June 18, 2025 • 27 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (06/18) - Susan Shelley comes on the show to talk about the cause of CA's political decay over the last few decades. Man admits to killing his nudist neighbors over a hot dog. LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis tried to make a claim for how much money illegal immigrants contribute to the economy. There was a drag show on the Oregon House floor.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I am six forty you're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app after four o'clock John
Cobet Show on demand on the iHeart app, and you
could hear what you missed. Susan Shelley writes a terrific
columns a southern California news group like the Eli Daily News,
Orange County Register and all the suburban papers in the area,
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and also it's published in many other places, such as
this week the New York Post, where she explained to
a lot of East Coast readers the hell is going
on in Los Angeles and about the Ice Rice riots,
showing decades of California's political decay.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Let's get Susan Shelley on here.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
How are you, Susan, I'm good, John, Thank you for
having me.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
A really good column boss.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
One of my favorite parts of it early on is
when you note that in the lawsuit that Trump lawyers
filed in Sandford in the first round of this debate
over who controls the National Guard, they detailed what the
protesters did. They threw rocks, bottles, chunks of concrete, exploding
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mortar style fireworks at the police setting cars on fire,
molotov cocktails, shutting down the one to one freeway, ramming
dumpsters into walls of buildings. And you note that most
members of the city council issued a joint statement we
condemned this and no uncertain terms. But they weren't condemning
the rioters and all those actions. They were condemning law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yes, this is their view that law enforcement causes violence
and lawlessness. And how are they twisting themselves into pretzels
like this? As you pointed out, they always try to
blur the line between legal immigration and legal immigration. They're
always trying to erase crime, as if it's not happening.
Everyone's just going to the stores and ramsacking the shelves,
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and now there's plexiglass and locks everywhere. But it's not
a problem. And the elected officials have this view that
nothing is a crime unless some business puts up a
sign or fails to put up the right labor poster,
then they come after them with handcuffs. But in general,
this lawlessness, closing the state prisons, their whole attitude is
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it's not a problem. And now they're trying to stop
federal law enforcement, and they're trying to say, as Amelda
Padilla on the city said to the police chief, can't
you just warn us when the federal officials are on
the way and let us warn our community. The police
chief said, yeah, we can't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Asking the police chiefs to warn everyone that federal law
enforcement was coming.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
In right, and their position is that the federal government,
the president has no right to enforce federal law in
Los Angeles, and Meltapadia even said, out of your loyalty
to Los Angeles, won't do this as if Los Angeles
is a separate country from the United States. Well it's not,
and there are plenty of voters who don't think it
is or should be, and so this is a really
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interesting political thing. I think what's going on is this
is all about the congressional races in twenty twenty six,
because I looked it up and there are nine races
that were decided were won by less than fifty four
percent of the vote, and there were six of those
nine that were so close that they were one with
fifty two percent or less. So George Whiteside's in La
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County and Ken Calvert, who's a Republican in Riverside County.
Three Democrats Derek Tran, Dave min and Mike Levin in
Orange County and San Diego County, and these are very close.
So how big a deal is it if the Latino
vote moves a little bit toward the Democrats. When we
just saw the President Trump moved the Latino vote quite
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a bit toward the Republicans. I think that's mostly what
this is about.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, he's getting a majority of mail Latinos votes now
and even overall he's up to forty five percent in
the last election. So I don't know how supporting chaos
and riots, I mean, they act like Hispanic families are
different than white or black families. Nobody wants the chaos
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and the riots has nothing to do with coler ethnicity.
So I don't know how trying to pander to pander
them to violent illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I don't know how that helps the cause.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
But if you listen to what they're saying. Maxine Waters
went and stood in front of a federal building and
said that the National Guard was there with guns. She
was sure they had orders to shoot to kill. And
then she said, I don't know, but why else would
they have guns. Well, they might have guns to protect
themselves against crazed rioters ramming dumpsters at them. That might
be one thing, but it's such a fearmongering, racially tinged
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kind of call to arms that these Democrats are making
on the streets that I really think they're trying to
They're trying to racially divide the vote, and I think
you're right, it won't work because nobody wants chaos, and
there's a big distinction between criminals and immigrants. This is
a crazy This is a crazy thing that they're trying
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to do. But I don't think they have anything else
to run on in twenty twenty six, and I think
this is their this is their game.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
No, but it's really gotten insane. It's inexplicable. Where do
these views come from?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I mean, go ahead, they may come from the Union Ties.
For example, if we do immigration enforcement in California, guess
what happens to school attendance. According to the Migration Policy Institute,
about fifteen percent of the five point eight million students
in California public schools grades K through twelve or TK
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through twelve, About fifteen percent are either undocumented themselves or
have at least one undocumented parent. So if they drop
out of school out of fear, or if they're deported
out of policy, then what happens to school funding, which
is based on attendance, and then what happens to the teachers'
union jobs? So that might be one factor. And another factor.
