October 3, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (10/03) - USC Prof. Michael Mische comes on the show to talk about the Chevron refinery fire last night. More on the Chevron refinery fire last night. Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about the latest going on with Diddy's sentencing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Canf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John
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from one until four o'clock, and then after four o'clock
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have quite a lineup on the show, and I'll get
to it and tell you what we're going to be
doing in a few minutes. The first thing I want
to do is get on Michael mache He's the professor
at USC. It was quite a night last night on
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the West Side. As we were going to bed, we
were tracking a murderer who was on the loose in Westwood,
about well a mile and a half from our house.
Helicopters they closed Sunset Boulevard. I don't even know what
they caught the guy, but I don't know what that
was about. And then wake up in the morning and
this refinery in El Segundo had exploded and there was
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a huge fireball. And this is a major refinery that
Chevron runs. It's a jet fuel production unit that exploded.
And we're gonna get Michael Mashae to see if this
is gonna The only thing I thought of this morning
is how does that affect gas prices? Because we know
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they might go to eight dollars a gallon. So now
what's gonna happen. Let's get Michael Line.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Hey, John, how are you today?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm good. Now I'm reading and you know, this is
just the new version of the story that the refinery
damaged a jet fuel production unit. But they have to
close down the whole refinery, including where they produce automobile gasoline.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Right, that's generally the standard operating procedures with events like this.
You know, refineries are extraordinarily complex and they are very
dangerous places. You know, that refinery is one of the
best operating refineries in the country. It has a lot
of advanced technology. But standard operating procedure would be that
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you would you would shut the refinery down for some
period of time out of an abundance of caution and
then to perform a bunch of safety tests.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Now, from what I'm reading, this refinery produces about one
fifth of all the motor vehicle fuels in southern California,
So it's twenty percent of our gasoline supply is produced here.
How long could it be offline before it we start
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seeing it at the pump significantly.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, that's a big refinery, okay, So it's the second
largest refinery in the state, so it's quite you know,
it has a lot of consequences when events like this happened.
So generally you're going to have about a two week
supply of gasoline at prevailing prices. Now, if that refinery
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stays down for any significant period of time, say longer
than two or three weeks, then we would see a
drifting of rice is upwards. So no question that, you know,
if the longer it stays down, prices will begin to increase.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Right, And twenty percent is a lot because we've talked
about how the two refineries that are probably going to
be shut down within the next few months, one in
Carson and one in Benetia. That's twenty percent of the supply,
and that could send the price of gas up to
six seven eight dollars a gallon potentially. So if this
thing was offline for a significant amount of time, that's
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twenty percent as well. So we really could be a
good trouble pounding effect.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's a big compounding effect. Okay, So
there's no doubt that we're losing refinery capacity In fact,
Phillip sixty six in southern California took their last delivery
of crude oil on Tuesday, September thirtieth, so they stop
that oil. That's the last amount of crew that went
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to them. That crew will be processed into product, and
they stopped all operations on October sixteenth. That's it, they
stopped producing. That's it. They're done.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I didn't realize it was that fat.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Done. Yeah, it's two weeks. So they're offline in two weeks,
and they had originally scheduled for December thirtieth. In my
price calculations, I actually calculated it that they would be
offline October thirty first, So that's relatively consistent. So we'll see.
We'll see the effects of that shortly. Then you have
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Valero's scheduled to come offline next year, no later than April,
but most of us believe it'll be much much quicker
than April coming offline. So there's that full twenty and
now you have the vulnerability that's been shown right here
just through Chevron. Even if they're just offline for a
matter of weeks, you can see all the problems that
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California has gotten itself. Into Just remember John just you know,
a few decades ago, we had over forty refineries in
the state. Now we're down to producing nine produced California gasoline.
That's going to go to eight in two weeks. It's
going to go to seven, you know, basically in ninety
days after that one hundred and twenty if Valero shuts down,
and now you have all the issues associated with the survivors,
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including Chevron. So the state is I think getting a
dose of reality with respect to the policies that they
that they've created in the hostile work environment, business environment
for those refineries.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And they're not doing anything about it. For all of
Newsom's talk, he did not get a buyer for the
Valero facility, and I haven't seen anything more. He was
going to give them two hundred million dollars a year
to keep the Valero facility up in Vinetia open, But
other than that idea being floated in the media, I
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don't think there's been any follow up. I mean, this
looks bad and it doesn't seem like anybody's really trying
hard to fix it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, the stay will tell you that they have a
you know, they're trying. So they approved for two thousand
permits for oil drilling in Kern County. Yesterday they had
a release of Oh, we're going to have E fifteen
gasoline and that will reduce the price by twenty cents
a gallon. That's magic economics. I mean, if you talk
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about voodoo economics, that's magical.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I don't understand they're gonna They're gonna expand the production
of ethanol. That's well, we don't.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Produce ethanol here, so we get the ethanol from out
of state. So apparently there was an economic study done
indicating that if we switch everything to ethanol, then the
price of gasoline will drop by twenty cents a gallon.
We're not quite sure whether that studies is, you know,
based in reality or not. More comments on that.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Is the average car run on ethanol, because I don't
think most people even understand that ethanol is that e
eighty five choice that you get at some point pumps
and normal cars.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Most yeah, most cars. And we're doing that search as
we speak, John, so we'll be able to respond more
specifically next week on that. But most manufacturers will say
avoid e eighty five. It will cause engine damage. It's
a more corrosive gasoline product. Not every dealer or retailer,
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outlet service station carries that product. For them to switch.
It can cost as much as sixty six thousand dollars
to install the pumps, the pipes, and the tanks for
that product that would be reflected in the in the price.
And that product is entirely imported into our state via
either trucks or rail tankers. Now I just did that
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this morning. With the trucks. It's it's eleven dollars a
barrel on a on a truck versus three dollars in
a pipeline. So the price differentials are normally.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Because reg is it is eighty seven, right, yep, yes, okay,
so this is it's yeah, because I didn't I didn't
think you could even put eighty e eighty five into
into most cars that that would cause damage. That's what
I've always thought.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well, I checked with my manufacturers yesterday and and they're like, no,
don't do it. As a matter of fact, it'll avoid
the warranty for most cars that are under warrant.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
All right, So Newsom is pushing eighty five gas because
it'll be twenty cents cheaper, except it'll corrode your engine.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Apparently so and again we are we have started that
study and we will be in a better position next
week to respond to it.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, okay, all right, Well when you when you do that,
let us know, okay, and we'll talk about it because
you're happy to do that, because this this is crazy stuff.
