February 27, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (02/27) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about actor Gene Hackman, his wife and dog dying under mysterious circumstances. Gov. Newsom says his new podcast is essential and Mayor Bass took questions from the press for the first time since firing Kristin Crowley as the LAFD Chief. More on the Huntington Park corruption case and Pres. Trump the country has gotten "fat, bloated and disgusting". Chicago residents say crime, high taxes and inflation are the biggest issues for them while racism, reproductive freedoms and LGBTQ+ rights are the smallest issues for them.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Every day we do this from one to four o'clock,
and after four o'clock it gets posted as a podcast.
John Cobelt' Show on demand also on the iHeart app. Well,
woke up this morning to news that the great actor
Gene Hackman was dead at the age of ninety five.
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And the story was odd because his wife, who he's
been married to I think for about thirty four years,
she's much younger, sixty four years old, and she's dead too,
and one of their dogs was dead, and so the
first thing you think, I've all must have been like
carbon monoxide poisoning. And then a few hours later we
(00:45):
find out that they've may have been dead for I
don't know two weeks. The wife was in particularly bad condition.
We've got Alex Stone for maybec News now to tell
us what the latest is. Heyo, John, Yeah, So not
yet clear how they died, and they are calling it
suspicious in the sense that their front door was open
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and two people and a dog are dead inside of
a home that they they don't know what killed them.
So they've got to make sure it wasn't a crime,
but that the sheriff in Santa Fe County was telling
us today that no signs of foul play, no signs
of trauma, no signs of how they died at all.
They were not shot, they were not stabbed, they were
not strangled. But they won't rule out that it was
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a crime until they can figure out that it wasn't.
And a lot of little aspects of this can be
explained away that it sounds suspicious, but then you say, yeah,
but what if this happened, what did that happened? The
sheriff told us this today.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
We're not ruling it out. What I what I did
state was was there was no obvious sign or indication of,
you know, all foul play. There was no immediate sign
of foul play. I haven't ruled that out yet. This
is an investigation, so we're keeping everything on the table.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So as you mentioned one thing that multiple people being
dead inside of a home along with an animal as well,
that would typically be gas, that would normally be carbon monoxide,
and that may be what this is.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
The sheriff saying that may have been what killed them.
They just don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
On our experience and working on cases like this, that
is a possibility. Because of that, we called in the
fire department. We called in P and M to go
through the house do some testing to figure out if
it was even safe for our officers to go in
and process the scene and execute the warrant.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But so the gas company in the fire department, they
found no signs of a gas leak. There was no
gas in the home. But the time period that they
may have been dead, it appears that they were dead
for a very long time. Betsy Arkawa, Hackman's wife, she
was mummified and he was quite decomposed. So if there
was a leak of some kind, it could have vented
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out through the doggy door that the two surviving dogs
were using, or the front door which was open over
many weeks, or in the case of being mummified, many months,
they don't know. And she had a space heater next
to her head that may played a role in creating
a gas if that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That the sheriff said.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
They had been diseased deceased for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
The other thing is John much unlike California, where we're
getting all these search warrn documents and know all this
already and already getting the nine one one call, which
California typically no longer releases. We're here in the nine
one one call made by a caretaker of the gated neighborhood,
not their caretaker, but got like a security guy of
their gated neighborhood. He was alerted by an exterminator that
(03:29):
something wasn't right. That typically at ninety five years old,
Gene Hackman was home and the front door was open
and nobody was responding, So he went to the security guy,
and the security guy called nine one one. He looked
after looking in the window, could see that there were
bodies in there, that people were down. He didn't know
if they needed medical aid, and they weren't moving, and
he called nine one one. A female in the mail
(03:49):
probably I don't know, I don't know if I's just
send somebody up here real quick. Just send somebody up
here real quick. Deputies responded. They made entry through the
open front door. They immediately found our cop down in
the bathroom and there were pills around.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We don't know what those pills were.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Could have been ibuprofen if she had a headache from
carbon monoxide and was looking for something. It was in
a prescription bottle. Next to her was the dead German
shepherd in a kennel who could not get away from
whatever the threat was. And then Gene Hackman was in
a mud room and investigated next to the kitchen, and
investigators say it looks like he fell suddenly. He was
(04:26):
walking and fell. His sunglasses were a little ways away
from him, like he threw them as he was going down.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But they don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
They say it's going to take an autopsy to know
why they died, and assuming they do toxicology, that can
take many weeks even months in some cases to run
those tests on the blood, so they may be waiting
quite a while to know why they died. And who
was the guy who finally went into the house, Well,
it was a They were deputies who went in once
they finally came. But the community caretaker or security guard.
(04:59):
He looked through the windows and called nine one, but
he actually going.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I saw caretaker and I wondered it couldn't be Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, he's more of like, you know, the security guy
of their neighborhood. They had a big home, six acres,
eight thousand square feet three million dollars. Yeah, The other
buildings on the property were sealed up, they were locked.
There were no signs of forest entry, nothing had been
rummaged through. So they got to figure out was this
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carbon monoxide, which looks like the most likely scenario, but
they got to figure out where it came from. Was
it a crime of some kind? No indicator of that,
but maybe was it. There were even theories out there
because it appears that she was more decomposed than he was.
What if she had something go on a while back
and had a medical emergency and the dog was locked
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in there and couldn't get out and starved or whatever,
but at ninety five years old, that that he wasn't
able to react appropriately to her right and that then
he had a medical emergency. It was kind of a
hard tack or whatever, and then eventually he went down.
But it looks like that he had been dead for weeks.
Probably she had been dead for weeks to months. Mummification
can take many months or yeah, or a couple of
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weeks in a dry, hot environment, So there's a lot
we don't know. The most typically when we cover stories
like this, it's whatever. All these theories that come up
in stories, it's normally the most straightforward, most likely thing
that they went down, which would probably be carbon monoxide,
but they don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That's that's see.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That is like a truism of life that the answer
is usually the easiest answer in murders. You know that,
not that this is but in murder cases, hey, you,
we'll hear all these well what if the killer did
this and did that, and then this happened, and then
it turns out to be the most simple where you go,
oh yeah, that was probably it. This is probably gonna
be one of those where you go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
well you I remember during the oj trial I learned
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to this concept. I think one of the prosecutors laid
it out. It's like, look, you could come up with,
let's say, a one in one hundred possibility for a
specific piece of evidence, but you can't stack up ten
pieces of evidence that have a one in one hundred
possibility because now the odds of all these things happening
are astronomical, right, and conspiracy theories are the same way
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where you go, Okay, it could have gone that way,
but it probably was the most simple way of just
what what happens every day. Yeah, well, I think the
mummification was pretty stunning. I mean, if they've been dead
for a couple of weeks or more, it's kind of
odd that nobody was. Yeah, the Danners say at ninety five,
he never really went out any longer. We know he
had daughters. They put out a statement today saying that
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they're going to miss their dad. But maybe they didn't
call them or they left the messages. And you know,
that's a good reason. Why if you got folks who
are alive, to give them a call every day or
you know, once a week and just say mom and dad,
how you doing. Make sure they're not mamma fine, that
is true. Uh, thank you very much, Alex Stone, ABC News,
You got it.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Thanks all right.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
When we come back, we've got clips and I haven't
I haven't heard this. Karen bad took questions and since
first time since firing Kristin Crowley, and we have a
clip of Alex Michaelson from Fox eleven. He got the
bombshell story a week or two ago when he asked
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Karen Bass about why she went to Ghana and she
claimed that she wasn't aware of the fire warnings. Well,
Alex talked to Newsom yesterday about his new second podcast,
which is being distributed by iHeart Media.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
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You could also use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
I had i'd mentioned last hour we talked about cowmatters
(09:03):
dot org had an extensive series of stories on the
failures they like just near total failure of the homeless
racket in the state and in the city, and how
one of the biggest failures in the whole system is shelters.