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We have one point four million undocumented immigrant adults on
medical because they've expanded medical to all undocumented residents who
are low income. So if they are, if they're leaving
the stay, then what happens to all the new healthcare
jobs the SEIU represents. Maybe it's that, maybe it's the
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unions and the congressional races that are behind this craziness
that they're twisting themselves into pretzels to oppose law enforcement craziness.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I saw yesterday the fifty eight percent of Californians are
against giving any illegal alien health care.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Tax man they should run for office.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, well yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
What I'm saying is, is there at any point a
backlash when it comes to voting?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
At any point to people flip?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Well, now you raise another question, what's going on with
our elections and why are our elected officials so solicitous
of the illegal immigrants? Is it because there's voting involved? Now,
there's no evidence, but then you're not allowed to collect
to the evidence, so there's never going to be any evidence.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
The Times just ran.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
A story today about you know, false claims, you know
that Trump makes about illegal aliens voting and nobody has
any evidence. I just cannot believe. I cannot believe, especially
with ballot harvesting and mail in balloting and the way
the vote goes in California against all, against all reason,
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that there isn't something funky going on. I just can't
believe it because why would people keep voting for this?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, you raise the exact point. We have ballot harvesting.
We have seven days to deliver ballots that must be
processed seven days after the election. They do not need
a postmark. They're supposed to be marked by the end
of election day. But all that has to happen is
the voter has to write the date on the envelope
and then they have to accept it. It's just wide
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open for.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Fraud, right, These laws must have been created for fraud.
Why wouldn't you commit fraud if you were the political
party and you have a super majority, why wouldn't you
commit fraud? Because if they don't have to put a
postmark if it can be coming in seven days after
the election, and then you got all this wacky ballad
harvesting going on. I mean, I don't understand are people
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not paying attention to this extent? I mean they see
Los Angeles blowing up, they saw the fires. What what
do you need to see before you say, hey, I'm
voting for somebody else.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, we really have to clean up the elections. That's
the first thing that has to happen. Honestly, if Mayor
Richard J. Daley in Chicago had had this system, he
would still be mayor and he's been dead since the nineteen.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Eighty all right, Susan Shelley, thank you for coming on
with us.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Thank you, all right, And you can.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
See her piece in the New York Posts why LA's
ice riots revealed decades of California's political k.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I heard this clip, I believe on Dever's News today,
Hilda Soalise trying to make a statistical claim for illegal
aliens based on how many there are and how many
how much money they contribute to the economy. But there's
one word she left out of her claims. I'll tell
you about it when we come back.
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Speaker 2 (09:44):
And I want to I'm going to get to.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
A couple of I tell you, the La County Border
Supervisors has some of the dumbest clucks you'll ever see.
One cluck is hil to Salise. Another cluck is janis hon.
I'm going to read to you a resolution that they
have put out this week, and I guess this fool's people.
We'll get to it in just a minute, but I
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cannot forget. Do not want to pass up this story
because this is another story I remember not too long ago,
and I wondered what happened to it. Do you remember
the guy who killed two fellow members of a nudist
colony back in August of twenty twenty four. Yes, his
name is Michael Sparks, and he killed Daniel Minard and
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Stephanie Minard. And Sparks is sixty two. The other the
two victims are in their seventies, and they found human
remains under Michael Sparks's home. He's finally admitted to the killings.
And we got a report here from KTLA reporter Shelby
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Nelson over the reason for the killing.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
One day after Redlands police rap up their days long
investigation into the presumed murders of an elderly couple.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
They worked very.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Quickly under conditions that were, in my opinion, unprecedented, to
be able to bring some humanity to the minards.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
The San Bernardino County District Attorney and Redlands Police Chief
announcing Michael Sparks is now charged with two counts of
murder after he's accused of killing his own neighbors, a
case the DA says is unprecedented and unusual. His alleged
victims are Stephanie and Dan Menard, an elderly couple who
was first reported missing just over a week ago from
their home inside the Oll of Dell Ranch, newdest Resort.
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Police located bags of evidence and human remains underneath Spark's
property in a homemade basement.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
In addition to filing the two separate murder charges, we
filed an allegation of special circumstances alleging multiple.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Murders, and that is what the District Attorney's office says
could make Sparks eligible for life without the possibility of parole.
It was last Thursday Redlands police got word that Sparks
may have had something to do with their disappearance while
they were searching at the property. And now we're learning
that tip came in from one of his own family
members indicating that the suspect, Michael Sparks, was involved in
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the disappearance and had admitted to killing two people and
was threatening suicide. He proceeded to barricade himself inside that
basement armed with a rifle before eventually surrendering. This is
what the home looks like now, with piles of rubble
for days. Neighbors have told KTLA that there was a
long standing feud between the neighbors. We're told that Sparks
didn't like the Minards. I know that they were neighbors,
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but I can't speak to the motive at this point.
