March 14, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (03/14) - Mark Thompson fills in for John. Laura Ingle comes on the show to talk about the Diddy trial. Mayor Bass is going on the offensive. House of David is a new series on Amazon Prime. The Senate passed a bill to avoid a government shutdown.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can if I am six forty. You're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
App Mark Thompson sitting in for John Cobelt. John returns
on Monday. There's a high profile trial going on right now,
and there was a high profile detention that went on
before this court appearance. I'm talking about p Diddy Puff Daddy.
Whatever is Seawan Combs. Laura Engel joins us from News Nation.
(00:28):
She is an alum of our crew here. It's great
to have her in the mix to fill us in
on I guess he didn't look great, Laura.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Is what I heard.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Hey there, Well, thanks for having me back. I am
in New York right now, where I've been reporting outside
of Federal court all day, and yeah, that was kind
of one of the main headlines was what Seawan Combs
looked like when he was led into the well of
the court and people.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
That were in there.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I wouldn't call it a gasp, but I would say
many people were taken aback and murmuring to each other.
There was definitely a rumble in the courtroom because people
were very surprised that Sean Combs came out with pretty
much gray hair, a gray beard. I wouldn't say that
he was looking gaunt, but he you know, people just said, wow,
(01:21):
he doesn't look real great.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
He's, you know, at the MDC, the Metropolitan Detention Center
in Brooklyn, which is a notorious holding facility in jail where.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Things aren't great.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
So he's been there for quite some time since last
year and September, and it was wearing on him. So
that was kind of the physical headline of the day.
But then the other headline of the day was what
happened the battle between the defense team and prosecutors, going
back and forth about jury selection, about evidence, and you
(01:54):
know the thing about the CNN video, remember that video
Sean Combs a llegedly physically assaulting Cassie that he's allegedly
even though we see it for ourselves, that that happened
there in Los Angeles back.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
In twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And the defense, of course, is trying to not have
that tape presented as evident, saying it's been edited, it
was sped up, the original apparently has been destroyed.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
There's no way to authenticate it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
The prosecution says that is a key and critical part
of our presentation to the jury to show not only this,
but just kind of his demeanor overall, the kind of
man that we're talking about, says the prosecution. And so
there's a back and forth and the judge said, you
guys have to come up with some middle ground here.
The defense contends that it was sped up and altered.
(02:41):
Prosecution says no. So they're like, Okay, if it was
sped up, can you.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Slow it down?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Is there something that you guys can come together to
agree upon that could show the jury this tape? So
that's going to be a really interesting development as we
move closer to jury selection, which is now on the calendar.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
We had some major.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Calendar for this criminal court proceeding April twenty eighth, jury
selection and Mark they're talking about bringing through three one
hundred potential jurors a day. Oh yeah, So if you
get a jury summons in New York, you know, watch
out because you you could be going into this courthouse.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So three with those numbers, how could you not get
a jury summons in New York? My god, they're bringing
in the whole city.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, we went through this with President Trump. We went
through this during the Trump trial. So they bring through
a lot of people and so jury selection begins April
twenty eight. Sounds like they're going to try and blast
through this in three days. The trial was supposed to
start opening statements, I should say, the opening statement was
supposed to start on May fifth. That was moved just
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a little bit to May twelfth. So we've got some
firm numbers on the calendar. Now we've got the lines
drawn in the sam so to speak about what they're
arguing over. And you know, a lot, like I said,
a lot has to do with his tape and his
physical appearance. His mom showed up today. I hollered at
her when she came in. She didn't turn around and
(04:06):
talk to me.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And two, did you guys have a communication prior to
this or was it just a random shout?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It was more of a back of the head like,
she didn't. She didn't turns talk to me.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I tried to get Janice as she was walking in
and just to ask her if she had any comment
about her son, and she just off she went.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
She was wearing a.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Red shawl, you'll see it on the news. Blonde hair,
red shawl. And then two of his adult children. And
this is a little different too, because usually when Sean
colmbs is in court. We had two SUV's doors open up,
and there's all kinds of people, a big entourage that
comes out, and you know, it's a really impressive show
of support for him. Usually today two adult children and
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his mom and his separate suv. Fine, you know, there's
a lot of people have busy lives. So it was
just it was just something that was noticeable to us
in the press corps.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's more than that, right, I mean that I understand
that there is focus on the CNN tape, but there's
a lot more in this trial than that. Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Absolutely, there's the witnesses. And you know that's another thing
that they went back and forth today about was the
list of witnesses. The defense understandably wants a full list
of these witnesses, and the judge, you know, the judge
actually said to prosecutors, you've got to give the defense
a list of these witnesses that are going to come
forward in this trial by Monday and today's Friday. And
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but it's for attorneys only. Hopefully it doesn't leak. Nobody
wants in this trial, nobody wants anything to go wrong.
They just want to get the show on the road,
and that was really the sense that everybody got from
being in court today.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
So let's see what else happened. It was it was.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The CNN video. It was talking about the witnesses. It
was the list of court.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Dates and those US three hundred a day, my.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
God, and those jures.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And also he pled. I also mentioned the headline he
pled not guilty to the superseding indictment that was presented
against him today in court. Now, this superseding indictment happened
on March sixth, and it's not additional charges.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
It's just as we.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Know, covering these cases, you've got somebody that's charged with
something right, and then prosecutors still keep investigating, and as
they're investigating, getting closer to their trial, oftentimes they will
uncover something else. And the something else is what they
are calling forced labor of many of the people that
worked for him. And they are alleging that Sean Colmes
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had forced labor terrible conditions, lack of sleep, and the
threat of losing their jobs or worse if they did
not continue to work for many of his enterprises. So
that's another part of again, not charges. It's a superseding indictment.
So it's just like kind of a it gives a
broader sense and more detail of some of the workings
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of what they allege is a criminal enterprise that has
been going on for years and years and years.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That's just it's just an extraordinary thing. I mean, you
kind of stated it so well along the way here
when you said, you know, you're used to seeing these
black SUVs pull up, the doors flip open, and you know,
you know, Sean Coms, who's always just you know, top
of the game, emerges with his crew, you know, and
they's just now it's like how the mighty have fallen.
(07:21):
I mean, you know, from the from the penthouse to
the doghouse. It's crazy. I mean, just now, there are
no cameras inside the courtroom. These are I'm seeing courtroom
sketch artists renderings, right, that's.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Correct, No cameras, no audio. Only one court sketch artist
that's in there right now. So we wait for that
to come out so that we can help illustrate what
we've seen inside of the court room. And a lot
of times the courtroom is absolutely packed, and then there's
an overflow room, and the overflow room is actually not
a bad place. To be as a reporter, because the
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cameras that are inside of the court room show the
space of the people that are sitting at the defense
table and the prosecution table.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
If you're in the courtroom, you're in the back.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You're only really looking at the back of people's heads
and unless they turn sideways. So there's a couple of
different vantage points. But you're right, no cameras, no audio,
you can't hear anything. You've got to wait for that
court artist to do her magic and bring us some
of those images. So I'm not sure what the situation
is with And I don't mean this in a flipway.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
We just I simply don't know the answer. If there,
I guess there's not hair dye that's allowed at the NBC.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I mean, Sean Holmes is in the most notorious jail
system in New York. I mean Luigi Mangioni's there right now.
