1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app after four o'clock John 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. We have 4 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: a lot of fraud news today in Gavin Newsom's California 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: and in Karen Bassis Los Angeles. There are billions of 6 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 1: dollars for the taking. All you have to do is 7 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: fill out some forms. The next thing you know, you're 8 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: getting millions of dollars in free money. No one's gonna 9 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: ask questions, no one's gonna check, and there was never 10 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 1: any punishment until now when after Trump got elected and 11 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: Bill A. Saley took office as a first Assistant US 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: Attorney for the Central District, and now there are a 13 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,160 Speaker 1: lot of consequences. The latest story came out last week. 14 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: Alexander Suffer is being charged with bilking California taxpayers out 15 00:00:54,560 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: of twenty three million dollars. Basically a fake nonprofit that 16 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: was supposed to help the homeless. Instead they had a 17 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: seven million dollar mansion, they had an expensive car, lots 18 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 1: of vacations. And then over the weekend we found out 19 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: that Sufer's wife, Ashley, a Frammian she's an attorney and 20 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 1: she was on the payroll for one hundred and twenty 21 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 1: nine thousand a year as her own separate salary. So 22 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: let's get to Jeremy Lewis. Today's a big day in 23 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: the media world and actually for a lot of listeners taxpayers, 24 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 1: California Post is now a real thing. California Post sister 25 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: publication of the New York Post, and they are going 26 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: to cover California news, LA news, California politics, sports teams, 27 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: all the Hollywood stories. Jeremy, welcome, How are. 28 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 2: You, John, How are you? Thanks for having me. 29 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: A great story on opening day here. Tell us more 30 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: about this wife of Alexander Sufer, Ashley a Framian and 31 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: what is she supposed to? What did she run off with? 32 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 2: Well, I mean you said it there. She at least 33 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 2: pocketed one hundred and twenty nine thousand, five hundred dollars 34 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four of your hard tax pair earned money. 35 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 2: She We found in public records that she was listed 36 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 2: as an officer at Abundant Blessings and that was her 37 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 2: salary in twenty twenty four. 38 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: You found out what they've been spending some of their 39 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: money on. Can you describe what they were spending to, 40 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: you know, keep up their house and property and what 41 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: it all looked like there in west Way. 42 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 2: Sure, you know, we were out there yesterday. And it's 43 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 2: amazing how polarizing this story is because of the greed 44 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 2: and the wealth of this individual, Alexander Super. He was 45 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 2: living in a seven million dollar house, as you mentioned 46 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 2: in Westwood, and you know, I talked to the neighbors 47 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 2: and said that in one week, well and they saw 48 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: forty thousand dollars worth of landscaping come in. He bought 49 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: a five hundred thousand dollars vacation home in Grease. There 50 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 2: was one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars range rover 51 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 2: that was taken right out of his driveway by the Feds. 52 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 2: He bought stilly things too, like a twenty four hundred 53 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 2: dollar trotting jacket. I don't know if you know what 54 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 2: trotting jacket is. Jacket, No, And then a trotting jacket, yes, 55 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 2: I don't know what that is. 56 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: It sounds like a brit thing you go to the 57 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: polo matches. 58 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know where you would wear that, but 59 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 2: probably probably something like that. And then the one that 60 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: made me laugh was the twelve thousand, or excuse me, 61 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 2: twelve hundred fifty dollars sheep skinned line, maize loafers with 62 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 2: your tax dollars. 63 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: Well, there you go. 64 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 2: It's a handful of bit. 65 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: This is stuff even most wealthy people don't know about. 66 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: It's really really esoteric. Now now you describe their home, no, 67 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 1: go ahead, continue. 68 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 2: It was. It was quite the scene out there yesterday 69 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 2: the neighbors. You know, sometimes you go out on stories 70 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 2: like this and you know, you do some reporter work, 71 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 2: you knock on doors things like that. Nobody wants to 72 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 2: talk to you. But I have to tell you, everybody 73 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 2: in this neighborhood was so disgusted by what was going 74 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 2: on that they all wanted to give their two cents. 