Neighbor Tammy Wilkerson was friends with the Minards and also
friends with Sparks, but that doesn't change her opinion that
justice needs to be served. I feel like special circumstances
was the best thing he could have gotten. Very kind people,
they were funny, they erred about their neighbors, and they
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didn't deserve this to happen now. Sadly, there are still
no signs of Cuddles, the couple's dog. In the meantime,
we did ask the chief as well as the district Attorne,
several questions regarding this case. They couldn't really say much.
We asked why the car was found about a half
mile down from the home, how this all happened, if
they recovered any weapons. They couldn't say. Because all of
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this information they say they're turning over as evidence to
be able to build a case against Sparks, and he's
going to be rained tomorrow in San Bernardino.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I think that was the wrong story. Well, it was,
it was. It was. She didn't talk about what the dispute.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Was because it's beyond getting arraigned. He's now pleaded guilty.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes, and that's all, and the guttles is still missing. Yeah, well,
we apologize for that. I said that.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Here's the update. According to an inmate, Michael Sparks, the
killer had told this inmate that the incident started over
a hot dog, yes, that Daniel Minard had purchased for him,
and Sparks felt insulted. Sparks thought the hot dog was
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a jab at him, making him feel like he was
only worth a dollar hot dog, and that's what set
him off, and that's what led him to kill Daniel
and Stephanie Manhard. And he admitted to the killings in
a text message and uh he uh. He tried to
kill himself but the gun jammed, and he wrote in
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a text message, chopped up. My neighbors didn't know I
had it in me, snapped over a hot dog. Over
a hot dog. So you can buy somebody a hot
dog and that's a sign of an insult.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Well, you need to make sure that it's not one
of those cheap o hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You need to go and get something. I don't buy
hot dogs. Dogs are cheap o hot dogs?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Well, I mean, I'm sure what can you go to
Dodger Stadium and I'm sure they're expensive there, I know.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But they still taste like cheap Oh, I know.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
But they're not a dollar So maybe he had they
given him one of those Dodger dog.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yes, I spent eight bucks on of Dodger degu with him,
and yes, it's the same, it's the same ingredients there.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I know, but we're talking, we're talking the price here.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This seems to have set them off, so he got
a cheap hot talk. You know.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
He beat them with a rake, a hoe and a hammer.
I mean, have you seen this photo?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Well I did when the story first came out. Did
he did he do the alleged crimes while naked too?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah? It doesn't say.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You got to remember all three of these people, the
killer and the two victims, they spent their days running
around naked. So it's probably more than a screw loose.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
There.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
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Speaker 1 (15:44):
Miss stuff that went on today after four o'clock. John
Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. I can't
tell you how empty headed and vacant some of the
La County supervisors are. It's actually astonishing. I can't believe
they can walk upright and breathe on their own. Two
in particular, Hilda Solis and Janis Ton janisn two of
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the emptiest cans. I mean, just brain dead makes Kamala
Harris look like a mensa candidate. So the two of
them uncorked emotion motions are just expressions, expressions of nonsense. Really,
they're not laws. And they're denouncing ice and the raids.
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But listen to whether they they write the motion plus
in Los Angeles County, one third are immigrants. Out of
the approximately ten point one million Angelinos populating Los Angeles County,
one third are immigrants. Stop the raid is on illegal immigration.
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Illegal immigrants are about a million, one third are not
illegal immigrants, one tenth are illegal immigrants. And what they
do in this motion and they throw out a lot
of statistics, which I don't believe to begin with. But
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the statistics they throw out blur immigrants and illegal immigrants.
They kind of go back and forth between the two,
and they talk about how many billions of dollars immigrants
add to the economy, how many billions of dollars they
might contribute to social Security or to medicare. What they
don't separate is how much money illegal immigrants cost the
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county and the state. Now I know how much illegal
immigrants cost the state of California because it's been calculated
various immigration groups like fair For example, Federation for American
Immigration Reform has discovered that as of three years ago.
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I'll wait for a second, as of three years ago,
it was twenty two billion dollars of tax money spent
on illegal aliens. Twenty two billion. Now, because Newsom did
something mind blowingly stupid, we're spending an extra twelve billion,
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twelve billion illegal alien healthcare that didn't exist three years ago.
They thought illegal alien healthcare was going to cost six billion.
It turned out to be more than double that. This
is how stupid they are. They gave away a legal
alien healthcare. While the Biden administration had the front door
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wide open, people came to California, not only from foreign countries,
but illegal aliens who had already arrived in the United
States started pouring into California. Because I'm reading these statistics
that we've lost, like, I don't know, eight hundred thousand
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Californians over the last ten years or so, but the
population never goes down.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Why is that?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Because for every American, every legal citizen that leaves, they're
replaced by illegal aliens and then some.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So now.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It costs twenty two billion a year for illegal aliens
plus twelve billion for their healthcare. Now you're getting around
thirty five billion dollars a year for illegal aliens, which
is about twelve thirteen percent of our state budget for
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illegal aliens. And believe me, they don't pay much in taxes.
