1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are going to 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: talk with Corbyn Carson just a moment about the Rebecca 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: Grossman trial. You may have heard late Friday afternoon, jury 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: came out and announced that she was convicted on murder 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 1: charges and gross vehicular manslaughter and hit and run running 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: over Mark and Jacob Eskinder, those two young boys who 8 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: are crossing the street with their mother and other brother. 9 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: But I tell you Tony Busby is going to go. 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: If there's a defense Attorney's Hall of Fame for all 11 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 1: time worse defenses, Busby is right there. Busby's got a 12 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: plaque in that hall of fame. This was an atrocious 13 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: defense and it didn't fool anybody. The jurors came back 14 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: relatively quickly. Let's go talk to Corbyn Carson now, because 15 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: he's been chronicling this trial since the beginning. 16 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, don you know, after weeks of testimony, Rebecca Grossman 17 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 2: found guilty of second degree murder and those other charges 18 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 2: you mentioned. And Tony Busby called that verdict unexpected, and 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 2: he promises there will be an appeal coming. As the 20 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,279 Speaker 2: verdict was read. Both families are in tears. Grossman's adult 21 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 2: daughter cried out several times. Rebecca Grossman was also crying 22 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 2: but trying to console her daughter. 23 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 3: The judge said justice. 24 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 2: Cannot wait, and Grossman was immediately put in handcuffs to 25 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 2: a weight sentencing which we're expected to hear, which is 26 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 2: expected to be set in April. And then outside the 27 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 2: court on Friday, the family of eleven and eight year 28 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 2: old Mark and Jacob Iskandor spoke about the verdict, starting 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 2: with the boys mother, Nancy Iscandor. 30 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 4: Every day in court here felt like I'm attending the 31 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 4: funeral of the boys again, day after day. That's how 32 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 4: it felt. And seeing the defendant and seeing the defense attorneys, 33 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 4: it just was that bad. It felt like all the 34 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 4: stress of the years and hard work and and the 35 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 4: hope has paid off and someone is now held accountable. 36 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 4: Mark and Jacob didn't die. 37 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 2: Mark and Jacob were murdered, and jurors believed that despite 38 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 2: the defense as you talked about, giving all kinds of 39 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 2: explanations for how Rebecca Grossman was not guilty of that, 40 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: but in the end jurors believed that. We also heard 41 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 2: Friday from the boy's father, Kareem is candor. We haven't 42 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 2: heard much from him, but he gave a reaction as 43 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 2: well and kind of spoke to a little bit about 44 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 2: what it was like for that family sitting in this 45 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 2: week's long trial. 46 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 3: I mean, this is four years after his boys were killed. 47 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 5: Were finally can move on. Finally we have been waiting 48 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 5: for the closure we have been with. Honestly, we have 49 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 5: been waiting for missus Grossman to take responsibility. And she 50 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 5: just chose to fight. 51 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: To the end. 52 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 5: And it was heartbreaking to see the lawyers' lies and 53 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 5: conspiracy theories. And I'm I'm amazed and glad that despite 54 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 5: order tricks, he couldn't tree our system more the jew orders, 55 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 5: and I appreciate that it was true fight between the 56 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 5: truth and evil tricks, and the truth swollen. 57 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 2: So yeah, and the truth one is what he said, 58 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 2: those evil tricks just to give people a kind of 59 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 2: a run back. 60 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 3: This was in twenty twenty. 61 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 2: When Grossman was out with ex Dodger baseball pitcher Scott Erickson. 62 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 2: Jurors were told the two were playfully racing in a 63 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 2: residential neighborhood. Grossman floored the gas to eighty one miles 64 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 2: per hour and a forty five mile per hour zone 65 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 2: sped through that crosswalk, slamming into eight and eleven year 66 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 2: old Mark and Jacob Iskandor at freeway speeds, one of 67 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 2: the boys being knocked two hundred and fifty four feet. 68 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 3: Just a horrible thing for this family to sit through. 69 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 2: And but what's interesting about this, John is that even 70 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 2: the mother, Nancy, was so asked about you know, what 71 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 2: was it. 72 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 3: Like watching this guilty verdict come through. 