November 24, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (11/24) - A complaint has been filed against CA Attorney General Rob Bonta regarding $468,000 campaign funds for legal defense. A police dog was shot and killed by a suspect who was ultimately killed by the cops in Burbank. Congressman Eric Swalwell is running for governor in California and he wants people to vote by phone. California has created zero jobs.
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Speaker 1 (02:18):
You ot of care?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean I'm not obviously, I'm
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Now.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I was like, oh, Rob Bonta, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Rob Bonta is the attorney general who is not interested
in any of the massive scandals here in California. Right
We've got billion dollars blown on high speed rail, billions
of dollars blown on the unemployment insurance scandal. During COVID,
we got billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars
in homeless money that's disappeared, and now the Palisade situation.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I mean that was on state Land.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He's got jurisdiction and we went through a lot of
the lies last hour.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
We have mora lies to go through next hour. So
what does he do with his day?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Well, we found out he had spent nearly a half
million dollars on campaign country. He spent nearly a half
billion dollars of campaign contributions on legal fees because there
was an FBI investigation into the former mayor of Oakland,
Sheng Tao. She was recalled because of this corruption case
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and others. And why did he spend a half billion dollars? Well,
at first they lied and said it was to get
legal assistance. Actually he had to deal with FBI investigators.
And there is now a whistleblower who says Bonta is involved.
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There's a compromising blackmail video, and there's documents that show
Bonta knew that his donor and this is the Dong family,
you'll hear a lot about them, and that he knew
his donor was money laundering, making illegal donations to politicians,
falsifying contracts, exploiting straw donors, which are fake donors representing
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somebody else, and also this is my favorite. Bonton knew
that his donor was facilitating prostitution for other elected officials.
Everything I tell you is true. Let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Let's now play a report, and I want to get
the right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Report pleaded because I know there's two of them floating
around the first one. Let's play the first report and
this is from ABC seven Bay Area reporter Dan Noyes.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
In the letter dated May ninth, twenty twenty four, to
Attorney General Rob Bonta, Mario Warrez writes about his business
partners from Oakland based California Waste Solutions. I have first
hand knowledge of various criminal activities perpetrated by the Dewong family,
including money laundering, illegal political donations, falsification of contracts, and
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exploitation of straw donors. These activities extend to facilitating prostitution
for elected officials, including miners. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, knew
far more of what was going on in this investigation
with the Deuongs than any of us knew. Steven Tavaris
runs the political substack East Bay Insiders. He first broke
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news of the Wara's letter, and I obtained it from
another source.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
The letter shows that Mario was despondent and that he
was basically going to get back retribution against the Deuongs.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Mario Wara was partners with David and Andy de Wong
in Evolutionary Homes, a company that converted shipping containers to
housing for the homeless. But Waras writes that on May third,
twenty twenty four, the De Wongs locked him out of
the showroom on the Oakland Waterfront and that they ordered
an attack by a group of armed men who quote,
I was threatened with firearms and a knife, assaulted and
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robbed the personal belongings, including a gold chain and Rolex watch.
The Iteam obtained these photos showing Warres his injuries, his
swollen face and head. He goes on to say he
was coerced into delivering an apology to David du Wong,
while Andy and Christina du Wong recorded the interaction. Then
just one month later.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
And he started shooting back, like firing back.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Waris got into a shootout with men who broke into
his SUV. Tovaris believes it's no coincidence that just days later,
the FBI raided the homes of David and Andy de
Wong and then Oakland mayor schan Tau and her partner
Andre Jones.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Eleven days later the raids happen.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
It strongly suggests that the FBI had found Mario Warez
made him the star witness. This got out that he
was cooperating, they moved quick.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Some of what Mario Warrez wrote in that letter appears
in the federal bribery and corruption indictment. His name isn't there,
but he's believed to be listed as co conspirator.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
One.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Wilson Leung is a former federal prosecutor.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
It is interesting that this letter came out gosh more
than a year ago now, and some of its allegations
seemed to have been proven sufficiently correct so that the
beds are willing to take action on some of them.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Lawyers for Andy de Wong emailed me that he vigorously
denies the baseless allegations in this letter. David d Wang's
lawyers say he strongly denies them. They both argue that
Warrez has credibility issues and cannot be believed. Dan Newman,
spokesperson for Bonte's re election campaign, confirms the Attorney General
receive the letter and forwarded it to the FBI. Warres
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also wrote, Bonte should know that Andy de Wong, in particular,
has a recording of you in a compromising situation, and
that he routinely engages in entertaining elected and other officials
to extract recordings without their knowledge for later use in
blackmail circumstances.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
A recording of him in a compromising situation. Although it's
uncertain what that means. It's also uncertain whether that's true.
So there's a lot of questions that this letter prompts.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
The spokesman for Rob Bonta tells me the Attorney General
is not concerned about that report of a compromising video,
and says Mario Warrez wrote that letter as a desperate
guy at a desperate moment with walls closing in.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, all we know is that Rob Bonta, he's not worried.
