July 13, 2026 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/13) - Businessman John Alle comes on the show to talk about all things Santa Monica. More on the Boyle Heights warehouse fire cleanup debacle. Someone who used to work for Mayor Bass now works for the company that owned the warehouse that burned down in Boyle Heights. There is now a fly infestation in Boyle Heights where the warehouse fire was.
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we're talking with John Alli. He is the businessman reacting
to two media stories, one in the Wall Street Journal
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about how Santa Monica has fallen on hard times and
then a follow up that the that the New York
Post did. I just want to mention. Later this hour,
we're going to get back to the Boyle Heights fire
because there's another story out. Do you know one of
Karen Bass's top advisors, a guy named Yusef rob He
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left Bass some time back and is now a crisis
communications consultant for Lineage Logistics, the company who's.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Refrigeration plant war warehouse burned down. So so.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Karen Bass's old friend is doing the public relations for
Lineage Logistics. So we're not going to get the truth
from the company obviously, and they're gonna probably work to
cover up basses incompetence after the fire happened. She he
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was an advisor and spokesperson for Bass right through the
June second primary, claiming they claim he was an unpaid advisor.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So we'll get into that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And also Channel five put out a report about what
you mentioned deb the massive fly infestation in Boyle Heights.
Now it's like one plague after another, all right, But
first you're gonna talk with businessman John Ally, because the
Paul Kiernan of the Wall Street Journal did this.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Story.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And the absurd part about the story is it's about
how Tetamonica has fallen on hard times and it blames everything.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Imaginable.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But it took until paragraph eleven or paragraph thirteen until
they quoted the owner of a business saying it's people
undergoing mental health crises and drug use that's causing part
of the problem. Well, it's the main problem. I don't
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know if they ever used the word homeless in this story.
And then there's a clip and us we'll play this.
We'll play this now. Oliver Chee, the Santa Monica City manager,
was caught on a microphone ranting about the city and
apparently blames Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I think a year ago that maybe Santa Monica's best
days were behind it, but it can still be the
wokest place on the planet. We want to invite you
to honor George Floyd Day and Transvisibility Day. I've never
been able to manipulate so many people so quickly. Susan
Kleins thinks this is the Sopranos. We have an iron
grip on this council, and the residents are idiots, especially
those Democrat clubs. Even though I have resigned or been
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fired or had taxpayers pay for my sexual harassment settlement,
I can promise the financial ruin I leave Santa Monica
with will not be discovered until after.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I am long gone. I don't give it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If we're on the record, I want people to know
we are going to bulldoze that damn airport, and if
you don't like it, send me a message on next door.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Look at me. I'm the developer. Now.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I'd like to thank Santa Monica rinchs Rights. This organization
has hijacked the city for the last forty seven years.
In all my time cashing government checks, we're seeing organization
as evil as this one against his own residents?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
No one.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Did they call this place the People's Republic of Santa Monica?
What what?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
He's the city manager? I kind of don't get it.
Was he being sarcastic? Was he reading letters? Is that
his opinion? I think he's being sarcastic, Yeah, because the
New York Post has him claiming Trump's policies are are
the problem? Well, let me talk to John Alley, all right,
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because he can explain this. John, how are you?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Oh great, great to be with you, trying to glad
you're back.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
What was that that audio we just played?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
He was at a city council meeting? What was he
mocking everybody? He's being sarcastic? What was Oliver Chief saying there?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
That was? That was our parody. We had a great
time doing it, discussing the issues that everybody's talking about,
but we disclosed, uh, to stay in line with meta rules,
that it was AI.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh okay, that was an AI clip.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It was an AI clip, And we had lots of
fun for two days, and most people agreed, and most
people acknowledged the problems, and it got people discussing what
the problems really are? This current city manager arrived from Irvine,
a mid cont amid a lot of controversy. Our group
sounded the alarm on the prior city manager, who we
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showed had misused had funds in a previous job. So
this woke city council appointed Oliver g from Irvine in
great part because here's responsible for Helpingrizona a twenty seven
hundred acre district next to John Wayne Airport for new
housing units. Just what the majority on the Santa Monica
City Council wants to do with Santa Monica Airport. They're
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calling a great park cost two billion, two billion, but
the market value of all of Lacity parks is barely
one billion. That's part of Oliver Chi's alignment plan. But
let's be clear, Donald Trump has nothing to do with
Santa Monica's decline. He doesn't run Santa Monica. No.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
He wite a second just to point out, since the
clip was an AI thing, she really did blame Trump
for Santa Monica's problems for real.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Absolutely. He spoke to the Wall Street Journal reporter mister
Kiernan and also to the California.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Post and in that journal article, as I mentioned, it
took thirteen paragraphs before they acknowledged the drug addicts and
the homeless people and never even use those terms.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
They used like politically correct terms, wope terms.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
The city Santa Monica was the first in LA's County
to attract addicts by concealing a program to hand out
craft pipes. That's one thing. Then there's fraud, lack of
legitimate audits and the city manager editing audits with the nonprofits.