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Because they don't make much money.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
If you have somebody in your family who's got a
low age job, you know, the don't pay much in
state tax They don't pay much into Social Security or
Medicare either. They're very low tax rates on people who
make little money. And then a lot of illegal aliens
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are working on cash, so no, they don't contribute very much,
not the illegals. What Hill does, Salise and janis Han
does is they start talking about legal immigrants, what they
add to the economy, how much they pay in taxes. No, no, no,
legal immigrants aren't being rounded up. Maybe a few of
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them mistakenly get detained for a few minutes until things
get straightened out, and that's just mistakes. But the raids
are about illegal immigration, Jenis.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Maybe they're not that stupid.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Maybe they know that the public is largely stupid and uninformed,
so they'll hear about salicse and Janis Hans. I heard
Salase on the news today on our news, squawking away,
and she's lying, and Jen's on is lying because they're
they're intentionally mixing up legal with illegal.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And if you read.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Their resolution, which I have, they go back and forth,
back and forth between legal and illegal. So even if
you're trying to pay attention, it gets confusing. And that's
on purpose, because the truth is it's impossible. It is
impossible for illegal aliens to contribute much to the economy.
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They make very little, They don't contribute much in taxes.
They do cost us a hell of a lot. Fifteen
percent of the LA School district are illegal alien children,
thirty the twenty the twelve billion dollars in healthcare alone.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I was just talking to a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You go to the emergency room at a major hospital
on the West Side, it is cluttered, clogged with illegal aliens.
That's their healthcare that we're paying for. And then there's
Catherine Barger, La County supervisor, who's much more sane than
the others.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And she raised a point.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
She said one of her staff members, her godson was
pulled over by two men in an unmarked car with
flashing lights. These two guys told the boy that we
have a nice truck for someone with that surname. Then
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one of the mystery men asked this guy to get
out of the car, and then they drove away. People
on the street had started to record the confrontation. Men
drove away, and Barger said, I tell you this story
because we don't know if they were Ice agents or not.
I do believe there may be people out there impersonating
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Ice taking advantage of this population.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I wonder how.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Many how many jackasses and yahoos are driving around pretending
to be Ice just as a prank, just to stir
up trouble, just to scare people.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Now, jenis Hahn, she of the empty head.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Make no mistake about it, she said, it isn't people
impersonating Ice, it is Ice. Well, how do you know,
make no I had it with politicians always say make
no mistake. Nobody normal ever says that phrase except politicians.
Make no mistake, says who, what do you know? And
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they had this back and forth right before they were
going to vote on the motion that Hildasalise wrote, and
I just told you about it, where so Leae intentionally
confuses legal immigrants with illegal immigrants. Okay, so when you
hear that immigrants are the third of Los Angeles, immigrants
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are a third, but illegal immigrants are ten percent of
Los Angeles and.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
They are very costly.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
They are a drain on the economy, a net loss
on the economy. But they'll just keep lying and lying
and lying because their goal is to stabilize our civilization,
not to tell the truth.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
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It was just that in a week or two ago
that we had the drag performance the La City Council meeting.
Now there's was an even wackier one on the Oregon
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House floor. You kind of have to see this two
drag queens. I don't get the drag queen thing. I mean,
I just I have zero interest in this. I don't
understand why this is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It was.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
It was an honor of a democratic resolution recognizing the
artistry of black drag performers in Oregon. I don't know
how many there are. That's according to one of the representatives,
Travis Nelson, Travis Nelson is the first get this black
LGBTQIA plus house member. There's a lot of extra letters
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in there. I don't know what they all stand for.
I mean, how many letters is that at? Seven letters
with the plus? Anyway, the two drag queens, one of
them was a black man, a bald black man wearing
a bright yellow, shimmery jumpsuit, and the other had a
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rainbow one piece with a blue wig and their lips
sinking to an Aretha Franklin song, and they started dancing
wildly and jumping up and down. Now, I don't get
it during during a legislative session, that's the point of this.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I mean, it looks just ridiculous. It looks completely absurd.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And I do do they get paid with tax money
for this thing?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I mean I don't. Just I just wandered. I would
have left.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I mean, it waste my time for five minutes watching
these two nuts jump up and down and they look
really really bizarre. I just, uh, this, this is what
they do in the legislature. Now did they have one
in Sacramento too? I mean, if if life was going well,
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I mean, look look at what we got here in
Los Angeles, US.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
That's what pissed me off. The legislature.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Doesn't fund the fire department or the police department, so
we end up with Pacific Palisades burning down and the
LAPD overwhelmed during the last riot. But everybody's got time
for a drag queen show, and everybody else puts up
with this and votes for it. All right, got more
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tomorrow and we've got Conway up in minutes. Heather Brooker
in for Crozier Live and the KFI twenty four hour News. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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Can't I am six forty you're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app after four o'clock John
Cobet Show on demand on the iHeart app, and you
could hear what you missed. Susan Shelley writes a terrific
columns a southern California news group like the Eli Daily News,
Orange County Register and all the suburban papers in the area,
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and also it's published in many other places, such as
this week the New York Post, where she explained to
a lot of East Coast readers the hell is going
on in Los Angeles and about the Ice Rice riots,
showing decades of California's political decay.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Let's get Susan Shelley on here.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
How are you, Susan, I'm good, John, Thank you for
having me.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
A really good column boss.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
One of my favorite parts of it early on is
when you note that in the lawsuit that Trump lawyers
filed in Sandford in the first round of this debate
over who controls the National Guard, they detailed what the
protesters did. They threw rocks, bottles, chunks of concrete, exploding
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mortar style fireworks at the police setting cars on fire,
molotov cocktails, shutting down the one to one freeway, ramming
dumpsters into walls of buildings. And you note that most
members of the city council issued a joint statement we
condemned this and no uncertain terms. But they weren't condemning
the rioters and all those actions. They were condemning law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yes, this is their view that law enforcement causes violence
and lawlessness. And how are they twisting themselves into pretzels
like this? As you pointed out, they always try to
blur the line between legal immigration and legal immigration. They're
always trying to erase crime, as if it's not happening.
