1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:02,280 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Welcome again. 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 2: We're on from one till four, and then after four 5 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 2: o'clock we're a podcast John Cobelt Show on demand. So 6 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 2: whatever you missed you can hear. If you've heard it once, 7 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 2: you can hear the second time. You can play it backwards, 8 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 2: whatever you want to do. Moistline is eight seven seven 9 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 2: Moist eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty six. That's Friday. 10 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 2: But we start taking calls now, so phone in. Michael 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 2: Monks from KFI News is with us because this cracked 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 2: me up when I saw it. An La City council 13 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 2: woman by the name of Monica Rodriguez has called for 14 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 2: a new department of homelessness, which I thought we would 15 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 2: have that already since we've given them billions of dollars. 16 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 2: But apparently we do not have a department of homelessness. 17 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 2: I don't know what we have. But that's why Michael 18 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 2: is here to tell us. Why why is there this 19 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 2: call for Monica rod What am I missing here? 20 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 3: Happy Monday, John, Thanks for having to get back on 21 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 3: You know when you say that you don't know what 22 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 3: we have, You're You're not alone. And from my observations 23 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 3: of City Council and Board of Supervisor meetings, even some 24 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 3: folks in the highest echelons of local power are a 25 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 3: bit confused about where the money is going, how it's 26 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 3: being spent, and you're really seeing it hit ahead in 27 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 3: recent weeks and months. And so this latest call is 28 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 3: from council Member Monica Rodriguez. She represents the seventh District, 29 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 3: so the San Fernando Valley communities like Sun Valley Mission Hills. 30 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 3: What she says is there are organizational quote silos, So 31 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 3: this means multiple organizations. 32 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 4: Out there as we all know, doing at least these 33 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 4: are government department, government, quasi government organizations, a variety of 34 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 4: different organizations, all with seemingly the same goal of addressing 35 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 4: the homeless crisis in LA, but not communicating well with 36 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 4: one another. 37 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: I see. 38 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 3: So she says that this, this proposed department, which would 39 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 3: report to the mayor and the City Council in the 40 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 3: City of LA would improve coordination and transparency. She says 41 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 3: it quote can help verify what each level of government 42 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 3: is doing to solve the greatest humanitarian crisis. 43 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 2: Of our ten and this doesn't exist. It does not 44 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: currently exist. 45 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 3: There are really there's not a Department of Homelessness currently. 46 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 3: She concedes in her statement, quote, I cannot say with 47 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 3: certainty that we have an efficient operation free of redundancies. 48 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 2: Well, it's certainly free of competence, because you know, there's 49 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 2: two propositions that got passed in twenty seventeen, Prop H 50 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 2: and Prop HHH, one for the city, one for the county. 51 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 2: It billions of dollars spawned off these two propositions. 52 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: Where is it all gone. 53 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 3: Well, neither the city nor the county is completely clear 54 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 3: on the efficacy of the various programs. You're probably familiar 55 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 3: with LAS of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Yeah, 56 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 3: that was created by both the city and the county. 57 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 3: It's coppened by both. 58 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 1: Well. 59 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 3: Now both city and county governments are angry at this organization. 60 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 3: The county has called for a full financial audit of it. 61 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 3: The city has recently adopted an order that would require 62 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 3: loss that to provide data. They say, Losses not providing 63 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 3: the data that we're asking for. Basically, when you know 64 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 3: what type of progress are you. 65 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: May but it's been around for years and they've always 66 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 2: claimed that they do know what's going on, because they 67 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 2: keep asking for more money, and. 68 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 3: Both governing bodies have said in very public meetings recently 69 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 3: that that apparently is not the case, and so there 70 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 3: is a call for a department of Homelessness at the 71 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 3: city level to sort of navigate these waters. 