That's what's contributed to its decline. It's in the red,
it's in bad, bad shape. It's trying, it's trying really hard.
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They're trying to stop the decline in sales, tax revenues.
Thank goodness for the ability to install big screen TVs
on the promenade. Last two weeks, we saw more carry
There were more people carrying bags the last two weeks,
exiting shops despite the twenty seven percent vacancy rate and
pop up stores. But this last Saturday was Santa Monica's Blockfest,
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is a major music event and it was opened to
all ages. All three blocks turned into a multi stage
music event with electronic dance and DJs. But you know what,
the Olympics and the World Cup are only two and
a half to five and a half weeks long each
of them.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Then what yeah, hang on, hang on, we'll talk some
more when we come back. As John any businessman in
Santa Monica and Wall Street Journal had a story on
why Santa Monica is such as shambles. But what they
hardly for the first thirteen paragraph I did not mention
the homelessness and the drug addicts and the mental patients
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running the streets. It's incredible how the media covers this
stuff up. If you're living in Manhattan, you'd have no
idea what's really going on in Santa Monica. Because even
at the Wall Street Journal, the writers, the editors are
are woke or work vocals.
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We continue with businessman John Alley from Santa Monica. In
the Wall Street Journal, some woke hole reporter named Paul
Kiernan wrote a story on how Santa Monica is in
such a terrible shape, blames uh liability settlements for sex
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abuse claims and blames the pandemic which is now over
six years ago. Blames what they call the civil unrest
after the George Floyd situation that was known as rioting
by normal people. I realized woke people never used that term.
(09:11):
Then they blame Trump because he has offended tourists. Then
they blame the wildfires next door in the Palisades. Again,
you have to go to paragraph thirteen. They finally quote
somebody who runs a pizza and sub shop, and they
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worded as mental health crises and drug use in public spaces,
drug addicts, mental patients, homeless people. John Alliott's get him on, John.
You know, this is like a side career for you,
dealing with all the pathologies in the streets of Santa Monica,
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also MacArthur Park. This must be so infuriating to open
something like the Wall Street Journal, which generally people hold
in high regard, and you get the same woke garbage
in a news story where they do everything they can
to avoid pointing out the hundreds and hundreds of homeless
people that are dying in the streets. I mean, that's
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got to making nuts.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It does make us nuts. And you know the other thing.
The first thing, one of the first things that this
new city manager did was forced the resignation of a
popular police chief who actually innovated and set the pace
for more hiring. That wasn't a good sign. It's interesting
(10:35):
in much of downtown Santa Monica, hardworking people are living
inside going crazy because people outside, lying on sidewalks, hanging
out garages are there runs who are crazy and creating
dangerous situations. Last year, you know, tourism is down, Visitors
are down. All the hotels admit that the Wall Street
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Journal article went into it. That's due to assaults. It's
due to people going back home and saying they don't
feel safe, word spreads. Unfortunately, it's just too bad.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Island next door Santa Monica used to be a second
home for us. We used to go there frequently, restaurants,
you know, to go to the hotels to eat or
have a drink, go shopping there, go walking, never go there.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Never.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Well, I can tell you in the Palisades before the fires,
the majority, the majority of people in the Palisades did
not venture into Santa Monica. They just didn't. I mean
eighty six percent of residents in Santa Monica don't go
into downtown Santa Monica. So that was not a very
(11:45):
accurate statement that Oliver she made. And you know, we
offered the Santa Monica Police Department free rent and an
open space in the middle block of the promenade for
a substation with the last two and he said, John,
it's a great idea, but I wouldn't be able to
staff it and it would be bad if it was empty.
(12:09):
So they picked a place in the Santa Monica Place,
which is the open air mall seventy percent vacant. Was
owned by very successful mace Rich, one of the foremost
developers and managers of malls, and the CEO gave it
back to Wells Fargo Bank. He gave it back, he
(12:30):
walked away from three hundred and ninety million dollars of equity.
And his quote was, the city has no end plan.
That's pretty sad.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But why aren't there enough people who actually go and
vote and throw this crowd out?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I understand.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I understand that there's a big renters group and they're
a major political force, the biggest force, but there should
be You're talking about all the people who stay indoors
all the time and won't go downtown in their own city.
Why aren't they showing up and voting or is there
not enough of them or they're just laying around and
had given up?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
John, it's almost no hope. And what's being discussed now
is the smarmatic voting machines, the equipment database. It's screwed
around with the vote in the mayor's race. Where the
only county in all of the United States that uses
SGO smartmatic voting equipment database. And it's not transparent and
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when you're dealing with software, it can be manipulated. Is
recently as August ninth, twenty twenty four, the federal government
charge brought bribery charges against three executives and the former
chair and Dean Logan from San Francisco was brought down.
(13:59):
I guess twenty nineteen or twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I think Seattle is from.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Seattle, Okay, I'm sorry, brought down and brought to California.