More than three quarters of people who end up in
shelters never get any kind of permanent housing, and thousands
(09:28):
of them die in the shelters, and many of them
get beat up and sexually abused.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
This is where your tax money is going.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Imagine you're spending tax money that's rooted to these nonprofits
who hire people who beat up and sexually abuse they're
homeless clients, and then two thousand of them have died
in the shelters in the last few years. And what
I didn't mention and I should have, is that at
(09:58):
the end of the story said they had contacted Governor
Newsom's office about all these issues, right, I mean, you
have dead homeless people, beaten up homeless people, raped, homeless people,
billions of dollars wasted, most of them never getting into housing.
Governor Newsom's office did not respond to repeated requests for interviews,
(10:23):
referring all questions to other state agencies. It's like, we
don't have the time for this because they know that
all this is going on, so they're not going to
talk publicly on the record about it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
They don't care.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You know what Gavin Newsom has time for, though, another podcast?
Not only now is the old one still running, the
one with Marshawn Lynch, And.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I think, oh it is. I thought this was replacing that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
No, I believe it's still running. Two of them.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He's going to have now. iHeartMedia carries these. Alex Michaelson
from Fox eleven asked Newsom yesterday if this new podcast
is essential to his day job.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
People that might say that's a bit of a distraction
from your day job. I'd say it's essential for my
day job. It's an opportunity to communicate people were respecting
all of you directly. The world's changed, we need to
change with it in terms of how we communicate and
continue additional touch points have two way conversations, which were
part of that podcast as well, in terms of having
people being able to gauge me directly. And I want
(11:26):
to engage people that often I engage with in private
and make public those conversations.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And I think that's what inspired this.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
I had some interesting conversations with people I deeply disagree with,
and we found a lot of common ground, and I
just thought I wish I said to someone one of
those conversations, said, wish this has been recorded, because I
think it would distill a sense of well being people
that you know went.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
On hate stop stop stop, distill a sense of well
well being?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
What does that mean? That would distill a sense of
well being?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And also another phrase he used, touch points, I don't
I don't want him touching like touch points.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I don't think he will.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I thought another thing.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I'd ask him if I could be a guest on
this podcast, Yeah, why did you lie to that Palisades mother,
that was you were talking to Joe Biden trying to
find a cell phone signal that day.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Keep your list so when Ray gets you on, you
have it right there.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And why did you go around from on saying Joe
Biden was not s Nile. That's a good one. Now
this podcast is about him having conversations with right wing guys.
It's got nothing to do with you know, two thousand
homeless people dying in shelters.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Does it? That's what I'm saying. These huge problems and
he wants to talk.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He wants to try to convince right wing commentators or
podcasters a waste of time.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Would you like to fix.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
The roads, get the criminals in prison, don't release the
Menendez brothers, for example, get get the Palisades and out
the DEMI rebuilt quicker instead of sitting there and you
will you and the other guy, It'll be what one
big I can't use that phrase. I'm tired of that.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
All right.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Here's Karen Bass. This is from KTLA five Alina Abovian.
Bass actually took questions from the press first time since
Kristin Crowley was fired.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Mary Karen Bashi held this press conference to talk about
the city's efforts when it comes to rebuilding and recovery,
but quickly the conversation switched to the controversy about the
city's leadership.
Speaker 11 (13:30):
If more firefighters had been on the job, there would
not have been forty idle fire.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
Trucks after days. Without addressing the controversy over the dismissal
of La City fire Chief Kristin Crowley, Mary Karen Bass
took questions which went right to resources at the time
of the Palisades fire, specifically forty fire engines and whether
they were in working order or not, a claim made
by the president of the fire union earlier this week
(13:57):
who said there weren't enough working engines the morning of
the fire. The mayor, refuting that to Katay's Annie Rose Ramos.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Mayor of Bass, the one thousand firefighters sent home with
fire unions as there weren't trucks or engines to put
firefighters in.
Speaker 12 (14:10):
Other sorts of say, there were forty trucks and available
to that correct.
Speaker 11 (14:15):
However, there are fire trucks that need repair. The fire
department needs mechanics, there is no question about that. But
one thousand firefighters, many of those firefighters would have been
able to be on the forty fires.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Stop stop, stop a second. See, I wish you'd be a.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Good podcast Newsom having Bass on, and maybe Newsom could
ask Bass, why do you only fund fifty percent of
the fire department? Why do you have a hundred fire
trucks that are broken, busted and you don't have enough mechanics?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
How is it possible? That's what he should do. He
should act like me.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
In fact, I should be a host on this podcast,
questioning the two of them.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
See they'd never do that. They would never come on.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
They go to Maybe they've never heard you, John, so
maybe they think you're this nice friendly host.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
If Kevin de Leone can come on anything as possible,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh, I could see Newsom someday coming on Bass.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Never, but now she hasn't been warned about you yet.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
She might have no. We used to roust her up.
She used to be the assembly speaker.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, so we had a clever nickname for her back then.
Where was I Oh, let me play more of this
from Channel five.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
I'm the forty five.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
So there were engines and trucks available to put those
firefighters in.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Forty This press conference was to announce a milestone achievement,
the completion of Phase one debris removal, months ahead of schedule,
but the conversation kept steering back to the controversy over
lack of communication, like why Councilman marquise As Dawson, who
was acting mayor while Bass was out of the country,
did not declare the city was in a state of
(16:06):
emergency until hours after the fire was raging.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
When that should be declared, I think is one issue.
I'm not sure that that had any direct difference in
terms of what was happening with the fires right then.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It's not like the.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
Emergency declaration was holding up the efforts to defeat the fires.