You know, there's a lot of infamous people that are
at this jail, and I know that they have commissary,
But I guess they.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Don't have a salon. There is that you're telling me.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
I don't believe they have a salon. If they do,
or maybe this.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Is his choice. Maybe this is a maybe this is
something that he's doing on purpose for his child to
look a certain way. I simply don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
All we can do is tell you what he looked
like when he was brought out.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
He wasn't handcuffed. He was wearing his tan jail outfit.
It's a shirt and pants loose fitting, so he didn't
come out cuffed. He came out, and he did acknowledge
his family members, his two adult children that were there,
and his mother blowing a kiss, you know, putting his
hand to his heart and waving to them. Glad to
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see them, clearly, But that was kind of the color
as we call it, from inside of the courtroom, just
that personal exchange that he had. And I'm sure he
was glad to see family members in there.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
But you're right.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I mean, you know, when you look at all the
footage and all these documentaries that are coming out, and
the flash and the white parties and the jewelry and
the music and the you know, all of that that
we see compared to what this is now. And of course,
his defense team, which is very well put together one
and he's got a lot of good people on his
defense team working to get him cleared.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
They want to get the show on the road, and
we he's got a speedy trial here. I mean he
was rested in September, so here we are. I mean
May twelfth is pretty good. Yeah, you know, I'm sure
he wouldn't say that for me for that long.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
It's easy for us to say, right.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yeah, easy for us to say.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
But all in all, you know, I mean two days ago,
I was in a courtroom on Long Island covering the
Long Island serial killer and Rex Huerman has been jailed
since July of twenty twenty three, and they're nowhere near
getting a court date for a trial on the calendar
right now. So I say that just because you know,
it seems like okay, so we are moving the ball
(10:34):
was moving forward.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, it's click clacking along. We're talking to Laura Angle
from News Nation, just wrapping up. He for all of
our descriptions of how he looked and what he was wearing,
he said nothing, right, I mean, it's his lawyers are
doing the talking at this point.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
You know, he did speak.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
He spoke very briefly. I don't know if he was
asked the question, but he said, I'm fine to the judge.
He stood up and said I'm fine, and he pleaded
not guilty to the new superseding indictment. So he did speak,
but it was not a lengthy conversation. It was more
of a I'm okay, not guilty.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Moving along, right.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And again, we'll just remind everybody they're alleging that, I mean,
authorities are that he ran a criminal enterprise, that he
had all this he has, you know, bad Boy Entertainment
and Comb's Enterprises and Combs Global, and that through his
businesses he was running a criminal enterprise and firearms and
threats of violence and coercion and you know all and
physical and sexual abuse. Yeah right, Yeah, So it's a
(11:31):
I mean, it's a it's a pretty heavy duty indictment,
so one to watch for sure, Laura. So cool of
you to make time for us, and thank you for that.
Was a super detailed report as to what was going on.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
In the in the courtroom, and I very much appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
We'll have more of this on my program tomorrow, News
Nation Live that seven am your time at.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Ten o'clock Eastern. We will see you there.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I look forward to it. Laura Engel from News and
right on. Thanks again, good stuff. It's the co Belt Show.
When we come back, we'll talk about Karen Bass. The
mayor is going on the offensive. You might find it
offensive the things that she's saying. We will share them
with you next. Mark Thompson for John Cobalt on KFI
(12:17):
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Speaker 2 (12:27):
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I was just seeing that Mayor Bass's supporters are kind
of putting together a strategy for re election. And it's
been a rough couple of months for Mayor Bass. I mean,
you know, out of the country during the Palisades fire,
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confronted by facts about her being out of the country,
about pledges she made about not being out of the
country ever, and then she's had I'd say, maybe i'll
just call it questionable interactions with the press around this controversy.
I mean, I think, you know, and I've said this before,
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I just think this is going to be impossible for
her to get out from under.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I just think it's the end of a political career.
As mayor.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
This has happened in a high profile you can google
it situation in Chicago. That's how Jane Byrne took over
as mayor in Chicago. The preceding mayor had a snowstorm hit.
You had people trapped on mass transit, you had the
city ground to a halt, and the mayor wasn't viewed
as a leader who made a positive difference during all
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of this. Now Bass out of town at the time
of the fires similarly not viewed as you know, a
commander on the bridge when you needed a commander on
the bridge and so where to go. Well, so this
is what apparently the plan will be, or at least
this is being talked about. She's going to focus and
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I say, Mayor Baz, I'm talking about many of her
surrogates and others who are you speaking on her behalf
or in her camp. They're going to be talking about
the fact that she's under attack from the wealthy oligarchs.
She's going to make real estate developer Rick Caruso and
Nicole Shanahan, They're going to be played off in a
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demonizing way. I mean, these are people who are trying to,
you know, recall her and she's going to play all
of this in the universe of attacks. And I've just
mentioned even just recounting the events, I'm not even attacking her.
You can see that she has an uphill climb, but
she's going to portray all of this as these partisan
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attacks from hard right media outlets and monies that are
coming in to this effort to recall her that are
associated with wealthy oligarchs and the intense right wing. Apparently
there was an email to BAST supporters and it was
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talking about right wing billionaires that have weaponized this January
seventh fire using it to wage a quote disinformation campaign
against the mayor, and they take aim not just at Caruso,
but at billionaire Elon Musk, who has posted all kinds
of things against the mayor on social media.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
That's what I was talking about.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I was kind of alluding to the fact that you know,
there is there are other monies and attention being paid
to what's going on in southern California for you could
argue political gain. But the problem is, Madam Mayor, is
that you really are on thin ice here. I mean,
I don't see how there are a lot of facts
that work on your behalf. So as you begin to
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see how this coalition of people that brought Karen Bass
to power as mayor of La, as you begin to
see that coalition maybe begin to melt away. They certainly are,
I would suggest, grasping its straws when they start just
talking about the oligarchy and they talk about right wing media.
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But this is the strategy, and they're going to lean
in hard and they say this is why the right
is coming after her. They're using any means they can,
like this windstorm to attack her because she is trying
to secure commitments from federal officials to cover a lot
of the city's expenses from the wildfire. So you've got
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this tension between the feds and the mayor and the governor.