All right. Well listen, good talking with you.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's tough. Yeah, great talking to you, John, Okay, walk
to you next week for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Us see Professor Michael McShea, and he has been guiding
us through this massive gas price crisis that is affecting
California and only California, and entirely because of Gavin Newsom's
policies along with the Democratic legislature. It is. Uh, we've
got two refineries closing in the next few months. One
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of them is closing. I guess they're taking their last
delivery of gas, Professor mcche said, uh, in just a
matter of days. And then once that's processed through the system,
that's it. It's it's a twin facility that that Phillips
owns in Carson and Wilmington. And then you have the
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Valero facility and that's going to be closed about four months. Afterwards,
So that that that those terrible, terrible prices six seven
eight dollars a gallon are coming. They're on schedule, and
Newsom is now announced making stupid announcements to try to
cover it up.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Mork ahead, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So he just finished talking to Michael Leche about the
explosion last night and the Chevron refinery and El Segundo.
We'll talk more about that in a moment, but I
do want to tell you what we have lined up.
First of all, is there any news on Diddy's ugly
carcass being released? No, not yet.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
It's sentencing day and a bunch of people have spoken,
including his kids.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, well, that violent sex pervert. I'm rooting for being
locked up as long as possible. I think that you're
asking for.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Eleven years now they are, and you know that yesterday
or last night he sent a letter of apology to
the judge begging forgiveness the day actually the night before sentencing.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Now, I don't know who this judge is, and it
doesn't seem like anybody gets their just sentence anymore. But
if I was the judge I'd be looking at that
and I'd burst out laughing. It's like, You've got to
be kidding me. Really now here the last minute, the
last after all that's gone on for the last year
or two. Good lord, So they're still there's still they're
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still yacking, there's still making arguments.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Yeah, and then Sean Diddy comes is expected to talk
and I guess beg for leniency to the judge again
in person.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I read the New York Post and you never know
what's true that he actually booked speaking engagements in Miami
for next week, like he's expecting to get no sentence,
to get probation. If that's true, We're going to talk
to Royal Oaks from ABC News. He's their legal analyst
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after Deborah's one thirty News, and he can guide us
through the process that's going on in New York right now.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Oh, we're hearing that Didd he is speaking now apparently,
So have an update shortly and.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
At three o'clock. Loura Engel from News Nation, the cable
TV news network, as she is going to give us
a whole wrap up because we're opened by three. She's
been covering the case extensively over all this time. So
that's that's our Diddy coverage to come and oh, this
this is really important to me. This is like you know,
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from my for my for my Taste. This is the
most important thing we're going to do today. It's going
to be in the two o'clock hour. And we have
a husband and wife couple and they are Ted and
Courtney Ballaker. They have directed and produced this documentary called
The Coddling of the American Mind. It's based on a
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book that was written some years back. And I just
watched the documentary. I actually watched it this morning so
it'd be fresh in my mind. Oh my god. This
explains what went on at the universities to the past
fifteen years or so, and it's it's absolutely something you
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must watch. It's an hour and a half and it
explains how all our children, if they went through the
university system over the last fifteen or fifteen years, how
their minds were brainwashed. It's as if they were all
groomed for the woke progressive cult. And it focuses on
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three students who came in basically as blank slates to
all this and had their minds twisted to the point
where it literally drove them insane. A lot of the
stuff you've seen and heard about coming out of the universities.
How many times you said, oh my god, that's insane.
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The things they believe in are insane. Their philosophies, the
things that they say, the things that they're doing on
campus is insane. It is actually truly clinically insane. And
I it's one of these one of these movies that
I actually watched and listened to a lot of it
while I was driving today, because sitting at home on
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a sofa I'd be getting up every five minutes just going,
oh my god, I can't I can't believe this. I
can't believe this. You are not going to believe it,
but you really, you really ought to see it. It's
called The Coddling of the American Mind. It's on a
number of streaming services. We'll give you all the details,
and we're going to talk with the director, Ted Ballaker,
the producer, his wife, Courtney Ballaker. It is is one
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of the most astonishing things I have seen and heard
in a long time. Now back to the price of gasoline,
which is what you really care about the most. So
this Chevron refinery explodes last night, at about nine thirty,
a huge fireball burst into the sky, a massive explosion,
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and just rocked everybody in the immediate area in the
South Bay. And then you had this big fireball in
the air, and the LA Times well they're based right
there in El Segundo, and so they had a bunch
of reporters available and they ran out to talk to people.
And there was one guy on a soccer field, Mark Rogers.
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He was actually in mid dribble. It was at one
of these adult soccer leagues, and he said, panic briefly spread.
Some people immediately just running started evacuating at the soccer field.
Everyone first stood frozen because they didn't know what was
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going to happen. Next, I thought we got nuked or something.
You imagine suddenly this huge fireball explodes in the sky
and you don't know what it is. I mean, ever
since nine to eleven, when you hear a big bang,
you start looking up. It's like, well, are we getting invaded?
Is this a nuclear missile? And then it turned out
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to be, I guess, as benign as these things could be,
because it was a jet fuel processing plant that exploded.
But as we talked about before, it Michael Mishee, the
USC professor. They funneled through twenty percent of our gasoline supply,
so the whole refinery has been shut down, even though
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it's the jet fuel refinering a refinery that's suffered most
of the damage. But you know, they've got to take
you a look at everything. It said. It was a loud,
extended roar. I mean I didn't hear it. I don't know.
I'm about ten air miles from where this is. But
I think it happened after I had fallen asleep. I mean,
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like I said, I fell asleep to the sound of
the news helicopters and the police helicopters because there was
a murder suspect loose a mile and a half from me.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Happens on almost a nightly basis in my neck of
the woods.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, he was near Uci, near Sunset and Glen Roy.
I never even found out who this guy murdered and
where he was running from, or what the story was.
It's just, you know, we're sitting and all of a
sudden you hear the boom. It's like, oh, the helicopters
are back there. There's some bad guy loose.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Sometimes that lasts for hours, huh all night long?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well, yeah, why, I mean, I get it well because
of the eleven o'clock knows. I told my wife before we
fell asleep, I said, no, that's going to go past eleven.
Because all the junkies who run these newscasts, they have
to have live pictures of nothing rather than having a
taped picture of something. They'll just show the empty streets
in Westwood.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
But I mean, even the police helicopters drive me insane.