72 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: And in fact, a few years ago, one of the 73 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 2: heads of WASSA was leaving and he put out a 74 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 2: press release praising himself, and the thing he praised him 75 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 2: for was hiring one hundreds thousands of employees, some massive number. 76 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 2: This was to prove his efficiency and where all the 77 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 2: people do. In the meantime, the homelessness kept skyrocketing. It 78 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 2: has been criticized as being a pretty solid jobs program 79 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 2: for people who are not homeless. I'm just wondering what 80 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 2: do they do all day? If you could take a 81 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 2: camera inside the bowels of all these homeless agencies, what 82 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:17,559 Speaker 2: would we see. 83 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 3: These are the answers that I think some local government 84 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 3: officials want because the public is demanding that. You know, 85 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 3: the public wants to know, well, what is the progress, 86 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 3: because if you're looking in your neighborhood and you're not 87 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 3: seeing the situation dissipate the way that it was promised. 88 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 3: You've got questions about where all this money is going. 89 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 2: Well, i mean you go down Hollywood Boulevard, which I'm 90 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 2: sure you've done right because you live downtown, so you've 91 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 2: seen all kinds of atrocities and that's been going on. 92 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 2: I mean, the homelessness really hit hard around twenty seventeen, 93 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 2: so let's say seven years. Seven years, that's well over 94 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 2: twenty five hundred days. These people got up every morning, 95 00:04:55,760 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 2: took a paycheck, went to bed, and accomplished nothing. Meantime, 96 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 2: homeless people are coming in by bus, by train. 97 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: There. You know, their families are throwing the meta homes. 98 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 3: There's it's not just this proposal to create another maybe 99 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 3: it's another level of bureaucracy within the government to navigate 100 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 3: the other levels of bureaucracy to tell you what's happening. 101 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 3: But today downtown in the Federal courthouse, there's a hearing 102 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 3: about auditing the homeless. 103 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 1: Efforts of the city. 104 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 3: So that this is a the LA Alliance for Human 105 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 3: Rights that had successfully sued the city and the county 106 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 3: and reached a settlement with them both about hey, you 107 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 3: have to do something about the public areas and the 108 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 3: way that they've been overrun and you've got to find 109 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 3: some help for these folks. 110 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 2: How many times can a public official or an agency 111 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 2: stand up and say, you know, something's got to be 112 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 2: done here. 113 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm in an insane asylum. 114 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 3: I think that the politicians or the elected officials, if 115 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 3: I'm watching these meetings correctly, are hearing from their constituents 116 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 3: that that the show us where the money is. Not 117 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 3: necessarily show us the money. They know the money that's 118 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 3: being spent, but show me the results. And that's what's 119 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,799 Speaker 3: not been happened. They had a dodge for a few years. 120 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 3: Every time you asked them they said, well, we had 121 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 3: a COVID situation here in health emergency. Well that been 122 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 3: the case for three years. 123 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: Now. 124 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 3: This lawsuit is related to that, that this emerged during 125 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 3: the beginning of COVID, that we clearly have to do 126 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 3: something about this since we're supposed to be separating, and 127 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 3: what we should maybe find out today whether a federal 128 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 3: judge is going to order and independent on it. 129 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 2: All. Right, So Monica Riguez calls for this, Has anybody 130 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 2: responded saying that's a great idea or what are you nuts? 131 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything publicly from anyone. This was originally 132 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 3: announced by her on Friday, and so what will happen 133 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 3: is it will go to the Homeless Committee on the 134 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 3: city Council, and she's a member of that, so it 135 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 3: we'll be discussed there. But I think creating another city 136 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 3: department is probably a lengthy process. So this isn't the 137 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 3: lasts the process. It could be. 138 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 2: There's a lot of people going to be employed investigating 139 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 2: whether this is something that's reasonable to do. I just 140 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 2: wonder why they don't talk to each other, you know what. 141 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 2: I'd realized, and this is obvious, and we've talked about 142 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 2: this before. If they solve the homeless problem, all these 143 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,239 Speaker 2: people would be unemployed, they'd all be out of business. 