So as you look at the strategy moving forward for
Karen Bass in the reelection campaign twenty twenty six, and
even looking at the real possibility of a recall, you
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can see that the playbook is pretty simple. You know,
they've weaponized this entire thing, and so ignore all that
you're hearing. She's taken a heat in recent weeks of
course for getting rid of who Kristin Crowley, the LA
fire chief, and the Firefighters Union has really been on
the side of Christian Crowley and not on the side
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of Mayor Bass. The mayor also came under heavy criticism
for arranging a three month, five hundred thousand dollars salary
for her wildlife recoveries are and then of course after
that was discovered, they said, oh no, no, no, he's gonna
do it for nothing. All right. There just seems to
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be in addition to the bad look associated with being
away during the I mean, you could argue the most
dangerous sena Ana event in the history of the city.
I mean again, you can argue about it. You know,
was it the second most or is it the worst?
Whatever it seemed, I'd argue it might have been the worst.
But in any case, she was in Ghana and that's
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just a bad look. But these other things are beyond
a bad look. So I think Bass defenders have a
as I say, a steep climb, and the way they
are going to pursue that climb is what I'm getting at,
based on emails and what we're hearing, They're going after
a very aggressive approach, which is they're weaponizing this it's
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money and it's politics. Instead of understanding that the mayor
is trying to do the best she can for the
city of la I think it's going to be too
tough a message to get through, but that will likely
be the message that they pursue. It's the the Conways Show.
I'm so he'sed doing Conways Show. Isn't that terrible?
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Well? John called it the John and Ken Show.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yes, sir, oh diddy, okay, thank you for that. I
feel much better now.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
That's exactly correct as well.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
You do get into a pattern, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Uh, it's the co Belt Show, John cobelt back on Monday,
Mark Thompson sitting and Conway is coming up at four
and I'm when he'll slide in a few minutes before
and we'll get a chance to.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Talk to him.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
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Speaker 2 (19:25):
There are a bunch of shows that are available to
stream and that are getting a lot of oxygen. I
mean you know about well, I mean, White Lotus probably
is one that everybody's familiar with. It's a lot of
the it's a big hit, but I mean if you
go Netflix, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime. I mean you're
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just running over all of these various shows that are
streaming and that are hot, and they're constantly mentioned like
have you seen this? Or we're you know, we're into uh,
you know, season four of Severns or you know, and
you guys are where do these people watch all this stuff?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I mean, like where is there time?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But the one thing I haven't heard a lot about,
and maybe I'm just running in the wrong crowd, is
that there is a ton of Christian entertainment and it's
doing really well. There's this series House of David. It's
a new series on Amazon Prime, and there are a
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lot of you know, bearded guys and big battles. I mean,
it's a retelling of the David and Goliath story. And
then there's a series called The Chosen and again that's
more biblical stuff, big bad romans, big beards, and that's
a retelling of the life of Jesus. And there is
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Jesus Revolution, which is a more modern, kind of updated
tale about a California pastor in the nineteen seventies. And again,
these are all offerings that you may or may not
be aware of, but they are doing really well. They're
watched by about two hundred and eighty million people worldwide.
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I'm chuckling because I didn't know about the numbers. I mean,
I had no idea. Mary is a series about the
mother of Jesus. It was the third most viewed film
globally on Netflix after its release in December, and today
House of David is the eighth most popular series on
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streaming services in America. House of David. So there are
many more. I mean, what does success do in Hollywood.
It breaths a lot of copycats. And there are many
more religious shows in store. Seven faith based titles are
getting greenlit and there was just one in twenty twenty one.
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So there are religious film festivals, tons of religious films,
and streamer catalogs they say hosted four hundred and eighty
seven religious films, more than double what they had done
in twenty twenty two. I mean again, and I would
say say that this isn't just a rush to faith,
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but it's a rush to what works, to what you know,
give the consumers what they want. And what they've done
with a lot of these religious shows and religious films
is they've taken out a lot of the violence of
the Bible, because the Bible is a pretty violent place,
as you know, but they've taken the general themes and
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so apparently they've had great success with it, and apparently
as well, they understand that when you go to the Bible,
you could end up in some you know, pretty controversial
waters with the violent and even some of the stuff
that is related to sex is in the Bible and
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is a little tough to navigate around. So because it's
oftentimes these are Christian offerings, they kind of dry clean
the shows of that stuff. But I'm looking here because
there was a particular part that they cut out that
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I thought you'd get a kick here. It is different
Christian shows and films take different approaches to their source material.
Some simply use it as a jumping off point, Others
write scripts that sound more like scripture. Many of the
lines of House of David. I mentioned it to you
before House of David are lifted directly from the Bible,
which is probably if you're a Christian and you're wanting
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Christian fair, that's probably what you want. But the series
is likely to go lighter on other parts of that story,
such as the moment and I wasn't aware that this
is in the story of David. When David wooing a
wife quote slew of the Philistines, two hundred men then
brought their foreskins and gave them to the king. I mean,
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that's a rough day, and that's something worth keeping out
of whatever you're offering. If you're looking for that again,
that's House of David. But you know how successful Passionate
in the Christ was. I mean, that was Mel Gibson's
incredible offering that he mounted himself. I think he financed himself.
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It was largely distributed by Mel, so they've done great
stuff in terms of you can disagree about how good
a film it was, but it was an intense movie.
I mean, Gibson went the other way with that film.
It was super bloody, super violent. In fact, I remember
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one critic called it a two hour and six minute
snuff film. That's how intense that film was. But you know,
these are real producers and directors with their own kind
of artistic bent. In any case, there's no disputing how
popular it is. So if you're looking for Christian entertainment,
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you're gonna find more of it. It looks as though
that is going to be all over the streaming services
in the rest of this year, and of course with
Easter coming up, I'd look for even more of it
to bump up in the days ahead.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It's a John Cobelt show. Conway is coming up at four.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Maybe he'll slide in here for a few minutes on
his on his way to his show. Mark Thompson sitting
in for John on KFI AM six forty. We're live
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Speaker 2 (25:52):
Mark Thompson here for John Cobelt finishing up. We'll talk
to Conway if he slides in here. It is, of
course the day that they sent it past, this bill
to keep the government open, and if you missed it,
the shutdown was to have been at midnight tonight, but
the Senate passed the bill which essentially gives Donald Trump
and Elon Musk and his crew a lot of running
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room through September thirtieth. So that will be heading to
the desk of the President and he will of course
sign it. And there is a lot of disagreement in
the Democratic Party about no whether that should have been done,
but it is done. I think one of the big
things that's happening out of this administration is associated with
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California and the EPA. I don't know if everybody's been
following this, but there is an unwinding of all of
these restrictions that are associated with EPA mandates from the
Biden administration. They're all getting undone, and in so doing
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you the I mean Obama started at Biden continued the
Clean Power Plan, looking to reduce emissions from power plants
fueled by coal and natural gas. It gets at mainstream
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uses of power production. But it also and I think
this is the thing that maybe it's where the shoe
pinches for a lot of us. They're not only going
for emissions from large power plants and oil and gas producers,
but vehicle emissions. I mean, that's the largest source of
air pollution in California. Vehicle pollution, all right. So they
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want to terminate and finish the standards surrounding light, medium
and heavy duty vehicles. And that was behind Biden's electric
vehicle mandate. Now, they of course want nothing to do
with the electric vehicle mandate, but that was a goal.