73 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 2: You know, it's got to be a little bit of 74 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 2: a conclusion, at least a partial conclusion to this. But 75 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 2: at the same time, was there any satisfaction? And surprisingly 76 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 2: she said not. 77 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 4: Really obviously heartbreaking. No one wishes that on anyone. I 78 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 4: promise I do not have any hate for her. My 79 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 4: heart broke for her children. I saw when when her 80 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 4: son was there. I saw Mark, who would be fifteen. 81 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 4: Now you know, I'm a mother, you know, and so 82 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 4: it wasn't easy. But it will bring me closure. 83 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, so it wasn't easy, she says, But in the 84 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 3: end it does bring closure. 85 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:40,919 Speaker 1: All right, Corbyn. 86 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 4: I I. 87 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:47,679 Speaker 1: Was going through some of the old stories of leading 88 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: up to up to the trial, and what struck me 89 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: was that that Busby was constantly throwing out theories or 90 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: innuendo or possibilities, but when it came down to it, 91 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: he didn't actually present any any evidence or witnesses or 92 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: or have the principal speak. I can't imagine he wanted 93 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: to blame Scott Erickson. He was trying to do that 94 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: every way he could. But he doesn't cost Scott Erickson 95 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: to the stand. He does he doesn't call Rebecca Grossman 96 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: to the stand, right, I mean, if she didn't hit 97 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: the boys, then why wouldn't you put her up on 98 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: the stand to say I didn't hit the boys. 99 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 2: Here's because she has Yeah, she has to then answer 100 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,119 Speaker 2: all these crazy theories that have been presented at that point. 101 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 2: You got there talking about two lanes, two impacts, two 102 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 2: different cars. They're blaming Ericson for going through that that 103 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 2: uh crosswalk. First, they're attacking the data of the cars. 104 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 2: If the car the SUV was in on it. 105 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: He's obviously Busby made up a lot of a lot 106 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: of stuff and he didn't even try to substantiate it 107 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: with anybody else that was actually at the scene. 108 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 2: Right, and and and same thing with Scott Scott Erickson. 109 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 2: One of the things that he was trying to do, 110 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,239 Speaker 2: at least is what it looked like he was trying 111 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 2: to do was create reasonable doubt, and he put all 112 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 2: kinds of reasonable doubt out there. So it's in his 113 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 2: interest to say Scott Erickson did it, but not actually 114 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 2: call him. And what was interesting his prosecutors said that 115 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 2: just hey, just so you know, the defense has the 116 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 2: same power to call people that we do right and right, 117 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 2: and he. 118 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 3: Objected and said, well, we can't call him. 119 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: You know he could, Yeah, he could supped decisions. They 120 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: would have to testify. Now, they could sit up there 121 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: and take the fifty men in one hundred times, but 122 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: if we saw Scott Erickson sweating and sperming, we might 123 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 1: get an idea of what was going on. 124 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 2: Plus, the prosecution would be smart enough to ask questions 125 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 2: that wouldn't necessarily implicate him, but would clear up that 126 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 2: reasonable doubt. So that was one of the biggest reasons 127 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 2: that it appears that they didn't want to call him 128 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 2: up there, because then they could just throw stuff out 129 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 2: there with no one to answer, especially since prosecutors hadn't 130 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 2: called him, because they don't want to further to confuse 131 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 2: jurors as to who did this accident, and then at 132 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 2: the second time you have eric'son up their confusing things 133 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 2: even further. 134 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: I wonder how much Rebecca Grossman paid for that defense. 135 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 2: Man, it's going, it's still going because now we have sentencing, 136 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 2: and now they have to switch up and explain why 137 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 2: they had essentially attacked this family, sending the mother out 138 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 2: while these grotesque pictures are up asking the judge, hey, 139 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 2: can you have her leave? 140 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 3: She keeps crying out about. 141 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 2: The horrible pictures of her children, you know, and they 142 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 2: have to answer for all that at sentencing. 143 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: As I was going through the old stories, Rebecca Grossman 144 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: apparently said at some point it was reported that she 145 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: got distracted by Nacci Nancy Iskender on her inline skates, 146 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: that she saw the boy's mother on the skates and 147 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: she turned and she stared, and she wished she hadn't 148 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: looked away as long as she did, blaming the mother 149 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: for being a distraction as to why the boys got 150 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: run over. That was that was unbelievable. 