Speaker 10 (16:26):
The mayor also again being forced to address why she
didn't immediately return to La. Photos have shown Bass and
Ghana attending a cocktail party taken hours after the Palisades
fire broke out.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
You do gain time coming back, but I will tell
you that it's not like there's hourly flights from Acra
Ghana to the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Wait. Stop. We gain time coming back.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Because you're passing through the time zones, but that doesn't
reverse time. It's not like the fires go into reverse
like you're rolling back film. She actually, well, we gain
time coming No, no, it's the same amount of time.
If it took you twelve hours to fly from Africa,
that was twelve hours of the fire burning. We gain
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time coming back. Holy moly, that is pathological. Ho'd you
even think of that? We gain Oh yeah, yeah. When
you fly from east to west, you're going backwards in time.
So when I went backwards in time, the fire just diminished.
There was like twelve hours less of fire. You know,
(17:35):
I'm just gonna go. I'm gonna go. I I am
I have to do We need you, John, I can't
do this. You gain time coming back. By time she landed,
there was no fire, just as if it never happened.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Earl.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
In the show, we mentioned Huntington Park. The La Times
has a new story. I love the headline. Huntington Park
was promised a twenty four million dollar pool complex. It
was never built. Where did the money go?
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Now?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That's up the twenty four million.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Last news story, it was fourteen million, twenty four Where
did the money go? It was an aquatics center, an
Olympic sized pool. In twenty nineteen, the plans were announced
and as the vice mayor said, all there is is
an empty lot with dead grass. So it's been six
years now Where did the money go? Nathan Hockman is investigating,
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and a whole bunch of politicians, including the mayor, got rousted.
They the warrants at their homes, and that question keeps
coming up, you know, like I said, high speed rail,
where did the money go? Like the homeless, the billions those, where.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Did the money go?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Like the thirty to fifty billion in unemployment COVID money,
Where did the money go? You realize how much is
stolen and wasted. The evidence keeps piling up. When's the
great revolt happening? I mean, how many times can you
be robbed? Like if your house is broken into? Eventually,
(19:23):
I mean, if you broke it into a half dozen times,
you're gonna take action. Right, You're gonna buy, You're gonna move,
You're gonna buy a big gun, You're gonna get a
vicious dog. You're gonna do something. Also along those lines
is a story that and apparently this was discovered some
(19:45):
years ago, and now Elon Musk is rehighlighting it. Actually
it was discovered last year by an arm of the government,
federal government. Do you know how much money has been
improperly paid by the federal government in the last twenty years?
Two point seven trillion dollars two point seven trillion. And
(20:08):
that's just not a wild musk claim. You know, they
had said a massive government fraud. It turns out that
the US Government Accountability Office found exactly that in March
of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's their job. They're the Accountability Office.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's supposed to be a non part is in office,
and it's all the federal agencies since two thousand and three,
but much of it's in Medicare and Medicaid. Two point
seven trillion dollars true story, which means like it's over
(20:49):
twenty years. I mean that that is just That's why
I don't want to pay taxes. I have no patience
for these wieners. You have to pay your fair share attax. Like, no, oh,
I paid it. I paid way more than my fair share.
Your crowd keeps stealing the money. In fact, if you
ever hear a politician or anybody in the bureaucracy start
(21:10):
battling about fair share of taxes, odds are they're the
ones stealing the money. Now, Trump had a I had
his cabinet meeting and Musk was there, and at the
end of the meeting he went off on a tirade
and announced that the country has gotten bloated, fat, and disgusting.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And I heard that. It's like, did he mean the people?
Because I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
If you go you stand around in a grocery line,
do grocery line analysis, fat, bloated and disgusting, or in
their go look on an airline.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
You were being very unkind.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
But accurate some kind when you point out the truth.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And he also he also seconded the idea of Elon
Musk asking people, what do you do all day? Name
five things you did that again? Yeah, yeah, I can't
believe a controversy over that. Well, I'll be honest when
I when I saw that, I kind of chuckled, But
I didn't think it was outrageous at all.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
And you thought I was so crazy for questioning.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
It, Well, because you didn't seem you were stumped by
how to answer.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Well, just because again it just seemed too.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh is that why is that?
Speaker 6 (22:35):
The five different things that I five.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Things you've done? I mean, you can come up with
five components to your job. Yes, or you do the
same job five days a week, or there are five
benefits to what you do. I'll get a timer ready,
let's do it. Did we ever test her on what
she does?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
All right, can you do thirty seconds? Could you do
your five things in thirty seconds?
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
All right?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
You got a timer ready. Now, if you need extra time,
we'll grant you a ten second. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 11 (23:07):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
I come in here, and I read the wires, I
put the news together. I record news for the FM stations.
I'm constantly looking at the TV to make sure that
I'm not missing breaking news stories.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
I go on the air and present the news. Boom five.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Look at that. You do that in seventeen seconds?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Seven?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
He seems silly. All of that just seems silly to me.
Do you know that's that's how I'm.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Gonna Yeah, thousands of government workers protesting and getting angry,
and you had these big debates going on television, and
a reporter had questioned him, saying, you mentioned you're interested
in doing another round of this email. When would you
like to see that, What would be the deadline and
(23:52):
would it be mandatory this time? Because they changed the
rule and said, okay, it's voluntary, and Trump said, well,
I think Elon wants to. And I think it's a
because these people, they're on the bubble. You got a
lot of people that have not responded. So we're trying
to figure out do they exist, who are they? And
it's possible that a lot of these people will actually
be fired. And if that happened, that's okay, because that's
(24:15):
what we're trying to do. The country has gotten bloated, fat, disgusting,
and incompetently run. And then he went off on Biden.
I think we had the worst president in the history
of our country. I think he's a disgrace what he's
done to the country, allowing millions of people to come in,
or all the other things like inflation which he caused
because of energy. It's stupid spending to spend hundreds of millions,
(24:36):
trillions and trillions of dollars on the green new scam,
in total scam. That's a good one. That is a
good rant, very comprehensive.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But he's right, He's absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
That's you know, for some reason, and I mean, I'm
always puzzled by religions, which always gets me into trouble.
Like I don't get organized religions. I don't get why
people believe what they believe. But I understand you get
raised in because I was raised in Catholic clture, and
so you know, there's always a little bit of nostalgia
for all the rituals and the holidays and this and that,
(25:06):
and for a lot of people, it's more of a
cultural thing than the actual, you know, deep seated belief system.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I don't believe in all the miracles that they teach
stuff like that, But to treat government like it is
some sort of religious experience really is mind biding to me.