Remember twenty thirty was going to be the goal that
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evs would comprise half of the cars sold in the US. Well,
you can forget about that now. I mean Trump is
on a jihad against anything that has to do with Biden.
You may be perfectly fine with that, But what I'm
suggesting is that we're going to really notice it here
in California. There are all kinds of ways in which
(28:25):
air quality and pollution standards and even fuel efficiency is
going to be affected by the rollback in these EPA programs.
Does anybody remember how it was in the old days
with the first stage smog alert, second date stage smog alert.
(28:46):
Any of the older boys and girls recall that. I mean,
it's possible that the air could get a lot worse
based on the fact that they are rolling back restrictions
that are in place for vehicle emissions. Mike Stoker they
point here, who served as the EPA's top official for
California and the Pacific Southwest during the previous Trump administration,
(29:08):
says it's not a big deal that California can still
set higher standards in the federal government. He says, as
a general matter, most of the states that have been
really strong on the environment, like California are going to
exceed whatever the minimum standard is that the EPA is regulating.
These kinds of actions have a much bigger impact on
the states that have really opted to go with more
(29:29):
of the minimum standards. The goal he set is to
eliminate rules and regulations that are costly and time consuming
and to ensure that those remain. Those that remain are
backed up by the best possible science. So that's the
reporting on it. But again you've got carbon dioxide, other
(29:52):
pollutants with tailpipe emissions being rolled back such that there
will be ceilings on all of that that will permit
likely more pollution. It's noted that California sets the standard.
Actually by increasing things like fuel efficiency, increasing standards on
(30:15):
tailpipe emissions, you actually set a standard for the nation itself.
But we're seeing more and more that six harmful pollutants
will now be rethought by the EPA, and that may
affect us in California. So it's interesting because as I
(30:38):
talk about the old days during which the valley really
was choked during a lot of the summer months, you
must remember that, Tim right.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
I'm sorry, what an introduction, by the way, thank.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
You very much. Appreciate that. You must remember that, right, Tim,
I just got in.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I remember, what do you remember when there was a
first stage, second stage smug.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
That's every day of the value it used to be, right,
it used to be.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, So that was like the one I thought, like
notable thing that happened with the standards on tailpipe emissions
and all that stuff.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
Whether the valley cleared up?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah, no, seriously, yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
And uh and maybe a lot of the electric cars help,
that's possible.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Oh I see, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. It's
a weird thing about the electric cars because on the
one hand, uh, the president has been against the electric
cars and all those electric vehicles.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
He wants to unwind all of that.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
But now with Elon Muskus his buddy, he's now pitching
electric cars.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Right because the the left who used to love Elon Moss, right,
and then they all turned on and now they're they're
burning his stores down and his cars down.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I know. It's awful, that's just horrible. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
So the guy guy needs a little loud, you know.
And and and by the way, it was it was
Biden that brought in that that that jeep.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Remember he brought a jeep in. Oh, I didn't remember that,
did he do?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (32:02):
You brought that rubicon jeep into the drove that thing
around for a while.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
He did, like a pitch thing also yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't remember that.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
I know.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I know.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
You guys get the news from I don't know what.
I don't know what you got outside. You started, you
started this, Wango Tango was coming up. I Heeart's Wango
Tango is returned. Can I take you to Wango Tango
and just put this all aside?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Yeah, I've got to wang.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Have you ever been to Wango Tango?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I tried to get tickets from this radio station.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Good luck, Yeah, I could not get I want to take.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
It's a funny singing at sunset.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Right, it seems like it'll really be cool. Did you
see the uh it was the eclipse thing last night?
Speaker 8 (32:47):
I saw it last night. Yeah, it was pretty cool.
That was pretty cool. Yeah, it was really cool.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Was it high in the sky when you saw her?
Was it low?
Speaker 8 (32:52):
It was literally directly over my house. I don't know
how that happened, but it was really right over my house.
And the next one is not going to happen for
another twenty three years.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I had heard forty years.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
I heard twenty three. I heard nineteen forty eight or something. Okay, okay,
if that's true. We have seen our last eclipse?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, yeah, no, you.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Think you got twenty three left?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
No? Absolutely, absolutely not. I'm just hoping to make it
through the weekend. Oh.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
I was glad to see that eclipse last night.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Talt with you, David Veas. I know you want to
know what's on today? I do, Davidsay, Alex Michaelson. We're
going to talk about Orange County real estate with a
buddy of mine, Malibu Dan find you remember malav Oh yeah,
you always tell stories with him. It'll be fundy guy's
the best. And then Keith Roberts with the young dublin Ers.
Saint Patrick's Day is Monday. If you're a big Saint Patrick,
(33:44):
I would.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Never miss it. What's happening with the Irish The people
or they? Yeah? The people are they cool?
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (33:52):
I think they're doing okay.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
You know, I like the fact that, you know, the
only Irish football team perhaps the world, is Notre Dame yeah,
and they called them the fighting Irish. And the leprechaun
has a jug of vodka or whiskey and he's and
he's about his stance is about to fight somebody.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You feel it's a little on the nose.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Oh, but but you know what, but we embrace that stereotype. Now,
plug in any other stereotype with any other crew and
try to get that one passed.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Yeah, but the Irish they celebrate that that stereotype.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
True.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
There are zero people I know that are offended by
the fighting Irish.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
It's so funny. Zero.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I don't know anybody. I used to go to an
irishpe real quick. I used to go to an Irish chiropractor.
She was lovely and Fitzgerald was her last name. And
she's telling me that she just got back from Thanksgiving
and I said, how was it? And she said, every
Thanksgiving there's so many fights. And I said, well, I said, well,
that's the way it is for all of us. I
mean it's tension. And then she said, no, no, no, no, no,
(34:58):
I don't mean that they were disagreement much. I mean
that there were knockdown dragouts. But there might have been
six or seven of them. I just love it.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Take gong with you, buddy, well, you are my favorite Irishman. Always.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
We're I'll actually get it.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
All right, Okay, Conway next to co Belt on Monday.
