July 2, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/02) - Mark Thompson fills in for John. Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about cracking down on disaster tours in Pacific Palisades. Diddy has been denied bail and must remain behind bars as he awaits sentencing. Brian Entin comes on the show to talk about the plea deal Bryan Kohberger agreed to in Idaho after he killed 4 college students. Kamala Harris is seriously considering running for Governor of California.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't if I am six forty you're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
As promised our pal from KFI News, Michael Monks is
here with the big news around a major crackdown. High there,
Michael Monks, It's good to see you, Michael. Uncle Monks
Uh comes in the studio. What did you say to me?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Well, you were talking about disaster tours and I was
sharing with you that I took a disaster tour, uh
yesterday while by watching a bunch of clips of a
show you used to.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
The Hole in the Wall.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, I mentioned you mentioned it to me yesterday and
I was like, I have never heard of hole in
the wall. And so now I'm going to spend the
rest of my shift, don't tell the bosses on YouTube
watching Mark Thompson host a game show and this was
like what eight eight eighth nine ish on Fox? This
is the network show a huge show hole in the Wall,
And I was like, I don't know how I missed this,
(00:52):
but I have to see it because can you share
with our listeners the premise?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, it was. It's very much looking like a Japanese
game show when you just look at the clip and
that kind of makes it fun, like bright colors and
weird outfits and people were standing there. We had them
kind of up in teams, so I think family feud
kind of thing, like the firefighters versus the cops, or
like for example. And they would wear these silver outfits,
(01:18):
these silver skin tight outfits, and they'd stand there right
on the edge of a pool of water, and these
walls would come at them. They'd run at them in
a pretty pretty good clip, and they'd have to orient
their body to make it through the hole in the wall.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
That's why it's called.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And these holes would have various shapes, like maybe you
would have to be bent in a you'd have to
contort yourself into a weird position so that you could
get through the wall and not knocked in the water.
And while I was watching this, I did not see
one contestant succeed.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
That was one of my issues with the show. I
said the proditioners, we've got to make these holes figure. Yeah,
that's oh, thank you. Yeah. The show was.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
It was.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We did twenty two episodes. We were supposed to be
up and I'll just finish this off. You're show sweet
to mention it I don't know how we got into
talking about it yesterday what we did. And so of
course you I.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Asked if you'd ever hosted a game show that I
know you've done a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So anyway, the show was on. It was gonna be
on after American Idol. Now can you imagine it would
have been massive, and instead there was another show on
called Wipeout. Wipeout did really well, it might still be on.
It's like these people running this obstacle course again very
Japanese game show. Big stuff happening, and it was a
(02:36):
big husi and it was doing so well that Fox
Network said we need to rush this show on because
this show Holding the Wall is kind of like that.
So they rushed it on the air without a whole
bunch of promotion. We ran on a Sunday night, okay,
and it was Sunday during football and the East Coast
had a game that went into overtime. So now my
(02:58):
show Hold on the Wall is running. Everybody's watching the
football game in overtime. No one's watching my show. They
what they call join in progress, this show that nobody's
ever seen premiere.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
They missed the whole set up. Yeah, and then really lost.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, so we don't do a number, and then the
minds of Fox just going, yeah, just burn off the
rest of them. We don't care. All twenty two episodes
they just killed. I mean they ran them on a
Friday night or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
If listeners are just hanging around, do look it up
on YouTube, but make sure you look for the right version,
because there's another version out there. It's a newer version
maybe in the UK, same kind of title, but you
want to look for Mark Thompson. Hole in the Wall
do as a favor before we get to the news
and I know you brought me in for a reason. Yeah,
but so the wall would start moving, I know, what
would you say?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So before the wall starts moving, I would say, to
whoever there is there in that silver outfit waiting on
the edge of that fool, I'd say, it's time to
face the hole. And that wall would come screaming at
the person and more times than not knocked them into
the water. It was uh yeah, it was an idea.
(04:03):
That was the biggest game show audience in history. We
had six hundred and fifty people in the audience lot,
in the studio audio. Yeah, and the studio. Audience was
Radford Studio. We shot the whole thing, so anyway, you're
sweet too, remember and take me through the trauma of
having a die.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
It was.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
It was a great show, but I wish it had
lasted longer than.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
It aw that catchphrase deserved more.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, time to face the whole It's time to face
the crackdown on the disaster tours of Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It is, indeed, And you know, when these fires were
raging back in January and I was there, and then
after the fires mostly stopped and you could really get
up and close to the damage, I remember thinking, people
need to see this, you know, because we're reporting on it.
The cameras are there, you're seeing aerial footage, but until
you've walked the streets of Altadena and parts of Pasadena
(04:50):
and the Palisades and Malibu, and you just can't really
take it all in. It is It's nothing I've ever
experienced before. And I remember thinking at that moment, people
need to see this whenever it's possible.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
People need to see this.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But the way people have been seeing it apparently is
not sitting well with residents of the Palisades, particularly city
councilmen Tracy Park, Apparently there have been tours not just
keep in mind it's open to the public. If you
wanted to drive over there, you could. It's much easier
than it was several months ago. You can go through
and see for yourself. It's not recommended because people are
(05:26):
rebuilding their lives, but somebody's making money off of this.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
So some bus.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Tours have been going through, charging people, and it's basically
a disaster tour, driving you through what used to be
a very vibrant posh neighborhood and saying, look at this dump. Now,
look at what happened here. It's getting in the way
of the reconstruction effort, it's getting in the way of
the debris removal. And so the city council just yesterday
decided they needed to restrict this and they did so immediately.