He spent almost a half a million dollars of campaign
money on legal fees to deal with the investigation. Now,
if there are people saying they have compromising video of you,
knowing that one of your donors was facilitating prostitution involving
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miners for elected officials, yeah, it might be worth a
half million dollars to try to clear that up minors.
Oh there's a surprise.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Is the whole political world the world of Epstein's. Is
that what everything's about.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You guys are just total horn dogs that like him.
Young you guys, you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, we're all we're all doing this, not all. No,
I don't know what percentage would do this if they
can get away with it. But God, now Bonta is
talking about running for governor again. He was gonna run
and change his mind, and then recent weeks he's talking about,
you know, maybe entering the race because you know, the
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race is full of a bunch of losers. I mean,
let's be honest. There's I'm talking about the Democratic side.
They're just really wanna bees, retreads, crazy people. There's nobody
impressive there, and so Banta thinks, you know, maybe I
could sneak in here, maybe maybe things could work out.
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Now you're talking about an investigation involving prostitution and minors,
not furries and not gay sheep though, I want to.
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When we come back, a crazy person that we highlighted
a few days ago is Eric Swawell. He's a northern
California congressman who slept with a Chinese spy that was
working in his office. Seriously, she's back in China now
and this guy is Uh is up there for dumbest
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sack of rocks of all time. He's got an idea
to make California elections even more corrupt, and we'll tell
you about it when we return.
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Speaker 1 (12:25):
This this, this is a sad story.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And I hate to hate to do a sad story,
but that poor police dog here in Burbank Spike. Oh yeah,
this is really upset me. Last night when night when
I heard the story. Burbank police did a traffic stop
Saturday evening about six forty on Blaena Vista Street near
the five Frue on ramp and something about when you're
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really familiar with an area, like many times have I
gone down?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Gone down the block?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
From KFI and ended up on Buena Vista, right near
the five, and that's where the cops pulled over this
bad guy. And the guy ran from the car, ran
up the on ramp to the freeway, jumped over an embankment,
a wall into a nearby neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
And that that was a passenger who did it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
There was still a driver left behind, and so other
police showed up, helicopter showed up, police dog, and the
dog his name Spike, found the suspect hiding in the bushes,
and that guy fired a number of shots from a
handgun and hit Spike, and Spike died.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Is it okay for me to say I'm glad that
guy died.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yes, it is okay. I'm glad that guy died.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes, they saw him hiding in the in the brush,
and I guess I guess they had a shoot out.
And yeah, he deserved to die, he did. He deserved to.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Die, like Killike. Yeah, I know, I know. I see
the picture of Spike.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yes, the dog was I think just turned four or five.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I mean that, I don't know who this cycle was.
Have you seen a name? I mean, I'm glad, I'm
glad he got an immediate death. Penalty. When I first
heard the story, I thought, I want the death penalty
for that guy's Oh you already got it.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
There is going to be a memorial, a public memorial,
I think for Spike. Yeah, it's really sad.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, why would you go after the dog? You should
go after the police either, But a.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Dog, well, it's going to bite you. That hurts.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I did see a video I don't know how it
got into my feed, like just this morning, of a
of some suspect and he tried punching a cop and
the cop did something and the dog suddenly jumped out
of the car and went right the right for the goods.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, you don't. You don't do that. I don't know.
I don't know what this guy was running from.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But it's just just a terrible, terrible story.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
When when we come back, John, we need somebody to
come and organize your papers in there. I know I'm
watching you shuffling through no wonder you can't find things,
and then your glasses fall on the floor and then
you can't see the papers.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I know I should.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
This is why we need to be on video. You
would not believe the things that go on this show.
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Oh, we get plenty of comments about loving seeing John's
paper piles and hearing him and seeing him shuffling the
papers after hearing it for so many years, it's hilarious.
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Doesn't take much entertained some people.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Maybe I should just sit here with the camera on
me for three hours and shuffle the papers and not
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On they want to hear what you have to say.
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On every day from one until four o'clock and every
day after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand, and
that's where you pick up whatever you missed. We went
earlier in the hour through Rob Bount to situation. He's
the attorney general who wants to run for governor, but
he's caught up now in a scandal. He spent almost
a half million dollars of his campaign money to get
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legal assistance for an FBI investigation. The investigation was into
the recalled mayor of Oakland. It's a bribery case, and
the donor involved in the bribery is there's somebody in
this mix claiming that Bonta knew that this donor was
committing all kinds of crimes, including providing prostitutes to politicians.
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Some of the prostitutes are miners. They're supposedly a video
where it's pretty obvious that Bonte is aware of what's
going on. They call it a blackmail video. Undetermined yet
if this video is real or if it has the
things that are being said. But this is what's turning
up in these investigation documents. And in fact, we've got
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a lot of bad, bad candidates for governor, and I'm
going to go through a few of them here. We're
going to start with Eric Swallwell. Eric Swallowell we talked
about last week. He's running for governor. He ran briefly
for president congressman in northern California on the House Intelligence
Committee of all things. He's a real block of wood.
