May 5, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (05/05) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about Pres. Trump wanting to reopen Alcatraz Prison. The LA Times wrote an article about the toxic soil in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena burn zones. Daniel Guss comes on the show to talk about how the LA City Council is going to make a decision regarding the animals shelters this week. The International Association of Fire Fighters has placed the United Firefighters of LA under a conservatorship.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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to a listener who actually went to a town hall
meeting for this weirdo. Assemblyman Nick Schultz used to be
the mayor of Burbank and now he has reappeared as
an assembly member and he just started and he's already
voting to exempt perverts, predators, and pedophiles from being charged
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with felonies if they buy teenagers for sex. That's right,
that's his vote. He is on the side of the pervert, pedophile,
and predator, and it's okay cool with him to buy
teenagers for sex. We did that story quite a bit
the last week yourself, and we are going to continue to.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Do it because it's true.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And Schultz had a town hall meeting coincidentally Friday night,
and one of our listeners was there and you'll hear
his story. All right, let's get to Alex Stone from
ABC News. Trump posted over the weekend that he wants
the Bureau of Prisons to open Alcatraz. I don't know
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where he comes up with this stuff. This is this
is just great. Well, what's the feasibility of it? Yeah,
So he posted about it, and then he talked about
it as he came back from Florida yesterday, and then
he talked about it again today. And I mean it
came out of nowhere on Sunday night. Is as somebody
who grew up in the Bay Area back in the
eighties and nineties, Alcatraz was where he went on a
field trip and it smelled like an old museum back then,
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and the buildings were crumbling and the windows were broken out,
and the National Park Service rangers and their uniforms were
touring year round. But by no means do I think
anybody has thought, you know, one day Alcatraz will come
back again and it will be an operating prison. This
guy took tour yesterday when Trump made the announcement. He
is a little caughtoff guard the rock.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The island is not suitable. Yeah, no, no, it's sice
a visit.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I would never trust somebody to be imprisoned. You do
remember there were numerous escapes. Most were caught or died
in the cold water. There are a few mysteries out
there of did they die, did they get to the
land and then ran off in San Francisco. So many
classic movies have been made about it. But the historic buildings,
if you've been there in the last thirty years, as
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they're now national landmarks, they'd have to be torn down
and start over. He talks about rehabilitating them, but you
would have to begin from ground up. Running water and
sewage is a problem. Getting staff. They used to live
there back in the forties, fifties, and sixties.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now you'd have to pay.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
A ton for them to live anywhere, you know, within
a two hour drive of the Bay Area. State tendor
Scott Wiener says, no, what the idea that it would
be turned back into a prison would be so expensive
and just so dumb that it's hard to imagine it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
A few minutes ago that the President saying.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Just represented something strong having to do with law and order.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We need law and order in this country. But John,
we talked to Elizabeth Newman.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
She served in Homeland Security and the first Trump administration says,
you got to understand, it's pretty clear he is a
showman who likes hadlines that he puts big ideas out
there to generate this show, to get people talking about it.
But she's been in the room with him when he've
come up with previous big ideas.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
She says, it may not go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
He has a lot of ideas. People will go off
and study them, then they'll come back with the facts
and usually gets dropped at that stage. This has that
kind of feeling to me that he just was thinking
about it over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
He's really frustrated.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
About the fact that all of these millions of people
he wants to deport are going to have to have
their own trial, and that's going to take too long.
So where do I put all these people?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Today?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The new director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, who
he just appointed to be in that spot, said that
they will vigorously pursue the president's agenda. If he wants
to reopen Alctire, they will reopen Alcatraz, But we will see.
What I read in one of your reports is it
was closed in nineteen sixty three because it was crumbling.
Then it was crumbling and too expensive to run. They
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decided that the water and housing and sewage and the
buildings with the upkeep because of the salt water, that
it was costing way too much money. Back then, sixty
two years ago, it was crumbling. Yeah, it's definitely still
crumbling now.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
The Park Service does a good job of trying to
keep it up and replace windows that get broken out
and keep the buildings painted and that sort of thing.
But I brought my three sons there when they were small. Yeah,
I got behind bars. That's a good day. Yeah, it's
a fun day. It's fun to go out there. But
to imagine it, and it's not that big of a rock,
you know, if he were to go out and see
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it and go, well, there's not a lot of land
out there. They used up most of it when they
build Alcatraz. That it would take a lot of work
to pull that off.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I left them there for the night too. Oh got job.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
We got a peaceful night's sleep. It's a good idea. Actually,
it's pretty funny. I got photos of them behind bars,
holding under the bars, and then you see that one
where they like dug their way out and I mean,
you know all went on at Algatraz.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
No, it's a fascinating place.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
All right, thank you, Alex Very you got it from
kf I News.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah. I don't know the woman that Alex played in
that story.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I mean that's you know, he just flirts things out
and everybody takes everything seriously and he just you know,
somebody does a report. It's like, you can't really do this.
It costs too much money.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
That was a creepy place to visit, though.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I remember there was an inmate there who got out
and he was signing books. And you know, I told
you I kind of had this, not fetish, but this
interest in people incarcerated, not like those women that go
want to marry, you know, the Menendez brothers, anything like that.