(05:53):
So as long as there is still that local emergency declaration,
something that local officials can do to allow them to
do things than they normally can prevent things, allow things,
these bus tours will be restricted. Councilman Park says she
wants this to be restricted more permanently, and they'll be
exploring that at a later date.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So they restrict the bus tours, the organized tours, the
commerce associated with these tours. But you're saying those who
just want to drive through the area caravan of people,
that probably is something there's no way to stop.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Well, it is a public area.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I mean, these are public streets, and the palisades were
mostly closed to everyone in the immediate aftermath. It was
hard even for residents who lost things to go see
how bad it was. Now they still have you know,
the police are there, but like the military's gone. You know,
the checkpoints aren't there like they were. So yes, you
(06:47):
can go through there and see it, and like I said,
people should see it, but there has to be a
respectful way to do it. Sure, and that's true for
Altadina as well. I mean, because to truly take in
the damage that was done in January, you really need
to be up close to it and you can feel
the lives that weren't necessarily taken, even though some people died,
(07:10):
of course, but the lives that people were living were
taken in a moment. And it is a terrible but
important reminder of just how dangerous wildfires in southern California
can be.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, that's a great point too, that it can be instructive,
you know, I mean, it is interesting and sort of
got tone deaf, and I'll just say it's disgusting to
think about cashing in on the horror that is the
loss of your life.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
And I have to say this because you know.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Our neighborhood burned in the Getty fire twenty eighteen, and
there were a lot of LOOKI lows afterward. You know,
my home did not burned down. It burned, but I
couldn't live there anymore, but it didn't get burned down.
I always want to say that, because I did get
to salvage some stuff, but my neighbor's lost. And I
consider it that these are like the museums of our lives,
(08:04):
these places we live, whether it's an apartment, a condo,
or a home house, and it's all gone, and it's
devastating emotionally. And so the notion that you could, you know,
as you say, take the disaster tour of this, it
really is.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But on the other hand, one does feel as though
you can learn something from Yeah, there's got to be.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
A way to do a tour, perhaps that it creates
a better sense of honor.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Sure like we're here to memorialize what was lost.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I mean, those communities will be rebuilt, but they'll never
be what they were, just by virtue of the fact
that things are gone that were there. They're gone forever.
But couldn't we and even if you are throwing ten
twenty bucks in the till, couldn't that go towards something
that is beneficial to people who lost everything.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's the only way you can really get to a
place that it's a little where there's some high ground.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I think.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Otherwise it's just crass commercialism, don't you think?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I mean it's like if there were one hundred years
from now and nobody repopulated the Palisades, it would be
a different thing. We're far enough removed from it. It's
the way that some terrible tragedy that happened in the
you know, in the old industrial area downtown, something like
the shirtwaist factory fire or something horrible thing at the time,
but now you're curious about it, and you might you
(09:21):
might pay somebody to guide you around and explain what
had happened there.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
And that may be a for profit enterprise. But enough
time has passed. This just happened.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know, people are just now getting the plans to
rebuild the houses that were.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Lost, and that's why folks think this is so ugly.
I think about Ground Zero in New York. Yeah, exactly,
and a lot of the same issues. You know, you
want a sense of reverence, but there's also a sense
of being compelled to experience on some level, being adjacent
to the emotions that might have been involved in this tragedy.
(09:56):
And as you say, it's reshaped Los Angeles forever, completely forever. Yeah.
Great to talk to you, Michael Monks. Thanks for the information.
Thank you also for the nostalgia.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
It's time to face the whole.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Michael Munks from KOBI News. It's the co Belt Show.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Thompson Here KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
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Speaker 8 (10:15):
You're listening to John coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
There's breaking news out of the newsroom. Let's go to Debra.
What's going on.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
So the judge has denied bail for Sean. Did he
come so? He has been ordered to remain behind bars
until he is sentenced after being found guilty of transporting
people for prostitution. He was found not guilty of the
most serious charges against him, including racketeering and sex trafficking.
But the judge has denied bail for Sean.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Did he come Well, it's no day at the beach.
That place is being held, you know.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
That's what I hear. Yeah, and I think he was
counting on getting out today.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well, based on the high fives and the applauding that
he was doing to the jury, et cetera. He was
taking the victory lap. I understand. It's got to be
a sense of jubilation. You pretty much dodged the most
intense bullet legally, but the first of all sentencing still
awaits you. Royal Oaks was saying maybe four years possibly,
(11:17):
but even that could be discounted by the judge. But
in all of this, lost in it all, in all
that jubilation is the fact that now he's got to
go back and await the sentencing. So fourth of July
weekend for Sean Combs will be done there in his
(11:40):
prison cell. Yeah, well, all right, we're watching that moment
to moment. Of course, the big news was that he
really escaped the most serious charges, but he will be
sentenced on the other charges and while he's awaiting sentencing.
Seems as though he'll be in prison. I have to
say this, he's a flight risk, particularly, you know, and
(12:02):
one of the criticisms early on in the entire trial
was that he was denied bail, that there was a
sense that two things were happening. A he was overcharged,
meaning you slapped on the racketeering thing.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Clearly not a good guy.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I mean a dirt bag, I would say from any
yardstick or any angle. But just from the legal standpoint,
it's pretty much now agreed that the Feds overreached with
the Rico charging and just the way in which they
overcharged him, and you only need to look at the
verdict to sort of agree with that they couldn't make
(12:41):
those charges stick. So the other conversation that was going
on around Sean Combs when they originally charged him was
why is he not being granted bail? He's not a
flight risk, he's able to wear an ankle monitor.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
This seems as though it's again not saying is a
good guy, not saying that he shouldn't be charged with
these various charges that we've seen, from prostitution to the
man Act, transporting the prostitute across state lines, et cetera.
But he's not a threat to leave, he's not a
(13:23):
threat to run. So again, this is all talked about
in this same breath at the beginning of the trial.
Now to see him told, well, congratulations, you dodge the
big legal bullet, but you're still going to cool your
heels in prison while you wait. I'm sure that they'll
be more set about that. Anyway. That's the latest in
(13:47):
breaking news. There's some maybe you consider it surprising, Orange
County Republicans who are questioning the President about immigration enforcement
sweeps in Huntington Beach. Now, Huntington Beach is a place
where you've got a lot of maga. You'll find a
(14:09):
lot of Trump banners. I'm sure on the fourth of
July you'll see your share of maga.
Speaker 10 (14:18):
Merch.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
But apparently now leaders are pushing back at the president's
immigration raids. So here's a beach town, non sanctuary city.
And there has been all kinds of legal lifts associated
(14:42):
with immigration policy in southern California. But high immigrant populations
exist in Orange County, and now there's a conversation about
these immigration rates and their real effect on the community
and Republicans who voted for Trump and support his efforts
to deport and deport large numbers of people who've committed crimes,
(15:07):
they are not so sure about the sweeps that have
targeted workers and longtime residents of Orange County once again, like,
why are you going after the home depot day workers?