But hey, I'd rather than be looking for somebody right
instead of not. But it just goes on and on
and on, and then you have the news helicopters as well.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, we're gonna all right, so we'll do well. That
Royal Oaks is next ABC News Legal Analyst. On this
Ditty Circus.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
John Cobelt's show on every day from one until four.
We're watching in New York City. There. The judge is
now speaking to Sean Ditty. Comb's sentencing is about to
be announced, and the judges opened his statement by greasing
up Didty, I don't know with that baby oil that
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did he likes saying that you know his impact on
the community, he's I celebrated, an iconic all the work
that he's done. But now he's talking about his erratic,
violent behavior over the years, the drugs that he's taken,
and the court has to consider all your history. And
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so any second now we're going to find out. Let's
get from ABC News the Legal Animal hist Royal oaks
on with us Royll. We're about to We're about to
find out exactly what did He's future is going to be.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, John, your timing is pretty good. I mean it's
been going on for over six hours today and you know,
the usual stuff for the lawyers and a couple of
victim statements. But in the last half hours, so we
had a twelve minute statement by did he remember he
didn't testify at all during trial. He apologized. He said
it was disgusting, shameful and sick what he did. My
mom raised me to be better. I've lost everything, my reputation,
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family business. I beg your honor for mercy. So that
was his side, and then, as you suggesting, the judge
started to kind of blast him. He said, a history
of good works can't wash away the record in this
case shows you abuse the power and control over the
lives of women. You professal up, you drove two women
to consider suicide. He did say, Yeah, you've lifted up
some communities, you've battled a diction. But I got to
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consider everything.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
He said.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You were no John who was more than that in
a prostitution context. And now the judges just said, go
to send a substantial sentence message to the world. So
he hasn't made his announcements. You know, the probation department,
John said five to seven years. Judge could just stick
with that, or he could go a little above that.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
So that's the prosecution asked, five to seven years.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Now that was the probation department's report. They recommended as
sort of a middling five to seven years because I
think some of.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
The prosecutors wanted eleven plus exactly.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
The prosecution wanted eleven plus. The defense shocker said nothing,
He's been in jail for fourteen months. That's enough for us,
your honor, Can we go home. You're going to love
this John testimony came out to establish the Diddy is
actually booked speaking engagements half a dozen of down in
Florida next week next week and so the and the
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prosecution is saying, oh my gosh, the height of arrogance
and hubris, whatever that means. And the answer by the
defense is, well, you know, we're hoping to be released,
and you know he's going to do something, and he
wanted to want to help inmates everywhere.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
He's still speaking to her next week.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
They were booked. They were booked absolutely in order the microphones.
So you know, there were both sides to that. Coint
I think it was a bad look for Diddy. It
kind of suggested that, yeah, he's got this thing nailed
in the foot, let's go to Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I don't understand the judicial world anymore, as we've talked
about many times. But if I'm a judge and I
see this phony boloney apology at the last minute last
night before the sentence, saying I've got to be laughing
out loud, i gotta be a falling off the bench,
It's like, are you serious? Does an apology like that
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have any effect? It's not real. Nobody believes he means it.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, right, especially when you consider, you know, judges are
pretty grizzled and jaded. Every day they see multiple people
who say whatever they think it will take to either
stay out of jail or cut down their sins. And
the judge actually said, you know, I'm not sure I'm
picking up sincere remorse here. The judge also said, you know,
I'm able to take into account stuff you did that
did not result in a conviction, like when you beat
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Cassie Ventura up on video back in twenty sixteen. So
is not going well for Colmes. I think I don't
think we're going to see the guy slam him, you know,
go way beyond the recommendation. But at this point it's
looking like it's going to be somewhere in the five
to ten range as opposed to what Diddy was hoping for,
which is zero to forty years range.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
He actually beat some of the more serious charges of
racketeering and sex trafficking. These were more prostitution connected charges.
And by the way, the judge's name is our own
sub sub Subramanian. I love.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Oh, no, you can go ahead, John, I'm going to
leave that one up to you.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah. So, uh, you know, it could have been a
lot worse for him.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
No, you're right. When he was found not guilty of
racketeering and sex trafficking, that took life in prison off
the table. That was a real possibility. So it was
a huge sign relief when he just got the two
prostitution counts. But obviously his story is more complicated than
a typical prostitution conviction. Hey what about Donald Trump? Though
he could pardon Didty, the problem is Trump alluded to
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the fact two or three months ago, Well, you know,
when I ran against Biden in twenty twenty, did he
endorse Biden saying there'll be a race war if Donald Trump? Right? Guy.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Sorry to break in, but the judge says a sentence
of over eleven years, as requested by the government is
not reasonable. But he is saying that a substantial sentence
must be given. So any second now we're going to
hear what this sentencing is.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
All right, so it's going to be less than eleven years.
I guess we can take from that. I guess that
sounds like it. Yeah, they ran video of him beating
up his old girlfriend, Cassie Ventura in the hallway of
that hotel. I've always been confused because it seems in
some cases they allow evidence from previous incidents that the
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defendant has not been charged four and that in some
cases they don't allow the evidence. Is there any hard
rule on this or it's really up to the judge
and any anything can go. They can show all the
past incidents, none of them, a couple of them.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
It's up to the judge Sean and the judge has
to walk up on line because if he lets too
much in that it did not result in the charge,
it could really be seen as prejudicial. So the jury
is saying, oh, we're going to convict him because of
that stuff they didn't even charge him with. All right,
we have three sparing stuff.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Sorry Royal, but Sean Didtycombs has been sentenced to fifty
months in prison. That's what the judge just said. Fifty
months in prison for Sean Didty Combs.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
All right, So well, four years and two months is
actually a little bit a touch below the recommendation by
the Probation Department of five to seven years. Four years
is kind of what people were speculating several months ago
when the convictions came to out. It's a little surprising
that after the judge slammed him, as we've discussed the
last few minutes, he came in a little lower. And
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of course that amount will be reduced by the fourteen
months that he already has served cooling his heels waiting
for trial and sentencing. So he's going to be out
before long. But he's got to serve a few years
in prison.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Right, So it's a three year maximum sentence after you
deduct the fourteen months he's already served, and then when
does when does parole kick in?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Look, parole won't be kicking in for a while, I mean,
as we saw in the Menendez Brothers. Usually, yeah, you
have to wait several years before you're eligible to say
hey kept my nose clean, and remorse and rehabilitation. So
I think instead of parole, he's going to be focusing
on appeal. His lawyers are going to take the arguments that, hey,
this wasn't classic prostitution, this wasn't a situation where he
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was some kind of pimp, and so theoretically Court of
Appeals could step in and help him out. They could
release him and put him on bail. But you know,
if they do that and he beat somebody up, that's
a bad look. If he gets in his private jet
and fliesh to Switzerland and bunks in with Roman Polanski
in his rumpus room, that's a bad look. So I
think he's probably gonna have to stay in prison pending
the appeal.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
All right, very good, Royal Oaks, thank you for coming
on with us. You bet that good timing for your
parents today, Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst and coming
up after two o'clock. I'm telling you you got to
hear this. The producer, well, the director is Ted Ballaker,
the producer is his wife, Courtney Ballaker. In the name
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of the movies The Coddling of the American Mind, it's
a documentary that explains what went on at the universities
over the past fifteen years or so that caused all
the insanity that we've lived through and maybe turned your
son or daughter into someone unrecognizable. All of this nonsense,
this will progressive nonsense, had its root in the universities.