I don't understand the reverence that a lot of progressive
people have for the government and for spending the money
on the programs and this this deep seated belief that
(25:35):
all this money is meant for good things and we'll
make lives better, when clearly it doesn't. You see, I'm
I'm understand trying it. It's like, Okay, you got your program,
here's your ten million dollars. Let's see what happens. But
once you fail, it's like that shelter story I was
talking about, you know, one of the researcher says, it
(25:55):
is a big fail. You know, you've tried pouring billions
of dollars into forcing people into shelters and they end
up dying or getting beat up or sexually abused, and
they never end up in housing, So like, what are
we doing here? So when something fails, it fails, But
you know, then greed kicks in and it becomes a
big racket.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And I'm convinced.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You know, politicians who keep passing bills to spend homeless
racket money and taxes for the homeless racket, they're getting cuts,
They're getting kickbacks.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
They gotta be.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I think I think there are a lot of kickbacks
going on. Like you know at the border with the
drug cartels, why would you let the drug cartels send
billions of drugs into this country and kill tens of
thousands of people? Because somehow the politicians are getting the
cut of this. It's got to be there. It's the
only explanation, and that I would understand. Hey, you're getting
the cut and you keep your fingerprints off. It's like sure,
(26:51):
all right, more coming up, my dark, cynical, jaded world.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Conway coming up in just a few minutes. Yesterday we
mentioned that there was a pull out in Chicago. They
have a mayor, Brandon Johnson, a progressive uh and his
approval rating is six percent, six point six percent to
be exact, which I have never seen. I have never
seen a major political figure with an approval rating that low.
(27:24):
And the reasons in the same poll, and this was
from M three Strategies, and they pulled people about ten
days ago, no, not even a week ago. The top
issues and listen carefully what the top issues are to
normal people. I can't explain why they voted for this guy,
(27:44):
but their issues. Sixty seven percent said crime was one
of the top three issues. Fifty four percent said high taxes,
forty one percent set inflation. Those were the top three
issues right that tracks crime, high taxes, inflation. The bottom
(28:08):
issues were racism eleven percent, nobody wanted to hear more
about that, reproductive freedoms four percent in Chicago, which is
overwhelming the Democratic and then LGBDQ writes three percent, like nobody,
even among Democrats in Chicago, which is a very progressive city,
(28:31):
they don't want to hear about all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
They're pissed off about the crime, the high taxes, and
the inflation. Now, get this, seventy percent of those polled,
though said they voted for Kamala has only eighteen percent
voted for Trump. See, everybody's pissed off about progressive policies,
but you ask them who they're going to vote for,
and it's another progressive. People are angry at the current
(29:03):
progressive They're angry about the progressive policies that led to
all this crime and economic trouble. But then you ask them, well,
who's the last person you voted for Kamala Harris. Oh,
all right, well, I guess it's hopeless. In the last
three years in Chicago, robberies are up sixteen percent, burglary fifteen,
(29:27):
theft fifty seven percent, car theft one hundred and six percent.
The number of seven major felony offenses murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary,
grand largely grand larceny of a car up forty four
percent in three years. So they give a failure rating
to to Brandon Johnson. But they'd vote for Kamala Harris
(29:52):
if they had a chance. We have Tim Conny's wrong
with you? I did that the other day with Mark Thompson.
Speaker 12 (29:59):
You know, he says he's he's really anti crime, he's
you know, I'm financially he's more conservative than everybody thinks.
And I said, okay, so I got a pen and
a piece of paper. I'll start writing down the people
who you voted for who are also very conservative.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Shoot, when you're ready. You're cruel to him?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yes, well he deserves it. He deserves it, constantly taunted.
He deserves it because he's a loser. All right, that's
it from a line from my Fox News. All right,
Alex Stone is coming out with us. He's looking at
Gene Hackman. I thought Gene Hackman died fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, no, he was not in good condition, ninety five
years old.
Speaker 12 (30:43):
And when they initially came out with that story today
that Gene Hackman, his wife, and his dog all died
and they said nothing suspicious, I'm like what, Yeah, wait,
everybody in the house dies all of a sudden about
natural causes.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And the wife's mauma fight.
Speaker 12 (30:58):
Yeah right, there's nothing to look at here, nothing to
look at here. And then we got the Michael Monks
coming on Plus at five pm. They are going to
tomorrow is supposed to be a stay away from the mall,
stay away from the store's day, which is really dumb.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
It's really stupid. It really is dumb. A Target doesn't care,
Costco doesn't care.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
But stay away from the stores tomorrow, just one day.
You'll you'll catch up on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Right.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
These stores are all going out of business anyway because
everyone's stealing and the you know, the economy wasn't great
for you know, three four years. Yeah, and now you're
going to punish them, Yeah, we're and so you're going
to reduce all of your options to Amazon.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Great, Great, that'll work out.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, they're living like it's twenty twenty. Like they don't
understand that era has passed, it's over. They're they're fighting
the old war. Yeah, with old with the old guns,
of the old guns. Yeah, this is this is this
is just kind of silly.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It's a movie.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I'm not I'm not going to go shop tomorrow because
who's telling me this? Like who decided this? Where'd you
find your phone yesterday? Oh god, that was three hours
to me. Look at you look for your phone for
three hours here after you're done with the show. Yeah,
and I had to find my iPhone app on my iPad,
and it kept insisting it was in a specific spot
out on the freeway. Well for a while it was
(32:15):
supposedly sitting on the edge of the freeway.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I even went out looked.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I couldn't believe it because you know, you can't jump
out of these windows. You can't climb over the fence
to go look for it. I got a security guard
who opened up the fence. So I was straddling this
like this dirt berm, this little ill.
Speaker 12 (32:30):
But you had to have a I know we're running
a little late here, sorry, Eric, but you had to
have a moment John. When you're on the one thirty
four freeway and it's dark at six thirty you got
a flashlight looking for your phone.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You had to ad a moment of how the f
did I get here? Yes? I did.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
It's like, what am I doing? And why am I
looking for this? Why does this even matter?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Right? Because if you took it, actually I realized it.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I don't want the phone. The phones disappeared, I'd be happy.
Speaker 12 (32:57):
I've come to work sometimes or three times a year,
I come to work and Bellio says, hey, I just
text you something At six o'clock. I'm like, oh, I
just realized I'm on my phone with me. Excuse me,
give me your phone since three o'clock you just realized, like, yeah,
I don't really use it that much.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, I go all day. We should go back to that.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I know.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I know.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I get in trouble every day because my wife said,
well did you get what I sent?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I know, And she don't really tell you about twelve things.
If you don't respond in eight seconds, you're done. I know.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
No that ad is a woman thing. That's the instantaneous response. Well,
I'm a woman like that. Michael Kruzer, who actually was
the one who returned the fat of me right crouch,
unless you know he's the one who took it. Oh,
I know where it is yours the hall, I know
where it is.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Why do you know where it is? Good one? Well,
thank you, Michael. I got early April fool's joke.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
All right, we've got a crusher with the news live
in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Every day we do this from one to four o'clock,
and after four o'clock it gets posted as a podcast.