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I mean, he's just a dumb clock. And now he's
running for governor. And he goes on CNN Alex Michaelson's show.
The story is and his big idea is everybody in California,
as if we don't have enough corruption, everybody in California
should be able to vote by phone.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
It comes to be able to vote by phone. I
think every California vote by phone.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
If we can do our taxes, do you know, our
make our healthcare appointments, uh, you know, make essentially your
do your banking online. You should be able to vote
by phone. Make it safe, make it secure. But it's
actually already happening all over the United States. I want
us to be a blue state that doesn't do just
a little bit better than like Georgia or Alabama when
it comes to like voting access. I want us to
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max out democracy also as it relates to democracy, if
you wait in line for thirty minutes or more, if
you do want to vote in person, I think you
should find every county for every minute that a person
has to wait longer. We have to be better, not
just a little bit better than the other states. The DMV.
I don't think California should have to go in person
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to the DMV anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I think we can do that virtually.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I think you you can have the DMV employees do
it virtually.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But that's a lot of real estate. Is that the
most popular position?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Digitize the Yeah, we can modernize to say, and again
I look forward to you know, bringing these ideas to
Californians vote by phone.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
They won't allow voter ID. By the way, Elon Musk
did a post today, and there is one hundred and
sixteen democracies that have voter I D. You know who
doesn't have voter D requirements The United States, although many
states individually do, but not the country as a whole.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
All the corruption they have in.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
California in voting, with this, with this ballot harvesting that
they do, collecting people's ballots from nursing homes and illegal
alien apartment buildings. You know the whole story, right, that's
when Democrat votes, vote totals surged as soon as they
legalize ballot harvesting.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Now it's going to be on phones. Seriously.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Here's another Swallow had another moment. Now what you're going
to hear here? Here Here is Tish Hyman. She's a
black lesbian questioning Swawell at one of those town meetings,
and she's asking him if men should be in women's
locker rooms and in sport programs and in prisons. And
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listen to him at the end of her question, and
also keep in mind, at the end of the question,
he turns and walks away.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
From her.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I've been harassed, probally assaulted multiple times.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
I've made in the gold Woman and the cold Chip
in the lad.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I haven't even loss on imber ship a.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Jet one man.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
She's been assaulted at the gyp.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
My guy's dressed up as quickly. She's have search your
on record saying that man is sports is a cult.
Then what's happening on the ground in California? Well, you
know I not a stay is in fact eighty.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
And the governor, what would you do to protect I'm
in California from many including.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
Committed Are you going to protect women who are being
attacked by these guys who are playing I'll take the
next question.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry that happened to you, And I'll
take the next two questions.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I'm sorry that happened to you.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
So he wouldn't respond to it because apparently he believes
that men should be allowed access to women's locker rooms
playing women's sports, have men in women's prisons, have boys
and girls locker rooms. And she was talking about getting
sexually assaulted by these characters. And this is this is
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like new groundbreaking territory. This is beyond acceptance of trans
This is accepting guys who fake being trands in order
to sexually assault women, and the women having no recourse whatsoever,
in addition to the guys competing with women and defeating
them in competition and blowing away their records. And then
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God knows what goes out in prison, and Eric Swallall says,
I'm sorry that happened to you. I'll take the next
two questions. Wow, Then there's Katie Porter.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
George Skelton is.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
George Skelton has been writing for the Los Angeles Times
for fifty one years.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
As a political reporter.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
He's covered Sacramento politics for over sixty years.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Eighty seven years old, still does.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
At column once a week in the LA Times, and
this week it was a rundown of little capsule summary
of all the candidates for governor.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Just one.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I want to pick out Katie Porter, missus potato head,
famous for dumping scalding potatoes on her soon to be
ex husband's head in front of the kids at the
dinner table. And then we saw the photos of her
freaking out at a TV reporter freaking out because some
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staff member was in her zoom shot.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Katie Porter Skeleton rites she has curb appeal? What's the
kurb appeal? That's that's where I stopped. I mean, but
what what is it? What kind of neighborhood is he
driving in? She has curb appeal?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
She yells at her staffers, she doesn't want reporters to
ask questions, follow up questions, and of course what she
did to her husband with potatoes. Yeah, I mean, I'm
not even being rude. I'm curious. What is the kurb appeal?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't know, and curb a pile usually applies to
attractive homes in a neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I'm not saying she's attractive or unattractive.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
John, that's your job.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, I'm saying she looks like a beautiful sack of potatoes.
All right, I'm totally studied. He's eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But did he He didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
He didn't say what.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
The curb appeal is.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
M she has curb Atpeel, but she probably should she
probably she publicly. He showed a thin skin with that
TV interview. The nasty episode probably wasn't fatal, but it
dropped her in the polls.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No, he doesn't have I do not. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
When you when you look at a picture of Katie Porter.