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And it's it's told through the eyes of three students
who who saw their lives transformed based on what they
were being indoctrinated with. It's it's as if they were
being groomed to join a cult. And it's really it's
really scary. Actually, it's documentary as to what the universities
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were able to do to all these young kids. And
these kids, you know, are now in their twenties and
early thirties and their minds have been altered dramatically and
they're trying to recover. So we'll talk with with Ted
and Courtney Ballacher coming up. It's called The Coddling of
the American Mind. I was watching it and listening to
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it this morning. It's it's fresh in my head.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
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the producer. Astonishing documentary they've put together based on a
book called The Coddling of the American Mind, and it
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is ninety minutes. And if you have been flammoxed, flabbergasted, perplexed, outraged,
overwhelmed by all a lot of the insanity of the
last fifteen years coming out of the universities, maybe coming
out of your own kids who went to college during
this time, will you add those toxic progressive universities, add
that social media and the smartphone, and it just just
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ruined many people in this generation. So we're going to
talk to Ted and Courtney because it's it's fresh in
my mind. I am still amped up from watching it today,
this documentary, and it's on all the streaming networks. We'll
tell you which one's coming up. One thing I want
to spend a few minutes following up on from yesterday.
We had two women on who were part of two
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organizations in Altadena who are really upset with this phony
blowding nonsense. After action report by the the Crystal Group,
they were hired by the La County Board of Supervisors
to find out why the response to the Altadena fire
and the Palisades fire sucked so bad. Well, first of all,
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starting with the fire response, both and this primarily was
about the county LA County fire response, the the the
lack of warnings to to let people know in certain
neighborhoods that they better get out, and there was no
evacuation process, and nineteen people died in West cal Dadena
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and nobody wants to address it. And I'm going to
call out these people constantly because their position in life
is really important to every La County resident and they're
largely overlooked, they're not covered by the media collectively, grossly incompetent.
I mean, Karen Barger is half, say, but the other
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four Lindsey Horvath, Holly Mitchell, Janis Hahn, Hildasalise are so
damaging and destructive with their politics and their incompetence. The
incompetence is overwhelming for these four, absolutely overwhelming. And it
turns out, according to them, Crystal Group and to some extent,
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this whole thing was a whitewash because it didn't tell
you who was responsible for screwing up on the evacuations
and the warnings and the fire response. It didn't tell
you how it was done, who made the bad decisions,
who didn't talk to, who, who was at a position
or asleep or had had bad policies that there's not
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that specifics because I think a lot of the people
in county government ought to be fired for the response
to the fire at flat out fire because they're dangerous.
You know, with fire season now, you can't have this
crew in charge. Not to mention the supervisors, four out
of the five ought to resign, just flat out quit, resign,
get out because they're so incompetent. And again that's Horvath,
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Mitchell Han and Solis and what I'm looking at here
just one of the stories that I'll have time for
the Office of Emergency Management apparently was operating with staffing
levels that were way too low for all the disasters
we can have in and we can go through all
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the terrible things that can happen here, earthquakes, fires, mud slides, floods, riots,
Office of Eternity. Oh, not to mention the pandemic, the
Office of Emergency Management was, Oh, here's the quote, under resourced.
They didn't give money to it, they didn't hire people,
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they didn't have equipment that worked, or an evacuation system
that worked, or a warning system that worked. And I'm
going to keep going back to the false alarms that
went out to I think most of the people in
the county who were nowhere near the fire in Altadena,
while the neighborhoods in Altadena that needed to get the
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warnings over the phone got nothing. And the nineteen people
died because the fire hit them in the middle of
the night and nobody told them, and nobody at the
fire department or the Office of Energy Management or the
chef Erst Department. They did get somewhat of a roasting
in this. And Robert Luhna is running for reelection and
this should be the number one, number two, and number
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three issue because it looks like the response and a
lot of this has to do with management and organization,
who they hire, how much money for all the billions
that's with a big billions of dollars that horv F
Mitchell Hannen Solis has wasted on the homeless scam. They
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put hardly any money into emergency management and preparedness billions
to help to help vagrants, all the drug addicts and
mental patients, and then all the parasites and thieves that
have attached themselves to the county homeless system with their
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fake phony criminal nonprofits that got funded by the billions.
The Office of Emergency Management, which is supposed to send
a warning signal out on your phone when a fire
is coming and you're gonna die, that was under resource.
So that's just the first warning shot here. I'm keeping
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a file on all this stuff and we're gonna keep
returning to it until we find out. First of all,
there should be an extensive investigation if we had a
real Attorney general instead of that talking puppet Rob Bonta,
who all he does is kiss nuisance ass and he
should be investigating the county because this was a deadly
disaster and everybody's just pretending, oh did that happen? Yeah,
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that was terrible. Well, what a tragedy. Thoughts and prayers, No,
not here. We don't do thoughts and prayers here. All right,
we come back. Ted Ballacher and Courtney Blaker. They are
the director and producer of this documentary, The Coddling of
the American Mind. It's on the streaming channels, and it
is stunning. It explains why we went why we went
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through so much of the nonsense coming out of the
universities last fifteen years which powered this woke progressive revolution,
and what it did to the students, to the individuals.
Maybe your kid that is next. Deborah Mark live in
the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. 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
(35:18):
to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course,
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Canf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on every day
from one until four o'clock, and then after four o'clock
John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. We
have quite a lineup on the show, and I'll get
to it and tell you what we're going to be
doing in a few minutes. The first thing I want
to do is get on Michael mache He's the professor
at USC. It was quite a night last night on
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the West Side. As we were going to bed, we
were tracking a murderer who was on the loose in Westwood,
about well a mile and a half from our house.
