December 4, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (12/04) - People in Lake Tahoe got a fake alert for a 5.9 earthquake. More on CA's Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara's lavish trips on taxpayer funds and other scandals he has been involved in. An albino alligator died.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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although it looks like when you get one of those
earthquake warnings, it's not a human who sends you the warning.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That was my teas coming up, that was your t's.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, this is my teas for your tea's here because
I knew this is like a new fear to embed
inside your brain, is that when you get these fake
warnings from these stupid algorithm systems that they have. Now
you remember how all the warnings during the fires, those
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things went haywire.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, I got one of those people who didn't have.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Fires got warnings to evacuate. Those who did have fires
in the neighborhood didn't get the warnings. Well, now what
is this? This was a five to nine fake earthquake.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, that's a biggie.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Up in northern California, right, yep, five point nine people
are getting a buzz on their phones, and did these
people notice that well maybe the phone was was vibrating
that that the the earth was not.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I don't know. I didn't interview them. That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I wondering, because I mean, if you got one that
said five to nine, you're out in the street. Oh yeah,
we're hiding under your bed or whatever it is you do.
You do some kind of dance, some kind of panic dance.
I know, you run out, you run out in your
robe or something.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
In the shower ridiculous. Yeah, when you take a shower
that triggers on earth.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oh, I take very quick showers because of that. I'd
owl right there just in case I had.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I heard that story immediately thought of you, that's that's
all you need, is fake earthquake alerts.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, I know. So anyway, more on that, Deborel have
more on that now.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
One of our favorite punching bags is back in the news.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I don't know how many of you.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Still look at the Los Angeles Times, but I've always
try to be fair. I'm not fair very much. I've
said they have covered the fire fantastically over the last year.
Not much else. It's the usual left wing, progressive, slop
and nonsense.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
However, they now have a second.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
A second category that they are doing a great job
as on and that is a writer named Page Saint
John rerecording covering Ricardo Lara cal Fart. Lara is back
the insurance commissioner. A couple of months ago, I think
it was we carried a very long report by Channel
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seven KGO and San Francisco. It was like a ten
minute report and it was the second time they'd done
something on him that Ricardo Lara basically gets bribed by
the insurance industry and gets to go traveling all over
the world I'll tell you how often. And he also
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spends a lot of tax money in addition to the bribery.
And it resulted by the end of last year, right
before the fire, he gave this sweetheart deal to the
insurance companies that they could cancel coverage by the tens
of thousands and bolt large sections of California. One of
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those sections was Specific Palisades, and so you had thousands
of people who no longer had insurance. They suddenly were
thrown into the Fair Plan, which is the state run
insurer of last resort, and you only get a fraction
of the money from the Fair Plan.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That's what I am. Now, have you looked at what
the cap is? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I mean it's the cap is much less than a
regular insurance.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Because that's all we can get.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
That's it. And so there's a lot of people in
the Palisades who are really out of luck. I don't
know what they're going to do, but they're never going
to get the money because the Fair Plan screws you over.
The Fair Plan's also going bankrupt. And Newsom had ordered
Lara to make some kind of deal with the insurance
companies because they said this whole thing is too expensive
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in ensuring homes in California because of all the disasters.
But he thought he had a deal where he was
going to let them raise the rates a certain amount
and in return, they were going to guarantee like eighty
five percent of the coverage in a geographical area. But
because he's really a stupid man, and I mean that sincerely.
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This is not a casual insult. He really lacks intelligence,
and he gave away the store. And if you believe
him him, he didn't realize that and later claimed he
was bullied by the insurance companies grown man claiming he
was bullied by insurance companies. If you read this story,
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you can see what really happened is he got bribed
up to the nose from the insurance companies, and I
think that's why he gave him the break. You know
how many international trips he has taken since becoming insurance
commissioner in twenty nineteen thirty two thirty two international trips.
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These trips cover at least one hundred and sixty three days,
probably more two thirds of the time. The records on
who paid for the travel are either non existent or incomplete.
Now one hundred in sixty three That is almost six
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months of travel, five and a half months of travel
over a six year period. And he's under two investigations.
But he's under investigations for campaign finance violations, ethics violations.
These should be criminal investigations. He's taking money from insurance companies,
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going on lavish trips, not reporting the source of a
lot of the money, and then screwing over the residents
in California by allowing the insurance companies to bolt. Remember
the idea was, you can raise the rates, but you
got to stay here. They didn't raise the rates. They
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got out and thousands were left without insurance. A month
before the fire, Newsom told him to do something, and
he didn't know what to do because when he took
over as he ran for he was a legislator and
he ran for insurance commissioner. You all elected him, and
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he admitted that he didn't know much about the insurance industry.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Can you believe this?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He said it wasn't his strong suit. It wasn't his
strong suit. But yet, even after publicly admitting he didn't
know much about the insurance industry, he gets elected and
he proceeds to completely f up the entire insurance market
in the state of California.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Because he's a stupid man. Of course, he gets re elected.
And now we're.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Finding out that he took enormous amounts of money from
the insurance industry to go traveling, like, no, I don't
know anybody who's taken thirty two international trips.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I wish I could do that.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I you want to get into politics, I know what
you're doing in here. I don't know you should be
insurance commissioner because you don't have to be good at
your job.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And I'll give you an example of the kind of bribery.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Uh, he has he has pet. He has pet nonprofit
organizations that he wants donations to. One of them is
called Equality California. I think we know what that would
be about, right, and Sarah's incorporated. Well, Uber, under the
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law had to carry million dollar insurance policies on its drivers.