In fact, you should google her name for images and
you get to see about thirty photos at once.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
They're all the same. I mean I tried to give
her a chance.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I tried to look at all the photos see if
there was maybe just a few bad days.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
It's like, no, that they're all bad.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
He's eighty seven, he's been a reporter forever. You don't
just drop that and don't explain what the curb appeal is.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I'm forgot, you know, maybe come on, George.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Maybe the toaster went follow ut and he never went
back to finish that sentence, and I'm thinking, curb. I really, yeah,
I'm with you. I want to know exact you look
at Katie Porter? Quick, what do you see that's attractive there?
Because sometimes that's all you need is a woman. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
I wonder if those mashed potatoes were good, cause that
would be a bump up in a point.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I think maybe she cooks really tasting mashed potatoes and
by time they drip down her husband's face, he's going,
it's not bad.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, little too much butter maybe though, try to think
how warm should a guy last.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Get a marriage?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah? I think you should be out that.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Night yeah, I think so. And you take the kids
with you and let her go to court. But hey,
make her governor.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Why not? She's got a stable temperament.
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you say yes and you pick Katerina's club and we
posted a video how how easy it is on my Instagram.
I don't know if we have to actually go with
you to Yamava and go through it. The Deborah was
willing to do that bit on auction items. Auctions are
open through ten pm on December tewond and yes.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You you have a chance to co host on the
John co Belt Show with the one and only John
coblt for one hour. The highest bidder gets the honor.
I mean, seriously, what could be more amazing than coming
into the KFI studio, sitting in there with John, watching
him shuffle all his papers, have his glasses fall on
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the floor.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
What could be better? You could look into my eyes.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's right, I'll look back into your eyes absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Who knows what will still happen after that, So that's
what you get to do, all.
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Right, kfiam six, Sporty dot Com, slash Pastathon.
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And after three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We told you in the first hour, which is really
worth listening to on the iHeart app Our number one,
how it looks like we've got another settle lies from
the LA Fire Department and the Interim Police Chief Ronnie
van Aweva. They claimed that they had done a cold
trail investigating whether the Lochman fire was still smoldering, still hot,
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two days after it happened, and vin Aweva claimed, oh, yeah,
we saw a crew there and we spent a lot
of time doing the cold trail.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Toech me maybe not.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Nothing's in the records, according to the La Times, and
now nobody in LA Fire Department management wants to talk about.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
It, even the spokes holes. The spokes holes won't speak.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So we're going to have a regular guest on our
show from the Palisades coming on with us at three o'clock.
And you know, I've shuffled him out of existence, the
attorney sayed Kashani. He'll be on right after three. New
York Post did an editorial today. This is what Post
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readers across the country are seeing. That California has created
absolutely zero jobs this year in the state. You know,
there was a new job report that came out. It
was for September. It was delayed because of the shutdown.
But it turns out in September the US economy created
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one hundred and nineteen thousand jobs. That was more than
double the prediction. None in California, and they've got some
pretty damning statistics.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Now, I don't know, does this matter to anybody?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
California has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. It's
been going like that for several months. They have the
highest rate of inflation. In fact, in San Diego the
inflation rate is four percent. Now, high unemployment and high
inflation usually kills presidencies. Is Newsom actually going to go
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on to be president after this? And this is going
on specifically in California and not in any other state.
The state's a year on year employment growth is less
than half of the national average. The Legislative Analyst Office
in Sacramento, which is a non partisan office, said California
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businesses have paired back hiring, result ulting in no payroll
job growth in the state this year.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
The Public Policy Institute of California did a survey and found,
get this, eighty six percent eighty six percent of adults
say that a lack of well paying jobs is a
big problem or somewhat of a problem. And people in
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the tech industry says tech companies may launch in California,
but they want to leave as soon as they grow
beyond the startup phase. According to Ruben Gregorian of a
financial tech company, the problems are high taxes, heavy regulations,
the sheer cost of real estate, and other states have
a far more welcoming approach.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Does that matter to anybody?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
In addition to all the other incompetent incompetencies and scandals.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Why would you keep vote? Why do you vote for
the high inflation? Why do you vote for the highest unemployment?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Why would you vote for people from his administration who
are who contributed to the highest inflation and the highest
unemployment policies. I'm just every every day, every day, I'm
just flummoxed by by the situation here. In addition to
like the highest gas prices which is near five bucks
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and it's in the twos and probably thirty other states
is in the twos and we approach five when we
come back, Yes, it's going to be Sayid Kashani. Uh,
this this white I would even call a whitewash report.
