupcakes for everybody once we get to twenty five thousand. 206 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 2: No really, yeah, yeah, definitely cupcakes. Okay, cool, all right. 207 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 2: There's nothing you could do about it, you know, the 208 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 2: other people have to sign up, but you do the 209 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:36,079 Speaker 2: most work on it. Daniel Gus, we're going to talk 210 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 2: to him Daniel Gus dot substack dot com if you 211 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 2: want to read his columns. He's one of the very 212 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 2: few people covering city Hall. In fact, he may be 213 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 2: the only one that covers it constantly here in Los 214 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 2: Angeles because we no longer have a media ecosystem. But 215 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 2: Daniel Gus dot substack dot com and after two thirty 216 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 2: the only Times had a story about Marquith Harris Dawson, 217 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 2: the president of the city Council, who, by the way, 218 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 2: has had virtually nothing to say about the massive fires 219 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 2: that destroyed the Palisades, the one hundred and seventeen million 220 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 2: gallons of water missing from that reservoir, the lack of 221 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 2: funding for the fire department. 222 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: It's only half funded. 223 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 2: He's had nothing to say about the city of Los 224 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 2: Angeles being broke. But he's really all twisted up that 225 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 2: there's a lot of crazy people that show up at 226 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 2: the public meeting and they yell all kinds of bad 227 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 2: names and bad words at him and the other city 228 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 2: council people. So he's trying to stop them from speaking 229 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 2: those bad words out loud, which is unconstitutional, but that's 230 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 2: their priority. I over the weekend, Daniel Guss is going 231 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 2: to be on with us to talk about that issue. 232 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 2: But over the weekend, I asked Daniel, I'm trying to 233 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 2: figure out what I'm obsessed with this one because I 234 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 2: have an enormous animosity towards people who write parking tickets. 235 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 2: I find it incredibly irritating. It is so abusive, It 236 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 2: is so outrageous that they want fifty sixty seventy dollars 237 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 2: because you've overstayed, you're welcome at the parking meter, or 238 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 2: you've parked slightly outside the line or in a red zone. 239 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 2: You know the red zone. How many red zones do 240 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 2: they have because of fire hydrants? 241 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: Right? 242 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 2: And they try to shame and scold you. It's like, 243 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,719 Speaker 2: well it's for fire safety reasons. Yeah, well hardly any 244 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 2: of the fire hydrants work. You don't have water connected 245 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 2: to them. But you're gonna find me sixty five bucks 246 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 2: from parking too close. I just over the weekend, I said, 247 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 2: what is it about the parking Enforcement Agency? They lost 248 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 2: sixty five million dollars last year? Sixty five million dollars. 249 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 2: They write almost two million tickets a year. That's a 250 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 2: huge loss. How is that possible? Because you know, most 251 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 2: of those employees are are irritating little parasites. They just 252 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 2: almost all have bad attitudes and I can't stand them. 253 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 2: I can't stand what they do. And then I find 254 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 2: out they blew sixty five million. It's one thing that 255 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 2: they were making millions of dollars, and he goes, well, 256 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 2: the city needs the money and it is illegal. You know, 257 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 2: you ought to pay attention to where you're poor. But 258 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 2: they lost sixty five million. So he wrote back to 259 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 2: me and he says, it's salaries and benefits. And it's 260 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 2: the same way that organized lager labor has tried to 261 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 2: guilt us into thinking that if you have a job 262 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 2: shaking the fry basket at McDonald's, you're entitled to a 263 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 2: living wage to support a family of four, which is nonsense. 264 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 2: But they have been pre this for so many years 265 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 2: and bribing political officials that now McDonald's is paying twenty 266 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 2: bucks an hour to flip flip burgers. And what's happened 267 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 2: is some places are going out of business. Some places 268 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 2: have drastically raise their prices, but actually a lot of 269 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 2: places have fired thousands of workers. And guess what's coming 270 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 2: AI Ordering. The company that owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC, 271 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 2: that's owned by one conglomerate, they're going to be installing AI. 272 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: So when you. 273 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 2: Roll up to the little box for your order, you're 274 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 2: talking to a bot. Now this bot will speak English, 275 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 2: and the speaker will be clear, and the transaction will 276 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 2: be accurate and quick. So all those people who mumble 277 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 2: in a foreign language at these fast food restaurants over 278 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 2: your order box, they're out of a job. 279 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: Because they're not worth twenty dollars an hour. 280 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 2: So fortunately, artificial intelligence and you know, this has all 281 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 2: been speeded up because of the absurd demands of the 282 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 2: unions and the politicians taking the bribes and creating an 283 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 2: artificial wage structure. Well, what Gus tells me is that 284 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 2: this is what's going on with the parking enforcement bureaucracy. 