All right, the driver caused an accident, passengers got hurt,
there's all kinds of damage. The driver would be insured
up to a million dollars. Well, the insurance company said, wow,
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that's a lot that's going to cost us a lot
of money. We don't want to pay it. So Ricardo
Lara says, oh, well, why don't you donate money to
this organization, Equality California, and then we'll talk. So Uber
donates twenty five thousand dollars to Equality California. Lara then
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flies from Burbank here to San Francisco to meet with
Uber executives and guess what, the insurance mandate was cut
from a million dollars to sixty thousand dollars. So good
luck if you're hurt in an Uber accident and you
don't have insurance to cover you, because now they only
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have a sixty thousand dollar policy instead, I have a
million dollar policy because they donated money to one of
Tuanna Ricardo Larra's woke charities. I don't know if he
gets a kickback from that or not. Doesn't say that's
just a tiny example of what went on here. I
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haven't even gotten to all the trips and all the
things he's enjoyed. We'll do that in the next segment.
But he is so corrupt, he's such a crook, and
you know what he's been hiding behind.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Well, you know, I'm.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
The first gay insurance commission in California. So what he
does is he plays the same games that the Somalis
do in Minnesota. You can't criticize them for stealing a
billion dollars, Well, you're racist. And what he wants to
do is trump at his being the first gay commissioner
to say, in case you criticize them, oh, well you
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just must be homophobic. No, he's a crook. And Channel
seven covered some of this ground. LA Times cover even
more of this ground, and I'm going to tell you
about the specifics. But he's earning a salary that you're
paying for. And he's the one who destroyed the insurance
industry in the state, and you people in Palisades and
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Altadena and Malibu, you know this firsthand. We'll talk more
we come back.
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Speaker 1 (11:29):
How are we doing for tomorrow? We got plenty of room.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Plenty of room, and people gotten too good of a
mood on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
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Speaker 1 (11:42):
No, there are quite a few.
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Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Ricardo Lara cal Fart Lara in the news, the insurance
commissioner who completely destroyed the insurance industry in the state.
There are many people without insurance, many people with very
expensive insurance, a lot thrown onto the California Fair Plan,
which is the last resort if you're trying to get
housing insurance. He engineered a disastrous deal with the insurance
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industry that allowed them to leave thousands of Californians without insurance.
Right before the fire. Some of them didn't even know
a lot of them ended up on the fair plan,
which only covers a frank a fraction of a normal policy.
And it's all Ricardo Lara and is incredible, overwhelming in confidence.
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He has been in over his head from day one.
He even admitted it at the start, and he has
never gotten his head above water. It's just too hard
for him, it's too complicated. Tell you though, what he
excels at. He excels at shaking down insurance companies for
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donations for travel. He excels at finding obscure conferences to
go to. He spends lots of taxpayer money. He spends
lots of insurance industry money as they host him and
have him invite him to parties and dinners and all
kinds of festivities. Here's some of the travels that were
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covered by the Department of Insurance. Now, the Department of
Insurance is funded by fees collected from the insurance industry.
So what isn't covered by tax money is covered by
what you pay for insurance premiums. The money works its
way to the Department of Insurance, some of it, and
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then to Ricardo Alara. So among the things we've discussed
this one before the twenty nineteen trip to New York
for World Pride festivities. Going to that, he celebrates his
sexual orientation a lot. He uses it as a shield,
and he uses it to deflect criticism. He went to
a Mets baseball game. I don't want him going to
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a Mets baseball He went to a spa visit, a
happy hour, a VIP party. He also went to Bogota,
Colombia dinner with donors donors to a gay political candidate
or a political candidate training foundation.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
He's traveling to Bogota, Colombia to have dinner with people
involved with a gay political candidate training foundation. I don't
even know what that is. And his insurance department says, well,
these are human rights events.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I think it's a human right to have a house,
but between the state and the city, everybody's homes in
the Palisades burned down. And this guy is preening around
and prattling about human rights at a Colombian gay rights conference,
and what the hell? Lara got security detail from the
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California Highway Patrol on some of the trips which we
paid for. Dignitary protection. Seventy three hundred and thirty dollars
was spent on a Florida company to give Lara a
private car and driver in Bogata. Twenty thousand dollars went
to two agents to cover Lara part of the time
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he was in South Africa. Two foundations provided fifteen thousand
dollars for Lara to visit England and Scotland, some of
these political donations, some of them from insurance organizations. Lara
spent one hundred and seven thousand dollars on campaign credit
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cards to fly and dine and stay in Washington, Seattle, Dubai, Dublin,
New York, Costa Rica, Tokyo, Singapore, Switzerland, Scotland. Wait, there's more, Australia,
New Zealand and Bermuda. That's just his travel campaign credit cards.
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Campaign expenses call included a thirteen hundred dollars staff meal
for three people at a hotel in Dubai, a five
thousand dollars insurance department Christmas party in Long Beach, numerous
dinners for the commissioner and guests.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
A campaign meeting at.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
The del Rey Steakhouse in Pico Rivera took place on
the same day that he posted about a birthday dinner
with a friend. There's a photo in the post he
and his companion sharing a booth under the tag hashtag gabies, Gabies.
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The Times got records showing that there were a lot
of unreported invitations luxury hotels, wine tastings, lawn parties, cruises,
cocktail receptions, dinners paid for by insurance companies. Agency staff
did not explain how this fit the definition of public business.
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A twenty twenty three pride and Prosecco lawn reception in
Bermuda held by Renaissance Reinsurance, drinks, dinner and more drinks
hosted by Conduit Reinsurance, and a cocktail cruise. The night after,
he went to Argentina for an insurance gathering three dinner evening,
three dinners, a three dinner evening with a traditional Asado barbecue.
