December 2, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (12/02) - Today is KFI's Pastathon benefitting Chef Bruno's Caterina's Club! Chef Bruno comes on the show to talk about what Caterina's Club does and how KFI's Pastathon helps every year! Kristin Samuelian from SoCal Giving Machines comes on the show to talk about SoCal Giving Machines' involvement in KFI Pastathon this year!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Caf i AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
App John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Debra Mark here live the Anaheim White House restaurant. Bruno
Serrado's Katerina's Club charity. We every year we raise lots
of money. People donate pasta and sauce. Said that Bruno
could feed thousands of children every week who are hungry
and would stay hungry if it wasn't for him, and
we're going to talk to him in just a matter
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of seconds. You can go to cafiam six forty dot
com slash pastathon and donate the money directly there. Oh
and I have the two o'clock totals. You're ready, everybody.
So far we've raised two hundred and fifty four, eight
hundred and seventy three dollars, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And we have collected fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
One thousand, six hundred and five pounds of pasta and sauce.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So that that is a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And an hour from now, about an hour and fifteen
minutes or so. I'm I don't know, they're gonna dress
me up in some stupid outfit. Uh, and I'm supposed
to dance it seemed like a monkey at a circus.
In order to get people to donate extra extra money
to Bruno and the children. Remember, all right, when you
look at this, and maybe you'll be offended by it.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Or repulsed, just remember it's for the children. I'm mad
at me.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
By the way, your wife has already had.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well, this happens every year, I know. But are you
the two you're supposed to dress me?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Is that what I heard?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, your wife is going to dress you. You're going
to dress me. You don't want to dress me? Well,
nobody else does step r Oh, this guy will dress
me over here.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
All right, let's I'll dress myself unless this outfit is
too complicated.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Actually, well, if I told no, you have to see
when you open No, when you open.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It, it's a different earthquake, aren't we burn up?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's sixty seven? Right now? What do you say? I said,
it's for the children, for.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The children, right, sure, Okay. In the meantime, brunos erad
I'll give him a big.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Round of applies.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Hello, everybody, fifteen years we've been been doing this with him,
and uh a talent KFI is a big portion of
your annual budget, is it not. I mean, you don't
really need kids, need all of you and everybody listening
at least fifty fifty.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Wow me, Shia, it's can imagine we thought Kate five
keep doing what you're doing, it would be impossible. Yes,
I always say Kate five is a big part of
Katrina for the reason for fifteen years so dy you
guys say, it's about eight million dollars so far, and
there's a lot of money to count, and that's the
reason we can feed five thousand meals as the day.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The kids you started feeding fifteen years ago, even before that,
because twenty.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Years twenty years anniversary, they're growing up and some of
them have kids now themselves. Brother definitely.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
But I have a young girl, which I believed some
Tokyo is somethingy and she was six years old when
I met her.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I think about twenty six. She's engaged a tinkers.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
She called me, I never forget what you did for
me and my family, and I have some great memory
with some kids today.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, I tell you, I bet you get that all
the time growing up.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now they're starting their own life and families and they're
so grateful for what she did back then, Oh.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
You have a one girl came last week, I had
three hundred children over here for now day I bring
children into my restaurant, right, I want kids to be
able to eat well, United State President movie style customers eating.
And the one girl came as a volunteer that night
and she said, bo, you remember me. I say no, really,
(04:02):
I was one of the hospitality kets who you're teaching,
and now I'm a food and beverage other cam the hotel.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I mean that that's a gimme hug.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, that's a great so. Yeah, do you still do
that there? Yeah, we still do kids. You teach kids
the hospitality for.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Six months if I have a few of them here tonight,
around and around. But there is great because when you
work here for six months, you can have a job
somewhere and into hospitality. And now I'm as a lot
hotel you know, which is you can't find job anywhere
in the hotel is right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That's that's that's great stuff. And I mean they were
come home.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
As you know, we have also the second project, beside
the feeding the kids, we pay first the last month deposit.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh that's right, forget about that.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
That is the fact of my God told me we
move a family in number two hundred and eighty, and
we already moved two hundred.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Ladies, you've given homes to two hundred and eighty taplage.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, you have to have a job, You have to
have children. Because you don't have a job, I can't
move you. And if you need to pay your rint,
have to unmove you in the biggest problem is always
to deposit first and last month of deposit because when
you live there by day or monthly payment, no way
you can say for five thousand dollars this day to
put us a dump payment to move to the apartment.
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I mean that's what we started fourteen years ago. The
first family then move out used to live in a
motel room, six of them, focused mom and dad twelve years.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Think about twelve years in a hotel in a motel room,
six people, six people. Yeah that is Some people don't
know what I deal with every day. But it's not
a bad deal. Like I love to do that to
have right And one of the girls who she told
me once, I'm doing my homework.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
In a toilet because that's the only quiet place in
a hotel room. About your six people. You have to
go to school if you want to study. Uneasy, I
mean think about let me she said, I lock myself
in a bathroom and I do my homework in a
bathroom to study.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Well.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
And I was one of the first family.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Move out, and I think was last week. Was a gentleman.
We two kids.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
If I'm not home, And sometimes people say again, it
was one gentleman, one father, two kids.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
We moved.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Some people sometimes think it's just a mother. Sometimes even
the father need help. Yeah, move a father, We two
kids to an apartment.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well you've heard now we're all the money is going
it these a lot of good stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
All those meals mean twenty five thousand a week a week.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
This year we celebrate the eleven million meals of eleven millions.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It's been twenty years.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
We didn't get after McDonald's numbers there very cruel.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
All right, Well.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Listen, please keep going to KFIM Sixporty dot com slash
pasta fond and they money with your credit card. You
can come here in person and donate. You could bring
all the pasta you can carry, all the sauce you
can carry. And we are going to be doing the
broadcast here at the Anaheim White House Restaurant till eight
o'clock tonight. Conway's going to come in at four. We
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got more coming up. Thank you, Bruno, give me a big
run out.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Everybody.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Hey, God, I have to kill you this time.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Please come and watch us here eight eighty seven South
Anaheim Boulevard and Anaheim. It's Bruno Serratos, Katerina's Club, his restaurant,
the Anaheim White House Restaurant, a beautiful restaurant and great food.