I just always found it fascinating the culture of people
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being behind bars.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
And so.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You got a book, You got a book that the
prisoner wrote, yes to read about his life Yes, in Alcatraz.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Gosh, I don't know if it was about his life
in Alcatraz or before he was in Alcohira.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh, man, this is more serious than I thought.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
No, it's not serious if.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You're showing up at book signings for prisoners.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
No, I didn't go because I knew there was a
book signing. I went because I was in San Francisco
a gazillion years ago and I wanted to go to Alcatraz.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Like so many people like you. You took your sons,
I took.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Them off they were they were all locked up.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Well I was in one of those selves too. Fortunately
I got out.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So what which is the fantasy you have being locked
up in.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
No?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I just find it so crazy.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
How how people you know, you commit crimes and you
and you're behind bars, and that you have to live
that way.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
It's just it's just a fascinating Do you.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Have any fear of being like wrongfully arrested in jail?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yes? I do.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I do? And why would that be the rules?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I'm not a rule breaker.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
I've seen way too many I have seen way too
many shows where people are locked up and they're innocent.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You're so you're up late at night when you're not
terrified in the earthquake or the tsunami, you're worried that
somebody is going to bust in and drag you off
to prison.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
No, I try not to think about that. I really do,
because my brain can only handle so much. But when
I do watch shows like Presumed Innocent, or movies or
you know, Shawshank, Redemption.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
All those different things, you know it.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I know. I think anybody thrown in prison is guilty.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Not everybody. I mean, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
There are they put themselves in play, they were too
close to bad things.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
But there are some I never got.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Thrown in prison. I use my mother as the standard. Yeah,
my dad was never thrown It was your dad thrown
in prison? Well why is that? Because they lived normal,
good lives.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
But there are some people who have been wrongfully accused.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Not a lot.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
But look, we know that there's been movies made about that.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, well usually they're they're in the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Though, you're so mean.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I don't believe anybody's innocent.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Okay, what if I got thrown in jail and I
truly was innocent, would you not think I was in it?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I would not believe you were truly innocent?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Really?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yes, even less?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
So?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Now thank you? All right, we come back. Big story
in the Elsegunda Times over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And remember I just told you twenty minutes ago that
the the city is cutting all nearly all the departments
to shovel more money at the vagrants. Well, there's so
much money being spent on vagrants that the city and
county don't want to spend a dime on testing soil
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for all the all the all the lots in Altadena
and the Palisades where the homes burned down.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So the Los.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Angeles Times decided to spend some money to test random
lots and we'll tell you what they found. And uh,
this is this is what I'm saying. You can't get
basic services even in an emergency now because there's no
money for anybody except the vagrants, even if the government
helped burn down your home.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's next.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I've been trying to connect things. Maybe somebody will understand
that so much money is being wasted on the vagrants
that no other departments can seem to function here in
the city or county. And we we know that the
fire department was only fifty percent funded by Karen Bass
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because she dumped so much money into these vagrants who
are just really bleeding the city and the county dry.
And I told you within the last hour, there's another
story out and Karen bass is cutting the budget of
many departments, but she's increasing the amount of money on
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the vagrants. And I'll give you an example of why
spending so much money on vagrants has just destroyed the
government's ability to do anything common sense and rational. So
not only did all the money spent on the vagrants
severely impact the La Fire Department's response, but now after
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the fires, you have all this toxic material that was
in the air is on the ground, and the Army
Corps of Engineers has no interest, the FEMA has no
interest in spending another dollar and cleaning it up. They
say they're not interested in spending a lot of federal
dollars out of their budgets to meet California requirements. That's
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up to California. If they have these certain standards, then
let them spend the money. And there should be money
set aside for natural disasters and used to test soil,
but there isn't because it's been blown on the homeless.
I'll give you an example here. So the La Times
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sent journalists out across Altaden and Pacific Palisades to obtain
soil samples, twenty properties cleared by the federal cleanup crews
and twenty homes that survived, and the Times paid for
I guess Patrick Soon's young paid for it because the
Times is broke that they heard they laid off another
fourteen people last Friday, so that leaves what about six
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I think they have six people left. So basically this
is Sun Chiang, in order to give material to his newspaper,
paying for the UH paying for the soil tests. Let's
look at Outda Dina first. So there's ten homes that
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they tested the soil at. All of them had been
cleaned up to some extent by the Army Corps of Engineers,
but two of the ten still had toxic heavy metals
on their property in excess of California's standards. In fact,
one of the homes had lead levels more than three
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times higher than the state's standard. So this is the
first evidence that the federal contractors are leaving toxic contamination behind.
Elevated levels of arsenic lead and mercury in three homes
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that survived the Eton fire, but these homes did not
have a federal cleanup. Now, the city and county you
would think would step in here, especially since you know,
the city and the county's response was so poor. I mean,
the city's response was so absurd and disastrous, but they
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don't have the money. Again, it's more important that the
vagrants on the sidewalk are taken care of than the
newly homeless.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Who had the fire.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
But didn't have a fire department to help them. I mean,
something's really gotten sick and twisted out here, more sick
and twisted than I ever could imagine. And they don't
have insurance. These people, some of them in the in
the Fair program, that's the California Backup insurance program.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
There's not enough.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Money to cover their reconstruction costs and expenses. So the
state insurance program has failed them. The fire department failed them,
the mayor failed them, the FEMA failed them, and there
is no money for the city and county to do
any of testing. So you got to pay for your
own testing, which is thousands of dollars. Now, I'm not
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much for government spending, you know, but if you're going
to spend on anybody, how about spend it on the
soil testing for the people whose government abandoned them and
didn't do anything to prevent or mitigate the fire when
it was first started rolling. I mean, they should be
first in line, not the guy injecting fentanyl into his
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system or snorting meth or heroin or whatever the hell
they do. Uh, so that this is gonna be thousands
of dollars alta Dina is really susceptible to the poisonous
fallout because they have old homes and back in the
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old days they used lead paint and asbestos and other
materials that contained arsenic, and.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So all this burned went into the air. People are breathing.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
They get in and now it's settled down on the ground,
and they don't they don't have they don't have the money.
I mean, it's it's and there's nobody at answer the phone.
You're you're on your own. And I mean, I told
you I got a taste in this during the fire
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when our neighborhood was overrun with looters and we had
to hire a random guy with a gun to protect
our home because the police apartment had fled the neighborhood.