John Cobelt' Show on demand also on the iHeart app. Well,
woke up this morning to news that the great actor
Gene Hackman was dead at the age of ninety five.
(00:23):
And the story was odd because his wife, who he's
been married to I think for about thirty four years,
she's much younger, sixty four years old, and she's dead too,
and one of their dogs was dead, and so the
first thing you think, I've all must have been like
carbon monoxide poisoning. And then a few hours later we
(00:45):
find out that they've may have been dead for I
don't know two weeks. The wife was in particularly bad condition.
We've got Alex Stone for maybec News now to tell
us what the latest is. Heyo, John, Yeah, So not
yet clear how they died, and they are calling it
suspicious in the sense that their front door was open
(01:06):
and two people and a dog are dead inside of
a home that they they don't know what killed them.
So they've got to make sure it wasn't a crime,
but that the sheriff in Santa Fe County was telling
us today that no signs of foul play, no signs
of trauma, no signs of how they died at all.
They were not shot, they were not stabbed, they were
not strangled. But they won't rule out that it was
(01:28):
a crime until they can figure out that it wasn't.
And a lot of little aspects of this can be
explained away that it sounds suspicious, but then you say, yeah,
but what if this happened, what did that happened? The
sheriff told us this today.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
We're not ruling it out. What I what I did
state was was there was no obvious sign or indication of,
you know, all foul play. There was no immediate sign
of foul play. I haven't ruled that out yet. This
is an investigation, so we're keeping everything on the table.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So as you mentioned one thing that multiple people being
dead inside of a home along with an animal as well,
that would typically be gas, that would normally be carbon monoxide,
and that may be what this is.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
The sheriff saying that may have been what killed them.
They just don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
On our experience and working on cases like this, that
is a possibility. Because of that, we called in the
fire department. We called in P and M to go
through the house do some testing to figure out if
it was even safe for our officers to go in
and process the scene and execute the warrant.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But so the gas company in the fire department, they
found no signs of a gas leak. There was no
gas in the home. But the time period that they
may have been dead, it appears that they were dead
for a very long time. Betsy Arkawa, Hackman's wife, she
was mummified and he was quite decomposed. So if there
was a leak of some kind, it could have vented
(02:46):
out through the doggy door that the two surviving dogs
were using, or the front door which was open over
many weeks, or in the case of being mummified, many months,
they don't know. And she had a space heater next
to her head that may played a role in creating
a gas if that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That the sheriff said.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
They had been diseased deceased for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
The other thing is John much unlike California, where we're
getting all these search warrn documents and know all this
already and already getting the nine one one call, which
California typically no longer releases. We're here in the nine
one one call made by a caretaker of the gated neighborhood,
not their caretaker, but got like a security guy of
their gated neighborhood. He was alerted by an exterminator that
(03:29):
something wasn't right. That typically at ninety five years old,
Gene Hackman was home and the front door was open
and nobody was responding, So he went to the security guy,
and the security guy called nine one one. He looked
after looking in the window, could see that there were
bodies in there, that people were down. He didn't know
if they needed medical aid, and they weren't moving, and
he called nine one one. A female in the mail
(03:49):
probably I don't know, I don't know if I's just
send somebody up here real quick. Just send somebody up
here real quick. Deputies responded. They made entry through the
open front door. They immediately found our cop down in
the bathroom and there were pills around.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We don't know what those pills were.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Could have been ibuprofen if she had a headache from
carbon monoxide and was looking for something. It was in
a prescription bottle. Next to her was the dead German
shepherd in a kennel who could not get away from
whatever the threat was. And then Gene Hackman was in
a mud room and investigated next to the kitchen, and
investigators say it looks like he fell suddenly. He was
(04:26):
walking and fell. His sunglasses were a little ways away
from him, like he threw them as he was going down.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But they don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
They say it's going to take an autopsy to know
why they died, and assuming they do toxicology, that can
take many weeks even months in some cases to run
those tests on the blood, so they may be waiting
quite a while to know why they died. And who
was the guy who finally went into the house, Well,
it was a They were deputies who went in once
they finally came. But the community caretaker or security guard.
(04:59):
He looked through the windows and called nine one, but
he actually going.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I saw caretaker and I wondered it couldn't be Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, he's more of like, you know, the security guy
of their neighborhood. They had a big home, six acres,
eight thousand square feet three million dollars. Yeah, The other
buildings on the property were sealed up, they were locked.
There were no signs of forest entry, nothing had been
rummaged through. So they got to figure out was this
(05:26):
carbon monoxide, which looks like the most likely scenario, but
they got to figure out where it came from. Was
it a crime of some kind? No indicator of that,
but maybe was it. There were even theories out there
because it appears that she was more decomposed than he was.
What if she had something go on a while back
and had a medical emergency and the dog was locked
(05:50):
in there and couldn't get out and starved or whatever,
but at ninety five years old, that that he wasn't
able to react appropriately to her right and that then
he had a medical emergency. It was kind of a
hard tack or whatever, and then eventually he went down.
But it looks like that he had been dead for weeks.
Probably she had been dead for weeks to months. Mummification
can take many months or yeah, or a couple of
(06:14):
weeks in a dry, hot environment, So there's a lot
we don't know. The most typically when we cover stories
like this, it's whatever. All these theories that come up
in stories, it's normally the most straightforward, most likely thing
that they went down, which would probably be carbon monoxide,
but they don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That's that's see.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That is like a truism of life that the answer
is usually the easiest answer in murders. You know that,
not that this is but in murder cases, hey, you,
we'll hear all these well what if the killer did
this and did that, and then this happened, and then
it turns out to be the most simple where you go,
oh yeah, that was probably it. This is probably gonna
be one of those where you go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
well you I remember during the oj trial I learned
(06:54):
to this concept. I think one of the prosecutors laid
it out. It's like, look, you could come up with,
let's say, a one in one hundred possibility for a
specific piece of evidence, but you can't stack up ten
pieces of evidence that have a one in one hundred
possibility because now the odds of all these things happening
are astronomical, right, and conspiracy theories are the same way
(07:15):
where you go, Okay, it could have gone that way,
but it probably was the most simple way of just
what what happens every day. Yeah, well, I think the
mummification was pretty stunning. I mean, if they've been dead
for a couple of weeks or more, it's kind of
odd that nobody was. Yeah, the Danners say at ninety five,
he never really went out any longer. We know he
had daughters. They put out a statement today saying that
(07:37):
they're going to miss their dad. But maybe they didn't
call them or they left the messages. And you know,
that's a good reason. Why if you got folks who
are alive, to give them a call every day or
you know, once a week and just say mom and dad,
how you doing. Make sure they're not mamma fine, that
is true. Uh, thank you very much, Alex Stone, ABC News,
You got it.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Thanks all right.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
When we come back, we've got clips and I haven't
I haven't heard this. Karen bad took questions and since
first time since firing Kristin Crowley, and we have a
clip of Alex Michaelson from Fox eleven. He got the
bombshell story a week or two ago when he asked
(08:15):
Karen Bass about why she went to Ghana and she
claimed that she wasn't aware of the fire warnings. Well,
Alex talked to Newsom yesterday about his new second podcast,
which is being distributed by iHeart Media.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
By the way, you're.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
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You could also use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
I had i'd mentioned last hour we talked about cowmatters
(09:03):
dot org had an extensive series of stories on the
failures they like just near total failure of the homeless
racket in the state and in the city, and how
one of the biggest failures in the whole system is shelters.