It's like a non report that they released the after
action report on the on the fire. The latest one
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totally ignored what caused the fire, which was the arsonist
and then the lack of follow up by the LA
Fire Department and then the lying and the cover up
that's going on. Since we'll talk with attorney Sayed Kashanu,
who lost his house in the Palisades fire. Next Deborah
Mark live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
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Is that right? Okay? You could bid on auction items.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Auctions are open through ten pm on December second, And
it says here in parentheses, talk about your specific auction item.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
What would that be? What is our specific item?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, then how am I going to talk about? I
have stage directions? Heah, talk about your specification. Well, it'll
be it'll it'll be great. Uh find a details. Oh,
go to the website. Maybe it's on the website. Kay,
If i am six forty dot com slash pasta thought,
I'll go to the website and figure out what this is. Well,
usually this involves me in some ways it does. Well
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you know, well, no I don't it does. Maybe it's
a co host again. Didn't we do that last year?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You ot of care?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean I'm not obviously, I'm
not running anything. Okay, I know. I just I'm not
in charge. I have no influence on anything. Sometimes people go,
why don't you just tell them? It's like, no, nobody
listens to me, nobody asks me in my opinion, nobody
cares what I have to say.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It doesn't matter. I know, I do, I truly do.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You have as much power as I do? We both
have nothing. That's all right, we're just you know, hired
to do this. And then it's like, please go home,
don't bother us.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I was like, oh, Rob Bonta, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Rob Bonta is the attorney general who is not interested
in any of the massive scandals here in California. Right
We've got billion dollars blown on high speed rail, billions
of dollars blown on the unemployment insurance scandal. During COVID,
we got billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars
in homeless money that's disappeared, and now the Palisade situation.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I mean that was on state Land.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He's got jurisdiction and we went through a lot of
the lies last hour.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
We have mora lies to go through next hour. So
what does he do with his day?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Well, we found out he had spent nearly a half
million dollars on campaign country. He spent nearly a half
billion dollars of campaign contributions on legal fees because there
was an FBI investigation into the former mayor of Oakland,
Sheng Tao. She was recalled because of this corruption case
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and others. And why did he spend a half billion dollars? Well,
at first they lied and said it was to get
legal assistance. Actually he had to deal with FBI investigators.
And there is now a whistleblower who says Bonta is involved.
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There's a compromising blackmail video, and there's documents that show
Bonta knew that his donor and this is the Dong family,
you'll hear a lot about them, and that he knew
his donor was money laundering, making illegal donations to politicians,
falsifying contracts, exploiting straw donors, which are fake donors representing
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somebody else, and also this is my favorite. Bonton knew
that his donor was facilitating prostitution for other elected officials.
Everything I tell you is true. Let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Let's now play a report, and I want to get
the right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Report pleaded because I know there's two of them floating
around the first one. Let's play the first report and
this is from ABC seven Bay Area reporter Dan Noyes.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
In the letter dated May ninth, twenty twenty four, to
Attorney General Rob Bonta, Mario Warrez writes about his business
partners from Oakland based California Waste Solutions. I have first
hand knowledge of various criminal activities perpetrated by the Dewong family,
including money laundering, illegal political donations, falsification of contracts, and
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exploitation of straw donors. These activities extend to facilitating prostitution
for elected officials, including miners. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, knew
far more of what was going on in this investigation
with the Deuongs than any of us knew. Steven Tavaris
runs the political substack East Bay Insiders. He first broke
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news of the Wara's letter, and I obtained it from
another source.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
The letter shows that Mario was despondent and that he
was basically going to get back retribution against the Deuongs.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Mario Wara was partners with David and Andy de Wong
in Evolutionary Homes, a company that converted shipping containers to
housing for the homeless. But Waras writes that on May third,
twenty twenty four, the De Wongs locked him out of
the showroom on the Oakland Waterfront and that they ordered
an attack by a group of armed men who quote,
I was threatened with firearms and a knife, assaulted and
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robbed the personal belongings, including a gold chain and Rolex watch.
The Iteam obtained these photos showing Warres his injuries, his
swollen face and head. He goes on to say he
was coerced into delivering an apology to David du Wong,
while Andy and Christina du Wong recorded the interaction. Then
just one month later.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
And he started shooting back, like firing back.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Waris got into a shootout with men who broke into
his SUV. Tovaris believes it's no coincidence that just days later,
the FBI raided the homes of David and Andy de
Wong and then Oakland mayor schan Tau and her partner
Andre Jones.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Eleven days later the raids happen.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
It strongly suggests that the FBI had found Mario Warez
made him the star witness. This got out that he
was cooperating, they moved quick.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Some of what Mario Warrez wrote in that letter appears
in the federal bribery and corruption indictment. His name isn't there,
but he's believed to be listed as co conspirator.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
One.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Wilson Leung is a former federal prosecutor.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
It is interesting that this letter came out gosh more
than a year ago now, and some of its allegations
seemed to have been proven sufficiently correct so that the
beds are willing to take action on some of them.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Lawyers for Andy de Wong emailed me that he vigorously
denies the baseless allegations in this letter. David d Wang's
lawyers say he strongly denies them. They both argue that
Warrez has credibility issues and cannot be believed. Dan Newman,
spokesperson for Bonte's re election campaign, confirms the Attorney General
receive the letter and forwarded it to the FBI. Warres
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also wrote, Bonte should know that Andy de Wong, in particular,
has a recording of you in a compromising situation, and
that he routinely engages in entertaining elected and other officials
to extract recordings without their knowledge for later use in
blackmail circumstances.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
A recording of him in a compromising situation. Although it's
uncertain what that means. It's also uncertain whether that's true.