And today you can come and watch us do our
show and donate money to Katerina's Club. As he was
just here, twenty five thousand meals a week to hungry children.
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Twenty five thousand a week. That's incomprehensible. And the generosity
of KFI listeners supple fifty percent of the budget that
he needs to feed these kids.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So this is really really important.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Don't slack off all right, So go to CAFI AM
six forty dot com slash pastathon and empty out your
credit limit and come here and whatever you can fit
in your car truck drive over here and dump off
all the pasta sauce that you can carry in and
all these children are way more hungry than you are,
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and some of you look like you can go a few.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Days without son. That is. I didn't name any names.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I know, but these people came to see you.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
They don't want to be insulted. I think that's why
they came to be insulted. Oh, here's one more.
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(09:19):
I can't get enough of this story. This is the
nine to one one story. Have you heard about this?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Did you hear see you do? A story?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Just once or twice, and still three quarters of the
audience hasn't heard it. It broke in the last week
that the state four hundred and fifty million dollars they
spent on a new nine to one to one system
seven years it took them to build it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It doesn't work at all, None of it works.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
They're going to have to do it all over again
and probably spend another four hundred and fifty million dollars.
This lady's eyes are bugging out here. You look, you
look distressed.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
You distressing.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
This is true, and so there's a every day there's
been a new story on this. And Dan Walters has
a piece in calmatters dot org and explains, along with
the sacrament of be what happened came had four hundred
and fifty It turns out our nine to one one
system is from the nineteen seventies. The nineteen seventies, so
(10:21):
we're talking about fifty year old technology. Now, this is
the technology capital of the universe. We have more technology
companies that have created the modern world than the rest
of the world combined. And they can't build a nine
one one system. So we have fifty year old technology.
And in twenty nineteen, here's an exact Newsom quote. During
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my first week in office, I proposed making crucial updates
to modernize our antiquated nine one one system. The idea
that it's twenty nineteen, and we're using analog systems designed
decades ago.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Is astounding. We need to make investments.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
To make sure the technology aligns with devices people are
using in their daily lives. So they spent four hundred
and fifty million dollars, but they spent it on a
new idea that, by the way, we're also the capital
of disasters, are we not?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
All right?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We got the floods and the fires and the earthquakes. Sorry,
these are all her mortal fear. And so nine to
one one gets a good workout in California all the time.
But California, according to the Sacramento Bee, settled on a
design that no other state had ever implemented. They divided
the state into four regions, and they paid four technology
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companies the four hundred and fifty million dollars. Well, it
turns out the four technology companies for the four regions.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
None of it.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Nothing could talk to each other. It didn't connect. I
think I mentioned this the other day. They had four
hundred and fifty centers to root the calls, So they
started out by testing twenty three of them. Out of
the four fifty, all twenty three didn't work. It's by
the twenty third I'd love to see their face. By
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the twenty third one they plugged in, it's like, well,
this one doesn't work either. This is not the only
technology project that has been extremely expensive and has taken
a long time and is a huge bust.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Wait to hear this one.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Two thousand and five, they came up with something called
the Financial Information System for California called fiscalf. This was
supposed to be a one stop application for managing state finances.
I guess this was a government project right to manage.
You know, they spent like three hundred and fifty billion
(12:46):
dollars a year. They started this in two thousand and five.
It's been twenty years. It's still not complete. It's many
years over. They have spent more than a billion dollars
and it's supposed to be finished sometime in the next decade.
(13:08):
Maybe it's possible it's never going to be finished. I mean, well,
can you imagine the technology revolution since two thousand and five.
Well that's what they started with, and they've blown a
billion of dollars and now they've blown almost a half
a billion on this nine one one system which doesn't work,
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and you know, there are going to be more floods
and fires and earthquakes and crime and things. And if
you wonder why you call nine one one and it
doesn't pick up.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
And that's happened to me.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Oh, it's happened to me too, numerous times, numerous times.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yes, Yeah, what emergencies are going on in your neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
When I've had to call and report things?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Report things? What somebody who's eating meat?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And she does, she calls the confide people to eat meat?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
All right, all right, well we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Let me tell you one thing about one reason the
Hall station and Deverra and I and everybody else on
the station gets involved with bruno Is. We know what
he's going to do with the money. We know he
feeds the kids.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, you you probably heard what's going on in Minnesota,
right have you heard this?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Apparently they.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Fraudsters stole a billion dollars worth of money that was
supposed to go feed hungry children. And these were the Somalis.
Now there's I think fifty nine of them in prison,
and there's another twenty five to thirty that are going
to prison as well.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And Tim Walls that Dufus who could have these are
your fair. No Tim Walls fans, not one.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Really, I'm all right, well, well we can tell you
about him next because there's additions to the story.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
We're on till four o'clock here Conway, coming on after four.
We're at the Anaheim White House Restaurant in Anaheim. It's
eight eighty seven South Anaheim Boulevard. We were raising money
for Brunos Serratos Canarinas Club. He provides twenty five thousand
meals every week to hungry children all over the region.
And we've been doing this for fifteen years. And we
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want you to go to cafiam six forty dot com
pastathon it donate money now, everything you've got, just you know,
put it on a credit card and donate it online. Also,
we've got the co hosting Prize.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
There's an auction.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Top bid is thirty eight hundred dollars to spend an
hour co hosting the show with me.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
And you're worth more than thirty eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I'm just gonna say thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And also, at about three point fifteen or so, what's
become an annual embarrassing, humiliating tradition. I'm going to dress
up in some silly outfit and dance or prance for
special This is for special dits now, so I want
you to come to the Anaheim White House in person.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
This isn't a freebie, guys. He's not doing this for free.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Otherwise I'll just dress up and not dance. Oh no,
let me just dress up and go home that way.