Helicopters they closed Sunset Boulevard. I don't even know what
they caught the guy, but I don't know what that
was about. And then wake up in the morning and
this refinery in El Segundo had exploded and there was
(00:45):
a huge fireball. And this is a major refinery that
Chevron runs. It's a jet fuel production unit that exploded.
And we're gonna get Michael Mashae to see if this
is gonna The only thing I thought of this morning
is how does that affect gas prices? Because we know
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they might go to eight dollars a gallon. So now
what's gonna happen. Let's get Michael Line.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Hey, John, how are you today?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm good. Now I'm reading and you know, this is
just the new version of the story that the refinery
damaged a jet fuel production unit. But they have to
close down the whole refinery, including where they produce automobile gasoline.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Right, that's generally the standard operating procedures with events like this.
You know, refineries are extraordinarily complex and they are very
dangerous places. You know, that refinery is one of the
best operating refineries in the country. It has a lot
of advanced technology. But standard operating procedure would be that
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you would you would shut the refinery down for some
period of time out of an abundance of caution and
then to perform a bunch of safety tests.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Now, from what I'm reading, this refinery produces about one
fifth of all the motor vehicle fuels in southern California,
So it's twenty percent of our gasoline supply is produced here.
How long could it be offline before it we start
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seeing it at the pump significantly.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, that's a big refinery, okay, So it's the second
largest refinery in the state, so it's quite you know,
it has a lot of consequences when events like this happened.
So generally you're going to have about a two week
supply of gasoline at prevailing prices. Now, if that refinery
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stays down for any significant period of time, say longer
than two or three weeks, then we would see a
drifting of rice is upwards. So no question that, you know,
if the longer it stays down, prices will begin to increase.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Right, And twenty percent is a lot because we've talked
about how the two refineries that are probably going to
be shut down within the next few months, one in
Carson and one in Benetia. That's twenty percent of the supply,
and that could send the price of gas up to
six seven eight dollars a gallon potentially. So if this
thing was offline for a significant amount of time, that's
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twenty percent as well. So we really could be a
good trouble pounding effect.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's a big compounding effect. Okay, So
there's no doubt that we're losing refinery capacity In fact,
Phillip sixty six in southern California took their last delivery
of crude oil on Tuesday, September thirtieth, so they stop
that oil. That's the last amount of crew that went
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to them. That crew will be processed into product, and
they stopped all operations on October sixteenth. That's it, they
stopped producing. That's it. They're done.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I didn't realize it was that fat.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Done. Yeah, it's two weeks. So they're offline in two weeks,
and they had originally scheduled for December thirtieth. In my
price calculations, I actually calculated it that they would be
offline October thirty first, So that's relatively consistent. So we'll see.
We'll see the effects of that shortly. Then you have
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Valero's scheduled to come offline next year, no later than April,
but most of us believe it'll be much much quicker
than April coming offline. So there's that full twenty and
now you have the vulnerability that's been shown right here
just through Chevron. Even if they're just offline for a
matter of weeks, you can see all the problems that
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California has gotten itself. Into Just remember John just you know,
a few decades ago, we had over forty refineries in
the state. Now we're down to producing nine produced California gasoline.
That's going to go to eight in two weeks. It's
going to go to seven, you know, basically in ninety
days after that one hundred and twenty if Valero shuts down,
and now you have all the issues associated with the survivors,
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including Chevron. So the state is I think getting a
dose of reality with respect to the policies that they
that they've created in the hostile work environment, business environment
for those refineries.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And they're not doing anything about it. For all of
Newsom's talk, he did not get a buyer for the
Valero facility, and I haven't seen anything more. He was
going to give them two hundred million dollars a year
to keep the Valero facility up in Vinetia open, But
other than that idea being floated in the media, I
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don't think there's been any follow up. I mean, this
looks bad and it doesn't seem like anybody's really trying
hard to fix it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, the stay will tell you that they have a
you know, they're trying. So they approved for two thousand
permits for oil drilling in Kern County. Yesterday they had
a release of Oh, we're going to have E fifteen
gasoline and that will reduce the price by twenty cents
a gallon. That's magic economics. I mean, if you talk
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about voodoo economics, that's magical.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I don't understand they're gonna They're gonna expand the production
of ethanol. That's well, we don't.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Produce ethanol here, so we get the ethanol from out
of state. So apparently there was an economic study done
indicating that if we switch everything to ethanol, then the
price of gasoline will drop by twenty cents a gallon.
We're not quite sure whether that studies is, you know,
based in reality or not. More comments on that.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Is the average car run on ethanol, because I don't
think most people even understand that ethanol is that e
eighty five choice that you get at some point pumps
and normal cars.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Most yeah, most cars. And we're doing that search as
we speak, John, so we'll be able to respond more
specifically next week on that. But most manufacturers will say
avoid e eighty five. It will cause engine damage. It's
a more corrosive gasoline product. Not every dealer or retailer,
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outlet service station carries that product. For them to switch.
It can cost as much as sixty six thousand dollars
to install the pumps, the pipes, and the tanks for
that product that would be reflected in the in the price.
And that product is entirely imported into our state via
either trucks or rail tankers. Now I just did that
(07:47):
this morning. With the trucks. It's it's eleven dollars a
barrel on a on a truck versus three dollars in
a pipeline. So the price differentials are normally.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Because reg is it is eighty seven, right, yep, yes, okay,
so this is it's yeah, because I didn't I didn't
think you could even put eighty e eighty five into
into most cars that that would cause damage. That's what
I've always thought.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well, I checked with my manufacturers yesterday and and they're like, no,
don't do it. As a matter of fact, it'll avoid
the warranty for most cars that are under warrant.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
All right, So Newsom is pushing eighty five gas because
it'll be twenty cents cheaper, except it'll corrode your engine.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Apparently so and again we are we have started that
study and we will be in a better position next
week to respond to it.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, okay, all right, Well when you when you do that,
let us know, okay, and we'll talk about it because
you're happy to do that, because this this is crazy stuff.