285 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 2: They get they get relatively high salaries and lots of benefits, 286 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 2: and so the department basically is bankrupt because this has 287 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 2: been going on for eight years. 288 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: Nobody reported this for eight years. 289 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 2: Los Angeles has run a deficit on parking tickets since 290 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, eight years and this year and last year 291 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 2: is about sixty five million dollars of a loss. That's 292 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty million dollars lost. If they stopped 293 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 2: writing parking tickets and closed the parking enforcement agency, there'd 294 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 2: be an extra sixty five million dollars on the books. 295 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 2: And according to Gus, he says, the ticket people drive around, 296 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 2: they meet their quota, which the government never admits to uh, 297 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 2: and they spend the rest of the day texting and eating. 298 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 2: And of course they have they have big egos because 299 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 2: they see how upset people get when they write their bogus, 300 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 2: stupid tickets, and with the way they ambush people, they 301 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 2: lay in wait in parking lots and jump on them 302 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 2: when the meter runs out. And it's it's a completely useless, 303 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 2: costly department. There is no benefit to it. And they're 304 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 2: probably going to lose another SIT six five million in 305 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 2: the coming year too. Now, if they're going to be 306 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 2: doing you know, the Elon musk dance here in La 307 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 2: and cut thousands of jobs, they should cut the whole 308 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 2: parking enforcement agency out because it provides not one penny 309 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 2: of profit to the city. And they do spend the 310 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 2: rest of the day texting and eating. I see a 311 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,199 Speaker 2: lot of them staying around, just wandering around or sitting 312 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 2: in their cars. All right, we come back Daniel Gush 313 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,479 Speaker 2: to talk about apparently too many people are using the 314 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 2: N word and the C word and a lot of 315 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 2: other naughty words. And President are Keise Harris staus In 316 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,120 Speaker 2: to the city council, who's yet to say anything about 317 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 2: the fire. He was the mayor that day, he was 318 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 2: the acting mayor that day. He's he's going to ban 319 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 2: people from saying bad things at city council meetings. 320 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:54,119 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 321 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 4: six forty. 322 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:56,120 Speaker 1: It's Monday. 323 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 2: Time to start up the moistline machine for Friday and 324 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 2: seven moist Stadty six. If you have any anger, complaints 325 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 2: about the way the world is frustrations eight seven seven 326 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 2: moist Stadty six eight seven seven six six four seven 327 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 2: eight eight six, or usually talkback feature on the iHeart 328 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 2: radio app. You've not heard the city council talk out 329 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 2: loud about all the cause of the fire in the Palisades, 330 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 2: or why the hydrants didn't work by the hundreds, or 331 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 2: let's see why the water reservoir was empty one hundred 332 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 2: and seventeen million gallons. I heard there was a second 333 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 2: reservoir that was also empty. We didn't hear why the 334 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 2: fire department's only half funded, why the firefighters weren't on 335 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 2: patrol already that morning in the Palisades and other areas. 336 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 2: But you know what they're upset about. They want to 337 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 2: pass a law so that if you show up at 338 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 2: an LA City Council meeting you can't call them any 339 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 2: nasty names and say nasty things about them. We have 340 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 2: Daniel Guss, who's the because cover City Hall for a 341 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 2: long time and it's a Daniel guest dot substack dot 342 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 2: com if you want to read his columns. Daniel, how 343 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 2: are you not too bad? 344 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 5: I'm glad to see I'm not the only one working 345 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 5: on the weekends. 346 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: John, that's right, that's right. You were very helpful. 347 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 2: I had a little email exchange, part of which I 348 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 2: talked about in the last segment on the on the 349 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 2: parking ticket thing. I'm not to follow up on that, 350 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,719 Speaker 2: by the way, if in your comings and goings, if 351 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 2: you find any more about this parking enforcement situation. I 352 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 2: am astonished that they lost sixty five million dollars. That 353 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 2: doesn't seem possible to me. 354 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I'm. 355 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 5: Not surprised at all. John. There is no agency in 356 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 5: the City of Los Angeles that runs well. This is 357 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 5: just one that is so relatable. Yeah, that they're they're 358 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 5: taking in less than the costs to run the department. 