So there's a lot of questions that this letter prompts.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
The spokesman for Rob Bonta tells me the Attorney General
is not concerned about that report of a compromising video,
and says Mario Warrez wrote that letter as a desperate
guy at a desperate moment with walls closing in.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, all we know is that Rob Bonta, he's not worried.
He spent almost a half a million dollars of campaign
money on legal fees to deal with the investigation. Now,
if there are people saying they have compromising video of you,
knowing that one of your donors was facilitating prostitution involving
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miners for elected officials, yeah, it might be worth a
half million dollars to try to clear that up minors.
Oh there's a surprise.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Is the whole political world the world of Epstein's. Is
that what everything's about.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You guys are just total horn dogs that like him.
Young you guys, you guys.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, we're all we're all doing this, not all. No,
I don't know what percentage would do this if they
can get away with it. But God, now Bonta is
talking about running for governor again. He was gonna run
and change his mind, and then recent weeks he's talking about,
you know, maybe entering the race because you know, the
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race is full of a bunch of losers. I mean,
let's be honest. There's I'm talking about the Democratic side.
They're just really wanna bees, retreads, crazy people. There's nobody
impressive there, and so Banta thinks, you know, maybe I
could sneak in here, maybe maybe things could work out.
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Now you're talking about an investigation involving prostitution and minors,
not furries and not gay sheep though, I want to.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Make that clear. Yes, and by the way, I want
to spare anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
John. The auction item for the John Coblt Show is
the lucky winner. We'll get to co host with John
for one hour.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I mean, can you.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
What could be better than sitting in the studio with
John Cobalt for an hour and getting to talk with
him on the air. I mean, I can't think of anything.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You could tell him firsthand? I can, and it's the
best I do it with him all that.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I mean, I'm really not the co host. I'm more
of a sidekick, but you would.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Be the co host, right right?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So you got to pay big bucks for the pastathon
feed hungry kids.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's worth it, all right. I don't hear a little
notice sarcasm there.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh no, there's no no, no. I think that that
is an awesome and it's great. It's just it's great,
It's fantastic, it's amazing. You don't want to miss it?
Can be so lucky, all right, you want me to
go on?
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No, no, no, people will start losing interest. Then nobody's
gonna bid.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh come on, they're not going to believe you. I'm serious,
all right.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I'm sitting here with John every single day. It's the
best thing effort. Well, not the best thing ever, but.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
It's great, the best thing ever. Let's go and go
with that.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
When we come back, a crazy person that we highlighted
a few days ago is Eric Swawell. He's a northern
California congressman who slept with a Chinese spy that was
working in his office. Seriously, she's back in China now
and this guy is Uh is up there for dumbest
(11:59):
sack of rocks of all time. He's got an idea
to make California elections even more corrupt, and we'll tell
you about it when we return.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Six forty John Cobelt Show, and we're on every day
from one until four o'clock and after four o'clock John
Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
This this, this is a sad story.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And I hate to hate to do a sad story,
but that poor police dog here in Burbank Spike. Oh yeah,
this is really upset me. Last night when night when
I heard the story. Burbank police did a traffic stop
Saturday evening about six forty on Blaena Vista Street near
the five Frue on ramp and something about when you're
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really familiar with an area, like many times have I
gone down?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Gone down the block?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
From KFI and ended up on Buena Vista, right near
the five, and that's where the cops pulled over this
bad guy. And the guy ran from the car, ran
up the on ramp to the freeway, jumped over an embankment,
a wall into a nearby neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
And that that was a passenger who did it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
There was still a driver left behind, and so other
police showed up, helicopter showed up, police dog, and the
dog his name Spike, found the suspect hiding in the bushes,
and that guy fired a number of shots from a
handgun and hit Spike, and Spike died.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Is it okay for me to say I'm glad that
guy died.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yes, it is okay. I'm glad that guy died.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes, they saw him hiding in the in the brush,
and I guess I guess they had a shoot out.
And yeah, he deserved to die, he did. He deserved to.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Die, like Killike. Yeah, I know, I know. I see
the picture of Spike.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yes, the dog was I think just turned four or five.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I mean that, I don't know who this cycle was.
Have you seen a name? I mean, I'm glad, I'm
glad he got an immediate death. Penalty. When I first
heard the story, I thought, I want the death penalty
for that guy's Oh you already got it.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
There is going to be a memorial, a public memorial,
I think for Spike. Yeah, it's really sad.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, why would you go after the dog? You should
go after the police either, But a.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Dog, well, it's going to bite you. That hurts.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I did see a video I don't know how it
got into my feed, like just this morning, of a
of some suspect and he tried punching a cop and
the cop did something and the dog suddenly jumped out
of the car and went right the right for the goods.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, you don't. You don't do that. I don't know.