151 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 2: And keep in mind breaks not barely tapped according to 152 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 2: the Blackgrounds data, so seeing her mother this would have 153 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: been an instant. 154 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 3: It was too late at that moment. Yeah, if that 155 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 3: had been true. 156 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you very much, great reporting covering 157 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: this trial. Thank you thanks for having me. Corbyn Carson 158 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: from KFI News. Yeah, Rebecca Grossman what a piece of work. Huh. 159 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: Now she's the epitomy of like a sixty year old, attractive, blonde, wealthy, 160 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: entitled woman and just carried herself. I mean, can you 161 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: imagine saying, well, it was the mom's Basically, what you're 162 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: saying was the mom's fault. What was she doing on 163 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: skates that distracted me as a driver? Yeah? Right, But 164 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: the margarita in the valleume that had nothing to do 165 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: with it. Right, It was the mom on the skates 166 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: driving eighty one miles an hour with her boyfriend. I mean, chess. 167 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: You know what? What else jumped out at me? Because 168 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: the prosecutor had said that Rebecca Grossman knew that speed 169 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: kills because she had a previous experience. I looked up 170 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: to see what that was. She got a speeding ticket 171 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, ninety two miles an hour, and she's 172 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: had some excuse she was late to pick up her 173 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 1: kid and her husband, you know, is working over at 174 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: the burn Center, doctor Peter Grossman, and so and they 175 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: put on the officer who gave her the ticket, and 176 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: he remembered, and Tony Busby scoffed, saying, how could you 177 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: remember handing out a ticket from ten years ago? Do 178 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: you remember any other tickets you handed out that day? 179 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: Did you remember the ticket you handed out before Rebecca 180 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: Grossman or the ticket after Rebecca Grossman? And he didn't remember, 181 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: And so the attorney was scoffing, saying, well, how the 182 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: hell could you pot you you just remembered this now 183 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: after all this time. Well, there was a reason the 184 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: cop remembered Rebecca Grossman because she was so upset about 185 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: getting the ticket. She said like, well, I hope you 186 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: never have to go to the burn center. I hope 187 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: you never need the burn center, implying what you would 188 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: get your burns treated because you gave Rebecca a ticket. 189 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: So the husband isn't gonna isn't gonna treat it as 190 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: burns if he was a victim. Of course that's gonna 191 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: stick in his head. That's why he remembered it ten 192 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,839 Speaker 1: years later. Who does that? Who says I hope you 193 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: never need the burn center. When I read that, I thought, 194 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 1: this lady deserves everything. She's gonna get And you know, 195 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 1: shame on Tony Busby because you put that family through 196 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,079 Speaker 1: so much heartache for four years, so much to do 197 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: you have many times they cried because of your stupid 198 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 1: defense just over the last six weeks. But what a sad, 199 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: sad profession that is, being a defense attorney of that 200 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: nature a sad and cruel and awful. I don't know 201 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: who the hell Tony Busby is. I never heard of him? 202 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: Hey met what what kind of kid was he? Whose 203 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: kid becomes that you torture? You torture a mother who 204 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 1: watched her two kids die right in front of her 205 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: and then try to have her blamed for it and 206 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: try to have her thrown out of the courtroom. Wow. 207 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: Born without a conscience, born without a saul, born without 208 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 1: any humanity. More coming up, John Cobelt showed you're. 209 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 6: Listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six forty. 210 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock. There is a revolt brewing 211 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 1: in parts of Los Angeles, specifically the council District Number four, 212 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: which runs from the mid city area and then goes 213 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: up over the mountains into Encino Resiita Studio Studio City. 214 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,839 Speaker 1: Everyone is very angry at the homeless situation. And this 215 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: terrible councilwoman, Nitthia Rahman, who we've talked about for four years. 216 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: She is just atrocious. And a lot of people in 217 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: that area are angry with Nythia Ramen and Karen Bass 218 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: because they can't clean up. For a long time, Nythia 219 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: Ramen would not clean up homeless accomptants. She just refused. 