359 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 5: That is that is commonplace. But it's so relatable because 360 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,640 Speaker 5: who hasn't had a parking ticket from time to time. 361 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: It's just amazing. 362 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 2: We'll talk about that in detail another time, but right 363 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 2: now I want to discuss people showing up at the 364 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 2: city council meetings where they have an absolute First Amendment 365 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 2: right to say whatever they want, and they do say 366 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 2: whatever they want. 367 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: They drop the N word, C word. 368 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 2: According to the La Times, it's racial slurs, anti Semitica slurs. 369 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 2: The council people are attacked over their looks, their weight, 370 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 2: they're closed, their sexual orientation, their gender. I know you've 371 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 2: seen some of this what goes on there. 372 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 5: Well, sure, let's be clear. You can't say anything you want, 373 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 5: you can't cause a riot, and you can't threaten people, 374 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 5: but you can mock. And it is a centuries old tradition, 375 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 5: way before the United States was formed. It is a millennial, 376 00:21:53,640 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 5: millennium long tradition of criticizing and mocking your local government leaders. 377 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 5: Now in city Hall. This has been going on for 378 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 5: a long time. It has grown more hostile recently because 379 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 5: the City Council President, Marquise Harris Dawson has, for no 380 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 5: good reason, stopped the call in feature that was so 381 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 5: helpful and a really great idea that we all learned 382 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 5: to use zoom over the pandemic. And because he has 383 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 5: made it onerous to participate in government meetings and he's 384 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 5: narrowed the opportunities for the people to get to downtown 385 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 5: Los Angeles by ten o'clock three days a week, that 386 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 5: the hostility has increased. However, this has been going on 387 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 5: for a while. But you know where I think these 388 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 5: people got the idea that it's okay to say the 389 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 5: ND word or the other words. Maybe John Marquise, Harris 390 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 5: Dawson can jump in his Tesla, by the way, which 391 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 5: went up twelve percent today. Mister Harris Dawson should get 392 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 5: in his Tesla and drive to sixty eight to forty 393 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,640 Speaker 5: Hollywood Boulevard because there there's a star on the Walk 394 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 5: of Fame to Snoop who has a song titled en 395 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 5: Words Saying Hi, and he can then drive his tessel 396 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 5: at to sixty seven fifty two Hollywood Boulevard where the 397 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 5: star for ice Cube was celebrated by city Council and 398 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 5: approved by city Council. He's got a song called the 399 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 5: N word you love to Hate. I could go on 400 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 5: about fifty cent and Pitbull, but how about during the 401 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 5: halftime of the Super Bowl where Harris Dawson sends out 402 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 5: a tweet to Kendrick Lamar and he says much love 403 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 5: to Kendrick Lamar for making our City proud well. Kendrick 404 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 5: Lamar has a number called mad City, where one of 405 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 5: the lines is where are you from my end word? 406 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 5: I guess that's where members of the public found out. 407 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 5: But here's the problem. John. In the article by the 408 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 5: West Side Current in which John regarding a terrific right 409 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 5: by the way, John regard he's an excellent writer. He 410 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,439 Speaker 5: interviewed Harris Dawson about this about a week ago, and 411 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 5: Harris Dawson admitted he's targeting that's the end of the ballgame. 412 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 5: He is targeting certain types of free speech but not others. 413 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 5: And he's celebrating in these context city Council where he's 414 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 5: trying to ban forget it, it's over. 415 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 2: Well because it's a public meeting and the public has 416 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 2: the right to express themselves anyway they wish with the 417 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,959 Speaker 2: exceptions that you pointed out at the beginning of the segment. 418 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 2: You know, you can't start a riot, and you can't 419 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 2: yell fire and all those all those well known rules. 420 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 2: I imagine it's the same people showing up every week 421 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 2: and doing their act. 422 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 5: For the most part, it is. But I want to 423 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 5: say that there's a long history where a lot of 424 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,479 Speaker 5: these let's just polite. We call them the city council 425 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 5: crazies who show up and guess what they are, basically 426 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 5: the canaries in the coal line for a lot of 427 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 5: the stuff going on. About fifteen years ago, one of 428 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 5: these so called city council crazies, two of them actually 429 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 5: got the name of Matt Dowd and another guy by 430 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 5: the name of David Saltzburg better known as better known 431 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 5: by his Venice Beach name Zuma Dog. And these guys 432 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 5: correctly forecast all of the trouble that went on with 433 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,880 Speaker 5: the planning and land use and development and Jose Weezar. 