There was no police. The fire was a couple of
miles away, and I realized it's like, wow, we've really
been abandoned by the worst government that I've ever experienced
in my life. And some of the people in the Palisades,
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people in Altadena, they have been abandoned by every layer
of government, federal, state, city, county. Nobody cares all this
tax money. Richest state in the Union, right, biggest, the
top five largest GDP in the nation, and we don't
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have a few bucks to test the soil because vagrants, criminals,
illegal aliens, they're in line in front of us. What
do we We're just stupid ass taxpayers left unprotected and helpless.
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And then in November this year, next year, four years
from now, you will vote.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
The same clowns in.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
No matter how many times they screwed your neighbor, screwed
other people in your city or town, you'll vote them
in and they'll do the same thing. They'll give the
money away to the vagrants, the criminals, and the illegal aliens,
and you will keep scrolling away on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
More coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (17:31):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. And
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after four o'clock. Starting up the three o'clock hour, We're
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going to talk to a listener who showed up at
Assemblyman Nick Schultz's town hall meeting in burd Bank. Schultz
is one of these weirdo assemblymen who voted to not
make it a felony to buy teenagers for sex sixteen
and seventeen year olds. Not to make it a felony.
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He voted against that idea. Why what's going on with him?
Why wouldn't that be a felony? Well, we told you
about his town hall meeting Friday night. At least one
listener showed up, and he has a report on what
went on there. I think you'll find it interesting. Daniel Guss.
Daniel Guss has a news site on substack Daniel Gust
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substack dot com and he's on with us frequently and
he is a huge animal rights guy in addition to
being a journalist, and writes often on LA Animal Services.
And he has a new piece here. Because you remember
a week or two ago, it was leaked that Bass
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was cutting animal services. In fact, three of the six
shelters were going to be closed down, which was going
to create all kinds of mayhem. And then they said,
oh no, that's not true. We put it in additional
supplemental spending on page one thirteen. Didn't you see that?
You know that's some kind of smoking mirrors game. Anyway,
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Daniel has more on this situation. Welcome, how are you.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Hey, John? Thanks for having me back on the issue
that matters most to me in my life. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
What's going on now? The money was cut and they
wasn't cut. I mean, what's happening going forward here?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Right?
Speaker 6 (19:38):
So animal service is one of those agencies like anywhere
across the country, maybe around the world, where it's a
deeply emotional issue because animals don't have the same rights
as humans, and people were drawn to them because they
also don't have a voice. So in her State of
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the City address two weeks ago, Karen Bass released her
proposed budget, which was going to cut five million dollars
out of her worst department, the city's deadly diseased animal
pounds from thirty million down to twenty five million, and
she had threatened and don't believe the denials, John, I'm
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telling him and watching this department since nineteen ninety nine,
they threatened to close as many as half of the
city's pounds, which to me are a jobs program masquerading
as a municipal service. And of course the outcry and
the various news outlets did storry. Hundreds of volunteers and
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rescue groups and just people who care about their damn
dogs and cats turned out. And suddenly suddenly Karen Bass
mad Zabel and the people behind the scenes at city
Hall said, oh, it's a misunderstanding. We found an unappropriated
five million, so we're going to add that back in.
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And so it's back in there now. And I forwarded
to you and Ray this morning an email that I
sent to Bas and her top deputies are chief of
staff or deputy chief of staff, saying, hey, you know what,
five million dollars is not going to solve this problem.
In fact, it's only going to enable the same things.
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And so they look like they're going to make the
same mistakes in the coming weeks to find another GM
that they made two years ago when Bas came in.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Give me and give me in as a shorthand here
just like two or three mistakes that they are consistently making.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That's bad news for the dogs and cats. What are
they doing wrong?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
They are lying to the public. Number one, They are
lying to the public that they don't kill animals for space.
They kill thousands of healthy, young, big, lively, adoptable, friendly animals,
dogs and cats, and they are lying to the public
about that because a politician wants to be able to
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say they're doing good things for animals, and then they
find ways to kill them and even dump them on
the streets. What by calling it something else? Right, John,
If your neighbor took a dog, and you sometimes see
these horrible videos, horrible videos where people abandoned a dog
and they drive away and the poor dog is chasing
after the car, you and I and your neighbor would
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be charged with a crime. But the city of Los
Angeles has been dumping cats, in particular friendly adoptable cats
on the streets of Los Angeles. And I've been pressing
Nathan Hoffman, if you're listening, mister District Attorney, that this
is a crime, each and every time, please investigate it.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
What prevents animal services from getting these dogs and cats adopted.
If you say the pets themselves are adoptedble, So what's
blocking LA Animal Services from doing that?
Speaker 6 (23:05):
They aren't putting in the effort. They could do that,
but they keep hiring general managers who aren't doing the things.
What you have to do, stop the killing massive free
spady nooter, get the word out there and crack down
on backyard breeders. It is not brain surgery. But they
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keep lying because they want to hire a female. They
want to hire a gay person as GM instead of
the person who is best suited to do the job.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Oh so they're all hamstrung by DEI nonsense.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
One hundred for as long as I've watched.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It, John, And the cats and dogs have to die.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
They don't have to die, well, they have to.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Die because of their incompetence.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Here right in that regard. Yes, And by the way,
in faris to Karen Bess. This went on with Eric
Garson and Garcetti and La City Council President Herb Wesson
back in the day, and Paul Koretz and the city
Controller Ron Galprin. They rigged an audit until I called them,
and then they reversed the numbers. And the LA Times
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did not report on it. That's why I have zero
sympathy for what's going on at the LA Times. They
enabled it, and now they're they're they're all fretting that
fourteen more people lost their jobs. These animals have been
abused and lied about for years, and I put the
blame squarely on the LA Times and the TV news
stations that do not report the truth. The only parrot
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with the LA Times has been telling them.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And what's the LA Times interest in protecting this this
dog and cat killing regime?