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And I know you've always wanted to go on a
like a South African respur.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
That's high on my list. Well, he went. In December
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
People in Palisades were just days away from a fire
that would destroy their lives. He was prancing and printing
around in South Africa, and industry groups held receptions on rooftops,
in museums, wine tastings, dinner meetings at fine restaurants and
at two wineries. The summit was capped off at the
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exclusive Minheart's Kitchen Cathedral Cellar in South Africa's Cape Winelands.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners book Lara in the
conference second priceiest luxury hotel. His security detail, paid for
by state taxpayers, stayed fifteen minutes away. The Cape Town
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meetings lasted five days. Lara was arriving from another conference
in Ireland. He stayed eleven days. His highway California Highway
Patrol team arrived six days before Lara and arranged a
private car service with driver.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I'm going to ask a very obvious question, Well, it's
not so obvious. How does he keep his job?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Nobody forces him out. I don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
No one's paying attention, no one forces him out. Media
doesn't covers this. Sporadically. Talk more when we come back.
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Speaker 2 (20:05):
So we spent the first half hour, and the La
Times did something good. Paige Saint John did an extensive
story on Ricardo Lara, adding to what cag Up in
San Francisco did a couple of months ago. His just
massive corruption. He spends a lot of tax money, and
he spends a lot of money that he gets from
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insurance companies and insurance organizations, and he flies around the world.
He's been on thirty two trips, and he has gone
to He's been gone one hundred and sixty three days
out of the state, and he's gone to twenty three countries.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
On our time and on our dollar.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
He does not disclose much of who pays for the
five store hotels, the premium airline seats, and the fine dining.
I mentioned before that one of the outstanding bribes was
twenty five thousand dollars. Then he got from Uber. He
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asked Uber to spend twenty five thousand dollars on two organizations.
One is Equality California, which is probably some woke thing,
and then Series which Crees, which is some climate change nonsense.
Because he got the twenty five thousand, Uber wanted to
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get out from the requirement that they have a million
dollar insurance policy on their drivers, a million dollars, and
Laris said, okay. They got this law passed and the
insurance mandate was reduced from a million to sixty thousand dollars. Yeah,
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if you're in an Uber accident, good luck. If you're
medical bills or under sixty thousand dollars you get run
over by an Uber. David Hinkel of the American Association
for Justice said that the bill was a huge win
for Uber to avoid accountability. An Uber senior executive named
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Ramona Prieto met with Lara. They asked her, what's with
the donations. She wouldn't talk, no response. Lawyers for Lara's
department denied a public records request for any communications related
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to the Uber meeting. My guess here is that Uber
paid the money to these organizations that Lara requested, and
who knows where the money ends up and then Uber, well,
Lara gives the OKA to the legislature. Yeah, give Uber
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the break. Don't make them spend out a million dollar
insurance policy for their drivers. Let's make it sixty thousand, right,
because the legislators go, well, what does the insurance commissioner think? Well,
the insurance commissioner thinks sixty thousand ought to cover, not
a million. And then when you go to Uber and
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say what you talk about with Ricardo Lara, Oh, they
shut down, They don't answer. Then you go to the
Lara's department says, well, can we have a public records request?
Can we see all the emails and letters and this
and that? They said, oh, no documents existed. Well what
about the gifts you were giving to these Lara's nonprofits?
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No documents exist, nothing.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
An email from Lara's office shows that staff were instructed
not to answer questions about the Uber contribute. His press
office said such contributions have no bearing on the department's
impartiality or the commissioner's duties. Ah ah ah ah, good
one your liars. The guy was bought off. Of course,
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he was bought off. Instead of a million dollar policy,
a sixty thousand dollars policy on uber drivers. Seriously, now,
you asked a question last segment, Yes I did.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Why is he still here? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
There are no longer any any rules. Guys involved in
scandals this bad used to be embarrassed and they would quit.
There used to be a lot of public pressure and
the media would bring the public pressure, and not just
with one isolated story every once in a while, because
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the public doesn't respond to an.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Isolated story anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
They don't respond to it anything because seventy five percent
of the public doesn't believe anything they read in the media,
nor do they pay attention. The La Times circulation reach
online is a tiny fraction of what it used to
be when it was a print newspaper thirty years ago.
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It's basically a left wing crank blog much of the time.
But like I said, every once in a while they
have a good series and a good story where they
do old fashioned journalism, and this is one of those
times with Paige Saint John. But there's nobody to amplify this.
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This would normally years ago, be a lead story on
the television news, and it would be a lead story
first thing in the morning, at noontime at five at
six at eleven, and then on the next day and
the next day and the next day, and you'd have
reporters chasing Ricardo Lara and there'd be big, bold headlines
in a newspaper. And now if you happen to stubble
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across the La Times website, which few people do these days,
I can see it anywhere else. Now, one of the
purposes of this show is that we seek out this stuff,
and we amplify it, and we stay on the story.
You know, we played most of the KGO story from
San Francisco a couple of months ago. He is there's
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no Newsom's corrupt. This is what he does all day.
Rob Bonta, right, he spent lots of money on trying
to lawyer up for an investigation in Oakland because the
mayor of Oakland had been bribed and Bonta had some
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connection to that case. And so we just did stories
about him spending lots of his campaign money, I think
like a half a million dollars. He's the attorney general.