434 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 5: So these guys and a lot of the people who 435 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 5: go there nowadays, maybe they don't have anything better to do. 436 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 5: Some of them are homeless people, but they go to 437 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,439 Speaker 5: the meetings. And when you go to the meetings, you 438 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 5: find out where the thread on the sweater is that 439 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 5: you want to pull. And that's really at the core 440 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 5: of what's going on here. They want to silence the 441 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,439 Speaker 5: people who are most visible, who have the time to 442 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 5: find out where this stuff. Some of them are crazy, 443 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 5: and some of them are crazy like foxes. 444 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, So they spend the week looking for all 445 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 2: the dirty deeds that are going on behind the scenes, 446 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 2: and then they show up at the meeting and sometimes 447 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,719 Speaker 2: they let all their vitriol fly, but it doesn't it 448 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 2: doesn't invalidate the stuff that they've dug up. 449 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 5: Right, and that's the problem. They do that a because 450 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 5: they're colorful personalities and b because that's how that's how 451 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 5: they get attention to the issues. And trust me, these 452 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 5: people are right more often than they are not. They 453 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 5: go to the eight thirty committee meetings. I mean, they're 454 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 5: there in city Hall at eight thirty, questioning and looking 455 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 5: at and so they're doing it colorfully. And hammer Sawson 456 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 5: who celebrates Kendrick Lamore with the N word and his lyrics, 457 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 5: and city Council with all of these others celebrate these 458 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 5: folks with the N word and their lyrics. Suddenly they 459 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 5: don't want those words to be used. 460 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 2: Now, I've ever had any patients for people who embrace 461 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 2: all these rap stars and then go around lecturing and 462 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 2: scolding others over language they might use. Let me ask 463 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 2: you one more thing before I got to go, why 464 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 2: don't we have an official proclamation for the cause of 465 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 2: the Palisades fire? 466 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: Surely they know by now. 467 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 5: Well, you know I wanted to go to city Hall 468 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 5: shortly after that because Harris Dawson was the acting mayor 469 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 5: when this happened, and three of his staffers actually physically 470 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 5: assaulted me when he tried to censor me at the meeting, 471 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 5: and so I turned my camera on in the whole way. 472 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 5: So why don't we have an official proclamation? It's the 473 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 5: same reason. Why not one of them of the fifteen, 474 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 5: not one of them has called for Karen Bass to 475 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 5: resign because they all are there in jobs with salaries 476 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,439 Speaker 5: and benefits and cars and travel that not one of 477 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,200 Speaker 5: them could touch in the private sector, and they don't 478 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 5: want to disrupt the status quo. And Monica Rodriguez, who 479 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,479 Speaker 5: stood up for la FD chief Kristin Crowley, you know 480 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 5: she hasn't called for the mayor to resign. But nine 481 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 5: of the people I know wanted to resign. So they're 482 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 5: protecting themselves, not the people they represent. 483 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 2: Why would revealing the cause of the fire cause any 484 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 2: any embarrassment or any issues and cause someone to lose 485 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 2: their job? 486 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: What right right there? 487 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 5: Because there but for the grace of the city council 488 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 5: go I Because they all have things that they'd rather 489 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 5: not have. The public know because if you vote against Bob, 490 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 5: Bob will vote against Monica. Monica is going to spill 491 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 5: the secrets on Emelda, and Melda's going to spill the 492 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 5: secrets on this one or that one. So they all 493 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 5: have things to hide, and not one of them has 494 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,719 Speaker 5: the courage. And I'll be honest with you, John Kenneth, 495 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 5: May you have the city Controller DSA or not. He's 496 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 5: been the most transparent person in city hall about this stuff. Yeah, 497 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 5: that's his job, of course. 498 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 499 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 2: DSA is Democratic Socialists of America and he has been 500 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 2: telling the truth about them being massively in debt and 501 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 2: what's causing the debt in the budget. In fact, I 502 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 2: was going to talk about him later. The Wall Street 503 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 2: Journal did an editorial entitled Los Angeles goes for Broke 504 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 2: Literally all right, well, listen, can you hear anything about 505 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 2: the cause of the fire you let us know? And 506 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 2: any more about the parking losing sixty five million dollars 507 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 2: on parking tickets, all this stuff? 508 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 1: Thank you? 509 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 5: I sure will, John, talk to you later. 