By the way, I got a text from the division
president for iHeart here, Paul Corvino, and he wrote me
a note, I want to see you prance.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well you better be here so you can see him prayer.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
This is the environment I have to work in. Let's
now talk to Kristin Simulian. I got that right pretty close. Wait,
turn the mind that would help Simuelian Samuelin her mic is.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Still not on. I don't know what the problem is. Okay,
there we go. How about this?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, okay, perfect, Let's try take three Kristin Samuelin Samuelin. Yeah,
you're with so cal Giving Machines. Even when pastathon is over,
you can donate to Katarina's club at a giving machine.
There's four locations in southern California. Through the end of
the year, Huntington Beach Pier, San Clemente Outlets, Riverside at
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Tyler Mall, and Old Town San Diego at.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Twig Street parking Lot. See Kristin explain this. I've never
heard of this until this past week or so. So
cal giving machines, what is it?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Okay, So imagine a vending machine, right, but instead of
soda and chips and candy, you can actually donate to
local charities. These are very specific items that are very
much in need.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Soccer balls for kids.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
At Boys and Girls Club, meals for kids, and of
course Katarina's Club, which does so much good, have been
very impressed today.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So you walk up to the machine and I guess
you press a button.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
You can press every button if you want, right, Yeah,
And the items in there arranged from five dollars on
the low end, so it's accessible to everybody, two hundred
on the top end, and one hundred percent of those dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Go to the charity of your choice.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
And I know you talked about that earlier.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Dollars is really an issue.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, people are having trouble trusting and that's why you
blame them. We hooked up with Bruno Serrato and it's like, no,
this guy is real and all the money goes to
food for the kids and all the related expenses, and
that's what your company does as well. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
So it's so throughout the holidays, after this great event
is open over, you can still donate to Katarina's Club
or any of these great local charities. Like you said,
we're in the four locations that you mentioned. We're also
at the Grove up in Los Angeles, so and every
location has unique local charity. So we like to keep
the money right here where you live.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Right.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
One has been around, So twenty sixteen was the beginning.
This year we're in one hundred and twenty six cities,
twenty one country's six continents.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Wow, so this is a global campaign.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So this is really working people are people are using
it and trusting it and it's working out.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, and we just you know, it's just a great way.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
You know, you can go online and donate to almost
any nonprofit these days, but when you have an opportunity
to interact and give a specific item, something specific to
one of the neighbors in your community, I think there's
a little bit of a difference there and so that's
you know, visiting a giving machine is more than about
just donating. It's it really is a giving experience, and
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we like to.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Think about that. Some of them are local charities, then
all of them are local of them are local charities. Yeah, yeah,
I'm really I got to get you over to the machine.
We got one right here. Oh you have one? Yeah, yes,
I got to go over there.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Actually, how it works? Okay, all right, this is so
cal giving machines. And I guess it's the.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
End of the year. Well, don't wait till the end
of the year. I mean, do this, do this right now. No,
come out right away and you can give to Catarina's Club.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
There are locations Huntington Beach, Pier, San Clemente Outlets, Riverside
at Tyler Mall, Old Town, San Diego at the Twiggs
Street parking lot C.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And you mentioned also.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
The growth the grove as well, which I was just
at a couple of weeks ago. All right, this is
a great idea, Kristin Samuelin Samulin.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You won't forget that.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Now, that's not remember the griving machine.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Don't remember you remember her? Uh yeah, go to the
giving machine and give. Thank you for coming than you
really appreciate. Its fun to be here, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Uh So, in about half an hour or so, we're
going to do the outfit and the prancing.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I'm expecting people to show up in even.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Greater numbers at eighty seven South Anaheim Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I don't like it to guys who get excited about this.
This is with you.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Oh yeah, this is going to be a great opportunity
for somebody to dance with.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah. When you're in radio, these are the kind of
groupies you get. You get middle aged men. Uh, you
take what you can get. Uh So we're going to do.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
That next hour and bid on the auction prize to
co host the show as well. Okay, if I am
six forty dot com.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Don't you want to co host with John?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I mean, look how fun he is, right, I mean, look,
you're in the same room just with him.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I could play dress up that day, that's right, he
could wear the outfit that he's going to prance around him.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I'll be whatever you want me to be. Oh not you.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm not terrified your idea is all right, Well, all right,
we come back, we'll get to uh why you shouldn't
be donating money in Minnesota right now to a lot
of these charities because this it's it's got worse. We
got more details on this story. Uh, and Tim Walls
is really flailing around Deborah Mark.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, let's go ahead, let it out of your system.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay, Deborah Mark Clack, you're not blooming at me?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
No? Give her cheers? Thank you? You're like little kids.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Deborah.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I will be here at four o'clock and then Conway
comes in with his crowd after four, and then at
about three point fifteen.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Uh, I had a dis ridiculous Oh, I can't wait.