Why are you going after my nanny? Why are you
going after the construction business? And there are vital workers
being driven out of critical industries, taking California's affordability crisis
(15:33):
and making it even worse for our constituents. That was
written by assembly Members Diane Dixon and Laurie Davis from
Newport Beach and Laguna Neguel respectively. They're calling on Trump
to modernize the country's immigration process to give undocumented immigrants
with long standing local ties a path toward legal status.
(15:55):
This is the point you have to reshape immigrants policy,
so we hang on to those who can help shape
the community in a positive way and we can flush
all the people associated with gang activity. Any illegality. I'm
talking about illegality in the community, not the fact that
(16:16):
they are illegal technically because they are in the country undocumented,
but to see Orange County Republicans pushing back against Trump
shows you that the pendulum may be swinging the other way,
because what we're seeing is the elimination of people who
(16:37):
serve vital roles.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Within the community.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And even if you wouldn't consider the roles vital, they're
part of the texture of the community. I mean everyone
from the car wash operator to the dishwasher. I mean,
so we've always known that these people are here, but
lowering the boom on them all has even aroused the
eye of some Orange County Republicans. We'll watch this story,
(17:05):
but again, it is continuing to unfold. It's only been
a month since the boom really lowered here from the
Department of Homeland Security and Ice here in southern California.
When we come back, the man who broke the story
of the Idaho murders and the Idaho murderer and his
(17:29):
this guy's really you want to talk about a cold
hearted killer, That's what we have in that Coleburger, Idaho,
and the man who broke that story about the plea
deal from News Nation joins us.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Next.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It's KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app Thompson for cole Belt.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
You're listening to John Coebelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
This Brian Cooberger case, the killer of these Idaho college students,
four of them in their sleep.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
It's a brutal, grizzly case. And the guy who broke.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The news of the plea deal did it on News
Nation and he joins us now, Brian Ett and Hi.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Brian, hey Mark, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well, you know you're the senior national correspondent over there
at News Nation. And this was a big story and
continues to be a big story, the fact that this
plea deal seemed to exist outside the understanding of the
families that really wanted to see your trial go down.
Give us an update.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
Yeah, I just got out of court here about an
hour ago where it all was made official here in Idaho.
He Brian Cooberger accepted the plea deal. It was about
an hour long the hearing. It was pretty excruciating just
having to hear him. They kept saying, you know, asking
him questions, did you you know kill They went through
all the victims, did you stab them to death? You know,
(19:04):
they got really detailed in their questions, and he just
answered yes, yes, yes, every time and said you know,
and that it was premeditated and what was so kind
of freaking And I've been covering this since the beginning,
so it's kind of just a surreal moment to see
this all go down. But he, you know, was totally emotionless,
like he he had no just a blank stare on
(19:25):
his face, and when he would answer the questions, it
was almost like he was like answering a test question
or something like. It was just very, very strange, especially
because the families were there and they were emotional, and
Brian Coberger's parents were there and they looked upset, but
Brian Coburger didn't look upset, not even not even a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We have some audio from him. Go ahead and run that, Eric,
if you would, And this is Coburger in court.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
On November thirteenth, twenty twenty two in Leaiita County, State
of Idaho, kill and murder Madison Mogan a human being. Yes,
and did you do that wilfully and lawfully, deliberately and
with premeditation and mel a forethought?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Did you honor.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
About that same date in Moscow, Idaho, kill and murder
Kayleie Gonzalez a human being?
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
And did you do that wilfully, unlawfully, deliberately and with
premeditation and malica forethought?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
And did you, on that same date in Moscow, Idaho,
kill and murder Xana Kernodle pardon me.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
A human being?
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
And did you do that wilfully, unlawfully, deliberately, with premeditation
and malica forethought?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
And then on we're about November thirteenth, twenty twenty two
again in Leytak County, Idaho, did you kill and murder
Ethan Chapin a human being?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Did you do that willfully, unlawfully, deliberately, with premeditation and
malica forethought?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
You know this, as you describe it and you hear it,
it just reflects a kind of emptiness of the soul.
You know, this guy is I don't know what his
disorder is, but he's a soulless guy, right, Brian Enton.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
One hundred percent? And you know I've tried to be
fair covering this all along, and he was pleading not
guilty for so long, and they were very passionate in
their defense of him, and that there was going to
be a trial and that this was almost like he
was staged and there could have been alternate perpetrators. And
I mean this has gone on and on for two
and a half years, and I've tried to cover it fairly.
(21:39):
But today, now that he has admitted his guilt and
he is in fact a murderer and he has admitted
to it, you know, I couldn't help us sit there
was sitting right behind the parents, and he was sitting
right in front of the parents there, you know, at
the table with the defense lawyers. And I guess the
only thing that kept talping to my mind is like,
this man is a monster. I mean to think these
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were four innocent college kids, like there was. They didn't
do anything wrong. They just were out partying, and they
went back to the house and they went to bed,
and he broke in their house to the kitchen door
and and and just brutally stabbed all of them to death.
And so yeah, I mean you say soulless, it's there
was just it was just so weird to see nothing
(22:20):
on his face today.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And I like that you describe what happened, because he
did have to break into the residents.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
He went floor to floor.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I think they were separated by you know, a floor downstairs,
upstairs in other words, but I'm wondering if we have
any insight articulated or implied as to the motive.
Speaker 10 (22:43):
No, And I think that's what's bothering the family. I
don't think.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I know.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
That's what's bothering the families right now is they wanted
to know why. They wanted to know why he did this,
Why that house, why that knight, why these kids? Where
the knife? You know, the murder weapon has never been found,
And none of those questions were answered. There were some
new elements that came out today. You know, the prosecution
gave a you know, gave a lot of insight into
(23:10):
the evidence that they had and told the judge about that.
I mean, it's just awful. I mean, not only did
he go in and do that, but he left. They've
got it all tracked through his cell phone and surveillance cameras.