144 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 2: So what's the motivation for them to get people off 145 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 2: the street and keep them off? 146 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: There isn't any You. 147 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 3: Certainly find criticism of charitable organizations in that regard. If 148 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 3: they do ultimately solve their stated purpose, then what is 149 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 3: their purpose? 150 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 2: Takam Irvine doesn't have this problem that I can't answer, 151 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 2: all right, Michael, thank you for coming on. Thanks John 152 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 2: Michael Monks from KFI News, and he mentioned about there's 153 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 2: a lawsuit filed by the LA Alliance for Human Rights, 154 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: and they want Judge Carter, a US District Court judge, 155 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 2: to do something about the situation with homelessness, and they 156 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 2: want to get an audit done. I'm going to tell 157 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 2: you more about that in the next set, because that 158 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 2: hearing has been going on. 159 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: More coming up. 160 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 2: Can you believe that all these years later, there is 161 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 2: no agency in charge of all the homelessness money that 162 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 2: we spent and the city and the county are both 163 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 2: pissed off at that fake LASA agency, which all they 164 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 2: did is create more homelessness. Fascinating. That's not fascinating. It's 165 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 2: because it creates more jobs for them for themselves. 166 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 167 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 5: six forty. 168 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 2: We just had Michael Monks on because one of the 169 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 2: wacky LA City council women, Monica Rodriguez, I'm not making 170 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 2: this up, she woke up and decided that we needed 171 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 2: a Department of Homelessness in Los Angeles. We have almost 172 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 2: forty five thousand homelessness people. Oh, people experiencing homelessness, vagrants, bums, 173 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 2: drug addicts, mental patient, that's what normal people say. So 174 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 2: we got forty five thousand and she goes, you know, 175 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 2: we need a department of homelessness. Now there's seventy thousand 176 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:18,599 Speaker 2: in the county and we have this super structure organization 177 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 2: called LASA Los Angeles Housing Authority. I don't know what 178 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 2: the s is for. What does it matter? Seventousand people 179 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:32,079 Speaker 2: and the numbers keep going up. Ever since these organizations, 180 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 2: these agencies were created, expanded, funded, fully funded, we got 181 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 2: propositions passed, more tax money, more borrowed money, and you 182 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 2: get more homeless. I've never seen such a fi there's 183 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 2: such failures, there's such failures, and there's no resistance to 184 00:09:55,080 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 2: their failures. Well, Michael mentioned this lawsuit, and there's a 185 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 2: there's a group called La Alliance for Human Rights and 186 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 2: it includes a lot of businesses who accuse the city 187 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 2: of not doing crap when it comes to the homeless problem. 188 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 2: They've gone to a judge US District Court Judge David 189 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 2: Carter because they said the city has not met the 190 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 2: terms of the settlement and they're aiming at Karen Bass's 191 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 2: inside Safe program. By the way, this will prove to 192 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 2: be the biggest piece of bs that you've seen in 193 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 2: years in local government. Karen Bass is full of it. 194 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 2: She lies a lot when it comes to homelessness, just 195 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 2: flat out lights because she doesn't know what to do. Well, 196 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 2: actually she knows what to do, but she doesn't want 197 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 2: to do it. And so if you cross off all 198 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 2: the things that obviously work for ninety nine percent of 199 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 2: the other cities in America, if you cross all those 200 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 2: possibilities off, then you don't know what to do. Anyways, 201 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 2: this judge, David Carter, has it in the past, said 202 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,839 Speaker 2: he yeah, we should have an independent audit of what 203 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 2: La City does. It's supposed to be a hearing today. 204 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 2: I don't know what the outcome has been. But let 205 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 2: me see who did this story. Channel five did a story. 