75 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, this community was extremely upset with 76 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 2: the politicians running the city and running the state, and 77 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 2: they are begging for accountability. And that was refreshing to hear. 78 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 2: You know, given that the voters, the majority of the voters, 79 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 2: did half the money in a measure, yeah, that this 80 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: man was siphoning from. So you know, I think people 81 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 2: are going to start looking at what they vote for 82 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 2: a little bit closer. At least I hope. 83 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: So I don't know why people fall for this over 84 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: and over again. It was clearly a lot of the 85 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: money for the past ten years had been stolen because 86 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: the homelessness got worse. So whatever programs they were spending on, 87 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: they either weren't spending or the programs were busted to 88 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: begin with. You said that the estate was like a 89 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: fortress with a lot of security cameras. Can you explain 90 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: what it looked like? 91 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was a very modern looking home 92 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 2: in a sort of an enclave where there was more 93 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,679 Speaker 2: of like classic ranch old style, maybe some thirties homes 94 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 2: classic Westwood look, but this one sort of stood out. 95 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 2: It'd sort of had this all the way, windows had 96 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 2: shades covering everything, there was security everywhere. But then at 97 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 2: the same time they had, you know, I mentioned this 98 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 2: expensive landscaping before. There were bubbling fountains in the front 99 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:24,359 Speaker 2: and designer patio furniture out front. So is this an 100 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 2: interesting sort of out of place home in the area 101 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 2: that I was in. 102 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: What's fascinating is they had no fear of getting caught. 103 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: I mean, they took their twenty three million and they 104 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: flaunted it. So the whole neighborhood. Anybody drove by could 105 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: see that these are really wealthy people here. And did 106 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: he have any other source of income or another job 107 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: outside of looting taxpayers? 108 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 2: Not that I'm aware of. And you know you brought 109 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 2: up Ashley him his wife, and we happened to catch 110 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 2: her coming out of the house, and you know, all 111 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 2: the neighbors kept asking me, does she know about this? 112 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 2: Does she know about this? If your husband is all 113 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 2: of a sudden making all this money and you're making 114 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 2: all these purchases, securious has to where the money came from. 115 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 2: So that question remains unanswered. 116 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: We don't know. 117 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 2: She has not been charged with anything, but that's. 118 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: Where people were She didn't know where it came from. Well, listen, 119 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: before you go, I looked it up. Trotting jackets. It's 120 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: used for equestrian shows. It's what you wear when you 121 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: ride your horse, when you're showing your horse. 122 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 2: Oh, so he was probably riding his force somewhere. 123 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. He might have a 124 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: collection of horses that he rides on the weekends. All right, hey, 125 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: listener knows Jeremy Lewis, thank you very much for coming on, 126 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,679 Speaker 1: and best of luck to you and everybody at California Post. 127 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: It was a great first day. 128 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 2: John. Appreciate it, appreciate the good words, and keep doing 129 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 2: your things. 130 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: All right, we will. Jeremy Lewis from California Post. A 131 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: couple of other nuggets from from the story. Uh, they 132 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: did talk, They did talk to the neighbors, and God, 133 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: I hope this is a sign that everybody's had it. 134 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: One neighbor said, Bass is horrible. I hope to God 135 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: people are waking up and won't vote for her again. 136 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: Gavin Too, said the neighbor. The money came from Measure 137 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: A H. When I tell you don't vote for a 138 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: certain tax, I don't care what the SOB story is. 139 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: They always a SOB story. It's sick children, it's homeless people. 140 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: And no, they are not helping sick children. They're not. 141 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: It's not for the schools, it's not for homeless people. 142 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: It's it is for themselves. These are thieves. Sufer took. 143 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: The money originally was part of Measure H, which was 144 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: passed in twenty seventeen that raised the sales tax to 145 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: fund homeless services, mental health care, and prevention programs. He 146 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: didn't provide any of that he would he would take 147 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: some homeless people and put them in motels and then 148 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 1: not pay the motel bill, and then the motel wanted 149 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: to evict those residents, and the city came in and 150 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: covered the bill, which means we were paying for these 151 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: motel rooms twice. And the thing is Bess and her 152 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: administrators knew. They must have known that Sufer was stealing 153 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: the money. Because when you're being told that, well the 154 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: bill wasn't paid, Okay, we'll cover it. Nobody went after 155 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:10,559 Speaker 1: Suffer and said, hey, why didn't you pay the bill. 156 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: This is what's outrageous about this. Everybody in the homeless bureaucracy. 