Is it time yet.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
To dress up? And people better donate money? And you
better leave work now and get here eight eighty seven
South Anaheim Boulevard Here at Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You don't want to miss it. It's a good time,
that's right now.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
This is why you ought to be donating money to
Bruno Chef Bruno and Katerina's club, because we've been doing
this with him now fifteen years, and he was doing
it even five years before that. Because you know, I've
told you there's a lot of sketchy nonprofits in La right,
especially in the homeless industry well up in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
This is the mother load.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I actually, you know, we do fraud stories almost every
day on the show, and this is the mother of
all fraud stories.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Tim Walls apparently was.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Terrified of offending the Somali residents in Minneapolis. There's eighty
thousand of them and they have been coming in for
years to the point where quite a few of them
are citizens and they vote, and they're now a major
voting block. And he was told, and he's, you know,
the governor of Minnesota, former vice presidential candidate.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
He was told repeatedly about all the fraud.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
There were local prosecutors, local officials investigating and saying Governor Waltz,
this is a disaster, and he wouldn't let any of
the investigations go forward because, as somebody put it here
in a story, if in order to win the state,
you have to win Minneapolis, and to win Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You have to win the Somali vote.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And so the Somali vote was more important than the
one billion dollars in taxpayer dollars that were stolen by
these fake nonprofits that was supposed to feed get this
hungry children, all right, and now it's broken through. The
New York Times covered it because a lot of the
media was ignoring it because it has been known for
(24:30):
several years. But when during the campaign last year, do
you remember hearing about this? No, And it was a
billion dollars. And Christy Nome, the Homeland Security Secretary, was
at the cabinet meeting today with Trump and she.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Said that half hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Half of all the Minnesota visas are fraudulent. Half have
submitted fraudulent visa applications. Gnome said to Trump, you told
me to look into Minnesota and their fraud on visas
and their programs. Fifty percent are fraudulent, which means that
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wacko Governor Waltz is either an idiot or he did
it on purpose. And I think it's both, Sir, Hope
we have video and audio this. He brought people in
there illegally that never should have been in the country,
and they were somebody that they're not and they were
married to somebody who was their brother or someone else.
You know, they think Ilhan Homar, the congressman there, actually
(25:37):
married her brother in order to I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Get him citizenship or something.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So Lizbeak has has a colm today at Fox News
laying out the case. And I read from the New
York Times report yesterday and in twenty twenty, Minnesota officials had.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Suspicions about this organization.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's called feeding our future, Feeding our future.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Right, there's more, and oh, oh, there is more.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Well, it looks like Trump descending in ice strike teams.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
To Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
This just didn't.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Oh my god, let me see.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Somali nationals living in the Minneapolis Saint Paul area will
be the target of ice strike teams. And he ended
temporary protected status for Somali's last week, effective immediately, and
in a statement of News Nation where this report comes from,
said there it's Tricia McLachlan, the Assistant DHS secretary, said,
(26:44):
every day ICE enforces the laws of the nation. You know,
that's what all this is. The bottom line is are
just enforcing existing law. And can you believe literally riots
protesting enforcing the law because people haven't seen the law
enforced in so many years And when they say it,
it's like, oh my god, that's harsh, that's wrong. It's like, no,
that's what should have been done for the last twenty years.
(27:06):
That's that's what enforcing the law looks like. We're this
is a bloodthirsty crash. Have you ever happened to been
around when a crime was committed, Like you witnessed a
crime or you were adjacent to it. Right when the
police show up, it's not pretty. I was on Santa
Monica with my wife, I think we were on the promenade,
(27:29):
which used to be nice, and she was returning to
something in the clothing store and I stood outside and
I was looking at the burger shop next door right,
thinking about a burger purchase. Suddenly that's true. Suddenly the
big ruckus behind me. I'd whip around and there is
some criminal, some miscreant getting gang tackled by about three
(27:51):
or four cops. I mean they all jumped on him
at the same time, and he's fighting back and they're wrestling,
and I see they've got guns, and I pie tailed
it out of there. I'm not sure if I left
my wife behind or not, but no, it was violent.
It was scary. It's like, holy crap, this is serious.
And that's when enforcing the law is. You don't go
(28:11):
up with a set of social workers to go excuse me,
mister criminal, can you please put the gun down. I
know you've had a troubled childhood and you're feeling rather
angry and you're acting out. It's like, no boom, he'd
blow your head off. So what they're doing up in
Minnesota is enforcing the law. Another scheme stole healthcare benefits
from something called the Housing Stability Services Program. This was
(28:35):
supposed to help seniors and people struggling with mental health problems.
Now this this program was supposed to cost two million
dollars a year. It soared to one hundred and four
million dollars all fraud. The fraudsters found people who might
(28:55):
have been eligible for the program. They went to rehab
centers and submitted fake reimbursement claims on these people's behalf.
So I guess they walked into the rehab centers and
they got the names of the patients, filled out forums,
and then the fraudsters took all the money one hundred
and four million dollars worth. The acting US Attorney Joseph
(29:22):
Thompson a couple of months ago charged eight people with
fraud and said, I want to be clear on the
scope of the crisis. What we see are schemes stacked
upon schemes, training resources meant for those in need. I
have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor, and the
depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away.
(29:42):
This is the guy who's been chasing it all his life.
Here's another one, the Minnesota Healthcare program. It was run
by somebody named Asha Farhan Hassan, offering medical services to
young kids with autism. Well, what they did is Hassan,
a woman and her partners. They went through the Somali
(30:03):
community to recruit the children, and when a child did
not have an autism diagnosis, Hassan and her partners created
one and got them an autism Well got the money
for autism, which of course Hassan took. So they created
fake autism cases after interviewing real children. The fraudsters paid
(30:25):
parents kickbacks, so the parents got in on this three
hundred to fifteen hundred dollars and Hassan and her partners
made fourteen million dollars. She took some of that money
to buy property in Kenya, Kenya. This is this is
our tax money here. Some of the people in the
in the in the scam to feed children they bought
(30:47):
property in Turkey. Now, so WATS is getting all kinds
of crap for this, right, it's a billion dollars. How
much money did Gavin Newsom lose to all the fraud
for the COVID unemployment scandal? Thirty two billion? Thirty two billion.