And this is his job. He's running the election, he's
in charge of the election. He's in charge of keeping
this smartmattic in place. So I don't know if there
is hope, really, I just don't know. And a lot
of people have thrown their hands up because if the
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results can be manipulated and the votes can be tallied
and people lose legitimately, but the votes aren't counted legitimately,
then we really don't have any ope until the system's
thrown out.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
All right, John, thank you for coming on again.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
John Ally, Oh, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
All right, Santa Monica businessman.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
When we come back back to Boyle Heights, We've got
more on Karen bass Is one of her top advisors.
Now has been working for Lineage, the company that owns
the refrigeration unit that went on fire. He's in charge
their pr Oh, we got the story about the massive
(15:03):
fly infestation in Boyle Heights.
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Speaker 2 (15:31):
This Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven
seven Moist eighty six or usually talkback feature on the
iHeartRadio app.
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We'll do it twice on Friday.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Some of the more despicable of people in our society
are the spokesholes, public relations crisis people who guam on
to public officials and corporations, and their main job is
to lie for the official of the corporation. Virtually everybody
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in the public domain lies like hell, whether they're in office,
candidate for office, a lot of executives, media people obviously,
right down to the reporters and anchors. There's just a
lot of lying and false information going on constantly all
day and night. And if they're not lying, they're trying
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to confuse the issue. They're trying to mislead you, they're
trying to kick up a lot of dust and mud
and make you doubt even the truth. Now, one of
those people for a long time here in la is
someone named Yusef rob He runs one of these nonsense
companies called TK Communications. He worked Can you imagine this
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shoveling poop for Eric Garcetti going all the way back
to when Garcetti was a council member and later mayor,
and when he got tied to shoveling Garcetti's waist, he
picked took his shovel over to Karen Bass's office and
was an unpaid advisor and eventually was her main spokesperson
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in later years. See it's really tough being a communications
person for Karen Bass because she is a disaster. She's
always under fire, under criticism, she's always screwing up. She's
always flying out of the country or out of the city,
especially during fires. She had this pathetic wiener named Zack Sidell,
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who is the Deputy mayor of Communications.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
He left.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
His replacement, Amanda Crumley, also left two months later in
twenty twenty five, and then this usef Rob took over
and Rob after he himself leaving Bass's office. In fact,
he was standing next to Bass for the first six
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months of the year and he'd go with her to
news conferences like Palisades fire news conferences. Two days after
the Boyle Heights fire, two days he became a communications
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consultant for Lineage Logistics, so he switched sides. He was
on the main unpaid public relations advisor to Karen Bass
up until the fire in Boyle Heights and then he
started working for Lineage. Now is this, obviously is a
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way for Bass to have one of her own people
managing Lineage's response to make sure she doesn't get blamed
for anything that she looks good because ordinarily you'd think
whoever's running Lineage would be pretty pissed that she's in
Chicago worshiping Obama and having cocktails instead of helping to
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direct the fire response.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
But that's what happened. Chatrick left for Chicago.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Because Obama was opening up his hideous library and she
was drinking again, so all dressed up and everything. And
so now Bass's spokes liars are claiming that Rob is
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not communicating with Bass on behalf of Lineage.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Right, he works with Bass for years and then the
Lineage thing happens and he switches sides. But no, no,
I'm not working with Bass at all. Well, of course
this is what's going on. It's to make sure she'd
he doesn't get splattered with any blowback. I don't know
exactly how that would work. But out of all the
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public relations and crisis experts in Los Angeles in California,
they're using the same one that Karen Bass was using
two days before the fire, just well, two days before
the fire. He's working for Bass, now he's working for Lineage.
Now he's quit Lineage. I'm not going to let unnecessary
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distractions get in the way of the important things that
need to be done. So I'm not extending my volunteer
advisory work for the mayor. He's not working for the
mayor and he's not working for Lineage. If you believe that.
Even as the mayor demanded accountability from Lineage, Rob, again
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close friends with Bass, was calling a reporter at the
LA Times on behalf of Lineage.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Is that crazy?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So the mayor is pretending, well, you have to make
Linearge accountable, and our own PR guy is calling the
LA Times to try to shape and spin the story.
Good lord, these people are disgusting, aren't they Aren't they gross?
And then when he's caught, then he resigns, doesn't want
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to be a distraction. They'll use that same tired cann line. Oh,
I don't want to be a distraction. You're hired to
create distractions. You're hired to confuse issues, to change the subject,
to get the media to cover some stupid side issue, to.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Make people go, Well, you don't know if that's true
or not.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Wow, you sep Rob, Yeah, I remember seeing his name
all the time. All these people are just they're just gross.
Feel at least partly responsible for how disgusting the city is.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Do they ever think it's you know, it's because.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
We help promote all the lies, all the misleading, distortions,
all the nonsense, all the garbage that the public doesn't
know what's going on really, and they get bored and
they lose interest. That's really the ultimate goal. The ultimate
goal is not just a lot of the public. It's
to make things sound so complicated that you get tired
of it and you lose interest and you stop believing
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in everybody. And they've succeeded in that as people like
usef rob who's part of that machine. All right, well,
you know what we're gonna do at five o'clock is
we're gonna get John Fleischman on Los Angeles Unified School
District is collapsing financially. It is so bad. They've been
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given forty five days to prove it can manage its
own finances or it's going to lose a lot of
control over its budget. It's it's almost insolvent, and they
could be over two hundred and thirty million dollars in
the red by next November and they might be unable
(23:12):
to make payroll. Now, the most fascinating thing about this
is that the uh, the number of students enrolled in
Los Angeles Unified is down almost fifty percent. Yet employee,
(23:34):
the total number of employees including teachers, are at record highs.