206 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 2: And this is the most important paragraph out of all 207 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 2: the paragraphs you're going to read about vagrants and bums 208 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 2: this week. Bass's office claims that during the first year 209 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 2: of her term, more than twenty one thousand homeless people 210 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 2: were brought in off the streets. Now the way that's worded, 211 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 2: doesn't that mean to you if there's forty five thousand 212 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 2: people on the streets in the city, there should be 213 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,079 Speaker 2: only twenty four thousand left. In other words, almost half 214 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,719 Speaker 2: have been taken off the streets. Does that seem right 215 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 2: to you just using your own eye site, does it 216 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 2: seem like twenty one thousand people have been removed? She 217 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 2: keeps insisting this. I think it's a complete lie. But 218 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 2: you know how it works. Some incompetent failure of an 219 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 2: official like Karen Bass stands up and says it, and 220 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 2: all the duficices in the media go, yeah, that's what 221 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,679 Speaker 2: it is. That's what they claim. You Now, twenty one 222 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 2: thousand have been taken off the streets. Yep, yeah, yeah. 223 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:28,079 Speaker 2: I don't know. 224 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:29,319 Speaker 1: I don't know why. 225 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 2: I don't know why the current group of reporters and 226 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 2: editors and producers even got into journalism. I don't know 227 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 2: why they bothered. I don't know why they're not working 228 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 2: at Taco Bell. You could probably make better money by 229 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 2: now anyway. Now, if you go to Karen Bass's website, 230 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 2: Inside Safe has its own website. They claim they've put 231 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 2: twenty one hundred people into interim housing and four hundred 232 00:12:55,480 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 2: written two into permanent housing. Now, I'm pretty good at math, 233 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 2: so I can add up twenty one hundred and four 234 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 2: hundred and I get twenty five hundred people. So where 235 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 2: is this twenty one thousand people? Were brought in off 236 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 2: the street. If you only put twenty five hundred people 237 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 2: into interim or permanent housing, well, what happened to the 238 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 2: other nineteen thousand? Well that's not that's not addressed here. 239 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 2: What a sleight of hand that is? Yeah, yeah, we 240 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,719 Speaker 2: took in twenty one thousand off the street, twenty one 241 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 2: hundred into interim, four hundred to permanent. Excuse me, that 242 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 2: leaves nineteen thousand other people. Where did they go? Wow? 243 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: They're off the street? Were there in Karen Bass's basement? Wow? 244 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:46,839 Speaker 1: They're inner swimming pool? 245 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 2: What Judge Carter had said at a previous hearing, which 246 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 2: provider is producing results out there? We have no benchmark 247 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 2: and we have no accountability. It's as simple as that. 248 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 2: That's the thing. They give millions and millions and millions 249 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:07,559 Speaker 2: of dollars to these nonprofit scam criminal operations, and the 250 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 2: people running the nonprofit scam criminal operations pay themselves six 251 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 2: figure salaries, but there's no report card like, well, how 252 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 2: many people did you get off the street and they 253 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 2: stayed off the street. How many people went into like 254 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 2: drug treatment and are off the drugs? 255 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: Are? 256 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 2: How many people are taking their mental illness pills? Nothing, 257 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 2: don't know anything. So I imagine tomorrow we're going to 258 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 2: find out the results of this hearing. But I've never 259 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 2: seen such an obstinate, an obstinate set of government employees 260 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 2: and elected officials. 261 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: I mean, Karen Bass was prancing around Paris. Did you 262 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: see that? 263 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 2: She and other city officials went to Paris to see 264 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 2: how the Olympics are being run. Has the twenty twenty 265 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 2: four Summer Olympics, which is obviously starting in a few months. 266 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 2: So they were breathless and enjoying all the great restaurants 267 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 2: in the fine wines that France has. Meantime, here you 268 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 2: got to judge saying, we have no idea if any 269 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 2: of this works. In fact, we do have an idea. 270 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 2: Almost none of it works. How about this. It's almost 271 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 2: a complete failure. Meantime, And this is what we're going 272 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 2: to get into in the next segment. Proposition one. Gavin Newsom, 273 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 2: this was his idea. In fact, he engineered it so 274 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 2: that it would it would appear in March and there 275 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 2: wouldn't be competition with other propositions. He even made sure 276 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 2: the number was one. It wasn't supposed to be one. 277 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 2: It should have been The next number in order. I 278 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 2: don't know where they are. They're in the forties, fifties, sixties, 279 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 2: or seventies, big one position one standing by itself. And 280 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 2: he figured, because he's so beloved, he would just say, hey, 281 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 2: vote for this, and people would except half the state, 282 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 2: more than half the state hates them. And right now 283 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 2: you have almost an exact fifty to fifty split. Now, 284 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 2: because the incompetence and the failure extends to all the 285 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 2: county registrar offices in the state, we still haven't countered 286 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 2: all the votes from two weeks ago, certainly not in 287 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 2: La County. So right now, imagine this, there's twelve million voters. 