Everyone's just going to the stores and ramsacking the shelves,
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and now there's plexiglass and locks everywhere. But it's not
a problem. And the elected officials have this view that
nothing is a crime unless some business puts up a
sign or fails to put up the right labor poster,
then they come after them with handcuffs. But in general,
this lawlessness, closing the state prisons, their whole attitude is
(02:20):
it's not a problem. And now they're trying to stop
federal law enforcement, and they're trying to say, as Amelda
Padilla on the city said to the police chief, can't
you just warn us when the federal officials are on
the way and let us warn our community. The police
chief said, yeah, we can't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Asking the police chiefs to warn everyone that federal law
enforcement was coming.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
In right, and their position is that the federal government,
the president has no right to enforce federal law in
Los Angeles, and Meltapadia even said, out of your loyalty
to Los Angeles, won't do this as if Los Angeles
is a separate country from the United States. Well it's not,
and there are plenty of voters who don't think it
is or should be, and so this is a really
(03:10):
interesting political thing. I think what's going on is this
is all about the congressional races in twenty twenty six,
because I looked it up and there are nine races
that were decided were won by less than fifty four
percent of the vote, and there were six of those
nine that were so close that they were one with
fifty two percent or less. So George Whiteside's in La
(03:32):
County and Ken Calvert, who's a Republican in Riverside County.
Three Democrats Derek Tran, Dave min and Mike Levin in
Orange County and San Diego County, and these are very close.
So how big a deal is it if the Latino
vote moves a little bit toward the Democrats. When we
just saw the President Trump moved the Latino vote quite
(03:53):
a bit toward the Republicans. I think that's mostly what
this is about.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, he's getting a majority of mail Latinos votes now
and even overall he's up to forty five percent in
the last election. So I don't know how supporting chaos
and riots, I mean, they act like Hispanic families are
different than white or black families. Nobody wants the chaos
(04:18):
and the riots has nothing to do with coler ethnicity.
So I don't know how trying to pander to pander
them to violent illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I don't know how that helps the cause.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
But if you listen to what they're saying. Maxine Waters
went and stood in front of a federal building and
said that the National Guard was there with guns. She
was sure they had orders to shoot to kill. And
then she said, I don't know, but why else would
they have guns. Well, they might have guns to protect
themselves against crazed rioters ramming dumpsters at them. That might
be one thing, but it's such a fearmongering, racially tinged
(04:53):
kind of call to arms that these Democrats are making
on the streets that I really think they're trying to
They're trying to racially divide the vote, and I think
you're right, it won't work because nobody wants chaos, and
there's a big distinction between criminals and immigrants. This is
a crazy This is a crazy thing that they're trying
(05:14):
to do. But I don't think they have anything else
to run on in twenty twenty six, and I think
this is their this is their game.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
No, but it's really gotten insane. It's inexplicable. Where do
these views come from?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I mean, go ahead, they may come from the Union Ties.
For example, if we do immigration enforcement in California, guess
what happens to school attendance. According to the Migration Policy Institute,
about fifteen percent of the five point eight million students
in California public schools grades K through twelve or TK
(05:49):
through twelve, About fifteen percent are either undocumented themselves or
have at least one undocumented parent. So if they drop
out of school out of fear, or if they're deported
out of policy, then what happens to school funding, which
is based on attendance, and then what happens to the teachers'
union jobs? So that might be one factor. And another factor.