And I don't know what all these extra people are
doing because you only have half as many students and
you have the same number of teachers or more. So
there's massive theft going on of tax money. And I
realized most people don't use the LA unified system anymore,
(23:58):
certainly not people listening to our show. You know mostly
now it's babysitting for illegal alien children.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It's it's it's.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
It's got extremely low test scores, some of the worst
in the country. So whatever they're doing is having is
not helping the kids at all. We'll talk more about
this after five o'clock with John Fleischmann, the Political Analyst.
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We're on live right now. The latest plague to hit
Boyle Heights because of the eighty five pounds of rotting
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food is a major fly infestation growth. It's really disgusting.
Here's a report from KTLA Channel five.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
These flies. Since we've gotten here and talking about it
here on TV, we've actually been swatting a few away ourselves.
We even saw one cleanup crew here swatting them away
as well. So people are definitely feeling them seeing him.
They're a nuisance. And this is after a weekend where
a water main break. Take a look at this. A
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water main break happened just about ten blocks from the
facility here. Now, I did talk to cal Water, who
said that the water main break had nothing to do
with the cleanup efforts or what was happening here. They
told me it was completely unrelated, but that folks in
the area did lose water for a brief time, but
by Sunday night it was all fixed and the water
(25:45):
was restored. Some folks, though, think that the rotting smell
and the water could be making just ripe conditions for bugs,
these mosquitoes, these flies that we're talking about. One man
says he's now scared that the bugs could possibly be
carrying a disease.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Yes, you can smell it. You can smell the bad odor.
You can feel it in your eyes. And there's a
lot of mosquitoes that come here and enter the room.
And yes, flies too, and that's dangerous because they sting you.
They come and bite you, and I don't want that
kind of sickness.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Or we're deep into hell, aren't we? Stinging biting flies?
Eighty five million pounds of rotting food. A mayor who's
utterly clueless and gets angry at a crowd that boos
her and tries to get them to clap if they
want to listen. There's nothing to listen to. They're getting
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bitten by by diseased flies. God coming up after five,
we're gonna John Fleischbannon to talk about the soon to
be insolvent Los Angeles Unified School District. The hits keep
on coming, and on a state level, the state legislature
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is maybe putting out a business, a goat landscaping company.
There is a company in Gilroy up in northern California
called Green Goat Landscapers. They have a thousand goats that
eat vegetation and they're a good tool to try to
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prevent wildfires because they eat a lot they eat garbage, too.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
They eat everything goats.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And the thing is, the state passed the law that
requires goat herders to be paid on a twenty four
hour per day, seven day a week, hourly basis. Right
now they're on a monthly salary system. And somehow the
legislature stuck their beaks into Green goat Landscapers and said, no,
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you've got to pay the goat herds twenty four hours
a day, seven days a week, but not sheep herders.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
The guy who runs the business, Brian Allen, said it
would take our wages from sixty four thousand dollars up
to two hundred and forty thousand dollars a year what
they have to pay the goat herders. Company says it
can't afford to pay the costs. They'd have to lay
off their three goat herders. And without the herders, the
goats can't be taken care of. The companies will have
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to get rid of them. Nobody's gonna eat the brush,
and greater risk of a wildfire. This is the California legislature.
How did they even think of this? He's in fact
another company, Western Graziers their owner said, we're gonna have
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to sell these goats to slaughter.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yes, and we'll go out of business and file bankruptcy
and we're done with the state of California. Tim Arrowsmith
family owned business. They've been in the Bay Area for
decades and uh no, Allen's business is family owned and
they're gonna have to go out of business.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
They are pleading with the with the with.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
The vegetables in the California legislature. They have until August
thirty first to make changes. How did they ever get
involved in worrying about how much goat hurders are getting paid.
There's only three of them. There was no class action lawsuit,
no civil rights complained here.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
How many?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
You just can't make that much money in goat herding.
Just leave people alone. It keeps fires from happening. That
saves billions.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
What lockheads?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
All right, we come back John Fleischman, who's going to
explain how La Unified School District has lost almost half
of their enrollment over the years, but their spending is
higher than ever. In fact, it's over a billion dollars
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higher this year and everyone's getting massive raises. The teachers,
the support staff, administrators, but they only have half the
students and they're going to be insolvent in less than
a year and a half. John Fleishman sodesitmatter dot com
(30:38):
political analysts. Coming up next, Debra Mark Live, KFI twenty
four our newsroom.