288 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 2: There's seven million. I'm sorry, there's twenty two million voters. 289 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 2: There's seven million that actually voted, a little over a 290 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 2: third voted. Two thirds of the people don't vote. A 291 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 2: third voted. Out of those seven million votes, it's a 292 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 2: twenty thousand vote difference between yes and no. Yes means 293 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 2: they're going to spend about ten million dollars on mental 294 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 2: health treatment and. 295 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:05,719 Speaker 1: Drug treatment. 296 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 2: They're gonna redirect four billion they already have, and then 297 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 2: they're gonna borrow six more billion, and almost half the 298 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 2: state at the moment has said you're lying, You're full 299 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 2: of it. This is another scam program. We'll tell you 300 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 2: about this because No on Prop one, that group had 301 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:30,199 Speaker 2: conceded and now they've unconceded, and both the No people 302 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 2: and Newsome want well, basically they're going to get a recount. 303 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,439 Speaker 2: They also want to find the people who voted and 304 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 2: had their votes tossed to get a chance to correct 305 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 2: their ballots. They're screwed up ballots. I'll explain all this 306 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 2: we come back. 307 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six. 308 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: We're on the air one until four. Then after four o'clock. 309 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 2: Whatever you missed, you go to the iHeart app for 310 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show on demand moistline eight seven seven Moist 311 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 2: eighty six. Call in, let's get going this week eight 312 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 2: seven seven moist eighty six. Whatever you're pissed off about. 313 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 2: You may not realize this, but old gelhead Newsom has 314 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 2: driven California really into a ditch. And I will explain first, 315 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 2: to follow up on what I was saying in the 316 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 2: last segment, Gavin Newsom wanted Prop one past he manipulated 317 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 2: the system to get it on the ballot. In March 318 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 2: when it would be the only thing on the ballot 319 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 2: and to give it the number one in order for 320 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 2: it to stand out. And he thought it was an 321 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 2: easy win. He didn't really campaign for it until late 322 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 2: last minute polls showed it was fifty to fifty. These 323 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 2: polls were right. It is almost exactly fifty to fifty. 324 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 2: There's twenty two million people registered to vote in California, 325 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 2: only seven million plus bothered on March the fifth, and 326 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:10,439 Speaker 2: at the moment UH the vote is a twenty thousand 327 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,440 Speaker 2: vote difference, fifty point one percent yes on Prop one 328 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 2: forty nine point nine percent no, So yes and No 329 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 2: was separated by twenty thousand votes. 330 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: And you're saying, well, what's Prop one? I didn't notice that. 331 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 2: Well, this borrows six billion dollars for the vagrants mental 332 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 2: health and UH treatment allegedly, and drug treatment allegedly. But 333 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 2: this just adds billions onto the billions we've already spent 334 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 2: and it's all failed. This is shoveling more money into 335 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 2: all the failed programs. He didn't realize he was so unpopular. 336 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 2: Opponents of Prop one had no money to spend, so 337 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 2: Newsom had the stage all to himself and He did 338 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 2: some appearances and there were some ads, but he didn't 339 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,400 Speaker 2: really try that hard because he thought, oh, it's obvious, 340 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 2: I propose this, people will vote for it. Well they didn't, 341 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 2: even in a state that is a two to one 342 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 2: Democratic over Republican. So many people can't stand and more importantly, 343 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 2: can't trust Newsom that almost half has voted against it, 344 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 2: and now both sides are scrambling to chase down votes 345 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 2: from people who were already voted. Let me explain a 346 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 2: lot of people voted and their ballots were thrown out. 347 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 2: Maybe they did a mail ballot and the signature either 348 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 2: didn't match or it was missing, and if you do that, 349 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 2: it gets tossed. However, there is a provision that allows 350 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 2: you to cure the ballot, not like bacon, but you 351 00:20:55,760 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 2: can fix it by bringing proof of your real sickness 352 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 2: nature or adding your signature after the fact. And Newsom 353 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,360 Speaker 2: is now has sent out the word through democratic channels. 