He went back to his house, and then he returned
to the crime scene several hours later to almost go
back and got at it. And then he went back
to his apartment again and took this selfie which I've seen,
(23:30):
the selfie in the bathroom mirror with the thumbs up
so he's just a deranged and you know, he was
getting his doctorate in criminology. The thought is, you know,
this is almost like a dream for him. This is
what he had been plotting and planning for quite some time.
And he admitted that it was premeditated.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Didn't he go with his dad on like it was
a cross country thing?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
After all? This happened something like.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
That, right, Yeah, So his parents live in Pennsylvania and
in the Pocono and so after the murders, you know,
he wasn't caught for like six weeks, and he actually,
you know, was around the holidays and he was getting
his doctorate at Washington State University, and so he went
home for the holidays and he drove back across the
(24:15):
whole country with his dad, and they were pulled over
a couple times. And there's body camera video, which there's
still a lot of questions about that too, and just
some strange elements to that hole drive which we may
never really get answers to. But we did hear today about,
you know, the way they finally nailed them, as there
was a little bit of DNA he left behind the
(24:35):
knife sheef next to one of the victims and when
they figured out that they thought it was him, they
took the trash from his dad's house where he was
staying in Pennsylvania around the holidays, and it was actually
a Q tip that they tested, and the DNA on
the q tip they were able to put into a
database and it tested as the father of the person
(24:56):
whose DNA was on the knife sheef and that's how
they made the final connection.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I saw that the family of one of the victims,
twenty one year old Kaylee Gonkalas, they asked that the
deal be amended to include some additional requirements, like a
full confession for the location of the alleged murder weapon.
This this weapon that you described, That's what made me
(25:21):
think of it. Is this just an effort? I mean,
I understand the frustration of the families is palpable. You know,
they are so angry about this. Is this an effort
to sort of make him own even more of this
in some way that they feel can feel better about.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
I think so. I think it's also just the wanting
to know the why and and just to know for sure.
I mean, you know, there's never been any indication that
anyone else was involved, but just talking to the Gunsalvus is.
You know, they wanted to ask them about that. They
just wanted they wanted someone to really get the full
story out of him, just so that they would know.
And we may you know, we may never know. And
(25:59):
he may he may speak at his sentencing, which is
at the end of the month, he may not. My senses,
he probably won't. And he barely spoke today. And you know,
the families, many of them wanted the death penalty. They
were sort of led along for the last two and
a half years being told that there was no chance
of a plea deal with the prosecution was going to
go after the death penalty no matter what. And this
(26:20):
kind of came across as a real surprise. It just
came about in the last three days. I mean, there
was no talk of a plea deal ever, and then
all of a sudden, here we were today at the hearing.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, I mean, it surprised even the family. So there
you go. Well, Brian, you've done great reporting on this.
I congratulate you, the senior national correspondent, Brian Enton, first
to break this news to the Flea deal, and you
just covered it every step of the way.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Thank you for joining us today on KOFI.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
My friend, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Okay, Brian Enton.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, one thing I can say that just really always
angers man. I'll just say it quickly when there's talk
of well, he's on the autism spectrum, like that's something
we have autism in my family. I'm very active with
autism charities.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I love.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
The work that so many of these charities do to
raise awareness. And one of the things you should be
aware of is that these are wonderful, emotional, passionate connected people.
Oftentimes obviously there's a full spectrum on the autism spectrum.
But the idea somehow that in this heinous act they
could even mention this as a possibility, like they were
(27:29):
going to hang a defense on some of that, it's
loathsome to me. So it's a John coblt Show, Mark
Thompson sitting in on KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Forty John co Belt Show. Mark Thompson's sitting in. At
three o'clock. Lou Shapiro will be here. We'll talk about
the you know, he's a former public defender in La County,
and he really can. Additionally, slice and dice this Sean
Comb's case, and we will review the Coburger case and
(28:10):
settlement too. But the Shawn Combs case, particularly given the
fact that the breaking is of the hour, as you
heard from Deborah, is that Shawn Combs won't be going home.
I mean, he was excited about having dodged the big
legal bullets that he did, but the reality is now
he has to wait in prison and it's not a
fun place to wait until sentencing. We'll ask Lou about
(28:34):
that again. That's the top of the next hour. Former
Vice President Kamala Harris a favorite in the gubernatorial race
if she runs. This is a new poll. She hasn't decided, okay,
but apparently she's pretty well positioned to coast in. Many
(28:56):
voters are undecided, but she was the choice of forty
one one percent of survey respondents, compared to twenty nine
percent who opt for an unnamed Republican candidate. In this poll.
This is the University of California at Irvine. You see Irvine.
She also had the greatest favorability rating and is most
well known compared to all the candidates who have announced,
(29:19):
and you know that's really, as you know, the biggest
lift you've got to get your name there. I'd say,
on the other side of things, someone like Caruso has
pretty good name recognition. I mean, he ran for mayor,
put on a great campaign, I thought, and has meant
(29:41):
a lot of this to the state of California, and
he is debating.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Whether to run for mayor again or.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
To make a run for the governorship. He was the
favorite choice of GOP voters. He has twenty seven percent
of those surveyed. And again, Kamala Harris, it would seem
has immense name recognition for all the obvious reasons. I mean,
she was pretty good in the name recognition department before
(30:11):
her presidential run. But obviously here in California she has
tremendous name recognition. Only five percent of California's had never
heard of her, So this is a real I don't
want to I would say the path is cleared substantially
(30:33):
for her. Antonio Viragosa ran for governor twenty eighteen. He
was unknown by forty seven percent of these same survey respondents.
That's the same survey methodology, not the same respondents, and
forty eight percent unfamiliar with Katie Porter, who ran for
(30:54):
US senator. Course, so when tested against the candidates who
have announced, Kamala Harris the choice of twenty four percent
of the voters, that's the only candidate to crack double digits.