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Like wow, well you want to know what's convenience? They
get the story, they get the access, they hedge on
the story. They don't quite say what's going on in
other things, and they have the access. That's why John
at the begin of this year, Marquis Harris Thaws and
the city council president, when I confronted him about several
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of these issues related to the inferno, three of his
staffers and by the way, this story is going to
have a chapter two to it physically attacked me as
they did a few weeks later to a KTLA reporter
Annie Rose ramos So. And I've been harassed by LAPD officers,
and they rigged an internal audit, an internal investigation about it.
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So it's a very close clubby thing, and I have
zero sympathy for the lies biomission being told by the
La Times.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Let me ask you one more thing before you go,
And it's a little piece you had in one of
your sub stack articles and you teased it as you
have an upcoming story on the city Attorney Howdie felstin
Soto that she or her office has repeatedly reportedly warned
the fire department and the police apartment that if they
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take troubled homeless people to the hospital against their will,
it's the equivalent of kidnapping, right, is it?
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Rich Seriously, Well, that's what several independent sources have told me.
I live in one of the nicer parts of the valley,
Sherman Oaks, and there are situations and merchants where people,
homeless people go in covered in their own feces and urine,
breaking windows, pulling their pants down and pleasuring themselves in
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the middle of an intersection, right in front of an intersection,
And they were told. Various independent sources of mine have
told me that the first responders say, while we have
the unarmed crisis response people. So if we take them
to the hospital, what's the dividing line. It is the
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equivalent of kidnapping, which is a load of malarkey, just
their way of dumping these problems on us.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Kidnapping to take a guy off the street, who's who's
who's pleasuring himself in traffic, you can't automatically take him
to a psych clinic.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
John, It's worse than that. A few days, by the way,
Nythia Ramen has not responded council Member Nythia Ramen, my
council member, and the city Attorney's office has not responded
to these requests. So several days after my last communications
with him, I have on video a drugged out, homeless
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guy who's not only dropping a deuce on one side, but
pleasuring himself on the other side. I had to ask Google,
is there a word for this?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Is he?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Wait by saying he's doing both at once at once.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
By the way, I have video of it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh, please forward that. Ray would love to see that.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Yeah, oh no, you guys will and uh and so no,
I'm coming home from the dog park, for God's sakes,
and this is happening in front of my favorite sushi
restaurant in the area.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
And I got it. I gotta tell you, I was
I had to ask Google, what do you call someone
who does this and simultaneously with that, And apparently it's
called a slumpkin? What like akin? I think it's called
s l U m K I N.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I think it's across It sounds disgusting, sounds awful.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Right, well, I guess it's a cross between a blumpkin
and something called a Cleveland steamer.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
No, no, no, I've heard of that.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
All right, Daniel, you're the only guy in town covering
this in any media, any.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Media, at least at least transparently. Just a little bit
of breaking news. I just published it on subseack. I
sent it to Ray. The International Association of Firefighters has
placed under temporary conservatorship the United Firefighters of Los Angeles
City for misappropriation of funds. They suspended the the the president,
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and two others Freddie Escobar. But the irony you'll see
this on subseck. I posted this about fifteen minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I'm right away, now, go ahead, finished, but I just
got to run and do the news. Sure.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
The irony as that that the conservatorship or the receivership
is being oversaw, overseen by the General Secretary Treasurer uh Lima.
And he's the guy who was buddying up to Eric
Garcetti when they thought he might be President of the
United States.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
See that are my sub sect.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
See it in your email and I'll time operator.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Okay, thank you. Daniel.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So I followed up on Daniel Guss and he did
post this minutes ago. We had Freddy Escobar on the
air a couple of times, and he's the president of
the United Firefighters of Los Angeles Local one twelve as
the firefighters union, and he was speaking out on how
badly funded and badly equipped the LA Fire Department has
(30:28):
been for many years and we have like the same,
we have fewer fire stations that we did in the
nineteen sixties. Remember he came on. Well, United Firefighters of
LA belongs to the larger National International Association of Firefighters
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and the executive board has placed the United Firefighters of
LA under temporary conservatorship. There's funny business going on with
the finances, and Freddy Escobar has been suspended also the
first vice president of the union, someone named Coats, and
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a director named ho and bringing charges against them, and
I don't have details of the charges. Also a secretary
named Walker, and so they're being suspended and charged and investigated.
And it's got something to do with the finances, the
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way they handled the finances for the firefighters union. Do
you believe this? I thought these were I thought Escobar
was a good guy. Of course, I did see a
story a few days ago that he hauled in five
hundred and forty dollars in salary. There's a lot of overtime,
and I don't know if that has anything to do
with this particular investigation. But now it's being placed under
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a temporary receivership and the whole city is is just collapsing.
There's nobody to go to, you know, much of the
city council has been jailed, and the fired and police
department are way underfunded. The only industry doing well is
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the homeless industry that's doing great. I can't you know,
if there was a news organization that could do an
investigation and we could find out how many politicians, family members, friends,
political donors and consultants are on the payrolls of all
these fake homeless nonprofits, but nobody's bothering to do the work.
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The Times is laying people off. Another fourteen were laid off,
and the TV stations cover car crashes.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
When we come back right after Debra's and news. Nick
Schultz is the Burbank Assemblyman. He is the head of
the Public Safety Committee in the Assembly. He's the one
who helped squash the bill to make it a felony
to pay sixteen and seventeen year olds for sex. He
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thinks there's nothing wrong with that, and he got the
bill well, I mean, they voted down the bill with
fifty five Democratic votes and he took it away from
the bill's sponsor. He had a town hall meeting Friday night,
and one of our listeners went, and he's going to
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explain what he saw.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
That's next.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Debra Mark is live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
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Canf I Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
You got the show every day live from one to
four o'clock, and then after four o'clock it still exists.
You can still access it John Cobelt Show on demand
on the iHeart app and you listen to what you missed.