(31:09):
Waltz is getting all this crap for a billion. He's
minor league thirty two billion. Gavin Newsom, He gets no criticism,
no blowback, no investigation.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
What's he made of? If they ever opened up that
store in Sacramento? All right, we got to take a
break getting all worked up.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Oh my goodness, No, it's almost time, John.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Then I got it.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Somebody better spent some serious money if I'm gonna dress
up my annual nightmare. All right, Hey, you've been listening
to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
the show live on KFI Am six forty from one
to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course,
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Caf i AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
App John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Debra Mark here live the Anaheim White House restaurant. Bruno
Serrado's Katerina's Club charity. We every year we raise lots
of money. People donate pasta and sauce. Said that Bruno
could feed thousands of children every week who are hungry
and would stay hungry if it wasn't for him, and
we're going to talk to him in just a matter
(00:28):
of seconds. You can go to cafiam six forty dot
com slash pastathon and donate the money directly there. Oh
and I have the two o'clock totals. You're ready, everybody.
So far we've raised two hundred and fifty four, eight
hundred and seventy three dollars, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And we have collected fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
One thousand, six hundred and five pounds of pasta and sauce.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So that that is a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And an hour from now, about an hour and fifteen
minutes or so. I'm I don't know, they're gonna dress
me up in some stupid outfit. Uh, and I'm supposed
to dance it seemed like a monkey at a circus.
In order to get people to donate extra extra money
to Bruno and the children. Remember, all right, when you
look at this, and maybe you'll be offended by it.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Or repulsed, just remember it's for the children. I'm mad
at me.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
By the way, your wife has already had.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well, this happens every year, I know. But are you
the two you're supposed to dress me?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Is that what I heard?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, your wife is going to dress you. You're going
to dress me. You don't want to dress me? Well,
nobody else does step r Oh, this guy will dress
me over here.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
All right, let's I'll dress myself unless this outfit is
too complicated.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Actually, well, if I told no, you have to see
when you open No, when you open.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It, it's a different earthquake, aren't we burn up?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's sixty seven? Right now? What do you say? I said,
it's for the children, for.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The children, right, sure, Okay. In the meantime, brunos erad
I'll give him a big.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Round of applies.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Hello, everybody, fifteen years we've been been doing this with him,
and uh a talent KFI is a big portion of
your annual budget, is it not. I mean, you don't
really need kids, need all of you and everybody listening
at least fifty fifty.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Wow me, Shia, it's can imagine we thought Kate five
keep doing what you're doing, it would be impossible. Yes,
I always say Kate five is a big part of
Katrina for the reason for fifteen years so dy you
guys say, it's about eight million dollars so far, and
there's a lot of money to count, and that's the
reason we can feed five thousand meals as the day.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The kids you started feeding fifteen years ago, even before that,
because twenty.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Years twenty years anniversary, they're growing up and some of
them have kids now themselves. Brother definitely.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
But I have a young girl, which I believed some
Tokyo is somethingy and she was six years old when
I met her.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I think about twenty six. She's engaged a tinkers.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
She called me, I never forget what you did for
me and my family, and I have some great memory
with some kids today.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, I tell you, I bet you get that all
the time growing up.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now they're starting their own life and families and they're
so grateful for what she did back then, Oh.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
You have a one girl came last week, I had
three hundred children over here for now day I bring
children into my restaurant, right, I want kids to be
able to eat well, United State President movie style customers eating.
And the one girl came as a volunteer that night
and she said, bo, you remember me. I say no, really,
(04:02):
I was one of the hospitality kets who you're teaching,
and now I'm a food and beverage other cam the hotel.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I mean that that's a gimme hug.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, that's a great so. Yeah, do you still do
that there? Yeah, we still do kids. You teach kids
the hospitality for.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Six months if I have a few of them here tonight,
around and around. But there is great because when you
work here for six months, you can have a job
somewhere and into hospitality. And now I'm as a lot
hotel you know, which is you can't find job anywhere
in the hotel is right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That's that's that's great stuff. And I mean they were
come home.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
As you know, we have also the second project, beside
the feeding the kids, we pay first the last month deposit.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh that's right, forget about that.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
That is the fact of my God told me we
move a family in number two hundred and eighty, and
we already moved two hundred.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Ladies, you've given homes to two hundred and eighty taplage.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, you have to have a job, You have to
have children. Because you don't have a job, I can't
move you. And if you need to pay your rint,
have to unmove you in the biggest problem is always
to deposit first and last month of deposit because when
you live there by day or monthly payment, no way
you can say for five thousand dollars this day to
put us a dump payment to move to the apartment.
(05:23):
I mean that's what we started fourteen years ago. The
first family then move out used to live in a
motel room, six of them, focused mom and dad twelve years.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Think about twelve years in a hotel in a motel room,
six people, six people. Yeah that is Some people don't
know what I deal with every day. But it's not
a bad deal. Like I love to do that to
have right And one of the girls who she told
me once, I'm doing my homework.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
In a toilet because that's the only quiet place in
a hotel room. About your six people. You have to
go to school if you want to study. Uneasy, I
mean think about let me she said, I lock myself
in a bathroom and I do my homework in a
bathroom to study.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Well.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
And I was one of the first family.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Move out, and I think was last week. Was a gentleman.
We two kids.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
If I'm not home, And sometimes people say again, it
was one gentleman, one father, two kids.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
We moved.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Some people sometimes think it's just a mother. Sometimes even
the father need help. Yeah, move a father, We two
kids to an apartment.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well you've heard now we're all the money is going
it these a lot of good stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
All those meals mean twenty five thousand a week a week.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
This year we celebrate the eleven million meals of eleven millions.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It's been twenty years.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
We didn't get after McDonald's numbers there very cruel.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
All right, Well.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Listen, please keep going to KFIM Sixporty dot com slash
pasta fond and they money with your credit card. You
can come here in person and donate. You could bring
all the pasta you can carry, all the sauce you
can carry. And we are going to be doing the
broadcast here at the Anaheim White House Restaurant till eight
o'clock tonight. Conway's going to come in at four. We
(07:14):
got more coming up. Thank you, Bruno, give me a big
run out.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Everybody.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Hey, God, I have to kill you this time.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Please come and watch us here eight eighty seven South
Anaheim Boulevard and Anaheim. It's Bruno Serratos, Katerina's Club, his restaurant,
the Anaheim White House Restaurant, a beautiful restaurant and great food.