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to two media stories, one in the Wall Street Journal
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about how Santa Monica has fallen on hard times and
then a follow up that the that the New York
Post did. I just want to mention. Later this hour,
we're going to get back to the Boyle Heights fire
because there's another story out. Do you know one of
Karen Bass's top advisors, a guy named Yusef rob He
(01:04):
left Bass some time back and is now a crisis
communications consultant for Lineage Logistics, the company who's.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Refrigeration plant war warehouse burned down. So so.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Karen Bass's old friend is doing the public relations for
Lineage Logistics. So we're not going to get the truth
from the company obviously, and they're gonna probably work to
cover up basses incompetence after the fire happened. She he
(01:44):
was an advisor and spokesperson for Bass right through the
June second primary, claiming they claim he was an unpaid advisor.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So we'll get into that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And also Channel five put out a report about what
you mentioned deb the massive fly infestation in Boyle Heights.
Now it's like one plague after another, all right, But
first you're gonna talk with businessman John Ally, because the
Paul Kiernan of the Wall Street Journal did this.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Story.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And the absurd part about the story is it's about
how Tetamonica has fallen on hard times and it blames everything.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Imaginable.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But it took until paragraph eleven or paragraph thirteen until
they quoted the owner of a business saying it's people
undergoing mental health crises and drug use that's causing part
of the problem. Well, it's the main problem. I don't
(02:53):
know if they ever used the word homeless in this story.
And then there's a clip and us we'll play this.
We'll play this now. Oliver Chee, the Santa Monica City manager,
was caught on a microphone ranting about the city and
apparently blames Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I think a year ago that maybe Santa Monica's best
days were behind it, but it can still be the
wokest place on the planet. We want to invite you
to honor George Floyd Day and Transvisibility Day. I've never
been able to manipulate so many people so quickly. Susan
Kleins thinks this is the Sopranos. We have an iron
grip on this council, and the residents are idiots, especially
those Democrat clubs. Even though I have resigned or been
(03:35):
fired or had taxpayers pay for my sexual harassment settlement,
I can promise the financial ruin I leave Santa Monica
with will not be discovered until after.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I am long gone. I don't give it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
If we're on the record, I want people to know
we are going to bulldoze that damn airport, and if
you don't like it, send me a message on next door.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Look at me. I'm the developer. Now.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I'd like to thank Santa Monica rinchs Rights. This organization
has hijacked the city for the last forty seven years.
In all my time cashing government checks, we're seeing organization
as evil as this one against his own residents?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
No one.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Did they call this place the People's Republic of Santa Monica?
What what?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
He's the city manager? I kind of don't get it.
Was he being sarcastic? Was he reading letters? Is that
his opinion? I think he's being sarcastic, Yeah, because the
New York Post has him claiming Trump's policies are are
the problem? Well, let me talk to John Alley, all right,
(04:28):
because he can explain this. John, how are you?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Oh great, great to be with you, trying to glad
you're back.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
What was that that audio we just played?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
He was at a city council meeting? What was he
mocking everybody? He's being sarcastic? What was Oliver Chief saying there?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
That was? That was our parody. We had a great
time doing it, discussing the issues that everybody's talking about,
but we disclosed, uh, to stay in line with meta rules,
that it was AI.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh okay, that was an AI clip.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It was an AI clip, And we had lots of
fun for two days, and most people agreed, and most
people acknowledged the problems, and it got people discussing what
the problems really are? This current city manager arrived from Irvine,
a mid cont amid a lot of controversy. Our group
sounded the alarm on the prior city manager, who we
(05:21):
showed had misused had funds in a previous job. So
this woke city council appointed Oliver g from Irvine in
great part because here's responsible for Helpingrizona a twenty seven
hundred acre district next to John Wayne Airport for new
housing units. Just what the majority on the Santa Monica
City Council wants to do with Santa Monica Airport. They're
(05:46):
calling a great park cost two billion, two billion, but
the market value of all of Lacity parks is barely
one billion. That's part of Oliver Chi's alignment plan. But
let's be clear, Donald Trump has nothing to do with
Santa Monica's decline. He doesn't run Santa Monica. No.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
He wite a second just to point out, since the
clip was an AI thing, she really did blame Trump
for Santa Monica's problems for real.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Absolutely. He spoke to the Wall Street Journal reporter mister
Kiernan and also to the California.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Post and in that journal article, as I mentioned, it
took thirteen paragraphs before they acknowledged the drug addicts and
the homeless people and never even use those terms.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
They used like politically correct terms, wope terms.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
The city Santa Monica was the first in LA's County
to attract addicts by concealing a program to hand out
craft pipes. That's one thing. Then there's fraud, lack of
legitimate audits and the city manager editing audits with the nonprofits.
That's what's contributed to its decline. It's in the red,
it's in bad, bad shape. It's trying, it's trying really hard.
(07:00):
They're trying to stop the decline in sales, tax revenues.