157 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: Karen Bass, that woman who ran last of Alicia Adams kellum, 158 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: if you were running it and somebody said, hey, we 159 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: got a report from the Seashell motel. We got fifteen 160 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: homeless people in there. And the guy who runs and 161 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: says he didn't get paid by Alexander Sufer. What's the 162 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: first call you make after you cover the motel bill? 163 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: You call Alexander Sufer and say, hey, you want to 164 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: go to prison? Well more coming up. 165 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 166 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 3: six forty. 167 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 1: All right, boy, it seems like the dam is really breaking. 168 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: And there are multiple fraud stories that are much of 169 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: them centered on California, and we have a lot of 170 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: investigation going on by the Trump administration. Newsom is being targeted. 171 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 1: Los Angeles is being targeted, and they should be targeted 172 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: because they have looted. Sorry, Gevin Neusi's administration and Bass's 173 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: administration has helped facilitate an enormous amount of looting by 174 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 1: the billions. And if you're so partisan or so locked 175 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: in to love and devotion to your political party, there's 176 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:43,199 Speaker 1: something wrong with your brain because you are getting cleaned out. 177 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: And doctor mehmet Oz and he's running the agency that 178 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: manages Medicare and Medicaid services, and there is a tremendous 179 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 1: amount of fraud going on in California. He says, let's 180 00:11:59,320 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: play this cl. 181 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 4: I'm here in Los Angeles to US Attorney's office. We're 182 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 4: talking about fraud. This place has become one of the 183 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,319 Speaker 4: epicenters for fraud wasted abuse in America. Three and a 184 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 4: half billion dollars just here in Los Angeles County. We 185 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 4: think around hospice and home healthcare, then you add in 186 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 4: all the other things like they had in Minnesota, but 187 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 4: in California scale, it's huge. 188 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: And what we have. 189 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 4: Witnessed is a sevenfold increase in hospice in LA County. 190 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: Sevenfold. 191 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 4: That doesn't happen naturally. They're not seven times more deaths 192 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 4: in LA County than there were five years ago. These frosters, 193 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 4: and these do tend to be foreign influences. These are 194 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 4: Russian Armenian gangs, mafia that are leading a lot of 195 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 4: these efforts. We believe have been able to corrupt and 196 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 4: work with doctors who are willing to lie, to use 197 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 4: that MD degree as a degree as a license to kill. 198 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 4: A lot of it's driven by foreigners who came to 199 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 4: Los Angeles very different culture, Russian Armenian groups, and this 200 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 4: mafia seems to have taken over the system, corrupt the doctors. 201 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 4: They normalize fraud so that everyone sort of expects it, 202 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 4: but the magnitude of it is so great that we 203 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 4: have to take it on aggressively. Because a focus area 204 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 4: for CNS and this administration on the President Trump's doctor 205 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 4: and tolerate taxpayer dollars being stolen because people aren't paying 206 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,199 Speaker 4: attention anymore. We're focused on. 207 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: This doctor Oz, and he's right, and this is something everybody. 208 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: Some people get nervous talking about it. But we have 209 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: foreign cultures that bringing some very damaging influences into the system. 210 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: And between the open borders and the loose visa laws. Yeah, 211 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 1: there are Russian and Armenian gangs involved in this hospital 212 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: hospice medicare fraud. Just like the Somalis in Minnesota, outsiders 213 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: are not born, are not raised with respect for the 214 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 1: American system. A lot of people still in this country 215 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 1: would like our nation to do well, our state to 216 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: do well, and if it's being bankrupted by crooks, everybody 217 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: should be angry at it. And we have to name that. 218 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,199 Speaker 1: We have to point out where the frauds coming from. 219 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: If the fraud is coming from overseas gangs and influences 220 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: and immigrants, then that's what it is and there should 221 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: be no hushing up of that. Seems like it's very multicultural, 222 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: multiracial anyway, going from Russia to Armenia to Somali Hispanic fraud. 