Thanks everybody. KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
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Speaker 1 (35:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
App Mark Thompson sitting in for John Cobelt. John returns
on Monday. There's a high profile trial going on right now,
and there was a high profile detention that went on
before this court appearance. I'm talking about p Diddy Puff Daddy.
Whatever is Seawan Combs. Laura Engel joins us from News Nation.
(00:28):
She is an alum of our crew here. It's great
to have her in the mix to fill us in
on I guess he didn't look great, Laura.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Is what I heard.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Hey there, Well, thanks for having me back. I am
in New York right now, where I've been reporting outside
of Federal court all day, and yeah, that was kind
of one of the main headlines was what Seawan Combs
looked like when he was led into the well of
the court and people.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
That were in there.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I wouldn't call it a gasp, but I would say
many people were taken aback and murmuring to each other.
There was definitely a rumble in the courtroom because people
were very surprised that Sean Combs came out with pretty
much gray hair, a gray beard. I wouldn't say that
he was looking gaunt, but he you know, people just said, wow,
(01:21):
he doesn't look real great.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
He's, you know, at the MDC, the Metropolitan Detention Center
in Brooklyn, which is a notorious holding facility in jail where.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Things aren't great.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
So he's been there for quite some time since last
year and September, and it was wearing on him. So
that was kind of the physical headline of the day.
But then the other headline of the day was what
happened the battle between the defense team and prosecutors, going
back and forth about jury selection, about evidence, and you
(01:54):
know the thing about the CNN video, remember that video
Sean Combs a llegedly physically assaulting Cassie that he's allegedly
even though we see it for ourselves, that that happened
there in Los Angeles back.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
In twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And the defense, of course, is trying to not have
that tape presented as evident, saying it's been edited, it
was sped up, the original apparently has been destroyed.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
There's no way to authenticate it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
The prosecution says that is a key and critical part
of our presentation to the jury to show not only this,
but just kind of his demeanor overall, the kind of
man that we're talking about, says the prosecution. And so
there's a back and forth and the judge said, you
guys have to come up with some middle ground here.
The defense contends that it was sped up and altered.
(02:41):
Prosecution says no. So they're like, Okay, if it was
sped up, can you.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Slow it down?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Is there something that you guys can come together to
agree upon that could show the jury this tape? So
that's going to be a really interesting development as we
move closer to jury selection, which is now on the calendar.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
We had some major.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Calendar for this criminal court proceeding April twenty eighth, jury
selection and Mark they're talking about bringing through three one
hundred potential jurors a day. Oh yeah, So if you
get a jury summons in New York, you know, watch
out because you you could be going into this courthouse.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So three with those numbers, how could you not get
a jury summons in New York? My god, they're bringing
in the whole city.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, we went through this with President Trump. We went
through this during the Trump trial. So they bring through
a lot of people and so jury selection begins April
twenty eight. Sounds like they're going to try and blast
through this in three days. The trial was supposed to
start opening statements, I should say, the opening statement was
supposed to start on May fifth. That was moved just
(03:46):
a little bit to May twelfth. So we've got some
firm numbers on the calendar. Now we've got the lines
drawn in the sam so to speak about what they're
arguing over. And you know, a lot, like I said,
a lot has to do with his tape and his
physical appearance. His mom showed up today. I hollered at
her when she came in. She didn't turn around and
(04:06):
talk to me.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And two, did you guys have a communication prior to
this or was it just a random shout?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It was more of a back of the head like,
she didn't. She didn't turns talk to me.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I tried to get Janice as she was walking in
and just to ask her if she had any comment
about her son, and she just off she went.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
She was wearing a.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Red shawl, you'll see it on the news. Blonde hair,
red shawl. And then two of his adult children. And
this is a little different too, because usually when Sean
colmbs is in court. We had two SUV's doors open up,
and there's all kinds of people, a big entourage that
comes out, and you know, it's a really impressive show
of support for him. Usually today two adult children and
(04:49):
his mom and his separate suv. Fine, you know, there's
a lot of people have busy lives. So it was
just it was just something that was noticeable to us
in the press corps.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's more than that, right, I mean that I understand
that there is focus on the CNN tape, but there's
a lot more in this trial than that. Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Absolutely, there's the witnesses. And you know that's another thing
that they went back and forth today about was the
list of witnesses. The defense understandably wants a full list
of these witnesses, and the judge, you know, the judge
actually said to prosecutors, you've got to give the defense
a list of these witnesses that are going to come
forward in this trial by Monday and today's Friday. And
(05:29):
but it's for attorneys only. Hopefully it doesn't leak. Nobody
wants in this trial, nobody wants anything to go wrong.
They just want to get the show on the road,
and that was really the sense that everybody got from
being in court today.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
So let's see what else happened. It was it was.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The CNN video. It was talking about the witnesses. It
was the list of court.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Dates and those US three hundred a day, my.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
God, and those jures.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And also he pled. I also mentioned the headline he
pled not guilty to the superseding indictment that was presented
against him today in court. Now, this superseding indictment happened
on March sixth, and it's not additional charges.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
It's just as we.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Know, covering these cases, you've got somebody that's charged with
something right, and then prosecutors still keep investigating, and as
they're investigating, getting closer to their trial, oftentimes they will
uncover something else. And the something else is what they
are calling forced labor of many of the people that
worked for him. And they are alleging that Sean Colmes
(06:34):
had forced labor terrible conditions, lack of sleep, and the
threat of losing their jobs or worse if they did
not continue to work for many of his enterprises. So
that's another part of again, not charges. It's a superseding indictment.
So it's just like kind of a it gives a
broader sense and more detail of some of the workings
(06:55):
of what they allege is a criminal enterprise that has
been going on for years and years and years.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That's just it's just an extraordinary thing. I mean, you
kind of stated it so well along the way here
when you said, you know, you're used to seeing these
black SUVs pull up, the doors flip open, and you know,
you know, Sean Coms, who's always just you know, top
of the game, emerges with his crew, you know, and
they's just now it's like how the mighty have fallen.
(07:21):
I mean, you know, from the from the penthouse to
the doghouse. It's crazy. I mean, just now, there are
no cameras inside the courtroom. These are I'm seeing courtroom
sketch artists renderings, right, that's.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Correct, No cameras, no audio. Only one court sketch artist
that's in there right now. So we wait for that
to come out so that we can help illustrate what
we've seen inside of the court room. And a lot
of times the courtroom is absolutely packed, and then there's
an overflow room, and the overflow room is actually not
a bad place. To be as a reporter, because the
(07:54):
cameras that are inside of the court room show the
space of the people that are sitting at the defense
table and the prosecution table.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
If you're in the courtroom, you're in the back.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You're only really looking at the back of people's heads
and unless they turn sideways. So there's a couple of
different vantage points. But you're right, no cameras, no audio,
you can't hear anything. You've got to wait for that
court artist to do her magic and bring us some
of those images. So I'm not sure what the situation
is with And I don't mean this in a flipway.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
We just I simply don't know the answer. If there,
I guess there's not hair dye that's allowed at the NBC.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I mean, Sean Holmes is in the most notorious jail
system in New York. I mean Luigi Mangioni's there right now.