220 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: Now they cleaned one up, and the homeless keep coming back. 221 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: It's called repopulation. And Karen Bass keeps promising, no, no, no, 222 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: this time, we're going to clean it. We're going to 223 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 1: clean it for good. But Karen Bass and Nythia Ramen 224 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: never spend the money on the police to clear out 225 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: the encampment permanently. They clear it out, they clean up 226 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,319 Speaker 1: the garbage, they walk away, and then all the homeless sneap, 227 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: sneak in from the back. And this happens repeatedly, and 228 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: for some reason, Nythia Romen and Karen Bass are too 229 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: dense to realize you have to actively police the area 230 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: for a long time until the vagrants give up, because 231 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: if the vagrants aren't going for permanent mental health treatment 232 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: or drug treatment, then they're going to come back. Because 233 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: they know Bass and Ramen are just doing it for 234 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: a few days to get the TV coverage and to 235 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: send out, uh, send out press releases. They're not serious. 236 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: So we'll get into that. We're gonna have Ethan Weaver on. 237 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: Rather we've had Ethan on before. Ethan is a deputy 238 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: city attorney and he's running up against Nythia Rahmen in 239 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: that district, and Ethan Weaver is a must vote. And 240 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: I'm also going to tell you just the whole story 241 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: of what's what's going on in that district because they 242 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: have a lot of homeless encampments and even even the 243 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: El Segundo Times did quite a story on the chaos there. 244 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: Here's here's something a headline which just cracked me up 245 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: because it's uh apparently this needed a headline. Also in 246 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: the El Segundo Times, Uh, San Francisco is going to 247 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: start prosecuting drug dealers for murder. Can you imagine county 248 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 1: by county in California? As fentanyl overdoses s escalate, local 249 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: prosecutors are turning to a novel legal strategy, charging drug 250 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: dealers with murder. That's what it says here. Now, charging 251 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 1: drug dealers with murder is one of the provisions in 252 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: that referendum that we've been pushing that we had the 253 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: show on at the Honda Center in Anaheim. Remember, it's 254 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: to greatly rewrite Prop forty seven, making theft illegal again, 255 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: making drug possession and drug selling illegal again. Well, one 256 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: of the provisions is to go after fentanyl dealers and 257 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: charge them with murder after they've been warned once that's 258 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: selling fentanyl can kill people. If they catch you again 259 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: and you've you've killed one of your customers, then you 260 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: could get murder charges. Well, that would put it into law. 261 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: Right now, it's optional, and some prosecutors are doing it, 262 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: and it looks like the Elsa Gunder Times is shocked 263 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: that San Francisco's doing it, So is Sacramento County, Fresno, 264 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: San Joaquin, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. They're calling 265 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: it an aggressive legal strategy. Uh and and and they're 266 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: they're adopting the strategy even though it was popularized in 267 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: red or purple areas of California, where more conservative conservative 268 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: law enforcement leaders have long embraced a tough on crime policy. 269 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: To love the way the woke progressives at the La 270 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: Times phrase this thing to put fentanyl dealers in prison 271 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: for murder is considered a conservative philosophy. HMM, and San Francisco, 272 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: famous for their ultra liberal politics, are preparing to follow suit. 273 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: I don't understand. Never in my life, for most of 274 00:15:54,680 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: my life, was putting killers in jail considered conservative. Everyone 275 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: I know all my life, regardless of how they voted, 276 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: wanted killers in prison. They wanted drug dealers in prison. 277 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: And fentanyl really didn't exist as a scourge until about 278 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: ten years ago, So you could live decades never hear 279 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: about fentdel but you knew about all the other drugs, 280 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: and everybody used to agree that, yeah, yeah, drug pushers 281 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: put them in prison because people used to die from 282 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: all the other drugs do Fentanyl is just more efficient 283 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: at killing. But the whole slant of the story is, 284 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: oh my god, progressive, ultraliberal prosecutors and district attorneys in 285 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: blue counties, they're now putting murderers in prison. They're going 286 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: after fentanil dealers and putting them. Why would that be 287 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: part of a political philosophy? What else would you do 288 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: with a fentanyl dealer who kills teenagers, who's responsible for 289 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: all the people dying in the street. What else would 290 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: you do with them but put them in prison so 291 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:16,360 Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to kill anymore. Why is that conservative? 