According to the poll. It's still early. There's a big
undecided chunk of voters in California forty percent of the
(31:15):
respondents undecided according to this poll. So as this narrative unfolds,
certainly it looks as though a Democrat would carry the state,
but the leading Republican candidate would probably be Rick Caruso,
who still has to make a decision as to whether
(31:37):
or not he.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Wants to make the run.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
When we come back, lu Shapiro will slice and dice
the p Diddy verdicts and why he's not getting bail
and getting out as he awaits sentencing. It's the John
Covelt Show, Mark Thompson sitting in on KOFI AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Hey, you've been listening to the John coe Belt the
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
KFI AM six forty from one to four pm every
Monday through Friday. And of course anytime on demand on
the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
As promised our pal from KFI News, Michael Monks is
here with the big news around a major crackdown. High there,
Michael Monks, It's good to see you, Michael. Uncle Monks
Uh comes in the studio. What did you say to me?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Well, you were talking about disaster tours and I was
sharing with you that I took a disaster tour, uh
yesterday while by watching a bunch of clips of a
show you used to.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
The Hole in the Wall.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, I mentioned you mentioned it to me yesterday and
I was like, I have never heard of hole in
the wall. And so now I'm going to spend the
rest of my shift, don't tell the bosses on YouTube
watching Mark Thompson host a game show and this was
like what eight eight eighth nine ish on Fox? This
is the network show a huge show hole in the Wall,
And I was like, I don't know how I missed this,
(00:52):
but I have to see it because can you share
with our listeners the premise?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, it was. It's very much looking like a Japanese
game show when you just look at the clip and
that kind of makes it fun, like bright colors and
weird outfits and people were standing there. We had them
kind of up in teams, so I think family feud
kind of thing, like the firefighters versus the cops, or
like for example. And they would wear these silver outfits,
(01:18):
these silver skin tight outfits, and they'd stand there right
on the edge of a pool of water, and these
walls would come at them. They'd run at them in
a pretty pretty good clip, and they'd have to orient
their body to make it through the hole in the wall.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
That's why it's called.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And these holes would have various shapes, like maybe you
would have to be bent in a you'd have to
contort yourself into a weird position so that you could
get through the wall and not knocked in the water.
And while I was watching this, I did not see
one contestant succeed.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
That was one of my issues with the show. I
said the proditioners, we've got to make these holes figure. Yeah,
that's oh, thank you. Yeah. The show was.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
It was.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We did twenty two episodes. We were supposed to be
up and I'll just finish this off. You're show sweet
to mention it I don't know how we got into
talking about it yesterday what we did. And so of
course you I.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Asked if you'd ever hosted a game show that I
know you've done a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So anyway, the show was on. It was gonna be
on after American Idol. Now can you imagine it would
have been massive, and instead there was another show on
called Wipeout. Wipeout did really well, it might still be on.
It's like these people running this obstacle course again very
Japanese game show. Big stuff happening, and it was a
(02:36):
big husi and it was doing so well that Fox
Network said we need to rush this show on because
this show Holding the Wall is kind of like that.
So they rushed it on the air without a whole
bunch of promotion. We ran on a Sunday night, okay,
and it was Sunday during football and the East Coast
had a game that went into overtime. So now my
(02:58):
show Hold on the Wall is running. Everybody's watching the
football game in overtime. No one's watching my show. They
what they call join in progress, this show that nobody's
ever seen premiere.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
They missed the whole set up. Yeah, and then really lost.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, so we don't do a number, and then the
minds of Fox just going, yeah, just burn off the
rest of them. We don't care. All twenty two episodes
they just killed. I mean they ran them on a
Friday night or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
If listeners are just hanging around, do look it up
on YouTube, but make sure you look for the right version,
because there's another version out there. It's a newer version
maybe in the UK, same kind of title, but you
want to look for Mark Thompson. Hole in the Wall
do as a favor before we get to the news
and I know you brought me in for a reason. Yeah,
but so the wall would start moving, I know, what
would you say?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So before the wall starts moving, I would say, to
whoever there is there in that silver outfit waiting on
the edge of that fool, I'd say, it's time to
face the hole. And that wall would come screaming at
the person and more times than not knocked them into
the water. It was uh yeah, it was an idea.
(04:03):
That was the biggest game show audience in history. We
had six hundred and fifty people in the audience lot,
in the studio audio. Yeah, and the studio. Audience was
Radford Studio. We shot the whole thing, so anyway, you're
sweet too, remember and take me through the trauma of
having a die.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
It was.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
It was a great show, but I wish it had
lasted longer than.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
It aw that catchphrase deserved more.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, time to face the whole It's time to face
the crackdown on the disaster tours of Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It is, indeed, And you know, when these fires were
raging back in January and I was there, and then
after the fires mostly stopped and you could really get
up and close to the damage, I remember thinking, people
need to see this, you know, because we're reporting on it.
The cameras are there, you're seeing aerial footage, but until
you've walked the streets of Altadena and parts of Pasadena
(04:50):
and the Palisades and Malibu, and you just can't really
take it all in. It is It's nothing I've ever
experienced before. And I remember thinking at that moment, people
need to see this whenever it's possible.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
People need to see this.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But the way people have been seeing it apparently is
not sitting well with residents of the Palisades, particularly city
councilmen Tracy Park, Apparently there have been tours not just
keep in mind it's open to the public. If you
wanted to drive over there, you could. It's much easier
than it was several months ago. You can go through
and see for yourself. It's not recommended because people are
(05:26):
rebuilding their lives, but somebody's making money off of this.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
So some bus.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Tours have been going through, charging people, and it's basically
a disaster tour, driving you through what used to be
a very vibrant posh neighborhood and saying, look at this dump. Now,
look at what happened here. It's getting in the way
of the reconstruction effort, it's getting in the way of
the debris removal. And so the city council just yesterday
decided they needed to restrict this and they did so immediately.