Thank goodness for the ability to install big screen TVs
on the promenade. Last two weeks, we saw more carry
There were more people carrying bags the last two weeks,
exiting shops despite the twenty seven percent vacancy rate and
pop up stores. But this last Saturday was Santa Monica's Blockfest,
(07:24):
is a major music event and it was opened to
all ages. All three blocks turned into a multi stage
music event with electronic dance and DJs. But you know what,
the Olympics and the World Cup are only two and
a half to five and a half weeks long each
of them.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Then what yeah, hang on, hang on, we'll talk some
more when we come back. As John any businessman in
Santa Monica and Wall Street Journal had a story on
why Santa Monica is such as shambles. But what they
hardly for the first thirteen paragraph I did not mention
the homelessness and the drug addicts and the mental patients
(08:04):
running the streets. It's incredible how the media covers this
stuff up. If you're living in Manhattan, you'd have no
idea what's really going on in Santa Monica. Because even
at the Wall Street Journal, the writers, the editors are
are woke or work vocals.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
We continue with businessman John Alley from Santa Monica. In
the Wall Street Journal, some woke hole reporter named Paul
Kiernan wrote a story on how Santa Monica is in
such a terrible shape, blames uh liability settlements for sex
(08:48):
abuse claims and blames the pandemic which is now over
six years ago. Blames what they call the civil unrest
after the George Floyd situation that was known as rioting
by normal people. I realized woke people never used that term.
(09:11):
Then they blame Trump because he has offended tourists. Then
they blame the wildfires next door in the Palisades. Again,
you have to go to paragraph thirteen. They finally quote
somebody who runs a pizza and sub shop, and they
(09:31):
worded as mental health crises and drug use in public spaces,
drug addicts, mental patients, homeless people. John Alliott's get him on, John.
You know, this is like a side career for you,
dealing with all the pathologies in the streets of Santa Monica,
(09:51):
also MacArthur Park. This must be so infuriating to open
something like the Wall Street Journal, which generally people hold
in high regard, and you get the same woke garbage
in a news story where they do everything they can
to avoid pointing out the hundreds and hundreds of homeless
people that are dying in the streets. I mean, that's
(10:12):
got to making nuts.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It does make us nuts. And you know the other thing.
The first thing, one of the first things that this
new city manager did was forced the resignation of a
popular police chief who actually innovated and set the pace
for more hiring. That wasn't a good sign. It's interesting
(10:35):
in much of downtown Santa Monica, hardworking people are living
inside going crazy because people outside, lying on sidewalks, hanging
out garages are there runs who are crazy and creating
dangerous situations. Last year, you know, tourism is down, Visitors
are down. All the hotels admit that the Wall Street
(10:57):
Journal article went into it. That's due to assaults. It's
due to people going back home and saying they don't
feel safe, word spreads. Unfortunately, it's just too bad.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Island next door Santa Monica used to be a second
home for us. We used to go there frequently, restaurants,
you know, to go to the hotels to eat or
have a drink, go shopping there, go walking, never go there.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Never.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Well, I can tell you in the Palisades before the fires,
the majority, the majority of people in the Palisades did
not venture into Santa Monica. They just didn't. I mean
eighty six percent of residents in Santa Monica don't go
into downtown Santa Monica. So that was not a very
(11:45):
accurate statement that Oliver she made. And you know, we
offered the Santa Monica Police Department free rent and an
open space in the middle block of the promenade for
a substation with the last two and he said, John,
it's a great idea, but I wouldn't be able to
staff it and it would be bad if it was empty.
(12:09):
So they picked a place in the Santa Monica Place,
which is the open air mall seventy percent vacant. Was
owned by very successful mace Rich, one of the foremost
developers and managers of malls, and the CEO gave it
back to Wells Fargo Bank. He gave it back, he
(12:30):
walked away from three hundred and ninety million dollars of equity.
And his quote was, the city has no end plan.
That's pretty sad.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But why aren't there enough people who actually go and
vote and throw this crowd out?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I understand.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I understand that there's a big renters group and they're
a major political force, the biggest force, but there should
be You're talking about all the people who stay indoors
all the time and won't go downtown in their own city.
Why aren't they showing up and voting or is there
not enough of them or they're just laying around and
had given up?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
John, it's almost no hope. And what's being discussed now
is the smarmatic voting machines, the equipment database. It's screwed
around with the vote in the mayor's race. Where the
only county in all of the United States that uses
SGO smartmatic voting equipment database. And it's not transparent and
(13:37):
when you're dealing with software, it can be manipulated. Is
recently as August ninth, twenty twenty four, the federal government
charge brought bribery charges against three executives and the former
chair and Dean Logan from San Francisco was brought down.
(13:59):
I guess twenty nineteen or twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I think Seattle is from.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Seattle, Okay, I'm sorry, brought down and brought to California.
And this is his job. He's running the election, he's
in charge of the election. He's in charge of keeping
this smartmattic in place. So I don't know if there
is hope, really, I just don't know. And a lot
of people have thrown their hands up because if the
(14:24):
results can be manipulated and the votes can be tallied
and people lose legitimately, but the votes aren't counted legitimately,
then we really don't have any ope until the system's
thrown out.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
All right, John, thank you for coming on again.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
John Ally, Oh, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
All right, Santa Monica businessman.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
When we come back back to Boyle Heights, We've got
more on Karen bass Is one of her top advisors.