292 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: Oh that's red, that's purple. But what is this? What 293 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: are you five years old? Everything is a color? Well, 294 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,959 Speaker 1: that's the blue way, and that's the red way, and 295 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: that's the what is wrong with you? Dropped on your head? 296 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: That guy is trying to kill your son and daughter. 297 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 1: Your son and daughter might find a straight pill in 298 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: the library. Think it's aderall and it's laced with fentonel 299 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: and now he or she is dead. You don't want 300 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,360 Speaker 1: to get that guy. Why don't you want to get 301 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: that guy? What do you want to do with that guy? 302 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 1: If you don't want to put him in prison, what 303 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: do you want to do with him? I'm just astonished 304 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: by this and the way everything is covered. I get 305 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:03,120 Speaker 1: up in the morning, I read this stuff sends my stomach. Yes, 306 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: it's conservative, it's red. No, it's common sense. It's what 307 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: we did for hundreds of years and it worked. 308 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:14,919 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 309 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 6: six forty. 310 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,640 Speaker 1: On from one till four after four o'clock. John cobelt 311 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: Show on demand on the iHeart app and Ethan Weaver 312 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: is going to come on with us just after three 313 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: o'clock the deputy City Attorney. He is running against Nithia 314 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: Rahman to be the councilman in the fourth District of 315 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, which runs from the Valley and Sino Studio City, 316 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: Resieda and up over the mountain into let's see, into 317 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:50,439 Speaker 1: Park Librea, mid City, through part of the Hollywood area 318 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: like Wanga Boulevard, Wilcox Avenue, Franklin Avenue, and there's a 319 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:58,479 Speaker 1: reason I'm mentioning those streets. Anyway, Ethan Weaver is going 320 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: to come up and that is a must vote if 321 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: you're in that district, you have to get rid of 322 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 1: Nithea Rahman. She's one of these Democratic Socialists of America members, 323 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: which is the new age communist group that has three seats. 324 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: And she's absolutely pro homeless people and pro chaos and 325 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:24,919 Speaker 1: pro vagrant, pro everything that ruins the city. She's like 326 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: Mike Bonnin. She's the female version of Mike Bonnen. And 327 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: at least the people on the West Side drove Mike 328 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: Bonn and at office, Nithia Raman should be chased out 329 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,160 Speaker 1: office too, and you can do that if you vote 330 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: for Ethan Weaver. We'll talk to him at three o'clock 331 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: now to give you some background though on what's going 332 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,199 Speaker 1: on in that district. Even the El Segundo Times had 333 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: a huge story on this today. I always wonder how 334 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: bad does it have to be for the El Segundo 335 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:55,159 Speaker 1: Times to actually do an in depth story because this 336 00:19:55,240 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: thing you printed out, it's seven pages long and the 337 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: headline is Hollywood homeless encampments fuel neighborhood frustration. And I 338 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: see you just look at the headline and you think 339 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: Nitthia Ramen has been the city council person now for 340 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: three and a half years, and after all that time, 341 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 1: three and a half years, I mean that's well over 342 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: a thousand days, you still have the same problem. And 343 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: it's the same encampments. She can't clear them and keep 344 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: them cleared. There was a fire that happened last month 345 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:43,959 Speaker 1: on January seventh in the Kowenga Pass and it started 346 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: at a homeless encampment and it burned a tree, destroyed 347 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:52,919 Speaker 1: two cars. It was sending smoke into homes. It smelled 348 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: like burning fuel, burning plastic. According to one resident who 349 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: lives in that Hollywood neighborhood, and it was the fire 350 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 1: was broke out in the first neighborhood targeted by inside Safe. 351 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: Inside Safe is this cleanup initiative. This is Karen Bass's 352 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: prized project. Inside Safe was going to get all the 353 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 1: homeless people off the street. It was going to clean 354 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 1: up all the filth and garbage and feces and needles. Well, 355 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: the first one she's targeted. Now, after over a year 356 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: of trying, it's still a huge problem. There's still fires 357 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,439 Speaker 1: breaking out. She tried to get the people off the 358 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 1: sidewalks and into housing. They even went and did a 359 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: second cleanup. Second time they cleared the homeless out of there. 