And today you can come and watch us do our
show and donate money to Katerina's Club. As he was
just here, twenty five thousand meals a week to hungry children.
(07:53):
Twenty five thousand a week. That's incomprehensible. And the generosity
of KFI listeners supple fifty percent of the budget that
he needs to feed these kids.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So this is really really important.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Don't slack off all right, So go to CAFI AM
six forty dot com slash pastathon and empty out your
credit limit and come here and whatever you can fit
in your car truck drive over here and dump off
all the pasta sauce that you can carry in and
all these children are way more hungry than you are,
(08:28):
and some of you look like you can go a few.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Days without son. That is. I didn't name any names.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I know, but these people came to see you.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
They don't want to be insulted. I think that's why
they came to be insulted. Oh, here's one more.
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(09:19):
I can't get enough of this story. This is the
nine to one one story. Have you heard about this?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Did you hear see you do? A story?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Just once or twice, and still three quarters of the
audience hasn't heard it. It broke in the last week
that the state four hundred and fifty million dollars they
spent on a new nine to one to one system
seven years it took them to build it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It doesn't work at all, None of it works.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
They're going to have to do it all over again
and probably spend another four hundred and fifty million dollars.
This lady's eyes are bugging out here. You look, you
look distressed.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
You distressing.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
This is true, and so there's a every day there's
been a new story on this. And Dan Walters has
a piece in calmatters dot org and explains, along with
the sacrament of be what happened came had four hundred
and fifty It turns out our nine to one one
system is from the nineteen seventies. The nineteen seventies, so
(10:21):
we're talking about fifty year old technology. Now, this is
the technology capital of the universe. We have more technology
companies that have created the modern world than the rest
of the world combined. And they can't build a nine
one one system. So we have fifty year old technology.
And in twenty nineteen, here's an exact Newsom quote. During
(10:45):
my first week in office, I proposed making crucial updates
to modernize our antiquated nine one one system. The idea
that it's twenty nineteen, and we're using analog systems designed
decades ago.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Is astounding. We need to make investments.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
To make sure the technology aligns with devices people are
using in their daily lives. So they spent four hundred
and fifty million dollars, but they spent it on a
new idea that, by the way, we're also the capital
of disasters, are we not?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
All right?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We got the floods and the fires and the earthquakes. Sorry,
these are all her mortal fear. And so nine to
one one gets a good workout in California all the time.
But California, according to the Sacramento Bee, settled on a
design that no other state had ever implemented. They divided
the state into four regions, and they paid four technology
(11:38):
companies the four hundred and fifty million dollars. Well, it
turns out the four technology companies for the four regions.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
None of it.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Nothing could talk to each other. It didn't connect. I
think I mentioned this the other day. They had four
hundred and fifty centers to root the calls, So they
started out by testing twenty three of them. Out of
the four fifty, all twenty three didn't work. It's by
the twenty third I'd love to see their face. By
(12:09):
the twenty third one they plugged in, it's like, well,
this one doesn't work either. This is not the only
technology project that has been extremely expensive and has taken
a long time and is a huge bust.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Wait to hear this one.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Two thousand and five, they came up with something called
the Financial Information System for California called fiscalf. This was
supposed to be a one stop application for managing state finances.
I guess this was a government project right to manage.
You know, they spent like three hundred and fifty billion
(12:46):
dollars a year. They started this in two thousand and five.
It's been twenty years. It's still not complete. It's many
years over. They have spent more than a billion dollars
and it's supposed to be finished sometime in the next decade.
(13:08):
Maybe it's possible it's never going to be finished. I mean, well,
can you imagine the technology revolution since two thousand and five.
Well that's what they started with, and they've blown a
billion of dollars and now they've blown almost a half
a billion on this nine one one system which doesn't work,
(13:31):
and you know, there are going to be more floods
and fires and earthquakes and crime and things. And if
you wonder why you call nine one one and it
doesn't pick up.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
And that's happened to me.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Oh, it's happened to me too, numerous times, numerous times.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yes, Yeah, what emergencies are going on in your neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
When I've had to call and report things?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Report things? What somebody who's eating meat?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And she does, she calls the confide people to eat meat?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
All right, all right, well we come back.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Let me tell you one thing about one reason the
Hall station and Deverra and I and everybody else on
the station gets involved with bruno Is. We know what
he's going to do with the money. We know he
feeds the kids.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well, you you probably heard what's going on in Minnesota,
right have you heard this?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Apparently they.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Fraudsters stole a billion dollars worth of money that was
supposed to go feed hungry children. And these were the Somalis.
Now there's I think fifty nine of them in prison,
and there's another twenty five to thirty that are going
to prison as well.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And Tim Walls that Dufus who could have these are
your fair. No Tim Walls fans, not one.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Really, I'm all right, well, well we can tell you
about him next because there's additions to the story.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
We're on till four o'clock here Conway, coming on after four.
We're at the Anaheim White House Restaurant in Anaheim. It's
eight eighty seven South Anaheim Boulevard. We were raising money
for Brunos Serratos Canarinas Club. He provides twenty five thousand
meals every week to hungry children all over the region.
And we've been doing this for fifteen years. And we
(15:39):
want you to go to cafiam six forty dot com
pastathon it donate money now, everything you've got, just you know,
put it on a credit card and donate it online. Also,
we've got the co hosting Prize.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
There's an auction.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Top bid is thirty eight hundred dollars to spend an
hour co hosting the show with me.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
And you're worth more than thirty eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I'm just gonna say thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And also, at about three point fifteen or so, what's
become an annual embarrassing, humiliating tradition. I'm going to dress
up in some silly outfit and dance or prance for
special This is for special dits now, so I want
you to come to the Anaheim White House in person.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
This isn't a freebie, guys. He's not doing this for free.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Otherwise I'll just dress up and not dance. Oh no,
let me just dress up and go home that way.