All right. Well listen, good talking with you.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's tough. Yeah, great talking to you, John, Okay, walk
to you next week for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Us see Professor Michael McShea, and he has been guiding
us through this massive gas price crisis that is affecting
California and only California, and entirely because of Gavin Newsom's
policies along with the Democratic legislature. It is. Uh, we've
got two refineries closing in the next few months. One
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of them is closing. I guess they're taking their last
delivery of gas, Professor mcche said, uh, in just a
matter of days. And then once that's processed through the system,
that's it. It's it's a twin facility that that Phillips
owns in Carson and Wilmington. And then you have the
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Valero facility and that's going to be closed about four months. Afterwards,
So that that that those terrible, terrible prices six seven
eight dollars a gallon are coming. They're on schedule, and
Newsom is now announced making stupid announcements to try to
cover it up.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Mork ahead, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So he just finished talking to Michael Leche about the
explosion last night and the Chevron refinery and El Segundo.
We'll talk more about that in a moment, but I
do want to tell you what we have lined up.
First of all, is there any news on Diddy's ugly
carcass being released? No, not yet.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
It's sentencing day and a bunch of people have spoken,
including his kids.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, well, that violent sex pervert. I'm rooting for being
locked up as long as possible. I think that you're
asking for.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Eleven years now they are, and you know that yesterday
or last night he sent a letter of apology to
the judge begging forgiveness the day actually the night before sentencing.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Now, I don't know who this judge is, and it
doesn't seem like anybody gets their just sentence anymore. But
if I was the judge I'd be looking at that
and I'd burst out laughing. It's like, You've got to
be kidding me. Really now here the last minute, the
last after all that's gone on for the last year
or two. Good lord, So they're still there's still they're
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still yacking, there's still making arguments.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Yeah, and then Sean Diddy comes is expected to talk
and I guess beg for leniency to the judge again
in person.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I read the New York Post and you never know
what's true that he actually booked speaking engagements in Miami
for next week, like he's expecting to get no sentence,
to get probation. If that's true, We're going to talk
to Royal Oaks from ABC News. He's their legal analyst
(11:47):
after Deborah's one thirty News, and he can guide us
through the process that's going on in New York right now.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Oh, we're hearing that Didd he is speaking now apparently,
So have an update shortly and.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
At three o'clock. Loura Engel from News Nation, the cable
TV news network, as she is going to give us
a whole wrap up because we're opened by three. She's
been covering the case extensively over all this time. So
that's that's our Diddy coverage to come and oh, this
this is really important to me. This is like you know,
(12:23):
from my for my for my Taste. This is the
most important thing we're going to do today. It's going
to be in the two o'clock hour. And we have
a husband and wife couple and they are Ted and
Courtney Ballaker. They have directed and produced this documentary called
The Coddling of the American Mind. It's based on a
(12:46):
book that was written some years back. And I just
watched the documentary. I actually watched it this morning so
it'd be fresh in my mind. Oh my god. This
explains what went on at the universities to the past
fifteen years or so, and it's it's absolutely something you
(13:08):
must watch. It's an hour and a half and it
explains how all our children, if they went through the
university system over the last fifteen or fifteen years, how
their minds were brainwashed. It's as if they were all
groomed for the woke progressive cult. And it focuses on
(13:29):
three students who came in basically as blank slates to
all this and had their minds twisted to the point
where it literally drove them insane. A lot of the
stuff you've seen and heard about coming out of the universities.
How many times you said, oh my god, that's insane.
(13:50):
The things they believe in are insane. Their philosophies, the
things that they say, the things that they're doing on
campus is insane. It is actually truly clinically insane. And
I it's one of these one of these movies that
I actually watched and listened to a lot of it
while I was driving today, because sitting at home on
(14:11):
a sofa I'd be getting up every five minutes just going,
oh my god, I can't I can't believe this. I
can't believe this. You are not going to believe it,
but you really, you really ought to see it. It's
called The Coddling of the American Mind. It's on a
number of streaming services. We'll give you all the details,
and we're going to talk with the director, Ted Ballaker,
the producer, his wife, Courtney Ballaker. It is is one
(14:32):
of the most astonishing things I have seen and heard
in a long time. Now back to the price of gasoline,
which is what you really care about the most. So
this Chevron refinery explodes last night, at about nine thirty,
a huge fireball burst into the sky, a massive explosion,
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and just rocked everybody in the immediate area in the
South Bay. And then you had this big fireball in
the air, and the LA Times well they're based right
there in El Segundo, and so they had a bunch
of reporters available and they ran out to talk to people.
And there was one guy on a soccer field, Mark Rogers.
(15:23):
He was actually in mid dribble. It was at one
of these adult soccer leagues, and he said, panic briefly spread.
Some people immediately just running started evacuating at the soccer field.
Everyone first stood frozen because they didn't know what was
(15:44):
going to happen. Next, I thought we got nuked or something.
You imagine suddenly this huge fireball explodes in the sky
and you don't know what it is. I mean, ever
since nine to eleven, when you hear a big bang,
you start looking up. It's like, well, are we getting invaded?
Is this a nuclear missile? And then it turned out
(16:07):
to be, I guess, as benign as these things could be,
because it was a jet fuel processing plant that exploded.
But as we talked about before, it Michael Mishee, the
USC professor. They funneled through twenty percent of our gasoline supply,
so the whole refinery has been shut down, even though
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it's the jet fuel refinering a refinery that's suffered most
of the damage. But you know, they've got to take
you a look at everything. It said. It was a loud,
extended roar. I mean I didn't hear it. I don't know.
I'm about ten air miles from where this is. But
I think it happened after I had fallen asleep. I mean,
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like I said, I fell asleep to the sound of
the news helicopters and the police helicopters because there was
a murder suspect loose a mile and a half from me.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Happens on almost a nightly basis in my neck of
the woods.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, he was near Uci, near Sunset and Glen Roy.
I never even found out who this guy murdered and
where he was running from, or what the story was.
It's just, you know, we're sitting and all of a
sudden you hear the boom. It's like, oh, the helicopters
are back there. There's some bad guy loose.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Sometimes that lasts for hours, huh all night long?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well, yeah, why, I mean, I get it well because
of the eleven o'clock knows. I told my wife before we
fell asleep, I said, no, that's going to go past eleven.
Because all the junkies who run these newscasts, they have
to have live pictures of nothing rather than having a
taped picture of something. They'll just show the empty streets
in Westwood.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
But I mean, even the police helicopters drive me insane.
But hey, I'd rather than be looking for somebody right
instead of not. But it just goes on and on
and on, and then you have the news helicopters as well.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, we're gonna all right, so we'll do well. That
Royal Oaks is next ABC News Legal Analyst. On this
Ditty Circus.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
John Cobelt's show on every day from one until four.