Now has been working for Lineage, the company that owns
the refrigeration unit that went on fire. He's in charge
their pr Oh, we got the story about the massive
(15:03):
fly infestation in Boyle Heights.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
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Speaker 2 (15:11):
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Speaker 1 (15:29):
And finally, the Moist Line is back.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
This Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven
seven Moist eighty six or usually talkback feature on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
We'll do it twice on Friday.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Some of the more despicable of people in our society
are the spokesholes, public relations crisis people who guam on
to public officials and corporations, and their main job is
to lie for the official of the corporation. Virtually everybody
(16:04):
in the public domain lies like hell, whether they're in office,
candidate for office, a lot of executives, media people obviously,
right down to the reporters and anchors. There's just a
lot of lying and false information going on constantly all
day and night. And if they're not lying, they're trying
(16:24):
to confuse the issue. They're trying to mislead you, they're
trying to kick up a lot of dust and mud
and make you doubt even the truth. Now, one of
those people for a long time here in la is
someone named Yusef rob He runs one of these nonsense
companies called TK Communications. He worked Can you imagine this
(16:50):
shoveling poop for Eric Garcetti going all the way back
to when Garcetti was a council member and later mayor,
and when he got tied to shoveling Garcetti's waist, he
picked took his shovel over to Karen Bass's office and
was an unpaid advisor and eventually was her main spokesperson
(17:13):
in later years. See it's really tough being a communications
person for Karen Bass because she is a disaster. She's
always under fire, under criticism, she's always screwing up. She's
always flying out of the country or out of the city,
especially during fires. She had this pathetic wiener named Zack Sidell,
(17:36):
who is the Deputy mayor of Communications.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
He left.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
His replacement, Amanda Crumley, also left two months later in
twenty twenty five, and then this usef Rob took over
and Rob after he himself leaving Bass's office. In fact,
he was standing next to Bass for the first six
(18:01):
months of the year and he'd go with her to
news conferences like Palisades fire news conferences. Two days after
the Boyle Heights fire, two days he became a communications
(18:24):
consultant for Lineage Logistics, so he switched sides. He was
on the main unpaid public relations advisor to Karen Bass
up until the fire in Boyle Heights and then he
started working for Lineage. Now is this, obviously is a
(18:47):
way for Bass to have one of her own people
managing Lineage's response to make sure she doesn't get blamed
for anything that she looks good because ordinarily you'd think
whoever's running Lineage would be pretty pissed that she's in
Chicago worshiping Obama and having cocktails instead of helping to
(19:12):
direct the fire response.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
But that's what happened. Chatrick left for Chicago.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Because Obama was opening up his hideous library and she
was drinking again, so all dressed up and everything. And
so now Bass's spokes liars are claiming that Rob is
(19:39):
not communicating with Bass on behalf of Lineage.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Right, he works with Bass for years and then the
Lineage thing happens and he switches sides. But no, no,
I'm not working with Bass at all. Well, of course
this is what's going on. It's to make sure she'd
he doesn't get splattered with any blowback. I don't know
exactly how that would work. But out of all the
(20:07):
public relations and crisis experts in Los Angeles in California,
they're using the same one that Karen Bass was using
two days before the fire, just well, two days before
the fire. He's working for Bass, now he's working for Lineage.
Now he's quit Lineage. I'm not going to let unnecessary
(20:28):
distractions get in the way of the important things that
need to be done. So I'm not extending my volunteer
advisory work for the mayor. He's not working for the
mayor and he's not working for Lineage. If you believe that.
Even as the mayor demanded accountability from Lineage, Rob, again
(20:53):
close friends with Bass, was calling a reporter at the
LA Times on behalf of Lineage.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Is that crazy?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So the mayor is pretending, well, you have to make
Linearge accountable, and our own PR guy is calling the
LA Times to try to shape and spin the story.
Good lord, these people are disgusting, aren't they Aren't they gross?
And then when he's caught, then he resigns, doesn't want
(21:27):
to be a distraction. They'll use that same tired cann line. Oh,
I don't want to be a distraction. You're hired to
create distractions. You're hired to confuse issues, to change the subject,
to get the media to cover some stupid side issue, to.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Make people go, Well, you don't know if that's true
or not.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Wow, you sep Rob, Yeah, I remember seeing his name
all the time. All these people are just they're just gross.
Feel at least partly responsible for how disgusting the city is.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Do they ever think it's you know, it's because.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
We help promote all the lies, all the misleading, distortions,
all the nonsense, all the garbage that the public doesn't
know what's going on really, and they get bored and
they lose interest. That's really the ultimate goal. The ultimate
goal is not just a lot of the public. It's
to make things sound so complicated that you get tired
of it and you lose interest and you stop believing
(22:26):
in everybody. And they've succeeded in that as people like
usef rob who's part of that machine. All right, well,
you know what we're gonna do at five o'clock is
we're gonna get John Fleischman on Los Angeles Unified School
District is collapsing financially. It is so bad. They've been
(22:50):
given forty five days to prove it can manage its
own finances or it's going to lose a lot of
control over its budget. It's it's almost insolvent, and they
could be over two hundred and thirty million dollars in
the red by next November and they might be unable
(23:12):
to make payroll. Now, the most fascinating thing about this
is that the uh, the number of students enrolled in
Los Angeles Unified is down almost fifty percent. Yet employee,
(23:34):
the total number of employees including teachers, are at record highs.