More than three quarters of people who end up in
shelters never get any kind of permanent housing, and thousands
(09:28):
of them die in the shelters, and many of them
get beat up and sexually abused.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
This is where your tax money is going.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Imagine you're spending tax money that's rooted to these nonprofits
who hire people who beat up and sexually abuse they're
homeless clients, and then two thousand of them have died
in the shelters in the last few years. And what
I didn't mention and I should have, is that at
(09:58):
the end of the story said they had contacted Governor
Newsom's office about all these issues, right, I mean, you
have dead homeless people, beaten up homeless people, raped, homeless people,
billions of dollars wasted, most of them never getting into housing.
Governor Newsom's office did not respond to repeated requests for interviews,
(10:23):
referring all questions to other state agencies. It's like, we
don't have the time for this because they know that
all this is going on, so they're not going to
talk publicly on the record about it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
They don't care.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You know what Gavin Newsom has time for, though, another podcast?
Not only now is the old one still running, the
one with Marshawn Lynch, And.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I think, oh it is. I thought this was replacing that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
No, I believe it's still running. Two of them.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He's going to have now. iHeartMedia carries these. Alex Michaelson
from Fox eleven asked Newsom yesterday if this new podcast
is essential to his day job.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
People that might say that's a bit of a distraction
from your day job. I'd say it's essential for my
day job. It's an opportunity to communicate people were respecting
all of you directly. The world's changed, we need to
change with it in terms of how we communicate and
continue additional touch points have two way conversations, which were
part of that podcast as well, in terms of having
people being able to gauge me directly. And I want
(11:26):
to engage people that often I engage with in private
and make public those conversations.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And I think that's what inspired this.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
I had some interesting conversations with people I deeply disagree with,
and we found a lot of common ground, and I
just thought I wish I said to someone one of
those conversations, said, wish this has been recorded, because I
think it would distill a sense of well being people
that you know went.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
On hate stop stop stop, distill a sense of well
well being?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
What does that mean? That would distill a sense of
well being?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And also another phrase he used, touch points, I don't
I don't want him touching like touch points.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I don't think he will.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I thought another thing.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I'd ask him if I could be a guest on
this podcast, Yeah, why did you lie to that Palisades mother,
that was you were talking to Joe Biden trying to
find a cell phone signal that day.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Keep your list so when Ray gets you on, you
have it right there.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And why did you go around from on saying Joe
Biden was not s Nile. That's a good one. Now
this podcast is about him having conversations with right wing guys.
It's got nothing to do with you know, two thousand
homeless people dying in shelters.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Does it? That's what I'm saying. These huge problems and
he wants to talk.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He wants to try to convince right wing commentators or
podcasters a waste of time.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Would you like to fix.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
The roads, get the criminals in prison, don't release the
Menendez brothers, for example, get get the Palisades and out
the DEMI rebuilt quicker instead of sitting there and you
will you and the other guy, It'll be what one
big I can't use that phrase. I'm tired of that.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
All right.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Here's Karen Bass. This is from KTLA five Alina Abovian.
Bass actually took questions from the press first time since
Kristin Crowley was fired.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Mary Karen Bashi held this press conference to talk about
the city's efforts when it comes to rebuilding and recovery,
but quickly the conversation switched to the controversy about the
city's leadership.
Speaker 11 (13:30):
If more firefighters had been on the job, there would
not have been forty idle fire.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
Trucks after days. Without addressing the controversy over the dismissal
of La City fire Chief Kristin Crowley, Mary Karen Bass
took questions which went right to resources at the time
of the Palisades fire, specifically forty fire engines and whether
they were in working order or not, a claim made
by the president of the fire union earlier this week
(13:57):
who said there weren't enough working engines the morning of
the fire. The mayor, refuting that to Katay's Annie Rose Ramos.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Mayor of Bass, the one thousand firefighters sent home with
fire unions as there weren't trucks or engines to put
firefighters in.
Speaker 12 (14:10):
Other sorts of say, there were forty trucks and available
to that correct.
Speaker 11 (14:15):
However, there are fire trucks that need repair. The fire
department needs mechanics, there is no question about that. But
one thousand firefighters, many of those firefighters would have been
able to be on the forty fires.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Stop stop, stop a second. See, I wish you'd be a.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Good podcast Newsom having Bass on, and maybe Newsom could
ask Bass, why do you only fund fifty percent of
the fire department? Why do you have a hundred fire
trucks that are broken, busted and you don't have enough mechanics?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
How is it possible? That's what he should do. He
should act like me.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
In fact, I should be a host on this podcast,
questioning the two of them.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
See they'd never do that. They would never come on.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
They go to Maybe they've never heard you, John, so
maybe they think you're this nice friendly host.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
If Kevin de Leone can come on anything as possible,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh, I could see Newsom someday coming on Bass.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Never, but now she hasn't been warned about you yet.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
She might have no. We used to roust her up.
She used to be the assembly speaker.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, so we had a clever nickname for her back then.
Where was I Oh, let me play more of this
from Channel five.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
I'm the forty five.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
So there were engines and trucks available to put those
firefighters in.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Forty This press conference was to announce a milestone achievement,
the completion of Phase one debris removal, months ahead of schedule,
but the conversation kept steering back to the controversy over
lack of communication, like why Councilman marquise As Dawson, who
was acting mayor while Bass was out of the country,
did not declare the city was in a state of
(16:06):
emergency until hours after the fire was raging.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
When that should be declared, I think is one issue.
I'm not sure that that had any direct difference in
terms of what was happening with the fires right then.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It's not like the.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
Emergency declaration was holding up the efforts to defeat the fires.