(06:09):
We have one point four million undocumented immigrant adults on
medical because they've expanded medical to all undocumented residents who
are low income. So if they are, if they're leaving
the stay, then what happens to all the new healthcare
jobs the SEIU represents. Maybe it's that, maybe it's the
(06:29):
unions and the congressional races that are behind this craziness
that they're twisting themselves into pretzels to oppose law enforcement craziness.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I saw yesterday the fifty eight percent of Californians are
against giving any illegal alien health care.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Tax man they should run for office.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, well yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
What I'm saying is, is there at any point a
backlash when it comes to voting?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
At any point to people flip?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Well, now you raise another question, what's going on with
our elections and why are our elected officials so solicitous
of the illegal immigrants? Is it because there's voting involved? Now,
there's no evidence, but then you're not allowed to collect
to the evidence, so there's never going to be any evidence.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
The Times just ran.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
A story today about you know, false claims, you know
that Trump makes about illegal aliens voting and nobody has
any evidence. I just cannot believe. I cannot believe, especially
with ballot harvesting and mail in balloting and the way
the vote goes in California against all, against all reason,
(07:33):
that there isn't something funky going on. I just can't
believe it because why would people keep voting for this?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, you raise the exact point. We have ballot harvesting.
We have seven days to deliver ballots that must be
processed seven days after the election. They do not need
a postmark. They're supposed to be marked by the end
of election day. But all that has to happen is
the voter has to write the date on the envelope
and then they have to accept it. It's just wide
(08:01):
open for.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Fraud, right, These laws must have been created for fraud.
Why wouldn't you commit fraud if you were the political
party and you have a super majority, why wouldn't you
commit fraud? Because if they don't have to put a
postmark if it can be coming in seven days after
the election, and then you got all this wacky ballad
harvesting going on. I mean, I don't understand are people
(08:24):
not paying attention to this extent? I mean they see
Los Angeles blowing up, they saw the fires. What what
do you need to see before you say, hey, I'm
voting for somebody else.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, we really have to clean up the elections. That's
the first thing that has to happen. Honestly, if Mayor
Richard J. Daley in Chicago had had this system, he
would still be mayor and he's been dead since the nineteen.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Eighty all right, Susan Shelley, thank you for coming on
with us.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Thank you, all right, And you can.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
See her piece in the New York Posts why LA's
ice riots revealed decades of California's political k.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I heard this clip, I believe on Dever's News today,
Hilda Soalise trying to make a statistical claim for illegal
aliens based on how many there are and how many
how much money they contribute to the economy. But there's
one word she left out of her claims. I'll tell
you about it when we come back.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
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Speaker 2 (09:44):
And I want to I'm going to get to.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
A couple of I tell you, the La County Border
Supervisors has some of the dumbest clucks you'll ever see.
One cluck is hil to Salise. Another cluck is janis hon.
I'm going to read to you a resolution that they
have put out this week, and I guess this fool's people.
We'll get to it in just a minute, but I
(10:06):
cannot forget. Do not want to pass up this story
because this is another story I remember not too long ago,
and I wondered what happened to it. Do you remember
the guy who killed two fellow members of a nudist
colony back in August of twenty twenty four. Yes, his
name is Michael Sparks, and he killed Daniel Minard and
(10:29):
Stephanie Minard. And Sparks is sixty two. The other the
two victims are in their seventies, and they found human
remains under Michael Sparks's home. He's finally admitted to the killings.
And we got a report here from KTLA reporter Shelby
(10:50):
Nelson over the reason for the killing.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
One day after Redlands police rap up their days long
investigation into the presumed murders of an elderly couple.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
They worked very.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Quickly under conditions that were, in my opinion, unprecedented, to
be able to bring some humanity to the minards.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
The San Bernardino County District Attorney and Redlands Police Chief
announcing Michael Sparks is now charged with two counts of
murder after he's accused of killing his own neighbors, a
case the DA says is unprecedented and unusual. His alleged
victims are Stephanie and Dan Menard, an elderly couple who
was first reported missing just over a week ago from
their home inside the Oll of Dell Ranch, newdest Resort.
(11:30):
Police located bags of evidence and human remains underneath Spark's
property in a homemade basement.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
In addition to filing the two separate murder charges, we
filed an allegation of special circumstances alleging multiple.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Murders, and that is what the District Attorney's office says
could make Sparks eligible for life without the possibility of parole.
It was last Thursday Redlands police got word that Sparks
may have had something to do with their disappearance while
they were searching at the property. And now we're learning
that tip came in from one of his own family
members indicating that the suspect, Michael Sparks, was involved in
(12:03):
the disappearance and had admitted to killing two people and
was threatening suicide. He proceeded to barricade himself inside that
basement armed with a rifle before eventually surrendering. This is
what the home looks like now, with piles of rubble
for days. Neighbors have told KTLA that there was a
long standing feud between the neighbors. We're told that Sparks
didn't like the Minards. I know that they were neighbors,
(12:25):
but I can't speak to the motive at this point.
Neighbor Tammy Wilkerson was friends with the Minards and also
friends with Sparks, but that doesn't change her opinion that
justice needs to be served. I feel like special circumstances
was the best thing he could have gotten. Very kind people,
they were funny, they erred about their neighbors, and they
(12:50):
didn't deserve this to happen now. Sadly, there are still
no signs of Cuddles, the couple's dog. In the meantime,
we did ask the chief as well as the district Attorne,
several questions regarding this case. They couldn't really say much.