Coming up after three o'clock, we are going to talk
(00:22):
to a listener who actually went to a town hall
meeting for this weirdo. Assemblyman Nick Schultz used to be
the mayor of Burbank and now he has reappeared as
an assembly member and he just started and he's already
voting to exempt perverts, predators, and pedophiles from being charged
(00:43):
with felonies if they buy teenagers for sex. That's right,
that's his vote. He is on the side of the pervert, pedophile,
and predator, and it's okay cool with him to buy
teenagers for sex. We did that story quite a bit
the last week yourself, and we are going to continue to.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Do it because it's true.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And Schultz had a town hall meeting coincidentally Friday night,
and one of our listeners was there and you'll hear
his story. All right, let's get to Alex Stone from
ABC News. Trump posted over the weekend that he wants
the Bureau of Prisons to open Alcatraz. I don't know
(01:25):
where he comes up with this stuff. This is this
is just great. Well, what's the feasibility of it? Yeah,
So he posted about it, and then he talked about
it as he came back from Florida yesterday, and then
he talked about it again today. And I mean it
came out of nowhere on Sunday night. Is as somebody
who grew up in the Bay Area back in the
eighties and nineties, Alcatraz was where he went on a
field trip and it smelled like an old museum back then,
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and the buildings were crumbling and the windows were broken out,
and the National Park Service rangers and their uniforms were
touring year round. But by no means do I think
anybody has thought, you know, one day Alcatraz will come
back again and it will be an operating prison. This
guy took tour yesterday when Trump made the announcement. He
is a little caughtoff guard the rock.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The island is not suitable. Yeah, no, no, it's sice
a visit.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I would never trust somebody to be imprisoned. You do
remember there were numerous escapes. Most were caught or died
in the cold water. There are a few mysteries out
there of did they die, did they get to the
land and then ran off in San Francisco. So many
classic movies have been made about it. But the historic buildings,
if you've been there in the last thirty years, as
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they're now national landmarks, they'd have to be torn down
and start over. He talks about rehabilitating them, but you
would have to begin from ground up. Running water and
sewage is a problem. Getting staff. They used to live
there back in the forties, fifties, and sixties.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now you'd have to pay.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
A ton for them to live anywhere, you know, within
a two hour drive of the Bay Area. State tendor
Scott Wiener says, no, what the idea that it would
be turned back into a prison would be so expensive
and just so dumb that it's hard to imagine it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
A few minutes ago that the President saying.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Just represented something strong having to do with law and order.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We need law and order in this country. But John,
we talked to Elizabeth Newman.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
She served in Homeland Security and the first Trump administration says,
you got to understand, it's pretty clear he is a
showman who likes hadlines that he puts big ideas out
there to generate this show, to get people talking about it.
But she's been in the room with him when he've
come up with previous big ideas.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
She says, it may not go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
He has a lot of ideas. People will go off
and study them, then they'll come back with the facts
and usually gets dropped at that stage. This has that
kind of feeling to me that he just was thinking
about it over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
He's really frustrated.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
About the fact that all of these millions of people
he wants to deport are going to have to have
their own trial, and that's going to take too long.
So where do I put all these people?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Today?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The new director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, who
he just appointed to be in that spot, said that
they will vigorously pursue the president's agenda. If he wants
to reopen Alctire, they will reopen Alcatraz, But we will see.
What I read in one of your reports is it
was closed in nineteen sixty three because it was crumbling.
Then it was crumbling and too expensive to run. They
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decided that the water and housing and sewage and the
buildings with the upkeep because of the salt water, that
it was costing way too much money. Back then, sixty
two years ago, it was crumbling. Yeah, it's definitely still
crumbling now.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
The Park Service does a good job of trying to
keep it up and replace windows that get broken out
and keep the buildings painted and that sort of thing.
But I brought my three sons there when they were small. Yeah,
I got behind bars. That's a good day. Yeah, it's
a fun day. It's fun to go out there. But
to imagine it, and it's not that big of a rock,
you know, if he were to go out and see
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it and go, well, there's not a lot of land
out there. They used up most of it when they
build Alcatraz. That it would take a lot of work
to pull that off.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I left them there for the night too. Oh got job.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
We got a peaceful night's sleep. It's a good idea. Actually,
it's pretty funny. I got photos of them behind bars,
holding under the bars, and then you see that one
where they like dug their way out and I mean,
you know all went on at Algatraz.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
No, it's a fascinating place.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
All right, thank you, Alex Very you got it from
kf I News.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah. I don't know the woman that Alex played in
that story.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I mean that's you know, he just flirts things out
and everybody takes everything seriously and he just you know,
somebody does a report. It's like, you can't really do this.
It costs too much money.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
That was a creepy place to visit, though.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I remember there was an inmate there who got out
and he was signing books. And you know, I told
you I kind of had this, not fetish, but this
interest in people incarcerated, not like those women that go
want to marry, you know, the Menendez brothers, anything like that.