223 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: Certainly here with all the illegal aliens we have on 224 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: the medicare system, I mean, thirteen and a half billion 225 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: dollars just count all this up. Twenty four billion dollars 226 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: in homeless money thirty two billion dollars, and that fraud 227 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: went around the world to dozens and dozens of countries 228 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: for unemployment checks during OVID seventeen million dollars, mostly the 229 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: white guys high speed rail. You got the billions of 230 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: dollars in medicaid medicare I mean the thirteen and a 231 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: half billion for illegal alien We're into nine figures here, 232 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: are we not? No, excuse me, We're into twelve figures. 233 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: We're over one hundred billion dollars. We're into a twelve 234 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: figure fraud. Let me see where I got enough time here? Yeah, 235 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: let's us Attorney Bill Salee giving Gavin news him his 236 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: new nickname. By this clip, I've announced there's. 237 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 5: Going to be a new person at the Department of 238 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 5: Justice who's just going to be focused on fraud. So 239 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 5: nobody takes this more seriously than the President, the Attorney General, 240 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 5: and myself. What about the Governor of California? What about 241 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 5: the governor of California, the king of fraud himself. 242 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 1: Yes, he's now all of a sudden interested in fraud. 243 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 5: He has reigned over more fraud than I think we've 244 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 5: ever seen in the America. When you look at the 245 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 5: EDD fraud, which they handed out thirty billion dollars to fraudsters, 246 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 5: most of it went on to overseas. When you look 247 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 5: at the fraud with high speed rail, they spent over 248 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 5: fifteen billion dollars. It was supposed to cost nine or 249 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 5: ten billion. Now they tell us it's going to be 250 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 5: one hundred billion. They spent fifteen billion. There's no rail. 251 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 5: Where's that money? When just look at the amount of 252 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 5: fraud that's been perpetuated. 253 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: In the Kingdom of California, he is the fraud King. 254 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: So that's that's what I have to say about the 255 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: governor freud King. I like that. I think that's how 256 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: we'll refer to him now as fraud King when we return. 257 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: This never ends. This is bizarre, and we're going to 258 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: get more into this as the week goes on. But 259 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: I you know it's in the California Post again, I 260 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 1: tell you you know, none of this came out of 261 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: the LA Times today. All these stories, huh good on 262 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: for two and a half hours. How many California Post stories, 263 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: how many California Globe stories, how many from the LA Times? 264 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 1: Hardly anything? Uh? MacArthur Park they were going to do 265 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: a high tech search to look for dead bodies, guns 266 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: and other criminal evidence that's been dumped in MacArthur Parks Lake. 267 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:16,959 Speaker 1: At the last minute on Monday morning, the Socialist Communist 268 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: councilwoman unsses Her and Andez ordered the cleanup to stop. 269 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: Why is that? What are they going to find? What 270 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: is she worried about? We'll tell you all about it 271 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: coming up. 272 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM. 273 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: Six forty moistline is eight seven seven Moise Stady six 274 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 1: eight seven seven mois staighty six, or usually talkback teacher 275 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Or follow us at John Cobelt 276 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: Radio on social media at John Cobelt Radio on social 277 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 1: media YouTube is YouTube dot com, slash at John Cobelt 278 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 1: Show YouTube dot com, slash at John Cobelt Show. You 279 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: subscribe and you'll get a notification when we put up 280 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 1: another video. But just to reiterate, you want to get 281 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 1: on that moistline eight seven seven mois state Okay, We're 282 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:04,719 Speaker 1: going to develop more of this. Tomorrow. We have an 283 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 1: interview scheduled with businessman John Ali. If John Alley seems 284 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: to pop up on our show a lot is because 285 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: he has a lot of businesses in two areas that 286 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: have been abandoned at are under siege, Santa Monica and 287 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: also the MacArthur Park area. And so what Ali organized 288 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: to try to help clean up MacArthur Park, which is 289 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 1: gorgeous visually, but as a cesspool of crime, drug addicts, 290 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: mental patients, homeless people, illegal aliens, all kinds of petty crimes, 291 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: lots of stolen merchandise being stolen on the sidewalks. It's 292 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: a