We're watching in New York City. There. The judge is
now speaking to Sean Ditty. Comb's sentencing is about to
be announced, and the judges opened his statement by greasing
up Didty, I don't know with that baby oil that
(18:34):
did he likes saying that you know his impact on
the community, he's I celebrated, an iconic all the work
that he's done. But now he's talking about his erratic,
violent behavior over the years, the drugs that he's taken,
and the court has to consider all your history. And
(18:55):
so any second now we're going to find out. Let's
get from ABC News the Legal Animal hist Royal oaks
on with us Royll. We're about to We're about to
find out exactly what did He's future is going to be.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, John, your timing is pretty good. I mean it's
been going on for over six hours today and you know,
the usual stuff for the lawyers and a couple of
victim statements. But in the last half hours, so we
had a twelve minute statement by did he remember he
didn't testify at all during trial. He apologized. He said
it was disgusting, shameful and sick what he did. My
mom raised me to be better. I've lost everything, my reputation,
(19:30):
family business. I beg your honor for mercy. So that
was his side, and then, as you suggesting, the judge
started to kind of blast him. He said, a history
of good works can't wash away the record in this
case shows you abuse the power and control over the
lives of women. You professal up, you drove two women
to consider suicide. He did say, Yeah, you've lifted up
some communities, you've battled a diction. But I got to
(19:52):
consider everything.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
He said.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You were no John who was more than that in
a prostitution context. And now the judges just said, go
to send a substantial sentence message to the world. So
he hasn't made his announcements. You know, the probation department,
John said five to seven years. Judge could just stick
with that, or he could go a little above that.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
So that's the prosecution asked, five to seven years.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Now that was the probation department's report. They recommended as
sort of a middling five to seven years because I
think some of.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
The prosecutors wanted eleven plus exactly.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
The prosecution wanted eleven plus. The defense shocker said nothing,
He's been in jail for fourteen months. That's enough for us,
your honor, Can we go home. You're going to love
this John testimony came out to establish the Diddy is
actually booked speaking engagements half a dozen of down in
Florida next week next week and so the and the
(20:46):
prosecution is saying, oh my gosh, the height of arrogance
and hubris, whatever that means. And the answer by the
defense is, well, you know, we're hoping to be released,
and you know he's going to do something, and he
wanted to want to help inmates everywhere.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
He's still speaking to her next week.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
They were booked. They were booked absolutely in order the microphones.
So you know, there were both sides to that. Coint
I think it was a bad look for Diddy. It
kind of suggested that, yeah, he's got this thing nailed
in the foot, let's go to Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I don't understand the judicial world anymore, as we've talked
about many times. But if I'm a judge and I
see this phony boloney apology at the last minute last
night before the sentence, saying I've got to be laughing
out loud, i gotta be a falling off the bench,
It's like, are you serious? Does an apology like that
(21:37):
have any effect? It's not real. Nobody believes he means it.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, right, especially when you consider, you know, judges are
pretty grizzled and jaded. Every day they see multiple people
who say whatever they think it will take to either
stay out of jail or cut down their sins. And
the judge actually said, you know, I'm not sure I'm
picking up sincere remorse here. The judge also said, you know,
I'm able to take into account stuff you did that
did not result in a conviction, like when you beat
(22:04):
Cassie Ventura up on video back in twenty sixteen. So
is not going well for Colmes. I think I don't
think we're going to see the guy slam him, you know,
go way beyond the recommendation. But at this point it's
looking like it's going to be somewhere in the five
to ten range as opposed to what Diddy was hoping for,
which is zero to forty years range.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
He actually beat some of the more serious charges of
racketeering and sex trafficking. These were more prostitution connected charges.
And by the way, the judge's name is our own
sub sub Subramanian. I love.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Oh, no, you can go ahead, John, I'm going to
leave that one up to you.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah. So, uh, you know, it could have been a
lot worse for him.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
No, you're right. When he was found not guilty of
racketeering and sex trafficking, that took life in prison off
the table. That was a real possibility. So it was
a huge sign relief when he just got the two
prostitution counts. But obviously his story is more complicated than
a typical prostitution conviction. Hey what about Donald Trump? Though
he could pardon Didty, the problem is Trump alluded to
(23:13):
the fact two or three months ago, Well, you know,
when I ran against Biden in twenty twenty, did he
endorse Biden saying there'll be a race war if Donald Trump? Right? Guy.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Sorry to break in, but the judge says a sentence
of over eleven years, as requested by the government is
not reasonable. But he is saying that a substantial sentence
must be given. So any second now we're going to
hear what this sentencing is.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
All right, so it's going to be less than eleven years.
I guess we can take from that. I guess that
sounds like it. Yeah, they ran video of him beating
up his old girlfriend, Cassie Ventura in the hallway of
that hotel. I've always been confused because it seems in
some cases they allow evidence from previous incidents that the
(24:00):
defendant has not been charged four and that in some
cases they don't allow the evidence. Is there any hard
rule on this or it's really up to the judge
and any anything can go. They can show all the
past incidents, none of them, a couple of them.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
It's up to the judge Sean and the judge has
to walk up on line because if he lets too
much in that it did not result in the charge,
it could really be seen as prejudicial. So the jury
is saying, oh, we're going to convict him because of
that stuff they didn't even charge him with. All right,
we have three sparing stuff.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Sorry Royal, but Sean Didtycombs has been sentenced to fifty
months in prison. That's what the judge just said. Fifty
months in prison for Sean Didty Combs.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
All right, So well, four years and two months is
actually a little bit a touch below the recommendation by
the Probation Department of five to seven years. Four years
is kind of what people were speculating several months ago
when the convictions came to out. It's a little surprising
that after the judge slammed him, as we've discussed the
last few minutes, he came in a little lower. And
(25:07):
of course that amount will be reduced by the fourteen
months that he already has served cooling his heels waiting
for trial and sentencing. So he's going to be out
before long. But he's got to serve a few years
in prison.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Right, So it's a three year maximum sentence after you
deduct the fourteen months he's already served, and then when
does when does parole kick in?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Look, parole won't be kicking in for a while, I mean,
as we saw in the Menendez Brothers. Usually, yeah, you
have to wait several years before you're eligible to say
hey kept my nose clean, and remorse and rehabilitation. So
I think instead of parole, he's going to be focusing
on appeal. His lawyers are going to take the arguments that, hey,
this wasn't classic prostitution, this wasn't a situation where he
(25:57):
was some kind of pimp, and so theoretically Court of
Appeals could step in and help him out. They could
release him and put him on bail. But you know,
if they do that and he beat somebody up, that's
a bad look. If he gets in his private jet
and fliesh to Switzerland and bunks in with Roman Polanski
in his rumpus room, that's a bad look. So I
think he's probably gonna have to stay in prison pending
the appeal.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
All right, very good, Royal Oaks, thank you for coming
on with us. You bet that good timing for your
parents today, Royal Oaks, ABC News Legal Analyst and coming
up after two o'clock. I'm telling you you got to
hear this. The producer, well, the director is Ted Ballaker,
the producer is his wife, Courtney Ballaker. In the name
(26:38):
of the movies The Coddling of the American Mind, it's
a documentary that explains what went on at the universities
over the past fifteen years or so that caused all
the insanity that we've lived through and maybe turned your
son or daughter into someone unrecognizable. All of this nonsense,
this will progressive nonsense, had its root in the universities.