He should be investigating this, but he doesn't solidarity party loyalty,
or he doesn't want somebody saying, hey, hypocrite and start
digging into his affairs. Newsom is so corrupt it's not
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even funny. So where do you go.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
The television?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I know, like some TV news departments they have maybe
like one or two reporters at night. Now the La
Times has been completely disemboweled and eviscerated. Once in a while,
you get a story, and the story lasts for a
few hours and then disappears. It gets pushed to the
bottom of the of the scroll and eventually then is
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recycled into the archive.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Voters just vote for anybody who's democratic. Could be a
dead raccoon. A dead raccoon couldn't do as much damage
as where Cardo Lara has done.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
But he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
There's no pressure on him, there's no embarrassment. These guys
are psychopaths. They don't have a conscience. Do you think
Ricardo Lara cares about all the suffering that all the
people in the Palisades have gone through, partly because of
they didn't have insurance or not enough insurance, because he
was such a corrupt buffoon. No, he doesn't care anymore
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than Newsom cares that his Parks department stopped the La
Fire Department from fully putting out the original fire. They
don't care. Go die in a fire. That should be
the state motto in Sacramento. Now, I don't know what
the state motto is if you go to the state
capitol in Sacramento. Probably something in Latin, I don't know,
but they should. The new motto should be go die
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in a fire. That should be campaign the campaign slogan
when Newsom runs for president, go die in a fire.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
They don't care.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Now there's another story, and we'll do this one tomorrow
because I can't overload you on too much of this.
But the headline in The Times, also done by Page
Saint John, California's insurance crisis existed long before the LA wildfires.
Why wasn't it fixed? I think you understand why it
wasn't fixed. It was made worse because the insurance companies
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bought off for Cardi Lara, and they bought off the legislature,
and they bought off Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And you can go die in a fire. More coming up.
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sad animal news. That's all I bring you. Maybe you
heard the mood. San Francisco's albino alligator died.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I did not hear that.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Name is Claude thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Thirty years old, Yeah, and he's he lived in captivity
his whole life. He was born on an alligator farm
in Louisiana and he had a genetic mutation. It's like
an albino person. So he was completely white, completely white, transparent,
really looking, and was a big tourist. Draw right because
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how many times he was born September fifteenth and Claude
was transferred to San Francisco seventeen years ago at the
Academy of Sciences Aquarium in Golden Gate Park. I probably
saw him, we went there, but I don't remember. And
he died of liver cancer. Oh.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I was going to ask you why he died. Yeah,
apparently he was an alcoholic. Oh and no, that's a joke.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I know, John, I'm not that gullible. He was an
alcoholic really.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
He was found with three whiskey bottles empty lying at
his side. He had it the part of the problem
when I guess not because of the mutation. He had
poor eyesight, he could not camouflage himself, so he was
vulnerable to predators in the wild. So, you know, they
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had to move him to San Francisco, and he came
with Bonnie, a female alligator who was also an albino,
and they hoped they would get along and maybe they
hoped they would mate.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
They hated each other. Well, it was Bonnie. It's always
the girl.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
This him. Guys like all girls. Girls like few guys.
Bonnie did not like Claude because Claude couldn't see well
and he kept bumping into her.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, and she got so mad she.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Bit one of his toes, which got infected and they
had to amputate it.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Oh. No, yeah, so that's what you get. He's lucky.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It was the toe be Uh. They sent Bonnie back
to Florida. She got deported, Oh she did. Yeah, and uh.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
His he was alone. He was alone.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
He was alone, Yes, and he was fine with that,
you know, I mean, you know, it starts with one toe,
what's next? And so he lived peacefully with some snapping turtles, Uh, Donatello,
Raphael and Morla, three female snapping tittles turtles.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
They liked him well.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I don't know what that would look like. And uh heuh. Now,
one time Claude swallowed a child's ballet slipper that fell
into his enclosure, and you know, he ate he ate
the thing and they had to put him under anesthesia
to remove it.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
And he rarely moved. He would, he would, he was,
he was rock still thirty years. That's a long long
time here, is it not? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
They thought he might be able to live fifty years
in natural habitats, but you know, since he was an albino,
he did have problems.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I mean, something went screwing his liver.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
His entire liver was overtaken with cancerous tumors. He had
a suspected infection and they were giving antibiotics and he
was doing well for a while. But if your liver
is shot, then eventually that's what's gonna that's going to
take you out.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
So there's no more Claude the albino alligator. That's a
very sad story. I know. I'm sorry. I just thought,
you know, he should be commemorated at least for a moment. Yeah, yeah,
and Bonnie's still alive.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I don't know, I don't know, but you know, women
live forever, don't men die young.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Alex Done.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Coming up next, Alex is going to have as well.
It's it's the face covering story on the ICE agents
because now now the state has a portal so residents
could report misconduct by federal agents. You know, the agents
are enforcing federal law, and all the ninnies in this
(34:13):
state want to create trouble for the agents. The trouble
comes from having immigration law that's not enforced. My god,
you know how much money we're spending just on illegal
alien healthcare in this state this year. It's going to
be thirteen billion dollars. Thirteen billion dollars. And I heard
(34:36):
Holly Berry complaining that newsome vetotal law that would spend
healthcare money on women's benopause issues, and she's all angry.