354 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 2: Let's find the list of all the people Democrats who 355 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 2: voted yes for this, but their signatures were thrown out, 356 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 2: their ballots were thrown out kind of in a panic. Meantime, 357 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 2: those against Prop one had already conceded last week. Of course, 358 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 2: that doesn't mean anything. That's just a press release. Even 359 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 2: if if you concede and you win anyway, then you win. 360 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 2: You don't give up your rights to a win because 361 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 2: you conceded. Well, they're now looking for people on their 362 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 2: side who submitted ballots and they got tossed because of 363 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 2: signature issues or whatever else, And so the vote is 364 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 2: going to be up in the air. There's still less 365 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 2: than five percent of the vote out there, but there's 366 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 2: going to be a recount, I imagine, And there's all 367 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 2: these disputed ballots or tossed out ballots that have to 368 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 2: be accounted for. So here we are in March eighteenth. 369 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 2: Election day was March fifth, and nobody has any idea 370 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:04,919 Speaker 2: if the biggest proposition on the ballot is going to 371 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 2: pass or not. Nobody can tell you because we have 372 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 2: an incompetent, failed governor and we have a bunch of 373 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,479 Speaker 2: boobs running the county registrar offices, and the whole system 374 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 2: is failed. And you can't argue otherwise. Oh, you're just 375 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 2: being negative, your eyes complaining to tell you the truth. 376 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 2: I don't think it's unreasonable that if you have an election, 377 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 2: you know, once every two years, that the votes are 378 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 2: counted accurately and quickly like it used to be. So, 379 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,880 Speaker 2: by the way, is this proposition one is borrowing six 380 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 2: billion dollars, which after interest is twelve billion. It's also 381 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 2: going to take money from other homeless projects. It's also 382 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 2: going to redirect mental illness money. So I don't know. 383 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 2: It was impossible to tell if there is anything good 384 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 2: in this, and when you can't tell a nuisance behind it, 385 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 2: you vote no. And that's what most to the public did. 386 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 2: He is so worried about this that for the second 387 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:10,919 Speaker 2: time in the last week or so, he has postponed 388 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 2: his State of the State speech. He's afraid to give 389 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 2: his State of the State speech because one of the 390 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 2: centerpieces was going to be, Hey, look what I did. 391 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,959 Speaker 2: I got this proposition passed, and we're going to get 392 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 2: billions of dollars to deal with homelessness and treat the 393 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 2: mental patients, and treat the drug addicts. 394 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: Look at me, look at my hair, look at my chin. 395 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,240 Speaker 2: Except that it's not passed, and he can't give a 396 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 2: speech promising all these new programs and innovations and dealing 397 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 2: with the homeless and then find out that it didn't 398 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 2: pass there's no money and he's got egg on his face, 399 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 2: so he keeps postponing the speech, which nobody's ever done before. 400 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 2: It really was supposed to be a centerpiece, was a 401 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 2: scheduled for Monday. It's the second time he's delayed, and 402 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 2: he's he wants to run for governor. I mean he 403 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 2: wants to run for president. Listen to this clip. I'm sorry. 404 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 2: This quote from a staff member in the Sacramento Legislature. 405 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 2: An anonymous staff member told this to the California Globe. 406 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 2: Newsom has a lot writing on this speech. He only 407 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 2: has a few left until he's out of office. Outside 408 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 2: of major disasters or when major dignitaries are in town, 409 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 2: this is when the most cameras are on him and 410 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 2: for explaining policy. This is his best shot. He has 411 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 2: the presidency insight for twenty twenty eight. Imagine what giving 412 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 2: a speech on the assumption that one thing is going 413 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 2: to pass or fail, and then a few days later 414 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,239 Speaker 2: it does the opposite. His opponents would be playing that 415 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 2: for years. And remember this is the same governor that 416 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 2: brought you the whole French laundry debacle, Penaragate and decking 417 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 2: that kid while playing basketball in China. He's flailing right 418 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 2: now because he has a huge budget deficit, the largest 419 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 2: budget deficit California has ever had. He lies about it, 420 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,160 Speaker 2: but the real total is at least seventy eight billion dollars. 