360 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: But every time they've done it. I love this new term, 361 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: the el Segunda time says every time these streets have 362 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 1: been repopulated. Going a boulevard will Cox Avenue, Franklin, and 363 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: I know that area pretty well. I knew somebody who 364 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 1: lived on Wilcox, and boy was it disgustic. Boy was 365 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,959 Speaker 1: it scary. Boy I didn't want to be there if 366 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: the sun was setting because there were tents tarps all 367 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: along the median strips on the sidewalks underneath the one 368 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: on one freeway. These encampments were huge. Karen Bass cleans 369 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: them up, and they all come back, and then she 370 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: cleans them up again, and they all come back, and 371 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: you have a fire here and a fire there. Four 372 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 1: fires have broken out over the last three months in 373 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: that one area. Four fires, and they have now the residents, 374 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,679 Speaker 1: the normal people living inside. And I'm sure most of 375 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: them voted for Karen Bass and Nythia Rahman, so I 376 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,160 Speaker 1: kind of chuckle and I read about their complaints. It's like, Yeah, 377 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: who'd you vote for? What you think was gonna happen. 378 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: You actually looked at Karen Bass and Nathia Rommins said, Yeah, 379 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: they're gonna take care of the neighborhood. They're gonna make 380 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: it clean and shiny and safe. Sure they will look 381 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: at them. Well, they've got uh, let's see screaming in 382 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: the middle of the night, human waste on sidewalks, human 383 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: waste on doorsteps. Well, that's gotta be nice. First thing 384 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 1: in the morning. Huh, step out, big splat in your shoe, 385 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 1: open air drug markets, threats of violence from the crazy people. 386 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,719 Speaker 1: Now we've talked about this, God, it seems like we've 387 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: talked about it this every day for the last seven years. 388 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:44,199 Speaker 1: Karen Bass runs on this a chance of catchy new program. 389 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,680 Speaker 1: Oh inside safe, We're gonna take them all inside and 390 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 1: they're gonna be safe. Well, they're not inside. They're not safe, 391 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: and you're not safe. Certainly you are still doing the 392 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 1: poop popscotch. You're still awakened to two in the morning 393 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: by some lunatic into the wind, and you're terrified that 394 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: they're going to beat you up, stab you, kill you. 395 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 1: Oh listen to this. According to the El Segundo Times, 396 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 1: all these problems have left some in the area disappointed 397 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 1: in Bass. Bass has endorsed Nythia Ramen. Ramen has made 398 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: her work on homelessness a cornerstone of her re election campaign. Huh, 399 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: Nythia Raman let an encampment go for years in front 400 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,439 Speaker 1: of his school where gang members had taken over and 401 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: were selling guns and drugs from the tents in front 402 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: of the school elementary school, and she wouldn't do anything 403 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 1: about it. She was the councilwoman. We're in Studio City, 404 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: not Studio City, Sherman Oaks, where you had you had 405 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 1: all these vagrants running around. Remember the restaurant owner had 406 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: a bag of feces thrown at him. There was video 407 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: of it, right. He was in his car and this 408 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 1: guy had this huge bag of feces and he swung 409 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,159 Speaker 1: it into the air and slammed it on the car windshield. 410 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: And then that guy, the restaurant owner who's driving the car, 411 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: went to see Nathia Rahmen with a Channel eleven camera 412 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: and she was so angry and rude and cold. And 413 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 1: then this statistic. Since twenty twenty two, at least eighty 414 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: four people in the area had been brought indoors according 415 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 1: to Ramen eighty four, there's seventy thousand people in the street. 416 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: Eighty four eighty four is not even the That doesn't 417 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: even cover all the people under the one oh one 418 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: from Kowenga. I fought, really fought to put together the 419 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: resources to address the issue with the urgency that it deserves. 420 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: Who talks like that? Just get him off the streets period. 421 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: Make it illegal to be on the streets. Make it illegal. 422 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,719 Speaker 1: You see people once you've once you've offered them shelter 423 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 1: or you offered them treatment, then arrest them and drive 424 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: them out into the desert. Why dormal how many years 425 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 1: we have people have been putting up with this for 426 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: seven years? How much longer. Now, how much longer? Karen 427 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: Bask goes, Oh, I'm trying, Nithia Raman, I'm trying. You're trying. 428 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: Does anyone executor? Does everybody just try? Well? Here here, 429 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 1: here's the story of what happens when when they get 430 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 1: to put inside uh, they talk to some of the 431 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:51,200 Speaker 1: vagrants unhoused residents. One of them goes by the name Rumpel. 432 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 4: Boy. 433 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,679 Speaker 1: If you're a grown man, you call yourself Rumpel. Odds 434 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 1: are you're a loser? No grown man is called Rumpel. 