In fact, we're going to play that clip coming up
after Alex Stone, and it's like, well, yeah, you don't
get money for women's menopause issues when you give away
thirteen billion for illegal aliens. So the ICE agents are
(34:59):
trying to to do their job. I would say that's
a lot of money, a lot of your tax money,
and all they get is crap from morons like Rob Bonta,
the Attorney General.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We'll talk about all this with Alex Stone.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Coming up Deborah Marks live in the KFI twenty four
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although it looks like when you get one of those
earthquake warnings, it's not a human who sends you the warning.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That was my teas coming up, that was your t's.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, this is my teas for your tea's here because
I knew this is like a new fear to embed
inside your brain, is that when you get these fake
warnings from these stupid algorithm systems that they have. Now
you remember how all the warnings during the fires, those
(00:49):
things went haywire.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, I got one of those people who didn't have.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Fires got warnings to evacuate. Those who did have fires
in the neighborhood didn't get the warnings. Well, now what
is this? This was a five to nine fake earthquake.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, that's a biggie.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Up in northern California, right, yep, five point nine people
are getting a buzz on their phones, and did these
people notice that well maybe the phone was was vibrating
that that the the earth was not.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I don't know. I didn't interview them. That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I wondering, because I mean, if you got one that
said five to nine, you're out in the street. Oh yeah,
we're hiding under your bed or whatever it is you do.
You do some kind of dance, some kind of panic dance.
I know, you run out, you run out in your
robe or something.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
In the shower ridiculous. Yeah, when you take a shower
that triggers on earth.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oh, I take very quick showers because of that. I'd
owl right there just in case I had.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I heard that story immediately thought of you, that's that's
all you need, is fake earthquake alerts.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, I know. So anyway, more on that, Deborel have
more on that now.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
One of our favorite punching bags is back in the news.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I don't know how many of you.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Still look at the Los Angeles Times, but I've always
try to be fair. I'm not fair very much. I've
said they have covered the fire fantastically over the last year.
Not much else. It's the usual left wing, progressive, slop
and nonsense.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
However, they now have a second.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
A second category that they are doing a great job
as on and that is a writer named Page Saint
John rerecording covering Ricardo Lara cal Fart. Lara is back
the insurance commissioner. A couple of months ago, I think
it was we carried a very long report by Channel
(02:53):
seven KGO and San Francisco. It was like a ten
minute report and it was the second time they'd done
something on him that Ricardo Lara basically gets bribed by
the insurance industry and gets to go traveling all over
the world I'll tell you how often. And he also
(03:16):
spends a lot of tax money in addition to the bribery.
And it resulted by the end of last year, right
before the fire, he gave this sweetheart deal to the
insurance companies that they could cancel coverage by the tens
of thousands and bolt large sections of California. One of
(03:38):
those sections was Specific Palisades, and so you had thousands
of people who no longer had insurance. They suddenly were
thrown into the Fair Plan, which is the state run
insurer of last resort, and you only get a fraction
of the money from the Fair Plan.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That's what I am. Now, have you looked at what
the cap is? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I mean it's the cap is much less than a
regular insurance.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Because that's all we can get.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
That's it. And so there's a lot of people in
the Palisades who are really out of luck. I don't
know what they're going to do, but they're never going
to get the money because the Fair Plan screws you over.
The Fair Plan's also going bankrupt. And Newsom had ordered
Lara to make some kind of deal with the insurance
companies because they said this whole thing is too expensive
(04:33):
in ensuring homes in California because of all the disasters.
But he thought he had a deal where he was
going to let them raise the rates a certain amount
and in return, they were going to guarantee like eighty
five percent of the coverage in a geographical area. But
because he's really a stupid man, and I mean that sincerely.
(04:54):
This is not a casual insult. He really lacks intelligence,
and he gave away the store. And if you believe
him him, he didn't realize that and later claimed he
was bullied by the insurance companies grown man claiming he
was bullied by insurance companies. If you read this story,
(05:17):
you can see what really happened is he got bribed
up to the nose from the insurance companies, and I
think that's why he gave him the break. You know
how many international trips he has taken since becoming insurance
commissioner in twenty nineteen thirty two thirty two international trips.
(05:40):
These trips cover at least one hundred and sixty three days,
probably more two thirds of the time. The records on
who paid for the travel are either non existent or incomplete.
Now one hundred in sixty three That is almost six
(06:03):
months of travel, five and a half months of travel
over a six year period. And he's under two investigations.
But he's under investigations for campaign finance violations, ethics violations.
These should be criminal investigations. He's taking money from insurance companies,
(06:29):
going on lavish trips, not reporting the source of a
lot of the money, and then screwing over the residents
in California by allowing the insurance companies to bolt. Remember
the idea was, you can raise the rates, but you
got to stay here. They didn't raise the rates. They
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got out and thousands were left without insurance. A month
before the fire, Newsom told him to do something, and
he didn't know what to do because when he took
over as he ran for he was a legislator and
he ran for insurance commissioner. You all elected him, and
(07:20):
he admitted that he didn't know much about the insurance industry.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Can you believe this?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He said it wasn't his strong suit. It wasn't his
strong suit. But yet, even after publicly admitting he didn't
know much about the insurance industry, he gets elected and
he proceeds to completely f up the entire insurance market
in the state of California.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Because he's a stupid man. Of course, he gets re elected.
And now we're.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Finding out that he took enormous amounts of money from
the insurance industry to go traveling, like, no, I don't
know anybody who's taken thirty two international trips.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I wish I could do that.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I you want to get into politics, I know what
you're doing in here. I don't know you should be
insurance commissioner because you don't have to be good at
your job.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And I'll give you an example of the kind of bribery.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Uh, he has he has pet. He has pet nonprofit
organizations that he wants donations to. One of them is
called Equality California. I think we know what that would
be about, right, and Sarah's incorporated. Well, Uber, under the
(08:50):
law had to carry million dollar insurance policies on its drivers.