Speaker 10 (16:26):
The mayor also again being forced to address why she
didn't immediately return to La. Photos have shown Bass and
Ghana attending a cocktail party taken hours after the Palisades
fire broke out.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
You do gain time coming back, but I will tell
you that it's not like there's hourly flights from Acra
Ghana to the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Wait. Stop. We gain time coming back.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Because you're passing through the time zones, but that doesn't
reverse time. It's not like the fires go into reverse
like you're rolling back film. She actually, well, we gain
time coming No, no, it's the same amount of time.
If it took you twelve hours to fly from Africa,
that was twelve hours of the fire burning. We gain
(17:14):
time coming back. Holy moly, that is pathological. Ho'd you
even think of that? We gain Oh yeah, yeah. When
you fly from east to west, you're going backwards in time.
So when I went backwards in time, the fire just diminished.
There was like twelve hours less of fire. You know,
(17:35):
I'm just gonna go. I'm gonna go. I I am
I have to do We need you, John, I can't
do this. You gain time coming back. By time she landed,
there was no fire, just as if it never happened.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Earl.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
In the show, we mentioned Huntington Park. The La Times
has a new story. I love the headline. Huntington Park
was promised a twenty four million dollar pool complex. It
was never built. Where did the money go?
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Now?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That's up the twenty four million.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Last news story, it was fourteen million, twenty four Where
did the money go? It was an aquatics center, an
Olympic sized pool. In twenty nineteen, the plans were announced
and as the vice mayor said, all there is is
an empty lot with dead grass. So it's been six
years now Where did the money go? Nathan Hockman is investigating,
(18:44):
and a whole bunch of politicians, including the mayor, got rousted.
They the warrants at their homes, and that question keeps
coming up, you know, like I said, high speed rail,
where did the money go? Like the homeless, the billions those, where.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Did the money go?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Like the thirty to fifty billion in unemployment COVID money,
Where did the money go? You realize how much is
stolen and wasted. The evidence keeps piling up. When's the
great revolt happening? I mean, how many times can you
be robbed? Like if your house is broken into? Eventually,
(19:23):
I mean, if you broke it into a half dozen times,
you're gonna take action. Right, You're gonna buy, You're gonna move,
You're gonna buy a big gun, You're gonna get a
vicious dog. You're gonna do something. Also along those lines
is a story that and apparently this was discovered some
(19:45):
years ago, and now Elon Musk is rehighlighting it. Actually
it was discovered last year by an arm of the government,
federal government. Do you know how much money has been
improperly paid by the federal government in the last twenty years?
Two point seven trillion dollars two point seven trillion. And
(20:08):
that's just not a wild musk claim. You know, they
had said a massive government fraud. It turns out that
the US Government Accountability Office found exactly that in March
of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's their job. They're the Accountability Office.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's supposed to be a non part is in office,
and it's all the federal agencies since two thousand and three,
but much of it's in Medicare and Medicaid. Two point
seven trillion dollars true story, which means like it's over
(20:49):
twenty years. I mean that that is just That's why
I don't want to pay taxes. I have no patience
for these wieners. You have to pay your fair share attax. Like, no, oh,
I paid it. I paid way more than my fair share.
Your crowd keeps stealing the money. In fact, if you
ever hear a politician or anybody in the bureaucracy start
(21:10):
battling about fair share of taxes, odds are they're the
ones stealing the money. Now, Trump had a I had
his cabinet meeting and Musk was there, and at the
end of the meeting he went off on a tirade
and announced that the country has gotten bloated, fat, and disgusting.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And I heard that. It's like, did he mean the people?
Because I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
If you go you stand around in a grocery line,
do grocery line analysis, fat, bloated and disgusting, or in
their go look on an airline.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
You were being very unkind.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
But accurate some kind when you point out the truth.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And he also he also seconded the idea of Elon
Musk asking people, what do you do all day? Name
five things you did that again? Yeah, yeah, I can't
believe a controversy over that. Well, I'll be honest when
I when I saw that, I kind of chuckled, But
I didn't think it was outrageous at all.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
And you thought I was so crazy for questioning.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
It, Well, because you didn't seem you were stumped by
how to answer.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Well, just because again it just seemed too.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh is that why is that?
Speaker 6 (22:35):
The five different things that I five.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Things you've done? I mean, you can come up with
five components to your job. Yes, or you do the
same job five days a week, or there are five
benefits to what you do. I'll get a timer ready,
let's do it. Did we ever test her on what
she does?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
All right, can you do thirty seconds? Could you do
your five things in thirty seconds?
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
All right?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
You got a timer ready. Now, if you need extra time,
we'll grant you a ten second. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 11 (23:07):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
I come in here, and I read the wires, I
put the news together. I record news for the FM stations.
I'm constantly looking at the TV to make sure that
I'm not missing breaking news stories.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
I go on the air and present the news. Boom five.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Look at that. You do that in seventeen seconds?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Seven?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
He seems silly. All of that just seems silly to me.
Do you know that's that's how I'm.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Gonna Yeah, thousands of government workers protesting and getting angry,
and you had these big debates going on television, and
a reporter had questioned him, saying, you mentioned you're interested
in doing another round of this email. When would you
like to see that, What would be the deadline and
(23:52):
would it be mandatory this time? Because they changed the
rule and said, okay, it's voluntary, and Trump said, well,
I think Elon wants to. And I think it's a
because these people, they're on the bubble. You got a
lot of people that have not responded. So we're trying
to figure out do they exist, who are they? And
it's possible that a lot of these people will actually
be fired. And if that happened, that's okay, because that's
(24:15):
what we're trying to do. The country has gotten bloated, fat, disgusting,
and incompetently run. And then he went off on Biden.
I think we had the worst president in the history
of our country. I think he's a disgrace what he's
done to the country, allowing millions of people to come in,
or all the other things like inflation which he caused
because of energy. It's stupid spending to spend hundreds of millions,
(24:36):
trillions and trillions of dollars on the green new scam,
in total scam. That's a good one. That is a
good rant, very comprehensive.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But he's right, He's absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
That's you know, for some reason, and I mean, I'm
always puzzled by religions, which always gets me into trouble.
Like I don't get organized religions. I don't get why
people believe what they believe. But I understand you get
raised in because I was raised in Catholic clture, and
so you know, there's always a little bit of nostalgia
for all the rituals and the holidays and this and that,
(25:06):
and for a lot of people, it's more of a
cultural thing than the actual, you know, deep seated belief system.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I don't believe in all the miracles that they teach
stuff like that, But to treat government like it is
some sort of religious experience really is mind biding to me.