510 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 4: All right, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from 511 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty. 512 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 2: We just had Daniel Guss on the reporter who covers 513 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 2: City Hall because Marquise Harris Dawson, who is acting mayor 514 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 2: the day of the fire, he's really upset that people 515 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 2: say use foul language and call all the city council 516 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 2: members all kinds of nasty names, including the N word 517 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 2: and the C word, and is trying to ban them 518 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 2: from saying those things, which is a violation of the 519 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 2: First Amendment at a public meeting. Now we have a 520 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 2: cut here and I haven't heard this, but one of 521 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 2: the characters that shows up and berates the city council 522 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 2: people is a mister Herman and this was him in 523 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 2: an LA City Council meeting last year. 524 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: And well, let's see what this is, mister Herman. Which 525 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: items had you signed up for? 526 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 6: Mister criminal attorney, I wish to speak, and all mo 527 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 6: the items are signed up for the record and non 528 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 6: agenda public comments, sir, please thanks. 529 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 2: So you have three minutes rid of miss one through nine, 530 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 2: followed by the men in general. 531 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: Please begin, mister h. 532 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 7: Regarding these abatements, you know it's a shame that whereas Gregorian, 533 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 7: who has two abatements for over ten thousand dollars, You 534 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 7: mean to tell me he's not gonna wave and not 535 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 7: this wave. I'm talking about wave all those extra additional 536 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 7: surcharges against people who or just trying to make a 537 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 7: living and continue to own their property. Now on item 538 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 7: number four, I definitely support the family that you give 539 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 7: them a receipt and wave all those conditions that you 540 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 7: put against their property for twelve thousand. 541 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 6: Dollars, because that's ridiculous. Man, they already had a fence. 542 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 6: You don't have to put up a second fence to 543 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 6: build them on their property because some bulams jump over 544 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 6: the fence and pick up their yard. Yeah, I'm talking 545 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 6: about that. 546 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: Just twelve thousand. 547 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 6: Dollars ain't chump change and money don't fall off the 548 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 6: mother trees, mister attorney, So you should do something about it. 549 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,719 Speaker 3: Food. You should. 550 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 5: Now, whether you. 551 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 6: Have a heart or a conscience, maybe that dumb chairman 552 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 6: up there will wave those feest and maybe provide them 553 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 6: with provisions to pay the initial fine with all the 554 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 6: other searcharges that you mother criminals keep building people on 555 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 6: abatement and leans. 556 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 1: For the record, what about the. 557 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 6: Other items I signed? I signed up on all items 558 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 6: and the reason because like I said, for the record, 559 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 6: it's unconstitutional that you again, try to say to me 560 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 6: while I'm speaking, mister attorney, are you paying attention because 561 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 6: this is about you, you enforcement. 562 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 5: Sir, your violence and your criminal. 563 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 6: Activity of threats, sir. Are you listening to me? Mister Bloomfield, 564 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 6: is he listening to me? Because I'm really off mother 565 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 6: topic and that Attorney Foo, former Attorney Foo, don't want 566 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 6: to pay attention to my mother about all the items 567 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 6: on the agenda. 568 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: We should give him a show that mister hermit. 569 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 4: He was also wearing a post bored around his neck 570 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 4: with a big swastika on it. 571 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 1: Well, there's a friendly touch. Huh, that's great. 572 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 2: See, and Marquise Harristawsen wants to ban people like mister 573 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 2: Herman from expressing themselves, which is his constitutional right here 574 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,479 Speaker 2: in America. All right, we should maybe we can make 575 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 2: this a regular feature. Actually, oh yeah, we do have 576 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 2: the moistcoats, so I was going to say, it's pretty close. 577 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 2: When we come back, we are going to talk to 578 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 2: Royal Oaks from ABC News because you may have heard 579 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 2: that there has been a considerable back and forth on 580 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 2: whether the Trump administration violated the constitutional rights of criminal 581 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 2: illegal aliens who got deported to El Salvador and put 582 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 2: in a terrible prison. These would be including trend de 583 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 2: Ragua gang members from Venezuela. Well, there's a lot of 584 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 2: news on this. Turns out Venezuela made a deal with 585 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 2: the Trump administration and is going to take back deportees. 586 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 2: And I think there was a lot of behind the 587 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 2: scenes maneuvering that led to those plane flights Tel Salvador. 588 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 2: Judges on the appeals court are now listening to an 589 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:17,760 Speaker 2: appeal they did today because a judge blocked further flights, 590 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 2: and it's an entertaining issue. We'll get to it coming 591 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,400 Speaker 2: up after Debora's news. Deborah Mark Live in the KFI 592 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,800 Speaker 2: twenty four our newsroom. 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