All right, the driver caused an accident, passengers got hurt,
there's all kinds of damage. The driver would be insured
up to a million dollars. Well, the insurance company said, wow,
(09:14):
that's a lot that's going to cost us a lot
of money. We don't want to pay it. So Ricardo
Lara says, oh, well, why don't you donate money to
this organization, Equality California, and then we'll talk. So Uber
donates twenty five thousand dollars to Equality California. Lara then
(09:34):
flies from Burbank here to San Francisco to meet with
Uber executives and guess what, the insurance mandate was cut
from a million dollars to sixty thousand dollars. So good
luck if you're hurt in an Uber accident and you
don't have insurance to cover you, because now they only
(09:58):
have a sixty thousand dollar policy instead, I have a
million dollar policy because they donated money to one of
Tuanna Ricardo Larra's woke charities. I don't know if he
gets a kickback from that or not. Doesn't say that's
just a tiny example of what went on here. I
(10:19):
haven't even gotten to all the trips and all the
things he's enjoyed. We'll do that in the next segment.
But he is so corrupt, he's such a crook, and
you know what he's been hiding behind.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Well, you know, I'm.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
The first gay insurance commission in California. So what he
does is he plays the same games that the Somalis
do in Minnesota. You can't criticize them for stealing a
billion dollars, Well, you're racist. And what he wants to
do is trump at his being the first gay commissioner
to say, in case you criticize them, oh, well you
(10:54):
just must be homophobic. No, he's a crook. And Channel
seven covered some of this ground. LA Times cover even
more of this ground, and I'm going to tell you
about the specifics. But he's earning a salary that you're
paying for. And he's the one who destroyed the insurance
industry in the state, and you people in Palisades and
(11:14):
Altadena and Malibu, you know this firsthand. We'll talk more
we come back.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
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Speaker 1 (11:29):
How are we doing for tomorrow? We got plenty of room.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Plenty of room, and people gotten too good of a
mood on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I was gonna say no comments about John Free.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
No, there are quite a few.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, yeah, I think there's plenty of other things that
you could opine on eight seven seven moist Steady six
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Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Ricardo Lara cal Fart Lara in the news, the insurance
commissioner who completely destroyed the insurance industry in the state.
There are many people without insurance, many people with very
expensive insurance, a lot thrown onto the California Fair Plan,
which is the last resort if you're trying to get
housing insurance. He engineered a disastrous deal with the insurance
(12:21):
industry that allowed them to leave thousands of Californians without insurance.
Right before the fire. Some of them didn't even know
a lot of them ended up on the fair plan,
which only covers a frank a fraction of a normal policy.
And it's all Ricardo Lara and is incredible, overwhelming in confidence.
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He has been in over his head from day one.
He even admitted it at the start, and he has
never gotten his head above water. It's just too hard
for him, it's too complicated. Tell you though, what he
excels at. He excels at shaking down insurance companies for
(13:06):
donations for travel. He excels at finding obscure conferences to
go to. He spends lots of taxpayer money. He spends
lots of insurance industry money as they host him and
have him invite him to parties and dinners and all
kinds of festivities. Here's some of the travels that were
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covered by the Department of Insurance. Now, the Department of
Insurance is funded by fees collected from the insurance industry.
So what isn't covered by tax money is covered by
what you pay for insurance premiums. The money works its
way to the Department of Insurance, some of it, and
(13:50):
then to Ricardo Alara. So among the things we've discussed
this one before the twenty nineteen trip to New York
for World Pride festivities. Going to that, he celebrates his
sexual orientation a lot. He uses it as a shield,
and he uses it to deflect criticism. He went to
a Mets baseball game. I don't want him going to
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a Mets baseball He went to a spa visit, a
happy hour, a VIP party. He also went to Bogota,
Colombia dinner with donors donors to a gay political candidate
or a political candidate training foundation.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
He's traveling to Bogota, Colombia to have dinner with people
involved with a gay political candidate training foundation. I don't
even know what that is. And his insurance department says, well,
these are human rights events.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I think it's a human right to have a house,
but between the state and the city, everybody's homes in
the Palisades burned down. And this guy is preening around
and prattling about human rights at a Colombian gay rights conference,
and what the hell? Lara got security detail from the
(15:13):
California Highway Patrol on some of the trips which we
paid for. Dignitary protection. Seventy three hundred and thirty dollars
was spent on a Florida company to give Lara a
private car and driver in Bogata. Twenty thousand dollars went
to two agents to cover Lara part of the time
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he was in South Africa. Two foundations provided fifteen thousand
dollars for Lara to visit England and Scotland, some of
these political donations, some of them from insurance organizations. Lara
spent one hundred and seven thousand dollars on campaign credit
(15:57):
cards to fly and dine and stay in Washington, Seattle, Dubai, Dublin,
New York, Costa Rica, Tokyo, Singapore, Switzerland, Scotland. Wait, there's more, Australia,
New Zealand and Bermuda. That's just his travel campaign credit cards.
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Campaign expenses call included a thirteen hundred dollars staff meal
for three people at a hotel in Dubai, a five
thousand dollars insurance department Christmas party in Long Beach, numerous
dinners for the commissioner and guests.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
A campaign meeting at.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
The del Rey Steakhouse in Pico Rivera took place on
the same day that he posted about a birthday dinner
with a friend. There's a photo in the post he
and his companion sharing a booth under the tag hashtag gabies, Gabies.
(17:10):
The Times got records showing that there were a lot
of unreported invitations luxury hotels, wine tastings, lawn parties, cruises,
cocktail receptions, dinners paid for by insurance companies. Agency staff
did not explain how this fit the definition of public business.
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A twenty twenty three pride and Prosecco lawn reception in
Bermuda held by Renaissance Reinsurance, drinks, dinner and more drinks
hosted by Conduit Reinsurance, and a cocktail cruise. The night after,
he went to Argentina for an insurance gathering three dinner evening,
three dinners, a three dinner evening with a traditional Asado barbecue.