435 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: He said he was kicked out of two hotels at 436 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: the city at least uh he got kicked out. So 437 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: what do you think? See, that's why I said, what's 438 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 1: the point of getting these people off the sidewalk if 439 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: you're not going to put them in a mental health 440 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: clinic or a drug clinic or something, Because you're gonna 441 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 1: put them into a normal hotel and they're still going 442 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 1: to do their drugs and then they're still going to 443 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 1: be screaming all night. So this is just a this 444 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:31,439 Speaker 1: is just absurd. Rumpel says he has three tents at 445 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: the underpass, which he's renting out to other people. He 446 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: says they're currently occupied by others. So this guy's a landlord. Yet, 447 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: good job, Karen Bass. You've actually, I guess she could say, 448 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: I've created jobs. He's now a real estate magnet. He's 449 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 1: renting out his tents under the overpass. Hey, I'm sorry 450 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: it happens to be this bridge that we've chosen as 451 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: a place to congregate. But we only have each other 452 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:06,360 Speaker 1: in this world. Go get jobs. You can all rent 453 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: a room together, Go go get work. They actually think 454 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: they're good the we're good people doing the right thing. Wow. Uh. 455 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:25,639 Speaker 1: And she know Raman is still against the no camping 456 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: zones because that's what she ought to do for the area, 457 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: and she ought to make it a no camping zone 458 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood or on Kowenga Boulevard, but she won't 459 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: do it. I'm really trying to find a pathway forward 460 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: that will actually get people off the streets for good 461 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: four years. We'll talk to Ethan Weaver, hopefully her replacement, 462 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 1: coming out after three o'clock. What a sad crowd. 463 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AMC. 464 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock. We're going to talk with 465 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: Ethan Weaver, he wants to be elected to the La 466 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: City Council, and he should be to replace Nithia Rahman. 467 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: That disaster in the fourth council district. And again she 468 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: covers parts of Hollywood and mid City and let's see 469 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: goes up over the hill to Encino and Sherman Oaks 470 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: Studio City, and she's just she's really awful, and she's 471 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: allowed homelessness to run run rampant, just out of control. 472 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: And she keeps trying to take credit for encampments she 473 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: had cleared out, and then and then they all come 474 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: back and they're starting fires and there's just disgusting garbage 475 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: and tents and tarps all over the place. So Ethan Weaver, 476 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: he's a deputy city attorney and you live in that district. 477 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: You really ought to get rid of Nythia Raman, who's 478 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: practically communist. Uh I got something funny here. It's been 479 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: a heavy show. I know you're you're probably sensitive to 480 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: the environment right to a point. You want to do 481 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: what you can though to help the environment. I can, Well, 482 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 1: you should cut off all your hair and donate it. 483 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 7: I'm not doing that. 484 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: Oh well, you slammed the door on the environment pretty fast. Well. Uh, 485 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 1: there is an organization in San Francisco, of course, called 486 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: Matter of Trust, and they will take hair donations and 487 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: they use them to they use your hair to clean 488 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: up oil spills and other pollutions, other pollutants from bodies 489 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: of water. 490 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 4: You know. 491 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 7: I mean I feel bad when that happens, but not 492 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 7: that bad. 493 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: Uh. The guy who came up with this idea is 494 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: Phil McCrory. He was a hair stylist Alabama. They did 495 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: a whole story in the Last Angeles Times about this. Okay, 496 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 1: I'm not just bringing this out of nowhere. It was 497 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: in the paper this morning. And McCrory realized as he 498 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: was cutting hair. You know a lot of people have 499 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: oily hair, right because your hair absorbs a lot of 500 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: body oil. Yes, And he thought, wow, if we packaged 501 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 1: a lot of hair together, it could probably suck up 502 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 1: the oil. At the time, the Excellon Valdis had had 503 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: that accident, remember it hit the reef in Alaska or 504 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: I remember, And he thought, if we just dump an 505 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: enormous amount of hair. 506 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 7: It can't be fake hair. 507 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 1: Ah should say fake hair absorbs the oil the same way. 508 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 7: Probably not the same way. Maybe you just need. 509 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 8: More hair to do that