You know, there's a lot of infamous people that are
at this jail, and I know that they have commissary,
But I guess they.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Don't have a salon. There is that you're telling me.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
I don't believe they have a salon. If they do,
or maybe this.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Is his choice. Maybe this is a maybe this is
something that he's doing on purpose for his child to
look a certain way. I simply don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
All we can do is tell you what he looked
like when he was brought out.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
He wasn't handcuffed. He was wearing his tan jail outfit.
It's a shirt and pants loose fitting, so he didn't
come out cuffed. He came out, and he did acknowledge
his family members, his two adult children that were there,
and his mother blowing a kiss, you know, putting his
hand to his heart and waving to them. Glad to
(09:24):
see them, clearly, But that was kind of the color
as we call it, from inside of the courtroom, just
that personal exchange that he had. And I'm sure he
was glad to see family members in there.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
But you're right.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I mean, you know, when you look at all the
footage and all these documentaries that are coming out, and
the flash and the white parties and the jewelry and
the music and the you know, all of that that
we see compared to what this is now. And of course,
his defense team, which is very well put together one
and he's got a lot of good people on his
defense team working to get him cleared.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
They want to get the show on the road, and
we he's got a speedy trial here. I mean he
was rested in September, so here we are. I mean
May twelfth is pretty good. Yeah, you know, I'm sure
he wouldn't say that for me for that long.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
It's easy for us to say, right.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yeah, easy for us to say.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
But all in all, you know, I mean two days ago,
I was in a courtroom on Long Island covering the
Long Island serial killer and Rex Huerman has been jailed
since July of twenty twenty three, and they're nowhere near
getting a court date for a trial on the calendar
right now. So I say that just because you know,
it seems like okay, so we are moving the ball
(10:34):
was moving forward.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, it's click clacking along. We're talking to Laura Angle
from News Nation, just wrapping up. He for all of
our descriptions of how he looked and what he was wearing,
he said nothing, right, I mean, it's his lawyers are
doing the talking at this point.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
You know, he did speak.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
He spoke very briefly. I don't know if he was
asked the question, but he said, I'm fine to the judge.
He stood up and said I'm fine, and he pleaded
not guilty to the new superseding indictment. So he did speak,
but it was not a lengthy conversation. It was more
of a I'm okay, not guilty.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Moving along, right.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And again, we'll just remind everybody they're alleging that, I mean,
authorities are that he ran a criminal enterprise, that he
had all this he has, you know, bad Boy Entertainment
and Comb's Enterprises and Combs Global, and that through his
businesses he was running a criminal enterprise and firearms and
threats of violence and coercion and you know all and
physical and sexual abuse. Yeah right, Yeah, So it's a
(11:31):
I mean, it's a it's a pretty heavy duty indictment,
so one to watch for sure, Laura. So cool of
you to make time for us, and thank you for that.
Was a super detailed report as to what was going on.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
In the in the courtroom, and I very much appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
We'll have more of this on my program tomorrow, News
Nation Live that seven am your time at.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Ten o'clock Eastern. We will see you there.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I look forward to it. Laura Engel from News and
right on. Thanks again, good stuff. It's the co Belt Show.
When we come back, we'll talk about Karen Bass. The
mayor is going on the offensive. You might find it
offensive the things that she's saying. We will share them
with you next. Mark Thompson for John Cobalt on KFI
(12:17):
AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
I was just seeing that Mayor Bass's supporters are kind
of putting together a strategy for re election. And it's
been a rough couple of months for Mayor Bass. I mean,
you know, out of the country during the Palisades fire,
(12:49):
confronted by facts about her being out of the country,
about pledges she made about not being out of the
country ever, and then she's had I'd say, maybe i'll
just call it questionable interactions with the press around this controversy.
I mean, I think, you know, and I've said this before,
(13:13):
I just think this is going to be impossible for
her to get out from under.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I just think it's the end of a political career.
As mayor.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
This has happened in a high profile you can google
it situation in Chicago. That's how Jane Byrne took over
as mayor in Chicago. The preceding mayor had a snowstorm hit.
You had people trapped on mass transit, you had the
city ground to a halt, and the mayor wasn't viewed
as a leader who made a positive difference during all
(13:44):
of this. Now Bass out of town at the time
of the fires similarly not viewed as you know, a
commander on the bridge when you needed a commander on
the bridge and so where to go. Well, so this
is what apparently the plan will be, or at least
this is being talked about. She's going to focus and
(14:08):
I say, Mayor Baz, I'm talking about many of her
surrogates and others who are you speaking on her behalf
or in her camp. They're going to be talking about
the fact that she's under attack from the wealthy oligarchs.
She's going to make real estate developer Rick Caruso and
Nicole Shanahan, They're going to be played off in a
(14:31):
demonizing way. I mean, these are people who are trying to,
you know, recall her and she's going to play all
of this in the universe of attacks. And I've just
mentioned even just recounting the events, I'm not even attacking her.
You can see that she has an uphill climb, but
she's going to portray all of this as these partisan
(14:54):
attacks from hard right media outlets and monies that are
coming in to this effort to recall her that are
associated with wealthy oligarchs and the intense right wing. Apparently
there was an email to BAST supporters and it was
(15:16):
talking about right wing billionaires that have weaponized this January
seventh fire using it to wage a quote disinformation campaign
against the mayor, and they take aim not just at Caruso,
but at billionaire Elon Musk, who has posted all kinds
of things against the mayor on social media.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
That's what I was talking about.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I was kind of alluding to the fact that you know,
there is there are other monies and attention being paid
to what's going on in southern California for you could
argue political gain. But the problem is, Madam Mayor, is
that you really are on thin ice here. I mean,
I don't see how there are a lot of facts
that work on your behalf. So as you begin to
(15:57):
see how this coalition of people that brought Karen Bass
to power as mayor of La, as you begin to
see that coalition maybe begin to melt away. They certainly are,
I would suggest, grasping its straws when they start just
talking about the oligarchy and they talk about right wing media.
(16:19):
But this is the strategy, and they're going to lean
in hard and they say this is why the right
is coming after her. They're using any means they can,
like this windstorm to attack her because she is trying
to secure commitments from federal officials to cover a lot
of the city's expenses from the wildfire. So you've got
(16:41):
this tension between the feds and the mayor and the governor.