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And I know you've always wanted to go on a
like a South African respur.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
That's high on my list. Well, he went. In December
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
People in Palisades were just days away from a fire
that would destroy their lives. He was prancing and printing
around in South Africa, and industry groups held receptions on rooftops,
in museums, wine tastings, dinner meetings at fine restaurants and
at two wineries. The summit was capped off at the
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exclusive Minheart's Kitchen Cathedral Cellar in South Africa's Cape Winelands.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners book Lara in the
conference second priceiest luxury hotel. His security detail, paid for
by state taxpayers, stayed fifteen minutes away. The Cape Town
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meetings lasted five days. Lara was arriving from another conference
in Ireland. He stayed eleven days. His highway California Highway
Patrol team arrived six days before Lara and arranged a
private car service with driver.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I'm going to ask a very obvious question, Well, it's
not so obvious. How does he keep his job?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Nobody forces him out. I don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
No one's paying attention, no one forces him out. Media
doesn't covers this. Sporadically. Talk more when we come back.
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Speaker 2 (20:05):
So we spent the first half hour, and the La
Times did something good. Paige Saint John did an extensive
story on Ricardo Lara, adding to what cag Up in
San Francisco did a couple of months ago. His just
massive corruption. He spends a lot of tax money, and
he spends a lot of money that he gets from
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insurance companies and insurance organizations, and he flies around the world.
He's been on thirty two trips, and he has gone
to He's been gone one hundred and sixty three days
out of the state, and he's gone to twenty three countries.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
On our time and on our dollar.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
He does not disclose much of who pays for the
five store hotels, the premium airline seats, and the fine dining.
I mentioned before that one of the outstanding bribes was
twenty five thousand dollars. Then he got from Uber. He
(21:11):
asked Uber to spend twenty five thousand dollars on two organizations.
One is Equality California, which is probably some woke thing,
and then Series which Crees, which is some climate change nonsense.
Because he got the twenty five thousand, Uber wanted to
(21:32):
get out from the requirement that they have a million
dollar insurance policy on their drivers, a million dollars, and
Laris said, okay. They got this law passed and the
insurance mandate was reduced from a million to sixty thousand dollars. Yeah,
(21:56):
if you're in an Uber accident, good luck. If you're
medical bills or under sixty thousand dollars you get run
over by an Uber. David Hinkel of the American Association
for Justice said that the bill was a huge win
for Uber to avoid accountability. An Uber senior executive named
(22:22):
Ramona Prieto met with Lara. They asked her, what's with
the donations. She wouldn't talk, no response. Lawyers for Lara's
department denied a public records request for any communications related
(22:42):
to the Uber meeting. My guess here is that Uber
paid the money to these organizations that Lara requested, and
who knows where the money ends up and then Uber, well,
Lara gives the OKA to the legislature. Yeah, give Uber
(23:04):
the break. Don't make them spend out a million dollar
insurance policy for their drivers. Let's make it sixty thousand, right,
because the legislators go, well, what does the insurance commissioner think? Well,
the insurance commissioner thinks sixty thousand ought to cover, not
a million. And then when you go to Uber and
(23:25):
say what you talk about with Ricardo Lara, Oh, they
shut down, They don't answer. Then you go to the
Lara's department says, well, can we have a public records request?
Can we see all the emails and letters and this
and that? They said, oh, no documents existed. Well what
about the gifts you were giving to these Lara's nonprofits?
(23:48):
No documents exist, nothing.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
An email from Lara's office shows that staff were instructed
not to answer questions about the Uber contribute. His press
office said such contributions have no bearing on the department's
impartiality or the commissioner's duties. Ah ah ah ah, good
one your liars. The guy was bought off. Of course,
(24:18):
he was bought off. Instead of a million dollar policy,
a sixty thousand dollars policy on uber drivers. Seriously, now,
you asked a question last segment, Yes I did.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Why is he still here? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
There are no longer any any rules. Guys involved in
scandals this bad used to be embarrassed and they would quit.
There used to be a lot of public pressure and
the media would bring the public pressure, and not just
with one isolated story every once in a while, because
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the public doesn't respond to an.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Isolated story anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
They don't respond to it anything because seventy five percent
of the public doesn't believe anything they read in the media,
nor do they pay attention. The La Times circulation reach
online is a tiny fraction of what it used to
be when it was a print newspaper thirty years ago.
(25:20):
It's basically a left wing crank blog much of the time.
But like I said, every once in a while they
have a good series and a good story where they
do old fashioned journalism, and this is one of those
times with Paige Saint John. But there's nobody to amplify this.
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This would normally years ago, be a lead story on
the television news, and it would be a lead story
first thing in the morning, at noontime at five at
six at eleven, and then on the next day and
the next day and the next day, and you'd have
reporters chasing Ricardo Lara and there'd be big, bold headlines
in a newspaper. And now if you happen to stubble
(26:02):
across the La Times website, which few people do these days,
I can see it anywhere else. Now, one of the
purposes of this show is that we seek out this stuff,
and we amplify it, and we stay on the story.
You know, we played most of the KGO story from
San Francisco a couple of months ago. He is there's
(26:26):
no Newsom's corrupt. This is what he does all day.
Rob Bonta, right, he spent lots of money on trying
to lawyer up for an investigation in Oakland because the
mayor of Oakland had been bribed and Bonta had some
(26:47):
connection to that case. And so we just did stories
about him spending lots of his campaign money, I think
like a half a million dollars. He's the attorney general.