By the way, I got a text from the division
president for iHeart here, Paul Corvino, and he wrote me
a note, I want to see you prance.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well you better be here so you can see him prayer.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
This is the environment I have to work in. Let's
now talk to Kristin Simulian. I got that right pretty close. Wait,
turn the mind that would help Simuelian Samuelin her mic is.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Still not on. I don't know what the problem is. Okay,
there we go. How about this?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, okay, perfect, Let's try take three Kristin Samuelin Samuelin. Yeah,
you're with so cal Giving Machines. Even when pastathon is over,
you can donate to Katarina's club at a giving machine.
There's four locations in southern California. Through the end of
the year, Huntington Beach Pier, San Clemente Outlets, Riverside at
(17:31):
Tyler Mall, and Old Town San Diego at.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Twig Street parking Lot. See Kristin explain this. I've never
heard of this until this past week or so. So
cal giving machines, what is it?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Okay, So imagine a vending machine, right, but instead of
soda and chips and candy, you can actually donate to
local charities. These are very specific items that are very
much in need.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Soccer balls for kids.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
At Boys and Girls Club, meals for kids, and of
course Katarina's Club, which does so much good, have been
very impressed today.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So you walk up to the machine and I guess
you press a button.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
You can press every button if you want, right, Yeah,
And the items in there arranged from five dollars on
the low end, so it's accessible to everybody, two hundred
on the top end, and one hundred percent of those dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Go to the charity of your choice.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
And I know you talked about that earlier.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Dollars is really an issue.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, people are having trouble trusting and that's why you
blame them. We hooked up with Bruno Serrato and it's like, no,
this guy is real and all the money goes to
food for the kids and all the related expenses, and
that's what your company does as well. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
So it's so throughout the holidays, after this great event
is open over, you can still donate to Katarina's Club
or any of these great local charities. Like you said,
we're in the four locations that you mentioned. We're also
at the Grove up in Los Angeles, so and every
location has unique local charity. So we like to keep
the money right here where you live.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Right.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
One has been around, So twenty sixteen was the beginning.
This year we're in one hundred and twenty six cities,
twenty one country's six continents.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Wow, so this is a global campaign.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So this is really working people are people are using
it and trusting it and it's working out.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, and we just you know, it's just a great way.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
You know, you can go online and donate to almost
any nonprofit these days, but when you have an opportunity
to interact and give a specific item, something specific to
one of the neighbors in your community, I think there's
a little bit of a difference there and so that's
you know, visiting a giving machine is more than about
just donating. It's it really is a giving experience, and
(19:43):
we like to.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Think about that. Some of them are local charities, then
all of them are local of them are local charities. Yeah, yeah,
I'm really I got to get you over to the machine.
We got one right here. Oh you have one? Yeah, yes,
I got to go over there.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Actually, how it works? Okay, all right, this is so
cal giving machines. And I guess it's the.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
End of the year. Well, don't wait till the end
of the year. I mean, do this, do this right now. No,
come out right away and you can give to Catarina's Club.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
There are locations Huntington Beach, Pier, San Clemente Outlets, Riverside
at Tyler Mall, Old Town, San Diego at the Twiggs
Street parking lot C.
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And you mentioned also.
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The growth the grove as well, which I was just
at a couple of weeks ago. All right, this is
a great idea, Kristin Samuelin Samulin.
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You won't forget that.
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Now, that's not remember the griving machine.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Don't remember you remember her? Uh yeah, go to the
giving machine and give. Thank you for coming than you
really appreciate. Its fun to be here, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Uh So, in about half an hour or so, we're
going to do the outfit and the prancing.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I'm expecting people to show up in even.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Greater numbers at eighty seven South Anaheim Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I don't like it to guys who get excited about this.
This is with you.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Oh yeah, this is going to be a great opportunity
for somebody to dance with.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah. When you're in radio, these are the kind of
groupies you get. You get middle aged men. Uh, you
take what you can get. Uh So we're going to do.
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That next hour and bid on the auction prize to
co host the show as well. Okay, if I am
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Speaker 1 (21:22):
Don't you want to co host with John?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I mean, look how fun he is, right, I mean, look,
you're in the same room just with him.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I could play dress up that day, that's right, he
could wear the outfit that he's going to prance around him.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I'll be whatever you want me to be. Oh not you.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm not terrified your idea is all right, Well, all right,
we come back, we'll get to uh why you shouldn't
be donating money in Minnesota right now to a lot
of these charities because this it's it's got worse. We
got more details on this story. Uh, and Tim Walls
is really flailing around Deborah Mark.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, let's go ahead, let it out of your system.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay, Deborah Mark Clack, you're not blooming at me?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
No? Give her cheers? Thank you? You're like little kids.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Deborah.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I will be here at four o'clock and then Conway
comes in with his crowd after four, and then at
about three point fifteen.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Uh, I had a dis ridiculous Oh, I can't wait.