And I don't know what all these extra people are
doing because you only have half as many students and
you have the same number of teachers or more. So
there's massive theft going on of tax money. And I
realized most people don't use the LA unified system anymore,
(23:58):
certainly not people listening to our show. You know mostly
now it's babysitting for illegal alien children.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It's it's it's.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
It's got extremely low test scores, some of the worst
in the country. So whatever they're doing is having is
not helping the kids at all. We'll talk more about
this after five o'clock with John Fleischmann, the Political Analyst.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
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We're on live right now. The latest plague to hit
Boyle Heights because of the eighty five pounds of rotting
(24:54):
food is a major fly infestation growth. It's really disgusting.
Here's a report from KTLA Channel five.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
These flies. Since we've gotten here and talking about it
here on TV, we've actually been swatting a few away ourselves.
We even saw one cleanup crew here swatting them away
as well. So people are definitely feeling them seeing him.
They're a nuisance. And this is after a weekend where
a water main break. Take a look at this. A
(25:25):
water main break happened just about ten blocks from the
facility here. Now, I did talk to cal Water, who
said that the water main break had nothing to do
with the cleanup efforts or what was happening here. They
told me it was completely unrelated, but that folks in
the area did lose water for a brief time, but
by Sunday night it was all fixed and the water
(25:45):
was restored. Some folks, though, think that the rotting smell
and the water could be making just ripe conditions for bugs,
these mosquitoes, these flies that we're talking about. One man
says he's now scared that the bugs could possibly be
carrying a disease.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Yes, you can smell it. You can smell the bad odor.
You can feel it in your eyes. And there's a
lot of mosquitoes that come here and enter the room.
And yes, flies too, and that's dangerous because they sting you.
They come and bite you, and I don't want that
kind of sickness.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Or we're deep into hell, aren't we? Stinging biting flies?
Eighty five million pounds of rotting food. A mayor who's
utterly clueless and gets angry at a crowd that boos
her and tries to get them to clap if they
want to listen. There's nothing to listen to. They're getting
(26:41):
bitten by by diseased flies. God coming up after five,
we're gonna John Fleischbannon to talk about the soon to
be insolvent Los Angeles Unified School District. The hits keep
on coming, and on a state level, the state legislature
(27:06):
is maybe putting out a business, a goat landscaping company.
There is a company in Gilroy up in northern California
called Green Goat Landscapers. They have a thousand goats that
eat vegetation and they're a good tool to try to
(27:29):
prevent wildfires because they eat a lot they eat garbage, too.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
They eat everything goats.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And the thing is, the state passed the law that
requires goat herders to be paid on a twenty four
hour per day, seven day a week, hourly basis. Right
now they're on a monthly salary system. And somehow the
legislature stuck their beaks into Green goat Landscapers and said, no,
(28:02):
you've got to pay the goat herds twenty four hours
a day, seven days a week, but not sheep herders.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
The guy who runs the business, Brian Allen, said it
would take our wages from sixty four thousand dollars up
to two hundred and forty thousand dollars a year what
they have to pay the goat herders. Company says it
can't afford to pay the costs. They'd have to lay
off their three goat herders. And without the herders, the
goats can't be taken care of. The companies will have
(28:34):
to get rid of them. Nobody's gonna eat the brush,
and greater risk of a wildfire. This is the California legislature.
How did they even think of this? He's in fact
another company, Western Graziers their owner said, we're gonna have
(28:54):
to sell these goats to slaughter.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yes, and we'll go out of business and file bankruptcy
and we're done with the state of California. Tim Arrowsmith
family owned business. They've been in the Bay Area for
decades and uh no, Allen's business is family owned and
they're gonna have to go out of business.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
They are pleading with the with the with.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
The vegetables in the California legislature. They have until August
thirty first to make changes. How did they ever get
involved in worrying about how much goat hurders are getting paid.
There's only three of them. There was no class action lawsuit,
no civil rights complained here.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
How many?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
You just can't make that much money in goat herding.
Just leave people alone. It keeps fires from happening. That
saves billions.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
What lockheads?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
All right, we come back John Fleischman, who's going to
explain how La Unified School District has lost almost half
of their enrollment over the years, but their spending is
higher than ever. In fact, it's over a billion dollars
(30:15):
higher this year and everyone's getting massive raises. The teachers,
the support staff, administrators, but they only have half the
students and they're going to be insolvent in less than
a year and a half. John Fleishman sodesitmatter dot com
(30:38):
political analysts. Coming up next, Debra Mark Live, KFI twenty
four our newsroom.
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