I just always found it fascinating the culture of people
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being behind bars.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
And so.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You got a book, You got a book that the
prisoner wrote, yes to read about his life Yes, in Alcatraz.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Gosh, I don't know if it was about his life
in Alcatraz or before he was in Alcohira.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh, man, this is more serious than I thought.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
No, it's not serious if.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You're showing up at book signings for prisoners.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
No, I didn't go because I knew there was a
book signing. I went because I was in San Francisco
a gazillion years ago and I wanted to go to Alcatraz.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Like so many people like you. You took your sons,
I took.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Them off they were they were all locked up.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Well I was in one of those selves too. Fortunately
I got out.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So what which is the fantasy you have being locked
up in.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
No?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
I just find it so crazy.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
How how people you know, you commit crimes and you
and you're behind bars, and that you have to live
that way.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
It's just it's just a fascinating Do you.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Have any fear of being like wrongfully arrested in jail?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yes? I do.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I do? And why would that be the rules?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I'm not a rule breaker.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
I've seen way too many I have seen way too
many shows where people are locked up and they're innocent.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You're so you're up late at night when you're not
terrified in the earthquake or the tsunami, you're worried that
somebody is going to bust in and drag you off
to prison.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
No, I try not to think about that. I really do,
because my brain can only handle so much. But when
I do watch shows like Presumed Innocent, or movies or
you know, Shawshank, Redemption.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
All those different things, you know it.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I know. I think anybody thrown in prison is guilty.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Not everybody. I mean, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
There are they put themselves in play, they were too
close to bad things.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
But there are some I never got.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Thrown in prison. I use my mother as the standard. Yeah,
my dad was never thrown It was your dad thrown
in prison? Well why is that? Because they lived normal,
good lives.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
But there are some people who have been wrongfully accused.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Not a lot.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
But look, we know that there's been movies made about that.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, well usually they're they're in the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Though, you're so mean.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I don't believe anybody's innocent.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Okay, what if I got thrown in jail and I
truly was innocent, would you not think I was in it?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I would not believe you were truly innocent?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Really?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yes, even less?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
So?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Now thank you? All right, we come back. Big story
in the Elsegunda Times over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And remember I just told you twenty minutes ago that
the the city is cutting all nearly all the departments
to shovel more money at the vagrants. Well, there's so
much money being spent on vagrants that the city and
county don't want to spend a dime on testing soil
(09:05):
for all the all the all the lots in Altadena
and the Palisades where the homes burned down.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So the Los.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Angeles Times decided to spend some money to test random
lots and we'll tell you what they found. And uh,
this is this is what I'm saying. You can't get
basic services even in an emergency now because there's no
money for anybody except the vagrants, even if the government
helped burn down your home.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's next.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I've been trying to connect things. Maybe somebody will understand
that so much money is being wasted on the vagrants
that no other departments can seem to function here in
the city or county. And we we know that the
fire department was only fifty percent funded by Karen Bass
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because she dumped so much money into these vagrants who
are just really bleeding the city and the county dry.
And I told you within the last hour, there's another
story out and Karen bass is cutting the budget of
many departments, but she's increasing the amount of money on
(10:26):
the vagrants. And I'll give you an example of why
spending so much money on vagrants has just destroyed the
government's ability to do anything common sense and rational. So
not only did all the money spent on the vagrants
severely impact the La Fire Department's response, but now after
(10:53):
the fires, you have all this toxic material that was
in the air is on the ground, and the Army
Corps of Engineers has no interest, the FEMA has no
interest in spending another dollar and cleaning it up. They
say they're not interested in spending a lot of federal
dollars out of their budgets to meet California requirements. That's
(11:18):
up to California. If they have these certain standards, then
let them spend the money. And there should be money
set aside for natural disasters and used to test soil,
but there isn't because it's been blown on the homeless.
I'll give you an example here. So the La Times
(11:40):
sent journalists out across Altaden and Pacific Palisades to obtain
soil samples, twenty properties cleared by the federal cleanup crews
and twenty homes that survived, and the Times paid for
I guess Patrick Soon's young paid for it because the
Times is broke that they heard they laid off another
fourteen people last Friday, so that leaves what about six
(12:04):
I think they have six people left. So basically this
is Sun Chiang, in order to give material to his newspaper,
paying for the UH paying for the soil tests. Let's
look at Outda Dina first. So there's ten homes that
(12:24):
they tested the soil at. All of them had been
cleaned up to some extent by the Army Corps of Engineers,
but two of the ten still had toxic heavy metals
on their property in excess of California's standards. In fact,
one of the homes had lead levels more than three
(12:45):
times higher than the state's standard. So this is the
first evidence that the federal contractors are leaving toxic contamination behind.
Elevated levels of arsenic lead and mercury in three homes
(13:06):
that survived the Eton fire, but these homes did not
have a federal cleanup. Now, the city and county you
would think would step in here, especially since you know,
the city and the county's response was so poor. I mean,
the city's response was so absurd and disastrous, but they
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don't have the money. Again, it's more important that the
vagrants on the sidewalk are taken care of than the
newly homeless.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Who had the fire.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
But didn't have a fire department to help them. I mean,
something's really gotten sick and twisted out here, more sick
and twisted than I ever could imagine. And they don't
have insurance. These people, some of them in the in
the Fair program, that's the California Backup insurance program.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
There's not enough.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Money to cover their reconstruction costs and expenses. So the
state insurance program has failed them. The fire department failed them,
the mayor failed them, the FEMA failed them, and there
is no money for the city and county to do
any of testing. So you got to pay for your
own testing, which is thousands of dollars. Now, I'm not
(14:30):
much for government spending, you know, but if you're going
to spend on anybody, how about spend it on the
soil testing for the people whose government abandoned them and
didn't do anything to prevent or mitigate the fire when
it was first started rolling. I mean, they should be
first in line, not the guy injecting fentanyl into his
(14:56):
system or snorting meth or heroin or whatever the hell
they do. Uh, so that this is gonna be thousands
of dollars alta Dina is really susceptible to the poisonous
fallout because they have old homes and back in the
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old days they used lead paint and asbestos and other
materials that contained arsenic, and.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So all this burned went into the air. People are breathing.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
They get in and now it's settled down on the ground,
and they don't they don't have they don't have the money.
I mean, it's it's and there's nobody at answer the phone.
You're you're on your own. And I mean, I told
you I got a taste in this during the fire
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when our neighborhood was overrun with looters and we had
to hire a random guy with a gun to protect
our home because the police apartment had fled the neighborhood.