421 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 2: Two years ago he claimed a one hundred billion dollar surplus. 422 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 2: Not only was there a lot of Wall Street investment 423 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 2: profits that were pouring in people with fat stock portfolios 424 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 2: who were selling some of that stock and sending the 425 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 2: capital gains tax to Sacramento. Not only that, but Joe 426 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 2: Biden was sending in billions of dollars to California to 427 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 2: cover all the COVID nonsense. 428 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 1: So he spent nine. 429 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 2: And a half billion dollars sending out thousand dollar checks 430 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 2: to twenty three million people in California. Remember that that 431 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,120 Speaker 2: was nine and a half million, which, by the way, 432 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 2: aggravated inflation. If you wonder why your grocery bill is 433 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 2: up twenty five to thirty percent, that's one of the reasons. 434 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,400 Speaker 2: Excuse Newsom dumped all this extra money into the system, 435 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 2: which came from Some of that came from the federal government. 436 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 2: Jerry Brown's last budget was one hundred and forty billion dollars. 437 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,199 Speaker 2: Last year, it was three hundred and eight billion. It 438 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,719 Speaker 2: went from one hundred and forty to three hundred eight billion, 439 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 2: and now he's closing in on one hundred billion dollar deficit. 440 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 2: That's how incompetent he is. He took one time money 441 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 2: gifts that he got from Joe Biden. He spent it 442 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 2: on a lot of new programs such as free health 443 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 2: care from birth to death for legal aliens, free lawyers 444 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 2: for illegal as aliens. He can't do math. I mean, seriously, 445 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 2: he can't add in the subtract. We're not talking about 446 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,640 Speaker 2: trying to do quantum physics here or advanced calculus. We're 447 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 2: not asking him to land to land a rocket on 448 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: the moon. Clearly he's not Elon Musk. But he can't 449 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 2: do simple mass, simple math. To go from one hundred 450 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,159 Speaker 2: billion dollar surplus to one hundred billion dollar deficit in 451 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 2: two years, you have to be really reckless and stupid 452 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 2: to do that. 453 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: There's no other way to put it. And now he's stuck. 454 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 2: He can't give the speech because his pet project that 455 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 2: he was going to promote for the next year and 456 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 2: brag about is stuck in a fifty to fifty near tie. 457 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 458 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 5: six forty. 459 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 2: There's now it's clear much of the left wing media 460 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 2: wants a Biden out of office because they're so terrified 461 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 2: of Trump possibly winning. And so there was a well 462 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 2: known Polisher prize winning Washington Post columnist by the name 463 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 2: of I think her name is Kathleen Parker, Catherine Parker, 464 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 2: and she had a column begging, literally begging Kadala Harris 465 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 2: to quit because it's obvious that you vote for Biden, 466 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 2: you're going to get Kamila Harris as president at some 467 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 2: point because he's not going to make it for almost 468 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 2: five years. Oh can you imagine him being around five 469 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 2: years from now as president. So she's saying get her 470 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 2: off the ticket, begging her to quit. And there's a 471 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 2: lot of negative stories about Biden's mental and physical health 472 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 2: now in coming from networks like NBC News, which has 473 00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 2: been reliably left wing for a long time now, and 474 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 2: they have a story today about Joe Biden is seething. 475 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 2: He's grown angry and anxious about the re election campaign. 476 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 2: He is now snapping at his aids over the bad 477 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 2: poll numbers. They told him that his poll numbers in 478 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 2: Michigan and Georgia has just sucked. They're bad because of 479 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 2: the way he's handling the Israel Hamas situation, and he 480 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 2: starts yelling at them, which of course is what you 481 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 2: do when you have dementia. Biden is now second guessing 482 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 2: everybody's strategy. He thinks he's got a great record. I 483 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 2: don't know if he likes the millions that came over 484 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 2: the border or it's that thirty percent grocery inflation. I 485 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 2: don't know which one he's proud of. But his approval 486 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 2: rating is now lower than the last three presidents who 487 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 2: lost reelection for their second term, Trump, the first, George Bush, 488 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 2: and Jimmy Carter. Bush's number is lower than all three. 