I don't know what this guy was running from.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
But it's just just a terrible, terrible story.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
When when we come back, John, we need somebody to
come and organize your papers in there. I know I'm
watching you shuffling through no wonder you can't find things,
and then your glasses fall on the floor and then
you can't see the papers.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I know I should.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
This is why we need to be on video. You
would not believe the things that go on this show.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Oh, we get plenty of comments about loving seeing John's
paper piles and hearing him and seeing him shuffling the
papers after hearing it for so many years, it's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Doesn't take much entertained some people.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Maybe I should just sit here with the camera on
me for three hours and shuffle the papers and not
say anything. If that's enough to draw an audience, what
am I working for?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
On they want to hear what you have to say.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
On every day from one until four o'clock and every
day after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand, and
that's where you pick up whatever you missed. We went
earlier in the hour through Rob Bount to situation. He's
the attorney general who wants to run for governor, but
he's caught up now in a scandal. He spent almost
a half million dollars of his campaign money to get
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legal assistance for an FBI investigation. The investigation was into
the recalled mayor of Oakland. It's a bribery case, and
the donor involved in the bribery is there's somebody in
this mix claiming that Bonta knew that this donor was
committing all kinds of crimes, including providing prostitutes to politicians.
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Some of the prostitutes are miners. They're supposedly a video
where it's pretty obvious that Bonte is aware of what's
going on. They call it a blackmail video. Undetermined yet
if this video is real or if it has the
things that are being said. But this is what's turning
up in these investigation documents. And in fact, we've got
(17:19):
a lot of bad, bad candidates for governor, and I'm
going to go through a few of them here. We're
going to start with Eric Swallwell. Eric Swallowell we talked
about last week. He's running for governor. He ran briefly
for president congressman in northern California on the House Intelligence
Committee of all things. He's a real block of wood.
(17:41):
I mean, he's just a dumb clock. And now he's
running for governor. And he goes on CNN Alex Michaelson's show.
The story is and his big idea is everybody in California,
as if we don't have enough corruption, everybody in California
should be able to vote by phone.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
It comes to be able to vote by phone. I
think every California vote by phone.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
If we can do our taxes, do you know, our
make our healthcare appointments, uh, you know, make essentially your
do your banking online. You should be able to vote
by phone. Make it safe, make it secure. But it's
actually already happening all over the United States. I want
us to be a blue state that doesn't do just
a little bit better than like Georgia or Alabama when
it comes to like voting access. I want us to
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max out democracy also as it relates to democracy, if
you wait in line for thirty minutes or more, if
you do want to vote in person, I think you
should find every county for every minute that a person
has to wait longer. We have to be better, not
just a little bit better than the other states. The DMV.
I don't think California should have to go in person
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to the DMV anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I think we can do that virtually.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I think you you can have the DMV employees do
it virtually.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But that's a lot of real estate. Is that the
most popular position?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Digitize the Yeah, we can modernize to say, and again
I look forward to you know, bringing these ideas to
Californians vote by phone.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
They won't allow voter ID. By the way, Elon Musk
did a post today, and there is one hundred and
sixteen democracies that have voter I D. You know who
doesn't have voter D requirements The United States, although many
states individually do, but not the country as a whole.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
All the corruption they have in.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
California in voting, with this, with this ballot harvesting that
they do, collecting people's ballots from nursing homes and illegal
alien apartment buildings. You know the whole story, right, that's
when Democrat votes, vote totals surged as soon as they
legalize ballot harvesting.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Now it's going to be on phones. Seriously.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Here's another Swallow had another moment. Now what you're going
to hear here? Here Here is Tish Hyman. She's a
black lesbian questioning Swawell at one of those town meetings,
and she's asking him if men should be in women's
locker rooms and in sport programs and in prisons. And
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listen to him at the end of her question, and
also keep in mind, at the end of the question,
he turns and walks away.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
From her.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I've been harassed, probally assaulted multiple times.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
I've made in the gold Woman and the cold Chip
in the lad.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I haven't even loss on imber ship a.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Jet one man.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
She's been assaulted at the gyp.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
My guy's dressed up as quickly. She's have search your
on record saying that man is sports is a cult.
Then what's happening on the ground in California? Well, you
know I not a stay is in fact eighty.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
And the governor, what would you do to protect I'm
in California from many including.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
Committed Are you going to protect women who are being
attacked by these guys who are playing I'll take the
next question.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry that happened to you, And I'll
take the next two questions.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I'm sorry that happened to you.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
So he wouldn't respond to it because apparently he believes
that men should be allowed access to women's locker rooms
playing women's sports, have men in women's prisons, have boys
and girls locker rooms. And she was talking about getting
sexually assaulted by these characters. And this is this is
(21:39):
like new groundbreaking territory. This is beyond acceptance of trans
This is accepting guys who fake being trands in order
to sexually assault women, and the women having no recourse whatsoever,
in addition to the guys competing with women and defeating
them in competition and blowing away their records. And then
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God knows what goes out in prison, and Eric Swallall says,
I'm sorry that happened to you. I'll take the next
two questions. Wow, Then there's Katie Porter.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
George Skelton is.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
George Skelton has been writing for the Los Angeles Times
for fifty one years.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
As a political reporter.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
He's covered Sacramento politics for over sixty years.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Eighty seven years old, still does.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
At column once a week in the LA Times, and
this week it was a rundown of little capsule summary
of all the candidates for governor.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Just one.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I want to pick out Katie Porter, missus potato head,
famous for dumping scalding potatoes on her soon to be
ex husband's head in front of the kids at the
dinner table. And then we saw the photos of her
freaking out at a TV reporter freaking out because some
(22:57):
staff member was in her zoom shot.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Katie Porter Skeleton rites she has curb appeal? What's the
kurb appeal? That's that's where I stopped. I mean, but
what what is it? What kind of neighborhood is he
driving in? She has curb appeal?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
She yells at her staffers, she doesn't want reporters to
ask questions, follow up questions, and of course what she
did to her husband with potatoes. Yeah, I mean, I'm
not even being rude. I'm curious. What is the kurb appeal?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't know, and curb a pile usually applies to
attractive homes in a neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I'm not saying she's attractive or unattractive.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
John, that's your job.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, I'm saying she looks like a beautiful sack of potatoes.