There was no police. The fire was a couple of
miles away, and I realized it's like, wow, we've really
been abandoned by the worst government that I've ever experienced
in my life. And some of the people in the Palisades,
(16:14):
people in Altadena, they have been abandoned by every layer
of government, federal, state, city, county. Nobody cares all this
tax money. Richest state in the Union, right, biggest, the
top five largest GDP in the nation, and we don't
(16:35):
have a few bucks to test the soil because vagrants, criminals,
illegal aliens, they're in line in front of us. What
do we We're just stupid ass taxpayers left unprotected and helpless.
(16:58):
And then in November this year, next year, four years
from now, you will vote.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
The same clowns in.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
No matter how many times they screwed your neighbor, screwed
other people in your city or town, you'll vote them
in and they'll do the same thing. They'll give the
money away to the vagrants, the criminals, and the illegal aliens,
and you will keep scrolling away on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
More coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. And
you know what happens after four o'clock. We are transformed
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going to talk to a listener who showed up at
Assemblyman Nick Schultz's town hall meeting in burd Bank. Schultz
is one of these weirdo assemblymen who voted to not
make it a felony to buy teenagers for sex sixteen
and seventeen year olds. Not to make it a felony.
(18:12):
He voted against that idea. Why what's going on with him?
Why wouldn't that be a felony? Well, we told you
about his town hall meeting Friday night. At least one
listener showed up, and he has a report on what
went on there. I think you'll find it interesting. Daniel Guss.
Daniel Guss has a news site on substack Daniel Gust
(18:37):
substack dot com and he's on with us frequently and
he is a huge animal rights guy in addition to
being a journalist, and writes often on LA Animal Services.
And he has a new piece here. Because you remember
a week or two ago, it was leaked that Bass
(18:58):
was cutting animal services. In fact, three of the six
shelters were going to be closed down, which was going
to create all kinds of mayhem. And then they said,
oh no, that's not true. We put it in additional
supplemental spending on page one thirteen. Didn't you see that?
You know that's some kind of smoking mirrors game. Anyway,
(19:20):
Daniel has more on this situation. Welcome, how are you.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Hey, John? Thanks for having me back on the issue
that matters most to me in my life. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
What's going on now? The money was cut and they
wasn't cut. I mean, what's happening going forward here?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Right?
Speaker 6 (19:38):
So animal service is one of those agencies like anywhere
across the country, maybe around the world, where it's a
deeply emotional issue because animals don't have the same rights
as humans, and people were drawn to them because they
also don't have a voice. So in her State of
(19:58):
the City address two weeks ago, Karen Bass released her
proposed budget, which was going to cut five million dollars
out of her worst department, the city's deadly diseased animal
pounds from thirty million down to twenty five million, and
she had threatened and don't believe the denials, John, I'm
(20:18):
telling him and watching this department since nineteen ninety nine,
they threatened to close as many as half of the
city's pounds, which to me are a jobs program masquerading
as a municipal service. And of course the outcry and
the various news outlets did storry. Hundreds of volunteers and
(20:42):
rescue groups and just people who care about their damn
dogs and cats turned out. And suddenly suddenly Karen Bass
mad Zabel and the people behind the scenes at city
Hall said, oh, it's a misunderstanding. We found an unappropriated
five million, so we're going to add that back in.
(21:03):
And so it's back in there now. And I forwarded
to you and Ray this morning an email that I
sent to Bas and her top deputies are chief of
staff or deputy chief of staff, saying, hey, you know what,
five million dollars is not going to solve this problem.
In fact, it's only going to enable the same things.
(21:24):
And so they look like they're going to make the
same mistakes in the coming weeks to find another GM
that they made two years ago when Bas came in.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Give me and give me in as a shorthand here
just like two or three mistakes that they are consistently making.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That's bad news for the dogs and cats. What are
they doing wrong?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
They are lying to the public. Number one, They are
lying to the public that they don't kill animals for space.
They kill thousands of healthy, young, big, lively, adoptable, friendly animals,
dogs and cats, and they are lying to the public
about that because a politician wants to be able to
(22:09):
say they're doing good things for animals, and then they
find ways to kill them and even dump them on
the streets. What by calling it something else? Right, John,
If your neighbor took a dog, and you sometimes see
these horrible videos, horrible videos where people abandoned a dog
and they drive away and the poor dog is chasing
after the car, you and I and your neighbor would
(22:32):
be charged with a crime. But the city of Los
Angeles has been dumping cats, in particular friendly adoptable cats
on the streets of Los Angeles. And I've been pressing
Nathan Hoffman, if you're listening, mister District Attorney, that this
is a crime, each and every time, please investigate it.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
What prevents animal services from getting these dogs and cats adopted.
If you say the pets themselves are adoptedble, So what's
blocking LA Animal Services from doing that?
Speaker 6 (23:05):
They aren't putting in the effort. They could do that,
but they keep hiring general managers who aren't doing the things.
What you have to do, stop the killing massive free
spady nooter, get the word out there and crack down
on backyard breeders. It is not brain surgery. But they
(23:26):
keep lying because they want to hire a female. They
want to hire a gay person as GM instead of
the person who is best suited to do the job.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Oh so they're all hamstrung by DEI nonsense.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
One hundred for as long as I've watched.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It, John, And the cats and dogs have to die.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
They don't have to die, well, they have to.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Die because of their incompetence.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Here right in that regard. Yes, And by the way,
in faris to Karen Bess. This went on with Eric
Garson and Garcetti and La City Council President Herb Wesson
back in the day, and Paul Koretz and the city
Controller Ron Galprin. They rigged an audit until I called them,
and then they reversed the numbers. And the LA Times
(24:14):
did not report on it. That's why I have zero
sympathy for what's going on at the LA Times. They
enabled it, and now they're they're they're all fretting that
fourteen more people lost their jobs. These animals have been
abused and lied about for years, and I put the
blame squarely on the LA Times and the TV news
stations that do not report the truth. The only parrot
(24:36):
with the LA Times has been telling them.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And what's the LA Times interest in protecting this this
dog and cat killing regime?