I don't understand the reverence that a lot of progressive
people have for the government and for spending the money
on the programs and this this deep seated belief that
(25:35):
all this money is meant for good things and we'll
make lives better, when clearly it doesn't. You see, I'm
I'm understand trying it. It's like, Okay, you got your program,
here's your ten million dollars. Let's see what happens. But
once you fail, it's like that shelter story I was
talking about, you know, one of the researcher says, it
(25:55):
is a big fail. You know, you've tried pouring billions
of dollars into forcing people into shelters and they end
up dying or getting beat up or sexually abused, and
they never end up in housing, So like, what are
we doing here? So when something fails, it fails, But
you know, then greed kicks in and it becomes a
big racket.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And I'm convinced.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You know, politicians who keep passing bills to spend homeless
racket money and taxes for the homeless racket, they're getting cuts,
They're getting kickbacks.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
They gotta be.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I think I think there are a lot of kickbacks
going on. Like you know at the border with the
drug cartels, why would you let the drug cartels send
billions of drugs into this country and kill tens of
thousands of people? Because somehow the politicians are getting the
cut of this. It's got to be there. It's the
only explanation, and that I would understand. Hey, you're getting
the cut and you keep your fingerprints off. It's like sure,
(26:51):
all right, more coming up, my dark, cynical, jaded world.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Conway coming up in just a few minutes. Yesterday we
mentioned that there was a pull out in Chicago. They
have a mayor, Brandon Johnson, a progressive uh and his
approval rating is six percent, six point six percent to
be exact, which I have never seen. I have never
seen a major political figure with an approval rating that low.
(27:24):
And the reasons in the same poll, and this was
from M three Strategies, and they pulled people about ten
days ago, no, not even a week ago. The top
issues and listen carefully what the top issues are to
normal people. I can't explain why they voted for this guy,
(27:44):
but their issues. Sixty seven percent said crime was one
of the top three issues. Fifty four percent said high taxes,
forty one percent set inflation. Those were the top three
issues right that tracks crime, high taxes, inflation. The bottom
(28:08):
issues were racism eleven percent, nobody wanted to hear more
about that, reproductive freedoms four percent in Chicago, which is
overwhelming the Democratic and then LGBDQ writes three percent, like nobody,
even among Democrats in Chicago, which is a very progressive city,
(28:31):
they don't want to hear about all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
They're pissed off about the crime, the high taxes, and
the inflation. Now, get this, seventy percent of those polled,
though said they voted for Kamala has only eighteen percent
voted for Trump. See, everybody's pissed off about progressive policies,
but you ask them who they're going to vote for,
and it's another progressive. People are angry at the current
(29:03):
progressive They're angry about the progressive policies that led to
all this crime and economic trouble. But then you ask them, well,
who's the last person you voted for Kamala Harris. Oh,
all right, well, I guess it's hopeless. In the last
three years in Chicago, robberies are up sixteen percent, burglary fifteen,
(29:27):
theft fifty seven percent, car theft one hundred and six percent.
The number of seven major felony offenses murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary,
grand largely grand larceny of a car up forty four
percent in three years. So they give a failure rating
to to Brandon Johnson. But they'd vote for Kamala Harris
(29:52):
if they had a chance. We have Tim Conny's wrong
with you? I did that the other day with Mark Thompson.
Speaker 12 (29:59):
You know, he says he's he's really anti crime, he's
you know, I'm financially he's more conservative than everybody thinks.
And I said, okay, so I got a pen and
a piece of paper. I'll start writing down the people
who you voted for who are also very conservative.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Shoot, when you're ready. You're cruel to him?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yes, well he deserves it. He deserves it, constantly taunted.
He deserves it because he's a loser. All right, that's
it from a line from my Fox News. All right,
Alex Stone is coming out with us. He's looking at
Gene Hackman. I thought Gene Hackman died fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, no, he was not in good condition, ninety five
years old.
Speaker 12 (30:43):
And when they initially came out with that story today
that Gene Hackman, his wife, and his dog all died
and they said nothing suspicious, I'm like what, Yeah, wait,
everybody in the house dies all of a sudden about
natural causes.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And the wife's mauma fight.
Speaker 12 (30:58):
Yeah right, there's nothing to look at here, nothing to
look at here. And then we got the Michael Monks
coming on Plus at five pm. They are going to
tomorrow is supposed to be a stay away from the mall,
stay away from the store's day, which is really dumb.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
It's really stupid. It really is dumb. A Target doesn't care,
Costco doesn't care.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
But stay away from the stores tomorrow, just one day.
You'll you'll catch up on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Right.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
These stores are all going out of business anyway because
everyone's stealing and the you know, the economy wasn't great
for you know, three four years. Yeah, and now you're
going to punish them, Yeah, we're and so you're going
to reduce all of your options to Amazon.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Great, Great, that'll work out.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, they're living like it's twenty twenty. Like they don't
understand that era has passed, it's over. They're they're fighting
the old war. Yeah, with old with the old guns,
of the old guns. Yeah, this is this is this
is just kind of silly.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It's a movie.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I'm not I'm not going to go shop tomorrow because
who's telling me this? Like who decided this? Where'd you
find your phone yesterday? Oh god, that was three hours
to me. Look at you look for your phone for
three hours here after you're done with the show. Yeah,
and I had to find my iPhone app on my iPad,
and it kept insisting it was in a specific spot
out on the freeway. Well for a while it was
(32:15):
supposedly sitting on the edge of the freeway.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I even went out looked.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I couldn't believe it because you know, you can't jump
out of these windows. You can't climb over the fence
to go look for it. I got a security guard
who opened up the fence. So I was straddling this
like this dirt berm, this little ill.
Speaker 12 (32:30):
But you had to have a I know we're running
a little late here, sorry, Eric, but you had to
have a moment John. When you're on the one thirty
four freeway and it's dark at six thirty you got
a flashlight looking for your phone.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You had to ad a moment of how the f
did I get here? Yes? I did.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
It's like, what am I doing? And why am I
looking for this? Why does this even matter?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Right? Because if you took it, actually I realized it.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I don't want the phone. The phones disappeared, I'd be happy.
Speaker 12 (32:57):
I've come to work sometimes or three times a year,
I come to work and Bellio says, hey, I just
text you something At six o'clock. I'm like, oh, I
just realized I'm on my phone with me. Excuse me,
give me your phone since three o'clock you just realized, like, yeah,
I don't really use it that much.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, I go all day. We should go back to that.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I know.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I know.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I get in trouble every day because my wife said,
well did you get what I sent?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I know, And she don't really tell you about twelve things.
If you don't respond in eight seconds, you're done. I know.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
No that ad is a woman thing. That's the instantaneous response. Well,
I'm a woman like that. Michael Kruzer, who actually was
the one who returned the fat of me right crouch,
unless you know he's the one who took it. Oh,
I know where it is yours the hall, I know
where it is.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Why do you know where it is? Good one? Well,
thank you, Michael. I got early April fool's joke.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
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in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
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