(27:01):
And it's it's told through the eyes of three students
who who saw their lives transformed based on what they
were being indoctrinated with. It's it's as if they were
being groomed to join a cult. And it's really it's
really scary. Actually, it's documentary as to what the universities
(27:23):
were able to do to all these young kids. And
these kids, you know, are now in their twenties and
early thirties and their minds have been altered dramatically and
they're trying to recover. So we'll talk with with Ted
and Courtney Ballacher coming up. It's called The Coddling of
the American Mind. I was watching it and listening to
(27:44):
it this morning. It's it's fresh in my head.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
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the show and listen to the AM signal with your ears.
That's another way keep track of things. Now, as I
was mentioning, at two o'clock, we're going to have Ted
Ballaker Courtney Ballacker, husband and wife. Ted's the director, Courtney
the producer. Astonishing documentary they've put together based on a
book called The Coddling of the American Mind, and it
(28:38):
is ninety minutes. And if you have been flammoxed, flabbergasted, perplexed, outraged,
overwhelmed by all a lot of the insanity of the
last fifteen years coming out of the universities, maybe coming
out of your own kids who went to college during
this time, will you add those toxic progressive universities, add
that social media and the smartphone, and it just just
(29:03):
ruined many people in this generation. So we're going to
talk to Ted and Courtney because it's it's fresh in
my mind. I am still amped up from watching it today,
this documentary, and it's on all the streaming networks. We'll
tell you which one's coming up. One thing I want
to spend a few minutes following up on from yesterday.
We had two women on who were part of two
(29:25):
organizations in Altadena who are really upset with this phony
blowding nonsense. After action report by the the Crystal Group,
they were hired by the La County Board of Supervisors
to find out why the response to the Altadena fire
and the Palisades fire sucked so bad. Well, first of all,
(29:47):
starting with the fire response, both and this primarily was
about the county LA County fire response, the the the
lack of warnings to to let people know in certain
neighborhoods that they better get out, and there was no
evacuation process, and nineteen people died in West cal Dadena
(30:10):
and nobody wants to address it. And I'm going to
call out these people constantly because their position in life
is really important to every La County resident and they're
largely overlooked, they're not covered by the media collectively, grossly incompetent.
I mean, Karen Barger is half, say, but the other
(30:33):
four Lindsey Horvath, Holly Mitchell, Janis Hahn, Hildasalise are so
damaging and destructive with their politics and their incompetence. The
incompetence is overwhelming for these four, absolutely overwhelming. And it
turns out, according to them, Crystal Group and to some extent,
(30:55):
this whole thing was a whitewash because it didn't tell
you who was responsible for screwing up on the evacuations
and the warnings and the fire response. It didn't tell
you how it was done, who made the bad decisions,
who didn't talk to, who, who was at a position
or asleep or had had bad policies that there's not
(31:16):
that specifics because I think a lot of the people
in county government ought to be fired for the response
to the fire at flat out fire because they're dangerous.
You know, with fire season now, you can't have this
crew in charge. Not to mention the supervisors, four out
of the five ought to resign, just flat out quit, resign,
get out because they're so incompetent. And again that's Horvath,
(31:40):
Mitchell Han and Solis and what I'm looking at here
just one of the stories that I'll have time for
the Office of Emergency Management apparently was operating with staffing
levels that were way too low for all the disasters
we can have in and we can go through all
(32:02):
the terrible things that can happen here, earthquakes, fires, mud slides, floods, riots,
Office of Eternity. Oh, not to mention the pandemic, the
Office of Emergency Management was, Oh, here's the quote, under resourced.
They didn't give money to it, they didn't hire people,
(32:24):
they didn't have equipment that worked, or an evacuation system
that worked, or a warning system that worked. And I'm
going to keep going back to the false alarms that
went out to I think most of the people in
the county who were nowhere near the fire in Altadena,
while the neighborhoods in Altadena that needed to get the
(32:47):
warnings over the phone got nothing. And the nineteen people
died because the fire hit them in the middle of
the night and nobody told them, and nobody at the
fire department or the Office of Energy Management or the
chef Erst Department. They did get somewhat of a roasting
in this. And Robert Luhna is running for reelection and
this should be the number one, number two, and number
(33:09):
three issue because it looks like the response and a
lot of this has to do with management and organization,
who they hire, how much money for all the billions
that's with a big billions of dollars that horv F
Mitchell Hannen Solis has wasted on the homeless scam. They
(33:30):
put hardly any money into emergency management and preparedness billions
to help to help vagrants, all the drug addicts and
mental patients, and then all the parasites and thieves that
have attached themselves to the county homeless system with their
(33:52):
fake phony criminal nonprofits that got funded by the billions.
The Office of Emergency Management, which is supposed to send
a warning signal out on your phone when a fire
is coming and you're gonna die, that was under resource.
So that's just the first warning shot here. I'm keeping
(34:12):
a file on all this stuff and we're gonna keep
returning to it until we find out. First of all,
there should be an extensive investigation if we had a
real Attorney general instead of that talking puppet Rob Bonta,
who all he does is kiss nuisance ass and he
should be investigating the county because this was a deadly
disaster and everybody's just pretending, oh did that happen? Yeah,
(34:34):
that was terrible. Well, what a tragedy. Thoughts and prayers, No,
not here. We don't do thoughts and prayers here. All right,
we come back. Ted Ballacher and Courtney Blaker. They are
the director and producer of this documentary, The Coddling of
the American Mind. It's on the streaming channels, and it
is stunning. It explains why we went why we went
(34:57):
through so much of the nonsense coming out of the
universities last fifteen years which powered this woke progressive revolution,
and what it did to the students, to the individuals.
Maybe your kid that is next. Deborah Mark live in
the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
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