489 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 2: And he's wander around the White House angry and yelling 490 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 2: at people. But if you look at the border or 491 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 2: the inflation rate, that's why people are not voting for him. 492 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 2: Codways here, Hey, now that's Biden's number. Biden's approval numbers 493 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:20,719 Speaker 2: thirty eight percent. 494 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 5: Wow. 495 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 2: Lost anybody who's ever had I'd love to have that. 496 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: You'd like to have a thirty eighth approval? Is your approval? 497 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: I just saw it. Seventeen. 498 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 6: We have a warning for people live in Irvine, and no, 499 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 6: it's not you know, belly oh buzzing around, you know, 500 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 6: on her crazy new skateboard that she bought. But there's 501 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 6: a big problem with crime in residential burglaries in Irvine. 502 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 6: Thirty four breakings in the last thirty five days. 503 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: So, oh my god, that is It's terrrible. It's horrible. 504 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 6: Yeah, because people spend a lot of money. The Irvine 505 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 6: cops are great, and there's just too many guys wandering 506 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 6: around nothing to do during the day. Southern California is 507 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 6: poised for another wildfire super bloom. 508 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: I know you and the wife like to get out 509 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: and look at that. 510 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,959 Speaker 2: We have actually long drives looking for super blooms. 511 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, how'd that go? It was a good day. Really. 512 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: I couldn't imagine doing that. I mean I could just 513 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: by myself. I don't. 514 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 6: My wife would not be into that. If I would say, hey, 515 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 6: you want to take a three hour drive to the 516 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 6: look of flowers, she was like, weant go to home, dugo, 517 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 6: I'm at home depot. They're going lows yet kinds at loads. Okay, yeah, 518 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 6: you can just go look at them there. What do 519 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 6: you what do you need to see? That's the kind 520 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,959 Speaker 6: of woman I married. She's like, why do I need 521 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 6: to see that? I could a hobby lobby. They're all fake. 522 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 6: You can see fake flowers like you like, what's going 523 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 6: on with you? And then we also have the Pike Outlets, 524 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 6: which is in Long Beach for you west side guys. 525 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 1: I had to close down because the fights. Fights. 526 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 6: Yeah, fights at Long Beach at the mall, kids not 527 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 6: agreeing with each other and then battling it out, duking 528 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 6: it out. I've never seen one of those. But I 529 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 6: don't know what would you do, would your film it 530 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 6: or breaking up? 531 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 2: I don't know, like run, I don't know because guns 532 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:13,479 Speaker 2: aren't far behind. 533 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't get a lot of that out though. 534 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 6: With the Wild Bloom Flower Observer. No, no, fights never 535 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 6: break out because everyone's all high on weed looking for 536 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 6: flowers and those little toads. 537 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: If you're finding what little little toads, you lick and 538 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 1: you get high. You ever do that? 539 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 2: With the No, we never go out licking. 540 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: Have you ever gotten drunk with your wife? 541 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 2: Like really like smashed early on in the dating process? 542 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 2: Is that right where you guys were just feeling each 543 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 2: other out? I mean mentally, that's my move. That's my move. 544 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 2: I don't know off and I don't know if you 545 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 2: bring it out in public. 546 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: But probably alone a lot. If that was your move, 547 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,000 Speaker 1: it's called over the top job. 548 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 2: All right, Conway's coming up, dig Dog and. 549 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: We have news, but I don't know the name of 550 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: the news person. 551 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 6: Oh Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, what Ashley bab Thompson Ashley Furniture, Ashley, 552 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 6: Thompson Furniture, Ashley Furniture's Ashley? 553 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 1: What's your last name? Johnson? Johnson on Ding Dong Geez, 554 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 1: I got it. 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