Is it time yet.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
To dress up? And people better donate money? And you
better leave work now and get here eight eighty seven
South Anaheim Boulevard Here at Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You don't want to miss it. It's a good time,
that's right now.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
This is why you ought to be donating money to
Bruno Chef Bruno and Katerina's club, because we've been doing
this with him now fifteen years, and he was doing
it even five years before that. Because you know, I've
told you there's a lot of sketchy nonprofits in La right,
especially in the homeless industry well up in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
This is the mother load.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I actually, you know, we do fraud stories almost every
day on the show, and this is the mother of
all fraud stories.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Tim Walls apparently was.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Terrified of offending the Somali residents in Minneapolis. There's eighty
thousand of them and they have been coming in for
years to the point where quite a few of them
are citizens and they vote, and they're now a major
voting block. And he was told, and he's, you know,
the governor of Minnesota, former vice presidential candidate.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
He was told repeatedly about all the fraud.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
There were local prosecutors, local officials investigating and saying Governor Waltz,
this is a disaster, and he wouldn't let any of
the investigations go forward because, as somebody put it here
in a story, if in order to win the state,
you have to win Minneapolis, and to win Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You have to win the Somali vote.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And so the Somali vote was more important than the
one billion dollars in taxpayer dollars that were stolen by
these fake nonprofits that was supposed to feed get this
hungry children, all right, and now it's broken through. The
New York Times covered it because a lot of the
media was ignoring it because it has been known for
(24:30):
several years. But when during the campaign last year, do
you remember hearing about this? No, And it was a
billion dollars. And Christy Nome, the Homeland Security Secretary, was
at the cabinet meeting today with Trump and she.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Said that half hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Half of all the Minnesota visas are fraudulent. Half have
submitted fraudulent visa applications. Gnome said to Trump, you told
me to look into Minnesota and their fraud on visas
and their programs. Fifty percent are fraudulent, which means that
(25:14):
wacko Governor Waltz is either an idiot or he did
it on purpose. And I think it's both, Sir, Hope
we have video and audio this. He brought people in
there illegally that never should have been in the country,
and they were somebody that they're not and they were
married to somebody who was their brother or someone else.
You know, they think Ilhan Homar, the congressman there, actually
(25:37):
married her brother in order to I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Get him citizenship or something.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So Lizbeak has has a colm today at Fox News
laying out the case. And I read from the New
York Times report yesterday and in twenty twenty, Minnesota officials had.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Suspicions about this organization.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's called feeding our future, Feeding our future.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Right, there's more, and oh, oh, there is more.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Well, it looks like Trump descending in ice strike teams.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
To Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
This just didn't.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Oh my god, let me see.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Somali nationals living in the Minneapolis Saint Paul area will
be the target of ice strike teams. And he ended
temporary protected status for Somali's last week, effective immediately, and
in a statement of News Nation where this report comes from,
said there it's Tricia McLachlan, the Assistant DHS secretary, said,
(26:44):
every day ICE enforces the laws of the nation. You know,
that's what all this is. The bottom line is are
just enforcing existing law. And can you believe literally riots
protesting enforcing the law because people haven't seen the law
enforced in so many years And when they say it,
it's like, oh my god, that's harsh, that's wrong. It's like, no,
that's what should have been done for the last twenty years.
(27:06):
That's that's what enforcing the law looks like. We're this
is a bloodthirsty crash. Have you ever happened to been
around when a crime was committed, Like you witnessed a
crime or you were adjacent to it. Right when the
police show up, it's not pretty. I was on Santa
Monica with my wife, I think we were on the promenade,
(27:29):
which used to be nice, and she was returning to
something in the clothing store and I stood outside and
I was looking at the burger shop next door right,
thinking about a burger purchase. Suddenly that's true. Suddenly the
big ruckus behind me. I'd whip around and there is
some criminal, some miscreant getting gang tackled by about three
(27:51):
or four cops. I mean they all jumped on him
at the same time, and he's fighting back and they're wrestling,
and I see they've got guns, and I pie tailed
it out of there. I'm not sure if I left
my wife behind or not, but no, it was violent.
It was scary. It's like, holy crap, this is serious.
And that's when enforcing the law is. You don't go
(28:11):
up with a set of social workers to go excuse me,
mister criminal, can you please put the gun down. I
know you've had a troubled childhood and you're feeling rather
angry and you're acting out. It's like, no boom, he'd
blow your head off. So what they're doing up in
Minnesota is enforcing the law. Another scheme stole healthcare benefits
from something called the Housing Stability Services Program. This was
(28:35):
supposed to help seniors and people struggling with mental health problems.
Now this this program was supposed to cost two million
dollars a year. It soared to one hundred and four
million dollars all fraud. The fraudsters found people who might
(28:55):
have been eligible for the program. They went to rehab
centers and submitted fake reimbursement claims on these people's behalf.
So I guess they walked into the rehab centers and
they got the names of the patients, filled out forums,
and then the fraudsters took all the money one hundred
and four million dollars worth. The acting US Attorney Joseph
(29:22):
Thompson a couple of months ago charged eight people with
fraud and said, I want to be clear on the
scope of the crisis. What we see are schemes stacked
upon schemes, training resources meant for those in need. I
have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor, and the
depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away.
(29:42):
This is the guy who's been chasing it all his life.
Here's another one, the Minnesota Healthcare program. It was run
by somebody named Asha Farhan Hassan, offering medical services to
young kids with autism. Well, what they did is Hassan,
a woman and her partners. They went through the Somali
(30:03):
community to recruit the children, and when a child did
not have an autism diagnosis, Hassan and her partners created
one and got them an autism Well got the money
for autism, which of course Hassan took. So they created
fake autism cases after interviewing real children. The fraudsters paid
(30:25):
parents kickbacks, so the parents got in on this three
hundred to fifteen hundred dollars and Hassan and her partners
made fourteen million dollars. She took some of that money
to buy property in Kenya, Kenya. This is this is
our tax money here. Some of the people in the
in the in the scam to feed children they bought
(30:47):
property in Turkey. Now, so WATS is getting all kinds
of crap for this, right, it's a billion dollars. How
much money did Gavin Newsom lose to all the fraud
for the COVID unemployment scandal? Thirty two billion? Thirty two billion.
(31:09):
Waltz is getting all this crap for a billion. He's
minor league thirty two billion. Gavin Newsom, He gets no criticism,
no blowback, no investigation.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
What's he made of? If they ever opened up that
store in Sacramento? All right, we got to take a
break getting all worked up.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Oh my goodness, No, it's almost time, John.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Then I got it.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Somebody better spent some serious money if I'm gonna dress
up my annual nightmare. All right, Hey, you've been listening
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