All right, I'm totally studied. He's eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But did he He didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
He didn't say what.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
The curb appeal is.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
M she has curb Atpeel, but she probably should she
probably she publicly. He showed a thin skin with that
TV interview. The nasty episode probably wasn't fatal, but it
dropped her in the polls.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No, he doesn't have I do not. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
When you when you look at a picture of Katie Porter.
In fact, you should google her name for images and
you get to see about thirty photos at once.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
They're all the same. I mean I tried to give
her a chance.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I tried to look at all the photos see if
there was maybe just a few bad days.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
It's like, no, that they're all bad.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
He's eighty seven, he's been a reporter forever. You don't
just drop that and don't explain what the curb appeal is.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I'm forgot, you know, maybe come on, George.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Maybe the toaster went follow ut and he never went
back to finish that sentence, and I'm thinking, curb. I really, yeah,
I'm with you. I want to know exact you look
at Katie Porter? Quick, what do you see that's attractive there?
Because sometimes that's all you need is a woman. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
I wonder if those mashed potatoes were good, cause that
would be a bump up in a point.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I think maybe she cooks really tasting mashed potatoes and
by time they drip down her husband's face, he's going,
it's not bad.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, little too much butter maybe though, try to think
how warm should a guy last.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Get a marriage?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah? I think you should be out that.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Night yeah, I think so. And you take the kids
with you and let her go to court. But hey,
make her governor.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Why not? She's got a stable temperament.
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van Aweva. They claimed that they had done a cold
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(27:52):
two days after it happened, and vin Aweva claimed, oh, yeah,
we saw a crew there and we spent a lot
of time doing the cold trail.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Toech me maybe not.
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It, even the spokes holes. The spokes holes won't speak.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So we're going to have a regular guest on our
show from the Palisades coming on with us at three o'clock.
And you know, I've shuffled him out of existence, the
attorney sayed Kashani. He'll be on right after three. New
York Post did an editorial today. This is what Post
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readers across the country are seeing. That California has created
absolutely zero jobs this year in the state. You know,
there was a new job report that came out. It
was for September. It was delayed because of the shutdown.
But it turns out in September the US economy created
(28:57):
one hundred and nineteen thousand jobs. That was more than
double the prediction. None in California, and they've got some
pretty damning statistics.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Now, I don't know, does this matter to anybody?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
California has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. It's
been going like that for several months. They have the
highest rate of inflation. In fact, in San Diego the
inflation rate is four percent. Now, high unemployment and high
inflation usually kills presidencies. Is Newsom actually going to go
(29:34):
on to be president after this? And this is going
on specifically in California and not in any other state.
The state's a year on year employment growth is less
than half of the national average. The Legislative Analyst Office
in Sacramento, which is a non partisan office, said California
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businesses have paired back hiring, result ulting in no payroll
job growth in the state this year.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
The Public Policy Institute of California did a survey and found,
get this, eighty six percent eighty six percent of adults
say that a lack of well paying jobs is a
big problem or somewhat of a problem. And people in
(30:26):
the tech industry says tech companies may launch in California,
but they want to leave as soon as they grow
beyond the startup phase. According to Ruben Gregorian of a
financial tech company, the problems are high taxes, heavy regulations,
the sheer cost of real estate, and other states have
a far more welcoming approach.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Does that matter to anybody?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
In addition to all the other incompetent incompetencies and scandals.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Why would you keep vote? Why do you vote for
the high inflation? Why do you vote for the highest unemployment?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Why would you vote for people from his administration who
are who contributed to the highest inflation and the highest
unemployment policies. I'm just every every day, every day, I'm
just flummoxed by by the situation here. In addition to
like the highest gas prices which is near five bucks
(31:27):
and it's in the twos and probably thirty other states
is in the twos and we approach five when we
come back, Yes, it's going to be Sayid Kashani. Uh,
this this white I would even call a whitewash report.
It's like a non report that they released the after
action report on the on the fire. The latest one
(31:52):
totally ignored what caused the fire, which was the arsonist
and then the lack of follow up by the LA
Fire Department and then the lying and the cover up
that's going on. Since we'll talk with attorney Sayed Kashanu,
who lost his house in the Palisades fire. Next Deborah
Mark live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
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