menacing, frightening area. And the council woman in this 293 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: area is the I'd call her fairly overfed euniceis Hernandez 294 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: and Ali had set up where MacArthur Park was going 295 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 1: to be cleaned right down to the bottom of the lake. 296 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,239 Speaker 1: They're gonna use a lot of technology to look for 297 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: dead bodies, guns and criminal evidence that's been dumped in 298 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: MacArthur Park. Unicus Hernandez stopped it, and so park rangers 299 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: shut it down. Ali had organized the effort and the 300 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: reason he did it he wanted to dredge the bottom 301 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: of this this lake is he had a lot of conversies, 302 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: had a lot of conversations with people whose loved ones 303 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: disappeared while spending time in or around the park. So 304 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,199 Speaker 1: the suspicion is there's a lot of dead bodies at 305 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 1: the bottom of MacArthur Park. So he hired sonar. Well, 306 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: this guy, Robert Fallon, uses sonar and remotely operated vehicles 307 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: and they scan oceans, harbor's shipwrecks and municipal infrastructure. When 308 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 1: you have zero visibility, high risk situations, it's very difficult 309 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: to find to know to see what's on the bottom 310 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 1: of MacArthur Park Lake. So Ali said he reached out 311 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: to city officials and was told he doesn't need a 312 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 1: special permit to proceed because there's no environmental disturbance. At first, 313 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 1: they just wanted to look and see what's down there. 314 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 1: Park rangers had confirmed as of Sunday that the crew 315 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: had the green light to go in. Robert Fallon's team 316 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 1: showed up Monday with their equipment all stage ready to go. 317 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 1: Well that's today, and the lead park rangers said, you 318 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 1: got to stop that. Unices Hernandez and again another Democratic 319 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: Socialist of America, so you know she has a very 320 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: destructive anarchist political philosophy. She stepped in and blocked it. 321 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 1: So The rangers had to threaten to arrest the crew 322 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 1: if they didn't halt the operation, and they got a 323 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 1: parking ticket. Ali told the California Post this, I shouldn't 324 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: mention this. Another story from the California Post, Jamie Page 325 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: wrote it, We're gonna have Jamie on baby tomorrow, so 326 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: Ali told Jamie Page. People were bent over shooting up 327 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: overdosing right next to us while we were being shut down. 328 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: Can you imagine this? John Alley has a crew to 329 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 1: scrape the lake for dead bodies, and law enforcement stops 330 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: that from happening, but allows the drug addicts overdose was 331 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: saying to carry on. And then these people die, or 332 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 1: maybe they get in disputes with their drug pushers, or 333 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: and maybe and they're shot. There's a lot of guns 334 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: in the area, and then they're dumped in the lake. 335 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: New York Post or the California Post now spent more 336 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: than a month reporting for MacArthur Park, and they say 337 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: what Ali and Robert fallon his witness is true. Open 338 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 1: drug use in broad daylight, People slumped unconscious on benches 339 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:39,360 Speaker 1: and grass, burned debris from overnight fires, Needles scattered near 340 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 1: the walkways and playgrounds, trash piling up on the edge 341 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: of the lake, and Ali said, this used to be 342 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: one of the most beautiful parks in Los Angeles. Now 343 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: people are scared to walk through it. There's forty thousand 344 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:57,360 Speaker 1: people live within one square mile, and so they want 345 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: to tell the world what's going on above the ground 346 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: and below it. And this technology would be able to 347 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: identify anything on the bottom of the lake, guns, knives, bodies, 348 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: if there's bikes and wheelchairs down there, and nobody would 349 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 1: be endangered. Fallon, Robert Fallon, who's got a tremendous amount 350 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,159 Speaker 1: of experience doing this, this says, listen to this. This 351 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: is Unicus Hernandez stopping the cleanup of MacArthur Park Lake. 352 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 1: This is one of the dirtiest bodies of water I've 353 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: ever seen. You've got layers of trash, debris, dead animals, 354 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 1: human waste, needles, all of it. There's constant dumping going on. 355 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: Well if of course, because when you have lawlessness, everybody knows, hey, 356 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get any trouble. There's gonna be no consequences. 