job, because how many people 510 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 8: are going to I don't know. 511 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: Maybe they would, because people care about the environment will 512 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,719 Speaker 1: donate their hair, that's true. And then people who are 513 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: vain and don't want to make a sacrifice for the 514 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 1: good of the play. 515 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 7: I mean, maybe I would donate an inch. 516 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: Well, he developed a way to turn hair, fur, wool, 517 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: and fleece into mats that absorb the petroleum. And also, 518 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: it turns out you can compost hair. Let's say you 519 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: have a bare patch on your lawn, you can you 520 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: can throw your hair at it. Really, Yeah, if you 521 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: want to boost the vegetation on your property, you can 522 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 1: use human hair pet hair. You could shave yourself and 523 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: your dogs, all three of you in solidarity, Okay, you could. 524 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 8: I mean, look, when you first brought this up, I 525 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 8: pictured you talking about me having to shave all my hair. 526 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 8: But if it's just a little bit, you know, when 527 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 8: I go to the salon, they take an inch off, 528 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 8: so I can I wouldn't mind donating that. 529 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 1: With the more hair, the better for the environment, you say. 530 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 7: But I'm trying to be reasonable here. 531 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 1: If you're just gonna do you're gonna do some virtue signaling. 532 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 1: Just offer a little clump or two. Get it. I 533 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: think we should offer her hair up for postophon this year. 534 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 7: Can you shut your own mic off? 535 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: Please? No, it's more fun this way a lot. I 536 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: bet a lot of guys would donate to take some 537 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: of her hair home. John can do his dance and 538 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 1: then you. 539 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 7: Can hair into the audience. 540 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: It's uh. You can put it on top of the 541 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 1: soil in your flower park, your flower pots and garden. 542 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 7: John, you have a lot of hair. Are you going 543 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 7: to do that? 544 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 4: Uh? 545 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 1: I have a lot of hair. You have way more 546 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: than I do. You could save the earth with all 547 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 1: that hair. I might be able to take care of 548 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: one little bear spot in the in the backyard. Uh. 549 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 1: It's because they found they found two composting methods that work, 550 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 1: either worms and funguy uh or hair, and that boosts 551 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: the compost. 552 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 7: Well, I'm sure a lot. 553 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 8: I'm sure there will be a lot of takers. Your people, 554 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 8: you know, in your neighborhood. I'm sure we do that right. 555 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:16,839 Speaker 4: Yeah. 556 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 1: They who on the West Side, all the wealthy West 557 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: Side women with all their thick fake well, a lot 558 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 1: of their that hair is fake anyway, A lot of 559 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:27,239 Speaker 1: that hair. 560 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:28,439 Speaker 7: This is the real deal. 561 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: No hair extensions in there? Do you see was I 562 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,399 Speaker 1: just saw a photo of this Jennifer Lopez was doing. 563 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 4: Was it her? 564 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 3: I don't know. 565 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: She was doing a show and and she whatever hair 566 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:42,880 Speaker 1: extensions fell out right on the ground. 567 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,880 Speaker 7: Hair extensions. I mean, it's not you know, it's not 568 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 7: a crime. 569 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 8: I mean people want to have long hair or they're 570 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 8: losing hair, and they need to fill in the gaps. 571 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: That's why they're not going to donate to the environment, 572 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 1: though that's a good point. They want that head of hair. 573 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 1: All right, We come back Ethan Weaver of Los Angeles. 574 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 1: What did I say? Ethan? Sorry, Ethan Deputy City Attorney, 575 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,800 Speaker 1: Ethan Weaver, and he wants to run against Nthia Rahman 576 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: and get rid of this woman, get rid of her 577 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:17,600 Speaker 1: bad councilwoman in Hollywood and over the mountains into Encino 578 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 1: and Studio City, Sherman Oaks, mid City Park, Librea, that 579 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 1: whole region up and over the mountains and back. She's 580 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 1: ruining a lot of neighborhoods because she lets the homeless 581 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,640 Speaker 1: and the drug addicts and the mental patients run free. 582 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,319 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark Live and the KFI twenty four our newsroom Hey, 583 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You 584 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,759 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 585 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,560 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 586 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,880 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.