He should be investigating this, but he doesn't solidarity party loyalty,
or he doesn't want somebody saying, hey, hypocrite and start
digging into his affairs. Newsom is so corrupt it's not
(27:15):
even funny. So where do you go.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
The television?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I know, like some TV news departments they have maybe
like one or two reporters at night. Now the La
Times has been completely disemboweled and eviscerated. Once in a while,
you get a story, and the story lasts for a
few hours and then disappears. It gets pushed to the
bottom of the of the scroll and eventually then is
(27:47):
recycled into the archive.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Voters just vote for anybody who's democratic. Could be a
dead raccoon. A dead raccoon couldn't do as much damage
as where Cardo Lara has done.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
But he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
There's no pressure on him, there's no embarrassment. These guys
are psychopaths. They don't have a conscience. Do you think
Ricardo Lara cares about all the suffering that all the
people in the Palisades have gone through, partly because of
they didn't have insurance or not enough insurance, because he
was such a corrupt buffoon. No, he doesn't care anymore
(28:24):
than Newsom cares that his Parks department stopped the La
Fire Department from fully putting out the original fire. They
don't care. Go die in a fire. That should be
the state motto in Sacramento. Now, I don't know what
the state motto is if you go to the state
capitol in Sacramento. Probably something in Latin, I don't know,
but they should. The new motto should be go die
(28:45):
in a fire. That should be campaign the campaign slogan
when Newsom runs for president, go die in a fire.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
They don't care.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Now there's another story, and we'll do this one tomorrow
because I can't overload you on too much of this.
But the headline in The Times, also done by Page
Saint John, California's insurance crisis existed long before the LA wildfires.
Why wasn't it fixed? I think you understand why it
wasn't fixed. It was made worse because the insurance companies
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bought off for Cardi Lara, and they bought off the legislature,
and they bought off Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And you can go die in a fire. More coming up.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
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sad animal news. That's all I bring you. Maybe you
heard the mood. San Francisco's albino alligator died.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I did not hear that.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Name is Claude thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Thirty years old, Yeah, and he's he lived in captivity
his whole life. He was born on an alligator farm
in Louisiana and he had a genetic mutation. It's like
an albino person. So he was completely white, completely white, transparent,
really looking, and was a big tourist. Draw right because
(30:15):
how many times he was born September fifteenth and Claude
was transferred to San Francisco seventeen years ago at the
Academy of Sciences Aquarium in Golden Gate Park. I probably
saw him, we went there, but I don't remember. And
he died of liver cancer. Oh.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I was going to ask you why he died. Yeah,
apparently he was an alcoholic. Oh and no, that's a joke.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I know, John, I'm not that gullible. He was an
alcoholic really.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
He was found with three whiskey bottles empty lying at
his side. He had it the part of the problem
when I guess not because of the mutation. He had
poor eyesight, he could not camouflage himself, so he was
vulnerable to predators in the wild. So, you know, they
(31:10):
had to move him to San Francisco, and he came
with Bonnie, a female alligator who was also an albino,
and they hoped they would get along and maybe they
hoped they would mate.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
They hated each other. Well, it was Bonnie. It's always
the girl.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
This him. Guys like all girls. Girls like few guys.
Bonnie did not like Claude because Claude couldn't see well
and he kept bumping into her.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, and she got so mad she.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Bit one of his toes, which got infected and they
had to amputate it.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Oh. No, yeah, so that's what you get. He's lucky.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It was the toe be Uh. They sent Bonnie back
to Florida. She got deported, Oh she did. Yeah, and uh.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
His he was alone. He was alone.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
He was alone, Yes, and he was fine with that,
you know, I mean, you know, it starts with one toe,
what's next? And so he lived peacefully with some snapping turtles, Uh, Donatello,
Raphael and Morla, three female snapping tittles turtles.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
They liked him well.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I don't know what that would look like. And uh heuh. Now,
one time Claude swallowed a child's ballet slipper that fell
into his enclosure, and you know, he ate he ate
the thing and they had to put him under anesthesia
to remove it.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
And he rarely moved. He would, he would, he was,
he was rock still thirty years. That's a long long
time here, is it not? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
They thought he might be able to live fifty years
in natural habitats, but you know, since he was an albino,
he did have problems.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I mean, something went screwing his liver.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
His entire liver was overtaken with cancerous tumors. He had
a suspected infection and they were giving antibiotics and he
was doing well for a while. But if your liver
is shot, then eventually that's what's gonna that's going to
take you out.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
So there's no more Claude the albino alligator. That's a
very sad story. I know. I'm sorry. I just thought,
you know, he should be commemorated at least for a moment. Yeah, yeah,
and Bonnie's still alive.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I don't know, I don't know, but you know, women
live forever, don't men die young.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Alex Done.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Coming up next, Alex is going to have as well.
It's it's the face covering story on the ICE agents
because now now the state has a portal so residents
could report misconduct by federal agents. You know, the agents
are enforcing federal law, and all the ninnies in this
(34:13):
state want to create trouble for the agents. The trouble
comes from having immigration law that's not enforced. My god,
you know how much money we're spending just on illegal
alien healthcare in this state this year. It's going to
be thirteen billion dollars. Thirteen billion dollars. And I heard
(34:36):
Holly Berry complaining that newsome vetotal law that would spend
healthcare money on women's benopause issues, and she's all angry.
In fact, we're going to play that clip coming up
after Alex Stone, and it's like, well, yeah, you don't
get money for women's menopause issues when you give away
thirteen billion for illegal aliens. So the ICE agents are
(34:59):
trying to to do their job. I would say that's
a lot of money, a lot of your tax money,
and all they get is crap from morons like Rob Bonta,
the Attorney General.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We'll talk about all this with Alex Stone.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
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