We asked why the car was found about a half
mile down from the home, how this all happened, if
they recovered any weapons. They couldn't say. Because all of
(13:12):
this information they say they're turning over as evidence to
be able to build a case against Sparks, and he's
going to be rained tomorrow in San Bernardino.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I think that was the wrong story. Well, it was,
it was. It was. She didn't talk about what the dispute.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Was because it's beyond getting arraigned. He's now pleaded guilty.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes, and that's all, and the guttles is still missing. Yeah, well,
we apologize for that. I said that.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Here's the update. According to an inmate, Michael Sparks, the
killer had told this inmate that the incident started over
a hot dog, yes, that Daniel Minard had purchased for him,
and Sparks felt insulted. Sparks thought the hot dog was
(13:59):
a jab at him, making him feel like he was
only worth a dollar hot dog, and that's what set
him off, and that's what led him to kill Daniel
and Stephanie Manhard. And he admitted to the killings in
a text message and uh he uh. He tried to
kill himself but the gun jammed, and he wrote in
(14:24):
a text message, chopped up. My neighbors didn't know I
had it in me, snapped over a hot dog. Over
a hot dog. So you can buy somebody a hot
dog and that's a sign of an insult.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Well, you need to make sure that it's not one
of those cheap o hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You need to go and get something. I don't buy
hot dogs. Dogs are cheap o hot dogs?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Well, I mean, I'm sure what can you go to
Dodger Stadium and I'm sure they're expensive there, I know.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But they still taste like cheap Oh, I know.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
But they're not a dollar So maybe he had they
given him one of those Dodger dog.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yes, I spent eight bucks on of Dodger degu with him,
and yes, it's the same, it's the same ingredients there.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I know, but we're talking, we're talking the price here.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This seems to have set them off, so he got
a cheap hot talk. You know.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
He beat them with a rake, a hoe and a hammer.
I mean, have you seen this photo?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Well I did when the story first came out. Did
he did he do the alleged crimes while naked too?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah? It doesn't say.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You got to remember all three of these people, the
killer and the two victims, they spent their days running
around naked. So it's probably more than a screw loose.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
There.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A
six for if you.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Miss stuff that went on today after four o'clock. John
Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. I can't
tell you how empty headed and vacant some of the
La County supervisors are. It's actually astonishing. I can't believe
they can walk upright and breathe on their own. Two
in particular, Hilda Solis and Janis Ton janisn two of
(16:10):
the emptiest cans. I mean, just brain dead makes Kamala
Harris look like a mensa candidate. So the two of
them uncorked emotion motions are just expressions, expressions of nonsense. Really,
they're not laws. And they're denouncing ice and the raids.
(16:33):
But listen to whether they they write the motion plus
in Los Angeles County, one third are immigrants. Out of
the approximately ten point one million Angelinos populating Los Angeles County,
one third are immigrants. Stop the raid is on illegal immigration.
(16:57):
Illegal immigrants are about a million, one third are not
illegal immigrants, one tenth are illegal immigrants. And what they
do in this motion and they throw out a lot
of statistics, which I don't believe to begin with. But
(17:17):
the statistics they throw out blur immigrants and illegal immigrants.
They kind of go back and forth between the two,
and they talk about how many billions of dollars immigrants
add to the economy, how many billions of dollars they
might contribute to social Security or to medicare. What they
don't separate is how much money illegal immigrants cost the
(17:42):
county and the state. Now I know how much illegal
immigrants cost the state of California because it's been calculated
various immigration groups like fair For example, Federation for American
Immigration Reform has discovered that as of three years ago.
(18:02):
I'll wait for a second, as of three years ago,
it was twenty two billion dollars of tax money spent
on illegal aliens. Twenty two billion. Now, because Newsom did
something mind blowingly stupid, we're spending an extra twelve billion,
(18:22):
twelve billion illegal alien healthcare that didn't exist three years ago.
They thought illegal alien healthcare was going to cost six billion.
It turned out to be more than double that. This
is how stupid they are. They gave away a legal
alien healthcare. While the Biden administration had the front door
(18:44):
wide open, people came to California, not only from foreign countries,
but illegal aliens who had already arrived in the United
States started pouring into California. Because I'm reading these statistics
that we've lost, like, I don't know, eight hundred thousand
(19:04):
Californians over the last ten years or so, but the
population never goes down.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Why is that?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Because for every American, every legal citizen that leaves, they're
replaced by illegal aliens and then some.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So now.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It costs twenty two billion a year for illegal aliens
plus twelve billion for their healthcare. Now you're getting around
thirty five billion dollars a year for illegal aliens, which
is about twelve thirteen percent of our state budget for
(19:44):
illegal aliens. And believe me, they don't pay much in taxes.