(05:53):
So as long as there is still that local emergency declaration,
something that local officials can do to allow them to
do things than they normally can prevent things, allow things,
these bus tours will be restricted. Councilman Park says she
wants this to be restricted more permanently, and they'll be
exploring that at a later date.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So they restrict the bus tours, the organized tours, the
commerce associated with these tours. But you're saying those who
just want to drive through the area caravan of people,
that probably is something there's no way to stop.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Well, it is a public area.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I mean, these are public streets, and the palisades were
mostly closed to everyone in the immediate aftermath. It was
hard even for residents who lost things to go see
how bad it was. Now they still have you know,
the police are there, but like the military's gone. You know,
the checkpoints aren't there like they were. So yes, you
(06:47):
can go through there and see it, and like I said,
people should see it, but there has to be a
respectful way to do it. Sure, and that's true for
Altadina as well. I mean, because to truly take in
the damage that was done in January, you really need
to be up close to it and you can feel
the lives that weren't necessarily taken, even though some people died,
(07:10):
of course, but the lives that people were living were
taken in a moment. And it is a terrible but
important reminder of just how dangerous wildfires in southern California
can be.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, that's a great point too, that it can be instructive,
you know, I mean, it is interesting and sort of
got tone deaf, and I'll just say it's disgusting to
think about cashing in on the horror that is the
loss of your life.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
And I have to say this because you know.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Our neighborhood burned in the Getty fire twenty eighteen, and
there were a lot of LOOKI lows afterward. You know,
my home did not burned down. It burned, but I
couldn't live there anymore, but it didn't get burned down.
I always want to say that, because I did get
to salvage some stuff, but my neighbor's lost. And I
consider it that these are like the museums of our lives,
(08:04):
these places we live, whether it's an apartment, a condo,
or a home house, and it's all gone, and it's
devastating emotionally. And so the notion that you could, you know,
as you say, take the disaster tour of this, it
really is.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But on the other hand, one does feel as though
you can learn something from Yeah, there's got to be.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
A way to do a tour, perhaps that it creates
a better sense of honor.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Sure like we're here to memorialize what was lost.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I mean, those communities will be rebuilt, but they'll never
be what they were, just by virtue of the fact
that things are gone that were there. They're gone forever.
But couldn't we and even if you are throwing ten
twenty bucks in the till, couldn't that go towards something
that is beneficial to people who lost everything.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's the only way you can really get to a
place that it's a little where there's some high ground.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I think.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Otherwise it's just crass commercialism, don't you think?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I mean it's like if there were one hundred years
from now and nobody repopulated the Palisades, it would be
a different thing. We're far enough removed from it. It's
the way that some terrible tragedy that happened in the
you know, in the old industrial area downtown, something like
the shirtwaist factory fire or something horrible thing at the time,
but now you're curious about it, and you might you
(09:21):
might pay somebody to guide you around and explain what
had happened there.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
And that may be a for profit enterprise. But enough
time has passed. This just happened.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know, people are just now getting the plans to
rebuild the houses that were.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Lost, and that's why folks think this is so ugly.
I think about Ground Zero in New York. Yeah, exactly,
and a lot of the same issues. You know, you
want a sense of reverence, but there's also a sense
of being compelled to experience on some level, being adjacent
to the emotions that might have been involved in this tragedy.
(09:56):
And as you say, it's reshaped Los Angeles forever, completely forever. Yeah.
Great to talk to you, Michael Monks. Thanks for the information.
Thank you also for the nostalgia.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
It's time to face the whole.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Michael Munks from KOBI News. It's the co Belt Show.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Thompson Here KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
You're listening to John coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
There's breaking news out of the newsroom. Let's go to Debra.
What's going on.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
So the judge has denied bail for Sean. Did he
come so? He has been ordered to remain behind bars
until he is sentenced after being found guilty of transporting
people for prostitution. He was found not guilty of the
most serious charges against him, including racketeering and sex trafficking.
But the judge has denied bail for Sean.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Did he come Well, it's no day at the beach.
That place is being held, you know.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
That's what I hear. Yeah, and I think he was
counting on getting out today.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well, based on the high fives and the applauding that
he was doing to the jury, et cetera. He was
taking the victory lap. I understand. It's got to be
a sense of jubilation. You pretty much dodged the most
intense bullet legally, but the first of all sentencing still
awaits you. Royal Oaks was saying maybe four years possibly,
(11:17):
but even that could be discounted by the judge. But
in all of this, lost in it all, in all
that jubilation is the fact that now he's got to
go back and await the sentencing. So fourth of July
weekend for Sean Combs will be done there in his
(11:40):
prison cell. Yeah, well, all right, we're watching that moment
to moment. Of course, the big news was that he
really escaped the most serious charges, but he will be
sentenced on the other charges and while he's awaiting sentencing.
Seems as though he'll be in prison. I have to
say this, he's a flight risk, particularly, you know, and
(12:02):
one of the criticisms early on in the entire trial
was that he was denied bail, that there was a
sense that two things were happening. A he was overcharged,
meaning you slapped on the racketeering thing.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Clearly not a good guy.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I mean a dirt bag, I would say from any
yardstick or any angle. But just from the legal standpoint,
it's pretty much now agreed that the Feds overreached with
the Rico charging and just the way in which they
overcharged him, and you only need to look at the
verdict to sort of agree with that they couldn't make
(12:41):
those charges stick. So the other conversation that was going
on around Sean Combs when they originally charged him was
why is he not being granted bail? He's not a
flight risk, he's able to wear an ankle monitor.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
This seems as though it's again not saying is a
good guy, not saying that he shouldn't be charged with
these various charges that we've seen, from prostitution to the
man Act, transporting the prostitute across state lines, et cetera.
But he's not a threat to leave, he's not a
(13:23):
threat to run. So again, this is all talked about
in this same breath at the beginning of the trial.
Now to see him told, well, congratulations, you dodge the
big legal bullet, but you're still going to cool your
heels in prison while you wait. I'm sure that they'll
be more set about that. Anyway. That's the latest in
(13:47):
breaking news. There's some maybe you consider it surprising, Orange
County Republicans who are questioning the President about immigration enforcement
sweeps in Huntington Beach. Now, Huntington Beach is a place
where you've got a lot of maga. You'll find a
(14:09):
lot of Trump banners. I'm sure on the fourth of
July you'll see your share of maga.
Speaker 10 (14:18):
Merch.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
But apparently now leaders are pushing back at the president's
immigration raids. So here's a beach town, non sanctuary city.
And there has been all kinds of legal lifts associated
(14:42):
with immigration policy in southern California. But high immigrant populations
exist in Orange County, and now there's a conversation about
these immigration rates and their real effect on the community
and Republicans who voted for Trump and support his efforts
to deport and deport large numbers of people who've committed crimes,
(15:07):
they are not so sure about the sweeps that have
targeted workers and longtime residents of Orange County once again, like,
why are you going after the home depot day workers?