So as you look at the strategy moving forward for
Karen Bass in the reelection campaign twenty twenty six, and
even looking at the real possibility of a recall, you
(17:03):
can see that the playbook is pretty simple. You know,
they've weaponized this entire thing, and so ignore all that
you're hearing. She's taken a heat in recent weeks of
course for getting rid of who Kristin Crowley, the LA
fire chief, and the Firefighters Union has really been on
the side of Christian Crowley and not on the side
(17:26):
of Mayor Bass. The mayor also came under heavy criticism
for arranging a three month, five hundred thousand dollars salary
for her wildlife recoveries are and then of course after
that was discovered, they said, oh no, no, no, he's gonna
do it for nothing. All right. There just seems to
(17:46):
be in addition to the bad look associated with being
away during the I mean, you could argue the most
dangerous sena Ana event in the history of the city.
I mean again, you can argue about it. You know,
was it the second most or is it the worst?
Whatever it seemed, I'd argue it might have been the worst.
But in any case, she was in Ghana and that's
(18:07):
just a bad look. But these other things are beyond
a bad look. So I think Bass defenders have a
as I say, a steep climb, and the way they
are going to pursue that climb is what I'm getting at,
based on emails and what we're hearing, They're going after
a very aggressive approach, which is they're weaponizing this it's
(18:30):
money and it's politics. Instead of understanding that the mayor
is trying to do the best she can for the
city of la I think it's going to be too
tough a message to get through, but that will likely
be the message that they pursue. It's the the Conways Show.
I'm so he'sed doing Conways Show. Isn't that terrible?
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Well? John called it the John and Ken Show.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yes, sir, oh diddy, okay, thank you for that. I
feel much better now.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
That's exactly correct as well.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
You do get into a pattern, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Uh, it's the co Belt Show, John cobelt back on Monday,
Mark Thompson sitting and Conway is coming up at four
and I'm when he'll slide in a few minutes before
and we'll get a chance to.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Talk to him.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
We are KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
There are a bunch of shows that are available to
stream and that are getting a lot of oxygen. I
mean you know about well, I mean, White Lotus probably
is one that everybody's familiar with. It's a lot of
the it's a big hit, but I mean if you
go Netflix, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime. I mean you're
(19:47):
just running over all of these various shows that are
streaming and that are hot, and they're constantly mentioned like
have you seen this? Or we're you know, we're into uh,
you know, season four of Severns or you know, and
you guys are where do these people watch all this stuff?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I mean, like where is there time?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But the one thing I haven't heard a lot about,
and maybe I'm just running in the wrong crowd, is
that there is a ton of Christian entertainment and it's
doing really well. There's this series House of David. It's
a new series on Amazon Prime, and there are a
(20:26):
lot of you know, bearded guys and big battles. I mean,
it's a retelling of the David and Goliath story. And
then there's a series called The Chosen and again that's
more biblical stuff, big bad romans, big beards, and that's
a retelling of the life of Jesus. And there is
(20:46):
Jesus Revolution, which is a more modern, kind of updated
tale about a California pastor in the nineteen seventies. And again,
these are all offerings that you may or may not
be aware of, but they are doing really well. They're
watched by about two hundred and eighty million people worldwide.
(21:11):
I'm chuckling because I didn't know about the numbers. I mean,
I had no idea. Mary is a series about the
mother of Jesus. It was the third most viewed film
globally on Netflix after its release in December, and today
House of David is the eighth most popular series on
(21:34):
streaming services in America. House of David. So there are
many more. I mean, what does success do in Hollywood.
It breaths a lot of copycats. And there are many
more religious shows in store. Seven faith based titles are
getting greenlit and there was just one in twenty twenty one.
(22:00):
So there are religious film festivals, tons of religious films,
and streamer catalogs they say hosted four hundred and eighty
seven religious films, more than double what they had done
in twenty twenty two. I mean again, and I would
say say that this isn't just a rush to faith,
(22:23):
but it's a rush to what works, to what you know,
give the consumers what they want. And what they've done
with a lot of these religious shows and religious films
is they've taken out a lot of the violence of
the Bible, because the Bible is a pretty violent place,
as you know, but they've taken the general themes and
(22:45):
so apparently they've had great success with it, and apparently
as well, they understand that when you go to the Bible,
you could end up in some you know, pretty controversial
waters with the violent and even some of the stuff
that is related to sex is in the Bible and
(23:05):
is a little tough to navigate around. So because it's
oftentimes these are Christian offerings, they kind of dry clean
the shows of that stuff. But I'm looking here because
there was a particular part that they cut out that
(23:27):
I thought you'd get a kick here. It is different
Christian shows and films take different approaches to their source material.
Some simply use it as a jumping off point, Others
write scripts that sound more like scripture. Many of the
lines of House of David. I mentioned it to you
before House of David are lifted directly from the Bible,
which is probably if you're a Christian and you're wanting
(23:49):
Christian fair, that's probably what you want. But the series
is likely to go lighter on other parts of that story,
such as the moment and I wasn't aware that this
is in the story of David. When David wooing a
wife quote slew of the Philistines, two hundred men then
brought their foreskins and gave them to the king. I mean,
(24:13):
that's a rough day, and that's something worth keeping out
of whatever you're offering. If you're looking for that again,
that's House of David. But you know how successful Passionate
in the Christ was. I mean, that was Mel Gibson's
incredible offering that he mounted himself. I think he financed himself.
(24:34):
It was largely distributed by Mel, so they've done great
stuff in terms of you can disagree about how good
a film it was, but it was an intense movie.
I mean, Gibson went the other way with that film.
It was super bloody, super violent. In fact, I remember
(24:56):
one critic called it a two hour and six minute
snuff film. That's how intense that film was. But you know,
these are real producers and directors with their own kind
of artistic bent. In any case, there's no disputing how
popular it is. So if you're looking for Christian entertainment,
(25:17):
you're gonna find more of it. It looks as though
that is going to be all over the streaming services
in the rest of this year, and of course with
Easter coming up, I'd look for even more of it
to bump up in the days ahead.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It's a John Cobelt show. Conway is coming up at four.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Maybe he'll slide in here for a few minutes on
his on his way to his show. Mark Thompson sitting
in for John on KFI AM six forty. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Mark Thompson here for John Cobelt finishing up. We'll talk
to Conway if he slides in here. It is, of
course the day that they sent it past, this bill
to keep the government open, and if you missed it,
the shutdown was to have been at midnight tonight, but
the Senate passed the bill which essentially gives Donald Trump
and Elon Musk and his crew a lot of running
(26:13):
room through September thirtieth. So that will be heading to
the desk of the President and he will of course
sign it. And there is a lot of disagreement in
the Democratic Party about no whether that should have been done,
but it is done. I think one of the big
things that's happening out of this administration is associated with
(26:34):
California and the EPA. I don't know if everybody's been
following this, but there is an unwinding of all of
these restrictions that are associated with EPA mandates from the
Biden administration. They're all getting undone, and in so doing
(26:54):
you the I mean Obama started at Biden continued the
Clean Power Plan, looking to reduce emissions from power plants
fueled by coal and natural gas. It gets at mainstream
(27:15):
uses of power production. But it also and I think
this is the thing that maybe it's where the shoe
pinches for a lot of us. They're not only going
for emissions from large power plants and oil and gas producers,
but vehicle emissions. I mean, that's the largest source of
air pollution in California. Vehicle pollution, all right. So they
(27:38):
want to terminate and finish the standards surrounding light, medium
and heavy duty vehicles. And that was behind Biden's electric
vehicle mandate. Now, they of course want nothing to do
with the electric vehicle mandate, but that was a goal.