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Like wow, well you want to know what's convenience? They
get the story, they get the access, they hedge on
the story. They don't quite say what's going on in
other things, and they have the access. That's why John
at the begin of this year, Marquis Harris Thaws and
the city council president, when I confronted him about several
(25:05):
of these issues related to the inferno, three of his
staffers and by the way, this story is going to
have a chapter two to it physically attacked me as
they did a few weeks later to a KTLA reporter
Annie Rose ramos So. And I've been harassed by LAPD officers,
and they rigged an internal audit, an internal investigation about it.
(25:28):
So it's a very close clubby thing, and I have
zero sympathy for the lies biomission being told by the
La Times.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Let me ask you one more thing before you go,
And it's a little piece you had in one of
your sub stack articles and you teased it as you
have an upcoming story on the city Attorney Howdie felstin
Soto that she or her office has repeatedly reportedly warned
the fire department and the police apartment that if they
(26:01):
take troubled homeless people to the hospital against their will,
it's the equivalent of kidnapping, right, is it?
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Rich Seriously, Well, that's what several independent sources have told me.
I live in one of the nicer parts of the valley,
Sherman Oaks, and there are situations and merchants where people,
homeless people go in covered in their own feces and urine,
breaking windows, pulling their pants down and pleasuring themselves in
(26:33):
the middle of an intersection, right in front of an intersection,
And they were told. Various independent sources of mine have
told me that the first responders say, while we have
the unarmed crisis response people. So if we take them
to the hospital, what's the dividing line. It is the
(26:55):
equivalent of kidnapping, which is a load of malarkey, just
their way of dumping these problems on us.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Kidnapping to take a guy off the street, who's who's
who's pleasuring himself in traffic, you can't automatically take him
to a psych clinic.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
John, It's worse than that. A few days, by the way,
Nythia Ramen has not responded council Member Nythia Ramen, my
council member, and the city Attorney's office has not responded
to these requests. So several days after my last communications
with him, I have on video a drugged out, homeless
(27:38):
guy who's not only dropping a deuce on one side, but
pleasuring himself on the other side. I had to ask Google,
is there a word for this?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Is he?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Wait by saying he's doing both at once at once.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
By the way, I have video of it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh, please forward that. Ray would love to see that.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Yeah, oh no, you guys will and uh and so no,
I'm coming home from the dog park, for God's sakes,
and this is happening in front of my favorite sushi
restaurant in the area.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
And I got it. I gotta tell you, I was
I had to ask Google, what do you call someone
who does this and simultaneously with that, And apparently it's
called a slumpkin? What like akin? I think it's called
s l U m K I N.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I think it's across It sounds disgusting, sounds awful.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Right, well, I guess it's a cross between a blumpkin
and something called a Cleveland steamer.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
No, no, no, I've heard of that.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
All right, Daniel, you're the only guy in town covering
this in any media, any.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Media, at least at least transparently. Just a little bit
of breaking news. I just published it on subseack. I
sent it to Ray. The International Association of Firefighters has
placed under temporary conservatorship the United Firefighters of Los Angeles
City for misappropriation of funds. They suspended the the the president,
(29:18):
and two others Freddie Escobar. But the irony you'll see
this on subseck. I posted this about fifteen minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I'm right away, now, go ahead, finished, but I just
got to run and do the news. Sure.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
The irony as that that the conservatorship or the receivership
is being oversaw, overseen by the General Secretary Treasurer uh Lima.
And he's the guy who was buddying up to Eric
Garcetti when they thought he might be President of the
United States.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
See that are my sub sect.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
See it in your email and I'll time operator.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Okay, thank you. Daniel.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
So I followed up on Daniel Guss and he did
post this minutes ago. We had Freddy Escobar on the
air a couple of times, and he's the president of
the United Firefighters of Los Angeles Local one twelve as
the firefighters union, and he was speaking out on how
badly funded and badly equipped the LA Fire Department has
(30:28):
been for many years and we have like the same,
we have fewer fire stations that we did in the
nineteen sixties. Remember he came on. Well, United Firefighters of
LA belongs to the larger National International Association of Firefighters
(30:49):
and the executive board has placed the United Firefighters of
LA under temporary conservatorship. There's funny business going on with
the finances, and Freddy Escobar has been suspended also the
first vice president of the union, someone named Coats, and
(31:10):
a director named ho and bringing charges against them, and
I don't have details of the charges. Also a secretary
named Walker, and so they're being suspended and charged and investigated.
And it's got something to do with the finances, the
(31:32):
way they handled the finances for the firefighters union. Do
you believe this? I thought these were I thought Escobar
was a good guy. Of course, I did see a
story a few days ago that he hauled in five
hundred and forty dollars in salary. There's a lot of overtime,
and I don't know if that has anything to do
with this particular investigation. But now it's being placed under
(31:58):
a temporary receivership and the whole city is is just collapsing.
There's nobody to go to, you know, much of the
city council has been jailed, and the fired and police
department are way underfunded. The only industry doing well is
(32:22):
the homeless industry that's doing great. I can't you know,
if there was a news organization that could do an
investigation and we could find out how many politicians, family members, friends,
political donors and consultants are on the payrolls of all
these fake homeless nonprofits, but nobody's bothering to do the work.
(32:46):
The Times is laying people off. Another fourteen were laid off,
and the TV stations cover car crashes.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
When we come back right after Debra's and news. Nick
Schultz is the Burbank Assemblyman. He is the head of
the Public Safety Committee in the Assembly. He's the one
who helped squash the bill to make it a felony
to pay sixteen and seventeen year olds for sex. He
(33:19):
thinks there's nothing wrong with that, and he got the
bill well, I mean, they voted down the bill with
fifty five Democratic votes and he took it away from
the bill's sponsor. He had a town hall meeting Friday night,
and one of our listeners went, and he's going to
(33:40):
explain what he saw.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
That's next.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Debra Mark is live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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