Why are you going after my nanny? Why are you
going after the construction business? And there are vital workers
being driven out of critical industries, taking California's affordability crisis
(15:33):
and making it even worse for our constituents. That was
written by assembly Members Diane Dixon and Laurie Davis from
Newport Beach and Laguna Neguel respectively. They're calling on Trump
to modernize the country's immigration process to give undocumented immigrants
with long standing local ties a path toward legal status.
(15:55):
This is the point you have to reshape immigrants policy,
so we hang on to those who can help shape
the community in a positive way and we can flush
all the people associated with gang activity. Any illegality. I'm
talking about illegality in the community, not the fact that
(16:16):
they are illegal technically because they are in the country undocumented,
but to see Orange County Republicans pushing back against Trump
shows you that the pendulum may be swinging the other way,
because what we're seeing is the elimination of people who
(16:37):
serve vital roles.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Within the community.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And even if you wouldn't consider the roles vital, they're
part of the texture of the community. I mean everyone
from the car wash operator to the dishwasher. I mean,
so we've always known that these people are here, but
lowering the boom on them all has even aroused the
eye of some Orange County Republicans. We'll watch this story,
(17:05):
but again, it is continuing to unfold. It's only been
a month since the boom really lowered here from the
Department of Homeland Security and Ice here in southern California.
When we come back, the man who broke the story
of the Idaho murders and the Idaho murderer and his
(17:29):
this guy's really you want to talk about a cold
hearted killer, That's what we have in that Coleburger, Idaho,
and the man who broke that story about the plea
deal from News Nation joins us.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Next.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It's KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app Thompson for cole Belt.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
You're listening to John Coebelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
This Brian Cooberger case, the killer of these Idaho college students,
four of them in their sleep.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
It's a brutal, grizzly case. And the guy who broke.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The news of the plea deal did it on News
Nation and he joins us now, Brian Ett and Hi.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Brian, hey Mark, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well, you know you're the senior national correspondent over there
at News Nation. And this was a big story and
continues to be a big story, the fact that this
plea deal seemed to exist outside the understanding of the
families that really wanted to see your trial go down.
Give us an update.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
Yeah, I just got out of court here about an
hour ago where it all was made official here in Idaho.
He Brian Cooberger accepted the plea deal. It was about
an hour long the hearing. It was pretty excruciating just
having to hear him. They kept saying, you know, asking
him questions, did you you know kill They went through
all the victims, did you stab them to death? You know,
(19:04):
they got really detailed in their questions, and he just
answered yes, yes, yes, every time and said you know,
and that it was premeditated and what was so kind
of freaking And I've been covering this since the beginning,
so it's kind of just a surreal moment to see
this all go down. But he, you know, was totally emotionless,
like he he had no just a blank stare on
(19:25):
his face, and when he would answer the questions, it
was almost like he was like answering a test question
or something like. It was just very, very strange, especially
because the families were there and they were emotional, and
Brian Coberger's parents were there and they looked upset, but
Brian Coburger didn't look upset, not even not even a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We have some audio from him. Go ahead and run that, Eric,
if you would, And this is Coburger in court.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
On November thirteenth, twenty twenty two in Leaiita County, State
of Idaho, kill and murder Madison Mogan a human being. Yes,
and did you do that wilfully and lawfully, deliberately and
with premeditation and mel a forethought?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Did you honor.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
About that same date in Moscow, Idaho, kill and murder
Kayleie Gonzalez a human being?
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
And did you do that wilfully, unlawfully, deliberately and with
premeditation and malica forethought?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
And did you, on that same date in Moscow, Idaho,
kill and murder Xana Kernodle pardon me.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
A human being?
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
And did you do that wilfully, unlawfully, deliberately, with premeditation
and malica forethought?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
And then on we're about November thirteenth, twenty twenty two
again in Leytak County, Idaho, did you kill and murder
Ethan Chapin a human being?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Did you do that willfully, unlawfully, deliberately, with premeditation and
malica forethought?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
You know this, as you describe it and you hear it,
it just reflects a kind of emptiness of the soul.
You know, this guy is I don't know what his
disorder is, but he's a soulless guy, right, Brian Enton.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
One hundred percent? And you know I've tried to be
fair covering this all along, and he was pleading not
guilty for so long, and they were very passionate in
their defense of him, and that there was going to
be a trial and that this was almost like he
was staged and there could have been alternate perpetrators. And
I mean this has gone on and on for two
and a half years, and I've tried to cover it fairly.
(21:39):
But today, now that he has admitted his guilt and
he is in fact a murderer and he has admitted
to it, you know, I couldn't help us sit there
was sitting right behind the parents, and he was sitting
right in front of the parents there, you know, at
the table with the defense lawyers. And I guess the
only thing that kept talping to my mind is like,
this man is a monster. I mean to think these
(22:00):
were four innocent college kids, like there was. They didn't
do anything wrong. They just were out partying, and they
went back to the house and they went to bed,
and he broke in their house to the kitchen door
and and and just brutally stabbed all of them to death.
And so yeah, I mean you say soulless, it's there
was just it was just so weird to see nothing
(22:20):
on his face today.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And I like that you describe what happened, because he
did have to break into the residents.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
He went floor to floor.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I think they were separated by you know, a floor downstairs,
upstairs in other words, but I'm wondering if we have
any insight articulated or implied as to the motive.
Speaker 10 (22:43):
No, And I think that's what's bothering the family. I
don't think.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I know.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
That's what's bothering the families right now is they wanted
to know why. They wanted to know why he did this,
Why that house, why that knight, why these kids? Where
the knife? You know, the murder weapon has never been found,
And none of those questions were answered. There were some
new elements that came out today. You know, the prosecution
gave a you know, gave a lot of insight into
(23:10):
the evidence that they had and told the judge about that.
I mean, it's just awful. I mean, not only did
he go in and do that, but he left. They've
got it all tracked through his cell phone and surveillance cameras.
He went back to his house, and then he returned
to the crime scene several hours later to almost go
back and got at it. And then he went back
to his apartment again and took this selfie which I've seen,
(23:30):
the selfie in the bathroom mirror with the thumbs up
so he's just a deranged and you know, he was
getting his doctorate in criminology. The thought is, you know,
this is almost like a dream for him. This is
what he had been plotting and planning for quite some time.