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Because they don't make much money.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
If you have somebody in your family who's got a
low age job, you know, the don't pay much in
state tax They don't pay much into Social Security or
Medicare either. They're very low tax rates on people who
make little money. And then a lot of illegal aliens
(20:14):
are working on cash, so no, they don't contribute very much,
not the illegals. What Hill does, Salise and janis Han
does is they start talking about legal immigrants, what they
add to the economy, how much they pay in taxes. No, no, no,
legal immigrants aren't being rounded up. Maybe a few of
(20:35):
them mistakenly get detained for a few minutes until things
get straightened out, and that's just mistakes. But the raids
are about illegal immigration, Jenis.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Maybe they're not that stupid.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Maybe they know that the public is largely stupid and uninformed,
so they'll hear about salicse and Janis Hans. I heard
Salase on the news today on our news, squawking away,
and she's lying, and Jen's on is lying because they're
they're intentionally mixing up legal with illegal.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And if you read.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Their resolution, which I have, they go back and forth,
back and forth between legal and illegal. So even if
you're trying to pay attention, it gets confusing. And that's
on purpose, because the truth is it's impossible. It is
impossible for illegal aliens to contribute much to the economy.
(21:28):
They make very little, They don't contribute much in taxes.
They do cost us a hell of a lot. Fifteen
percent of the LA School district are illegal alien children,
thirty the twenty the twelve billion dollars in healthcare alone.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I was just talking to a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You go to the emergency room at a major hospital
on the West Side, it is cluttered, clogged with illegal aliens.
That's their healthcare that we're paying for. And then there's
Catherine Barger, La County supervisor, who's much more sane than
the others.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And she raised a point.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
She said one of her staff members, her godson was
pulled over by two men in an unmarked car with
flashing lights. These two guys told the boy that we
have a nice truck for someone with that surname. Then
(22:33):
one of the mystery men asked this guy to get
out of the car, and then they drove away. People
on the street had started to record the confrontation. Men
drove away, and Barger said, I tell you this story
because we don't know if they were Ice agents or not.
I do believe there may be people out there impersonating
(22:56):
Ice taking advantage of this population.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I wonder how.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Many how many jackasses and yahoos are driving around pretending
to be Ice just as a prank, just to stir
up trouble, just to scare people.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Now, jenis Hahn, she of the empty head.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Make no mistake about it, she said, it isn't people
impersonating Ice, it is Ice. Well, how do you know,
make no I had it with politicians always say make
no mistake. Nobody normal ever says that phrase except politicians.
Make no mistake, says who, what do you know? And
(23:41):
they had this back and forth right before they were
going to vote on the motion that Hildasalise wrote, and
I just told you about it, where so Leae intentionally
confuses legal immigrants with illegal immigrants. Okay, so when you
hear that immigrants are the third of Los Angeles, immigrants
(24:02):
are a third, but illegal immigrants are ten percent of
Los Angeles and.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
They are very costly.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
They are a drain on the economy, a net loss
on the economy. But they'll just keep lying and lying
and lying because their goal is to stabilize our civilization,
not to tell the truth.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
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It was just that in a week or two ago
that we had the drag performance the La City Council meeting.
Now there's was an even wackier one on the Oregon
(24:54):
House floor. You kind of have to see this two
drag queens. I don't get the drag queen thing. I mean,
I just I have zero interest in this. I don't
understand why this is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It was.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
It was an honor of a democratic resolution recognizing the
artistry of black drag performers in Oregon. I don't know
how many there are. That's according to one of the representatives,
Travis Nelson, Travis Nelson is the first get this black
LGBTQIA plus house member. There's a lot of extra letters
(25:37):
in there. I don't know what they all stand for.
I mean, how many letters is that at? Seven letters
with the plus? Anyway, the two drag queens, one of
them was a black man, a bald black man wearing
a bright yellow, shimmery jumpsuit, and the other had a
(25:59):
rainbow one piece with a blue wig and their lips
sinking to an Aretha Franklin song, and they started dancing
wildly and jumping up and down. Now, I don't get
it during during a legislative session, that's the point of this.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I mean, it looks just ridiculous. It looks completely absurd.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And I do do they get paid with tax money
for this thing?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I mean I don't. Just I just wandered. I would
have left.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I mean, it waste my time for five minutes watching
these two nuts jump up and down and they look
really really bizarre. I just, uh, this, this is what
they do in the legislature. Now did they have one
in Sacramento too? I mean, if if life was going well,
(26:57):
I mean, look look at what we got here in
Los Angeles, US.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
That's what pissed me off. The legislature.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Doesn't fund the fire department or the police department, so
we end up with Pacific Palisades burning down and the
LAPD overwhelmed during the last riot. But everybody's got time
for a drag queen show, and everybody else puts up
with this and votes for it. All right, got more
(27:30):
tomorrow and we've got Conway up in minutes. Heather Brooker
in for Crozier Live and the KFI twenty four hour News. Hey,
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