357 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: Just dump all your garbage, take a crap in there, 358 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 1: throw your needles, got a dead dog, toss the dead dog. 359 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: You got to yeah, uncle, you got a drug overdose 360 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: boom in MacArthur Park Lake. So why is missus henan 361 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: dos want this stopped? And she's running for reelection. I 362 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 1: have no idea who possibly votes in that district. It's 363 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: a heavy illegal alien district, so I don't know what 364 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: tiny little interest group may have enough votes to get 365 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: her reelected and what the deal is what they get 366 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: in return? Ali said. We keep asking how are the 367 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 1: bodies not surfacing because a lot of residents and investigators 368 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,199 Speaker 1: wonder how the bodies could remain hidden in a shallow 369 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,199 Speaker 1: public lake for years. Ali said, what we're told is 370 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: they're weighted down, tied to bicycles, wheelchairs, whatever they could find. 371 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: During Monday's visit, while they're reporting on the situation, the 372 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: ambulance arrived and transported another person who overdosed. The activity 373 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: in the park continued. No one even looks over and 374 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: Hernandez is not talking, So what are you and Hernandez 375 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 1: is doing? And god boy, wouldn't you like to do 376 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: an audit of her council budget? Who I can smell 377 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: it from here? What is she doing in office? Who 378 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 1: in the right mind would put this lady in public office? 379 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 1: What is all this Democratic Socialists of America? Who are 380 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: these people playing? What are they playing? Dress up? They've 381 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 1: got some like fake ideology. God knows the corruption going on. 382 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: There's dead people in the lake and she won't go 383 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: get him. It's not gonna cost her anything, it's not 384 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 1: gonna harm anybody. There's dead people in the lake, and 385 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,200 Speaker 1: Unicus Hernandez doesn't want anybody to know who they are 386 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: or what else is down there? What would be the 387 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: explanation for that? More coming up. 388 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:20,479 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM. 389 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 1: Six forty podcasts will be out there after four o'clock. 390 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: First hour, we covered quite a bit about the fraud 391 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: going on here in California. Second hour, a lot on 392 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: the immigration insanity in Minneapolis. Here's this story. I saw 393 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,479 Speaker 1: a photo of this and I just burst out laughing. 394 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 1: It's so ridiculous. There was another one of these demonstrations 395 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,640 Speaker 1: on the steps of city Hall in the last few days. 396 00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: A die in jere about this some wacky group that 397 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:09,880 Speaker 1: hates cars. They like to fancy themselves as street safety advocates. 398 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,719 Speaker 1: They wanted to commemorate the two hundred and ninety traffic 399 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: deaths that occurred in twenty twenty five. I guess pedestrians, 400 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: and they were always making demands and no one listens 401 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: to their demands, and people get run over anyway. So 402 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: they did a die in on the steps. You should 403 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,360 Speaker 1: see the picture. They're all spread out, stretched out, two 404 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: hundred and ninety bodies on the steps and they lay 405 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,719 Speaker 1: there and then after a few minutes they get up 406 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: and they go home. Huh, how does that change anything? Oh? 407 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: Did you raise awareness? Did you raise concerns this group? 408 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: Streets are for everyone? Oh? This again? Huh. They can't 409 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,719 Speaker 1: accept that streets were designed for automobiles, that ninety nine 410 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 1: percent of the public uses automobiles to get around. Most 411 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: people wouldn't be caught dead in a bus or a 412 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 1: train because you're dead up dead in a bus or 413 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: a train. Can't ride bikes unless you're in a park 414 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 1: or along a pathway on a beach, because odds are 415 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 1: car'll hits you. I don't care what your you think 416 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: your right is. In reality, if you're driving the street 417 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: a lot on your bike, you know, unless you're in 418 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: a pull the sack, you got a high risk of 419 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: getting hit. So why do you do that, Oh of 420 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: the right. It's like, it's like the people have the 421 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: right to protest. It's like, well, yeah, you do have 422 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: the right to protest. But if you're going to take 423 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: part in a violent situation and you consider protest interfering 424 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: with ice agents, stuff happens. Whether it's right or wrong, 425 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: it happens, and you end up dead. Same thing riding 426 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: a bike. You got to ride to ride a bike, 427 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 1: all right, go ahead, But bikes on the road piss 428 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: people off. They know they pissed me off. I don't 429 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: care how much they complain. It's never gonna stop pissing 430 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: me off because you don't belong there. You're in the way, 431 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: and you slow things up. I don't know how how 432 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: else to explain it. If I want to go, you know, 433 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: thirty miles down the road and you're edging out into 434 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: my lane a little bit. A lot of these people 435 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: right outside of the bike lanes, even if they have one. 436 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 1: And please the ones that ride down the middle of 437 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: the road you trying to I mean, what are you 438 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 1: trying to do? What are you trying to bait? People? 