Remember twenty thirty was going to be the goal that
(28:00):
evs would comprise half of the cars sold in the US. Well,
you can forget about that now. I mean Trump is
on a jihad against anything that has to do with Biden.
You may be perfectly fine with that, But what I'm
suggesting is that we're going to really notice it here
in California. There are all kinds of ways in which
(28:25):
air quality and pollution standards and even fuel efficiency is
going to be affected by the rollback in these EPA programs.
Does anybody remember how it was in the old days
with the first stage smog alert, second date stage smog alert.
(28:46):
Any of the older boys and girls recall that. I mean,
it's possible that the air could get a lot worse
based on the fact that they are rolling back restrictions
that are in place for vehicle emissions. Mike Stoker they
point here, who served as the EPA's top official for
California and the Pacific Southwest during the previous Trump administration,
(29:08):
says it's not a big deal that California can still
set higher standards in the federal government. He says, as
a general matter, most of the states that have been
really strong on the environment, like California are going to
exceed whatever the minimum standard is that the EPA is regulating.
These kinds of actions have a much bigger impact on
the states that have really opted to go with more
(29:29):
of the minimum standards. The goal he set is to
eliminate rules and regulations that are costly and time consuming
and to ensure that those remain. Those that remain are
backed up by the best possible science. So that's the
reporting on it. But again you've got carbon dioxide, other
(29:52):
pollutants with tailpipe emissions being rolled back such that there
will be ceilings on all of that that will permit
likely more pollution. It's noted that California sets the standard.
Actually by increasing things like fuel efficiency, increasing standards on
(30:15):
tailpipe emissions, you actually set a standard for the nation itself.
But we're seeing more and more that six harmful pollutants
will now be rethought by the EPA, and that may
affect us in California. So it's interesting because as I
(30:38):
talk about the old days during which the valley really
was choked during a lot of the summer months, you
must remember that, Tim right.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
I'm sorry, what an introduction, by the way, thank.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
You very much. Appreciate that. You must remember that, right, Tim,
I just got in.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I remember, what do you remember when there was a
first stage, second stage smug.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
That's every day of the value it used to be, right,
it used to be.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, So that was like the one I thought, like
notable thing that happened with the standards on tailpipe emissions
and all that stuff.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
Whether the valley cleared up?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah, no, seriously, yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
And uh and maybe a lot of the electric cars help,
that's possible.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Oh I see, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. It's
a weird thing about the electric cars because on the
one hand, uh, the president has been against the electric
cars and all those electric vehicles.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
He wants to unwind all of that.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
But now with Elon Muskus his buddy, he's now pitching
electric cars.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Right because the the left who used to love Elon Moss, right,
and then they all turned on and now they're they're
burning his stores down and his cars down.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I know. It's awful, that's just horrible. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
So the guy guy needs a little loud, you know.
And and and by the way, it was it was
Biden that brought in that that that jeep.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Remember he brought a jeep in. Oh, I didn't remember that,
did he do?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (32:02):
You brought that rubicon jeep into the drove that thing
around for a while.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
He did, like a pitch thing also yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't remember that.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
I know.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I know.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
You guys get the news from I don't know what.
I don't know what you got outside. You started, you
started this, Wango Tango was coming up. I Heeart's Wango
Tango is returned. Can I take you to Wango Tango
and just put this all aside?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Yeah, I've got to wang.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Have you ever been to Wango Tango?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I tried to get tickets from this radio station.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Good luck, Yeah, I could not get I want to take.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
It's a funny singing at sunset.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Right, it seems like it'll really be cool. Did you
see the uh it was the eclipse thing last night?
Speaker 8 (32:47):
I saw it last night. Yeah, it was pretty cool.
That was pretty cool. Yeah, it was really cool.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Was it high in the sky when you saw her?
Was it low?
Speaker 8 (32:52):
It was literally directly over my house. I don't know
how that happened, but it was really right over my house.
And the next one is not going to happen for
another twenty three years.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I had heard forty years.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
I heard twenty three. I heard nineteen forty eight or something. Okay, okay,
if that's true. We have seen our last eclipse?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, yeah, no, you.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Think you got twenty three left?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
No? Absolutely, absolutely not. I'm just hoping to make it
through the weekend. Oh.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
I was glad to see that eclipse last night.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Talt with you, David Veas. I know you want to
know what's on today? I do, Davidsay, Alex Michaelson. We're
going to talk about Orange County real estate with a
buddy of mine, Malibu Dan find you remember malav Oh yeah,
you always tell stories with him. It'll be fundy guy's
the best. And then Keith Roberts with the young dublin Ers.
Saint Patrick's Day is Monday. If you're a big Saint Patrick,
(33:44):
I would.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Never miss it. What's happening with the Irish The people
or they? Yeah? The people are they cool?
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (33:52):
I think they're doing okay.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
You know, I like the fact that, you know, the
only Irish football team perhaps the world, is Notre Dame yeah,
and they called them the fighting Irish. And the leprechaun
has a jug of vodka or whiskey and he's and
he's about his stance is about to fight somebody.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You feel it's a little on the nose.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Oh, but but you know what, but we embrace that stereotype. Now,
plug in any other stereotype with any other crew and
try to get that one passed.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Yeah, but the Irish they celebrate that that stereotype.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
True.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
There are zero people I know that are offended by
the fighting Irish.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
It's so funny. Zero.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I don't know anybody. I used to go to an
irishpe real quick. I used to go to an Irish chiropractor.
She was lovely and Fitzgerald was her last name. And
she's telling me that she just got back from Thanksgiving
and I said, how was it? And she said, every
Thanksgiving there's so many fights. And I said, well, I said, well,
that's the way it is for all of us. I
mean it's tension. And then she said, no, no, no, no, no,
(34:58):
I don't mean that they were disagreement much. I mean
that there were knockdown dragouts. But there might have been
six or seven of them. I just love it.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Take gong with you, buddy, well, you are my favorite Irishman. Always.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
We're I'll actually get it.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
All right, Okay, Conway next to co Belt on Monday.
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