And he admitted that it was premeditated.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Didn't he go with his dad on like it was
a cross country thing?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
After all? This happened something like.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
That, right, Yeah, So his parents live in Pennsylvania and
in the Pocono and so after the murders, you know,
he wasn't caught for like six weeks, and he actually,
you know, was around the holidays and he was getting
his doctorate at Washington State University, and so he went
home for the holidays and he drove back across the
(24:15):
whole country with his dad, and they were pulled over
a couple times. And there's body camera video, which there's
still a lot of questions about that too, and just
some strange elements to that hole drive which we may
never really get answers to. But we did hear today about,
you know, the way they finally nailed them, as there
was a little bit of DNA he left behind the
(24:35):
knife sheef next to one of the victims and when
they figured out that they thought it was him, they
took the trash from his dad's house where he was
staying in Pennsylvania around the holidays, and it was actually
a Q tip that they tested, and the DNA on
the q tip they were able to put into a
database and it tested as the father of the person
(24:56):
whose DNA was on the knife sheef and that's how
they made the final connection.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I saw that the family of one of the victims,
twenty one year old Kaylee Gonkalas, they asked that the
deal be amended to include some additional requirements, like a
full confession for the location of the alleged murder weapon.
This this weapon that you described, That's what made me
(25:21):
think of it. Is this just an effort? I mean,
I understand the frustration of the families is palpable. You know,
they are so angry about this. Is this an effort
to sort of make him own even more of this
in some way that they feel can feel better about.
Speaker 10 (25:38):
I think so. I think it's also just the wanting
to know the why and and just to know for sure.
I mean, you know, there's never been any indication that
anyone else was involved, but just talking to the Gunsalvus is.
You know, they wanted to ask them about that. They
just wanted they wanted someone to really get the full
story out of him, just so that they would know.
And we may you know, we may never know. And
(25:59):
he may he may speak at his sentencing, which is
at the end of the month, he may not. My senses,
he probably won't. And he barely spoke today. And you know,
the families, many of them wanted the death penalty. They
were sort of led along for the last two and
a half years being told that there was no chance
of a plea deal with the prosecution was going to
go after the death penalty no matter what. And this
(26:20):
kind of came across as a real surprise. It just
came about in the last three days. I mean, there
was no talk of a plea deal ever, and then
all of a sudden, here we were today at the hearing.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, I mean, it surprised even the family. So there
you go. Well, Brian, you've done great reporting on this.
I congratulate you, the senior national correspondent, Brian Enton, first
to break this news to the Flea deal, and you
just covered it every step of the way.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Thank you for joining us today on KOFI.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
My friend, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Okay, Brian Enton.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, one thing I can say that just really always
angers man. I'll just say it quickly when there's talk
of well, he's on the autism spectrum, like that's something
we have autism in my family. I'm very active with
autism charities.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I love.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
The work that so many of these charities do to
raise awareness. And one of the things you should be
aware of is that these are wonderful, emotional, passionate connected people.
Oftentimes obviously there's a full spectrum on the autism spectrum.
But the idea somehow that in this heinous act they
could even mention this as a possibility, like they were
(27:29):
going to hang a defense on some of that, it's
loathsome to me. So it's a John coblt Show, Mark
Thompson sitting in on KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
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Speaker 8 (27:41):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Forty John co Belt Show. Mark Thompson's sitting in. At
three o'clock. Lou Shapiro will be here. We'll talk about
the you know, he's a former public defender in La County,
and he really can. Additionally, slice and dice this Sean
Comb's case, and we will review the Coburger case and
(28:10):
settlement too. But the Shawn Combs case, particularly given the
fact that the breaking is of the hour, as you
heard from Deborah, is that Shawn Combs won't be going home.
I mean, he was excited about having dodged the big
legal bullets that he did, but the reality is now
he has to wait in prison and it's not a
fun place to wait until sentencing. We'll ask Lou about
(28:34):
that again. That's the top of the next hour. Former
Vice President Kamala Harris a favorite in the gubernatorial race
if she runs. This is a new poll. She hasn't decided, okay,
but apparently she's pretty well positioned to coast in. Many
(28:56):
voters are undecided, but she was the choice of forty
one one percent of survey respondents, compared to twenty nine
percent who opt for an unnamed Republican candidate. In this poll.
This is the University of California at Irvine. You see Irvine.
She also had the greatest favorability rating and is most
well known compared to all the candidates who have announced,
(29:19):
and you know that's really, as you know, the biggest
lift you've got to get your name there. I'd say,
on the other side of things, someone like Caruso has
pretty good name recognition. I mean, he ran for mayor,
put on a great campaign, I thought, and has meant
(29:41):
a lot of this to the state of California, and
he is debating.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Whether to run for mayor again or.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
To make a run for the governorship. He was the
favorite choice of GOP voters. He has twenty seven percent
of those surveyed. And again, Kamala Harris, it would seem
has immense name recognition for all the obvious reasons. I mean,
she was pretty good in the name recognition department before
(30:11):
her presidential run. But obviously here in California she has
tremendous name recognition. Only five percent of California's had never
heard of her, So this is a real I don't
want to I would say the path is cleared substantially
(30:33):
for her. Antonio Viragosa ran for governor twenty eighteen. He
was unknown by forty seven percent of these same survey respondents.
That's the same survey methodology, not the same respondents, and
forty eight percent unfamiliar with Katie Porter, who ran for
(30:54):
US senator. Course, so when tested against the candidates who
have announced, Kamala Harris the choice of twenty four percent
of the voters, that's the only candidate to crack double digits.
According to the poll. It's still early. There's a big
undecided chunk of voters in California forty percent of the
(31:15):
respondents undecided according to this poll. So as this narrative unfolds,
certainly it looks as though a Democrat would carry the state,
but the leading Republican candidate would probably be Rick Caruso,
who still has to make a decision as to whether
(31:37):
or not he.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Wants to make the run.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
When we come back, lu Shapiro will slice and dice
the p Diddy verdicts and why he's not getting bail
and getting out as he awaits sentencing. It's the John
Covelt Show, Mark Thompson sitting in on KOFI AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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