439 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: Go buy a car? So they're they're angry because remember 440 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: that impotent weasel Eric Arcetti, who was unfortunately the mayor 441 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: for nine and a half years. Well, he launched Vision zero. 442 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: Well here's another loser failure of a program. Vision zero 443 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: was going to reduce traffic fates in LA to zero, 444 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 1: and instead they've got up twenty six percent. Oh well, 445 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: why don't you do something about all the drug addicts 446 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: and mental patients that wander in the streets. How many 447 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: people who get run over are vagrants, are mentally ill, 448 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: people are addicts, drug addicts, alcoholics, too much meth fent 449 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: and ill. They're bent over. I mean even in my 450 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: neighborhood people sometimes are bent over standing in the middle 451 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: of the street. Well, of course you're gonna get hit. 452 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: What would you tell your kid if you saw your 453 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: kid standing in the middle of the busy street, right, 454 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: you'd yell, hey, get out of the street. You're gonna 455 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: get run over. Same thing for mister drug addicts or 456 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: a mister mental patient, Hey, get out of the street. 457 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 1: I mean, my mom taught me when I was young 458 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: there were certain suburban local roads I could ride the 459 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: bike on and certain main roads. She goes, no, don't, 460 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: she goes, you can't ride on that street? Why because 461 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: you're gonna get run over. You're gonna get hit by 462 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: a car. So I say the same thing here. Who's 463 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: this dope here? Uh say founder Damien Kevitt. This guy 464 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 1: actually got hit by a car, lost his right leg 465 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: in a violent traffic accident. He was hit by a 466 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: car in Griffith Park, got pinned under it and dragged 467 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 1: a quarter of a mile. Well, that's that's a terrible 468 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: thing to happen. I'm sorry that happened to him. That 469 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: means maybe you shouldn't do it. Maybe you shouldn't bike 470 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: on places where their car is driving. I don't. I 471 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: rarely bike on a street. I mean I still solely 472 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: stick to bike paths because then I'm not going to 473 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: get run over by a car. It's just like the protesters. 474 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: You stay home with your kids, or like this this nurse, 475 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 1: you go back to the hospital and help the patients. 476 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: You're not going to get killed by any agent. Don't 477 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: put yourself in play. Of course, one of the big 478 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: supporters is one of these other Communist Council members, Hugo 479 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 1: Sodo Martinez. For some reason, the city ignores. You know, 480 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 1: these bike groups are often funded by the city. I 481 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,479 Speaker 1: learned the story some years ago, because they would have 482 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 1: hearings on whether to make traffic law changes, you know, 483 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: to reduce lanes put bike lanes in, and usually the 484 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 1: public meetings would be overwhelmed with bike people, and I thought, well, 485 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: where's that coming from? And it's because the bike groups 486 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: get funding from the city and they use that money 487 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 1: to pay their members to go and yell at a 488 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: meeting to make it look like the public really wants 489 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: these changes. And the public does it. The public's home 490 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: taking care of their kids, are doing their job. They 491 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 1: don't go out to scream about bike lanes eight o'clock 492 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: on a Tuesday night. But the paid protesters in the 493 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: bike movement do all right? Enjoy your dying? Had that 494 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: field to pretend you're dead on a step, did you 495 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 1: feel accomplished at the end of it? It's like, oh, 496 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: all right, that showed him, That showed the city there's 497 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: gonna be changes now. They saw me laying on the 498 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 1: ground pretending I'm dead. That'll change things, all right? More 499 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: coming up? No no more coming up, Conway's next. I'm done. 500 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 1: Michael Krezer has the news live in the KFI twenty 501 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John 502 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 1: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 503 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: on KFI AM six forty from one to four pm 504 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand 505 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app.